Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, has a history of embellishing or outright lying about the details of various aspects of his past, several of which have now caught up with him.

During his joint interview this week alongside Vice President Kamala Harris, Walz was asked about his prior dishonesty and essentially confirmed his status as a liar by giving implausible and non-sequitur responses that dodged the actual questions, according to National Review.

Walz has been less than truthful about or grossly mischaracterized the details of his military service, a previous drunk driving arrest, and the type of fertility treatment his wife received, likely among other things.

Walz claims he carried weapons in war but never actually deployed to a warzone

VP Harris and Gov. Walz sat down Thursday for an interview with CNN's Dan Bash, who asked Walz about his National Guard service and said, "You said that you carried weapons in war, but you have never deployed actually in a war zone. A campaign official said that you misspoke. Did you?"

"Well, first of all, I’m incredibly proud. I’ve done 24 years of wearin’ uniform of this country. Equally proud of my service in a public school classroom, whether it’s Congress or -- or the governor," Walz replied. "My record speaks for itself, but I think people are coming to get to know me. I -- I speak like they do. I speak candidly."

"I wear my emotions on my sleeves, and I speak especially passionately about -- about our children being shot in schools and around — around guns. So I think people know me. They know who I am. They know where -- where my heart is, and again, my record has been out there for over 40 years to -- to speak for itself."

National Review noted that Walz, who never deployed to a combat zone during his 24 years of service -- in fact, he is accused of abandoning his unit to run for Congress right before a 2005 Iraq War deployment -- has frequently claimed, in support of gun control arguments, that "those weapons of war, that I carried in war, are only carried in war."

Walz blames poor "grammar" for blatant lies about military service

To her credit, CNN's Bash pressed the issue after Walz side-stepped the question and asked again about "the idea that you said that you were in war, did you misspeak, as the campaign has said?"

"Yeah, I said -- we were talking about in this case, this was after a school shooting, the ideas of carrying these weapons of war. And my wife the English teacher told me my grammar’s not always correct," he replied and then changed the subject without answering the question. "But again, if it’s not this, it’s an attack on my children for showing love for me, or it’s an attack on my dog. I’m not gonna do that, and the one thing I’ll never do is I’ll never demean another member’s service in any way. I never have and I never will."

For the record, nobody has demeaned Walz's service, though he has faced intense scrutiny from fellow military veterans over the dubious timing of his retirement just before a combat deployment and his repeated false claim of a particular senior rank, command sergeant major, that he never formally achieved, per National Review.

Walz dodges question on dishonesty about fertility treatments, DUI arrest

CNN's Bash wasn't quite finished yet, though, as she also asked Walz to respond to the misleading commentary he has made about the type of fertility treatment his wife received two decades ago as well as the provably "false statements" his campaign previously made about a 1995 drunk driving arrest in Nebraska -- but Walz deftly dodged those issues once more with non-answers that only served to confirm the accusations that he has been untruthful.

According to the Associated Press, Walz has frequently implied that his wife received, and his children are the product of, in vitro fertilization, or IVF, a controversial procedure that involves combining eggs and sperm in a lab and creating frozen embryos, most of which are later discarded after one is implanted in the uterus. The issue became politicized earlier this year when the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that those embryos count as human beings.

Walz's wife Gwen recently admitted, however, that she received the non-controversial intrauterine insemination, or IUI, which involves little more than placing sperm inside the uterus during ovulation to boost the odds of natural fertilization, which worked and resulted in their two children.

As for the DUI arrest, the AP reported separately that Walz was pulled over for speeding, failed a field sobriety and breath analyzer test, and later had blood drawn that showed he was well over the legal limit for blood alcohol content. He even admitted in court that he'd been drinking and accepted a reckless driving plea deal, which led to his congressional campaign making excuses and lying for years by claiming that he wasn't drunk before he finally acknowledged the truth in his 2018 gubernatorial run.