Webbon actually states that maybe Trump is playing four-dimensional chess. Yes, that must be what is happening when he tells us stories about sharks being electrocuted, how great Hannibal Lecter is or chooses to have speakers at his shows who call Puerto Rico a "floating garbage dump." Webbon then goes on to claim that one of the best things about Trump is that he brings in people for the areas he is not competent in that are great, but unfortunately not loyal. Huh? Who cares if someone is loyal? Doesn't the truth count? When a Four-Star Marine General says that he is a fascist maybe we should listen? Also, how in the world did the definition of competent become the ability to make decisions? A chimp can make decisions. What are those decisions is the question. We have a man who has declared bankruptcy six times. That is six different times he has screwed his own creditors and ran a business into the ground. He created a fake school to bilk people of their life savings and had to settle a lawsuit regarding this to the tune of 25 million dollars. Even as president, he botched the COVID response, said it would miraculously go away, and even hinted at injecting bleach to treat it. Competent? Not by his record.
"I'm going to say that I don't believe that Donald Trump has a credible profession of faith. I don't believe Donald Trump gives a credible display of the fear of God." - David Reece
Webbon and Reece engage in a colloquy on Cornelius and how he may or may not have already been saved but that is a conversation for a different devotional. The issue here is that they never really discuss this at all. Reece is correct in saying that Trump does not have any fear of God. That is painfully evident by his words and actions. He is on record as saying that he does not think he needs to even ask God for forgiveness. His "spiritual advisor" was the noted huckster Paula White. He wanted to shoot protestors in the legs so he could do a photo op in front of a church where he held the bible upside down. He is currently scamming people for $60 bibles, produced in China, for what we can only assume is slave labor wages. Good for Reece to correctly glean that he has no profession of faith. It is a shame that Webbon probably disagrees. We move on to number five.
"Then we go to, well is he a truth teller. Now, he does tell some hard truths but it comes down to ok, how much lying do you see. So, if a guy is consistently willing to say hard truths but is also lies a lot, I would say he is not a man of truth." - David Reece
The point about telling hard truths is subjective and irrelevant. A liar is a liar is a liar. Because Reece is trying desperately to sound reasonable while essentially siding with Trump, he goes into this tortured argument about how during the Hezekiah reforms, God allowed the Levites in general to conduct the sacrifices because they were short on priests and how this means that it is ok to lower our biblical standards for truth telling. I am sure that God provided the narrative of Hezekiah's reign so that we could lower our standards for excusing Donald Trump. How preposterous. In other words, Reece offers the notion that if you can't find a truth teller to vote for, you at least try to find someone who hates covetousness.
"So, that is what I say. What is the retreat line if we cannot find a God-fearer and if we can't find a man of truth, then we go hate covetousness. So, what is hate covetousness? Maybe some people will say that Donald trump likes to make money - well making money is not a problem. Covetousness is when you take other people's money. Maybe the fact that he wants to cut taxes shows that he is a man who hates covetousness and maybe that he wants to undermine socialism to some extent. So, I would say he is not free market enough, but I am even willing to go, let's grant that the guy hates covetousness. So, that one I am not even willing to debate on. I am willing to say fine, he hates covetousness enough for me to say I can vote for him. I land in this area of the fear of God and this telling truth thing." - David Reece.
There is so much wrong here. So, let me see if I have this right. Covetousness is only when you take other people's money? So, what about when you screw people out of money that is theirs by filing bankruptcy six times? What about when you try to milk them of all their money through a bogus university? What about when your fake charity is so bad, you have to pay two million dollars in fines and disband because you essentially stole from other charities, including one for kids with cancer. So, the issue is not making money, it is stealing it from other people. Doesn't the fact that he was unfaithful with three different wives, one time with a porn star count for covetousness? By the way, the exact portion from the key verse dealing with this is if Donald Trump hates a bribe. Are you kidding me? Everything the man does is transactional. He cut deals with the Saudis so his son in law could get two billion dollars. He overcharged world leaders to stay at his hotels and defrauded the American people by overcharging the Secret Service for the same. Cutting taxes for billionaires is somehow not being covetous? Or when he demanded oil executives give him a billion dollars for all of the deregulation he was promising. How in the world can any sane thinking individual land on Donald Trump not being covetous? He is the walking definition of such. The only reason why Reece landed here was because this was never supposed to be a fair debate about voting for Trump. This was a political advertisement for church folk about how you can excuse yourself for voting for him.
Then we really go into the crazy zone as Webbon actually asks Reece what are the big lies that he refers to when saying Trump is dishonest and Reece feigns ignorance! He pretends like he just cannot come up with any off the top of his head. Are you serious? Conservative estimates place the totals lies during his presidency at over 30,000! You cannot think of one lie? How about recently when he said that Haitian immigrants, who are Christian I might add, were eating cats and dogs in Ohio? How about that little nugget that has made their lives a living hell all over again! How about lying that Kamala Harris is not really black. Or didn't really work in McDonalds. How about the whopper he keeps telling about how other countries are emptying their insane asylums and sending their prisoners here. Any of these ringing a bell, you sycophants? Believe me when I say that I am not even being creative. This is just off the top of my head. Is there anything he says that is not a lie?
