Georgia GOP senate candidate Herschel Walker vehemently denied a report that he had paid for a former girlfriend to get an abortion in 2009 — blasting the declare as a “repugnant hatchet job.”
Walker, a staunch anti-abortion advocate who has supported a nationwide abortion ban, took to Twitter Monday to forcefully repudiate reporting by the Day by day Beast that claims the previous NFL participant paid for his then-girlfriend to have an abortion in 2009.
“This can be a flat-out lie — and I deny this within the strongest attainable phrases,” the 1982 Georgia Bulldog Heisman Trophy winner-turned-political candidate stated.
“That is one other repugnant hatchet job from a democratic [sic] activist disguised as a reporter who has obsessively attacked my household and tried to tear me down since this race began,” Walker, 60, continued.
The girl, who requested to stay nameless, advised the Day by day Beast that she and Walker agreed to not go forward with the being pregnant.
She offered a $575 receipt from an abortion clinic in addition to a signed private test for $700 from Walker and a “get properly” card purportedly signed by the previous Dallas Cowboys star.
The Submit has not been in a position to independently confirm the allegations.
Walker’s assertion was instantly slammed by his 23-year-old son Christian, whom the previous working again shares with ex-wife Cindy DeAngelis Grossman.
In a sequence of scathing tweets, Christian ripped into his father and accused him of mendacity about his household values after Walker was compelled to confess earlier this yr that he had fathered three different “secret” kids with three completely different ladies.
“I do know my mother and I might actually respect if my father Herschel Walker stopped mendacity and making a mockery of us,” Christian tweeted late Monday.
“I don’t care about somebody who has a nasty previous and takes accountability. However how DARE YOU LIE and act as if you’re some ‘ethical, Christian, upright man.’ You’ve lived a lifetime of DESTROYING different peoples lives. How dare you.”
Christian doubled down on Tuesday, insisting he had stayed silent when it was revealed his father “had all these random youngsters throughout the nation — none of whom he raised.”
“He has 4 youngsters, 4 completely different ladies — wasn’t in the home elevating one among them,” he raged in a video posted on Twitter.
“I wouldn’t have spoken out if there weren’t all these lies on daily basis,” Christian continued.
“Every little thing has been a lie, every part has been downplayed.”
In response to his son’s accusations, the Senate hopeful wrote: “I LOVE my son it doesn't matter what.”
Walker confirmed in June that along with Christian, he additionally had two different sons, aged 10 and 13, and an grownup daughter that the general public weren’t conscious of.
The ex-NFL star is hoping to defeat Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock in November on the energy of an endorsement from former President Donald Trump. It's in one of many nation’s best Senate races.
A mean of polls since late August by RealClearPolitics exhibits the Democrat Warnock main Walker by 0.7 share factors.
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