TINLEY PARK, IL, UNITED STATES, November 26, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ — “Stay tuned. We’re going to go from defense to offense here,” said Chaplain Steven Lee, regarding the RICO charges pertaining to the 2020 Election Interference case against him, President Donald J. Trump and others.
“The case is entirely dropped,” said Lee, who was indicted and subjected to lawfare by the disgraced and then removed District Attorney Fani Willis, out of Fulton County, Georgia.
“The prosecutor who took it over made a decision not to pursue it. It’s officially done. Now, I feel a sacred obligation to carry things forward in terms of holding people accountable and to deter future lawfare. I want the Christians and Pastors in this country, and the religious community in general, to know they have a warrior, who is fighting on their behalf, to protect their First Amendment rights, to proclaim the Gospel and live like Christians. This is not over,” said Lee.
“We have got to grow a backbone here,” said Lee. He jokingly added, “I’ve been officially recognized as having a ‘titanium backbone’ by IFI, so I intend to use it,” referring to a 2024 award given him last year by the Illinois Family Institute, for courage to stand for what was right, in the face of great personal risk.
Lee is best known for his work as a Ground Zero Chaplain, where he spent the first month at the hazardous scene of the 9/11 terror attacks in New York. He is credited with recognizing the historical and spiritual importance of the cross that formed in the rubble and made sure it didn’t get scrapped. Instead, it bears his signature and signatures of many other Ground Zero workers. It is housed in the 9/11 Memorial and Museum in New York City, enshrining the hopes and prayers of so many, that we will indeed, “never forget.”
Chaplain Lee has served the nation in many roles in his law enforcement career and many as a minister and Chaplain. He has published and re-released a law enforcement Bible titled “God’s Word for Peace Officers,” and has personally served at more natural and man-made disaster sites in America, than arguably any other individual. He helped mobilize the rescue of a congregation from gang members in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and was consoling the grieved and mass murder events such as Columbine, Mandalay Bay, the Pulse Nightclub and many others. That includes the Minneapolis Catholic Church attack, earlier this year.
“America owes Chaplain Lee a personal Thank You,” said Paul Hurst, a representative with Illinois Family Action. “We’re grateful for his efforts to keep responders in the fight at Ground Zero, for his extension of Christian love to hurting family members, and for encouraging our law enforcement officers. Now we thank him for his willingness to courageously stand and fight for the protection of our rights and America values. We can add him and his wife, to the list of what we’re thankful for this Thanksgiving.”
Illinois Family Institute was an early advocate of Chaplain Lee, recognizing the partisan lawfare that was taking place and has now been confirmed by this dismissal and the inability to find a single DA to take up the case, in the wake of Willis’ removal. IFI is a 501c(3) non-profit ministry, dedicated to upholding and re-affirming marriage, family, life and liberty and to advance public policies consistent with Judeo-Christian teachings and traditions, educating and equipping citizens to better influence their local communities and the state of Illinois.
