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Former Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. is ready to sell the South Beach hostel that is notoriously linked to the “pool boy” sex scandal, though the deal is currently held up in court.

A company set up by Falwell’s son bought the Alston Hostel for $4.7 million in 2013. Giancarlo Granda, who befriended Jerry and his wife, Becki, while working as a pool attendant at the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami, was listed as a partner in the sale.

It was later leaked that Granda and Becki had been having sex in the years prior, with Granda claiming that Falwell filmed some of the encounters. The saga ultimately forced Falwell’s exit as president of Liberty University in 2020.

Granda’s name was removed from the hostel’s annual corporate filings last year, though he still claims to have a stake in the business.

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Rachel Maddow’s next project will take her to Russia — in a sense.

The journalist’s Surprise Inside production company will team up with Adam McKay’s Hyperobject Industries to work on the Rakontur documentary project “From Russia With Lev.” All three production entities are clients of WME.

The feature boasts exclusive interviews with Lev Parnas, the Ukranian-born operative whose association with former President Donald Trump and one of his attorneys, Rudolph Giuliani, took him on a strange journey that ended in a stealth campaign to produce dirt on then-candidate Joe Biden and a role in Trump’s first impeachment.

Maddow and McKay will serve as executive producers on the political farce, which is directed by Billy Corben and produced by Alfred Spellman, The duo have more than 30 hours of interview footage with Parnas and exclusive access to his personal archive that includes hundreds of gigabytes of photos, videos, documents,...

Hulu has acquired rights to “The Contestant,” a documentary about an aspiring comedian who unknowingly becomes the most famous TV star in Japan.

Clair Titley directed the movie, which premiered at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival to positive reviews. “The Contestant” will launch on Hulu in 2024.

The documentary tells the stranger-than-fiction story of Tomoaki Hamatsu, nicknamed Nasubi, who auditioned for a TV show in 1998. The premise of “Denpa Shonen: A Life in Prizes,” the series that eventually made him a household name in Japan, left Nasubi naked in an empty room for more than a year and tasked him with filling out magazine sweepstakes to earn food, clothes and other necessities. But he had no idea he was becoming wildly famous in Japan as the series was broadcast to more than 15 million people.

“The Contestant” explores one of the first extreme reality shows that pushed boundaries and paved way for others like it.

Liberty University has asked the court to dismiss Jerry Falwell Jr.‘s lawsuit.

The former university president filed a federal lawsuit over retirement money that was not given to him after his departure from his position in 2020. Falwell Jr. says the school owes him $8.5 million.

Falwell Jr.’s lawsuit also states the ways he helped the school, which was founded by his father, Rev. Jerry L. Falwell Sr., increase its profits.

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Falwell Jr. left the university in August 2020 after Giancarlo Granda, a pool attendant who became the Falwell family’s business partner, said he had a prolonged sexual relationship with Falwell Jr.’s wife, Becki Falwell, while Falwell Jr. looked on. After the story broke, Falwell resigned as president.

Liberty University sued Falwell Jr. in 2021, alleging that he negotiated his contract without revealing the sex scandal that ended up ruining the evangelical Christian college’s reputation.

Gravitas Ventures has secured North American rights to Julian Rubinstein’s “The Holly,” a documentary about the high-profile shooting case of anti-gang activist Terrance Roberts. The film, which debuted at Telluride’s Mountainfilm Festival in May, is executive produced by Adam McKay and Todd Schulman’s Hyperobject Industries. Gravitas will release the docu in three theaters and on-demand on Feb. 3.

Filmed over an eight-year period in Denver’s historic Holly neighborhood, the docu centers around activist, former gang member, and current Denver mayoral candidate Terrance Roberts. When the doc starts, Roberts — whose anti-gang efforts received federal funding — is facing life in prison for shooting someone at his own peace rally. The shooting happened in the Holly neighborhood, which was once the center of Denver’s Civil Rights movement. The neighborhood eventually became the home of Denver’s first Bloods street gang and a target of undercover police operations. In the doc,...

Hulu has set its next big true-crime doc project, a series following the notorious Sarah Lawrence College sex cult, just as its latest addition to the genre, Adam McKay’s “God Forbid: The Sex Scandal That Brought Down a Dynasty,” has achieved the title of Hulu’s most-watched documentary film to date.

The Disney-owned streamer, which does not release specific viewership figures for its content, confirmed to Variety that the new record set by “God Forbid,” and previously held by 2019’s “Fyre Fest,” counts all original and non-original docs and is based on hours streamed within the first three weeks.

Produced by Alfred Spellman’s Rakontur and McKay’s Hyperobject and directed by Billy Corben, “God Forbid: The Sex Scandal That Brought Down a Dynasty” centers on Giancarlo Granda, former pool attendant at the Fontainebleau Hotel, as he recounts the alleged events of his relationship with Becki Falwell and her husband,...

Miami’s legion of film fans get an extra treat this week via the expanded ninth edition of the Miami Film Festival Gems. The carefully curated, week-long festival (under the aegis of Miami Dade College) unspools Nov. 3-10 at Miami’s historic Tower Theater, showcasing some of the most lauded fall festival entrants along with five international Oscar submissions.

On the docket are awards contenders, from opener “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery” to closing night’s “The Fabelmans,” from Steven Spielberg. Sarah Polley’s buzzed about “Women Talking” is a centerpiece presentation; Darren Aronofsky’s “The Whale” is the other.

Narrowing down programming choices is never easy, says interim executive director Nicolas Calzada, but the festival’s aim is clear- cut and provides “an advance taste of the best films of the year that have strong chances at awards consideration.” Formerly a weekend, Miami Gems is now a week,...

When Miami-based documentary director Billy Corben and his producing partner Alfred Spellman received a June 2020 email with a subject line invoking Giancarlo Granda, Jerry Falwell Jr. and Donald Trump, they knew they had the next film for their Rakontur nonfiction banner.

Granda, a local pool boy who began having an affair with Falwell’s wife Becki in 2012, had sent the email. After telling his story to Reuters, Granda was ready to go on camera about his past relations with the evangelical couple. The result is the new Hulu documentary feature “God Forbid: The Sex Scandal That Brought Down a Dynasty,” released Nov. 1. In the doc, Granda claims that Falwell Jr., a staunch supporter of Donald Trump, was aware of and involved in the relationship he was having with Becki Falwell. After the Reuters article was published in 2020, Falwell Jr, stepped down as president of the evangelical college Liberty University in Lynchburg,...

In August 2020, Jerry Falwell Jr, one of Donald Trump’s staunchest supporters, resigned as president of Liberty University – a private, evangelical Christian institution in Lynchburg, Virginia. The university, founded by Falwell’s father – a prominent televangelist – is famed for its strict “moral code”, which includes the prohibition of alcohol, premarital sex and cohabitation. That moral code, as the university sees it, was not adhered to by its president, whose resignation came after he found himself embroiled in a sex scandal involving a pool boy from Miami, Florida.

In Hulu’s new documentary, God Forbid: The Sex Scandal That Brought Down a Dynasty, that pool attendant, named Giancarlo Granda, describes how his involvement with Jerry Jr’s wife Becki led to the downfall of one of the most influential families in America. In an explosive 2020 interview, Granda revealed that he and Becki were engaged in a seven-year affair and alleged that...

Alright everyone, we’ve got all the spookies of October out of our system. Time to turn our eye to Hulu’s list of new releases for November 2022 to celebrate a new fall tradition of…hunky male dancers?

That’s right, Hulu’s biggest original title for November 2022 is Welcome to Chippendales on Nov. 22. This limited series stars Kumail Nanjiani (Eternals) as Somen “Steve” Banerjee, the real life founder of the original Chippendales club of exotic male dancers. After hits like The Dropout and Pam & Tommy, Hulu likely has high hopes for this one.

The other big original series of note this month is FX’s Fleishman is in Trouble on Nov. 17. This is based on a 2019 novel of the same name and stars Jesse Eisenberg as the titular Toby Fleischman in crisis. Before that, Hulu is teaming up with ABC for some true crime docuseries like Where is Private Dulaney?...

The catastrophic descent of the man who put his religious sway behind Donald Trump is explored in a new Hulu documentary

Jerry Falwell Jr once said there was nothing that then president Donald Trump could do that would endanger support from him or other Christian evangelical leaders. “When Jesus said we’re all sinners, he really meant all of us, everybody,” he told the Washington Post in January 2019.

Falwell knew whereof he spoke. A year and a half later, he would resign in disgrace from Liberty University, the evangelical college his father founded in Lynchburg, Virginia, after a series of personal scandals that would have made even Trump blush.

The life of Jerry Falwell — the late Moral Majority televangelist who for decades helped catalyze the rightward shift of American evangelicals before his death in 2007 — is a quintessentially American story. But it’s in the next generation that the Falwell narrative becomes at once soap opera and morality tale.

That’s the case made by “God Forbid: The Sex Scandal That Brought Down a Dynasty,” a feature-length documentary released on Hulu. It covers the graceless fall of Jerry Falwell Jr., who after the death of his father was placed in the presidency of the family’s conservative organ Liberty University. There, he seemed to remain painfully in thrall to his appetites. We hear testimony about his alleged tendency to drink on the job and discomfiting, slurry interviews between him and sympathetic media — but most crucially, we receive the testimony of Giancarlo Granda.

Granda was a pool attendant at a Miami...

Details of the sordid affair between wife of Jerry Falwell Jr., Becki Falwell, and a pool boy she met at a Florida hotel have been relieved in an explosive new book.

Former pool boy Giancarlo Granda‘s new book Off The Deep End: Jerry and Becki Falwell and the Collapse of an Evangelical Dynasty sheds light on the six-year relationship.

In 2020, when the controversy first was revealed Jerry Falwell Jr. stepped down from his position as president of the evangelical college Liberty University, which his father founded.

Becki allegedly approached Granda during a stay at the Fontainebleau Hotel, in Miami, back in 2012.

According to Granda, she offered sex but only if her husband could watch.

“I was conflicted. On the one hand, she was in her bikini, touching her neck, fussing with her hair, paying me compliments, sipping on her drink while she stared into my eyes. I found it all very intriguing,...

Before the events related in this excerpt, Giancarlo Granda was just another 20-year-old Miami high school graduate: pool attendant at an iconic Miami Beach hotel, eager to please, ambitious, open to suggestion. A chance poolside encounter with Becki and then Jerry Falwell Jr., first-born son of an evangelical legend and his attractive 40-ish wife intrigued him. He acted on a lark, and was suddenly in the middle of a complex sexual affair with Becki. The affair gave Granda a firsthand view of immense wealth, unexpurgated power and unwavering faith, as...

A scandal that rocked the Evangelical Christian community is the subject of the upcoming Hulu documentary God Forbid: The Sex Scandal That Brought Down a Dynasty. The film focuses on the downfall of former Liberty University president Jerry Falwell Jr., who endorsed Donald Trump for the Republican nomination in the 2016 presidential election. “As a pool attendant, I would get hit on,” says former pool-boy turned Falwell business partner Giancarlo Granda at the start of the trailer (watch below). “But if I would have known that accepting this woman’s invitation to go back to her hotel room would have led to a scandal involving the president of the largest Christian university in the world, and the president of the United States, I would have walked away and just enjoyed my private life.” Granda is referring to his sexual relationship with Jerry’s wife, Becki, with whom he allegedly had an affair for roughly seven years.

Hulu is exploring the private life of Evangelical Christian leader Jerry Falwell Jr. The streamer has dropped a trailer for “God Forbid: The Sex Scandal That Brought Down a Dynasty,” an upcoming documentary exploring the scandal that lead to Falwell’s fall from grace in his community.

The documentary is built around interviews with Giancarlo Granda, who met Fallwell’s wife Becki as a pool attendant at the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach and engaged in a years-long affair with her. Granda alleged that the affair occurred with the knowledge and approval of Jerry Falwell, and that he occasionally watched the two have sex, which he has denied.

News of the affair became public in 2020, when Reuters published a story based on Granda’s account. The resulting controversy forced Falwell to resign from his position as president of Liberty University, the Evangelical University established by his father. Since then, it...

Michael London, the Snowfall exec producer who runs Groundswell Productions, has cemented his relationship with Lionsgate.

The producer and his banner have signed a first-look deal with Lionsgate Television Group.

The deal comes after London partnered with the company on a limited series about the rise and fall of Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr, which Deadline revealed in March.

Groundswell, which previously had a first-look deal at CBS TV Studios, is currently in production of season six of FX’s Snowfall and Fox Searchlight rom-com Greatest Hits.

London is responsible for films such as Sideways and Milk.

“There’s nothing better than having creative partners who are truly creative, as well as collaborative and smart. The Lionsgate team is all of those things and more. Shannon Gaulding and I are excited to jump into this new venture focusing on the kind of smart, singular, and entertaining television that both companies stand for,...

Michael London and his Groundswell Productions banner have entered into a multi-year first-look deal with Lionsgate Television.

Under the terms of the deal, Groundswell will develop premium scripted shows for Lionsgate across all platforms. One project already in development as part of the deal is a limited series about the scandals surrounding former Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr, based on a Vanity Fair article by Gabriel Sherman. Sherman is adapting his article for the screen and will executive produce along with London and Groundswell’s president of production, Shannon Gaulding.

“There’s nothing better than having creative partners who are truly creative, as well as collaborative and smart,” London said. “The Lionsgate team is all of those things and more. Shannon Gaulding and I are excited to jump into this new venture focusing on the kind of smart, singular, and entertaining television that both companies stand for.”

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Michael London, through his Groundswell productions, has signed a fist-look deal with Lionsgate Television.

London, an executive producer of the FX series “Snowfall,” is set to create premium scripted series for Lionsgate through Groundswell.

As part of the deal, London and Groundswell president of production Shannon Gaulding are working on a limited series detailing the rise and fall of Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. The show is based off of Gabriel Sherman’s Vanity Fair article on Falwell Jr., with Sherman adapting and executive producing with London and Gaulding.

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Producer Michael London has signed a first-look deal with Lionsgate TV, and his first project at the studio is a high-profile one.

London (FX’s Snowfall, Sideways, Milk) and Shannon Gaulding, president of production at the former’s Groundswell Productions, are developing a limited series about the rise and fall of Jerry Falwell Jr., the former president of Liberty University and son of the prominent evangelist and conservative activist. Lionsgate has optioned Gabriel Sherman’s Vanity Fair profile of Falwell, which he’ll adapt for TV.

The multiyear deal will also have London and Groundswell developing other scripted series for Lionsgate.

“There’s nothing better than having creative partners who are truly creative, as well as collaborative and smart,” London said in a statement. “The Lionsgate team is all of those things and more. Shannon Gaulding and I are excited to jump into...

Exclusive: Cadence13, the podcast studio behind series such as Once Upon A Time… In The Valley, is looking to get into the TV and film adaptations game.

The Audacy-owned company has hired TV veteran Patton Valentine to oversee this push of adaptating its audio IP for the small and big screen.

It comes as podcasts continue to a gold mine of IP for TV and film following the success of shows such as Starz’ Gaslit and Amazon’s Homecoming.

Valentine has been tasked with setting up TV and film projects based on its podcasts from both its C13Originals documentary studio and its podcast movie studio C13Features.

Deadline understands that a number of projects are already in the works. Shows that are being eyed for adaptation include cult series The Sunshine Place, which comes from Robert Downey Jr., true-crime series Gone South, psychological thriller Ghostwriter, which starred Kate Mara and...

Amid record-breaking viewership performance for “Victoria’s Secret: Angels and Demons,” Hulu has set the premiere date for its next big doc: the Adam McKay and Billy Corben-produced Jerry Falwell Jr. project, “God Forbid: The Sex Scandal That Brought Down a Dynasty,” Variety has learned exclusively.

Hailing from McKay’s HyperObject and Corben’s Rakontur banner, “God Forbid” tells the sensational story of evangelical leader and former Liberty University president Jerry Falwell Jr., his wife Becki Falwell and Giancarlo Granda, the Miami pool boy who had an affair with Becki and claims that Jerry was aware of and involved in the relationship. The streamer says Granda is closely involved with the doc and his point of view is largely the focus of the movie.

Per Hulu’s official description for the movie, which will launch Nov. 1 on the Disney-owned streamer, “A Miami pool boy finds himself trapped in a seven-year...

The Hulu original unscripted series “Captive Audience” has lived up to its name, earning record-breaking viewership for the streamer.

Hulu documentary chief Belisa Balaban told Variety exclusively that the show — which explores the harrowing kidnapping of 7-year-old Steven Stayner and its resulting media frenzy — has set a record for most-viewed nonfiction TV program in its first month of release.

Launched on April 21, “Captive Audience” is also the second-most watched unscripted series in Hulu’s history. Directed by Jessica Dimmock and produced by Wonderburst, High Five Content and Joe and Anthony Russo’s Agbo, the program is second only to “The Kardashians” in total viewership for its category.

“This is really a huge credit to that team, whose bold creative choices and empathy brought it to life. This project is a great example of what a Hulu true crime story is — not just the story of a family and what they’ve endured over the years,...

Exclusive: A limited scripted series exploring the rise and fall of Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr is in the works.

Lionsgate Television has optioned Gabriel Sherman’s Vanity Fair article on Falwell Jr with the journalist and The Loudest Voice in the Room author adapting and exec producing his story with Michael London and Shannon Gaulding of Snowfall producer Groundswell Productions.

The article, which was published last month, tells the story of the Trump-anointing dark prince of the Christian right who was brought down by a sex scandal. He resigned in disgrace from Liberty in August 2020 after it emerged that a former Miami pool boy claimed he had been having a seven year affair with Falwell Jr.’s wife Becki and Falwell often liked to watch them have sex.

In the piece, Sherman spoke extensively to Falwell and Becki about the tumultuous events that led to his ouster, their fallout,...

Exclusive: Talos Films, the production company behind series including HBO’s Torn Apart and Discovery+’s Queen of Meth, is to explore the Liberty University sexual assault scandal in a new unscripted series.

The company has signed an exclusive deal with the women at the center of the case and the series will document their fight for justice in The Liberty University Project (w/t).

Liberty University, founded by Southern Baptist preacher Jerry Falwell Jr., has been at the center of numerous cases of alleged sexual assault over the last two decades, where the university took no meaningful action against the alleged perpetrators and sought to dismiss victims’ claims.

It comes after ProPublica reported that students were discouraged from reporting sexual assault with some who reported rapes told they could be punished. Senators Tim Kaine and Mark Warner have called for an investigation.

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Exclusive: The story of the rise and fall of Jerry Falwell Jr. is to be the subject of season three of popular documentary podcast series Gangster Capitalism.

The franchise, produced by Entercom-owned C13Originals, has previously covered the NRA and the college admissions scandal. It will launch later this spring.

It will cover the sex, politics and religion of former Liberty University President Falwell Jr., who resigned from the university after it emerged that he had allegedly regularly watched his wife have sex with another man – one that he had given investment money in a hotel scheme.

The investigative docuseries will feature more than 30 exclusive interviews from current and former students, staff, faculty, administration, and insiders, as well as authors, historians, journalists, and theologians, some going on the record for the first time to reveal “explosive” and “revealing” new stories and information.

The first season of the show, which...

On May 27th, the second day of mounting national outrage over the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police, the president of America’s largest evangelical university decided it was the perfect time to blast out a tweet featuring the crudest of racial imagery. “I was adamantly opposed to the mandate from @GovernorVA requiring citizens to wear face masks until I decided to design my own,” wrote Jerry Falwell Jr. Below the text was his design: a mask displaying the image of a white person in blackface, standing next to...

Jerry Falwell Jr. allegedly got drunk, fell down and injured his face less than a week after he stepped down as president of Liberty University following reports that his wife had been having an affair with their pool boy. According to the transcript obtained by The Huffington Post, at around 2:30 a.m. on August 31, […]

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On August 25, evangelical leader and prominent Trump supporter Jerry Falwell Jr. resigned as president of Liberty University, a hub of conservative politicians in Lynchburg, Virginia. The resignation came after a series of scandals over the past few years. Falwell, 58, stated he’ll be receiving a $10.5 million severance package – $2.5 million over 24 […]

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Remember how Jerry Falwell Jr. and his wife befriended a Miami Beach pool boy named Giancarlo Grand when he was 21 years old, invited him to travel with them on several occasions, and gave him nearly $2 million to finance a business venture?

Well, it seems as if that relationship wasn’t entirely platonic.

According to a statement Falwell provided to the Washington Examiner, the disgraced Liberty University president’s recent erratic behavior — including posting to Instagram a photo...

Jerry Falwell Jr. will take an “indefinite leave of absence” from his role of president of Liberty University following the outcry from a racy photo he posted on social media.

The evangelical Christian university’s board of trustees announced Friday that it requested Falwell Jr. to take leave “to which he has agreed, effective immediately.” The board’s statement did not provide a reason for Falwell Jr.’s leave.

However, the leave of absence comes just days after Falwell Jr., “President Trump’s principal liaison to evangelicals,” posted a since-deleted...

Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. apologized on Wednesday for posting a photo of himself on Instagram with his pants unzipped and his arm around a woman with her pants similarly unzipped. Falwell has since deleted the post which appeared to be taken on a yacht and showed the school president’s underwear as well as […]

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For the loyal viewers of Fox News, the tired face and ragged voice of Dr. W. Ian Lipkin, one of the country’s foremost infectious-disease experts, have become something of a familiar sight. On America’s Newsroom on March 13th, he discussed best practices for personal hygiene during the novel coronavirus outbreak. At 4:15 in the morning on March 17th, he went on Fox & Friends First to assess President Trump’s new safety guidelines. He appeared in the Fox special America vs. Virus. And when Lipkin revealed in late March...

Donald Trump had such high hopes for Easter. So high, in fact, that when he burst forth on Fox News a couple of weeks ago with his idea of “re-opening” the country wide this coming Sunday, he gave it an exemplary rating of three “beautifuls”: “I just thought that it was a beautiful time … a beautiful timeline. It’s a beautiful day.”

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Donald Trump is a president made for a time when Americans can no longer embrace one another. It is a strange coincidence that the most divisive and conspicuously bigoted president in decades will be known most for a lethal pandemic that separates us by fiat, preventing physical community in order to help us all survive. The coronavirus has effectively extended our winters, mandating that we be at home as much as possible. Surely some are reading and exercising more, but few things are more American than defraying anxiety with some easily disposable television.

Fox Business Network has severed ties with primetime host Trish Regan, who sparked controversy after claiming that the ongoing coronavirus pandemic was an “impeachment scam” around two weeks ago.

“Fox Business has parted ways with Trish Regan,” the network said in a statement. “We thank her for her contributions to the network over the years and wish her continued success in her future endeavors. We will continue our reduced live primetime schedule for the foreseeable future in an effort to allocate staff resources to continuous breaking news coverage on the coronavirus crisis.”

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The network’s decision stemmed from an early March segment on “Trish Regan Primetime,” the television host’s now-defunct show, where Regan told a multitude of lies about the virus.

In a guest appearance on Fox & Friends on Friday, Jerry Falwell Jr. said it was “strange how so many are overreacting” to the coronavirus, suggesting that it was the “next attempt to get Trump.”

He also raised the conspiracy theory that the coronavirus was a plot orchestrated by North Korea and China.

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“The owner of a restaurant asked me last night, he said, do you remember the North Korean leader promised a Christmas present back in December?” Falwell said. “Could it be they got together with China and this is that present? I don’t know, but it really is something strange going on.”

Falwell is one of President Donald Trump’s staunchest defenders.

Jerry Falwell Jr. appeared on Fox News’ “Fox & Friends” Tuesday to add his voice to the growing clamor around a Christianity Today editorial in favor of removing President Donald Trump from office.

“I think it’s hypocritical. I think it’s ironic, also, that Christianity Today — sort of a forgotten magazine from yesteryear — took the opportunity the week before Christmas to point out the difference between true Christianity and Pharisaical or judgmental Christianity,” the Liberty University President said, adding that the publication “reminded us that there is an elite establishment among the religious community just like there is in the government, that is liberal, that’s left-wing. It’s a group that is — they think they are more moral and smarter than the rest of us.”

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He went on to say that if the Christian Jesus were alive today, “they would call him a smelly Walmart shopper,...

Evangelical Christians love President Trump. They voted for him in 2016 by a staggering margin — 80% to 16% — and a Pew Research poll released in March found that 69% of white evangelicals approve of the job Trump is doing as president. The fact that Trump is a lewd, twice-divorced former casino magnate who has bragged about grabbing women by their genitals does not seem to bother the nation’s most devout Christians. Jerry Falwell Jr. is a big reason why.

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The Michael Cohen reveals just keep coming. On Tuesday, Reuters reported that Cohen told comedian Tom Arnold that he had previously helped evangelical leader Jerry Falwell Jr. with a personal scandal in the months leading up to Donald Trump‘s candidacy. The revelation was reportedly made during an April 24 interview with the comedian that was first […]

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President Donald Trump has his eyes on 2020. Like many of the Democrats who have declared their intention to oppose him, he’s even weighed in on reparations. Kind of.

On Sunday, Trump retweeted a frightening idea from prominent evangelical Jerry Falwell Jr. “After the best week ever for @realDonaldTrump — no obstruction, no collusion, Nyt admits @BarackObama did spy on his campaign, & the economy is soaring,” Falwell wrote. “I now support reparations-Trump should have 2 yrs added to his 1st term as pay back for time stolen by this corrupt failed coup.

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On Wednesday morning, the department released its plan to weaken the so-called “borrower defense” rule. Borrower defense was enacted in the waning days of the Obama administration as a way for students to seek help if they had taken on debt to attend a college or university — typically a for-profit...