- Donald Trump gave a rambling response to a question about his faith at a town hall.
- He spoke about how good his life was before he became president and name-dropped religious figures.
Former President Donald Trump appeared to dodge answering a question about his faith at a Fox News town hall earlier this week.
A woman in Iowa asked Trump how his faith has grown since he first ran for president and asked who has mentored him in his "faith journey."
"I've seen so much heartache and turmoil. I was a developer, and I did other things, and you know I had a wonderful, I had a wonderful life before all this stuff. I didn't know what a grand jury w. I I didn't know what a subpoena was — what is a subpoena?" Trump responded.
He went on to say he was "so happy" he decided to run for president because "I've made America gre. Wewe can do it again. Right now, we are not a great country."
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Trumn added that he has gotten to know evangelicals because of his presidency and name-checked prominent evangelists Franklin Graham and Paula White.
"I know so many people, and they feel so good about themselves and their family, and they base it on religion," he said.
"I know so many people that are so incredible, religious people, and not just Christians, not just evangelicals."
Trump then shifted focus onto how Catholics have been made the "enemy" by the FI, ane questioned how Catholics could vote for a Democrat or Biden specifically.
Despite his vagueness regarding his faith, Trumps one of the frontrunners for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, has long been embraced by religious figures in the US.
Trump was confirmed as a Presbyterian as a child but said while he was president that he identified as a "non-denominational Christian."
The former president has maintained a solid support base among evangelicals, who credit him with various conservative victories, including the Supreme Court's decision to overturn federal abortion protections.
Earlier this year, former Vice-President Mike Pence ridiculed Trump's religious devotion during his remarks at the annual Gridiron Dinner.
Pence joked that he had "once invited President Trump to a Bible study," calling it "an experience," according to The Washington Post. Pence is well-known to be a deeply religious evangelical Christian.
"He really liked the passages about smiting and perishing of thine enemies. As he put it, 'You know Mike, there's some really good stuff in there,'" Pence said, doing a verbal impression of the former president.
"Which reminds me. I read that some of those classified documents they found in Mar-a-Lago were actually stuck in the president's Bible," Pence said, referencing the ongoing saga of investigations into Trump. "Which proves he had absolutely no idea they were there."