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Re: TRUMP Told Candidate 'Just Call Him Child Abuser’ Witness Testified in Election C
'Just Call Him a Child Abuser’: TRUMP Told GOP Candidate Herschel Walker to Use Slur Against Warnock - Advice to Use Debunked Claim in US Senate Race
Jenna Ellis, Has Testified in Election Interference Case She Was Told TRUMP Was “NEVER Going to Leave The White House
BBC 15 NOV 2023
Herschel Walker and Donald Trump hold a rally in Perry Georgia.
As Herschel Walker faced defeat by his Democratic opponent Raphael Warnock in a high-stakes US Senate election in Georgia last year, Donald Trump advised the Republican candidate: “Just call him a child abuser.”
At first, Walker did not take the former president’s advice, letting go his sole debate with Warnock – a church pastor – without raising the slur.
But according to Jonathan Karl, ABC News’s chief Washington correspondent and the author of a new book on Trump’s Republican party, “all bets were off once the race went to a run-off”.
“‘Y’all know what he did at that camp?’ Walker falsely told a crowd of supporters in late November. ‘This young man said there was sexual abuse and there was physical abuse. I’m like, Who did that? It has to be Senator Raphael Warnock, because he was responsible for it.’”
Trump’s advice to the former college football and NFL star, and Walker’s garbled recounting of the slur, is reported in Karl’s new book, Tired of Winning, published in the US on Tuesday.
Karl’s source is an unidentified senior Walker adviser who witnessed the conversation, which Walker put “on speakerphone so his team in the room could hear the strategic wisdom that was about to be offered”.
The claim against Warnock concerned alleged abuse in 2002 at a Maryland summer camp run by a church where he was then senior pastor. The allegation surfaced – and was used by the Republican Kelly Loeffler – during Warnock’s first victorious Senate run, which ended with a runoff win in January 2021.
Karl writes that a camper alleged a counselor threw urine at him and locked him outside overnight, as a punishment for wetting his bed.
“The story was horrible,” Karl writes, noting a reported financial settlement. “But labeling Warnock a ‘child molester’ was ridiculously wrong. There was no allegation of sexual abuse and no allegation whatsoever against Warnock himself. He was the pastor at the church, not the director of the camp.”
As reported at the time by the Baltimore Sun, Warnock and another church official were arrested after “a state trooper said the ministers prevented her from interviewing counselors as she investigated” the alleged abuse.
But the charges of interfering with an investigation were dismissed.
Ex-Trump Lawyer Says ‘Boss’ Was NOT Going to Leave White House
Revelation comes during interview with Georgia district attorney’s office about events around US election
Jenna Ellis reached a deal with prosecutors and pleaded guilty to a reduced charge over efforts to overturn Donald Trumps 2020 election loss in Georgia.
An attorney for Donald Trump has told prosecutors in Georgia that one of the former president’s top aides told her in December 2020 that Trump was “not going to leave” the White House “under any circumstances”, despite having lost the election to Joe Biden.
The revelation from Jenna Ellis came during an interview with the Georgia district attorney’s office in Fulton County. Ellis is cooperating as part of a plea agreement in the Georgia election interference case against Trump and various allies.
Sections of the video recordings were published on Monday by ABC News and the Washington Post, along with excerpts from interviews with lawyer Sidney Powell and two other defendants who have reached plea agreements in the case in exchange for testifying.
Ellis said the longtime Trump aide – his deputy chief of staff, Dan Scavino – told her “the boss” would refuse to cede power. She also alluded to two other “relevant” instances for the case but did not disclose them in the video, apparently prevented from doing so by attorney-client privilege.
Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis won't vote for him in 2024, calls him a 'malignant narcissist'
Jenna Ellis in Court
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