The Washington Post | Trump wants ‘packed churches’ on Easter. Pastors expect their doors to be shut.

Johnnie Moore, who does consulting and public relations for several of Trump’s evangelical supporters, said that religious advisers to the president are not pressuring him to enable them to reopen their churches by Easter. Moore said that Trump is trying to address not only the pandemic of the virus but the “pandemic of fear.”

“This was him speaking aspirationally, not irrationally. But no one is holding him to it,” Moore said. “People need hope. They need to know that this isn’t indefinite.”

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