1/ How do you get from the trailer park to a White House job? Give money to Trump’s spiritual adviser. bit.ly/2HCqzaR
2/ Paula White-Cain has accomplished something no other televangelist has ever achieved: a job in the White House.
Since October, she has served as the adviser to the White House Faith and Opportunity Initiative, which Trump created through an executive order in 2018.
Since October, she has served as the adviser to the White House Faith and Opportunity Initiative, which Trump created through an executive order in 2018.
3/ But just because she’s working in the White House doesn’t mean White has quit her day jobs. To the contrary, since her appointment, White has continued:
• Preaching at her own megachurch
• Promoting her new book
• Making her daily TV show
• Preaching at her own megachurch
• Promoting her new book
• Making her daily TV show
4/ The melding of White’s public and private jobs is nearly seamless, as she invokes her relationship with Trump in her sermons and fundraising pitches, even as she wields her spiritual authority to defend the president.
5/ Experts say the arrangement raises significant conflict of interest questions, concerns about her compliance with tax laws banning nonprofit churches from endorsing candidates. bit.ly/2HCqzaR
6/ One of Trump’s many promises to evangelicals is that he would help abolish a 1950s-era tax code provision that prohibits churches from endorsing political candidates.
But the agency charged with policing churches—like White’s—is the IRS, which Trump oversees as president.
But the agency charged with policing churches—like White’s—is the IRS, which Trump oversees as president.
7/ There’s also the more fundamental question as to whether by installing her in a White House job, Trump has put the government’s stamp of approval on a religious ministry that includes faith healing and preying on vulnerable people for money.
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