Pool Boy: Falwell ‘Incapable Of Taking Responsibility,’ So He Threw Wife Under Bus

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump holds a campaign rally at the Loudoun County Fairgrounds November 6, 2016 in Leesburg, Virginia. With less than 48 hours until Election Day in the United States, Trump and his opponent, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, are campaigning in key battleground states that each must win to take the White House.
LEESBURG, VA - NOVEMBER 06: Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. (L) and campaign spokesperson Hope Hicks (R) listen to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump during a campaign rally at the Loudoun C... LEESBURG, VA - NOVEMBER 06: Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. (L) and campaign spokesperson Hope Hicks (R) listen to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump during a campaign rally at the Loudoun County Fairgrounds November 6, 2016 in Leesburg, Virginia. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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Giancarlo Granda, former pool boy and business partner of the Falwells, said he wasn’t surprised by Jerry Falwell Jr.’s attempt to pin their salacious three-way relationship on his wife’s promiscuity, since he is habitually “incapable of taking responsibility for his actions.”

Now, Granda told Fox News, he’s the one paying the price for Falwell’s eleventh-hour face-saving attempts.

The Falwells “have been relentlessly harassing me and people close to me,” he claimed.

He said that he didn’t come forward earlier with details of the affair that dethroned Falwell, an evangelical scion who until recently helmed Liberty University, out of fear of retribution.

“I was afraid for a long time and was constantly reminded by the Falwells of how they would come after me if I spoke the truth, which is why it took so long to speak up,” he told Fox.

Granda maintains that while he was still working as a pool boy, Becki Falwell pursued him to have sex while Jerry Falwell watched, an arrangement that lasted for years.

The Falwells’ sex life, hypocritical to some and shockingly inappropriate to many who Falwell led in the evangelical community, might also have influenced the result of the 2016 election.

In excerpts from his new book, former lawyer to President Donald Trump Michael Cohen intimated that his suppression of racy pictures of Becki Falwell was tied to Jerry Falwell’s early, surprise endorsement of Trump which dealt a body blow to other Republicans challengers and boosted Trump’s candidacy.

“In good time, I would call in this favor, not for me, but for the Boss, at a crucial moment on his journey to the presidency,” Cohen wrote, per Reuters.

Falwell denied that the two things were related Tuesday, claiming that he only supported Trump because he wanted a businessman in the Oval Office.

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  1. Avatar for danny danny says:

    Cohen’s book on Trump is the best of all the ones that have come out in the last three years, including the ones by Wolff, Woodward, Rucker and Leonnig, Mary Trump, Toobin, and Schmidt.

    It shows you exactly who Trump is from the point of view of a soldier in a cult who was kidnapped and successfully deprogrammed.

    Cohen can tell you exactly who this man is, how he operates, how he lures people in and how he enslaves them. It is the only intimate portrait of Trump that we have, from a person capable of thinking and acting just like him, with the same drives, who held nothing back from him.

    The other portraits are from the ouside looking in, trying to make sense of foreign territory where they don’t speak the language and don’t really know what’s what and who’s who.

  2. Avatar for erik_t erik_t says:

    Sounds like Falwell is incapable of taking (in the Biblical sense) all sorts of things.

  3. This is too much. It’s too ridiculous. It’s like the pool boy character in a porno breaking character and the fourth wall to talk about how the middle-aged actor playing the “cuck” never takes responsibility for his actions and it’s just impossible to work with him. It’s just too much. I only came here to say that. Bye.

  4. Avatar for eglot eglot says:

    Well, that explains why he and Trump like each other; neither want to assume responsibility for anything.

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