Gov. Tim Walz Says Don’t Judge Child Molesters SOLELY On The Fact They Molest Children
There are sentences a governor should never need help avoiding.
Gov. Tim Walz found one anyway.
While defending his decision to pardon a man convicted of repeatedly sexually assaulting a child, Walz asked whether Americans believe “we can’t all be judged by our worst day.”
Walz never uttered the headline’s exact wording.
He chose a softer formulation with the same moral problem: a child molester’s crime should cease to define the judgment society makes about him.
Except the record describes years of abuse, several assaults and a victim who was only 10 years old when it began.
Calling that a “worst day” is an insult to the child who endured it.
Watch Walz make the argument in his own words:
INSANITY: Tim Walz says we shouldn’t judge child molesters based purely on their decision to rape a child but on how they live their rest of their lives. pic.twitter.com/TuNck03oNc
— @amuse (@amuse) July 16, 2026