WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An intense and sustained push by U.S. evangelicals helped drive President Donald Trump’s decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and eventually relocate the U.S. embassy there, activists said on Wednesday.
While Trump had long pledged to move the embassy, the Republican president’s conservative Christian advisers repeatedly pressed the case in regular meetings at the White House, the conservative activists said.
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