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Evangelist Compares Republicans Who Voted For Trump's Impeachment To Judas
Franklin Graham, son of the late American evangelist Billy Graham, has supported Donald Trump through some of the most controversial moments of his presidency.
This week, Graham proved that Trump could incite a mob of hundreds to storm the U.S. Capitol in protest of the results of a presidential election and still not lose Graham’s support.
In a Facebook post, Graham compared the 10 Republican House members who voted for Trump’s impeachment on Wednesday to Judas Iscariot, the apostle notorious for betraying Jesus for 30 pieces of silver.
“Shame, shame,” Graham wrote Thursday. “After all that he has done for our country, you would turn your back and betray him so quickly?”
“It makes you wonder what the thirty pieces of silver were that Speaker Pelosi promised for this betrayal,” he added, referring to the Democratic House leader.
Biblical accounts suggest that Judas, one of the Twelve Apostles, disclosed Jesus’s location and identity to those who sought his arrest, setting in motion a chain of events that eventually led to Jesus’s crucifixion. This act of disloyalty from a member of Jesus’s inner circle has made Judas’s name shorthand for a traitor.
The House voted 232-197 on Wednesday to impeach Trump for his role in inciting last week’s deadly insurrection at the Capitol, making him the first U.S. officeholder to be impeached twice. The 10 politicians who crossed the aisle for the vote included Reps. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, the third-ranking House Republican.
House Democrats impeached the president “because they hate him and want to do as much damage as they can,” Graham said. The evangelist accused the 10 Republicans who sided with the Democrats of joining in “the feeding frenzy.”
Graham admitted that “January 6 was a low point in [Trump’s] presidency.” But Trump was never a “perfect person,” he said.
“I don’t support or agree with some of the things the President said and did the last couple of...
