'Someone's Gotta Tell the Freakin' Truth': Jerry Falwell's Aides Break Their Silence
Source: Politico
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Over the past year, Falwell, a prominent evangelical leader and supporter of President Donald Trump, has come under increasing scrutiny. News outlets have reported on business deals by Liberty University benefiting Falwells friends. Trumps former personal attorney Michael Cohen claimed that he had helped Falwell clean up racy personal photographs.
Based on scores of new interviews and documents obtained for this article, concerns about Falwells behavior go well beyond thatand its causing longtime, loyal Liberty University officials to rapidly lose faith in him.
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Were not a school; were a real estate hedge fund, said a senior university official with inside knowledge of Libertys finances. Were not educating; were buying real estate every year and taking students money to do it.
Liberty employees detailed other instances of Falwells behavior that they see as falling short of the standard of conduct they expect from conservative Christian leaders, from partying at nightclubs, to graphically discussing his sex life with employees, to electioneering that makes uneasy even those who fondly remember the heyday of the late Rev. Jerry Falwell Sr., the schools founder and Falwell Jr.s father, and his Moral Majority.
Read more: https://www.politico.com/magazine/amp/story/2019/09/09/jerry-falwell-liberty-university-loans-227914
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)Falwell is a fraud, like many so-called "religious leaders" are. It is easy to understand why they like tRump so much. Another con man like themselves. So happy to hear this. Open the flood gates wide. Bring this hypocrite down, then on to Franklin Graham.
ck4829
(34,977 posts)SayItLoud
(1,696 posts)When the media starts publishing the threesome pix even the fake Evangels will take notice. Pool boy, "trainer...
UpInArms
(51,253 posts)Last edited Mon Sep 9, 2019, 09:23 AM - Edit history (1)
Left: A zoomed-in close-up of Jerry Falwell Jr. in the crowd at WALL nightclub in Miami Beach, taken from the photo at the start of this section. Right: Also at the club that night were Trey Falwell and his wife, Sarah. | Seth Browarnik/WorldRedEye.com
In a Dec. 10, 2013, Instagram post, Becki Falwell and Michael Cohen pose for a photograph during a visit to New York City. "Wonderful seeing my great friend @michaelcohen84 in NY," Falwell wrote. "He's the best." | Instagram
President Donald Trump and Jerry Falwell Jr. onstage during Liberty's May 2017 commencement ceremony. | Getty Images
Ahead of Trumps speech at Libertys 2017 commencement, Becki Falwell wrote an email to several high-ranking Liberty officials: Its great advertising for Liberty to be on products with Trumps name. The school ended up printing and selling Trump t-shirts and hats. The shirts, in MAGA red with white type, read TRUMP in large block letters, with Liberty University Commencement 2017 in a much smaller typeface. Another design, used on both hats and t-shirts, borrowed Trumps campaign slogan and signature style: an all-caps Making America Great Again, then in a script font: One degree at a time. | Obtained by Brandon Ambrosino
dalton99a
(81,073 posts)eggplant
(3,893 posts)Marcuse
(7,399 posts)muntrv
(14,505 posts)calimary
(80,700 posts)UpInArms
(51,253 posts)Lying
Taking the lords name in vain
Coveting
.....
Nope ...
They all carry their get out of hell free cards
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)but kidnapping children doesn't bother them.
Porn star payoffs don't bother them.
This won't either.
There. Is. Nothing. That. Will. Make. Them. Think.
Take that to the bank.
McCamy Taylor
(19,240 posts)But when you are a faux Christian mobster, you are more likely to be surrounded by real Christians who have not been brainwashed to think that telling the truth equals "finking".
blm
(112,920 posts)looking to take over and absorb the GOP mob factions.
Kid Berwyn
(14,651 posts)underpants
(182,279 posts)White southern evangelical
Jerry was bleeding money when floated him with a crazy low interest loan. CNN started putting Jerry on the air just as Moon wanted.
UpInArms
(51,253 posts)And the former President deserves the honor. Barbara Bush ought to get a rousing cheer as well. The two of them have been beating the bushes for Reverend Sun Myung Moon for years.
Moon and his Unification Church came to America in the 1970s and quickly plunged into Washington politics. In the 1970s, church officials organized prayer breakfasts and rallies in support of President Richard M. Nixon, dispatched young female members to infiltrate congressional offices and had extensive operational ties with the Korean Central Intelligence Agency as part of the agencys efforts to influence U.S. officials, according to a 1978 report by a House subcommittee, the Washington Post would later report.
Those ties became fodder for the 1976 Koreagate scandal, which centered around the figure of Washington lobbyist Tongsun Park, a man legendary for his lavish parties and gifts of cash in white envelopes. He, too, was long suspected of being connected to Korean intelligence; he was also an influence peddler of great renown, and anywhere from 30 to more than 100 members of congress were said to be under his thumb at the time. Park was never charged with any crime in connection with Koreagate, but last year he was convicted on conspiracy charges for his role in Saddam Husseins United Nations oil-for-food machinations.
Moon was not prosecuted in connection with Koreagate, but he later became a target of an IRS investigation and in 1982 was convicted of conspiracy and filing false tax returns. He spent 18 months in federal prison. It was also in 1982 that he launched the Washington Times, whichwith its access to conservative figures and reporters drawn from the newsroom of the defunct Washington Star soon became essential reading for political news junkies.
Through the early 80s, while Bush served as Vice President, Moon operatives were building ties with the New Rightflying Hill staffers to junta-ruled El Salvador, and supporting the Nicaraguan contras fight against the Sandinista government. The late Terry Dolan, chairman of the National Conservative Political Action Committee (NCPAC) and often credited with pioneering the modern political attack ad, helped Moon burrow into the conservative mainstream.
keithbvadu2
(36,369 posts)Yes, Sun Myung Moon Was a Messiah. No, He Wont Be Resurrected.
Followers believe that Jesus served as the messiah until Moon took up the role as the second coming, approximately 2,000 years later. The second coming of the lord is not the physical return of Jesus Christ, she added, but the anointing of a person who inherits the mission of the messiah.
https://newrepublic.com/article/107091/yes-sun-myung-moon-was-messiah-no-he-wont-be-resurrected
Farmer-Rick
(10,072 posts)How much did this mobster take from Putin.
blm
(112,920 posts)gademocrat7
(10,623 posts)A man who has no moral compass.
Miguelito Loveless
(4,438 posts)but I believe huge parts of the political/evangelical Rights are massive financial fraud schemes. Evangelicals are using their tax exempt tax status to create dodgy tax shelters for their donors, and TrumpCo/GOP is a massive insider trading ring.
And Putin, on top of all his massive criminal wealth, has a huge blackmail/extortion operation that reaches worldwide into politicians, celebrities, and plutocrats.
UpInArms
(51,253 posts)Miguelito Loveless
(4,438 posts)jmbar2
(4,832 posts)Just another branch of the mob.
Miguelito Loveless
(4,438 posts)ck4829
(34,977 posts)Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)Welcome to DU!
AJT
(5,240 posts)Welcome to DU.
Miguelito Loveless
(4,438 posts)and plotting to take over the world. Too much work. I now leave it to the younger generation.
AJT
(5,240 posts)blm
(112,920 posts)calimary
(80,700 posts)Robertson whose international holdings were so obscenely lavish that they included a diamond mine in Africa. So tell me, since when does a purported man of God own a diamond mine? Even the Vatican doesnt have one of those.
That we know of, anyway.
eShirl
(18,466 posts)Response to UpInArms (Original post)
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Aristus
(66,096 posts)in your avatar.
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)Danascot
(4,664 posts)which is problematic in and of itself. But most people wouldn't know that so I agree with your point about displaying it on DU.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Mississippi
If one wants to express pride in being from Mississippi, I'm sure there are avatars in our system that don't include the Confederate symbol.
dalton99a
(81,073 posts)AllaN01Bear
(17,383 posts)my late mom said " the moral majority is either and neither ".
me saying this , the moral majority has and will never represent me as a christian. and kudos to the people who blew the lid off this continuing scam.
ck4829
(34,977 posts)JHB
(37,132 posts)From back in March:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142294310
Source: The Hill
Liberty University landed Pentagon contract after inauguration: report
BY ZACK BUDRYK - 03/28/19 11:26 AM EDT
A company owned by Liberty University won a jet fuel contract with the Pentagon, its first such contract, within months of President Trumps inauguration, according to the Daily Beast.
The Defense Department signed a contract to buy jet fuel from Freedom Aviation, which is wholly owned by the university, in May 2017, according to the publication, and has since bought more than $400,000 worth of fuel from the company.
Freedom Aviation owns six planes, which is maintains at the universitys Lynchburg, Virginia flight school. It provides both charter flights and private aircraft used by the universitys president, Jerry Falwell Jr. The Trump campaign reportedly paid the company more than $19,000 in air travel expenses in 2016 after Falwell Jr. endorsed Trump. ... The value of the award itself is $889,087, according to the contract. Its last date to order is listed as March 30, 2021.
Falwell Jr. is a major political supporter of Trump and has reportedly axed student newspaper articles critical of the president. In October he called for conservatives and Christians to stop electing nice guys, saying the country instead needs street fighters like Trump at every level of government. ... Liberty did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Hill.
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/436252-liberty-university-landed-pentagon-contract-after-inauguration-report
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Hat tip, Joe.My.God.:
Liberty University Got Pentagon Jet Fuel Contract
https://www.joemygod.com/2019/03/liberty-university-got-pentagon-jet-fuel-contract/
FBaggins
(26,697 posts)The company would actually have made far more without the contract.
Nor does it appear to be anything new. The company is the only fuel provider at the local airport. They've been selling fuel (at government-mandated rates) for years... with the highest annual spending occurring during the Obama administration.
mahatmakanejeeves
(56,897 posts)I'm off to see today's toons....
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)corrupt as shithole, and a sexual deviate like shithole.
And he claims to be a Christian?
WhiteTara
(29,676 posts)It's great that light is going to shine on that cockroach infested property. Maybe there is a ray of hope after all.
Cerridwen
(13,251 posts)Loathed by liberals, Falwell was force among right-wing
Falwell turned to politics after the Roe v. Wade ruling in 1973
The decision that granted abortion rights moved Falwell to found Moral Majority
Moral Majority was credited with helping to elect right-leaning politicians
Group's platform: Pro-life, anti-gay rights and return to conservative values
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On the heels of 1973's Roe v. Wade case, the Supreme Court ruling that gave women the right to have an abortion, Falwell was spurred to create the Moral Majority in the late 1970s. (Watch how Falwell was a major influence on evangelical voters in American politics Video)
Using the organization as a pulpit to rail against abortion, pornography and a host of other issues he deemed in defiance of God's will, Falwell became a lightning rod for controversy, famously saying AIDS is God's punishment for homosexuality. (Watch how Falwell "changed the face of the earth" Video)
Falwell joined singer Anita Bryant's 1977 campaign to revoke a South Florida ordinance that gave equal rights to gays and lesbians.
The Moral Majority aligned itself with the Republican party, taking credit for helping to elect Ronald Reagan in 1980.
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In the 1990s, Falwell used his television and radio shows to promote a videotape called "The Clinton Chronicles," which alleged that then-President Bill Clinton was at the center of a criminal conspiracy involving drug dealing and murder.
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It's almost as if there is some sort of vast right-wing conspiracy.
Wow, quell surprise. /s
Soph0571
(9,685 posts)If you gave [Jerry] Falwell an enema he could be buried in a matchbox.
SpankMe
(2,937 posts)oldsoftie
(12,410 posts)dlk
(11,438 posts)Falwell is just another con artist & religion is his snake oil. His tax exempt status should be revoked.
Rabrrrrrr
(58,347 posts)would never create a school that's an actual school.
It's a rightwing indoctrination and mind control machine, and a profit center for the assholes who run it.
Blue Owl
(49,934 posts)n/t
WhoWoodaKnew
(847 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,369 posts)Without the evangelicals, the rent-boy business would go bankrupt.
Lots of luggage to be carried.