GOP Candidate Says He Lied to Ranger About How He Was Shot

Montana Senate candidate Tim Sheehy, one of the GOP’s top recruits for 2024, has been telling inconsistent accounts of how he received a gunshot wound in his arm.

The 38-year-old challenger to vulnerable Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) has previously claimed he was wounded by a gunshot in combat, but a Washington Post story on a previously unreported incident has made the claim even more suspect.

Sheehy told the paper he lied to a National Park Service ranger about shooting himself in the arm in 2015, claiming “I guess the only thing I’m guilty of is admitting to doing something I never did.”

Read more at The Daily Beast.