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GOP confirms another monster as America’s newest ambassador



On Tuesday, Senate Republicans confirmed former NFL player Herschel Walker as
the U.S. ambassador to the Bahamas, ignoring his history of lying, weird
statements, and multiple accusations of domestic abuse.

The confirmation vote succeeded on a party line basis, with a group of
nominations, including Walker’s, receiving 51 votes in favor and 47 opposed. No
Democrats supported Walker.

He’s the first ambassador to the Bahamas in 15 years due to a series of
stalled nominations in the Senate across multiple presidential administrations,
rather than any diplomatic issue with the Bahamas itself.




 



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Walker’s appointment comes three years after he lost the U.S. Senate race in
Georgia to Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock in 2022. Walker was President Donald
Trump’s handpicked candidate for the race, which attracted national attention.

Walker’s candidacy was a disaster, with his claims generating headlines for
days on end. In one memorable exchange on the trail, Walker rambled on about
being a supernatural being.

“I don’t know if you know, but vampires are some cool people, are they not?
But let me tell you something that I found out: a werewolf can kill a vampire.
Did you know that? I never knew that. So, I don’t want to be a vampire anymore.
I want to be a werewolf,” he said.

At another point in the campaign, Walker pulled out a purported law
enforcement badge while debating Warnock. But the badge turned out to be an
honorary badge given to him by a local sheriff’s office.

Walker also claimed during the race that he worked in law enforcement as an
“agent,” and that he spent time at the FBI training academy as part of that
experience, but this was a complete lie.

It was also revealed during that cycle that Walker was a promoter of pro-Trump
election conspiracy theories. Walker pushed falsehoods alleging that “serious
election fraud” had occurred and that former President Joe Biden had not
legitimately defeated Trump in 2020.

Walker has been accused of multiple instances of domestic abuse.

Cheryl Parsa said she was Walker’s girlfriend for five years and during that
time he abused her. She said that in a 2005 argument, Walker grabbed her by her
throat, held her against a wall, and tried to punch her but punched the wall
instead.

“He told me, you want to see a man, I'll show you a man,” Parsa told NBC News.





 



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Walker’s ex-wife Cindy Grossman similarly accused him of abuse. In her 2001
divorce petition Grossman cited Walker’s “physically abusive and extremely
threatening behavior.” She also revealed in a 2005 interview that in one
incident Walker held a gun to her head and said, “I’m going to blow your f’ing
brains out.”

Grossman’s sister also said that Walker threatened to “shoot my sister Cindy
and her boyfriend in the head.”

Trump is a misogynist who has for years expressed delight at mistreating and
manhandling women. Walker is a figure who he has been friends with for years
and Trump clearly has no problem with his lying, off-the wall rhetoric, and
most seriously, the allegations of abuse.

Senate Republicans, Trump’s close allies, just made a man like Walker an
official representative of America to the world.



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