Candidate Hershel Walker Overstated his Academic Achievements For Years
Source: CNN
(CNN)For years, Herschel Walker has told the same inspiring story: that he graduated in the top 1% of his class at the University of Georgia. He's told the story, according to a review of his speeches by CNN's KFile, during motivational speeches over the years and as recently as 2017. The only problem: it's not true.
Walker, who is a candidate in the Republican primary race for US Senate in Georgia, acknowledged in December that he did not graduate from Georgia after the Atlanta-Journal Constitution first reported that the false claim was listed on his campaign website.
But a CNN KFile review found that Walker himself has been repeating the claim for years. Walker's comments in 2017, and others made over the years, show the former football star repeatedly misrepresented his academic credentials.
"And all of sudden I started going to the library, getting books, standing in front of a mirror reading to myself," Walker said in a 2017 motivational speech. "So that Herschel that all the kids said was retarded become valedictorian of his class. Graduated University of Georgia in the top 1% of his class." Walker also made the claim in another interview in 2017.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/01/politics/kfile-herschel-walker-overstated-academic-achievements/index.html
Just another Republican liar...Great story, if you can read beyond the first paragraph.
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He read while looking in the mirror?
over & over again, it becomes truth? Guess I'll try "I'm the great & powerful Wizard of OZ."
and see what happens. 
