{"id":5495,"date":"2021-04-30T15:10:10","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T19:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5495"},"modified":"2021-04-30T15:10:10","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T19:10:10","slug":"falwell-jr-invites-graduates-to-real-liberty-graduation-at-his-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5495","title":{"rendered":"Falwell Jr. invites graduates to \u2018real Liberty graduation\u2019 at his home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two weeks after Liberty University sued him and banned employees from talking to him, former Liberty president Jerry Falwell Jr. unexpectedly showed up at a student event Thursday night, hopped on stage and invited the students to a graduation party at his home that he billed as &ldquo;the real Liberty graduation.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I just want to invite all the seniors to my farm on May 8. We&rsquo;re going to have the real Liberty graduation,&rdquo; Falwell told the students, standing on a small stage erected outside an off-campus student house, according to a video reviewed by POLITICO. &ldquo;If you&rsquo;re not a senior but you date one, you can come, too.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NEW from me &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/emmillerwrites?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@emmillerwrites<\/a>: Jerry Falwell Jr.\u2014who resigned as Liberty U prez last year following scandal\u2014appeared at an event w\/students last night &amp; invited them to a &quot;real&quot; LU graduation party at his farm.<\/p>\n<p>We obtained video.<\/p>\n<p>He talked to us about it <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ucpDyM7t1G\">https:\/\/t.co\/ucpDyM7t1G<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jack Jenkins (@jackmjenkins) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jackmjenkins\/status\/1388202000534409219?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 30, 2021<\/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\">New: Jerry Falwell Jr. showed up at a Liberty student event Thursday night, hopped on stage and invited students to a graduation party at his home that he billed as \u201cthe real Liberty graduation&quot; &#8212; just two weeks after being sued by his former university.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iTuyuQ0h4a\">https:\/\/t.co\/iTuyuQ0h4a<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Maggie Severns (@MaggieSeverns) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaggieSeverns\/status\/1388197146134990852?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 30, 2021<\/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\/06oAq_yWkrM\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/04\/30\/jerry-falwell-liberty-graduation-485112\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">READ MORE &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two weeks after Liberty University sued him and banned employees from talking to him, former Liberty president Jerry Falwell Jr. unexpectedl&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5495\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Falwell Jr. invites graduates to \u2018real Liberty graduation\u2019 at his home<\/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":[199],"class_list":["post-5495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-falwell-jr-invites-graduates-to-real-liberty-graduation-at-his-home","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJcR0-1qD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5495","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=5495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5496,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5495\/revisions\/5496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}