On Friday, Donald Trump spoke at the Values Voter Summit in Washington, and afterward he talked briefly with the Christian Broadcasting Network's David Brody. Brody began by asking Trump if he agreed with former Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), a Trump backer who said last week that if Hillary Clinton wins in November, she will allow in unspecified outsiders and "this is the last election when we even have a chance to vote for somebody who will stand up for godly moral principles." Trump said yes, "I think it's going to be the last election that the Republicans can win." He continued:
If we don't win this election, you'll never see another Republican and you'll have a whole different church structure. You're going to have a whole different Supreme Court structure. That has to do a lot with what we're doing because the Supreme Court, as you know with Justice Scalia gone, I think you could probably have four to five judges picked by the next president. Probably a record number, David, probably a record number of judges. If they pick the super-liberals, probably to a certain extent, people that would make Bernie Sanders happy, you will never have a Supreme Court, we're going to end up with another Venezuela, large scale version. [Trump to CBN News]
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