This guy is astounding. Talented Mr. Ripley meets Catch Me If you Can.
Of course his thousand blatant lies are more than enough to disqualify him, morally and functionally, from taking the oath of office. And of course he effectively committed election fraud — yet again, a Republican doing what they (falsely) accuse others of.
But I’m sure he also IS a criminal, in several ways:
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The check fraud he was caught doing in Brazil, and admitted to to authorities there.
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Trashing his rented apartment and refusing to pay the many thousands of dollars in damages.
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Quite possibly, helping some woman get her green card, by marrying her (for a year) under false pretenses.
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Yes, that 700 K to finance his campaign had to come from someone — it sure as hell wasn’t the “LinkBridge” “work” or whatever crap he pretended to do afterward.
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That supposed save-the-puppies charity work was a scam, too (starting with how the woman claims she was never paid).
I really thought Hershel Walker would be the low point of the 21st century Republican Party, and they’d start to slowly crawl their way back to some semblance of respectability and regard for truth and democracy.
I was very wrong.
(And I haven’t even touched on perhaps the worst parts — the claim of Holocaust family survivors, and the claims of victims in 9-11 and in that Florida shooting who were — ahem — “going to be hired by my firm”).