Remember when Megyn Kelly gave Donald Trump such a hard time at the first Republican primary debate of the 2015 cycle that Trump thought she had “blood coming out of her whatever”? Well, it turns out she almost never made it after falling violently ill hours before the debate. And according to a yayhoo who calls himself a prophet, it was because God did it to keep her from attacking the man he’d chosen to be president.
A few months ago, I told you about Mark Taylor, the retired firefighter-turned-prophet who claims to have gotten a prophecy in 2011 that Trump would become president. The fundicostal world has sung his praises to the skies since Trump’s upset win.
In the process, they overlooked a minor detail. Any competent reading of Taylor’s prophecy shows that God supposedly told him Trump would defeat Obama in 2012. But just a few weeks after Taylor issued his prophecy, Trump announced he wouldn’t run for president in 2012. So by definition, Taylor is a false prophet. That hasn’t stopped him from becoming the latest big thing in the hyperfundie/hypercharismatic world.
Taylor is milking it for all it’s worth. He’s even written a book about his “prophecy,” called “The Trump Prophecies.” Last Friday, he called into WINA in Charlottesville, Virginia to promote the book. People for the American Way’s Right Wing Watch got a clip.
Taylor told lunchtime host Rob Schilling that Kelly’s bout of stomach flu on debate night was actually a warning from God to those who would dare attack Trump.
“You know, God says, ‘Do not touch my anointed.’ And Donald Trump is anointed by God, and that’s why you saw people literally getting kicked out of the race because they were going after Donald Trump. You’re seeing it in the news media right now. Megyn Kelly was a prime example. She went after Donald Trump in the first debate. She got violently ill that morning and she didn’t even know if she was going to be able to do the debate. And that was a warning shot from the Lord saying, ‘Do not touch my anointed.'”
To hear Taylor talk, Kelly’s life “has never been the same” since she supposedly ignored the warning and gave Trump both barrels anyway. He’d also have you believe that the rash of lawsuits and public relations disasters Fox News has faced date precisely from when Kelly attacked Trump. Uh huh. Apparently he forgets that Kelly played a key role in that wave of bad publicity by revealing that Roger Ailes harassed her. Then again, we’re talking about a guy who thinks Trump is anointed.
This is more proof the religious right will do absolutely anything to push through its Christianist agenda—including promoting a false prophecy.