All politicians lie, usually about unquantifiable things that cannot be readily disproven. And their lies always make themselves look better.
Trump made mistakes in recounting a story about an emergency helicopter landing he thought he had with California’s grand old Democrat, Willie Brown. Willie Brown, who was infamously Kamala Harris’ early political benefactor, said Trump had it wrong. It turns out Trump did not go down with Willie Brown, but with another California politician. He confused the two guys, but the record got corrected. And both sides let the story go pretty quickly.
Trump tends to embellish and hyperbolize. I wish he would not, but he does. He rarely lies on substance; he is directionally right, but often technically problematic. He brags, boasts and brandishes bravado, which drives the Democrats and their media nuts. On purpose.
Democrat VP nominee Tim Walz is different. He has outright lied about how he got out of going to Iraq with his National Guard battalion. He misled about being at Bagram (Afghanistan) Air Base and said he wanted to get rid of “weapons of war” that he “carried in war,” but he never saw combat.
Walz’ superiors and some of his fellow National Guard members have called him a liar and a fake. His commander told the story of Walz going around him to get out of going to Afghanistan. Even by Democrats’ standards, this guy is a fraud.