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Lord Carey suggested the President is a “flawed character” who has given a “voice” to the “wounded and helpless” in the US.



The peer said: “Many will recoil at the identification of Donald Trump as the Good Samaritan but why not, why not?

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Is it not true that we have wounded and left-behind communities passed by by the elite Lord Carey

“Is it not true that we have wounded and left-behind communities passed by by the elite, who are too distracted and busy with their own agendas, too busy to look over to see someone in distress?



“And intervention that makes a difference is from a totally unexpected source, the Samaritan, the outsider from a despised sect in Israel.”

The Good Samaritan is a Parable in which a man is beaten by robbers and then ignored by a priest and a Levite until being helped by a Samaritan.



Lord Carey’s apparent praise of the US President puts him at odds with the current Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, who blasted Trump’s recent attempts to impose a travel ban for people from a number of predominantly-Muslim countries.

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He added: “His attitudes are in a way irrelevant. His wealth is beyond the imagination of all of us. His hedonist lifestyle, his hypocrisy, the things that make him such a flawed character may also be the very thing that people today find deeply seductive.”



Lord Carey served as Archbishop of Canterbury from 1991 to 2002 and has previously condemned Trump’s critics as displaying a “staggering overreaction” to his policies.

GETTY The current Archbishop of Canterbury has been critical of Donald Trump