Falwell Jr. revealed his wife's affair with pool boy Giancarlo Granda

[fleur-de-lisa]

Daniel Chaitin @danielchaitin7 (DC Examiner)

BREAKING: In a statement exclusively to @SecretsBedard , Jerry Falwell Jr. revealed his wife Becki’s affair for the first time, said it was short lived and that the two reconciled quickly .

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Exclusive: Falwell says ‘Fatal Attraction’ threat led to depression


https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/exclusive-falwell-says-fatal-attraction-threat-led-to-depression

Jerry Falwell Jr., suspended as president of Virginia’s Christian-focused Liberty University after a string of embarrassing acts, today said that he has suffered depression caused by a former family friend who had an affair with his wife and has been threatening to expose it. In a statement exclusively to Secrets, Falwell revealed his wife Becki’s affair for the first time, said it was short lived and that the two reconciled quickly. But, they claimed, her former lover has threatened them over the past several years and they are done with it hanging over their heads.

“I’m just tired of it,” said Falwell of the anxiety he’s felt about the affair becoming public and embarrassing his family and Liberty. “It’s just got to end,” he added.

The 1,200-word statement -- shown below -- followed the Liberty board’s decision to put Falwell on paid leave after he posted a “costume party” picture of him on a yacht with his pants partially unzipped and his arm around his wife's assistant. His social media has raised eyebrows in the Liberty community, though he is often praised for his success at building up the school and keeping the coronavirus at bay from the university. He has also drawn fire for his strong support of President Trump.

The board’s statement about Falwell on Friday referred to “various rumors and claims,” which may be related to indications that a news service planned to air new claims from the man who Becki Falwell had the affair with a pool attendant the Falwells met and befriended in 2012 while staying at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach.

The statement did not name the attendant, but he has been identified as Giancarlo Granda in dozens of news stories.
In the statement and phone call with Secrets, Jerry Falwell appeared to be relieved to have finally divulged the affair and years-long series of attacks they faced.

[Nevilledog]

1. *cough*bullshit*cough*

[fleur-de-lisa]

2. Yeah, exactly who had an affair with the pool boy? Don't think it was the wife.

[SheltieLover]

3. Right!

Paid leave. Fk him.

[efhmc]

4. One can tell that they are such a loving committed Christian couple.

[dem4decades]

5. Who was having sex with the pool boy?

[BGBD]

7. I always read this situation

as she was the one screwing the pool boy, but Jerry was in on it. He might even be the type that watches and likes it.

I think they are swingers.

[dawg day]

16. That's actually a RW thing-- "Cucking"

Manafort, Roger Stone-- some weird thing about watching (maybe forcing) the wives with other men.

[BGBD]

23. I expect

that their wives don't need a lot of convincing to have sex with somebody who isn't Roger Stone or Paup Manafort.

[dawg day]

24. LOL, too true.

[Blue_true]

26. Yes, somethings are just true.

[Demovictory9]

6. Didnt he give a university contract to the pool boy?

[dawg day]

17. No, the university contract was to their personal trainer.

The pool boy got a "gay-friendly" hostel they bought for him to run.

[Demovictory9]

34. I wonder if wife had an affair with the personal trainer also

[appalachiablue]

36. Can't believe the stuff about people 'devoted' to Xian values, Liberty U,

Falwell and wife, pool boys and personal trainers.

That photo of JF Jr with his pants unzipped, flabby stomach and girlfriend is enuff to vomit..

[dweller]

8. just

eewww ..


✌🏼

[intrepidity]

9. hahaha, he must be worried about Mchael Cohen's book

( Cohen brokered the nda, of course)

[JoeOtterbein]

15. Very...

...interesting!

[msongs]

10. so she dumped pool boy cuz he didnt have enough cash value lol nt

[RainCaster]

11. That sounds like a prenup rewrite to me

She's falling on his sword.

[lordsummerisle]

12. Suspicious of the timing of this press release n/t

[dawg day]

13. Boy, way to distract from your unzipped photo....

Didn't they buy the poolboy a motel to run in Miami Beach?
So was he blackmailing them?

Michael Cohen, remember, said he'd had to "help" get back indiscreet photos....

[RockRaven]

14. Why should I believe THAT instead of believing he's got a cuckold kink?

He's totally unreliable, we cannot trust his word on this, and the alternative explanation matches the public information just as well, if not better?

And I'm not kink- or sex-shaming, just liar-shaming. He's got no reliability as a truthful person APART from this. Why should anyone believe him now?

[comradebillyboy]

18. Reminds me of Jimmy Swaggart

[appalachiablue]

37. +1

[Goodheart]

19. What a guy... to blame it all on his wife. Why is she playing along?

This is fucked up beyond measure.

[Sunsky]

21. +1000

He's a sick, manipulative and despicable POS. He's that guy, the one who blames the woman for all of his indiscretions, the one who always plays victim.

[kysrsoze]

20. ... while he watched. Who does he think he's kidding?

[calguy]

22. Let's See Here....

Wayne LaPierre screws the 2nd Amendment supporters
Steve Bannon screws the Build the Wall supporters
Jerry Falwell screws the Evangelicals by revealing some extra screwing by ?? screwing the pool boy

Do you think more than a few trump supporters feel a little bit used??

The perfect storm forming to make right wing corruption a viable campaign issue???
I think it just might.

[FeelingBlue]

25. There's something that doesn't smell right here.

The man is confessing his WIFE’S affair?!?!

Usually, in Evangelical circles, the sinner confesses his own sins, not those of his wife. Something is very much not right in this story. Either in motive or in fact. To me, this foreshadows something bad between them.

[Sgent]

32. Yea this doesn't make sense

I've got to think there is an alternative explanation (like swinging).

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

27. Yeah, I smell "cabron". As in the "watching" kind. nt

[edbermac]

28. I knew she was hot to trot.

[belpejic]

30. Love that Playboy magazine cover behind the missus.

[OAITW r.2.0]

31. Seems like the "thumbs up" signal must be a a coded message to Trumpers.

I see it in just about every photo with Trump and the peeps who pose with him. We are all in on the scam of fleecing the American people. Smile and thumbs up!

[North Shore Chicago]

35. Oh god!

Everything behind them is all donald. donald! donald! donald!

He can not get enough of himself. And WE have to suffer for it, what a buffoon.

[GulfCoast66]

29. Even this Bullshit story, if believed, is not going to play well with his supporters.

I grew up evangelical. Here is the pattern I’ve seen:

Upstanding man in the church cheats on his wife. Takes up with his new honey. Wife divorces him and both continue attending the same church. Within a year or two the ex is shunned and ends up leaving the church. The man and his new wife take up the role as upstanding church members.

The wife fucking around and being forgiven? Not gonna play well in small town south.

[DFW]

33. Haven't we had it yet with these "Professional Christians?"

The only professional Christians out there should be the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Pope. All others pay cash.

[Tactical Peek]

38. To a Contemporary Bunkshooter by Carl Sandburg

To a Contemporary Bunkshooter


YOU come along … tearing your shirt … yelling about Jesus.

Where do you get that stuff?
What do you know about Jesus?

Jesus had a way of talking soft and outside of a few bankers and higher-ups among the con men of Jerusalem everybody liked to have this Jesus around because he never made any fake passes and everything he said went and he helped the sick and gave the people hope.

You come along squirting words at us, shaking your fist and calling us all dam fools so fierce the froth slobbers over your lips… always blabbing we’re all going to hell straight off and you know all about it.

I’ve read Jesus’ words. I know what he said. You don’t throw any scare into me. I’ve got your number. I know how much you know about Jesus.

He never came near clean people or dirty people but they felt cleaner because he came along. It was your crowd of bankers and business men and lawyers hired the sluggers and murderers who put Jesus out of the running.

I say the same bunch backing you nailed the nails into the hands of this Jesus of Nazareth. He had lined up against him the same crooks and strong-arm men now lined up with you paying your way.

This Jesus was good to look at, smelled good, listened good. He threw out something fresh and beautiful from the skin of his body and the touch of his hands wherever he passed along.

You slimy bunkshooter, you put a smut on every human blossom in reach of your rotten breath belching about hell-fire and hiccupping about this Man who lived a clean life in Galilee.

When are you going to quit making the carpenters build emergency hospitals for women and girls driven crazy with wrecked nerves from your gibberish about Jesus—I put it to you again: Where do you get that stuff; what do you know about Jesus?

Go ahead and bust all the chairs you want to. Smash a whole wagon load of furniture at every performance. Turn sixty somersaults and stand on your nutty head. If it wasn’t for the way you scare the women and kids I’d feel sorry for you and pass the hat.

I like to watch a good four-flusher work, but not when he starts people puking and calling for the doctors.

I like a man that’s got nerve and can pull off a great original performance, but you—you’re only a bug-house peddler of second-hand gospel—you’re only shoving out a phoney imitation of the goods this Jesus wanted free as air and sunlight.

You tell people living in shanties Jesus is going to fix it up all right with them by giving them mansions in the skies after they’re dead and the worms have eaten ’em.

You tell $6 a week department store girls all they need is Jesus; you take a steel trust wop, dead without having lived, gray and shrunken at forty years of age, and you tell him to look at Jesus on the cross and he’ll be all right.

You tell poor people they don’t need any more money on pay day and even if it’s fierce to be out of a job, Jesus’ll fix that up all right, all right—all they gotta do is take Jesus the way you say.

I’m telling you Jesus wouldn’t stand for the stuff you’re handing out. Jesus played it different. The bankers and lawyers of Jerusalem got their sluggers and murderers to go after Jesus just because Jesus wouldn’t play their game. He didn’t sit in with the big thieves.

I don’t want a lot of gab from a bunkshooter in my religion.

I won’t take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth and never cherishes any memory except the face of the woman on the American silver dollar.

I ask you to come through and show me where you’re pouring out the blood of your life.

I’ve been to this suburb of Jerusalem they call Golgotha, where they nailed Him, and I know if the story is straight it was real blood ran from His hands and the nail-holes, and it was real blood spurted in red drops where the spear of the Roman soldier rammed in between the ribs of this Jesus of Nazareth.

Carl Sandburg, 1916