LIVE TRIAL: Trump's religious cult (video)

LIVE: Traitor Trump's Senate impeachment trial

(NBC News) Watch live coverage of former Pres. Trump's impeachment trial as the Senate, having voted yesterday (2/9/21) that he can be tried, considers whether to convict and hold him responsible for crimes caught on tape and on Senate security cameras and rightwing rioters' cell phones.

What? I'm just a citizen.

The redneck "Capitol riots" were organized by then Pres. Trump and partisan supporters, and they were incited and defended by Trump as his last bid to stay in power after losing the vote (or having it stolen from him by a corrupt electoral process put in place by Republicans Pres. Bush and VP Cheney, according to Greg Palast and other journalist-investigators and whistleblowers).

Impeachment managers make powerful case against Trump to open trial: A Closer Look

(Late Night with Seth Meyers, Feb. 9, 2021) Meyers takes a closer look at Ex-Pres. Trump’s second impeachment trial, where House impeachment managers laid out powerful evidence of his guilt while most Republican senators had no interest in holding him accountable.

(Jim Akimbo) Trump Circus back in Washington for Impeachment Trial #2

 

Is the Trump presidency a religious cult?

Steven Hassan, a leading cult expert, explains HOW this president uses mind control.

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(Big Think with Prof. Reza Aslan, 4/15/18) Are fundamentalist Christians a dangerous religious cult? Yes. What about Trump evangelists? Possibly.

The Cult of Trump (Steven Hassan)

Controversial author and religious scholar Professor Reza Aslan posits that President Don John Trump has much of his Republican evangelical fan-base believing he's been anointed by the God to become the president.

Never mind the Russian and Mercer election scandals, Trump's illicit affairs with porn stars, and unwarranted sexual acts and assaults towards women, or his inability to remember even a single Christian Bible verse when asked.

Evangelical Christians are abandoning their core moral beliefs to follow, as Prof. Reza suggests, someone who exhibits every trademark of a cult leader. And that should terrify anyone on either side of the political spectrum. Prof. Reza's latest book is God: A Human History.

AUDIO: The Cult of Trump: A Leading Cult Expert Explains How the President Uses Mind Control

(The Daily Show) What's cowardly Pres. Joe "Nothing Will Fundamentally Change" Biden up to?

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ABOUT: Reza Aslan is an internationally-renowned writer, commentator, professor, producer, and scholar of religions. His books, including his #1 New York Times bestseller, Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, have been translated into dozens of languages around the world. He is also a recipient of the prestigious James Joyce Award. His newest book God: A Human History (2017) is out now.

Aslan’s first book, International Bestseller No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam, has been translated into seventeen languages, and was named one of the 100 most important books of the last decade by Blackwell Publishers. He is also the author of Beyond Fundamentalism: Confronting Religious Extremism in a Globalized Age (originally titled How to Win a Cosmic War), as well as editor of two volumes: Tablet and Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East, and Muslims and Jews in America: Commonalties, Contentions, and Complexities.

"THE END IS NEAR" (thismodernworld.com)

In 2006, Aslan co-founded BoomGen Studios — the premiere entertainment brand for creative content from and about the Middle East, which has provided an array of targeted services ranging from strategic messaging to grassroots marketing to publicity and social media outreach, to producers, studios, and filmmakers — including Jon Stewart’s Rosewater, Netflix’s The Square, Disney’s Aladdin on Broadway and Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, The Weinstein Company’s Miral, Discovery and TLC’s All American Muslim, and National Geographic’s Amreeka.

Aslan’s degrees include a Bachelor of Arts in religious studies from Santa Clara University (major focus in the New Testament and minor in Greek), a master of theological studies from Harvard University (major focus history of religions), a Ph,D, in the sociology of religions from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a master of fine arts from the University of Iowa, where he was named the Truman Capote Fellow in Fiction. 

Aslan is a tenured professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside and serves on the board of trustees for the Chicago Theological Seminary and The Yale Humanist Community, which supports atheists, agnostics, and humanists at home and abroad.