The annual gathering of the group, dubbed the “Road to Majority Policy Conference,” is billed as the largest gathering of Christian conservative activists in the nation.
At the beginning of his speech at the Washington Hilton in Washington, D.C., Trump addressed his adoring supporters directly.
To thunderous applause, he declared, “I think that our enemies are waging war on science, religion, history, tradition, democracy, and God Almighty himself. The radicals are attacking religious beliefs, destroying free speech, and destroying our Constitution.
Finally, he added, “What a fantastic Saturday night. For religion, we are here. Not my campaign, this. It is our initiative.
The crowd chanted, “We want Trump,” in response.
Despite spending a significant amount of time seeking the support of the religious community for his reelection campaign, he also focused much of his roughly one-hour speech on well-known problems and complaints, such as the notion that Democrats and others have been working against him since the beginning of his first presidential campaign.
Days after former Justice Department special counsel John Durham testified on Capitol Hill about how his four-year investigation into the origins of the Trump-Russia collusion hoax found the FBI began the probe with no predicating evidence, he said, “This is a continuation of the greatest witch hunt of all time, which has been fully exposed in the Durham Report.”
He declared, “They tried to overthrow a presidency with hoaxes and witch hunts, and they’re still trying. “We’re not letting them. The biggest abuse of power I’ve ever witnessed was when [President] Joe Biden turned law enforcement into a weapon to meddle in our elections.
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