By His Own Statements, Herschel Walker – Having Apparently Paid For A Woman's Abortion in 2009 – Is Now An Accessory To Murder
The Daily Beast has the scoop; Walker vows to sue (he won't sue)
Herschel Walker, the grossly unqualified and chronically unintelligble senatorial candidate from Georgia (despite living in Texas), has repeatedly compared abortion to murder, but, according to The Daily Beast, paid for a woman’s abortion in 2009 after getting her pregnant.
According to the article, Walker suggested she have an abortion (it was “not the right time” for him), wrote her a check to pay for the entire procedure, sent her a get well card, and never expressed any regret over the decision.
Walker denied the claim via tweet, closing with: “I’m not taking this anymore. I planning to sue the Daily Beast for this defamatory lie. It will be filed tomorrow morning.”
[Narrator: Walker will (a) not file any lawsuit of any kind or (b) file a lawsuit which will be immediately dropped and forgotten (and probably denied) the second after the November midterm elections are over.]
In other frivulous-lawsuits-that-will-never-actually happen news, Donald Trump is suing CNN for $475 million for libel and slander, for referring to him as “racist”, a “Russian lackey”, an “insurrectionist” and “Hitler” while “ignoring all positive information about him”. I note that the first lie in Trump’s complaint comes after only three words. (Trump is also supposedly considering a lawsuit against the January 6 Committee. lol)
Also from MAGA-World: Dr. “Quack” Oz conducted experiments that killed at least 329 dogs, 31 pigs, and 661 rabbits and rodents. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s husband has withdrawn a motion asking to seal documents in their divorce case. The mysterious woman who assisted Ron DeSantis in luring and kidnapping 50 migrants (who were in the US legally) and sending them to Martha’s Vineyard has been outed as Perla Huerta, a former US counterintelligence agent and Army combat medic specialist. And irony is dead (for the 6,028th time) because DeSantis (who was a-wearin’ sum workin’ man’s clothes and lily-white boots while condoning armed vigiliantes) now wants large numbers of migrants to come to Florida and help clean up the mess from Hurricane Ian. And Trump continues to post deranged messages that show how cornered he feels. One message prompted this comment from CNN: “It’s hard to know where to start — with the assassination instructions or the blatant racism?”
But back to the only man on Earth who could compete with Trump in a lying contest:
Roger Sollenberger of TDB reports that after the woman
conceived a child [with Walker] while they were dating in 2009, he urged her to get an abortion. The woman said she had the procedure and that Walker reimbursed her for it.
She supported these claims with a $575 receipt from the abortion clinic, a “get well” card from Walker, and a bank deposit receipt that included an image of a signed $700 personal check from Walker.
The woman said there was a $125 difference because she “ball-parked” the cost of an abortion after Googling the procedure and added on expenses such as travel and recovery costs. . . .
The woman said Walker, who was not married at the time, told her it would be more convenient to terminate the pregnancy, saying it was “not the right time” for him to have a child. It was a feeling she shared, but what she didn’t know was that Walker had an out-of-wedlock child with another woman earlier that same year.
Asked if Walker ever expressed regret for the decision, the woman said Walker never had. Asked why she came forward, the woman pointed to Walker’s hardline anti-abortion position.
“I just can’t with the hypocrisy anymore,” she said. . . .
According to the $575 receipt, the abortion took place on Sept. 12, 2009. And according to the Bank of America deposit receipt, Walker wrote the woman a check for $700 on Sept. 17, 2009. The check was deposited two days later.
The woman, who also provided proof of her romantic relationship with Walker, told The Daily Beast that he mailed her the check inside the “get well” card. . . .
In a 40-minute phone call this June . . . The Daily Beast pressed Walker repeatedly on whether he had ever knowingly had an abortion with any of his past partners. After dodging the question multiple times, he ultimately said he had not.
Weeks later, a Democratic activist pretending to be a Walker supporter posed the same question at a campaign event, asking the NFL star whether he had ever “funded” or “caused somebody to have an abortion.”
“No,” Walker replied twice, which the activist recorded on video. . . .
A recent CBS/YouGov survey found that likely Georgia voters who said the abortion issue is “very important” were more than twice as likely to support [Raphael] Warnock, 67 percent to Walker’s 32 percent. . . .
Abortion has been front and center in Georgia for months—thanks in large part to Walker’s own comments. . . . He has repeatedly likened the procedure to murder, and does not support any exceptions, including for rape, incest, or the life of the mother—instances Walker has dismissed as “excuses.”
“There’s no exception in my mind,” Walker told reporters in May. “Like I say, I believe in life. I believe in life.” . . .
Two weeks ago, Walker broke with other Senate candidates when he volunteered his support for a 15-week federal ban put forth by Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-SC). . . .
“Raphael Warnock wants to protect the killing of babies right up to the moment of birth. We need to do better,” Walker told Politico in a statement. . . .
“To say that it is OK for a woman to kill her baby when [God] said ‘Thou shall not kill.’ And I said, you know, I can’t, I can’t square it,” Walker said at a conservative Christian values roundtable this August.
Walker quickly got on Fox to do damage control before his campaign imploded. Though if history is any guide, far-right voters will not care that Walker has been outed as a hypocrite. (For decades, they have operated by the slogan: “No abortions, except for incest, the life of the mother, and me.”) Still, I seriously doubt Walker is deft enough to dig himself out of this one, which is why I’m surpised they threw him on the air so quickly.
Also: This is . . . interesting . . . (from his usually supportive son):
