m. pence, the real Russian connection. How you say?

[Miigwech]

Mike Pence and Franklin Graham at the 2017 World Summit in Defense of Persecuted Christians. AP Photo / Cliff Owen

Well before special counsel Robert Mueller started investigating possible illegal collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government, American evangelicals had formed an odd alliance of their own with leaders of the Russian Orthodox Church. American evangelicals are led to make common cause with Russian Orthodoxy—and with Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin—because of a deep and shared suspicion of Western liberal elites.

https://www.christiancentury.org/article/features/unexpected-relationship-between-us-evangelicals-and-russian-orthodox

[pecosbob]

1. Take the red pill...

[Miigwech]

2. Yes

https://www.economist.com/europe/2018/02/03/vladimir-putin-embraces-the-russian-church

[blm]

3. Russian gangs were hunting and beating gays openly in 2013-14, at a time

when media attention focused on Russia’s hosting of theWinter Olympics, I said then that Putin wanted the news coverage of the anti-gay activities specifically to appeal to America’s worst - the right wing, evangelical Republicans.

[Grasswire2]

4. Manafort brought Pence to the VP ticket, remember. NT