Trump Secretly Mocks His Christian Supporters - 2020-09-29

Trump Secretly Mocks His Christian Supporters September 29, 2020, McKay Coppins, The Atlantic

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One day in 2015, Donald Trump beckoned Michael Cohen, his longtime confidant and personal attorney, into his office. Trump was brandishing a printout of an article about an Atlanta-based megachurch pastor trying to raise $60 million from his flock to buy a private jet. Trump knew the preacher personally—Creflo Dollar had been among a group of evangelical figures who visited him in 2011 while he was first exploring a presidential bid. During the meeting, Trump had reverently bowed his head in prayer while the pastors laid hands on him. Now he was gleefully reciting the impious details of Dollar's quest for a Gulfstream G650.

Trump seemed delighted by the "scam," Cohen recalled to me, and eager to highlight that the pastor was "full of shit."

"They're all hustlers," Trump said.

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