Former President Donald Trump contrasted the treatment of Catholics under the Biden-Harris administration with his promise to combat anti-religious bias if elected during his Monday speech at the 11th Hour Faith Leaders Meeting in the battleground state of North Carolina.
“If you’re Catholic, there is no way you can be voting for these people,” stated Trump. “These people are a nightmare.”
“I don’t know what they have against Catholics but Catholics are treated worse than anybody,” he said. “Evangelicals are next, you can bet on it.”
“But they label Catholics as potential domestic terrorists,” he pointed out, referring to the heavily scrutinized anti-Catholic Richmond memo from the Biden-Harris Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
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“These people are sick,” he added. “Christians will not be safe with Kamala Harris as President of the United States.”
On the other hand, Trump told the faith leaders attending the event that, if he wins the presidential election in two weeks, he “will stop Kamala Harris’s weaponization of law enforcement against Americans of faith” as soon as he is inaugurated.
To accomplish this, the Republican nominee vowed to immediately “create a new federal task force on fighting anti-Christian bias.”
“I think it’s very important for the people in this room to know,” he stressed, “Americans of faith are not a threat to our country. Americans of faith are the soul of our country.”
“I’m here tonight to deliver a simple message to Christians across America,” Trump also said during his remarks. “It’s time to stand up and save your country.”
After the audience erupted into a prolonged period of applause and chants of “USA,” the former president added: “On November 5, Christian voters need to turn out in the largest numbers ever.”
Trump noted that American Christians “have a reputation of not voting proportionately like you should.” He speculated that the hesitancy of many Catholics and non-Catholic Christians to go to the polls, as evidenced in previous election cycles, may be “a form of rebellion.”
In May, CatholicVote reported that a “set of New York Times / Siena polls show that nearly one in five registered voters from six swing states, including many Catholics, did not vote in the 2020 presidential election.”
Trump went on to argue that if a greater proportion of Christians voted, “nobody could ever beat us.”
“We need to tell Kamala Harris that we had enough,” he emphasized. “Kamala, you’re fired! Get out!!”
In addition, Trump recounted how his “faith took on new meaning on July 13 in Butler, Pennsylvania,” when he narrowly survived an assassination attempt – where a gunman’s bullet grazed his ear, drawing blood.
“I now recognize that it’s been the hand of God leading me to where I am today,” he told the audience, who responded with raucous applause.
Trump said that after he was struck by the gunfire, he was “knocked to the ground, essentially, by what seemed like a supernatural hand.”
“I would like to think that God had saved me for a purpose and that’s to make our country greater than ever before,” he added.
LifeNews Note: Joshua Mercer writes for CatholicVote, where this column originally appeared.
