Thread: Jerry Falwell Jr. believes GOP establishment is behind Trump tape leak

Jerry Falwell Jr. believes GOP establishment is behind Trump tape leak


This Wednesday Nov. 11, 2015, file photo, shows Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr., as he introduces Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson at Liberty University, in Lynchburg, Va. (AP Photo/Steve Helber) more >

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times - Monday, October 10, 2016

A top surrogate for Donald Trump said he is convinced the GOP establishment is behind the leaked the lewd audio and video recordings that have shaken up the presidential race.

Jerry Falwell Jr., president of Liberty University, which bills itself as the largest Christian University in the world, told WABC radio host Rita Cosby that Mr. Trump’s caught-on-tape comments are indefensible, but said that he thinks the release of the tape was planned to give Republicans an excuse to “slither out” of supporting the GOP presidential nominee.

“I think it was timed,” Mr. Falwell said. “I think it might have even been a conspiracy among establishment Republicans who have known about it for weeks and who tried to time it to do the maximum damage to Donald Trump, and I just … I just think it just backfired on them.”

Mr. Falwell said his charge is based on “some independent information” he has received, but he refused to name names.

“But I think some of the establishment folks who reluctantly endorsed him had this planned all along as a way to slither out of the endorsement, and I think it backfired on them, and I’m glad to see that,” Mr. Falwell said.

He also said that he is not surprised that the recordings were leaked ahead of Mr. Trump’s scheduled appearance with House Speaker Paul Ryan, who has tepidly embraced the brash businessman.
“It wasn’t a coincidence that it came out right before Trump was supposed to appear with Paul Ryan at a rally, and it conveniently gave Paul Ryan a way to disinvite Trump,”Mr. Falwell said.

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Absolutely right on, Jerry Falwell!! This was a bi-partisan set-up, no doubt about it, the Rush to Judgers rushed out too fast, NBC exposed themselves as the crooks behind the deal with the Washington Post, Trump needs to review his NBC contract that I'm certain protects him from these kinds of releases of audio and video from private moments while he's working for them, which he was, and it was all planned and coordinated to try and throw this election to CROOKED GLOBALISHIT Hillary Clinton.

Yes, romney had that sign awfully quick after the release but NO WE DON'T MISS YOU mittens.

Still think there is liable for publishing and making it available by all involved. There are copyright issues, there are privacy act issues; cannot tape someone without their knowledge let alone publishing and allowing it to be stolen/leaked.

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Yes, romney had that sign awfully quick after the release but NO WE DON'T MISS YOU mittens...

That sign was from Jan. 16, 2015, someone just used the old picture.


REPUBLICAN ENTHUSIASM FOR MITT ROMNEY 2016 BID IS UNDERWHELMING

JANUARY 16, 2015| BY DONN MARTEN



Willard “Mitt” Romney, the man who lost a winnable election to Barack Obama . . .

http://downtrend.com/donn-marten/rep...-underwhelming

Originally Posted by artist

. . . Still think there is liable for publishing and making it available by all involved. There are copyright issues, there are privacy act issues; cannot tape someone without their knowledge let alone publishing and allowing it to be stolen/leaked.

NBC waited for green light from lawyers before airing Trump video

In this 2005 frame from video, Donald Trump prepares for an appearance on “Days of Our Lives” with actress Arianne Zucker. He is accompanied to the set by “Access Hollywood” host Billy Bush. (Obtained by The Washington Post)

By Paul Farhi October 8

NBC News was aware of video footage of Donald Trump making lewd and disparaging remarks about women for nearly four days, a network executive said Saturday, but held onto the recording until lawyers finished reviewing the material.

The network’s caution led to an awkward result: NBC News was scooped by The Washington Post, which took just five hours to vet and post its story. A tip from an individual led to

The Post breaking one of the most consequential stories of the 2016 presidential campaign.

[Trump recorded having extremely lewd conversation about women in 2005]

The disclosure of Trump’s unguarded comments, which were made while he was wearing a microphone for an interview on “Access Hollywood” in 2005, has led to calls for him to step down as the Republican nominee. Trump, who squares off against Hillary Clinton on Sunday in the second presidential debate, has vowed to remain in the race.

NBC News first became aware of the footage late Monday after receiving notice from producers at “Access Hollywood,” a syndicated entertainment-news program owned by NBC.

The program’s producers had combed their archives for interviews with Trump after reading an Associated Press account of crude remarks he had made about female contestants on “The Apprentice,” the NBC reality program that Trump had starred on for 14 seasons.

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In this video from 2005, Donald Trump prepares for an appearance on "Days of Our Lives" with actress Arianne Zucker. He is accompanied to the set by "Access Hollywood" host Billy Bush. The Post has edited this video for length. (Obtained by The Washington Post)

They found the 2005 segment, in which Trump and “Access Hollywood” co-host Billy Bush banter crudely about women while traveling to a studio taping.

[Crisis grips GOP as more Republicans urge Trump to quit]

By Tuesday morning, NBC News determined that the footage was newsworthy and began to prepare a story. The news division agreed to let “Access Hollywood” break the story first, given that it had shot and unearthed the tape, according to an NBC executive who agreed to give the network’s account on condition he not be named or quoted directly.

But the tape languished, unseen by the public, for several days after it first came to light.

Although NBC and “Access” both recognized the newsworthiness of the tape and intended to air it, it first had to undergo a review by the company’s lawyers, the executive said. The executive was unaware of any specific legal issue raised by airing an 11-year-old recording of a presidential candidate who was apparently aware at the time that he was being recorded by a TV program.

News outlets often submit potentially sensitive stories to lawyers for review before publication or broadcast.

Trump has used the threat of lawsuits in the past. The Republican nominee threatened to sue NBC last year after the network’s entertainment division dropped plans to air the Miss USA beauty pageant in the wake of Trump’s inflammatory remarks about Mexican immigrants. Trump backed off those threats when NBC sold its share of the pageant’s rights to him in September 2015.

These Republicans cut ties with Trump after lewd remarks


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Following a Friday report by The Washington Post on a 2005 video of the GOP presidential nominee, various Republicans have said they no longer plan to vote for him and some call for him to drop out.

[More Trump tapes surface with crude sex remarks]

Although the news division had nearly completed its work on the story by Friday morning, the story was still not scheduled to air by then. “Access Hollywood,” a daily program, had also not established an air date for its piece.

At that point, a still-anonymous individual forced the issue.

The individual called Washington Post reporter David Fahrenthold around 11 a.m. Friday and pointed him to a copy of the tape on which Trump brags to Bush that his celebrity status entitles him to grope women.

The Post reported and posted its story within five hours.

NBC News, tipped that The Post story was imminent, finally decided to go with the story it had been holding all week. It waited until The Post’s account was online and aired its story on MSNBC seven minutes later. “Access Hollywood” broadcast a piece later that evening.

The network executive said he does not know who The Post’s source was, but noted that numerous people had access to the footage throughout the week, including employees of “Access Hollywood,” NBC News and NBC’s corporate staff.

He also would not speculate over the individual’s motives.
There are no plans, he said, to investigate the source of the leak within NBC’s news division.

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