Senate Nominee Busted Lying About “Living In Poverty”

The Guardian reports:

At a recent campaign event in Whitehall, Montana, the Republican US Senate candidate Tim Sheehy told voters that a decade ago, when he set up the aerial firefighting company through which he made his fortune, he and his wife were living “below the poverty line”. But Sheehy’s claim about living in poverty while building his company, Bridger Aerospace, is contradicted by his own memoir.

In that book, Mudslingers, published last year, the former Navy Seal writes that when he and his wife contemplated leaving the military, in 2013, they “weren’t wealthy, but … did have resources”. “So, we had amassed a nest egg of close to $300,000. I also had some money that my parents had been putting away for me since I was a kid. All told, we had roughly $400,000 to allocate toward building a business and establishing a new life.”

Read the full article. Sheehy, you will recall, was previously busted for lying about a gunshot wound that was actually accidentally self-inflicted.

NEW REPORT: “Memoir contradicts Republican Senate candidate’s ‘below the poverty line’ tale”

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