Donald Trump

“Ahead of the 2016 primaries, Iowa evangelicals would not support Donald Trump in his run for president due to issues they had with his character….As the former president campaigns for 2024, many in this powerful GOP base have flipped their 2016 views.” - IPR

“Trump called the indictment ‘Political Persecution and Election Interference at the highest level in history.’” - N.Review

“The former president no longer bothers to even pretend that he disavows the thuggish behavior he encourages.” - National Review

“I have no idea if or when we will see something no generation of Americans has ever witnessed: a mug shot of a former president of the United States. What I do know is that the entire country is waiting with a sense of unease about just that possibility and about what happens next.” - Russell Moore

“[Bob] Vander Plaats, the president and chief executive of The Family Leader…told The Times that the state’s influential evangelical bloc had not forgotten about the former president’s comments.” - Business Insider

“ ‘There’s great disloyalty in the world of politics, and that’s a sign of disloyalty,’ Trump said.” - RNS

“In an episode of his podcast… said Trump’s posting on social media Saturday was ‘a direct contradiction of the oath of office for the president of the United States.’” - CPost

“There’s a lot more out there on this but the main question is: Where are these folks going to go? To Mike Pence? Tom DeSantis? Someone else?” - GetReligion

“Nearly two years into his presidency, Joe Biden’s job rating stands at 38% – identical to Donald Trump’s approval rating at a similar point in his presidency, but lower than those of some other recent presidents in the run-up to their first midterm election.” - Pew

“…we can’t rewind the clock. We can only decide how to go forward. And so the DOJ should go forward with the same rule it applied to Hillary Clinton, including the same level of deference.” - David French