Hershel Walker’s Son Blows Up Dad’s Campaign Over Abortion Report

The Daily Beast reports, ‘Pro-Life’ Herschel Walker Paid for Girlfriend’s Abortion:

Herschel Walker, the football legend now running for Senate in Georgia, says he wants to completely ban abortion, likening it to murder and claiming there should be “no exception” for rape, incest, or the life of the mother.

But the Republican candidate has supported at least one exception—for himself.

A woman who asked not to be identified out of privacy concerns told The Daily Beast that after she and Walker conceived a child while they were dating in 2009 he urged her to get an abortion. The woman said she had the procedure and that Walker reimbursed her for it.

She supported these claims with a $575 receipt from the abortion clinic, a “get well” card from Walker, and a bank deposit receipt that included an image of a signed $700 personal check from Walker.

The woman said there was a $125 difference because she “ball-parked” the cost of an abortion after Googling the procedure and added on expenses such as travel and recovery costs.

Additionally, The Daily Beast independently corroborated details of the woman’s claims with a close friend she told at the time and who, according to the woman and the friend, took care of her in the days after the procedure.

The woman said Walker, who was not married at the time, told her it would be more convenient to terminate the pregnancy, saying it was “not the right time” for him to have a child. It was a feeling she shared, but what she didn’t know was that Walker had an out-of-wedlock child with another woman earlier that same year.

Asked if Walker ever expressed regret for the decision, the woman said Walker never had. Asked why she came forward, the woman pointed to Walker’s hardline anti-abortion position.

“I just can’t with the hypocrisy anymore,” she said. “We all deserve better.”

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According to the $575 receipt, the abortion took place on Sept. 12, 2009. And according to the Bank of America deposit receipt, Walker wrote the woman a check for $700 on Sept. 17, 2009. The check was deposited two days later.

The woman, who also provided proof of her romantic relationship with Walker, told The Daily Beast that he mailed her the check inside the “get well” card.

The front of that card features a drawing of a steaming cup of tea and reads, “Rest, Relax…” The message continues on the inside of the card: “…Recover.”

The card is signed, “Pray you are feeling better,” with an “H” in Walker’s distinctive autograph flourish.

After The Daily Beast reached out to the Walker campaign for comment, Robert Ingram, a lawyer representing both the campaign and Walker in his personal capacity, responded.

“This is a false story,” Ingram said in a phone call, adding that he based that conclusion on anonymous sources.

[A]fter the story published, Walker released a statement in which he called the story a “flat-out lie” and said he denied it in the “strongest possible terms.”

“I’m not taking this anymore. I planning [sic] to sue the Daily Beast for this defamatory lie. It will be filed tomorrow morning,” he said.

The woman who still communicates with Walker, said one of Walker’s top surrogates has asked her repeatedly if she would be willing to vouch for his character, reaching out as recently as this August.

In a 40-minute phone call this June about one of his out-of-wedlock children, The Daily Beast pressed Walker repeatedly on whether he had ever knowingly had an abortion with any of his past partners. After dodging the question multiple times, he ultimately said he had not.

Weeks later, a Democratic activist pretending to be a Walker supporter posed the same question at a campaign event, asking the NFL star whether he had ever “funded” or “caused somebody to have an abortion.”

“No,” Walker replied twice, which the activist recorded on video.

[W]alker—who according to his ex-wife held a gun to her head and was “gonna blow my brains out”—has been continually rocked by reports that he has lied about his past and covered up several love children. Still, the claim that he not only urged a romantic partner to have an abortion but paid for it could be the most explosive revelation yet.

[A]bortion has been front and center in Georgia for months—thanks in large part to Walker’s own comments. The University of Georgia football icon has drawn media attention with his outspoken, absolutist position in support of a total ban, both statewide and federally. He has repeatedlylikened the procedure to murder, and does not support any exceptions, including for rape, incest, or the life of the mother—instances Walker has dismissed as “excuses.”

“There’s no exception in my mind,” Walker told reporters in May. “Like I say, I believe in life. I believe in life.”

Walker has also said that his anti-abortion position is not a recent shift, claiming last month that he has “always” been “for life.”

Two weeks ago, Walker broke with other Senate candidates when he volunteered his support for a 15-week federal ban put forth by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC). Other candidates ducked comment on the Graham proposal, but Walker told Politico that, if elected, he “WOULD” back such a bill.

[W]alker said at another campaign stop that “there’s not a national ban on abortion right now and I think that’s a problem. I’m pro-life and I’m not going to make an excuse for it.”

While that stance may lose some voters, it has endeared him to anti-abortion advocates, who have held him up as a champion for the cause.

“Herschel Walker will be a most effective champion for unborn babies and their mothers in Washington and he has demonstrated the passion and perseverance it takes to win the critically important Georgia Senate race,” said Carol Tobias, the president of National Right to Life, whose group endorsed Walker over his Republican primary opponents in April.

You sure can pick ’em, lady!

Walker is twice-married, with four known children, all from different mothers. The Daily Beast revealed in July that Walker had lied to his own campaign staff when he denied the existence of two of those children, whom Walker had also kept from the public for years despite speaking out against fatherless homes in the Black community.

One of those children was born the same year Walker paid for the abortion.

The next year, 2010, Walker told radio host Howard Stern he had only slept with two women in his life.

Walker claims he is a devout Christian, and he often invokes his faith to justify his anti-abortion position, including on the campaign trail.

“To say that it is OK for a woman to kill her baby when [God] said ‘Thou shall not kill.’ And I said, you know, I can’t, I can’t square it,” Walker said at a conservative Christian values roundtable this August. “I can’t get around that.”

Hershel Walker may be taking a page out of the Trump playbook – deny everything, threaten to sue the “fake” news media – but his own son has essentially confirmed the story with a full-throated denouncement of his dear old Dad.

The Daily Beast continues, Herschel Walker’s Son Steps Up Attacks on His Dad: ‘I’m Done’:

In a pair of two-minute video monologues posted to social media on Tuesday morning, Herschel Walker’s adult son Christian Walker stepped up the attacks on his father, keeping the focus on his dad’s past and saying everything he’s running on has been “a lie.”

“I’ve stayed silent for nearly two years as my whole life has been lied about publicly,” Christian Walker wrote in the first video tweet. “I did ONE campaign event, then said I didn’t want involvement.”

“I stayed silent as the atrocities committed against my mom were downplayed. I stayed silent when it came out that my father, Herschel Walker, had all these random kids across the country, none of whom he raised,” Christian Walker said in that video, first referencing an incident where his mom, Herschel Walker’s ex-wife, described the Republican Senate hopeful holding a gun to her head and threatening to “blow my brains out.”

I’ve stayed silent for nearly two years as my whole life has been lied about publicly. I did ONE campaign event, then said I didn’t want involvement.

Don’t you dare test my authenticity. Here is the full story: pic.twitter.com/ekVEcz8zq3

— Christian Walker (@ChristianWalk1r) October 4, 2022

Christian Walker, 23, appeared galvanized by The Daily Beast’s reporting on Monday that his father, an anti-abortion absolutist, paid a girlfriend to abort their child in 2009.

The budding conservative influencer also appeared to corroborate details of The Daily Beast’s report the prior night that his father paid for a girlfriend’s abortion in 2009, saying that he recognized his dad’s handwriting in the “get well” card printed with the story.

“It’s literally his handwriting in the card. They say they have receipts. Whatever. He gets on Twitter, he lies about it. OK, I’m done,” Christian Walker said.

Asked by Fox News host Sean Hannity about the card and check Monday night, Herschel Walker did not deny sending them to the woman.

In the videos, the young social media star claimed he has damaging information that could end his father’s candidacy, and laid into unnamed Republicans who he said have been knowingly complicit in the lies that are now playing out in public—the Senate campaign he referred to as a “buffoonery nut-job plan.”

“Family values people: He has four kids, four different women. Wasn’t in the house raising one of them. He was out having sex with other women,” Christian Walker said. “Do you care about family values?”

“We could have ended this on day one. We haven’t,” he said, adding in the second video, “If you wanna pull stuff up, I’ll pull stuff up. Don’t try me. Don’t test my authenticity. All of this has been a lie and you’ve known it. You’ve known. So don’t you dare.”

The Daily Beast reached out to Christian Walker for comment, but did not receive a reply.

Christian Walker, who has appeared on the campaign trail with his father and served as an informal adviser, first spoke out on Twitter in the aftermath of the abortion story Monday night.

“Every family member of Herschel Walker asked him not to run for office, because we all knew (some of) his past. Every single one,” he tweeted after the story was published.

“You’re not a ‘family man’ when you left us to bang a bunch of women, threatened to kill us, and had us move over 6 times in 6 months running from your violence,” he added.

Herschel Walker responded to his son’s broadsides with a short tweet: “I LOVE my son no matter what.”

“You have 4 kids that we know of and you weren’t in the house raising ONE of them, you were out cheating and lying,” Christian Walker replied in a since-deleted tweet. “If you loved your kids you’d be raising them instead of running for a senate race to boost your ego.”

On Tuesday, however, Christian Walker added some choice words for the GOP political machine facilitating his father’s run, saying that the enablers did so without regard for what he and his mother have endured in their relationship with the NFL legend.

“When you all have been calling me saying, ‘Is this true about your dad? Gosh, we’re not gonna win Georgia.’ That’s on you. You have no idea what I’ve been through in my life. You have no idea what me and my mom have survived,” the 23-year-old said.

I’ve spoken to nearly all of the people who have attacked me and told them quietly that I didn’t want to be involved.

Now they’re blaming me for everything I’m not responsible for. It’s disgusting. pic.twitter.com/rhMRNHMDaC

— Christian Walker (@ChristianWalk1r) October 4, 2022

He elaborated on those communications with Republican handlers in the second video.

“We were told at the beginning of this, he was gonna get ahead of his past, hold himself accountable, all of these different things. And that would’ve been fine. Go ahead. He didn’t do any of that,” he said.

“Everything’s been downplayed, everything’s been cutting corners. And who, whose expense is that at? Me, my mom. As we’re chased down by the media, we’re terrorized, all these different things. People are questioning my authenticity. I’m done. Don’t lie.”

Christian also addressed Democrats who he says have criticized him as a hypocrite for supporting his father while calling out other men for their own marital indiscretions. He inverted that attack, saying that his criticisms of others were always implicit criticisms of his dad. [Yeah, sure they were kid.]

“And then for people on the left to act as though I’m responsible for all of the things that he has done. I’ve talked about fathers, I’ve talked about all these [things] because they’ve been close to me, because they matter to me because I went through it. That’s why I’ve talked about it,” he said.

“So when you say, well talk about your dad? But I am. I’m saying this behavior is atrocious. Don’t come for me. You don’t have to like my politics. You don’t have to like me. You don’t have to. I’m just saying I’m done with the lies,” Christian Walker said.