3 days Ago
Speakers and folks in conversation at the Republican convention raised the idea that God saved Donald Trump from assassination so that he could become the future U.S. president.
Really? As Christians who overlook Trump’s many shortcomings well know, the man they hope will advance their agenda is deeply flawed. He is a serial adulterer and divorcer. A draft dodger.
He stiffs contractors, taking their work but not paying for it (lawyers, even). He is a liar. When he says he wouldn’t sign a national abortion ban bill, he’s lying.
He tweets savage social messages that stir up hatred and death threats to those who inconvenience him — while pretending not to know that. He is a convicted felon, guilty of business fraud and subverting an election. He created a fake cash cow university and a fake cash cow charity.
As president, he pardoned convicted cronies and extorted the president of Ukraine. As president, Trump sabotaged our country’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic — touting bleach and hydroxychloroquine as cures, resisting vaccination (while secretly getting one himself) and leaving nearly a million Americans dead before President Biden put the brakes on the epidemic. Out of office, he used his MAGA stooges in Congress to block passage of a tough, humane immigration policy, earlier this year.
There’s more, none of it good. In God We Trust. To intervene on behalf of Trump? No, rather to bring out the best in all American people — to enable us to show our basic decency, defeat this dreadful man by a landslide vote, defeat his plans to riot himself back into the White House, and punish him by making him a loser.
David Milne Thurston County.
