Will Trump's Meeting With Evangelicals Get Stormy?

An anonymous Christian told NPR that he or she is "concerned" over President Trump's behavior -- specifically his alleged affairs with women, including a porn star -- but most said they still love the thrice-married man who bragged about grabbing women's genitals.

The hypocritical Christians will meet with Trump on June 19 at -- you guessed it -- Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. While some unnamed sources expressed reservations with the president, who's now facing lawsuits from two women who claim he slept with them while still married to Melania Trump, most said they looked forward to the gathering.

"I just honestly don't hear hand-wringing over [Trump's alleged affairs]," Concerned Women for America's Penny Nance told NPR. "They're not surprised; they made that decision a long time ago. This president is not Rick Santorum or Mike Huckabee; he doesn't pretend to be a Bible-banging evangelical."

After the Stormy Daniels story broke in January -- she's the adult film star who claims to have had sex with Trump in 2006 and was paid $130,000 in hush money to not mention it before the 2016 election -- Trump's support dipped among evangelicals, but you'll be hard-pressed to find one who will go on record criticizing the president. Trump and right-wing Christians have entered into a marriage of convenience, with the president promising to stack the Supreme Court with anti-abortion, anti-LGBT advocates like Neil Gorsuch. Trump has also championed so-called religious liberty, which is often just an excuse to deny services to same-sex married couples or transgender people.

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It's unlikely that any attendees at the June gathering will challenge Trump on his alleged indiscretions; Trump will likely provide a status update on new laws restricting reproductive rights or expanding "religious liberty."

Many don't think the Daniels scandal, or the report that he carried on an affair with a Playboy model for years, will evaporate evangelical turn-out in the November midterm elections. Any assumption that Christians will stay home on November 6 is "highly dubious," Faith and Freedom Coalition chairman Ralph Reed told NPR.