Remember Herschel Walker? The NFL player who ran against Raphael Warnock for Senate in 2022, and whose his campaign for higher office could probably be best characterized by the words “what the fuck,” followed by “crash and burn”? Among other things, the staunchly antiabortion candidate was accused of paying former partners to have abortions (which he denied); claimed he’d worked in law enforcement when that wasn’t actually the case; and found himself in a situation wherein people from his own staff were saying things like he “isn’t mentally fit for the job” and lies “like he’s breathing.” At one point, he went on an extended tangent about vampires and werewolves, telling people that he once wanted to be a vampire but has since changed his mind and would like to be a werewolf.
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At another point—on election night 2022 to be exact—he told a story about horse manure.
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Anyway, no one had heard much from him publicly since he lost to Warnock, until now. He’s back—with a gig in Donald Trump’s second administration. Per The New York Times:
President-elect Donald J. Trump selected Herschel Walker on Tuesday to be the US ambassador to the small Caribbean nation of the Bahamas, turning to a longtime ally and former football star who generated national headlines in his failed run for a Senate seat in Georgia in 2022.
According to the Times, Walker “has no previous diplomatic experience, and no obvious ties to the Bahamas, an island nation of about 400,000 people just off the coast of Florida.”
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