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August 24, 2020

Lol... Jake Tapper keeping it 100:

This is literally making Falwell Jr a cuckold. Which again is very ham-handed of this season’s writers.

https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1297935092858462210

August 24, 2020

The Lincoln Project deleted the "Monkey" tweet

Grifters gonna still grift:

https://twitter.com/HKrassenstein/status/1297967086698930176

Edit: the Tweet I linked to appears to be from a winger, but they did delete the tweet.

Edit 2: even the grifters deleted reference to it.

August 24, 2020

Matt Gaetz revealed that the Panhandle Republican went to Fox News star Sean Hannity for advice.

Matt Gaetz revealed that the Panhandle Republican went to Fox News star Sean Hannity for advice. The House report includes this text exchange between Gaetz and Hannity that happened in February 2019 https://politi.co/3gmKnh9




https://twitter.com/politico/status/1297889009692180480
August 24, 2020

Business partner of Falwells says affair with evangelical power couple spanned seven years

Giancarlo Granda says his sexual relationship with the Falwells began when he was 20. He says he had sex with Becki Falwell while Jerry Falwell Jr, head of Liberty University and a staunch supporter of President Trump, looked on.

By ARAM ROSTON

Filed Aug. 24, 2020, 4 p.m. GMT

WASHINGTON – In a claim likely to intensify the controversy surrounding one of the most influential figures in the American Christian conservative movement, a business partner of Jerry Falwell Jr has come forward to say he had a years-long sexual relationship involving Falwell’s wife and the evangelical leader.

Giancarlo Granda says he was 20 when he met Jerry and Becki Falwell while working as a pool attendant at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach hotel in March 2012. Starting that month and continuing into 2018, Granda told Reuters that the relationship involved him having sex with Becki Falwell while Jerry Falwell looked on.

Granda showed Reuters emails, text messages and other evidence that he says demonstrate the sexual nature of his relationship with the couple, who have been married since 1987. “Becki and I developed an intimate relationship and Jerry enjoyed watching from the corner of the room,” Granda said in an interview. Now 29, he described the liaisons as frequent – “multiple times per year” – and said the encounters took place at hotels in Miami and New York, and at the Falwells’ home in Virginia.

His friendship with the Falwells eventually soured, Granda told Reuters, in part because he wanted to dissolve his ties with the couple and fell into a business dispute with them.

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-falwell-relationship/
August 24, 2020

Hong Kong man was reinfected by the coronavirus, researchers say

Source: NBC

A man in Hong Kong has become the first confirmed patient to be infected with the coronavirus a second time, according to researchers at the University of Hong Kong.

The new finding suggests that some patients who recover from COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, may have only short-lived immunity from reinfection. The case will likely also be significant for scientists who have been working on treatments using antibodies from recovered coronavirus patients, and those who have been scrambling to develop a safe and effective vaccine.

The 33-year-old man in Hong Kong developed mild symptoms in late March, when he was first diagnosed with COVID-19, the researchers at the University of Hong Kong wrote in a study that has been accepted for publication by the medical journal Clinical Infectious Diseases.The patient was hospitalized on March 29, but his symptoms subsided and he was discharged on April 14, according to the study.

The second infection occurred more than four months later, reportedly after the man returned to Hong Kong from Spain, via the United Kingdom. The patient tested positive on Aug. 15 and was hospitalized but remains asymptomatic, according to the study.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/hong-kong-man-was-reinfected-coronavirus-researchers-say-n1237840

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