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As recently as February, Mr. Walz said on a podcast that he had been in Hong Kong, then a British colony, “on June 4 when Tiananmen happened,” and decided to cross into mainland China to take up his teaching duties even though many people were urging him not to.
But it was not true. Mr. Walz, the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, indeed taught at a high school in China as part of a program sending American teachers abroad, but he did not actually travel to the country until August 1989.
Why bother making something like this up?
Trying to remember what I was doing between April and August 1989… I think that would have been the end of my first year as a Freshman in college? Not sure, super blurry.
That’s the year the best version of Batman (that’s right, Michael Keaton is the best Batman. Come at me bro) came out.
Other than that: complete blur.
Pete Holmes has entered the chat