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Donald Trump watches as Luis Ortiz fights Matias Ariel Vidondo of Argentina during a WBA heavyweight title bout at Madison Square Garden in New York on Oct. 17, 2015. Trump on Romney: 'Are you sure he's a Mormon?'

Donald Trump questioned Mitt Romney’s faith at a Salt Lake City rally on Friday night, ripping the former GOP presidential nominee as a “choke artist” before wondering whether he was truly a member of the Mormon religion.

“Are you sure he’s a Mormon? Are we sure?” he asked a supportive crowd. Romney, just hours earlier, had indicated he’d be casting a vote for Ted Cruz in Utah’s caucuses Tuesday.

Trump’s broadside was the latest and most direct in a trend of questioning his opponents’ religion. He previously wondered about Ben Carson’s Seventh Day Adventist faith and suggested that Ted Cruz is unlikely to be a true evangelical because he hails from Cuba. And as he lavished praise on Utah’s Mormon population, he wondered whether Romney was fit to be counted among them.

“And do I love the Mormons. OK? Do I love the Mormons?” he bellowed from a podium.

Romney’s faith became a challenge for him during the 2008 election season, when Iowa’s evangelical voters began to migrate toward Mike Huckabee. He delivered a lengthy defense of his Mormonism in Texas, at the George Bush Presidential Library, to urge voters to back him regardless of religion.

“I believe in my Mormon faith and endeavor to live by it,” he said.

On Friday, Trump went on to describe the “many Mormons” who have worked for his companies, and the amount of their pay they give to the church.

“Sometimes I make their payment directly to the church,” he went on.

On a day that also featured an escalation of his attacks on Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly, Trump also addressed critics who have accused him of being unpresidential.

“I say, ‘what’s wrong with how I’m doing it now?’” he wondered. He added, “If you’re too presidential, you’re gonna lose.”