Back in early 2016 there were very few religious leaders who wanted anything to do with Donald Trump. Ted Cruz was their boy and they regularly declared Trump supporters to be “not real Christians.”
However there was one group of holy rollers who threw in early with the Donald and that was the televangelists.
A largely ignored segment of the Christian Right, prosperity preachers and charismatics pastors were actually a perfect fit for Trump.
There were even some who claimed Trump’s presidency had been prophesized a decade earlier.
While most people roll their eyes at stuff like this, Donald Trump shrugged his shoulders and said “meh, why not? Welcome to the team!”
Still, going into the Iowa Caucuses, the Trump camp was worried about how a smack down by Iowa’s notoriously fickle evangelical caucus goers would look on the national stage… they wanted an endorsement from a mainstream figure.
Well as luck would have it, there just so happened to be a mainstream evangelical figure who needed a little help of his own.
Enter: President of Liberty University, Jerry Falwell Jr.
Unlike his daddy, Jerry Falwell Jr. was not a preacher, or even a particularly religious man. He was a lawyer by trade who also dabbled in real estate development.
He was also a drinker and a man who enjoyed having unconventional “fun” w his wife when they vacationed in Miami.
Turns out the Falwell’s had a thing for kinky sex with cabana boys and as often happens in these kinds of situations, Ms. Falwell had found herself in a pickle when one of those cabana boys threatened to release naked pictures of her in the late Fall of 2015.
Fortunately for the Falwell’s they just so happened to know one of their most infamous fixers in the world, who specialized in these kinds of problems: the one and only, Michael Cohen.
Long story short: according to Cohen, he paid the cabana for the pictures with $12,000 in cash, delivered in a blue Walmart bag and the whole thing went away.
Then… a few weeks later, and just 5 days before the Iowa caucuses, Jerry Falwell Jr, shocked the evangelical world by giving his endorsement to Donald Trump, and not Ted Cruz.
Both sides have denied any quid-pro-quo…
but this was quite the change of heart for Falwell considering that just 9 months prior Jerry had not only given Ted Cruz free use of Liberty’s basketball stadium to launch his campaign, he’d also required all students to attend.
Regardless, that was the boost Trump needed to finish solid in Iowa and sail on to NH. And the rest is history.
In June 2016 Trump formed his Evangelical Executive Advisory Board, forging a working relationship between many fringe church leaders and the soon to be POTUS
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This post got me thinking… just what in the world *has* TPUSA been doing with all that money they’re raking in.
So I combed through the 2026 cycle FEC filings for the Turning Point PAC. And OFC the whole thing is weird and shady and makes no sense whatsoever if you assume the people behind the filings are acting in good faith… which I never do.
The treasurer for Turning Point PAC is currently a TPUSA employee named Joshua Parker. Parker assumed this position in April after longtime PAC treasurer Jeff Webb died in a freak pickleball accident.
Jeff Webb was the CEO of Varsity Brands, you know, the cheerleading empire and he was worth somewhere between $100 million and $1 billion when he died (turns out that monopolizing an entire kids sport and then jacking the prices through the roof year after year can be quite lucrative) So why he was running around in his late 70s playing treasurer for TPUSA’s federal PAC is still a mystery to me but regardless he’s no longer with us so I won’t be holding my breath waiting for answers on these ridiculous charges…
Most notable in these filings is the credit card merchant fees.
I’m just the first 4 months of 2026 Turning Point PAC has reported $3.068 million in receipts. They’ve spent 56% of that ($1.732 million) on “Credit Card Merchant Fees” with Anedot.
This is a considerable increase from the first year of this cycle, 2025, when they pulled in $2.023 million total and spent 23% of that ($456k) on CC merchant fees with Anedot.
Both of these figures are outrageous and very hard to believe, especially when broken down by month and compared to total monthly expenditures.
Turning Point PAC spent more on CC merchant fees in the first 2 months of this year than they did in the entire 2024 election cycle.
Their next largest vendor was a company many of you will be familiar with: 1TEN LLC
This is the company owned by Tyler Bowyer’s buddy Jake Hoffman.
1TEN LLC has received $606,102 in the 2026 cycle… most of it for services rendered for Andy Biggs who is running for Arizona governor.
There’s also this French email service they are paying $1,510/month for.
There’s only one other committee who has ever filed a receipt with the FEC using this company, a Democrat who ran for Senste in Florida in 2020, and he was paying $38.95/month for their service.
Alright friends it’s been a while so let’s dive back in and get to the bottom of where in the world did these people come from and how in the heck did they get so much power?
It took me a long time to finally admit we had to go back to the very beginning. I know this is the boring part but stick with me and I'll try to make it as painless as possible. You'll be glad you have this background when we get to the good stuff starting in the 70s.
If not, there’s a good chance he (or she) is on an all expenses paid tour of Israel- courtesy of the Israeli government- in order to become an “Ambassador for Israel.”
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This is part of Israel’s latest plan to win back young people: they are going to woo over their pastors and get them disseminate Israeli government propaganda from the pulpit.
Sloan Rachmuth, who deleted (almost) every tweet she ever made about Charlie Kirk before he was murdered, is now harassing @GabeGuidarini for pushing back on her demands that TPUSA cancel Tucker Carlson.
Too bad for Sloan, she missed one from before Charlie’s murder, that shows you just how much contempt she had for him.
The dumbass forgot to delete her replies to his handle. This bitch literally hated Charlie Kirk.
This is the woman demanding that Andrew Kolvet submit to her demands, fire @GabeGuidarini and kick Tucker Carlson off the AmFest lineup.
She carried a *seething* hate for Charlie for years and routinely said he wasn’t a friend of Israel.