(Relevant)On Monday, Jerry Falwell Jr. found himself in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons after a since-deleted Instagram post saw him hanging out with his pants unzipped and his shirt hiked up, next to a family friend, holding a beverage the caption identified as “black water.” The photo raised eyebrow for a number of reasons — some obvious, some less so. A number of current and former students at Liberty University, the Christian college run by Falwell, noted that they would get in a lot of trouble for such a post.
Now, Falwell has spoken with a local radio program called MorningLine about the post, saying that the picture was “just in good fun.” Falwell told MorningLine host Brian Weigand that the woman with him — who he identifies as his wife’s assistant — was pregnant and couldn’t get her own jeans zipped up. Falwell says he was wearing a pair of pants that “I hadn’t worn in a long time” that he was also unable to zip.