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Trump Says He’s a Christian, But That He ‘Doesn’t Need to Ask for Forgiveness’ For His Sins

Donald Trump likes to pretend he’s a good, Christian man.

Yet back in 2016, Trump said he didn’t regret his decision not to ask God for forgiveness for his sins.

In an interview with CNN, Trump said that he does not regret never asking God for forgiveness, partially because he says he doesn’t have much to apologize for.

“I have great relationship with God. I have great relationship with the Evangelicals,” Trump said in the interview before before bragging about how much evangelicals love him.

“I like to be good. I don’t like to have to ask for forgiveness. And I am good. I don’t do a lot of things that are bad. I try to do nothing that is bad.”

Trump was responding to a question from Jake Tapper, who said that one of Trump’s 2016 primary rivals — who many suspected was Sen. Ted Cruz — conducted a telephone survey testing several lines of attack, including a jab questioning the reality-television star’s religious convictions.

“He shouldn’t be doing that,” Trump said of the Cruz campaign’s potential survey questions. “Very unethical.”

In 2015, Trump told Republican pollster and focus-group guru Frank Luntz that when the then-real-estate mogul has done something wrong, he tries to correct his error without getting God involved.

“I am not sure I have,” Trump said when asked if he’d ever asked God for forgiveness. “I just go on and try to do a better job from there. I don’t think so,” he said. “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.”

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