Herschel Walker's New Trump White House Role Slammed As 'S**t Show'
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Critics mocked the former NFL star with a series of blunt reminders.
Donald Trump on Tuesday announced that he’d tapped former NFL star turned failed GOP Senate candidate Herschel Walker to become the next U.S. ambassador to the Bahamas.
Critics on social media were stunned by the move, with many slamming the overall staffing of the president-elect’s second term as a “shit show.”
“Herschel has spent decades serving as an Ambassador to our Nation’s youth, our men and women in the Military, and athletes at home and abroad,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. Walker will “make Georgia, and our entire Nation, proud, because we know you will always put AMERICA FIRST!” he added.
Walker lost a 2022 Georgia Senate runoff election to Sen. Raphael Warnock (D), despite being fiercely backed by Trump and his MAGA allies.
The former athlete was slammed by his own son during the campaign as women came forward to allege he’d pressured them into having abortions.
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News of the potential appointment sparked fierce pushback from Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton.
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No president before has pardoned people who were “essentially his co-conspirators in crime," one legal expert said.