They've already rationalized supporting Trump by declaring that God is using Trump as a flawed vessel to bring about everything they want.
Once you get that far, it's not hard to justify anything else. Perhaps God had him say this as a test to see if anyone wasn't truly committed to God and would abandon Trump. Only the truly faithful would ignore everything Trump says and does and support him blindly!
They won't believe this anyway as it's "a lie from a book, probably written by communist vermin."
Hell if it was a video of him saying it then it would be a "deepfake" or they would argue that hes talking about "liberal evangelicals."
They've already rationalized supporting Trump by declaring that God is using Trump as a flawed vessel to bring about everything they want.
Once you get that far, it's not hard to justify anything else. Perhaps God had him say this as a test to see if anyone wasn't truly committed to God and would abandon Trump. Only the truly faithful would ignore everything Trump says and does and support him blindly!