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Jilly_in_VA

(9,994 posts)
Thu Apr 14, 2022, 12:02 PM Apr 2022

Herschel Walker Claims to Own Companies That Don't Exist

Former NFL star Herschel Walker has made millions in business ventures since he retired in 1997, and he claims to be worth more than $29 million today.

But despite that success, the Republican Senate hopeful and longtime friend of Donald Trump has, for whatever reason, chosen to dramatically inflate his business record, according to a Daily Beast investigation. In doing so, Walker has established a parallel record of demonstrably false claims, many of which appear to bear no resemblance to reality whatsoever.

While Walker’s business record has been picked over before—including in an Associated Press review of “exaggerated claims of financial success”—The Daily Beast has reviewed documents and other records that shine new light on previously unexamined, and particularly egregious, false claims.

Those claims include running the largest minority-owned food company in the United States; owning multiple chicken plants in another state; and starting and owning an upholstery business which was also, apparently, at one point in his telling, the country’s largest minority-owned apparel company.

While the chasm between Walker’s vision and reality often appears staggering—and applies not just to business but to multiple dimensions of his personal life as well—he might be playing fast and loose with the concept of “ownership.” But it’s unclear whether he transposed this fanciful structure onto his candidate financial disclosure, which claims a net worth of between $29 million and $65 million, and which, according to a Georgia Public Broadcasting report, merits further scrutiny.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/herschel-walker-claims-to-own-companies-that-dont-exist?ref=home
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This guy...

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niyad

(113,527 posts)
2. He is a puke and a supporter of the F'n, murdering, orange TRAITOR**. Is
Thu Apr 14, 2022, 12:11 PM
Apr 2022

anybody in the least bit surprised?

MagickMuffin

(15,950 posts)
3. Grifters tend to inflate everything they do
Thu Apr 14, 2022, 12:12 PM
Apr 2022



Well look at me I too have multiple million dollar businesses. Should I run for office? Naw, I won't change party affiliation.


Jm7603

(165 posts)
5. Prerequisite for running as a Republican
Thu Apr 14, 2022, 12:19 PM
Apr 2022

An inability to tell the truth is the first attribute other Repukes look for before supporting a candidate.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
6. If Republicans in Georgia didn't like being lied to, they wouldn't vote for Walker
Thu Apr 14, 2022, 12:23 PM
Apr 2022

It's up to the rest of the voters in Georgia to turn a thumbs down to Walker should he win the primary.

patphil

(6,202 posts)
7. He's taking a page from Trump's play book.
Thu Apr 14, 2022, 12:29 PM
Apr 2022

Lie about your accomplishments, and inflate your net worth, to give the gullible voters the impression that you're a very successful businessman.
It's not the lying that bothers me so much as the gullible people who believe him.
These people are exactly why Don Jr. is so much against "woke" people.
Woke people can see the bullshit in him.

Example sentence: I was asleep, but then I woke up and realized what lying sacks of shit the Republicans are.

kacekwl

(7,021 posts)
9. People who are going to vote for this guy
Thu Apr 14, 2022, 03:32 PM
Apr 2022

know he's trash but like the trump and the other Republican scum they voted for they seem to bask in their own stupidity. Like they know something nobody else does.

keithbvadu2

(36,876 posts)
13. Prudential had/has the slogan 'Own a piece of the rock'.
Fri Apr 15, 2022, 09:31 PM
Apr 2022

Prudential had/has the slogan 'Own a piece of the rock'.

Some folks tried to assume more ownership than reality allowed.

LetMyPeopleVote

(145,489 posts)
14. Why Herschel Walker's constant lies aren't hurting him
Fri Apr 15, 2022, 09:34 PM
Apr 2022

TFG endorsed Herschel Walker because Walker is incapable of telling the truth. Walker lies about everything and is too stupid to understand that it is easy to check his lies



https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/why-herschel-walker-s-senate-bid-isn-t-hurt-his-n1294416

It’s a testament to the Trump era of Republican politics that Walker’s deceptions are unremarkable. And it’s even possible that his brazenness about making things up to boost his reputation is an asset — the kind of quality Trump found appealing in endorsing him.

The latest reporting comes via The Daily Beast, which investigated claims that Walker has made about his experience in the private sector, which serves as the primary record on which voters can judge his abilities, since he has no experience in government. According to the investigation, Walker has made false remarks relating to “running the largest minority-owned food company in the United States; owning multiple chicken plants in another state; and starting and owning an upholstery business which was also, apparently, at one point in his telling, the country’s largest minority-owned apparel company.” Among other things, the upholstery business seemingly doesn’t exist, and Walker’s food company isn’t even the largest Black-owned food company in his own state.

These prevarications are only the latest of many. In March, the The Atlanta Journal-Constitution found that Herschel has made numerous false claims about the size of his companies — while making little mention of “a string of defaults, settlements and lawsuits alleging that Walker and his businesses owed millions of dollars in unpaid loans.” He has regularly boasted in speeches that he graduated in the top 1 percent of his class from the University of Georgia. But it turns out he never graduated at all, since he dropped out to play professional football, and his academic performance before that was nowhere close to the top of his class. In 2020 he peddled what he claimed was an FDA-approved aerosol which “will kill any Covid on your body,” even though no such treatment exists.

Lying shamelessly about one’s business record, personal accomplishments and how to deal with Covid … it all seems strikingly familiar, doesn’t it? The propensity for mendacity may be part of the connective tissue between Trump and Walker, who have a friendship that dates to when Trump gave Walker a contract extension as then-owner of the United States Football League's New Jersey Generals in 1984. Walker has been a consistent supporter of Trump’s political career, and backed Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election using disinformation about the results.

Mr.Bill

(24,317 posts)
15. I owned an upholstery business 20 years ago.
Fri Apr 15, 2022, 09:38 PM
Apr 2022

I wouldn't dream of claiming that as a qualification to be a Senator.

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