{"id":5288,"date":"2020-08-25T04:38:54","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T08:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5288"},"modified":"2020-08-25T04:38:54","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T08:38:54","slug":"falwell-agreed-to-resign-then-reversed-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5288","title":{"rendered":"Falwell agreed to resign, then reversed course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jerry Falwell Jr.&rsquo;s future at evangelical Liberty University amid a sex scandal was uncertain Monday, after the school said he had offered his resignation but then reversed course.<\/p>\n<p>Falwell agreed to &#8220;resign immediately as President of Liberty University today but then instructed his attorneys to not tender the letter for immediate resignation,&#8221; according to a university news release distributed late Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>The news of Falwell&#8217;s possible departure followed the publication of news stories about his wife&rsquo;s sexual encounters with a much younger business partner. They marked the latest in a series of controversies related to the couple to roil the school founded by Falwell&#8217;s late father, the Rev. Jerry Falwell Sr.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Last 4 days:<\/p>\n<p>-Bannon indicted for swindling Trump\u2019s base<br \/>-Trump ordered to pay Stormy\u2019s legal fees<br \/>-Trump\u2019s niece recorded the sister saying he\u2019s a cruel, phony, liar<br \/>-Conway Family saga<br \/>-Now, Jerry Falwell says his wife had affair w\/the pool boy.<\/p>\n<p>You can\u2019t make this crap up.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ana Navarro-C\u00e1rdenas (@ananavarro) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ananavarro\/status\/1297731851335933955?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 24, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jerry Falwell Jr steps down, says he wants to spend more time watching his family.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chris Regan (@ChrisRRegan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChrisRRegan\/status\/1298004257711382528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 24, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nni7hPVWI0A\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsoctv.com\/news\/liberty-falwell\/VPMKHTKHQV4KNXMK3GSBTUF7MU\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">READ MORE &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jerry Falwell Jr.&rsquo;s future at evangelical Liberty University amid a sex scandal was uncertain Monday, after the school said he had off&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5288\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Falwell agreed to resign, then reversed course<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[123],"class_list":["post-5288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-falwell-agreed-to-resign-then-reversed-course","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJcR0-1ni","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5289,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5288\/revisions\/5289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}