‘I will never let them take away your freedom’
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(Photo by Joe Kovacs)
[Editor’s note: This story originally was published by Real Clear Wire.]
By Philip Wegmann
Real Clear Wire
Twice indicted but still the undisputed frontrunner for the Republican nomination, Donald Trump told religious conservatives Saturday that his legal woes were bigger than a courtroom fight.
The former president and evangelicals were instead engaged together in what he likened to a “righteous crusade” against “atheists, globalists, and the Marxists.” In a nearly 90-minute speech, Trump alleged that Democrats were not just “trying to take away” religious liberty. They were battling “God Almighty himself.”
“They are waging war,” he said of that cosmic battle. “It’s not a war they are going to win.” And for his part, Trump promised, if returned to the White House, to “restore our nation under God.”
In this way, inside the ballroom of the Washington Hilton, he branded his reelection as something of a holy war before questioning how any person of faith could support a Democrat. “How can you as Christians, how can the people in this room,” Trump asked, “vote for them?”
According to the former president, his recent indictment for mishandling classified documents was the latest confirmation that his enemies harbored anti-democratic ambitions in pursuit of an anti-religious mission. “The radical left is coming after all of us because they know our allegiance is not to them,” he said. “Our allegiance is to our country and our creator.”