Denver Newsroom, Oct 30, 2020 / 04:00 am (CNA).-
For 26 years, Kimberly Hahn homeschooled her six children. But once her youngest reached high school, he said he did not want to be home without peers and lonely.
And so, just two weeks before the homeschool year would have started, Kimberly and her husband Scott found themselves driving their last child to a Catholic boarding school in Pennsylvania.
“When we dropped him off and got home, I said to my husband: ‘Two weeks earlier I thought I was schooling for the year…what do I do now?’”
“And all he said was, ‘Maybe it’s time for politics?’”
The Catholic faith of newly-confirmed Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett has been under intense scrutiny in the weeks leading up to her nomination, and even in years prior. In 2017, during her nomination hearing for the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, Barrett was told by Senator Dianne Feinstein that “the dogma lives loudly” within her, “and that’s of concern.”
But devout Catholic politicians exist at all levels of government, not just at the Supreme Court or in Congress.
CNA spoke with four Catholic politicians at the state or local level about why they chose to run, and how their faith has influenced their political careers.
Politics was a long-time interest of Hahn’s, one that was first piqued when she was 12 and served as an honorary page to her grandmother, who was a state representative in the state of Washington.
“I saw my grandmother in action. It was very inspiring,” she said. Hahn, a Catholic, is now serving her fifth year and second term as Councilwoman at Large for the city of Steubenville, Ohio, which her family has called home for 30 years. Hahn is the only council member elected by the city, while the other six members are elected by their ward.
“When it comes to Steubenville, I feel like there’s only so many times you can say, ‘Well, why doesn’t somebody do something about X, Y, or Z?’ Then I realized if I ran for council, I could do something about that.”
Steubenville is a small, rustbelt city with a population of roughly 18,000, located 33 miles south of Pittsburgh on the banks of the Ohio River. The city is home to Franciscan University of Steubenville, which tends to draw many faithful Catholic students. Hahn said she is hoping her work on the city council will convince more faithful Catholic families to stay in Steubenville.
“I really want to help build up our community in very practical ways, so that more faith filled people want to move there and build up the community of faith,” she said.
And to do that, she added, “you need good housing, you need good roads, you need reasonable bills for water and sewer. You need a good police force. You need an active firefighting force, an ambulance service, good schools so that everybody has the option. Public, Catholic, Christian, homeschooling – all of those are great options in Steubenville.”
The hours a Steubenville city council member puts in during any given week vary incredibly – Hahn said she works anywhere between 10-50 hours per week, depending on what is happening in the city. She gets $100 a week as a stipend; it is not otherwise a paid position.
The flexibility suits Hahn, who is also an author, speaker, podcaster, mother to six and grandmother to 19.
As she spoke with CNA, she was on her way to help care for one of her newborn grandchildren. In a way, she said, she sees her role as a councilwoman as an extension of her motherhood.
“It’s all about public service. It is not about fame and it’s not about money,” she said.
“Really, for me, it’s an extension of my motherhood, not in the sense of coddling, not in the sense of taking people’s responsibility on myself, but in how I communicate the love of Christ in a practical way by helping people with their water bills and their sewer bills and having their streets be cleaner and that kind of thing.”
During her campaign, she knocked on 7,000 doors. She talked to everyone she could across the aisle. “And some people said ‘Well, I’m a lifelong Democrat.’ And I said, ‘That’s okay, because if I get elected, I’m still going to represent you. What are your concerns?’”
One of the primary functions of a city council is to manage the city’s finances.
“Two years ago, for the first time in probably more than 20 years, we balanced the budget in the black,” Hahn said. They balanced in the black last year as well, and seem to be on track to do so this year, “even with all the COVID stress.”
“I love it,” she said of serving on the city council. “I find all of it fascinating. I really do. Reading about cathodic systems, about how often you should paint the inside of your water towers and what it takes to clean a digester or a plant – I actually find all of it fascinating.”
Kevin Duffy is a Catholic husband, father and freelance writer running for reelection for a second four-year term as a trustee of the Williamstown Township in Williamstown, Michigan.
“We’re the legislative arm of the townships. We don’t have day-to-day responsibilities, in terms of operation of township government, but we serve as a voice for constituents and a representative of the constituents. It’s like a smaller version of state legislature or Congress,” he told CNA.
The duties of a township trustee are not too time-consuming, he said. “It’s one or two meetings a month, depending on what time of year it is,” he said. Sometimes it’s more, like during budget review. He receives a yearly stipend of about $5,000 for the position.
Before he ran for a township position, Duffy served in an appointed position on his county Parks and Recreation commission.
After an upbringing that “wasn’t great,” Duffy said he wanted to live a life of fulfillment and purpose for himself and for his family. His job pays the bills, he said, but he finds meaning and purpose in life outside of work – in spending time with his wife and children, in service to the Church, and in serving his community.
“It was…a desire to have an impact in my community. Your local government structure, like your school board or your city council, or in my case, our township board, has more of an impact on what happens in your everyday life than anything that happens beyond that,” he said.
A stark example of that in American life right now has been how each state has responded differently to the coronavirus pandemic, he noted.
“The decisions of our state government have a huge impact, at least here in Michigan, on how our everyday life is during this pandemic.”
Duffy said he is proud that as a township trustee, he helped bring back bus services to Northeast Ingham County.
“(O)ur local public transportation authority decided to cut service to those of us here (in) Northeast Ingham County,” he said.
“But there were people that did depend on it. There were folks that needed that to get downtown for jobs, or they needed that to get to their doctor’s appointments or whatever it may be,” he said.
“So, I wrote an op-ed and submitted to the Lansing State Journal and it got published.”
Within four or five months, transportation authorities had restored at least some of the bus services to the area.
“That was something I was proud of,” he said. “That was the one spot where I was able to help out a little bit.”
When it comes to Catholics being involved in civic life, Duffy said he would point them to Pope St. John Paul II’s oft-repeated phrase, “Be not afraid.”
“It can be a little scary, but we have a responsibility, and we as Catholics understand the idea of the common good, the need to serve everybody,” he said.
“We’re not called to be Republicans. We’re not called to be Democrats. We’re not called to be Libertarian. We’re called to be Christian, and we’re called to be servants of our fellow man, and to perpetuate the common good. I think that’s something that we need to get back to.”
Carlos Santamaria is a lifelong Catholic who is running for a state senate position for California’s 3rd district.
Santamaria had previously served as the vice chair for the Napa County Republican Party, but he said he felt called to do more after attending a leadership conference in Jerusalem last November.
“I spent over a week in the Holy City. And if that isn’t life changing, I don’t know what is,” he told CNA.
He decided to run for state senate, “especially when I came back and I found there were seven Democrats (in the state legislature) that were running unopposed.”
“I just wanted to represent my district. It was a calling. And I see so many anti-religious, anti-Catholic, anti-life (politicians),” he said, that he wanted to help bring about change.
One particular area of focus for Santamaria’s campaign is helping the homeless population. He plans “to use workforce development and career technical education to provide lifelong jobs and permanent housing” to people experiencing homelessness, and “to reintroduce these individuals into society before they go off the cliff into extreme, episodic homelessness, or chronic homelessness,” he said.
He also wants to bolster small businesses, particularly those that are experiencing significant losses due to coronavirus lockdowns and restrictions.
“The current unnecessary Lock Down of our economy and small businesses has devastated many businesses and the lives of families in California,” Santamaria’s website says. “We need leadership that understands and supports small business rather than destroy them.”
Santamaria said he is strongly pro-life and pro-family, and that he plans on standing up for those issues, should he be elected.
“God put me here for a reason. If I can’t express my feelings about life and about the sanctity and the value of life, then I’m not using my talents and this platform the way I should,” he said.
Senator Susan Wagle has been president of the Kansas State Senate for the past eight years, and she was the first woman to hold the post. She has served in positions in both the state house and senate for the past 30 years.
A Catholic convert, Wagle joined the Catholic Church the same year she was first elected to the Kansas House – in 1991.
Wagle said she had been a teacher and a business owner who had not considered running for political office, but both her business colleagues and her husband kept telling her that she would make a great legislator.
There were important issues at the time, Wagle said, including rapidly increasing property taxes. She said she actually tried to convince other people she knew to run for office at the time, but nobody wanted to sacrifice the time.
The thing that kept Wagle up at night was not property taxes, but the late-term abortion clinic in her hometown of Wichita.
“When I’d lay my head down on that pillow at night, I could actually hear those babies cry from the Tiller clinic down the street,” she said.
“I could just hear the slaughter down the street in my mind, and I thought, ‘that has to stop.’”
George Tiller was the abortion doctor at the clinic, and it was one of the only clinics in the world at the time that was performing third trimester, post-viability abortions.
Wagle said she had unwittingly walked into the clinic years prior, earlier in her marriage when she thought she was pregnant. The clinic advertised free pregnancy tests, and these were the days before over-the-counter tests.
As she waited for her test results, she was counseled to get an abortion. Wagle said she noticed a world map on the wall that had yellow pins all over it. When she asked what the pins were for, she was told that they represented the women from all over the world that the clinic had come to the clinic.
“And as years later, I learned that the reason people were traveling here from around the world was because other countries didn’t allow third trimester abortion,” Wagle said.
Wagle was elected to the Kansas House of Representatives in 1991. By 1997, Wagle had helped to pass the Women’s Right to Know Act, which was the first law regulating abortion in the state.
“I carried it. We had a pro-choice house and pro-choice Senate. So I was able to advocate that we need informed consent for a late term abortion, that women should be informed about fetal development, about the procedure. And so I passed the first pro-life bill in the state of Kansas,” she said.
“And since then, we’ve passed more regulations. But when I went into the legislature, the money from the abortion industry financed most of the legislators. So it was a challenge.”
Looking back on her years of service, Wagle said she believes it was a calling from God, and that she has learned much about how to get along with many different people of all backgrounds.
“I’ve learned our faith is based on our relationship with God, and then we bring it to those who surround us,” she said.
“I’ve learned how to work with people who are very different than me, who have different experiences, different perspectives. And you learn how to be very relational and very kind and very optimistic about the founding principles that we’re based on and combined with the faith that we are a people created by God,” she said.
“And there’s no better founding documents in all the world that have allowed the progress and the development of the human spirit than America,” she added.
Wagle, like Justice Barrett, is the mother of seven children – four of her own, and three of her husbands from a previous marriage. She said she sees Barrett as a woman of faith who is living up to her full potential.
“Amy is reaching her full potential. She’s a mom, she’s adopted children, she’s pursued a career, and she has made it very clear that she will interpret the law and not write new laws. And she’s the perfect advocate and voice for this moment in history,” she said, “…and we’ve seen where her faith is not a conflict, but that her faith makes her a very strong, successful woman.”
Wagle said she continuously relied on her own faith throughout her time in office. She said while she set aside specific times for prayer, she would also pray silently during meetings or legislative sessions. Prayers like “Lord, I need you right now” or “Please speak through me” or “Please help me to articulate this thought.”
“It was a constant reaching out for assistance,” she said.
Wagle encouraged Catholics who feel called to serve in public office to pursue that path, if they see changes that need to be made and if the right doors are being opened.
“Don’t hide from public office. We need people who have our values in public office as our advocates. So I would say pursue the path and listen to that still, small voice that says, ‘Go fix those problems.’”
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I’d recommend that these bishops ought to spend the time praying for their own salvation.
Let us recollect that the Shepherds of their flocks the Bishops are called to be more concerned about the welfare of their flock than of their own souls. Taking a moment to pray for the victims, the shooter and first responder is certainly charitable and compassionate and our calling to pray for our enemies and the enemies of God, those that hated Him before they hated us.
Yeah, you’d recommend it. You wouldn’t take the trouble to pray for their salvation yourself, of course. Not your job, is it, deacon? But then, maybe that’s no great loss, if your prayer was only going to run like this: “O God, I give thee thanks that I am not as the rest of men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, as also is this bishop. I fast twice in a week: I give tithes of all that I possess.”
You make no offer to pray for them yourself. Such an offer might be Pharisaical grandstanding — it usually contains at least an element of that — but if you were to follow through with private prayers, some good would come of it.
Nor are you offering fraternal correction. You do not address them directly. I doubt you would say that directly to your own bishop, or even write a letter with a signature and a return address to any of these other bishops.
What you are doing is gossiping. That’s all. Cut it out.
You put “deacon” in front of your name, presumably because you think Holy Orders entitles you to some deference. Well … not really in a forum like this, where the argument should not depend on the genetic fallacy that it matters who said it. Regardless, if you think your office of deacon entitles you to respect, the same logic should require you to think that the office of bishop entitles them to whatevever respect or deference you hope to receive from your title.
If no one can tell you have Holy Orders from the wisdom and holiness of what you write, maybe keep that part to yourself.
I will pray for you, however, Outis.
We are not obligated to respect corrupt leadership, and defending it, which is a consistent pattern for you, is sin on your part.
Absolutely
Fight, fight, fight the progressives outside the Church and inside the Church.
Prayers for all those who were injured or killed yesterday. 🙏
Security breakdown is obvious and as some of the media are reporting this morning, looks bad to the world when your Republican candidate is not adequately/smartly protected, (not to mention those in attendance).
Dear Kevin Roberts.
To bring this sad event into perspective, let’s remember that it is not the radical Left alone who are responsible for political violence. At the storming of the Capital (which was a violent political response which this very man did little to prevent) several people also lost their lives. Violence is never the answer and both parties are quilty of it. We must condemn all violence and not put the blame on one party alone. May the former president recover and conduct a decent campaign and be willing to humbly accept whatever the outcome. May both parties become more honest and moral in their rhetoric and behavior. May we as Americans hold the next president accountable for his actions and demand transparent and just leadership. May God bless America.
“We must condemn all violence and not put the blame on one party alone.”
A disgraceful and inappropriate post. Republicans aren’t shooting their opponents.
Is it disgraceful and inappropriate to condemn violence and call for both parties to be accountable? How can we ignore those on the Right such as the Proud Boys and the KKK etc. etc. who openly support Trump? Just look at their current posts and tweets that are calling for war and promoting violence! It’s Not all one sided. Both parties have drifted into the extreme. There is little if any honest dialogue, none seem willing to compromise. Our form of government welcomes diversity of opinion and dialogue resulting in compromise and cooperative dialogue . We need to understand and respect each other and get along. Nothing is gained by broad brushing and labeling others. We need love, tolerance and respect which is becoming to our Christian witness.
“… the Proud Boys and the KKK…”
I think all reasonable people lament and denounce the endless rioting and the hundreds of millions of dollars in destructions and damage caused by the Proud Boys and the KKK during the riots of 2020. (Ahem.)
The idea that because Party A (Dems) have become incredibly radical, amoral, and immoral means that Party B (GOP) has surely done the same in equal measure is both stupid and contrary to data/reason. The problem with the GOP, in many ways, is that is simply does what the Dems did 5 to 10 years ago rather than following actual objective principles. Hence, the part of stupid. And the reality of a “uniparty” in so many ways. But it mustn’t blind anyone to the fact that the Democratics, as a Party, have completely sold out to the culture of death, insanity, moral depravity, mutilation, etc.
James Connor,
Your “perspective” referencing the storming of the Capitol lacks perspective…
The House Select Committee formed to investigate January 6, 2001—why did it reject the request for a broad perspective to consider escalating events preceding that single date? The street riots in other urban areas in 2000? In Minneapolis and Portland, and in Seattle where several city blocks, including a police precinct station, were occupied for almost a month? Several shots fired and one 16-year-old boy hit fatally. Have a look: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Hill_Occupied_Protest
Would Jan. 6 have been even thinkable without these incompetently-handled lead-in events?
I clearly recall, at the beginning in Seattle, Mayor Durkan at the site (and broadcast live on local radio) likening the event to a neighborly “block party,” and then pleading, “we gave you free college education, what more do you want?” A reference to Seattle’s recent taxpayer-funded program for free junior college education. Compassionate vote buying, and a small-scale version of forgiving student loan debt?
“What more do you want”? The swan song from a therapeutic/value-neutral education system and Provider State?
So, about your “perspective”: there are more layers to this onion. Including this recent clip regarding responsibility: https://x.com/OversightAdmn/status/1800207258514575730
Dear Peter. I doubt that we will ever know what really happened at the storming of the Capitol, but we do have numerous tweets and recordings of Mr. Trump which call for vigilante violence against those who have parted ways with him or he considers his enemy. Such as arresting and locking up former President Obama, the Clintons, former vice president, Michael Pence, President Joe Biden and many others. Many people have been intimidated. Some politicians such as Mitt Romney have publicly stated that they got out of politics because of threats against their families . These are all instances of dirty politics, and we must demand better. The dirty politics of the past pale in comparison to what is happening now. Watergate Looks like a fraternity prank in comparison to the physical violence we are experiencing today. Both parties are guilty of giving their tacit support to violent groups who support their agendas. It is not at all one sided. We must demand better we must demand accountability and transparency. My prayer is that the former president humbles himself and is drawn close to the Lord and if re-elected becomes an exemplary leader who draws the country together. I pray that he respects the rule of law and the limitations of his elected office. I pray that he openly condemns all of the violent groups who support him as well as those on the left. I pray that he will welcome dialogue and be able to respect the opponents views without resorting to character assassination. In short I pray that he may become a humble and holy man who is greatly used by the Lord. May God bless America and him.
Meanwhile, I’ll pray that you might develop the willingness to see beyond your DNC talking points and see the situation, and your contributions to it, more clearly. Don’t worry about Trump. Repent of your own sins.
James. I agree with your assessment of our polarized politics. As you point out, there is dirty politics on both sides. However, I take issue with Trump ever becoming humbled or admitting guilt for anything. “The buck stops THERE”. His enormous ego prevents him. But you and I must continue to pray for miracles. We have no choice.
Thank you.
No political figure was assassinated on Jan 6th. The people who gathered to support President Trump were peacefully assembled.
The folks who dressed up in costumes and entered the Capitol, which is in fact a public building that exists to serve the American citizens, had emerged from a QAnon rabbit hole. I know a few people who follow that conspiracy narrative and they can barely perform their daily tasks competently, much less organize an insurrection.
I think there was a combination of easily led, angry citizens and some orchestration by interests who wanted to smear Trump and his supporters. It was a perfect way to accomplish that. If Donald Trump had been a political insider he might have seen it coming.
WOW! Your glasses? On Jan 6 several people died. “Stop the Steal” protesters Kevin Greeson, 55, and Benjamin Phillips, 50, both died of cardiovascular disease. Rosanne Boyland died “in a crush of fellow rioters during their attempt to fight through a police line. Ashli Babbitt shot while entering a broken Capitol window. Officer Brian Sicknick “passed away due to injuries sustained while on-duty.” The report stated that Sicknick “was injured while physically engaging with protesters. He returned to his division office and collapsed. Four suicides: Four other police officers committed suicide in the days and months after the riot. In-your-face!. Crazy Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson echoed “the rioters were only a group of tourists HAVING FUN”. AND, he was there!!!
Evidence Trump, Guiliani, Bannon and Eastman were directly initiating the invasion…
Trump: “Go down to the Capitol and FIGHT LIKE hell. While reclining to the WH for 2 hrs, Meadows received many calls to have Trump end the attempted coup, (even his family!!!), he refused. Then, after the building was trashed, Trump arose to say “Go home now, we LOVE YOU!!!
Bannon’s podcast and on TV. Jan. 5th. “Fasten your seat belts. All hell is going to break loose tomorrow”.
At the elipse…
Giuliani Call for ‘Trial by Combat’ Before Trump Mob Broke Into Capitol.
Eastman: Even after Jan 6 Eastman was trying to convince the public that the 2020 election was fraudlent. Iroinically prior to the coup told Trump two days before the insurrection that his scheme to keep himself in power was against the law.
All three begged Trump for a pardon!!!
Some other lawyer minions who admitted guilt…
Kenneth Chesebro the architect of the false elector scheme
Jenna Ellis, pleads guilty in Georgia.
Sidney Powell who was restricted from Trump meetings because she was “crazy”.
All factchecked. Hope this helps.
This rant is simply insane and is a good example of the very kind of delusional thinking that prompted the assassin’s attempts this weekend. Shame on you.
Mr. Morgan, a riot is not a coup nor an insurrection.
I’ll be glad when Mr Mr Trump is reelected, please God, and we can put these false narratives aside.
It’s a free country and you can vote for whomever you choose but we shouldn’t be going down these rabbit holes forever.
“On January 7, 2021, a United States Capitol Police (USCP) officer, Brian Sicknick, died after suffering two strokes the day after he responded to an attack on the U.S. Capitol.” ~ Wikipedia, citing a Washington Post article.
“All factchecked.” … badly.
Political violence has come from both sides of the political aisle. But currently 95% of the violence emanates from the Far Left. January 6 is the fault of the right, compared to the George Floyd riots, Antifa riots, Antifa taking over entire cities like Portland and Seattle, and the violent Pro-Hamas protests on US campuses, all of which are the fault of the Left.
I’m afraid that blood may flow from BOTH sides soon. BOTH are equally dangerous. It’s the nazis against to communists all over again. Different names but same ideologies.
Republicans are not Nazis. There is no logical or historical basis for that claim, which means that you are either profoundly ignorant or outright lying, both of which are unacceptable from the standpoint of basic Catholic teaching.
You are not the Pope. You don’t speak for the Church.
Violence is mostly from the GOP, and that the catholic church is tolerating this is unbelievable. Jesus Christ would be be very ashamed of the American catholic church.
Pope Francis’s view of this whole abortion and LGBTQ issue is exactly how Jesus would look at it.
“Violence is mostly from the GOP…”
Which branch? The Antifa-GOP? The BLM-GOP? The Planned Parenthood-GOP? The Abortion-Without-Limits-GOP? The Trans-Mutilation-GOP? The Illegal-“Immigrants”-Who-Commit-Violence-GOP?
So many choices. (Sarcasm off.)
At our Mass this morning not a moment of silence nor prayers for the victims, shooter certainly not for Trump even in the prayers of the people. No parting comments after the dismissal. When I asked Father about the lack of compassion, he dismissed the attempted assassination as an “incident” then hurried away.
EWTN definitely mentioned it right away.
Does anyone really care about what are essentially automatic canned replies expressing shock and outrage tweets, of outrage so sincere it does not put off eating breakfast and forgotten the moment SEND is pressed….I am so sick of posturing by “leaders” and their PR staffs. But such posturing makes up the majority of “news” today, a long string of blather statements.
The unfortunate attack on former President Trump is a sign of the toxic political polarization evident in the divisive rhetoric, seemingly the new norm.
The evidence is being accumulated, but it is reported that the weapon used was the military-style AR15, much like my miltary issue, the powerful M16.
We must pray that honest and freedom loving American poeple will become more involved in helping an effort to reunite our delicate republic. A start is joining an organization in your area using the “bully pulpit” provided. And, contact your political reps.
When Trump was in the hospital a major event happenned. President Biden called to offer his concern and whished him a full recovery. Trump THANKED Biden and told him that “the heat of political rhetoric needed to be lowered”. Biden agreed and made an appeal to the public from the Oval Office.
It appears that the current divisivness began when Trump refused to provide a peaceful transfer of power and began a maddening campaign to overthrow the election.
I hope the heat will cool quickly. Suprisingly or not, they are only providing ONE thermometer .
All well and good, as in yada yada yada, ssdd, etc.
But let’s not forget that ‘catholic’ Joe Biden is quoted as recently saying this to his donors: “it’s time to put Trump in the bullseye.” (source – Sean Fitzpatrick Crisis Magazine July 15, 2024)
Who is dangerous?
And then Biden, in expressing “regret” for that comment, STILL turned right around and called the opposition (backed by about half the population) a “threat to democracy”….that is, not voting for Biden and his party, and voting for anybody else, is undemocratic…
Biden’s short-term memory isn’t the best, and his long-term habit is inflammatory speech.
Supposedly, the man who investigated him for mishandling classified information declined to prosecute on the grounds that he could not prove mens rea for a person with such significant memory problems. Likely we cannot expect him to be entirely responsible for his speech now either.
Has Pope Francis issued a personal message about the attempt and directly to President Trump? A message from the Vatican press office is not enough
Liked what MrsCracker & Terrence posted.
Today heard a solid podcast that shooter Crux couldn’t have acted alone with supporting details& then a scary but true-sounding podcast with video of ASST FBI DIRECTOR Brittany (?) sitting BEHIND TRUMP at Sat’s Butler, PA assassination attempt. She’s on camera using her cell phone but looking toward shooter BEFORE he shot! Then she doesn’t freak out & slips down behind her sign- unlike everyone else! She calculatedly then took photo of Trump on floor!
Then a demonic George Soros post on VOZ shows their chilling picture “prophecy” of a bullet in glass next to $47 in cash (-presidents on bills) ! Trump would be President #47!!
And let’s recall that the Left lied “prophesying” again claiming that “Trump would take revenge on his political ‘enemies’ after his election”. But then I realized that all of the “FBI-protected” Leftist criminals would then BE investigated by actual TRUTHFUL law-abiding Conservative PROSECUTORS, with FAIR judges! Optic that they’d be “innocent victims”! Ugh!
PRAYING for WISDOM for our citizens & GOD’S WILL 🙏