Trump is Using Us': Christian Republican Group Warns People Not to Vote For Trump in 2020 Election

[Quixote1818]

A group of Republicans is urging Christians and Republicans to not re-elect Trump in the 2020 presidential election.

According to the Pew Research Center survey in July, White evangelical approval of Trump has slipped, but 8 in 10 say they would still vote for him.


The recent release ad, entitled “Trump is Using Us,” features six Republican voters who talk about how Trump uses and manipulates Christians.

In the minute-long video posted on the Republican Voters Against Trump YouTube channel, the group explains that the president doesn’t reflect Christianity or values based on his words and actions.

One major highlight of the video was the comments Trump made following a violent white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017. At the time, he said there were “very fine people on both sides” when talking about protesters and rally-goers.

They also brought up Trump retweeting a man shouting “white power!” on his Twitter page.

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[SharonAnn]

1. Of course he is. That's what he does. And "Everything Trump Touches Dies".

[gratuitous]

2. Republicans have been doing it for decades

Hopefully, hearing it from members of their own tribe, more evangelicals will take a hard look at what they've become. Is "winning" worth the price of your soul? I've heard from a lot of evangelicals that nothing is more important to them than their souls. In return, they've gotten a bowl of pottage. Maybe these folks can start the Esau Project or something.

[Mariana]

13. Actually, the opposite is also true.

The Evangelicals have been using and manipulating the Republican Party for decades, to get what they want, which is primarily the legal oppression of women, LGBT people, and non-Christians. They're hardly the innocent party in this.

[keithbvadu2]

18. They are also using him. Religion and politics use each other to gain power and wealth.

[lonely bird]

36. What do you get

when you combine religion and politics?

You get politics.

[lambchopp59]

52. And concentration camps where "undesirables" die of neglect in squalid conditions.

Exactly what the many of the so called "loving evangelicals" want for me and my LGBTQ sort.

[lonely bird]

58. No argument

Religion is about social control.

[demosincebirth]

45. As so-called christians, (hypocrite) should be included

[Mariana]

46. Do you think these people aren't Christians? nt.

[demosincebirth]

48. If they believe what trump says and does is is ok...? Then You can answer

That question yourself.

[Cha]

3. WOW!

[dchill]

4. What was their first clue?

[malaise]

11. You win the thread

[dchill]

16. Thank you!

[KentuckyWoman]

54. Can't get anything by Christians... they'll catch on every time... eventually

[TheBlackAdder]

5. Kind of tough to backtrack when y'all claim he was chosen by God.

[oldsoftie]

44. I always agree & mention God's ALWAYS in contol. They agree. "So God chose Obama too"

Then they realize they have nowhere to go after agreeing that God is always in control!!
I've pissed off a few.........

[RMVet]

47. Excellent response!

I like to use "Trump insults my intelligence". Of course their response is "crickets....". Sometimes I even give examples of 45 insulting my intelligence (there are so many) and they reply with "more crickets....". Eventually they change the subject. Hopefully I've given them something to think about 🤔.

[displacedtexan]

6. How many of these men are losing money, their jobs or their businesses?

So now, they've seen the light or Baby Jesus, and they suddenly see that Trump is using them? Oh. Right. Sure.

[malaise]

12. Well they can't even collect the tithes

[Ferrets are Cool]

7. Are they ice skating in Hell yet??

[JDC]

8. That's right "You are the sucker"

[Ilsa]

9. They weren't convinced when they found out

he is a rapist, cheats on his 3rd wife who has just given birth, illegally uses campaign funds as hush money, makes racist statements, is beholden to Putin and Russia? What finally got them to change their minds about his character? I'd really like to know.

Franklin Graham has been conspicuously quiet, too.

[Mariana]

15. None of that matters now. He's a Christian and God has forgiven him.

Just like it never happened.

[robbob]

25. Even though tRump has never confessed or asked for forgiveness

And even said in an interview that he doesn’t need to because he’s never done anything wrong. The complete antithesis of the basic fundamental basis of Christianity.

[Mariana]

26. So many popular and influential Christian leaders say he's a Christian.

Some of those Christian leaders know Trump personally, so they obviously know a lot more about his faith than I do. I'm certainly not in any position to argue with them. Thousands of Christian churches are preaching that he's God's own hand-picked president, put in office to implement God's will, and that support for him is essentially a tenet of their Christian faith. I'm not in any position to argue with that, either. It wouldn't be out of character for God to choose someone like Trump. The Bible is stuffed with stories about men who did much worse things than Trump has ever dreamed of doing, whom God put into positions of great power, and showered with His favor and His blessings.

[JHB]

38. Don't be so sure they know his faith better than you

Some of those leaders believe it because they want to believe it, and others see him as too good an opportunity to push their agenda to pass up, so they just declare him so, with the usual excuses for his faltering.

[Ilsa]

40. I hope a reporter brings this up again, like they did in 2015 or 2016.

I'd love for his christian followers to hear him say that he hasn't ever done anything that requires forgiveness, so why should he ask?

[lonely bird]

35. Franklin is like Donnie

They both have daddy issues.

[Doodley]

10. Let every Christian Republican see the light and stand with us against Trump.

[mshasta]

14. God works in a very mysterious ways

Finally the light 4 years late

[dchill]

17. "Christian Republican."

They've got one fucked-up Jesus over there.

[dflprincess]

19. Minds like steel traps, these folks

Steel traps that have rusted shut.

[Tommymac]

20. They are reaping what they sowed - as have 150,000 + Deceased Americans.

Fuck Them and their holier then thou smugness.

[BobTheSubgenius]

21. Wow. They figured that out, did they?

And in only 3 12 years. Remarkable.

[pazzyanne]

22. "the president doesn't reflect Christianity or values based on his words and actions."

I'm shocked, I tell you, simply shocked! NOT!!!

[cheezmaka]

60. A classic case of the "Blind leading the Blind"

And now all of a sudden the Blind can SEE....

[NBachers]

23. If only someone had alerted them to this appalling discovery!

[SergeStorms]

24. 80% are still going to vote for the anti-christ?

They haven't learned a damned thing. Hypocrites, every one. Oh, but they did get conservative judges! But the country is going to be run by Democrats for the foreseeable future, so it's free abortions for everyone! Even the men!

Freaking idiots. How the hell can they look at themselves in their mirrors each morning? Christians my ass.

[Martin Eden]

27. "White power!" is a feature, not a flaw...

... for many of these White evangelical voters.

[KWR65]

28. They will vote for him because he is supposedly 'pro-life' n/t

[Johnny2X2X]

29. LOL, Trump is the perfect face man for American style evangelicals

Their entire religion is based upon violence towards women and there is no better example of that than Trump. He's the perfect Conservative Christian to them.

[keithbvadu2]

30. Trump and his evangelicals bumper sticker

Trump and his evangelicals bumper sticker

[StevieM]

31. They are the ones who have been using him.

First, they got to declare that their hatefulness was validated. They got to spew venom at our fine former first lady and declare themselves proven right, under the mantra that history is written by the winners. Ironically enough, it was actually Comey who got that for them, not Trump. But voting for Trump is what made it happen.

Second, they got the judges they want.

I assure you...these people have no regrets.

[StarryNite]

57. A symbiotic relationship.

They are using each other.

[dalton99a]

32. 8 in 10 white evangelicals say they would still vote for him because

[Stuart G]

33. K and R

[Marcuse]

34. So unlike.

[Aristus]

37. Took them four years to figure that out?

Idiots...

[Roy Rolling]

39. Finally!

I don’t know the provenance of Beliefnet , but they caught my attention. Trump has from day one tried to drive a wedge between rabid evangelicals and traditional Christians / people of other faiths.

Finally, the non-evangelical side has found its voice. They need to be isolated and shouted down.

[AnnieBW]

41. They've Got Their Judges

Now they're throwing him under the bus before he throws them under.

WWJTUTB?

[ProfessorGAC]

42. Not A Peep For 3.5 Years

Now, they want to seem relevant?
These folks need to catch up.

[GoCubsGo]

43. LOL!!! They're just figuring this out now?

Seems they've been asleep for the past 40 or 50 years, because that's how long the entire GOP has been using them.

[MasonDreams]

49. It's not exactly common knowledge but the KKK thinks they are Christians.

People have very very different ideas about bring a good Christian. I just never could understand the contradictions being do blatant as they clearly are. Crusades happened. Why?

[bucolic_frolic]

50. A real Christian would never vote for Trump

[Skittles]

51. "Christian Republicans"

[lambchopp59]

53. Trumpian "christianity":

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Jesus wept.

[qwlauren35]

55. The ad is missing one example.

I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters.

[betsuni]

56. David Kuo wrote a book about being used as a Christian, policy advisor in the G.W. Bush

administration. "Tempting Faith, An Inside Story of Political Seduction."

Anyone who can't see this deserves the idiom: they don't have the sense God gave geese.

[Sherman A1]

59. Been nice if they would have figured that out

Some 4 years ago.