Was she exaggerating, or is it true that our vice president thinks Jesus tells him to say things? If so, what are the specific things Jesus has told him to say? It would be helpful for Manigault and/or Pence to clarify this. There have in fact been politicians who claimed they “heard voices” from God. Most notable, perhaps, is Mohandas Gandhi, whose campaign to turn what should have been a normal political transition to Indian independence into a religious proselytizing opportunity helped ruin millions of lives. He claimed to hear the voice of God in his head, giving him minute political instructions. There are also disputed reports that George W. Bush was told directly by God to invade Iraq. Nikolas Cruz, who killed seventeen students at Florida’s Stoneman Douglas High School, is also reported to have been responding to voices inside his head, though we don’t know whose voices he thought they were.