The following article by Aaron Rupar was posted on the ThinkProgress website March 9, 2018:
Evangelicals “knew they weren’t voting for an altar boy when they voted for Donald Trump,” Robert Jeffress argues.
One of President Trump’s most vocal religious advisers thinks the president deserves to be forgiven for his affair with adult film actress Stormy Daniels — even, apparently, if Trump never asks for it in the first place.
During a Fox News interview on Thursday evening, pastor Robert Jeffress — a Southern Baptist who leads First Baptist Church in Dallas and serves as an evangelical adviser to the president — said he doesn’t think evangelicals should think twice about continuing to support the president, as more details trickle out about a $130,000 hush payment Trump’s personal lawyer paid to Stormy Daniels just days before the 2016 election. Continue reading “Trump religious adviser: Hush money to adult film star ‘doesn’t matter’ because God forgives all”