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Trump spokeswoman 'mortified' that critical bishop 'weaponized the pulpit'

Trump spokeswoman 'mortified' that critical bishop 'weaponized the pulpit'

Liberals have been accused of "weaponizing" the Justice Department, and now White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt says they've "weaponized the pulpit," as well.

Leavitt appeared Wednesday on Fox News, where she told host Martha MacCallum that the Episcopal bishop who begged Trump to "have mercy" on LGBT people and poor immigrants, "spewed lies."

Trump and his family attended the presidential service at Washington National Cathedral on Tuesday, where they were forced to listen to some opposing viewpoints from Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde....

'Is God partisan?' Priest takes issue with Trump's claim he was 'saved by God'

'Is God partisan?' Priest takes issue with Trump's claim he was 'saved by God'

A Catholic priest told CNN that he takes issue with President Donald Trump's claim that God saved him from an assassin's bullet so he could help "make America great again."

Father Edward Beck, chaplain at Manhattan University and CNN contributor on religious and spiritual matters, told host Kate Bolduan on Tuesday that Trump's inaugural comments on a day that happened to coincide with Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, amounted to "hubris."

Bolduan played a clip of Trump saying Monday, "Just a few months ago, in a beautiful Pennsylvania field, an assassin's bullet ripped through my ear. But I felt then, and believe even more so now, that my life was saved for a reason. I was saved by God to make America great again." ...