<p>Joy Behar raved on Wednesday over the guest on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View,&#8221; the &#8220;woke&#8221; Episcopal Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde, who used a Tuesday prayer service to lob political attacks from the pulpit toward President Donald Trump.</p>
<p>Behar praised Budde as she introduced the Washington, D.C. Diocese&#8217;s first female bishop, saying that she&#8217;d shown &#8220;more fearlessness than anyone in Congress right now&#8221; when she stood at the pulpit and called on Trump to show &#8220;mercy&#8221; to transgender people and illegal aliens.</p>
<p>&#8220;So let me ask you this,&#8221; Behar began. &#8220;What made you decide to use that opportunity for this message and did you have any apprehension about it?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Thank you, first of all, for allowing me to be with you today,&#8221; Budde replied. &#8220;My responsibility that morning, yesterday morning, was to reflect — to pray with the nation for unity.&#8221;</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Joy Behar commends &#8220;bishop&#8221; Mariann Edgar Budde for her highly politized service at the National Cathedral yesterday, saying she has &#8220;more fearlessness than anyone in congress right now.&#8221;<br />
Budde claims all she wanted to do was preach &#8220;unity&#8221; and &#8220;trying to counter the narrative… <a href="https://t.co/hLG5KGrOG2">pic.twitter.com/hLG5KGrOG2</a></p>
<p>— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1882104165263945906?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
<p>&#8220;And as I was pondering what are the foundations of unity, I, you know, I wanted to emphasize respecting the honor and dignity of every human being, basic honesty and humility,&#8221; she claimed. &#8220;And then I also realized that in — that unity requires a certain degree of mercy, mercy and compassion and understanding.&#8221;</p>
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<p>&#8220;And so knowing that a lot of people, as I said, in our country right now are really scared, I wanted to take the opportunity in the context of that service for unity to say we need to treat everyone with dignity,&#8221; Budde continued. &#8220;And we need to be merciful, and to — I was trying to counter the narrative that is so divisive and polarizing and in which people, real people are being — are being harmed.&#8221;</p>
<p>Trump responded to Budde&#8217;s service by saying first that it had not been &#8220;very good,&#8221; later posting on Truth Social that her tone had been &#8220;nasty.&#8221;</p>

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