Donald Trump tweets letter from Catholic archbishop calling the coronavirus pandemic and Black Lives Matter protests 'Masonic' and 'deep state' plots to hurt his re-election
President Trump tweeted a letter written to him from Carlo Maria Viganò, a Catholic archbishop, who suggests the coronavirus pandemic and the George Floyd protests are part of a 'deep state' plot to hurt the president's re-election.
In the long-winded letter, Viganò describes the current climate as a battle against good and evil and says Trump's participation in the anti-abortion 'March for Life' 'confirm[s] which side you wish to fight on.'
'In society, Mr. President, these two opposing realities co-exist as eternal enemies, just as God and Satan are eternal enemies. And it appears that the children of darkness – whom we may easily identify with the deep state, which you wisely oppose and which is fiercely waging war against you in these days – have decided to show their cards, so to speak, by now revealing their plans,' Viganò wrote.
The letter from the retired archbishop is in stark contrast to Pope Francis, who has called George Floyd by name, twice, and offered support to an American bishop who knelt in prayer during a Black Lives Matter protest.
Cardinals black and white have spoken out about Floyd's death, and the Vatican's communications juggernaut has shifted into overdrive to draw attention to the cause he now represents.
In contrast Viganò represents a conservative wing of the church which opposes Francis and has found allies - and funding - in American Catholic conservatives.
His letter is one of a series he has written which are usually more focused on church issues. The most prominent accused Pope Francis of covering up sexual abuse by Theodore Carrick, the now disgraced cardinal archbishop of Washington D.C.
Viganò's letter to Trump claimed that 'investigations' into the pandemic response will 'reveal the true responsibility of those who managed the Covid emergency' and expose a 'colossal operation of social engineering.'
'We will also discover that the riots in these days were provoked by those who, seeing that the virus is inevitably fading and that the social alarm of the pandemic is waning, necessarily have had to provoke civil disturbances, because they would be followed by repression which, although legitimate, could be condemned as an unjustified aggression against the population,' Viganò continued.
He then suggested this was for political ends.
'It is quite clear that the use of street protests is instrumental to the purposes of those who would like to see someone elected in the upcoming presidential elections who embodies the goals of the deep state and who expresses those goals faithfully and with conviction,' he wrote.
Viganò goes on to assure Trump that he's not alone as there's an evil, 'deep church' exists among clergy too.
He pointed to the members of the Catholic church who criticized Trump's decision to appear in front of a statue of Pope John Paul II last week, a day after protesters were cleared out of the way with teargas and pepper balls so the president could stand in front of St. John's church in Washington, D.C. holding the Bible.
The most prominent critic was the new archbishop of the capital, who is also the most senior African-American Catholic in the U.S.,
'They are subservient to the deep state, to globalism, to aligned thought, to the New World Order which they invoke ever more frequently in the name of a universal brotherhood, which has nothing Christian about it, but which evokes the Masonic ideals of those want to dominate the world by driving God out of the courts, out of schools, out of families, and perhaps even out of churches,' Viganò said of those Trump critics.
He also blasted the media for not wanting to 'spread the truth' - something which echoes Trump's hatred of the media.
He then told Trump that he knew he was on the good side of the equation for his participation in the March for Life and National Child Abuse Prevention Month.
'However, it is important that the good – who are the majority – wake up from their sluggishness and do not accept being deceived by a minority of dishonest people with unavowable purposes,' Viganò said. 'It is necessary that the good, the children of light, come together and make their voices heard.'
'What more effective way is there to do this, Mr. President, than by prayer, asking the Lord to protect you, the United States, and all of humanity from this enormous attack of the Enemy?' he argued.
Viganò concluded the letter by telling Trump that he was praying for him against the Invisible Enemy, the name the president has used for the coronavirus, though in the letter referred to a broader conspiracy.
Viganò, who has put Pope Francis on blast in the past over the child sex abuse scandal, did not assign merit to the protests over racial equality in the same way as the pope.
Last week Pope Francis said, 'My friends, we cannot tolerate or turn a blind eye to racism and exclusion in any form and yet claim to defend the sacredness of every human life.'
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