The timing of Christianity Today's editorial calling for President Donald Trump’s ouster couldn’t have been better. With impeachment voted and Congress gone for the holidays, it dropped into a beautiful D.C. news vacuum.
Front pages of The Washington Post and The New York Times. Interviews on CNN. Commentary everywhere. And why not? Trump's support among white evangelicals has been the biggest religion story of his presidency, so his rejection by their flagship publication had to be news.
As usual, Trump helped the coverage along by flying to his own defense. "The fact is, no President has ever done what I have done for Evangelicals, or religion itself!