{"id":13341,"date":"2019-12-19T10:37:32","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T15:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/?p=13341"},"modified":"2020-09-17T12:00:21","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T16:00:21","slug":"republican-congressman-compares-trumps-impeachment-to-the-trial-of-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2019\/12\/republican-congressman-compares-trumps-impeachment-to-the-trial-of-jesus","title":{"rendered":"Republican Congressman Compares Trump\u2019s Impeachment to the Trial of Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12714\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12714\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/140\/2017\/12\/DonaldTrumpspeachcreditChristopherHalloranShutterstockcom-e1546619130233.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12714\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/140\/2017\/12\/DonaldTrumpspeachcreditChristopherHalloranShutterstockcom-e1546619130233.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12714\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christopher Halloran\/Shutterstock.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Georgia Rep. Barry Loudermilk is generating a lot of buzz right now for comparing the impeachment process of President Donald Trump to the Trial of Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>Loudermilk whose district covers a large part of Atlanta\u2019s northern suburbs, spoke at Trump\u2019s impeachment hearing and made these controversial remarks:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen Jesus was falsely accused of Treason, Pontius Pilate gave Jesus the opportunity to face his accusers. During that sham trial, Pontius Pilate afforded more rights to Jesus, than Democrats have afforded this president in this process.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201c&#8230;When Jesus was falsely accused of Treason, Pontius Pilate gave Jesus the opportunity to face his accusers. During that sham trial, Pontius Pilate afforded more rights to Jesus, than Democrats have afforded this president in this process.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ShamImpeachment?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ShamImpeachment<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/n8FZRe64eo\">pic.twitter.com\/n8FZRe64eo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Barry Loudermilk (@RepLoudermilk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepLoudermilk\/status\/1207378846456135684?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 18, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Trump became only the third president in United States history to be impeached after two votes in the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has responded to the announcement of his impeachment with a number of tweets, declaring that Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi \u201cWill go down in history as worst Speaker.&#8221; .<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">SUCH ATROCIOUS LIES BY THE RADICAL LEFT, DO NOTHING DEMOCRATS. THIS IS AN ASSAULT ON AMERICA, AND AN ASSAULT ON THE REPUBLICAN PARTY!!!!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1207355923573989376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 18, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>We want to know what you think.<\/h3>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/survey.fm\/E4C5E0DA3CA6B464\">Take Our Survey<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia Rep. Barry Loudermilk is generating a lot of buzz right now for comparing the impeachment process of President Donald Trump to the Trial of Jesus. Loudermilk whose district covers a large part of Atlanta\u2019s northern suburbs, spoke at Trump\u2019s impeachment hearing and made these controversial remarks: \u201cWhen Jesus was falsely accused of Treason, Pontius&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":565,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2625,1660,2318,2628,2610],"class_list":["post-13341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-barry-loudermilk","tag-christian-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-donald-trump-impeachment","tag-impeachment"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Republican Congressman Compares Trump\u2019s Impeachment to the Trial of Jesus<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2019\/12\/republican-congressman-compares-trumps-impeachment-to-the-trial-of-jesus\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Republican Congressman Compares Trump\u2019s Impeachment to the Trial of Jesus\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Georgia Rep. 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