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Trump's Syria decision divides white evangelicals as impeachment pressure builds

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I want us all out of being the world's police force but it seems the evangelical base doesn't agree.

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/trump-s-syria-decision-divides-white-evangelicals-impeachment-pressure-builds-ncna1065481

After Trump announced he was unilaterally pulling U.S. troops out of northern Syria, a potential crack appeared in Trump’s evangelical foundation. Here's why.

Oct. 13, 2019, 4:30 AM EDT
By Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, Author, "Reconstructing the Gospel: Finding Freedom From Slaveholder Religion"


When President Donald Trump is not attacking pro-impeachment Democrats or Republicans who have dared to question him in public, he has taken public solace in a base re-ignited by conflict. Donations to his re-election campaign are up as the MAGA faithful respond to accusations that Democrats and the media are waging a “coup.”

His white evangelical boosters are a big part of this base, with Texas Baptist pastor Robert Jeffress warning of “Civil War-like” division if impeachment proceeds and fellow evangelist Franklin Graham calling the faithful to prayer on Trump’s behalf. Last week at the White House, Trump celebrated that some of the “biggest pastors” had called to tell him how “electrified” their congregations are to stand with him.


Donald J. Trump

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· Sep 29, 2019

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....Election, and negate the votes of millions of Evangelicals in the process. They know the only Impeachable offense that President Trump has committed was beating Hillary Clinton in 2016. That’s the unpardonable sin for which the Democrats will never forgive him.....


Donald J. Trump

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....If the Democrats are successful in removing the President from office (which they will never be), it will cause a Civil War like fracture in this Nation from which our Country will never heal.” Pastor Robert Jeffress, @FoxNews

But after last Sunday night's announcement from the White House that [URL='https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/u-s-says-it-will-stand-aside-turkey-moves-syria-n1063106']Trump was unilaterally pulling U.S. troops out of northern Syria, a potential crack appeared in Trump’s evangelical foundation. Christian media mogul Pat Robertson announced that he was “appalled” by Trump’s decision to abandon Kurdish allies by exiting Syria. If Trump does not reverse course, Robertson declared, he is “in danger of losing the mandate of Heaven.”


On Tuesday, Tony Perkins, a Trump appointee to the U.S. Commission on Religious Freedom, went on the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) that Robertson founded to explain why evangelical leaders who have supported Trump are united in challenging his impetuous decision in Syria. At the moment when he needs defense against the impeachment inquiry, Trump has found one of the few issues that could hurt him with white evangelicals.

As Turkey began its assault, religious conservatives who have consistently rallied to defend Trump called on their followers to pray for victims of the massacre Trump has facilitated.

As Turkey began its assault on Wednesday, religious conservatives who have consistently rallied to defend Trump called on their followers to pray for victims of the massacre Trump has facilitated. “President Trump has committed an egregious act of betrayal,” conservative Christian radio host Erick Erickson tweeted. David Brody, the CBN reporter who published a hagiography of Trump last year, retweeted Erickson’s assessment. While the caging of immigrants from Central America and the ban on travelers from several Muslim countries did little to shake Trump’s support among this group, this betrayal of American allies in a part of the world where white Christians understand the church to be a persecuted minority has sparked defiance in the Trumpvangelical camp.
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