Thread by @tomselliott

THREAD: In addition to his military career & drunk driving arrest, there’s another topic about which @Tim_Walz has been lying for political purposes —the conception of his own children. Since IVF treatments entered the news earlier this year, Walz has been repeatedly claiming he & his wife owe their two children to IVF. But today both CNN & the NYT confirm the Walzes did not in fact use IVF.

Here’s Walz a month ago on Chris Hayes’s show: “Today is IVF day. Thank God for IVF, my wife and I have two beautiful children.”

Here’s Walz two weeks ago in Philadelphia talking about IVF: “This gets personal for me and my family”

Here’s Walz in Wisconsin two weeks ago again claiming his kids were conceived thanks to IVF: “Some of you may have heard this. [IVF] is personal for my wife and I. When Gwen & I decided to have children, we went through years of fertility treatments. The phone would ring, tenseness in my stomach, & then the agony when you heard the treatments hadn’t worked. So it wasn’t by chance that when we welcomed our first child, our beautiful daughter, we named her Hope.”

Here’s Walz recently in Arizona telling the same story, this time while pretending to cry: “I’m not crying you’re crying”

And here’s the New York Times today admitting the truth: “Unlike in vitro fertilization, the procedure used by the Walzes does not involve freezing embryos, so it has not been targeted by anti-abortion leaders.” nytimes.com/2024/08/19/us/…

And CNN: “Minnesota first lady Gwen Walz clarified in a statement to CNN that she did not use in vitro fertilization to conceive, sharing new details about her and Gov. Tim Walz’s fertility struggles as the governor has highlighted their experience with infertility on the campaign trail.” cnn.com/2024/08/20/pol…

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More, from a campaign call earlier this month: “If it was [sic] up to [@JDVance], I wouldn’t have a family because of IVF”

@JDVance Received this from Minnesota follower