Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in Montana, Tim Sheehy, threatened to sue a Washington Post journalist this week after he reached out regarding the former Navy SEAL’s health, following Sheehy admitting he lied about a gunshot wound.
Last week, the Post’s Liz Goodwin was the first to report that Sheehy had received a citation for discharging a weapon in a national park after he told a park ranger that he had shot himself in the arm.
“Asked this week about the citation, which has not been previously reported, Sheehy told The Washington Post that 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,” Goodwin reported.
“I guess the only thing I’m guilty of is admitting to doing something I never did. It was a small price to pay to make sure that a whole team of really great Americans didn’t get dragged through the mud over this,” Sheehy told Goodwin of the $525 fine he paid for discharging his weapon in a national park.
Naturally, the story raised eyebrows across the national media as Sheehy is now the leading candidate to take on Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) in the general election, a race that could very well determine the majority in the U.S. Senate.
The Post’s Isaac Stanley-Becker reached out to Sheehy’s campaign a few days after Goodwin’s story ran and asked some follow-up questions, including for a copy of “the full citation for the Purple Heart” that Sheehy received.
Sheehy shared part of Stanley-Becker’s email on X (formerly Twitter) and fumed at the Post for continuing to report on the topic, “The smear artists @washingtonpost are writing yet another hit piece attacking me for serving my country—even asking questions about my medical history and demanding my personal records. I’m done playing the liberal…
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