Who Is Herschel Walker? | The Daily Show — Transcript

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1. 0:00unlike most of the mega Republicans who
2. 0:01are infecting the party Herschel Walker
3. 0:03actually has a long history with Trump
4. 0:04back in the 1980s he played football for
5. 0:07Donald Trump's usfl team until the whole
6. 0:11league collapsed which of course it did
7. 0:14I mean if Trump is a part of anything it
8. 0:17will collapse
9. 0:18yeah I bet if Donald Trump goes to
10. 0:20heaven in six weeks God will be at the
11. 0:22at the pawn shop like I don't understand
12. 0:24all right what happened they were so
13. 0:26successful how much will you give me for
14. 0:28the Pearly Gates
15. 0:30but since then the two men have stayed
16. 0:31in the same mental league and it's not
17. 0:33hard to see why you see just like Trump
18. 0:35Walker believes the election was stolen
19. 0:36just like Trump he believes that January
20. 0:386 wasn't Trump's fault and just like
21. 0:41Donald bleached Trump Herschel Walker
22. 0:43has some interesting ideas on how to
23. 0:45cure kovid Herschel Walker raved about
24. 0:48what he calls a dry Mist that can kill
25. 0:50covet in an interview in 2020. do you
26. 0:53know right now I have something
27. 0:55that can bring you into a building
28. 0:58that would clean you from covert as you
29. 1:01walk through this this dry mix as you
30. 1:04walk through the door it will cure any
31. 1:06cover on your body EPA if they approved
32. 1:10when you leave it will kill the virus as
33. 1:13you need to see a product do you know
34. 1:15they don't want to talk about that yeah
35. 1:17I wonder why they don't want to talk
36. 1:18about that
37. 1:20walk through a dry Mist it sounds to me
38. 1:22like Herschel Walker accidentally walked
39. 1:24through a car wash
40. 1:26they've got secret cover machines
41. 1:28they'll spray you clean and dry you off
42. 1:30then a guy comes out back to you with
43. 1:31your butt but they don't want to talk
44. 1:32about that
45. 1:34no don't get me wrong don't get me wrong
46. 1:35anyone can say something silly anyone
47. 1:37can make a dumb mistake but what makes
48. 1:39Herschel Walker special is that just
49. 1:41like Trump he seems proud to be ignorant
50. 1:44a head scratcher from Georgia's
51. 1:47Republican Senate nominee Herschel
52. 1:49Walker Walker downplaying expectations
53. 1:51ahead of his debate with Senator Rafael
54. 1:54Warnock telling reporters I'm not that
55. 1:56smart Republican Herschel Walker
56. 1:58declaring that there are 52 states in
57. 2:01America he's written and has given
58. 2:02interviews about playing Russian
59. 2:04roulette with a gun Georgia Senate
60. 2:07candidate Herschel Walker is making
61. 2:08headlines after his comments about
62. 2:10Evolution now think about this because
63. 2:13at one time science said man came from
64. 2:16AIDS did it not if that is true why are
65. 2:20there still Apes
66. 2:23yeah
67. 2:24if there's humans then why are there
68. 2:26still Apes
69. 2:28so my grandma still has a landline
70. 2:30Checkmate Charles Darwin
71. 2:32how does that happen
72. 2:35I will say it is refreshing to see a
73. 2:37politician just straight up say I'm not
74. 2:38that smart I I like that you don't
75. 2:41usually see politicians acknowledging
76. 2:43their flaws straight up like you never
77. 2:44heard Bill Clinton go look the truth is
78. 2:46I just love getting ahead it's one of my
79. 2:48top three hobbies for sure it's just the
80. 2:50kind of thing I'm doing looking at
81. 2:52afraid
82. 2:54and and just like Trump boasts about
83. 2:57being the world's best golfer Herschel
84. 3:00Walker is a master at reimagining his
85. 3:03own success before and during his
86. 3:05campaign Walker has lied repeatedly he
87. 3:08falsely claimed to have graduated a top
88. 3:09percentile from the University of
89. 3:11Georgia he exaggerated claims about the
90. 3:13success of his businesses Georgia Senate
91. 3:15candidate Herschel Walker misstated his
92. 3:18income on federal documents by more than
93. 3:20three million dollars Walker has
94. 3:22reportedly overstated his role with the
95. 3:25for-profit group accused of taking
96. 3:27advantage of military veterans in a 2017
97. 3:29speech Walker said this I work with the
98. 3:32Cobb County Police Department and I've
99. 3:34been in criminal justice all my life and
100. 3:36two years later while giving a speech to
101. 3:38soldiers he said I spent time at
102. 3:40Quantico at the FBI training school you
103. 3:43all didn't know I was an agent they
104. 3:45didn't know because he wasn't and
105. 3:47according to the Atlanta Journal
106. 3:48Constitution the Cobb County Police
107. 3:50Department said they have no record of
108. 3:53any involvement with Walker God yeah
109. 3:56Marshall Walker basically lied about
110. 3:58every aspect of his life he probably
111. 3:59shows up at the airport gate like as a
112. 4:01first responder a military veteran and a
113. 4:03baby under two years old I got to board
114. 4:05This Plane first
115. 4:06I'm the pilot we
116. 4:12now one of the main reasons Republicans
117. 4:15love Herschel Walker is because as a
118. 4:18black man he's never afraid to tell a
119. 4:20black man what they're doing wrong pull
120. 4:22up your pants smile at the police and
121. 4:25let white people touch your hair it's
122. 4:26good luck you know
123. 4:29in fact one of the things one of the
124. 4:31major things that Herschel Walker
125. 4:32focused on again and again and again was
126. 4:35how much he hated that black men love
127. 4:38abandoning their children something
128. 4:40white men never do
129. 4:43and then we found out the abandoning was
130. 4:46coming from inside the house for years
131. 4:49he has repeatedly criticized black men
132. 4:51who leave their children but tonight
133. 4:52Georgia's Republican nominee for U.S
134. 4:54Senate Herschel Walker is admitting that
135. 4:56he has a 10 year old son who he didn't
136. 4:59raise court documents show that the
137. 5:01boy's mother had to sue him for
138. 5:03paternity and child support just a day
139. 5:05after news broke that Walker had a
140. 5:06secret ten-year-old son The Daily Beast
141. 5:09discovered that Walker actually has two
142. 5:11more additional children he has never
143. 5:13publicly acknowledged yeah yeah that's
144. 5:15right not one but three secret children
145. 5:20how do you even keep that many kids
146. 5:21secret I mean at some point you've got
147. 5:23to confuse their names it's like I love
148. 5:24you Susan I mean Claire I mean Frank I
149. 5:26mean Susie you are Susan and I love you
150. 5:29and look here's the thing I understand
151. 5:31this it doesn't matter to me how many
152. 5:32kids you have or with how many people
153. 5:34all right I think in America there's too
154. 5:36much moralizing around some of these
155. 5:38issues but
156. 5:39it does matter if you spend all your
157. 5:41time vilifying other men for doing the
158. 5:44same thing that you do you vilifying
159. 5:46them you're calling them out oh it's
160. 5:48because they're black men and you know
161. 5:49it it's not it's [ __ ] you know and
162. 5:51this always happens too it always
163. 5:52happens when a politician comes down
164. 5:54weirdly hard on a specific group of
165. 5:56people that's when you should be
166. 5:57suspicious
167. 5:58you know they come down on one thing so
168. 6:00as a politician that's like we have to
169. 6:02stop these perverts that love to lick
170. 6:04the back of people's knees at the public
171. 6:06pool
172. 6:08you're like I think this dude licks the
173. 6:10back of people's knees
174. 6:13so Walker loves conspiracies he lies
175. 6:15about his achievements and I guess just
176. 6:17like Trump he pretends he doesn't have
177. 6:18some of his kids
178. 6:21if you're thinking this no way Herschel
179. 6:22Walker could be more hypocritical than
180. 6:23this well I hope you didn't place a bet
181. 6:25there is a new twist in the pivotal
182. 6:28Senate race in Georgia the website The
183. 6:30Daily Beast is reporting Republican
184. 6:32candidate Herschel Walker paid for a
185. 6:34woman he was dating to get an abortion
186. 6:36in 2009. Georgia Republican Senate
187. 6:38candidate Herschel Walker says he is
188. 6:40pro-life and supports a nationwide
189. 6:42abortion ban with no exceptions but new
190. 6:45reporting from The Daily Beast claims he
191. 6:47encouraged a woman he was dating in 2009
192. 6:50to get an abortion and help pay for it
193. 6:53the woman whose identity was not
194. 6:55published provided The Daily Beast with
195. 6:57a receipt for the procedure a get well
196. 7:00card and an image of a 700 check
197. 7:03allegedly signed by Walker
198. 7:05wow
199. 7:07an anti-abortion Republican caught
200. 7:10paying for his girlfriend's abortion
201. 7:12that is a bombshell especially because
202. 7:15he left behind so much proof I mean this
203. 7:17woman says that she has a receipt a
204. 7:19check and a get well card that he signed
205. 7:24the only way there could be more of a
206. 7:26paper trail is if he bought a souvenir
207. 7:28t-shirt from the abortion clinics gift
208. 7:29shop
209. 7:31and now believe it or not believe it or
210. 7:32not this is just the tip of the iceberg
211. 7:34when it comes to Herschel Walker right
212. 7:36he has multiple allegations of domestic
213. 7:38abuse against him including from his
214. 7:39ex-wife his own son who is a prominent
215. 7:42conservative has said most of the
216. 7:44stories are true and Herschel Walker
217. 7:46himself said that sometimes he couldn't
218. 7:48control his own brain but despite all of
219. 7:51this he still has the full support of
220. 7:53the Republican party including the top
221. 7:55aide to Mitch McConnell who just today
222. 7:57said it's Full Speed Ahead in Georgia
223. 8:00yeah because clearly McConnell's like a
224. 8:01locker is not my baby daddy what do I
225. 8:03care mom
226. 8:06and so you see as the midterm elections
227. 8:08approach day after day we're seeing that
228. 8:09Donald Trump has completely transformed
229. 8:11what being a conservative means because
230. 8:15less than a decade ago a candidate this
231. 8:16hypocritical this flawed and this off
232. 8:18the rails would not have had the support
233. 8:19of the party
234. 8:21but because now winning is more
235. 8:23important than any principle or any
236. 8:25value that these politicians once held
237. 8:27they're willing to go Full Speed Ahead
238. 8:29even if it means going full speed into a
239. 8:32brick wall
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