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(CP) Former President Donald Trump promoted a brand new leather-bound “God Bless the USA” Bible on Tuesday, and warned his supporters that Christians within the U.S. are “underneath siege.”
In a video assertion posted to Truth Social, Trump displayed a model of the Bible that he is selling with musician Lee Greenwood, whose music “God Bless the USA” usually options throughout Trump’s rallies.
Trump famous that the Bible, which is within the King James Version and prices $59.99, additionally options the founding American paperwork, which he inspired each citizen to learn.
“You need to have it on your coronary heart and on your soul,” Trump stated. “Many of you may have by no means learn them and do not know the liberties and rights you may have as Americans, and the way you might be being threatened to lose these rights. It’s taking place on a regular basis. It’s a really unhappy factor that is happening in our nation, however we’re gonna get it circled.”
Trump went on to say that “faith and Christianity are the largest issues lacking from this nation,” which he maintained is why the nation finds itself in such turmoil.
“I feel it is one of many largest issues now we have,” he stated. “That’s why our nation goes haywire. We’ve misplaced faith in our nation.”
He additionally stated that each American ought to have a Bible of their house, and that he personally owns “many” of them as a result of it is his “favourite ebook.”
“This Bible is a reminder that the largest factor now we have to deliver again America and to make America nice once more is our faith,” he stated. “Religion is so essential, it is so lacking, however it’ll come again and it’ll come again sturdy, similar to our nation goes to return again sturdy.”
“In the top, we don’t reply to bureaucrats in Washington, we reply to God in Heaven,” he continued. “Christians are underneath siege. We should shield content material that’s pro-God. We love God, and now we have to guard something that’s pro-God. We should defend God within the public sq. and never enable the media or the left-wing teams to silence, censor or discriminate towards us.”
Trump concluded by claiming the Founding Fathers “did an amazing factor once they constructed America on Judeo-Christian values,” however that their basis is “underneath assault, maybe as by no means earlier than.” He urged his listeners to buy the Bible to “assist unfold our Christian values with others.”
A product description of the Bible describes it as an “easy-to-read, massive print, and slim design” that “invitations you to discover God’s Word anyplace, any time.”
“This bible [sic] has been designed in order that it delivers a simple studying expertise within the trusted King James Version translation,” the outline provides. “This massive print Bible can be good to take to church, a bible research, work, journey, and so forth.”
In addition to copies of the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence, and the Pledge of Allegiance, the Bible additionally accommodates the handwritten refrain to Greenwood’s “God Bless The USA.”
Earlier this week, Trump appeared to liken the unfair trial of Jesus to his remedy in his civil fraud case in New York, which has seen him slapped with a $454 million judgment. A New York appeals court docket dominated Monday that the state will maintain off on probably seizing his belongings if he is ready to give you $175 million bond inside 10 days.
Posting a supposed message from a supporter that famous the irony of the authorized battle he’s going through throughout Holy Week, Trump went on to cite Psalm 109:3-8, which pleads for God’s judgment towards false accusers.
The apostle Peter utilized Psalm 109:8 to Judas Iscariot, in keeping with Acts 1:20.
On June 1, 2020, Trump drew criticism for a controversial photograph shoot throughout which he held up a Bible in entrance of St. John’s Episcopal Church a day after protesters torched and broken it throughout top of the riots that roiled Washington, D.C., that summer season after George Floyd’s dying.
Trump was accused of tear gassing protesters in Lafayette Park outdoors the White House to make approach for the photograph shoot, although a report from the Office of the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of the Interior decided that police had already deliberate to disperse the group earlier than they discovered of Trump’s plan to stroll over to the church.
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