Herschel Walker appears to have been caught in a lie that in particular,
one would think would bother conservative Republicans that believe both politically.
And as a result of their religious beliefs,
that charity is an important thing.
You would think that this would really bother him.
Apparently, he's made claims that his food distribution company donated 15% of
their profits to various charities.
Unfortunately, we can't bring receipts on that, cuz they don't exist.
There's no evidence that, that's actually true.
For years, his company named four specific charities that were beneficiaries of these
donations.
So you've got the Boy Scouts of America, the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
When the New York Times contacted all four of these charities,
one declined to comment, so we can't speak to that one.
The other three said they had no record or
recollection of any gifts from the company in the last decade.
So three different groups over ten different years,
the evidence is just not there.
Now, we've got this one statement from
Jim Baugh who is the founder of the now-defunct charity.
It's PE4Life Foundation who says, Herschel has been supportive verbally.
I don't think he's given us any money.
As late as 2017, one of Mr walker's companies cited that foundation as
a recipient of corporate donations.
That's just five years ago, but Mr.
Baugh said his foundation ceased operations in 2014.
So not only were the donations not given, but they couldn't be given,
cuz the charity hadn't existed for a full year at that point.
Now really importantly, at the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, o fficials
said they had received gifts from Mr. Walker, but not in the last decade.
The group's records showed that Mr. Walker had donated $860 in 2005 and
Renaissance Man Food Services gave another $1,000 the next year.
At the time, Mr.
Walker was leading a bike team that raised money from a broader pool of donors.
And all the society said, Walker helped raise almost $40,000 across 2005 and
2006 which at least is some money, but the group could find only one
donation since then that might have come from Mr. Walker's company.
It was $25 in 2009, at least that charity did exist
when it might have gotten $25 from Herschel Walker.
So credit to him for the charity that he did once due back in 2005 and
2006, and maybe 25 bucks in 2009.
But in terms of using it as like I've been charitable recently,
now what have you done for these charities in the last decade?
Here it is, I'm feeling the Janet Jackson moment.
What have you done for me lately?
[LAUGH] Walker walked into this.
I mean, he really did.
There was no reason this controversy along with all the other controversy
that's surrounding this campaign didn't have to happen if he had not decided
he wanted to lie or are we using the word exaggerate where I come from,
he just flat out lying and there was no need to do this.
But he decided to do it, anyway.
And in my last point, I mean, he's following the footsteps of Mr.
Trump who has lied and
exaggerated about a whole bunch of stuff he has given charity to or he has done.
So this is par for the course for members of the GOP, unfortunately.
No, Nina is 100% right, because this is the exact Trump playbook.
Lie about everything and then pretend you're a really wonderful person who does
all these things like giving to charities, and then use that.
But by the way, Herschel,
as far as we know hasn't done the last step that Trump did.
You're never gonna out bottom of the barrel Trump, right?
Trump would then turn around and take people's money from the charity and
then not give it to charity itself.
Among the things that Trump bought with the money donated to
his charity was giant pictures of himself.
These are the worst people on Earth, okay?
So look, Herschel Walker is a pathological liar.
I mean, he said so many insane lines.
But I give you another one, it's just it's amazing.
He said that he finished in the top 1% of his class at the University of Georgia.
He didn't graduate.
He wasn't anywhere near the top 1%.
Well, the fact that he didn't graduate from college.
And not only that, guys.
We all know that, cuz he was a really, really famous football player.
We know he left in his junior year.
All you have to do is ask University of Georgia when he's running for senate.
And then like of course, no, he didn't graduate.
No, he wasn't anywhere near the top 1%.
But that's what I mean by pathological, it's clinical.
They have a mental problem.
They can not stop lying.
But to be fair, cuz we're always fair.
John, you didn't mention $115,000 and charity and Herschel Walker, I'll do that.
Since just this march, charities have given Herschel Walker
$115,000 for speaking engagements.
So he's siphoning money from the charities on a regular basis.
He charged one charity $35,000 to go speak, I think in a nursing home or
something.
Give me the elderly's money, I wanted.
And then the only thing they could find of him doing Chinese like three checks,
one of which was $25 from a decade ago.
But Nina and John, the bottom line and all this is why do these
Republican candidates lie in such outrageous ways?
Because the Republican voters want that, they wanna be lied to.
They don't want an honest politician who tells them, yeah,
we're working for the rich.
You guys are the saps, the suckers and we get you guys all riled up and
then we take your money and we give it to the billionaires, you idiots.
I mean, that wouldn't play well, right?
By the way, you're not superior to black people or Latinos or anyone else.
You're not superior to women.
You're not superior to anyone at best.
You're equal, right?
We're supposed to be equal in America, they hate that.
They don't wanna hear that.
They want to hear pretty little lies about how special they are and
how they're always victims.
We're the victims.
My God.
And so that's why Trump and Herschel Walker give them the lies that they want.
Yeah, give the people what they want is very unfortunate,
because people like Walker and the majority of the GOP, the Trump GOP.
I mean, the constituents that Walker wants to represent and
who Trump did represent their suffering in this country just like anybody else.
They're part of the working class.
None of those policies help to boost the working class in this country and
that is including trump fights.
And so the fact that they would sacrifice their own self-interest for
a damn illusion, just really boggles my mind.
I understand.
Yeah, and again, I guess we shouldn't be surprised for a couple of reasons.
One, that we are so used to this.
But two, that the expectation that people would not blatantly lie.
I think it's founded in the idea that there are consequences for.
We don't personally go around in our lives constantly lying.
Because we assume that if we did, bad things would happen.
People wouldn't trust us, but what if you started to?
What if you started to routinely lie to literally everyone around you and
not only did nothing bad happen, but it helped you?
People started handing you money.
People liked you more, you'd probably lie more.
Again, like we always say, it all comes down to incentives.
The base just doesn't care.
They're not interested.
Like this might be new,
the idea that he apparently has lied about all this charity or whatever.
So maybe we can't be surprised that people there in that state don't know about it,
but the lies about working in law enforcement, that's been out for a while.
The idea that he finished number one in the top 1% when he literally
didn't even finish, that's not new and they just don't care.
I'll throw out another one.
There is now I think a a plausible story line that he has routinely over the past
two years, I've been telling an anecdote about an interaction he had with a former
member of the KKK that is literally stolen from late representative John Lewis.
It was the thing that happened to John Lewis,
Herschel Walker seems to be saying it happened to him.
Now maybe a very similar thing happened to both of them that's possible, but
who cares what's the difference?
Honestly, I should start telling that story.
Former KKK members came up to me, I was at Ralph's.
I was picking up some frozen pizzas that came up to me and
they apologized to me for being racist.
What's the difference?
You can just lie and there's no consequences anymore.
It's like a 2.5 point race in the last polls that I've seen.
He is not only one of the most uniquely unqualified people to hold literally any
position you could come up with, but he is actively lying about some of the most
preposterous things I've ever heard and it's within the margin of error.
I guess he figures if Marjorie Taylor Greene can do it, he can do it too.
Yeah.
Yeah, and look, guys, as we've said many times that there are no refs.
So that's why they lie with impunity.
That's why there are no consequences as John explained.
Because the mainstream media,
there's a good story by the New York Times is credit where credit is due, but
then are they gonna say every time, Herschel Walker is a proven liar.
Because it's relevant, right?
And I mean, their lives are so outrageous, so over the top, so absurd, right?
Yeah.
But no, and guys, in this case, it's actually not the cable news guys and
the major papers like New York Times is the most guilty.
It's local news, local radio that just this top of the hour.
Herschel Walker, Republican candidate, blah, blah, blah.
They never, ever, ever say that he's a goddamn liar, right?
So that makes it seem like it's 50, 50.
I bet you tons of people in Georgia have no idea that
Herschel Walker is a pathological liar.
No idea, cuz local news never says it.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, we're in Georgia would offend Republican feelings.
Let us not do factual correctness, political correctness.
And by the way, the icing on this cake is,
the other thing that republican voters love is fake morality.
Their whole lives is fake morality.
We are moral, because we ain't gay people.
Are you moral, cuz that doesn't sound moral, right?
So when Herschel Walker says and Donald Trump said, they both said the same thing.
I have given to charity and you find out they haven't.
A lot of right wingers are probably like well-played, I love that big morality.
Unnecessary live, too.
I mean, just bear with me.
I just can't get usually people live the same, they're behind.
There's some purpose behind a lot, but this lie was so unnecessary.
I just don't understand.
I mean, the man, yeah, just unnecessary.
100%.
Set this trap for himself, but maybe it's not a trap drink and
John were laying out that.
He's not going to be trapped,
because his voters don't care whether he's lying or not.
Most of them.
You can't help, I know we got to go.
But Nina, so in your race, you had said that you'd given like millions
of dollars to charity and then they found out that you hadn't.
What would the press have done to?
They would have raked me over the coals, left me for dead.
My carcass will still be sprawled out.
And to be fair to the establishment Democrats that we often fight
as progressives,
I don't think there's a single emocrat that can survive this story.
This story comes out about how they lied about giving to charity and
there incredibly immoral, indecent people,
they're gone their careers instantly over, okay?
Yeah.
Republicans, it's Tuesday.
We just come come to well, of course, Republicans are liars.
Don't tell the viewers and the audience and the voters that no,
that's just we assume it in media.
But we're not gonna let you guys know we're gonna call it 50, 50.
Yeah, and the final thing I'll say is you said he's never gonna out crazy Trump
which in terms of his lies.
Mostly, I think is true, but
Trump has said that he could shoot someone on 5th Avenue and get away with it.
Herschel Walker has told us about going to murder people and being stopped,
only because of Jesus.
His exes have told us about him holding guns to their head.
Once you as a voting base has accepted that and said, still gonna vote for
him, little bit of lie about a charity or a law enforcement or
how many kids you have or China stealing our good air or whatever.
How is that stuff possibly gonna sway you at that point?
Honestly, and people think it's over the top, but are you sure?
So Herschel Walker has threatened to kill two different ex partners,
right, like girlfriends, wives etc.
They've said that and Republican voters don't care at all.
So are you sure they would care if he had actually pulled the trigger?
Are you positive?