John Oliver trolls Vance’s ‘desperate’ smears of Walz’s military record: ‘Trump campaign has got nothing’

John Oliver has mocked Donald Trump and JD Vance for their “more than a little desperate” attempts to smear Tim Walz’s military record, calling the “stolen valor” claims nothing more than “thin gruel.”

On Sunday night’s show, the Last Week Tonight host went throughthe Trump campaign’s recent efforts to steal the limelight from Kamala Harris and her running mate – efforts that he said are so far failing to make any real impact on the Democratic bid for the White House.

“It does seem telling that so much of their attack strategy seems to boil down to a nonsense word and false accusations of stolen valor,” Oliver said.

“Two desperate smear attempts with one thing in common: they reveal the Trump campaign has currently got absolutely nothing.”

Among the many attack lines the Trump campaign has tried out, the comedian pointed out that the “stolen valor” accusations against Walz were especially failing to land.

“Even the hard-right Wall Street Journal editorial board said the charges leveled so far about his military service look like thin gruel,” Oliver quipped, according to The Daily Beast.

Vance has accused the Minnesotan governor of exaggerating his military record and abandoning his crew right before deployment to Iraq.

In 2003, Walz deployed for nine months during the war in Afghanistan, providing security at US bases in Europe, but did not take part in combat. He retired from the National Guard in May 2005 while he was running for Congress.

It was one year later when his unit was deployed to Iraq.

Republicans have also tried to attack Walz for changes to the Minnesotan flag, claiming he changed it to resemble an autonomous state in Somalia.

After replacing the previous flag because of its insensitivity to Native