LA Times publishes novelist's column about casting 'binding' spells on Trump

A major newspaper has published an op-ed column of an author who narrated how she tried to cast a "binding spell" on President Donald Trump in an effort to impede his policies.

The Los Angeles Times has published a column by novelist Diana Wagman, who recounted how she joined a "binding-spell" movement against the president in order to keep him from fulfilling his agenda.

In her column titled "I Put a Spell on You, Mr. President," Wagman explained that she first heard about the campaign to cast a spell on Trump last month when she received a message from the Oracle of Los Angeles with the subject line "Bind Trump, not your breasts."

Wagman said that she does not believe in the devil, but she believes that the country "has gone to hell," and she is willing to try anything to save it. She said that her goal in casting the spell was not to harm the president but to keep him from achieving his goals.

The novelist said that she does not see a difference between the binding spell and the "oms" that she chants while practicing yoga. She also suggested that the prayers from her Episcopalian family and even scriptural exhortations about faith were no different from the binding spells.

"It's all about conviction, about concentrating and believing, with all your heart, that you can make a difference," she wrote.

She then cited Matthew 21:22, which stated "And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith," as supporting evidence for her participation in the campaign.

Wagner said she was disappointed at first when the House of Representatives passed the American Health Care Act just after she cast the spell, but she was encouraged when she thought that the president began to "falter."

"The backlash against his firing of James B. Comey, his revealing interview with Lester Holt, his spilling of classified information to the Russians, the Comey memo, Kevin McCarthy's taped voice joking that Trump was paid by Putin and the appointment of a special counsel, to say nothing of his constant, contradictory tweets — maybe the binding spell is doing its job," she wrote.

She said that she will perform the ritual again, but she maintained that casting spells is not enough, so she vowed to keep signing petitions, calling her representatives, marching to the City Hall and sending donations to the American Civil Liberties Union in an effort resist Trump.

The campaign to cast spells on the president began in February this year, with thousands of men and women around the world pledging to perform the ritual at midnight under the crescent moon.

Singer Lana Del Rey appeared to support the campaign as she tweeted a photo of herself with the caption "At the stroke of midnight Feb 24, March 26, April 24, May 23... Ingredients can b found online."

Evangelical supporters of Trump had encouraged other Christians to pray for the president to counteract the spells.

"We ask you to join us in praying for the strength of our nation, our elected representatives and for the souls of the lost who would take up Satanic arms against us," the Christian Nationalist Alliance stated on its website.