1500 fundies normally don't gather in a ballroom to pray for a man who is "completely vindicated."

Christ's Last Supper. The Prodigal Son. A pastor looking for the biblical parable that would best describe the scene Thursday when 1,500 grassroots activists of the right wing fundamentalist persuasion come together in a ballroom in Washington to pray with President Donald Trump would have to amalgamate those two stories.

Trump’s speech is timed to coincide with the testimony of his personal Judas, fired FBI Director James Comey, across town on Capitol Hill. Comey is expected to describe in greater detail what’s already known about Trump’s efforts to get him to back off investigations into Russian influence on the campaign and Trump’s staff.

Meanwhile, Trump’s host, Faith and Freedom Coalition (FFC) founder Ralph E. Reed Jr., will be enjoying a prodigal son moment. The veteran Christian Coalition political operative, a Michael J. Fox doppelganger, left Washington ignominiously in 2006 after a pair of scandals tarnished his halo but didn’t end his career. In 1997, the chief financial officer of the Christian Coalition accused friends of Reed's of overcharging the Coalition by $1 million. In 2005, Reed was implicated in one of the decade’s sleaziest congressional lobbying scandals, involving Indian gambling rights.

Reed ran for Georgia lieutenant governor and lost, then sat out the Obama years down in Duluth, applying the fundraising and organizing skills he’d honed in Washington during the Clinton and Bush years to create and build the Faith and Freedom Coalition, which now boasts access to some 600,000 voters and has an annual revenue of more than $6 million. That makes it influential enough to have both the president and the vice president of the United States willing and eager to show up to entertain God’s troops.

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