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Trump’s evangelical poodle denies calling Biden ‘President-elect’

Trump’s evangelical poodle denies calling Biden ‘President-elect’

Last updated on: November 14, 2020 at 3:45 pm by Barry Duke

Trump’s evangelical poodle denies calling Biden ‘President-elect’ 2020-11-14T15:45:45+02:00 Barry Duke

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AMIDST various reports that evangelical pastors who clung to Trump like dingleberries are now in full-on hand-wringing mode, one of his most ardent supporters – creepy little Robert Jeffress, above – has has refuted claims suggesting that he’s recognised Biden as the winner.

The Christian Post quoted the First Baptist Dallas pastor as saying in a tweet:

Don’t believe some false media reports that I have ‘broken’ with our great President @realDonaldTrump. I support him completely. We do NOT have a ‘president-elect’ until electoral college votes December 14.

Jeffress, 64, made headlines this week after he wrote an op-ed for Fox News in which he said that even if the Democrat ends up winning the presidential election, the Bible commands Christians to “submit and pray” to government leaders even if they are not “our preferred candidate.”

Jeffress wrote in the op-ed that it “appears” Biden will “become the 46th president of the United States on Jan. 20” unless Trump is successful in his “legal challenges to the counting of votes in several states.”

While Jeffress did not declare in his op-ed piece that Biden was “president-elect,” the headline that his op-ed was given on FoxNews.com reads:

Pastor Robert Jeffress: Biden is president-elect — how should Christians respond?

Following the publication of his op-ed, other news outlets published their own articles about what Jeffress wrote in the op-ed. An ABC News headline read:

Another article published by the popular culture news website UPROXX features the headline:

Even Pro-Trump Evangelical Pastor Robert Jeffress Wants The President To Concede Already.

Similarly, an article by the Texas-based LGBT news website Dallas Voice on Monday featured a headline stating:

Jeffress jumps off Trump bandwagon.

The twerp was less than happy, huffing on Twitter that:

Fox chose that title, not me.

In his op-ed, Jeffress did state that “when Joe Biden becomes President,” Christians should “commend him for the things he does right” and “condemn the things he does wrong.”

Just like they condemned Trump’s never-ending list of wrong-doing, huh?

Jeffress was one of the first prominent conservative evangelical figures to start appearing at Trump rallies during the 2016 Republican presidential primary campaign at a time when many conservative evangelicals were unsure of the then-candidate.

He has also attended several events at the Trump White House along with other evangelicals leaders.

In August, Jeffress suggested while on Fox Business that only evangelicals who have “sold their soul to the devil” will vote for Biden.

If Biden does take control of the White House, Jeffress said in his Fox News op-ed that it will be:

A chance to show that Christians are not hypocrites. We serve a God who remains on His throne, sovereignly reigning over every square inch of this vast universe. We serve a God who loves us and will never leave or forsake us. And now we have the chance to show the consistency and constancy of our Christian witness to this world.

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Meanwhile one devoted Trump supporter, Pastor Kris Vallotton of the California-based, 11,000-member Bethel megachurch, this week apologised for for prophesying that Trump would win.

He told Biden directly on his KVMinistries Instagram:

You’re my President.

Vallotton explained that his correct predictions about Trump in the past had finally come to an end.

I want to sincerely apologize for missing the prophecy about Donald Trump. It doesn’t make me a false prophet. I prophesied he would become president four days after he declared his candidacy [in 2015]. And I prophesied Trump would not be impeached … I’m very sorry to everyone who put their trust in me, there was a major, major mistake.

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