Herschel Walker, a former football star and now a Trump candidate for the Georgia Senate in November’s midterm elections, is one of the most aggressive pro-life preachers in the Republican Party. He equates abortion with murder and is against the practice even in cases of rape or incest. But now it turns out that he himself paid in 2009 for the interruption of the pregnancy of a girlfriend of his who has just reported the matter with the contribution of receipts for the operation and handwritten cards in which he wished her a speedy recovery.
The scandal jumped on Monday, with the publication of the story in The Daily Beast. The sportsman-turned-politician vehemently denied everything and even threatened the media with suing him for defamation. And then his famous 23-year-old son, the ultra-conservative influencer Christian Walker, with more than 284,000 followers on Twitter, crushed him online. He did it through an explosive video that in its first 24 hours has been viewed more than three million times.
“I know my mother and I would really appreciate it if my father Herschel Walker would stop lying and making fun of us. You were not a family man when you left us to sleep with a series of women, when you threatened to kill us and forced us to move 6 times in 6 months to escape your violence, “Christian wrote in the thread of tweets with which he seasoned his In it, he repeatedly asks his father not to lie and abandon his hypocrisy, and replies that the handwriting on the manuscripts submitted by his ex-girlfriend is his own.
“I don’t care what someone with a bad past who takes responsibility has done. But how dare you lie and act as if you were a moral, Christian and upright man?” insists the candidate’s son. And he adds: “You have lived your life by DESTROYING other people’s lives. How dare you!”
The woman who revealed that she had had an abortion at the behest and payment of the Republican candidate also attributed her decision to her tiredness of Herschel Walker’s lies, as well as to the contradiction between her position as a hardline anti-abortion spokesperson and her own actions. “I can no longer deal with such hypocrisy. We all deserve better,” she told the Daily Beast.
The complainant, who kept her identity confidential, supported her disclosure with the receipt from the clinic where she had an abortion, amounting to $575, a bank receipt with a photocopy of a $700 check signed by Walker and a card from her with the word printed “Recover” and a handwritten phrase with the signature of who was going to be the father of the child: “I pray that you feel better”.
The woman explained that the difference of 125 dollars between her ex-boyfriend’s provision and the final cost of the intervention is due to the fact that she made “an estimate” of the cost of an abortion through a Google search and then added as expenses what which had to be paid in travel and recovery.
He also explained that Walker, then single, told him that it would be more convenient to terminate the pregnancy because for him “it was not the right time to have a child.” What she did not know, the media explained, is that the guy had another child out of wedlock earlier that same year.
“This is an outright lie and I deny it in the strongest possible terms,” ??Walker wrote in his response to the post.
The Republican Party “supports him,” according to the chairman of the Senate Republican National Committee, Rick Scott. And the head of the Upper House Leadership Fund, the conservative organization’s campaign fundraising body, Steven Law, added that the prospects for Walker are “improving.”
The candidate’s campaign manager, Scott Paradise, acknowledged to his staff that the Daily Beast story had been “a setback,” but noted that fundraising for Walker had increased rapidly after his denial.
Shortly after the bomb exploded, Donald Trump came out in defense of the candidate, who in his opinion “is being slandered and defamed by the false media and, obviously, by the Democrats.” The former president added that he had “oddly” heard “a lot of horrible things about his opponent,” current Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock; “Things that no one should talk about, so we don’t,” he added.
The scandal is much more than a soap opera. Georgia is one of the states considered decisive in the November 8 midterms. The battle for the seat to which Walker aspires is key in the war for control of the Senate, in which the Democrats have a minimum majority made up of half the seats (50 of 100) plus the quality vote of Vice President Kamala Harris.
Democrat Warnock leads Walker in the polls by two to three points (47% to 44% based on the most recent data). But the re-election hopeful is considered one of the most fragile candidates in Joe Biden’s party in this race. And it is not clear that the recent bombing in the middle of the fight is going to harm his opponent.
