Senate Nominee Sticks By “Shot In Afghanistan” Story

The Washington Post reports:

A former SEAL colleague, Dave Madden, who had what he described as a close relationship with Mr. Sheehy before they deployed to Afghanistan, said that Mr. Sheehy never mentioned a gunshot wound to him, and almost certainly would have done so in a conversation they had during their deployment if he had indeed been wounded.

On the issue of the later injury in Montana, Kim Peach, a park ranger who spoke with Mr. Sheehy that day at the hospital, said Mr. Sheehy personally told him that he had accidentally shot himself in the arm, and handed over a revolver with a spent round.

“I am 100 percent sure he shot himself that day,” Mr. Peach said in an interview. Mr. Sheehy and his lawyers have insisted that he was indeed shot in Afghanistan and that suggesting otherwise was “tantamount to falsely accusing him of stolen valor.”

Read the full article. It was the Washington Post that first reported that Sheehy’s wound came from dropping his gun in a Montana national park. Sheehy has also lied that he was living in poverty before launching his company. In fact, according to his own memoir, he had over $400,000 in his bank account at the time.

Pretty devastating reporting by the @nytimes finds that Tim Sheehy, the GOP Senate candidate in Montana, appears to be lying about his service record — with on-the-record sources saying this is a case of stolen valor. https://t.co/KDwbwzLafm

— Matt McDermott (@mattmfm) October 18, 2024