Falwell has used Liberty-owned Freedom Aviation for personal, business, and political travel. Now it’s selling jet fuel to the Pentagon.
Just months after President Donald Trump took office, the federal government signed a contract to buy hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of jet fuel from a university run by one of the president’s top political supporters.
The Pentagon’s energy-procurement arm inked the contract, valued at nearly $900,000, with a company called Freedom Aviation on May 9, 2017, and has purchased more than $400,000 in turbine fuel from the company since then. Freedom Aviation is wholly owned by Liberty University, a conservative school in Lynchburg, Virginia, led by high-profile Trump supporter Jerry Falwell Jr……
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New this AM: months after Trump took office, Liberty University, the school run by Trump supporter Jerry Falwell Jr, got a contract to supply the Pentagon with jet fuel https://t.co/kDZ839prnB
— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) March 28, 2019
I just emailed your tweet to a lobbyist for them. https://t.co/PkJ0xzhApQ
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) March 28, 2019
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