Herschel Walker’s campaign slams report claiming he paid for partner’s 2009 abortion

Pro-life Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker’s campaign has denied a new story accusing the former soccer star of paying for a partner’s abortion in 2009.

In response to The Daily Beasts Shocking new report released Monday in which the woman in question showed a reporter a personal check and card she received from Walker, the former NFL story denied the whole story.

Hours after the article was published, Walker appeared on Fox News’ Hannity.

Walker said in the interview that he didn’t know if he knew the woman in the middle of the piece, but called the article “an outright lie.”

Walker stated clearly, “I never asked anyone to have an abortion. I never paid for an abortion and it’s a lie.’

He said the article had given him even more “energy.” Walker said, “I’m going to fight and win this seat for the great people of Georgia.

Walker told Sean Hannity that, “I send money to so many people…I believe in generosity.”

While his lawyer Robert Ingram is quoted by The Daily Beast, “All you want to do is spread stories to attack black conservatives. You target black conservatives.’

Georgia’s Senate race is one of the most closely watched in the country as Republicans try to regain control of Congress.

Walker, a Republican, will face incumbent Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock in the November election.

Walker said in May 2022 that he is against abortion without exception. He told reporters, “There is no exception in my mind. Like I said, I believe in life. I believe in life.’

He continued, “You never know what a kid is going to be. And I’ve seen some people, they’ve had hard times, but I always said, “No matter what, hard times make hard people.”

Walker has called for more funding for single parent adoption and support.

The woman, who is not named in the report, showed a reporter a September 2009 receipt for the proceedings.

That same month, the woman received a check for $700 and a get well card with the messages “Rest,” “Relax” and “Recover.”

According to The Daily Beast, the woman was also able to prove that she was in a romantic relationship with Walker.

After the article was published, Walker said he planned to sue The Daily Beast and the lawsuit would be filed Tuesday.

He wrote in a statement published on his social media channels: “This is an outright lie and I deny it in the strongest possible terms.”

“This is another abhorrent ax job from a journalist disguised Democrat activist who has obsessively attacked my family and tried to take me down since the start of this race,” the statement read.

It continued: “He harassed friends of mine and asked if I was the father of their children. He called my children a “secret because I didn’t want to use them as props for a political campaign.”

The statement concluded: “Now they are using an anonymous source to defame me even more. They will do everything they can to stay in power. It’s disgusting, gutter politics.’

Walker said in August 2022 that abortion was “something people don’t worry about” in relation to the November midterm elections, according to The Atlanta Journal Constitution.

Despite this, he released a statement in September highlighting his opponent’s pro-choice record.

Walker said of Warnock: ‘Raphael Warnock wants to protect the killing of babies until birth. We have to do better.’

Last month, Walker approved Senator Lindsay Graham’s proposed nationwide ban on abortions after 15 weeks, before most women know they are pregnant.

In June, while secretly interviewed by a liberal activist posing as one of his supporters, Walker repeatedly denied ever paying for an abortion.

Shortly after The Daily Beast’s article was published, right-wing activist Erick Erickson tweeted: “I thought we all knew this. Old news and people also change over time.’

Erickson later clarified his comments by saying, “The Walker thing may not have been made public, but I’m about 100% sure one of his opponents told me it was a rumor.”

He added: “I thought it was public, but maybe it wasn’t. It has certainly been discussed in quiet discussions.’

In the 2008 book Breaking Free, Walker revealed his challenges with mental illness. He said he had been diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder. In that report, Walker talked about as many as a dozen personalities — or “changers” — he constructed as a defense mechanism against the bullying he suffered as a stuttering, overweight child.

The National Alliance on Mental Illness describes the condition as “alternating between multiple identities,” leaving a person “gaps in the memory of everyday events.” It notes that men with the disorder often exhibit “more violent behavior than amnesia.”

In his book, Walker acknowledged violent urges. He wrote that he played Russian roulette and recalled pointing a pistol, loaded with a single bullet, at his head at his kitchen table in 1991. “I wasn’t suicidal,” Walker explained, but “just saw mortality as the ultimate challenge.”

Throwing a turning point story, Walker said that in 2001 he decided that “it was time to stop running and face some harsh realities.” He cited therapy and his Christian faith as influences.

His turning point: driving his car to confront a man who had “confused my schedule” and thinking about what it would be like to shoot the man. Walker changed course, he wrote, after seeing a bumper sticker that read “SMILE. JESUS ​​LOVES YOU.’