Donald Trump this week accused President Joe Biden of overseeing a Soviet-style persecution of Catholics and claimed FBI undercover spies are about to infiltrate the church buildings. (Watch the video beneath.)
Biden has described himself as a “practicing Catholic,” and is simply the second Catholic president after JFK. However that didn’t cease the GOP front-runner from launching doubtful allegations at his possible adversary within the 2024 election.
“Beneath Crooked Joe Biden, Christians and Individuals of religion are being persecuted like nothing this nation has ever seen earlier than,” Trump mentioned within the video posted to Truth Social on Thursday.
“Catholics specifically are being focused and evangelicals are absolutely on the watch checklist as effectively. Over the previous three years, the Biden administration has despatched SWAT groups to arrest pro-life activists. The FBI has been caught profiling religious Catholics as attainable home terrorists and planning to ship undercover spies into Catholic church buildings, similar to within the outdated days of the Soviet Union.”
A leaked FBI memo titled “Curiosity of Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists in Radical-Traditionalist Catholic Ideology Virtually Actually Presents New Mitigation Alternatives” was interpreted by some conservatives to imply that the Justice Division was usually concentrating on Catholics as home terrorists. Lawyer Basic Merrick Garland referred to as the accusation “outrageous” and mentioned he was appalled by the memo. “Any characterization that the FBI is concentrating on Catholics is fake,” the bureau mentioned to Newsweek on Friday.
As for arrests of pro-life activists that Trump referred to, he might have been referring to motion towards alleged extremists that conservatives appeared to spin right into a false narrative a couple of warfare towards the spiritual proper, as HuffPost reported in 2022.
One of many suspects, Mark Houck, was acquitted of federal charges in January 2023.
In his new video plea, Trump additionally urged Catholics to not vote for Biden or every other Democrat and promised to type a job power towards “anti-Christian bias.” The duty power would additionally “take a look at authorities businesses, universities, and main firms which have adopted anti-Christian range, fairness and inclusion packages.”
Donald Trump, deep within the throes of psychological decline, claims that devoutly Catholic President Biden desires to ship “undercover spies” into Catholic church buildings.
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— Actually American 🇺🇸 (@ReallyAmerican1) December 22, 2023
In feedback made in 2021 practically a yr after his 2020 defeat to Biden, Trump complained about shedding ungrateful Catholic supporters for that election. “I did lots for the Catholics. I’m just a little bit shocked that we didn’t do higher with the Catholic vote,” Trump said. He added at one level he was “very optimistic that we’re going to be again.”
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