Campaign Intervention Olympics, Gold Medal Round

Well, folks we have finally reached the gold medal round of the campaign intervention Olympics.  There are two finalists.  In Lane 1, we have Donald Trump.  At a campaign visit with a bunch of religious folks a week or ten days ago, Trump said that he did away with the Johnson Amendment during his first term and he forced the IRS to stop harassing churches who wanted to endorse presidential candidates.  That part is at 35:37 in the video below.  But after his 2020 opponent stole the election, his 2024 opponent reinstated the Johnson Amendment and set the IRS dogs loose again on churches.  He also said his daughter Tiffany graduated number 1 in her Georgetown Law School class, by the way.  None of that actually happened– I’m sure Tiffany is a skilled lawyer but Georgetown does not rank its students.  It all made for a good stump speech and anyway he promised the Johnson Amendment will be gone by the first week of his administration.

In Lane 2, we have Kamala Harris.  Although she previously let the IRS dogs out on churches endorsing candidates, according to Trump, she does not mind as much church endorsement as she can get for herself.  Sunday, she made a campaign stop at a Detroit, Michigan church.  After leading the congregation in loud “victory! victory! victory!” cheers, the Pastor introduced Harris as “the next President of the United States . . . Kamala Harris!”  That starts around 21:15.  The congregation went wild:

It’s been a great Olympics.  Let’s do it again in four years.

darryll k. jones