Trump’s Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias Begins Work
The Trump administration’s Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias held its first meeting on Tuesday, where its members heard first-hand accounts of the Biden administration’s discrimination against Christians.
President Trump in February signed an executive order establishing the task force, which is headed by Attorney General Pam Bondi and charged with rooting out any anti-Christian bias remaining from the Biden administration. Christians—particularly pro-life Christians—were repeatedly persecuted by the Biden Justice Department, with the FBI even shifting its focus from Islamic terrorism to Christianity, according to insiders.
On Tuesday, the task force heard from retired Navy Seal Phil Mendes, a Christian service member who was discharged for refusing the experimental COVID-19 shots. The Department of Defense denied his request for a religious exemption.
Task force members also heard from Michael Farris, an attorney who represented the Cornerstone Church when the Biden IRS placed it under investigation after accusing the church of violating the Johnson Amendment. The Johnson Amendment, enacted in 1954, prohibits nonprofit organizations from supporting political candidates.
Persecution of pro-life Christians
The Biden DOJ aggressively prosecuted Christian Americans for peacefully protesting abortion, including elderly and infirm grandmothers, a young mother, a Catholic priest, and many others. Some Christian pro-lifers were subjected to violent FBI raids at gunpoint for peaceful protests years earlier. Meanwhile, the DOJ turned a blind eye to a string of violent domestic terror attacks on Christian pro-life pregnancy centers. Trump’s executive order noted that after these attacks numbered over 100, the House of Representatives passed a resolution condemning the violence and demanding action from the Biden administration.
“As shown by our victims’ stories today, Biden’s Department of Justice abused and targeted peaceful Christians while ignoring violent, anti-Christian offenses,” AG Bondi said after the task force’s first meeting. “Thanks to President Trump, we have ended those abuses, and we will continue to work closely with every member of this Task Force to protect every American’s right to speak and worship freely.”
Attacks on churches, Christian ‘hate groups’
Under Biden’s “anti-Christian government,” Trump’s EO said, attacks on churches escalated so that in 2023 alone there were over eight times more incidents than in 2018.
“Then, in 2023, a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) memorandum asserted that ‘radical-traditionalist’ Catholics were domestic-terrorism threats and suggested infiltrating Catholic churches as ‘threat mitigation.’ This later-retracted FBI memorandum cited as support evidence propaganda from highly partisan sources,” the order continued.
As published in The Gold Report, that FBI memo cited reports from mainstream media such as The Atlantic, Salon, and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which categorizes the term “Christian identity” as “hate” and has designated nine Christian organizations as “hate groups.” When questioned by Congress about the memo, then-FBI Director Christopher Wray falsely testified that it was the product of a lone field office when it was actually the work of multiple FBI offices.
