America needs to repent of its sin and pray for Donald Trump and Kristi Noem and Pete Hegseth and Tulsi Gabbard, according to evangelist Franklin Graham.
In a Jan. 14 interview on CBN, Graham issued the national call to prayer while praising the Trump administration as agents of God’s work and saying Minneapolis citizen Renee Good was killed because she didn’t follow orders.
Good had been murdered a week before on a Minneapolis street by an ICE agent who shot her point-blank in the head as she sat in her minivan. Seven days after that shooting, with multiple videos released showing what happened, Graham promoted the false right-wing narrative that Good had to be stopped because she was endangering the life of the officer.
“We need to just pray and pray for our law enforcement out there that are trying to enforce the laws of this country when people are attacking them,” Graham said. “We saw the lady in Minneapolis who was unfortunately shot, but she was told what to do, to get out of the car. She wouldn’t do it, and then she gave the gas and almost ran over one of the officers.”
“We need to just pray and pray for our law enforcement out there that are trying to enforce the laws of this country when people are attacking them.”
That’s why the officer shot her in the head, he said, contradicting all the video evidence and eyewitness reports of the incident. “It’s a shame these things should be happening, so we just need God, we need God’s help, and we need to just surrender ourselves to him and as a nation repent.”
Although he is a cheerleader for Trump and his “Make America Great Again” slogan, Graham continues to describe America as a hellscape facing God’s judgment.
“Our nation is fallen so far from God and his truth,” the evangelist said.
He cited “confusion at the Supreme Court” in a recent case about transgender women participating in competitive athletics. And then he spoke of the “riots taking place in many of our streets the anger that’s boiling over in the streets,” an apparent reference to the anti-Trump protests in Minnesota and elsewhere.
Graham’s interview was recorded 10 days prior to the death of Minneapolis resident Alex Pretti, also at the hands of a federal agent.
“First of all, we need to repent as a nation. We need to repent of our sins and turn from those sins … and ask God to forgive us and then pray for those that are in leadership —President Donald J. Trump, we need to pray for him; for Vice President JD Vance; Secretary of War Pete Hegseth; Secretary of State Marco Rubio; Kristi Noem, secretary of Homeland Security; Tulsi Gabbard — so many in our country that we need to be praying for that God would guide them and direct them and lead them.,” Graham said.
People who say they didn’t vote for Trump for president and therefore shouldn’t have to pray for him are wrong, Graham said. “Well, it doesn’t matter. He’s our president and you pray for him because the decisions he makes affect all of us. And Secretary of Homeland Security Noem, she’s a she’s a wonderful lady who loves God, and we just need to pray for her; she’s got a tough job, she’s been given the job of sending out all these illegals that poured in under the Biden administration, to get them back to where they belong, back to their country.”
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