Trump's 2nd butler PA Speech: fact-checking

[Stephen3141]

Fact-checking Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania

Former President Donald Trump returned to Butler, Pennsylvania, the site of the first assassination attempt against him,

www.politifact.com

PF Politifact fact-checking grades many of Trump's assertions at this speech,
as FALSE.

Trump's language, painting the previous Butler shooter as a "cold-blooded
assassin", is a rhetorical device. What the FBI has learned about this guy,
is that he was an alienated loser, who couldn't qualify to joing a local
shooting club. The facts of the Butler shooting, suggest that the shooter
didn't have much of a clue, what the preparation of an assassin, would
have been. That Trump would use this language, suggests that he is
addressing people who also, don't have much of a clue what a "cold-blooded
assassin" does.

I would regularly ignore politician's assertions that they survived some
event, because God had some sort of great things for them to do.

It is a very hazardous thing, to tell God what HE must have meant, by letting
someone survive through some event. As Jesus commented on the collapse of the
Tower of Siloam, and I paraphrase, "Don't look for some explanation of why those
killed in the collapse of the tower were more EVIL people than everyone else.
Because, unless you all repent of your sins, you ALL shall likewise die in
your sins." We do not see Donald Trump referring to the advice of Jesus.

Because this remains a Christian apologetics site, I include the passage...

1 At that time some people who were present there told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with the blood of their sacrifices. 2 He said to them in reply, “Do you think that because these Galileans suffered in this way they were greater sinners than all other Galileans? 3 By no means! But I tell you, if you do not repent, you will all perish as they did! 4 Or those eighteen people who were killed when the tower at Siloam fell on them—do you think they were more guilty than everyone else who lived in Jerusalem? 5 By no means! But I tell you, if you do not repent, you will all perish as they did!”
New American Bible, Revised Edition. (Washington, DC: The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, 2011), Lk 13:1–5.

Note that Jesus' warning about attributing evil to those who are
killed in disasters, or attributing blessings of God to those who
survive disasters, is followed by Jesus' teaching about a fig tree
that does not bring forth good fruit. It is not what the metaphoric
fig tree SAYS, but what fruit it produces.

Note that in the parable, the fig tree that was under the threat of
condemnation, was allowed to live one more year. Metaphorically,
no doubt, it said to itself, "I was allowed to live, therefore I am
putting out high quality fruit." Of course, the owner of the orchard,
knew differently.

Trump seems to regularly identify SURVIVING as a mark of being pleasing
to God. He does this with members of the military. Those who die in battle,
he has called "losers". Those who came back alive, he calls "heroes".
Why would Trump NOT interpret the actions of some nutBar shooter, in the
same way?

But, this is not how the Bible sees death, in a disaster.