As Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi was concluding a press conference, a reporter yelled to California lawmaker, "Do you hare the president, Madame Speaker?" Pelosi, visibly upset, rebutted citing her Catholic upbringing. She said, "as a Catholic, I resent your using the word ‘hate’ in a sentence that addresses me,” she said. “I don't hate anyone."
Legal experts are divided on whether or not President Trump committed impeachable offenses. Nonetheless, the House has decided to move forward with impeachment.
Democrats released their 300-page impeachment report on Tuesday prompting Republicans to respond.
Last week, the White House announced that President Trump will be giving his $100,000 salary to the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Health to fight the opioid crisis.
Editor's Note: This article is part of a series leading up to the 2020 presidential election highlighting the professed faith of several of the primary candidates, including Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders and Pete Buttigieg. Christian Headlines offers these faith summaries as a way of informing voters about the religious beliefs of the candidates.
Elected in 2016, President Donald Trump has had a tumultuous presidency. Come 2020 he will be bidding for another term. The President has faced several controversies during his tenure, but despite them all, many evangelical leaders have come to the President's defense. Some of Trump's evangelical supporters have described him as a changed man and a man of faith. Other leaders have even gone as far as to say that while he may be rough around the edges, we should view him like King David, Cyrus the Great, King Solomon or any other of a number of biblical figures. President Trump describes himself as a Christian and has been exalted as a champion of religious freedom.
Here are 5 things Christians should know about the faith of Donald Trump:
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Both Donald Trump and Barack Obama were able to become Presidents of the United States because are ordained by God, Energy Secretary Rick Perry said in a recent interview.
Support for impeachment among Independents has begun to fall away. At the same time, Democrat Representative Brenda Lawrence said she too no longer supports impeaching the President.
Throughout the course of his presidency, Donald Trump has been acclaimed as the "chosen one" by many prominent political and evangelical leaders. This weekend, Rick Perry joined the list of political leaders exalting the president.
Democrat Adam Schiff said in an interview that the impeachment inquiry yielded a solid case against the president, but there is no promise that the president will be impeached.
Franklin Graham said in a recent interview that the political division across the country and the impeachment proceedings into President Donald Trump may be a result of a “demonic power.”
