Donald Trump met with evangelical leaders on Monday evening, urging them to push their flocks to the polls to vote Republican in November. In fact, Trump went further, saying he’d gotten “rid of” the law that calls for churches endorsing candidates to lose their tax-exempt status—even though the law remains in place, and Trump simply told the IRS not to enforce it. Translation: you owe me, so get out the vote, and let’s both just ignore the law here, okay?
“I just ask you to go out and make sure all of your people vote,” Mr. Trump told the group of about 100 evangelical ministers. “Because if they don’t — it’s Nov. 6 — if they don’t vote we’re going to have a miserable two years and we’re going to have, frankly, a very hard period of time because then it just gets to be one election — you’re one election away from losing everything you’ve got.”
Yes, if evangelicals don’t vote they might not have a lying adulterer to count on for their dearest-held wishes and a constant reminder to the world of what hypocrisy looks like.