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Televangelist Sued For Selling Fake Coronavirus Cure
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4:57Now PlayingVia America’s Lawyer: Legal journalist Mollye Barrows joins Mike Papantonio to spotlight disgraced televangelist Jim Bakker, who is facing charges for falsely advertising a cure for COVID-19 via a product called Liquid Silver Sol.
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Modern society as we know it has quickly devolved into chaos as the coronavirus is triggering office and school closures, major event cancellations and harsh travel restrictions for Americans. But the televangelist, Jim Bakker, has been taking all this and making it into an opportunity. I have Mollye, Mollye Barrows with me to talk about. You actually have interviewed this, this nutcase in the past, right?
Yes. As soon as I saw this story I thought, ah, this is just so fitting because I grew up watching him on TV. I remember the scandals back in the 80s when he was busted for fraud and having an affair with his secretary and it led to accounting allegations that proved to a conviction. And so when he got out of prison for all of that related to his evangelical empire, his televangelical empire, if you will. It also included, you know, six flags over Jesus, some kind of a, an amusement park in Sout h Carolina. But.
How, so he was, they locked him up because.
They locked him up for fraud.
Wire fraud.
Yeah. He was link, give me your money. I'm using it for Jesus and he was using it for hiimself and his perosnal expenses.
So you interviewed him and he probably called you a demon after the interview or something, of course.
Right. So they sent me to go interview him and I interviewed him one day and then the next day I covered him as he was speaking at a local assembly of God church. And I met his new wife, Lori, and as he was up there in the pulpit, he's like, the media is the devil. They're all terrible.
And she's here.
And this one who was here yesterday, and I'm sitting there in the pew going, I love jesus. I don't think I'm the devil.
Okay, okay. So here we go. Now he's up there telling these, these, these people that I don't even, I don't know who these people are. I don't know who the people are that would send him $1,000 for his, for his coronavirus snake oil. But they're doing it, right?
They are and that's exactly what's going on. So his new televangelism business is based in Missouri and that's where he has been on a show, his own show, the Jim Bakker show, simple to remember. And also on his website touting that he has a cure called silver sol. That's one of the names for this where it can cure various strains of the SARS virus, which is what the coronavirus is, within 12 hours. Said, we haven't tested on this particular strain, but we feel good about it and the government even knows that it can kill any pathogen that comes in its path, including HIV. And so the more you look into it, his whole website, his whole ministry, if you will, his angle is geared towards survivalism. It's the end of times and he sells a whole array of products on his website. Which this if off now, by the way.
Yeah. His, his message is apocalyptic. End of times, you got to do something.
Right.
And I have.
So take the vitamins.
I have, I have some vitamins for you. So when the zombies come, you're going to be okay.
Sure, when you're in your basement.
So this is almost so outrageous, it's even hard to carry on a conversation.
It hurts my heart for the people that spend money on this freak, yeah.
But they do. They do. They spend thousands and thousands of dollars. But the government is allowing it to happen, right?
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