He's part of their white-nationalist prophecy interpretation.
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“What’s different from the past [of apostolic, charismatic Christianity] is it’s just so wound up with the person and presidency of Trump,” says People for the American Way’s Peter Montgomery, who has studied and written about right-wing religious movements for decades. “Many of these prophetic leaders in 2015-2016 said Trump was anointed by God, divinely assigned to save America and protect religious freedom. And now with them believing that Trump is standing in the way of Christianity being criminalized in the United States, this is an existential moment.”
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a tip of the hat tho Jim
and just how Christian Trump and his minion's are
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The Justice Department’s “single-minded focus on increasing prosecutions came at the expense of careful and appropriate consideration of the impact that prosecution of family unit adults and family separations would have on children,” the report concluded.
Among the other findings:
The report fleshes out new details about the policy impact of Trump’s and Sessions’s personal obsessions with “caravans.” At one point, officials made a special effort to ensure that people traveling with children in one caravan would be prosecuted and separated, seemingly to match talking points prepared for Sessions that said, “An illegal alien should not get a free pass just because he or she crosses the border illegally with a child.”
The report concluded that under Sessions, the Office of the Attorney General was so eager to separate children from parents that it ignored legal constraints for how the government is supposed to care for children in such situations, demonstrating “a deficient understanding of the legal requirements related to the care and custody of separated children.”
The government pushed ahead even though it knew it lacked adequate systems in place to keep track of the children. The report notes that at the outset, Border Patrol instructed field personnel to “use spreadsheets to track separations” because database “system changes were still pending.”
Notes taken on a call with Sessions and U.S. attorneys about the policy captured Sessions telling them, “We need to take away children; if care about kids, don’t bring them in.”
“This was one of the worst human rights atrocities in American history,” Frank Sharry, the executive director of America’s Voice, told us. “The full power of the state, with the support of the president and the Cabinet, was deployed to rip thousands of kids from their parents to deter them from seeking safety and freedom as refugees in America.”
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reality check
The point is that we are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield.
George Orwell - 1946
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