'During that sham trial, Pontius Pilate afforded more rights to Jesus than Democrats afforded this president in this process,' Congressman Barry Loudermilk argued Wednesday.
Responding to Loudermilk's and other Republican representatives' defenses of Trump, Jordan expressed disbelief during a segment of MSNBC's"After so much nonsense, after hearing Donald Trump compared to, you know, Jesus being nailed to a cross and tortured, after hearing Republicans compare Democrats to Joe McCarthy, Joseph Stalin, to Pearl Harbor," she said with a laugh,"it had gotten simply so ridiculous.
"How are you gonna feel at your candlelight service on Christmas Eve when you actually are dealing with Christmas, that you've been so upset about Christ being , but then suddenly you've elevated Donald Trump to suffer more than Jesus Christ?" the analyst wondered."It's just kind of an interesting conundrum for those evangelicals who put themselves behind that line of argument.""When taken in the context of which it was given, my comments were not sacrilegious at all. Some have claimed that I was comparing the President to Jesus, but that was clearly not the case. My comparison was with the process, not the people.
President Donald Trump leaves his Merry Christmas Rally at the Kellogg Arena on December 18 in Battle Creek, MichiganDespite the defenses presented by Republicans, the House of Representatives voted to impeach the president on Wednesday evening. Both articles of impeachment passed the Democratic-controlled chamber of Congress along party lines, with nearly identical votes.
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