Walker Faces Yet Another Bombshell In Abortion Scandal

October 6, 2022
Georgia Republican Senate nominee Herschel Walker speaks with the press at a rally in Norcross, Georgia on September 9, 2022. (Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
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October 6, 2022

Georgia Republican Senate nominee/former NFL player Herschel Walker and a very panicked GOP only had 48 hours to respond to an explosive report that he had paid for an ex-girlfriend’s abortion before the Daily Beast dropped another bombshell last night: The ex-girlfriend is the mother of one of Walker’s children.

The revelation pokes a pretty big hole in Walker’s defense: He’s repeatedly claimed that he doesn’t know the person who came forward with the allegation.

Now Republicans have an even bigger mess on their hands less than five weeks before Election Day that could blow their chances of taking the Senate.

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Georgia Republican Senate nominee/former NFL player Herschel Walker and a very panicked GOP only had 48 hours to respond to an explosive report that he had paid for an ex-girlfriend’s abortion before the Daily Beast dropped another bombshell last night: The ex-girlfriend is the mother of one of Walker’s children.

The revelation pokes a pretty big hole in Walker’s defense: He’s repeatedly claimed that he doesn’t know the person who came forward with the allegation.

Now Republicans have an even bigger mess on their hands less than five weeks before Election Day that could blow their chances of taking the Senate.

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  1. What’s the big deal? Hersch has got like, what, 997 cuts to go!

  2. Walker could walk into a convenience store and be seen on camera shooting people and the GQP would argue “He’s a changed man.”

  3. Walker vowed to sue the outlet for defamation “tomorrow morning.”

    Well, it’s Thursday morning and there’s been nary a filing.

    He could have just filed the lawsuit and then dropped it right after the election.

    No way discovery gets going before November, anyway.

    It’s what iDJiT would do.

  4. While EMS tended to the victims, Herschel knelt down next to them and prayed for forgiveness.

  5. Trump picked him to win…and symbolize a policy of destruction of our sacred institutions.

    Trump has been a wrecking ball to so many of our norms that it would take a great deal of time to describe the process.

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