USA Today reports:
The Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Virginia, a decorated Navy veteran, has made repeated references to becoming disabled after he was “blown up” in combat, and has stressed that he has scars from his military service while Democratic incumbent Sen. Tim Kaine got rich from the safety of Capitol Hill.
Yet the Navy service record for Hung Cao, who won the GOP primary in June, does not show a Purple Heart award, the commendation given to troops who have suffered wounds from “direct or indirect result of enemy action” that required medical attention.
Nor does his record indicate that he received the Navy’s Combat Action Ribbon, which requires that a sailor “must have rendered satisfactory performance under enemy fire while actively participating in ground or surface combat engagement.” USA TODAY obtained Cao’s record from the Navy.
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Hung Cao first appeared here in July when he declared that he was running to stop “witchcraft” from taking over Virginia, like it has in California.
EXCLUSIVE: VA Senate candidate says he was ‘blown up’ in combat. His record doesn’t show that. https://t.co/vTZfaUxwJg by @bethabeyer & @tvandenbrook @USATODAY
— Darren Samuelsohn (@dsamuelsohn) June 27, 2024
Republican candidate Hung Cao tells Christian nationalist Sean Feucht that he’s running for the US Senate in Virginia because wiccans have taken over parts of California and now there is “a lot of witchcraft” and “we can’t let that happen in Virginia.” pic.twitter.com/ML8WtoVe2P
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) July 27, 2023