(OPINION) A sold-out ReAwaken America Tour event raised eyebrows after video clips from the event, which took place at John Hagee’s Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas, went viral.

In one clip, the over 3,500 in attendance can be seen chanting “Let’s go Brandon” from the pews. The event hosted by Clay Clark of the ThriveTimeShow Podcast featured pastors Greg Locke and Artur Pawlowski, as well as evangelist Nick Vujicic, “Let Us Worship” leader Sean Feucht, MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, and Trump’s former security advisor General Michael Flynn, who was pardon by the 45th President of the United States.

PatriotTakes tweeted the clip of the crowd chanting “Let’s go Brandon.” The saying, which originated at a NASCAR event when a reporter mistook what the fans were chanting while interviewing driver Brandon Brown, is a coded phrase for “F**k Joe Biden.” In another clip, a different angle of moment shows that the chant was not spontaneous, but rather led from the stage.


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“People over there. Come on now, people in the front row,” someone said from the stage while pointing the mic at the crowd. More than 6,500 people have commented on PatriotTakes’ tweet, many of which calling for the church’s tax-exempt status. “That church should lose its tax-exempt status.

Not saying that for all churches but this one has violated the rules,” one person wrote. Another said, “Wasn’t there something about separation of Church & State in the Constitution? Does this violate that? Politics from the pulpit?” Another clip from the event shows General Flynn’s speech.

Flynn, who identifies as Catholic, told those in attendance, “There’s something shaking — the ground underneath us is shaking. And it’s shaking because there is a time [when] you have to believe that God Almighty is involved in this country because this is it. This is the last place on Earth.” READ MORE