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.”
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.
Sounds like Falwell is incapable of taking (in the Biblical sense) all sorts of things.
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.
Well, that explains why he and Trump like each other; neither want to assume responsibility for anything.
Well he out-sourced sex with his wife, so… totally on brand.
You know that any story that is headlined “Pool boy:…” is going to be gold.
I think you’ve got a good script idea there.
I know Jerry would watch it!
Visualize this!
The missus and the cabana/pool boy getting it on, while Jerry Jr. sit’s on a small stool in the corner, whacking his little weeny!
What the hell is it about the Party of Personal Responsibility and taking personal responsibility?
Total cognitive disconnect going on there.
The Falwells’ sex life, hypocritical to some . . .
To whom is it not patently hypocritical? Why are we both-sidesing the obvious hypocrisy?
Jerry sez he only wanted a business man in the WH. Oh, ha ha. It is to laugh.
Clearly the last thing he wanted was for Fat Donnie to give him the business. A/K/A Blackmail.
I never expected to end up in experimental theater but here we are. Life became experimental theater all around me as I watched. People with masks on, boats sinking each other, people transforming into porn characters and back again, the president a braying buffoon, it’s all too bizarre.
I’m going with “Evangelicals outed for their sexual proclivities” on that answer. I’m guessing folks like Jim Baker don’t see Fallwell as hypocritical…
Some people say. I don’t know. We’ll see…
How does an article about a pool boy not have a picture of the pool boy?
I’m pretty sure it’s a rule of responsible journalism that pool boy articles have pictures of pool boys.
I’m more interested in learning how Cohen (and others) happened to be enthralled by this no-class moron named Trump. Where is the charisma? The payoff?
Maybe Trump is nothing more than a social predator who has good instincts on who he might bring into his orbit.
That’s simply failing to give a shit about Falwell pronouncing standards of sexual purity while getting freaky with his wife and their pool boy. It’s still hypocrisy, by definition.
For evangelicals it’s called The Immaculate Cuckolding.
I have some empathy for Granda – although he was a young adult when this happened and did have some ability to make his own choices, it’s pretty clear that both Falwells engaged in standard sexual predatory behavior like grooming & threatening:
Predators manipulate the victim by alternating between “rewards” and “threats” as an assertion of power within the relationship.