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| My name is Paul Harrell. | |
| Thank you so much for being with us, as always. | |
| We cannot do the program without you watching every single day. | |
| Well, we've got a lot to get to, right? | |
| I mean, journalists are for sale. | |
| Shepherds are, in fact, for sale. | |
| Everyone's for sale. | |
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| So, last year, we had a great book that dropped by a lady by the name of Megan Basham. | |
| So, Meg Basham drops a book, and we covered it extensively on the program with several, several episodes, broadcasts. | |
| The book was called Shepherds for Sale. | |
| And it's centered around basically woke evangelical pastors or those around those types of, quote, ministries. | |
| The book was extremely thorough, and Megan Basham was attacked relentlessly from the woke evangelical pastors and leaders that she called out. | |
| Essentially, what she exposed was that there was a safe space for Marxism, That had been successfully carved into churches, into parachurch ministries, and it was all based on getting leaders in the evangelical movement to accept the lies of the left, | |
| whether it be climate change, whether it be the fact that having a secure border is somehow immoral or racist. | |
| Really just pick your issue. | |
| Abortion, obviously, was one. | |
| Pick your issue. | |
| She exposed it. | |
| She named names. | |
| And the people who had their names named had a meltdown. | |
| And there was a lot of back and forth about accuracy and sourcing. | |
| And it was all distraction. | |
| It was all noise. | |
| Because what we can say today, thanks to the revelations of USAID, USAID, Thanks to the revelations of Doge, Elon Musk, what he has exposed is that Megan Basham was exactly right, and you can even make the argument that her book was charitable considering how bad it is. | |
| Folks like Russell Moore, Mike Cosper, David French, the publication Christianity Today, which has gone so far to the left in its reporting, they were all getting money from the government. | |
| They were getting money from the taxpayers. | |
| That's what we now know today. | |
| This is what is incredible to me, and I'm not the person that first made the connection, but we've heard a lot of talk from Russell Moore about the dangers of Christian nationalism. | |
| As a matter of fact, Russell Moore was in a movie. | |
| By far-left Hollywood director Rob Reiner called God and Country, and it had images of J6 and people with a cross outside of J6 and the danger, and had all these woke pastors talking about how this isn't real Christianity. | |
| What it really boils down to, though, is it was these woke evangelicals that were the actual Christian nationalists, because they're the ones that are being funded by the national government. | |
| The very thing they claim to be, you know, they put out there to be, you know, terrified of, be terrified of Christian nationalists, right-wing Christian nationalism. | |
| They're trying to unify the church or the state, or they're trying to, you know, they're trying to use the Bible to shape what is proper public policy. | |
| Be very scared of those, and at the same time, They're taking money from the left-wing government. | |
| They are then disseminating left-wing ideology, left-wing talking points, getting Christians to essentially sit on their hands, don't be outraged. | |
| These men exist in, for the most part, they exist to sanitize anything the government does, to sanitize it, to make it palatable. | |
| To their Christian following or congregation, because there's a lot of pastors that fall right in line with all of this. | |
| And it's exactly what Rick Warren was asking for. | |
| Rick Warren... | |
| Was a pastor, is a pastor, I don't even know what he does now, but he was an acceptable pastor. | |
| CNN promoted Rick Warren back in the Obama days, back in 2008. Well, in 2008, he went to Davos, Switzerland. | |
| He went to the World Economic Forum, and he told, he said in an interview, hey, look, there's actually three legs to the stool here, and the WEF has only got two of them. | |
| They've got government, they've got big business, but what they really need are pastors. | |
| And they need to take advantage of the trust that an average congregation has in their pastor. | |
| Essentially, it's globalism. | |
| So that's the plot twist today. | |
| That's the plot twist this morning. | |
| Is that we have a situation where Megan Basham has certainly been vindicated, but it's actually far worse. | |
| Far worse than what we imagined. | |
| Jeff Wright. | |
| Over on X, saying plot twist. | |
| According to the USAID records, they reveal that the true Christian nationalists have been the leftist evangelicals all along. | |
| So, I mean, I think we can certainly speculate that the allergy to those Christians on the right who want to organize... | |
| I want to be ecumenical about certain things when it comes to public policy. | |
| They're sick and tired of God being pushed out of public life. | |
| You can make the argument that one of the reasons people like Russell Moore rejected those efforts is because he didn't want to have to compete for government resources. | |
| Somebody on the right ever actually get into power and undo all of this. | |
| Undo the administrative state. | |
| And by the way, all of the fraud, all of the pet projects that we're discovering from USAID are just nothing compared to the grand scope. | |
| It's a penance. | |
| It's very small compared to the grand scope of the federal budget and all the other programs that are being... | |
| Somebody is saying we need to do the Department of Defense next. | |
| We're going to get some reactions today on this because this is incredible to me. | |
| As somebody who covered this, who saw the Twitter battles or the online battles, it's fascinating today. | |
| William Wolfe, the director of the Center for Baptist Leadership. | |
| Look at this photo. | |
| Russell Moore, David French. | |
| He says, you're a blue-haired she-they... | |
| Working at USAID. Oh, and by the way, I mean, ABC News, they broadcasted this. | |
| ABC News broadcasted the reaction. | |
| She didn't have blue hair or pink hair or whatever. | |
| But they broadcasted the reaction of a USAID worker who was in the building as Doge came in late last week and how they were scrambling to put away any, quote, incriminating books, taking down their rainbow flags. | |
| So that's who I envision when William Wolfe says this. | |
| You're a blue-haired she-they working at USAID, and you're told these guys, or I'm sorry, and you just told these guys you'd be happy to give them a huge federal grant to launder progressive propaganda into Christian churches. | |
| You made them really happy. | |
| I wonder what Russell Moore or David French thought. | |
| I mean, really and truly, what came first, the chicken or the egg? | |
| Did the progressivism come first? | |
| Or were they just rewarded for their progressivism later? | |
| Did the money come first? | |
| Did the progressivism come first? | |
| 8th century, which... | |
| Okay, so the Boniface option here on X highlights the hypocrisy of Russell Moore. | |
| And he says that he wrote about this over two years ago. | |
| So Russell Moore had written a piece or had talked about... | |
| The Russian Eastern Orthodox Patriarch Kirill, criticizing him, right? | |
| Because you say what you want to, the Orthodox Church in Russia, they certainly have much more of a blended government. | |
| They don't have this separation of church and state dividing line. | |
| He says... | |
| That Russell Moore himself, this was really interesting, the American version of the patriarch over in Russia, this orthodox patriarch over in Russia, is actually Russell Moore himself. | |
| Because he was so ingrained in the system. | |
| He says, this is not hyperbole. | |
| He wrote, every outrageous thing our authoritarian regime does to us, Moore has outspokenly supported. | |
| Open borders. | |
| Endless war. | |
| Lock you in your home for months. | |
| Shut down your churches. | |
| Force you to wear a face diaper. | |
| Allow organized communist cells to burn and loot every major city in America. | |
| Run an entire season of ballot harvesting for months and decry anyone who calls foul as a lunatic conspiracy theorist. | |
| Be forced to submit to a dangerous medical experiment just to be able to feed your family? | |
| Moore has not only supported all these monstrosities, he has denounced any Christians who give anything other than full-throated support of them as sub-Christian. | |
| And he did this as the most influential evangelical public thinker in America from the lofty heights of CNN, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. | |
| Russell Moore is the patriarch, Kirill. | |
| Of the American regime. | |
| That's spot on. | |
| And now that we know that there is an acceptable version of Christian nationalism in this country, but it's with leftists at the helm and leftists getting money from a left-wing government that puts abortion protesters behind bars. | |
| My goodness. | |
| What shame. | |
| We also saw this. | |
| Many of you may not know about this. | |
| There's something called the Revoice Movement. | |
| This happened back in 2018, 2017, 2018, where there was a Presbyterian... | |
| It's a former church that used to be in the Presbyterian Church in America, a pastor led by a guy by the name of Greg Johnson, and he left that denomination as they were getting ready to essentially discipline him for this... | |
| Basically, it's called Side B. It's like, oh, I can be gay, but I'm not going to act on it. | |
| Let me still be a pastor. | |
| Basically a way to excuse lusts, clearly outlined in the Bible. | |
| And Rhett Koppel says the government is paying or was paying to turn the PCA gay. | |
| Because Revoice received almost $40,000 in taxpayer dollars back in 2022, is what we now know. | |
| This is a huge deal because it's... | |
| Well, it's consistent, right? | |
| As we'll see in a minute, this USAID fund has spent millions and millions of dollars in countries all across the world promoting rainbow ideology, promoting the LGBTQ RSTL, any would-you-like-to-buy-eval enclave, and subverting the will of sovereign governments and the people that live there who are... | |
| Traditional, you know, they don't believe in these sins that go against nature, and yet our taxpayer dollars have gone to promote the rainbow, to export sodomy into all of these other countries. | |
| So it's no surprise that our own government was doing that here with conservative, what would be, what are supposed to be conservative religious institutions. | |
| Seminaries, okay? | |
| If you're a communist subversive, if you're a communist revolutionary, you have every incentive to infiltrate seminaries, to infiltrate religious organizations with woke leftist ideology, and that's what that side B ideology was. | |
| It was a way, you know, it's the old battles that the mainline denominations fought in the 20s with essentially challenging the sufficiency of Scripture. | |
| Did God really say? | |
| That, you know, marriage is between a man and a woman. | |
| Back in the 20s it was, yeah, maybe we can separate historical Jesus from supernatural Jesus. | |
| Maybe we don't have to believe in the virgin birth. | |
| Maybe we don't have to believe in a physical resurrection. | |
| It was all nonsense. | |
| It was all heretical ideas. | |
| And the truth of the matter is, as we've said on the program before, if you separate supernatural Jesus from historical Jesus, there is no historical Jesus because Jesus in history did supernatural things. | |
| This is the same argument, though, that the government has, and Megan Basham talked about this in her book, in the very first chapter. | |
| She talked about how this was nothing new, that communism, that we found all this out with congressional investigations. | |
| back in the mid-20th century, communism was trying to go after pastors, trying to go after our churches. | |
| Redeeming Babel. | |
| So here's Josh Dawes. | |
| Redeeming Babel, founded by Russell Moore, David French, and Curtis Chang, who you saw here. | |
| Where did it go? | |
| Here. | |
| These three men. | |
| They took $308,000 from USAID-funded Rockefeller Foundation, $200,000 from Bill Kristol's Defending Democracy, all to push this after-party curriculum in churches, which was just more leftism. | |
| So we're not only going to go after these ministries, but we want to affect Sunday school. | |
| We want to control the Sunday school curriculum and what's taught. | |
| Sick, sick stuff. | |
| William Wolfe, Mike Cosper, Russell Moore, Christianity Today exposed for taking taxpayer funding to promote leftism. | |
| David French, Russell Moore and the After Party exposed for taking taxpayer funding to promote leftism. | |
| Preston Sprinkle and Revoice exposed for taking government grants to promote a radical LGBT agenda. | |
| And this is Chris Bould. | |
| As it turns out, a lot of these theological liberal America-hating leftist Christian organizations have been receiving a portion of our taxpayer money from a corrupt civil government while tisking conservative Christians' involvement in politics as Christian nationalism. | |
| Oh, man, it's just incredible that these guys are essentially just deceivers. | |
| I mean, we knew it because so much of what they said goes contrary to Scripture. | |
| But it is incredible that it's, you know, especially if you're a minister and you're maybe active on social media, you know, you're a pastor, there is a guarded form of speech, you know, where people want to be. | |
| They want to always leave room for the benefit of the doubt. | |
| They obviously don't want to bear false witness. | |
| They don't want to bring a charge against someone without evidence. | |
| And that is certainly the Christian attitude to have. | |
| You need evidence or you need witnesses. | |
| But in your gut, you think, man, where there's smoke, there's fire. | |
| These guys are getting rich. | |
| I wonder if they're getting paid to do all this. | |
| Does the money actually affect their enthusiasm when it comes to telling Christians to not be outraged? | |
| When it comes to sermons after Obergefell. | |
| After Obergefell, we have... | |
| Outrage. | |
| They say that there's a right to gay marriage. | |
| They put a rainbow on the White House. | |
| By the way, everything went warp speed. | |
| After that rainbow was put on the White House, the trans agenda took off. | |
| The sexualization of kids took off. | |
| I mean, it was lightning speed, right? | |
| If you lived it, I lived it, you lived it, you know that that's what happened. | |
| You get sermons like, hey, I know you're outraged, but don't make an idol of the family. | |
| What? | |
| Are you kidding me? | |
| Seriously, this happened. | |
| You had woke evangelicals. | |
| Now, don't make an idol of the... | |
| I know you're upset. | |
| I know you're upset that the government has said that marriage is whatever anybody wants it to be. | |
| I know you're upset, but don't make an idol of the family. | |
| And yet, this evil and this wicked understanding of marriage... | |
| Led to children being groomed. | |
| Led to infiltrating the healthcare system to where we're going to chemically castrate, physically mutilate the bodies of children and call it healthcare. | |
| And call you a bigot if you have a problem with it. | |
| If you say, hey, wait a second. | |
| These are little kids. | |
| This is child abuse. | |
| Sanitize this evil. | |
| Sanitize this evil. | |
| Make it palatable for your... | |
| Christians to do nothing. | |
| For Christians in pews to do nothing. | |
| On the six days a week, they're sent out. | |
| Yeah, Christian nationalism is perfectly okay if you're Russell Moore. | |
| If he's the one in charge. | |
| If he's the de facto Christian prince or Christian emissary or the representation, Russell Moore gets a seat at the cultural table because he's not one of those Christians. | |
| Russell Moore gets invited to the D.C. cocktail parties because he's not one of those Christians. | |
| Megan Basham writes books, Shepherds for Sale. | |
| Entire evangelical industrial complex loses their mind. | |
| I saw this in real time. | |
| I participated in the debates. | |
| I defended Megan Basham. | |
| Trump wins election. | |
| Elon Doge audits Fed. | |
| Proves evangelical leaders receive federal grants. | |
| Megan Basham take a bow. | |
| Megan Basham, by the way, and I should have started this, not only is she vindicated, but Megan Basham needs your prayers. | |
| Megan Basham has been diagnosed with stage 3 cancer. | |
| And she is in the midst of fighting it right now with the doctors. | |
| So please keep Megan Basham in your prayers. | |
| This audience, when she comes to mind, please say a prayer for Megan Basham that the Lord would heal her from this cancer. | |
| And then if it's not his will for supernatural healing, that he would be with the doctors, he would be with the different treatments that are out there, that they would work, and Megan Basham's cancer would go away, and she would survive this, and go into writing more books. | |
| Speak of the devil, Megan Basham, Christianity Today's 2023 IRS 990 also confirms what others are finding from data Republican. | |
| 1.8 million in government grants in 2023, yet they received nothing from the government in 2022. Why the huge shift? | |
| Well, in the summer of 2022 is when Russell Moore became the editor-in-chief of Christianity Today. | |
| That may have something to do with it. | |
| A year later, their taxes are a little different. | |
| Now, we can also talk about the journalists. | |
| So journalists are for sale. | |
| Shepherds are for sale. | |
| Everyone is for sale. | |
| Clayton Morris reminding us of redacted. | |
| 6,000 journalists in 700 newsrooms received USAID money. | |
| It's a wonder all of them parrot the same news. | |
| You know, I have to say this. | |
| Well, let's listen to this first. | |
| And then I'll talk. | |
| Hi, I'm Fox San Antonio's Jessica Headley. | |
| And I'm Ryan Wolf. | |
| Our greatest responsibility is to serve our Treasure Valley communities. | |
| The El Paso Las Cruces communities. | |
| Eastern Iowa communities. | |
| Mid-Michigan communities. | |
| We are extremely proud of the quality, balanced journalism that CBS4 News produces. | |
| But we are concerned about the trouble and trying to be irresponsible. | |
| All the same. | |
| Every bit of it is the same. | |
| Every bit of it is the same. | |
| And they're all on the take. | |
| Politico is the huge story there. | |
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| You know, I have to say here, one of the things I was so frustrated about as I... As I watched this last clip, 6,000 journalists, 700 newsrooms, they're all on the take. | |
| And what I have done most of my career is, you know, you're constantly fighting. | |
| Well, I mean, you know, it's not like I started this. | |
| I mean, if you go back to somebody like, I mean, the first time I ever heard that there was a liberal bias in media was me riding around in the car with my dad, you know, as a young boy, and you're listening to Rush Limbaugh. | |
| And, you know, he coins the term drive-by media. | |
| He's combating this the whole time. | |
| And now we know that so many of these left-wing outlets are just getting money from the government. | |
| And we've known this with, you know, we've known the intelligence connections, Operation Mockingbird, all of these things. | |
| But to actually see it come out and on paper, and yet then you look at, like, a right-wing outlet. | |
| Like mine, or the show that I try to do, the other shows I've tried to do, and how difficult it is to scrape by. | |
| How difficult it is to do this, because there is no USAID money for people like me. | |
| There is no USAID money for journalists like me, and many others. | |
| You really look at what we're up against, and we were right all along. | |
| That's what you find out. | |
| We were right all along. | |
| It's pathetic, really. | |
| Tom Askell, yes, Megan Basham should take a bow, and those who try to dismiss and discount her and her research should be embarrassed and exposed as part of the problem. | |
| If anything, Megan's book was too reserved in its observations and conclusions. | |
| That's exactly right. | |
| Now, William Wolfe has a new piece over at Standing for Freedom, and it's excellent. | |
| It's a really great rundown. | |
| Matter of fact, I don't think I've retweeted this yet. | |
| I'm going to go ahead and retweet this. | |
| Follow me over at RealPaulHerald right now. | |
| I just retweeted this article, and you can follow along if you'd like. | |
| I'm not going to read the whole thing, but shutting down USAID, a triumph for American taxpayers and Christian values. | |
| Later today, I'm going to be on the Andrea Kay Show. | |
| It's a San Diego-based radio show. | |
| I'm going to be on that program later this afternoon talking about this task force that Donald Trump has created under Pam Bondi to eliminate anti-Christian bias. | |
| Basically, let's stop persecuting Christians. | |
| So I'm going to be talking about that later this afternoon on the Andrea Kay show out of San Diego. | |
| But this is an excellent piece by William Wolfe here. | |
| Christian values. | |
| This is a victory for Christian values. | |
| If you scroll down, he goes to the timeline. | |
| But the wasteful spending. | |
| Thanks to the internet and social media, the veil over U.S. AIDS operations has been lifted, revealing a disturbing pattern of spending that would make any patriotic taxpayer cringe. | |
| $1.5 million to advance diversity in Serbia's workplace and business communities. | |
| Now, diversity, equity, inclusion, I mean, we know that just means, you know, whoever's the marginalized group of the day, and we know that that is the LGBTQ, RSTL, any would you like to buy a vowel? | |
| That's what that means, exporting the rainbow. | |
| $70,000 for production of a DEI musical. | |
| Again, rainbow. | |
| 2.5 for electric vehicles to Vietnam. | |
| 47,000 to transgender opera in Columbia. | |
| Rainbow. | |
| 32,000 transgender comic book. | |
| 2 million for sex changes. | |
| Again, Rainbow. | |
| Rainbow. | |
| Rainbow. | |
| Hundreds of thousands for non-profit linked to designated terrorist organizations even after an inspector general launched. | |
| I'm so glad, by the way, I haven't had a chance to talk about this. | |
| I'm so glad that Trump fired all these inspector generals. | |
| As somebody who's covered the media for a decade, You know how many inspector general reports we were talking about? | |
| Oh, the inspector general's looking into Obama. | |
| Oh, there's an inspector general report coming out soon. | |
| These guys, they literally exist to not come to the conclusion that's going to result in any prosecutions or anybody losing any money. | |
| But here's the best part, I think, of William Wolfe's piece. | |
| Beyond financial waste, USAID has an even darker side. | |
| It has now been exposed that USAID was involved in biological research in places like Wuhan, which most likely contributed to the start of COVID-19. | |
| Moreover, there's a growing revelation that USAID acts as a covert arm for CIA operations using humanitarian aid as a cover for political meddling. | |
| Glenn Beck recently covered this on his podcast. | |
| RFK Jr. has made the same claim in an interview with Tucker Carlson, and former State Department official Mike Benz has been making the case as well. | |
| A political advisor to Viktor Orban in Hungary has raised major red flags about the agenda pushed by former USAID Administrator Samantha Power. | |
| Noting, in particular, the money funneled to George Soros organizations from USA to disrupt the pro-conservative, pro-Christian Orban regime and to empower LGBT activists. | |
| They're saying that Bolsonaro in Brazil would still be president if it weren't for USAID. So this slush fund is a big deal. | |
| The shuttering of USAID is a victory for fiscal responsibility, Christian values, national sovereignty, and an America-first policy that respects both our taxpayers and our allies. | |
| You know, it really goes to show you, like, you know, you've got all of these... | |
| Wicked, wicked projects that were funded by the U.S. government, mainly related to the rainbow and exporting sodomy to all these other countries, forcing it on them as not just an option, a potential way to live, but the acceptable way to live. | |
| And under the guise of eliminating waste, they are actually eliminating wicked, wicked programs. | |
| That promote sin. | |
| That promote devilry. | |
| That promote sexualizing kids. | |
| What a stark contrast. | |
| What a difference that makes. | |
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| Alright, so we've got more here. | |
| What else does this USAID teach us? | |
| A guy by the name of C.J. Engel with a great observation. | |
| He says, what we're seeing in the scandal that was USAID is really a microcosm of the basic structure of the American political system as it developed in the 20th century. | |
| Lately, the American public and its organs of narrative reinforcement, such as universities, public schools, the news media apparatus, and the entertainment industry, operates on a series of myths that include words like democracy, popular sovereignty, limited government, infederalism, property rights, rule of law. | |
| We've all heard this. | |
| What is being revealed in the structural cronyism of the USAID is the political reality of this perverted empire. | |
| It operates behind veils of myths. | |
| As power so often does. | |
| USAID is not the exception. | |
| It is the American system of government. | |
| It is the thing that has replaced the constitutional order so many seem to believe runs our country. | |
| So all those people that were like, oh, we got a constitution harder. | |
| And those of us that said, the constitution is meaningless. | |
| So what are you talking about? | |
| We need power. | |
| Oh, you want power? | |
| Yeah. | |
| Yeah, I mean, got to have power. | |
| Got to have people willing to use the power if we're actually going to solve this problem. | |
| He writes, C.J. Engel says, last year I got into a Twitter conversation with Jenna Ellis. | |
| By the way, Jenna Ellis out there celebrating what's going on with USAID. Just really good. | |
| I feel like this shows us, and maybe I'm being too charitable here, I feel like we just are talking past each other. | |
| C.J. Engel posted, Totalitarianism is what we have now. | |
| No Christian nationalist supports this. | |
| Many of us actually support the breakup and crushing of the United States regime, and we are willing to use political means to do it. | |
| Jenna Ellis, triggered by that last year, says, And there it is. | |
| Christian nationalists want a new revolution and a demolition of the Union and the Constitution, and they're willing to use force to achieve it. | |
| This is an open call for civil war. | |
| Every American and Christian must reject this Christian nationalist movement. | |
| But he says, guess what the Trump administration is doing right now? | |
| In the most tip of the iceberg way possible against the hostile totalitarian bureaucracy. | |
| He's using political means to break up and crush this regime and its structural power flows. | |
| Is it enough? | |
| No. | |
| But this is what needs to be done. | |
| And it is what the true right, not that complicit, corrupt, and state-sanctioned conservative movement, has been called for decades. | |
| Has called for four decades. | |
| The right wing won this battle against people like Jenna Ellis, Michael O'Fallon, James Lindsley, and so many others that have just well urgently opposed our call to use power to confront this political system. | |
| Now that it is being shown by action what it actually looks like, they are thrilled. | |
| He says this is what van this is why vanguardism matters a Posting actually matters. | |
| Dialectical momentum matters. | |
| So it's a fascinating situation. | |
| This one really piqued my interest because of the microcosm. | |
| Again, USAID is just a fraction, just a minuscule fraction of what's really going on. | |
| We're finding out, Aaron McIntyre, we're finding out that a number of Christian leaders warning about Christian nationalism were directly funded by the government. | |
| I still... | |
| I still... | |
| Yeah, I woke up this morning. | |
| I couldn't believe it, man. | |
| I really can't. | |
| It's hilarious. | |
| It's hilarious that Russell Moore was taking money from the government. | |
| And back to what I was saying earlier, we all suspected it, but no one's going to just come out and say it because we want to be... | |
| Although the... | |
| Who was it? | |
| Who was it? | |
| I mean, I never covered that story where there was a guy who was insinuating that Russell Moore was CIA. Man, I can't remember. | |
| I can't remember where that... | |
| If any of you out there remember, because we briefly covered it, but I didn't do the full... | |
| I didn't do everything I wanted to on it, and I teased it, and then it fell through the cracks. | |
| And I'm sorry for that. | |
| Derek Evans, 40,000 federal employees have now accepted President Trump and Doge's resignation buyout offers. | |
| Okay, yeah, again, this is kind of... | |
| This is part of the same thing. | |
| I mean, in my wildest dreams. | |
| I never imagined that you would just have Trump being like, I'm just going to, I want to fire everybody. | |
| We know he wanted to, but that he's really attempting to do it. | |
| All of these, it needs to happen. | |
| I mean, we've got to drop all of this stuff, you know, the pretenses. | |
| I mean, if there's a leader who's been elected by the people, Those that work for that leader need to support that leader. | |
| And if you don't support the leader, you're gone. | |
| The idea, well, what about just being apolitical? | |
| That's not a thing. | |
| I'm sorry, it's not a thing. | |
| I used to believe that it was, but it's not anymore. | |
| You know? | |
| Everything the government does is political. | |
| And if you've got people that are just going to be insubordinate or subvert or record phone calls and then leak them to the press, and that's what Vindman did, writing the CIA memo that started the Trump impeachment. | |
| Schellenberger's got a new story on that, by the way. | |
| Let me see if we can pull that up. | |
| Oh, that's really good. | |
| Real quick, one more on this. | |
| Ben Zeisloft. | |
| I haven't featured him on the show in a while. | |
| Not every subversive so-called Christian institution or individual received funds directly from the hand of the federal government. | |
| In many cases, those funds seem to have traveled through multiple entities before landing in their pockets or in the pockets of their organizations. | |
| The main takeaway is that the federal government was bankrolling a vast patronage network that created a massive ecosystem of Christian subversives who tried to undermine conservative Christian beliefs and priorities in such a way that benefited the ruling class. | |
| He's exactly right. | |
| Center for Baptist Leadership, Southern Baptist, did you know the ERLC and Lifeway are taking money from the Soros-funded evangelical immigration table to produce surveys that conveniently distort Baptist views on immigration to justify their liberal lobbying. | |
| Many such cases, ladies and gentlemen. | |
| Zachary Groff. | |
| The revelations about taxpayer dollars going to Russell Moore's Christianity Today magazine and St. Louis' Revoice conference, not to mention other recipients, suggest that America does have a real Christian nationalist problem, and it's on the political left. | |
| And then we have this. | |
| This was incredible to me. | |
| Not only was USAID giving Politico money, they were paying for subscriptions for 172 people for one year. | |
| ...in the last couple of days with some of these bizarre things that taxpayers have been funding. | |
| Now it looks like there are a couple of media outlets that have been dragged into this conversation as far as USAID funding as well. | |
| Does the president have any comment on that? | |
| So, upon coming out here to the briefing room, I was made aware of the funding from USAID to media outlets, including Politico, who I know has a seat in this room. | |
| And I can confirm that the more than $8 million taxpayer dollars that have gone to essentially subsidizing subscriptions to Politico on the American taxpayer's dime will no longer be happening. | |
| The Doge team is working on... | |
| Subsidizing subscriptions. | |
| I mean, you know, that does so much more than just giving them money. | |
| It puts out the appearance, oh, people are subscribing to us. | |
| People love our content. | |
| They're subscribing. | |
| They're subscribers. | |
| Or maybe it's just a convenient way to conceal it all. | |
| I don't know. | |
| Kyle Becker, it's not just Politico. | |
| The Associated Press has been raking in millions of dollars. | |
| Elon Musk says, not for long. | |
| Not going to happen forever. | |
| We also have $20 million. | |
| Now, I don't know. | |
| Like, this, look, this $20 million for an Iraqi version of Sesame Street. | |
| $20 million. | |
| And this is what it was like. | |
| $20 million. | |
| Now, we all know they didn't cost $20 million. | |
| But, you know, the better question is, why do we care about a Sesame Street in Iraq? | |
| Who cares? | |
| Somebody cares. | |
| It's just a way to get rich. | |
| That's all it is. | |
| Here's Schellenberger tying all of this USAID and CIA to Trump's impeachment. | |
| You have this new piece on Substack that the USAID and the CIA helped orchestrate Trump's impeachment? | |
| Yeah, I mean, Jesse, it's a crazy story. | |
| I mean, you might forget that, you know, that... | |
| House of Representatives impeached President Trump in December of 2019. Many people may not remember that it was a CIA analyst who was left over from the Obama White House who wrote the memo that led to the impeachment. | |
| It was all based on hearsay. | |
| The person had not actually been in the room with Trump. | |
| Nonetheless, this memo that he wrote relied heavily on a report done by an organization funded by USAID. In fact, its initial... | |
| Founding funding. | |
| I mean, now it's tens of millions of dollars had gone into this group called the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, a name that's not very memorable, OCCRP. But it was basically created as an extension of the State Department and then of USAID. And as you know, Jesse, this is very serious to be involved in an effort. | |
| To do regime change at home. | |
| USAID, very good at doing regime change overseas. | |
| And they did it here. | |
| They tried to do it here. | |
| And this is actually really a big deal because that's what we've been saying. | |
| I've been saying, look, the color revolution. | |
| I mean, it's 2016, 2020. It was everything that the Intel oligarchs were good at. | |
| Across the globe, they internalized it. | |
| They turned it around against the... | |
| They weaponized it against the people to try to get Hillary Clinton in, to install Joe Biden, and we still have a lot more information that we need about what happened in Butler, Pennsylvania, where the sloped roof was the greatest phobia of a Secret Service. | |
| Sloped roofs. | |
| We got a lot more to learn about that, don't we? | |
| We do. | |
| We certainly do. | |
| Let's see here. | |
| A few things that have happened. | |
| So, I mean, let's see. | |
| What time is it? | |
| Okay. | |
| This situation on the foreign policy. | |
| So we covered the domestic stuff. | |
| I still don't know what to make of this. | |
| I was out yesterday because the flu, so this is kind of old news at this point. | |
| The residual of the flu has just been, it just kind of comes in waves. | |
| I feel so much better today, though. | |
| This is the first day I felt myself in a very, very long time. | |
| Rick Wiles keying in on, and a lot of people have, that when Donald Trump announced this Netanyahu, had this joint press conference with Netanyahu and said that the United States is just going to take over Gaza. | |
| And I know there's been a lot of other comments about that since then. | |
| People say, well, he wasn't serious. | |
| A lot of people are watching this reaction and they are, they don't think Netanyahu saw it coming. | |
| The U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip and we will do a job with it too. | |
| We'll own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site. | |
| Level the site and get rid of the destroyed buildings. | |
| So he literally said, we're going to take over and then we're going to own it. | |
| Now, I, like many of you, when I heard the news initially, I thought, man, I don't want a single U.S. boot on the ground over there. | |
| I don't want any dead soldiers in the Middle East, and I don't. | |
| I don't want to be involved in this. | |
| I certainly don't want to be involved in expelling people from their homeland. | |
| But I saw Ian Carroll post about it, and Ian Carroll rightfully points out this is just a terrible situation and the bloodshed. | |
| It seems that it's never going to end. | |
| How do you end it? | |
| And I don't know the answer to that. | |
| I will say, though, this reaction of Netanyahu, regardless of what he says now, doesn't make any sense to me. | |
| I have more questions about him not knowing this plan of Trump's, and it just doesn't make any sense to me. | |
| And so, Rick Wiles posted this. | |
| Most commentators and podcasters are missing what happened yesterday. | |
| He claims Trump took Gaza away from Netanyahu and ended the slaughter of children. | |
| Total surprise, USA owns Gaza in marine gas field. | |
| Trump will make Israel a U.S. state. | |
| BB's days are numbered. | |
| Now, again, that's one take. | |
| There's also a lot of other takes out there that are saying... | |
| This is just, once again, Israel leading U.S. foreign policy by the nose and we're going to have more dead Americans in the Middle East. | |
| I don't want that. | |
| I know you don't want that. | |
| I don't think Trump wants dead Americans in the Middle East either. | |
| So I'm going to wait and see. | |
| I have a wait and see approach to this when it comes to foreign policy right now. | |
| I'll also say this. | |
| We need to end this war in Ukraine as well. | |
| And I'll be anxious to see what's going on. | |
| But on the Israel thing, I did see where Hegseth claimed that this was more of a negotiating tactic, which is another narrative that has emerged. | |
| Listen. | |
| How do you feel about America involved in Gaza, considering your views and worldview? | |
| I would just say to the question of Gaza... | |
| The definition of insanity is attempting to do the same thing over and over and over again. | |
| And as the President and Prime Minister pointed out last night, the President is willing to think outside the box, look for new and unique, dynamic ways to solve problems that have felt like they're intractable. | |
| So we look forward to more conversations about that, creative solutions to that. | |
| And as the man tasked with leading the Defense Department here... | |
| We're prepared to look at all options as we've said before. | |
| Mr. Secretary, Mr. Secretary, do you have a plan to send troops to Gaza? | |
| Are you working on options for the President right now that would involve U.S. troops in Gaza? | |
| The president is involved in very complex and high-level negotiations of great consequence to both the United States and the state of Israel. | |
| And we look forward to working with our allies, our counterparts, both diplomatically and militarily. | |
| Again, so there's this narrative that what Trump said was part of some sort of negotiating tactic... | |
| Other people have said, I've seen that take about trying to get the other Arab states' attention. | |
| Anyway, so we'll continue to watch this. | |
| Again, my biggest thing is I don't want any dead Americans in the Middle East. | |
| My whole adult life. | |
| That's what happens. | |
| And I'm sick of it. | |
| I'm done. | |
| I don't want that. | |
| I don't want dead Americans in the Middle East. | |
| Alright, so what else do we have here? | |
| That was interesting. | |
| Let me see what else we got. | |
| Huge yesterday. | |
| Huge news. | |
| Where Trump comes out and signs the executive order protecting women's sports. | |
| And both of them win gold medals. | |
| They won them very convincingly. | |
| But all of that ends today because with this executive order, the war on women's sports is over. | |
| The war on women's sports is over. | |
| We also had Vinny had this signing and everybody around him had them all come together. | |
| While he signed this. | |
| I mean, what a blessing. | |
| I gotta tell you. | |
| I mean, these are things that I thought would never change. | |
| These are things that I thought would just, that are just never going to change. | |
| Certainly not as fast as they have. | |
| That much I can tell you. | |
| Now it's time for my favorite segment. | |
| And let us confess our faith today in the words of the Sparkle Creed. | |
| I believe in the non-binary God. | |
| And now it's time for I'm Already Against Women Clergy. | |
| You don't have to convince me. | |
| For this segment of I'm Already Against Women Clergy, you don't have to convince me. | |
| Once again, protestia with the piece. | |
| Here's a woke pastrix attacking conservative Christians as a bunch of racist Nazis for believing in gender binaries. | |
| Collective liberation is bound up with the liberation of trans and non-binary people. | |
| Our liberation is bound up with all those who are oppressed. | |
| They offer us guidance on how to survive because they have survived. | |
| They offer us models on how to be our full, authentic selves with courage and conviction. | |
| They offer their stories and their truth. | |
| Our liberation is bound up together. | |
| At the same time as transgender and non-binary people offer us courage, resilience, authenticity, and models for challenging traditional gender roles, they are among the most marginalized and least powerful people in our country. | |
| Because the transgender people with their very existence challenge one of the most strongly held convictions of the right, the delineation and specification of gender roles. | |
| According to the religious right and much of the right wing today, strong distinctions must be made between men and women and their characteristics and roles. | |
| They don't want me standing up here in a pulpit. | |
| Some even say there's no such thing as gender-only sex, only male and female, and there are specific roles. | |
| Men are to rule and protect their, note the possessive, women and children. | |
| Women are to take care of and cater to the men they are attached to, and to have lots and lots of babies. | |
| What's wrong with lots and lots of babies? | |
| Kinderkücherkücher. | |
| Children, kitchen, church. | |
| Those were the roles for women, and they are the roles that the right wing in this country are bringing back. | |
| Hey, there she said it. | |
| Hey, they are the roles that the right wing in this country are bringing back. | |
| So hey, that may be my favorite one. | |
| This has been I'm Already Against Women Clergy. | |
| You don't have to convince me. | |
| Alright, now I'm not done with the women clergy thing because with that we do have some sadness. | |
| I mean, it's good and bad. | |
| It's good because we would have never even gotten a glance. | |
| So the National Prayer Breakfast, Trump is creating a faith office, he says. | |
| He's creating a faith office led by Pastor, quote, Pastor Paula White. | |
| This week I'm also creating the White House faith office led by Pastor Paula White, who is so amazing. | |
| Hey, look, they can't all be winners. | |
| They can't all be winners. | |
| Of course, Scripture lays out the qualifications for office of elder or deacon, and it's very clear that the office does not apply to women. | |
| This is not complicated, but it is what it is. | |
| Again, we voted for a president. | |
| We didn't vote for a pastor, so they can't all be winners. | |
| At the Trump prayer breakfast, he did announce this. | |
| To confront such weaponization and religious persecution, today I'm signing an executive order to make our Attorney General, who's a great person, she's going to be a great Attorney General, Pam Bondi, the head of a task force, brand new, to eradicate anti-Christian bias. | |
| About time, right? | |
| Anti-Christian bias. | |
| So that's a huge deal. | |
| Again, I'm going to be on the Andrea Kay show later today talking about that out of San Diego. | |
| And so feel free to check that out. | |
| Tune in. | |
| I'll post links when I have them. | |
| That's all the time that we have for this edition of the Millstone Report. | |
| I've had a great time. | |
| I want to remind everybody to follow me on X at RealPaulHarrell. | |
| That's at RealPaulHarrell. | |
| And unless I'm, I keep saying this, but unless I'm providentially hindered, Which I don't expect to be. | |
| I feel myself for the first time in like 10 days. | |
| This flu was absolutely next level. | |
| I will be here wishing you a happy Friday. | |
| God willing, delivering you the news. | |
| Thank you so much for watching. | |
| God bless everybody out there. | |
| We'll see you soon. |
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