Evangelicals know Trump is a liar. They just dont care
Evangelicals know Trump is a liar. They just dont care.As former FBI Director James Comey repeatedly called President Donald Trump a liar, Trump decided to prove him right. In a speech that neatly coincided with Comeys long-awaited Senate hearing, Trump preened and crowed in front of a rapt audience at the Faith and Freedom Coalitions annual luncheon. The speech itself? Anti-climactic. He played all the old favoritesa little bit of blood-and-soil, some exaggerated claims about the Johnson Amendment, a dash of persecution complexand then proceeded to repeatedly violate the Ninth Commandment.
He said hes added one million jobs to the economy. (False. CNN Money says the number is actually 594,000.) He claimed that insurance companies are fleeing the Affordable Care Acts exchanges and blaming former President Barack Obama. (Half-true: Companies are pulling out of the exchanges, but theyre blaming the Trump administrations policies.) He blamed Democrats for the vacancies in his administration. (False: The vacancies exist mainly because hes been slow to put forward nominees.) He said that Ben Franklin reminded members of the Constitutional Convention of 1787 to begin their sessions with prayer. This story is beloved by religious right partisans like David Barton, but it is also only half-true. Franklin made a motion to hold prayer, but it was never voted on.
This is the part where people point and laugh at evangelicals. Its tempting. They seem like easy marks for a con like Donald Trump. But theyre in on the con. Trump wasnt even the first self-identified Christian to lie at todays event. Senator David Perdue of Georgia claimed that the U.S. poverty rate is the same today as it was when President Lyndon Johnson launched the War on Poverty, thus proving that big government doesnt work. But this is a lie. The poverty rate was 19 percent in 1964 and its 13.5 percent now.
https://newrepublic.com/minutes/143213/evangelicals-know-trump-liar-just-dont-care
MANative
(4,112 posts)It's all about control of the populace, especially the female variety, and nothing about "traditional" views of spirituality or Christianity.
C_U_L8R
(45,002 posts)When their bank accounts shrink and their retirements and health insurance evaporate
dhill926
(16,337 posts)just a bunch of big fucking hypocrites.
BigmanPigman
(51,590 posts)I notice that the most vocal religious people are usually the biggest hypocrites on this planet.
dalton99a
(81,485 posts)The real Jesus means nothing to them