Herschel Walker
Fox News heavily promoted the U.S. Senate candidacy of former football star Herschel Walker from its earliest stages, despite Walker’s seeming lack of qualifications and well-known personal history that included multiple reports of domestic violence. Now, the network has been almost silent on the biggest story of the race so far, after The Daily Beast reported Monday night that Walker had paid for a girlfriend’s abortion in 2009, despite his current hardline anti-abortion stance.
Walker appeared Monday night to address the reporting with Fox News prime-time host Sean Hannity, a longtime Trump adviser and perhaps Walker’s earliest and most prominent endorser on the network. The interview went badly, as Walker failed to refute that he had sent a $700 check and a get-well card to the unnamed woman, who said it was to reimburse her total expenses from receiving an abortion. (The woman also provided The Daily Beast with a $575 receipt from a clinic for the procedure.)
Tuesday morning’s edition of Fox & Friends featured only a short news headline delivered by Fox & Friends First co-host Carley Shimkus, lasting a little over 30 seconds. This paltry coverage was despite the fact that the show’s co-host Brian Kilmeade has personally boosted Walker’s campaign with puff pieces featuring the candidate, and could be seen on the couch with his co-hosts following Shimkus’ news reading. None of the Fox & Friends co-hosts had anything to say about the story.
Fox’s next program, America's Newsroom, also offered the story nothing more than a single headline read despite purporting to be one of the network's “straight news” daytime programs. In addition, Fox News chief Washington correspondent Mike Emanuel highlighted some of the tweets by one of Walker’s children, right-wing social media personality Christian Walker, who called out his father both for womanizing and for having threatened to kill his family.
Emanuel effectively let Herschel Walker get the last word in, however, by citing a tweet in which the candidate “says he loves his son, no matter what.” Emanuel failed to note, however, that Christian Walker had already responded to that message by citing his father’s failure to raise multiple children he is now known to have conceived.
Christian Walker had deleted his rebuttal Monday night, but it was captured in screen grabs by multiple journalists, including HuffPost senior politics reporter Igor Bobic.
Reprinted with permission from Media Matters.
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Herschel Walker
Christian Walker, the son of the Republican Party of Georgia’s nominee to be a U.S. Senator is out with a new video Tuesday morning blasting his father, Herschel Walker, and Republicans who he says knew about his philandering father’s past and suggesting they even called him telling him it’s important for the party that he win, despite the latest bombshell news.
Monday evening The Daily Beast reported Herschel Walker, the former NFL star running for Senate as a “pro-life” candidate who supports zero exceptions for abortion, paid for an abortion for his girlfriend.
Walker said he and his mother “could have ended” his father’s Senate campaign, one first pushed by and then endorsed by Donald Trump, “on day one.” And he criticized the “family values” contingent on the right for their hypocrisy in endorsing his father despite his past.
“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 charges in his latest video. “And you know, my favorite issue to talk about is father absence – surprise – ’cause it affected me. That’s why I talk about it all the time, because it affected me.”
Walker, a social media influencer who has strongly supported his father’s candidacy until The Daily Beast’s story Monday night, went on to attack “family values” conservatives.
“Family Values people: He has four kids, four different women, wasn’t in the house raising one of them,” Walker said about his father Herschel. “He was out having sex with other women. Do you care about family values? I was silent lie after lie after lie. The abortion card drops yesterday – it’s literally his handwriting in the card. They say they have receipts, whatever. He gets on Twitter, he likes about it. Okay, I’m done.”
Herschel Walker is running to unseat Democratic U.S. Senator Raphael Warnock, a pastor. Warnock has not commented on the Daily Beast’s bombshell.
“Everything has been a lie. And so for the right to say I’m being suspicious. We’re saying hey, I’m done with the lies when you all have been calling me saying, ‘is this true about your dad? Gosh, we’re not going to win Georgia. This candidate and all –’ that’s been you.”
“You have no idea what I’ve been through in my life. You have no idea what me and my mom have survived. We could have ended this on day one. We haven’t. I haven’t told any stories. I’m just saying don’t lie. Don’t lie on my mom. Don’t lie on me. Don’t lie on the lives you’ve destroyed and act like you’re some moral family man. Y’all should care about that, conservatives.”
Walker also claimed “the left” has been blaming him, “as though I’m responsible for all of the things that he has done. I’ve talked about other issues. I’ve talked about these 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. So when you say well, ‘talk about your dad,’ I am I’m saying this behavior is atrocious. Don’t come for me. You don’t have to like my policies. You don’t have to like me. You don’t have to. I’m just saying, I’m done with the lies.”
According to Walker, he was promised his father would lead a different life when he decided to run for Senate.
“We were told at the beginning of this he was going to get ahead of his past, hold himself accountable, all of these different things. And that would have been fine. Go ahead. He didn’t do any of that. Everything’s been a lie. Everything’s been downplayed. Everything’s been cutting corners, the whole thing, and who who is whose expense is that? Me, my mom. as were chased down by the media. We were terrorized, all these different things. People are questioning my authenticity. I’m done. Don’t lie. Don’t put this on me. You — This is a candidate issue. Not a me issue. I wouldn’t have spoken out if there weren’t all these lives every day.”
The Daily Beast in recent months also reported Walker has had four children with four different women, at least two of whom were not previously known.
Herschel Walker is denying the Daily Beast’s reporting.
Watch below or at this link.
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
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Will Clarence Thomas Boost Trump's Sneaky Mar-A-Lago Scheme?
All was well when we left Northeast Pennsylvania yesterday afternoon…uhhh…except for the car rental agency that called this morning when they were due to pick us up with the news that nobody returned their cars yesterday, so they didn’t have any cars and didn’t expect to get one until around noon.
So there went the schedule. We were supposed to drive down to Charlottesville, Virginia in time for a late afternoon family reunion with my sisters and sister-in-law and Truscott cousins and nieces and nephews. All of us are here for my Uncle James’ and Aunt Helen’s funeral tomorrow at Monticello, a sad occasion, but when you’re a family that’s spread out all over the country and hardly ever see each other, you take your opportunities where you can get them.
So, we missed the reunion barbeque because we were stuck in bumper to bumper traffic coming through central Pennsylvania in a torrential downpour left behind by Hurricane Ian. Tractor trailer accident after a multi-car pile-up after flipped-over dump truck after a string of rear-ender pick-ups and SUV’s -- you could barely make them out along the sides of I-78 and I-81 in the white-out fog and rain.
Then, to get us around the nightmarish traffic, Google-map Lady decided we would be better off heading south on two-lane roads through the rest of Pennsylvania, through the little hiccups of Maryland and West Virginia you must endure before entering Virginia, and onward we went through north-central Virginia headed vaguely south and vaguely east, presumably aimed by the wonders and miracles of GPS and God toward a Best Western on I-64 just east of Monticello.
We didn’t count the various farm roads and country lanes or the number of turns we took during the six hours after we left the interstate, and we will never know where we went until I get my monthly “You Were Here” notice from Google Maps at the beginning of next month. But if we see another turn-off for a Civil War battlefield or the name of another Confederate general, we’re emigrating, and I’m telling you, we don’t care where we end up, just so long as we never have to look at another crumbling barn or dead Dairy Queen.
We both thought it would be a nice day off before the funeral, you know, a leisurely drive and no news…
But noooooo…
We thought we were in yet another FM radio dead zone when suddenly the radio hit a station with the news that Trump had filed an “emergency petition” with the Supreme Court asking them to overturn just an eeeny-teeeny-mini-little portion of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeal’s recent decision allowing the Department of Justice to use the 100 classified documents Trump took to Mar-a-Lago from the White House and stored in cardboard boxes all over the place…er, ah…except for the ultra-secret ones the FBI found in his desk fucking drawer.
Trump’s petition looks innocuous on the surface. He’s asking that the classified documents be returned to the purview of the special master, not necessarily that the DOJ be disallowed from using them in their criminal investigation of Trump. You won’t find those words anywhere in the petition.
What you will find, however, is a sneaky little backdoor I’m sure Trump is figuring the Supreme Court…or as he likes to call it, my Supreme Court…will slip through to return jurisdiction over the classified documents to, get ready for it, Trump’s favorite judicial appointee, Aileen Cannon of Florida.
That’s right. Trump’s petition tells the Supreme Court that the 11th Circuit did not give adequate weight to “the District Court’s broad discretion without justification.” That would be Judge Cannon, of course.
And so, naturally, “This unwarranted stay should be vacated as it impairs substantially the ongoing, time-sensitive work of the Special Master.”
Whoa, nellie, what a cutie, huh? Trump is all of a sudden telling the Supreme Court he’s all worried that what the special master is doing is so “time-sensitive” the court needs to slow things down and allow everyone to take a deep breath while the 11,000 documents, plus the 100 classified files filled with secrets, are shuffled around between the parties long enough that Trump has adequate time to announce he’s running for president, so he can squawk and scream and claim the nasty “Democrat” DOJ is running roughshod all over his rights as a candidate for political office.
You’re just going to love this part. Emergency petitions like Trump’s are filed with individual justices who oversee the various Circuit Courts in the country, and the 11th Circuit just happens to be overseen by…taadaa…Ginni Thomas’ personal oath keeper, Justice Clarence Thomas.
Thomas immediately ordered the DOJ to file a response to the Trump petition by November 11 – there’s a new date to throw in with the other dates already delaying the very “time-sensitive” work of the special master. Thomas is supposed to turn the matter over to the whole court for a decision on how to handle Trump’s nifty little “gimme some more delay-time, puleeeeeze?” petition. But of course, the Supreme Court handles all of its work by rules it makes up by itself, and in the matter of emergency petitions, the justices overseeing the circuit courts are allowed to handle emergency petitions by themselves if they want and issue their own decisions without asking the other justices to weigh in.
So it’s up to Ginni Thomas’ husband how to handle Trump’s petition that might end up once again barring the DOJ from using the classified documents…or any other documents Trump removed from the White House for that matter…in its criminal investigation of Trump.
I just don’t know how Ginni’s husband is going to handle it, do you?
The whole thing could go in about three or four directions with seven or eight various permutations and combinations of jurisdictional hocus pocus and oral arguments being scheduled if the whole court gets involved, but it’s almost certain that this “emergency petition” by Trump will end up delaying the whole special master thing even longer.
When of course the whole special master thing was a bogus gambit right from the start because there is no attorney-client privilege that can be claimed regarding government-owned classified documents, and the same is true for executive privilege, because they are not “communications within the executive branch” that are covered. They are secrets involving the national security of the United States, not Trump’s personal property.
So today we’ll bury my Uncle, James Truscott, USAF Ret., who flew F-100’s over the skies of post-war Germany, while down on the ground in East Germany and Czechoslovakia, Russian soldiers manned rockets armed with tactical nuclear weapons aimed at the very air bases he flew out of. And we’ll bury my Aunt, Helen Truscott, who was an Air Force nurse in the very, very hot Germany of the cold war.
God bless them that they will be under the red soil of the graveyard at Monticello and will never again have to witness the madness afoot in the land they served with such love and distinction.
