Why God did not save Trump and what we should actually learn from the shooting
What cruel joke of a God would capriciously "save" Trump from a bullet but would let Corey Comperatore, a husband and father of two girls, get killed by a bullet meant for Trump and two others be wounded critically by more bullets?
This is precisely the kind of God many at the Republican National Convention (RNC), including Ben Carson, the former neurosurgeon and 2016 presidential candidate, see at work in former President Trump’s narrow escape from death in the assassination attempt against him: “I saw President Trump, a dear friend, escape death by mere inches, and my thoughts immediately turned to the book of Isaiah that says, ‘No weapon formed against you shall prosper.’ … I have no doubt that God lowered a shield of protection over President Trump,” Carson said on the second day of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. Many Trump followers and religious leaders vying to be Trump’s court prophets see it the same way.
No, Dr. Carson, what saved Trump was not God. It was me…
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