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Leghorn21

(13,524 posts)
Mon Aug 24, 2020, 04:42 PM Aug 2020

Breaking: Falwell submits resignation

BREAKING: Three sources affiliated with the @LibertyU board of trustees and administration tell me that Jerry Falwell Jr has just submitted his resignation. Developing...





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Breaking: Falwell submits resignation (Original Post) Leghorn21 Aug 2020 OP
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA! fleur-de-lisa Aug 2020 #1
Did the pool boy resign too? edbermac Aug 2020 #2
I did not have "religious leader outed as a cuckhold" on my 2020 bingo card. sobenji Aug 2020 #3
I still got confirmation for ghosts and/or aliens on mine exboyfil Aug 2020 #17
Missed it too. But it should have been a no-brainer Lochloosa Aug 2020 #19
Need a judge's call here. Nevilledog Aug 2020 #32
Absolutely. Congratulations! sobenji Aug 2020 #39
He became an embarrassment a long time ago. lpbk2713 Aug 2020 #4
To spend more time with his family, no doubt. nt littlemissmartypants Aug 2020 #5
Now he can fuck whatever he wants dalton99a Aug 2020 #6
What a totally humiliating exit for a truly horrible human being. idziak4ever1234 Aug 2020 #7
Trump barely knew him. PCIntern Aug 2020 #8
tRump "never even met the gentleman" but wishes him the best. N/T IllinoisBirdWatcher Aug 2020 #14
Trump is worried that Malignia has met the pool boy Ilsa Aug 2020 #24
That's not what Cohen's book will show malaise Aug 2020 #34
An awful lot has happened today, this first day of the RNC convention. Mike 03 Aug 2020 #9
ETTD. If you think you're going to escape the downward pull of Trumpism, think again greenjar_01 Aug 2020 #10
This message was self-deleted by its author Mariana Aug 2020 #33
Wikipedia has already been updated! Mme. Defarge Aug 2020 #11
+1. Business partner of Falwells says affair with evangelical power couple spanned seven years dalton99a Aug 2020 #16
Notice how they state it's the wife who had the "improper relationship" Docreed2003 Aug 2020 #26
Cuckold Falwell had a limited role in the encounters PJMcK Aug 2020 #30
Be Fair, Sir --- It Is Her Fault The Magistrate Aug 2020 #31
Lmao so true so true Docreed2003 Aug 2020 #38
Hope they close the so-called "university." Hoyt Aug 2020 #12
Cancel culture! gratuitous Aug 2020 #13
I don't care, do u!? be best! NRaleighLiberal Aug 2020 #15
Praise Gawd. nt doc03 Aug 2020 #18
I do hope their followers think long and hard re where their money went. nolabear Aug 2020 #20
It's Godzilla's plan! struggle4progress Aug 2020 #21
Yet Drumpf survives every sex scandal he's committed....why is he Teflon? KewlKat Aug 2020 #22
Dude did not fall well. pitchforksandtorches Aug 2020 #23
LOL onetexan Aug 2020 #35
+1 Duncan Grant Aug 2020 #36
well well well bdamomma Aug 2020 #25
Exactly......pervert. a kennedy Aug 2020 #28
Womp and Circumstance Blue Owl Aug 2020 #27
The pool boy Giancarlo, for the win. sarcasmo Aug 2020 #29
I hope this story lasts all week. Every sordid detail. Duncan Grant Aug 2020 #37

fleur-de-lisa

(14,624 posts)
1. HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!
Mon Aug 24, 2020, 04:43 PM
Aug 2020

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!

exboyfil

(17,863 posts)
17. I still got confirmation for ghosts and/or aliens on mine
Mon Aug 24, 2020, 04:53 PM
Aug 2020

This is the year. This is a year. And that beats an asteroid impact or gamma ray burst.

Nevilledog

(51,104 posts)
32. Need a judge's call here.
Mon Aug 24, 2020, 06:03 PM
Aug 2020

I did have "religious leader caught in a 3-way". If one of the three just stands in the corner watching does it still count?

Mike 03

(16,616 posts)
9. An awful lot has happened today, this first day of the RNC convention.
Mon Aug 24, 2020, 04:48 PM
Aug 2020

99% of it not good for Trumpism.

 

greenjar_01

(6,477 posts)
10. ETTD. If you think you're going to escape the downward pull of Trumpism, think again
Mon Aug 24, 2020, 04:49 PM
Aug 2020

Whatever they're blackmailing you with will come out.

Falwell is a really good case study. He did everything they asked, and has still been destroyed. A very foolish man.

Response to greenjar_01 (Reply #10)

Mme. Defarge

(8,031 posts)
11. Wikipedia has already been updated!
Mon Aug 24, 2020, 04:49 PM
Aug 2020
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Falwell_Jr.

Falwell is married to Becki Tilley.[2] They have three children, among them businessman Jerry "Trey" Falwell III, and live on a farm in Bedford County, Virginia.[2] On August 23, 2020, Falwell announced in a public statement that Becki had had an "improper relationship" several years earlier with a man who later threatened to reveal the affair "unless we agreed to pay him substantial monies".[37][38] On August 24, 2020, Giancarlo Granda told Reuters that, from March 2012 and continuing into 2018, he had sex with Becki Falwell while Jerry Falwell watched in the same room. Granda showed Reuters text messages and emails that show the sexual nature of his relationship with them.[30]

dalton99a

(81,508 posts)
16. +1. Business partner of Falwells says affair with evangelical power couple spanned seven years
Mon Aug 24, 2020, 04:53 PM
Aug 2020
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-falwell-relationship/

Business partner of Falwells says affair with evangelical power couple spanned seven years
Giancarlo Granda says his sexual relationship with the Falwells began when he was 20. He says he had sex with Becki Falwell while Jerry Falwell Jr, head of Liberty University and a staunch supporter of President Trump, looked on.
By ARAM ROSTON
Filed Aug. 24, 2020, 4 p.m. GMT

WASHINGTON – In a claim likely to intensify the controversy surrounding one of the most influential figures in the American Christian conservative movement, a business partner of Jerry Falwell Jr has come forward to say he had a years-long sexual relationship involving Falwell’s wife and the evangelical leader.

Giancarlo Granda says he was 20 when he met Jerry and Becki Falwell while working as a pool attendant at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach hotel in March 2012. Starting that month and continuing into 2018, Granda told Reuters that the relationship involved him having sex with Becki Falwell while Jerry Falwell looked on.

Granda showed Reuters emails, text messages and other evidence that he says demonstrate the sexual nature of his relationship with the couple, who have been married since 1987. “Becki and I developed an intimate relationship and Jerry enjoyed watching from the corner of the room,” Granda said in an interview. Now 29, he described the liaisons as frequent – “multiple times per year” – and said the encounters took place at hotels in Miami and New York, and at the Falwells’ home in Virginia.

His friendship with the Falwells eventually soured, Granda told Reuters, in part because he wanted to dissolve his ties with the couple and fell into a business dispute with them.

Docreed2003

(16,859 posts)
26. Notice how they state it's the wife who had the "improper relationship"
Mon Aug 24, 2020, 05:29 PM
Aug 2020

Even though he was an active participant

PJMcK

(22,037 posts)
30. Cuckold Falwell had a limited role in the encounters
Mon Aug 24, 2020, 05:58 PM
Aug 2020

His active participation was all by himself. Sitting in a corner.

That's what the pool boy says, anyway.

Jokes aside, I love that this fucking hypocrite has trashed himself.

The Magistrate

(95,247 posts)
31. Be Fair, Sir --- It Is Her Fault
Mon Aug 24, 2020, 06:01 PM
Aug 2020

If she hadn't given in to his begging her to have sex with someone else so he could watch from the corner, then none of this disgrace that has descended on him would ever have occurred....

nolabear

(41,963 posts)
20. I do hope their followers think long and hard re where their money went.
Mon Aug 24, 2020, 04:55 PM
Aug 2020

On the other hand, long and hard might be the problem. On the other other hand, the other hand might be the problem.

struggle4progress

(118,285 posts)
21. It's Godzilla's plan!
Mon Aug 24, 2020, 05:00 PM
Aug 2020

Marriage should be between a woman and the one man, who likes to watch the pool pump her

KewlKat

(5,624 posts)
22. Yet Drumpf survives every sex scandal he's committed....why is he Teflon?
Mon Aug 24, 2020, 05:01 PM
Aug 2020

Is it because of the type of personality he appeals to that he can do no wrong in their eyes?

Duncan Grant

(8,264 posts)
37. I hope this story lasts all week. Every sordid detail.
Mon Aug 24, 2020, 06:28 PM
Aug 2020

I’m having schadenfreude euphoria. (And he blamed his wife. What an a**hole.)

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