US evangelicals still all-in for scandal-plagued Trump

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WASHINGTON: He has been indicted over hush money payments to a porn star and found liable in a sexual abuse lawsuit in a tumultuous start to his reelection campaign - but America's evangelicals just can't quit Donald Trump. The 45th president of the United States -

WASHINGTON: He has been indicted over hush money payments to a porn star and found liable in a sexual abuse lawsuit in a tumultuous start to his reelection campaign - but America's evangelicals just can't quit Donald Trump.- has spent years mired in legal and ethical scandals, from accusations that he abused his office and tried to subvert a free-and-fair election to alleged affairs.

"Together we're warriors in a righteous crusade to stop the arsonists, the atheists, the globalists and the Marxists," Trump said in characteristically apocalyptic language, as he delivered the keynote address at the closing gala to rapt applause.It took some persuasion for white evangelicals to come around to Trump when he announced he was running for president in 2015. But once they were in, they were all-in.

"It's the difference between a representative and a leader," Suzzanne Monk, a 50-year-old conservative political activist, told AFP as she attempted to explain Trump's enduring popularity. Former New Jersey governor Chris Christie, the only speaker to explicitly criticise Trump, was roundly booed for saying the Republican leader had let the country down.one-year anniversary of the US Supreme Court ending the nationwide right to abortion

 

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