diff --git a/CHANGES/653.bugfix b/CHANGES/653.bugfix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6040d64f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/CHANGES/653.bugfix
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Fixed tls_validation not being disabled when set to false on the remote.
diff --git a/pulp_python/app/tasks/sync.py b/pulp_python/app/tasks/sync.py
index 5238c69e..3af26a59 100644
--- a/pulp_python/app/tasks/sync.py
+++ b/pulp_python/app/tasks/sync.py
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 import logging
 import tempfile
+from typing import Optional, Any, AsyncGenerator
 
+import aiohttp
 from aiohttp import ClientResponseError, ClientError
 from lxml.etree import LxmlError
 from gettext import gettext as _
@@ -128,7 +130,7 @@ async def run(self):
         # Bandersnatch includes leading slash when forming API urls
         url = self.remote.url.rstrip("/")
         # local & global timeouts defaults to 10secs and 5 hours
-        async with Master(url) as master:
+        async with PulpMaster(url, tls=self.remote.tls_validation) as master:
             deferred_download = self.remote.policy != Remote.IMMEDIATE
             workers = self.remote.download_concurrency or self.remote.DEFAULT_DOWNLOAD_CONCURRENCY
             async with ProgressReport(
@@ -150,6 +152,25 @@ async def run(self):
                 await pmirror.synchronize(packages_to_sync)
 
 
+class PulpMaster(Master):
+    """
+    Pulp Master Class for Pulp specific overrides
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, *args, tls=True, **kwargs):
+        self.tls = tls
+        super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
+
+    async def get(
+        self, path: str, required_serial: Optional[int], **kw: Any
+    ) -> AsyncGenerator[aiohttp.ClientResponse, None]:
+        """Support tls=false"""
+        if not self.tls:
+            kw["ssl"] = False
+        async for r in super().get(path, required_serial, **kw):
+            yield r
+
+
 class PulpMirror(Mirror):
     """
     Pulp Mirror Class to perform syncing using Bandersnatch
@@ -259,4 +280,4 @@ def on_error(self, exception, **kwargs):
         TODO
         This should have some error checking
         """
-        pass
+        logger.error("Sync encountered an error: ", exc_info=exception)