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Eric Berger

‘Standing up for Christian values’: US evangelicals keep the faith with Trump

a group of people close their eyes and stand together as they pray
Donald Trump at a prayer meeting at an Evangelicals for Trump event in January 2020. Photograph: Tom Brenner/Reuters

When asked about Donald Trump’s Easter morning post wishing a happy holiday to “the Radical Left Lunatics … fighting and scheming so hard to bring Murderers, Drug Lords, Dangerous Prisoners” to the United States, Jackson Lahmeyer, an Oklahoma evangelical Christian pastor, said: “Isn’t it terrible that they are wanting to do that?”

Lahmeyer, the founder of the Pastors for Trump organization, was not bothered by Trump’s extreme and divisive message on the Christian religious holiday, because, he said: “You cannot unify with evil.”

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