Jim Bakker, PTL Club televangelist, dies at 86

Jim Bakker, who, along with his then-wife Tammy Faye, built an evangelical empire around the hugely successful TV show “The PTL Club,” only to lose it all over a sex scandal and financial crimes, has died.

🤡 Jim Bakker, fraud televangelist died today at 86. This clown was with Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN), TBN, PTL Club, etc. Fraud schemes, sentenced to 45 years in prison, served 5. And returned for more.

In 1988, Bakker was indicted for mail fraud, wire fraud and conspiracy after an investigation of PTL’s finances. He was convicted and sentenced to 45 years in federal prison, though the sentence was later reduced to eight years.

I don’t want to be the first one to say this but I feel like Jim Bakker taught me that it was O.K. to be “weird”

Beezelbub when Jim Bakker says it's awfully hot in Heaven:

Jim Bakker and Denny Hastert. Maybe It Will Happen for number 3?

This is something you would have expected to see on a louche evangelism network like PTL or 700 Club, back in the day - not on America's pre-eminent conservative news network, with people seriously, sagely nodding along. Holy hell, the US is in a bad place.

I learned that Jim Bakker, Dennis Hastert, and Jeffrey Archer all died in the last couple days. I thought they were all already dead. The ranks of ultra-privileged criminal shitbirds has been diminished by three.

Thanks for the good news! Didn’t know about Jim Bakker! His entire life was spent stealing money from the poor & gullible people who believed that he was a “man of God” 🙄

Say what you will about the man, he was among the last of the golden age of TV evangelists. Even with all his great many faults, far preferable to any any Joel Osteen. PTL Club with Jim Bakker and Colonel Sanders youtu.be/ttdTGPQer-o?...

Jim Bakker sold salvation. PEDO prez sells “Make America Great Again.” Both built empires on believers’ trust, loyalty, & money. One preached prosperity; the other promised greatness. 🙄🤦 Different pulpits. Same grift. 🤡 NEVER RIP 🤬🖕🇨🇦

45 years, to the day, he was sentenced to prison, no less. Welcome to the Evangelical district of Hell, Jim Bakker. Say hi to Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, Jimmy Swaggart and D. James Kennedy for us.

Dennis Hastert, pedophile politician, and Jim Bakker, televangelist rapist, have died in the last day. Who's the third in this set?

Dennis Hastert, Jeffrey Archer, and now Jim Bakker - despicable pieces of 💩 die in threes.

Man, I didn't even realize Jim Bakker was still alive. It may be hard to believe now, but there was a time in the mid '80s where he was on my TV a lot. Allow me to explain. I've talked a lot about growing up in very rural Missouri and the straight-up revolution (to me) of satellite TV. 1/?