Embattled US President, Donald
Trump, has reacted angrily after a leading Christian magazine founded by late
evangelist Billy Graham published an op-ed on Thursday demanding that he
(Trump) be removed from office and urging evangelicals not to support him.
“Whether Mr. Trump should be
removed from office by the Senate or by popular vote next election—that is a
matter of prudential judgment,” Christianity Today’s editor in chief, Mark
Galli, wrote in the op-ed.
“That he should be removed, we
believe, is not a matter of partisan loyalties but loyalty to the Creator of
the Ten Commandments.”
Galli later told CNN’s on Friday
that he is leaving the publication, adding that, “We believe the impeachment
hearings have made it absolutely clear, in a way the Mueller investigation did
not, that President Trump has abused his authority for personal gain and
betrayed his constitutional oath.
“The impeachment hearings have
illuminated the president’s moral deficiencies for all to see.
“None of the president’s
positives can balance the moral and political danger we face under a leader of
such grossly immoral character,” he added.
The publication, an influential
one among evangelicals, has criticized Trump before on immigration and other
issues, but never before called for his removal.
“To the many evangelicals who
continue to support Mr. Trump in spite of his blackened moral record, we might
say this: Remember who you are and whom you serve,” Galli wrote. “Consider how
your justification of Mr. Trump influences your witness to your Lord and
Savior. Consider what an unbelieving world will say if you continue to brush
off Mr. Trump’s immoral words and behavior in the cause of political
expediency.”
Reacting to this, Trump dismissed
the criticism calling the publication a “far left magazine” and drawing a
contrast between himself and the Democrats seeking the 2020 presidential
nomination.
Trump tweeted, “A far left
magazine, or very ‘progressive,’ as some would call it, which has been doing
poorly and hasn’t been involved with the Billy Graham family for many years,
Christianity Today, knows nothing about reading a perfect transcript of a
routine phone call and would rather have a Radical Left nonbeliever, who wants
to take your religion & your guns, than Donald Trump as your President.
“No President has done more for
the Evangelical community, and it’s not even close. You’ll not get anything
from those Dems on stage. I won’t be reading ET again!”
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