- Herschel Walker went on Fox Information to disclaim he ever reimbursed a girl for an abortion.
- “I ship cash to lots of people,” Walker informed host Sean Hannity.
- The Day by day Beast reported on Monday that Walker paid a girl $700 to get an abortion in 2009.
Herschel Walker went on Sean Hannity’s Fox Information present on Monday to disclaim The Day by day Beast’s report that he reimbursed a girl for an abortion in 2009.
Walker, a Trump-backed GOP candidate for the Senate in Georgia who opposes abortion with no exceptions, was the topic of a Day by day Beast unique revealed Monday. The media outlet interviewed a girl who stated Walker needed her to get an abortion after he bought her pregnant in 2009. The lady shared a $575 receipt from the abortion clinic, together with a picture of a get effectively card and a $700 verify, each signed by Walker.
The Day by day Beast reported that the abortion came about on September 12, 2009, and that the verify from Walker was dated September 17, 2009. The Day by day Beast didn’t identify the girl.
In a Twitter post on Monday, Walker denied that he paid for an abortion, calling it a “flat-out lie.”
Chatting with Hannity hours later, Walker stated The Day by day Beast’s report was a “lie” and stated that he “by no means requested anybody to get an abortion.”
Hannity questioned him on the $700 verify seen by The Day by day Beast, asking, “Is there anyone you possibly can bear in mind sending that a lot cash to?”
“I ship cash to lots of people. And that is what’s so humorous,” Walker stated.
“You realize, I do scholarships for youths. I give cash to folks on a regular basis. As a result of I am at all times serving to folks. As a result of I imagine in being beneficiant,” Walker informed Hannity.
“God has blessed me, I need to bless others. Now, I bought into this race as a result of I am a Christian. I really like the Lord Jesus Christ,” Walker stated. “And I at all times inform everybody that no weapon shaped in opposition to me shall prosper. So whoever been on the market wanna lie on Herschel Walker, you are mendacity on the incorrect one.”
Walker’s denial got here the identical evening that his son, Christian Walker, went on Twitter and put him on blast. In a collection of tweets, Walker accused his father of mendacity.
“You are not a ‘household man’ whenever you left us to bang a bunch of ladies, threatened to kill us, and had us transfer over 6 instances in 6 months working out of your violence,” the youthful Walker wrote on Twitter.
“I do not care about somebody who has a foul previous and takes accountability. However how DARE YOU LIE and act as if you are some “ethical, Christian, upright man.” You’ve got lived a lifetime of DESTROYING different peoples lives. How dare you,” he added.
In response to his son’s feedback, Walker tweeted on Monday evening: “I LOVE my son it doesn’t matter what.”
Christian Walker’s allegations come ten months after he introduced his father on stage at a Mar-a-Lago fundraiser in December 2021.
Walker is running as an anti-abortion candidate, insisting that there be no exceptions for abortion even in circumstances of rape and incest.
Walker, a former NFL working again, is up in opposition to Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock in November’s midterm elections. He was one in all former President Donald Trump’s three high-profile Senate picks alongside Ohio’s JD Vance and Pennsylvania Senate candidate Mehmet Oz.
In late September, Warnock had a five-point lead over Walker within the high-stakes Senate contest, which might decide whether or not the Democratic Social gathering retains management of the higher chamber.
Christian Walker and a consultant for Herschel Walker didn’t instantly reply to Insider’s requests for remark.