Nanya_DBNov 18, 2022
Qasim Rashid, Esq.

Evangelical leaders condemn Trump b/c, "He used us."

No—You knew exactly what you were doing when you excused his sexual abuse, his racism, his Islamophobia, his antisemitism, his white nationalism, his greed, & his corruption

You used him—and you lost
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-evangelicals-2024_n_637732cbe4b08013a8b525cf?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Key Evangelical Figures Turn On Trump: 'He Used Us'

One ripped the ex-president for acting "like a little elementary schoolchild." Another warned that if the GOP turns to him in 2024, "we will get destroyed.”

HuffPost
Nov 18, 2022 at 3:27pmMastodon Twitter Crossposter
Show threadcharvakaNov 18, 2022
@QasimRashid Evangelical leaders have been using him and his cult for six years. They were even calling him an imperfect vessel and comparing him to Cyrus the Great. Now that they see a more promising bigot to throw their support behind, they are saying that he used them.
Show threadOnedollarjuanaNov 18, 2022
@QasimRashid
Oh, pish tosh. I used to watch evangelical preachers on tv in the 1970s. Same then as now. They knew what they were doing and loved the cash and adulation. Just as now.
Show threadSergius Q PaulusMay 19, 2023
@onedollarjuana @QasimRashid Absolutely! They knew Drumpf was a poisonous snake, yet they entertained him. They’re reaping what they entertained and sowed.
Show threadJustinmwhitakerNov 18, 2022

@QasimRashid They knew exactly what they were doing. They were sacrificing principles (if they had any at all) for the win.

They even deified him...which I'm pretty sure violates a clause in their book about false idols.

Now they don't want the consequences?

Show threadDavid M Schell Nov 18, 2022
@QasimRashid they're not planning to vote for him, but come 2024 if he's the Republican nominee, they'll vote for him and defend it.
Show threadAngVanNov 18, 2022
@QasimRashid Exactly!
Show threadJJNov 18, 2022
@QasimRashid And now they think they found a more effective tool in Desantis so they're dropping him. Nothing that comes from an Evangelical should be trusted. They've proven many times over to be lying hypocrites.
Show threadOBthe2ndNov 18, 2022

@QasimRashid it’s amazing how they’re always victims despite taking the deliberate actions they did.

They created and elevated him. They should own it and repent, but that’d require them to follow the Bible they claim to read and believe in.

Show threadScott D. Strader 😐Nov 18, 2022

@QasimRashid And yet:

"“The Republican Party is headed toward a civil war that I have no desire or need to be part of,” Jeffress [one of Trump’s evangelical advisers] told Newsweek, adding that he would “happily” support Trump again if he wins the nomination."

*sigh*

Show threadNatashaNov 18, 2022
@QasimRashid Selective morality. Nothing about his lifestyle offended them, not the naked pictures of his wife, not his association with Epstein, not his infidelity, not his mocking of people with disabilities, not his misogyny, bigotry nor his racism. For goodness sake, the man never goes to church and yet they made him their messiah. Frankly, they deserve Trump.
Show threadSydNov 18, 2022

@QasimRashid “He used us to win the White House. We had to close our mouths and eyes when he said things that horrified us,” Evans told the newspaper. “I cannot do that anymore.”

Stunning

Show threadTas ChiampasNov 18, 2022
@QasimRashid they used him only to abolish Roe
Show threadTC Won't Give In To LiesNov 18, 2022
@QasimRashid
The story of every person who aligned w Trump bc they thought he was useful.
Show threadSue StrongNov 18, 2022

@QasimRashid I found him distasteful from the moment he mocked the disabled reporter in 2015, left the GOP after he got the nom. Thought both Trump and the Televangelists the same with their con.

http://www.stephenhprovost.com/on-life/trump-televangelists

Why do evangelicals love Trump? The answer is obvious — Stephen H. Provost

People have scratched their heads and wondered why so many white evangelical leaders had embraced Donald Trump, the heir to a New York fortune who’s spent it on high living and self-promotion. Because he might as well be one of them. It’s like looking in the mirror.

Stephen H. Provost
Show threadLilyLuWhoTNov 23, 2022
@strong_sue @QasimRashid That was what did it for me too. My mom was handicapped and I knew he'd have mocked her limp given a chance.
Show threadAriM 🇺🇲🇮🇱🇺🇦Nov 18, 2022
@QasimRashid don't forget the upsidedown bible.
Show threadNathanNov 18, 2022
@QasimRashid Proponents of the "Leopards eating people's faces party" surprised when leopard's ate their faces.
Show threadBeard Of RikerNov 18, 2022
@QasimRashid They used each other and they bailed on him the moment he had no value to them anymore.
Show threadBenj Soule🫂💙HumanityFirst🌅Nov 18, 2022
@QasimRashid I don't know what these leaders were expecting. 👽
Show threadTammy Makes ThingsNov 18, 2022

@QasimRashid He might have used them to gain the White House, but they used him too. They used him to stack a bunch of conservative ideologues into the Federal judiciary. They used him to overturn Roe v. Wade. They used him to try to legislatively force their theology onto other people.

And now they’re having buyer’s remorse about what it cost them.

Show threadAriM 🇺🇲🇮🇱🇺🇦Nov 18, 2022
@QasimRashid they're the ones who used him, all along. He's served his purpose and they have no more use for him, so into the trashcan he goes.
Show threadTodd CraigerNov 18, 2022
@QasimRashid , I call them the Evangeliban.
Show threadSmallgovtarianNov 19, 2022
@QasimRashid It was mutual. Both sides justified getting into bed with one another in order to gain power. They didn't care what Trump said/did, just as long as they got what they wanted. Trump said/did things he didn't believe to get what he wanted. Make a deal with the devil...surprise, you might not like what you get.
Show threadMaggie KatNov 19, 2022
@QasimRashid Yeah, if they r going to play in the big boy political leagues (especially if they are going to pull god into service 4 their earthly material /power aims) then they damn well better man up & acknowledge that that little political ploy not only cost them their personal integrity, but by weaponizing their faith, they affectively put the moral integrity of their faith on the auction block too. I'm so angry at them.
Show threadPapi ChuloNov 19, 2022
@QasimRashid so true. Keep up the great fight for truth.
Show threadJMaverickJacks1Nov 20, 2022
@QasimRashid Very true! I've railed against so-called "Christian Nationalism" for years because: (1) it's rooted in hate and racism; (2) it goes against the teachings of Jesus Christ, who separated church and state, saying, "My kingdom is not of this world"/"Render to Caesar [to secular government] what is Caesar's, and to God what is God's" in The Bible's John 18:36/Mark 12:17; and (3) the U.S. Constitution separated church and state in Article 6 and the First Amendment (and the 14th too)!