Though it was released in 2022, an autobiography by U.S. Rep. Cori Bush is just now getting some major publicity — for miraculous reasons.
Seems that in the ºüÀêÊÓƵ Democrat's autobiography, Bush claims to have cured people of illnesses by laying her hands on them.
The  its tabloid taser at the book — "The Forerunner: A Story of Pain and Perseverance in America†— by publishing two stories about it since Saturday.
Calling the work a "little-known autobiography," the newspaper on Saturday told of how Bush claims in the book to have helped make tumors disappear from two women and also helped a child with a "brain bleed" who could not walk.
The Post quotes a passage Bush wrote in the book: "‘Walk,’ I said gently to the three-year-old girl, ‘you will walk.’ And this girl took her first step. Then another, and another. She walked."
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Then on Monday, the that shortly after the book was released, Bush "doubled-down on her bizarre faith-healing claims" in a TV interview and told the show host how she cured a woman’s tumors by laying hands on them.
In the interview on Bush said that while she and friends were out on the streets giving people food, a "lady came to us, and she had these tumors, and she wanted us to like, feel them," Bush said in the interview.
“I just remember I put my hand on her, my hand just began to move,†Bush said. “And the lumps that were there were no longer there."
The newspaper story also points out that Bush, who is a former nurse, told how she also helped a woman whose lack of health insurance precluded her from having surgery on visible tumors.
“I laid hands on her and prayed, and I felt that my hand was no longer touching a tumor. It shrank along with the others on her body," Bush wrote in her book.
When Bush was asked in the interview how she would respond to people who did not believe her stories of healing, Bush said, "They're not the woman who had the tumors."
"If I can speak a prayer and I can believe what I believe, and you believe that this will help you, then why not offer that to people?" Bush said.
"Because I know prayer has helped me," Bush concluded.
Bush's campaign did not respond to a request for a comment about the stories.
The book, for which Bush received a $50,000 advance, was released in October 2022 with a media promotion that included appearance on PBS and "The View."
At that time, the Post reported that , selling barely more than 1,000 copies in its first two weeks on the shelf.
Bush, who was first elected in 2020, currently is involved in a heated primary battle on Aug. 6 for her 1st Congressional District seat.
ºüÀêÊÓƵ County Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell and former Missouri legislator Maria Chappelle-Nadal are her main opponents. The winner in the primary is virtually assured of victory in the November general election.