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Herschel Walker, who has taken an unyielding stance against abortion rights as the Republican nominee for Senate in Georgia, threatened on Monday to sue the Daily Beast after it reported that Walker once paid for a girlfriend’s abortion.
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“This is a flat-out lie — and I deny this in the strongest possible terms,” Walker posted on Twitter, in response to the Daily Beast article.
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He appeared defiant in an interview on Monday evening with Fox News host Sean Hannity, again denying the allegations.
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“I never asked anyone to get an abortion. I never paid for an abortion, and it’s a lie.
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And I’m going to continue to fight,” Walker said, suggesting the reporting was a dishonest attack by his political opponents in a tight, vital race for both parties.
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The Daily Beast reported that a woman, whom it did not identify, said Walker reimbursed her for an abortion after they conceived in 2009.
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In the article, published on Monday evening, the Daily Beast posted as corroboration of the woman’s account images of a receipt from the clinic, a sympathy card from Walker and a check that Walker had written.
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POLITICO has not independently verified the Daily Beast’s reporting.
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The Senate candidate characterized the article as “slander,” “defamatory” and “disgusting, gutter politics,” and called the article’s author “a democrat activist disguised as a reporter.”
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Walker said on Twitter that he planned to sue the publication on Tuesday morning.
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Asked by Hannity to address the check specifically, Walker said: “I send money to a lot of people, and that’s what’s so funny.
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God has blessed me, I want to bless others. I got into this race because I’m a Christian.”