‘Just call him a child abuser’: Trump told Walker to use slur against Warnock, book says
by Martin Pengelly in Washington from US news | The Guardian on (#6GC75)
ABC News correspondent Jonathan Karl reports blunt advice from former president to use debunked claim in US Senate race
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.
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