Tim Sheehy’s Pattern of Misleading Montanans About Who He Is

September 12, 2024

Helena, MT – In case you missed it, recent reporting revealed that Tim Sheehy lied again about his military service record. It’s just the latest in a pattern of lies that Tim Sheehy has told to Montanans about who he is and what he believes: 

  • Daily Montanan reported that Sheehy claimed at a campaign event that he “parachuted into Glacier National Park as part of his military training in Montana — an activity a national park spokesperson said is not permitted.” The U.S. Navy also said they “did not have any record of parachute training in the park.” Sheehy “did not respond to questions sent this week to two campaign staff members asking for details about the claim.”
     

  • Sheehy has “offered inconsistent accounts of his war wounds,” and given contradictory accounts about a gunshot wound he says he received in Afghanistan, but records say was a result of accidentally shooting himself in Glacier National Park in 2015 – leading Montana reporters to observe Sheehy’s “bullet story doesn't add up.” Sheehy is refusing to release the medical records from that day that would reveal what happened.
     

  • Sheehy’s story about how he left the military is also “contradicted by Sheehy’s own written account.”
     

  • Sheehy repeatedly claimed on the campaign trail that he grew up in a “rural” area when he actually grew up in a multimillion-dollar lake house in a wealthy suburb near his elite private school in St. Paul.
     

  • Sheehy dubbed himself a “cowboy,” despite not running the day-to-day operations of the ranch land he bought just a few years ago. Instead, Sheehy uses his vanity ranch for brand promotions, influencer photoshoots, and luxury ranch vacation packages excursions for rich tourists. 
     

  • Sheehy said he “bootstrapped” his company “from scratch” while conveniently omitting the $600,000 he raked in from his family to start his business.
     

  • Sheehy supports transferring Montana’s public lands, and he’s lying to Montanans about it. The truth is that he’s called for public lands to “get turned over to state agencies, or even counties,” which would make it easier to sell off public lands to out-of-state multimillionaires like him.

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