Thorn posted... Well, we've got a weird development in the Montana Senate race.
Sheehy, the GOP candidate and former SEAL who is running against Tester for the seat has been on the campaign trail and claimed that he has a bullet lodged in his right arm that he received in Afghanistan.
Media noticed he gave several inconsistent accounts of the incident and looked into it some and found an October 2015 citation he received for illegally discharging a firearm in a national park. He confessed to the National Park Service ranger that he fell and discharged his Colt .45 and shot himself in the right arm. Media organizations have the citation because it was filed in US District Court.
So when they confronted him with this, the story he's going with now is that the story he's telling (with inconsistency) on the campaign trail is the truth and that he lied to the park ranger about the gunshot in order to protect his former platoonmates from an investigation because he wasn't sure if it was enemy fire or friendly fire.
https://washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/06/tim-sheehy-montana-senate-gunshot-wound-national-park/
Man that is crazy. The kind of thing that 20 years might have ended his political career. Too bad now it probably won't really hurt his chances.