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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHerschel Walker Says He's a Model Dad. He Has a Secret Son.
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For years, former football star turned Republican senatorial candidate Herschel Walker has expressed an enormous pride and love for his adult son, while taking a principled stand against fatherless households and deadbeat dadsspecifically in the Black community.
And I want to apologize to the African-American community, because the fatherless home is a major, major problem, Walker said in a September 2020 interview, adding that he had been like a father to some of those kids that had never had fathers.
The month before, Walkerwho co-parented his 22-year-old son, Christian with both his ex-wife and current wifetold right-wing internet personalities Diamond and Silk that if you have a child with a woman, even if you have to leave that woman you dont leave the child.
What Walker hasnt publicly acknowledged is that he has a second son, who has apparently been estranged from his biological father since his birth a decade ago.
The son, whose name The Daily Beast is withholding out of privacy concerns, has grown up more than 1,500 miles from Walkers Texas home. And the mother, whose name we are also withholding for privacy reasons, had to take Walker to court a year after giving birth in order to secure a declaration of paternity and child support.
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Herschel Walker Says He's a Model Dad. He Has a Secret Son. (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Jun 2022
OP
A joke about the football player catching a baby from a burning building & spiking it comes to mind.
TheBlackAdder
Jun 2022
#9
underpants
(182,788 posts)1. He didn't think this would get out?
He probably doesnt care anyway.
TheBlackAdder
(28,189 posts)10. Daddy wasn't there. Daddy doesn't care.
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onecaliberal
(32,852 posts)2. Totally normal, except for the assaulting women he dates part.
Demovictory9
(32,453 posts)3. The son he claims says such ignorant stuff
Nevilledog
(51,092 posts)4. That's the son he claims. This is a different one.
Demovictory9
(32,453 posts)12. I know
MerryBlooms
(11,769 posts)5. Uh oh, is this slut shaming?
It might be, according to Boebert's staff. 🤔
Blue Owl
(50,355 posts)6. K&R for exposure
keithbvadu2
(36,787 posts)7. Put him in an ad for republican family values. - Herschel Walker
Last edited Wed Jun 15, 2022, 12:03 AM - Edit history (1)
jcgoldie
(11,631 posts)8. plus he was an escort with 2 abortions...
Wait maybe I'm mixing up my GOP intellectuals...
TheBlackAdder
(28,189 posts)9. A joke about the football player catching a baby from a burning building & spiking it comes to mind.
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keithbvadu2
(36,787 posts)11. A politician's child... Comparable to Eric, Donnie Jr., or Ivanka?
A politician's child... Comparable to Eric, Donnie Jr., or Ivanka?
Lovie777
(12,257 posts)13. In the eyes of the GQP . . .
he is.