A screenshot of U.S. Senate candidate Tim Sheehy appearing on FOX News on Sept. 20, talking about the U.S. Senate race and the balance of power (Screenshot FOX News).
When U.S. Senate candidate Tim Sheehy was asked publicly for the first time about comments he made about the Crow Indians being drunk and throwing beer cans at him — things he had said during late 2023 at campaign stops — the Republican challenger told Fox News that the tapes had been chopped up in order to make him look “evil.”
However, an investigation by the Daily Montanan, reviewing those full recordings, show no evidence of the tapes being manipulated, and the quotes were accurately first reported by Char Koosta News, the official newspaper of the Flathead Indian Reservation. Moreover, Char Koosta last week released two previously unknown tapes of other events that demonstrates that Sheehy, who is challenging incumbent Democrat U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, made similar disparaging comments about Crow people.
Furthermore, a full review of all the recordings also demonstrates Sheehy repeating a debunked claim that doctors are allowed to kill infants after they’re born; that he wants to defund and eliminate several federal departments, and repeatedly calling into question Tester’s record helping veterans, referring to Tester as “Jabba the Hut.”
The Sheehy campaign did not respond to requests for interview or clarification about the comments.
