Independent assessment of equine-related online joke involving Democrat VP candidate follows Associated Press fact-check of JD Vance couch hoax.
CLAIM: Democrat vice presidential nominee Tim Walz had his stomach pumped after consuming horse semen.
INFOWARS’ ASSESSMENT: Likely false. There is no available evidence about Walz drinking equine semen. There are no photos or stories online corroborating the claim, and the horse rumor appears to have been a joke spread on social media following the AP’s fact check of an online joke regarding Donald Trump running mate JD Vance.
THE FACTS: Following Kamala Harris’ selection of Walz as her running mate, the folksy Minnesota governor was dogged by humorous online allegations regarding his consumption of equine semen. One post on X featured a fabricated screenshot of an Associated Press article which appeared to be fact-checking the claim. Despite the rumors persisting for over a day, the Harris campaign has not issued a statement denying or correcting the record.
“THE CLAIM: Walz once had his stomach pumped because he drank a gallon of human semen,” the fake AP fact check stated.
“JD Vance is weird” pic.twitter.com/yU3mXHo6am
— National Conservatism (@con_national) August 7, 2024
“THE FACTS: It was horse semen.”
Another false report spread claims that Walz was “treated at Hennepin Healthcare Hospital where doctors performed gastric lavage and provided supportive care to clean his stomach.”
Wth?? Did Tim Walz actually drink horse semen?? ?#WalzIsWeird https://t.co/yDw1SSQsMo pic.twitter.com/cq2WFj38Ko
— ⚜️? Queen Katerina?⚜️ (@QueenDarbyy) August 7, 2024
The fabricated claims set off a firestorm of memes, with conservatives perpetuating the likely false claim.
— Mostly Peaceful Memes (@MostlyPeacefull) August 7, 2024
“Tim Walz has been in that horse stable for a while”.
Tim Walz: pic.twitter.com/dPGr7vrg67
— THAT SOUTHERN DUDE (@TSDmemes) August 7, 2024
Tim Walz when he sees a male horse unattended: pic.twitter.com/nI0WboMZzR
— Red Panda Politics ????✝️⛪ #TrumpVance24 (@RPP_TheReal) August 7, 2024
Tim Walz finding out Megan Thee Stallion isn’t a horse he can guzzle pic.twitter.com/kHtbhbKUo7
— The Right To Bear Memes (@grandoldmemes) August 7, 2024
The horse when it sees Tim Walz entering the stable pic.twitter.com/GocWXeaiPU
— The Right To Bear Memes (@grandoldmemes) August 7, 2024
The story about Tim Walz and a horse is beyond repulsive. No words. Truly, a sick man.
— Yitz Friedman (@friedman_yitz) August 7, 2024
Just wait until you hear what Tim Walz did with a horse.
Your brain will never recover.
— Ryan Fournier (@RyanAFournier) August 7, 2024
Wait…
They’re calling Trump and JD Vance “weird” but we have a verified story of Tim Walz doing WHAT regarding horse semen!?!?!??!?!? pic.twitter.com/dqeyFvpi79
— Brenden Dilley (@WarlordDilley) August 7, 2024
— Makaveli Memez (@MakaveliMemez) August 7, 2024
— The Right To Bear Memes (@grandoldmemes) August 7, 2024
— Makaveli Memez (@MakaveliMemez) August 7, 2024
“He’s a Hunter” pic.twitter.com/Ae2vdjgm2c
— The Right To Bear Memes (@grandoldmemes) August 7, 2024
Walz is brat. pic.twitter.com/zE4uSGecft
— Makaveli Memez (@MakaveliMemez) August 7, 2024
Never ask a woman her age, a man his salary, or @Tim_Walz what he did to that horse.
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) August 7, 2024
“We need someone the average Democrat voter can relate to.”
“There’s this guy, Tim Walz. He had to have his stomach pumped after swallowing a gallon of horse sеmеn.”
“That’s perfect.” pic.twitter.com/8fTUW8MM71
— Frasier Payne (@MeinGottNiles) August 7, 2024
It was 2005 and I was in the Minnesota National Guard with Tim Walz. He told me about this horse…and long story short I told him he had to resign. pic.twitter.com/CYupstNGRg
— Anang Mittal अनंग मित्तल (@anangbhai) August 7, 2024
The Tim Walz horse story is just too disgusting to tell. My goodness.
— ᴊᴏɴ ꜱᴄʜᴡᴇᴘᴘᴇ (@JonSchweppe) August 7, 2024
Tim Walz did WHAT with horse sperm
— Real Political Data (@RealPData) August 7, 2024
Tim Walz is such a gross communist that he probably drank the horse right from the source.
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) August 7, 2024
?BREAKING: Tim Walz goes on stage and calls Donald Trump weird and then soon after gets exposed for drinking so much Horse semen that he had to get his stomach pumped.
— Philip Anderson (@VoteHarrisOut) August 7, 2024
Pete Buttigieg incognito at the next Tim Walz campaign event. pic.twitter.com/JnCaxKcOve
— THAT SOUTHERN DUDE (@TSDmemes) August 7, 2024
Walz pic.twitter.com/vB2doEzcoh
— ᴍʏ ᴡɪʟʟᴏᴡ ᴍᴇᴍᴇꜱ?? (@MyWillowMemes) August 7, 2024
While Infowars was unable to locate contact information for the Harris-Walz campaign, we’re going to step out on a limb here and conclude it’s likely false the Minnesota governor consumed a gallon of horse semen considering there would probably be documentation of such an unusual incident.
The nasty claim follows a now-deleted “fact-check” by the AP, where they investigated a false online joke that JD Vance wrote in his book Hillbilly Elegy that he had sex with a couch.
the bizarre story was here https://t.co/j4RP2CmWQ6 pic.twitter.com/SQ8IRT5xA6
— Andy Kaczynski (@KFILE) July 25, 2024
Despite the AP’s deletion of the article, claiming it was below their editorial standards, Walz on Tuesday did a throwback to the false online rumor during his introduction as Harris’ vice presidential candidate in Philadelphia.
no fucking way lmfao pic.twitter.com/Gf3q3yQeKk
— Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew_lawrence) August 6, 2024
