REVEALED: Herschel Walker Brags About Owning Two ‘Largest Minority-Owned Companies’ In Country, Problem Is They Don’t Exist

The saga of Herschel Walker gets stranger as the days go by. The man has a rich fantasy life, I’ll say that much. He has reported himself as the owner of both “the largest minority-owned food company” in the country and also the owner of the “largest minority-owned apparel company” in the country. However, even a cursory examination of these claims shows them to be false.

Either the man is a pathological liar, or maybe one of his alternate personalities owns these companies, and if that’s the case, they own them in an alternate dimension, because nobody can find the assets he claims to own in this one. Daily Beast:

Those claims include running the largest minority-owned food company in the United States; owning multiple chicken plants in another state; and starting and owning an upholstery business which was also, apparently, at one point in his telling, the country’s largest minority-owned apparel company.

While the chasm between Walker’s vision and reality often appears staggering—and applies not just to business but to multiple dimensions of his personal life as well—he might be playing fast and loose with the concept of “ownership.” But it’s unclear whether he transposed this fanciful structure onto his candidate financial disclosure, which claims a net worth of between $29 million and $65 million, and which, according to a Georgia Public Broadcasting report, merits further scrutiny. […]

The claims about the upholstery business appear particularly divorced from the truth, as that business, as Walker describes it, doesn’t appear to exist.

According to a review of business records, that company—either Renaissance Manufacturing or Renaissance Hospitality, depending on the telling (though both are now dissolved)—was not his in any common sense of ownership; it was part of a business arrangement with the true owner.

That fact didn’t deter Walker from boasting again and again that it was his company, repeatedly implying sole proprietorship—even saying as recently as a speech this February that he “started” the business.

“I started this little [inaudible] drapery company, where I still have about 250 people that sew drapery and bedspreads for me,” the former Olympic bobsledder told an audience at the University of North Texas on Feb. 10.

What’s next? Herschel Walker Steaks? Herschel Walker University? We have seen this show before.

Walker told the Dum Ass Club point-blank that he had the “largest upholstery company in the United States,” a claim so absurd it barely merits fact-checking.

Similar statements pop up again and again, going back several years. And even today, the website for his company—H. Walker Enterprises LLC—lists “textile fabrication” among its areas of expertise, claiming the “HWE and Renaissance Hospitality provides major hotels, restaurants and hospitals with custom fabric bedding, drapery and window treatments.”

It’s unclear, however, what business Walker is referencing, because Renaissance Hospitality dissolved last year. Walker also isn’t on the articles of dissolution; his friend and former business partner, George Mappin, is.

In fact, Walker’s mysterious claims about the upholstery company, which he “started,” appear to reference a now-defunct financial agreement he once had with Mappin’s other company, South Carolina-based Renaissance Manufacturing. But that company also dissolved last year.

This is a lengthy article citing previous articles from NPR and the Associated Press, which indicate that these fantasy proclamations of Walker’s have been going on for some time. I shudder to think that somebody like this could conceivably take the Senate seat currently held by Rafael Warnock, but it is conceivable. Georgians love them some football. And that’s all well and good. But Herschel Walker is, to all appearances, mentally unstable and unable to discern reality from wishful thinking. He would be, to use one of Trump’s favorite words, a “disaster” in the Senate.