Trump is Christian????

Jeb Bush: No, I don't think Trump is Christian

By Nick Gass

On the same day that Donald Trump earned the endorsement of evangelical leader Jerry Falwell Jr., Jeb Bush expressed doubt over whether Donald Trump is a Christian, remarking that the Manhattan businessman merely views faith as another political tool.

Asked by reporters in Nevada on Tuesday whether he believed Trump to be a Christian, Bush said he does not.

"No, I don't know what he is," the former governor of Florida said, according to video posted by ABC News. "I just don't think he has the relationship that he says he has, if you can't explain it in any way that shows that he's serious about it. Just accepting the fact that we make mistakes and you seek forgiveness. That's one of the tenets of the Christian faith, that I think all —everybody can agree on. We're all sinners."

The reporter in the video noted that Trump previously struggled in an interview to name his favorite Bible verse, a comment that led Bush to remark that Trump "is playing this for political purposes, for sure." Trump has also said in the past that while he is religious, he has never asked God for forgiveness.

Trump, an avowed Presbyterian, has in recent days attempted to bolster his religious credentials, attending a service in Iowa on Sunday in which the pastor preached humility, a topic on which Trump later commented, “I don’t know if that was aimed at me."