>> Former senate candidate and NFL player Herschel Walker might have
broken a pretty significant campaign finance law by taking more than
half a million dollars from a wealthy billionaire donor and
funneling it to his own personal company, which, believe it or not,
even in the United States, is illegal at this current moment.
Might not be soon, I don't know, but
let's give you the details on what happened here.
So Walker received $535,000 in political contributions for
his 2022 senate campaign from his friend, billionaire Dennis Washington,
but the money was later wired to his personal company.
Washington wired the money to Walker, thinking it was a political contribution,
according to emails between Washington staff and Walker's campaign.
But the cash was deposited in an account for HR Talent, and that's
a firm owned by Walker that was never disclosed in his financial statements.
And because the money was sitting in Walker's private company,
it could not be used toward his campaign.
So when Washington staff learned of this, they contacted Walker asking
whether the funds could be sent to a super PAC supporting the then GOP candidate.
Quote, we will need your assistance to get the prior contributions
made to the HR Talent account in March corrected, end quote.
Tim McHugh, executive vice president for
the Washington companies wrote to Walker's campaign in November.
But the money was never moved to Herschel Walker's campaign.
So one more graphic on this reporting for you.
Walker's Federal Election Commission filings show that he never moved
the money, the $535,200 to a super PAC supporting his campaign.
It's possible Walker could have returned the money to Washington, Insider,
which reported the story could not immediately verify if the cash has been
sent back to Washington, or if it still remains in Walker's account.
>> Yeah, so amateur.
The way that you're supposed to do this is you get the money sent to the campaign,
and then you have the campaign use your offices and
your estates, and you pay yourself from the campaign.
Who invented that model?
Donald J Trump.
So as soon as he got donor money into his campaign,
he started renting out his own office at Trump Tower for
four to five times what he was charging in rent earlier.
I mean, there's a thousand crimes you could get Donald Trump for.
They just picked a couple here that they're pursuing, but
that's the more sophisticated way to do this crime.
But Herschel's not very bright.
I mean, Jesus, when Donald Trump's brighter than you?
But Walker is just like, hey,
why don't you just give me the money into my company?
Well, that's brazenly illegal.
But on the other hand, to be fair to Herschel Walker,
are you sure he's going to get prosecuted?
I'm not sure at all.
>> It's funny, because when you said to be fair to Herschel Walker,
I thought you were going to go to maybe an obvious point about,
honestly, Herschel Walker thought that he was literally a police
officer because someone gave him a cop gave him this fake badge.
Okay, so I give you that example to say he's not very bright.
So there could be a possibility that he just had no idea what he was doing.
I think intention does matter.
I don't know what his intention was here.
What I do know is he ended his campaign, I mean he lost,
obviously, but he lost with a ton of money left in his campaign.
So Herschel Walker closed 2022 with $5 million despite losing the bid.
Question to you,
Jank, because I'm not certain what happens to that money after the fact.
Like he can't just use that money for personal purposes, can he?
>> No, you can give it to other candidates, and
so there's a lot you could do with it.
But that's the thing.
Politicians, in this case, especially Republicans,
they're so dirty, they're so immoral.
They almost never use it to help other Republicans because they don't actually
give a damn about the other Republicans, and
they don't care about any of the ideology or the bills that they're trying to pass.
They're not even trying to pass any bills since they're all enormously self
centered.
I don't know what Republicans do.
Some Democrats do actually use it to help other candidates,
especially the ones that they care more.
That's what you're kind of supposed to do with it.
You could keep it for a future campaign, but you cannot use it personally
because they didn't give the money to you, they gave the money to your campaign.
And guys, like I said, there's really so
many different ways that you could funnel it to yourself.
And at that point, if you just put a tiny little fig leaf on it,
we were using my house or a new house that I bought as our offices,
and I paid 4 million for it.
I don't know.
Washington loves corruption.
They're not going to pursue it.
You just need a tiny little excuse.
But Walker couldn't even do that.
And yeah, it's partly because he's not that bright, but it's also partly because
he's so corrupt, he doesn't know he's not supposed to be corrupt.