"He should try reading it": Raphael Warnock calls out Trump for hawking $60 Bibles

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Source: Salon

Published August 20, 2024 11:00AM (EDT)


Sen. Ralph Warnock, D-Ga., slammed Donald Trump's use of religion during his speech at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Monday night. Warnock, who is a Baptist pastor, began his remarks by sharing his mother’s history picking cotton and tobacco in Georgia.

“But because this is America, the 82-year-old hands that used to pick somebody else’s cotton and somebody else’s tobacco picked her youngest son to be a United States senator,” Warnock said to the crowd. He went onto criticize Trump’s use of Christianity in his campaign, specifically referencing a fundraising push in which Trump was selling $60 “God Bless the USA” Bibles named after Trump-supporting musician Lee Greenwood’s song.

“I saw him holding the Bible and endorsing a Bible as if it needed his endorsement,” Warnock said. “He should try reading it!” “It says do justice, love kindness, and walk humbly with your God. He should try reading it,” Warnock said as the crowd cheered.

Georgia is expected to be a crucial battleground in the 2024 election. In 2020, President Joe Biden flipped the historically Republican state in one of the closest results of the 2020 election. Trump currently leads Harris in Georgia 46-50, according to a recent New York Times/Sienna College poll.

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[LetMyPeopleVote]

1. I saw Trump holding the Bible and endorsing a Bible as if it needed his endorsement. He should try reading it

Link to tweet

[NoRethugFriends]

3. well to be fair,

If one does read the bible, one could find a ton of ways in which one shouldn't behave also. Maybe we get religion out of politics entirely?

[twodogsbarking]

4. I was thinking Trump read The Holy Bible for ideas on how to get revenge and whatever else.

[Sibelius Fan]

2. I know a lot more people who have been turned off toChristianity after reading the Buybull

than who embraced religion as a result of said reading. It really is an awful tome on so many levels.

[iluvtennis]

5. And he held the bible upside down and said "Two Corinthians", not "Second Corinthians".

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_photo_op_at_St._John%27s_Church

[BlueKota]

6. The way he said it sounds like the start of a joke

"Two Corinthians went into a bar...

[iluvtennis]

7. That would have been okay, but it wan't a joke. trump knows nothing about the bible. n/t

[mikelewis]

9. But one one came out!

[mikelewis]

8. I wonder if he edited it... bet $3 to a nickel, there's been changes...

I wonder if you can get it on Ebook. I can run a routine in minutes that would tell what version that was and hours to tell me what changes he made. But only if it were an Ebook, I wouldn't scan that entire thing.

[bmichaelh]

10. $300,000

According to financial disclosures, Trump made $300,000 selling those Bibles.

I wonder who bought those Bibles.

I believe it is the KJV Bible, which anyone with access to the Internet can download for free.

Or Amazon has Kindle KJV versions under $2 dollars.

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

11. God's SMiTE Fob must be broken ..nt