An evangelical pastor lashed out at former Trump national security adviser John Bolton, saying Jesus would have “beat the crap out of him” for being “disloyal to the President.”
In a series of tweets on Monday, the Rev. Rodney Howard-Browne, 58, angrily reacted to a tweet Bolton had posted with the parents of American college student Otto Warmbier, who died in 2017 after being detained by the North Korean government for 17 months.
“You are a slime ball of the highest order …. I should have knocked your sorry butt through the door of the Oval Office into the rose garden when I saw you. I would have gladly been arrested …. what a Benedict Arnold ….. I am glad you were fired !!!!!” Howard-Browne tweeted.
You are a slime ball of the highest order …. I should have knocked your sorry butt through the door of the Oval Office into the rose garden when I saw you. I would have gladly been arrested …. what a Benedict Arnold ….. I am glad you were fired !!!!! https://t.co/vZWif9ohjV
— Rodney Howard-Browne (@rhowardbrowne) January 28, 2020
Calling him a “globalist sellout,” he told Bolton that he needs to “return to the deep state ocean he swam out of.” In a now-deleted tweet, the pastor concluded his remarks by writing: “WWJD: he would have made a whip and beat the crap out of him!!!!” Other accounts screenshotted the tweet to document the incident.
Right-wing pastor Rodney Howard-Browne wishes that he had physically attacked John Bolton when he had the chance and says that Jesus would have “beat the crap out of him.” pic.twitter.com/pVuwlEe4KI
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) January 29, 2020
Howard-Browne was one of many pastors invited to the White House in 2017 to lay hands and pray on President Trump. The religious leaders discussed a plethora of policy issues at their meeting with the president, including religious freedom, judicial nominees, and criminal justice reform.
He founded a megachurch called The River at Tampa Bay Church in Florida, which is attended by thousands, and is the lead pastor there. He also founded Revival Ministries in 1997, an international evangelism group. The group says it has traveled to more than 57 countries and has ministered to nearly 18 million people.
Howard-Browne’s comments follow recent reports that Bolton wrote in his unpublished memoir that Trump engaged in a quid pro quo with the Ukrainian government, asking it to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden in exchange for foreign aid. The New York Times originally reported the allegations in the draft manuscript.
