Alveda King, the niece of Martin Luther King Jr. and a former Democratic lawmaker in Georgia, slammed former White House aide Omarosa Manigault for criticizing Vice President Pence after he said he hears the voice of God.
“He can pray any way he wants to. This is America,” King said on Fox News Wednesday. “If he is hearing God say ‘be strong’ — Martin Luther King Jr., my uncle, said he heard the voice of Jesus say ‘stand up’ — Martin Luther at his kitchen table. Was my uncle crazy? Don’t answer that.”
In an episode of CBS’ “Big Brother” Monday evening, the fired White House aide turned contestant said Pence’s understanding of Christianity was “scary.”
“He’s extreme. I’m Christian, I love Jesus, but he thinks Jesus tells him to say things. I’m like, ‘Jesus ain’t say that,'” said Manigault Newman, an ordinated minister who was fired from the White House for using a government car service to commute to and from work.
King said she herself has heard the voice of God.
“I’m going out on a limb here and I’m going to tell you when a tree limb and a hot wire fell across my car, I was driving home from a storm many, many years ago. I mean, driving home through a storm and this live wire falls across my car. I really believe I heard an audible voice in my car say ‘be still and know that I am God.’ I think I hollered ‘oh Jesus’ and then I heard that,” King said.
“And you know what I did? I froze. I just sat there. It’s in the book King Truths. The first responders when they got there they said ‘ma’am, if you had you touched anything on this car you would be dead,” she said. “And so I really believe I heard a voice that said ‘be still and know that I am God.'”
