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colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Jim_Bakker_1977.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Jim_Bakker_1977.png/220px-Jim_Bakker_1977.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="171" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Jim_Bakker_1977.png/330px-Jim_Bakker_1977.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Jim_Bakker_1977.png/440px-Jim_Bakker_1977.png 2x" data-file-width="467" data-file-height="362" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Bakker in 1977</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">James Orsen Bakker</div><br /><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday">1940-01-02</span>) </span>January 2, 1940<span class="noprint ForceAgeToShow"> (age 85)</span><br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Muskegon,_Michigan" title="Muskegon, Michigan">Muskegon, Michigan</a>, U.S.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouses</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style></li></ul> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Tammy_Faye_Messner" title="Tammy Faye Messner">Tammy Faye LaValley</a><br /></div> <div class="marriage-line-margin2px"></div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1961; <abbr title="divorced">div.</abbr> 1992)<wbr /></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1151524712"></li></ul> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;">Lori Beth Graham<br /></div> <div class="marriage-line-margin2px"></div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1998)<wbr /></div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">7, including <a href="/wiki/Jay_Bakker" title="Jay Bakker">Jay Bakker</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Church</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Assemblies_of_God_USA" title="Assemblies of God USA">Assemblies of God</a> (1960–1988)<br /><a href="/wiki/Charismatic_movement" title="Charismatic movement">Charismatic</a> (2003–present)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Congregations served</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><i><a href="/wiki/The_PTL_Club" title="The PTL Club">The PTL Club</a></i><br /><a href="/wiki/Heritage_USA" title="Heritage USA">Heritage USA</a><br />Heritage Village Church<br />Morningside Church</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>James Orsen Bakker</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'b' in 'buy'">b</span><span title="/eɪ/: 'a' in 'face'">eɪ</span><span title="'k' in 'kind'">k</span><span title="/ər/: 'er' in 'letter'">ər</span></span>/</a></span></span>;<sup id="cite_ref-Time06-2001_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Time06-2001-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> born January 2, 1940) is an American <a href="/wiki/Televangelist" class="mw-redirect" title="Televangelist">televangelist</a> and convicted felon. Between 1974 and 1987, Bakker hosted the television program <i><a href="/wiki/The_PTL_Club" title="The PTL Club">The PTL Club</a></i> and its cable television platform, the <a href="/wiki/PTL_Satellite_Network" title="PTL Satellite Network">PTL Satellite Network</a>, with his then wife, <a href="/wiki/Tammy_Faye_Messner" title="Tammy Faye Messner">Tammy Faye</a>. He also developed <a href="/wiki/Heritage_USA" title="Heritage USA">Heritage USA</a>, a now-defunct Christian theme park in <a href="/wiki/Fort_Mill,_South_Carolina" title="Fort Mill, South Carolina">Fort Mill, South Carolina</a>. </p><p>In the late 1980s, Bakker resigned from the PTL ministry over a cover-up of hush money to church secretary <a href="/wiki/Jessica_Hahn" title="Jessica Hahn">Jessica Hahn</a> for an alleged <a href="/wiki/Rape" title="Rape">rape</a>. Subsequent revelations of <a href="/wiki/Accounting_fraud" class="mw-redirect" title="Accounting fraud">accounting fraud</a> brought about felony charges, conviction, imprisonment, and divorce. Bakker later remarried and returned to televangelism, founding Morningside Church in <a href="/wiki/Blue_Eye,_Missouri" title="Blue Eye, Missouri">Blue Eye</a>, <a href="/wiki/Missouri" title="Missouri">Missouri</a>, and reestablishing the PTL ministry. He currently hosts <i>The Jim Bakker Show</i>, which focuses on the <a href="/wiki/Eschatology" title="Eschatology">end times</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Second_Coming" title="Second Coming">Second Coming</a> of Christ while promoting <a href="/wiki/Survivalism" title="Survivalism">emergency survival</a> products. Bakker has written several books, including <i>I Was Wrong</i> and <i>Time Has Come: How to Prepare Now for Epic Events Ahead</i>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jim_Bakker&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>James Orsen Bakker was born in <a href="/wiki/Muskegon,_Michigan" title="Muskegon, Michigan">Muskegon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Michigan" title="Michigan">Michigan</a>, the son of Raleigh Bakker and Furnia Lynette "Furn" Irwin.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Bakker attended <a href="/wiki/North_Central_University" title="North Central University">North Central University</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Minneapolis" title="Minneapolis">Minneapolis</a> <a href="/wiki/Bible_college" title="Bible college">Bible college</a> affiliated with the <a href="/wiki/Assemblies_of_God_USA" title="Assemblies of God USA">Assemblies of God</a>, where he met fellow student <a href="/wiki/Tammy_Faye_Messner" title="Tammy Faye Messner">Tammy Faye LaValley</a> in 1960.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Bakker worked at a restaurant in the <a href="/wiki/Young%E2%80%93Quinlan_Building" title="Young–Quinlan Building">Young-Quinlan</a> department store in Minneapolis; Tammy Faye worked at the Three Sisters, a nearby boutique.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Despite already having a fiancee in Muskegon, Jim began courting Tammy Faye.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Bakkers married on April 1, 1961, and left college to become <a href="/wiki/Itinerant_minister" class="mw-redirect" title="Itinerant minister">itinerant</a> <a href="/wiki/Evangelism" title="Evangelism">evangelists</a>. They had two children, Tammy Sue "Sissy" Bakker Chapman (born March 2, 1970) and <a href="/wiki/Jay_Bakker" title="Jay Bakker">Jamie Charles "Jay" Bakker</a> (born December 18, 1975). The couple divorced on March 13, 1992.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On September 4, 1998, Bakker married Lori Beth Graham, a former televangelist, fifty days after they met.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2002, they <a href="/wiki/Adopted" class="mw-redirect" title="Adopted">adopted</a> five children,<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> siblings whom Lori had befriended in <a href="/wiki/Phoenix,_Arizona" title="Phoenix, Arizona">Phoenix</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jim_Bakker&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_career">Early career</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jim_Bakker&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Early career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1966, Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker began working at <a href="/wiki/Pat_Robertson" title="Pat Robertson">Pat Robertson</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Christian_Broadcasting_Network" title="Christian Broadcasting Network">Christian Broadcasting Network</a> (CBN) in <a href="/wiki/Virginia_Beach,_Virginia" title="Virginia Beach, Virginia">Portsmouth</a>, <a href="/wiki/Virginia" title="Virginia">Virginia</a>, which had an audience in the low thousands at the time.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Bakkers contributed to the network's growth, hosting a children's variety show called <i>Come On Over</i> that employed comic routines with <a href="/wiki/Puppet" title="Puppet">puppets</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Due to the success of <i>Come On Over</i>, Robertson made Bakker the host of a new prime-time talk show, <i><a href="/wiki/The_700_Club" title="The 700 Club">The 700 Club</a></i>, which gradually became CBN's flagship program.<sup id="cite_ref-wapo_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wapo-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Bakkers left CBN in 1973 and, soon after, joined with <a href="/wiki/Paul_Crouch" title="Paul Crouch">Paul</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jan_Crouch" title="Jan Crouch">Jan Crouch</a> to help co-found the <a href="/wiki/Trinity_Broadcasting_Network" title="Trinity Broadcasting Network">Trinity Broadcasting Network</a> (TBN) in <a href="/wiki/California" title="California">California</a>. However, this partnership lasted only eight months until a falling-out between Jim Bakker and Paul Crouch caused the Bakkers to eventually leave the new network.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="PTL">PTL</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jim_Bakker&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: PTL"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:HeritageUSASign.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/HeritageUSASign.jpg/220px-HeritageUSASign.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="139" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4d/HeritageUSASign.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="326" data-file-height="206" /></a><figcaption>Heritage USA sign in 2007. The site is now mostly demolished.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>While under TBN, the Bakkers moved to <a href="/wiki/Charlotte,_North_Carolina" title="Charlotte, North Carolina">Charlotte</a>, <a href="/wiki/North_Carolina" title="North Carolina">North Carolina</a>, where in May of 1973 they launched an east coast version of <i>Praise The Lord</i> under TBN's umbrella. Less than a year later the Bakkers formed their own non profit organization, registered the <a href="/wiki/The_PTL_Club" title="The PTL Club">PTL</a> trademark, left the umbrella of TBN and the Crouches, and continued their show on 36 <a href="/wiki/WCNC-TV" title="WCNC-TV">WRET</a> Charlotte, 16 <a href="/wiki/WGGS" class="mw-redirect" title="WGGS">WGGS</a> <a href="/wiki/Greenville,_South_Carolina" title="Greenville, South Carolina">Greenville, South Carolina</a>, and a few other stations. In 1975, they nationally debuted their own <a href="/wiki/Late-night_talk_show" title="Late-night talk show">late night</a>-style talk show, known as <i><a href="/wiki/The_PTL_Club" title="The PTL Club">The PTL Club</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Bakker founded the <a href="/wiki/PTL_Satellite_Network" title="PTL Satellite Network">PTL Satellite Network</a> in 1974, which aired <i>The PTL Club</i> and other religious television programs through local affiliates across the U.S.<sup id="cite_ref-buzzfeed_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-buzzfeed-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Throughout the 1970s, Bakker built a headquarters for PTL in <a href="/wiki/The_Carolinas" class="mw-redirect" title="The Carolinas">the Carolinas</a> called Heritage Village.<sup id="cite_ref-buzzfeed_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-buzzfeed-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Over time, the Bakkers expanded the ministry to include the <a href="/wiki/Heritage_USA" title="Heritage USA">Heritage USA</a> theme park in <a href="/wiki/Fort_Mill,_South_Carolina" title="Fort Mill, South Carolina">Fort Mill</a>, <a href="/wiki/South_Carolina" title="South Carolina">South Carolina</a>, which became the third most successful theme park in the U.S. at the time. Viewer contributions were estimated to exceed $1 million a week, with proceeds to expand the theme park and <i>The PTL Club</i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'s</span> mission.<sup id="cite_ref-Time06-2001_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Time06-2001-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Bakker responded to inquiries about his use of mass media by saying: "I believe that if <a href="/wiki/Jesus" title="Jesus">Jesus</a> were alive today, he would be on TV".<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Two scandals brought down PTL in 1987: Bakker was accused of <a href="/wiki/Sexual_misconduct" title="Sexual misconduct">sexual misconduct</a> by church secretary <a href="/wiki/Jessica_Hahn" title="Jessica Hahn">Jessica Hahn</a>, which led to his resignation, and his illegal misuse of ministry funds eventually led to his imprisonment.<sup id="cite_ref-buzzfeed_17-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-buzzfeed-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Bakker was dismissed as an <a href="/wiki/Assemblies_of_God" title="Assemblies of God">Assemblies of God</a> minister on May 6, 1987.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1990, the biographic television movie <i><a href="/wiki/Fall_from_Grace_(1990_film)" title="Fall from Grace (1990 film)">Fall from Grace</a></i>, starring <a href="/wiki/Kevin_Spacey" title="Kevin Spacey">Kevin Spacey</a> as Bakker, depicted his rise and fall.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On January 18, 2019, <a href="/wiki/American_Broadcasting_Company" title="American Broadcasting Company">ABC</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/20/20_(U.S._TV_program)" class="mw-redirect" title="20/20 (U.S. TV program)">20/20</a></i> aired a two-hour special, entitled <i>Unfaithfully Yours</i>, about the PTL scandal.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Early_investigations">Early investigations</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jim_Bakker&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Early investigations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1979, Bakker and PTL came under investigation by the <a href="/wiki/Federal_Communications_Commission" title="Federal Communications Commission">Federal Communications Commission</a> (FCC) for allegedly misusing funds raised on the air. The FCC report was finalized in 1982 and found that Bakker had raised $350,000 that he told viewers would go towards funding overseas missions but that was actually used to pay for part of Heritage USA. The report also found that the Bakkers used PTL funds for personal expenses.<sup id="cite_ref-FCC1_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FCC1-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> FCC commissioners voted four to three to drop the investigation, after which they allowed Bakker to sell the only TV station that he owned, therefore bypassing future FCC oversight.<sup id="cite_ref-FCC2_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FCC2-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The FCC forwarded its report to the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Justice" title="United States Department of Justice">U.S. Department of Justice</a>, which declined to press charges, citing insufficient evidence.<sup id="cite_ref-FCC1_23-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FCC1-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Bakker used the controversy to raise more funds from his audience, branding the investigation a "<a href="/wiki/Witch-hunt" class="mw-redirect" title="Witch-hunt">witch-hunt</a>" and asking viewers to "give the Devil a black eye".<sup id="cite_ref-FCC2_24-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FCC2-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A confidential 1985 <a href="/wiki/Internal_Revenue_Service" title="Internal Revenue Service">Internal Revenue Service</a> (IRS) report found that $1.3 million in ministry funds was used for the Bakkers' personal benefit from 1980 to 1983. The report recommended that PTL be stripped of its <a href="/wiki/Tax-exempt" class="mw-redirect" title="Tax-exempt">tax-exempt</a> status, but no action was taken until after the Jessica Hahn scandal broke in 1987. Art Harris and <a href="/wiki/Michael_Isikoff" title="Michael Isikoff">Michael Isikoff</a> wrote in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Washington_Post" title="The Washington Post">The Washington Post</a></i> that politics may have played a role in the three government agencies taking no action against PTL despite the evidence against them, as members of the <a href="/wiki/Reagan_administration" class="mw-redirect" title="Reagan administration">Reagan administration</a> were not eager to go after television ministers whose evangelical followers made up their base.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Sexual_misconduct_and_resignation">Sexual misconduct and resignation</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jim_Bakker&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Sexual misconduct and resignation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A $279,000 payoff for the silence of <a href="/wiki/Jessica_Hahn" title="Jessica Hahn">Jessica Hahn</a>, who alleged that Bakker and former <i>PTL Club</i> co-host <a href="/wiki/John_Wesley_Fletcher" title="John Wesley Fletcher">John Wesley Fletcher</a> <a href="/wiki/Date_rape" title="Date rape">drugged and raped</a> her, was paid with PTL funds through Bakker's associate <a href="/wiki/Roe_Messner" title="Roe Messner">Roe Messner</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Time12-1988_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Time12-1988-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Bakker, who made PTL's financial decisions, allegedly kept <a href="/wiki/Two_sets_of_books" title="Two sets of books">two sets of books</a> to conceal accounting irregularities. Reporters for <i><a href="/wiki/The_Charlotte_Observer" title="The Charlotte Observer">The Charlotte Observer</a></i>, led by Charles Shepard, investigated PTL's finances and published a series of articles.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On March 19, 1987, after the disclosure of a payoff to Hahn, Bakker resigned from PTL.<sup id="cite_ref-Time12-1988_26-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Time12-1988-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Although he acknowledged that he had a sexual encounter with Hahn at a hotel room in <a href="/wiki/Clearwater,_Florida" title="Clearwater, Florida">Clearwater, Florida</a>, he denied raping her.<sup id="cite_ref-Ostling_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ostling-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Bakker was also the subject of <a href="/wiki/Homosexual" class="mw-redirect" title="Homosexual">homosexual</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bisexual" class="mw-redirect" title="Bisexual">bisexual</a> allegations made by Fletcher and PTL director Jay Babcock, which Bakker denied <a href="/wiki/Under_oath" class="mw-redirect" title="Under oath">under oath</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Rival televangelist <a href="/wiki/John_Ankerberg" title="John Ankerberg">John Ankerberg</a> appeared on <i><a href="/wiki/Larry_King_Live" title="Larry King Live">Larry King Live</a></i> and made several allegations of moral impropriety against Bakker, which both Bakkers denied.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Bakker was succeeded as PTL head by the Rev. <a href="/wiki/Jerry_Falwell" title="Jerry Falwell">Jerry Falwell</a> of <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Road_Baptist_Church" title="Thomas Road Baptist Church">Thomas Road Baptist Church</a> in <a href="/wiki/Lynchburg,_Virginia" title="Lynchburg, Virginia">Lynchburg, Virginia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Ostling_29-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ostling-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Bakker chose Falwell as his successor because he feared that fellow televangelist <a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Swaggart" title="Jimmy Swaggart">Jimmy Swaggart</a>, who had initiated an Assemblies of God investigation into Bakker's sexual misconduct, was attempting to take over his ministry.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Bakker believed that Falwell would temporarily lead the ministry until the scandal died down,<sup id="cite_ref-ATC_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ATC-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but on April 28, 1987, Falwell barred Bakker from returning to PTL upon hearing of allegations of illicit behavior which went beyond the Hahn allegations.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Later that summer, as donations declined sharply in the wake of Bakker's resignation and the end of <i>The PTL Club</i>, Falwell raised $20 million to keep Heritage USA solvent and took a promised <a href="/wiki/Water_slide" title="Water slide">water slide</a> ride at the park.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Falwell and the remaining members of the PTL board resigned in October 1987, stating that a ruling from a <a href="/wiki/Bankruptcy_court" class="mw-redirect" title="Bankruptcy court">bankruptcy court</a> judge made rebuilding the ministry impossible.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In response to the scandal, Falwell called Bakker a liar, an <a href="/wiki/Embezzlement" title="Embezzlement">embezzler</a>, a sexual deviant, and "the greatest scab and cancer on the face of Christianity in 2,000 years of church history".<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On <a href="/wiki/CNN" title="CNN">CNN</a>, Swaggart stated that Bakker was a "cancer in the body of Christ".<sup id="cite_ref-ATC_34-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ATC-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In February 1988, Swaggart became involved in a sex scandal of his own after being caught visiting prostitutes in <a href="/wiki/New_Orleans" title="New Orleans">New Orleans</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Bakker and Swaggart scandals had a profound effect on the world of televangelism, causing greater media scrutiny of TV ministers and their finances.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Falwell said that the scandals had "strengthened broadcast evangelism and made Christianity stronger, more mature and more committed."<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Fraud_conviction_and_imprisonment"><span class="anchor" id="Fraud_conviction_and_incarceration"></span>Fraud conviction and imprisonment</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jim_Bakker&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Fraud conviction and imprisonment"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>The PTL Club</i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span>s fundraising activities between 1984 and 1987 were reported by <i><a href="/wiki/The_Charlotte_Observer" title="The Charlotte Observer">The Charlotte Observer</a></i>, eventually leading to criminal charges against Bakker.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Bakker and his PTL associates sold $1,000 "lifetime memberships", entitling buyers to an annual three-night stay at a luxury hotel at Heritage USA during that period.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to the prosecution at Bakker's fraud trial, tens of thousands of memberships were sold but only one 500-room hotel was ever finished.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Bakker sold "exclusive partnerships" which exceeded capacity, raising more than twice the money needed to build the hotel. Much of the money paid Heritage USA's operating expenses, and Bakker kept $3.4 million.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After a 16-month federal <a href="/wiki/Grand_jury" title="Grand jury">grand jury</a> probe, Bakker was <a href="/wiki/Indicted" class="mw-redirect" title="Indicted">indicted</a> in 1988 on eight counts of <a href="/wiki/Mail_fraud" class="mw-redirect" title="Mail fraud">mail fraud</a>, 15 counts of <a href="/wiki/Wire_fraud" class="mw-redirect" title="Wire fraud">wire fraud</a> and one count of <a href="/wiki/Racketeering" title="Racketeering">conspiracy</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Time12-1988_26-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Time12-1988-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1989, after a five-week trial which began on August 28 in <a href="/wiki/Charlotte,_North_Carolina" title="Charlotte, North Carolina">Charlotte, North Carolina</a>, a jury found him guilty on all 24 counts. Judge <a href="/wiki/Robert_Daniel_Potter" title="Robert Daniel Potter">Robert Daniel Potter</a> sentenced Bakker to 45 years in <a href="/wiki/Federal_Bureau_of_Prisons" title="Federal Bureau of Prisons">federal prison</a> and imposed a $500,000 fine.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the <a href="/wiki/Federal_Medical_Center,_Rochester" title="Federal Medical Center, Rochester">Federal Medical Center, Rochester</a> in <a href="/wiki/Rochester,_Minnesota" title="Rochester, Minnesota">Rochester, Minnesota</a>, he shared a cell with activist <a href="/wiki/Lyndon_LaRouche" title="Lyndon LaRouche">Lyndon LaRouche</a> and skydiver <a href="/wiki/Roger_Nelson_(skydiver)" title="Roger Nelson (skydiver)">Roger Nelson</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Fourth_Circuit" title="United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit">United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit</a> upheld Bakker's conviction on the fraud and conspiracy charges, voided Bakker's 45-year sentence and $500,000 fine and ordered a new sentencing hearing in February 1991.<sup id="cite_ref-U.S._v._Bakker_51-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-U.S._v._Bakker-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The court ruled that Potter's sentencing statement about Bakker, that "those of us who do have a religion are sick of being saps for money-grubbing preachers and priests",<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was evidence that the judge had injected his religious beliefs into Bakker's sentence.<sup id="cite_ref-U.S._v._Bakker_51-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-U.S._v._Bakker-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A sentence-reduction hearing was held on November 16, 1992, and Bakker's sentence was reduced to eight years. In August 1993, he was transferred to a minimum-security federal prison in <a href="/wiki/Jesup,_Georgia" title="Jesup, Georgia">Jesup, Georgia</a>. Bakker was <a href="/wiki/Parole" title="Parole">paroled</a> in July 1994, after serving almost five years of his sentence.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His son, Jay, spearheaded a letter-writing campaign to the parole board advocating leniency.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Celebrity lawyer <a href="/wiki/Alan_Dershowitz" title="Alan Dershowitz">Alan Dershowitz</a> acted as Bakker's parole attorney, having said that he "would guarantee that Mr. Bakker would never again engage in the blend of religion and commerce that led to his conviction."<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Bakker was released from <a href="/wiki/Federal_Bureau_of_Prisons" title="Federal Bureau of Prisons">Federal Bureau of Prisons</a> custody on December 1, 1994,<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> owing $6 million to the IRS.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Return_to_televangelism">Return to televangelism</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jim_Bakker&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Return to televangelism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Thorvaldsen%27s_Christ_in_Grace_Street_Studio_Building.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Thorvaldsen%27s_Christ_in_Grace_Street_Studio_Building.jpg/220px-Thorvaldsen%27s_Christ_in_Grace_Street_Studio_Building.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Thorvaldsen%27s_Christ_in_Grace_Street_Studio_Building.jpg/330px-Thorvaldsen%27s_Christ_in_Grace_Street_Studio_Building.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Thorvaldsen%27s_Christ_in_Grace_Street_Studio_Building.jpg/440px-Thorvaldsen%27s_Christ_in_Grace_Street_Studio_Building.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="667" /></a><figcaption>The set of <i>The Jim Bakker Show</i> in <a href="/wiki/Blue_Eye,_Missouri" title="Blue Eye, Missouri">Blue Eye, Missouri</a></figcaption></figure> <p>In 2003, Bakker began broadcasting <i>The Jim Bakker Show</i> daily at Studio City Café in <a href="/wiki/Branson,_Missouri" title="Branson, Missouri">Branson, Missouri</a>, with his second wife Lori;<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> it has been carried on <a href="/wiki/Christian_Television_Network" title="Christian Television Network">CTN</a>, <a href="/wiki/Daystar_(TV_network)" class="mw-redirect" title="Daystar (TV network)">Daystar</a>, Folk TV, Grace Network (Canada), <a href="/wiki/Daystar_Television_Canada" title="Daystar Television Canada">Daystar Television Canada</a>, <a href="/wiki/GEB_America" class="mw-redirect" title="GEB America">GEB America</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hope_Channel" title="Hope Channel">Hope TV</a> (Canada), Impact Network, <a href="/wiki/WGN_America" title="WGN America">WGN</a>, <a href="/wiki/Family_Broadcasting_Corporation" title="Family Broadcasting Corporation">WHT</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tri-State_Christian_Television" title="Tri-State Christian Television">TCT Network</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Word_Network" title="The Word Network">The Word Network</a>, UpliftTV, and <a href="/wiki/Z_Living" title="Z Living">ZLiving</a> networks.<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Most of Bakker's audience receives his program on <a href="/wiki/DirecTV" title="DirecTV">DirecTV</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dish_Network" title="Dish Network">Dish Network</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Bakker condemned the <a href="/wiki/Prosperity_theology" title="Prosperity theology">prosperity theology</a> in which he took part earlier in his career, and has embraced <a href="/wiki/Apocalypticism" title="Apocalypticism">apocalypticism</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-buzzfeed_17-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-buzzfeed-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His show has a <a href="/wiki/Millennialism" title="Millennialism">millennial</a>, <a href="/wiki/Survivalist" class="mw-redirect" title="Survivalist">survivalist</a> focus and sells buckets of <a href="/wiki/Freeze-dried" class="mw-redirect" title="Freeze-dried">freeze-dried</a> food, such as beans on toast,<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> to his audience in preparation for the <a href="/wiki/Eschatology" title="Eschatology">end of days</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Elspeth Reeve wrote in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Atlantic" title="The Atlantic">The Atlantic</a></i> that Bakker's "doomsday survival gear" is overpriced.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A man named Jerry Crawford, who credits Bakker with saving his marriage, invested $25 million in a new ministry for Bakker in <a href="/wiki/Blue_Eye,_Missouri" title="Blue Eye, Missouri">Blue Eye, Missouri</a>, named Morningside USA. Production for <i>The Jim Bakker Show</i> moved to Morningside in 2008.<sup id="cite_ref-buzzfeed_17-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-buzzfeed-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Prophecies_and_statements">Prophecies and statements</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jim_Bakker&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Prophecies and statements"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2013, Bakker wrote <i>Time Has Come: How to Prepare Now for Epic Events Ahead</i> about end-time events.<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Bakker has changed his views on <a href="/wiki/Prosperity_theology" title="Prosperity theology">prosperity theology</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In his 1980 book <i>Eight Keys to Success</i>, he stated, "God wants you to be happy, God wants you to be rich, God wants you to prosper."<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In his 1996 book, <i>I Was Wrong</i>, he admitted that the first time he actually read the Bible all the way through was in prison. Bakker also wrote that he realized that he had taken passages out of context and used them as <a href="/wiki/Prooftext" title="Prooftext">prooftexts</a> to support his <a href="/wiki/Prosperity_theology" title="Prosperity theology">prosperity theology</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Bakker's revived show features a number of ministers who bill themselves as "prophets". He now says that "PTL" stands for "Prophets Talking Loud".<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In an October 2017 video, Bakker said that "God will punish those" who ridicule him;<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> he has said that <a href="/wiki/Hurricane_Harvey" title="Hurricane Harvey">Hurricane Harvey</a> was a judgment of God, and he blamed <a href="/wiki/Hurricane_Matthew" title="Hurricane Matthew">Hurricane Matthew</a> on then-President <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Bakker predicted that if then-President <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a> was <a href="/wiki/Efforts_to_impeach_Donald_Trump" title="Efforts to impeach Donald Trump">impeached</a>, Christians would begin a Second American Civil War.<sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He compared the <a href="/wiki/2017_Washington_train_derailment" title="2017 Washington train derailment">2017 Washington train derailment</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Sinking_of_the_RMS_Titanic" class="mw-redirect" title="Sinking of the RMS Titanic">sinking</a> of the <a href="/wiki/RMS_Titanic" class="mw-redirect" title="RMS Titanic">RMS <i>Titanic</i></a> and stated the <a href="/wiki/Amtrak" title="Amtrak">Amtrak</a> train derailment was a warning from God.<sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also claimed that he predicted the <a href="/wiki/September_11_attacks" title="September 11 attacks">September 11 attacks</a> of 2001, stating that he "saw 9/11 in 1999 before <a href="/wiki/New_Year%27s_Eve" title="New Year's Eve">New Year's Eve</a>" and that there would "be terrorism" and bombings in New York City and <a href="/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">Washington, D.C.</a>"<sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A few days after the <a href="/wiki/Stoneman_Douglas_High_School_shooting" class="mw-redirect" title="Stoneman Douglas High School shooting">Stoneman Douglas High School shooting</a>, he stated that "God came to [him] in a dream... and he was wearing camouflage, a hunting vest and had an <a href="/wiki/AR-15_style_rifle" class="mw-redirect" title="AR-15 style rifle">AR-15</a> strapped to his back" and that God supported Trump's plan to <a href="/wiki/Arm_teachers" class="mw-redirect" title="Arm teachers">arm teachers</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Following the death of <a href="/wiki/Billy_Graham" title="Billy Graham">Billy Graham</a> on February 21, 2018, Bakker attended Graham's funeral and paid his respects, stating that Graham was the greatest preacher since <a href="/wiki/Jesus" title="Jesus">Jesus</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and also remarking that Graham had visited him in prison.<sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On the <i>Stand in the Gap Today</i> radio program, Pennsylvania Pastors Network president Sam Rohrer criticized Bakker's civil-war prediction.<sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/Christian_Today" title="Christian Today">Christian Today</a></i> criticized Bakker's show for preying on "the most vulnerable kinds of people" and claimed that it had "no place on our TV screens."<sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="COVID-19_misinformation">COVID-19 misinformation</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jim_Bakker&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: COVID-19 misinformation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Misinformation_related_to_the_COVID-19_pandemic" class="mw-redirect" title="Misinformation related to the COVID-19 pandemic">Misinformation related to the COVID-19 pandemic</a></div> <p>Bakker sold <a href="/wiki/Colloidal_silver" class="mw-redirect" title="Colloidal silver">colloidal silver</a> supplements that he advertised as a <a href="/wiki/Panacea_(medicine)" title="Panacea (medicine)">panacea</a>. In March 2020, the office of the <a href="/wiki/Attorney_General_of_New_York" title="Attorney General of New York">Attorney General of New York</a> ordered Bakker to cease making false medicinal claims about his supplements' alleged ability to cure the <a href="/wiki/Coronavirus_disease_2019" class="mw-redirect" title="Coronavirus disease 2019">2019–2020 strains of coronavirus</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Federal_Trade_Commission" title="Federal Trade Commission">Federal Trade Commission</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Food_and_Drug_Administration" title="Food and Drug Administration">Food and Drug Administration</a> also sent a warning letter to Bakker about his claims regarding the supplements and coronavirus.<sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-84" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Missouri" title="Missouri">Missouri</a> attorney general <a href="/wiki/Eric_Schmitt" title="Eric Schmitt">Eric Schmitt</a> and <a href="/wiki/Arkansas" title="Arkansas">Arkansas</a> attorney general <a href="/wiki/Leslie_Rutledge" title="Leslie Rutledge">Leslie Rutledge</a> filed lawsuits against Bakker for allegedly pushing the supplements as a treatment for the virus.<sup id="cite_ref-85" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the State lawsuit against him, Bakker is represented by former Missouri governor <a href="/wiki/Jay_Nixon" title="Jay Nixon">Jay Nixon</a>, who has argued for the suit to be dismissed. Nixon says that the allegations made in the lawsuit are false, stating: "Bakker is being unfairly targeted by those who want to crush his ministry and force his Christian television program off the air."<sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In April 2020, prohibited from receiving credit card transactions, Bakker disclosed to his viewers that his ministry was on the brink of filing for bankruptcy and urgently petitioned them for donations.<sup id="cite_ref-88" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The following month, GEB America and World Harvest Television dropped Bakker's program from their networks after <a href="/wiki/DirecTV" title="DirecTV">DirecTV</a> owner <a href="/wiki/AT%26T" title="AT&T">AT&T</a> asked channels to reconsider airing the show. AT&T made the request of its channels in response to a <a href="/wiki/Deplatforming" title="Deplatforming">deplatforming</a> campaign from the liberal Christian group Faithful America.<sup id="cite_ref-89" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-stroke_90-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-stroke-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On May 8, 2020, Lori Bakker announced that Jim Bakker had suffered a stroke that his son Jay described as "minor". Lori stated that he would be taking a sabbatical from the program until he recovers. She blamed the stroke on Bakker's hard work on his show and wrote that he had described the criticism against him as "the most vicious attack that he has ever experienced".<sup id="cite_ref-stroke_90-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-stroke-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Bakker returned to his program for the first time following his stroke on July 8, 2020.<sup id="cite_ref-91" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On June 23, 2021, Missouri Attorney General <a href="/wiki/Eric_Schmitt" title="Eric Schmitt">Eric Schmitt</a> announced the settlement of the state's lawsuit against Bakker. Bakker and Morningside Church would be prohibited from saying silver solution could "diagnose, prevent, mitigate, treat, or cure any disease or illness". Restitution of about $157,000 would also be paid to those who bought silver solution between February 12, 2020, and March 10, 2020.<sup id="cite_ref-92" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bibliography">Bibliography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jim_Bakker&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Bibliography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Move That Mountain</i> (1976), <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free 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.id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a 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(identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-4185-5422-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-4185-5422-4">978-1-4185-5422-4</a></li> <li><i>The Refuge: The Joy of Christian Community in a Torn-Apart World</i> (2000), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-4185-5423-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-4185-5423-1">978-1-4185-5423-1</a></li> <li><i>Time Has Come: How to Prepare Now for Epic Events Ahead</i> (2014), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-61795-134-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-61795-134-3">978-1-61795-134-3</a></li> <li><i>You Can Make It: God's Faithfulness in Dark Times-Past, Present and Future</i> (2021) 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Wigger. p. 7. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780199379729" title="Special:BookSources/9780199379729"><bdi>9780199379729</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=PTL%3A+The+Rise+and+Fall+of+Jim+and+Tammy+Faye+Bakker%27s+Evangelical+Empire&rft.pages=7&rft.pub=John+H.+Wigger&rft.date=2017&rft.isbn=9780199379729&rft.aulast=Wigger&rft.aufirst=John&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DOjsqDwAAQBAJ%26pg%3DPA7&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJim+Bakker" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-69"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-69">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9447990-eight-keys-to-success"><i>Eight Keys To Success</i></a>. 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I warned you, but you didn't listen.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=HuffPost&rft.atitle=Jim+Bakker+Says+God+Will+Punish+You+For+Making+Fun+Of+Him&rft.date=2017-10-17&rft.aulast=Mazza&rft.aufirst=Ed&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.com%2Fentry%2Fjim-bakker-stop-making-fun-of-me_us_59e593f3e4b0a2324d1d2f54&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJim+Bakker" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-73"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-73">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/disgraced-pastor-jim-bakker-calls-hurricane-harvey-judgement-article-1.3473935">"Disgraced pastor Jim Bakker says Hurricane Harvey was 'judgment' from God while selling his Tasty Pantry bucket for $175"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Daily_News_(New_York)" class="mw-redirect" title="Daily News (New York)">Daily News</a></i>. New York. September 5, 2017. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180212083505/http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/disgraced-pastor-jim-bakker-calls-hurricane-harvey-judgement-article-1.3473935">Archived</a> from the original on February 12, 2018<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Jolt Left. August 23, 2011. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180226032244/https://joltleft.com/televangelist-jim-bakker-claims-he-predicted-911-disaster/">Archived</a> from the original on February 26, 2018<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">February 25,</span> 2018</span>. <q>Jim Bakker: I saw 9/11 in 1999 before New Year's Eve ... I said there's going to be terrorism; there's going to be a bombing in New York and Washington DC. 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