Palin defends Trump on religion

Former Gov. Sarah Palin (R-Alaska) is defending GOP front-runner Donald Trump, calling media questions about his religious beliefs unfair.

“[The] lamestream media asks GOP personal, spiritual ‘gotchas’ that they’d never ask Hillary, or they’d feed the question to her and/or liberal cohorts before they asked it on-air,” she wrote in a Facebook post Friday.

“We know how these things work, lapdog media – the public’s on to you,” Palin added. “So good on Trump for screwing with the reporter.”

{mosads}Palin’s defense of Trump comes after the outspoken billionaire declined to share his favorite Bible verse during an interview earlier this week.

“I wouldn’t want to get into it because to me that’s very personal,” Trump said when asked about the Christian holy book on Wednesday.

“The Bible means a lot to me but I don’t want to get into specifics,” he added. “I think it’s just incredible.”

Palin argued on Friday that Trump’s spirituality is irrelevant when gauging his potential as president.

“It’s none of his business – it is personal,” she said of the reporter’s questioning. “What the heck does it have to do with serving as commander-in-chief?

“These reporters trying to trip up conservatives can go pound sand until they all ask the same thing of their favored liberal pals,” the 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee added.

Palin also vowed she would discuss the encounter with Trump during her guest appearance as host of the One America News Network’s “On Point” Friday night.

She said journalists are undermining their profession’s credibility by asking loaded questions of popular figures like Trump.

“The more the media does this, the more they empower America to reject them and their bias as voters run to the anti-status quo candidates daring to go rogue,” Palin wrote on Facebook.

Trump, who is leading the GOP field in a number of national polls, has faced criticism from some who argue that the real estate mogul is not a true conservative.

Trump has responded by discussing his conversion to conservative beliefs while on the 2016 campaign trail.

But he’s also struggled in discussing religion during the campaign. He referred to his participation in communion as “when I drink my little wine… and have my little cracker.”

This story was updated at 12:52 p.m.