Trump creates task force to remedy Biden’s persecution of Christians
President Donald Trump last week signed an executive order establishing a task force to root out any anti-Christian bias remaining from the Biden administration. The Task Force to End the War on Christians will be headed by Attorney General Pam Bondi.
“[T]he previous Administration engaged in an egregious pattern of targeting peaceful Christians, while ignoring violent, anti-Christian offenses,” read the order. “The Biden Department of Justice sought to squelch faith in the public square by bringing Federal criminal charges and obtaining in numerous cases multi-year prison sentences against nearly two dozen peaceful pro-life Christians for praying and demonstrating outside abortion facilities.”
The Biden DOJ 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. The EO noted that after more than one hundred of these attacks, the House of Representatives passed a resolution condemning the violence and demanding action from the Biden administration.
But it wasn’t just Christian pro-life centers that were targeted. The executive order revealed that under Biden’s “anti-Christian government,” 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, the 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.
The FBI’s shift from Islamic terror to ‘White Christians’
On a recent episode of Washington Watch, former FBI Senior Advisor Hedieh Mirahmadi Falco described the FBI’s pivot from focusing on Islamic terror to targeting Christians under the Biden administration. Falco, who converted to Christianity from Islam, said she was hired by the FBI to build a program to help field offices identify and prevent Islamic terror attacks like the one on New Year’s Day in New Orleans. But the program was shut down because the bureau started hunting “‘racially motivated violent extremists,’ which is basically [code for] ‘White Christians.’ Even though . . . a lot of them are not white, they’re basically Christians, conservatives. And so, the whole department, the agency shifted to that focus.”
“They elevated the threat by saying, we have all of these open investigations against racially-motivated, violent white people,” said Falco. “So the threat is no longer Islam. The threat is Americans practicing their religious liberty engag[ing] in all kinds of activity.”
She explained that the FBI redirected resources against Christians. The agency even used a pyramid to describe the threat posed by Christian organizations, much like they had done with Islamic terror groups. The base of the pyramid included organizations like Turning Point USA and the Christian Broadcasting Network, while the pyramid’s peak was occupied by the KKK.
One of the ways the FBI targeted Christians was by interfering with their access to funding.
“The funding mechanisms that we had for radicalization and identifying terrorism prevention programs were shifted to crowdsource policing, basically, in a conservative town like Miami Valley, Ohio, to basically disrupt the access to the public square,” Falco continued, adding that the FBI poured millions of dollars into this interference despite knowing it was “probably illegal.”
“The stated purpose was to prevent them from advancing their goals and their ideas,” she explained.
