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8. Remember when that Episcopalian bishop Mariann Budde told Trump to be merciful?
Sun Feb 23, 2025, 04:14 PM
Feb 2025

The next week the Repubs were trying to deport her for that.

What did Bishop Budde and President Trump say?

“Let me make one final plea, Mr. President,” the soft-spoken bishop said from the pulpit of Washington National Cathedral. “I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now,” she said. “There are gay, lesbian, and transgender children in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives,” Budde preached. She said “the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals,” calling them “good neighbors” and “faithful members” of religious communities.

At the White House afterward, Trump said he “didn’t think it was a good service.” He later called Budde a “Radical Left hard line Trump hater” on his Truth Social site and demanded an apology for “her inappropriate statements.”

https://apnews.com/article/trump-inaugural-prayer-service-episcopal-bishop-mariann-budde-60d409d1ba9b69ad1065065b9218c558

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