Joe Walsh lies about taped humiliation

BPR:

GOP presidential candidate Joe Walsh once advocated for arming American school children. Worse, he then turned around and lied about having done so, despite video evidence to the contrary.

Flash back to 2018, when the former congressman turned ranting anti-Trump zealot unwittingly appeared on comedian Sacha Baron Cohen’s prank show “Who Is America?”

Cohen is the actor who became famous for playing “Borat.” He went on to start a prank show in which he pranks noted political figures — e.g., former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and former Georgia state Rep. Jason Spencer — by inviting them onto his show under false pretenses.

In Walsh’s case, he was invited onto the show “under the guise of being given a made-up award for his support for Israel,” according to a piece ran by The Washington Post on Tuesday.

But while on the program, Cohen reportedly convinced the former congressman to read from a script that called for arming Israeli children as young as three and four with weapons.

“The intensive three-week Kinderguardian course introduces specially selected children from 12 months to 4 years old to pistols, rifles, semiautomatics and a rudimentary knowledge of mortars,” Walsh said on camera. “In less than a month — less than a month — a first-grader can become a first grenade-er.”

While his appearance attracted attention at the time, it for the most part quickly blew over because Walsh was and remains a relative nobody with very little relevance. Plus, he wasn’t the only one who’d ever been fooled by Cohen’s stunts. Not by a long shot.

But with him having announced his candidacy against President Donald Trump this week, the Post decided to scrutinize his past. And in doing so, it asked him why he’d advocated on behalf of arming Israeli children with guns. The problem is that in replying, Walsh chose to lie.