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‘Christian Warrior’ Candidate’s Dark Past Revealed

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A MAGA-backed ministry leader vying to be Colorado’s next governor once laughed about slamming his wife into a door, recounted how he threw his toddler across the room and declared that God gave him a “gift” for violence. Marine veteran and martial arts enthusiast Victor Marx has spent years portraying himself as a Christian warrior fighting evil, telling numerous stories over the years about setting people free from “demonic oppression” and performing what he describes as “spiritual exorcisms .” In a jaw-dropping interview a decade before entering politics, he even made unsubstantiated claims that his stepfather forced him to kill a man when he was seven years old. Read more at The Daily Beast.