{"id":1788,"date":"2022-04-15T20:43:55","date_gmt":"2022-04-16T01:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/?p=1788"},"modified":"2022-04-15T22:35:57","modified_gmt":"2022-04-16T03:35:57","slug":"trump-claims-hes-the-most-honest-human-being-being-perhaps-that-god-ever-created-during-rally-in-north-carolina-video-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/15\/trump-claims-hes-the-most-honest-human-being-being-perhaps-that-god-ever-created-during-rally-in-north-carolina-video-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump claims he&#8217;s the &#8216;most honest human being being, perhaps, that God ever created&#8217; during rally in North Carolina, video shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cs-blog-content\">\n<p>Self-professed Christians must be committed to <strong>truth<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the first part of our spiritual &#8220;armor&#8221; (Eph 6:14)<\/li>\n<li>It is intertwined with the person of Jesus (John 14:6)<\/li>\n<li>It is the foundation of true freedom (John 8:32)<\/li>\n<li>It is one of the first things we should focus our thoughts on (Phil 4:8)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What do you think of former President Trump&#8217;s claim? \u00a0True or Not True?\u00a0 Is this something he should be joking about given his ongoing advocacy of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election which, to date, has lost more than 60 cases in the courts either on the merits or due to lack of standing?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/625297ac4856b70019031e14?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Former President Donald Trump smiles as he speaks at a rally on Saturday, April 9, 2022, in Selma, North Carolina.\" \/>Former President Donald Trump smiles as he speaks at a rally on Saturday, April 9, 2022, in Selma, North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Seward\/AP Photo<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Former President Donald Trump spoke at a rally in Selma, North Carolina on Saturday evening.<\/li>\n<li>He told the crowd that he thinks he&#8217;s the &#8220;most honest human being that, perhaps, God ever created.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Trump made 30,573 false or misleading claims during his presidency, according to The Washington Post.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Speaking at a rally in Selma, North Carolina on Saturday evening, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/trump-ketanji-brown-jackson-disrespectful-gop-senators-supreme-court-2022-3\">former President Donald Trump<\/a> claimed that he is one of the most honest human beings to walk on earth.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve got to be the cleanest sheriff,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;I think I&#8217;m the most honest human being, perhaps, that God ever created.&#8221; There were ripples of laughter from his supporters as he said it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2014Acyn (@Acyn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mims\/statuses\/1512944767692259328\">April 10, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Trump commented in reference to a story in which a friend supposedly complimented him on how &#8220;clean&#8221; his administration had been, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/trump-says-hes-most-honest-human-being-god-has-ever-created-1696687\">Newsweek.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You know, you&#8217;ve been investigated years and years, millions and millions of pages of documents, they found nothing,&#8221; the friend said, according to Trump, per Newsweek.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been investigated by the\u00a0Democrats more the Billy the Kid, Jessie James, and Al Capone combined,&#8221; Trump told the crowd, Newsweek reported.<\/p>\n<p>Trump became the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/trump-impeached-second-time-house-of-representatives-capitol-riots-2021-1\">first president to be impeached twice.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/graphics\/politics\/trump-claims-database\/\">The Washington Post&#8217;s Fact Checker database<\/a>, he made 30,573 false or misleading claims during his presidency.<\/p>\n<p>He told 21 lies a day on average, per The Post.<\/p>\n<p>During his time as president, Trump also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/donald-trump-conspiracy-theories-2016-5\">promoted several conspiracy theories,<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Notably, in the aftermath of the 2020 election, Trump pushed the ironically named &#8220;Big Lie.&#8221; The former president has insisted that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him, but a series of legal challenges have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/trump-campaign-lawsuits-election-results-2020-11\">failed to make any headway in the courts.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Top US intelligence and law enforcement agencies have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/trumps-false-claims-debunked-2020-election-jan-6-riot-2022-01-06\/\">concluded<\/a> that there was no widespread voter fraud.<\/p>\n<p>Trump spoke in North Carolina in support of several GOP candidates, including Rep. Madison Cawthorn and Senate candidate Ted Budd.<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/north-carolina-selma-rally-trump-most-honest-human-god-created-2022-4\">Business Insider<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This content was originally published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/north-carolina-selma-rally-trump-most-honest-human-god-created-2022-4\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-professed Christians must be committed to truth: It is the first part of our spiritual &#8220;armor&#8221; (Eph 6:14) It is intertwined with the person of Jesus (John 14:6) It is the foundation of true freedom (John 8:32) It is one of the first things we should focus our thoughts on (Phil 4:8) What do you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8kHU7-sQ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thelight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/gettyimages-1162567836.jpg?fit=1200%2C630","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1788"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1795,"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788\/revisions\/1795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}