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The Erick Erickson Show

S11 EP122: Hour 3 - Herschel Walker is…well…Herschel Walker

The Erick Erickson Show

Erick Erickson

News, News Commentary

4.5874 Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Herschel Walker is turning out to be the bad candidate many in the GOP feared but he can still win.

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0:00.0

Hello there. It is Eric Erickson here. The Eric Erickson show across the nation. The phone number is 8779773-725.

0:14.0

Um, well, well, um, I, I'm sorry.

0:27.5

Turns out, listen, I'm working very hard here not to say I told you so.

0:40.8

And I am using a whole lot of my strength and energy to avoid it.

0:49.3

But I kind of told you so.

0:53.5

We can say, as is being said, that, well, it's the daily beast and so it's liberals.

1:09.6

I will tell you they reached out to me.

1:12.7

The reporter reached out to me and asked me to participate in the story and I declined

1:18.3

to participate in the story.

1:20.2

I didn't want nothing to do with the story.

1:26.3

But, well, here we go roger scholenberger the daily beast turns out well herschell walker is herschall walker

1:39.4

when herschell walker's campaign aides approached walker this winter to discuss whispers Walker had a secret child, the Georgia GOP Senate candidate told his campaign the rumors were false.

1:52.0

The aides already knew he was lying.

1:55.1

They had expected him to lie and had obtained documents in advance of that conversation verifying Walker did indeed have another child.

2:02.9

The Daily Beast has learned. They handed the documents to him, and after some more back and forth,

2:08.3

Walker finally admitted it was true. His aides asked if there were any other children they needed to know

2:13.2

about. Walker insisted this was it. When the Daily Beast learned about the existence of that 10-year-old child in June and went to the campaign for comment, campaign manager Scott Paradise prepared a statement, but first he went to Walker with a question, be honest, are there any more?

2:28.8

No, Walker said.

2:30.3

Paradise then put out a statement insisting that Walker, who at that point had only publicly acknowledged one child, his adult son Christian, was very proud of his children.

2:39.3

To suggest that Walker is hiding the child because he hasn't used him in his political campaign is offensive and absurd, Paradise said.

2:47.0

The very next day, the Daily Beast reached out again asking about another undisclosed child at this time a 13 year old the campaign approached Walker asked again this time he acknowledged this child was his

2:58.9

this account of Walker lying to his own campaign about his children comes from a closely connected advisor and was verified by communications

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