Evangelicals for Harris Launch $1M Anti-Trump Ad featuring Billy Graham
- Milton Quintanilla Crosswalk Headlines Contributor
- Updated Sep 27, 2024
The political action committee, Evangelicals for Harris, released over $1 million ad campaign Thursday featuring footage from late evangelist Billy Graham and suggests that former President Donald Trump displays the character of evil men in the last days. According to The Christian Post, the ad, which will play out over the next three weeks in battleground states, features a sermon Graham preached from 2 Timothy 3:1-5, in which the apostle Paul describes the terrible nature of the last days and warns "men will become utterly self-centered and greedy for money, full of big words."
The ad also incorporated brief clips of Trump makings that the PAC considered to be the sinful characteristics of the End Times evildoers Paul was describing.
After Graham reads about greed, the ad shows a clip of Trump joking how he is "greedy, greedy, greedy" and "grabbed all the money I could get."
In another clip, Graham reads about what Paul says against men who are "proud and abusive." The ad then shows a well-known clip from 2015 when then Fox News host Megyn Kelly asked Trump about the derogatory comments he has made about women.
The ad also suggested Trump is also "uncontrolled and violent," referencing a speech when he said he wanted to punch someone in the face.
In a 2019 clip, Trump said that he was "the chosen one" concerning trade with China is evidence that he is "treacherous, reckless, and arrogant," the ad implies.
The ad then claimed Trump loves pleasure above God by citing the leaked "Access Hollywood" tape that featured prominently in the closing weeks of the 2016 presidential campaign, during which he said, "I just started kissing" beautiful women.
As the ad closed, it was suggested Trump maintains "the facade of religion" but that life contradicts the truth, using a 2015 clip where pollster Frank Luntz asked Trump if he had ever asked for God's forgiveness.
"I am not sure I have. I just go on and try to do a better job from there. I don't think so. I think if I do something wrong, I think, I just try and make it right. I don't bring God into that picture. I don't," Trump replied at the time, though he later backtracked.
The campaign ad marks the second time the PAC has attacked Trump using footage from Billy Graham's sermons. As Crosswalk Headlines previously reported, evangelist Franklin Graham, Billy Graham's son, denounced the PAC for using his father's footage in their ad.
"The liberals are using anything and everything they can to promote candidate Harris. They even developed a political ad trying to use my father, Billy Graham's image to help promote her—or rather, to try to make Donald J. Trump look bad. They are trying to mislead people," Graham wrote on both Facebook and X last month.
"Maybe they don't know that my father was a firm supporter of President Trump in 2016," he noted. "He appreciated the conservative values and policies of President Trump, and if he were alive today, my father's views and opinions would not have changed. President Trump isn't perfect—none of us are—but I believe he has changed over the years. This recent assassination attempt has had a huge impact on him—and I thank God that his life was spared."
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