At the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday (Feb. 6), President Donald Trump pledged to eliminate discrimination against Christians, protect religious liberty, and “bring God back” to America. During speeches at the annual two-part event, Trump announced he is creating a task force to root out “anti-Christian bias,” led by new Attorney General Pam Bondi. He is also creating a White House Faith Office, headed by Paula White, Trump’s personal pastor.
Addressing lawmakers on Capitol Hill, Trump issued a call for unity. But then while speaking to a larger audience at a hotel ballroom, the president became partisan, blaming the Biden administration for persecuting people of faith.
“People of religion are going to be happy again,” Trump said about his second term. Touting his efforts during the past two weeks—including banning transgender athletes from women’s sports—the president said, “Woke is gone-zo.”
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Trump also said surviving last July’s assassination attempt “changed something in me” spiritually. “I believed in God,” he told attendees, “but I feel…much more strongly about it. Something happened.”
People “can’t be happy without religion, without that belief,” Trump added. “Let’s bring religion back. Let’s bring God back into our lives.”
Trump Announces Anti-Christian Bias Task Force
The new task force on anti-Christian bias will address “weaponization” of faith and “religious persecution,” according to Trump. He said Attorney General Bondi will “fully prosecute anti-Christian violence and vandalism in our society” and “move heaven and earth to defend the rights of Christians and religious believers nationwide.”
The task force will “immediately halt all forms of anti-Christian targeting and discrimination within the federal government,” Trump added, “including at the [Department of Justice], which was absolutely terrible, the IRS, the FBI, terrible, and other agencies.”
Referring to religious liberty, Trump told attendees, “You’ve never had that before…If we don’t have religious liberty, then we don’t have a free country. We probably don’t even have a country.”
The president continued, “We will protect Christians in our schools, in our military, in our government, in our workplaces, hospitals, and in our public squares. And we will bring our country back together as one nation under God, with liberty and justice for all.”
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