With Bibles and flash grenades, Trump walks the Christian nationalist walk – RNS June 4, 2020 by Fulcrum President Donald Trump’s walk across from the Rose Garden to St. John’s Episcopal Church on Monday (June 1) was a short one in terms of geography, but represented an enormous leap in rhetoric. After claiming he would bring “law and order” back to the United States and declaring himsef an “ally of all peaceful protesters,” he marched across a Lafayette Square that police, using flash grenades and tear gas, had forcefully cleared of peaceful protesters. Outside the church, Trump held up a Bible for a photo-op. When asked if the book was his own, Trump replied that is was “a Bible.” Andrew Whitehead. Relgion News Service 2 June 2020 FulcrumShareTweetShare
