Herschel Walker claimed to be in law enforcement when he wasn't.

[Nevilledog]

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Matt Holt
@mattholt33
Herschel Walker said he was an FBI agent in 2019 (he wasn't) and said he worked with the Cobb County Police Department (the campaign said he was an honorary deputy, but the CCPD couldn't immediately say if he was or not)

ajc.com
The Jolt: Herschel Walker claimed to be in law enforcement when he wasn’t.
U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker regularly praises police officers. But was Walker in law enforcement himself?
4:28 AM · Jun 13, 2022

https://www.ajc.com/politics/politics-blog/the-jolt-herschel-walker-claimed-to-be-in-law-enforcement-when-he-wasnt/R3JJJGEAEBCMFIXMVOFHYI4HJY/

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U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker regularly praises police officers. But was Walker in law enforcement himself?

In at least three speeches delivered before he entered politics, Walker claimed he was, the AJC’s Shannon McCaffrey reports.

“I worked in law enforcement, so I had a gun. I put this gun in my holster and I said, ‘I’m gonna kill this dude,’” Walker said at a 2013 suicide prevention event for the U.S. Army. (Walker was describing a 2001 incident when he took his gun to pursue a man who was late delivering a car. That incident, Walker said, led him to seek mental health treatment.)

In a 2017 speech, Walker got more specific. “I work with the Cobb County Police Department, and I’ve been in criminal justice all my life,” he said.

Later, in 2019, he said he was an FBI agent. “I spent time at Quantico at the FBI training school. Y’all didn’t know I was an agent?” he said at a speech to soldiers at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington.

And he also once told Irving, Tex. police he was “a certified peace officer,” according to a 2000 police report involving a conflict with an intoxicated man.

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[Demovictory9]

1. Did he attend the Trump.college of lying?

[TreasonousBastard]

3. No, but he didn't have to.

[sop]

5. He graduated from Trump University.

Edit: Herschel didn't actually graduate.

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. Telling the truth if you are a con no longer matters, at all.

Will all cons vote for him?

Of course.

[Nevilledog]

10. Twitter is having fun with this...

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Smite⚡️
@7Veritas4
Herschel Walker’s biography is a Choose your Adventure book.
5:48 PM · Jun 13, 2022

[marmar]

4. He's a tool, but not a sharp one.

[allegorical oracle]

6. Always admired him...now thinking he was sacked one too many times...needs help. nt

[LiberalFighter]

11. Or not enough?

[JI7]

7. Does that mean the 5 year old kids that are made police man and firefighters

for a day can claim that on their resume when they get older and look for jobs ?

[Nevilledog]

8. Wait til the little kids who get wings from pilots tell everyone they can fly.

[cloudbase]

9. He'd be on academic probation at barber college. n/t

[Nevilledog]

13. ...

v

[crickets]

12. A man who just makes up his achievements and does not live in the real world

is not capable. This, on top of the fact he cannot express himself verbally and has a bit of a violence problem. His candidacy vacillates between sad and frightening. This man needs therapy, not a political career.

[rpannier]

14. Herschel Walker FBI Agent

If Steven Seagal can claim to be a CIA Agent and trainer, why not Herschel Walker FBI guy
At least in Chuck Norris' case he realizes that Walker Texas Ranger was a TV character