Liberty University Theology

If the institution as a whole had a take on God, what would it be?

Around the time President Trump began his campaign, his former attorney Michael Cohen hired John Gauger, the chief information officer of Liberty University, to write computer code that would rig two online polls to artificially inflate Trump’s numbers, the Wall Street Journal reported on January 17.

Cohen promised Gauger $50,000 to up Trump’s results in a 2014 CNBC poll of America’s top business leaders and in a 2015 Drudge Report poll of potential Republican presidential candidates. In addition, Gauger created the Twitter handle @WomenforCohen, a profile purporting to have emerged organically describing Cohen as a “sex symbol.”

When Gauger went to Trump Tower to collect his compensation, Cohen didn’t cut him a check. Instead, he handed over a Walmart bag containing between $12,000 and $13,000 in cash plus a boxing glove that Cohen claimed had been worn by a Brazilian MMA fighter.

How do we know all this? Because Gauger, perhaps weary of waiting for the rest of the money, recounted the whole story to the Wall Street Journal himself.

Cohen’s part in this story will surprise no one at this point. This year, he will report to prison to serve a three-year term for tax fraud and other…