June 22, 2016
Michele Bachmann Back in Politics? She's on the Trump Train
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Since resigning from Congress in 2015, it's been a pleasant break from Michele Bachmann. Outside of occasionally popping up on radio shows to assert that President Obama is bringing on the rapture, the former Representative from Minnesota has stayed delightfully out of the spotlight until Wednesday.
According to AP, during Tuesday's meeting with evangelical leaders, many of whom lead anti-LGBT hate groups, presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump announced his campaign's "Evangelical Advisory Executive Board," on which Bachmann will serve.
Bachmann's anti-LGBT views will be in concert with other board appointees. Other members include James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family; Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr.; Richard Land, president of the Southern Evangelical Seminary; Faith and Freedom Coalition founder Ralph Reed, and Word of Faith founders Kenneth and Gloria Copeland, the campaign said Tuesday.
According to a statement, the board will "provide advisory support to Mr. Trump on those issues important to evangelicals and other people of the faith in America."
"I have such tremendous respect and admiration for this group and I look forward to continuing to talk about the issues important to evangelicals, and all Americans, and the common sense solutions I will implement when I am president," Trump said in a statement.