{"id":5290,"date":"2020-08-25T09:18:41","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T13:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5290"},"modified":"2020-08-25T09:18:41","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T13:18:41","slug":"jerry-falwell-jr-denies-reports-he-resigned-as-president-of-liberty-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5290","title":{"rendered":"Jerry Falwell Jr. denies reports he resigned as president of Liberty University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jerry Falwell Jr. denied multiple media reports he had resigned Monday as president of Liberty University after 13 turbulent years at the helm of the prominent evangelical Christian school.<\/p>\n<p>Politico had reported the news based on a Liberty University spokesperson, which NBC News could not confirm. But Falwell soon after told Politico he did not resign and did not know why the spokesperson had said otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>Falwell also denied the reports in an interview on Monday evening with Virginia Business, saying they were &#8220;completely false.&#8221; He told the economic news outlet that he informed the Liberty University Board of Trustees earlier in the summer that he would be taking a &#8220;break.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The school placed Falwell on an indefinite leave of absence Aug. 7. In a statement Friday, university officials said the &#8220;decision whether or not to retain Falwell as president has not yet been made.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jerry Falwell Jr., president of Liberty Univ. &amp; a champion of President Trump, has resigned after the publication of a news story that alleged he and his wife Becki had a years-long sexual relationship with a business associate, via Religion News Service. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SDSYByh6ag\">https:\/\/t.co\/SDSYByh6ag<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Yamiche\/status\/1298005023591403521?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. has resigned as president of Liberty University, Religion News Service has learned. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/T7JJ0ylvuY\">https:\/\/t.co\/T7JJ0ylvuY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kylegriffin1\/status\/1298002250351222789?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\/aEgbfULDlmo\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> \u2013 <a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">READ MORE &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jerry Falwell Jr. denied multiple media reports he had resigned Monday as president of Liberty University after 13 turbulent years at the he&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5290\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jerry Falwell Jr. denies reports he resigned as president of Liberty University<\/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":[124],"class_list":["post-5290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-jerry-falwell-jr-denies-reports-he-resigned-as-president-of-liberty-university","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJcR0-1nk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5290","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=5290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5291,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5290\/revisions\/5291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}