Herschel Walker Doubles Down on Cop Badge: 'It's Real'

[JoeOtterbein]

Source: Daily Beast

U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker has defiantly claimed again that the cop badge he pulled out at Friday’s debate is real and that he has been “working with law enforcement for years” including training, leadership, and health and wellness programs.

After copping heat online for the stunt, where he was criticized for producing a prop during the debate, the Georgia Republican sat down with NBC News’ Kristen Welker for an interview airing in part Monday on Today. In it, he says he has an “honorary sheriff badge” for Chatham County, Johnson County, and Cobb County with “limited rights.”

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“That’s a badge that I was given by a police officer, and I do have the badge I carry with me all the time. It’s a real badge. It’s not a fake badge. It is a real badge,” Walker says in the interview in a transcript obtained by The Daily Beast.

Questions surrounding the former NFL star’s alleged work with law enforcement have plagued his Senate campaign, including a June article in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that indicates there is no real evidence to prove Walker’s longtime claims that he has worked alongside the FBI or police.

Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/herschel-walker-doubles-down-on-cop-badge-he-produced-during-georgia-debate-says-its-real?ref=home

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[Deuxcents]

1. He's not qualified for the Senate

As a football player, he’s trained to do what he’s told, when he’s told n that’s why the GOP wants this man as he will do what they want, when they want. Pathetic.

[Irish_Dem]

24. Yes he appears mentally ill and intellectually disabled.

He should be referred for medication and psychiatric day treatment.

[TomSlick]

38. That seems clear.

It doesn't speak well of the people in Georgia that he is polling as well as he is.

[Irish_Dem]

39. Yes what does it say about American voters?

A man so obviously intellectually and mentally impaired.
With an obvious lack of a moral compass.

This man has a good chance of holding high office.

Putin/GOP want democracy to look foolish and weak.
To justify installing a white, christian minority rule.

And Americans are making it easy.

[TomSlick]

41. This election is limited to Georgia votes. The result is on them.

I won't be able to blame the folks in Georgia when Sarah Huckabee Sanders is the next Governor of Arkansas. That will be on the majority of the people in Arkansas.

I have some hope for the Georgia election. The current polls put Sanders up by 11 points over the Democrat, Chris Jones (PhD Morehouse College). It will be a long time before a majority in Arkansas forgives the Democratic party for putting an African American in the White House.

[Irish_Dem]

42. Yes but there are other states electing ignorant buffoons.

Who have no idea what leadership means, and just pull one ridiculous stunt after another.
People who commit crimes, are doing drugs, etc.

A big chunk of Americans love Trump, the more crimes he commits the more they like him.

It is certainly not just a GA problem.

It is an American problem.

[Irish_Dem]

40. Some of Walker's press interviews read like interviews with seriously ill psych patients.

Families bring in this kind of patient for evaluation and treatment.

[Thomas Hurt]

2. yeah, they gave you a badge just like the real deputies...

but you aren't a LEO. You never went to the police academy and you aren't a service member who took up the gig.

The christofascists swear up and down that he has been counseling the sheriff's office on mental health issues.

I have no idea what that means. He makes appearances and shakes hands. Reminds everyone to call the help lines. What?

Didn't know that being a career pro sports figure gives you any great wisdom or education in mental health expertise.

AFAIK he never put on a uniform and worked a shift and got paid by the county.

[sop]

27. A man with serious mental problems is "counseling the sheriff's office on mental health issues"?

Small wonder cops have so many mental health issues themselves.

[Hassler]

3. He's a fake cop, or another good reason for MAGAts to vote for him.

[Mz Pip]

4. It's real

Like any participation trophy is real.

[sop]

28. Remember when "participation trophies" were the latest rightwing culture war battleground?

[area51]

47. +1 n/t

[LetMyPeopleVote]

5. Cobb County Police Department has no knowledge of ever working with Walker or giving him an 'honorar

There are no records of Walker ever working for the Cobb County Sheriff's office

Link to tweet

[Lucinda]

7. ❤️ ✿❧🌿❧✿ ❤️

[LetMyPeopleVote]

6. Turns out the "Special Deputy" ID cardc was given out by the Sheriff to campaign contributors

Link to tweet

?s=20&t=H7Qby_uP6MTh7I3JHAjjsA

[Lucinda]

8. Thank you for the info!

[DemocraticPatriot]

9. I carry a condom with me at all times....

That doesn't make me an officer with the 'safe sex police'...

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

12. I carry an honorary condom with me at all times.

That doesn't qualify me to be a porn star.

[DemocraticPatriot]

48. HA! Touche

[truthisfreedom]

10. If he received an honorary degree

He'd claim he was an astrophysicist.

[SergeStorms]

36. Well, he was Valedictorian of his class.....

when he graduated from the University of Georgia.

Neither of those claims are true, but he stated that they were.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

11. As Herschel Walker's GOP profile rises, the falsehoods mount

Walker admits that it is an honorary badge in this interview

Link to tweet

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/06/14/herschel-walker-false-claims-senate-georgia/

In reality, he had not. A spokesman for the Cobb County Police Department told the Journal-Constitution, and later confirmed to The Washington Post, that it has no record of working with Walker. A campaign spokeswoman told the Atlanta newspaper that Walker had led “women’s self-defense training, participating in the FBI Academy at Quantico” and also held the title of “honorary deputy” in Cobb County.

The title of “honorary deputy” holds no power at all and is seen as a “political token” for people supportive of the sheriff who might want to get out of a traffic ticket, former DeKalb County district attorney J. Tom Morgan told The Post. Morgan is a Democrat.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

14. "I have an honorary sheriff badge for that county with limited rights."

Link to tweet

[ShazzieB]

19. He really does NOT get it.

He doesn't understand what an "honorary" badge is and isn't, he clearly doesn't understand the concept at all. How pathetic.

I need to send some more money to Warnock. Walker MUST NOT be allowed to win. If (gods forbid), he did win, who the heck is going to do his job? He's certainly not capable of it.

I guess the Repubs don't care as long as he puts in an appearance whenever there's a vote (and there will probably be people assigned to make sure he does). What a freaking farce.

[Ford_Prefect]

29. The joke about Gerald Ford ran: "He's a nice guy but he played too much football with

his helmet off.”

Walker seems like that joke come to life, well maybe minus the nice guy part (guns, threats, and like that).

W had the Dim Son act down cold. You knew wasn't quite in the room, or at least that's where he seemed to be.

It seems to me that Walker is not here, or there much of the time.

[Mawspam2]

13. When I was a boy (1971ish), a pilot gave me a set of wings...

...with a "tour" of the cockpit on a flight to Denver. It was a United Boeing 727 with three passengers on board, me, my sister, and some other man.

Those wings made me an "honorary" pilot. Today, with those wings, I can fly any plane I want.

[Blue Owl]

15. Oh it's real -- Real lame....

[ShazzieB]

17. Did anyone happen to notice...

...that Walker tried to argue with the moderator that the badge wasn't a "prop"?

It would have been easy to miss, because he was talking over her and she was trying to rein him in, with the result that their voices were overlapping and drowning each other out. But I'm sure I heard him say "It's not a prop!"

I remember thinking, "Good god, that nimrod doesn't even understand what the word means."

The whole thing was cringeworthy. And his continuing to bring it up is even more cringeworthy. His best bet would have been to never mention it again and hope people would forget about it, but instead that chucklehead keeps making sure nobody has a chance to forget!

[JohnnyRingo]

16. What an asshole.

I could go on, but I think that sums it up nicely.

[DJ Porkchop]

18. My son is also a sheriff.

[CTyankee]

45. So does my son. He's an ADA with the Brooklyn DA's office. It's pretty impressive!

[Aussie105]

20. Walker says: Oh come on, folks!

I'm trying to impress people here, flashing that badge! Trying to show I'm, like, important!
Please play along!

Reporter and everyone else: Not_gonna_happen, dude!

[no_hypocrisy]

21. Unless you're sworn and you have the legal right to make arrests,

and go to court to get your suspect convicted, then it's not real.

[Aussie105]

22. It's a real badge, alright.

Just not a serious adult one, like those the real cops have.

Your one is for kids, Mr Walker. Like a participation medal for school sports day.

[Irish_Dem]

23. This man is mentally ill and intellectually disabled.

The GOP running him for high office makes the US look foolish and ridiculous.

The interview looks like a psychiatric evaluation of someone referred for care.

[padah513]

25. Even when the moderator was telling him it was a prop

It was like talking to an adolescent

[keithbvadu2]

26. It would be nice to see a closeup of that badge.

[twodogsbarking]

30. He reminds me of the orange toadie guy.

[Chainfire]

31. I wonder if impersonating a law enforcement officer is a crime in Ga?

He probably believes that he is a "real" policeman.

[zanana1]

32. He sounds like such an idiot.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

33. Denial is not just a river in Africa

Link to tweet

[BlueIdaho]

34. It maybe a real badge

But that doesn’t make him a real cop. Just because some star struck flat foot handed him a badge doesn’t mean it has real powers. It’s a prop - no more no less.

[LudwigPastorius]

35. Herschel also has a horsie.

It's real as fuck.

[LiberalFighter]

37. Probably doesn't know how to read.

Has anyone examined the "badge"?

If he has a fake badge. He could be arrested for posing illegally as an officer.

If he has an honorary badge. He could be arrested for posing illegally as an officer.

[BillyBobBrilliant]

43. Just as real

As my $200 Rolex.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

44. Well it is apparently made up of matter and exists in the corporeal plane

Other than that

[Arminio]

46. It's real fake

Fair enough.

[Hekate]

49. Val Demings hilariously trolled Walker.....

Link to tweet

/photo/1

[JoeOtterbein]

51. Just two words:

Love it!

[larrymoeT]

53. lol

she’s good.

[riversedge]

54. Love it. Good for her.

[mahina]

50. lol, "copping heat"

He he he

Sure Herschel, it's real. That's the ticket.

Poor thing.

[Aussie105]

52. Herschel Walker scratches his head and thinks . . .

What am I doing wrong?
The bluff and bluster works for others, alternate reality is a real thing, right?
It's worked for Trump and that bloke in Florida.

What is wrong? Oh, I know!
I'm not white!
That's it isn't it?
It's a racist thing!
I'm just going to double down, and if you don't go along, I'm going to call you all racist!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

55. He found it in his box of Nutty Clusters

[Polybius]

56. How is this race within 3 points?

Would a sane Republican with no baggage be ahead?