{"id":18149,"date":"2023-07-05T15:35:58","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T19:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/?p=18149"},"modified":"2023-07-05T16:24:45","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T20:24:45","slug":"sunny-hostin-of-the-view-criticizes-evangelicals-for-supporting-donald-trump-after-indictment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2023\/07\/sunny-hostin-of-the-view-criticizes-evangelicals-for-supporting-donald-trump-after-indictment","title":{"rendered":"Sunny Hostin of \u201cThe View\u201d Criticizes Evangelicals for Supporting Donald Trump After Indictment"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_18161\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18161\" style=\"width: 768px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/140\/2023\/07\/sunny-hostin_credit-the-view-youtube-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18161\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/140\/2023\/07\/sunny-hostin_credit-the-view-youtube-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18161\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The View \/ YouTube<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cThe View\u201d co-hosts discussed the recent Faith and Freedom Conference, where former President Donald Trump and other Republican candidates spoke out about faith in the United States. Co-host <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/the-view-host-sunny-hostin-blasts-hypocrisy-evangelical-community-supporting-trump-indictment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Sunny Hostin<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0had strong words against evangelicals who continue to support the former president after being indicted for allegedly illegally maintaining confidential documents. \u201cNo one is above the law, and he\u2019s been indicted by the Federal government and by the State government as well, but I think that\u2019s an interesting spin he put on it. What was shocking to me was the hypocrisy of the evangelical community booing at the truth,\u201d said Hostin, referring to how Chris Christie was booed for criticizing Donald Trump. \u201cWe can all have differences of opinions, but the facts remain the same, and he did these things, so it\u2019s almost like they were going \u2018la-la-la-la-la\u2019 like little kids. They\u2019re still going to vote for him.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Fellow co-host Ana Navarro agreed, saying she was \u201cnot shocked\u201d that evangelicals still support Trump\u2019s 2024 campaign. <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tv\/whoopi-goldberg-defends-evangelicals-of-my-youth-after-co-hosts-torch-hypocrisy-of-groups-support-for-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Sarah Haines<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0also agreed with her colleagues, saying, \u201cThe first time around, I remember\u2026I don\u2019t understand the kind of \u2018explaining this away,\u2019 but some people said it was just to get those Supreme Court justices. Their one issue, their one issue. And they got them. To me, it\u2019s more shocking they remain there after they got their justices.\u201d President Trump appointed three Supreme Court justices during his presidency, all three of whom have been involved in the overturning of Roe vs. Wade,\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/video\/6330343036112\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">ending affirmative action<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0in universities, and supporting religious freedom in making accommodations for employees\u2019 religious practices and protecting people from being forced to create messages that violate their religious beliefs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Whoopi Goldberg expressed her disappointment, saying, \u201cThe evangelicals are not the evangelicals of my youth.\u201d She did, however, try to draw some of her colleagues\u2019 ire away, saying, \u201cYou know, the thing about evangelicals that we all have to remember is that they\u2019re human beings. They\u2019re people, and they\u2019re flawed, like all of us, so, you know, when they wake up and realize that God may not be on their side the way they think he is.\u201d \u201cMany of them are such good people and being taken by this charlatan, which is distressing,\u201d agreed Hostin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Evangelicals continue to have a tenuous relationship with President Trump. Presidential candidates like Mike Pence, Tim Scott, and Ron DeSantis are all courting the evangelical vote. DeSantis was <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2023-06-23\/desantis-vows-to-douse-fire-of-cultural-marxism-as-president\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">well-received\u00a0<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">at the Faith and Freedom conference, although he trails the president in polls.\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/trump-keeps-edge-among-evangelicals-there-is-an-opening-challengers-2023-04-20\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Tom Ascol<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, who gave DeSantis\u2019s invocation after he was reelected, stated that he believes Christians are looking for someone more \u201cprincipled\u201d like DeSantis. \u201cI don\u2019t think President Trump is a principled man &#8212; I think he was a great president,\u201d he said while saying DeSantis \u201cseems to be a man of sincere faith.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe View\u201d co-hosts discussed the recent Faith and Freedom Conference, where former President Donald Trump and other Republican candidates spoke out about faith in the United States. Co-host Sunny Hostin\u00a0had strong words against evangelicals who continue to support the former president after being indicted for allegedly illegally maintaining confidential documents. \u201cNo one is above the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":18161,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sunny Hostin of \u201cThe View\u201d Criticizes Evangelicals for Supporting Donald Trump After Indictment<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Sunny Hostin criticizes evangelicals.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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