President Donald Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi have kicked off an investigation to root out "anti-Christian" bias within the federal government — but they should look no further than a mirror if they want to find state attacks on Christians for their faith, Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush of the Interfaith Coalition told CNN's John Berman on Monday.
The fact of the matter is that the Trump administration and its allies support a narrow range of Christians who agree with their own beliefs — and are escalating public attacks on more liberal faith leaders, from desecrating churches that give sanctuary to migrants, to public condemnation of an Episcopalian bishop who prayed for Trump to be "merciful" and "compassionate."
"How big of a problem is anti-Christian discrimination in the federal government?" said Berman.
"Well, what's interesting is it's almost nonexistent," said Raushenbush. "I mean, there have been Christians in federal government, there have been great programs that have been run with Christian assistance in USAID. This is not a problem, but the president is actually — what he's trying to do is create a problem, which is part of a play for power. And so this is, what we've actually seen is an anti-Christian bias coming out of the White House. So we actually need protection from the White House at this point."
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"No one knows that better than people like [Bishop] Mariann Budde, who have been attacked, bullied by the president, receiving death threats, just for preaching from her pulpit that he might give mercy," he added. "We've seen the Catholic bishops being attacked by J.D. Vance for doing their work, being accused of going for the bottom line. This is gross, grotesque."
One of the biggest attacks, he continued, is tech billionaire Elon Musk's attacks on Lutheran organizations that work on refugee resettlement.
"They help the elderly, they help people across this country, doing great work. And Elon Musk comes out and says, oh, these people are money laundering," said Raushenbush. "These are all attacks directly on Christian communities. The Quakers have experienced it, with ICE being now allowed to invade congregations one after another. Christian communities under attack from this Trump-Vance-Musk administration. And it's very ironic that they're worried about anti-Christian bias, given that we need to be protected from this White House."
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