ProPublica attacks Mike Pence for helping Christian genocide victims

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Washington Examiner

The left-leaning investigative journalism outlet ProPublica published an extremely troubling piece that implicitly criticized the Trump administration and the U.S. Agency for International Development for providing direct aid to Christian and Yazidi victims of genocide at the hands of the Islamic State. The article focuses on these vulnerable and already devastated communities, which were almost completely annihilated by ISIS, for purely political purposes, to make it seem as if the administration is favoring Christians over other minorities on the basis of religion. 

 

The article's author justifies her criticism by distorting and leaving out important facts that not only justify the aid but prove its critical impact for both the humanitarian and existential aspects for those religious minorities.

It is not aid for religious reasons. Rather, it is aid for those who were most targeted by ISIS. 

While President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence have irrefutably been outspoken voices for persecuted Christians, when it came to the question of direct aid to survivors of ISIS genocide, they also had the weight of a bipartisan congressional mandate behind them.