In 2020, Georgia Senate nominee Herschel Walker (R) claimed — with no evidence — that his medical supply company sourced personal protective equipment during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic for two of “his hospitals.”
In 2002, Walker founded a company called Renaissance Man Medical, but changed the name of the entity in 2014 to HR Talent LLC. At the same time, Walker was trying to launch a competition show called “Herschel’s Raw Talent.”
When asked about his chicken business during an appearance on “I Bigun Rick Show” in 2020, Walker claimed that the same company helped source personal protective equipment to two hospitals he said he owns.
“Well, we got Renman Medical Company,” Walker incorrectly said. “They’re doing gloves and gowns that we got a plant out in Mexico. I was helping a couple of my hospitals out, and I was getting things from China.”
According to reporting done by Huffington Post, there is no evidence of Walker supervising any hospitals, contradicting previous comments he made where he claimed to supervise six hospitals around the United States. In the same interview, Walker expressed his desire to bring jobs back to the U.S. In the same answer however, Walker said that he uses plants in Mexico manufacture his products.
“So, I went to Mexico almost two and a half months ago and found a couple of plants there,” Walker continued. “So, it manufactures the gowns there.”
Earlier in the same interview, Walker also said that he would never run for office because politicians do not follow through with their plans. He also volunteered to be a “substitute politician.”
Walker will face incumbent Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock on Tuesday in a runoff election for Georgia’s open Senate seat.