Oklahoma Appears To Have Rigged The System To Purchase 55,000 Trump Bibles

 

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The state of Oklahoma has decided to purchase 55,000 bibles to put in schools across the state. But in order to figure out which Bible is the best, they put a set of criteria in place that only one known Bible seems to match – The one that Donald Trump is selling. This system was rigged by the Republicans who control the state, and they couldn’t have made it any more obvious. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains what happened.   Link – https://www.rawstory.com/trump-bible-... Subscribe to stay connected to our stories:    / theringoffire   Support us by becoming a member on YouTube:    / @theringoffire   Or Support us on Patreon:   / theringoffire   Buy Ring of Fire merch: https://www.buyrof.com/ Find us on social media! Facebook:   / ringoffireradio   Twitter:   / ringoffiremedia   Instagram:   / ringoffirenetwork   TikTok:   / ringoffiremedia   *This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos. Over the summer, Ryan Walters, who is the superintendent for all of the schools in the Republican controlled state of Oklahoma. But over the summer, Mr. Walters said, Hey, I wanna buy 55,000 Bibles to put in classrooms to supplement the curriculum across my state. Right? Forget the separation of church and state crap. That doesn't matter. Let's buy a bunch of Bibles, 55,000 of them. But Mr. Walters said, you know, we gotta, we can't just buy any Bibles. It's gotta be a Bible that meets these certain parameters. So he laid out the parameters and then said, by the way, I need $3 million from the state to buy these bibles. And the state said, yeah, absolutely, of course. Why wouldn't we give you $3 million to buy a bunch of Bibles? So the, uh, uh, parameters on which Bibles are even eligible to be purchased by the state are so narrow that there are literally only two Bibles in existence that actually meet those criteria. And wouldn't you know it, I mean, just dumb luck here. Both of them are Bibles that Donald Trump profits from one of them, of course, is the Trump Bible, and the other is Lee Greenwood's, God bless the USA Bible, which Donald Trump gets a cut of the prophets because he helped promote it. Those are the only two that meet the criteria. Here is the criteria. The Bibles must be the King James version, contain both old and new testaments. Be bound in leather or leather like material, and include copies of the Pledge of Allegiance, declaration of Independence, US Constitution, and the Bill of Rights, which of course, the Trump Bible does include those things. The Trump Bible sells for $60. The Lee Greenwood Bible sells for $90. And of course, Donald Trump gets a cut of that one, even though he doesn't own it, uh, because that was an agreement they had. If Trump promotes it, he will get a cut of the profits. So no matter which one of these two Bibles, the state of Oklahoma decides to purchase, Donald Trump will get a couple million dollars, most likely in his pocket, because the criteria is so narrow. You can download an app for your phone that has the Bible on it, that's absolutely free. It's the full Bible, old and New Testament. You can actually also download the Constitution, bill of Rights, pledge of Allegiance, all that no cost. So this could all be done for free on tablets in these, uh, uh, schools. You could spend the money to get the tablets to put 'em in the schools, right? But no, we gotta give that money to Donald Trump. Here's what Alicia Andrews, the chair of the State Democratic Party, had to say about Mr. Walter's decision here for Walters to craft this RFP to specifically identify this Bible, this document, and that state taxpayers would spend money on, either as a dereliction of duty, a dereliction of stewardship, or maybe it is a signal to Former President Trump, Hey, hey, I'm on your team, sir. And of course, if Donald Trump gets back into the White House, he's gonna new need a new Secretary of Education, right? And I think that's what Mr. Walters is auditioning for. He wants to be the Secretary of Education. So he's saying, look, Donald, oh, I'm gonna buy $3 million worth of your Bibles, most likely don't forget that I exist when it comes time to pack your cabinet, bud. That's what this is about. It is absolutely disgusting. It was intentional. They knew what the Trump Bibles were, and they made sure to include that in their specifications. Also, Ryan Walters most likely could basically send in his audition for a possible position in a Donald Trump cabinet.