'Delusional' Cori Bush chastised as faith healing claims from her 2022 autobiography resurface

Cori Bush's claims about performing miracles, which she included in her 2022 book 'The Forerunner', resurfaced amid her tough primary battle against Wesley Bell
Rep Cori Bush claimed to have performed multiple miracles as a religious faith healer (Getty Images)
Rep Cori Bush claimed to have performed multiple miracles as a religious faith healer (Getty Images)

JEFFERSON CITY, MISSOURI: "Squad" member Rep Cori Bush (D-MO) performed numerous miracles as a religious faith healer, according to her 2022 autobiography, ‘The Forerunner: A Story of Pain and Perseverance in America’, which was published by Knopf, as per the New York Post.

"As I learned how to apply God’s Word to my life in new ways, I better understood the power that was already residing in me. It was there, waiting for me to acknowledge it, to use it. I had the confidence to heal others with God’s power," claimed the Missouri congresswoman in her autobiography. 

ST. LOUIS, MO - NOVEMBER 03: Congresswoman-elect Cori Bush speaks during her election-night watch pa
Rep Cori Bush claimed to have performed numerous miracles as a religious faith healer in her 2022 autobiography (Getty Images)

Rep Cori Bush has had a long-standing association with a faith-healing church in Missouri

Recounting one of the miracles she performed on a toddler from St Louis, Bush wrote, "The child had had a bleed in her brain, shortly after she was born, and so couldn’t walk. She had never taken a step in her life."

She added, "I carried the child from the prayer room in the back of the church out into the sanctuary . . . 'Walk', I said gently to the three-year-old girl, 'You will walk'. And this girl took her first step. Then another, and another. She walked. Her grandmother walked into the sanctuary just in time to see the child take about two dozen steps. She screamed, and then she kept screaming."

"When she caught her breath, she looked at me in wonder and said, 'Praise God'. She grabbed her granddaughter and walked with her out of the church," noted Bush. 

In another instance, the far-left lawmaker claimed to have treated a woman with multiple tumors.

She wrote, "One woman whom we met had several visible tumors on her torso. She was due to have surgery but lacked health insurance and living in the park. One of the tumors was particularly painful to her. I laid hands on her and prayed, and I felt that my hand was no longer touching a tumor. It shrank along with the others on her body." 

WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 31: Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) speaks with supporters as she spends the night outsi
Rep Cori Bush has been one of the prominent members of the progressive group the 'Squad' (Getty Images)

Rep Bush has had a long-standing association with a faith-healing church in Missouri.

The lead pastor of the church claimed to the Washington Free Beacon in 2021 that he effectively treated her coronavirus over the phone through faith healing.

Amid a tough primary battle against Wesley Bell, the prosecuting attorney of St Louis, Bush is facing significant opposition on her road to reelection.

Recent polls indicate that she is significantly trailing behind Bell.

"I don’t think what she’s claiming happened," remarked Dr Monica Gandhi, a professor of medicine at the University of California San Francisco, regarding Bush's supposed miracles, adding, "Definitely as a physician, I would encourage people to seek treatment for cancer and other ailments." 

Internet chastises Cori Bush over her faith healing claims

One remarked, "Oh, she’s delusional too," and another said, "This is the God-complex that our politicians have."

"There are scriptures about people like her, and there are names for those people!!" wrote a person, while someone else said, "She is a total fraud."

"Of course. Charlatan in all respects," fumed an individual. 



 



 



 



 



 

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