President Donald Trump, speaking at the National Prayer Breakfast, stated that two near-fatal assassination attempts last year deepened his religious convictions. He called for Americans to reintegrate God into their lives and emphasized the importance of religious liberty in the United States.
President Donald Trump said Thursday that his relationship with religion had "changed" after a pair of failed assassination attempts last year, as he advocated at the National Prayer Breakfast at the Capitol for Americans to "bring God back" into their lives.
President Donald Trump arrives to speak during the National Prayer Breakfast, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025.Trump reflected on having a bullet coming within a hair's breadth of killing him at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, last year, telling lawmakers and attendees, "It changed something in me, I feel."
Vice President JD Vance, who's Catholic, has sparred with top U.S. leaders of his own church over immigration issues. And many clergy members across the country are worried about the removal of churches from the sensitive-areas list, allowing federal officials to conduct immigration actions at places of worship.
"I don't like people who use their faith as justification for doing what they know is wrong," Trump said then in his winding speech, in which he also held up two newspapers with banner headlines about his acquittal. "Nor do I like people who say, 'I pray for you,' when they know that that's not so."
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