Herschel Walker has ordered 1,000 imitating police badges for a fundraiser. He plans to distribute them as a gesture of support for law enforcement.
According to NBC NewsThe plastic badges are designed to say “I’m with Herschel,” for the Republican Senate candidate’s campaign for the Georgia seat. The campaign hopes to distribute them at Thursday’s Macon, Georgia, crime-themed fundraiser.
Walker displayed his own mock law enforcement badge at Friday’s Senate debate, refusing to put it away after the moderator repeatedly asked him to put it away since props are not allowed. The prompt to pull out the badge came from Walker’s Democratic opponent Raphael Warnock’s calling out Herschel’s lie that he has “worked in law enforcement.”
“We will see time and time again tonight, as we’ve already seen, that my opponent has a problem with the truth,” referring to Walker’s ongoing abortion scandal.
Walker’s false badge came from Georgia’s Cobb County Police Department, with one law enforcement official ComparingIt is. “a junior ranger”According to Mother Jones, badge CNN also offers a fact-check Debunked Herschel’s lie that he worked for the FBI.
NBC News reported Walker had at least two fake badges. The other was given by Greg Rowland from Johnson County Sherrif Greg Rowland. Walker was also featured in a social-media video, in which he displayed the honorary Medallion.
“Herschel Walker has been a friend to law enforcement and has a record of honoring police,”Gail Gitcho shared her story with NBC.
Gitcho, the Walker campaign strategist who ordered the batch of badges Saturday, tied Warnock’s calling out of Walker’s lie to the new campaign move.
“If Sen. Warnock wants to highlight this, then bring it on,” Gitcho added. “It just gives us a chance to talk about Herschel’s support of law enforcement and law enforcement’s support for him. It’s a great issue for us.”
Donald Trump gave an endorsement to the former NFL running back, and Georgia Bulldogs Heisman Trophy recipient.
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