Tim Walz’s lies about his military service are catching up with him.
He found himself right back in the hot seat after another revelation.
And a military lawyer made one confession that has Tim Walz ensconced in yet another major scandal.
Walz caught in another lie that could have cost him his career
Minnesota Democrat Governor Tim Walz is allergic to telling the truth about his service in the Army National Guard.
Now, one of his other scandals is intersecting with his military career.
Nebraska State Police arrested Walz in 1995 for driving 96 miles per hour on a 55-mile-per-hour speed-limit road.
He was arrested for DUI, but his 2006 Congressional campaign claimed that he wasn’t drunk and hadn’t even been arrested.
The campaign said he failed a field sobriety test because of a loss of hearing that resulted from his National Guard service, and that police allowed him to drive his car to the station as proof that it was all just some big misunderstanding.
But not a single word of the claims made by Walz’s campaign were true – not in the slightest.
Walz was taken to a local hospital where his blood alcohol level was found to be .128, well above Nebraska’s legal limit at the time of .1.
That DUI arrest could have affected his career in the National Guard.
Walz took a plea deal to plead guilty to reckless driving.
Walz should have lost National Guard career
The Minnesota National Guard told Just the News that it didn’t know if Walz disclosed his DUI arrest to the National Guard.
Walz was serving in the Nebraska National Guard in 1995, but they refused to comment if he disclosed his DUI arrest.
Sean Timmons was a military lawyer who served as a Captain in the Army’s Judge Advocate General’s (JAG) Corps.
He still handles military law as a private practice lawyer.
Timmons told Just the News that Walz’s arrest should have gotten him disciplined and likely ended his military career.
“I find it very bizarre he was allowed to stay in the guard and even get promoted,” Timmons said. “In the Army today whether guard, reserve or active duty. a DUI for driving while intoxicated is usually a career ending event unless you are acquitted fully or the charges are dropped entirely.”
Timmons said the rules on a DUI in the military have remained consistent from when Walz was arrested in 1995 to today.
“His guilty plea should have been a career ending event,” Timmons explained. “He was later promoted so, that is uniquely strange and demonstrative that he likely had political connections unavailable to most of the regular force.”
This raises the question of whether he properly reported his arrest to the Nebraska National Guard.
The Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) is the law that governs the military including the National Guard.
A soldier could face court martial for Walz’s offense.
“Any person subject to this chapter who operates any vehicle while drunk, or in a reckless or wanton manner, or while impaired by a substance described in section 912a(b) of this title (article 112a(b)), shall be punished as a court-martial may direct,” the UCMJ states.
Timmons said that under normal circumstances, someone in Walz’s situation likely would have received a less than honorable discharge.
“Back in the 1990’s the Guard unit slid a lot of things under the rug for people they liked,” Timmons stated. “That is one reason Congress has changed the laws considerably on the handling of sexual assault cases, precisely because guard units were notorious for protecting people like Governor Walz from accountability when the member was politically connected or well liked.”
Tim Walz’s National Guard service is shrouded in lies and deception.
