Trump and Rep. Jonathan Jackson

With President Donald Trump standing awkwardly behind him, a Democratic congressman used his prayer at the National Prayer Breakfast to urge Trump to “think of families preparing to bury their loved ones in Minneapolis.”

Speaking at the bipartisan Washington, DC, event on Thursday shortly after Trump gave a rambling address, Representative Jonathan Jackson (Democrat, Illinois) offered a prayer for “the future of this nation,” and asked God to “lead this president into greater levels of compassion.”

Jackson, the son of civil rights activist Jesse Jackson, said, “Today, we remind him that the lives of millions of people are in his hands, and that he has the power to turn mourning into dancing or to........

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