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    Quote Originally Posted by JohnLanders View Post
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    An Editorial on the Falwells




    Holy Shit Jerry Falwell Sr. Used to go after PTL's Jim and Tammy Bakker back in the 1980's exactly the same way that we are looking at the former Liberty University leader.
    No way! Are you saying Jerry Sr. had a three-way with Jim and Tammy Faye?!?! Quick, pass the Brain Bleach!

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    Dudes wife is a freak! Love women like that.
    You and Ron.
    You are talking to a woman who has laughed in the face of death, sneered at doom and chuckled at catastrophe.
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    Quote Originally Posted by KimTisha View Post
    No way! Are you saying Jerry Sr. had a three-way with Jim and Tammy Faye?!?! Quick, pass the Brain Bleach!



    You and Ron.
    I didnt know Ron likes swinging wives too. Lmfaoooo. I've been with a few, straight freaks....and the husbands like to watch and video the fucking.

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    Quote Originally Posted by S281Saleen160 View Post
    I didnt know Ron likes swinging wives too. Lmfaoooo. I've been with a few, straight freaks....and the husbands like to watch and video the fucking.
    Ron just likes freaks. He thought Jodi Arias was hot.
    You are talking to a woman who has laughed in the face of death, sneered at doom and chuckled at catastrophe.
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    Larry Flynt comes back for the final laugh on the Falwell's. Welcome to Retro Politics from the 1980's and 1990's involving the Falwells

    Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt slammed former Liberty University president Jerry Falwell Jr. in a scathing editorial on Monday, calling out the evangelical leader's "gross hypocrisy" and accusing him of spreading a "gospel of greed."


    Flynt, in an article published in The Daily Beast, took Falwell Jr. to task not only for his recent personal scandals that included a Miami pool boy that led to his messy resignation from his post last week but also for his unwavering allegiance to President Trump.

    "If there is one person who could be said to have lifted the orange buffoon over the hump in 2016, it's arguably Jerry Falwell Jr.," Flynt wrote. "The evangelical base, crucial for the election of any national GOP politician, was not warming up to Trump in the primaries, for good reason. Here was a man who had violated almost every principle of Christian faith: he was married three times; accused of multiple extramarital affairs; repeatedly defrauded investors, contractors, and students; habitually lied; and practiced thinly disguised sexism and racism."

    Flynt's blistering criticism continued, faulting Falwell Jr. for assuring "his nervous flock that Trump 'lives a life of loving and helping others as Jesus taught in the great commandment.'"

    He also called out Falwell Jr. for supporting Trump following the infamous Access Hollywood tape where he joked about grabbing women's private parts. Flynt said that while conservatives were getting cold feet about the 2016 Republican presidential nominee, Falwell Jr. "came galloping to the rescue" with "choice bits of flimflammery" including rationalizations that Christians needed "to choose the leader that would make the best king or president and not necessarily someone who would be a good pastor."


    In December 2018, Falwell Jr. continued to heap praise Trump and rationalized his actions: "It's such a distortion of the teaching of Jesus to say that what he taught us to do personally - to love our neighbors as ourselves, help the poor - can somehow be imputed on a nation. Jesus never told Caesar how to run Rome."

    Flynt, who is famous for publishing the pornographic magazine, has never been shy about his feelings toward Trump.

    In 2017, he offered up to $10 million to anyone who could produce intel that would lead to Trump's impeachment and removal from office. In 2016, he dangled $1 million to anyone who could turn over video or audio catching Trump behaving in a sexually demeaning or illegal manner.

    Flynt has also had his issues with the Falwell family that started in the 1970s after he published Hustler.

    Jerry Falwell Sr., then the head of the Moral Majority Christian political group, sued Flynt for libel over a parody in Hustler of a Campari ad that used the liqueur's slogan: "You'll never forget your first time."

    The parody featured an interview with Falwell Sr. reminiscing about his "first time" - with his mother in a Virginia outhouse.

    The lawsuit lasted several years and included three decisions against Flynt in federal court. The appeals went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and Flynt was ultimately vindicated in a unanimous decision written by conservative Chief Justice William Rehnquist.

    Flynt said despite the lawsuit, he and Falwell Sr. became friends later in life.

    "We enjoyed many cordial visits, participated in debates across the country, and even exchanged Christmas cards," he said. "I have to concede that his friendship with me proves that, for the most part, he was practicing an essential tenet of his faith, forgiveness, and was a sincere Christian."

    Those feelings apparently were not extended to Falwell Sr.'s son.

    Former Miami pool boy calls Jerry Falwell Jr. a ‘predator’Video
    Falwell Jr. resigned from the Lynchburg, Va.-based university last week following a tumultuous few months that included posting a picture on social media of a young woman with her zipper undone as well as explosive allegations made by Giancarlo Granda who alleged Falwell Jr. and his wife Becki participated in a long-term affair with him, in which Granda engaged in sexual acts with Becki while Falwell Jr. looked on.



    Falwell Jr. has denied that claim and pinned the blame solely on his wife. He said he was hyper-focused on Liberty University after taking over as president in 2007 and that it likely led to his wife's "mistake."

    While Falwell Jr. won't be returning to Liberty any time soon, he did walk away with an estimated $10.5 million payout.

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    https://www.foxnews.com/us/larry-fli...ypocrisy-trump

    Larry Flynt comes back for the final laugh on the Falwell's. Welcome to Retro Politics from the 1980's and 1990's involving the Falwells

    Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt slammed former Liberty University president Jerry Falwell Jr. in a scathing editorial on Monday, calling out the evangelical leader's "gross hypocrisy" and accusing him of spreading a "gospel of greed."


    Flynt, in an article published in The Daily Beast, took Falwell Jr. to task not only for his recent personal scandals that included a Miami pool boy that led to his messy resignation from his post last week but also for his unwavering allegiance to President Trump.

    "If there is one person who could be said to have lifted the orange buffoon over the hump in 2016, it's arguably Jerry Falwell Jr.," Flynt wrote. "The evangelical base, crucial for the election of any national GOP politician, was not warming up to Trump in the primaries, for good reason. Here was a man who had violated almost every principle of Christian faith: he was married three times; accused of multiple extramarital affairs; repeatedly defrauded investors, contractors, and students; habitually lied; and practiced thinly disguised sexism and racism."

    Flynt's blistering criticism continued, faulting Falwell Jr. for assuring "his nervous flock that Trump 'lives a life of loving and helping others as Jesus taught in the great commandment.'"

    He also called out Falwell Jr. for supporting Trump following the infamous Access Hollywood tape where he joked about grabbing women's private parts. Flynt said that while conservatives were getting cold feet about the 2016 Republican presidential nominee, Falwell Jr. "came galloping to the rescue" with "choice bits of flimflammery" including rationalizations that Christians needed "to choose the leader that would make the best king or president and not necessarily someone who would be a good pastor."


    In December 2018, Falwell Jr. continued to heap praise Trump and rationalized his actions: "It's such a distortion of the teaching of Jesus to say that what he taught us to do personally - to love our neighbors as ourselves, help the poor - can somehow be imputed on a nation. Jesus never told Caesar how to run Rome."

    Flynt, who is famous for publishing the pornographic magazine, has never been shy about his feelings toward Trump.

    In 2017, he offered up to $10 million to anyone who could produce intel that would lead to Trump's impeachment and removal from office. In 2016, he dangled $1 million to anyone who could turn over video or audio catching Trump behaving in a sexually demeaning or illegal manner.

    Flynt has also had his issues with the Falwell family that started in the 1970s after he published Hustler.

    Jerry Falwell Sr., then the head of the Moral Majority Christian political group, sued Flynt for libel over a parody in Hustler of a Campari ad that used the liqueur's slogan: "You'll never forget your first time."

    The parody featured an interview with Falwell Sr. reminiscing about his "first time" - with his mother in a Virginia outhouse.

    The lawsuit lasted several years and included three decisions against Flynt in federal court. The appeals went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and Flynt was ultimately vindicated in a unanimous decision written by conservative Chief Justice William Rehnquist.

    Flynt said despite the lawsuit, he and Falwell Sr. became friends later in life.

    "We enjoyed many cordial visits, participated in debates across the country, and even exchanged Christmas cards," he said. "I have to concede that his friendship with me proves that, for the most part, he was practicing an essential tenet of his faith, forgiveness, and was a sincere Christian."

    Those feelings apparently were not extended to Falwell Sr.'s son.

    Former Miami pool boy calls Jerry Falwell Jr. a ?predator?Video
    Falwell Jr. resigned from the Lynchburg, Va.-based university last week following a tumultuous few months that included posting a picture on social media of a young woman with her zipper undone as well as explosive allegations made by Giancarlo Granda who alleged Falwell Jr. and his wife Becki participated in a long-term affair with him, in which Granda engaged in sexual acts with Becki while Falwell Jr. looked on.



    Falwell Jr. has denied that claim and pinned the blame solely on his wife. He said he was hyper-focused on Liberty University after taking over as president in 2007 and that it likely led to his wife's "mistake."

    While Falwell Jr. won't be returning to Liberty any time soon, he did walk away with an estimated $10.5 million payout.

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    Quote Originally Posted by S281Saleen160 View Post
    Dudes wife is a freak! Love women like that.


    Not until you are threatened with retaliation and a lawsuit!! Like what Giancarlo Grands just went through. Be careful for what you wish for :D.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JohnLanders View Post


    Not until you are threatened with retaliation and a lawsuit!! Like what Giancarlo Grands just went through. Be careful for what you wish for :D.
    Retaliation? LoL. Lawsuit? That would never happen to me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KimTisha View Post
    Ron just likes freaks. He thought Jodi Arias was hot.
    I could be wrong but didn't she have a lot of men who think she's hot? I think I read somewhere that men write to her in prison wanting to marry her. LoL.

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    https://world.wng.org/2020/09/questi...tees_oversight

    The executive committee of Liberty University’s board of trustees announced Monday that it’s hiring a forensics firm to investigate “all facets” of Jerry Falwell Jr.’s tenure as the school’s president.

    Critics had pointed to Falwell’s erratic behavior, public statements, and questionable business for years. But it took salacious personal scandals to force Liberty University’s board finally to take action in August. First it suspended Falwell indefinitely after Falwell posted a racy photo on Instagram, then accepted his resignation when details of his wife’s extramarital affair came to light.

    Despite the scandals, Falwell says he’s walking away with a $10.5 million severance package, though it’s not clear what of that may be severance pay and what could be deferred retirement income. “The board was gracious not to challenge that,” he told The Washington Post. “There wasn’t any cause. I haven’t done anything wrong.”

    The executive committee statement Monday acknowledged skepticism about the board’s governance: “Some may say that all the signs were there for a long time before last week, but all the signs were not there until the start of last week.” But critics—including many Liberty alumni—say the board of trustees, particularly its executive committee, didn’t provide enough accountability to Falwell in recent years. They point to his brash behavior and reports of questionable business deals. The private foundation of one executive committee member received a $30,000 donation from Liberty, disclosed in a 2017 tax filing.

    By late 2015, at least three Liberty board members had resigned because of the full board’s inability to provide checks and balances to Liberty’s president.

    Jimmy Thomas and his family have invested much in Liberty in the last 30 years. In 1992, Thomas and fellow Lynchburg, Va., businessman Daniel Reber donated $1.4 million for construction of Liberty’s dining hall, known as Reber-Thomas. When Liberty was drowning in debt and struggled to make payroll in 1995, Thomas and Reber bought $30 million of Liberty’s debt and forgave it. Thomas accepted an honorary doctorate from Liberty in 2019. Son Glen, after attending Liberty, donated hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of land to Liberty in 2008.

    In November 2013, Liberty alumni Glen and Jimmy Thomas Jr. joined their father, Jimmy Thomas Sr., on Liberty’s board of trustees. But what went unreported until now: Their tenure didn’t last long—two years later they had all resigned. Critical of the board’s ability to hold the president accountable in managing Liberty, the three proposed changes. But the board didn’t enact those changes. “The reason we resigned from the board was because we felt like we were in a role where we had accountability but we had no authority,” Glen Thomas told me. “I felt like, if I’m going to be on the board, I have a fiduciary responsibility to be on that board and be an overseer of the university.”

    So who does have the authority to hold the school’s president accountable? Falwell’s claim that the board had no cause to fire him raises questions about the terms of his contract. Because Liberty is a private school, it doesn’t have to disclose the contract’s terms. Non-disclosure agreements keep trustees and other officials from sharing details with the public, and few people have even seen Falwell’s employment contracts.

    Liberty’s tax filings do state Falwell’s compensation, which in 2017 (the last year available) topped $ 1 million. It had been just shy of $1 million for several years prior to 2017.

    Liberty’s bylaws hand the responsibility of negotiating a president’s contract and evaluating his job performance to the board of trustees’ executive committee (currently comprised of five people), independent of the full, 32-member board. The bylaws don’t require the executive committee to disclose the terms of the president’s contract to the full board, nor does the full board vote on the employment contract. People familiar with how Liberty’s board works say the full board never would have seen the full terms of Falwell’s employment contracts, the latest of which Falwell signed in 2019.

    Michael Poliakoff, president of the American Council for Trustees and Alumni (ACTA), warned against all-powerful executive committees: “That is not healthy. It’s common enough, but it’s not healthy.” ACTA is a non-profit that advocates for trustees providing more accountability for colleges and universities, among other things. An entire board rubber-stamping an executive committee’s decisions means the board “is not performing its duty as a fiduciary, governing board,” Poliakoff said.

    Falwell’s claims also raise the question of whether his contract included a morals clause barring immoral behavior. Because of board protocols and non-disclosure agreements, only a few people actually know whether Falwell’s contracts had morals clauses. If they did, Liberty’s board has given no indication it’s going to enforce them.

    Price Harding is chairman of executive search firm Carter Baldwin, which has performed work for Liberty in the past. He says most Christian schools don’t include morals clauses in presidents’ contracts because doctrinal and community life standards usually keep administrators in check and give trustees enough authority to hold them accountable.

    Some of Falwell’s more alarming behavior—his possible involvement in his wife’s affair, his posting of an Instagram photo of him and another woman with pants unzipped and stomachs exposed, his calling a Liberty parent a “dummy” and a Liberty student “retarded”—could constitute morals clause violations.

    But even if Falwell’s newest contract didn’t have a morals clause, the school’s bylaws lay out the president’s responsibilities: “He provides spiritual and worldview leadership to the university in the pursuit of excellence.” Another section outlining the removal of board members allows trustees to hold each other accountable, saying trustees can be removed “should the board member’s conduct discredit the institution or be detrimental to the reputation, character, standing, or Christian mission of the institution.” As president, Falwell was a member of the board of trustees.

    Several of Falwell’s public statements in recent years call into question whether he lived up to those mandates. He told pastor David Platt on Twitter to “grow a pair” in 2019. He removed the tweet but in response said he’s not a spiritual leader: “I have never been a minister. UVA-trained lawyer and commercial real estate developer for 20 yrs,” he tweeted. “The faculty, students, and campus pastor … are the ones keeping LU strong spiritually.”

    That same year, a reporter for sports website The Ringer asked Falwell how much his faith informed his politics. “Not at all,” Falwell told him.

    In May 2020, Falwell protested Virginia’s COVID-19 facemask mandate. He tweeted a medical school yearbook photo of Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam in blackface standing next to a man in a Ku Klux Klan robe. The photo—which previously had become a scandal of its own for Northam—was superimposed onto a facemask. Backlash ensued. Black students transferred, and black faculty and staff resigned.

    Maina Mwaura, a 1997 Liberty alumnus, pastor, speaker, and writer, organized a letter from Liberty’s black alumni, which asked Falwell to retract the tweet and take a job in politics, not leading Liberty. Mwaura got 35 people to sign the letter, and almost 40,000 people signed an online petition supporting it.

    Mwaura wasn’t surprised by the groundswell of support he and his letter received—or the rollercoaster of events leading to Falwell’s resignation. But the board’s inaction before the sex scandals did: “The lack of accountability really bothered me. At the end of the day, the board of directors completely failed us as an institution … It wasn’t just one thing.”

    Mwaura says he approached three board members directly about Falwell’s behavior. “Literally on almost every occasion I got nothing back,” he said.

    The executive committee in its Monday statement alluded to a lack of spiritual leadership from Falwell: “We are also committed to learning the consequences that have flowed from a lack of spiritual stewardship by our former president.” The committee announced while beginning a search for a new president, it may establish a new position “in the top leadership of the university” to be a spiritual coach to Liberty administrators.

    In 2016, one influential board member spoke out against Falwell’s political endorsement of Donald Trump. Then-executive committee chairman and former Jerry Falwell Sr. chief of staff Mark DeMoss told The Washington Post in March that the Trump endorsement was a mistake. DeMoss told reporters that at the next board of trustees meeting in April, other executive committee members asked him to resign from the committee. DeMoss did and also resigned from the full board.

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    https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/07/u...986.1599188590

    MIAMI — A settlement has been reached in a Florida court case over a disputed business deal that resulted from an unusual friendship that Jerry Falwell Jr. and his wife struck with a former pool attendant at a Miami Beach hotel, court records show.

    As part of the settlement, which was filed Friday in Miami federal court, Mr. Falwell will pay an undisclosed sum to a young man who claimed he had been offered an ownership stake in a gay-friendly youth hostel, the Miami Hostel, that Mr. Falwell and his wife, Becki, bought in 2013.

    Mr. Falwell is the chancellor of one of the nation’s largest Christian colleges, Liberty University, and one of President Trump’s best known evangelical supporters.

    The settlement brings to a close a case that drew national attention over purported sexually compromising photographs involving the Falwells that could have been used as leverage against them. Michael Cohen, Mr. Trump’s former fixer who is now in prison, has said he intervened to help Mr. Falwell with the photos.

    After Mr. Cohen’s involvement, the plaintiff, Jesus Fernandez Jr., said the case had forced him to change his name to Gordon Bello. His father, Jesus Fernandez Sr., who is no longer part of the lawsuit, became Jett Bello. The Bellos — then the Fernandezes — had filed the suit claiming the Falwells had promised them a share in the Miami Hostel. In a statement to The New York Times earlier this year, the senior Mr. Bello would not further explain the name changes, citing the pending litigation.

    Mr. Falwell has denied the existence of the photographs, which Mr. Cohen discussed with the actor Tom Arnold, an anti-Trump crusader, in a secret recording. In legal filings, the Falwells denied ever promising the Fernandezes a share of the ownership of the hostel, which rents beds for as little as $15 a night.

    The $4.7 million cash purchase of the hostel and its building — including a $1.8 million loan from the Falwells, according to a sworn affidavit — was a business venture with Giancarlo Granda, whom the couple befriended poolside at a Miami Beach hotel, the Fontainebleau, in 2012. Mr. Granda consulted a high school friend, the junior Mr. Bello, whose father had worked in Miami real estate for decades. (Mr. Falwell, who is not a minister, spent years as a lawyer and real estate developer.)

    By the time the court case reached an impasse in late 2015, the fight had turned to the photos, several people involved in the case told The Times earlier this year. One or more people among Mr. Granda, the Bellos and their lawyers were believed to have the photos in their possession.

    Mr. Cohen told Mr. Arnold in the recording that he was going to pay for the photographs and ensure no copies were kept by anyone else. He made a reference in the tape to the “pool boy,” who could have been Mr. Granda. But Mr. Cohen never specified whom he planned to pay. The payoff “never happened,” he added. A person close to the Falwells told The Times earlier this year that they did not know of Mr. Cohen’s supposed involvement until parts of Mr. Arnold’s recording were released.

    Mr. Falwell’s lawyer, Joshua B. Spector, did not immediately respond to a phone call and an email seeking comment on Monday. Neither did Michael L. Addicott, a lawyer for the junior Mr. Bello.

    Last month, Mr. Falwell moved the case to federal court, arguing that state court was an improper venue for a lawsuit between two people who lived in different states. Mr. Falwell resides in Virginia and Mr. Bello in South Florida, where he is a legislative aide to the Miami-Dade County Commission.

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    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In his book released today, Michael Cohen, the former fixer for U.S. President Donald Trump, ties for the first time the 2016 presidential endorsement of Trump by American evangelical leader Jerry Falwell Jr to Cohen?s own role in helping to keep racy ?personal? photographs of the Falwells from becoming public.

    As Reuters reported last year, the Falwells enlisted Cohen to keep ?a bunch of photographs, personal photographs? from becoming public, Cohen said in a recording, made surreptitiously by comedian Tom Arnold. ?I actually have one of the photos,? he said, without going into specifics. ?It?s terrible.?

    In ?Disloyal: The Memoir,? Cohen describes thinking that his involvement in the Falwell photo matter would be a ?catch and kill? ? the practice of American tabloids to obtain and then suppress unfavorable stories about celebrities ? ?but in this case it was just going to be kill.?

    He later writes: ?In good time, I would call in this favor, not for me, but for the Boss, at a crucial moment on his journey to the presidency.?

    Cohen has said that he helped persuade Falwell to endorse Trump just before Republican voters gathered in Iowa in February 2016 to nominate a presidential candidate. Falwell not only publicly vouched for Trump?s Christian virtues but also barnstormed with the candidate. His backing of Trump ? a twice-divorced candidate who had talked about grabbing women?s genitals and engaged in extramarital affairs ? was one of the major surprises of the 2016 campaign.

    In the book, Cohen doesn?t explicitly say that the endorsement was the favor he sought in return for his help in having kept the Falwell photos from getting out. But his account marks the first time he has linked the two issues.

    Earlier this year, Cohen was quoted by CNN saying ?there is absolutely no connection between the photos and my personal request to the Falwells to assist the Trump campaign.? How that comment jibes with what he?s written in his book is unclear. Cohen did not immediately respond to efforts by Reuters to reach him.

    After this story was published, Jerry Falwell spoke by phone with Reuters. He said that ?someone stole some pictures I took of my wife in the back yard. Topless. Big deal. OK?? But he said his endorsement of Trump had nothing to do with Cohen?s role in suppressing the racy photographs.

    ?It was no quid pro quo,? Falwell said. ?There was no me supporting Trump because of whatever Michael was doing.?

    Falwell said he endorsed Trump, at Cohen?s behest, because Falwell ?believed that a businessman needed to run this country.?

    Toward the end of the call, Becki Falwell, who has not commented on the Cohen book or the photographs, could be heard urging her husband to cut short the conversation with Reuters. ?Hang up the goddamn phone,? she told her husband. ?Hang up the phone, Jerry!?

    The White House dismissed Cohen?s account.

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    ?Michael Cohen is a disgraced felon and disbarred lawyer, who lied to Congress. He has lost all credibility, and it?s unsurprising to see his latest attempt to profit off of lies,? press secretary Kayleigh McEnany told Reuters.

    Cohen, who was convicted of campaign finance violations and other crimes, is serving the remainder of his three-year term in home confinement.

    Falwell, who at the time of the 2016 endorsement ran Liberty University, stepped down as president of Liberty late last month after Reuters reported that a business associate alleged a years-long affair with Jerry and Becki Falwell.

    That associate, Giancarlo Granda, told Reuters the relationship involved him having sex with Becki Falwell while Jerry Falwell watched. Jerry Falwell has denied involvement, saying the sexual relationship was between his wife and Granda only.

    Falwell?s departure from Liberty marked a dramatic fall for one of the most powerful figures in America?s evangelical Christian movement. He was widely credited with helping persuade many Christians concerned about Trump?s past to accept him as a repentant sinner.

    In his book, Cohen writes that he had become close to the Falwells in 2011, once securing tickets for one of their daughters to see Justin Bieber perform. He calls the Falwells ?dear friends, more like family to me.?

    But he also makes clear that, as in the smaller assistance in securing the Bieber tickets, he saw the help he offered the Falwells in the photo matter as transactional ? and enormously significant.

    FILE PHOTO: Michael Cohen, former personal lawyer for U.S. President Donald Trump, arrives at his Manhattan apartment after being released from federal prison to serve the remainder of his sentence under home confinement in New York City, New York U.S. July 24, 2020. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo
    ?Like the Bieber favor a few years earlier, this would have a huge impact on the 2016 election, evangelicals, the Supreme Court and the fate of the nation,? Cohen writes.

    ?If Becki Falwell was seen half-naked by the students of Liberty University, let alone evangelicals all over the country, it would be an unmitigated disaster,? he writes.

    After succeeding at keeping the photos from being released, Cohen writes that he ?called Becki and reassured her that the pictures wouldn?t get out, but I could hear the fear and sadness in her voice. I reassured her I wouldn?t let her down, and I didn?t.?

    ?There it was: my second chit with the Falwells,? he writes. ?In good time, I would call in this favor, not for me, but for the Boss, at a crucial moment on his journey to the presidency.?

    More on the Michael Cohen/ Jerry Falwell and Trump Connections.

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    https://www.foxnews.com/us/giancarlo...-scandal-broke

    EXCLUSIVE: Jerry Falwell Jr.'s days as a role model for students at Liberty University ended long before his bad behavior and debauchery spilled out into the public in a tawdry scandal that has left the conservative school his father founded reeling.


    While much of the world saw a rising power in the evangelical world and a scion whose support and counsel were coveted by conservative politicians, those closer to his Lynchburg, Va., base of operations knew there was another side to the 58-year-old millionaire. In the rolling foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, where he helped turn his father's vision into a juggernaut, it was long an open secret that Falwell had a problem with boundaries.

    It took a former Miami pool boy to reveal the disturbing flaws that have brought Falwell down.

    "I was afraid for a long time and was constantly reminded by the Falwells of how they would come after me if I spoke the truth, which is why it took so long to speak up," Giancarlo Granda told Fox News in an exclusive interview.

    FORMER MIAMI POOL BOY CALLS FALWELL JR 'REDATOR,' CLAIMS EX-LIBERTY UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT SENT HIM PIC OF STUDENT EXPOSING HERSELF

    Jerry Falwell Jr. and his wife Becki met and befriended Granda when he was a 20-year-old college student working as a pool attendant at the 5-star Fontainebleau Miami Beach hotel. What allegedly followed was seen as lurid by some, but jaw-dropping hypocrisy for the first family of evangelical education.

    "Becki [Falwell] approached me and invited me back to their hotel room to have sex while Jerry watched," Granda said. "After that night, Becki actively pursued me."

    The chance meeting would lead to a years-long affair and a he-said, they-said saga between Granda and the power couple that led to the August resignation of Falwell as president of America's largest evangelical university.


    Since the scandal broke last month, Granda claims the Falwells "have been relentlessly harassing me and people close to me," and said Falwell will do whatever it takes to make sure he doesn't spill any more secrets. While the alleged threats and intimidation tactics might have worked in the past, Granda said he's had enough and wants to come clean.

    He has shared text messages, emails and photos with Fox News that appear to back up his allegations and, at the very least, show the Falwells breaking Liberty's code of conduct on multiple occasions.

    "Their lavish lifestyle consisted of heavy drinking and going to nightclubs, which is strictly prohibited by the honor code that they expect everyone else to follow," Granda said, adding that Falwell didn't believe Liberty's rules applied to him and would often use his influence to have stories killed and rumors squashed.

    In 2019, Politico published a piece that called out Falwell for a trip to Miami's WALL nightclub. Falwell vehemently denied visiting the Miami Beach dance club on July 19, 2014, and claimed any images with him in it were "Photoshopped."

    A day later, Seth Browarnik, the owner of World Red Eye, a Miami-based photography company that documents the city's nightlife, searched his archives and found multiple unpublished pictures from the evening where several members of the Falwell family are seen in the club, including Falwell, Becki, sons Trey and Wesley, and Trey's wife, Sarah. In one of the images, Falwell is in the middle of the dance floor surrounded by people. In two others, the Falwells can be seen holding alcohol -- a simple act that could get a Liberty University student expelled. Co-ed dancing is also frowned upon at the school.

    Giancarlo Granda and the Falwell family go parasailing on vacation. (Giancarlo Granda)
    Giancarlo Granda and the Falwell family go parasailing on vacation. (Giancarlo Granda)
    Falwell's indiscretions weren't limited to Miami. His coarse language on social media mirrored the popular culture but shocked those back at the school his father had established in 1971 -- eight years before he began the influential Moral Majority.

    Eyebrows rose and tongues clucked at Liberty when Falwell told another Christian leader on Twitter to "grow a pair" -- a suggestion he also made to "spineless Repubs" on April 18, 2019.

    Falwell allegedly showed up on campus multiple times reeking of alcohol. At a Liberty football game, he accidentally sent a steamy picture of his wife to a number of school administrators, as well as to his own son. Then there was the picture he posted on Instagram of himself and a young woman on a yacht with their zippers down, which got him suspended. That scandal was followed by the bombshell report on Granda.

    Granda told Fox News that Liberty officials often enabled Falwell and held him to a different standard.

    "Everyone at Liberty University treated the Falwells like a royal family," he said. "Faculty, the Board, legal team and friends within the trusted 'inner circle' all looked the other way out of fear."

    Granda said he's been on vacation with the Falwells in the past, flown on Liberty's private jet and has pictures with the family at football and hockey games, touring the campus with guest speakers and at convocation.

    "They treated me like a part of the family," he said, acknowledging the peculiar dynamics of their bond.

    Two days before Granda's account of the relationship with the Falwells was made public, Falwell told a Washington newspaper that it was Granda who was trying to blackmail the couple, that his relationship with Becki had become obsessive, and that the situation had turned into a "fatal attraction." Falwell claimed Granda had threatened to expose the affair and that the threat triggered an emotional roller coaster for his family.

    Granda wasn't surprised that Falwell tried to pin the affair on his wife's promiscuity.


    "Jerry and Becki's version is false," Granda said. "[Jerry] was aware of our relationship from day one. Jerry is incapable of accepting responsibility for his actions. Therefore, I was not shocked by his attempt to shift the blame to someone else."

    Giancarlo Granda, who was befriended by Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr and his wife Rebecca while he was working as a pool attendant at a luxury Miami Beach hotel. (Reuters)
    Giancarlo Granda, who was befriended by Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr and his wife Rebecca while he was working as a pool attendant at a luxury Miami Beach hotel. (Reuters)
    Since Falwell's abrupt departure from Liberty University on Aug. 25, the school has gone through a reckoning as it struggles to come to terms with the fallout.

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    The school has hired a forensic auditor "to conduct a thorough investigation" that will examine the school's operations under Falwell, including financial and real estate deals made during that time. It is not believed the school will look into deals Falwell made between 2001 and 2005 when he was Liberty's lawyer.

    Multiple calls to the Falwell family for comment were not returned.

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    Not until you are threatened with retaliation and a lawsuit!! Like what Giancarlo Grands just went through. Be careful for what you wish for :D.
    I don't have many moral principles regarding consenting adults, but not swinging with people who publicly proclaim their piety is probably one of them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lena Norbert View Post
    I don't have many moral principles regarding consenting adults, but not swinging with people who publicly proclaim their piety is probably one of them.
    Same here.

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    I could be wrong but didn't she have a lot of men who think she's hot? I think I read somewhere that men write to her in prison wanting to marry her. LoL.
    Yes! According to Nancy Grace, she has a steady boyfriend now. People are crazy.
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    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...g-alcohol.html

    Jerry Falwell Jr showed up to Liberty University campus smelling of alcohol and once accidentally sent a nude photo of his wife to numerous people, including his own son, it has been claimed.

    The disgraced former head of the Christian college resigned last month after his wife's affair with Giancarlo Granda, 29, emerged.

    Granda says he had a six-year affair with Becki that began when they met in Miami in 2012, when he was just 20 and was working as a pool boy. He claims that Jerry knew about it and watched them had sex the first time then continued to give his blessing to the affair for years afterwards.

    Their seemingly friendly relationship fell apart when he tried to be bought out of the Miami gay-friendly hostel that the Falwells bought and put him in charge of.

    Then, Granda threatened to 'go kamikaze' and share details publicly.

    To get ahead of him, Jerry released a statement claiming Granda had had an affair with his wife but that it was brief and he had nothing to do with it.

    Afterwards, he stepped down from Liberty - the ultra-religious university that his father, Jerry 'Big Jerry' Falwell Sr., founded.

    Now, Liberty has launched an investigation into Falwell's conduct at the helm of the school.

    According to The Wall Street Journal, administrators say Falwell showed up to campus drunk.

    He also accidentally once sent a racy photograph of his wife to administrators at a football game, and to his son, they claimed. He denied the claims in the Journal.

    In an interview with Fox News on Wednesday, Granda said that the couple had been harassing him ever since he spoke out.

    Granda says the couple have been 'harassing' him since he spoke out +5
    Granda says the couple have been 'harassing' him since he spoke out

    '[They] have been relentlessly harassing me and people close to me,' he complained.

    He said he'd been afraid 'for years' to speak out because of how the couple may respond.

    Liberty tells all of its students that sex should only be between a man and his wife, and that sobriety should be practiced.

    Falwell Jr's behavior during his tenure at the school is now under a microscope and Granda claims it does not fall in line with the university's teachings.

    'Their lavish lifestyle consisted of heavy drinking and going to nightclubs, which is strictly prohibited by the honor code that they expect everyone else to follow,' he said.

    'Everyone at Liberty University treated the Falwells like a royal family.

    'Faculty, the Board, legal team and friends within the trusted 'inner circle' all looked the other way out of fear,' he said.

    The Falwell family has denied any and all wrongdoing.

    They say Granda has been trying to extort them for years and that he is fabricating most of his claims.

    OK Falwell you are always drunk in the office too.

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    Jerry Falwell Jr showed up to Liberty University campus smelling of alcohol and once accidentally sent a nude photo of his wife to numerous people, including his own son, it has been claimed.
    This alone is divorce worthy. I don't know why she's still with him.
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    This alone is divorce worthy. I don't know why she's still with him.
    Nothing is shocking at this point on how deranged the Falwell's are and also how many more accusers are yet to come forward is also at play here. Its when they come forward is the question here.

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    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...y-b487194.html

    Jerry Falwell Jr, the former head of Liberty University who resigned earlier this summer after a series of scandals, appears to have suffered an injury while intoxicated shortly after news reports of an alleged sexual relationship between himself, his wife and a pool boy was published.

    HuffPost obtained 911 audio and records suggesting Mr Falwell Jr suffered an injury on the night of 30 August, five days after he resigned.

    His wife, Becki Falwell, called 911 because her husband was hurt and claimed there was "a lot of blood right now."

    She said Mr Falwell Jr called her around 11pm and said he'd fallen down the stairs of their church and he was bleeding. Because the doors to the church were locked, Ms Falwell had to break in using a chair. She called 911 around 2:30am.


    The 911 dispatcher asked Ms Falwell if he husband had been drinking, to which she replied "yes." When the dispatcher asked if he had been drinking heavily, she said "I'm not going to answer that question."

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    Jerry Falwell Jr to receive $10m payoff after Liberty University resignation
    The dispatcher tried to push Ms Falwell, explaining that excessive alcohol use can thin blood and account for excess bleeding, but she continued to resist giving further information.

    ?The more I tell you the name, the more you?re going to understand why we?re not talking to you right now,? Ms Falwell said.

    Dispatch logs, obtained by HuffPost, said that ?He won?t let her take him to the hospital as he is stubborn. Caller was not forthcoming.?

    Medics arrived at the couple's home later in the night. A first responder noted that Mr Falwell Jr had cuts on his face, including under his left eye, across the bridge of his nose, and above both of his eyes.

    According to first responder reports, Mr Falwell Jr said he hit his head on a trash can. The report indicated that there was "blood in the area he indicated" as well as "empty alcohol containers." The report also said that Mr Falwell Jr's "had slurred and slowed speech and would repeat things already asked."

    Mr Falwell Jr resigned after a Reuters report detailed a sexual relationship he, his wife and Giancarlo Granda, a Miami man who knows the couple, had over the course of several years.

    In the report, Mr Granda claimed that the Falwells lived a "lavish lifestyle," that "consisted of heavy drinking and going to nightclubs, which is strictly prohibited by the honor code that they expect everyone else to follow."

    Liberty University, where Mr Falwell Jr served as president, has strict rules against sexual relationships between students and strict guidelines against alcohol use.

    A Wall Street Journal report spoke with former Liberty administrators, staff and donors that he "showed up to campus appearing drunk or smelling of alcohol."

    Mr Falwell Jr denied the allegations but said alcohol was not banned for faculty.

    Shortly before his resignation, Mr Falwell Jr posted a photo that showed him standing with his arm around a woman who was not his wife with his pants unzipped while he held a glass with a dark liquid.

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    Jerry Falwell Jr to receive $10m payoff after Liberty University resignation
    On 31 Aug, Liberty University's board of trustees announced it would launch a comprehensive investigation by an outside firm of Mr Falwell Jr's time as president.

    Mr Falwell Jr claimed the glass contained "black water" and was a "prop" as part of a Trailer Park Boys costume.

    The Independent has reached out to Mr Falwell Jr?s attorney for comment.

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    For 2? years, Giancarlo Granda had been telling his family about the generosity of his business partners. The wealthy couple from out of town had taken him under their wing, he said, rewarding the Miami pool attendant’s ambition with a stake in a multimillion-dollar real estate project. Now he wanted them to meet.

    In a trendy Italian restaurant inside the South Beach property where he’d become a part owner, Granda introduced his parents and sister to his unlikely benefactors: Jerry and Becki Falwell.

    Over wine and pasta, the president of Liberty University and his wife praised the square-jawed 22-year-old, saying he was like an adopted son, Granda and his sister recalled.

    “Oh, my God. They’re so nice,” Granda’s mother said of the Falwells afterward. “They’re so charming.”

    “You see?” Granda recalled replying. “They just want to help me out.”

    But the dinner in 2014 was about more than making an introduction, Granda now claims, and he was far more than the Falwells’ friend.

    Instead, Granda alleges he was in the middle of a years-long relationship with the Falwells in which he would have sex with Becki while Jerry watched and sometimes recorded. Becki acknowledges the affair with Granda, but she and Jerry both deny he was involved in any way.

    “I never participated in this affair as he now falsely claims,” Jerry Falwell said in a statement. “Obviously, it was a very painful period of our lives, but we reconciled and love each other.”

    Granda maintains that the intimate dinner — a photo of which Granda posted on Instagram on Nov. 14, 2014 — was part of an attempt to provide a cover story, as people began questioning the ties between the middle-aged evangelical couple and the handsome young college student.

    Granda’s claims about the affair, which were first reported in detail by Reuters, were made the same day Falwell stepped down last month as president of Liberty, the prominent Christian university his televangelist father founded a half-century ago in Lynchburg, Va.

    And the relationship may have played a role in the political fortunes of President Trump. Falwell endorsed Trump in 2016, not long after his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, said he helped the Falwells cover up compromising photos.

    In interviews with The Washington Post, Falwell said his wife had a one- or two-year affair with Granda, who then tried to blackmail them.

    “He is a liar and he’s an extortionist,” Falwell, 58, said of Granda.

    “It’s been a nightmare,” Becki, 53, said.

    But Granda, now 29, says the relationship went on for nearly seven years. Photos, emails, text messages and other documents he provided to The Post support that timeline. In a 2019 recording, Granda and the Falwells can be heard discussing a weekend they shared at a resort seven years earlier, and their fears that the getaway would become public. And screen grabs of a FaceTime conversation in early 2019 appear to show Becki topless and drinking wine while Jerry watched her talk to Granda.
    Granda said it was the Falwells who preyed on him.

    “I was groomed,” he said. “And before I knew it, I was trapped.”

    Granda, who now lives in the Washington area and recently earned a graduate degree from Georgetown, said his involvement with the Falwells ruined relationships with girlfriends and led him to contemplate suicide.

    “I’ve been living with this hell for so long,” he said. “I just want to get out.”

    'An unhealthy relationship'
    Granda was flitting between pool chairs and umbrellas in March 2012 when the 20-year-old noticed something unusual, even in the anything-goes atmosphere of Miami Beach.

    A bikini-clad woman in her 40s was snapping cellphone photos — not of the glamorous Fontainebleau hotel where Granda worked, but of him. A few minutes later, Becki Falwell approached and propositioned him, Granda said.
    At the time, he was a struggling college student while Jerry Falwell Jr. was leading the transformation of Liberty University into a billion-dollar Goliath with more than 100,000 students, most of them online. The nearly 15,000 residential students are forbidden from drinking or having sex.

    Born in Miami to middle-class parents from Mexico and Cuba, Granda grew up a few miles away from the glitzy wealth of the Fontainebleau.

    “We were regular Miami kids,” said Thomas Prescott, who played baseball alongside Granda at St. Brendan High School. “We’d go to parties, play poker . . . chase girls.”

    But Granda’s athletics and academics began to suffer when he became fixated on video games. The obsession got so bad that he quit the baseball team halfway through his senior year.

    “He developed an unhealthy relationship, an addiction,” recalled his sister. “Our parents didn’t really know how to handle that.”

    Eventually, Granda traded video games for martial arts, and began taking college courses part-time. By the time he met the Falwells, he had bulked up but described himself as lacking in confidence. Granda now believes the Falwells spotted that insecurity, and exploited it.

    After his shift that day at the Fontainebleau, he received a call from a blocked number. It was Becki, inviting him to a nearby hotel, Granda said. He was initially eager, dialing his sister on the way to tell her what was going on.

    “I told him it sounded kind of crazy, but he said, ‘It’ll be fun,’ ” his sister recalled.

    Granda hesitated, he said, when he got to the room and saw Jerry lying on the bed, looking drunk and with his pants unzipped.

    Becki poured Granda a glass of whiskey and told him to relax, he said.

    “Just go for it,” Jerry said, according to Granda.

    Falwell gave a completely different account of how he met Granda. It was at least a month after Becki met him, he told The Post, and it was entirely innocent.

    “I just ordered quesadillas from him at the pool,” he said. “That was about it.”

    Falwell later stopped answering texts, calls and emails seeking further comment.

    But Granda provided The Post with an email from Jerry containing photos from a second rendezvous the day after the first one. In one photo, Granda is standing next to Becki with his arm around her. In another, Granda is standing next to Jerry.

    “Hey Gian! Hope all is well with you,” the March 22, 2012, email from Jerry began. “Becki asked me to send you these pictures. Have a good night.”

    In the fall of 2012, Donald Trump delivered one of the more unorthodox convocation speeches Liberty University had ever seen. After accepting an honorary degree from Falwell, Trump advised the thousands of evangelical students in attendance to sign prenuptial agreements and always “get even.”

    Sitting in the front row next to the Falwell children, Granda was shocked — less by the speech than by the crowd’s adulation for his hosts.

    By then, Granda said, his relationship with the Falwells was in its sixth month. As the Liberty University president and his wife entered the auditorium, students broke into rapturous applause.

    The pressure of maintaining this double life would eventually overwhelm Granda as a lawsuit stemming from a real estate deal with the Falwells threatened to reveal their relationship. According to Cohen, that same lawsuit would play a part in powering Trump to the presidency.

    Cohen claimed he helped bury personal photographs for Jerry Falwell Jr. before the evangelical leader backed Trump

    The ill-fated deal had begun five months earlier, during a weekend Granda spent with the Falwells in New York City. The former video game addict pitched Jerry on investing in a website to help people recover from the affliction, Granda recalled. But Falwell — who’d long been a real estate developer — said he had a better idea. If Granda found a good property to buy in Miami Beach, Falwell would give him a 25 percent ownership.

    Granda turned to someone he knew from high school, Jesus Fernandez Jr., whose father had experience in local real estate.

    The Fernandezes helped steer the Falwells to a South Beach building that contained a youth hostel, a liquor store and the Italian restaurant. But Granda said his friend asked him repeatedly about his relationship with the Falwells.

    “He kept saying, ‘What’s going on here?’ ” Granda recalled. “He suspected something.”

    Efforts to reach Jesus Fernandez Sr. were unsuccessful, and his son declined to answer questions about their business relationship with Granda and the Falwells.

    The deal was completed in early 2013 for $4.65 million, real estate and court records show, with the Falwells loaning $1 million to a newly created limited liability corporation, in which Granda was a part owner with Becki and the Falwells’ elder son, Jerry “Trey” Falwell III.
    For two years, Granda said he managed the hostel while occasionally meeting the Falwells in Miami Beach or at their Virginia farm.




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    Becki sent him romantic songs and inspirational quotes, and Granda posted benign pictures of himself with the Falwells on social media: emerging from their private jet, celebrating at their sons’ weddings.

    If anyone ever asked about their relationship, Jerry told Granda to say the Falwells were mentoring him, Granda recalled.

    Then in mid-2014, Granda received a phone call from someone representing the Fernandezes. The father and son would later claim in court that they had been promised a stake in the South Beach property deal by Granda and Jerry Falwell. But, according to Granda, the call focused less on the deal than his relationship with the Falwells.

    Granda said he called Jerry, who told him they needed to “normalize” the relationship by posting photos of the two families together. As they sat in the Italian restaurant across from the Falwells in 2014, Granda’s parents still didn’t know how their son had actually come to be a part owner of the lucrative property, he recalled.

    “Dinner with the family,” Granda wrote on Instagram under a picture of the six of them.

    With the Fernandezes threatening to sue, Granda said he met with the Falwells in May of 2015 at the pool of another South Beach hotel. Trump was going to announce his campaign for president, Jerry said. Then he offered to buy Granda out of the real estate project, Granda recalled.

    In January 2016, while running for president, Donald Trump delivers the convocation at Vines Center on the campus of Liberty University.
    In January 2016, while running for president, Donald Trump delivers the convocation at Vines Center on the campus of Liberty University. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
    Granda had recently started dating someone and wanted to cut ties — sexual and professional — with the Falwells, he said. But Jerry told him he had to wait until the legal threat was over, Granda recalled.

    A few weeks later, the Fernandezes sued the Falwells and Granda over the real estate deal, claiming fraud and breach of contract and seeking unspecified damages. The complaint alluded to the co-defendants’ “friendly relationship.”

    “The lawsuit was basically insinuating that there was a strange relationship,” Granda recalled. “So in my mind, I’m like, people are going to find out. This is terrible.”

    Inside Liberty University’s ‘culture of fear’

    It was around that time that Michael Cohen got involved.

    The Falwells had met Cohen during Trump’s visit to Liberty University in 2012. In his new book, “Disloyal,” Cohen claims that Jerry called him and asked for help in dealing with an unnamed young man who was suing the Falwells and had photos of Becki “half-naked” atop a tractor.
    Cohen called the man’s attorney and threatened to go to the FBI if the photos became public, he wrote, adding that Falwell would later repay the favor by shocking his fellow evangelicals and endorsing Trump in 2016.

    Falwell confirmed to The Post that Cohen helped keep the photos quiet, but said he didn’t ask Cohen to get involved, wasn’t aware of his role until after Trump was elected and always planned to endorse Trump.

    Last month, Falwell claimed someone stole the photos of Becki from his phone. In a later interview, he accused Granda of selling the photos to the Fernandezes — something Granda denies.

    Jesus Fernandez Jr., who has changed his name to Gordon Bello because of the case, declined to answer questions about the lawsuit or the alleged photos.

    “The Falwell, Granda and Cohen families must be going through very distressful times,” he said in a text message. “It’s not easy when the chickens come home to roost.”

    The lawsuit dragged on 4? years.

    On July 14, 2016, four days before the Republican National Convention, Jerry texted Granda suggesting they sign a letter of intent to sell the South Beach property, promising him a sizable payout.

    “Trey says there is enough for you and he to net $600,000 each after taxes,” Jerry wrote, according to a copy of the message Granda shared with The Post.

    Granda agreed, the text messages show, but the sale never occurred, leaving Granda increasingly frustrated.

    Still, Granda and Becki continued to exchange affectionate texts.

    “I miss you so much my heart hurts,” she wrote after seeing him in May 2017. “I couldn’t take my eyes off of you.”

    “Good morning beautiful,” he replied the next day.

    “Good morning gorgeous,” she texted back.

    And when he applied to a graduate real estate program at Georgetown in 2018, Granda asked Jerry for a letter of recommendation.

    “I became acquainted with Mr. Granda in early 2012 when he was working his way through college in Miami Beach,” Falwell wrote, adding that Granda was a “quick study.”

    Falwell, then president of Liberty University, speaks during the final day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland in 2016.
    Falwell, then president of Liberty University, speaks during the final day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland in 2016. (Carolyn Kaster/AP)
    A month later, however, a reporter from BuzzFeed began calling Granda.

    “We just need everyone to go silent and avoid creating a story where one does not exist,” Falwell texted Granda. The article came out three weeks later, with the headline: “Jerry Falwell Jr. And A Young Pool Attendant Launched A Business That Sparked A Bitter Dispute.”

    Granda tried to restart his life in D.C., but the “pool boy” stories kept coming.

    “My life is absolutely ruined,” he texted Becki in December of 2018 along with a photo of the coverage. He threatened suicide.

    “When they find my lifeless body hanging in the woods, please make sure Logan is returned to my family,” he wrote, referring to his dog. “Goodbye.”

    “Stay off social media,” Becki replied. “It’s all left wing nut jobs. That’s from Jerry.”

    Granda said he believes he missed out on internships because of the notoriety. Even when the lawsuit was finally settled in October, the scandal still clung to him.

    Granda began demanding the Falwells buy him out last year. When they wouldn’t, he decided the only thing left was to go public.

    “Since you’re okay with ruining my life, I am going to take the kamikaze route,” he wrote Jerry in June. “It really is a shame because I wanted to reach a peaceful resolution and just move on with our lives but if conflict is what you want, then so be it.”

    Granda texted a photo of himself in front of a microphone, recording a podcast.

    “You should by now understand that I will not be extorted,” Falwell replied. “I have always treated you fairly and been restrained in response to your threats because I did not wish to ruin your life. Going forward stop contacting me and my family.”

    'So proud of you!'
    Granda collapsed into a chair on the rooftop of his apartment building in the D.C. suburbs, rubbing his eyes with one hand while nursing a can of iced coffee in the other.

    It had been four days since Jerry Falwell stepped down as president of Liberty University, a move that will earn him $10.5 million in severance.

    After years of hiding his relationship with the Falwells, Granda was now in the middle of a media blitz. He awoke before dawn to go on “Good Morning America,” had an interview with the Associated Press in the afternoon and had a trip that evening to CNN to talk to Anderson Cooper.

    Giancarlo Granda went on a media blitz in August with his allegations against the Falwells.
    Giancarlo Granda went on a media blitz in August with his allegations against the Falwells. (Toni L. Sandys/The Washington Post)
    The interviews were being arranged pro bono by Kurt Bardella, a former Republican congressional aide whose ties to the Lincoln Project have led to accusations that Granda is getting paid by the anti-Trump outfit.

    But Granda insisted he hadn’t been paid to go public. Instead, he said his decision to step forward now was because of Falwell’s increasingly erratic behavior.

    In early August, Falwell took an indefinite leave from Liberty after apologizing for a photo he posted on Instagram showing him with his pants unzipped, stomach exposed and his arm around a young woman.

    “That’s what allowed me to be like, okay. I think if I come forward, people are going to believe me,” Granda said.

    After Jerry Falwell Jr.’s departure, Liberty University faces questions about faith, power, accountability

    He had tried to prepare his parents and girlfriend. But now there were news vans outside his parents’ house in Miami and his girlfriend would begin getting Instagram messages from Becki, warning her not to trust Granda.

    In the days before the Reuters article was published, Granda said the Falwells’ attorneys produced his texts mentioning suicide as proof of his instability, and a letter he’d once written at Jerry’s behest denying anything inappropriate as evidence he was lying.

    “The Falwells are trying to say I preyed upon them,” he said. “But they’re the ones that approached me. . . . They’re the ones that sucked me in.”

    He hoped speaking up would help him find a job and move on with his life. But he remains tied to the Falwells through the South Beach property.

    On Aug. 14, he texted Becki a photo of his Georgetown diploma as a reminder, he said, that he was no longer the 20-year-old she’d approached at the side of the pool.

    “Congratulations,” she wrote back. “So proud of you!”

    Her tone changed 10 days later, when the Reuters article came out.

    “I hope you’re happy and that you were paid very well,” she wrote that night. “Jerry just resigned.”
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    LYNCHBURG, Va. (WRIC) ? Jerry Falwell Jr., the former president of Liberty University, filed a defamation suit against the school Wednesday alleging it breached his contract and sought to damage his reputation with public statements after his resignation.

    Falwell, whose father founded the evangelical university, resigned as Liberty University?s president in August after his wife?s extramarital affair and a provocative photo of Falwell was made public.

    The suit claims that Falwell was pushed out after a politically motivated scheme from those who oppose Falwell?s support of President Donald Trump, including the Lincoln Project, an anti-Trump political action committee founded by Republicans, and Aaron Resnick, the attorney representing Giancarlo Granda, a former pool attendant who alleged Falwell Jr. was aware of his affair with his wife, Becki Falwell, aimed to discredit his standing at the university.

    ?When Mr. Falwell and his family became the targets of a malicious smear campaign incited by anti- evangelical forces, Liberty University not only accepted the salacious and baseless accusations against the Falwells at face value, but directly participated in the defamation,? the court filing states.

    The defamation suit alleges that Liberty?s statements following Falwell?s resignation violated the employment agreement he had signed, which had a non-disparagement clause, and ?gave Granda?s lies an air of truth? by forcing Falwell?s resignation.

    ?On August 26,2020, in its high-profile and publicly-broadcasted Community Service event, before thousands of gathered students and faculty ? and the world ? Liberty lent credence to Granda?s lies,? the lawsuit says, ?stating that Mr. Falwell had engaged in ?disobedient? behavior ?in secret? that was ?shameful? and a ?sin.? Liberty then repeated similar statements in a press release and its official magazine.?

    A Liberty University spokesperson told 8News that the school?s board of trustees are currently in session for their fall meetings and that Liberty ?would need to read and review a lawsuit before making comment, and as of this moment we have not been served.?

    ?We attempted to meet several times with the Liberty University Board of Trustees Executive Committee but were unsuccessful in doing so. Thus, we were forced to seek remedy for Mr. Falwell?s ongoing injuries and damage to his reputation through the Court,? Robert Raskopf of Quinn Emanuel, the lead counsel representing Falwell, said in a statement Thursday.

    Falwell seeks an undisclosed amount of damages from the school and a trial by jury.

    ?Other than God and my family, there is nothing in the world I love more than Liberty University. I am saddened that University officials, with whom I have shared so much success and enjoyed such positive relationships, jumped to conclusions about the claims made against my character, failed to properly investigate them, and then damaged my reputation following my forced resignation,? Falwell said in a statement. ?While I have nothing but love and appreciation for the Liberty community, and I had hoped to avoid litigation, I must take the necessary steps to restore my reputation and hopefully help repair the damage to the Liberty University brand in the process.?

    This story is developing. Check back for updates.

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