‘So confusing’: Montana Senate GOP candidate gives conflicting explanations over gunshot wound

Montana GOP Senate candidate Tim Sheehy offered different explanations for the gunshot wound he suffered in his arm in a new interview Friday.

Last month, Kim Peach, a former U.S. Park Service ranger, spoke publicly and said Sheehy accidentally shot himself with a handgun during a 2015 family trip to Glacier National Park in Montana, contradicting the former Navy SEAL’s campaign biography that said he was “wounded in action.”

Recently Sheehy declared that he actually lied to a Ranger in 2015, telling Peach that he accidentally shot himself to cover up the fact that he may have suffered a bullet wound during a friendly fire incident while serving overseas.

Sheehy was asked Friday if there were medical records to back up his story. said former Fox News Host Megyn Kelly “doesn’t have extensive medical records” after visiting the emergency room. He said he suffered “internal bleeding” after the bullet in his arm flew out after he fell while walking in the park.

“There’s nothing to talk about,” Sheehy said, calling the story a “distraction.”

“So confusing,” Kelly responded during an interview with Sheehy about her SiriusXM radio program.

Sheehy also offered conflicting explanations for who might have been responsible for the gunshot wound.

In an interview with Kelly on Friday, the 37-year-old Senate GOP candidate suggested he may have been shot by an Afghan ally during a friendly fire incident. He called the environment at the time “chaotic” and described the challenges of operating alongside Afghan forces, saying it was “very, very common to find Afghans who, either intentionally or unintentionally, end up gunning down friendly troops.”

“It was a dangerous environment when you’re dealing with actual hostile forces… but half the time you also have to keep one eye on the forces of our partners,” he added.

But in his 2023 memoir, Sheehy wrote that he was “hit by a ricocheting friendly fire bullet” from a fellow SEAL he wanted to shield from the consequences.

“I did not want the teammate who fired the shot, a true stud who had a successful career as a SEAL, to be punished officially or reputationally – as a result of an accident that was in no way his fault,” Sheehy wrote. in the book. “It wasn’t even a difficult or dangerous mission; it was as much a training flight as this training flight, but things quickly turned sour.”

When is the post asked Sheehy said of the passage in his book in April that he was unsure whether he was shot by friendly fire or by whom, describing an incident in which his team came under fire at night.

“To be clear, I don’t know where the bullet came from,” Sheehy said. “Sometimes people find it hard to believe, but in Hollywood it looks like a shootout and everyone knows exactly what’s going on. … It’s just not true.”

Meanwhile, Ranger Peach said: New York Times earlier this month he was “100 percent sure (Sheehy) shot himself that day” in 2015. He recalled unloading Sheehy’s gun at the time and “finding five live rounds and a shell casing from one that had been fired,” the Times reported.

republicans dismissed the charge on the grounds that Peach had story support Democrats.

Polls show Sheehy leading in the crucial race that could determine which party controls the Senate next year. A sitting three-term senator is trying to cause unrest in the state. Donald Trump won by 16 points in the 2020 election.