On Monday, Herschel Walker’s campaign and the Republican Party fielded a series of serious allegations against the GOP’s best and brightest Senate candidate for Georgia. The Daily Beast reported, and published the receipts from an anonymous woman, who said that the former football player had urged her to get, and then paid for, her abortion in 2009. Herschel Walker came out threatening to sue everyone, denied it was a real story, and claimed he didn’t even know the woman.
On Wednesday, The Daily Beast, with the blessing of the woman Herschel Walker was denying he knew or remembered, decided to come out from the anonymous sections of reporting. In an explosive story, the Daily Beast reveals how spectacularly spineless a liar Herschel Walker truly is.
It turns out the woman is the mother of one Herschel Walker’s child. The woman says she had a years-long relationship with Walker after the abortion, had his child—a child Walker has subsequently admitted to being the biological father of—and was more than disappointed in Walker’s public statements that he had no idea who this woman could possibly be. “Sure, I was stunned, but I guess it also doesn’t shock me, that maybe there are just so many of us that he truly doesn’t remember,” she said. “But then again, if he really forgot about it, that says something, too.”
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When the story first broke, Walker found himself in full lying mode, having to both deny this report while juggling a coinciding series of public statements made by his very conservative son, slamming the Trump-supported Walker for his history of violence, terrible parenting, and moral bankruptcy. As the woman had decided to offer up the very persuasive evidence of Walker’s part in the abortion anonymously, it seems that Herschel thought his best bet was to play the only conservative liar’s poker card available to him: He was being persecuted.
The Republican Party’s operatives, from their top elected officials down to their broadcast minions went into quick rationalization mode, offering up terrible takes and cowered behind very vague general statements that they “supported” Walker and his abortion, while not saying the word “abortion.” Walker, for his part, continued his interviews with the press where he said he had no idea who this woman was who he had sent $700 to, as well as signed “Get Well Soon” cards, five days after she got an abortion. Stories that were corroborated to the media outlet by a witness.
Asked why she ended up coming forward, the woman said that she kept quiet and didn’t “cause any trouble” for a long time but she had tired of Walker’s treatment and denial of reality, saying she wasn’t “gonna get run over time and time again.” She also really went hard on Walker and his “Christianity,” which she said seemed to come and go based on “when it works for him.”
Powerful stuff.
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On Wednesday, The Daily Beast, with the blessing of the woman Herschel Walker was denying he knew or remembered, decided to come out from the anonymous sections of reporting. In an explosive story, the Daily Beast reveals how spectacularly spineless a liar Herschel Walker truly is.
It turns out the woman is the mother of one Herschel Walker’s child. The woman says she had a years-long relationship with Walker after the abortion, had his child—a child Walker has subsequently admitted to being the biological father of—and was more than disappointed in Walker’s public statements that he had no idea who this woman could possibly be. “Sure, I was stunned, but I guess it also doesn’t shock me, that maybe there are just so many of us that he truly doesn’t remember,” she said. “But then again, if he really forgot about it, that says something, too.”
RELATED STORY: It looks like Herschel Walker paid for girlfriend's abortion before he decided to become 'pro-life'
When the story first broke, Walker found himself in full lying mode, having to both deny this report while juggling a coinciding series of public statements made by his very conservative son, slamming the Trump-supported Walker for his history of violence, terrible parenting, and moral bankruptcy. As the woman had decided to offer up the very persuasive evidence of Walker’s part in the abortion anonymously, it seems that Herschel thought his best bet was to play the only conservative liar’s poker card available to him: He was being persecuted.
The Republican Party’s operatives, from their top elected officials down to their broadcast minions went into quick rationalization mode, offering up terrible takes and cowered behind very vague general statements that they “supported” Walker and his abortion, while not saying the word “abortion.” Walker, for his part, continued his interviews with the press where he said he had no idea who this woman was who he had sent $700 to, as well as signed “Get Well Soon” cards, five days after she got an abortion. Stories that were corroborated to the media outlet by a witness.
Asked why she ended up coming forward, the woman said that she kept quiet and didn’t “cause any trouble” for a long time but she had tired of Walker’s treatment and denial of reality, saying she wasn’t “gonna get run over time and time again.” She also really went hard on Walker and his “Christianity,” which she said seemed to come and go based on “when it works for him.”
Powerful stuff.
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Herschel Walker’s son blasts his dad over abortion denials, lies, and domestic violence
The Herschel Walker abortion story again shows that Republicanism stands for nothing at all
Herschel Walker's abortion gets its own roundup of Republicans suddenly supporting abortion