Pat Robertson, a religious broadcaster who turned a small television station into a global media empire, has died at age 93.
In recent years, Robertson was criticized for a rash of convoluted comments, perhaps most notoriously ones where he tried to connect a Louisiana hurricane and a Haiti earthquake with moral decay, abortion and homosexuality.
Robertson's candidacy came three years after he opined that only Christians and Jews should serve in U.S. government positions. He finished ahead of George H.W. Bush in the Iowa primary but claims that he embellished his Korean War service while in the Marines helped doom his campaign. As the internet spread news faster beginning in the 1990s, his frequent extremist comments began to draw more rigorous scrutiny.
"He drank as much as most college kids," a former classmate told a reporter during the 1988 campaign. Robertson returned home, and after a brief time as a youth minister, bought a Virginia television station for $37,000 US in 1961 to broadcast religious programming. Donald Trump won the 2016 election with support among evangelical voters estimated at 81 per cent, as many believers overlooked Trump's extramarital affairs and frequent examples of un-Christian behaviour.
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