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edbermac

(15,919 posts)
Mon Dec 14, 2020, 11:59 AM Dec 2020

Jerry Falwell Jr. spent heavily on Trump, GOP causes with funds from nonprofit Liberty University

Jerry Falwell Jr. resigned as president of Liberty University in August after a series of scandals involving sexual indiscretions and questionable use of university funds on friends and family, but Liberty's board is still split on the partisan direction Falwell steered the private evangelical Christian school founded by his father, Jerry Falwell Sr.

Especially divisive, Politico reports, is the question of whether Liberty should continue funding the Falkirk Center, a conservative "think tank" named after Falwell and GOP activist Charlie Kirk that "has produced no peer-reviewed academic work and bears little relation to study centers at other universities," but did run "pro-Trump ads, hired Trump allies including former adviser Sebastian Gorka and current Trump attorney Jenna Ellis to serve as fellows, and, in recent weeks, has aggressively promoted [President] Trump's baseless claims of election fraud."

As a 501c(3) nonprofit, Liberty University is technically barred from supporting political candidates and spending money on political campaigns. But the Falkirk Center, founded in 2019, "purchased campaign-season ads on Facebook, at least $50,000's worth of which were designated by the network as political ads, that promoted Trump and other Republican candidates by name," Politico reports. And more generally, since endorsing Trump for president in 2016, Falwell has "pumped millions of the nonprofit religious institution's funds into Republican causes and efforts to promote the Trump administration, blurring the lines between education and politics."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/jerry-falwell-jr-spent-heavily-135804216.html

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Jerry Falwell Jr. spent heavily on Trump, GOP causes with funds from nonprofit Liberty University (Original Post) edbermac Dec 2020 OP
Isn't That Illegal? Me. Dec 2020 #1
Well sure, but so is using Federal property for partisan political events. Happy Hoosier Dec 2020 #4
In case anyone Turbineguy Dec 2020 #2
Another crime that needs to be put on The List Ferrets are Cool Dec 2020 #3
Kind sounds like Andy823 Dec 2020 #5
Kick dalton99a Dec 2020 #6
And all his skeletons still fell out of the closest malaise Dec 2020 #7
How'd that all work out? Blue Owl Dec 2020 #8

Happy Hoosier

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4. Well sure, but so is using Federal property for partisan political events.
Mon Dec 14, 2020, 12:15 PM
Dec 2020

Such old-fashioned ideas.

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