Here’s Why the New BBC Report on Trump’s Predatory Behavior Won’t Sway His Evangelical Followers

The following article by Alex Henderson was posted on the AlterNet.org website July 12, 2018:

Far-right white evangelicals who hate the poor as much as they hate abortion, porn and same-sex marriage.

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It’s no secret that President Trump is wildly unpopular in Europe, and a 30-minute BBC report that aired earlier this week as part of the “BBC Panorama” series is unlikely to improve his image overseas.

Titled “Trump: Is the President a Sex Pest?,” the report contains anecdotes describing Trump’s creepy behavior around women in the 1980s and 1990s. One of the women interviewed, Barbara Pilling, alleged that when she met Trump at a party in New York City in the late 1980s and told him she was only 17, he responded, “Oh, great. So, you’re not too old and not too young. That’s just great.”

Pilling recalled, “I felt I was in the presence of a shark.”

View the original article on the AlterNet.org website here.