Despite Donald Trump's claim that he wants to unite the Republican Party's diverse elements as its presumptive presidential nominee, the billionaire New Yorker has no qualms about attacking an evangelical influencer in one of the nation's largest and most conservative denominations.
Theologian Russell Moore, leader of the Southern Baptist Convention's political arm, criticized Trump in an article published Friday in the New York Times and later in an interview on the CBS News program "Face the Nation," broadcast Sunday.
Donald Trump's vacillation over hiking taxes on the wealthy and boosting the minimum wage opened huge target zones for critics from both the left and the right, and fed concerns among voters – even committed conservative Republicans – that they can't trust the presumptive GOP presidential nominee.
In a back-and-forth session on the NBC News show "Meet the Press," broadcast Sunday, Trump seemed to step back from a tax plan that he unveiled last year and that called for broad tax cuts, including levies on the wealthiest Americans.
