“Let’s bring back God”: Trump announces a work group to defend Christians

Washington. The US president Donald Trump Said Thursday what you want Eradicate the “Anti -Christian bias” In the United States and announced that it would form a working group headed by the Secretary of Justice, Pam Bondi, to investigate the “attacks” against Christians.

In a couple of events in Washington around the national prayer breakfast, Trump said the working group would have as a goal “Immediately stop all forms of anti -Christian attack and discrimination in the federal government, including the Department of Justice, which was absolutely terrible, the IRS, the FBI – terrible – and other agencies”he said, referring, for its acronym in English, to the Internal Tax Service and the Federal Bureau of Investigations.

Trump said Bondi would also work for “It would fully pursue anti -Christian violence and vandalism in our society and move heaven and earth to defend the rights of Christians and religious believers throughout the country”.

The president’s comments occurred after his participation in the National Prayer Breakfast in the Capitol, a tradition of more than 70 years in Washington in which a bipartisan group of legislators meets to live together, and He told legislators that his relationship with religion had “changed” after a couple of failed murder attempts last year, and urged Americans to “bring God back” to their lives.

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However, an hour after calling the “unit” in the Capitol, Trump assumed a more partisan tone in the second event, held on the other side of the city, when he announced that, in addition to the work group, He would form a commission on religious freedom, and criticized the Biden government for “persecuting” believers by processing anti -abortion activists.

He also triumphantly mentioned the measures taken in the first days of his government to back down the programs of diversity, equality and inclusion, and limit the participation of transgender women in women’s sports.

“I don’t know if they’ve been watching, but we’ve got rid of Woke in the last two weeks,” he said. “Lo Wake is gone,” he said, referring to the application of progressive measures.

The new Trump working group caused criticism by the United American Association for the separation between the Church and the State. The president and CEO of the organization, Rachel Laser, said that “instead of protecting religious beliefs, this working group will misuse religious freedom to justify intolerance, discrimination, and subversion of our rights laws civilians ”.

Trump said in the Capitol that he thinks that people “cannot be happy without religion, without that belief. Let’s bring back religion. Let’s bring God back to our lives “.

In 2023, the national prayer breakfast was divided into two rival events, that of the Capitol, which was mainly attended by legislators and government officials, and a larger private event for thousands of people in the dance hall of a hotel. The separation occurred when legislators sought to distance themselves from the private religious group that for decades had supervised the largest event, due to questions about their organization and the way it was financed.

In both events, Trump reflected on the fact of having a shot that was about to kill him in a campaign event held last year in Butler, Pennsylvania, and told legislators and guests that “I feel that changed something in me”.

“I feel stronger,” he continued. “I believe in God, but I feel, I am very strong. Something happened. ” Later, at another prayer breakfast sponsored by a private group in a hotel, he said, “it was God who saved me”.

In the Capitol event, he caused laughter when he expressed his gratitude because the episode “has not affected my hair.”

The Republican President, who is a non -denominational Christian, described religious freedom as “part of the basis of American life” and urged to protect her with “absolute devotion”.

Trump and his government have already had Confrontations with religious leaders, such as his disagreement with the sermon of Reverend Mariann Budde the day after his investiturewhere the clergy requested mercy for members of the LGBTQ+ community and migrants found in the United States without authorization.

The vice president JD Vance, of Catholic faith, has had disagreements with US leaders of his own church due to immigration issues. And many clerical leaders throughout the country are concerned that the churches from the list of sensitive areas are retired, allowing federal agents to carry out actions related to immigration in places of worship.

The Republican president caused a stir in the last prayer breakfast of his first term. That year, the meeting was held a day after the Senate acquitted him in his first dismissal judgment.

In his comments from that time, Trump launched little subtle indirects against Nancy Pelosi, the then president of the House of Representatives by the Democratic Party, who publicly said that he prayed for Trump, and against the Senator of Utah, Mitt Romney, who mentioned his faith as a factor in your decision to vote to condemn Trump.

“I do not like people who use their faith as justification to do what they know is wrong,” Trump said at that time in his extensive speech, in which he also showed two newspapers with outstanding headlines about his acquittal. “I don’t like people who say, I pray for you ‘, when they know that is not the case.”

Dwight D. Eisenhower was the first president to attend prayer breakfast, in February 1953, and since then, all presidents have spoken at the meeting.

Democratic Senator Maggie Hassan, from Nueva Hampshire, and Republican Senator Roger Marshall, of Kansas, are the feeing co -presidents of this year’s prayer breakfast.

In 2023 and 2024, Democratic President Joe Biden spoke at the Capitol event, and his comments were broadcast live to the other meeting.