You could contribute it to CTE.  You could say it happened because of the cloudy heritage of many African Americans and Native Americans.  Or you could just say Herschel Walker is a habitual liar.  But however you put it, Walker appears to be caught in a lie again, this time by asserting his grandmother was a “full-blooded Cherokee,” a claim his own mother dismisses, according to HuffPost.

At a campaign event in September, Walker told the crowd in Forsyth, Georgia something that he had alluded to in campaign events going back to May. “My mom just told me that my mom, grandmother, was full-blood Cherokee.  So I’m Native American!  I’m a super mutt,” he said.  “I don’t know what I am, but this was so funny. This was so funny. I said, ‘Mom, why you never said anything to us?’ She said, ‘Back in my days, a lot of the Native Americans were treated worse than Blacks.’”

At earlier campaign events, Walker said he learned about his Native American ancestry by having recently done a DNA test.  This time, it was from his mother “just” telling him, three months later. 

HuffPost asked Walker’s mother about the claim.  She said she had no knowledge of a direct relative being fully Native American, although her father’s mother–Walker’s great-grandmother–was said to be related to some indigenous people, but Walker’s mother didn’t know how far that ancestral branch went.

So now we can add to the list of Walker lies:

• Graduated from college at the top of his class.
• Graduated from college, period.
• Ran six hospitals.
• Had a mist that could kill coronavirus.
• Didn’t pay for an abortion.
• Doesn’t know the woman who was making the abortion claim.
• Didn’t pressure a woman to get an abortion.
• Didn’t pressure the same woman to get a second abortion.
• Didn’t abuse his first wife.
• Wasn’t an FBI agent.
• Wasn’t a sheriff’s deputy.
• Didn’t have two kids.
• Didn’t have three kids.
• Didn’t have four kids.