President Trump on Thursday said he’ll sign an executive order making new Attorney General Pam Bondi the head of a task force to target “anti-Christian bias” and create a freedom of religion commission.

“I will be creating a brand new presidential commission on religious liberty. It’s going to be a very big deal, which will work tirelessly to uphold this most fundamental right. Unfortunately, in recent years, we’ve seen this sacred liberty threatened like never before in American history,” Mr. Trump told a crowd at the Washington Hilton.

He said he was creating the task force with Ms. Bondi at the helm to “confront such weaponization and political persecution.”

“The mission of this task force will be to immediately halt all forms of anti-Christian targeting and discrimination within the federal government, including at the DOJ — which was absolutely terrible — the IRS, the FBI and other agencies,” Mr. Trump told a crowd at the Washington Hilton.

He also said work will be done to “fully prosecute anti-Christian violence and vandalism in our society and to move heaven and earth to defend the rights of Christians and religious believers nationwide.”

Mr. Trump added, “If we don’t have religious liberty, then we don’t have a free country.”

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The president said he’s reinstating from his first term the White House Faith Office, which will be led by the televangelist Paula White. She chaired the evangelical advisory board during Mr. Trump’s 2016 campaign and delivered the invocation at his 2017 inauguration.

“While I’m in the White House, we will protect Christians in our schools and our military and our government, workplaces, hospitals and in our public squares,” he said. “We will bring our country back together as one nation under God with liberty and justice for all.”

• Mallory Wilson can be reached at mwilson@washingtontimes.com.