God may have sent Trump to earth to protect Israel – Mike Pompeo
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo suggested in a televised interview Thursday that God may have sent President Donald Trump to Earth to protect Israel.
Pompeo made the remarks in an interview with Christian Broadcasting Network, or CBN, in Jerusalem, where he visited the Western Wall with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
When the interview turned to Iranian aggression in the Middle East, Pompeo was asked whether he thought “President Trump right now has been sort of raised for such a time as this, just like Queen Esther, to help save the Jewish people from the Iranian menace.” “As a Christian, I certainly believe that’s possible,” Pompeo responded.
Remarking on “the work that our administration’s done to make sure that this democracy in the Middle East, that this Jewish state, remains,” the secretary of state added: “I am confident that the Lord is at work here.”
Thursday is Purim, the holiday that commemorates the rescue of the Jewish people from genocide on the orders of Haman, a minister under the Persian King Xerxes I. The Old Testament Book of Esther relates that Esther, Xerxes’ queen, persuaded the king to revoke the order, saving the Jews of the kingdom.
Mr Trump said that after 52 years, it is important for the United States to fully recognise Israel’s control over what he says is an area of “critical strategic and security importance to Israel” and stability in the region.
