Navy SEALs Call BS on Tester’s Attack Ad Against Sheehy
The Navy SEALs who served alongside Navy SEAL and Trump endorsed US Senate candidate Tim Sheehy (R-MT) say that Jon Tester (D-MT) is lying in his campaign commercials.
Greg Putnam served on the same SEAL Teams as Tim Sheehy. He went on camera in a new campaign commercial in support of Tim Sheehy, and spoke out against the false attacks featured in Tester's last minute campaign commercials.
Here's the transcript of the ad:
TRANSCRIPT: "You've seen this Democrat lie. I'm a former Navy SEAL who served at the same time as Dave Madden and directly with Tim Sheehy. Dave Madden is a liar with a known liberal agenda who's repeatedly attacked his fellow SEALs and their service. Here's the truth. Tim Sheehy is a decorated combat veteran who earned a Bronze Star with valor and a Purple Heart. Jon Tester never served, and his false attacks on Tim are pathetic."
Putnam also joined me on the radio Wednesday morning. Full audio is below. Here's part of our back and forth.
Aaron Flint: "The thing that bothers me the most is, and I'm not a Navy SEAL. I didn't serve with Tim Sheehy in Afghanistan. I was with the Army when I was in Afghanistan, but the men who actually served with Tim Sheehy in Afghanistan, there's like 19 of them now, fellow Navy SEALs, EOD techs...19-plus of them, including the SEAL Team Two commander came out and praised Tim Sheehy and praised his honor and his ethics and , yeah, you're right- they dig up this ponytail guy who's donated to Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, who didn't even serve in the same unit as Tim Sheehy in Afghanistan, to make these claims on a Jon Tester commercial. It's pathetic."
Greg Putnam: "I know all those guys on that list, and I talked to a number of people that were there with Tim, and it is confirmed that Dave Madden was not in the same area even with him during combat operations. This guy and I went through training together. Nobody liked him. He's had a liberal agenda from day one. This guy- his Twitter account is full of just him, you know, disparaging his teammates, disparaging this country. Once again, this is not a guy that that is coming out from an honest position. And we called him out in our ad talking about the fact that he's lying about Tim for his own personal gain. And once again, it's just this flailing attempt by the Jon Tester campaign here right at the end to try to disparage Tim and his record, which I can stand by after serving with Tim directly in the SEAL teams. And everybody that's worked with Tim in the SEAL teams- the guy had a fantastic reputation as a warrior and as a leader that always went to bat for his guys. Dave Madden was the complete opposite."
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