Mike Lee sparks backlash for comparing Trump to Mormon figure Captain Moroni

Sen. Mike Lee faced criticism this week after he compared President Trump to Captain Moroni, a heroic figure for members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Lee, a Utah Republican, who made the comparison at a Trump rally on Wednesday in Phoenix, encouraged his “Mormon friends” to “think of [Trump] as Captain Moroni” because “he seeks not power, but to pull it down. He seeks not the praise of the world or the ‘fake news,’ but he seeks the well-being and the peace of the American people.”