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RandySF

(58,947 posts)
Fri Oct 7, 2022, 08:46 PM Oct 2022

GA-SEN: Herschel Walker's Wife Reaches Out to His Abortion Accuser

Herschel Walker has maintained that he still doesn’t know the identity of the woman claiming she had an abortion after she and Walker got pregnant in 2009. But on Friday afternoon, the woman finally heard from a top Walker campaign surrogate: Julie Blanchard, the candidate’s wife.

In text a message exchange shared with The Daily Beast, the woman—who says she later had a child with Walker against his wishes in 2012—told Blanchard it was “cruel” that Walker “continues to claim he doesn’t know me or the abortion he paid for.”

“He brought all of this on himself when he decided to get on a platform and denounce abortion and make a mockery of his children who have done NOTHING to deserve this,” wrote the woman.

“Shame on him,” she added.

The woman asked Blanchard if she had previously known about the abortion, or if she had known that Walker had also said it wasn’t the “right time” to have a child when they conceived three years later. (The woman went forward with the pregnancy despite Walker’s wishes.).




https://www.thedailybeast.com/herschel-walkers-wife-reaches-out-to-his-abortion-accuser-georgia-senate?ref=wrap

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GA-SEN: Herschel Walker's Wife Reaches Out to His Abortion Accuser (Original Post) RandySF Oct 2022 OP
It sounds to me like it wasn't the wife who reached out, but the other woman cyclonefence Oct 2022 #1
I had to read the article twice too. gab13by13 Oct 2022 #2
So Walker still "doesn't know who the woman is".... even though DemocraticPatriot Oct 2022 #3
Breaking per MSNBC Wednesdays Oct 2022 #4
Awesome job of reporting this mess. So reminds me of my son's relationship with sinkingfeeling Oct 2022 #5

DemocraticPatriot

(4,372 posts)
3. So Walker still "doesn't know who the woman is".... even though
Fri Oct 7, 2022, 09:04 PM
Oct 2022

his wife has been 'reaching out to her for years'??!!


Yes, we knew that was all a lie in the first place---
or, if we were super generous, like me, we might believe that Walker really doesn't remember--
because of an excess of brain damage !

:::snip:::
"Blanchard, who for years has also served as a go-between messenger for Walker and the woman, replied at 1:19 pm EDT, according to the text message chain. An hour later, the campaign blasted out a fundraising text message calling the abortion allegation a “flat-out lie.”

Wednesdays

(17,386 posts)
4. Breaking per MSNBC
Fri Oct 7, 2022, 09:29 PM
Oct 2022

That Walker is acknowledging knowing the woman in question, but says he never knew (until this week) that she had had an abortion.




sinkingfeeling

(51,461 posts)
5. Awesome job of reporting this mess. So reminds me of my son's relationship with
Fri Oct 7, 2022, 09:48 PM
Oct 2022

his absent father, my ex-husband. My son is 52 and last saw his dad in 1983.

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