ICYMI: Walker’s Lies Continue to Pile Up

GOP Senate candidate Herschel Walker has been getting caught in lie after lie after lie over the past few weeks — and Georgians are reading all about it. 

In case you’re just tuning in:

CNN: GOP Senate candidate Herschel Walker has been overstating his academic achievements for years

• A new report from CNN shows that Herschel Walker has been lying about his personal record and academic success — “repeating the claim for years” that he “graduated in the top 1% of his class at the University of Georgia” when he never actually graduated and falsely declaring he was “valedictorian” of his high school class with no record to prove it.

• For years, Herschel Walker has told the same inspiring story: that he graduated in the top 1% of his class at the University of Georgia. He’s told the story, according to a review of his speeches by CNN’s KFile, during motivational speeches over the years and as recently as 2017. The only problem: it’s not true.

• Walker, who is a candidate in the Republican primary race for US Senate in Georgia, acknowledged in December that he did not graduate from Georgia after the Atlanta-Journal Constitution first reported that the false claim was listed on his campaign website.

• But a CNN KFile review found that Walker himself has been repeating the claim for years. Walker’s comments in 2017, and others made over the years, show the former football star repeatedly misrepresented his academic credentials.

Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Review of Walker’s business record reveals lawsuits from creditors, exaggerated claims

• A report last month from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution revealed Herschel Walker has “exaggerated claims” about his business record and uncovered “a string of defaults, settlements and lawsuits alleging that Walker and his businesses owed millions of dollars in unpaid loans,” a wave of coverage is slamming Walker’s “controversial business record” – saying “the details are quite something” and “difficult to defend.” Georgia business leaders and workers are reacting.

American Independent: Herschel Walker’s misleading statements about his role on presidential fitness council

• Walker “repeatedly exaggerated” and “misled the public” about his role on Presidential Fitness Council. A new report from the American Independent found that Walker “repeatedly exaggerated” and “misled the public” about the scope of his former role on the President’s Council of Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition. Walker once claimed to have “never been offered a position in Washington from President Trump,” despite having been appointed to the council more than two years earlier and “bragg[ing] about it in an interview just weeks before.” He “falsely suggested” he had “75 people in Washington work[ing] for me” when only two to five staff members were actually on payroll. He also pretended that he directed the council to respond to the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests when, in reality, “the council had no formal role in responding.” 

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