He's a lying looney bin candidate..
Herschel Walker Used To Brag He Worked In Law Enforcement, But He Never Did: Report
Mary Papenfuss
Tue, June 14, 2022, 8:26 AMĀ·3 min read
Georgia GOP Senate candidate Herschel Walker has bragged about his days working in law enforcement ā but it never happened, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Monday.
The former NFL star endorsed by Donald Trump has reportedly talked in the past, before his campaign, about packing a firearm during his time with Georgiaās Cobb County Police Department ā and has claimed he was an FBI agent.
Neither the police department nor the FBI has any record that Walker ever worked for them, according to the newspaper.
Yet Walker claimed in a 2017 speech: āIāve been in criminal justice all my life,ā the Journal-Constitution reported.
In 2019 he reportedly said at a speech to soldiers at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state: āI spent time at Quantico at the FBI training school. Yāall didnāt know I was an agent?ā
In 2013 at a suicide prevention event for the Army, Walker said he āworked in law enforcement,so I had a gun. I put this gun in my holster and I said, āIām gonna kill this dude,āā according to the newspaper. (He was apparently referring to an incident in 2001 when he took a gun to chase a man who was late delivering a car. He said he sought mental health treatment afterward.)
According to the Journal-Constitution, Walkerās campaign biography says he majored in criminal justice during his time at the University of Georgia (though didnāt graduate) and was an honorary deputy in Cobb County and three other unnamed Georgia counties.
The Cobb County sheriffās office couldnāt confirm he was an āhonoraryā deputy. But even if he had such a voluntary title, itās ālike a junior ranger badge,ā former DeKalb County District Attorney J. Tom Morgan told the Journal-Constitution. Walker would have had no law enforcement authority, Morgan said.
When asked to clarify Walkerās law enforcement claims, his campaign sent an Associated Press article saying that he had spent a week at the FBI training school in Quantico doing target practice and running the obstacle course. A college degree and at least 20 weeks at Quantico are required to become an agent, the newspaper said.
Walker does have a law enforcement connection from 2001 when he threatened a shootout with cops responding to a domestic disturbance at his home, according to a police report, the Journal-Constitution noted.
Walker has stopped mentioning his law enforcement experience since he launched his campaign.
The candidate, who is running against first-term Sen. Raphael Warnock (D), has suddenly found himself immersed in controversies since he won the Republican primary and landed in the higher-profile general election.
Earlier this month, a political action committee triggered a backlash when it campaigned for Walker at a downtown Atlanta gas station while handing out $25 fuel vouchers. A volunteer claimed it was Walkerās idea, even though federal law prohibits such a relationship between a candidate and a PAC.
Itās a felony in Georgia to pay for votes or bribe voters. The stateās voting law even bans volunteers from handing out water to voters while theyāre waiting in line at the polls.
Walker was recently targeted in a Warnock campaign ad that featured Walkerās boast that he had a magic mist that could ākillā COVID-19.
āIs he ready to represent Georgia?ā asked the ad.
MeidasTouch also released a campaign commercial featuring 10 major Walker āfumbles,ā including his pitch for the magic mist.
This article originally appeared on HuffPost and has been updated.
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Lied about graduating from college too.
Fact check: Herschel Walker falsely claims he never falsely claimed he graduated from University of Georgia
Herschel Walker, the former football star who is now the Republican nominee for a US Senate seat in Georgia, is piling dishonesty upon dishonesty on the subject of his college education.
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Fact check: Herschel Walker falsely claims he never falsely claimed he graduated from University of Georgia
Herschel Walker, the former football star who is now the Republican nominee for a US Senate seat in Georgia, is piling dishonesty upon dishonesty on the subject of his college education.
In December, Walker's campaign website falsely claimed that he had graduated from the University of Georgia, the school he left after his junior season to play professionally. (Walker's campaign deleted the claim after the Atlanta Journal-Constitution inquired about it.) In April, CNN's KFile team revealed that Walker himself had made the false graduation claim for years -- and that Walker had even asserted that he graduated in the top 1% of his University of Georgia class.
But when Walker was challenged about his graduation deception in an interview last week with FOX 5 Atlanta anchor Russ Spencer, Walker declared he had never once said he graduated from the University of Georgia.
Spencer told Walker that he has a "phenomenal life story," but that "in some instances you've exaggerated that story. You said that you graduated from UGA..."
Walker interjected: "I never said that. They say that. And I said -- that's what you gotta remember. I never, I never have said that statement. Not one time. I've said that I studied criminal justice at UGA."
Facts First: Walker's claim that he "never" and "not one time" said he graduated from the University of Georgia is flat out false. Walker said on camera at least twice that he graduated from the school. Walker's promotional materials have also featured the false claim that he graduated.
When CNN asked for comment on Tuesday, Walker's campaign did not explain or correct his false claim that he had never said he earned his college degree. Spokesperson Mallory Blount instead said in an email: "Imagine a world where the media cared as much about solving inflation, gas prices and baby formula shortages as they do about re-litigating every word Herschel has ever said."
Dumbest part about that campaign deflection - imagine watching Herschel Walker talk and think he was about to do ANYTHING to solve inflation, gas prices, or baby shortage formulas.
@ the flamboyantly gay son not being the 'secret' son.
