A viral Facebook post claims Herschel Walker, the former NFL player turned Republican Senate nominee for Georgia, recently received a hefty campaign contribution from a surprising source: Home Depot.
"Home Depot donated $1.75 MILLION to Hershel (sic) Walker," reads the Oct. 7 post. "They must be high, and we're going Lowes."
Walker was recently the subject of a Daily Beast report that claimed he paid for an ex-girlfriend's abortion in 2009 despite being publicly pro-life. He denied the accusation as a "flat-out lie."
The Facebook post has been shared over 300 times in less than a week.
Several viral posts have since called for a boycott of Home Depot over the purported donation.
Nathalie Jacoby, a self-proclaimed Democrat with over 235,000 Twitter followers, published a tweet on Oct. 7 that reads, "Will you join me in boycotting Home Depot for donating $1.75 MILLION to Herschel Walker’s campaign?" It accumulated over 41,000 likes in four days.
The claim isn't true, though.
While Bernard Marcus, the co-founder of Home Depot, donated $1.75 million to a PAC dedicated to supporting Walker, he left the company 20 years ago. The donation he made is not affiliated with Home Depot.
USA TODAY reached out to several users who shared the post for comment. Jacoby told USA TODAY she "now understands saying 'Home Depot' donated the $1.75 million was inaccurate," though her tweet remained online as of Oct. 13.
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