'There is no evidence': Herschel Walker also reportedly lied about supervising hospitals
Herschel Walker, the Republican United States Senate candidate in Georgia whose campaign has been peppered with scandals and defined by his own misrepresentations about his résumé, has been caught in yet another lie, according to a Wednesday report in The Huffington Post.
"In September 2011, ESPN was rolling out its new documentary about Herschel Walker — but the man of the hour wouldn’t be at the big premiere because, he said, he had real work to do," HuffPost recalled. At the time, Walker claimed that he was unavailable because he had to "head back to Arkansas for a sales meeting at my chicken factory."
In July of 2022, a New York Times investigation found that Walker had not been honest about his involvement with a poultry producer.
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“They don’t know that I have this food service company," Walker stated in 2011, adding that he has "a drapery company" and that he oversaw "six hospitals around the United States." That last part, HuffPost pointed out, is totally unsubstantiated.
"The reason not many people know about Walker supervising hospitals around the country is because it doesn’t appear that he ever did," HuffPost explaned. And while there were multiple media reports in 2008 that chronicled Walker's supposed roles with healthcare facilities, HuffPost noted that "there is no evidence that Walker ever supervised or started hospitals or medical centers. His personal financial disclosure forms, which have already been amended multiple times, do not indicate he ever owned or ran hospitals."
This latest revelation comes amid a Daily Beast exposé published on Monday that Walker paid for a girlfriend's abortion in 2009.
Walker, who has "denied" the allegations "in the strongest possible terms," was endorsed by former President Donald Trump early in the Senate race as a champion of right-wing values. Conservatives are maintaining their support of Walker nonetheless.
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