Psychologists break down Tim Walz's LIES as debate with JD Vance exposed VP candidate's tall tales READ MORE: Tim Walz's ties to Chinese military and Wuhan under scrutiny By Luke Andrews Senior Health Reporter For Dailymail.Com Published: 16:42 EDT, 2 October 2024 | Updated: 17:04 EDT, 2 October 2024 e-mail 2 View comments Tim Walz was left red-faced at last night's debate after being challenged over a lie about being in Hong Kong during the Tiananmen Square massacre. 'I got there that summer and misspoke on this,' the Democratic VP hopeful said before trailing off in confusion.
For years, he had claimed he was there when the Chinese government violently suppressed the pro-democracy movement in June 1989. But recently it emerged that, while he was in fact in Hong Kong that year, he did not get there until August at the earliest. It is just the latest in a string of 'misspeaks' by Walz and psychologists tell DailyMail.
com there now appears to be a pattern. Walz is pictured above at the moment where he tried to deflect a question on why he lied about being in Tiananmen Square during the pro-Democracy protests Dr Christian Hart, a psychologist at Texas Woman's University who has previously written about why politicians lie, suggested two theories for Walz's embellishments. He said: 'When we look at lying, we see people only lie when they believe they are going to derive something beneficial out of it.
'If there is no potential perceived benefit, people are almost exclusively hon.
