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Evangelical Support of Trump Is a ‘Deep Contradiction’

Senator Raphael Warnock (D-GA) mentioned Sunday on MSNBC’s “Inside” that the Evangelical group’s help of former President Donald Trump was a “deep contradiction.”

Anchor Jen Psaki requested, “Did you interact with President Jimmy Carter at all?”

Warnock mentioned, “Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter are two of my favorite people on earth. And here is a man who demonstrates how you have faith and how it ought to work and come alive. He is used not as a weapon but as a bridge.”

Psaki requested, “Does it bother you that the Evangelical community seems to be continue to be very much behind Donald Trump? Is that surprising?”

Warnock mentioned, “It’s a deep contradiction. It’s a deep contradiction. And I think that’s when the history of this period is written, we will have a lot to say about that.”

He continued, “You cannot account for some of the divisive forces at work in our country, sadly, without reference to what’s happening in huge segments of the American church.”

Warnock added, ‘I come out of a custom that has all the time tried to make use of our religion to deliver us collectively. I like the best way Jimmy Carter used his destiny. I like the best way Martin Luther King Junior and Ella Baker and white brothers and sisters like James Reed, within the midst of the Civil Rights Movement, how they used their religion. And additionally many others on this second.”

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