Pro-Trump War Hero Featured on Fox News Never Actually Served

[babylonsister]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/pro-trump-war-hero-featured-on-fox-news-never-actually-served

1. STOLEN VALOR
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Pro-Trump ‘War Hero’ Featured on Fox News Never Actually Served


A military veteran glowingly featured by Fox News earlier this month for his pro-Trump artwork and his record as a “war hero” admitted Thursday to lying about his military service. John Garofalo, 72, was featured in a Bryan Llenas report as having served seven years as a Navy SEAL, receiving 22 commendations, including two Purple Hearts, and having been listed twice as missing in action during Vietnam. Garofalo, who personally carved a presidential seal to gift President Trump, is a “tough, tough man,” Llenas said, after calling him a “hero” during an interview. Fox News anchor Eric Shawn later remarked: “God bless John Garofalo. We certainly hope maybe the president is listening.” However, when the Navy Times reached out to Garofalo on Thursday, he confessed to having lied about his military service. “What I did I’m ashamed of, and I didn’t mean to cause so much disgrace to the SEALs,” he told the Times. Fox News has since removed the video, which went viral on Facebook, and issued a statement apologizing for the error.

[Wellstone ruled]

1. Not the first to be exposed and

there will be others.

[TheDebbieDee]

9. Remember about a year or year-and-a-half ago FOX News did an interview

with the National Security Minister of Denmark or Finland or some other Northern European nation and it turned out this guy wasn't even employed by the government?

FOX News sometimes burns itself when it comes to fake news and propaganda...

[MyOwnPeace]

2. Including Trump,

FAUX NEWS is ALWAYS delivering us frauds!

[ProfessorGAC]

3. I Worked With ACE

While i did some consulting work for them in ordinance, i never once, NOT ONCE, ever told a single person i was a vet when i wasn't.

I worked with career military guys. I played golf with a few of them. We decommissioned aged ordinance together. But, i was just a guy being paid to help based upon subject matter expertise. And again, i never once told anybody i was in the ACE. Just that i worked with some of those guys and it was a cool part time gig.

This guy went so far as to claim commendations. I actually worked with military guys and never claimed a thing.

This guy is going to end up in Dante's last circle.

[RhodeIslandOne]

4. Another FAUXHawk

I'm sure he is on the "front lines" of the culture war, like Jesse Watters and Roy Moore though!

[gratuitous]

5. Oh! Well, Garofalo's ashamed and feels real, real bad

No harm, no foul, right?

[AJT]

6. So how much was a lie? Did he ever serve in the military at all

or were some of the details a lie? Was he in Vietnam, a navy seal, missing in action, injured?

[Arkansas Granny]

10. Apparently served in Navy from 1963 to 1967. Not in Vietnam.

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-navy/2017/10/19/faker-man-admits-he-lied-to-fox-news-about-navy-seal-service/

[doc03]

7. This has happened at Fox before I think nt

[oxbow]

8. yet fox news viewers will never know...

the news cycle grinds on and their viewers can't be bothered to factcheck. and apparently, neither can fox before putting this nonsense out into the world.

[Initech]

11. They can't even get veterans right!

[TrollBuster9090]

12. ??? That's odd. I thought he was in combat with Bill O'Reilley during the Falkland's War? nt.