Evangelical Leader Taunts 'Chump' Trump With 'Golden Showers' Dig

huffpost ^ | Nov 27, 2023 | Lee Moran

[Theophilus]

Trump tells Iowans he’s ‘not into golden showers’ as he revisits Steele dossier New York Post Nov 20 Former President Donald Trump reminded a crowd of Iowa voters he is “not into golden showers” over the weekend as he denounced former UK spy Christopher Steele’s dossier in an attempt to rally Republicans to vote for him in the caucuses. Speaking in Fort Dodge on Saturday, Trump recalled how his wife Melania reacted to the news of the since-discredited claim that he had prostitutes urinate on a bed in a Moscow hotel room. “Actually, that one she didn’t believe because she said, ‘He’s a germaphobe, he’s not into that. He’s not into golden showers’ as they called it,” recounted the 77-year-old Trump. “I don’t like that idea. No, I didn’t.” The 45th president then went on to say he thought news of the rumor “would be a big problem” and that “I was going to have a rough night, but that one she was very good on.”

[tennmountainman]

It would be delicious if Van Der Platts was caught doing his secretary.

[Fresh Wind]

the “love” of money.

You are correct...1 Timothy 6:10. Thank you!

And, of course, the love of power goes hand in hand with the love of money.

[Texas Fossil]

HuffPo?

Here?

[Maris Crane]

I have noticed that:

TRUMP DOESN’T LIE.

Everything he says, eventually, turns out to be true.

[MayflowerMadam]

“It’s been said that money is the root of all evil,”

I guess some people say that, but if they’re trying to quote the Bible they’re wrong. It’s “the LOVE of money”.

It seems like this guy must have that love of money, like so many of the mouthy attention whore preachers. They’re not really evangelical. (”according to the teaching of the gospel or the Christian religion”. Christians don’t act that way.) The things they do and say don’t really fit. The word is thrown out there by people who don’t know what it means.

[Bratch]

Ron DeSantis Paid Evangelical “Indulgency Fee” for Bob Vander Plaats’ Iowa Endorsement

November 27, 2023 | Sundance | 171 Comments

I was going to try and write about this last week; however, my previously scheduled research time in Budapest, Hungary, was more critically time-urgent and stunningly more valuable.  Despite the DHS anxiety and fingerprinting upon return, I will be sharing those incredible details in a password protected post to come shortly. Yes, I am pushing the envelope.

That said, Ad Rem made note of the Vander Plaats revelation {SEE HERE} as it highlights perfectly the fraud that is the Ron DeSantis campaign

Yes, Ron DeSantis paid evangelical Iowa leader Bob Vander Plaats a $95,000 “indulgency fee” for his endorsement.  However, providing even more sunlight upon the nature of the U.S political apparatus, the Vander Plaats payment was not the first, or even second or third.   The club system, to construct the illusion of choice, long predates the current political race and carries multiple “indulgency fees” that are paid by professionally Republican candidates.

2011 – DAVENPORT, Iowa – An Iowa Christian conservative leader who bestowed his highly sought-after endorsement on presidential candidate Rick Santorum this week is now at the center of a controversy over whether he asked for cash in exchange for his public support.

Less than 48-hours after receiving the backing of Bob Vander Plaats, the head of the prominent evangelical group The Family Leader, Santorum disclosed that the prominent Iowan told him he needed money to make the most out of the endorsement.

And sources familiar with talks between the conservative heavyweight and representatives from several of the Republican presidential campaigns went a step further, describing Vander Plaats’ tactics as corrupt.

[…]  ABC News has learned that Vander Plaats tried to solicit money for his endorsement during the last presidential cycle too. A former staffer for Mitt Romney’s 2008 presidential bid who is currently unaffiliated with a campaign said Vander Plaats came to them seeking money for his backing if he supported the former Massachusetts governor.

“He wanted to be paid,” the former staffer said. “He was clearly looking for a paycheck. There was a conversation about him getting a title, but being a paid consultant was much more important.”

The aide said they offered him a title, but never seriously considered paying Vander Plaats. He ended up endorsing Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee over Romney. (read more)

Why beat this dead horse and bring it up again now?

This is where honest, decent, hard-working American voters need to continue the awakening and realize the nature of our assembly, THE LAST REFUGE, where the truth has no agenda and doesn’t care about our comfort -or lack thereof- in discovering it.

Jeff Roe is the 2024 head of the Ron DeSantis Never Back Down SuperPAC.  Jeff Roe was the previous head of the 2016 Ted Cruz campaign.

Now, how do you suppose Ted Cruz received the Vander Plaats endorsement in 2016?

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A prominent Iowa evangelical leader has endorsed Ted Cruz for president, a coup for the Texas senator, who has heavily courted churches and pastors in an effort to win the state’s leadoff Republican caucuses.

Bob Vander Plaats announced his endorsement Thursday in Des Moines, calling Cruz a “serious leader for serious times.” (more)

Does the reality of the ’12, ’16. ’23, party apparatus and the illusion of GOPe choice start to make us wonder how far back this control game actually goes.

Does the John McCain vote to retain Obamacare in 2017 contrast perfectly with the John McCain ’08 campaign?

Does the reality of the DeSantis operation built on fraud, pretense, manipulation and astroturf, take on a new clarity?

Once we see the strings… we start to question the visibility of the marionettes.

I will say it again for the final time…  Ron DeSantis is a controlled UniParty operative who left congress in 2018 to run for Florida governor, specifically because the Sea Island plan to stop Donald Trump in ’24 goes all the way back to that 2018 origination.

Spygate, the impeachment schemes, COVID-19, etc were all supported by the Republican wing of the UniParty vulture.

The illusion of choice has always been just that, an illusion of choice.

[Fresh Wind]

Thanks, but I corrected my mistake in post 23 above.

[Ge0ffrey]

The love of money, not money.

[Ann Archy]

THERE WAS NEVER ANY GOLDEN SHOWERS WITH TRUMP!!!

[Quentin Quarantino]

How very Christian of him, the good pastor.

[linedrive]

Has anyone listened to Vander Plaats address this issue? Does it make a difference to anyone?
I have actually paid attention to what he has said and stands for over the years; and I am not a citizen of Iowa. I want to believe all these comments and ad hominem attacks are not true Trump supporters- only chaos agents supplied to the process.
I can accept the anger people feel over the stolen election; I feel it also. I have said it before: Trump’s ‘March to the Sea’ on the Republican Party will leave no viable options to the ‘undecided’ voters.
Roger Stone calling Ron DeSantis’ wife a c**t? Trump calling Vander Plaats taking money for personal enrichment - he supposedly was selling his choice for a million dollars 12 years ago, why only 95,000 now?
Just like Kavanaugh claims, bring the charges if it is a crime!

Whether it is the truth or not; Putin is positioning ( and has been for years) himself as the defender of the Christian faith. He routinely uses the US as an example of a godless nation. The comments supporting Trump play into that; just as the DEI actions of the administrative state do the same. Hopefully, Trump will not be in jail running for office, voters can somehow overcome their distaste of Trump adding that he may be a felon, the election rigging is dealt with aggressively on election month, and their is a Republican construct to support Trump. The art of the deal needs to be in play for the nomination; that is not happening.

[dfwgator]

“Cause Jesus he knows me, and he knows I’m right....”

[Strident]

What a testimony. clearly spirit-led. The spirit though is likely ethanol.

[OKSooner]

For an evangelical Christian he seems to know a lot about golden showers... whatever that term means...

[dfwgator]

Maybe he's a fan of The Circle Jerks...

[daniel1212]

Influential Iowa evangelical leader Bob Vander Plaats

HuffPo? Here?

HuffPo I know, but Bob Vander Plaats, who is he?

[daniel1212]

Putin is positioning ( and has been for years) himself as the defender of the Christian faith.

While he outlaws them acting as evangelicals should. And Ukraine has its own corruption.

[BobL]

“For an evangelical Christian he seems to know a lot about golden showers... whatever that term means...”

Cruz did the same thing in 2016 - using surrogates to do the dirty work.

[Fresh Wind]

You are now the third person who has told me that. I get the message.