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Oh please let him actually do it. It would be one of the only positive things to come out of this toxic festering dung heap of an administration.
Unfortunately, it will only be the helpful and tolerant ones. TST, UU, Episcopal, etc. The worst will be supported and amplified.
And there we are...
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-trump-says-he-will-revoke-church-tax-exempt-status-if-leaders-say-something-bad-about-him
It would not surprise me if he started appropriating our taxpayer dollars towards them.
I don't think he'd have the ability to target specific churches like that, he'd have to remove the blanket religious tax exemption so it would apply to all of them. I think the only way he could target specific churches is if he somehow got them reclassified as not religious institutions and I'm not sure how he would manage that. Doing that to something like the church of scientology is one thing, it's already on shaky ground, but trying the same thing on something like the Episcopal church is something else entirely. Unfortunately I could see him maybe succeeding at getting TST reclassified.
I am not certain that a trivial issue like "that's unconstitutional" is going to present any kind of impediment to him.
There was an attempt, way back when, to revoke the tax exempt status of All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena, CA because the priest there was openly critical of the Bush administration. The argument was that, by criticizing Bush he was endorsing a Democratic candidate and churches at the time were not allowed to endorse political candidates. Of course, Trump changed that (and, possibly, his only legal leg to stand on in regards to this threat). Unless there's an amendment that makes space for "not hurting Twumpy's widdle feewings" then, yeah, I don't think there's much he can do to pick on particular denominations, etc. But with Trump, nothing is assured.
EDIT: I see on the original post that Trump's statement that he removed the clause forbidding churches from endorsing candidates is actually false. Welp.
What about orgs that are directly, or indirectly, aiding domestic terrorists?
Especially when "domestic terrorist" = "whoever I don't like".