Former Republican turned anti-Trump strategist Ana Navarro laid into the GOP on CNN Tuesday for their growing use of Jesus analogies to hold up former President Donald Trump as a martyr for the people.
This came in response to a discussion about Trump's speech this week to a radical absolutist anti-abortion group, and Rick Patrick, a senior pastor from a church in Alabama, saying of the speech, "He sounded more like a politician who wanted to be elected. I voted for him and I plan to vote for him again, but he was not like the other speakers who were here talking about religious things."
"I read that thinking, does that just encapsulate what is President Biden's problem, though?" asked anchor Kate Bolduan. "This guy is not happy about what he heard from the candidate that he says he voted for before for and will vote for again ... but Donald Trump at one point saying that he was going to come up with a abortion policy that was going to make everybody happy, he's not going to, it's not going to stop him from voting for Trump, even if he doesn't like what Trump is saying about it."
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"You know, I think a lot of evangelicals crossed that bridge already and they did so in 2016 after they voted for Donald Trump after they heard him boast about sexual assault on video and on tape," said Navarro. "And this campaign, to me, it's just so weird, bizarre, right? How many times have we now heard Trump and his surrogates compare him to Jesus, compare him to being martyred on the cross, crucified, taking all of this pain for us. It's all of these religious Jesus-like themes that are somehow weaved into Donald Trump's existence, which sounds as crazy as can be."
In particular, Navarro added, "it's crazy for him to say that Democrats are against religion at a time when we are led by Joe Biden, who, in my lifetime is the most religious president I can recall ... an Irish Catholic, churchgoing, practicing Catholic."
At some point, said Navarro, "Donald Trump is going to be confronted on a stage like a debate stage, say, a CNN debate stage, and asked, okay, be specific about your abortion position. Because yes, on one hand, he takes credit for the Dobbs decision. He takes credit for having appointed those judges, he goes to groups like this and he makes veiled, ambiguous, but very specific remarks about abortion, criticizes Joe Biden on it, but then on in front of other audiences, oh no, just leave it up to the states. Well, at some point, on some stage, he's going to have to come clean and answer."
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