If it’s a “baseless allegation” how does Agent Orange gain a redemptive indulgence for a Commandment breech and a possible Constitutional violation. Did he pick the wrong hole? Subjugating humanity somehow compensates for personal sin.
The leader of the conservative evangelical organization Family Research Council said that evangelicals were happy to give President Donald Trump a “do-over” after a previously unpublished 2011 interview with adult film actress Stormy Daniels revealed that she may have been paid to remain silent about an extramarital affair with Trump in 2006.
Speaking to Politico’s Edward-Isaac Dovere about the Daniels incident, Tony Perkins said evangelicals “kind of gave him — ‘All right, you get a mulligan. You get a do-over here,’” using a golfing term that refers to a free stroke given to a player after a poor shot.
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Many, including Focus on the Family founder James Dobson, have chosen to mark a clear division between Trump’s past and his present, describing him as a “baby Christian.” (It’s unclear when or if Trump has become a born-again Christian, but in June 2016, shortly after the Republican National Convention, Dobson said he had heard that Trump had “recently” converted.) Certainly, this does fit in with a wider evangelical ethos of redemption, which typically disregards a person’s pre-conversion actions.
Even if he’s given a “born-again" exemption, how should news of his alleged current affair(s) be handled?
Fox News last year reportedly spiked a story that included an on-the-record statement from Daniels’ manager at the time, Gina Rodriguez, confirming that her client had engaged in a sexual relationship with Trump.
Daniels is one of several women associated with pornography who have claimed to have had sexual encounters with Trump.
In 2016, porn star Jessica Drake said that Trump had kissed her without her consent and offered her $10,000 for sex.
On November 4, 2016, the Journal reported that the National Enquirer, owned by Trump pal David Pecker, paid former Playboy centerfold Karen McDougal $150,000 for the rights to her account of a 10-month-long affair with Trump (2006-2007) and then published no story on the purported relationship.
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