Herschel Walker has a problem with the truth — and with Georgia voters who don’t trust him. New reporting from Axios Atlanta highlighted a recent focus group of swing voters who said they don’t feel “comfortable trusting Walker at all” and “would never feel good about voting for somebody like that.”
From falsehoods about his academic achievements and business success, to flat-out lies about working in law enforcement, donating to charities, and being involved in a program that preyed on veterans that he claimed to be a charity, Walker has proven time and time again that Georgians can’t trust him and that he does not have the competence or character needed to represent Georgia in the U.S. Senate.
Even Walker’s own staff has said he’s a “pathological liar,” who lies “like he’s breathing.”
Catch up quickly on Walker’s laundry list of lies that are turning off Georgia swing voters heading into the December 6th runoff:
- Herschel Walker claimed to own companies that don’t even exist — or why he said his company had 800 employees when in reality, loan documents revealed it had just eight employees.
- Herschel Walker repeatedly lied about working in law enforcement and being an FBI agent — while he continues to show off a laminated “Special Deputy Sheriff Badge” to bolster his fake law enforcement ties.
- Herschel Walker not only lied about having a “military career” that never existed — Walker also lied about founding a charity for veterans, when in reality, he made $331,000 in 2021 alone serving as a spokesperson for a private hospital chain’s for-profit program that “preyed upon veterans and service members while defrauding the government.”
- Herschel Walker lied about donating “millions of dollars to charities,” after an investigation found that “there is scant evidence that Mr. Walker’s giving matched those promises.”
- Walker can’t back up his false claims to have “supervise[d] six hospitals around the United States” — since that’s completely fabricated.
- Herschel Walker lied about his academic record — falsely claiming to be in the top 1% of his college graduating class, despite never graduating, and falsely claiming to have been the valedictorian of his high school.