From a recent NBC News interview with the worst possible candidate ever for
a Republican seat in the U.S. Senate, Herschel Walker (R-GA), a liar who
competes with Trump for liar of the century in this story headline while
flashing his “honorary” police badge (interview includes video clip from NBC
News article):
“Herschel
Walker explains the badge he flashed at Senate debate”
Herschel Walker, the Republican candidate for Senate
in GA, explained why he flashed a badge during his October 14 debate with
Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock in an exclusive interview with NBC News' Kristen Welker
(seen at the article page).
Walker brandished the badge after Warnock took aim at
his past erratic behavior and his false claims he had worked in law enforcement,
prompting a moderator to repeatedly ask Walker to put the badge away, citing
debate rules barring the use of props.
Asked in the interview with NBC News about that moment and
whether the badge gave him arresting authority, Walker insisted it is a “legit”
badge given to him by law enforcement and said he carries it with him all the
time.
Walker said: “I
have badges all over the state of Georgia, noting he also had an “honorary
sheriff badge” from Chatham County, where Warnock is from. Walker then produced
a badge during the interview that he said was from Johnson County, where he
grew up, saying: “If anything happened in this county, I have the right to work
with the police getting things done. People don’t know that I’ve been working
with law enforcement for years. But they can call me whenever they want me, and
I have the authority to do things for them, to work with them on a thing.”
Welker then asked him why he flashed a badge during the debate
despite the National Sheriffs' Association who said an honorary badge is “for the trophy case.”
Walker said: “That’s
not true. I had a sheriff that gave me the badge — been there for years, I’ve
been there for years — came out and did a press conference with me, and said
Herschel been with us for years, he’d been working with us. I will always have
my men and women back the blue. That’s the reason they support me. I have more sheriff
than have supported Herschel Walker, more sheriffs support Herschel Walker in
Georgia than any candidate running today.”
Walker then
repeatedly denied having embellished his connection to law enforcement saying:
“I’m right because I have worked in law enforcement, and I’ve been working with
law enforcement. I did it before I decided to run for office. This had nothing
to do with me running for office. So when people say that, they’re talking.”
The sheriff of Johnson
County confirmed to NBC News that he had given Walker “the honorary badge” and said he had no issue with Walker bringing
it up during his political campaign.
Walker also continued to deny an allegation by an ex-partner, who is the mother of one of Walker’s children that he paid for her abortion in 2009.
Walker later acknowledged the $700 check he gave to her,
but denied her claim that he knew the check was for an abortion, saying: “It’s
a lie.”
Walker, an
anti-abortion Republican and former football star, said in an earlier interview
on NBC TODAY: “Prove that I did that. Just to show me things like that does
nothing for me.”
This article was originally published and is here from NBC News.com
My 2 cents: Short and simple – if anyone like Walker is elected to
the Senate along with those deniers and know-nothings in congress right now, or
those dozens seeking office this cycle. If they win, well, God help us for
surely we would be doomed to the ash heap of history.
I can’t say that any stronger. That would give the GOP a team of mostly “yes anti-everything radicals” the likes we have never seen and all at one time.
I can’t even measure how harmful that would be.
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