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(15,939 posts)who without any academic qualifications whatsoever aside from a questionable connection to Jerry Fallwell Jr., was elevated to head a university "think tank" that linked their names and now snarks about "unqualified diversity hires."
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/16/us/charlie-kirk-liberty-falwell-falkirk.html
"When the Falkirk Center think tank was established at Liberty University in Virginia in 2019, it quickly became the de facto headquarters of evangelical Trumpism on a campus that had risen to national prominence.
Its fellows included Sebastian Gorka, the former aide to President Donald J. Trump. Rudy Giuliani, the former president’s lawyer, appeared on a Falkirk podcast.
Now, less than two years later, Falkirk’s high-profile founders are gone, and Liberty is rethinking the center’s future in a post-Trump world.
The university quietly opted last fall not to renew the contract of Charlie Kirk, the combative young conservative activist who started the Falkirk Center with Jerry Falwell Jr., the son of Liberty’s founder. Mr. Falwell resigned as university president in August in the wake of a multipronged scandal that included allegations of sexual impropriety."....(more)
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