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brooklynite

(94,585 posts)
Tue Aug 4, 2020, 01:13 PM Aug 2020

Photo appears to show Jerry Falwell Jr. with zipper down and arm around a woman

Source: Politico

A photo circulating on the internet that appears to show Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. on a yacht with his pants unzipped and arm around a woman is sparking backlash against the leader of the Christian college.

In the photo, both Falwell, who is one of President Donald Trump’s most vocal evangelical supporters, and the woman appear to have their midriffs exposed.

“How is this Jerry Falwell Jr. photo even real?” tweeted Meghan McCain. “Also if you're running the largest Christian university in America maybe don't put photos of yourself on social media with your pants undone on a yacht - with random women in bad wigs. So gross, so hypocritical.”

S.E. Cupp, the conservative CNN host, tweeted: “There were already so many good reasons not to entrust your kids to Jerry Falwell Jr’s learning institution. The unzipped pants yacht photo - of the school’s PRESIDENT - is sadly the least of them.”



Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/04/jerry-falwell-photo-backlash-391348

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Photo appears to show Jerry Falwell Jr. with zipper down and arm around a woman (Original Post) brooklynite Aug 2020 OP
Ain't no "appears".....it is in plain sight... ashredux Aug 2020 #1
Just my thought. TNNurse Aug 2020 #16
Really. What a weaselly phrase. Midnight Writer Aug 2020 #30
Heaven's Just A Sin Away . . . . . . no_hypocrisy Aug 2020 #2
Uh, her pants are unbuttoned, as well. louis-t Aug 2020 #3
A little game of I'll Show You Mine? William Seger Aug 2020 #26
Brothers and Sisters keep sending me your tithes. Sneederbunk Aug 2020 #4
Precisely Sherman A1 Aug 2020 #32
Ya right!! Evolve Dammit Aug 2020 #5
Jer is trying to commit all of the se7en deadly sins before he kicks Mike 03 Aug 2020 #6
Family values right there baby Thomas Hurt Aug 2020 #7
"It Was A Prop Only" sfstaxprep Aug 2020 #8
Men like that are delusional Boomer Aug 2020 #9
According to the internet the red head is a married friend of his daughter Botany Aug 2020 #10
He's got his own camel toe. keithbvadu2 Aug 2020 #11
mmm....no Skittles Aug 2020 #36
She looks like a young Peggy Bundy Jose Garcia Aug 2020 #12
Peggy had better taste. She had Al. keithbvadu2 Aug 2020 #14
i've seen claims that it was a Trailer Park Boys theme party, she looks like TPB's Sarah. uncle ray Aug 2020 #34
Yacht, farm, pool boy, photos, hotel deals: all part of being "a man of christ" Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2020 #13
The gays ruined his marriage IronLionZion Aug 2020 #21
Just comparing pregnancies, promise. Deb Aug 2020 #15
Dude? Really? Roc2020 Aug 2020 #17
Is that a crucifix hanging down from her right pant leg? Looks so. Miigwech Aug 2020 #18
Mentions the "black water," doesn't occur to him to explain the southern exposure. Beartracks Aug 2020 #19
He is just loving his disciple. KWR65 Aug 2020 #20
His "Come to Jesus" moment IronLionZion Aug 2020 #22
Wtf is black water and who the fuck would publish a pic like this? truthisfreedom Aug 2020 #23
Let's just call this for what it is. Come on! hamsterjill Aug 2020 #24
How can the Lord forgive you if you don't do anything wrong? brooklynite Aug 2020 #25
Black water my a** padah513 Aug 2020 #27
If he's going back in time to date Julia Roberts FakeNoose Aug 2020 #28
... Falwell, who is one of President Donald Trump's most vocal evangelical supporters,... IcyPeas Aug 2020 #29
Ain't he a honey? NurseJackie Aug 2020 #31
What a slob. Time to hit the gym Jerry if you want to show your paunch again! Lucky Luciano Aug 2020 #33
Her zipper is down too and her pants are unbuttoned, gag. 🤢 🤮 nt Raine Aug 2020 #35
This message was self-deleted by its author geralmar Aug 2020 #37
Noah had one... brooklynite Aug 2020 #38

Mike 03

(16,616 posts)
6. Jer is trying to commit all of the se7en deadly sins before he kicks
Tue Aug 4, 2020, 01:22 PM
Aug 2020

the bucket from a premature heart attack or cirrhosis of the liver.

Botany

(70,510 posts)
10. According to the internet the red head is a married friend of his daughter
Tue Aug 4, 2020, 01:28 PM
Aug 2020
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=13853117

Well turns out that Jerry Jr. is a liberal after all. Pool boys, trainers, and now this young thing.
BTW The pool boy might have been for his wife too. Cum to Jesus.


uncle ray

(3,156 posts)
34. i've seen claims that it was a Trailer Park Boys theme party, she looks like TPB's Sarah.
Tue Aug 4, 2020, 06:53 PM
Aug 2020

falwell looks like he's morphed Julian and Randy Bobandy.

if it was a TPB theme party, falwell should have noped the fuck right out of there. there's not a character in that show appropriate for him to cosplay as, or any public figure for that matter. that said, it was an awesome show, produced by people of modest backgrounds themselves.

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,002 posts)
13. Yacht, farm, pool boy, photos, hotel deals: all part of being "a man of christ"
Tue Aug 4, 2020, 01:30 PM
Aug 2020
Falwell Settles Court Case Over ‘Pool Boy’ Business Deal

MIAMI — A settlement has been reached in a Florida court case over a disputed business deal that resulted from an unusual friendship that Jerry Falwell Jr. and his wife struck with a former pool attendant at a Miami Beach hotel, court records show.

As part of the settlement, which was filed Friday in Miami federal court, Mr. Falwell will pay an undisclosed sum to a young man who claimed he had been offered an ownership stake in a gay-friendly youth hostel, the Miami Hostel, that Mr. Falwell and his wife, Becki, bought in 2013.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/07/us/falwell-bello-fontainebleau-settlement.html



https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-jerry-falwell-jr-miami-beach-pool-boy-evangelical-explained-850380/

In May 2018, Buzzfeed News published a story about a lawsuit involving Falwell. The lawsuit revealed a bizarre relationship between the evangelical leader, his wife, and a former pool attendant at the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach. It involves private planes, an exorbitant loan to start a business, a mysterious set of compromising photos, and Michael Cohen. It also may have had something to do with Falwell’s decision to endorse Trump in 2016,


Falwell has denied the existence of the photos — or at least that they’re of him — but the Herald reviewed three of them, which show Falwell’s “wife in various stages of undress.” When they were taken or by whom is not known, but, according to the Herald, two of them appear to have been taken at the Falwells’ farm in Virginia, and one at the Cheeca Lodge.

Roc2020

(1,616 posts)
17. Dude? Really?
Tue Aug 4, 2020, 01:38 PM
Aug 2020

How in blazes did you think this pic would turn out to be anything but a PR disaster Mentally people are just gone!!

Beartracks

(12,814 posts)
19. Mentions the "black water," doesn't occur to him to explain the southern exposure.
Tue Aug 4, 2020, 01:47 PM
Aug 2020

I gather they thought it would be cute if he sort of adjusted his clothes to match hers in a "funny" shot, but.... Uh...

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hamsterjill

(15,220 posts)
24. Let's just call this for what it is. Come on!
Tue Aug 4, 2020, 02:04 PM
Aug 2020

It’s an orgy on a yacht by an asshole hypocrite who is obsessed with sex being “wicked”. All of those idiot preacher people are closet perverts.

My source you ask? Decades of experience watching them beg for forgiveness when and only when they get caught.

FakeNoose

(32,639 posts)
28. If he's going back in time to date Julia Roberts
Tue Aug 4, 2020, 02:53 PM
Aug 2020

... I mean Julia Roberts when she was 22 - he should make himself look a little younger too.

Just sayin'




IcyPeas

(21,884 posts)
29. ... Falwell, who is one of President Donald Trump's most vocal evangelical supporters,...
Tue Aug 4, 2020, 03:09 PM
Aug 2020

honestly, doesn't that say it all? birds of a feather and all that.

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