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Trump indictment over Stormy Daniels will have 'little impact' on his evangelical Christian base: expert
March 25, 2023
If Donald Trump is indicted in connection with his $130,000 hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels don’t expect it to move the needle at all with white Christian conservatives who formerly concerned themselves with morality.
That’s the view of Robert P. Jones, CEO and founder of the Public Religion Research Institute and an expert on the religious right. Citing a long history of statistics showing that Trump’s numerous scandals either raised his support among white Evangelicals or didn’t cause it to drop, Jones predicted that even as lurid an example as this one won’t matter at all.
“As we anticipate the potential indictment of a former president, the data suggests that even such an unprecedented event would have little impact on the support for Trump by white evangelical Protestants and other conservative white Christians,” Jones wrote on his Substack #WhiteTooLong.
Jones cited numerous examples of “the unwavering support of Trump by these former “values voters” across Trump’s presidency, despite numerous well-known episodes of lewd, bigoted and unethical behavior.” He cited this as Exhibit A:
“On a hot mic, Trump brags about forcibly kissing and groping women, declaring, “And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything…. Grab them by the p—y, you can do anything.” Between September 2016, before the tape is released, and 2017, Trump’s favorability among white evangelical Protestants climbs 12 points, from 61% to 73%.”
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Trump’s favorability remained at that 73% level even in the wake of the white supremacist “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville and Trump’s statement that there were “very fine people on both sides,” Jones writes. The same held true after the Wall Street Journal broke the Stormy Daniels scandal in 2018 and after Trump’s first impeachment in 2019, he notes.
“By the fall of 2021, after losing the election, inciting an insurrection and becoming the first U.S. president in history to be impeached for a second time, his favorability finally drops among white evangelical Protestants — but only 7 percentage points to 67%. By the fall of 2022, Trump’s favorability among white evangelical Protestants dips modestly to 63%, but his popularity remains comparable to this same point in his 2016 campaign.”
Jones concludes, “As has been the case since Trump’s emergence as a national political figure in 2015, any excuse to deny the obvious will do. An indictment — particularly by a district attorney who is a Black Democrat from Manhattan whom Trump has already derided as a politically motivated “racist” — is likely to reconfirm their perception of a world upside-down and strengthen their allegiance to Trump.”
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Staffers working for House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) are complaining that they are being treated rudely when they contact Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office which is currently investigating Donald Trump.
According to a report from the New York Post, an aide working for the powerful Republican Party-controlled committee whined about their treatment which has included hang-ups and blunt talk to stop calling.
Speaking with the Post, one unnamed aide claimed they made a call to Bragg's office "at noon on Wednesday [and] was promptly hung up on after he identified himself to a woman who answered the phone."
When they called back a second time, another staffer working for the Manhattan DA reportedly told them, "Your committee has no jurisdiction over us. You’re wrong. Stop calling us with this bulls—t,” with the GOP staffer complaining to the Post, "I don’t think I’ve ever seen any government entity respond to Congress in that manner. It’s quite embarrassing, but I don’t think anyone is surprised based on how partisan that office has become.”
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Jordan's committee, as well as the House Oversight Committee, are trying to investigate Bragg's office at the request of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) since last Saturday when Trump announced that he would be arrested in Tuesday, which never came to pass.
As the Post notes, "In a five-page response, Bragg’s general counsel Leslie Dubeck called the GOP probe 'an unprecedented inquiry into a pending local prosecution' and refused to comply — but left the door open to continue discussions."
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Trump kicks off his '24 campaign in 'Mecca of hatred' Waco today — and there are parallels: report
March 25, 2023
Donald Trump’s is holding the first rally of his 2024 campaign today in Waco, Texas, and “the significance will not be lost on many of his supporters” as to why it’s the site, Mother Jones noted today.
Trump’s rally Waco coincides with the 30th anniversary of the federal government’s siege of the compound of David Koresh’s Branch Davidians religious cult. By the time it ended, 82 Branch Davidians died – including Koresh and 28 children – as well as four federal agents.
“For a not insignificant slice of the right, Waco became the symbol of a federal government willing to target, torment, and — in more conspiratorial tellings — murder innocent people who just wanted to be left alone,” Mother Jones reported.“Trump’s Waco rally comes as the former president argues that he, too, is being persecuted by three-letter agencies as he awaits a potential indictment in New York state.
“The Waco rally sets up the current campaign as a battle against the Deep State forces Trump claims are intent on destroying him and his fellow patriots. A Trump campaign spokesperson says the location is merely about convenience, telling the New York Times that Waco was picked because of its proximity to Texas’ biggest metropolitan areas.
“But Trump’s supporters are drawing the obvious conclusion. “Waco was an overreach of the government, and today the New York district attorney is practicing an overreach of the government again,” a retiree who is traveling to the rally from Tennessee told the Times.”
The magazine also observed this eerie parallel.
“Like Koresh, who told his followers that a showdown with their enemies in the outside world of “Babylon” was inevitable, Trump has been preparing his base for something like this for years. He posts incessantly about the New York investigation on his social media platform Truth Social, warning on Friday morning of “potential death & destruction in such a false charge could be catastrophic for our Country.”
More than 70 ATF agents raided the Branch Davidians complex on February 28, 1993 “even though they knew the Branch Davidians were expecting them that day,” the report noted. Four of the agents and six Branch Davidians died in a gun battle before the ATF retreated—setting off the 51-day siege” by the FBI.
The siege ended in a massive fire at the compound that the FBI stated was ordered by Koresh as a mass suicide. Many on the right continue to challenge that conclusion.
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