https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/09/09/jerry-falwell-liberty-university-loans-227914By BRANDON AMBROSINO
September 09, 2019
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 Falwell’s friends. Trump’s 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 Falwell’s behavior go well beyond that—and it’s causing longtime, loyal Liberty University officials to rapidly lose faith in him.
More than two dozen current and former high-ranking Liberty University officials and close associates of Falwell spoke to me or provided documents for this article, opening up—for the first time at an institution so intimately associated with the Falwell family—about what they’ve experienced and why they don’t think he’s the right man to lead Liberty University or serve as a figurehead in the Christian conservative movement.
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Note: This is a LONG read, but it pretty much confirms my suspicions about Jerry Falwell Jr. and his motivations. It goes into a lot of family dynamics: how Jerry Jr. was the ruthless one and Jonathan the devout Christian; how Jerry Jr.'s wife Becki is a sort of Rasputin at Liberty; how a lot of people who were deeply loyal to Jerry Sr. have deep misgivings about Jerry Jr.