Archbishop of New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan said in a Fox News interview that thrice married, twice divorce, adjudicated rapist and serial liar Donald Trump “takes his Christian faith seriously.”
“I’ve had talks with him before in the past where he’s pretty blunt about, you know, he can’t say that he was raised as a, as a very zealous Christian, but he takes his Christian faith seriously,” Dolan told host Maria Bartiromo on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures” in a clip highlighted by The Hill.
Dolan also claimed divine intervention saved Trump from assassination this summer.
“I think of Ronald Reagan and John Paul II,” Dolan said. “Both survived assassination attempts very close to one another, and when the two of them met for the first time, Ronald Reagan said to Pope Saint John Paul II, ‘Mother Teresa told me that she thinks the Lord spared me, because the Lord has somethin’ special in mind for me.’”
“And Pope Saint John Paul II smiled and said, ‘She told me the same thing,’” he added.
Dolan’s assertion is not uncommon among Trump’s most ardent supporters in the wake of his assassination attempts.
Trump has leaned in to the messianic imagery himself.
“It was God alone who prevented the unthinkable from happening,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post. “We will FEAR NOT, but instead remain resilient in our Faith and Defiant in the face of Wickedness.”
I would love to hear Dolan articulate a single way in which Trump “takes his Christian faith seriously.” Other than selling tacky Trump-branded Bibles and pandering to evangelicals, there is very little evidence that Trump is a Christian in any sense. He has never been a churchgoer, could not explain the difference between the Old and New Testaments, could not quote any passage from scripture, and doesn’t even know how to read Bible verses (remember when he was asked to read from “Two” Corinthians?) Like with everything else, it’s all talk, no substance.
On what planet is this actually true? Not this one.