DOUBLING DOWN ON THEIR CRITIQUE

OF PRESIDENT TRUMP WITH AN OP-ED

FROM IN THE PIECE WHERE TIMOTHY

QUESTIONS TO THE UNCONDITIONAL

LOYALTY OF EVANGELICAL

CHRISTIANS TO THE ADMINISTRATION

AND ASKED READERS TO RECONSIDER

THEIR UNWAVERING SUPPORT.

"WE NEVERTHELESS BELIEVE THE

AMBIEN GELA: ALLIANCE HAS DONE

DAMAGE TO THE WITNESS HERE AND

ABROAD.

THE COST HAS BEEN TOO HIGH.

AMERICAN EVANGELICALISM IS NOT A

REPUBLICAN IMPACT."

ALL OF THIS AS THE SON OF THE

MAGAZINE FOUNDER FRANKLIN GRAHAM

IS TAKING ISSUE WITH THE

PUBLICATION AND INVOKING HIS

FATHER BILLY GRAHAM IN ITS

ORIGINAL EDITORIAL, AND HE HAD

THIS TO SAY TO FOX NEWS.

>> MY FATHER WOULD BE VERY

DISAPPOINTED.

THIS IS WELL OFF THE TARGET.

THEY ARE A VERY LIBERAL LEFT

WING ORGANIZATION NOW.

>> Julie: JOINED BY THE SENIOR

EDITOR OF "THE FEDERALIST."

SO WE'RE STILL TALKING ABOUT

THIS.

SO I GUESS THAT IS GOOD FOR

CHRISTIANITY TODAY.

THEY WANTED OUR PROTECTION, THEY

WANTED TO SELL MAGAZINES, AND

THEY DID.

THIS IS ONE SIMPLE EDITORIAL.

IT IS NOT EVANGELICAL

CHRISTIANS.

BUT WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THE

PUBLICATION NOW DOUBLING DOWN

AFTER GETTING A WIDE CRITICISM.

>> IT IS THE EDITOR'S LAST

STAND, RETIRING IN A FEW WEEKS.

YOU HAVE TO WONDER WHAT HAS

CHANGED, WE KNEW WHO

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP WAS WHEN

HE WAS RUNNING FOR OFFICE.

WE KNEW ABOUT HIS BACKGROUND.

BUT WE ALSO KNEW HOW HE HAS

GOVERN HIS HEALTH AND THE

POLICIES HE HAS IMPLEMENTED

WHICH HAVE BEEN FRIENDLY TOWARDS

EVANGELICALS, SO THIS IS A LAST

DANCE SHOT FROM CHRISTIANITY IS

OUTGOING EDITOR SAYING THAT HE

IS TAKING A STAND.

EVANGELICALS I DO NOT THINK ARE

GOING TO BE PLAYING THE

PRESIDENT, BECAUSE THEY ARE

LOOKING AT SOMEONE WHO HAS STOOD

BY THEM MORE THAN ANY REPUBLICAN

PRESIDENT ON PLANNED PARENTHOOD

AND ABORTION, ON JUDGES AND

JUDICIAL NOMINEES, ON MOVING THE

EMBASSY IN ISRAEL.

THESE ARE THINGS THAT

REPUBLICANS HAVE PROMISED TO DO

FOR DECADES, AND THE EVANGELICAL

VOTE REALLY DOES APPRECIATE

SOMEONE WHO ACTUALLY STANDS BY

THEIR WORD.

THAT IS A MEANINGFUL THING IN

THIS.

NOT ONLY THAT, BUT YOU HAVE TO

LOOK AT HIS FAMILY.

IT DONALD TRUMP HAS AN AMAZING

FAMILY THAT CLEARLY LOVES HIM

AND HE LOVES THEM BACK.

THAT IS NOT LOST ON EVANGELICAL

VOTERS EITHER.

SO THERE'S NOT REALLY AN

ALTERNATIVE FOR THEM.

THIS IS SOMEONE THEY CAN STAND

BY GENERALLY LOOKING EVEN IF HE

MAY HAVE SOME PERSONAL FLAWS IN

HIS PAST.

>> Julie: TIMOTHY DERN HALL,

ABOUT TO RETIRE AS YOU MENTION,

BUT I'M WONDERING BEFORE HE

GOES, WHO WOULD HE RECOMMEND

THAT EVANGELICAL SHOULD STAND

BEHIND, BECAUSE CLEARLY I DON'T

THINK HE IS SAYING WHY DON'T YOU

JUST STAND BEHIND ONE OF THE

NUMEROUS DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL

CANDIDATES, SO EXACTLY WHAT DOES

HE WANT EVANGELICALS TO DO?

TO VOTE SOMEBODY INTO THE OFFICE

THAT IS PRO-ABORTION?

WHAT IS HIS STANCE AND HIS

METHOD?

WHAT IS HIS GOAL, WHAT IS HIS

MODE METHOD?

THERE IS A SAD HISTORY OF THIS

WITH EVANGELICAL VOTERS, THE

LAST TIME THEY WERE ACTIVE WAS

NOT FOR A REPUBLICAN, IT WAS FOR

JIMMY CARTER BECAUSE HE FIT IN

THE MODE, AND THEY THOUGHT, THIS

IS A GOOD MAN.

JIMMY CARTER WAS ELECTED AND

TURNED AROUND AND DID NOT PUT A

SINGLE EVANGELICAL INTO HIS

CABINET.

THEY WERE CUT OFF.

THEY DID NOT HAVE HIS NUMBER.

THEY WERE NOT ABLE TO SPEAK TO

THE PRESIDENT THAT WEIGHED YOU

CAN SPEAK WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP.

THERE IS NOT A SINGLE CANDIDATE

OUT THERE THAT I'VE SEEN ON THE

RIGHT OR THE LEFT WHO IS WILLING

TO STAND UP AND GREG ACOSTA IN

HIS FAMILY, AS MUCH AS

PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS FOR THE

THINGS THAT MATTER TO

CHRISTIANS, CHRISTIANS ARE UNDER

ATTACK FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE IN

THE COUNTRY.

>> Julie: FOR THE PRESIDENT TO

BE WORRIED AT ALL?

>> I WOULD NOT EXPECT THAT THERE

WILL BE AN EXODUS OF THE

EVANGELICAL MOVEMENT.

IT IS CALLED A LIBERAL MAGAZINE.

TO KEEP IN MIND, IT IS LIBERAL

EVANGELICAL ON THE LEFT OF

EVANGELICAL, BUT IT IS STILL A

PRETTY REPUBLICAN MAGAZINE.

AND A LOT OF THE EVANGELICAL

VOTERS WILL STILL COME OUT, JUST

LIKE THEY DID IN 2016, I

SUSPECT.

>> Julie: GRAHAM HAS COME OUT

AND SAID THAT CHRISTIANITY TODAY

DOES NOT REPRESENT MOST

EVANGELICALS, THE FOX NEWS POLL

SAYS HE IS TIGHT, WHITE

EVANGELICALS IN THE COUNTRY DO

NOT ONLY NOT SUPPORT

IMPEACHMENT, THEY DO NOT SUPPORT