The Christian Right Plots How To Avenge The FBI Raid

[Nevilledog]

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/christian-right-fbi-raid-trump

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Right-wing Christian media kicked into high gear in the days following the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago, coalescing around a defense of former President Donald Trump based on a smorgasbord of persecution complexes, whataboutism, conspiracy theories, lies, and misinformation about law enforcement and the judicial process. The Christian right and its GOP allies are counting on their base consuming a steady diet of these radio shows, podcasts, social media posts, and email blasts, tuning out any coverage that conflicts with their image of Trump as both a virile hero and a victim besieged by radical leftists at the FBI. For them, God anointed Trump, choosing an “unlikely” leader to restore Christian America. It is precisely because Trump is singularly capable of resurrecting the Christian nation, this thinking goes, that the radical leftists of the deep state want to bring him down.

On the night of the raid, Tony Perkins, president of the leading Christian right political organization the Family Research Council, tweeted, “Who trusts the FBI to pursue justice? The agency has become so politicized that even if their actions were justified half the nation still would not trust them.” The next day, Franklin Graham, scion of the evangelist Billy Graham, also stoked distrust of the FBI, invoking the 1992 standoff at the Ruby Ridge compound of the anti-government, white supremacist extremist Randy Weaver. “Last night as we watched the events that unfolded at Mar-a-Lago, I couldn’t help but think that the FBI and DOJ are losing credibility and the trust of the American people again,” Graham wrote on Facebook. He then invoked the conspiracy theory, now pervasive in right-wing circles, that new funding in the Inflation Reduction Act to boost collection of taxes owed by the wealthy was “a step in weaponizing the IRS to act against people, organizations, and businesses who have a voice of dissent against government agendas.”

A central theme of the Christian right’s coverage is that the raid was politically motivated to stop Trump from running for president again in 2024, and to dampen his influence in the 2022 midterms. “Was it driven by politics or national security? Why did we not see the same with Hillary Clinton?” asked Perkins on his radio program, Washington Watch, on August 12, the day after Attorney General Merrick Garland publicly explained the legal process by which the search warrant was obtained and executed. Just the fact that Clinton’s home was never the subject of a search warrant — never mind whether there was any basis to seek or obtain one — was evidence enough that Trump had received unequal treatment.

Perkins even lauded the Trump administration for not investigating Clinton because “they didn’t want to create a political circus like we see happening right now.” (Trump, of course, is well-known for not creating political circuses, and for his magnanimous treatment of Hillary Clinton.) Perkins went on to say that Clinton “was not paraded out in handcuffs,” a verbal sleight of hand that suggested (falsely) that Trump was. (He was not even present at Mar-a-Lago the night of the raid.) Then Perkins waved off the ubiquitous “lock her up” chants at Trump rallies, and said, “I don’t even think many conservatives would want political leaders, even of the other side, mistreated, or treated in such a fashion that shakes our very concept of justice and dignity in this country.”

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[Ocelot II]

1. "Christian," my fat pink agnostic ass.

[tulipsandroses]

2. This is going to end very badly. I hate to say it. But tragedy will ensue

I am afraid one of these deranged MAGATS may be the next Timothy McVeigh.

[Emile]

3. but the FBI raid was God's will.

[Brainfodder]

4. Is it even fair to call them Christians any more?

Openly talking murder, really, not a clue how it sounds, nothing?

They do know we can read and operate weapons too, correct, even while in between eating all the babies and stuff? /s

[dweller]

5. When thoughts and prayers fail ....

n/t



✌🏻

[TheRealNorth]

6. The Trump FBI was too busy investigating Joe Biden and his son....

Along with the Congressional Democrats to care about investigating Hillary Clinton.

[Thomas Hurt]

7. The christofascists are always about retribution and escalation.

[nakocal]

8. Please call them the religious right

as they are NOT Christian.

[Maraya1969]

10. Or "Christians" I use the quotes because they call themselves Christians but they are nothing

like Christ. "I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians re so unlike your Christ. " Gandhi.

[Nevilledog]

14. I call them christofascists or religious extremists

[ymetca]

11. The apotheosis of victimhood

needs to have its bluff called by the incarceration of their deity du jour.

Let us test their so-called "higher law", and right quick, IMHO.

[TheRealNorth]

12. C"mon now....

We all know that the Germans were the real victims of WW2.

[usonian]

13. Qristians. Got anything better?

[AntiFascist]

15. The Christian Right is probably under the same circumstances as the MAGA-based Republicans...

they are losing membership and getting desperate!