Prosecutors allege that former President Donald Trump illegally falsified business records to conceal hush money payments he made to cover up an affair with an adult film star.
Even though these alleged actions violate several of the Bible's Ten Commandments, many evangelical Christians say that Trump's prosecution for them makes them more likely to support him.
Appearing on CNN Tuesday, NPR political correspondent Sarah McCammon said that most evangelicals simply don't care about Trump's un-Christ-like behavior because they believe he will ram through their agenda on issues such as abortion, LGBTQ rights and school prayer.
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"They see him as understanding their concerns and tapping into them," she explained. "Again, this is a long-standing theme that I've been hearing my whole life, that Christianity is on the decline, that it's central to American identity. ... When he holds up that Bible and he talks about bringing the Bible back, bringing Christianity back, that resonates for many evangelicals."
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McCammon then added that these evangelicals believe that the only reason Trump is being prosecuted for alleged crimes is because of his plans to restore Christianity to its supposed rightful place in American society.
"Many of them see the legal troubles he's facing as a sign of persecution, and in many ways a sign that he's on the right track," she said.
The reporter then recalled her time growing up in an evangelical school in which she was taught that the Earth was only 6,000 years old, and linked it to Trump's power to make people believe things that are flatly untrue and contradicted by copious evidence.
"Now there's a strain within that community that's willing to believe anything Trump says, if it's a conspiracy theory or just a bald-faced lie," host Jim Acosta observed.
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