Cop: I Arrested Tim Walz for DUI. Why Did His Aide Lie About it?

Asked about a long ago Saturday night when he arrested a man called Tim Walz for drunken driving, Nebraska State Trooper Stephen Rasgorshek cited an axiom he formulated while making more than 1,000 such busts on the roads of Nebraska.

“One of the things I've always said is, anyone can get a DUI. It’s what you do with it after you get the DUI,” Rasgorshek told the Daily Beast on Monday. “If he had stuck with his story of, ‘Look, it changed my life and I stopped drinking,’ I would commend him, 1,000 percent.”

But what happened that night—and the very different way his campaign tried to spin it when Walz entered the world of politics a decade later—is now worth re-examining as he tries to become vice-president.

Read more at The Daily Beast.