That same day, a group called Intercessors For America held an “emergency prayer call” for Trump, a social media broadcast that featured pastors Jentezen Franklin, Paula Cain White, Samuel Rodriguez, Jim Garlow, author Eric Metaxas, worship leader Sean Feucht, American Association of Christian Counselors president Tim Clinton, James Dobson, and the former president himself, who included in his remarks his belief that “we’re being discriminated against as a faith.”
On social media, a number of Christian supporters of Trump continued to express outrage at his indictment.
“Donald Trump has been arrested,” tweeted former Trump appointee and Christian commentator William Wolfe. “The Regime will do whatever it takes to keep their power over the American people—and he is the singular biggest threat to that power.”
Evangelist Franklin Graham echoed his previous statements of support for Trump, tweeting, “Under our nation’s Constitution, you and I are innocent of a crime unless and until we are proven guilty.”
“Partisan political calculation, however, appears to be precisely the motivation behind the indictment of former President @realDonaldTrump in a Manhattan courtroom,” Graham continued. “It’s saddening to see what left-wing politicians are doing to our country. Be sure, though, that the Judge of all the earth [Almighty God] will do what is just (Genesis 18:25).”
“Political persecution is un-American,” wrote Sean Feucht. “Pray for President Trump.”
Political commentator Charlie Kirk responded to Trump’s arraignment with a quotation of Genesis 50:40: “You intended to harm me, but God intended it all for good. He brought me to this position so I could save the lives of many people.”
Others remarked about the resilience of evangelical support for Trump despite multiple scandals and now criminal charges, including Texas pastor Dwight McKissic, who tweeted, “When the SBC/Evangelicals opposed Bill Clinton—stating character was the issue—I was naive enough to believe them.”
“Now, watching their support for Trump, in the light of well documented character issues, I recognize not only was I duped, they lied,” McKissic continued. “It was about power, then & now.”
