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Trump goes incognito for Christmas: The Donald avoids waiting cameras as he attends midnight mass w
dailymail.co.uk ^ | Chris Spargo

Posted on 12/25/2015 6:07:58 AM PST by RoosterRedux

Donald Trump may be a fierce debater and a brash critic who is always happy to speak his mind and then some, but there seems to be one place the presidential hopeful is more than happy to lay low - church.

Trump and his family attended the 10:30pm midnight mass service at Bethesda-By-The-Sea in West Palm Beach, Florida on Christmas Eve, and the billionaire businessman somehow managed to avoid the massive number of photographers and members of the press waiting outside to document his arrival.

Instead he slipped inside unnoticed for the service, with the only photographs from the evening coming from some of his fellow churchgoers who uploaded them to social media.

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Trump's fellow midnight-mass attendees mostly just wrote on Twitter that they had spotted Trump at the service, with a few noting that they were checked by Secret Service members before entering the church.

His Secret Service detail may explain why he slipped in unnoticed as they likely coordinated his entrance to avoid any possible safety concerns for him and his family.

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To: Bryanw92
The church visit and giant bible tucked under the arm should not be a location and prop for a photo op.


41 posted on 12/25/2015 6:47:48 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Falcon 105)
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To: afraidfortherepublic; All

If it was any other candidate, they would have embedded a camera in their gut to watch the wafer slowly digest and enter their intestinal tract.


42 posted on 12/25/2015 6:50:32 AM PST by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: a fool in paradise

Unitarian would be preferable to his father’s religion.


43 posted on 12/25/2015 6:50:36 AM PST by fhayek
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To: Theo

Stop with your BS 0blama comparisons.

CRuz attended church services, as well.

So, there’s that. CRuz = 0bama.

See how that works?

Now, scram from trolling Trump threads.


44 posted on 12/25/2015 6:50:58 AM PST by Jane Long (Go Trump, go! Make America Safe Again :)
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To: Theo
It proves you are...(ok, be nice, its Christmas)...you are a fellow FReeper.

GO TRUMP!

45 posted on 12/25/2015 6:51:48 AM PST by Awgie (truth is always stranger than fiction)
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To: RoosterRedux

Blessings to the Trump family!

Merry Christmas :)


46 posted on 12/25/2015 6:52:12 AM PST by Jane Long (Go Trump, go! Make America Safe Again :)
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To: Theo

And my point is that going to Church in private with his family is an indication that Mr. Trump’s Christianity is real.


47 posted on 12/25/2015 6:55:56 AM PST by grania
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To: fhayek

Or his step father’s, or ‘former’ muslim Jeremiah Wright’s.


48 posted on 12/25/2015 6:57:45 AM PST by a fool in paradise (The goal of Socialism is Communism. Marx and Lenin were in agreement on this.)
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To: McGruff
As it should be. There's a time for publicity and a time for privacy. Guess the press didn't think so.

Heh! A place of worship is alien territory for them. Probable conversation among the presstitues:

Presstitute #1: "Where the #$@% IS he?!"
Presstitute #2: [getting off phone]: "He's already in there!"
Presstitute #3: "WHAT?! How the #%@% did he get past us?!"
Presstitute #2: "He snuck in!"
Presstitute #1: "Dammit! Now what do we do?"
Presstitute #3: "Well, maybe we oughta go in?"
Presstitute #1: "GO IN?! TO...CHURCH?!"
Presstitute #2: "I ain't goin' in there!"
Presstitute #1: "I sure as hell ain't goin' in there!"

49 posted on 12/25/2015 6:59:44 AM PST by COBOL2Java (I'll vote for Jeb when Terri Schiavo endorses him.)
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To: Eddie01

Eddie01, I like you! Agree 100%


50 posted on 12/25/2015 7:01:43 AM PST by native texan (Texans should be independent thinkers)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Looks like the church in question is actually Episcopalian. The reporter and his editors are morns, so they used the word “mass” where it wasn’t applicable.


51 posted on 12/25/2015 7:02:55 AM PST by Plummz (pro-constitution, anti-corruption)
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To: Popman
No, we can't know his heart.

What we CAN know is that he sneaked in and didn't make a big production of it, carrying a king-size Bible and waving to the cameras.

So he acknowledges that he is not the most important one here. Perhaps it is just modesty, perhaps a nod to the proprieties, perhaps a recognition of his Lord.

But whichever, it's a good sign that the man has some humility.

52 posted on 12/25/2015 7:05:05 AM PST by AnAmericanMother (Ecce Crucem Domini, fugite partes adversae. Vicit Leo de Tribu Iuda, Radix David, Alleluia!)
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To: RoosterRedux

It’s not, if you go to church but are you the church.


53 posted on 12/25/2015 7:05:25 AM PST by Rodm
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To: N. Theknow

Yep - was a Piskie for many years. Attended a “high”, not to say ultramontane, parish, then a moderately high one. But this diocese is traditionally “low”, so high parishes are few and far between. Even fewer since GC 2003.


54 posted on 12/25/2015 7:06:07 AM PST by AnAmericanMother (Ecce Crucem Domini, fugite partes adversae. Vicit Leo de Tribu Iuda, Radix David, Alleluia!)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

LOL!! ...and a bible cam.


55 posted on 12/25/2015 7:06:13 AM PST by Eddie01 (uh oh)
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To: All

Please take note, it is Christmas!
“Do not judge so that you will not be judged. “For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you. “Why do you look at the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? “Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ and behold, the log is in your own eye? “You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye. (Matthew 7:1-5)

Blessings to ALL!


56 posted on 12/25/2015 7:06:41 AM PST by GOYAKLA ( Pick-up the pace, I'm eighty!)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

I was raised Pentecostal but used to go to midnight mass with hubby’s family. I always thought it was beautiful regardless of the religion.


57 posted on 12/25/2015 7:08:18 AM PST by sheana
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Iirc wife was raised catholic


58 posted on 12/25/2015 7:10:15 AM PST by hoosiermama
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To: Theo
He's never asked for forgiveness

Do you think he has ever recited The Lord's Prayer ?

59 posted on 12/25/2015 7:12:48 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: A_Former_Democrat

What we see as phonies, the American people often regard as statesmen.


60 posted on 12/25/2015 7:13:56 AM PST by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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