that s tonight on newsnight good evening. i m abby phillip in new york tonight. donald trump loves to be worshiped that much has been clear since he came down those golden escalators. but this week was especially notable because it gave us a mountain of new evidence that he remains idolized by evangelical voters even after 34 felony counts for crimes associated with hush money payments to an adult film actress. the support is ironclad, 80% of evangelical say they support him today let s start with what happened last night in arizona. donald trump held a town hall in a phoenix mega church. now the opening homily called for the crowd to pray over the presumptive nominee, but it was the smite die enemy s message that really rang out loud and clear. listen we do pray for our leaders. but father, if our leaders will not turn to you, if he will not turn to your word, if he will not return to justice, we pray that you would bring those leaders down. all of those people, all those in
Or two. but really all eyes are on justice clarence thomas. he amended his disclosure forum from 2019 with two new additions. that say that he says were, quote inadvertently admitted at the time of the filing that we should note they were only brought to light publicly because of a propublica investigation. the first was a trip to bali that was paid for by gop megadonor, harlan crow and his wife thomas also then disclosed a trip paid for by the crows to a private club in monte rio, california that same month. he did not place a value on either trip in the disclosure form because it s not required, but the watchdog group fix the court said that over the last 20 years when it comes to both the disclosed the undisclosed gifts clarence thomas is really in a league of his own. thomas has reportedly received 103 gifts, amounting to 2.4 million in value, and it s not even close.