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Televangelist Paula White-Cain claims that Donald Trump sought God’s opinion on running for president.
White-Cain, who served as a spiritual adviser to Trump during his 2016 presidency and led his Evangelical Advisory Council, made the remarks at the Faith & Freedom Coalition’s “Path to the Majority” conference at the Washington Hilton, telling the audience that her first conversation with the former president happened long before he began thinking about politics.
“Trump began repeating to me, almost verbatim, three sermons about the value of vision,” she recalled.
“Finally he said, ‘You have it in you,’ and I said, ‘Oh, sir, we call it consecration,'” White-Cain added.
“At that point, I really felt the Lord say, ‘Show him who I am.’ And so for the last 24 years, I’ve had the great privilege of being in his life and really being his pastor.”
White-Cain added that Trump first began thinking about going into politics in 2011, when he contacted her and said he “didn’t like the direction the country was going” and was thinking about running for president.
“I told him my thoughts,” she said, “and he turned around and said, ‘So what does God say?'”
White-Cain then prayed with dozens of friends before delivering his response to Trump.
“I said, ‘You’ll be president one day.’
But she warned him that it would come at a price: “I hate the price you’re going to have to pay,” she reportedly told Trump.
Reflecting on “the price paid by this man, his family and so many of us,” she concluded that her prediction was correct.
Trump is currently embroiled in a number of lawsuits and denies all of the charges against him.
White-Cain was among those who criticized Trump’s recent conviction on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, repeating the former president’s unfounded claims that he was prosecuted for political reasons.
In May, she tweeted that the day Trump was convicted was “a sad day for all Americans who witnessed our justice system being weaponized to attack President Trump for political gain.”
“May God bless my long time friend, President Trump, and God bless all of us who stand for justice!” she added.
In her speech at the Path to Majority summit, White-Cain not only spoke about her relationship with President Trump, but also slammed President Biden, whom she has previously criticized.
In her speech, she lamented the current state of the United States, arguing that religious freedom is “under attack like never before in our lifetimes,” and pointed to 18 pro-life policies enacted by the Trump administration and “more than a dozen religious freedom and rights” policies that have been overturned by Biden in his first year in office.
At the end of his speech, White-Cain said the Biden administration’s ideology was “against God and against our faith” and vowed to the audience to “stop it in November.”
