i wasn't sure how to respond to this at first so i left it alone...it turns out waiting and letting this pan out over the past few days was the right thing to do...
...because dobson has now issued a partial walkback in response to questions about his interview...revealing that his initial interview comments vastly overstated a case based entirely on hearsay and wishful thinking...
in his new statement dobson says..."I can only tell you what I've
heard."...and adds "Do I know that for sure?
No. Do I know the details of that
alleged conversion?
I can't say that I do.' (emphasis in italics is mine)
this is for all practical purposes an admission that dobson has no idea if the 'conversion' he spoke about in his original interview -ever actually happened at all-...
what little dobson has heard about trump's 'conversion' amounts to this..."I also hear that Paula White has known Trump for years and that she personally led him to Christ."
some here will recognize paula white as a prosperity preaching heretic in the mold of benny hinn who leads people not to christ but into a false gospel...and who coincidentally has a history in this campaign of making false statements about trump's relation to christianity...such as her claim that billy graham gave trump a 'prophetic word' in a letter...which the billy graham evangelistic association refuted by stating that graham merely signed a bible for trump with 'God bless you always'
as for the motivation for dobson's wishful thinking...that is revealed a bit later in his statement..."All I can tell you is that we have only two choices, Hillary or Donald. Hillary scares me to death. And, if Christians stay home because he isn't a better candidate, Hillary will run the world for perhaps eight years."
so being 'scared to death' of hillary clinton...dobson desperately wants to imagine a donald trump worth voting for...and that desperation combined with hearsay...despite its probable origin in a thoroughly untrustworthy source...produced the wishful fantasy of a 'baby christian' trump that dobson shared in his interview...
as one final note i will also point out that dobson's supposed 'recent' trump conversion contradicts trump's own so called 'testimony'...trump was telling people he was already a christian back in 2011 when he was considering running for president in 2012...
many testified falsely...but their statements did not agree...
