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The Washington Post 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 details, 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:
The woman, who spoke to The Post and others on the condition of anonymity, has provided reporters a copy of a receipt from a women’s clinic from Sept. 12, 2009, in the amount of $575.
She has also provided an ATM slip that has an image of the check from Walker, in the amount of $700. (The Post confirmed the check contained an address associated with Walker at the time and what appears to be his signature. The woman said she had estimated the cost using internet searches and added travel and recovery expenses.)
She has also provided a get-well card she says Walker sent her and which contained the check.
Walker hasn’t denied the payment itself — “I send money to a lot of people,” he said, when asked about it by Fox News’s 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.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/12/herschel-walker-washington-post-new-details/
