An important revelation from yesterday’s Cohen confession for evangelicals: Trump conspired from the beginning of his campaign to deceive the preachers who stumped for him.
After Access Hollywood tape came out, @Franklin_Graham said: “ I’ve not met an evangelical yet who condones his language or inexcusable behavior from over a decade ago. However, he has apologized to his wife, his family, and to the American people for this.”
No one could deny that Trump had been a playboy; he’d bragged about it too often thru the 80s & 90s. But Graham, Jeffress, Paula White & Falwell, Jr. told evangelicals he was a changed man. They admonished us to remember Christ’s teachings about forgiveness.
Rather than repent & change course, Trump paid Cohen to kill stories that would fracture his white evangelical base.
