Leonard Pitts Jr.: We believe Herschel Walker

When people show you who they are, believe them the first time.”

-- Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou, meet Herschel Walker, Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate.

Here he is on the Inflation Reduction Act: “A lot of money, it’s going to trees. . . . We’ve got enough trees. Don’t we have enough trees around here?”

And on school shootings: “What about gettin’ a