Tereasa Emerson has never made any posts about being a ministry leader. There is no publicly available record of her ever leading any ministry.
Nonetheless, she is listed as a ministry leader in Donald Trump’s Iowa Faith Leader Coalition.
Why is that?
Donald Trump bragged that he was going to get the endorsement of at least one Christian leader from each of Iowa’s 99 counties.
Tereasa Emerson’s name is the only one on the Iowa Faith Leader Coalition from Monroe County.
I wasn’t there inside the offices of the 2024 Trump campaign, of course, so I can’t say for sure what kind of shenanigans were going on, but it sure as heck looks a lot like the Trump for President campaign was getting desperate in the weeks before the Iowa caucuses, and became willing to accept anyone into the Iowa Faith Leader Coalition, whether they were genuine religious leaders or not.
Tereasa Emerson is a nurse at Lucas County Health Center.
She has also done some moonlighting with a multilevel marketing scheme called Twisted Spur.
Emerson has written many posts about her cats and about going to concerts. She has commented to the local news about how much she hopes that the Target store in Ottumwa won’t be closed. She posts sarcastic memes about a variety of subjects on Pinterest.
It’s easy to talk about Christian Nationalism in the abstract, but the new book Donald Trump’s Army of God: Christian Nationalism in the Iowa Faith Leader Coalition provides an analysis of Christian Nationalism that is grounded in what Christian Nationalists actually say and do.
Forget the theory and theology. This case study is based solely on information about the 317 members of the Iowa Faith Leader Coalition.
You wouldn’t expect Iowa to be the source of stories about Nazi propaganda, murder-suicide, terrorism, money laundering and business fraud, monsters and magic spells, faith healing and guns, ancient prophecies of eternal torture, and a growing Christian Nationalist hunger for global genocidal war. Defying expectations, that is just what the authors found.
The Iowa Faith Leader Coalition is an extremist political organization that violates the law
Learn more about the radical Christian Nationalists who belong to Donald Trump’s Iowa Faith Leader Coalition.