You’d think the self-proclaimed Christians like those at the Media Research Center would be offended by Donald Trump — a thrice-married rapist and adulterer — endorsing a Bible. Instead, it’s mad that other people have criticized it. Mark Finkelstein groused in a March 27 post:
Amidst all the liberal outrage over NBC’s hiring of Ronna McDaniel, CNN offered an example this morning of what passes for a perfectly acceptable revolving-door hire.
CNN commentator Ashley Allison was on a CNN This Morning panel to discuss Trump’s hawking of a God Bless America Bible.
Allison was the National Coalitions Director for Biden-Harris 2020 and deputy director and senior policy advisor for the Obama White House Office of Public Engagement, where she strategized on running campaigns during “the Resistance.” Her bio features her commitment to “equity.”
Hunt played an old clip of Trump talking about “Two Corinthians” and pressed David Frum and Jonah Goldberg to mock Trump’s marketing push. When it came her turn to comment, Allison displayed a combination of fearmongering and ignorance about America’s founding. Allison claimed that the U.S. was “founded on the separation of church and state.” Hunt echoed that misstatement of the First Amendment, which, of course, says nothing about “separation,” prohibiting only the “establishment” of a state religion.
Finkelstein distracted further in an April 1 post:
What better way for the Trump haters at MSNBC to celebrate Easter than to fantasize about Donald Trump spending next Easter in “a prison cell,” reading his God Bless the USA Bible?
As we’ve noted here, former MSNBC host Tiffany Cross loved to fantasize about Trump being subjected to a COPS-style arrest: “dragged out on the White House lawn,” and his head pushed down to shove him into the back seat of a cop car.
On Easter Sunday’s episode of The Weekend, MSNBC legal analyst Kristy Greenberg perpetuated Cross’s inglorious tradition.
[…]Greenberg’s snarky shot about the God Bless America Bible that Trump has been promoting reflects her animus, and the anticipatory schadenfreude she was experiencing at the prospect of Trump behind bars.
Yes, Finkelstein thinks the real problem here is picayune interpretations of the Constitution and not the blatant crassness of Trump selling a Bible to boost his political prospects — something he would never tolerate if a Democrat did so.