President Trump continued his attacks against the evangelical magazine that supported impeachment in a recent editorial. Christianity Today announced its support for removing the president from office in an editorial published on Thursday.
The president accused Christianity Today, which was founded by Billy Graham, of having a socialist or communist tilt on Twitter on Friday afternoon, hours after he blasted them for being “far-left.” Trump’s most recent criticism of the publication came after editor-in-chief Mark Galli defended the editorial on CNN and MSNBC.
“I guess the magazine, ‘Christianity Today,’ is looking for Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, or those of the socialist/communist bent, to guard their religion. How about Sleepy Joe? The fact is, no President has ever done what I have done for Evangelicals, or religion itself!” the president tweeted.
I guess the magazine, “Christianity Today,” is looking for Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, or those of the socialist/communist bent, to guard their religion. How about Sleepy Joe? The fact is, no President has ever done what I have done for Evangelicals, or religion itself!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 20, 2019
In Galli’s interview on CNN earlier in the day, he called Trump’s initial characterization of the publication “factually inaccurate” and claimed that, “We’re certainly not far-right, and I suppose anyone whose not far-right, he would consider far-left and that’s his right to say that.”
In a follow-up tweet, the president thanked Graham’s son, Franklin Graham, for attacking the outlet’s editorial on social media and said he knows “how pleased you are with the work we have all done together!”
Thank you to Franklin Graham for stating that his father, the late great Billy Graham, voted for me in the 2016 Election. I know how pleased you are with the work we have all done together! https://t.co/40RX2KM4Vv
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 20, 2019
“For Christianity Today to side with the Democrat Party in a totally partisan attack on the President of the United States is unfathomable,” Graham wrote on Facebook. “Christianity Today said it’s time to call a spade a spade. The spade is this — Christianity Today has been used by the left for their political agenda. It’s obvious that Christianity Today has moved to the left and is representing the elitist liberal wing of evangelicalism.”
The condemnation from an evangelical publication is notable, considering the president won 81% of the evangelical vote during the 2016 election, according to the Pew Research Center.
