Was Donald Trump ’s survival an act of God? In the wake of the shocking assassination attempt on the former president in Pennsylvania Saturday evening, many prominent Republicans — and even a shortlister for Trump’s vice president — are crediting divine intervention for saving Trump’s life. Florida Senator Marco Rubio , widely regarded as a potential 2024 veep choice, posted on X for example: “God protected President Trump.” God protected President Trump pic.
twitter.com/96UKVdjF3A Trump — despite his sinful history as a thrice married felon who paid off a porn star and has been held civilly responsible for sexual abuse — is seen, paradoxically, among many in the MAGA base as a flawed actor that the Christian God is using to divine ends in American politics. House Speaker Mike Johnson , himself a zealot who has compared his role in government to Moses, declared on X that “God protected Trump.
” Johnson claimed the intervention was “just” like how God had once “miraculously protected” George Washington from a gunfire during an ambush in Pennsylvania in 1755. Dan Patrick, the Lt. Gov.
of Texas, had gotten the God-saved-Trump ball rolling just an hour or so after the shooting near Butler, Pennsylvania. Patrick is a far-right lawmaker and key player in billionaire Tim Dunn’s Christian nationalist takeover in Lone Star politics. In a post on X, Patrick shared a text he said he sent to Trump: “By the slightest turn of your head in a mere microsecond,.