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Christian Support for Trump
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| For God and Country, the Christian case for Trump. | |
| Dr. Ralph Reed, why did you write this book, For God and Country? | |
| You know, I wrote this book probably less as a defense of Donald Trump, although I do plenty of that and proudly so. | |
| In fact, Lori, I have a roughly 30-page appendix in the book that details all the amazing and historic achievements and accomplishments that Donald Trump achieved just through February of this year, which is when the book, around that time, it was going to press. | |
| And it's an extraordinary record. | |
| I mean, prior to COVID, the lowest unemployment rate for African Americans, Hispanics, and women recorded in U.S. economic history, the lowest unemployment rate in 50 years, 3.5%, | |
| moving the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, his pro-life achievements, his advancement of religious freedom in the United States and around the world. | |
| I mean, it's an incredible list. | |
| And it frankly gives the lie to the attacks on him by his critics and the media who said he was a faker and opposer and he wasn't really a conservative. | |
| And he was just playing Christian voters and lying to them. | |
| This was said over and over again. | |
| But even though all that's true, and I document all of it, I really wrote this book as a defense of the faith community. | |
| I wrote it as a defense of Christians who have been lied about and smeared and pilloried and attacked and have been told that they compromised their faith and they sold out the gospel in order to get access to power and to get a few items on their public policy wish list. | |
| And I knew that all of that was untrue. | |
| That in fact, what really happened was, first of all, the vast majority of them supported someone other than Donald Trump in the Republican primaries. | |
| Most Ted Cruz or somebody like a Mike Huckabee or a Marco Rubio, there were many great candidates. | |
| But once they faced the decision in November of 2016 between Donald Trump, who was promising to appoint pro-life and conservative judges and Supreme Court justices, and Hillary Clinton, who was promising to appoint only pro-abortion judges, including to the Supreme Court, with the impremature of Planned Parenthood, | |
| it was on a moral and an ethical level, even though they continued to have reservations about Trump. | |
| I think they not only made the right decision politically, they made the right decision morally. | |
| And Donald Trump has affirmed that decision by the promises he made and the promises he's kept, not just to them, but to the American people. | |