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Wed Jan 18, 2023, 03:08 PM

Trump criticizes evangelical leaders for not backing his 2024 presidential bid

Source: CNN

Just days before Donald Trump hosts his first 2024 event in South Carolina, a state whose evangelical population has long played a critical role in its presidential primary, the former president is lashing out at religious conservatives who have declined to endorse his third presidential campaign.

Trump’s comments to conservative journalist David Brody in a podcast interview Monday, in which he decried the “disloyalty” of evangelical leaders who have withheld public support for his campaign, were the latest in a series of bewildering remarks he’s made about one of the most critical voting blocs in a Republican primary.

“Nobody has ever done more for Right to Life than Donald Trump. I put three Supreme Court justices, who all voted, and they got something that they’ve been fighting for 64 years, for many, many years,’” Trump told Brody, referring to the Supreme Court’s overturning of federal abortion rights in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision last summer.

“There’s great disloyalty in the world of politics and that’s a sign of disloyalty,” Trump continued, bemoaning evangelical leaders who have declined to support his latest campaign.



Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/18/politics/donald-trump-evangelicals-2024/index.html

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Reply Trump criticizes evangelical leaders for not backing his 2024 presidential bid (Original post)
brooklynite Jan 18 OP
peppertree Jan 18 #1
TigressDem Jan 18 #5
TigressDem Jan 18 #2
Lonestarblue Jan 18 #3
MayReasonRule Jan 18 #4
The Third Doctor Jan 18 #6
czarjak Jan 18 #7
Permanut Jan 18 #8
LetMyPeopleVote Jan 18 #9
PatSeg Jan 18 #13
LudwigPastorius Jan 18 #10
Initech Jan 18 #11
cloudbase Jan 18 #12
greatbaldeagle Jan 18 #14
hay rick Jan 18 #15
2live is 2fly Jan 18 #16
Marcuse Jan 18 #17
Martin68 Jan 19 #18
dembotoz Jan 19 #19

Response to brooklynite (Original post)

Wed Jan 18, 2023, 03:14 PM

1. Sorry, Donald: The holy rollers are looking for a new Mussolini

When even the Pass the Loot crowd knows you've jumped the shark, it's over.

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Response to peppertree (Reply #1)

Wed Jan 18, 2023, 03:28 PM

5. Not THOSE ones, they are still on that gravy train. The "Silent Majority" decided to speak up.

The whack job holly rollers hearken back to snake oil salesmen days and are hard to get rid of, but there is a whole other level.

The majority of Christians believe in the separation of Church and State because they don't want the State getting into their business either.


Concietious Christian Leaders WROTE THE BOOK about the DANGER of tRUMP to Christianity and got a petition going as well.


https://www.amazon.com/Spiritual-Danger-Donald-Trump-Evangelical/dp/1725271788
The Spiritual Danger of Donald Trump: 30 Evangelical Christians on Justice, Truth, and Moral Integrity Paperback – June 1, 2020



A Declaration by American Evangelicals Concerning Donald Trump
https://www.change.org/p/donald-trump-a-declaration-by-american-evangelicals-concerning-donald-trump
Petition Closed
This petition had 23,564 supporters


We are Americans of African and European descent, Latino/a, Asian American, and Native American. We are women and men, as well as younger and older evangelical Christians. We come from a wide range of denominations, churches, and political orientations.

We believe in the unity of the body of Christ, but we acknowledge the diverse nature of a community whose faith is biblical and evangelical. And we are growing. Given the rich diversity within our unity, we call upon the political world to hear all our voices, and for the media to acknowledge that the evangelical community is quite diverse.

As evangelical Christians, we believe our hope and allegiance rests in the person of Jesus Christ, Savior of the world, and Lord of our lives. That is why no politician, party, movement, or nation can ever command our ultimate loyalty. As citizens both of the Kingdom of God and this world, we vote with humility, knowing that our favored candidates always fall short of biblical values. We recognize that despite our unity in Christ, we will inevitably disagree about which political stances come closest to the heart of God for our nation.


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Response to brooklynite (Original post)

Wed Jan 18, 2023, 03:17 PM

2. God is NOT on your side, tRUMP. Sincerely, Actual Christians who believe in the Golden Rule. nt

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Response to brooklynite (Original post)

Wed Jan 18, 2023, 03:21 PM

3. Right-wing evangelicals traded their souls for political power decades ago, and Trump is looking

more and more like a fading political power so they need to find a new messiah who will use politics and the law to shut down personal and civil rights for all the people who refuse to follow their fake religious beliefs to persecute women and LGBTQ. Many evangelical leaders have become multimillionaires selling a fake gospel and they want their gravy train to continue, so they need politics to stay in the limelight.

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Response to brooklynite (Original post)

Wed Jan 18, 2023, 03:22 PM

4. In Other Shocking News... My Dog is Licking his Balls...

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Response to brooklynite (Original post)

Wed Jan 18, 2023, 03:50 PM

6. He answered his own question.

He was instrumental in overturning roe vs wade and now t h ey don't need him anymore.

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Response to brooklynite (Original post)

Wed Jan 18, 2023, 04:05 PM

7. Fake Christians be best at exposing hypocrisy.

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Response to brooklynite (Original post)

Wed Jan 18, 2023, 04:05 PM

8. I'm thinking they should switch over to Santos..

Whose name translates from Spanish and Portuguese as "saints".

It's a sign from God, I tell ya.

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Response to brooklynite (Original post)

Wed Jan 18, 2023, 04:07 PM

9. TFG is going to alienate one of the few groups still supporting him

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Response to LetMyPeopleVote (Reply #9)

Wed Jan 18, 2023, 06:04 PM

13. Shoot

Give him enough time, he'll end up alienating pretty much everyone on the planet. In Trump's world, everyone is a potential enemy and he's losing support at a record pace.

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Response to brooklynite (Original post)

Wed Jan 18, 2023, 04:07 PM

10. Maybe pay another porn star to bang you?


The fundies seemed to like that, comparing you to King David.


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Response to brooklynite (Original post)

Wed Jan 18, 2023, 04:10 PM

11. Yeah go there, Trump. The GOP wouldn't exist without the evangelical crowd.

They're the only group still putting up with this band of losers.

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Response to brooklynite (Original post)

Wed Jan 18, 2023, 05:11 PM

12. If Trump should somehow become the nominee,

they'll be among the first to kiss his ass.

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Response to brooklynite (Original post)

Wed Jan 18, 2023, 06:17 PM

14. Where does he attend church?

And who is his pastor?

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Response to brooklynite (Original post)

Wed Jan 18, 2023, 07:18 PM

15. DeSantis has been wooing the evangelicals bigly.

This:

My graphic and thread on the Eighth Day campaign commercial: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217454357
My local (Florida) experience with evangelicals is that they are very comfortable with politicians claiming that they are "chosen."

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Response to brooklynite (Original post)

Wed Jan 18, 2023, 08:10 PM

16. Maybe evangelicals will begin to see "tfg" for the liar he is. The guy doesn't care about

A-N-Y right to life, basically he traded votes in exchange he'd nominate zealots to SCOTUS to overturn Roe v Wade! But (IMO) what tfg really thought about was the 2000 election. He was pretty-sure that if he could make a big enough deal about and raise enough doubt, surely what SCOTUS did for George Bush, they'd do for him. Especially seeing as how some of them owed their position on this very court to him. We know this because many of us witnessed him on our tv's occasionally reminding them of it.





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Response to brooklynite (Original post)

Wed Jan 18, 2023, 08:19 PM

17. Breaking News! Christian leader reneges on a previous deal with anus mouthed demon.

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Response to brooklynite (Original post)

Thu Jan 19, 2023, 02:48 PM

18. Biting the hand that fed him Not a good move.

Your star has fallen, Dumpman.

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Response to brooklynite (Original post)

Thu Jan 19, 2023, 05:59 PM

19. this might not go well .....evangelical leaders feel they are god ordained.

you correct them at your own peril.....

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