CNN host says Walz DUI lie 'indefensible', even bigger than stolen value claims

CNN host Michael Smerconish said Friday that Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz's big lie about his 1995 DUI arrest is a big deal, perhaps an even bigger deal than Walz's stolen property issue .

How previously informedin 1995, Walz, then a teacher, was clocked for driving 96 mph in a 55 mph zone. The police officer who arrested him proceeded to test his sobriety. He failed and was taken to prison. He later pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of reckless driving.

When he ran for Congress years later in 2006, his campaign blatantly lied to the media about what happened that night.

“[I]In 2006, his campaign repeatedly told the press that he 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 ” according to CNN. “The campaign also claimed that Walz was allowed to drive himself to the jail that night. None of this was true.”

holy shit @Tim_Walz falsely claimed his DUI, which was for driving 96 in a 55 with a BAC of .128, was because he had hearing loss from National Guard service when he ran for Congress in 2006. @cnn of all places. Total fraud and liar: https://t.co/nQFyXv2bxq

— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) August 15, 2024

Appearing on CNN this Friday, Smerconish suggested that this lie is an even bigger campaign liability than Walz's allegations of stolen value.

“Walz spoke carelessly, he shouldn't have portrayed a role he had as a permanent role when it wasn't,” he said of the military service issue. “But the DUI story is indefensible.”

Why? Partly because Smerconish suspects Walz himself was behind the DUI lie.

“You and I know a thing or two about congressional campaigns: They're very small, they're very tight,” the CNN host said. “Usually there's a paid campaign manager and a paid spokesman. And that's it. So the idea that this came from his spokesman and didn't come from him, I don't buy that.”

“And the idea that he tried to fire him with a hearing impairment from the National Guard service through the spokesman while denying things that [CNN’s] the research turned out to be inaccurate, I think that's a real problem for him,” Smerconish added.

“In the end, it will be the top of the ticket, but to me, the DUI is bigger than the stolen value allegation. Not for drinking, but for lying,” he concluded.

Listen:

CNN anchor Kasie Hunt a known leftistand then asked how Walz's current campaign — he's running for vice president alongside presidential candidate Kamala Harris — can best deal with this scandal.

“Full,” Smerconish replied before moving on to question Harris' vetting process.

“It makes me wonder if in the vetting process, maybe that's a result of the accelerated nature of her rise as a candidate, but it makes me wonder how much they really knew,” she said.

“I'm sure they knew about the DUI, but it makes me wonder if they were aware of all the underlying facts,” he added.

All this comes days after The Washington Post published a light fact-check rejecting Walz's claim, linked to the stolen value scandal, that he carried “weapons of war … into war.”

Walz, the current governor of Minnesota, made the claim in 2018 while advocating for gun control.

“We can make sure that the weapons of war that he brought to war are the only place those weapons are,” he said at the time during what appeared to be a campaign speech, as seen on video published in X.

As for Walz's claim that he carried “weapons of war … into war,” the Post's appointed fact-checker had the decency to admit that was a lie, though he tried to sugarcoat the lie

“There is no evidence that Walz served in combat, and he has not claimed that he did,” wrote reviewer Glenn Kessler. “He received ribbons for proficiency in marksmanship and hand grenades, according to military records obtained through an open records request by MPR News.”

“Assessment: Walz's language was sloppy and false. He carried weapons of war, but not to war,” the fact-checker concluded.

In other words, it looks like Walz lied… AGAIN!

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V. Saxena is a writer for BizPac Review with a decade of experience as a professional writer and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University.

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