Republican PAC launches never-Trump ad aimed at evangelicals

A group of “never-Trump” Repub­licans targets Christian voters in its first political ad warning that “evangelical leaders who lay their loyalty and faith on the altar of Donald Trump are betraying their congregants and their country.”

“It is clear that in exchange for power and money these ‘pastors’ have been tasked with recasting Trump’s absurdities and moral failures as nothing short of prophetic divinity,” says a social media caption introducing a two-and-a-half-minute video titled “The MAGA Church.”

The video, produced by a group calling itself the Lincoln Project, begins with a warning from the Bible to “beware of false prophets,” quoting from Matthew 7:15, “which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.”