Supporters Believe ‘Hand Of God’ Saved Trump

“GOD protected President Trump yesterday,” House Speaker Mike Johnson, who has been a large proponent of Christian nationalist ideology, claimed successful a post connected X.

Trump himself echoed these claims successful a station connected Truth Social: “It was God unsocial who prevented the unthinkable from happening,” the erstwhile president said.

But successful the days pursuing the shooting, a overmuch broader scope of Trump supporters began to invoke the thought that Trump had been protected by God to present a Christian America..

“If it isn't evident capable who God wants to win,” YouTuber and boxer Jake Paul, who recently invited Trump to 1 of his fights, posted connected X. “When you effort and termination God's angels and saviors of the satellite it conscionable makes them bigger.”

On Sunday evening, connected the eve of the RNC, Trump supporters held a supplication vigil extracurricular the lawsuit venue. In interviews with 18 RNC delegates connected Monday, Reuters found that each but 2 believed God had a manus to play successful Trump’s survival.

Many people, including Trump’s ain lad Eric Trump, his former advisor Roger Stone, and endless conspiracy accounts connected X, labeled the flimsy crook of the caput that caused the slug to graze Trump’s receptor alternatively than termination him arsenic a infinitesimal of “divine intervention.”

In galore cases, these claims were accompanied by what look to beryllium AI-generated images of Trump with Jesus Christ lasting down him with his hands connected Trump’s shoulders. Lara Trump, the erstwhile president’s daughter-in-law and co-chair of the RNC, was among those sharing specified pictures. Others claimed that an American emblem flapping successful the breeze supra the signifier wherever Trump spoke resembled the signifier taken by an angel.

Charlie Kirk, the laminitis of blimpish activistic radical Turning Point USA, posted connected X that helium believed God had intervened to support Trump and the aboriginal of the US.

“Consider for a infinitesimal that Donald Trump, and the fortunes of the full country, mightiness person been saved contiguous by a gust of upwind that pushed that slug ever truthful slightly,” Kirk wrote connected X. “The Holy Spirit successful scripture is often associated with a gust of wind. God's manus is connected Donald Trump.”

As good arsenic claims of divine intervention, galore Trump supporters looked for value successful the mundane details of the shooting.

“The bullets were fired astatine 6:11pm,” far-right troll and Pizzagate promoter Jack Posobiec wrote connected X, adding: “Ephesians 6:11.” which says “Put connected the full armor of God, that you whitethorn beryllium capable to basal against the schemes of the devil.”

While not specifically Christian nationalist, the broader thought that God had intervened successful events was besides promoted by spiritual influencers connected X, Instagram and Telegram highlighting prophetic claims made months agone that appeared to accurately foretell what happened connected Saturday.

Earlier this month, for example, a self-described visionary, Jelaila Starr, predicted connected a YouTube amusement that determination would beryllium a failed assassination effort connected Trump successful July oregon August. “She said that it would beryllium a replay of galactic past erstwhile humanity lived successful its 2nd large experimentation successful the Pleiadian constellation,” the big of the show, Michael Salla, wrote this week.

Separately, a fig of pro-Trump accounts besides flagged a video from April wherever an evangelical “prophet” claimed to person had a imagination astir an assassination effort connected Trump, wherever the slug passed truthful adjacent to his caput that it shattered his eardrum.

What was noticeably absent from each of these claims of God protecting Trump was immoderate notation to Corey Comperatore, the erstwhile occurrence main who was killed by a slug meant for Trump portion utilizing his assemblage to shield his household astatine the rally.

This, Jones said, speaks to the unsafe divisions that effect from claiming that God was protecting Trump but not anyone else.

“The information with specified ex station facto theology for a antiauthoritarian nine is that it is possibly the astir almighty root of confirmation bias and polarization: It attributes Providential enactment to contingent events, but lone if they conform to preconceived beliefs,” Jones said. “It’s yet a crass and arrogant declaration that God is connected our side, that God protects our candidates and our interests but not others.”