{"id":2330,"date":"2025-04-05T19:49:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T18:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/?p=2330"},"modified":"2025-04-05T19:49:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T18:49:11","slug":"white-house-press-secretary-claims-theres-spiritual-warfare-around-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/?p=2330","title":{"rendered":"White House press secretary claims there&#8217;s &#8216;spiritual warfare&#8217; around Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2326\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2326\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2326\" src=\"https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Leavitt-White-House-Press-Secretary-300x209.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Leavitt-White-House-Press-Secretary-300x209.webp 300w, https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Leavitt-White-House-Press-Secretary.webp 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2326\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Karoline Leavitt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said during a recent interview that she has seen spiritual warfare during her close proximity to President Donald Trump, but that she believes God has raised him to his position despite &#8220;evil forces&#8221; coming against him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I certainly believe in spiritual warfare,&#8221; the 27-year-old Leavitt, a devout Roman Catholic, told CBN in an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cbn.com\/news\/politics\/god-she-trusts-karoline-leavitts-journey-white-house-podium\">interview<\/a>\u00a0published last Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And I think I saw it firsthand, especially throughout the campaign trail with President Trump,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;And I think there certainly were evil forces. And I think that the president was saved by the grace of God on July 13 in Butler, Pennsylvania, and he&#8217;s in this moment for a reason.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bottom of Form<\/p>\n<p>Leavitt&#8217;s rhetoric echoes that of Trump himself, who\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/president-trump-i-was-saved-by-god-to-make-america-great-again.html\">said<\/a>\u00a0during his second inaugural address on Jan. 20 that he believes God narrowly spared his life for the sake of the nation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;An assassin&#8217;s bullet ripped through my ear, but I felt then and believe even more so now that my life was saved for a reason. I was saved by God to make America great again,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Since assuming office again, Trump has issued multiple executive orders on several flashpoint cultural issues important to many Christians, such as banning men in women&#8217;s sports, pardoning peaceful pro-life protesters targeted by the Biden administration, and clamping down on illegal immigration and human trafficking.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_456\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-456\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-456\" src=\"https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/6488-donald-trump-win-mcnamee-staff-gettyimages-11-300x157.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/6488-donald-trump-win-mcnamee-staff-gettyimages-11-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/6488-donald-trump-win-mcnamee-staff-gettyimages-11-768x401.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/6488-donald-trump-win-mcnamee-staff-gettyimages-11-1024x535.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/6488-donald-trump-win-mcnamee-staff-gettyimages-11-750x392.jpg 750w, https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/6488-donald-trump-win-mcnamee-staff-gettyimages-11-1140x596.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/6488-donald-trump-win-mcnamee-staff-gettyimages-11.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-456\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Donald Trump<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Leavitt is the youngest White House press secretary in U.S. history, a record previously held by Ronald Ziegler, who assumed the role in 1969 under former President Richard Nixon at age 29.<\/p>\n<p>Leavitt was pregnant during her first six months as the Trump campaign&#8217;s national press secretary, and decided to forego maternity leave when she watched the president being shot at his Butler rally just three days after she had\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C9cw4hrp4U3\/\">given birth<\/a>\u00a0to her son, Nicholas. She credited her Catholic faith amid the scrutiny and pressures of her new job.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My faith is incredibly important to me, I would argue, now more than ever, being in a role that is very demanding and at times controversial, and there&#8217;s a lot of public pressure and discussion online about who you are and your family,&#8221; she said. &#8220;And you know, it could be difficult for someone who doesn&#8217;t have faith. But with faith, all things are possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Despite her prominent position, Leavitt recounted to CBN some of the setbacks she has faced in her relatively short life, including a failed attempt to represent New Hampshire&#8217;s 1st Congressional District in 2022. Though she won the primary, she lost in the general election to Democratic incumbent Rep. Chris Pappas, D-N.H.<\/p>\n<p>Leavitt maintained that God can use even apparent failures to accomplish His will in a person&#8217;s life.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;God has a plan for everyone, I believe that firmly,&#8221; she said. &#8220;So God knew what He was doing, I believe, and you just have to trust the process and trust that He&#8217;s working in your life, and stay grounded in your faith throughout the way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Culled from Christian Post<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said during a recent interview that she has seen spiritual warfare during her close proximity to President Donald Trump, but that she believes God has raised him to his position despite &#8220;evil forces&#8221; coming against him. &#8220;I certainly believe in spiritual warfare,&#8221; the 27-year-old Leavitt, a devout Roman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":""},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2331,"href":"https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330\/revisions\/2331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}