WaPo: GOP Senate Candidate Lied About War Wound

April 6, 2024 Republicans, Trump cultists

The Washington Post reports:

Tim Sheehy, a charismatic former Navy SEAL who is the Republican candidate in a U.S. Senate race in Montana that could determine control of the chamber, has cited a gunshot wound he received in combat that he said left a bullet in his right arm as evidence of his toughness. “I got thick skin — though it’s not thick enough. I have a bullet stuck in this arm still from Afghanistan,” Sheehy said in a video of a December campaign event posted on social media, pointing to his right forearm.

And in October 2015, more than a year after he left active duty, he told a different story. After a family visit to Montana’s Glacier National Park, he told a National Park Service ranger that he accidentally shot himself in the right arm that day after his Colt .45 revolver fell and discharged while he was loading his vehicle in the park, according to a record of the episode filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Montana.

Read the full article. As you’ll see, the above is just one of several conflicting stories Sheehy has told about his wound. Gift link here. 

A trauma surgeon tells the Post that an X-ray provided by Sheehy shows an apparent wound from a handgun, not a military weapon. The park ranger says Sheehy showed him a handgun with a missing bullet.  

Sheehy claims he became a Navy SEAL because of 9/11, which happened when he was 15 years old. Clips from 9/11 open his “God and Country” campaign ad below.



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