Trespassing: St. John's Bishop says Trump was on church property "without permission"

[TheBlackAdder]

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As if the man is truly on a quest to be the most malevolent sack of crap in America, it turns out Donald Trump’s gaudy “walk” to a burned church next to the White House didn’t just come with the White House ordering the tear gassing of peaceful protesters to clear a path for the bone-spur-having fascist: Trump was trespassing on church property for the photo-op. He didn’t have permission to be there, says the Episcopal bishop responsible for St. John’s Church!

In a CNN appearance, Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde blasted Trump for the grotesque stunt.

“Let me be clear: The president just used a Bible, the most sacred text of the Judeo-Christian tradition, at one of the churches of my diocese, without permission, as the backdrop to a message antithetical to the teachings of Jesus and everything that our churches stand for.”

“I am outraged,” she fumed. “The president did not pray when he came to St. John’s nor did he acknowledge the agony of our country right now.”

So Trump was trespassing on church grounds after tear gassing the crowd that had peacefully assembled there.

So where did Trump get the Bible, anyway? Did he loot it from the church?

The bishop also spoke to a Washington Post reporter. “I am the bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington and was not given even a courtesy call, that they would be clearing [the area] with tear gas so they could use one of our churches as a prop.”

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The Episcopal bishop of DC – who oversees the DC church Trump just stopped at – tells the @washingtonpost
she is "outraged" and that neither she nor the rector was asked or told… “that they would be clearing with tear gas so they could use one of our churches as a prop.." 1/3

Link to tweet

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/6/1/1949565/-Trespassing-St-John-s-Bishop-says-Trump-was-on-church-property-without-permission

Takers, take!

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[democrank]

1. Kick

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. More at the Washington Post:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/bishop-budde-trump-church/2020/06/01/20ca70f8-a466-11ea-b619-3f9133bbb482_story.html

[Odoreida]

3. That the church that was set on fire last night? n/t

[k8conant]

5. Yes, there was a fire set in the basement

of "the church of the presidents", St. John's Episcopal.

[Arkansas Granny]

4. K & R

[leftieNanner]

6. Maybe it was a Gideon's Bible

That he found in the night stand of the cheezy motel where he meets his .....................


Good God! I can't even finish that sentence.

This man is complete scum.

[TheBlackAdder]

8. Is that why he held it upside down and backwards, so we couldn't see it?

[wcmagumba]

10. I noticed that...nt

[Cha]

7. Yeah, BLOTUS thinks he can take his BLOATED

ASSFACE anywhere he wants.



Retweeted!

[fleabiscuit]

11. I like it. nt

[Cha]

13. Hey Aloha,

flea.

[crickets]

9. Don Lemon is talking to the rector of St. John's right now.

He had no idea that trump was coming or what he was going to do. The man is upset the peaceful protestors were mistreated, and of trump's action he says, 'That's just not what we are all about.'

[roamer65]

12. The church should press trespassing charges.