Herschel Walker’s son lashed out at him Monday on Twitter after the Republican U.S. Senate candidate denied a report that he paid for an ex-girlfriend’s abortion in 2009.
“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,” tweeted Christian Walker, a conservative social media persona. “He determined to provide us the center finger and air out all of his soiled laundry in public, whereas concurrently mendacity about it. I’m performed.”
He stated he and his mom would recognize it if the Georgia Republican would cease “mendacity and making a mockery of us.”
“You’re not a ‘household man’ if you left us to bang a bunch of ladies, threatened to kill us, and had us transfer over 6 occasions in 6 months operating out of your violence,” he wrote.
Herschel Walker responded solely by tweeting: “I LOVE my son it doesn’t matter what.”
Nevertheless it did little to placate his son, who replied: “You’ve 4 youngsters that we all know of and also you weren’t in the home elevating ONE of them, you have been out dishonest and mendacity. If you happen to liked your youngsters you’d be elevating them as a substitute of operating for a senate race to spice up your ego.” He deleted that tweet shortly after posting it.
The 23-year-old, who has tons of of hundreds of followers on Twitter, Instagram and TikTok, had beforehand been supportive of his dad’s marketing campaign and appeared with him on the marketing campaign path.
Christian Walker’s mom, Cindy DeAngelis Grossman, was married to Herschel Walker from 1983 to 2002. Grossman has stated that her ex-husband was bodily abusive throughout their relationship and described one incident wherein she stated he pointed a gun at her head and advised her he was going to blow her “brains out.”
Grossman obtained a protecting order in 2005 after Walker repeatedly voiced a need to kill her and her boyfriend, in line with courtroom data.
Christian Walker’s Twitter blast got here within the hours after The Every day Beast printed a report alleging that Herschel Walker impregnated a girl he was courting in 2009, urged her to get an abortion after which reimbursed her for the process. The lady supplied receipts and advised the media outlet she got here ahead as a result of “I simply can’t with the hypocrisy anymore.”
On the marketing campaign path, Walker has stated he helps a ban on abortions with no exceptions, presumably together with when a being pregnant is the results of rape or incest or endangers the well being of the mom.
The incident is the most recent in a collection of scandals for the Walker marketing campaign, which has already fielded stories that the previous NFL star secretly fathered a number of kids, abused Grossman and threatened two different girls, and that he lied repeatedly about his credentials.
It’s not the primary time a politician’s relative has spoken out towards their marketing campaign. Within the 2018 election cycle, six siblings of Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) endorsed his opponent in a collection of adverts warning towards the extremist’s character. They’ve continued to criticize him since his reelection.
Democrat Randy Bryce, who unsuccessfully ran for Congress in Wisconsin that yr, was the topic of an assault advert that includes his brother, a police officer, who accused him of “cop-hating rhetoric.” Bryce’s brother stated he would vote for a Republican candidate.
And Steve West, who gained the Missouri state Home major election however misplaced to the Democratic candidate in each 2018 and 2020, was denounced by his son and daughter as racist. Each urged voters to not help him.