Televangelist Kenneth Copeland giggled and gloated over the new private jet he says God gave him.
The prosperity gospel preacher took possession of the Gulfstream V last Friday, and his church posted a video online to thank “faithful KCM Elite CX Team members – combined with the blessings of a FAITHFUL GOD!”
“Are you looking at this? Hey, are you seeing this?” Copeland says, cackling. “I hope so — you bought it, you and Jesus.”
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Copeland then prayed over the plane, and says it was delivered in accordance to a prophetic vision of “new partners” he received more than a decade ago.
“When you said in 2002, ‘I’m sending you new partners who are very strong financially and they’ll obey me, and I will increase your longtime partners and they will obey me,'” the pastor says, chuckling, “‘and you will not come short, and you will not fail, and you will not lack, and you will not come behind, and you will not be diminished.’ Praise God — isn’t that good?”
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President Donald Trump on Friday night urged his 67 million Twitter followers to pay for a monthly subscription to watch Facebook video from a far-right Fox News competitor.
Shortly after 10 p.m. eastern, the commander-in-chief retweeted a solicitation from the One America News network.
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The host of "The Rachel Maddow Show" on Friday blasted "bad faith" arguments from Republicans about the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump.
Maddow recounted the process complaints by Republicans -- each of which has disappeared.
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She played a clip of former GOP Speaker Newt Gingrich on Fox News.
Another day, another truly baffling series of words coming from President Donald Trump’s mouth.
Speaking at a White House meeting on Friday about small business and regulation, Trump went on one of his trademark riffs, touching on a number of subjects with the clarity of a muddy puddle. He seemed to be referring to a series of complaints that have been raised over the years about various consumer product regulations (a favorite topic of Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky) but without making a coherent point about any of them.
Read the whole stream of consciousness rant to get a sense of what it was like: