Fox Information’ Sean Hannity jumped to Donald Trump’s protection (as he typically does) on Thursday, siding with the president in his feud with Pope Leo XIV — and drawing fierce backlash on-line.
On his radio present, Hannity supplied to interview the pontiff over his criticism of Trump’s warfare with Iran, which the president has now repeatedly flipped out over.
Hannity accused Leo of feigning “selective ethical outrage” and “seemingly having fun with this public battle with Donald Trump.”
“I believe it’s time that he begins to get questioned. Donald Trump takes questions on a regular basis,” he continued. “No person will get to ask the pope a single factor. And I believe it’s time and I wish to supply myself because the particular person to go interview the pope. I believe I’m uniquely certified. I studied Latin, theology, went to Catholic Church for 12 years. I’d like to interview the pope.”
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Later, on his Fox Information present, Hannity doubled down, claiming the chief of the Roman Catholic Church is “seemingly extra occupied with spreading left-wing politics than the precise teachings of Jesus Christ.” And saying the pope’s assertion that “God doesn’t bless any battle and definitely doesn’t aspect with those that drop bombs” was “merely not biblically correct” as a result of “the Bible incorporates over 400 references to warfare, for equally depicting God as authorizing, commanding, intervening in battles like one which everyone knows, the battle between David and Goliath.”
“Why is the pope twisting faith to particularly assault solely President Trump and the U.S.?” he requested, additionally suggesting Leo is a “run-of-the-mill Trump-hating Democrat.”