Much of the so-called ‘mainstream media’ has been working overtime to paint Vice President Kamala Harris in a positive light now that she’s the Democratic presidential nominee, despite the fact that she was among the first to drop out of the 2020 primaries and has spent her three-and-a-half years in office as one of the most unpopular vice presidents in modern history.
But the same outlets have also been attempting to cover up for her chosen running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, regarding his lies about his military record and a past drunk-driving arrest.
One out, CNN, has since been forced to correct the record and admit that Walz repeatedly lied about the DUI arrest in 1995 while he was running for Congress roughly a decade later — after he quit the Army National Guard when his unit received orders to deploy to a combat zone.
On September 23, 1995, Walz was stopped by a Nebraska trooper for speeding at 96 mph in a 55 mph zone. The officer detected alcohol on Walz’s breath, leading to a field sobriety test and a blood-alcohol test, both of which Walz failed. He spent the night in jail and later admitted to driving under the influence, according to court records.
During his congressional campaign, Walz’s campaign falsely asserted that he had not been drinking. Instead, they claimed that Walz had failed the field sobriety test due to alleged hearing loss from his service in the National Guard.
As the CNN report put it, “None of that was true.”
The report listed the falsehoods from the campaign, which was 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 Walz “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 afterwards. I don’t think the trooper would have allowed that if he thought there was a problem.”
The same false claims were made to the Post Bulletin, another local paper:
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.
Greenley also told the Star Tribune that Walz “was caught speeding, he doesn’t deny it, and that’s the end of it.”
Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro recently scrutinized the Harris campaign’s portrayal of Walz as a quintessential all-American dad with deep roots in the heartland. Shapiro highlighted Walz’s false claims regarding his drunk driving arrest as part of his critique.
“Arrested for DUI while teacher and assistant coach, abandoning his unit in the guard: none of the ‘dad persona’ really sticks when revealed,” Shapiro says in the latest episode of “Scamala: Kamala Harris Unmasked.” Instead, Walz is a “wild progressive, a radical, and a liar” with bizarre ties to China, a history of military embellishment, and a record of radical racial and gender policies, he added.