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Why Doesn’t Biden Do Reality TV?
So, where does Donald Trump get invited to give a speech? The Chamber of Commerce? Nope. The Heritage Foundation? Nope. The Council on Foreign Relations? Not a chance.
He showed up yesterday to deliver the keynote address at a conference run by the Faith and Freedom Coalition in Nashville, Tennessee. Other speakers who are supposed to be talking include: Newt Gingrich, Mike Pompeo, Nikki Haley, Rick Scott, Judge Jeanine Pirro and Herschel Walker. In other words, the usual gaggle of mouths that can be found whenever the alt-right religious movement and the alt-right political movement get together for a couple of days.
You would think that someone like Trump, a confirmed non-religious guy from New Yawk would never be able to make common cause with the Evangelicals, particularly the White, Southern Evangelicals who have been diddling around in the POS/GOP sandbox since Reagan, if not before. You would think.
In his memoir about working for Trump, Disloyal, Michael Cohen tells a great story about a 2015 meeting at Trump’s New York office where a bunch of Evangelical ministers led by Jerry Falwell, Jr., showed up to meet Trump and get involved in his Presidential campaign. The group went through the usual meets-and-greets, then Trump promised to give them everything they wanted, and just when the meeting broke up, one of the ministers asked…