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Christian psychologist: Trump’s evangelical supporters have been ‘bewitched by an exploitative, pathologically lying snake oil salesman’

AlterNet logoAlthough President Donald Trump is enthusiastically supported by Christianity’s lunatic fringe — that is, white Christian right evangelicals such as Franklin Graham, the Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins and Liberty University’s Jerry Falwell, Jr. — he is not universally loved in Christianity by any means. Vehement criticism of Trump has come from everyone from Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg (a practicing Episcopalian) to the Rev. Al Sharpton to members of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church. And Christian psychologist Chris Thurman, in some blistering op-eds for the Christian Post, denounces Trump’s far-right white evangelical supporters as “fools” who have been taken in by an opportunist.

“I believe evangelicals who support Donald Trump are being both blind and foolish to do so, and that labeling them as such is not sinful but appropriate and necessary,” Thurman asserts. “By support, I’m not referring to evangelicals who voted for Trump in 2016; I’m referring to those evangelicals who continue to hold Trump up as a great leader, say he is God’s chosen one for the presidency, applaud his appalling words and actions, ignore his glaring moral defects, and enable his dangerous presidency to continue by giving him their time, talents and treasures.”

Thurman first called out Trump’s evangelical supporters in a December 4 op-ed, inspiring some angry responses from pro-Trump evangelicals. One of them came from fellow Christian Post contributor Michael Brown, who wrote on December 6 that Thurman is “blind to Trump’s strengths and his potential to help America greatly.” But Thurman didn’t back down. Instead, he doubled down in an equally blistering op-ed for the Christian Post on December 10.

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Sports Columnist Tags Trump As ‘Major Golf Cheat’ And ‘Terrifying’ President

Rick Reilly is not only a former Sports Illustrated columnist — he is also the author of the book, “Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump.” According to Reilly, Trump is a major cheat when it comes to playing golf — and that says a lot about his presidency.

In an article published on Tuesday, The Guardian’s Donald McRae quotes Reilly as saying, “You’re mostly laughing, but at times, you’re crying. How did this happen? As a golfer, he really offends me. Cheating? Hate that. Driving carts on greens? Hate that.”

Reilly, according to The Guardian, first met Trump in the late 1980s. And even then, Reilly recalls, Trump was a master of exaggeration.

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The Biggest Loser

New Trump Tax Facts Hint at Massive Cheating and Vulnerability to Russian Influence

Now that Donald Trump has been exposed as perhaps the biggest loser in American business history, here are two reasonable questions to ask:

  1. Does this shed any light on his fight to keep Congress from seeing his recent tax returns?
  2. Do Trump’s tax filings matter to us and our government?

And the answers are yes and YES!

Trump’s business tax losses from 1985 through 1995 were revealed Tuesday by The New York Times. A source who had legal possession of Trump’s tax data, known as transcripts, gave them to the newspaper.

View the complete May 8 article by David Cay Johnston on the DC Report website here.

The Tyranny Of Donald J. Trump

Two Generations of Tax Cheating, and Now He Holds Himself and His Family Above the Law

Donald J. Trump and his team have now openly declared that he is above the law rather than, as our Constitution provides, a public servant whose duty is to faithfully execute the law.

His administration is taking numerous steps that move us in the direction of a Trumpian dictatorship by defeating the rule of law, something I’ve warned about since 2016. We’ll look at one aspect of this today: Trump family taxes.

Trump and his team insist that no one is ever going to see his tax returns, which he promised voters he would make public as every president has done back to Richard Nixon.

View the complete April 11 article by David Cay Johnston on the DCReports.org website here.

Donald Trump Cheats At Golf In Some Really Ridiculous Ways: Sports Writer

Sports writer Rick Reilly says the president “kicks the ball out of the rough so many times the caddies call him Pelé.”

It’s pretty obvious that Donald Trump likes golf, but he may like cheating at it even more.

That’s according to sports writer Rick Reilly, author of a new book about Trump’s golf game, Commander In Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump.

Reilly, who claims the president goes to ridiculous lengths to ensure he wins each match, appeared on “Morning Joe” Tuesday and said he’d learned how Trump won the 18 club championships he repeatedly boasts about.

View the complete April 2 article by David Moye on the Huffington Post website here.