President Donald Trump announced today that he is creating a presidential commission on religious liberty to root out the “unlawful and improper anti-Christian” policies that were rampant during the Biden administration.

The president delivered remarks at two events in Washington D.C. Thursday morning surrounding the the National Prayer Breakfast.

“It’s going to be a very big deal,” Trump promised at the second event at the Washington Hilton. “Unfortunately, in recent years we’ve seen this sacred liberty threatened like never before in American history. ”

On January 24, Trump issued pardons for 23 pro-life protesters, who were in jail for violating the federal Freedom of Access to Clinics (FACE) Act.

“Most of us would not have believed it possible that a grandmother with a severe medical condition … would be put in jail for praying here in America,” the president said.

Trump described how one of the prayer Breakfast attendees, Paulette Harlow, “was arrested for peacefully praying outside of a clinic, charged under an obscure law that hadn’t been used in years—selectively weaponized against Christians by the previous administration.”

Harlow, 75, was sentenced in May 2024 to 24 months in prison following her convictions for “federal conspiracy against rights and Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act offenses” in connection with a pro-life group’s blockade of a Washington, D.C., area abortion clinic on Oct. 22, 2020, according to the Biden Justice Department.

According to Trump, the bias didn’t stop with Biden’s anti-Christian prosecutors: “At her sentencing, the judge mocked Paulette’s Christian faith,” he recounted.

The president said that although he won the religious vote in the 2024 election “by a lot,” the Biden regime was so “terrible” to Christians, he was amazed that Kamala Harris got any of their votes at all.

“They were terrible! They were terrible to you and they were to people of all religions!” he exclaimed.

Trump said it was his honor to grant Paulette and the other persecuted Christians “a full and unconditional pardon.”

“We got them out of there!” the president crowed, before joking that Harlow “got lucky that I won that election.”

The president added that what happened to the elderly pro-life grandmother, “must never happen again in America.”

Trump said he will sign an executive order later today to create a task force headed by Attorney General Pam Bondi “to eradicate anti-Christian bias” in the U.S. government.

“The mission of this task force will be to immediately halt all forms of anti-Christian targeting and discrimination within the federal government, Trump explained, “including at the DOJ—which was absolutely terrible—the IRS, the FBI—terrible!”

Trump added that the task force will also focus on anti-Christian violence and vandalism in America, which spiked during the Biden years, and went mostly unpunished.

In the months after a draft of the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe was leaked to the press in May 2022,  the Catholic News Agency tracked 112 attacks against Catholic churches, pro-life pregnancy centers, maternity homes, and other pro-life organizations across the country. The attacks took the form of “vulgar graffiti, property damage, threats, theft, and arson,” CNA reported.

The president promised that his administration “will move heaven and earth to defend the rights of Christians and religious believers nationwide.”

“This is a very powerful document I’m signing,” he added. “If we don’t have religious liberty, we don’t have a free country—we probably don’t have a country.”

Trump announced that he was also creating a White House Faith Office, to be headed by Pastor Paula White, an American televangelist, apostolic leader in the Independent Charismatic movement, and proponent of “prosperity theology.”

Trump said the new office will work to protect Christians “in our schools, in our military, in our government, in our workplaces, hospitals, in our public squares, and we will bring our country back together as one nation under God with liberty and justice to all.”

The president also recounted how God had “saved” him last year when he turned his head at just the right moment during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

Trump was shot and wounded in his upper right ear by 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, who fired eight rounds from an AR-15–style rifle from the roof of an unsecured building that was only about 400 feet away.

“It was a shot that should not have been missed,” Trump said, adding, “well, it got me a little bit.”

The president said his sons Eric and Don Jr, both told him a shot from that distance was “like sinking a one foot putt.”

Trump recalled that Don Jr. told him afterward that he had been saved by God.

“You could say it’s a miracle,” Trump told the attendees, “but it was really God that saved me.”