Trump supporting evangelicals silent on revelation that he knew seriousness of pandemic while calling it a hoax

The group of evangelicals supporting Trump have been conveniently silent as his latest scandal tears the country apart.

 

Unless you've been hiding under a rock or in a cave with fingers in your ears, you've probably heard about the latest involving Donald Trump. It's another huge scandal

According to Raw Story:

Watergate reporter Bob Woodward’s new book is coming out next week — and the leaked excerpts in it contain multiple damaging bombshells for President Donald Trump. The new book, entitled “Rage,” contains multiple revelations on a wide variety of topics ranging from the president’s handling of the novel coronavirus to his relationship with the American military to his strange affection for North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un. 

Raw Story outlined five shockers in this book, but the one which has virtually taken everyone's breath away is the following:

Trump said that he knew the coronavirus was five times more deadly than the seasonal flu — then admitted to playing it down in public.Audio recordings show that Trump told Woodward in early February that COVID-19 spread through the air and was much more deadly than the flu. Despite this, he continued to downplay its significance in multiple public statements. Just over a month after that, Trump admitted to Woodward that he deliberately downplayed the virus because he didn’t want to create a “panic.” “I wanted to always play it down,” Trump said on March 19th, shortly after he declared a national emergency. “I still like playing it down.” 

Trump lies so much that there is little doubt that he downplayed the pandemic - even when knowing how serious it was - to help only himself regardless of what he claims. The following video expresses it better than I can:

 

 The video captures just a small extent of the brutal tug of war Woodward's revelation has led to. There are some folks, especially the contributors and employees of Fox News, bending over backwards to defend Trump via talking points which induce more shock than agreement.

But I've noticed that one group has been conveniently silent - Trump supporting evangelicals. No one has heard a peep from any of them regarding the book or Woodward's claim about Trump and the coronavirus. Not Franklin Graham, Paula White, Robert Jeffress, Alveda King, nor Tony Perkins.  And it doesn't look like the media is pressing them for their opinion. No doubt, a Fox News personality may later engage them in a drier-than-the-dust interview whose narrative will be "it's not Trump's fault," but these folks deserve a serious questioning as to where they stand. Particularly in light of Woodward's book.

These are the people who waste no time praising Trump

Or saying that they "love him" because he "keeps his promises"

And they are always there in front of the cameras to either publicly pray for him or pose with him, thereby lending their name and credibility to his administration.

They even "rally the troops" when he faces dire consequences because of his own behavior

And they claim all of this is done because Trump supposedly stands up for religious liberty, defends Christianity and most of all "supports all life" via his stance against abortion and the picking of conservative judges who they hope will eventually overturn Roe v. Wade.

But it's rather embarrassing that these supposed Christians and self-proclaimed defenders of life are remaining silent when it has been proven that the incompetence of their ally Trump has led to over six million cases of  Americans infected with the coronavirus and over 190,000 American deaths. This includes the recent news that half a million children have been infected.

It only goes to prove that Trump isn't bringing down American by himself.  These evangelicals are his poisonous amen corner helping him along the way. For three years, they have been so consumed with forcing their "values" on the American public that they made a deal with the devil to receive their heart's desire. But like with all deals with the devil, the repercussions always outweigh the benefits.  Our country, because it collectively elected Trump as president, is now learning this. A pandemic is wrecking our economy, our finances, our families, our very lives and mental state while Trump does nothing  but watch it happen while making sure none of it touches him.  Right now is our hard lesson.

The turn for Graham, Jeffress, White and the rest of the Trump supporting evangelicals to learn this very same lesson has probably not happened yet.

 But it will.