CNN recently acknowledged that Tim Walz’s 2006 congressional campaign “falsely described” important details regarding the candidate’s September 1995 drunk driving arrest in Nebraska.
Walz, now in his second term as the governor of Minnesota, is the Democratic nominee for vice president of the United States in the 2024 presidential election.
CNN reported that the 2006 Walz campaign “repeatedly told the press that [Walz] had not been drinking that night, claiming that his failed field sobriety test was due to a misunderstanding related to hearing loss from his time in the National Guard. The campaign also claimed that Walz was allowed to drive himself to jail that night.”
“None of that was true,” said CNN, which based its reporting in part on a court transcript obtained by Alpha News related to Walz’s Sept. 23, 1995 arrest.
That night, Walz was pulled over for driving 96 mph when the speed limit was 55 mph. Walz then failed a field sobriety test. His blood alcohol content was eventually tested at a local hospital and found to be .128, over Nebraska’s then-legal limit of 0.1.
“You know it’s bad when CNN has to call you out on this,” said former Trump press secretary, and current Fox News host, Kayleigh McEnany.
'You know it's bad when CNN has to call you out on this,' Fox News host Kayleigh McEnany says of Walz's lies about his DUI arrest. pic.twitter.com/XG7433gWxF
— Alpha News (@AlphaNewsMN) August 22, 2024
Discussing the topic, another Fox News host, Molly Line, said “these integrity issues, these integrity questions, are going to pile up and up and up.”
“But at some point, you’re going to have to stand up and answer questions. And I’m just really wondering what that’s going to look like as this pile-on continues,” added Line.
