Donald Trump once praised Tim Walz for his handling of protests in 2020, a former Trump administration official confirmed Friday.
Trump has hurled several attacks at Walz for his purported conduct during protests that stemmed from the murder of George Floyd, but it was later reported that the then-president had hailed Walz when Kamala Harris' current pick for V.P. was on Trump's board of governors.
Now, that story has been confirmed by someone who was actually in the room.
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Former Mike Pence Homeland Security staffer Olivia Troye, a child of a Mexican immigrant mother who recently took to social media to call out her former boss for demeaning her own background, decided to set the record straight.
"Let’s set the record straight. I was in the room when Donald Trump crashed the weekly Governors meeting led by Mike Pence," wrote on X. "Trump praised Tim Walz's handling of the protests in 2020."
She then added, "It was also the same day that Trump: talked about wanting to shoot the protestors, wanted law enforcement to violently clear Lafayette Square & stood in front of St. John's Church holding a bible."
"It was one of the darkest days of the Trump Presidency & a clear sign of what was to come," the Trump admin vet then said. "Facts matter."
