Evangelist Franklin Graham, who heads the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and Samaritan’s Purse, claimed that the FBI’s lawful search of Mar-a-Lago for nuclear documents kept by former President Donald Trump is religious persecution, reports the Baptist Press:
This is different here. This is our freedom being eroded in this country. And our forefathers gave us the freedom of speech, the freedom to come together to elect our officials and so forth, but this is disappearing so quickly and it’s frightening to see government agents going to a former president’s home and going through his personal files, going into it, breaking into his safe and then taking things that they want… If they felt he had something that belonged to the government, they certainly could have asked, and he would have returned it.
The Baptist News debunked Graham’s lie:
The National Archives and other government officials have made multiple unsuccessful attempts to get Trump to return what they consider stolen documents.
Graham falsely claimed the IRS and FBI are targeting Christians, notes the Baptist Press:
I’m afraid if you if you speak out, if there’s any dissent whatsoever against the federal government, they will use the IRS or the Department of Justice or the FBI to investigate you, come to your home, these kinds of things, to keep you quiet. And so I think that’s where we’re heading. It’s almost like what we saw in the Soviet Union, and this is happening in this country; the socialists in this country are wanting to destroy this country. They want to take away our freedom, and so we need to be concerned.
Graham falsely claimed the Democrats don’t have anyone to run against Trump in 2024 even though President Joe Biden defeated Trump in 2020:
They don’t have a politician in the Democratic Party and neither are there any other Republicans that could have the power and the impact this man has, and so we need to pray for him and pray that God would humble him and that God guides former President Trump’s steps as he as he navigates through all of this.
(Source: Baptist Press)