Trump Spiritual Adviser Compares Him to Queen Esther

[Reynolds]

My main point was this: Jim Bakker was convicted of fraudulently selling time shares and was sentenced to 45 years in prison. That's why it is in bold letters.

You erroneously stated that the fraudulent activity occurred after Bakker "lost control of was not in control of PTL when it actually defaulted and defrauded people of their promised services."

I said the people who bought timeshares were not defrauded until after Baker lost control of the ministry. Baker was meeting the promises he made when he was in control. He never failed to meet a single obligation when he ran the ministry. Falwell took over, could not raise money, bankrupted the ministry, and then, at that point, the people were in effect defrauded. Legally Baker was held responsible, but had he been left at the helm there would have been no one defrauded of anything.