Just When He Thought It Couldnโ€™t Get Any Worse, Key Evangelicals Are Reportedly Turning Their Backs On Trump: โ€œHe Used Usโ€

This is VERY bad news for Donald Trump.


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If weโ€™re being entirely frank, Donald Trump hasnโ€™t had a good two years or so, pretty much ever since he realized that Joe Biden had won the 2020 presidential election and his time in the White House was rapidly coming to a close. But the last two weeks or so have undeniably been extra rough for the scandal-ridden, disgraced former president.

Trump was already drowning in an ocean of legal peril โ€” ranging from the January 6th House Select Committeeโ€™s ongoing investigation to the New York Attorney Generalโ€™s bombshell lawsuit, to the Manhattan DAโ€™s criminal investigation that reached a brutal crescendo this week when his longtime CFO Allen Weisselberg finally turned on him, to the Justice Departmentโ€™s mounting investigation into not only January 6th, but also into the explosive stolen document scandal.

And then the midterm elections came, along with the official launch of his 2024 presidential campaign โ€” neither of which went well for the former president, at all.

The anticipated โ€œRed Waveโ€ for the GOP in this yearโ€™s midterm election ultimately turned out to be little more than a pink trickle, with many of Donald Trumpโ€™s hand-picked endorsements losing their asses to their Democratic opponents.

Despite the massive losses for his party, Trump still marched full steam ahead into his 2024 announcement on the heels of the midterm election. But the big announcement frankly wasnโ€™t well received among even the highest-level of the Republican Party heโ€™s running in.

Multiple senior officials and figures within the GOP didnโ€™t hold back their disapproval of Trumpโ€™s 2024 candidacy โ€” with more than a few of them saying that itโ€™s high time for the party to โ€œmove onโ€ from Donald Trump, and many of them think there are โ€œbetterโ€ options for the Republican presidential nominee.

But as it turns out, itโ€™s not just key names in the GOP that are turning on the scandal-ridden ex-president.

According to recent reporting from Huffington Post, Donald Trump is rapidly losing support among one of his biggest bases โ€” the evangelicals.

Mike Evans, an evangelical figure who met with Trump at the White House and even gave the then-president an award, spoke with the Washington Post and said, โ€œDonald Trump canโ€™t save America. He canโ€™t even save himself.โ€

โ€œHe used us to win the White House. We had to close our mouths and eyes when he said things that horrified us,โ€ Evans told the Post. โ€œI cannot do that anymore.โ€

Robert Jeffress, a longtime supporter of the ex-president who served as one of Trumpโ€™s ley evangelical advisors during his 2016 campaign, spoke with Newsweek and admitted that even he canโ€™t commit to endorsing Donald Trump at this point.

โ€œThe Republican Party is headed toward a civil war that I have no desire or need to be part of,โ€ Jeffress said but did add that he would โ€œhappilyโ€ support Trump again if he does manage to secure the Republican nomination.

While it was always pretty widely assumed that, if Trump did officially run for president again in 2024, he would undoubtedly win the nomination, the truth of the matter is, Donaldโ€™s plummeting poll numbers among Republican voters have shown that heโ€™s not the shoo-in people once believed he was.

Jeffress also seemed to throw in a thinly-veiled jab at the ex-president recently, when he took to his Twitter and encouraged people to purchase and read former Trump VP Mike Penceโ€™s new book โ€” which doesnโ€™t exactly speak highly of the ex-president:

Jeffress did say on Twitter that he still considers Donald Trump to be a โ€œgreat friend and our greatest president since Reagan.โ€

But Robert Jeffress is far from the former guyโ€™s biggest concern.

Former faith advisor to the ex-president, James Robison of Life Outreach International, delivered a fiery speech this week, in which he took aim at Donald Trumpโ€™s ever-growing ego, and said itโ€™s getting in the way of the political agenda that would get him re-elected.

โ€œIf Mr. Trump canโ€™t stop his little petty issues, how does he expect people to stop major issues?โ€ Robinson said, according to reporting on his speech from the Washington Post. 

At one point, Robinson directly addressed Trump: โ€œSir, you act like a little elementary schoolchild and you shoot yourself in the foot every morning you get up and open your mouth! The more you keep your mouth closed, the more successful youโ€™re gonna be!โ€

Ultimately, the former faith advisor didnโ€™t say one way or another whether he would be formally endorsing Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election.

But the most brutal assessment of them all came from evangelical Washington Post columnist Everett Piper, who once staunchly supported the former president, and wrote in a recent column: โ€œThe take-home of this past week is simple: Donald Trump has to go. If heโ€™s our nominee in 2024, we will get destroyed.โ€

It truly seems as though there is almost no one left in Donald Trumpโ€™s corner.

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Andrea Thompson
Andrea has written political opinion stories for over a decade with a passion for center-left policies. Andrea is no longer a writer at Political Tribune and her X account is here: https://x.com/theliberalmommy

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