Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. shared a story from 1989 on Facebook Tuesday night, saying that an Arkansas law firm that Hillary Clinton worked for had pressured his college to abandon its Christian beliefs to get through tough financial times.

Twenty-six years ago, Falwell said, he was two years out of the University of Virginia School of Law and helping to keep Liberty's creditors at bay while the school was looking for a way to restructure its debt.

The school hired Stephens Inc. of Little Rock. The banking firm relied on advice from lawyers at the Rose Law Firm, also in Little Rock.



"The attorneys for Stephens Inc. were a small firm in Little Rock that seemed competent but at the same time were extremely arrogant, condescending and disrespectful to all of us. They had an attitude of superiority like we had never experienced before. They soon began to push Liberty hard to abandon its Christian traditions and doctrinal foundations. Their argument was that Liberty could save a few dollars by issuing tax-exempt bonds instead of taxable bonds. At the time, Virginia law did not permit pervasively sectarian universities from issuing tax-exempt bonds," Falwell said.

But Liberty refused to make any of the recommended changes.

Falwell said it was not until recently that he looked into the issue. When he looked at the old files, he learned that Hillary Clinton had been one of the partners at the law firm at the time of their work together.

"By then, Bill Clinton was president and the Rose Law Firm had become famous from the many Clinton scandals in the 1990s," Falwell wrote. "The names of the law partners on the letterhead I found included Hillary Rodham Clinton, Webb Hubbell, Vince Foster (who was mysteriously found dead in a park a few years later) and others who rose to prominence when Bill Clinton was president."

Falwell said that because of the firm's actions in 1989, Hillary Clinton would target the religious freedoms of all people of faith across our nation. Instead, the Donald Trump surrogate urged Americans and Christians to vote for the Republican nominee.