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Pat Robertson

Pat Robertson

Marion Gordon (Pat) Robertson is a conservative Christian businessman, broadcaster, educator and former Southern Baptist minister. He is chairman of the Christian Broadcast Network and CEO of Regent University in Virginia Beach, Va. He was born in 1930 in Lexington, Va., the son of Willis Robertson, a long-serving U.S. senator. He received a B.A. in history from Washington & Lee University and a law degree from Yale University. Robertson founded CBN in 1960 and became host of The 700 Club, a Christian news broadcast. He founded CBN University in 1977 and it was reneamed Regent University in 1989. In 1988, he unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for president.

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Pat Robertson
Pat Robertson
stated on July 12, 2017 an interview with President Donald Trump:
Russian natural gas company "Gazprom held Europe by the throat -- they were a monopoly, and now the U.S. is breaking into that monopoly with our exports of (liquefied natural gas)."
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By Louis Jacobson • July 17, 2017
Pat Robertson
Pat Robertson
stated on November 8, 2016 a TV broadcast.:
Margaret Sanger "wanted a black Christian leader to be like a Judas goat and lead the blacks to genocide. Remember that? And they picked Martin Luther King as their spokesman."
Pants on Fire!
By Warren Fiske • November 14, 2016
Pat Robertson
Pat Robertson
stated on June 27, 2016 a TV broadcast:
President Barack Obama attended  "an Islamic madrassa."
Mostly False
By Sean Gorman • July 5, 2016
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stated on April 5, 2020 social media posts:
Say televangelist Pat Robertson said some young people “are doing all kinds of unnatural things with their sex organs. When people do that, they transfer all kinds of chemicals from ladies’ private parts and that’s where I think the (corona)virus came from.”
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By Anna Peterson • April 13, 2020
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