A second woman accused Georgia Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker of pressuring her to get an abortion after she became pregnant during their relationship.
The unnamed woman’s allegation, revealed at a press conference Wednesday afternoon scheduled by attorney Gloria Allred, got here weeks after a distinct anonymous woman said Walker had paid for an abortion in 2009 and pressured her to get a second one two years later.
Walker, who’s running for Senate on an anti-abortion platform, has denied the sooner woman’s allegations, which were reported by The Day by day Beast and The Latest York Times.
Walker denied the most recent allegation at a campaign event earlier Wednesday. “I’m done with this foolishness. I’ve already told people it is a lie and I’m not going to entertain, proceed to hold a lie along,” Walker said at an event in Georgia.
“I didn’t kill JFK, either,” he added. “The Democrats are doing whatever they’ll to win this seat.”
The lady alleges that she had a romantic and intimate relationship with Walker within the Nineteen Eighties and Nineteen Nineties. She alleges that after she became pregnant in 1993, Walker drove her to a clinic in Dallas, Texas, to have an abortion — someday after she backed out of getting the procedure on her own.
Amongst other exhibits, Allred cited alleged love letters that Walker had sent the lady, and a 1992 voicemail that he had left for her, as evidence of their relationship. Nevertheless, Allred didn’t show any documentation that corroborated the abortion allegation.
Walker’s accuser, without revealing her identity, read a press release calling him “a hypocrite” who “is not fit to be a U.S. senator.”
“Mr. Walker said he’s against women having abortions. but he pressured me to have one,” the lady said.
“We do not need people within the U.S. Senate who profess one thing and do one other,” she said.
The press conference in Los Angeles got here than two weeks before the Nov. 8 midterm elections, when Walker hopes to unseat Georgia’s incumbent Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock. Polling averages show Walker and Warnock locked in a decent race in Georgia, a key swing state that would ultimately resolve which party holds majority control of the Senate.
President Joe Biden narrowly won the Peach State over former President Donald Trump in 2020, and Democrats won each of the state’s Senate races within the election, giving the party a razor-thin majority within the upper chamber of Congress.
Walker has expressed support for banning abortion without exceptions, and said he has “at all times been for all times” in a recent interview.
“We all know Herschel Walker has an issue with the reality, an issue answering questions, and an issue taking responsibility for his actions,” Warnock campaign spokeswoman Rachel Petri said in a press release. “Today’s recent report is just the most recent example of a troubling pattern we now have seen play out many times and again. Herschel Walker should not be representing Georgians within the U.S. Senate.”
The lady said she met Walker within the Nineteen Eighties, during his pro football profession.
Their romantic relationship began in 1987, while Walker was playing for the Dallas Cowboys and was married to his then-wife, Cindy DeAngelis Grossman. The lady believed Walker when he said he intended to depart his wife for her, Allred noted.
The attorney also read the contents of diverse cards and love notes that Walker had allegedly sent the lady. “You’re very special and I do love you,” one read. “I love you greater than anything on the earth,” Walker allegedly wrote in one other message.
A few of those messages were signed with an “H,” Allred said, noting that Walker had previously solid doubt on one other accuser’s allegations against him by claiming he never signed letters that way.
She also cited a receipt from a hotel in Minnesota where the lady had stayed with Walker in 1990 after he was traded to the Minnesota Vikings. And he or she played audio from a 1992 voicemail that Walker allegedly left for the lady while he was competing on the U.S. bobsleigh team within the Winter Olympics in France.
When the lady became unexpectedly pregnant in April 1993, Walker “clearly” wanted her to get an abortion and gave her money to get the procedure done at a clinic in Dallas — but the lady became overwhelmed and didn’t undergo with it, Allred said.
Walker was upset, his accuser said. The next day, he drove her to an abortion clinic and waited within the car parking zone for hours until the procedure was complete.
The connection began to deteriorate soon after. “I used to be devastated because I felt I had been pressured into having an abortion. After the abortion, I felt Herschel began distancing himself from me,” the lady said.
The lady noted in her statement that she is a registered independent who had voted for former President Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020.
“It’s sad that I cannot show my face or reveal my name for fear of reprisals” the lady said.
The primary woman to come back forward saying she aborted a pregnancy with Walker, who has not been publicly identified, told news outlets that he paid for the termination after she got pregnant while they were dating in 2009.
When she became pregnant again two years later, the lady said Walker again urged her to finish her pregnancy, but she refused. The connection led to September 2011, and the lady’s son was born the next May, the Times reported, citing a paternity suit. The lady told the newspaper that Walker has barely been involved within the lifetime of their now 10-year-old son.
On the campaign trail, Walker confirmed having more children than the one adult son, Christian Walker, whom he has previously publicly acknowledged.
After The Day by day Beast first published the lady’s allegation that Walker paid for her abortion, Christian Walker tore into his father on social media, accusing his father of being violent, neglectful and unfaithful to his family.
Walker, a former football star, has denied paying for the primary woman’s abortion or pushing her to terminate the pregnancy, calling it a lie. The lady had supplied The Day by day Beast and other outlets with images of a receipt from an abortion clinic and a $700 check along with his name on it.
When asked about those documents by NBC News, Walker confirmed that the check was his but said he didn’t know what the cash was for.
