Comments by "June VanDerMark" (@junevandermark952) on "Rev Franklin Graham: Trump ‘needs our prayers’" video.

Thanks for honoring free speech. I disagree with Franklin Graham that it was a god that put Donald Trump in the White House ... when it was the massive amounts of votes from the Evangelicals that put him there ... because of how Donald GROOMED them to believe that it was Jesus TELLING Donald that he SHOULD run for the office of President. From the book … The Faith of Donald J. Trump: A spiritual Biography … authors David Brody, Scott Lamb. In 2012, Trump called White and told her he was thinking of running for president. There was a time of prayer as he pondered the decision. Of course, he didn’t run then, but he called again in 2015 and told her, “’I really believe the Lord is speaking to me, that maybe I’m supposed to run for President. ’I asked him, ‘As my friend, what can I do for you?’ He asked for me to bring some pastors in to him and I did.” Time and again, White and various pastors have surrounded Trump and placed their hands on his shoulders as prayers were spoken. It was also during this season in Trump’s life that he began to make new friends from within evangelicalism. Huckabee recalled how it was Ben Carson and Paula White who had told Trump he needed to work more on the evangelicals—to talk to them directly and all at once. He had a number of different meetings that he’d had with smaller groups of pastors. But he had never brought in the ‘heads of the families’—to use a mafia term—for a united meeting with all the ‘mega-stars’ and all the leaders that might not be marquee names. We ended up packing the ballroom—way more than anyone thought would happen.
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