Herschel Walker, the Republican nominee for a Senate seat from Ga who has referred to as for a ban on abortion, was accused in a new report Monday night time of paying out for a woman’s abortion in 2009.
Walker adamantly denied the assert thorough in a Daily Beast write-up, contacting it a “flat-out lie,” and vowed to sue the information outlet.
“It truly is disgusting, gutter politics,” reported the former higher education and pro football star, whose race is being carefully watched due to the fact of the possibility it could assist Republicans regain greater part manage of the Senate.
But shortly following the on the net publication of that tale, Walker’s adult son blasted him in a collection of tweets, accusing him of violence and hypocrisy.
“I know my mother and I would truly respect if my father Herschel Walker stopped lying and earning a mockery of us,” Christian Walker tweeted.
“You happen to be not a ‘family man’ when you still left us to bang a bunch of women, threatened to destroy us, and had us transfer over 6 occasions in 6 months running from your violence.”
In a further tweet Monday night time, Christian wrote, “Every single family member of Herschel Walker asked him not to operate for place of work, because we all understood (some of) his previous. Every single single one particular. He determined to give us the center finger and air out all of his filthy laundry in community, when concurrently lying about it.”
Christian’s mother Cindy Grossman, Herschel Walker’s ex-wife, explained to CNN in 2008 that he experienced threatened to kill her.
“The 1st time he held the gun to my head … he held the gun to my temple and said he was going to blow my brains out,” Grossman reported in that interview.
The double punch to Walker’s candidacy on Monday night arrives a month right before the midterm elections, in which he is in search of to unseat Sen. Raphael Warnock, a Democrat.
Warnock and Sen. Jon Ossoff received Georgia’s two Senate seats in election operate-offs in early 2021, offering Democrats vast majority regulate of the Senate.
Walker’s candidacy has been backed by former President Donald Trump and Senate Minority Chief Mitch McConnell as aspect of an work by Republicans to regain majority command.
The Each day Beast’s article quoted an unknown female who claimed she became pregnant by Walker when they were being relationship in 2009, at a time when he was not married, and that he “urged her to get an abortion.”
“She supported these statements with a $575 receipt from the abortion clinic, a ‘get well’ card from Walker, and a bank deposit receipt that incorporated an image of a signed $700 individual check out from Walker,” the Daily Beast described.
The woman requested anonymity mainly because of privacy problems, in accordance to the outlet, which stated it corroborated information of her account with a good friend whom she stated accompanied her to the course of action.
The outlet documented that the female stated she was telling her tale for the reason that of Walker’s public stance as a GOP candidate on abortion, which he statements to oppose with no exceptions for rape or incest.
“I just won’t be able to with the hypocrisy any longer,” she was quoted by the Every day Beast as declaring. “We all ought to have much better.”
Last month, Walker claimed he supported proposed legislation by Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., that would ban abortion nationally after 15 weeks of pregnancy.
I am a happy professional-lifetime Christian, and I will generally stand up for our unborn children,” Walker mentioned in a statement at the time.
CNBC has not independently verified the woman’s account. CNBC has asked for remark from Walker’s lawyer.
In a assertion on Twitter denying the woman’s allegation, Walker wrote, “This is a flat-out lie — and I deny this in the strongest possible conditions.”
He accused Every day Beast reporter Roger Sollenberger of getting a “democrat activist disguised as a reporter who has obsessively attacked my relatives and attempted to tear me down considering that this race started out.”
Sollenberger in June broke the news that Walker had 3 other young children with diverse females other than Christian, who up to that level was his only publicly known son. A person of the young children was a 10-yr-aged boy that Walker has not played an lively function in elevating, the Everyday Beast claimed in June.
Walker, who is Black, has been crucial of African-American absentee fathers.
“I am noting using this anymore,” Walker wrote in his assertion Monday. “I organizing [sic] to sue the Daily Beast for this defamatory lie. It will be submitted tomorrow early morning.”
Walker appeared Monday night on Fox Information for an interview with Sean Hannity, who questioned him about the claimed $700 payment to the lady who spoke to the Day-to-day Beast.
“I send money to a large amount of persons,” Walker answered. “I never requested any person to get an abortion, I never paid out for an abortion.”
Day by day Beast Political Editor Matt Fuller replied on Twitter, producing, “I can tell you we stand at the rear of each and every term and feel pretty reliable about the story.”
Christian Walker, in 1 of his tweets posted on the heels of the Day by day Beast tale, wrote about his father: “I don’t care about anyone who has a undesirable earlier and requires accountability. But how DARE YOU LIE and act as though you might be some ‘moral, Christian, upright person.’ You’ve lived a life of DESTROYING other peoples life. How dare you.”
Herschel Walker then tweeted, “I Really like my son no matter what.”
