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

Posted by edbermac | Mon Dec 14, 2020, 11:59 AM (8 replies)

It's time for Trump to enact Marital Law!

Seriesly!!

https://twitter.com/lexusis05/status/1337918311624007682

Posted by edbermac | Mon Dec 14, 2020, 10:28 AM (6 replies)

Jill Biden shouldn't be referred to as 'Dr.'

I’m getting a headache from all the stupid.

https://twitter.com/AndrewSolender/status/1337804907177512962

Posted by edbermac | Sat Dec 12, 2020, 04:02 PM (37 replies)

Never say die!

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1337755964339081216

Posted by edbermac | Sat Dec 12, 2020, 10:16 AM (4 replies)

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