"I pardoned the J6ers. I don't think any group's been treated more unfairly than them, and to this day, when they see me they cry."
"For getting people out, I get very high marks for getting the bad ones out," Mr. Trump said.
"But I get hurt because we also took people that had good jobs, that created one violation, or breaking of the law, and that was that they came into the country illegally."
"I devote almost no time to my net worth"
The president told 60 Minutes he has confidence in Hegseth, and pushed back against calls from Democrats to impeach the Pentagon chief.
"They want to impeach him. Very unfair," Mr. Trump said. "We had two wars, we won both. We won Venezuela, we won Iran."
"I may or may not get involved. I don't know," he said. "Maybe I'm better off not getting involved. I think it would play a big role if I did, because my endorsement capacity has been very strong." (on endorsing for President)
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"Well, I'm a religious person, so in theory, I go to heaven," the president said. "I hope so. I don't want to go to hell." (asked about after he dies)
Douthat asked whether Mr. Trump could forgive his political foes in order to get into heaven.
"The answer is no. I want to be honest, no."
Pressed further, he said the "easy answer" would be to say yes, but he acknowledged:
"I probably cannot do that, no, because I do hate some of my enemies and always will."
"Trump also made one other comment that was rather startling, especially to those of us who are Christian, where he said that Israel would not exist except for Donald Trump.
Now, I feel there's a great deal of symbolism here in that the man who lines up with the biblical Antichrist is taking credit for the very existence of Israel.
However, many of Trump's supporters who proclaim to be Christians will either just brush aside what he said or even agree with him that Israel would not exist except for Donald J. Trump.
Trump's statement about not forgiving his enemies, even after death, tell us that he is embracing his hatred to such a degree that nothing else matters.
And it should speak to us about how if we let hatred grow in our hearts, it can begin to consume us. It can destroy us from the inside out. And that's exactly what hatred does. It destroys us from the inside out.
But getting back to what Trump said, he's telling us that he will never ever forgive in this lifetime, let alone what happens after death.
That means for the rest of his years on planet Earth, he will be filled with hatred against all his enemies, and he will do whatever he can to seek vengeance.
It's also a warning to us to not allow hatred to fester in our hearts, lest we follow this man down the road to perdition."
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