TRUMP SPECIFIED THAT CHRISTIANS ARE "IDIOTS", "FOOLS", AND "SCHMUCKS", AND, THAT CHRISTIAN TRADITIONS ARE "BULLSHIT", PER HIS FORMER LAWYER AND CONFIDANT, MICHAEL COHEN
Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, specified that Trump told him that he thought Christianity was "bullshit", and that Trump told him that Trump thought Christians were "idiots", "fools", and "schmucks", and where this has been reported by many different news outlets.[2]
As lawyer David Kay Johnson reported in Salon Magazine, "Michael Cohen's book about his years as Donald Trump's fixer is a clarion call to Christians to wake up; recognize the man many of them revere as a heavenly agent is a religious fraud; and act.
Trump loathes Christians and mocks their faith, but pretends to believe if it suits his purposes.
In Disloyal, published today, Cohen shows how Trump is a master deceiver.
He quotes Trump calling Christianity and its religious practices "bullshit," then soon after masterfully posing as a fervent believer. In truth, Cohen writes, Trump's religion is unbridled lust for money and power at any cost to others.
Cohen's insider stories add significant depth to my own documentation of Trump's repeated and public denouncements of Christians as "fools," "idiots" and "schmucks."
In extensive writing and speeches, Trump has declared his life philosophy is "revenge." That stance is aggressively anti-Christian. So are Trump's often publicly expressed desires to violently attack others, mostly women, and his many remarks that he derives pleasure from ruining the lives of people over such minor matters as declining to do him a favor.
Cohen describes himself as an "active participant" with Trump in activities ranging from "golden showers in a sex club in Vegas" to corrupt deals with Russian officials.
The author offers new anecdotes about Trump's utter disregard for other people and his contempt for religious belief. Cohen's words should shock the believers who were crucial to his becoming president, provided they ever read them.
By denouncing the book Trump has ensured that many of those he has tricked into believing he is a deeply religious man will never fulfill their Christian duty to be on the lookout for deceivers.
None of the evangelicals I have interviewed in the past five years knew Trump has denounced in writing their beliefs and written of the communion host as "my little cracker."
Trump detests Christianity
Despite the irrefutable evidence that Trump detests Christianity and ridicules such core beliefs as the Golden Rule and turning the other cheek, America is filled with pastors who praise him to their flocks as a man of God. Trump himself has looked heavenward outside the White House to imply he was chosen by God.
Pastors who support Trump were scolded two years ago by Christianity Today, a magazine founded by Billy Graham, for not denouncing Trump as "profoundly immoral." Many evangelical pastors then attacked the magazine rather than following the Biblical exhortation to examine their own souls.
Cohen writes that as a young man who grew up encountering Mafioso and other crooks at a country club he fell into the "trance-like spell" of Trump, whom he describes as an utterly immoral, patriarchal mob boss and con man.
Trump is "consumed by the worldly lust for wealth and rewards," Cohen writes, which puts him at odds with the teaching of Jesus Christ about what constitutes a good life.
"Places of religious worship held absolutely no interest to him, and he possessed precisely zero personal piety in his life," Cohen writes.
Prosperity gospel embraced
Cohen explains that the only version of Christianity that could possibly interest Trump is the "prosperity gospel." That is a perverse belief that financial wealth is a sign of heavenly approval rooted in 19th Century occult beliefs that is anathema to Christian scripture.
Many actual Christians regard the prosperity gospel as evil. Christianity Today, calls it "an aberrant theology" promoted by disgraced televangelists including Jimmy Swaggart and Jim and Tammy Baker.
Early in Trump's aborted 2012 presidential campaign, Cohen writes, he was ordered to reach out to faith communities. Soon Paula White, now the White House adviser on faith, proposed a meeting at Trump Tower with evangelical leaders. Cohen writes that Trump liked White because she was blonde and beautiful.
Cohen said that among those attending were Jerry Falwell Jr., who recently resigned in disgrace over sex and greed allegations as head of Liberty University, and Creflo Dollar, who solicited donations for a $65 million corporate jet and who was criminally charged that year with choking his daughter. Dollar said those charges were the work of the devil.
Once the evangelical leaders took their seats, Cohen writes, Trump quickly and slickly portrayed himself as a man of deep faith. Cohen writes that this was nonsense.
Laying on hands
After soaking in Trump's deceptions, the leaders proposed laying hands on Trump. One purpose of laying on hands is to call on the Holy Spirit for divine approval.
Cohen was astounded when Trump, a germaphobe, eagerly accepted.
"If you knew Trump as I did, the vulgarian salivating over beauty contestants or mocking Roger Stone's" sexual proclivities "you would have a hard time keeping a straight face at the sight of him affecting the serious and pious mien of a man of faith. I knew I could hardly believe the performance or the fact that these folks were buying it.
"Watching Trump I could see that he knew exactly how to appeal to the evangelicals' desires and vanities – who they wanted him to be, not who he really was. Everything he was telling them about himself was absolutely untrue."
To deceive the evangelicals, Cohen writes, Trump would "say whatever they wanted to hear."
A perverse epiphany
Trump's ease at deception became for Cohen an epiphany, though a perverse one.
In that moment, Cohen writes, he realized the boss would someday become president because Trump "could lie directly to the faces of some of the most powerful religious leaders in the country and they believed him."
Later that day, Cohen writes, he met up with Trump in his office.
"Can you believe that bullshit," Trump said of the laying on of hands. "Can you believe that people believe that bullshit."
Cohen also writes about Trump's desire, expressed behind closed doors, to destroy those who offend him. Trump has said the same, though less vividly, in public.
"I love getting even," Trump declared in his book Think Big, espousing his anti-Christian philosophy: "Go for the jugular. Attack them in spades!"
He reiterated that philosophy this year at the National Prayer Breakfast. Holding up two newspapers with banner headlines reporting his Senate acquittal on impeachment charges, Trump said, "I don't like people who use their faith as justification for doing what they know is wrong. Nor do I like people who say, 'I pray for you,' when they know that that's not so."
Trump spoke after Arthur Brooks, a prominent conservative, told the breakfast meeting that "contempt is ripping our country apart."
Brooks went on: "We're like a couple on the rocks in this country…Ask God to take political contempt from your heart. And sometimes, when it's too hard, ask God to help you fake it."
Everyone in the room rose to applaud Brooks except Trump, though he finally stood up as the applause died down.
Taking the microphone, Trump said, "Arthur, I don't know if I agree with you… I don't know if Arthur is going to like what I'm going to say."
Trump then said he didn't believe in forgiveness. That is just as Cohen wrote: "Trump is not a forgiving person." Trump's words at the prayer breakfast made clear that he rejects the teaching of Jesus at Luke 6:27: "Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you."
The question pastors should raise in their Sunday sermons, the question Cohen's book lays before them, is how can any Christian support a man who mocks Christianity, embraces revenge as his only life philosophy and rejects that most basic Biblical teaching—forgiveness."[2]
TRUMP SPECIFIED THAT KILLED MEN AND WOMEN IN UNIFORM WERE "SUCKERS" AND "LOSERS" - AND AS AN ILLEGITIMATELY-INSTALLED PRESIDENT, "ENGINEERED" INTO OFFICE BY AMERICA'S #1 ENEMY, WHO COMMITTED MEDICAL FRAUD TO EVADE BEING DRAFTED INTO VIETNAM - TRUMP REFUSED TO VISIT MILITARY GRAVES, BECAUSE HE DIDN'T WANT TO "MESS UP HIS HAIR", AND HE ORDERED INJURED VETS TO NEVER BE BROUGHT TO HIS EVENTS, BECAUSE IT "WOULDN'T LOOK GOOD" FOR HIM
This week it was revealed in The Atlantic that Trump ordered his General Mark Milley to never bring injured vets to Trump's events again.[4][5]
" A new profile on General Mark Milley delved into his efforts to preside over the military in the last few years despite his numerous concerns with former President Donald Trump.
The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg’s revealing profile was published on Thursday, and touched on how the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff formulated his opinion on Trump and how he dealt with the “cognitive unfitness and moral derangement” he saw from the ex-commander in chief.
Milley was presented as struggling to push against Trump’s darkest impulses and maintain the military’s various safeguards if Trump ever forced him to choose between himself and the Constitution.
The profile offered several examples of Milley’s exasperation with Trump’s behavior, one of which occurred during Milley’s welcome ceremony, where he got a “disturbing insight” into Trump’s callous attitude toward soldiers.
From The Atlantic:
Milley had chosen a severely wounded Army captain, Luis Avila, to sing “God Bless America.” Avila, who had completed five combat tours, had lost a leg in an IED attack in Afghanistan, and had suffered two heart attacks, two strokes, and brain damage as a result of his injuries. To Milley, and to four-star generals across the Army, Avila and his wife, Claudia, represented the heroism, sacrifice, and dignity of wounded soldiers.
It had rained that day, and the ground was soft; at one point Avila’s wheelchair threatened to topple over. Milley’s wife, Hollyanne, ran to help Avila, as did Vice President Mike Pence. After Avila’s performance, Trump walked over to congratulate him, but then said to Milley, within earshot of several witnesses, “Why do you bring people like that here? No one wants to see that, the wounded.” Never let Avila appear in public again, Trump told Milley. (Recently, Milley invited Avila to sing at his retirement ceremony.)
The anecdote comes after reporters Susan Glasser and Peter Baker claimed in their book, The Divider, that Trump took a disdainful view of wounded soldiers and didn’t want them to be displayed in events celebrating the military.
Trump was reported telling John Kelly, “I don’t want any wounded guys” to be featured in a military parade he called for years ago, and he dismissed the protests from the former White House chief of staff.
Another problematic situation Milley found himself in was when he had to try explaining the concept of war crimes to Trump while the former president was intervening in the case of Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher.
Late one night, on Air Force One, Milley tried to convince Trump that his intrusion was damaging Navy morale. They were flying from Washington to Dover Air Force Base, in Delaware, to attend a “dignified transfer,” the repatriation ceremony for fallen service members.
“Mr. President,” Milley said, “you have to understand that the SEALs are a tribe within a larger tribe, the Navy. And it’s up to them to figure out what to do with Gallagher. You don’t want to intervene. This is up to the tribe. They have their own rules that they follow.”
Trump called Gallagher a hero and said he didn’t understand why he was being punished.
“Because he slit the throat of a wounded prisoner,” Milley said.
“The guy was going to die anyway,” Trump said.
Milley answered, “Mr. President, we have military ethics and laws about what happens in battle. We can’t do that kind of thing. It’s a war crime.” Trump answered that he didn’t understand “the big deal.” He went on, “You guys”—meaning combat soldiers—“are all just killers.”"[4]
As the article specifies above, this wasn't the first time Trump disparaged and demoralized the U.S. military without a reasonable basis (which is actually a treason, sedition, and subversive crime per Cornell Law, and thus overt furtherance of Trump's treason with Russia, is a reasonable inference).[5]
"A new book claims that former President Donald Trump verbalized his disdain for wounded veterans early on in his presidency.
The authors of “The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021,” The New York Times’ Peter Baker and The New Yorker’s Susan B. Glasser, detailed an exchange Trump had with his then-chief of staff John Kelly in which the former president expressed interest in copying the grandeur he witnessed during a French military parade. He just wanted to make one key tweak, according to an excerpt published by The New Yorker.
In 2017, Trump flew to Paris for Bastille Day celebrations held by Emmanuel Macron, the then-new French president. The celebration was also meant to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the American entrance into the WWI. Due to this, Macron apparently wanted to appeal to Trump’s love for opulence with a grandiose military display, which included vintage tanks rolling down the Champs-Élysées as fighter jets flew overhead.
When Trump returned to Washington, D.C., he asked his generals to throw him an even showier military parade for July 4. Part of his vision for improving on France’s spectacular martial display was apparently by barring veterans who were wounded or used a wheelchair from his parade.
“Look, I don’t want any wounded guys in the parade,” Trump allegedly told Kelly, noting with “distaste” that visibly injured veterans were featured in the French parade. “This doesn’t look good for me.”
Kelly — a retired Marine Corps general — was apparently flabbergasted by the idea.
“Those are the heroes,” Kelly told Trump, according to the book. “In our society, there’s only one group of people who are more heroic than they are — and they are buried over in Arlington.”
The book noted that Kelly did not mention that his son, Robert — a lieutenant killed in action in Afghanistan — was among those buried in Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.
“I don’t want them,” Trump apparently repeated. “It doesn’t look good for me.”
Trump — who dodged the Vietnam War draft — has a history of disrespecting veterans, especially those who have died or have been injured.
In 2020, The Atlantic reported that Trump referred to American service members who died in WWI as “losers” and “suckers” in conversations with his senior staff during a trip to France in 2018.
While on the trip, he turned down a planned visit to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery ― a WWI cemetery in Belleau, France, near the site of the Battle of Belleau Wood. His reason was reportedly because the cemetery was “filled with losers.” In another conversation during the trip, he “referred to the more than 1,800 marines who lost their lives at Belleau Wood as ‘suckers’ for getting killed,” The Atlantic reported."[6]
And the reason he didn't want to visit killed men and women in uniform, who he specified were "suckers" and "losers", is that he didn't want to mess up his hair.[7]
"US president declined to visit military cemetery in France in 2018 because he feared rain would mess up his hair and dead soldiers were ‘losers’ anyway, officials say."[7]
RUSSIA'S AND JEFFREY EPSTEIN'S DONALD J. TRUMP AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY (GOP/RNC) HAVE BEEN CALLING FOR THE DEATH AND DESTRUCTION OF U.S. LAW ENFORCEMENT AND THE U.S. MILITARY, AND THOSE CALLS HAVE BEEN ANSWERED BY THE AMBUSH AND BOUNTIES PLACED ON THEIR HEADS
As recent as yesterday, Jeffrey Epstein's and Russia's Trump AND the Republican Party called for the death of one of the bravest U.S. military generals of our era, General Mark Milley, because he prevented Trump and the Republican Party from weaponizing the U.S. military to overthrow the United States to keep Russia's and Jeffrey Epstein's Trump and the Republican Party in power over their own criminal investigations, after they clearly lost the popular vote in 2020, again, because they also didn't win the democratic popular vote in 2016 either, and, they "immediately disqualified" themselves from office, when they furthered their treason, sedition, RICO, elections fraud, and obstruction of justice ongoing criminal conspiracy with Russia, "immediately disqualifying" themselves no less than at least three different ways per U.S. criminal law and the U.S. Constitution.[8][9][11]
But that's not the first time the Republican Party has called for the death and destruction of our brave men and women in uniform, where GOP Congressman Lindsey Graham (who a grand jury in GA found reason to indict) specified that Trump should "punch a cop", and GOP Congressman Paul Gosar (also implicated in the insurrection and attempts to overthrow our country) specified that both U.S. law enforcement and one of our highest ranking generals need to be "destroyed" and "executed", while GOP Congressman Tommy Tuberville has created a threat to our military by blocking hundreds of promotions, including the top positions for the Navy, Marines, and the Air Force, during wartime with Russia, again, arguably all acts of treason to serve America's #1 enemy, Russia, in order to help Russia "destroy" and "execute" Americans and America.[11]
This is all starting to make perfect sense, given Russia and Putin "engineered" Trump and the GOP into office in 2016, and have attempted to keep the same in office every since.[8][11]
And where since some of these calls by the Republican Party and Trump to "punch", "destroy", and "execute" U.S. law enforcement and the U.S. military, which included Russia putting bounties on the heads of U.S. soldiers - thereafter, U.S. law enforcement and U.S. military members serving our country were punched in the face, and they were ambushed and executed, and other attempts to do the same have since been thwarted, and yet a record number of those serving us in uniform have been murdered since Trump's and the GOP's incitements of violence against those in uniform.[11]
And remember, the Republican Party's four times indicted Trump has implied and/or expressed that if you don't support some to all of the same, then you are a "radical".[11]
How much more of this crap are we going to take America?
Maybe our U.S. law enforcement and U.S. military need to "destroy" and "execute" Trump and the Republican Party - or at least start arresting and prosecuting them for all of their ongoing crimes, and remove them from all of their illegitimate offices, and overturn all of their illegitimate changes to the government, which they immediately disqualified themselves from being able to lawfully make - before Trump and the Republican Party incite more people to destroy our men and women in uniform - and as the law specifies should happen for the many treason and other laws they violated with Russia BEFORE the 2016 elections, and thereafter?[11]
Last, this conduct by Trump and the GOP isn't just inciting treason, insurrection, sedition, civil war, death, and destruction of our men and women in uniform, but also terrorism, and not domestic terrorism, because they are doing this after being "engineered" into office by Russia, who they have been adhering to, aiding, and comforting, and so this isn't domestic terrorism, but full on Russian terrorism, by agents of Russia, America's #1 enemy.
We need to "respond in kind" to make America great again. United we'll stand America.
Stop letting Russia's and Jeffrey Epstein's Trump and GOP divide us with their poisonous lies.
SOURCES AND ATTRIBUTES
[1] https://unsplash.com/@actionvance
[3] https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2023/09/22/trump-mark-milley-the-atlantic-luis-avila-ctn-vpx.cnn
[5] https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=%2Fprelim%40title18%2Fpart1%2Fchapter115&edition=prelim
[7] https://www.timesofisrael.com/report-trump-disparaged-american-war-dead-as-losers-suckers/
[9] https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/09/trump-milley-execution-incitement-violence/675435/
[11] www.uprightsnews.com
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