CV NEWS FEED // In an Iowa speech given Tuesday night, former President Donald Trump vowed to “end the War on Christians” as soon as he is “back in the Oval Office.”
The 45th president called out the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) targeting of Catholic Americans in particular.
“Under Crooked Joe Biden, Christians and Americans of faith are being persecuted—and government has been weaponized against religion like never before,” he said.
“Biden and his corrupt Department of Injustice have sent SWAT teams to arrest pro-life activists,” he said, alluding to the FBI’s raid on the home of Catholic pro-lifer Mark Houck last year.
“They’ve targeted conservative parents at school board meetings who don’t want filth,” Trump continued. “And now the Communists, Marxists, and Fascists are going hard after Catholics, even plotting to send spies into Catholic churches.”
Trump made an appeal for Catholics to reject his likely general election opponent, President Joe Biden. “Now think of it, if you’re a Catholic, why would you vote for a Democrat?” Trump said. “What they’re doing to Catholics—I don’t know what’s going on with the Catholics, but they’re being persecuted. Why would you vote for Biden, and why would you vote for a Democrat?”
“A new report from the House Judiciary Committee proves that the Biden FBI actually targeted Catholics as potential ‘domestic terrorists’—do you believe this?” Trump added. “And you know, evangelicals will not be far behind. Once it starts, it starts happening on a very major scale.”
“When I am back in the White House, never again will your government be used to target Christians and other religious believers,” he emphasized.
Trump vowed that in a second term he would “create a new Federal Task Force on Fighting Anti-Christian Bias, to be led by a fully reformed Department of Justice that’s fair and equitable.”
“Its mission will be to investigate all forms of illegal discrimination, harassment, and persecution against Christians in America,” he said.
The former president’s campaign speech in Waterloo, IA, comes just weeks before the state’s caucuses – the first Republican nomination contest of 2024. Trump maintains a large lead in the polls in the Hawkeye State, as well as in all other early voting states.
His remarks came on the same night the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that he was “disqualified” from appearing on the state’s ballot. Trump plans to appeal the ruling to the Supreme Court.
