The Atlantic: Trump Secretly Mocks His Christian Supporters

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https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/09/trump-secretly-mocks-his-christian-supporters/616522/

One day in 2015, Donald Trump beckoned Michael Cohen, his longtime confidant and personal attorney, into his office. Trump was brandishing a printout of an article about an Atlanta-based megachurch pastor trying to raise $60 million from his flock to buy a private jet. Trump knew the preacher personally—Creflo Dollar had been among a group of evangelical figures who visited him in 2011 while he was first exploring a presidential bid. During the meeting, Trump had reverently bowed his head in prayer while the pastors laid hands on him. Now he was gleefully reciting the impious details of Dollar’s quest for a Gulfstream G650.

Trump seemed delighted by the “scam,” Cohen recalled to me, and eager to highlight that the pastor was “full of shit.”

“They’re all hustlers,” Trump said.

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But in private, many of Trump’s comments about religion are marked by cynicism and contempt, according to people who have worked for him. Former aides told me they’ve heard Trump ridicule conservative religious leaders, dismiss various faith groups with cartoonish stereotypes, and deride certain rites and doctrines held sacred by many of the Americans who constitute his base.


ONE MORE POTENTIAL NAIL IN TRUMP'S ELECTORAL COFFIN !

[livetohike]

1. He's such a fraud. I don't know what it's going to take

for people to wake up.

[StarryNite]

2. I guess there is something I agree with tRump on...

they are a scam. They feed off each other.

[UTUSN]

3. & they turn the other cheek.

[not_the_one]

4. So the ultimate human fraud recognizes the ultimate mythical fraud.

But will quickly use it if it is to HIS benefit.

Now THAT is appropriate.

[Duppers]

5. Problem is they'll think this is just

More liberal fake news.

[dv421]

6. Creflo is featured

in John Oliver's Last Week Tonight segment on televangelests.