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Herschel Walker incorrectly calls Donald Trump after his son
Unsuccessful Senate candidate Herschel Walker appeared at a rally for former President Donald Trump in Macon, Georgia, on November 3, where he tried to argue that his good friend Trump was a patriot who loved his country.
According to , before Walker got thus far in his speech, he incorrectly referred to Trump by utilizing the name of his son, Donald Trump Jr., after which corrected himself.
“Let’s not let Donald Trump down, because he won’t let us down. It is time to end this and it will end on Tuesday when we get to the polls and vote for my friend and your friend, Donald Trump Jr.,” Walker said before issuing a correction and said, “Donald J. Trump.
According to , Walker’s candidacy was probably the worst-run Senate campaign in historypartly attributable to his inability to deliver a coherent speech in the course of the campaign, but in addition because his campaign saw quite a few scandals involving the previous Heisman Trophy winner.
Despite the litany of issues surrounding Walker, he still took a runoff against incumbent Senator Raphael Warnock, which Warnock won 51% to 49%
In one in every of the more unusual twists of the campaign, which included a fascist rally in New York, when Trump took the stage after Walker’s departure, he hinted that he would put Walker answerable for a planned missile defense system.
This, after all, was not well received on social media, and the concept was severely ridiculed.
According to producer Steve Benen’s comment regarding Trump’s idea to have Walker head the system he outright denies it what he said earlier about putting impressively intelligent people answerable for the system.
“If it isn’t obvious, Walker has no qualifications related to missile technology or national security, and entrusting the most absurd Senate candidate of his era to ‘lead’ such a project would be completely insane,” Benen said.
From his comments on the rally, it seems that Trump has no idea what a missile defense system is or what it’s used for.
“We will construct an anti-missile shield, entirely made within the USA, wrapped around our country to guard ourselves and our country. Everything will likely be made within the USA and far of it’s going to be made in your great state. We’re going to place Herschel Walker answerable for this little sucker,” Trump said.
According to , constructing such a system within the USA can be logistically unimaginable, but Trump has been talking about it since not less than 2019 and brought it up again in the course of the Republican National Convention.
“We will replenish our army and build the Iron Dome missile defense system so that no enemy can strike our homeland. Israel has an Iron Dome. They have a missile defense system,” Trump said. “Why should other countries have this and we don’t?”
According to the web site, Trump’s plans may perhaps result from the script.
“The Republican White House and the Republican Congress have spent billions but achieved nothing with this program. Thirty years later, Donald Trump is attempting to do the identical thing quickly, counting on the identical group (The Heritage Foundation) that sells snake oil. It could also be rhetorically attractive, however it is totally devoid of scientific value and strategic sense,” they wrote.