The president’s spiritual advisor, Florida-based televangelist scammer Paula White-Cain, said at a book-signing event this week that saying no to Donald Trump is the same thing as saying no to the Christian god.
While speaking during the event, White-Cain recounted how the president asked her to join his Evangelical advisory board before his 2016 inauguration, saying, “He’s got a strong persona, don’t get me wrong. Don’t start a fight with him.”
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“Why would the evangelicals come out and vote for him?” she asked before saying that “God told me to” join his advisory board.
“Because one thing I said, ‘I’ll never do politics,’” she said. “But when it came down to it, it wasn’t about doing politics. It was about an assignment. To say no to President Trump would be saying no to God. And I won’t do that.”
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Cain-White was appointed “special government employee and senior advisor” in the “White House Faith Office” at the start of Trump’s second term.
Her official business, Paula White Ministries, has told its followers that it can “assign an angel” to those who pay the ministry $1,000. The angel will allegedly “give you long life” and “be an enemy to your enemies,” she claimed, according to Rachel Maddow. Plus, the $1,000 includes a crystal cross that will allegedly “release seven supernatural blessings,” she added.
White-Cain’s ministry has also sold miracle cures for diseases, which is notable considering the Trump administration’s cuts in federal funding for vaccinations.
At a recent White House Easter event, White-Cain also compared Trump to Jesus, inciting widespread mockery on the internet (until the White House eventually removed a video of her comment from the internet).
White-Cain believes God personally assigned her to be Trump’s spiritual advisor and has warned of consequences from God for those who don’t stand with the president, stating that those who oppose him are “fighting the hand of God.” She also says that she has personally “anointed” the White House into “holy grounds” through “the superior blood of Jesus.”
The day before Halloween 2019, she joined other far-right Christians in praying for Trump’s protection against “the wicked” including the “demons” who fear his Supreme Court appointments.
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