MT Senate Candidate Millionaire SEAL Trying To Get You To Believe Some Stupid Ass Sh*t

https://www.wonkette.com/p/mt-senate-candidate-millionaire-seal


Tim Sheehy, the rich pretty-boy Republican with no electoral experience who’s running against Montana’s senior Senator, Jon Tester (D), has a bit of a truthiness problem, as the Washington Post reported over the weekend (gift link). Sheehy’s particular difficulty involves a bullet that’s embedded in his right forearm. A former Navy SEAL, Sheehy has told a number of inconsistent stories about the provenance of this bit of lead, most of them aimed at emphasizing that his experiences as a warrior prove that he should go straight from being a multimillionaire to being a US Senator. A couple for-instances from the Post story:

“I got thick skin — though it’s not thick enough. I have a bullet stuck in this arm still from Afghanistan,” Sheehy said in a video of a December campaign event posted on social media, pointing to his right forearm.

Inconsistent how, you might ask. Funny thing: Sheehy also told a US Park Ranger in 2015, after he’d left active duty but was still in the Reserves, that he’d accidentally shot himself in the arm while visiting Glacier National Park. He said that his Colt .45 revolver had, uh, slipped and fallen while he was loading his vehicle, and for discharging a firearm in a national park, he caught a federal citation and paid a $525 fine.

Oh, except now that the report of that incident has been found by journalists, Sheehy has another explanation! He never actually dropped his gun in the park, heavens no! Instead, he told the Post,

the statement he gave the ranger was a lie. He said he made up the story about the gun going off to protect himself and his former platoonmates from facing a potential military investigation into an old bullet wound that he said he got in Afghanistan in 2012. He said he did not know for certain whether the wound was the result of friendly fire or from enemy ammunition, and said he never reported the incident to his superiors.

Sheehy said he did not shoot himself in the park in 2015, but rather fell and hurt himself on a hike, necessitating a trip to an emergency room, where he said he told hospital staff he had a bullet in his arm, triggering his interview with the ranger.

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