The Liberty University president said warrants were issued for New York Times and ProPublica journalists reporting on his failure to close the school for the coronavirus.
on Wednesday he intends to sue both publications for defamation and had gone to a local magistrate to swear out misdemeanor warrants against Julia Rendleman, a freelance photographer for the Times, and Alec MacGillis, a ProPublica reporter, accusing them of trespassing on the Liberty’s campus in Lynchburg, Virginia.
Elizabeth Williamson, the author of the Times’ piece, was spared a warrant, Falwell said, because the magistrate determined there wasn’t enough physical evidence to charge her. Both outlets reported last month that some students and faculty members at Liberty, an evangelical Christian school, were concerned about their health and safety following Falwell’s decision to reopen the campus last month.
The Times, citing a physician who runs Liberty’s student health service, said at least a dozen students at the school were “sick with symptoms” that suggested the coronavirus, known as COVID-19. Falwell said on the radio that keeping Liberty’s campus open was the “Christian thing to do” to provide international students and students with high-risk relatives at home with somewhere to go.
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