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Aug. 31, 2025 - Lionel Nation
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DHS Allocates $110M to Protect Faith Groups After Minnesota Shooting Tragedy

DHS Allocates $110M to Protect Faith Groups After Minnesota Shooting Tragedy

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Good evening, my friends.
Good evening and welcome to this thing of ours.
I hope you had a splendid day.
Mrs. L and I had a most glorious day today.
The weather was one for the record.
Cool, perfect, sunny, no spraying.
Billowy, billowy, clouds.
Spragging in the sky, no diaphanous, gauzy, foggy, hazy, gone.
No spraying today.
I'm sure they'll pick up tonight, but it was absolutely wonderful.
So it was just incredible.
We went out to various farms, went out to a place in New Jersey, called Oldwick, New Jersey.
Went to one of the oldest, or an old cemetery, pre-Ordhousand.
or pre revolutionary war I mean, it was just because this area is so tightly connected with American history.
Went to a place, it was like a gift shop in an old early 18th century home with a, the inside fireplace to be used for cooking, not a regular fireplace, but like a cooking fireplace.
and a pump inside.
I mean, it was just, you know, when you walk into a place like that and you smell the age, you smell the history, you look at the.
varnished floorboards.
It was absolutely beautiful.
Picked up some great corn.
Went to one of our favorite places, Oort Farms.
In Long Valley.
Long Valley.
Just beautiful.
Beautiful.
Kids.
Met one of the most fascinating women, Mrs. Dell is going to be, I hope, interviewing her.
She's a pediatric occupational therapist.
I didn't know there was such a thing.
But explaining how kids today...
Anyway, it was just absolutely beauteous.
But I did not want the day to go by before without telling you, my friends, about something which is very, very critical and the subject of today's topic, and that is the DHS allocates $110 million to protect faith groups after the Minnesota shooting tragedy.
Let me see if I can explain this and why this is important.
America.
is making and taking a stand.
And after the heartbreaking mass shooting at a Minnesota Catholic church where the unthinkable happened..
The unthinkable happened.
Inside a place of prayer, a place of worship, our nation, I hope, is finally sending the right message.
We will not be held hostage by fear any longer.
We will not allow our houses of worship to become hunting grounds.
And under the blessed leadership of President Donald Trump, and Secretary Kristy Noam, we are fighting back.
So this week, this week, dear friends, the Department of Homeland Security made the following announcement.
They announced a sweeping $110 million commitment, which is a drop in the bucket, to protecting faith-based organizations across the country, not someday, not maybe, not now.
That money will go directly into fortifying 600 churches, schools, synagogues, and community centers.
And it's only the beginning.
cameras gates lighting access control alarms training real solid tangible actual protection not let's just talk about it, but the real thing.
And why does this matter?
Because if a church isn't safe, America isn't America.
If a parishioner can't kneel in prayer in a house of worship, whatever the house of worship is, without wondering who's coming through the door, then our most sacred freedom is nothing but words on paper.
It's a parchment right, as we used to say.
And it's incredible, well, integral, I should say, to the First Amendment.
So that's why this initiative is so powerful.
It's not just funding.
It's a declaration.
It's a declaration.
America is done being pushed around by madmen, by terrorists, by haters of faith.
And for far too long, my dear friends, for far too long, we've been told to tolerate the intolerable, to shrug our shoulders after each attack, accept the new normal of violence in our schools and churches, and just say, oh, well, what the hey, right?
The elites called it progress.
I call it surrender.
No more.
But this administration isn't surrendering.
This administration is standing tall, as are we and as are you.
It is that simple.
So the Minnesota shooting was a turning point.
A former student twisted with hate, twisted and contorted by this confused lunacy as to gender and whatever, among so many others who make a predominant faction of those individuals who are themselves a militant.
twisted with hate he walked into into a catholic church mass and tried to destroy a community two lives were lost Others were wounded.
Parents and children traumatized forever.
Authorities are investigating links to domestic terrorism, but let's call it what it was.
What it was, it was an attack on faith, an attack on freedom, an attack on, I say this again, America.
You think that's exaggerated?
You think I'm going over too much?
Then think again.
And that's why the response had to be more than words.
We're not lighting candles and walking away and saying, you know, the usual stuff.
We're not sending our thoughts and prayers.
Our thoughts and prayers while doing nothing but thinking and praying.
We are protecting those prayers with steel, with vigilance, with armed security, if necessary.
We're saying, not here.
Nope, not in America.
Not to our people.
So Secretary Noam said, and this is important.
said it thusly and i quote instead of funding climate initiatives or political projects we're protecting american communities as Especially, she said, especially where people gather in prayer.
Exactly.
The contrast couldn't be clearer.
Under Biden, billions wasted on foreign wars and climate gimmicks, that nonsense.
Remember that one?
Under Trump, $110 million, a drop in the bucket.
And I hope it's just the beginning to defend our churches and then soon our schools.
Under Biden, there were lectures about gas stoves.
Remember that?
Under Trump, armed guards at the parish gate.
Does this make sense?
This is America fighting back, my friends.
This is America saying we will not let our children's schools become targets.
We will not let our places of worship become kill zones.
We will not be held hostage.
Repeat, we will not be held hostage by lunatics who want us to live in fear.
It's that simple.
And make no mistake, my friend.
Make no mistake.
This isn't just about Catholic schools.
Oh, no, no, no, no, no.
This is about every single American who values the right to worship freely.
The First Amendment, dear Patriot, the First Amendment is meaningless if it can't be exercised safely.
Let me think about it.
What good is religious freedom, the First Amendment, the Free Exercise Clause and the Establishment Clause if churches burn and congregants bleed?
Freedom of worship, freedom of religion, freedom of faith without security is a hollow promise.
It means nothing.
This initiative makes that promise real thanks to this great president, Donald John Trump.
And let's not forget something.
Democrats didn't just ignore these threats.
They actually smeared the faithful.
They mocked you.
They laughed at you.
Remember the FBI memo that labeled traditional Catholics as potential extremists.
Remember that one?
While Biden's DOJ was spying on parishioners.
Remember that one?
You see, the real extremists here, the real extremists were plotting attacks.
They were burning churches.
They were terrorizing communities.
The very people, the very people under threat were the ones, my dear friends, were the ones the regime was targeting.
That ends now.
It's over.
It's done.
It's finished.
Wake up.
Now under President Donald John Trump.
Trump and Christy Noem, we are reversing the narrative.
The faithful are not the problem.
They're the ones being attacked.
And America has their back.
We've got their back.
And it's just the beginning.
We're fighting back.
America is putting muscle behind the promise of protection.
We're not just talking about this.
Again, we're not doing all this sleepy little prayers.
And America is saying, finally, by the way, to the lunatics.
Pay very close attention.
Your days of easy targets are over or soft targets or whatever particular phrase this week is.
Look at what this funding really means.
Listen carefully.
Cameras and entrances deter cowards before they act.
Gates and controlled access stop attackers before they get inside.
Alarms and alert systems are put in place and activated to rally help in seconds, not minutes, and training transforms parish volunteers into first responders.
So remember, this isn't symbolic.
This is lifesaving.
This is the difference.
between massacre and miracle.
Big difference.
And here's the point.
Here's the point.
Here's the big point, the huge point, the most salient point.
America is refusing to take this nonsense anymore.
We've had it.
We're done.
Who's with me on this one?
Who's with me on this one?
We've had it.
We are done watching communities get slaughtered while politicians wring their hands like, oh my God, what are we going to do?
We're done watching families bury their children.
All the while, when bureaucrats fund pet projects, we're done being a soft nation.
This is the comeback.
This is the stand.
This is a new America.
This is America first, really.
Because if America doesn't protect her churches, I'm going to.
to say it again then what is she what are we about if we can't defend the most sacred spaces in our society then what does being a superpower mean what does it mean the soul of a nation the essence the gravamen though so to speak of a nation isn't measured by gdp or stock markets i mean that's nice but that's nothing it's measured by whether children can go to mass without fear of dying Under Donald John Trump's leadership,
that answer is yes.
Ladies and gentlemen, my fellow patriots, listen to me.
This is more than a grand program.
This is a line in the sand.
This is the beginning of a new America where we fight back.
This is America saying we won't bow to fear.
We will not abandon our faith.
We will not let terrorists or maniacs, domestic or otherwise, dictate how we feel.
We're not going to be held hostage the next time some drug addict dies of an overdose while in police custody.
You see, the left wants us, wants you weak and divided and scared.
Trump wants you strong and united and fearless.
That's the difference.
That's the America first difference.
That's what everybody's talking about.
So tonight, my friends, right now as I join you and I thank you for gracing the portals of our minor, meager, just simple, humble show, while Biden wasted your tax dollars overseas, Trump is protecting your church at home.
While Democrats mocked believers, This administration is defending believers.
And while radicals try to, to what, make faith dangerous, America is making faith powerful again.
And that can only be done if you feel safe, if you are safe.
So we're fighting back.
We're not surrendering.
And we're not retreating.
And we are going to continue to protect our children and your children and your families and you, defending our churches and standing tall as the greatest nation on earth.
That's what I thought last time.
That's what they always told me.
Well, it's time to prove it.
And let this message, my friend, let, please, remember, send our work, send this to your friends.
Let this message, by the way, encourage people to join us.
Join the family.
Join the conspiratorium., join Lionel Nation, join us and let this message ring from every steeple and every bell tower and every pew and every church and every temple and every mosque everywhere, everywhere.
We are America.
I can't say it enough.
It's not just an expression.
We are faithful.
We are free and we will not be held hostage.
And I can't say this again.
This goes all across every faith there is.
We will not let this happen, my friend.
And I think you know and I know how important this is.
And I think you know how critical it is.
And it's also, when you see this, when you see the Democrats realize that what we're seeing right now is this movement by the Trump administration to take over not just necessarily churches and schools, but to go back and to involve itself in things such as, well, something as simple as, and this is important, something as simple as having schools
protected.
cities protected, the federalization of the National Guard, all these others, Muriel Bowser notwithstanding, Lori Bass notwithstanding, and I also mentioned, remember, Gavin Newsom, not listening.
We don't care what they think.
So who's with me?
Who's with me?
Who is with me?
Seriously.
It's important, my friend, that you understand how serious we are.
This is not a joke.
This is not a joke.
This is one of the greatest things ever.
And with all this said and done, this man and this presidency, this administration.
will go down in history like nobody's ever seen before.
And that's why it's so critical, so important, so absolutely necessary for you to be a part of this and join our movement and join this and tell people about what we tell people about what we are doing plain and simple does that make friends does that make sense?
I think it makes sense.
I think it makes sense.
Understand this.
We are absolutely so incredibly important to to this cause and why?
Because we are the people, by the way, who represent really what what what what MAGA or America First is all about.
Okay.
That's all.
Got this.
I can't believe that we have we live in a country where schools cannot and I and I've already been through this very, very thoroughly, but the plans are very simple.
How you have a very simple program of schools where they're just basically their Fort Knox.
One entrance in, one entrance out, no prop-up.
There's prop-up alarms.
We've already been through this.
Why are we spending so many billions of dollars in other countries for what?
And we're being held hostage.
Let's let some of that palantir genius from Peter Thiel go and look at and scour through hundreds of millions of pages of Facebook stuff and say, there's a guy.
There's somebody.
These people aren't hiding their message of destruction cryptically.
They're saying it flat out.
And Americans, for some reason, either are not reporting it or they are reporting it.
Nobody's doing anything about it.
But maybe we can use AI programs to sift through all of us and to find out what's going on once and for all.
It's absolutely critical.
There is AI in particular can do so much to help us.
Look at this new instance.
I think I told you that Ian Carroll, the story about Ahud Barak has hundreds of thousands of emails that have been removed.
that have been uh uh uh released hundreds of thousands of of emails that we can never get through that can be gone through and collated and sifted by using ai.
Same thing can be done by going through all, I mean after all they've got access to it, go through every single posting and anybody who makes any kind of a threat, anything, the authorities are alerted.
That's it.
And I'm not talking about vague threats about this country sucks.
I'm talking about people who say I'm going to go into this school and exact this particular type of form.
Now, if that's problematic to you, if you don't like that, then I'm sorry.
you're going to be really upset because we're going to start seeing these people look they are they are surveiling us at a clip for no particular reason other than just trying to determine our political ideology.
But you mean to tell me that we can't at the same time also sift to see if anybody is threatening, overtly threatening a school, children, our children?
Come on.
This is nonsense.
And it's come to an end.
It is over, my friend.
What do you think?
Are you with me?
Are you with me?
Good.
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And you'll be asking, why didn't I find this on cable news?
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These aren't conservative or shows based on conservative ideology.
These are liberal corporations producing conservative content.
It's almost like fast food news that they think will placate you.
It's limited hangout stuff and we're not going to put up with it.
All right, my friends.
So God bless them.
And let's remember something.
You don't have to be religious to care about this.
I personally am irrelegious.
Doesn't matter to me.
But the First Amendment matters to me.
And I don't care about a subject or a particular subject matter merely because it affects me.
It doesn't really matter.
I'm not going to go into churches or synagogues.
I'm never going to notice one way or the other.
But I don't have to notice it for it to be affecting me.
Because if I am truly a patriot, if I am truly a member of this country, if I am truly a member, of this organization, this wonderful constitution of republic that we call home, then I'm going to stand firm and back everyone who wants to to to enforce a particular right even though it may not necessarily apply to me directly.
All right, does that make sense?
Good.
All right, dear friends, have a great and glorious day.
Thank you so much for watching.
Thank you so much.
Be good to yourself today.
Enjoy this beautiful Oh, I hope your day was as beautiful as ours.
We had so much fun.
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