{"id":82824,"date":"2026-05-10T09:53:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T13:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=82824"},"modified":"2026-05-10T09:53:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T13:53:02","slug":"gop-strategist-trump-surrounded-by-anti-catholic-bigots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/gop-strategist-trump-surrounded-by-anti-catholic-bigots\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Strategist: Trump Surrounded By Anti-Catholic &#8216;Bigots&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From the Raw Story:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Donald Trump is surrounded by anti-Catholic bigots,&#8221; ex-GOP political strategist Steve Schmidt said on his\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a class=\"rm-stats-tracked\" style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/steveschmidt.substack.com\/p\/dead-air-lil-marcos-big-trip-with?utm_source=podcast-email&amp;publication_id=836444&amp;post_id=197001070&amp;utm_campaign=email-play-on-substack&amp;utm_content=watch_now_gif&amp;r=89wvw2&amp;triedRedirect=true&amp;utm_medium=email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">podcast<\/a> on Saturday. &#8220;First and foremost by Pete Hegseth.&#8221;\u00a0Schmidt and Canadian radio personality Dean Blundell were mocking Secretary of State Marco Rubio&#8217;s botched visit with Pope Leo earlier in the week when Schmidt turned his ire to Defense Secretary\u00a0<a class=\"rm-stats-tracked\" style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/pete-hegseth-religious-beliefs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pete Hegseth<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0As the <a class=\"rm-stats-tracked\" style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/trump-news\/\">Trump<\/a>\u00a0administration tries to fall in the good graces of the first\u00a0<a class=\"rm-stats-tracked\" style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/trump-feud-pope-leo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Pope<\/a>, an ex-GOP operative is shaking his head at the fact that he employs what he called one big &#8216;anti-Catholic bigot&#8217; in particular. In particular, he called out how Hegseth had &#8220;the audacity, the\u00a0<a class=\"rm-stats-tracked\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/u\/jordan_green_special_to_raw_story\">extremism<\/a>, the license that the guy feels that, &#8216;I&#8217;m going to cancel the Catholic Good Friday service at the Pentagon at the chapel.&#8221; Schmidt was referring to when Hegseth\u00a0<a class=\"rm-stats-tracked\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/hegseth-holds-protestant-only-religious-215153009.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">decided<\/a>\u00a0to hold Protestant-only services in early April.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1778406782\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"GOP Strategist: Trump Surrounded By Anti-Catholic &#8216;Bigots&#8217;\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Raw Story: &#8220;Donald Trump is surrounded by anti-Catholic bigots,&#8221; ex-GOP political strategist Steve Schmidt said on his\u00a0podcast on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-82824","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82825,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82824\/revisions\/82825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}