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Herschel Shills for Charlatan
Deadspin tries to set Herschel Walker straight...
Anyway, the video confirms that the 6-3 Recasner could dunk, and it turns out he still can, because when he saw on CNN that Herschel Walker would be speaking at the Republican National Convention on Monday night, he tweeted the question on everyone’s mind, “What’s wrong with you @HerschelWalker???”
Walker said that when Trump bought the New Jersey Generals, the USFL team that Walker once played for, “he set out to learn — he learned the history of the team.”
The history of the team consisted of one season.
“Then he used what he learned to make the team better,” Walker said. Okay, fine, the Generals went from 6-12 before Trump took over to 14-4 in their second season and 11-7 in their third and final season. It helped that Trump was aggressive in using personal services contracts to circumvent the USFL’s salary cap. Trump neither pioneered the move, nor was he alone in doing it, but it did help the Generals have a roster with Walker and several NFL defectors in 1984, and was key to adding Doug Flutie in 1985.
The USFL didn’t mind at all because the league wanted a prominent team in the New York area, just as the Republican Party hasn’t minded Trump’s end-around on countless laws because Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has gotten to rubber stamp a generation’s worth of lifetime judgeships.
“I watched him in the boardroom,” Walker said. “He could be in the middle of a big meeting, but if one of the kids was on the phone, he dropped everything to take the call.”
Walker was a Celebrity Apprentice contestant, where “he had problems at times with argumentative Tom Green and Clint Black.” That’s what used to pass for surrealism, back in the halcyon days of 2009. Also, Trump’s kids were part of that show. Also, is it supposed to be a good thing that the president is a guy who will drop everything to deal with the issues of his dumbass adult children? Also, one of those dumbass adult children met with a Russian lawyer who offered dirt on his last electoral opponent.
“He taught me that your family should be your top priority,” Walker said.
First of all, Walker didn’t know this and had to learn it from Donald Trump? Second of all, we’re talking about the same Donald Trump who showed Stormy Daniels a picture of his wife and newborn son before having sex with her.
“It hurt my soul to hear the terrible names that people called Donald,” Walker said. “The worst one is ‘racist.’”
That’s not a name. It’s an adjective and an accurate one. Trump rose to political stardom with the racist birther movement to degrade Barack Obama, and was trying last week to run the same playbook on Kamala Harris. His racism is documented back to the 1970s. Why does the truth hurt Walker’s soul?
“I take it as a personal insult that people would think I’ve had a 37-year friendship with a racist,” Walker said.
Nobody thinks that, because it’s obviously not true.
Donald Trump does not have friends. Donald Trump does not seek friends. Donald Trump has and seeks people he can take advantage of to enrich himself. When he bought the Generals, 37 years ago, Donald Trump lucked into meeting one of the biggest marks of his life, and he’s still taking advantage of Walker today.
What’s wrong with Herschel Walker? He still can’t see it.
https://deadspin.com/herschel-shills-for-charlatan-theosu-unranked-mamba-r-1844838871
Walker said that when Trump bought the New Jersey Generals, the USFL team that Walker once played for, “he set out to learn — he learned the history of the team.”
The history of the team consisted of one season.
“Then he used what he learned to make the team better,” Walker said. Okay, fine, the Generals went from 6-12 before Trump took over to 14-4 in their second season and 11-7 in their third and final season. It helped that Trump was aggressive in using personal services contracts to circumvent the USFL’s salary cap. Trump neither pioneered the move, nor was he alone in doing it, but it did help the Generals have a roster with Walker and several NFL defectors in 1984, and was key to adding Doug Flutie in 1985.
The USFL didn’t mind at all because the league wanted a prominent team in the New York area, just as the Republican Party hasn’t minded Trump’s end-around on countless laws because Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has gotten to rubber stamp a generation’s worth of lifetime judgeships.
“I watched him in the boardroom,” Walker said. “He could be in the middle of a big meeting, but if one of the kids was on the phone, he dropped everything to take the call.”
Walker was a Celebrity Apprentice contestant, where “he had problems at times with argumentative Tom Green and Clint Black.” That’s what used to pass for surrealism, back in the halcyon days of 2009. Also, Trump’s kids were part of that show. Also, is it supposed to be a good thing that the president is a guy who will drop everything to deal with the issues of his dumbass adult children? Also, one of those dumbass adult children met with a Russian lawyer who offered dirt on his last electoral opponent.
“He taught me that your family should be your top priority,” Walker said.
First of all, Walker didn’t know this and had to learn it from Donald Trump? Second of all, we’re talking about the same Donald Trump who showed Stormy Daniels a picture of his wife and newborn son before having sex with her.
“It hurt my soul to hear the terrible names that people called Donald,” Walker said. “The worst one is ‘racist.’”
That’s not a name. It’s an adjective and an accurate one. Trump rose to political stardom with the racist birther movement to degrade Barack Obama, and was trying last week to run the same playbook on Kamala Harris. His racism is documented back to the 1970s. Why does the truth hurt Walker’s soul?
“I take it as a personal insult that people would think I’ve had a 37-year friendship with a racist,” Walker said.
Nobody thinks that, because it’s obviously not true.
Donald Trump does not have friends. Donald Trump does not seek friends. Donald Trump has and seeks people he can take advantage of to enrich himself. When he bought the Generals, 37 years ago, Donald Trump lucked into meeting one of the biggest marks of his life, and he’s still taking advantage of Walker today.
What’s wrong with Herschel Walker? He still can’t see it.
https://deadspin.com/herschel-shills-for-charlatan-theosu-unranked-mamba-r-1844838871
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