Five Questions with Heidi Przybyla

Politico’s Heidi Przybyla is one of my favorite journalists. So when she ran a story this past Tuesday headlined, “Trump allies prepare to infuse ‘Christian nationalism’ in second administration,” I stopped what I was doing to read it. And then I wanted to know still more.

Heidi writes about Trump, “In a December campaign speech in Iowa, he said ‘Marxists and fascists’ are ‘going hard’ against Catholics. ‘Upon taking office, I will create a new federal task force on fighting anti-Christian bias to be led by a fully reformed Department of Justice that’s fair and equitable’ and that will ‘investigate all forms of illegal discrimination.’” She reminds us that “On the eve of the Iowa caucuses, Trump promoted on his social media a video that suggests his campaign is, actually, a divine mission from God.”

Heidi graciously agreed to be our guest for “Five Questions” tonight. This is an important chance for us to add detail and nuance to what it means when we hear people say Trump has authoritarian plans for the future of America.

Heidi Przybyla is an award-wining national investigative correspondent at Politico and a veteran Washington journalist whose reporting on democracy and politics has repeatedly broken fresh ground. She’s appeared on CNN, PBS, NPR, CBS, ABC, FOX and across NBC News platforms. She has been unstinting in exposing the truth about Donald Trump’s time in office. And her reporting on Trump’s cozy relationship with Christian nationalism is particularly chilling, coming the same week that the Alabama Supreme Court ruled in a case replete with citations to the bible that has now compromised access to fertility treatment for women in the state.

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