Deep denial:

Trump gets high marks from evangelicals, if not on theology

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump won glowing praise from a Christian evangelical leader in one of the nation’s biggest battleground states on Monday.

Jerry Falwell Jr., head of Virginia-based Liberty University, didn’t formally endorse the billionaire, who spoke at the school’s convocation, but his remarks went further than for any other candidate to speak there during this race.

“He cannot be bought. He’s not a puppet on a string like many other candidates,” said Falwell Jr., who said he met with three of Trump’s children this past week. “The American public is finally ready to elect a candidate who is not a career politician.”

Falwell Jr. even likened Trump to his father, the late Reverend Jerry Falwell, which the candidate called “an honor for me.” Falwell Sr., a politically influential evangelist, founded the “Moral Majority” that became a conservative force in the 1980s.

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Dear Bloomberg and Chicago Tribune: the problem isn’t that Trump fails at theology, it’s that he fails a morality.