In private Donald Trump told his buddy at the time Michael Cohen that a certain pastor was ‘full of shit’ and that others where ‘hustlers’….
If this surprises you?
You haven’t been listening to things in the last few years….
Quite to the opposite….
Trump appears to be the ‘hustler’ if you’ve followed his career and Presidency…
The sad thing is the Christian conservatives have been supporting a guy who despises their leaders…..
This is just another leaked story that will be surfacing between now a Election Day as the covers begin to come off the Donald Trump sidewalk act…..
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.
The president’s alliance with religious conservatives has long been premised on the contention that he takes them seriously, while Democrats hold them in disdain. In speeches and interviews, Trump routinely lavishes praise on conservative Christians, casting himself as their champion. “My administration will never stop fighting for Americans of faith,” he declared at a rally for evangelicals earlier this year. It’s a message his campaign will seek to amplify in the coming weeks as Republicans work to confirm Amy Coney Barrett—a devout, conservative Catholic—to the Supreme Court.
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….
image…President Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, and faith leaders say a prayer in the Oval Office in September 2017.Alex Wong/Getty