So…HAVE you heard of Matthew Metro? You shouldn’t have, but you may have. Mr. Metro is a grown, out and proud man who currently lives in Hawaii. He attended school in Minnesota at a time when Tim Walz taught there.

The cons have put out a video of a man named Matthew Metro, claiming to have had an interaction with Tim Walz. An inappropriate interaction. The problem? The man in the video is NOT the Matthew Metro who attended that school when Walz taught there. He’s lying. He said that during a rough time in his life, he sought guidance from Tim Walz. He said he was upset because his parents were getting divorced and he had to keep his sexuality a secret and the pressure of both issues was weighing heavily on him. He said Walz was inappropriate with him. You don’t really need the details. The guy is lying. People are investigating.

The Harris campaign was tipped to the video and began looking into it. At around the same time, the real Matthew Metro was tipped by a friend still living in Minnesota. The Harris campaign finally found the real Mr. Metro and spoke with him. Mr. Metro said he doesn’t know WHO the person in the video is. He said his parents are still married. He said he was out and proud in high school and everyone knew. He never had any problems because of it, and he had a GREAT high school experience.

The real Mr. Metro speculates that the faker got photos and learned the interests of the real Metro through abandoned social media accounts. (Be advised…) Professionals have said it’s not a deep fake, generated by AI. There’s no sign it was generated by AI. In fact, they called it a “Cheap fake” because it was so badly done. Of course, that’s no accident. They make the video grainy and hard to see in order to try to fool people into thinking that might be the real guy.

That seems like some desperate stuff, there. Someone went to a lot of trouble to collect information about this Metro guy and then distort it and use it as a smear against Walz. A LOT of trouble. As I indicated, people are investigating. I don’t know that there’s a crime associated (maybe identity theft) but there’s very definitely civil liability. Public figures usually have to put up with crap like that. But Matthew Metro does not.

I hope when the culprit is uncovered, they pass the information on to Mr. Metro and I hope Metro sues the perpetrator. If a link to some Republican operative can be proven, I hope Mr. Metro sues the Republican party, too. Meanwhile, if they have to go to THAT much trouble to come up with a smear, it says very good things about Walz, right? They looked. They looked hard. They didn’t find anything. So they made crap up.

The only question remaining? Why would you use the name of a REAL person? You’re making stuff up. Make up the name, too, you idiots. Oh, the name gave it “credibility?” Maybe. Right up until the instant the name skewered the credibility of the video.

I’ll tell you this: The cons think they’re losing this race. They shouldn’t have done what they’ve done and they wouldn’t have if they thought they were winning. But they DID do it. If you’re unfortunate enough to stumble across this drivel, ignore it. It’s yet another GOP lie. (My GOD, do they EVER say ANYTHING honest?)