Herschel Walker goes off the rails in Hugh Hewitt interview

[Nevilledog]

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Wow.

I didn't think Herschel Walker's response to @SollenbergerRC's report that he paid for an abortion could get worse.

But it has.

A historic political train wreck.

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Walker appeared this morning on Hugh Hewitt, a very sympathetic radio host.

First, Walker said that he had not paid for an abortion but IF HE HAD DONE IT he would have been "forgiven" so everyone should stop talking about it
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Hewitt then asked if he knew who was making the accusation. Walker, inexplicably, said he had "no idea at all."

The woman has identified himself as the mother of one of Walker's children.

So it's one of those four women.

Pretending it's a mystery makes zero sense.
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In other words, Walker is obviously lying when he says he has "no idea at all" who is accusing him of paying for an abortion.

This is a poor choice when you are denying a damaging story and trying to get people to believe you.

Then things got worse.

Walker criticizes @thedailybeast and @SollenbergerRC for not retracting their earlier story that Walker had four children, but had only acknowledged one publicly.

AFTER THAT STORY, WALKER ADMITTED HE HAD FOUR CHILDREN

Now he's calling for The Daily Beast to retract that story?
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The Walker said that he hadn't spoken to his son Christian since the first Daily Beast report about his other kids because Christian "started believing that I had other kids" and that was "totally not true."

WALKER HAS THREE OTHER KIDS!

WTF!
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At this point, Hewitt recognizes the interview is going extremely poorly for Walker and tries to clean stuff up for him.

Walker responds with a word salad.
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At this point, Hewitt recognizes the interview is going extremely poorly for Walker and tries to clean stuff up for him.

Walker responds with a word salad.
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Hard to imagine how a softball interview could go any worse.
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[d_r]

1. they don't care

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. Apparently Walker had to move to Georgia from Texas to make this run.

There is nothing real about that dimwit other than he played football a long time ago. This is the best the GOP can do is foist football shits that are utterly unqualified know nothings.

[cloudbase]

3. I didn't do it.

And I won't do it again.

[Demovictory9]

6. But charge women who do it with murder

[Demovictory9]

4. Then why not leave abortion legal and let all women be forgiven??

[Nevilledog]

5. Because it's only their choices that matter.

We don't get a choice.

[inthewind21]

7. Think Sarah Palin

[Beausoleil]

8. What a pathetic liar!

Nowhere near world-class trump-quality prevarication!

How can the GOP live with itself for not doing better?

It's one thing watching typical trump-loving politician turns themselves into pretzels for trump-level lies, but this is really mind-numbing watching each lie trip over the previous one.

All we need is Newt Gingrich praising this shit.

Oh wait.

[UTUSN]

9. He's previously been on some kind of rails?!