WOW! CHRISTIANITY TODAY, AN EVANGELICAL PUBLICATION, CALLS TRUMP "IMMORAL," AND MUST BE REMOVED!

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At last! 

Christianity Today published a scathing indictment of Donald Trump, calling for his removal from office. Now let's see how those who call themselves Evangelical Christians react to this. This wasn't written by Democrats, but by their own people who understand what a morally diseased man Donald Trump is and that by not speaking out about the degenerate and venal man that Trump is, they will do harm to everything the Evangelical Christians and their church stand for.

At last! Moral courage and righteousness.

Where do the so-called Christians who continue to support Trump go to now to excuse their deplorable continued support for this very unChristian and morally diseased man?

An editorial published Thursday by Christianity Today, a magazine founded by the late Rev. Billy Graham, called for President Trump's removal from office in the wake of his impeachment, deeming him "grossly immoral."

"We have reserved judgment on Mr. Trump for years now. Some have criticized us for our reserve. But when it comes to condemning the behavior of another, patient charity must come first. ... To use an old cliché, it’s time to call a spade a spade, to say that no matter how many hands we win in this political poker game, we are playing with a stacked deck of gross immorality and ethical incompetence."

Why it matters: Christianity Today is an influential mainstream magazine for evangelicals, with 4.3 million monthly visitors on its site and hundreds of thousands of print subscribers. President Trump won 81% of the evangelical vote in 2016, a group that makes up about 25% of the electorate, according to the Pew Research Center.

• Billy Graham's son, Franklin, is an ardent supporter of President Trump. He told "Axios on HBO" in November that he supports the president because he "defends the faith."

Highlights: The editorial calls Christianity Today's stance a moral choice — similar to how the magazine reacted when former President Bill Clinton was impeached.

• "[T]he facts in this instance are unambiguous: The president of the United States attempted to use his political power to coerce a foreign leader to harass and discredit one of the president’s political opponents. That is not only a violation of the Constitution; more importantly, it is profoundly immoral."
• "Trump’s evangelical supporters have pointed to his Supreme Court nominees, his defense of religious liberty, and his stewardship of the economy, among other things, as achievements that justify their support of the president. ... None of the president’s positives can balance the moral and political danger we face under a leader of such grossly immoral character."
• "That [Trump] should be removed, we believe, is not a matter of partisan loyalties but loyalty to the Creator of the Ten Commandments."

Go deeper... Josh Harris: Evangelical support for Trump "incredibly damaging to the Gospel"

UPDATE:

The maniac in the Oval Office, as predicted, has attacked and denigrated Christianity Today for telling the truth about his odious behavior as POTUS. 

Maybe Trump will suggest Jesus is "looking up" from where he is because this important Evangelical group no longer supports the liar, cheat, and fraud.

Here's Trump's response to CT (he even spelled the magazine incorrectly (ET) in his ranting rage.)

I won’t be reading ET again!’: Trump attacks Christian magazine for backing impeachment then misspells its name during wild early morning rant

President goes to war with evangelical publication that branded him ‘immoral’

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Donald Trump has launched an angry broadside against a Christian magazine which endorsed his impeachment, while apparently misspelling its initials and proclaiming: “I won’t be reading ET again!”.

Evangelical publication Christianity Today, founded by Billy Graham and widely known as CT, had called for him to be removed from office for acting in a “profoundly immoral” manner.

It was a serious blow for the president, who counts evangelical voters among his support base.

And amid an early-morning flurry of tweets just days after he became the third president in US history to be impeached, the Republican turned his sights on the magazine, falsely describing it as “far left”.

TRUMP MOCKS THE LATE US REPRESENTATIVE JOHN DINGELL AND HIS WIDOW, DEBBIE DINGELL

This is the moral pig and loathsome, indecent waste of human flesh that the current Trumplican Party is defending to the last man and woman.

How Trump and his yawping mob mocked and degraded a beloved US Representative, suggesting he was in Hell, and how he denigrated his widow are acts too shocking and indecent to comprehend.

This is Trump being Trump and his cultists can't get enough of this repulsive blight on all that is decent and good in America.

DONALD TRUMP IS IMPEACHED

Only the third president 

in American history.

The stain on his presidency is permanent.


COMMENT MODERATION IS BACK ON.

THE TROLLS ARE ON A RAMPAGING STREAK.

Josh Marshall: 



"The signature reality of the Trump Era is confusion. False stories crowd out real ones – false stories driven less by ignorance than as a mode of attack. We hear endlessly about ‘two realities’, in which partisans on either side of the political divide see the same things and come away with radically different understandings of them. This is mainly false. We see and understand the same things but react differently. The great threat we face as a country isn’t poor logical reasoning but the growth of authoritarianism and leader-worship.... 

 Ordinary venal corruption can be impeachable. Some serious crimes that are not tied to a President’s official duties might be impeachable. But the crimes Trump is accused of – and of which he is clearly guilty – are definitional examples of the kind of wrongdoing impeachment was designed to combat... 

Far more than Watergate, certainly more than the frivolous impeachment of Bill Clinton, crimes like Trump has committed are precisely, uniquely what the constitution writers created impeachment to prevent. It’s true that there are a lot of other bad things Trump has done which likely merit impeachment. But the vast majority of them are similar in kind to this, welcoming subversion by foreign powers and the use of the powers given to a President for just administration to corruptly perpetuate his or her own power."

IMPEACHMENT DAY, DECEMBER 18, 2019

Today, Donald J. Trump, 45th POTUS, 

will be the third US president to be impeached.

And he deserves it.

Comment Moderation is off for today.

Please politely and cogently express your thoughts.

WARNING:

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SPEAKER PELOSI REACTS TO TRUMP'S UNHINGED, CRAZY-ASS LETTER

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TRUMP SAYS ARMENIA MASSACRES NOT GENOCIDE!

Trump says Armenia massacres were not genocide, directly contradicting Congress – even Republican members.

So literally attempting to kill every member of an ethnic group is not genocide in Trump's view - of course not - Trump has businesses in Turkey!

There's a certain far right blogger who has Armenian heritage, and she's a big Trump supporter. I wonder how fabulous she feels about her hero announcing this lie and slander against the Armenian people.

My father's first business partner was Armenian, and as a child we had many happy Sunday dinners with his family. Growing up in the Boston area, I've met and been friends with many Americans of Armenian descent. Every one of them big-hearted, family-oriented, decent human beings.

My neighborhood has a memorial to the Armenian massacres, which I often visit on my way home from Downtown Crossing. It's a beautiful, serene sculpture garden that gives everyone who stops and reflects a chance to remember those Armenians who suffered and died in the genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire (present day Turkey).

It's not a secret that Trump and his family have huge business investments in Turkey, and it's not difficult to link Trump's shameful betrayal of the Armenian people and their descendants here in America to those lucrative businesses.

Every time I think Trump cannot sink deeper into the world's sewers of power, he proves to me and the world that there is no bottom to his treachery.










Trump sided with Turkey and blocked Congress' bipartisan effort to recognize the Armenian genocide


Trump refuses to back recognition of Armenian genocide after Erdogan threat    Bipartisan Senate resolution passed in defiance of US president

For those of you who are not knowledgeable about the Armenian genocide.  

Russia State TV Calls Trump Their "Agent"

I'm old enough to remember when the Republican Party disliked everything Russian, did not trust them, and rightly acknowledged them as deceptive, untrustworthy, scheming, murderous, and anti-democratic.

Not anymore!

Trump is Russia's BFF, and they're laughing at him because they've got America right where they want her with the chump in the Oval Office willing to trade away America's standing in the world for Russian oligarch money for his Trump businesses.

A partnership made in Hell.

Russia’s State TV Calls Trump Their ‘Agent’

Sometimes a picture doesn’t have to be worth a thousand words. Just a few will do. As Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov returned home from his visit with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office last week, Russian state media was gloating over the spectacle. TV channel Rossiya 1 aired a segment entitled “Puppet Master and ‘Agent’—How to Understand Lavrov’s Meeting With Trump.” 

 Vesti Nedeli, a Sunday news show on the same network, pointed out that it was Trump, personally, who asked Lavrov to pose standing near as Trump sat at his desk. It’s almost the literal image of a power behind the throne.

“Putin has expressed undisguised delight with the crusade led by Trump and Giuliani to whitewash Moscow’s interference in the U.S. elections.”



Trump and his MAGAts:  

Making Russia Great Again!

AMEN!

The American people want Trump impeached and removed. The Republican Party is anti-American people.

Even the FAUX NOOZ fans who believe all Trump's lies want the criminal S.O.B. impeached!

Fox Host’s Kilmeade Explodes Over Fox Poll Showing 50% Of Voters Want Trump Removed

SATURDAY NIGHT CARTOON

OUR AMERICAN SHAME: THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION

FRIDAY SCIENCE BLOG

"A howler monkey weighs little more than a pug but can roar as loud as a tiger. Researchers at Cambridge University have found a surprising trade-off across howler species: the louder a male’s roar, the smaller his reproductive organs. His testicles, to be specific."

Villianous Liar, Trump

"Less than a week after video of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and European leaders mocking him at a NATO summit went viral, Trump claimed, absurdly, that 'this country is so respected. And we were not respected four years ago. We were laughed at.'

And just hours after a federal judge blocked his plan to spend billions of military dollars on his border wall, Trump said 'we’re building it and it’s fine and we have the military money coming in from the military. Believe me ... we started winning in court.' ”

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VILLIANOUS LIAR

Congratulations to Greta!

However, one jealous little juvenile tweeter couldn't let this accolade go by without showing his envy and childish response.

Trump, instead of acting like a normal adult and congratulating Greta, lashed out at her and made a pathetic ass of himself, as is his usual behavior.

What a vindictive, infantile creep America has for a POTUS!

Donald J. Trump

✔@realDonaldTrump

So ridiculous. Greta must work on her Anger Management problem, then go to a good old fashioned movie with a friend! Chill Greta, Chill! https://

To the Trump trolls who come here to crow about the economy and their IRAs:

"...incumbent presidents almost always benefit from a strong economy, and right now job growth is robust and average hourly earnings are up — but Trump’s poll numbers are not: 

“Instead of enjoying anything close to overwhelming popularity because of the economy, Mr. Trump’s national approval rating has remained low, dropping about two percentage points to 41 percent since the Ukraine story broke.’’

 “Stock Markets Up Record Numbers,” Trump tweeted on Friday, adding, “It’s the economy, stupid.”

 Yes, it’s the economy, stupid — when you have a president who is not violating his oath to preserve and protect the Constitution. But if you read today’s poll numbers alongside the economy numbers, it turns out that more than a few Americans are saying, “It’s the Constitution, stupid — and unlike you, Mr. Trump, we value some things more than money.”

We care about having a president who does not lie 20 times a day. We care about having a president who does not demean his opponents and mock their physical appearance. We care about having a president who does not take the word of Russia’s president over that of his own intelligence services. We care about having a president who is not caught up in conspiracy theories, which he then makes everyone around him chase. We care about having a president who values our nonpartisan public servants. We care about having a president who wants to be the president of the whole country, not just his base. 

 And most of all, we care about having a president who takes seriously his oath to preserve and protect our Constitution. Without that, we will end up one day morally and financially bankrupt. How many Americans will still feel that way on Election Day remains to be seen and will also depend on the Democrats’ alternative. But for now, it’s good to know that it’s a significant number — that despite three years of Donald Trump’s presidency, the country still has a civic pulse."



Trump is at 41% approval. The economy is important, but honesty, decency, and the rule of law is, thankfully, more important to Americans.

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WE INTERRUPT THIS DAY'S IMPEACHMENT BLOGGING TO BRING YOU THIS:

Trump Pays Up One Month After Admitting He Misused Charitable Funds for Political Gain

President Donald Trump complied with a court order on Tuesday and paid $2 million to settle charges that the Trump Foundation misused charitable funds.

Consider that. The man the GOP worships and is fiercely loyal to had to settle in court $2 million for cheating his own charitable foundation. What kind of a venal, low-life swindler gets people to contribute to a charity and then uses those donations for his own benefit? Trump's supposedly a billionaire, but had no qualms about stealing money from his own charity to enrich himself.

Trump has always said he "never settles." Well he settled this time. ( And he settled for $25 million in his Trump U. scam!)

What the hell kind of person does this sort of thing? 

A fraudster! That's the kind.Trump's supporters knew this about him before and after they voted for him.

And even now, as he faces impeachment charges, they believe this dishonorable liar and cheat is worth standing up for.

This is the very definition of a cult and its cultists.

Read the rest of the report below from TPM:


"Trump paid out the civil penalty to eight different charities as part of the resolution of a lawsuit brought by the New York State Attorney General’s office. 

 The state-level settlement forced the President to pay $250,000 to eight different charities, and split an additional $1.8 million remaining in the Trump Foundation’s bank account among the eight charities. “Charities are not a means to an end, which is why these damages speak to the president’s abuse of power and represent a victory for not-for-profits that follow the law,” said New York Attorney General Letitia James. 

 Each charity ended up receiving $476,140.41 under the settlement. Trump was also forced to admit to misusing charitable funds as part of the settlement. 

 The Trump Foundation came under scrutiny by the Washington Post’s David Fahrenthold, who tried to verify that the charity was making contributions. Fahrenthold – who received a Pulitzer for his work – instead found that the contributions had not been disbursed, leading to the NY AG investigation. 

 The Trump Foundation agreed to dissolve in December 2018, and a November 2019 court order mandated that the President pay up the additional funds. James’ office holds wide authority over charities registered in New York state."

Trump will be impeached for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.

WASHINGTON — House Democratic leaders announced Tuesday that they would move ahead this week with two articles of impeachment against President Trump charging him with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, accusing him of violating the Constitution when he pressed Ukraine for help in the 2020 election. 

 Speaking from a wood-paneled reception room just off the floor of the House, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and leaders of several key committees said that Mr. Trump’s actions toward Ukraine, and his efforts to block Congress’s attempt to investigate, had left them no choice but to pursue one of the Constitution’s gravest remedies. The move will bring a sitting president to the brink of impeachment for only the fourth time in American history.


Trump to meet with Russian foreign minister Tuesday

Meanwhile, later today, Trump will meet with Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov. This will be the second time Trump has met with Lavrov, an unusual meeting.

Trump has not met with Ukraine ally, President Zelensky, but will meet for the second time, the Russian foreign minister, along with Secy. of State, Pompeo, in a closed-door meeting with no American media allowed.

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NO CONSPIRACY AGAINST TRUMP BY FBI INSPECTOR GENERAL'S REPORT SAYS

Trump whined about this incessantly for years. And because Trump is a known, documented liar, I never believed it.

Now his own IG, after an investigation of Trump's charges, has found that the FBI made errors but there was never a plot or conspiracy to get Trump.

Inspector General Report on F.B.I. Russia Inquiry Finds Serious Errors But Debunks Anti-Trump Plot

A long-awaited report by the Justice Department’s inspector general delivers a scathing critique of the F.B.I.’s handling of a wiretap application but also punctures many conspiracy theories.

WASHINGTON — A long-awaited report by the Justice Department’s inspector general released on Monday sharply criticized the F.B.I.’s handling of a wiretap application used in the early stages of its Russia investigation but debunked President Trump’s accusations that former bureau leaders engaged in a politicized conspiracy to sabotage him.

Sunday Questioning Evangelical's Support of Trump Blog

A reader, R.D., wrote:

"The problem with many Christian conservatives is that their idea of “morality” and ethical behavior hasn’t made it out of bed and sex. Our businesses and corporations and local governments and laws can be as immoral and unethical as they want to be and these zealots turn a blind eye to the destruction that is wrought to individuals and communities, often those who are poor or darker skinned or immigrant. 

 Today they countenance and embrace as if JC himself a President who lies and cheats and breaks the law and undermines the Constitution while literally wrapping himself in the flag. 

 Too many conservative Christians are the worst kind of bigots and hypocrites while simultaneously thinking that they own the only road to God. 

 If they are contemptible, they do it to themselves and pollute everything around them as Trump does, and then they project it onto others just like he does! Their fears are self created and they need therapy; God cannot help those who hate and fear."

A Christian psychologist who has not been bewitched by the odious Trump:

"Is Trump Morally Ill Beyond Normal Standards of Human Decency? 

The simple answer is yes. Given how narcissistic and sociopathic Trump is, he fundamentally doesn’t believe that the rules of moral behavior or social norms apply to him. That is the primary reason he has spent his adult life breaking one biblical commandment, federal law, and social norm after another.

As much as people hoped Trump would take a turn for the better after becoming president, he has only grown more mentally and morally disturbed and defiant since assuming the powers of the presidency

Trump is an incredibly arrogant person. Perhaps the most arrogant statement he ever uttered during his run for office was ‘I alone can fix it’ when referring to our country’s many problems. Trump has said he is ‘the chosen one,’ done more in a shorter period of time than any other president, ‘so great looking and smart, a true Stable Genius’ and someone who knows more than anyone else about technology, money, taxes, ISIS, campaign finance, renewables, courts, steelworkers, real estate, construction, banks, trade, nuclear weapons, lawsuits and a myriad of other topics than those who are experts in these areas. 

 There is very little, if anything, that is humble about Trump. When questioned about whether or not he had ever asked God for forgiveness, Trump said he didn’t think he had because he hadn’t done anything bad enough to warrant God’s forgiveness. 

Another core aspect of Trump’s moral pathology is his lack of compassion and empathy for other people’s emotional pain and suffering. Examples of his lack of empathy for the feelings of others are too numerous to go into here but certainly include his abusive verbal attacks on people who disagree with him, his cold-heartedness about ripping children out their parent’s arms at our southern border, and telling the wife of a soldier who was killed in battle that her husband knew what he had signed up for in becoming a soldier. 

 Thurman ends his VERY lengthy op-ed by quoting from one of the mental health professionals who contributed to The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, psychologist John Gartner. This is one of many of the statements in the book that evangelicals would be wise to listen to and act on: 

‘Trump is a profoundly evil man exhibiting malignant narcissism. His worsening hypomania is making him increasingly more irrational, grandiose, paranoid, aggressive, irritable, and impulsive. Trump is bad, mad, and getting worse. He evinces the most destructive and dangerous collection of psychiatric symptoms possible for a leader. The worst-case scenario is now our reality.’ "

SATURDAY NIGHT FUNNIES

The POTUS talks about light bulbs and flushing toilets at a business meeting at the WH. (You can't make stuff this silly up.)


 

WILL TRUMP CULTISTS LISTEN TO ONE OF THEIR OWN?

Historic: Trump will be only third president to be impeached.

Pelosi Says House Will Begin Drafting Impeachment Charges Against Trump

The speaker said she was instructing House committee chairmen to move forward with articles of impeachment against President Trump, escalating a partisan confrontation that could lead to a vote by Christmas

From a reader in New York:

"So the man who demeans, ridicules, and attacks others is getting a little taste of his own medicine. This is not one leader mocking Trump in a news conference or something. This is a group of leaders having cocktails and having a laugh at Trump's expense. The bully is not to be feared. And Trump's response will be to lash out at these folks. Just like a bully would do. No 'I had that coming' moment for Trump. No Sir. He will fall on the floor and pound his hands and feet on the floor and yell 'It's not fair. I will make them pay'. Oh the base can sit there and support him 'being tough on the world stage'. But when all you get out of being tough is the people you are trying to strong arm laughing in your face, at some point you need to recognize that all the kids on the playground you have been bullying are now banding together and refusing to kowtow to the bully. It worked for a while, but Mr. Toughguy is no longer to be feared."