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Reverend in the Church of Trump Slams Memory of Ronald Reagan to Defend Trump’s Adultery

Reverend in the Church of Trump Slams Memory of Ronald Reagan to Defend Trump’s Adultery

Last updated on: July 21, 2018 at 11:06 am by Susan Wright

Reverend in the Church of Trump Slams Memory of Ronald Reagan to Defend Trump’s Adultery 2018-07-21T11:06:59-04:00 Susan Wright

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It seems that the worse Donald Trump proves to be, the more ardent and unhinged his defenders become.

Let’s begin by recognizing that for many years, the ideal in conservative Republican leadership was embodied by Ronald Wilson Reagan. His calls for smaller government and a strong America in the face of an uncertain world were inspiring.

He was a gifted orator, and easily traversed from humor to serious policy debate.

His 1964 address, “A Time for Choosing,” given on October 27, 1964 during Barry Goldwater’s presidential campaign should be required viewing for every Civics, Economics, and U.S. History class in the United States.

That speech was a harbinger of the greatness to come.

Said the then-future president:

The Founding Fathers knew a government can’t control the economy without controlling people. And they knew when a government sets out to do that, it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose. So we have come to a time for choosing.

Public servants say, always with the best of intentions, “What greater service we could render if only we had a little more money and a little more power.” But the truth is that outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or as economically as the private sector.

And then there’s this meme-worthy line:

“The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant. It’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.”

Boom.

He had the right idea about government’s role in our lives.

OH, for a Reagan now.

Reagan also spoke eloquently on the grace and goodness of God, and His place, presiding over America.

Said Reagan, “We must never forget, no government scheme is going to perfect man.”

He called out sin and evil in the world. He called the name of Jesus and pointed to the evils of our nation’s past, including racism, anti-Semitism, and proclaimed there was no room for them in this country.

He called on churches to use their pulpits to denounce the rise of hate groups in our nation. He never asked that churches exalt him, or that there were “good people” on either side of the debate, regarding hate groups.

He knew Scripture. He proudly recited, “Love thy neighbor, as thyself.”

And Reagan recognized the problem with Russia, as well as the Marxist ideology that placed the state above any belief in God.

Yes. Reagan is the conservative ideal for a reason.

And today, Republicans celebrate and defend – Donald Trump, the anti-Reagan.

Knowing what Reagan was, how he spoke and represented the actual conservative ideology, once held by serious and discerning patriots makes attacks on his name by the loathsome clingers and acolytes of the Trumpian way that much more disgusting.

Enter the heretic pastor, Dr. Robert Jeffress, head priest of Baal in the Trump’s Temple.

Jeffress did what evangelicals in this nation do, these days, whenever another ugly Trump secret is revealed: He covered for him.

I brought you the report on Friday about the secret recordings from Trump’s former attorney and “fixer,” Michael Cohen.

The FBI are in possession of a brief recording of Cohen and his then-client Trump discussing the payoff of the Trump mistress, Playboy model Karen McDougal.

McDougal claims a year long affair with Trump in 2005, while his third wife, Melania, was home with their newborn son.

Payoffs were made to both McDougal and former porn star, Stormy Daniels, during the run up to the 2016 election. Both women claim affairs with Trump during the same time period.

Fox News’ Ed Henry covered the controversy over the secret recordings, and had Jeffress on to address the latest revelation, as well as comments from an anti-Trump pastor by the name of Reverend Robert Schenk. Schenk suggested that lawmakers and evangelicals knew Trump was a lunatic, but that because he was “our lunatic,” they were willing to accept him, a move Schenk equated to selling their souls.

It was that at that moment that Jeffress chose to demean the memory of Ronald Reagan, proving there is no depth too low for a devoted Trumpateer to sink to.

“This is not an unusual thing. We’ve been here before,” Jeffress told Fox News’ Ed Henry. “Back in 1980, evangelicals chose to support a twice-married Hollywood actor who was a known womanizer in Hollywood. His name was Ronald Reagan. They chose to support him over Jimmy Carter, with a born-again Baptist Sunday school teacher who had been faithfully married to one woman. The reason we supported President Reagan was not because we supporting womanizing or divorce. We supported his policies. And that’s true here, Ed. We are choosing to support his policies. We’re not under any illusion that we were voting for an altar boy when we voted for President Trump. We knew about his past. And by the way, none of us has a perfect past. We voted for him because of his policies.”

His policies are breaking America, by the way.

One of the [many] differences between Reagan and Trump is that whatever Reagan’s early shortcomings, he repented. He built a wonderful life for his family, and he didn’t try to hide it. He tried to live right, openly, while giving deference to God.

Repentance and a changed heart. Reagan displayed it. Trump does not, because he has not.

I’m not surprised by Jeffress’ moral relativism and his attempts to put Reagan and Trump on equal ground. That’s what cultists do.

What I’m continuously surprised by is that there are so many supporting this man and insisting that they are conservatives and Christians.

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