Herschel Walker’s Campaign Knows He’s a Liar and They Don't Care
The Republican Senate candidate’s staffers are shocked… shocked!... that he lied to them about his stable of secret families.
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American conservatives love the '80s—the relegation of the sideburn to the Oakland A’s bullpen, the elevation of Ronald Reagan to popular consensus god-king, the height of the aggressively mediocre white male rockstar. A man could have several secret families back then, and nobody would find out, not even his own political campaign. Not like today.
This week, new reporting revealed that Georgia’s Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker’s Southern Layer Cake of lies has some frosting on it we didn’t know about—not only did the conservative ex-football star have three secret children from three different women, but Walker also lied about their existence to his own campaign. It wasn’t until he was directly confronted with evidence that he finally told the truth, which is that he’d been lying.
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