Christian nationalists’ tendency to blame enforcement of separation of religion and government in the face of mass shootings and national tragedies is nothing new. In the curious theology of many fundamentalist Christians, God apparently gets so upset over the lack of compulsory, government-sponsored prayer in public schools and other institutions that he occasionally lashes out with horrifying mass shootings, acts of terrorism, natural disasters, wars and other plagues.

None of the accusations against President Donald Trump and his advisers laid out in the Mueller Report has shaken the Religious Right’s faith in Trump. They continue to insist that the Mueller investigation is a frame-up designed to force Trump from office. Although Trump has many far-right evangelical defenders, seven stand out as especially sycophantic.

The Pew Research Center report contains an interesting nugget about President Donald Trump’s white evangelical supporters: The more often they go to church, the more likely they are to back him.