Walker’s Bad Week: New Reports Detail Pattern of Health Scams, Failed Businesses and Investigation into Potential Conflicts of Interest Heading to Department of Justice

U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker was once again in the headlines for all the wrong reasons this week. Three new reports added to the candidate’s laundry list of falsehoods, exaggerations, and failed businesses that have been piling up for months.

• An investigation revealed Walker has “spent years promoting health products with dubious claims” that were “not supported by medical evidence generally accepted by the medical community.” The new report from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution notes that “the products were commercial failures, cost Walker and his business partners millions of dollars and put his companies into deep debt, for which creditors have repeatedly sued Walker and his associates to recover.”
  • Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Herschel Walker spent years promoting health products with dubious claims
  • Daily Beast: Herschel Walker’s Failed Company Hawked Health Products He Knew Were Bogus
  • MSNBC: The unexpected thing Herschel Walker has in common with Dr. Oz
  • Daily Kos: Herschel Walker didn’t just hawk COVID-19 spray; he’s spent decades touting unproven health products

• Walker was caught on tape bragging about being unvaccinated after promoting a bogus mist to “kill any COVID on your body.” The new audio released by the AJC comes after Walker previously pushed a bogus “snake oil body spray for COVID” to his followers, swearing by this “EPA-, FDA-approved,” “dry mist” product that — “as you walk through the door” — would “kill any COVID on your body.” 

• Atlanta Journal-Constitution: “[Walker] wouldn’t get the coronavirus vaccine” 

• ​​End Citizens United is “asking the Department of Justice to investigate whether Trump-backed Senate candidate Herschel Walker broke federal law by failing to properly file his personal financial disclosures.” Georgia Public Broadcasting reports  that the DOJ was asked to investigate after “campaign finance and government ethics experts who reviewed Walker’s disclosures earlier this month said the lack of required information could prevent voters from understanding potential conflicts of interests if he becomes a U.S. senator.” A previous GPB News report raised “red flags” about potential “conflicts of interests” in Herschel Walker’s personal financial disclosure, which is “missing key information” and contains major “inconsistencies.” 

• Georgia Public Broadcasting: Democratic group asks for DOJ investigation into Herschel Walker’s financial disclosure forms

• Georgia Public Broadcasting: Ethics experts say Herschel Walker’s U.S. Senate financial disclosure bears further scrutiny

It’s just the latest in a long pattern of widely-reported falsehoods, exaggerations, and scams from Walker on everything from his businesses to his academic record. The Daily Beast recently released a bombshell report exposing his “previously unexamined, and particularly egregious, false claims” — including proof that Walker “claims to own companies that don’t exist.”

Read all about Walker’s long pattern of lies, exaggerations, and scams here.

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