“My favorite issue to talk about is father absence. Walker tore into his father, displaying an angry, wounded vulnerability that points to a complicated relationship with his celebrity father.
In several statements (some deleted) and videos posted on Twitter on Monday and Tuesday, the younger Mr. His following on TikTok, Twitter and Instagram has made him well-known among members of Gen Z - many of whom are now just hearing about his father’s heyday as a Heisman Trophy-winning football star at the University of Georgia. “You’re not a ‘family man’ when you left us to bang a bunch of women, threatened to kill us, and had us move over 6 times in 6 months running from your violence,” Christian Walker wrote of his father on Twitter. That changed in spectacular fashion Monday night after news broke that in 2009, Herschel Walker, a staunch opponent of abortion rights, paid for his then-girlfriend to have an abortion, according to a report from The Daily Beast. Yet, after that night, he fell largely silent about his father’s campaign. The moment seemed a logical convergence of Christian Walker’s personal and public lives: the young man was already emerging as a conservative social media star who took delight in provoking the left, and defending Donald Trump’s MAGA movement. “Had the honor of introducing my dad,” he tweeted, “then got to hug a future senator.
Senate in Georgia as a Republican, his son Christian appeared with him at an event at Mar-a-Lago, and grinned when his father greeted him with a kiss on the head. Soon after Herschel Walker, the former football star, announced he would run for U.S.
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