'Someone's Gotta Tell the Freakin' Truth': Jerry Falwell's Aides Break Their Silence

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18. He's also got a cozy contract to sell aviation fuel to the government

From back in March:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142294310

mahatmakanejeeves Thu Mar 28, 2019, 12:51 PM

Source: The Hill

Liberty University landed Pentagon contract after inauguration: report
BY ZACK BUDRYK - 03/28/19 11:26 AM EDT

A company owned by Liberty University won a jet fuel contract with the Pentagon, its first such contract, within months of President Trump’s inauguration, according to the Daily Beast.

The Defense Department signed a contract to buy jet fuel from Freedom Aviation, which is wholly owned by the university, in May 2017, according to the publication, and has since bought more than $400,000 worth of fuel from the company.

Freedom Aviation owns six planes, which is maintains at the university’s Lynchburg, Virginia flight school. It provides both charter flights and private aircraft used by the university’s president, Jerry Falwell Jr. The Trump campaign reportedly paid the company more than $19,000 in air travel expenses in 2016 after Falwell Jr. endorsed Trump. ... The value of the award itself is $889,087, according to the contract. Its last date to order is listed as March 30, 2021.

Falwell Jr. is a major political supporter of Trump and has reportedly axed student newspaper articles critical of the president. In October he called for conservatives and Christians to “stop electing nice guys,” saying the country instead needs “street fighters” like Trump at every level of government. ... Liberty did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Hill.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/436252-liberty-university-landed-pentagon-contract-after-inauguration-report

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Hat tip, Joe.My.God.:

Liberty University Got Pentagon Jet Fuel Contract

https://www.joemygod.com/2019/03/liberty-university-got-pentagon-jet-fuel-contract/