Jesse Ventura Praises Tim Walz For Legalizing Marijuana

Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura praised present Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz whereas talking with MSNBC’s Rev. Al Sharpton on Saturday — particularly for the Democratic VP decide’s push to legalize marijuana within the state. “Twenty-some years in the past, I attempted to legalize hashish marijuana. I lit the match,” the unbiased politician started.

“Nicely, the match simmered for 20 years and at last turned a flame, and Gov. Walz referred to as me and he stated, ‘Gov. Ventura, it’s worthwhile to be in my workplace Monday at 11. I’m going to signal within the legislation ending the prohibition of marijuana in Minnesota. It was your thought. You’re nonetheless alive. You have to be there to take credit score for this since you’re the one who executed it,’” Ventura continued.

“That’s the sort of individual Tim Walz is,” Ventura warmly concluded.

The previous Minnesota governor, a army vet himself, additionally defended Walz’s army service in opposition to assaults from GOP vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance and the Republican Celebration, who’ve criticized Walz for retiring after 24 years of service.

“Before everything, any level after 20 years, you may retire once you wish to,” Ventura defined. “Second, Vance is lacking the purpose. What he should be asking is that this: why is the Nationwide Guard being shipped out and combating in overseas wars and different lands? That isn’t their position.”

“Their position is to be right here in our nation defending us inside our personal nation. That’s why they’re referred to as ‘the Nationwide Guard,’” he continued, exasperated.

Ventura blamed the problem on former President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. In the course of the Iraq Struggle, “They couldn’t deliver again a draft. It could be political suicide. So what did they do? Bush signed an govt order now sending our Nationwide Guard over on the planet fight zones. That’s ridiculous.”

Sharpton and Ventura additionally spoke in regards to the elephant within the room: Donald Trump, and their very own previous friendships with him. Sharpton requested if Trump is identical person who Ventura was as soon as associates with — a query the previous governor replied to with a convincing no.

“He isn’t the man that got here to me again in ’98 after I received,” Ventura stated. Ventura even recruited Trump for the Reform Celebration in an earlier potential run for president. “Again then he was rather more liberal, however it’s worthwhile to perceive, Donald Trump is for Donald Trump, and Donald Trump goes to do no matter it’s that helps Donald Trump.”

“So he appeared the state of affairs over. He clearly noticed that he might take over the Republican Celebration. So he modified his views. You understand, he went from pro-choice now to, you recognize, no rights for ladies’s replica. He’s gone far proper. He’s making an attempt to say he’s now a non secular individual. Nicely, to me, for those who’re going to be a non secular individual, it’s a must to dwell it,” Ventura continued.

Ventura sarcastically famous that he, as an atheist/agnostic, thinks he’s extra spiritual than Trump.

“And Donald Trump hardly lives it. I imply, he’s had a number of wives. I typically snigger and assume, what would the Republicans have stated if Barack Obama would have had a number of wives and a number of youngsters and ran for president, like Donald Trump? What would the Republican response be to that? It could have been horrifying to see what Republicans would have stated if that will have been Barack Obama.”

You’ll be able to watch the interview with Jesse Ventura within the video above.