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   Televangelist Pat Robertson links Las Vegas attack to ‘disrespect’ for   
   Trump   
      
      
      
      
   Right-wing televangelist and one-time presidential candidate Pat Robertson   
   on Monday linked the Las Vegas massacre to “disrespect” for President   
   Donald Trump and the National Anthem.   
      
   “Ladies and gentlemen, I’m trying to make sense of this, I’m sure you are.   
   … Violence in the streets. Why is it happening?” Robertson asked on “The   
   700 Club” while responding to the massacre. “You know, what I’d like to   
   give you is the fact that we have disrespect for authority. There is   
   profound disrespect of our President all across this nation. They say   
   terrible things about him.”   
      
   Robertson has spoken highly of Trump as commander in chief, calling him   
   “God’s man for this job.” In addition to linking violence like the Las   
   Vegas shooting to disrespect for the President, Robertson also cited   
   recent NFL National Anthem protests.   
      
   “There’s disrespect now for our National Anthem, disrespect for our   
   veterans, disrespect for the institutions of our government, disrespect   
   for the court system, all the way up and down the line, disrespect,” he   
   continued, making reference to NFL players kneeling during the National   
   Anthem as a form of protest against racism and police brutality. Trump has   
   condemned those protests in a series of remarks and tweets.   
   President Donald Trump speaks at the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police   
   Department Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2017, in Las Vegas, after meeting with   
   victims of the Las Vegas shooting at a hospital and then with first   
   responders who were on duty Sunday night. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)   
      
      
   Robertson concluded by arguing that this “disrespect” had caused America   
   to lose its “controlling authority,” and this – coupled with the absence   
   of “biblical authority” in the US – has caused “the people (to) run amok.”   
      
   Authorities have yet to release a motive behind the attack that left at   
   least 58 dead and more than 500 injured.   
      
   The Christian Broadcasting Network, which Robertson founded, said in a   
   statement that his comments have been misconstrued.   
      
   “During his commentary on The 700 Club on Monday, Dr. Robertson was making   
   the point that Americans no longer have respect for God, and as a result,   
   no longer have respect for one another or our government.” they wrote,   
   adding that he was making reference to a specific Biblical proverb.   
   “Attempts by some far-left bloggers, and the media that cover them, to put   
   words in his mouth about blame for the Las Vegas shooting are completely   
   wrong.”   
      
   Nonetheless, the 87-year-old has a long history of controversial comments,   
   even in the wake of national tragedies.   
      
   He has made a number of disparaging remarks about the LGBTQ community,   
   equating homosexuality with murder and thievery and warning that Walt   
   Disney Disney World would face “terrorist bombs … earthquakes, tornadoes,   
   and possibly a meteor” for hosting “Gay Days.”   
      
   He said feminism was “a socialist, anti-family political movement that   
   encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice   
   witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.”   
      
   Robertson claimed the devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti was caused by   
   the Haitians making “a pact to the devil” and argued that tornadoes across   
   the Midwest in 2012 would not have happened if “enough people were   
   praying.”   
      
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