Herschel Walker threatens to sue over a report he paid a girlfriend to have an abortion
Ruh roh Herschel, now you’re in the shit. After telling the world you’d support a federal abortion ban, it turns out that you paid for your girlfriend to have one. Sen. Mitch McConnell, you better come help your man.
Monday night, The Daily Beast dropped a bomb: Reporter Roger Sollenberger wrote that in 2009, Georgia’s Republican Senate candidate paid a girlfriend to get an abortion—and said girlfriend has the receipts (and a “get well” card) to prove it.
According to the outlet, Walker, who is supposedly a devout pro-life Christian, sent the unnamed woman a check for $700 to cover the cost of her abortion. She provided The Daily Beast with a receipt for $575 from the abortion clinic and a copy of the bank deposit slip for the check Walker sent her. The $125 difference came after the woman said she “ball-parked” the amount for the abortion and included payment for her travel and recovery costs. The check came in a “get well” card, and the woman gave the outlet a photo of the card that included Walker’s signature at the bottom.
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