It does not actually matter, but it is worth mentioning that conservatives will and have often lost their shit over non Republicans who are sworn into Congress or the Senate without their hand on a Bible, or will just entirely make up stories that claim they did not, and then state that this makes them not actually have any legal authority.
There are fucktons of examples of this in the last 2 decades, it is basically a room temperature IQ criticism or fabrication that is routinely thrown by Republicans and conservatives at Democrats.
If Trump actually didn’t swear in whilst touching a Bible, it does not actually matter, but it does illustrate the general idiocy and hypocrisy of Republican rhetoric.
It does not actually matter, but it is worth mentioning that conservatives will and have often lost their shit over non Republicans who are sworn into Congress or the Senate without their hand on a Bible, or will just entirely make up stories that claim they did not, and then state that this makes them not actually have any legal authority.
https://www.factcheck.org/2019/01/bibles-arent-required-for-the-oath-of-office/
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-omar-tlaib-bible-b1793806.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/13/us/politics/roy-moore-bible-ted-crockett.html
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/congressional-swearing-quran/
There are fucktons of examples of this in the last 2 decades, it is basically a room temperature IQ criticism or fabrication that is routinely thrown by Republicans and conservatives at Democrats.
If Trump actually didn’t swear in whilst touching a Bible, it does not actually matter, but it does illustrate the general idiocy and hypocrisy of Republican rhetoric.