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Judi Lynn

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Tue May 7, 2019, 02:46 PM May 2019

Trump-loving evangelical Jerry Falwell Jr. gets ruthlessly mocked in local newspaper [View all]

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Source: Raw Story

ERIC W. DOLAN
07 MAY 2019 AT 14:37 ET




Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. (Screenshot)


Virginia’s Roanoke Times on Tuesday published a column brutally mocking Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr., which sarcastically branded him “the funniest comedian since George Carlin.”

Over the weekend, Falwell wrote on Twitter that Trump deserved “reparations” for the Mueller probe — in the form of two years being added to his term in office. Trump himself appeared to endorse the idea by retweeting it.

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In his column, author Dan Casey wrote that Falwell told him over the phone that the tweet “was a little tongue-in-cheek.”

“It’s difficult not to admire such modesty. Because, let’s face it, ‘little’ is an understatement. Each one of the 280 characters (including the spaces) in Jerry’s tweet is side-splitting comedy gold,” Casey said sarcastically.

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2019/05/trump-loving-evangelical-jerry-falwell-jr-gets-ruthlessly-mocked-in-local-newspaper/?utm_source=push_notifications

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