U.S. Republican presidential
candidate Donald Trump is 'not Christian' because of his views on immigration,
Pope Francis said on his way back to
Rome from Mexico.
The Pope said, however, he did not
want to advise American Catholics on whether or not to vote for Trump.
Trump fired back immediately,
telling a packed room at a coastal South Carolina country club: 'For a
religious leader to question a person's faith is disgraceful.'
The Pope's dramatic intervention
came in a freewheeling conversation with reporters on his flight back from a
visit to Mexico.
Trump's Furious
Response
'If and when the Vatican is attacked by ISIS, which
as everyone knows is ISIS's ultimate trophy, I can promise you that the Pope
would have only wished and prayed that Donald Trump would have been President
because this would not have happened.
ISIS would have been eradicated unlike what is
happening now with our all talk, no action politicians.
The Mexican government and its leadership has made
many disparaging remarks about me to the Pope, because they want to continue to
rip off the United States, both on trade and at the border, and they understand
I am totally wise to them.
The Pope only heard one side of the story - he
didn't see the crime, the drug trafficking and the negative economic impact the
current policies have on the United States. He doesn't see how Mexican
leadership is outsmarting President Obama and our leadership in every aspect of
negotiation.
For a religious leader to question a person's faith
is disgraceful. I am proud to be a Christian and as President I will not allow
Christianity to be consistently attacked and weakened, unlike what is happening
now, with our current President.
No leader, especially a religious leader, should
have the right to question another man's religion or faith. They are using the
Pope as a pawn and they should be ashamed of themselves for doing so,
especially when so many lives are involved and when illegal immigration is so
rampant.'
This is insane
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