Rick Perry says Trump is the ‘chosen one’ sent ‘to do great things’

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“God’s used imperfect people all through history,” Energy Secretary Rick Perry said in a portion of an interview released by “Fox & Friends” this past weekend. “King David wasn’t perfect. Saul wasn’t perfect. Solomon wasn’t perfect,” Perry said in the clip.

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