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Supporters of the Republican Party are circulating a 14-second video of Tim Walz, claiming it indicated his intention to allow illegal immigration into the country. Walz is the vice Presidential candidate for Kamala Harris if the Democratic Party, main rivals of Donald Trump’s Republicans. Here’s the truth about Kamala Harris’ VP candidate Tim Walz and his “ladder factory remark on Donal Trump’s “border wall” idea.
Which video are Trump supporters circulating?
Following Vice President Kamala Harris’s announcement that Minnesota’s Democratic governor, Tim Walz, would be her running mate, his name surged in online searches. Concurrently, the term “ladder factory” also gained attention.
Trump supporters highlighted a video from Walz’s July 30 interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, claiming it indicated his intention to allow illegal immigration.
“He’s not going to do anything, you know,” Walz said in the video. “He talks about this wall — I always say, let me know how high it is. If it’s 25 feet, then I’ll invest in the 30-foot-ladder factory. That’s not how you stop this.”
Former President Donald Trump’s supporters reshared the 14-second clip.
Fans and supporters of the former USA president, have started sharing the 14 second clip, not giving any more information, leading to misled public.
“Tim Walz wants to invest in a ‘ladder factory’ to help illegals scale the border wall,” Trump War Room, an official Trump campaign account, wrote at 9:21 a.m. ET in an Aug. 6 X post.
“Tim Walz wants to help illegals get ladders so they can climb over a border wall and invade our country,” Libs of TikTok posted at 1:25 p.m. ET.
Here’s the actual context and what Tim Walz said:
During a nine-minute July 30 interview on “Anderson Cooper 360,” Tim Walz’s “ladder factory” remark appeared misleadingly in a short social media video. The video snippet failed to convey Walz’s broader discussion, which included his views on reproductive rights, insulin costs, and immigration.
Walz used the ladder imagery to criticize the effectiveness of border walls, not to suggest helping people climb over them. Here’s the transcript of his full statement:
“He talks about this wall — I always say, let me know how high it is. If it’s 25 feet, then I’ll invest in the 30-foot-ladder factory,” Walz said.
“That’s not how you stop this,” he said, referring to illegal immigration. “You stop this using electronics, you stop it using more border control agents, and you stop it by having a legal system that allows for that tradition of allowing folks to come here, just like my relatives did to come here, be able to work and establish the American dream.”
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