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PunkinPi

(4,875 posts)
Thu Jun 16, 2022, 08:47 AM Jun 2022

Herschel Walker, Critic of Absentee Dads, Admits to Yet ANOTHER Secret Son

Herschel Walker, Critic of Absentee Dads, Admits to Yet ANOTHER Secret Son
It turns out that Herschel Walker doesn’t have just one kid, or two kids, or even three kids. He has four.

A day after The Daily Beast broke the news that Herschel Walker had a secret 10-year-old son he fathered out of wedlock, the football star-turned-politician confirmed late Wednesday night that he has yet another son with a different woman that the public doesn’t know about—as well as a daughter that he had in college.

The revelations come in the middle of Walker’s competitive race to unseat Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) and after many public comments Walker has made about absent fathers in the Black community.

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In a statement issued to The Daily Beast, Walker confirmed that the 13-year-old son is his child. The campaign also supplied a form that Walker filled out in 2018 in order to be appointed to President Donald Trump’s Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition. Walker listed the child’s name and age, as well as the names and ages for Christian, the 10-year-old son, and an adult daughter whom Walker fathered when he was around 20 years old.

“I have four children. Three sons and a daughter. They’re not ‘undisclosed’—they’re my kids,” Walker said in his statement. “I support them all and love them all. I’ve never denied my children, I confirmed this when I was appointed to the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition, I just chose not to use them as props to win a political campaign. What parent would want their child involved in garbage, gutter politics like this?”

Source/more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/herschel-walker-critic-of-absentee-dads-admits-to-yet-another-secret-son?ref=home
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Walleye

(31,028 posts)
1. "Garbage gutter politics" he is describing his own campaign. Not Rev. Warnock
Thu Jun 16, 2022, 08:54 AM
Jun 2022

I remember something about people living in glass houses and not throwing stones

Lovie777

(12,277 posts)
2. That is right up GQP ally . . . .
Thu Jun 16, 2022, 08:54 AM
Jun 2022

The GQPs' morals is what they consider viable, only to them.

P.S. of course its the women's fault.

madaboutharry

(40,212 posts)
3. If he was a democrat, the GOP would be dog whistling every racist trope they could think of.
Thu Jun 16, 2022, 09:00 AM
Jun 2022

The hypocrisy and irony is just too much.

sop

(10,192 posts)
4. Try as I may, I still can't wrap my mind around Herschel Walker being the Republican senate
Thu Jun 16, 2022, 09:09 AM
Jun 2022

candidate in the state of Georgia. I'm sorry, I just can't.

hlthe2b

(102,290 posts)
5. Black men are acceptible to pragmatic racists R's if they prove a useful idiot purpose...
Thu Jun 16, 2022, 09:16 AM
Jun 2022

He performed for them on the football field--entertained them-- which makes him a "good black man." He is now willing to parrot every disgusting (and exploitative) position that Trumpists hold dear, even if he is unable to express them in any kind of understandable way. Stunningly blunt, but true.

sop

(10,192 posts)
7. Yeah, I know.
Thu Jun 16, 2022, 09:51 AM
Jun 2022

Still, I can't imagine a klavern full of cross-burning good ol' boys in Forsyth County making up "Herschel for Senate" yard signs and bumper stickers.

keithbvadu2

(36,823 posts)
10. Maybe they have 'seen the light' and are now woke?
Thu Jun 16, 2022, 10:20 AM
Jun 2022

Maybe they have 'seen the light' and are now woke?

Trump had to tell Breitbart to knock off the anti-Jew stuff about Jared.

Jilly_in_VA

(9,982 posts)
11. This is gross
Thu Jun 16, 2022, 10:33 AM
Jun 2022

I mean, speaking from a woman's viewpoint, I can't imagine who would even WANT to! (sorry if that appears to be slut-shaming because I don't mean it that way) He is about as UNappealing as any RW incel and I would completely shun him as I would shun any other male of his type on grounds of extreme stupidity. Stupidity is about as unappealing as it gets. (sorry, can't find puke emoji)

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