Donald Trump Says He Reads His Bible More Than Anyone Else
Earlier this week, while delivering one of his now-standard stinging critiques of Secretary of State John Kerry, Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump made a comment that raised a lot of eyebrows.
Even among his most loyal supporters.
While speaking at Regent University on Wednesday, Trump criticized Kerry’s involvement in the Iran Nuclear Deal, which he called “a disaster.” He suggested the secretary of state hadn’t read his book, The Art of the Deal, and then took his criticism a bit further.
“Probably didn’t read the Bible, either,” he said.
Kerry, a Catholic and a former presidential candidate himself, has frequently talked about his faith and how it informs his decision-making process. He has also said the Bible helped him to “understand the purpose of suffering.”
During a 2013 interview with ABC News’ Martha Raddatz, he explained that understanding helped to restore his faith.
“You read the letters of St. Paul and you read other parts of the Scripture and it talks about suffering and it talks about adversity,” he said. “And I sort of began to put that in a better place. Not see it so much as, you know, a determinative God who makes every decision for everything that happens. But rather creates a framework within which we’re responsible for making things happen.”
Wednesday’s reference to the Bible wasn’t Trump’s most eye-popping of the week, though. The day before, during a campaign rally, he told the audience: “Nobody reads the Bible more than me.”
Yes, he actually said that.
