The Nebraska pastor, who was speaking on cable news show “FlashPoint” last summer, is among several voices in Christian media pressing a message of Biblical proportions: The 2024 presidential race is a fight for America’s soul, and a persecuted Trump has God’s protection.

“They’re just trying to bankrupt him. They’re trying to take everything he’s got. They’re trying to put him in prison,” author, media personality and self-proclaimed prophet Lance Wallnau said in October on “The Jim Bakker Show”, an hour-long daily broadcast that focuses on news and revelations about the end times that it says we are living in. “The hand of God is on him and he cannot be stopped.”

In both the 2016 and 2020 elections, evangelical voters staunchly supported Trump despite claims of adultery and sexual misconduct, which he denied. With Trump now facing dozens of criminal charges as he pursues a second term, some Christian media are bolstering his support by portraying him as an instrument of God’s will who faces persecution by his foes.

  • yemmly@lemmy.world
    46·
    7 months ago

    I assume all of these churches and ministry organizations that are endorsing Trump have given up their tax-exempt status, right?

  • girlfreddy@lemmy.caOP
    20·
    7 months ago

    “This is really a battle between good and evil,” evangelical TV preacher Hank Kunneman says of the slew of criminal charges facing Donald Trump. “There’s something on President Trump that the enemy fears: It’s called the anointing.”

    I believe you’re mistaken.

    It’s piss you’re seeing all over Trump … the ‘anointing’ of all the underaged girls he’s raped.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    18·
    7 months ago

    I seem to remember something in the Bible about false idols.

    But it’s probably somewhere in the back so it can mostly be ignored.

    By the way, “messiah” means “anointed one,” so it is literally a messianic message.

  • Da_Boom@iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
    12·
    7 months ago

    God I swear the American Christians are fucking insane.

    I’ve never heard such BS before. At least not from any church I know here in Australia.

  • ⓝⓞ🅞🅝🅔@lemmy.ca
    9·
    7 months ago

    Doesn’t say much good about a person’s god if Donald Trump is their envoy. Of all the people god could send, they chose him… 😏

    May all pussies–man, woman, and every gender–be fortunate enough to experience the grab of his glorious, tiny, and orange hand.

    Amen.