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Jackie Calmes: Would you buy a $60 Bible from this man?

US President Donald Trump holds a Bible while visiting St. John's Church across from the White House after the area was cleared of people protesting the death of George Floyd June 1, 2020, in Washington, DC.

Holy huckster: Just in time for Easter, the holiest day of the Christian calendar, Donald Trump started hawking Bibles — in the same month that he paid a bond after recently being found liable for sexually assaulting and defaming writer E. Jean Carroll and ahead of his next trial, for allegedly paying pre-election hush-money to porn star Stormy Daniels.

Nothing could better illustrate Trump's shamelessness, and — in Americans' reaction to his latest hustle — the range of views about him: From that of grifter (my take, obviously) to God's anointed one (his

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