that s tonight on newsnight good evening. i m abby phillip in new york tonight. donald trump loves to be worshiped that much has been clear since he came down those golden escalators. but this week was especially notable because it gave us a mountain of new evidence that he remains idolized by evangelical voters even after 34 felony counts for crimes associated with hush money payments to an adult film actress. the support is ironclad, 80% of evangelical say they support him today let s start with what happened last night in arizona. donald trump held a town hall in a phoenix mega church. now the opening homily called for the crowd to pray over the presumptive nominee, but it was the smite die enemy s message that really rang out loud and clear. listen we do pray for our leaders. but father, if our leaders will not turn to you, if he will not turn to your word, if he will not return to justice, we pray that you would bring those leaders down. all of those people, all those in
The same about clarence, can t say the same about alito tim for weeks, we were hearing from republicans that judge juan were shawn here in new york, could not possibly be impartial because he made $35 contribution to democrats in 2020 only 15 of that went to biden. the biden campaign, i guess specifically how can republicans make that claim while not even batting an eye at what s going on in these disclosure forms. that s the problem that i have, is that to be intellectually honest, you have to apply it to both sides. and so if you re going to say that justice merchan, the judge, marsha, and he has to recuse himself. you have to kind of go both ways on it. and that s why i do think that having some type of reasonable regulations in place that would really limit all judges and keep them keep them from any appearance of impropriety and i m not