Gov. Walz’s radical record comes to light after Kamala Harris taps him as running mate.
The wife of Kamala Harris’s VP pick Gov. Tim Walz (D-Minn.) once gushed over the violent Black Lives Matter riots of 2020 following the death of crackhead criminal George Floyd.
Minnesota First Lady Gwen Walz in an interview said she relished in the caustic smells of burning tires emanating from the destructive BLM riots.
“Those first days when there were riots…I could smell the burning tires, and that was a very real thing. I kept the windows open as long as I could because I felt like that was such a touchstone of what was happening,” she said on “Nightcast.”
This clip of Minnesota First Lady Gwen Walz is making the rounds.
Her reflection on the 2020 riots:
“I could smell the burning tires…I kept the windows open as long as I could because I felt like that was such a touchstone of what was happening.”
— Philip Melanchthon Wegmann (@PhilipWegmann) August 6, 2024
Her remarks circulating on social media drew criticism from conservatives.
“Everything you need to know about leftist elites can be found in this short clip. Tim Walz’s wife sat by the window enjoying the smell of poor neighborhoods burning during the Floyd riots. She did everything but pull out a fiddle,” noted The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh.
Everything you need to know about leftist elites can be found in this short clip. Tim Walz’s wife sat by the window enjoying the smell of poor neighborhoods burning during the Floyd riots. She did everything but pull out a fiddle.
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) August 6, 2024
While Gwen was doing that, his daughter was telling rioters that the National Guard wasn’t going to be deployed and that they were free to keep burning buildings. pic.twitter.com/6Gvw8q0fYb
— Nick Majerus (@njmajerus) August 6, 2024
When Americans speak derisively about political elitists, this is exactly who they’re referring to.
This horrible woman, her husband and their limousine liberal comrades are the bane of the USA.— Mike J. Shea (@Shea1Mike) August 6, 2024
“I could smell the burning” is the most cheese-and-wine-liberal thing I’ve ever heard
— Tim (@TimTheWitness) August 6, 2024
She wanted to smell the burning businesses so they could be her touchstone of what was happening? Fuck communism is evil.
— SamanthaJBryant (@SamanthaJBryan1) August 6, 2024
Tim Walz’s radical history, particularly his support for the widespread BLM riots in 2020, has come into sharp focus after Kamala Harris tapped him as her 2024 running mate on Tuesday.
In 2020, Tim Walz allowed for BLM and ANTIFA to riot all across Minneapolis. Kamala Harris used her X account to help bail the Minneapolis rioters out of jail. Ironically, Tim and Kamala will call President Trump a “threat to democracy.”
pic.twitter.com/y6AM09VXK1— Charles R Downs (@TheCharlesDowns) August 6, 2024
This was Minnesota under Gov Tim Walz: pic.twitter.com/6CCbhyOPca
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 6, 2024
Harris picking Walz as her VP candidate appeared to be such a political miscalculation that even former President Donald Trump issued a statement thanking Harris for choosing him as her running mate.
The nationwide looting and vandalism from the George Floyd Riots resulted in an unprecedented $2 billion in damage, costing the insurance industry more than any other violent demonstrations in recent history, and left at least 19 people dead.