Cori Bush claimed to have worked miracles and cured tumors in her autobiography

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By Jon Levine

Far-left Rep. Cori Bush, a member of the squad, performed multiple miracles as a faith healer, according to her autobiography.

“As I learned how to apply God’s Word to my life in new ways, I better understood the power that already resided within me,” Bush wrote of his abilities in “The Forerunner: A Story of Pain and Perseverance in America.

“It was there, waiting for me to recognize it, to use it. I had the confidence to heal others with the power of God.

Bush told the story of a toddler she met at a prayer service in St. Louis.

“The child had suffered a brain hemorrhage shortly after birth and was therefore no longer able to walk. She had never taken a step in her life,” Bush recalled. “I carried the child from the prayer room at the back of the church to the sanctuary. . . “Walk,” I said gently to the little three-year-old girl, “you will walk.” And this girl took her first step. Then another, and another. She walked.

“His grandmother entered the sanctuary just in time to see the child take about two dozen steps. She screamed, and then she continued to scream,” Bush continued. “When she caught her breath, she looked at me in wonder and said, “Praise God.” She grabbed her granddaughter and walked her out of the church.

In another case, Bush claimed to have cured a woman with tumors.

“One woman we met had several visible tumors on her torso. She was scheduled for surgery but had no health insurance and lived in the park. One of the tumors was particularly painful for him. I laid my hands on him and prayed, and I felt that my hand no longer touched a tumor. He shrank along with the others on his body.

The book was released by Knopf in 2022.

But despite a media blitz at the time, few people seem to have read it.

Bush has long been affiliated with a faith healing church in Missouri, whose senior pastor told the Washington Free Beacon in 2021 that he healed her of the coronavirus through telephone faith healing.

Bush is currently one of the most embattled “Squad” lawmakers and is engaged in a tough primary against Wesley Bell, the St. Louis district attorney.

Polls suggest she is behind Bell by a double-digit margin.

“I don’t think what she claims happened,” said Dr. Monica Gandhi, a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. “As a doctor, I would certainly encourage people to seek treatment for cancer and other illnesses.”