The efforts of far-right spitemonsters who fervently pretend to care about Jesus to pretend that Donald Trump also fervently cares about Jesus—despite absolutely no evidence of this, and considerably more evidence that Donald Trump considers himself to be the only savior any of the rest of you peons and losers should need—continue apace. This time it is rabidly anti-gay Focus on the Family critter James Dobson, who previously insisted that Trump was a fine and not-at-all-fake “baby Christian” because, as Dobson put it, "I know the person who led him to Christ." Now he's backtracking a little, because apparently we've finally found a statement so implausible that even a hate group leader can't quite say with a straight face.
"Only the Lord knows the condition of a person's heart. I can only tell you what I've heard,” Dobson said. “First, Trump appears to be tender to things of the Spirit. I also hear that Paula White has known Trump for years and that she personally led him to Christ.”
"Do I know that for sure? No,” Dobson added. “Do I know the details of that alleged conversion? I can't say that I do.”
And a more rousing statement of support has yet to be given. I don't know much about Trump's commitment to the man upstairs personally, but I heard from someone that someone else says it's all good, for what it's worth, which is maybe nothing.
The only way to truly cap off this hate group leader’s effervescently unconvincing statement? How about hearing that this person vouching for Trump's Jesusness via proxy's proxy just happens themselves to be, say, some wealth-focused prosperity gospel preacher from that peculiar Ponziesque send-me-all-your-monies offshoot of televised Christianity that says if you're rich it's proof God loves you more than the rest of us so we should all be bowing our heads to whoever's got the fattest Holy Wallet. You know, Trump’s Base.
White is a Florida-based prosperity preacher whose Without Walls International Church, with which she is no longer associated, and Paula White Ministries were both investigated by the Senate Finance Committee.
Wow, what are the odds, what a small world, can you believe the coincidence here, et cetera, ad nauseam, and so forth.
Look, televangelists and “religious” hate group leaders, you can vote for spectacularly un-Christ-like Trump if you want. You don’t need to torture yourself with excuses as to why. It’s not like any of us will think less of you than we already did—that’s a promise.