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At The Vatican Today Pope Francis Gave President Trump The Gospel…Of Climate Change

Pope Francis gave the U.S. president a copy of his 2015 encyclical calling for urgent, drastic cuts in fossil-fuel emissions after a half-hour meeting.

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May 24, 2017

Geoffrey Grider

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Pope Francis gave President Trump a copy of his 2015 encyclical calling for urgent, drastic cuts in fossil-fuel emissions after a half-hour meeting in his private study

“And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.” Revelation 17:5,6 (KJV)

If Pope Francis was a Bible believing Christian, he would have spoke to President Trump about his soul and his eternal destiny. If Pope Francis was a Bible believing Christian, he would have given him the gospel of the grace of God as first preached by the apostle Paul. But Pope Francis is neither a Bible believer nor a Christian, so what is he? He is a king over the country of Vatican City, and when the president arrived he did what any other worldly king would do. He talked politics, and the gospel of Climate Change in particular.

Pope Francis joined an international chorus urging Donald Trump to meet U.S. commitments on climate change in talks at the Vatican Wednesday

Pope Francis gave President Trump a copy of his 2015 encyclical calling for urgent, drastic cuts in fossil-fuel emissions after a half-hour meeting in his private study.

Francis’s choice of gift suggests he is adding his voice to those pressing Trump not to renege on the Paris accord, which is the cornerstone of global efforts to limit climate change. The Vatican said in a statement that the talks focused on international affairs and the promotion of peace, with particular emphasis on health care, education and immigration.

The king of Vatican City receives the President of the United States:

Here is the Whore of Babylon in all her devilish pomposity. Enjoy!

10 Things You May Not Know About the Vatican

The Vatican and Vatican City are many things to many people, but God has a rather unique name for it. The Bible calls the Roman Catholic Vatican system the “Whore of Babylon”, and describes her in graphic detail in Revelation 17 and 18 in your King James Bible.

So here are 10 fun facts that you should know about the “mother of harlots” that is the Vatican.

1. Vatican City is the smallest country in the world. Encircled by a 2-mile border with Italy, Vatican City is an independent city-state that covers just over 100 acres, making it one-eighth the size of New York’s Central Park. Vatican City is governed as an absolute monarchy with the pope at its head. The Vatican mints its own euros, prints its own stamps, issues passports and license plates, operates media outlets and has its own flag and anthem. One government function it lacks: taxation. Museum admission fees, stamp and souvenir sales, and contributions generate the Vatican’s revenue.
2. St. Peter’s Basilica sits atop a city of the dead, including its namesake’s tomb. A Roman necropolis stood on Vatican Hill in pagan times. When a great fire leveled much of Rome in A.D. 64, Emperor Nero, seeking to shift blame from himself, accused the Christians of starting the blaze. He executed them by burning them at the stake, tearing them apart with wild beasts and crucifying them. Among those crucified was St. Peter—disciple of Jesus Christ, leader of the Apostles and the first bishop of Rome—who was supposedly buried in a shallow grave on Vatican Hill. By the fourth century and official recognition of the Christian religion in Rome, Emperor Constantine began construction of the original basilica atop the ancient burial ground with what was believed to be the tomb of St. Peter at its center. The present basilica, built starting in the 1500s, sits over a maze of catacombs and St. Peter’s suspected grave.
3. Caligula captured the obelisk that stands in St. Peter’s Square. Roman Emperor Caligula built a small circus in his mother’s gardens at the base of Vatican Hill where charioteers trained and where Nero is thought to have martyred the Christians. To crown the center of the amphitheater, Caligula had his forces transport from Egypt a pylon that had originally stood in Heliopolis. The obelisk, made of a single piece of red granite weighing more than 350 tons, was erected for an Egyptian pharaoh more than 3,000 years ago. In 1586 it was moved to its present location in St. Peter’s Square, where it does double duty as a giant sundial.
4. For nearly 60 years in the 1800s and 1900s, popes refused to leave the Vatican. Popes ruled over a collection of sovereign Papal States throughout central Italy until the country was unified in 1870. The new secular government had seized all the land of the Papal States with the exception of the small patch of the Vatican, and a cold war of sorts then broke out between the church and the Italian government. Popes refused to recognize the authority of the Kingdom of Italy, and the Vatican remained beyond Italian national control. Pope Pius IX proclaimed himself a “prisoner of the Vatican,” and for almost 60 years popes refused to leave the Vatican and submit to the authority of the Italian government. When Italian troops were present in St. Peter’s Square, popes even refused to give blessings or appear from the balcony overlooking the public space.
5. Benito Mussolini signed Vatican City into existence. The dispute between the Italian government and the Catholic Church ended in 1929 with the signing of the Lateran Pacts, which allowed the Vatican to exist as its own sovereign state and compensated the church $92 million (more than $1 billion in today’s money) for the Papal States. The Vatican used the payment as seed money to re-grow its coffers. Mussolini, the head of the Italian government, signed the treaty on behalf of King Victor Emmanuel III.
6. Popes did not live at the Vatican until the 14th century. Even after the construction of the original St. Peter’s Basilica, popes lived principally at the Lateran Palace across Rome. They even left the city altogether in 1309 when the papal court moved to Avignon, France, after King Philip IV arranged for a French cardinal to be elected pope. Seven popes, all French, ruled from Avignon, and the papacy did not return to Rome until 1377, by which time the Lateran Palace had burned and the Vatican started to be used as a papal residence. Much repair work needed to be done, however, because the Vatican had fallen into such disrepair that wolves dug for bodies in the cemetery and cows even wandered the basilica.
7. The Swiss Guard was hired as a mercenary force. The Swiss Guard, recognizable by its armor and colorful Renaissance-era uniforms, has been protecting the pontiff since 1506. That’s when Pope Julius II, following in the footsteps of many European courts of the time, hired one of the Swiss mercenary forces for his personal protection. The Swiss Guard’s role in Vatican City is strictly to protect the safety of the pope. Although the world’s smallest standing army appears to be strictly ceremonial, its soldiers are extensively trained and highly skilled marksmen. And, yes, the force is entirely comprised of Swiss citizens.
8. At several times during the Vatican’s history, popes escaped through a secret passageway. In 1277, a half-mile-long elevated covered passageway, the Passetto di Borgo, was constructed to link the Vatican with the fortified Castel Sant’Angelo on the banks of the Tiber River. It served as an escape route for popes, most notably in 1527 when it likely saved the life of Pope Clement VII during the sack of Rome. As the forces of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V rampaged through the city and murdered priests and nuns, the Swiss Guard held back the enemy long enough to allow Clement to safely reach the Castel Sant’Angelo, although 147 of the pope’s forces lost their lives in the battle.
9. The majority of Vatican City’s 600 citizens live abroad. As of 2011, the number of people with Vatican citizenship totaled 594. That number included 71 cardinals, 109 members of the Swiss Guard, 51 members of the clergy and one nun inside the Vatican walls. The largest group of citizens, however, was the 307 members of the clergy in diplomatic positions around the world. With Benedict XVI residing as a pope emeritus in the Vatican, the population will increase by one when a new pope is named.
10. The Vatican Observatory owns a telescope in Arizona. As Rome expanded, light pollution from the city made it increasingly difficult for astronomers at the Vatican Observatory—located 15 miles from the city at the papal summer residence in Castel Gandolfo—to view the night skies, so in 1981 the observatory opened a second research center in Tucson, Arizona. The Vatican conducts astronomical research with a state-of-the-art telescope that sits atop Mount Graham in southeast Arizona.

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Donald Trump Urges His Followers To Get Out And Protest After He Is Arrested On Tuesday As New York City DA Launches Indictment Against Him

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March 18, 2023

Geoffrey Grider

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Lock him up? Former President Donald Trump said he expects to be arrested Tuesday in Manhattan — and urged his followers to protest his looming indictment.

Hey kiddies, grab a fresh tub of popcorn, a frosty-cold bottle of pop, and pull up a seat as the curtain rises on the next installment of Great Reset Theater. In this episode, the enemies of former president Donald Trump arrest him in dramatic style on Tuesday, put him in the handcuffs he always said Hillary would be taken away in, and he is arrested on very weak ‘hush money’ charges. Trump himself posted that this was happening on Tuesday, and it very likely is.

“In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.” 1 Corinthians 15:52 (KJB)

Now you and I both know this is nonsense, and that the only reason why it’s happening is a desperate attempt to prevent Donald Trump from becoming president again. There is no other reason. Well, maybe there is another possible reason for all this. When Trump became president in 2016, he swore that Hillary Clinton would be put in handcuffs and taken to jail for her crimes against humanity. Trump riled up the snake, but he wasn’t serious about doing it, he was just generating headlines, and that ploy was quite effective. But here we are in 2023, and Hillary the snake and the entire Swamp are still free and stronger than ever. Trump needs to worry less about being arrested and worry more about taking a dip in the Clinton Dead Pool.

Donald Trump says he will be arrested Tuesday

FROM THE NY POST: “THE FAR & AWAY LEADING REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE & FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, WILL BE ARRESTED ON TUESDAY OF NEXT WEEK. PROTEST, TAKE OUR NATION BACK!,” he thundered in an all caps missive to his followers on Truth Social Saturday morning.

He slammed Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office as “CORRUPT & HIGHLY POLITICAL” in his post.

Trump again insisted he had committed no crime, and reminded his followers that Bragg’s campaign had been heavily financed by liberal billionaire George Soros.

Bragg’s looming charges are said to focus on Trump’s payments of hush money to Stormy Daniels, an adult star who claimed she had an affair with Trump in 2016 and received $130,000 in hush money payments from the billionaire to keep her quiet during his 2016 presidential campaign. Trump has denied the alleged infidelity. An attorney for Daniels said Wednesday his client had met with Manhattan prosecutors, and that she was prepared to testify in any trial as a witness.

Michael Cohen, Trump’s former attorney and fixer, pleaded guilty in 2018 to federal campaign finance law violations stemming from the payment and was sentenced to three years in prison. READ MORE

Donald Trump claims he will be arrested Tuesday

Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett reacts to Donald Trump claiming he will be arrested on Tuesday and unpacks the case surrounding the former president.

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AG Merrick Garland Appoints Special Counsel To Conduct Criminal Probe Of Former President Donald Trump’s Handling Of Classified Documents

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November 19, 2022

Geoffrey Grider

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Attorney General Merrick Garland on Friday named a special counsel to oversee the criminal probe of Donald Trump’s possible mishandling of classified documents at his Florida home and key aspects of the sprawling Jan. 6 case, acknowledging the political sensitivity of investigating a former president who is again seeking office.

For the past 6 years, the Democrats have used the Senate as well as the Congress as their own personal police force in an attempt to stop Donald Trump on whatever level they can stop him on. Their abuse of their own power is at once egregious and sickening, and I believe is in itself a crime on multiple levels. But what happened yesterday goes far beyond partisan politics, now the Department of Justice has stepped in with the appointment of a special counsel to see about putting Trump behind bars. Now it’s serious, with real prosecutors instead of fake politicians.

“For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same:” Romans 13:3 (KJB)

One reason why the Congress and Senate don’t spend a lot of time investigating each other is because the vast majority of them are guilty of something. Politics as practised in America in 2022 is like a Roman circus, complete with the Temple prostitutes who will do anything to retain power. Joe Biden infamously called himself a prostitute for political power back in 1974. But I digress. Is the latest move against Donald Trump politically motivated? It sure is. But will the investigation show criminal activity was performed? It just might. America is at the end of her rope, having rejected God, Jesus Christ and the Holy Bible, there is really nothing left but judgment. That’s where we are right now.

Garland names special counsel for Trump Mar-a-Lago, 2020 election probes

FROM MSN: The appointment of Jack Smith, a longtime federal prosecutor who has in recent years been working at the International Criminal Court at The Hague, comes three days after Trump formally declared himself a candidate for president.

Garland said “extraordinary circumstances” — namely Trump’s candidacy and President Biden’s stated intention to run for reelection — necessitated the appointment of an independent prosecutor to oversee the investigations, which are focused on alleged high-level breaches of national security and could place Trump in legal peril unprecedented for a one-time commander in chief.

“Based on recent developments, including the former president’s announcement that he is a candidate for president in the next election, and the sitting president’s stated intention to be a candidate as well, I have concluded that it is in the public interest to appoint a special counsel,” Garland said.

A special counsel appointment “is the right thing to do,” the attorney general continued. “Mr. Smith is the right choice to complete these matters in an even-handed and urgent manner.”

Both Garland and Smith pledged that the appointment will not slow down the investigations, suggesting that the career prosecutors already on those cases would continue to work them.

“I intend to conduct the assigned investigations, and any prosecutions that may result from them, independently and in the best traditions of the Department of Justice. The pace of the investigations will not pause or flag under my watch,” Smith said in a written statement. “I will exercise independent judgement and will move the investigations forward expeditiously and thoroughly to whatever outcome the facts and the law dictate.”

A few hours later, Trump denounced the special counsel as politically motivated.

“This horrendous abuse of power is the latest in a long series of witch hunts,” he told attendees at a black-tie gala for a sympathetic think tank that was held at Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s Florida home and private beach club. “The corrupt and highly political Justice Department just appointed a super-radical left prosecutor.”

Garland signed a two-page order authorizing the special counsel to take over “the ongoing investigation into whether any person or entity violated the law in connection with efforts to interfere with the lawful transfer of power following the 2020 presidential election or the certification of the Electoral College vote held on or about January 6, 2021, as well as any matters that arose or might arise directly from this investigation.”

The order said the special counsel will not be responsible for cases involving those who were physically present at the Capitol on Jan. 6 — leaving those to the U.S. Attorney’s office in Washington, D.C., which has charged more than 900 people so far.

Friday’s order also authorizes Smith to pursue the investigation of possible mishandling of national defense secrets at Mar-a-Lago, as well as possible obstruction or destruction of government records related to that probe. Smith is authorized to investigate any potential cases that arise from that investigation and to refer to other federal prosecutors any potential cases that may fall outside the scope of his work. READ MORE

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After Receiving Subpoena, Donald Trump Now Has An Excellent Opportunity To Present His Case For A Stolen Election Before January 6th Committee

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5 months ago

October 22, 2022

Geoffrey Grider

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Former President Donald Trump was ordered on Friday to testify under oath and provide documents to the House of Representatives January 6th Committee investigating the attack on the U.S. Capitol by his supporters.

We have before us an amazing opportunity to set the record straight, and to settle once and for all this issue of a stolen election back in 2020. Donald Trump has been formally subpoenaed to appear before the January 6th Committee to testify about the events that took place on that day. This is a golden opportunity to show, before the entire world, what the truth actually is. But the questions is, will Trump take it? If I were him I would, let me tell you why.

“And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” John 8:32 (KJB)

Alex Jones for a number of years on his radio program, spoke endlessly about the Sandy Hook School shooting hoax, and presented hundreds of hours of soundbites to ‘prove his case’. If you were to listen to just him, you would be convinced none of those kids, ‘crisis actors’ Jones said, had ever died. However, this all changed when Jones was ‘invited to appear’ before a judge and jury, and testify under oath of the verity of these things with which he espoused. We all know how that ended, Jones folded like a house of cards because he had done nothing but lie the entire time for ratings and financial gain. Remember Kraken lawyer Sidney Powell and her ‘firehose of proof‘ regarding the stolen 2020 election? The hose was dry, and she was sued.

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Obviously, the January 6th Committee is nothing more than a sham to prevent Donald Trump from being elected again, it has nothing in common with the actual truth. If truth was the goal of Congress, we would also be having a Domestic Terror Committee to deal with the 6 months of riots, murder and looting caused by ANTIFA and Black Lives Matter. So I understand the true intention of why Trump is now being subpoenaed, but I also know this. For two years, Trump has held rallies across America talking about the stolen election, now he has the chance to go ‘on the record’ and testify that these things be so. If he testifies under oath and presents his case with the truth of what actually happened in the 2020 election, he will emerge an unstoppable hero and sail to victory in 2024. But if he refuses to go, or goes and crumbles under the pressure of the truth like Alex Jones did, his political career will be immediately over. Either way, the truth of this situation is going to come out once and for all, as truth always does. This is truly your moment, Donald Trump, what will you do?

Trump summoned to testify to January 6th Committee ‘riot panel’

FROM RUETERS: The committee said it had sent a subpoena to Trump requiring documents to be submitted to the panel by Nov. 4 and for him to appear for deposition testimony beginning on or about Nov. 14.

Deposition testimony often refers to closed-door, videotaped questioning of a witness on the record. Such testimony could be made public and become part of a final report by the special panel.

“As demonstrated in our hearings, we have assembled overwhelming evidence, including from dozens of your former appointees and staff, that you personally orchestrated and oversaw a multi-part effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election and to obstruct the peaceful transition of power,” the committee wrote in a letter to Trump on Friday.

The committee is seeking a wide range of documents from Trump that would detail communications he may have had over a period of several months leading up to the Jan. 6 riot and beyond with lawmakers, Oath Keepers and Proud Boys members, as well as associates and former aides, including Roger Stone, Steve Bannon, Michael Flynn and Rudy Giuliani.

Additional documents, text messages and other communications being sought relate to information detailing possible travel of people to the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, communications relating to efforts to encourage state legislatures or lawmakers to take actions that would have delayed Congress’ certification of the presidential election or changes in states that would have certified an alternate slate of “electors” that would support naming Trump as the winner of the 2020 election.

Trump, who regularly refers to the panel as the “unselect committee,” has accused it of waging unfair political attacks on him while refusing to investigate his charges of widespread election fraud. He is not likely to cooperate with the subpoena and could simply try to run out the clock on a committee whose mandate will likely end early next year if Republicans win a majority in the House in November’s midterm elections. READ MORE

House January 6th committee subpoenas former President Donald Trump

The House select committee investigating the January 6 assault n the U.S. Capitol has subpoenaed former President Donald Trump, demanding that he turn over documents and testify under oath.

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