Trump BIBLE SCAM Resurfaces with Oklahoma BULK BUY
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What is the Trump‑endorsed Bible scheme and how did it start?
So let's take a look inside the latest MAGA and Trump scheme or stunt or grift, whatever you want to call it. That's really hurting the American people. This one is combining a few different concepts. So remember back in March of 2024, when Donald Trump announced that he was selling the Trump Bibles for about $60. Remember he did the whole video about that. Well, now in Oklahoma, the head of their Department of Education, their superintendent, who's like an extreme MAGA guy, his name is Ryan Walters. So he's put out a bidding process right now because he wants to make sure that there are Bibles in every school in Oklahoma today. So he wants to order 55,000 Bibles. And so he put out a request for proposal, RFP, but he tailored the request for proposal that the Bibles that will go in all of the classrooms in Oklahoma, which will cost about $3.3 million for 55,000 or so Bibles, again, ignoring the separation of church or state,
that the only Bibles that fit the request for proposals, you guessed it, are the Trump-endorsed Bibles. This would shift about $3 million from public funds into, you guessed it, Donald Trump's pocket. Now there's a lot of pressing issues in Oklahoma right now as well. They need emergency inhalers for kids with asthma and other debilitating respiratory issues, But the superintendent, you guessed it, is not prioritizing that at all. Instead, he's focused on the Trump Bibles. I want to break this down, show you the receipts here of how this all works. So I guess we start at the beginning, right? We should start in March where Donald Trump... gives the uh he makes a commercial where he says he's selling these bibles i'm just going to show you it's like a three minute clip he posts about it he puts it on his social media platform i'm just going to show you a small portion of that just to remind you play the clip
what can we do stand up speak out and pray that god will bless america again i'm proud to endorse and encourage you to get this bible we must make america pray again
And then on his social media platform, there are ads like this. The Trump Bible, he says, it's endorsed by Jesus Christ. Now, Donald Trump also recently faked an endorsement of Taylor Swift. He faked an endorsement on Friday of Jamie Dimon, the CEO of Chase. And now he's saying that his Bibles not only are endorsed by him, but he's got the secret endorsement of Jesus Christ right there. And then on this website it goes, this is the only Bible officially endorsed by Donald Trump. Let's take a look at the reporting several months later. This was done on Friday by Oklahoma Local Journalism. And they worked very closely with a great nonprofit that I want to give a shout out to called Oklahoma Watch. They're oklahomawatch.org.
Support them. They do a lot of great research, and you should visit the site, oklahomawatch.org. So take a look at this article from The Oklahoman. It pieces a lot of this together. Trump Bible, one of the few that meet Walter's criteria. That's the superintendent in Oklahoma for Oklahoma classrooms.
How is Oklahoma Superintendent Ryan Walters using a $3 million RFP to buy Trump Bibles?
Now, In my own view, there should be a separation of church and state, so these Bibles shouldn't be in classrooms as well. But you could actually, if you were going to purchase Bibles, you'd probably be able to get them for free, number one, or spend a buck or $2 or maybe less, not $60 per Bible, transferring millions of dollars to Donald Trump from the taxpayers of Oklahoma. Let's take a look. Superintendent Ryan Walters isn't just talking about buying Bibles for schools. Bids open Monday for a contract to supply the Oklahoma State Department of Education with 55,000 Bibles. According to the bid documents, vendors must meet certain specifications. Now, what do you think these specifications are? We can show you the bid documents here so you can see the RFP, the request for a proposal yourself.
Bibles must be the King James Version. It must contain the Old and New Testament. But get this, the Bible must also include copies of the Pledge of Allegiance, Declaration of Independence, U.S.
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