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Michael Medved calls for end to faith-based attack against President Obama

Jul 20, 2016, 5:28 AM | Updated: 8:05 am

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Donald Trump has never been a big fan of President Barack Obama. But now that Trump is the official candidate of the Republican Party, KTTH’s Michael Medved hopes that the billionaire and his supporters will stop the ‘outrageous’ personal attacks against the president’s faith.

Medved specifically pointed to Antonio Sabato Jr., best known for his work an underwear model, who was one of Monday’s headline speakers at the Republican National Convention. After his speech, Sabato told a reporter that Obama is a Muslim, based on what he “feels in his heart,” and is “with the bad guys.”

“I don’t believe that the guy is a Christian. I don’t believe he follows the God that I love and the Jesus that I love. I think he’s had an agenda from the beginning … I’ve met a lot of Christians. I know Christians. I am one and I don’t believe he is.”

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Trump is also a known skeptic of Obama’s faith, having spearheaded the birther movement and repeatedly questioning whether the president is a Muslim or a naturally born American.

Medved said enough is enough.

“This is not helpful. Honestly, it’s not helpful!” Medved said. “And even if you believe, against all evidence in the world, that President Obama is Muslim, you know what: President Obama has a 56 percent approval rating. He is vastly more popular than Hillary Clinton. He is vastly more popular than Donald J. Trump. Can we stop with the personal attacks on President Obama’s religious faith? This is outrageous and it’s wrong and it’s going to alienate the American public.”

Medved, who has been critical of Trump in the past, says this kind of talk has given Hillary Clinton has an easy guide to the White House.

“All she needs to win this election in a landslide is to get everybody who likes Barack Obama, at the moment, to vote for her,” Medved said. “Fifty-six percent approval! He has some of the highest approval ratings of his presidency since 2009. Why do you think that is? Do you think it might have to do with the over-the-top and sometimes irresponsible and sometimes ill-considered, and very-very regularly ineffective attacks by Republicans?”

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Michael Medved calls for end to faith-based attack against President Obama