Episcopal Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde claimed on Tuesday that she felt obligated to stand “counter” to President Donald Trump.
Budde made an appearance on CNN — just hours after she’d used the pulpit at an inaugural prayer service to scold Trump for failing to embrace radical gender ideology and unchecked illegal immigration — where she told host Erin Burnett that she’d intended her message to appear as though she was “speaking directly” to the president at that moment.
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🚨 Leftwing activist bishop Mariann Edgar Budde, who turned prayer service sermon into woke lecture, says she wanted to “counter” Trump. pic.twitter.com/Pio1BuRGRr
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“I was looking at the president because I was speaking directly to him,” she said. “I was also, frankly, as you do in every sermon, speaking to everyone who is listening…
