Liberty's Falwell says he's target of 'attempted coup'
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Source: Associated Press
Sarah Rankin and Alan Suderman, Associated Press
Updated 4:43 pm CDT, Tuesday, September 10, 2019
Photo: Steve Helber, AP
FILE - In this Nov. 16, 2016, file photo, Liberty University president Jerry Falwell Jr., poses during an interview in his offices at the school in Lynchburg, Va. Falwell Jr. said Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2019, that he is asking the FBI to investigate what he called a criminal smear campaign orchestrated against him by several disgruntled former board members and employees.
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. said Tuesday that he is asking the FBI to investigate what he called a "criminal" smear campaign orchestrated against him by several disgruntled former board members and employees.
Falwell told The Associated Press he has evidence that the group improperly shared emails belonging to the university with reporters in an attempt to discredit him. He said the "attempted coup" was partially motivated by his ardent backing of President Donald Trump.
Falwell, head of the nation's most high-profile evangelical college, was among the earliest Christian conservatives to endorse Trump's campaign.
His allegations come after the publication of a story in Politico Magazine on Monday that alleged Falwell "presides over a culture of self-dealing" at Liberty that has improperly benefited him and his family. The story cited unnamed sources described as current and former officials or Falwell associates.
Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/education/article/Liberty-s-Falwell-says-he-s-target-of-attempted-14429079.php
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PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)milestogo
(16,829 posts)Kurt V.
(5,624 posts)Raster
(20,996 posts)murielm99
(30,657 posts)BlueMTexpat
(15,349 posts)a successful one!
50 Shades Of Blue
(9,777 posts)SATAN?!
underpants
(182,284 posts)Going back to high school with Jerry.
His daddy was the same but hid it. Jerry is a putt like his uncle. Rich entitled kid sho should not be running anything and now we find out he is a terrible person just like his dad. Not sure why that would surprise anyone.
hatrack
(59,446 posts)Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)This charlatan calls it a coup? What a term to use. Depose the Shah of Liberty?
Hey, move over, there are plenty of new faux Xtians waiting to fork in that kind of money.
Maxheader
(4,366 posts)but his ole man was a worthless p.o.s....
PRETORIA, South Africa -- Moral Majority leader Rev. Jerry Falwell met Monday with President Pieter Botha and emerged with praise for the white-minority government. He vowed to wage a $1 million media blitz in support of Pretoria and blasted Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu.
Nine South African churchmen -- six whites and three blacks -- who met with Botha to seek an end to nearly yearlong racial violence that has claimed some 635 lives, said Botha refused to listen to their pleas to dismantle the government's apartheid policy of racial segregation.
https://www.upi.com/Archives/1985/08/19/Falwell-defends-South-African-president/6836493272000/
tanyev
(42,362 posts)They might find some things you dont want them to find.
Opel_Justwax
(230 posts)walkingman
(7,512 posts)Gore1FL
(21,035 posts)I also hope they are successful.
dawnie51
(959 posts)use the same play book, don't they? It's a coup, it's a smear job, "fake news"... It's disgusting. Grow up, Jr. We see you.
keithbvadu2
(36,371 posts)Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)or you are just corrupt a hole. lol
lonely bird
(1,643 posts)for me to care less about asshat religionists.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,483 posts)In my youth in the Baptist church in the 50s and 60s, the tenants we were taught were humility, a life lived in modesty with excess given to charity, and honesty - among others. The pastors of our churches lived very modestly and in fact had to be "pounded" once or twice a year with donated food and supplies from church folk just to survive.
If these mega-church preachers such as Bakker, Falwell, Roberts, Graham, et al had lived by those standards....
* neither they nor their churches would have become wealthy (therefore not tempted by corruption),
* we would not have heard of them if we didn't live close by because they could not have built massive media organizations,
* Falwell and others would not be facing widespread public scrutiny or possible court action, and
* they might still be just everyday preachers driving a Buick and doing nothing but sermons, hospital visits, funerals and weddings.
Just a late thought.......
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brooklynite
(93,880 posts)Omaha Steve
(99,079 posts)Not important news.