The most damaging of Herschel Walker’s lies tend to involve the Senate candidate himself. The Georgia Republican, for example, has said he was a University of Georgia graduate, but that wasn’t true. He said he was his high school’s valedictorian, but that wasn’t true. He repeatedly claimed to have a background in law enforcement, but those claims simply weren’t true. Walker hasn’t even told the truth about the number of children he has.
But just as dramatic are the Senate hopeful’s claims about his background in the private sector. Walker is already on record telling false claims about being the founder of a charity for veterans, and it was against this backdrop that The New York Times reported:
According to the Times’ reporting, which has not been independently verified by MSNBC or NBC News, one of the four charities didn’t want to answer questions, while the other three confirmed that they had “no record or recollection of any gifts” from Walker’s company in the last decade.
The Republican’s campaign team made no real effort to challenge the underlying contentions. A Walker spokesperson said the candidate has donated to charities — which is likely true, but beside the point — but the Times added that the political operation “declined to say when, how or even if Mr. Walker’s company had made the donations it promised.”
Lying about charitable contributions is definitely a problem, but maybe his supporters will argue that Walker was at least a successful businessman, even...
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