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HBO ‘Real Time’ host Bill Maher on Friday said most GOP voters only back controversial candidates like Herschel Walker to push back against Democrats‘ woke scolding on issues concerning gender and race.
‘Part of the appeal of a Herschel Walker or a Donald Trump or any number of egregious a**holes Republicans have backed is, in their mind, the worst a candidate is, the more it says to Democrats, “we don’t like what you’re selling,”‘ he said.
Earlier this month, it was revealed that Georgia Senate hopeful Herschel Walker, 60, paid for a woman’s abortion in 2009 despite running on an anti-abortion political platform, and she claims he also urged her to terminate a second pregnancy.
On Maher’s show Friday, he posed the question: ‘So, why do Republicans stand by him?’
He then explained that their view is that ‘literally anything would be better’ than the Democrat party’s ‘socialism, identity politics, over sensitivity, cancel culture, white self-loathing and forcing complicated ideas of race and gender on kids too young to understand.’
‘That’s why you can be a really bad dude in American politics and it’s not a deal breaker.’
In September, Maher bluntly addressed the left’s support of a transgender teacher in Ontario, Canada, who wears extremely large prosthetic breasts while teaching children.
‘They completely stood by her, the school district, talking about equitable treatment without discrimination,’ Maher stated last month. ‘Yes, we’re all for that. Without — based not upon gender, yes, identity expression, we’re all for that. … But the giant tits are scaring the children.’
‘I mean, come on,’ he exclaimed, ‘can you just do anything?’
HBO ‘Real Time’ host Bill Maher on Friday said the GOP backs candidates like Herschel Walker to push back against woke Democrats who continue to push their woke agenda
Kayla Lemieux, a Manufacturing Technology teacher at Oakville Trafalgar High School in Ontario, pictured with the large prosthetics on, which stretch her clothing and stick out
On Friday night, Maher opened the bit about Walker stating, ‘he’s just a f*cking idiot on a scale almost impossible to parody,’ as he mentioned Walker’s claim of being an FBI agent.
The show was taped prior to Friday evening’s Georgia Senate debate with Sen. Raphael Warnock at which Walker flashed a police officer badge.
Walker was rebuked during a debate on Friday night for bringing out a ‘police badge’ in response to an attack on his previous false claims to be in law enforcement – insisting that he ‘works with many police officers’.
Walker has in the past claimed to be an FBI agent, a ‘certified peace officer’, and a member of Cobb County police.
His opponent Raphael Warnock said he had ‘never pretended to be a police officer, and I’ve never threatened a shootout with the police’.
In September 2001, the former NFL player threatened a shootout with officers responding to a domestic disturbance at his Texas home, according to a police report.
Walker on Friday once again doubled down on his claims of being on the force.
‘And you know what’s so funny? I am. Work with many police officers.’
Herschel Walker, 60, is pictured on Friday night holding up his ‘police badge’ during the debate
Walker was responding to his opponent, Raphael Warnock, mocking his claims to be in law enforcement
Walker has repeatedly claimed to be in law enforcement, and was rebuked on Friday for brandishing the prop
He then drew what looked like a fake police badge from his suit jacket pocket – drawing a rebuke from the moderator, who said bringing props to the debate was against the rules.
Walker’s spokesman earlier this summer told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, which dug out multiple examples of Walker claiming to be a member of law enforcement, that he was an honorary deputy in Cobb County, along with three other unspecified Georgia counties.
The Cobb County Police Department told the paper it had no record of involvement with Walker.
The Cobb Sheriff’s Office could not say whether he was an honorary deputy.
J. Tom Morgan, the former DeKalb County district attorney, said the badge – even if it was handed to Walker – was worthless.
‘It gives you absolutely no law enforcement authority,’ he said. ‘It’s like a junior ranger badge.’
Morgan said many communities in Georgia stopped handing them out amid fears they could be used to impersonate a police officer, which is a felony.
Walker is pictured in September 2021, addressing a Trump rally in Perry, Georgia
Walker told the crowd: ‘I worked for law enforcement, y’all didn’t know that either? I spent time at Quantico at the FBI training school. Y’all didn’t know I was an agent?’
Walker has spent over 20 years claiming to work in law enforcement.
In 2000, he told Irving, Texas, police that he was ‘a certified peace officer,’ according to a police report obtained by the newspaper.
In 2013, he told an Army suicide prevention event that, in 2001, he chased down a man who was late delivering a car.
‘I worked in law enforcement, so I had a gun,’ Walker said.
‘I put this gun in my holster and I said, ‘I’m gonna kill this dude.’
The paper reported that, in 2017, he declared: ‘I work with the Cobb County Police Department, and I’ve been in criminal justice all my life.’
And in September 2019, he went further, appearing on stage at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state to tell an auditorium of soldiers in combat fatigues: ‘I worked for law enforcement, y’all didn’t know that either?
‘I spent time at Quantico at the FBI training school. Y’all didn’t know I was an agent?’
Pressed by the paper to explain his claim, Walker’s spokesman in June said he once attended a training camp in 1989, when he was retiring from professional sport.
‘They had an obstacle course and you shoot at targets to protect your partner as you advanced up the course,’ he told the AP at the time.
‘I had fun. There were about 200 recruits there.’
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