Trump-endorsed candidate for Senate in Georgia Herschel Walker has been lying about his academic achievements for years.
According to CNN, Walker has been claiming for years that he graduated in the top 1 percent of his class at the University of Georgia, which is not true. Walker did not even graduate and maintained a “B” average while he was at the school playing football.
“And all of sudden I started going to the library, getting books, standing in front of a mirror reading to myself so that Herschel that all the kids said was retarded become valedictorian of his class. Graduated University of Georgia in the top 1% of his class,” Walker said in a 2017 motivational speech.
He also made a similar claim in another interview that same year with Sirius XM radio.
According to CNN, Walker had the false claim on his campaign website until December when he acknowledged to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that he never graduated from the University of Georgia.
Walker also claimed in his 2008 autobiography, “Breaking Free: My Life with Dissociative Identity Disorder,” that he was class valedictorian at Johnson County High School.
“If I’m proud of anything I did in my high school career, it’s what I did in the classroom that I reflect on and relish the most. I did more than just shed the “stupid” label placed on me as a result of my speech impediment. I shed it, erased it, and rewrote it with the titles: Beta Club president and class valedictorian,” Walker wrote.
CNN reviewed his high school yearbooks and coverage of him in local newspapers at the time. They found that he was not given the award for the student with the highest GPA in his graduating class. He won several awards for his football achievements, tied with another student for a leadership award based on participation in clubs and his GPA, and was one of his graduating class honor students, but there was no mention of him being a valedictorian or salutatorian. In fact, the school did not start naming a valedictorian until 1994– fourteen years after Walker graduated.
Walker’s campaign blasted the report in a statement saying: “There is not a single voter in Georgia who believes that whether Herschel graduated at the ‘top of his class’ or as Valedictorian 40 years ago has any bearing on his ability to be a great United States Senator.”
Walker is the current front-runner in the GOP primary race to face Democratic senator Raphael Warnock in November. The seat is a must win for Republicans if they hope to take back the Senate in 2022.
I’d have to give this article a thumbs up Pinocchio but #1.this is typical GOP #2. IT’S, another example of a person drinking the Trump-Aid & throwing away his career & #3. I’m a Steeler fan so.. just another disappointment from the Georgia Peach Pit.