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Gloria Oladipo

Montana park ranger says Senate candidate Tim Sheehy lied about combat wound

Man at podium in blazer and shirt with no tie speaks into microphone.
Tim Sheehy speaking at the Republican national convention on 16 July in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Photograph: J Scott Applewhite/AP

A former Montana park ranger has now publicly accused Tim Sheehy – a Republican running for a US Senate seat in the state – of lying about getting shot while at war in Afghanistan.

In an interview with the Washington Post published on Friday, 67-year-old Kim Peach went on the record about how Sheehy – a former US navy seal – actually shot himself on a family trip in 2015 at Glacier national park. Peach’s account explicitly contradicts Sheehy’s claim that he was shot in the arm during military combat, a story that the Republican candidate has shared throughout his US Senate campaign.

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