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Business partner of Falwells says affair with evangelical power couple spanned seven years
Reuters ^ | Aug. 24, 2020 | Aram Roston

Posted on 08/24/2020 10:01:33 AM PDT by nickcarraway

Giancarlo Granda says his sexual relationship with the Falwells began when he was 20. He says he had sex with Becki Falwell while Jerry Falwell Jr, head of Liberty University and a staunch supporter of President Trump, looked on.

In a claim likely to intensify the controversy surrounding one of the most influential figures in the American Christian conservative movement, a business partner of Jerry Falwell Jr has come forward to say he had a years-long sexual relationship involving Falwell’s wife and the evangelical leader.

Giancarlo Granda says he was 20 when he met Jerry and Becki Falwell while working as a pool attendant at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach hotel in March 2012. Starting that month and continuing into 2018, Granda told Reuters that the relationship involved him having sex with Becki Falwell while Jerry Falwell looked on.

Granda showed Reuters emails, text messages and other evidence that he says demonstrate the sexual nature of his relationship with the couple, who have been married since 1987.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Florida; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: beckifalwell; falwell; florida; giancarlogranda; granda; jerryfalwelljr; libertyuniversity; poolboy; scandal; sexscandal; virginia
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1 posted on 08/24/2020 10:01:33 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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Yeah sure. The Press loves to take out Christian leaders.


2 posted on 08/24/2020 10:03:54 AM PDT by Metrobank
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“ Giancarlo Granda says his sexual relationship with the Falwells...”

Note the use of the plural.


3 posted on 08/24/2020 10:04:11 AM PDT by Meatspace
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To: nickcarraway
Jerry Falwell Jr’s decision to endorse Donald Trump for the presidency in 2016 helped swing evangelical Christians toward Trump.

Actually, I think this guy was more responsible for that swing:

https://www.npr.org/2016/02/18/467229313/pope-says-trump-is-not-christian

4 posted on 08/24/2020 10:04:52 AM PDT by edwinland
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To: nickcarraway

So he was a cuckold?


5 posted on 08/24/2020 10:05:05 AM PDT by KobraKai
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Sounds like it. Ugh.


6 posted on 08/24/2020 10:05:31 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: nickcarraway

So?


7 posted on 08/24/2020 10:05:32 AM PDT by Pajamajan ( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't wait. Do it] today.)
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To: Metrobank

Unfortunately, some Christian leaders give them more than enough ammo.


8 posted on 08/24/2020 10:05:48 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Meatspace

I caught that right away.


9 posted on 08/24/2020 10:06:24 AM PDT by hsmomx3
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To: Meatspace

Granda told Reuters that the relationship involved him having sex with Becki Falwell while Jerry Falwell looked on.


10 posted on 08/24/2020 10:07:13 AM PDT by SE Mom (Screaming Eagle mom)
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To: nickcarraway

And this is news because?


11 posted on 08/24/2020 10:07:53 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: nickcarraway

Have the Video’s surfaced yet?

Must be why Falwell talked about his Wife’s Infidelity.


12 posted on 08/24/2020 10:08:25 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Kill a Commie for your Mommy.)
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Sad for the Falwell but one must wonder about someone who is so willingly ready to share opening about having a love affair with another man’s wife. At one time we would have thought he was a slut. Now he brags about it and we seem eager to get all the details in the next book.


13 posted on 08/24/2020 10:10:46 AM PDT by HarleyD
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1. Who cares?

2. Are we sure these clowns believe in the same Jesus who is in the Bible? Kinda doesn’t sound like it.

3. Did I already mention who cares?


14 posted on 08/24/2020 10:10:53 AM PDT by mn-bush-man
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To: nickcarraway

Uh oh.


15 posted on 08/24/2020 10:12:26 AM PDT by HighSierra5
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To: SE Mom

“Granda told Reuters that the relationship involved him having sex with Becki Falwell while Jerry Falwell looked on.”

Ah, that makes it normal and spiritually healthy. /s


16 posted on 08/24/2020 10:12:45 AM PDT by Meatspace
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Yep, but he evidently got a kick out of being cuckolded — as long as he could watch. Didn’t Falwell Jr.’s recent statement mention something about “visual adultery”? The assumption was that he referred to porn, but watching his wife besport herself with another man might be “visual adultery.”


17 posted on 08/24/2020 10:12:56 AM PDT by Blurb2350
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ooooo!

This is getting juicier than the Jim and Tammy Faye demise.


18 posted on 08/24/2020 10:14:26 AM PDT by TomGuy
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The assumption was that he referred to porn, but watching his wife besport herself with another man might be “visual adultery.”

That's pukeworthy. The guy's a homo.

19 posted on 08/24/2020 10:15:43 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They are openly stating that they intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live.)
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To: Blurb2350

Almost certainly Junior was doing more than watching.


20 posted on 08/24/2020 10:16:01 AM PDT by lodi90
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