{"id":76241,"date":"2026-07-18T08:55:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T13:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/18\/pratt-takes-walz-to-task-in-scathing-x-post-over-pardoned-child-rapist-have-your-hard-drives-checked\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T08:55:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T13:55:22","slug":"pratt-takes-walz-to-task-in-scathing-x-post-over-pardoned-child-rapist-have-your-hard-drives-checked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/18\/pratt-takes-walz-to-task-in-scathing-x-post-over-pardoned-child-rapist-have-your-hard-drives-checked\/","title":{"rendered":"Pratt takes Walz to task in scathing X post over pardoned child rapist: &#8216;Have your hard drives checked&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Los Angeles mayoral candidate and reality TV star <a href=\"https:\/\/foxnews.com\/category\/person\/spencer-pratt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Spencer Pratt<\/a> took aim at Minnesota Democratic Gov. Tim Walz in a post that was widely praised by conservatives on social media.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you find yourself defending a child molester, saying: \u2018WE can\u2019t be judged by OUR worst day\u2019, you probably need to have your hard drives checked,&#8221; Pratt <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/spencerpratt\/status\/2078086616195682346?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">posted on X<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Pratt was responding to a clip of Walz defending the pardon of a convicted child rapist, contending that his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/state-department-fires-back-walz-doubles-down-pardon-convicted-child-rapist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">deportation by the State Department<\/a> did not make the U.S. safer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Did that make us any safer?&#8221; Walz questioned. &#8220;Did that make the children that are left behind any more stable? Did it improve the idea that we can\u2019t all be judged by our worst day?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/foxnews.com\/politics\/tim-walz-offers-strange-defense-pardoning-convicted-child-rapist-trump-admin-deported\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>TIM WALZ OFFERS STRANGE DEFENSE FOR PARDONING CONVICTED CHILD RAPIST TRUMP ADMINISTRATION DEPORTED<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pratt\u2019s post quickly spread on social media from other conservatives bashing Walz.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I couldn\u2019t agree more, @spencerpratt,&#8221; Republican House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, who represents Minnesota\u2019s 6th Congressional District, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/tomemmer\/status\/2078150005072765007?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">posted on X<\/a>. &#8220;Tim Walz has ZERO morals. He is disgrace to Minnesota!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/foxnews.com\/politics\/exposed-docs-reveal-why-tim-walz-board-awarded-repeat-child-rapist-pardon-no-future\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>EXPOSED DOCS REVEAL WHY TIM WALZ BOARD AWARDED REPEAT CHILD RAPIST PARDON: \u2018NO FUTURE\u2019<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To think&#8230; he was almost the Vice President,&#8221; Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RepNancyMace\/status\/2078179214352695727?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">posted on X.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I didn\u2019t used to understand the phrase, &#8216;bring common sense to DC,&#8217; but it becomes more apparent every day that it\u2019s missing at every level of government,&#8221; Florida Republican congressional candidate Tim Wilkins <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TimWilkinsFL\/status\/2078098778607714348?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">posted on X<\/a>. &#8220;This is insanity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fox News Digital reached out to Walz\u2019s office for comment.<\/p>\n<p>The Minnesota Board of Pardons, composed of Walz, state Attorney General Keith Ellison and state Chief Justice Natalie Hudson, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/walz-minnesota-board-pardons-clears-convicted-illegal-alien-child-sex-offender-facing-deportation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">granted clemency<\/a> to Laotian national Tou Lue Vang, 42, on June 10. Vang was scheduled to be deported from the United States before the pardon.<\/p>\n<p>Vang was convicted for repeatedly raping a 10-year-old girl between 2002 and 2004, and told authorities after he was arrested that &#8220;it is a cultural thing&#8230; to marry and have sex with girls as young as 12.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of State <a href=\"https:\/\/foxnews.com\/category\/person\/marco-rubio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marco Rubio<\/a> stepped in to terminate Tou Lue Vang&#8217;s legal status in the U.S. and ensure that Walz&#8217;s actions would not create roadblocks for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) removing him from the country before Vang was ultimately deported.<\/p>\n<p>Pratt has been increasingly active in politics on social media since finishing third in the Los Angeles mayoral primary and recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/spencer-pratt-gets-oval-office-face-time-trump-top-white-house-brass-before-patriotic-pledge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">met with President Donald Trump<\/a> in the Oval Office which increased speculation that another political run could be in his future.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will never stop fighting for my community,&#8221; Pratt captioned the photo of the meeting on X.<\/p>\n<p><i>Fox News Digital\u2019s Peter D\u2019Abrosca contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Los Angeles mayoral candidate and reality TV star Spencer Pratt took aim at Minnesota Democratic Gov. Tim Walz in a post that was widely praised by conservatives on social media. &#8220;If you find yourself defending a child molester, saying: \u2018WE can\u2019t be judged by OUR worst day\u2019, you probably need to have your hard &#8230; <a title=\"Pratt takes Walz to task in scathing X post over pardoned child rapist: &#8216;Have your hard drives checked&#8217;\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/18\/pratt-takes-walz-to-task-in-scathing-x-post-over-pardoned-child-rapist-have-your-hard-drives-checked\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Pratt takes Walz to task in scathing X post over pardoned child rapist: &#8216;Have your hard drives checked&#8217;\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}