Michael Cohen 明らかにする／漏らすs he 失敗させる／負かすd 'ゆすり，恐喝 陰謀（を企てる）' against Jerry Falwell Jr. and his wife over 'terrible' racy photos ? just before evangelical leader 是認するd Trump for 大統領，／社長

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Evangelical leader Jerry Falwell Jr., asked 大統領 Donald Trump's former fixer Michael Cohen in 2015 to help make some 'personal' photos disappear it was 明らかにする／漏らすd Tuesday.?

During a call with actor Tom Arnold, Cohen said that a few months before Falwell's game-changing 裏書，是認 of Trump, the 大統領，／社長 of Liberty University solicited Cohen's help after someone 得るd racy 'personal' photographs.?

Cohen 述べるd the pictures to Arnold as 'terrible' and the sort that would typically be kept 'between husband and wife,' によれば a 記録，記録的な／記録するd conversation reviewed by Reuters.

After the Falwells told Cohen someone had 得るd photographs and was 需要・要求するing money, Cohen flew to Florida and met with an 弁護士／代理人／検事 for the person with the photographs. ?

The 弁護士／代理人／検事 for the person who 所有するd the photos told Cohen they had all been destroyed after Cohen 介入するd on the Falwells' に代わって and pointed out the 罪，犯罪 the person was committing.?

The Falwells enlisted Cohen's help the year Trump 発表するd his 大統領の 立候補. At the time, Cohen was Trump's confidant and personal lawyer, and he worked for the Trump Organization.??

?Liberty University 大統領 Jerry Falwell Jr., (left) and his wife, Rebecca (権利), solicited Trump's former fixer Michael Cohen's help in 2015 to help resolive a personal 事柄 after someone 得るd what Cohen 述べるd as racy personal photographs better kept 'between husband and wife'

Falwell's debacle over the photographs 現れるd after Reuters reviewed a 記録，記録的な／記録するing of a phone call actor Tom Arnold had with Cohen on March 25. Cohen told Arnold Falwell asked for his help to を取り引きする the person who 得るd the 'personal' photos

Falwell 問題／発行するd an 裏書，是認 of then-候補者 Trump a few months after the photo fiasco and just before the Iowa （政党の）幹部会，党集会 ? a move that helped Trump 伸び（る） ground with the Christian community

Cohen told Arnold he 手配中の，お尋ね者 to keep 'a bunch of photographs, personal photographs' from becoming public.

?'I 現実に have one of the photos,' he said, without going into 明確な／細部s. 'It's terrible.'??

Through a lawyer, Falwell, the 大統領，／社長 of one of the world's largest Christian universities, 拒絶する／低下するd to comment on Cohen's conversation.?

Sources also said Cohen was also 責任がある helping 説得する Falwell to 問題／発行する his 裏書，是認 of Trump's 大統領の 立候補 at a 批判的な moment ? just before the Iowa （政党の）幹部会，党集会s.?

Falwell subsequently barnstormed with Trump and vouched for the 候補者's Christian virtues.

There is no 証拠 that Falwell's 裏書，是認 of Trump was 関係のある to Cohen's 関与 in the photo 事柄, and the source familiar with Cohen's thinking 主張するd the 裏書，是認 and the help with the photographs were separate 問題／発行するs.

Arnold spoke with Cohen on the phone on March 25, and 記録，記録的な／記録するd the conversation without the former 弁護士／代理人／検事's knowledge.??

Some 詳細（に述べる）s of their talk 現れるd last month when the 塀で囲む Street 定期刊行物 最初 報告（する）／憶測d on the 記録，記録的な／記録するd phone call.?

While speaking to Arnold, Cohen admitting that he lied in at least part of his 有罪の 嘆願 ーするために 保護する his wife, によれば the 定期刊行物's 報告（する）／憶測.???

Cohen, who began a three-year 刑務所，拘置所 宣告，判決 this week for 連邦の （選挙などの）運動をする 違反s and lying to 議会, recounted his 関与 in the 事柄 in his call with Arnold.???

Trump 配達するd the 基本方針演説 during Liberty University's 卒業 開始／学位授与式 on May 17, 2017. The last sitting 大統領，／社長 that spoke at Liberty's 卒業 was George H. W. Bush in 1990

Falwell has continued to 発言する／表明する his support Trump since his 初期の 裏書，是認. On May 5 he tweeted the 大統領，／社長 should be given two extra years to his first 称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 予定 to distractions created by Special Couns el Robert Mueller's Russia 調査, which spanned almost two years

Cohen's 関係 to the Falwells sheds light on the formidable 同盟 between Trump and a man who, through his university, is one of the most 影響力のある evangelical 人物／姿／数字s in America.?

Falwell's 支援 helped galvanize evangelicals and 説得するd many Christians 関心d about Trump's past 行為 to embrace him as a repentant sinner.?

Falwell's support for Trump has not wavered throughout the New York celebrity-政治家，政治屋's own tribulations, 含むing the 接近 Hollywood 記録，記録的な／記録するing of Trump talking about grabbing women's genitals and 賄賂s made by Cohen to hide Trump's extramarital 事件／事情／状勢s.?

This past 週末, Falwell tweeted that 'Trump should have 2 yrs 追加するd to his 1st 称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語' to （不足などを）補う for the almost two years of Mueller's 調査 into ロシアの 干渉，妨害 in the 2016 大統領の 選挙.

Falwell´s 裏書，是認 of Trump, however, did surprise some students and staff at Liberty University, the school in Lynchburg, Virginia, 設立するd by Falwell´s father.???

It was at Liberty where fellow 共和国の／共和党の 大統領の 候補者 and major Trump 競争相手 Ted Cruz had chosen to 開始する，打ち上げる his （選挙などの）運動をする the previous year. Cruz's father was an evangelical preacher, much like Falwell's father; Trump has been married three times and 離婚d twice. For years, 事前の to running for 大統領，／社長, Trump 誇るd of his 性の 偉業／利用するs and supported a host o f social positions, such as abortion 権利s, that run 反対する to beliefs espoused by Falwell.

Although Falwell 拒絶する／低下するd interview requests for this story, he has said 繰り返して that he 是認するd Trump because Trump was the strongest 候補者, had 重要な experience running a 商売／仕事, and had the 権利 見通し for the country.

The 関係 between Trump and Falwell goes 支援する years. In 2012, Trump gave the convocation at Liberty University. One link between Trump and the couple appears to have been Cohen, a now-disbarred New York lawyer who formed a の近くに 社債 with the Falwells.

'There still remains much to be told and I look 今後 to the day that I can 株 the truth,' Cohen told reporters as he left his Manhattan home on Monday to 報告（する）／憶測 for his three-year 連邦の 刑務所，拘置所 宣告，判決

Cohen on the final 行う／開催する／段階 of his 旅行 to?連邦の Correctional 会・原則, Otisville medium-安全 刑務所，拘置所 on Monday

During the （選挙などの）運動をする, Cohen worked closely with Liberty University to help 促進する Trump's 立候補. It was around that time that Cohen heard from the Falwells about the photographs, said the source familiar with Cohen's thinking.

?In 早期に 2016, the Iowa （政党の）幹部会，党集会 was coming up, and Cohen ? then 深く，強烈に loyal to Trump ? was 関心d about how Trump would fare, a source said. Cohen felt Trump 'was 存在 虐殺（する）d in that community,' and 'didn't want to see him embarrassed or, you know, without support,' said the source familiar with Cohen's thinking.?

Cohen 繰り返して reached out to Jerry Falwell, and pleaded with him to 支援する Trump, the source said.

Soon after, によれば this account, Falwell made his historic 告示. 'I am proud to 申し込む／申し出 my 裏書，是認 of Donald J. Trump for 大統領 of the 部隊d 明言する／公表するs,' Falwell was 引用するd 説 in a 声明 問題／発行するd by the Trump （選挙などの）運動をする. 'He is a successful (n)役員／(a)執行力のある and entrepreneur, a wonderful father and a man who I believe can lead our country to greatness again.'?

The 発覚 of Cohen's 関与 in a ゆすり，恐喝 陰謀（を企てる） in Florida was not the only unusual 合法的な difficulty the evangelical leader has 設立する himself in in the 明言する／公表する.?

Falwell was 伴う／関わるd in another 合法的な スキャンダル in Florida, where a father-son 二人組 とじ込み／提出するd a 訴訟 against him and a 21-year-old pool boy, Giancario Granda, he went into 商売／仕事 with after they said Falwell 辞退するd to 株 利益（をあげる）s from the real 広い地所 投機・賭ける

Jesus Fernandez Sr and Jesus Fernandez Jr are 告訴するing, 主張するing that Falwell and Granda 削減（する） them out of the 取引，協定 伴う／関わるing a 宿泊所 in Miami, Florida

によれば the 訴訟, Falwell 手配中の，お尋ね者 to help Granda, who had no previous 商売／仕事 experience, '設立する a new career'

Falwell was 指名するd as a 被告 in a 訴訟 over a Miami Beach 宿泊所, which he had 投資するd in along with a young pool boy, Giancarlo Granda, who was 21 at the tim e of the 取引，協定.?

The 訴訟 was brought against Falwell, Granda and others last year by father-son 二人組 Jesus Fernandez Sr. and Jesus Fernandez Jr., who （人命などを）奪う，主張するd that they helped start the Alton 宿泊所 in Miami Beach in 2013, only to be 除外するd from the 取引，協定.

The civil （民事の）告訴, refiled in August 2017 after it was 解任するd in 2015, 告発する／非難するs Falwell, his wife Rebecca, their adult son Trey and their 商売／仕事 associate Granda, of failing to 株 利益（をあげる）s from the real 広い地所 投機・賭ける.???

Falwell flew Granda around on the family's 私的な jet and the evangelical leader told the pool boy that he wished to help him '設立する a new career and build a 商売／仕事,' によれば the 控訴.??

Granda, who had no experience in 商売／仕事 開発, got the Fernandez's 伴う／関わるd when he went to his then-friend Fernandez Jr., and asked for his help to come up with a good profitable 商売／仕事 he could bring to Falwell.???

After they （機の）カム up with the idea for the 宿泊所, Granda went 支援する to Fernandez Jr., and asked him to 協議する with his father, Fernandez Sr., who 'was very experienced in real 広い地所 投機・賭けるs,' によれば the （民事の）告訴.

The （民事の）告訴 告発する／非難するs the 被告s of 違反 of 契約, two counts of 詐欺 and one count of 不正な 濃縮すること.?