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As he speaks, the screen behind him shows generic patriotic imagery. Tonight he’s wearing a charcoal suit and a gleaming magenta tie with matching pocket square. The 63-year-old Jeffress is trim and winsome, with a natural smile and a syrupy demeanor. “Well, he’s doing exactly the right thing in keeping this government shut down until he gets that wall,” he says. Jeffress, speaking from a remote studio in downtown Dallas, agrees completely. The jowly host revels in Trump’s threats that the shutdown could continue “for months, if not years,” if that’s what it takes to get more wall built on America’s border with Mexico. But Dobbs waves his hand up and down and tells Jeffress that he hasn’t heard anyone-“literally no one!”-say they miss the government. Across the country, hundreds of thousands of federal workers are missing paychecks, worrying about mortgages, car payments, utility bills. It’s early January, about two weeks into what will prove to be the longest government shutdown in U.S. And he isn’t simply defending Trump-he’s defending him with one carefully crafted Bible-wrapped barb after another, and with more passion, more preparation, more devotion than anyone else on television.Īs Lou Dobbs finishes his opening remarks, Jeffress laughs and nods. Here’s Robert Jeffress, talking to the hundreds of thousands of people watching conservative cable news on a typical Friday evening, and he’s defending President Donald Trump against the latest array of accusations in the news this week.