Herschel Walker Lied About His Secret Kids to His Own Campaign

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stephen fowler
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Jul 7, 2022
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"Emails and texts show advisers discussing how they don’t trust Walker—both to tell the truth to them and to handle campaign events properly—and harboring concerns that he isn’t mentally fit for the job."

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Herschel Walker Lied About His Secret Kids to His Own Campaign
Herschel Walker's campaign said he had never tried to hide his children. He did—to his own campaign even.

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A Herschel Walker campaign source "painted a picture of an operation that for months has been at the mercy of a volatile, deceitful candidate."

“A campaign’s worst nightmare,” the source said. “It’s like a shitshow on a train in the middle of a wreck.”

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Herschel Walker Lied About His Secret Kids to His Own Campaign
Herschel Walker's campaign said he had never tried to hide his children. He did—to his own campaign even.
7:53 AM · Jul 7, 2022

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When Herschel Walker’s campaign aides approached him this winter to discuss whispers that Walker had a secret child, the Georgia GOP’s Senate candidate told his campaign the rumors were false.

Walker’s aides already knew he was lying.

They had expected him to lie, and had obtained documents in advance of that conversation verifying that Walker did indeed have another child, The Daily Beast has learned. They handed the documents to him, and after some more back and forth, Walker finally admitted it was true. His aides asked if there were any other children they needed to know about. Walker insisted this was it.

When the Daily Beast learned about the existence of that 10-year-old child in June and went to the campaign for comment, campaign manager Scott Paradise prepared a statement. But first, he went to Walker with a question: Be honest—are there any other kids?
No, Walker said.

Paradise then put out a statement insisting that Walker—who at that point had only publicly acknowledged one child, his adult son, Christian—was “proud of his children.”

“To suggest that Herschel is ‘hiding’ the child because he hasn’t used him in his political campaign is offensive and absurd,” Paradise said in a statement.

The very next day, The Daily Beast reached out again, asking about yet another undisclosed child, a 13-year-old. The campaign approached Walker and asked again. This time, he acknowledged the teen was his.

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[LoisB]

1. Hell, I could have told them he is "unfit".

[ProudMNDemocrat]

2. Records should show if Walker is paying Child Support....If not!! Oh boy!!!

What a loser. And TDFG endorsed this guy? Birds of a feather.

The Senate Debates will be interesting down there in the Peach State. Major damage control going on.

[gratuitous]

3. And none of them will do a thing about it

The Republicans aren't running Walker for his towering intellect, good looks, or political acumen. They want him in the Senate to push the right button when it comes time to vote, just like Senator Tuberville of Alabama or Senator Johnson of Wisconsin. They know as well as anyone that there will never be a Herschel Walker Boon to the Nation Act, and they don't feckin' care. He's a cynical candidate put forward by a cynical party that doesn't care about the country or its citizens.

[CurtEastPoint]

4. and I saw an ad from Sen Tim Scott (R-SC) last night in Atlanta urging us to 'support Herschel.'

Fuck that. Fuck them both.

[herding cats]

5. This bit from the article tells it all.

The communications reveal a campaign and a candidate in chaos.

Emails and texts show advisers discussing how they don’t trust Walker—both to tell the truth to them and to handle campaign events properly—and harboring concerns that he isn’t mentally fit for the job.

He spouts falsehoods “like he’s breathing,” this adviser said—so much so that his own campaign stopped believing him long ago.

“He’s lied so much that we don’t know what’s true,” the person said, adding that aides have “zero” trust in the candidate. Three people interviewed for this article independently called him a “pathological liar.”

I have no sympathy for them. They chose to work to elect this deplorable person out of loyalty to their party brand. I hope their lives are miserable every moment of everyday they're employed for his campaign.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

6. Republicans lie. Jesus wept.