Defending The Faith

President Donald Trump spoke at the National Prayer Breakfast this morning. This was the post-assassination Donald Trump speaking today. He announced new initiatives to defend religious liberty. “I will be creating a brand new presidential commission on religious liberty,” Trump said, adding that it will “work tirelessly to uphold this most fundamental right.”

In addition, Trump said he will sign an executive order today directing Attorney General Pam Bondi to form a task force to “eradicate anti-Christian bias” in the federal government.

Trump announced that the task force will also “work to fully prosecute anti-Christian violence and vandalism in our society and to move Heaven and Earth to defend the rights of Christians and religious believers nationwide. . . If we don’t have religious liberty, then we don’t have a free country.”

President Trump also announced the creation of the White House Faith Office. My good friend, Paula White-Cain, who I worked closely with on the president’s National Faith Advisory Board, will lead the Faith Office. White-Cain posted on X that she will be working Attorney General Bondi to “ensure that religious liberties are upheld across the country.”

This is good news for American Values and for men and women of faith! I look forward to working with Paula in the weeks and months ahead.

At an earlier event in the Capitol Building, President Trump recognized the deep religious history of our country. He pointed to statues of religious leaders throughout the building, including John Winthrop, Roger Williams, and Billy Graham.

Trump said that his father took him to one of Graham’s crusades at Yankee Stadium. “I remember so well, I remember it more than I remember any Yankee game,” he recalled.

The president also spoke at length about the attempt on his life in Butler, Pennsylvania. He said, “It changed something in me, I feel. I feel even stronger. I believed in God, but I feel much more strongly about it. Something happened.”

Please keep President Trump in your prayers.