Rev. Robert Jeffress Defends Trump Amid Tape Chaos: We Also Supported 'Known Womanizer' Ronald Reaga

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Mediate

by Joseph A. Wulfsohn | 12:01 am, July 21st, 2018

On Friday night, pro-Trump Rev. Robert Jeffress defended the president amid controversy of a tape that documented a conversation between Donald Trump and his personal lawyer Michael Cohen regarding a payoff to a former Playboy model during the election.

In the report from The New York Times, Rudy Giuliani confirmed the existence of a tape that that has Trump and Cohen discussing the form of payment that was to be made to Karen McDougal, who alleges she had an affair with the president back in 2006.

The Fox News contributor began by dismissing remarks made by an anti-Trump reverend who insisted that congressional leaders have “sold their souls” in order to make deals with this president.

“This is not an unusual thing. We’ve been here before,” Jeffress told Fox News’ Ed Henry. “Back in 1980, evangelicals chose to support a twice-married Hollywood actor who was a known womanizer in Hollywood. His name was Ronald Reagan. They chose to support him over Jimmy Carter, with a born-again Baptist Sunday school teacher who had been faithfully married to one woman. The reason we supported President Reagan was not because we supporting womanizing or divorce. We supported his policies. And that’s true here, Ed. We are choosing to support his policies. We’re not under any illusion that we were voting for an altar boy when we voted for President Trump. We knew about his past. And by the way, none of us has a perfect past. We voted for him because of his policies.”

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/tv/rev-robert-jeffress-defends-trump-amid-tape-chaos-we-also-supported-known-womanizer-ronald-reagan/

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So that's how Baby Trump rose up into the sky.

[SemiHalfling]

1. Rachel was just reporting this evening that this narrative is being pushed by Trump's own lawyers

Might deserve some looking into if this is meant to be a distraction, even if it remains perfectly valid as an article of news. Interesting choice to release something damaging to disrupt the conversation over the weekend that the nation inevitably will have about capital T Treason.

[Achilleaze]

21. repube WhatAboutIsm up the wazoo

What about Willie Horton?
What about Al Capone?
What about Casanova?
What about Clinton's BJ?
What - in Hell - about Hillary's emails?

[TrogL]

2. The only think that matters to them is Roe v Wade

The end justifies the means. Machiavelli did not live in vain.

[sarcasmo]

3. Saint Ronnie was a womanizer? During his Hollywood days?

[not fooled]

7. And,, Nancy was preggers

when she married the Saint. Must have been immaculate conception.

[pamela]

14. He raped a woman-Selene Walters

Trumpvangelicals consider rape to be just "womanizing."

[Loki Liesmith]

31. Let's be clear that's an allegation

No evidence or conviction to support the allegation. It could be true. Or it could just be fodder for Kitty Kelley’s book.

[Aristus]

32. Rumor alone is sufficient proof of guilt.

The Republicans taught me that...

[pamela]

37. I believe Selene.

Selene on the allegations in the Kelley book:

SELENE WALTERS SAYS: Kelley’s account of his late-night visit is essentially accurate, although he never forced his way into her apartment. “I opened the door. Then it was the battle of the couch. I was fighting him. I didn’t want him to make love to me. He’s a very big man, and he just had his way. Date rape? No, God, no, that’s [Kelley’s] phrase. I didn’t have a chance to have a date with him.”

[Loki Liesmith]

42. Believe who you want

Facts are not contingent on belief.

Myself I neither believe nor disbelieve. It’s a claim. It could be true or not.

[Honeycombe8]

40. Not that I know of. As a single man, he had a good time.

Just like any other single man. Jimmy Stewart would say of his days before marriage that he enjoyed himself.

To me, womanizing is something wolf-like. Using women and throwing them away w/o regard. That's not what Reagan or Stewart did, that I know of. They just dated, went to parties, lived the good life. They were NOT like Trump, and any attempt to equate the two is false, to my knowledge.

[kimbutgar]

4. Sounds desperate to me.

When you can’t justify your beliefs with obvious facts. Game over dude.

[Solly Mack]

5. Yes, we know you all have long been hypocrites.

You're not telling us anything we don't already know.

[Chicago1980]

6. WoW!!!

Just threw the patron saint of conservatism under the bus.

Who was Ronnie $t.Raygun whoring round with?

[oasis]

8. Deplorables have found their messiah. They can have him.

💩💩💩💩💩🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺

[OilemFirchen]

9. There was a year's worth of caterwauling...

when Jimmy Carter said "I've committed adultery in my heart many times."

Remember that, Reverend Peabrain?

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

10. I don't remember all the forgiving comparisons when

Pres Clinton had a consensual tryst. I remember abject-phony-horror about same.
The NRA and CPAC are about to be unveiled for the scum they always were.

[jaysunb]

11. An honest man speaketh.

We voted for his policies : racism, hate, misogyny, patrimony and chaos.

An honest man.

[blue-wave]

12. Well Gollyeeeee!!!

"We supported his policies. And that’s true here, Ed. We are choosing to support his policies. We’re not under any illusion that we were voting for an altar boy when we voted for President Trump."

So they are supporting treason policies, oh like maybe adhering to our enemies, or giving them (our enemies) aid and comfort? Yes, good Americans they are. Yes, God will judge them. Wish I could be a fly on the wall when they get there.

[YOHABLO]

13. They are so full of shit. They support Trump because they love money more than they love Jesus/God.

[SamKnause]

15. Fuck off and die Rev. Robert Jeffress.

[suprcali]

16. CINO

Christian in name only. They love to quote the Bible and lecture other people. But the truth is they do not practice what they preach.

And the sheep can't think for themselves. So they follow a man who makes them question their own eyes and ears.

[Honeycombe8]

17. Reagan wasn't a womanizer WHILE HE WAS MARRIED...

as far as I know. And most definitely would not have been unfaithful while any wife was pregnant.

And he wasn't a "womanizer." When he was single, he had a good time, as most single people do. That's not "womanizing," a-hole.

[ouija]

18. Family Values

Where art thou family values and where shall I acquire them dear sir.

[GoCubsGo]

23. This just goes to show how low this country has sunk.

Democrats are having to defend the likes of Brain-Dead Ronnie and Dumbya from the very people who worshiped them, and shoved them down our throats for decades. SMGDH.

[BumRushDaShow]

25. Excuse my language but

It IS un-fucking believable that we are left to quoting zombie Raygun ("Tear down that wall" ) and Shrub because of what is happening now out of the WH.

[safeinOhio]

19. Before Reagan...

Divorce and remarrying was the Christian rights' big bug-a-boo. Of course if you read the words of Christ(check your Red Letter Bible) Jesus never said a word about gay marriage or abortion, but he did say a lot about divorce and remarrying. So, it looks like they can ignore scripture they don't like in the moment and come up with something new to judge others. Reagan, not only divorced and remarried, he signed the first No Fault Divorce law in the country for California. Some of us are old enough to remember the change.

[turbinetree]

20. Jeffress.................fuck Reagan and your fucking enabling traitors, your ilk have no principles

your fucking racists, all you need are white hoods and sheets......................I hate "cult 45"....................


https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/election?p0=263&iso=20181106T12&msg=2018%20Midterm%20Elections

[GoCubsGo]

22. IOOIYAAR.

Same shit, different day.

[BumRushDaShow]

24. "Rev. Robert Jeffress:..We Also Supported 'Known Womanizer' Ronald Reagan"

[Soxfan58]

26. He believes in GOP

Not GOD

[Freethinker65]

27. So if Satan had some good policies, Jeffress would support Satan

Seems legit

[Dave Starsky]

33. If Trump confessed that was the Antichrist tomorrow...

Every Evangelical whackjob in the nation would brand "MAGA 666" into their foreheads for their Master.

[Mc Mike]

28. "We were ALWAYS liars. We were

ALWAYS hypocrites. We ALWAYS had no values, while we screamed fire and brimstone punish the sinner sermons.

We were ALWAYS whited sepulchers. We were ALWAYS evil.

So get with the program."

[sinkingfeeling]

29. Explain how his policies conform to the teachings of Christ. Or are you

all just bullsh*ting hupocrites?

[empedocles]

30. The righteous, pious, evangelical pastor . . .

. . . gets to swallow still another trump 'dump' whole, pray to cleanse his soul - and then righteously demonize reporters and absolve trump

[DemocratSinceBirth]

34. Reagan never cheated on his wives. He had two, in succession, of course.

Reagan was never accused of sexual misconduct by nineteen women.

Reverend Jeffress, do you know what the Bible says about liars. This lapsed Baptist does:

Revelation 21:8: But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

[empedocles]

38. Actually reagan did cheat on at least one wife,

but who's counting.

[QC]

35. This says it all:

[Owl]

36. Jeffress is not a Christian.

[Collimator]

39. Exactly how "known" a womanizer was Regan at the time of his election?

Some things are generally known by many people but are not reported on the news in a specifically public form of communication.

Former Maryland Governor, Martin O'Malley, is "known" by many in political and media circles as a "dog" vis a vis his private life. However, that aspect of his character has not been made public in any media format, print or otherwise. From my point of view, it has no bearing on his public service. Furthermore, I appreciate the fact that he is not a self-righteous, moralizing would-be despot trying to control other people's private lives.

Hugely popular former Maryland Senator, Barbara Mikulski, is "known" for being in a partnership relationship with a woman. This point has never been splashed along a headline in paper or binary code.

Another point, Regan was the practically a messiah to the self-described, "Moral Majority" of his era, despite being divorced. Adlai Stevenson II, however, was a divorced Democrat whose "dissolved marriage" caused many to question whether he could "hold the country together". Of course, he was also known to be smart and a thoughtful public speaker. With those qualities working against him, he could have been an actual, former altar boy and still, the fine Christians of America would not have voted for him.

Speaking of messiahs, if Jesus-- as described in the Gospels--were running for office today, about 70% of what he had to say would outrage the majority of Evangelical Christians in this country.(The other 30% would probably offend many Liberals who aren't as well versed on his public statements as they think they are.)

[truthisfreedom]

41. He doesn't have any policies. He's a rudderless blowhard buffoon.