As if the man is truly on a quest to be the most malevolent sack of crap in America, it turns out Donald Trumps gaudy walk to a burned church next to the White House didnt just come with the White House ordering the tear gassing of peaceful protesters to clear a path for the bone-spur-having fascist: Trump was trespassing on church property for the photo-op. He didnt have permission to be there, says the Episcopal bishop responsible for St. Johns Church!
In a CNN appearance,
Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde blasted Trump for the grotesque stunt.
Let me be clear: The president just used a Bible, the most sacred text of the Judeo-Christian tradition, at one of the churches of my diocese, without permission, as the backdrop to a message antithetical to the teachings of Jesus and everything that our churches stand for.
I am outraged, she fumed. The president did not pray when he came to St. Johns nor did he acknowledge the agony of our country right now.
So Trump was trespassing on church grounds after tear gassing the crowd that had peacefully assembled there.
So where did Trump get the Bible, anyway? Did he loot it from the church?
The bishop also spoke to a Washington Post reporter. I am the bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington and was not given even a courtesy call, that they would be clearing [the area] with tear gas so they could use one of our churches as a prop.
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The Episcopal bishop of DC who oversees the DC church Trump just stopped at tells the @washingtonpost
she is "outraged" and that neither she nor the rector was asked or told
that they would be clearing with tear gas so they could use one of our churches as a prop.." 1/3
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/6/1/1949565/-Trespassing-St-John-s-Bishop-says-Trump-was-on-church-property-without-permission