Now I'm really confused. I didn't realize we were discussing entry into the church. Quite honestly, this doesn't seem like a conversation. It seems like I'm replying to you, and you just post random thoughts.
For example, I'm going to answer your question about why I defend Trump. It goes back to right after the election. I saw so many people in the media, social media, entertainers, etc., say they were going to "give him a chance" and at the same time, there was immediately so much fake news about him and his supporters.
One specific example was Facebook. (back when I spent time on it) I had one FB 'friend' who was posting links to article after article about what Trump did, his supporters did, etc., that just didn't seem like they were true. One post was about how "Trump supporters" had destroyed the home of a gay couple. So I posted something to the effect that it was horrible, and asked if the people who had done it had been caught. No reply. And she wasn't just a FB friend, I know her in real life. So I started posting replies to a few of her posts asking simple questions like that. Some of her other FB friends started berating her for having me as a FB friend, and she subsequently de-friended me. So much for truth, and the free exchange of ideas.
There was also the movement to impeach him starting literally as he was being sworn in. Combine that with the fact that most of those who said they would "give him a chance" did not. They came out against him within days of those statements.
The Russian collusion was what really did it, because on its face, it just made no sense. Trump would be waaay tougher on Russia than HRC ever would be. Plus, Putin had just spent 8 years running circles around president Obama, and particularly HRC during her term as Sec of State. So why would Putin *want* Trump over HRC? Then I read the Steele dossier, and I couldn't believe what an amateurish piece of crap it was. Hell, it looked like it had been written by an 8th grader. Plus, the left seems unable to distinguish between Russian interference and Russian collusion.
Nobody ever asks me what I don't like about Trump, and there's plenty. Even this photo op at the church was not wisse, but at the same time, I have a keen grasp of the obvious, so when people lie about it, I'll defend the president. I did the same thing for president Obama, btw, particularly the racist crap the idiots on the right would post about him.