After Trump's 2020 loss, Paula White said "demonic confederacies" were trying to steal the election. She'll now lead the new White House Faith Office.
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Trump makes an outrageous choice for his White House Faith Office
After Trump's 2020 loss, Paula White said "demonic confederacies" were trying to steal the election. She'll now lead the new White House Faith Office.
You can’t make this craziness up!!!🤪
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-makes-outrageous-choice-white-house-faith-office-rcna191170
There was, however, a substantive dimension to the remarks. Trump announced, for example, that he’s creating a Presidential Commission on Religious Liberty, as well as signing an executive order intended to target what he described as “anti-Christian bias.”
But as a Reuters report noted, there was one other element of the president’s vision that stood out:
The president on Thursday also announced he will create a White House Faith Office, led by Rev. Paula White, who has served as a religious adviser to him for many years.
As a practical matter, this White House office, which also existed during Trump’s first term, probably won’t have a dramatic impact on public policy. It is, however, worth pausing to appreciate who the president is welcoming onto his team......
The Hill also noted that White delivered an opening prayer before Trump’s re-election campaign kickoff, saying “demonic networks” had aligned themselves against the Republican. As People for the American Way noted, it was a familiar refrain: In the wake of Trump’s 2020 defeat, the same televangelist held multiple emergency prayer services to battle the
“demonic confederacies“ that were supposedly trying to steal the election.
The same report from People for the American Way added:
White joined Trump at the Jan. 6 rally that preceded the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, where she prayed that God would give rallygoers a “holy boldness” and that “every adversary” would “be overturned right now in the name of Jesus.” ... White has repeatedly declared that her mere presence in the White House makes it “holy ground” and warned that to oppose Trump is to oppose God.
It’s not altogether clear what White’s responsibilities will be leading the White House Faith Office, or whether she intends to accept a taxpayer-funded salary. Watch this space.
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