Walking through the known facts, in light of The Washington Post’s new report.
The is the latest media outlet to independently report and confirm key details of a woman’s allegation that Herschel Walker paid for her abortion in 2009.
Walker still flatly denies it. But The Post’s report by Annie Linskey and Alice Crites adds new detail, which contribute to the significant questions about the plausibility of Walker’s denials, which already contained some key holes.
We’ve known key aspects of the timeline before, thanks to reporting initially from the Daily Beast and later from the New York Times and now The Post:
Walker hasn’t denied the payment itself — “I send money to a lot of people,” he said, when asked about it by Fox News’ Sean Hannity — just that he paid for an abortion. His case would seem to be that any such payment would’ve been meant for some other purpose, even though it arrived soon after the abortion, was for a similar amount and, according to the woman, was contained in the get-well card.
But the woman insists she and Walker spoke about at length about obtaining the abortion. And The Post’s new report adds that the woman’s bank account at the time contained less than $600, which The Post’s Linskey and Crites confirmed with a contemporaneous ATM receipt.
The reason that’s significant: It would suggest that the woman, who has said she was unemployed at the time amid the Great Recession, was in real need of help covering her expense.
