“This is still a lie because she’s the mother of my child. So you gonna see me a check, or somebody give her a check so I’m sayin’ [indecipherable],” Texan Herschel Walker, running as the Republican nominee for the Georgia Senate seat, tells NBC’s Kristen Welker. (The clip comes via CNN.) When pressed by Welker about the $700 check he sent to the woman, Walker responds, “I have no idea what that can be for,” he says before Walker verified that it is, in fact, a copy of a check he wrote to the woman.
For the record, Walker can give his money to whomever he wishes. There is no law against that. At the time, there was no law against paying for an abortion for another person. But Walker’s reason–“she’s the mother of my child”–simply doesn’t hold up. At the time he paid for the abortion, there was no child. The woman opted not to terminate a second pregnancy and gave birth to Walker’s child years after he wrote her that check.