Georgia Senate GOP candidate Herschel Walker denies paying for abortion — son says he ‘threatened to kill us’

Herschel Walker, the Republican nominee for a Senate seat from Georgia who has referred to as for a ban on abortion, was accused in a brand new report Monday night time of paying for a lady’s abortion in 2009.

Walker adamantly denied the declare detailed in a Day by day Beast article, calling it a “flat-out lie,” and vowed to sue the information outlet.

“It is disgusting, gutter politics,” stated the previous faculty and professional soccer star, whose race is being carefully watched due to the possibility it might assist Republicans regain majority management of the Senate.

However shortly after the web publication of that story, Walker’s grownup son blasted him in a sequence of tweets, accusing him of violence and hypocrisy.

“I do know my mother and I might actually admire if my father Herschel Walker stopped mendacity and making a mockery of us,” Christian Walker tweeted.

“You are not a ‘household man’ once you left us to bang a bunch of girls, threatened to kill us, and had us transfer over 6 instances in 6 months working out of your violence.”

In one other tweet Monday night time, Christian wrote, “Each member of the family of Herschel Walker requested him to not run for workplace, as a result of all of us knew (a few of) his previous. Each single one. He determined to offer us the center finger and air out all of his soiled laundry in public, whereas concurrently mendacity about it.”

Christian’s mom Cindy Grossman, Herschel Walker’s ex-wife, informed CNN in 2008 that he had threatened to kill her.

“The primary time he held the gun to my head … he held the gun to my temple and stated he was going to blow my brains out,” Grossman stated in that interview.

The double punch to Walker’s candidacy on Monday night comes a month earlier than the midterm elections, the place he’s searching for to unseat Sen. Raphael Warnock, a Democrat.

Warnock and Sen. Jon Ossoff received Georgia’s two Senate seats in election run-offs in early 2021, giving Democrats majority management of the Senate.

Walker’s candidacy has been backed by former President Donald Trump and Senate Minority Chief Mitch McConnell as a part of an effort by Republicans to regain majority management.

The Day by day Beast’s article quoted an unidentified lady who stated she grew to become pregnant by Walker after they had been relationship in 2009, at a time when he was not married, and that he “urged her to get an abortion.”

“She supported these claims with a $575 receipt from the abortion clinic, a ‘get properly’ card from Walker, and a financial institution deposit receipt that included a picture of a signed $700 private examine from Walker,” the Day by day Beast reported.

The lady requested anonymity due to privateness considerations, in response to the outlet, which stated it corroborated particulars of her account with a good friend whom she stated accompanied her to the process.

The outlet reported that the girl stated she was telling her story due to Walker’s public stance as a GOP candidate on abortion, which he claims to oppose with no exceptions for rape or incest.

“I simply can’t with the hypocrisy anymore,” she was quoted by the Day by day Beast as saying. “All of us deserve higher.”

Final month, Walker stated he supported proposed laws by Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., that may ban abortion nationally after 15 weeks of being pregnant.

I’m a proud pro-life Christian, and I’ll all the time get up for our unborn youngsters,” Walker stated in an announcement on the time.

CNBC has not independently verified the girl’s account. CNBC has requested remark from Walker’s lawyer.

In an announcement on Twitter denying the girl’s allegation, Walker wrote, “This can be a flat-out lie — and I deny this within the strongest doable phrases.”

He accused Day by day Beast reporter Roger Sollenberger of being a “democrat activist disguised as a reporter who has obsessively attacked my household and tried to tear me down since this race began.”

Sollenberger in June broke the information that Walker had three different youngsters with completely different ladies moreover Christian, who as much as that time was his solely publicly recognized son. One of many youngsters was a 10-year-old boy that Walker has not performed an lively function in elevating, the Day by day Beast reported in June.

Walker, who’s Black, has been crucial of African-American absentee fathers.

“I am noting taking this anymore,” Walker wrote in his assertion Monday. “I planning [sic] to sue the Day by day Beast for this defamatory lie. It is going to be filed tomorrow morning.”

Walker appeared Monday night time on Fox Information for an interview with Sean Hannity, who requested him concerning the reported $700 fee to the girl who spoke to the Day by day Beast.

“I ship cash to lots of people,” Walker answered. “I by no means requested anybody to get an abortion, I by no means paid for an abortion.”

Day by day Beast Political Editor Matt Fuller replied on Twitter, writing, “I can inform you we stand behind each phrase and really feel very strong concerning the story.”

Christian Walker, in one in all his tweets posted on the heels of the Day by day Beast story, wrote about his father: “I do not care about somebody who has a nasty previous and takes accountability. However how DARE YOU LIE and act as if you are some ‘ethical, Christian, upright man.’ You have lived a lifetime of DESTROYING different peoples lives. How dare you.”

Herschel Walker then tweeted, “I LOVE my son it doesn’t matter what.”