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Michele Bachmann Exalts ‘Biblical’ Trump: We Will Never See A ‘More Godly’ POTUS


President Trump’s existence on a moral spectrum that includes hush payments to porn stars alongside proclamations of born-again Christian values has left some of his evangelical supporters nursing a case of cognitive dissonance.


But not Michele Bachmann, a fiery conservative who serves on President Trump’s evangelical advisory panel. A longtime supporter of Trump, Bachmann — whose loud tea party bid for president in 2012 raised the former congresswoman’s national profile — told an end-times radio show this week that Trump was as “biblical” a President as the U.S. was ever going to get.

During the interview with “Understanding the Times,” Bachmann discussed the threat of the “deep state” supposedly operating within the Justice Department — a favorite Trump talking point — and told listeners how they should pray to eradicate the threat: “I pray according to the scripture, which says we need to pray to expose, ask the Lord to expose the hidden deeds of darkness. And he has remarkable ways of doing this, where you can only say it’s the hand of God who exposes the hidden deeds of darkness,” she said.

She then transitioned, suggesting that listeners should believe that God will answer their prayers against the omniscient presence that is supposedly out to get Trump because the Twitter President is a true follower of Christ.

“In my lifetime I have never seen a more biblical president than I have seen in Donald Trump,” Bachmann said later in the program. “He is highly biblical and I would say to your listeners [that] we will, in all likelihood, never see a more godly, biblical president again in our lifetime. So we need to be not only praying for him, we need to support him, in my opinion, in every possible way that we can.”

Far-right evangelical voices like Bachmann and Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. have emerged in the age of Trump as ardent-supporters of a President whom previous generations of evangelicals might consider morally bankrupt, given his penchant for personal insults and mistruths, an unclear stance on abortion and gay marriage pre-presidency and the fact that he paid off a porn star to keep quiet about their alleged affair.
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Todd ‘Legitimate Rape’ Akin’s PAC Gave Steve King $2K After Racist Remark


A few weeks after Rep. Steve King (R-IA) told The New York Times he didn’t understand why white supremacy was “offensive,” former Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO), infamous for his comments that rape victims can’t actually get pregnant, donated $2,000 to King’s campaign.

The leadership PAC run by Akin, Takin Back America PAC, filed the donation on Feb. 2 — according to records — just 23 days after the Times published King’s racist remark, which earned him a bipartisan boot from his committee assignments in the House.

“White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization — how did that language become offensive?” King said at the time. “Why did I sit in classes teaching me about the merits of our history and our civilization?”

King’s no stranger to inflammatory remarks, and neither is Akin.

TPM the first national outlet to unearth Akin’s infamous “legitimate rape” remarks that he made in 2012 when trying to unseat Sen. Claire McCaskill. During an interview with a local TV station in Missouri, Akin harped on the uber-conservative belief that abortion should be banned, even in instances of rape. But Akin took it a step further, arguing that it was nearly impossible for women to get pregnant if they experience “legitimate rape” because the female body can “shut that whole thing down.”

(Akin later apologized for the comment amid backlash from fellow Republicans, but he didn’t drop his candidacy against McCaskill, who later bested him and held the Missouri Senate seat until the 2018 midterms when she was defeated by Trump-backed Josh Hawley).

The ties between Akin and King stretch deeper than this latest $2,000 donation. King was one of the few Republicans who did not call out Akin for his “legitimate rape” comment and even appeared to support the congressman’s belief. In August 2012, King told an Iowa newspaper that he had never heard of a child being impregnated by rape or incest, “and I’d be open to discussion about that subject matter.” King’s office later clarified to TPM that King only meant he “personally does not know a girl who was raped.”
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Pelosi Combats Omar Critics: There’s ‘No Taint’ Of Anti-Semitism In Dem Party

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) brushed off the President’s ambush of a freshman member of her caucus — he accused Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) of anti-Semitism — by telling CNN there’s “no taint” of that behavior within her party.


“I think the President is bankrupt of any ideas, I don’t want to talk about the President here because I’m overseas. Come see me in Washington, D.C. and I’ll tell you what I think about that and the President, but no,” she said. “We are not — we have no taint of that (anti-Semitism) in the Democratic Party and just because they want to accuse somebody of that, doesn’t mean that we take that bait.”

Omar has been accused of making anti-Semitic comments, which she has apologized for and the Democratic Party approved a resolution condemning anti-Semitism in response. But Trump and other Republicans have seized on the remarks — and new comments about 9/11 — to question her loyalty to the U.S.
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Tennessee’s GOP House Passes Bill Targeting Voter Registration Drives

The GOP-controlled state House in Tennessee passed legislation Monday making voter registration drives more onerous. The bill imposes fines on registration groups that turn in too many incomplete registration forms, while also allowing criminal penalties, including jail time, if the groups violate certain rules regarding voter registration.

Republicans, including Secretary of State Tre Hargett, pushed the bill after local election officials in Tennessee’s Shelby County were sued in 2018 by a black voter group for their handling of voter registration forms.

Under the new proposal, voter registration groups that turn in more than 100 “deficient” registration forms can be fined up to $2,000, and those that turn in more than 500 deficient applications would face fines up to $10,000. The groups also must be registered in state, are required to submit the registration forms within 10 days of collecting them, and are banned from paying workers per registration completed, under the legislation.

Violating those rules could land a paid worker of a voter registration drive in prison for nearly a year and also impose a $2,500 fine. The penalties apply only to groups that pay workers for the collection of registrations.

Voting rights group say that the legislation is geared at chilling voter participation efforts in a state that has one of the lowest registration rates in the country. Its supporters say it will prevent counties from having to spend thousands on correcting the deficient forms.

In the 2018 litigation, the Tennessee Black Voter Project alleged that the officials in Shelby County, which contains Memphis, had failed to process thousand of applications the group had submitted. The county election commission claimed that the registration group had bombarded officials at the last minute with nearly 10,000 applications — some 55 percent of them either missing information, coming from felons, or being duplicates. The group countered that the applications were being deemed incomplete for minor deficiencies, like a failure to check the “Mr./Mrs./Ms” box.

A state court judge ruled that the election officials had to let those with incomplete applications vote with regular ballots on Election Day once they corrected the deficiencies at their polling place. That order, however, was mostly blocked by an appeals court in the state.

The new legislation now heads for a vote in the Senate, where it has already been approved by a committee.
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Honest question: For those that have been down on Bernie lately how do u think he fared on FoxNews town hall and has it changed your opinion on him at all?
 
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