Rep. Cori Bush, a member of the far-left Squad, was a religious faith healer who performed a number of miracles, according to her autobiography.
“As I learned how to apply God’s Word to my life in new ways, I came to a deeper understanding of the power that was already within me,” Bush wrote about his abilities in his book, “The Trailblazers: An American Story of Suffering and Perseverance.”
“It was there, waiting for me to acknowledge it and use it. I had the confidence to heal others with God’s power.”
Bush told the story of a young child he met at a prayer meeting in St. Louis.
“She had a brain hemorrhage shortly after she was born and was unable to walk. She had never walked in her life,” Bush recalled. “I carried her from the prayer room at the back of the church to the sanctuary. I gently told the 3-year-old, ‘Walk. You’re going to walk.’ And she took her first step. And then another. And another. And she walked.”
“The grandmother came into the chapel and just saw the little girl take about 24 steps. She screamed and screamed,” Bush continued. “She caught her breath, looked at me in shock and said, ‘Praise God,’ and she grabbed her and they walked out of the church.”
In another instance, Bush claimed to have cured a woman suffering from a tumor.
“One woman we met had several visible tumors on her torso. She was scheduled for surgery but had no health insurance and was living in a park. One of the tumors was especially painful for her. I laid my hands on her and prayed, and I felt my hands no longer touching the tumor. It began to shrink, along with the others on her body.
The book was published by Knopf in 2022.
But despite the all-out media onslaught on the court at the time, few people seem to have read it.
Bush was a longtime member of a faith healing church in Missouri, whose senior pastor is Washington Free Beacon In 2021, he said he cured her of coronavirus through faith healing over the phone.
Bush is currently one of the Squad’s toughest-fought lawmakers, fighting a tough primary against St. Louis prosecutor Wesley Bell.
Polls show her trailing Bell by double digits.
“I don’t think what she’s alleging is happening,” said Dr. Monica Gandhi, a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. “As a physician, I would certainly encourage people to seek treatment for cancer or any other illness.”
