CNN Admits Tim Walz Repeatedly Lied about His Drunk Driving Arrest

CNN has admitted that Democrat vice presidential nominee Tim Walz repeatedly lied about his drunk driving arrest during his congressional election campaign.

As Slay News reported, Walz was arrested for speeding and driving drunk on September 23, 1995.

A Nebraska trooper pulled Walz over for going 96 mph in a 55 mph speed zone.

Walz took a field sobriety test and a blood-alcohol test after the officer smelled alcohol on his breath.

However, he failed both tests and was arrested on the spot.

Walz spent the night behind bars and later admitted that he was driving drunk, court records show.

While running for Congress, however, Walz’s campaign repeatedly claimed that the Democrat had not been drinking.

Walz lied to voters by claiming he was pulled over and failed the field sobriety test because of alleged hearing loss he suffered from his time serving in the National Guard.

“None of that was true,” as the CNN report put it.

The report continued to chronicle the lies from the campaign.

These lies from Walz were also echoed in numerous media reports.

A local newspaper called the New Elm Journal, for example, reported the following:

“According to Walz’s campaign staff, Walz denies being drunk the night of the incident.

“Walz was hard of hearing, a result of his years as an artillery soldier in the Army National Guard, and had trouble hearing the trooper, according to Meredith Salsbery, communications director for the Walz campaign.”

Salsbery, Walz’s then-communications director, further told the paper that he “couldn’t understand what the trooper was telling him during the field sobriety test, and the trooper refused to speak up.”

‘The DUI charges were dropped for a reason,” she continued, referring to Walz’s plea deal.

“The judge would not have dismissed them if there were anything to them.

“Tim drove to the police station that night (after being stopped), and he drove home afterward.

“I don’t think the trooper would have allowed that if he thought there was a problem.”

The same lies were told to another local paper, the Post Bulletin:

Walz’s campaign manager Kerry Greeley didn’t dispute that Walz was speeding when he was pulled over that night, but she said Walz was not drunk.

She attributed the misunderstanding to Walz’s deafness, a condition resulting from his years of serving as an artillerist in the Army National Guard.

“He couldn’t understand what the officer was saying to him,” Greeley said.

She said deaf people also can have balance issues.

The judge eventually threw out the DUI charges against Walz and chastised the officer for not realizing that Walz was deaf, Greeley said.

Walz was not “deaf,” however.

Nor did Walz have any hearing or “balance issues” aside from when he was pulled over for speeding while drunk.

Greenley also told the Star Tribune that Walz “was caught speeding, he doesn’t deny it and that’s the end of it.”

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