GOP Senate candidate Herschel Walker has been overstating his academic achievements for years

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TFG only uses the best people. The GA GOP is worried that TFG has screwed up and that Walker is simply too stupid and unstable to be a Senator. TFG will not admit a mistake and so this will be fun to watch

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For years, Herschel Walker has told the same inspiring story: that he graduated in the top 1% of his class at the University of Georgia. He's told the story, according to a review of his speeches by CNN's KFile, during motivational speeches over the years and as recently as 2017. The only problem: it's not true.

Walker, who is a candidate in the Republican primary race for US Senate in Georgia, acknowledged in December that he did not graduate from Georgia after the Atlanta-Journal Constitution first reported that the false claim was listed on his campaign website.

But a CNN KFile review found that Walker himself has been repeating the claim for years. Walker's comments in 2017, and others made over the years, show the former football star repeatedly misrepresented his academic credentials.

"And all of sudden I started going to the library, getting books, standing in front of a mirror reading to myself," Walker said in a 2017 motivational speech. "So that Herschel that all the kids said was retarded become valedictorian of his class. Graduated University of Georgia in the top 1% of his class."

Trump was too stupid to get into the graduate school program at Wharton. In addition, trump did not graduate with honors. http://fortune.com/2015/08/14/donald-trump-wharton/

His school posted his graduate program that shows that he did not graduate with honor shttp://www.pennlive.com/news/2017/02/what_is_trumps_real_record_at.html

[niyad]

1. "too stupid and unstable"????? Have they met margy traitor greene?

[CurtEastPoint]

2. side note: I only see 2 women listed in the class above. 1967 was sure different

[Duncan Grant]

3. What is perceived is believed to be true.

Public Relations 101, Day 1 of classes.

You can imagine how enthusiastic I am about a populace obsessed with their “brand”. It’s a cotton candy culture; very little substance, lots of hot air and empty calories. Right-wingers seem to be especially guilty of this. They oppose everything and generate nothing (but perception). We don’t even discuss actual events but rather, the story we make up about it in our own head. I could say more but — point made. Ted talk. Thank you.

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