Where did all go wrong, Herschel?
Another person who probably wishes he'd never met Donald Trump.
Let me get this out of the way first: there’s still a chance Herschel Walker could win the Georgia Senate runoff this evening. The state is trending purple, but it’s still Georgia. And the fact that it won’t affect control of the Senate is a double-edged sword for Raphael Warnock: Republicans might stay home out of disappointment, but his own supporters might stay home out of overconfidence. The fact is, nobody knows anything.
I’m probably tempting fate by writing Walker’s political obituary early, kind of like that betting shop which paid out to people who bet on Hillary Clinton winning the 2016 Presidential election. But YOLO.
Even if he does pull out a narrow victory, he’s still stuck in the Senate minority, and his dirty laundry - long whispered-about in Georgia, but not well known outside of SEC territory - has been exposed for everyone.
Five women who were previously romantically involved with the former football star have come forward to accuse him of deeply troubling violent behavior, rampant infidelity, and serial dishonesty — and one woman spoke on the record.
Walker’s campaign challenging incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) has been plagued by seemingly constant scandals and gaffes, from reports that the staunchly pro-life candidate had encouraged girlfriends to get abortions, multiple “secret children” whom Walker allegedly hid from his own campaign staff, vociferous denunciations on social media by his son Christian Walker, a highly-ridiculed attempt to present a prop police badge as a legitimate law enforcement credential, a bizarre monologue about vampires vs. werewolves — not to mention Walker’s habit of rambling word salad commentary and a Freudian slip on Fox News.
Out of that maelstrom of mayhem, perhaps the most troubling allegations were found in an attack ad released in August featuring a video of Walker’s ex-wife accusing him of holding a gun to her head and threatening to “blow [her] brains out.” At the time, Walker had claimed he was “glad” the ad had aired, saying it gave him the “opportunity to end the stigma around mental health,” and presenting himself as someone who had sought treatment and successfully been rehabilitated.
The picture painted in the latest article by Roger Sollenberger at The Daily Beast directly refutes Walker’s claims of recovery and redemption. As Sollenberger wrote on Twitter about his 4,500 word report, Walker’s ex-girlfriend Cheryl Parsa is “using her real name to speak at length about her years of experience battling his dissociative identity disorder.” Parsa, along with four other Walker exes, “all warn about a man they call unstable.”
Sollenberger wrote that Parsa, who lives in Dallas, “described an intimate and tumultuous five-year relationship with Walker in the 2000s, beginning shortly after his divorce and continuing for a year after the publication of his 2008 memoir about his struggle with dissociative identity disorder (DID), once known as multiple personality disorder.”
She described Walker as “a pathological liar” and someone who “knows how to manipulate his disease, in order to manipulate people, while at times being simultaneously completely out of control,” accusing him of using his mental health issues as an “alibi” to “justify lying, cheating, and ultimately destroying families.”
If Walker is capable of embarrassment, he must be asking himself if it was worth it.
And I bet he definitely wishes, in retrospect, he picked the established NFL instead of the upstart football league which introduced him to the man who destroyed it:
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