{"id":5459,"date":"2021-03-17T06:18:58","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T10:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5459"},"modified":"2021-03-17T06:18:58","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T10:18:58","slug":"charlie-kirk-leaves-liberty-university-think-tank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5459","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Kirk Leaves Liberty University Think Tank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Falkirk Center, named for its founders, Jerry Falwell Jr. and Charlie Kirk, was the center of evangelical Trumpism. Now, both are gone.<\/p>\n<p>The university quietly opted last fall not to renew the contract of Charlie Kirk, the combative young conservative activist who started the Falkirk Center with Jerry Falwell Jr., the son of Liberty&rsquo;s founder. Mr. Falwell resigned as university president in August in the wake of a multipronged scandal that included allegations of sexual impropriety.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LrSZSLrilZ4\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/03\/16\/us\/charlie-kirk-liberty-falwell-falkirk.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">READ MORE &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Falkirk Center, named for its founders, Jerry Falwell Jr. and Charlie Kirk, was the center of evangelical Trumpism. 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