Paula White, Newest White House Aide, Is a Uniquely Trumpian Pastor

[Eugene]

Source: New York Times

Paula White, Newest White House Aide, Is a Uniquely Trumpian Pastor

Ms. White, a Florida televangelist, is being brought into the Trump administration to help shore up his evangelical base — even though some Christians consider her beliefs heretical.

By Jeremy W. Peters and Elizabeth Dias
Nov. 2, 2019
Updated 10:30 a.m. ET

Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard M. Nixon turned to Billy Graham, the evangelist so ubiquitous he was known as America’s Preacher. Barack Obama turned to Rick Warren, the author of “The Purpose Driven Life,” which was the best-selling nonfiction hardback in American history after the Bible.

Donald J. Trump has a televangelist from Florida: Paula White, an outsider whose populist brand of Christianity mirrors Mr. Trump’s conquest of the Republican Party. And she is in many ways a quintessentially Trump figure: a television preacher, married three times, who lives in a mansion.

For years he has called her his longtime friend and personal pastor. When he ran for president in 2016, he turned to her to drive his evangelical support. And on Thursday the White House confirmed that Ms. White had officially joined the administration to advise Mr. Trump’s Faith and Opportunity Initiative, which aims to give religious groups more of a voice in government programs devoted to issues like defending religious liberty and fighting poverty.

Her new role gives her a formal seat at the table as Mr. Trump tries to ensure that evangelicals — the foundation of his political base — remain united behind him in his bid to win a second term. As a liaison to Mr. Trump, Ms. White has regularly facilitated meetings for conservative pastors and White House officials, assuring the president’s core constituencies that he addresses their interests.

Among Christians, however, Ms. White is a divisive figure. Her association with the belief that God wants followers to find wealth and health — commonly called the prosperity gospel — is highly unorthodox in the faith and considered heretical by many. And experts on religion in politics said that Ms. White’s ascendancy was unlike any other relationship between a president and a faith adviser in modern times.

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Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/02/us/politics/paula-white-trump.html

[dewsgirl]

1. Lots of rumors about the two of them, going all the way back

to 2017 on Twitter.

[edhopper]

2. She does have that

Stormy Daniels look.

[dewsgirl]

3. Indeed n/t

[Bretton Garcia]

4. Lots of guys; she runs through husbands fast

And money - prosperity - is important to her.

Sometimes she admits she's a sinner.

[guillaumeb]

5. She preaches the prosperity Gospel.

The rich love the prosperity Gospel.

[Permanut]

6. Luke 18:22

When Jesus heard his answer, he said, “There is still one thing you haven’t done. Sell all your possessions and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.”

Paula must have missed Sunday school the day they studied that verse.