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Trump claims – without evidence – to have saved Walz from protesters in 2020
Trump tells Fox News that he announced Walz was a ‘good person’ to dissuade protesters from surrounding his house
Thu 8 Aug 2024

Donald Trump claimed to have saved Kamala Harris’s running mate, Tim Walz, from rightwing protesters in 2020 during unrest in Minnesota after the police murder of George Floyd, a statement that appears to contradict Walz’s own descriptions of calls between the two politicians.

Speaking to Fox News on Wednesday, Trump said, without offering evidence or specific dates or times, that he publicly announced Walz was “a good person” in order to dissuade protesters from surrounding Walz’s house.

Walz, the Minnesota governor and Democratic vice-presidential pick, has previously said it was tweets by Trump that “brought armed people to my house” in the first place, including members of the Proud Boys, a far-right group.

In the Wednesday interview, Trump said: “I helped him very much during the riots because his house was surrounded by people that were waving an American flag.”

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/07/tim-walz-trump-minnesota-protests