Herschel Walker has reportedly denied allegations that he sponsored an abortion. The Trump-backed Republican, who has taken an unyielding stance against abortion rights as the Republican nominee for Senate in Georgia threatened on Monday to sue the Daily Beast after it reported that Walker once paid for a girlfriend’s abortion.
In response to the Daily Beast article on twitter, Walker wrote:
“This is a flat-out lie — and I deny this in the strongest possible terms.”
In response to his father, Christian Walker, subsequently sent a series of tweets accusing his father of abusive behavior and of being a terrible father. He said:
“I know my mom and I would really appreciate if my father Herschel Walker stopped lying and making a mockery of us.”
“You’re not a ‘family man’ when you left us to bang a bunch of women, threatened to kill us, and had us move over 6 times in 6 months running from your violence.”
He continued:
“I don’t care about someone who has a bad past and takes accountability. But how DARE YOU LIE and act as though you’re some ‘moral, Christian, upright man.’ You’ve lived a life of DESTROYING other peoples lives. How dare you.”
In an interview with Fox News, Herschel Walker still denied the abortion allegation against him:
“I never asked anyone to get an abortion. I never paid for an abortion, and it’s a lie. And I’m going to continue to fight.”
The intending candidate suggested that the accusation might be a dishonest attack from opposing political parties.
The Daily Beast reported that a woman, whom it did not identify, said Walker reimbursed her for an abortion after they conceived in 2009.
