Trump nominates ex-NFL star Herschel Walker as ambassador to Bahamas

Allegations emerged during Walker's failed Senate campaign that he paid two ex-girlfriends to have abortions

Donald Trump has nominated the former American football star and failed Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker as the US ambassador to Bahamas.

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 in a post on his Truth Social platform. [He will] make Georgia [Walker's home state], and our entire Nation, proud, because we know you will always put AMERICA FIRST!"