Georgia Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker falsely claimed that he used to be an FBI agent and told a crowd about how he once came close to killing a man in a newly-resurfaced footage.
Mr Walker has repeatedly mentioned having a varied past in law enforcement over the course of his campaign, despite reporting showing that the assertion is untrue.
This week, a video timestamped from the fall of 2019 re-emerged online, showing Mr Walker saying he worked for law enforcement and “spent time at Quantico” – the FBI Academy in Virginia.
“Ya’ll didn’t know I was an agent,” Mr Walker said. “I probably shouldn’t tell you that. Y’all don’t care.”
“But anyway, I’ve been in law enforcement before,” he continued in the video shared on Twitter on Monday by the Republican Accountability Project.
“So I grab my gun,” Mr Walker then said, recounting a story. “I say ‘I will kill him’.”
“Herschel Walker, won the Heisman Trophy, I’m going to kill him,” he added.
Mr Walker said he still “remembers the voices”.
“Herschel, people are disrespecting you all the time”, he said, quoting the “voices”.
“People are always doing stuff that you’ve never done,” he added.
“And all of a sudden this other voice – ‘Herschel your parents didn’t raise you like that’”, Mr Walker said in front of an audience.
“Yes they did – No they didn’t”, he said, describing the back and forth. “I thought I was losing my mind.”
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