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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Matthew Brown

A GOP senate candidate says he was shot while serving in Afghanistan. A Montana ranger says that’s not what happened

Tim Sheehy has been accused of lying about a gunshot wound. - (Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

A former Park Service ranger said Friday that U.S. Senate hopeful Tim Sheehy of Montana has been lying about a bullet wound that the candidate said came from fighting in Afghanistan — going public with an accusation that has nagged the Republican’s campaign for months.

The claim from former ranger Kim Peach that Sheehy in fact shot himself on a family trip in Montana was immediately dismissed by Sheehy and his allies as a smear campaign engineered by Democrats in a race that's expected to help decide control of the Senate.

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