Former President Donald Trump recently showered praise on religion in the context of continued Evangelical support despite his convictions on conspiring to hide hush money payments to a porn star with whom he is alleged to have had an extramarital affair via Mediaite.
It has been noted that Trump sat with the co-hosts of Fox & Friends Weekend on Sunday, making news for falsely claiming that he never said “Lock her up!” with regards to his former political rival, Hillary Clinton.
On Monday, Fox & Friends aired the additional parts of the interview in which he took questions submitted by Fox News viewers, the last of which was from “Sharon from Alabama.”
Rachel Campos Duffy read the question to Trump: “You’ve been faced with so much adversity and persecution for years. What’s your relationship with God like and how do you pray? “
“Okay, so I think it’s good,” he replied before praising the Evangelical support he continues to receive regardless of his criminal behavior.
“I do very well with the evangelicals. I love the evangelicals. And I have more people saying they pray for me. I can’t even believe it. And they are so, committed. And they’re so they’re so believing they say, ‘Sir, you’re going to be okay. I pray for you every night,’” Trump replied, not about his own faith but rather how he has benefited politically from the faith of others.
“I mean, everybody — almost, I can’t say everybody, but almost everybody — that sees me, they say it. It’s such a beautiful thing, you know, it’s a beautiful thing, too,” he continued before attacking those who prosecuted him as Godless. “When you look at all of this bad stuff going on, they have nothing to look up to. They have no God; they have no anything. They kill people, they beat people, they push people into subways. They. So there’s just nothing there. ”
“Religion is such a great thing,” he added. “It keeps you, you know, there’s something to be good about. You want to be good; you want to…It’s so important. And I don’t know if it’s explained. Right. I don’t know if I’m explaining it right now, but when you have something like that, you want to be good. You want to go to heaven, okay? You want to go to heaven.”
“If you don’t have heaven, you almost say, ‘Oh, what’s what’s the reason?’” Trump concluded. “‘Why do I have to be good? Let’s not be good. What difference does it make?’”
