Trump Campaign Announces Evangelical Executive Advisory Board

[brooklynite]

New York, NY) June 21, 2016 - Today, the Donald J. Trump campaign announced a new executive board convened to provide advisory support to Mr. Trump on those issues important to Evangelicals and other people of faith in America.

The executive board will also lead a much larger Faith and Cultural Advisory Committee to be announced later this month.

The leaders on the executive board were not asked to endorse Mr. Trump as a prerequisite for participating on the board.

Rather, the formation of the board represents Donald J. Trump’s endorsement of those diverse issues important to Evangelicals and other Christians, and his desire to have access to the wise counsel of such leaders as needed. Mr. Trump has received widespread support from Evangelical leaders, communities and voters, winning the majority of the Evangelical vote throughout the primaries.

Mr. Trump stated, “I have such tremendous respect and admiration for this group and I look forward to continuing to talk about the issues important to Evangelicals, and all Americans, and the common sense solutions I will implement when I am President.”

The executive board members will convene on a regular basis. Certain members of the advisory board are solely responsible for managing Mr. Trump’s private meeting with hundreds of Christian leaders scheduled today in New York City.

Executive board members include:
• Michele Bachmann - Former Congresswoman
• A.R. Bernard - Senior Pastor and CEO, Christian Cultural Center
• Mark Burns - Pastor, Harvest Praise and Worship Center
• Tim Clinton - President, American Association of Christian Counselors
• Kenneth and Gloria Copeland - Founders, Kenneth Copeland Ministries
• James Dobson - Author, Psychologist and Host, My Family Talk
• Jerry Falwell, Jr. - President, Liberty University
• Ronnie Floyd - Senior Pastor, Cross Church
• Jentezen Franklin - Senior Pastor, Free Chapel
• Jack Graham - Senior Pastor, Prestonwood Baptist Church
• Harry Jackson - Senior Pastor, Hope Christian Church
• Robert Jeffress - Senior Pastor, First Baptist Church of Dallas
• David Jeremiah - Senior Pastor, Shadow Mountain Community Church
• Richard Land – President, Southern Evangelical Seminary
• James MacDonald – Founder and Senior Pastor, Harvest Bible Chapel
• Johnnie Moore - Author, President of The KAIROS Company
• Robert Morris - Senior Pastor, Gateway Church
• Tom Mullins – Senior Pastor, Christ Fellowship¬
• Ralph Reed - Founder, Faith and Freedom Coalition
• James Robison - Founder, Life OUTREACH International
• Tony Suarez - Executive Vice President, National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference
• Jay Strack - President, Student Leadership University
• Paula White - Senior Pastor, New Destiny Christian Center
• Tom Winters - Attorney, Winters and King, Inc.
• Sealy Yates – Attorney, Yates and Yates

You know, Don, Mitt Romney was never able to convince social conservative voters that he was a Bible thumper, and neither will you.

[yellowcanine]

1. Michelle Bachman, James Dobson, Jerry Falwell, Jr. and Ralph Reed.....

Talk about rounding up the usual suspects! Curiously though, no Franklin Graham? Opportunity missed?

But they are hardly representative of Evangelicals, let alone the broader faith community.

Major FAIL on Trump's part.

[MousePlayingDaffodil]

4. The failure of this list to include . . .

T.D. Jakes and Creflo Dollar is almost inexplicable.

[whatthehey]

2. My God is this the first craven, flailing attempt at an actual campaign?

[MineralMan]

3. What a list!

All people who should be avoided like the plague by everyone.

[TwilightZone]

5. Agreed. What a bunch of abhorrent low-lifes.

[msanthrope]

8. That list is a plague. nt

[Eugene]

6. Damn! This isn't satire.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/trump-evangelical-advisory-board-224612

Michele Bachmann?!?! So he's pandering to the absolutely bats##t crazies.
How long until the next Muslim Brotherhood witch hunt?

[itsrobert]

7. The Church and the Crown

Is he getting his political advice from Game of Thrones?

[auntpurl]

9. lol

[NastyRiffraff]

10. And then there's this:

Trump questions Clinton’s religion
Donald Trump questioned Hillary Clinton’s commitment to her Christian faith on Tuesday, saying that little is known about her spiritual life even though she’s been in the public eye for decades.

Speaking to a group of top social conservative evangelical Christian leaders at a gathering in New York City, Trump said, “we don't know anything about Hillary in terms of religion.”
“Now, she's been in the public eye for years and years, and yet there's no — there's nothing out there,” Trump said. “There's like nothing out there. It's going to be an extension of Obama but it's going to be worse, because with Obama you had your guard up. With Hillary you don't, and it's going to be worse.”

First, I like the fact that Hillary doesn't usually talk about religion; I think religion has no place in government at all, including and maybe especially in election campaigns.

Second: Trump Trump talking about anyone's religion!

[sinkingfeeling]

11. Can't get much more anti-gay than Ronnie Floyd, ex head

of the Southern Baptist Conference.