Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, now the presumptive Democratic vice presidential nominee, is being exposed for his history of embellishment and dishonesty about the details of various instances in his past, including a drunk driving incident in 1995 while he lived and worked in Nebraska.

Rather remarkably, CNN just documented the false claims and ever-evolving excuses from Walz and his prior campaign staffers about the DUI arrest that are contradicted by official documents as well as his eventual admission about what occurred.

Meanwhile, other liberal media outlets, such as Vanity Fair, continue to fawn all over the leftist governor and VP candidate with softball profile pieces about his "vintage American truck" and other things that present him in an adoringly positive light while downplaying or ignoring anything that might be negative against him.

Walz arrested for DUI in 1995

CNN somewhat surprisingly has exposed how the 2006 congressional campaign of Gov. Walz blatantly lied about the details of his 1995 arrest in Nebraska for speeding and suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol -- details that have been confirmed via court documents and a police report.

Per the official records, which were published in 2022 by conservative Alpha News, Walz, then a school teacher and coach in Nebraska, was pulled over by a state trooper after he was clocked going 96 mph in a 55 mph zone. The trooper smelled alcohol and subjected Walz to a field sobriety and preliminary breath test, both of which were failed.

The trooper then transported Walz to a nearby hospital for a blood test that registered a blood alcohol content level of .128, which was far above the current legal limit of .08 and was higher than the elevated .10 limit in Nebraska at that time. He was then booked in the county jail on charges of speeding and DUI.

Later, Walz accepted a deal from prosecutors in 1996 that dropped the DUI and speeding charges in exchange for him pleading guilty to reckless driving and paying a $200 fine.

Walz campaign lied about arrest in 2006

Yet, during Walz's first congressional campaign in 2006, after a local conservative blog broke the news about his DUI arrest more than a decade earlier, Walz and his campaign chose to lie about the details in multiple interviews with local media outlets.

When local outlet KEYC reported on the 1995 incident, Walz campaign staffer Meredith Salsberry said, "The DUI charge was dropped for a reason: it wasn't true," and further asserted, "The trooper had him drive to the station and then leave on his own after being at the station."

At the same time, in response to a report from the local Post Bulletin about the arrest, Walz's campaign manager Kerry Greeley insisted that Walz was not drunk during the incident and instead attributed his failing the sobriety tests and subsequent arrest to a "misunderstanding" caused by his loss of hearing from serving in an artillery unit in the National Guard.

"He couldn't understand what the officer was saying to him," Greeley claimed, and further asserted that a loss of balance associated with deafness -- which was ostensibly surgically repaired at an unspecified later date -- contributed to Walz's inability to pass the field sobriety tests.

Facts say otherwise

Of course, none of those 2006 claims are true, especially the claim about Walz being permitted to drive himself to and from the police station. In fact, CNN reported that Nebraska State Patrol spokesman Cody Thomas told the outlet, "Under NSP procedure, a person suspected of impaired driving is not allowed to continue driving. In this case, the suspect was transported by the trooper and was lodged in Dawes County Jail."

Furthermore, according to the court documents posted by Alpha News and confirmed by CNN, both Walz and his attorney acknowledged in court that he had been drinking alcohol before he was pulled over and arrested, and that his actions had been wrong and set a bad example for the students he taught.

On top of that, in a 2018 interview with the Star Tribune during his first run to be the governor, Walz seemed to also admit his wrongdoing as he called the 1995 DUI arrest a "gut-check moment" that prompted him to quit drinking alcohol altogether.