Walker: “Don’t We Have Enough Trees Around Here?”

The Washington Post reports:

Georgia Republican Senate nominee Herschel Walker is criticizing the sweeping climate, health-care and deficit-reduction bill signed into law by President Biden arguing that it includes wasteful spending to combat global warming and asking, “Don’t we have enough trees around here?” In a July 9 appearance, he spoke about climate change, suggesting that Georgia’s “good air decides to float over” to China, replacing China’s “bad air,” which goes back to Georgia, where “we got to clean that back up.”

In an appearance Sunday, according to an account by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Walker reiterated his opposition to the Inflation Reduction Act, signed by Biden last week, that invests in curbing global warming, among other things. “They continue to try to fool you that they are helping you out. But they’re not,” Walker said. “Because a lot of money, it’s going to trees. Don’t we have enough trees around here?”

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NEW: Herschel Walker just attacked Democrats’ new law protecting the planet for future generations, saying “Don’t we have enough trees around here?”https://t.co/CwCFEYwotZ

— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) August 22, 2022

Herschel Walker on the federal climate change bill: “They continue to try to fool you that they are helping you out. But they’re not. Because a lot of money it’s going to trees. Don’t we have enough trees around here?” #gapol #gasen

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— Greg Bluestein (@bluestein) August 22, 2022

Here’s the video of Herschel Walker claiming to have received academic scholarship offers from Harvard and Yale: pic.twitter.com/XhP2SPSpuK

— The Republican Accountability Project (@AccountableGOP) August 22, 2022