Herschel Walker's Cavalcade Of Lies
Walker may be the only man on Earth who could compete in a lying contest against Donald Trump.
Update: Walker claims to have raised two of Trump’s children.
Despite running what was possibly the most embarrassing political campaign in United States history, Herschel Walker could end up in the US Senate after the votes of his Georgia runoff against Raphael Warnock are counted.
It is extremely depressing that someone who has been consistently unable to form coherent thoughts about anything has garnered so much support. (Of course, support for Walker does not rely on competency. The MAGA Cult will support anyone or anything with an “R” next to its name.)
Walker has proven on a near-daily basis that he understands nothing of what the job of Senator entails or any of the issues involved. As Election Day neared, Walker has had handlers by his side for his television appearances, usually Lindsey Graham or Ted Cruz (or both!). The white men have done most of the speaking for their Black puppet. When Walker was allowed to talk, he blurted out things like: “This erection is about the people”.
Many observers suggest Walker is suffering from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a progressive degenerative brain disease found in people who have suffered repetitive head traumas (such as from football or boxing). In July 2022, the New York Times reported that CTE “has been found in the brains of more than 320 former N.F.L. players . . . [including] at least 24 players who died in their 20s and 30s”.
That same month, it was reported that Dr. Ann McKee, chief of neuropathology at the VA Boston Healthcare System and director of the CTE Center at Boston University (which has amassed the world’s largest C.T.E. brain bank), examined the brains of 111 deceased N.F.L. players — and 110 brains were found to have CTE, which can cause memory loss, confusion, depression, and dementia.
Walker has shown one genuine talent, however. He is an amazing liar. Indeed, he is the only person I can think of who could plausibly present a challenge to Donald Trump in a lying contest.
Walker has lied his academic achievements for years, claiming in numerous motivational speeches over the years to have graduated in the top 1% of his class at the University of Georgia and was the valedictorian. However he was not valedictorian and he did not graduate in the top 1%. In fact, he did not graduate from college at all. When those lies were exposed, Walker lied and said he had never claimed to have graduated.
Walker has lied and said he was also valedictorian at Johnson County High School. His campaign could produce no evidence for this claim. The Wrightsville Headlight (a local newspaper) reported that at Walker's 1980 graduation, he was not given any award for the highest GPA in any academic subject.
Walker also has a long history of domestic violence — which includes his ex-wife being granted a restraining order after she told police Walker pointed a gun at her head and choked her unconscious — as well as other points about his business record and stance on immigration, the group said his vote share dropped to 34 percent.
Walker has bragged about playing Russian roulette numerous times, including in front of friends and house guests. Walker has fantasized about shooting a man at point-blank range for the “visceral enjoyment I’d get from seeing the small entry wound and the spray of brain tissue and blood—like a Fourth of July firework—exploding behind him”.
An investigation by the Associated Press detailed Walker’s past violent behavior, including pressing a gun to his ex-wife’s head and threatening to “blow” her “f’ing brains out”. A second woman alleged Walker had stalked her. A third woman said Walker threatened to kill her and then commit suicide.
Walker has also lied extensively about his business experience. A report from GPB News raises “red flags” about potential “conflicts of interests” in Walker’s personal financial disclosure, which is “missing key information” and contains major “inconsistencies”.
The Daily Beast exposed Walker’s numerous deceptions, including claiming to own companies that don’t exist (including one he alleged was the largest furniture upholstery company in the United States). In a podcast interview, Walker said he owned “the largest minority-owned food company in the United States”. That is a blatant lie. Walker also claimed to run a poultry business that employed hundreds of people and earned $80 million per year. However, when that business applied for COVID-19 emergency funds in 2020, it stated it had only eight employees.
Walker touted annual business revenues between $70 million and $80 million. Hoever, according to a 2019 deposition in federal court, Walker put the combined net earnings of three related entities at only $14 million.
Walker claims he created Patriot Support, a mental health program/charity. That is a lie. Plus, the charity is a scam, preying on service members while defrauding the government.
Walker’s claims of working with the Cobb County Police Department, training to be an FBI agent at Quantico, and being “a certified peace officer” in Texas are all lies. He flashed a badge at a recent debate and claimed it was proof that he was a real police officer, but the badge was a toy, something a child might find as a prize in a box of cereal.
In May 2022, Walker insisted that Donald Trump had never said the 2020 election was rigged or stolen. “I think reporters said that. I don’t know whether President Trump ever said that because he never said that to me. [Interviewer: "He says it over and over."] No, no, no, no. I’ve never heard President Trump ever say that.”
After the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, in which 19 children and two adults were killed, Walker was asked if he supported new gun control laws. His complete answer: “What I like to do is see it and everything and stuff.” In another interview, Walker outlined his solution to stopping school shootings: create “a department that can look at young men that’s looking at women that's looking at social media”.
During the summer of 2022, Walker was known to have one child. Then The Daily Beast reported he had a second son. Soon after that, two additional children he had never acknowledged were found — for a total of four. Walker lied to his own campaign about his children. Despite his public insistence on Black fathers being present to raise their children, Walker did not play any significant role in raising (and did not live with) any of his four children.
After it became known that Walker pressured two of his girlfriends to get abortions (both of which he paid for), Walker said he had no idea of the identity of the first woman to allege he paid for her abortion . . . before we learned that she is also the mother of one of his four children.
Walker has also claimed to have raised two of Trump’s children: “I raised his — two of his kids. You know, they were with me. . . . For a week during the summer, Donald and Little Ivanka would live with me.”
Video surfaced of Walker admitting he felt “like a dirty old man” when he would watch children’s television shows by himself. He also said he “rented the neighbor’s kid to go see Jungle Book” so he wouldn’t “look like a weird guy”.
Walker testified at a 2021 House committee hearing that Black people are not due reparations for slavery, but two weeks ago he suggested “paying white people that died during the Civil War who freed [Black people] from slavery”. Walker also believes the founding fathers “already apologized for its [sic] whiteness”.
Walker claims to have always lived in Georgia, but his principal address has been in Texas for decades. His Atlanta property has been rented out for the last seventeen years, according to Walker’s 2021 financial disclosure forms. The Daily Beast reports:
The rental income . . . suggests the Walkers had not only not been living in Georgia before his campaign, but hadn’t used the home for anything but a passive cash stream. . . .
Residency issues shadowed Walker’s campaign even before he declared his candidacy. He was firmly rooted in Texas when Donald Trump courted him to run against Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) in 2022, and only registered to vote in Georgia days ahead of his official campaign announcement. . . .
Federal law does not require Senate candidates to reside in the state they plan to represent until they are elected. . . . It’s unclear when, or if, Walker met Georgia’s residency requirements for candidates, but his residency in Texas is well-documented.
This latest lie — like all of the others — will not bother anyone who is determined to vote for Walker. If he wins, he will cluelessly rubber-stamp every Republican idea and proposal. That’s all anyone expects of him.
Donald Trump will hold a rally today for Walker, but he will not be there in person. The party understands his presence is toxic and told him stay away. He will literally phone in his remarks.