He's also telling them that if the GOP loses the house in November, there will be widespread "violence" and the overturning of everything he has done. Fearmongering among those with a very short fuse and an inability to fact check and think rationally and independently.
They made it legal a while back. Churches can also raise money for political PACs.
'The Times noted that the president spent much of the time bragging about “getting rid of” the Johnson Amendment, a 1954 tax law barring religious organizations and other 5013 tax-exempt groups from endorsing or opposing political candidates.
Though Trump signed an executive order in May 2017 meant to ease the restrictions of the Johnson Amendment and allow religious leaders to “speak their minds,” PolitiFact reported that his claim that he got rid of it is “mostly false.”'