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Walker Wildmon: If there's anything I learned in English, it's lead with
>> Walker Wildmon: Welcome to the Core here on American Family Radio. Walker Wildmon here with you on this live edition, brand new edition of at the Core here on afr. Rick Greene and I were your host each week on the program. And if there's anything I learned in English and regarding grammar, it was not to lead with me. And so.
>> Bobby Roza: Amen, brother.
>> Walker Wildmon: So me and Bobby is incorrect. And so it's Bobby and I. And my grandmother drove that into me. And, it stuck. Now, other things might not have stuck, but that did. And, it's an important thing. And when you, Bobby, when I hear other people say me and so. And so it does drive me crazy now that I know better.
>> Bobby Roza: Indeed.
>> Walker Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Bobby Roza: It's always better to give than to receive.
>> Walker Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Walker Wildmon: Lead with.
>> Bobby Roza: Lead with others. Right? Not with yourself.
>> Walker Wildmon: Exactly. Right.
>> Walker Wildmon: So there's a lot there. Glad to have you with us on the program.
Walker: Every believer has experienced at least one miracle in their life
All right, we got a lot we're going to jump to, but before we do, we're going to turn our attention to the scripture, as we do whenever we have the opportunity. John, chapter 11 is where we are this week. John, chapter 11, looking at verses 43 and 44. Now, when he had said these things, he cried out with a loud voice, this is talking about Jesus. Lazarus come forth. And he who had died came out bound hand and foot with grave cloths. And his face was wrapped in a cloth. Jesus said to them, loose him and let him go. So here we have Jesus bringing a dead man to life, a man who was in the grave for over four days, bringing him to life here in Lazarus. And so Jesus performed many miracles. The ultimate miracle was bringing a dead man to life, which foreshadowed the ultimate rising of the dead, which happens to every single believer. Well, how is that, Walker?
>> Walker Wildmon: Well, the scripture says that we're all dead in our sin without Christ, without redemption, without remission of sins. We are all dead in our sin, destined for eternal separation from God the Father, God the Holy Spirit and Jesus. And so Jesus, here in his earthly ministry, performs what ends up being a foreshadowing of the ultimate miracle. And the ultimate miracle is the fact that each one of us have new life in Jesus. And I actually made this post the other day, and I'm going to take my jacket off because I'm being a little loud. I made this post the other day about how people debate, Christians debate miracles. We debate whether this was a natural occurrence, whether it was God intervening. You know, did the doctors heal someone or did God heal someone? So we all have these debates, and most of the time we just don't know. You just don't know at what point sometimes that God intervened in a situation and performed a miracle. but nonetheless, the point I made was not to settle that debate, because good luck with that. But the point that I made was that obviously God is a miracle working God. And the way we know that God is still a miracle working God is.
>> Walker Wildmon: Because the salvation in and of itself.
>> Walker Wildmon: Is a very, very significant miracle in every believer's life.
>> Walker Wildmon: In order to have a heart of stone turned into a heart of flesh, to have man turn from sinful desires, from sinful ways, and towards Christ, that in and of itself is a miracle.
>> Walker Wildmon: Of God that only he can do, that everyone who professes Christ has experienced. And so the end of the point there was that every believer has experienced at least one miracle in their life as a believer. And that one miracle minimum, is the moment of salvation, the moment of your heart of stone turning into a heart of flesh, flesh. So God is a miracle working God, and we should look to him every day for such miracles. And, Jesus performed one of them here with the raising of Lazarus. PreBorn is a ministry we've been partnering with for a very long time, very reputable ministry that we've just had such a great relationship with. And we've been, saving babies through preborn for over a decade. And so this is the time of year where we're promoting preborn.
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Senator Mark Warner says Democrats used to be experts in deporting illegal immigrants
All right, one clip I want to play that just really highlights the fact, that the Democrat Party has moved far, far left and really are at the point where they're not even recognizable throughout our country's history compared to where they are today.
>> Walker Wildmon: This is Senator Mark Warner talking with.
>> Walker Wildmon: an interviewer, on cnbc about.
>> Walker Wildmon: How the Democrats and President Obama used.
>> Walker Wildmon: To be experts in deporting illegal immigrants. President Obama deported over 5 million illegal.
>> Walker Wildmon: Immigrants in eight years. And now the Democrats don't even support deportations at all, which is quite bizarre. And so listen to this interaction where.
>> Walker Wildmon: Cnbc, Joe Kernan continues pressing Senator Mark Warner about, you know, what happened.
>> Walker Wildmon: To the Democrat Party.
>> Walker Wildmon: I mean, I thought you guys deported people under Obama.
>> Walker Wildmon: Well, how can you reconcile this?
>> Walker Wildmon: Let's listen now.
>> Joe Kernen: Ah, I know Trump has deported or sent back 350, 400,000 people. Barack Obama, your guys, you called Trump my guy. It was 5 million. It was 5 million over eight years. Now we're at 350,000. What changed with Democrats on? I know Biden Let in 12 million. Is it about votes? Why, why did these people. Why isn't It a crime to be here, not that they haven't committed a crime.
>> Sen Mark Warner (D) VA: The border being as open it was under Biden was one of the reasons Trump got elected.
>> Joe Kernen: But the idea you're glad it's closed now.
>> Sen Mark Warner (D) VA: Do I think we ought to not have a, fully open border? Absolutely.
>> Joe Kernen: So with the 12 million that came in, what do we do?
>> Sen Mark Warner (D) VA: Question I have for you is closing the border versus sending out ICE agents across the country to randomly pick up people based on quotas that have committed no crime.
>> Joe Kernen: How did Obama, how did Obama report five done to the board?
>> Sen Mark Warner (D) VA: I think it was a lot of that was done at the border.
>> Walker Wildmon: And the truth that's not true is.
>> Sen Mark Warner (D) VA: I don't think the American people signed up for this. Where you see people who are working, there ought to be a path towards legality. We've worked on that. We've, we've screwed that up. Immigration reform for years, both sides. But the idea that we're going to send in these ICE agents. By the way, Joe, you realize ICE used to take five to six months to get trained. They've now lowered the training period to 47 days. Why 47 days? Because Donald Trump's the 47th president. Tell me that's a rational approach.
>> Joe Kernen: I'm not, I'm not. Obviously I'm not going to take that back, say it's a rational approach, but.
>> Sen Mark Warner (D) VA: I'm just, I just joke. You can't pick your facts.
>> Walker Wildmon: well, you're picking your facts.
>> Walker Wildmon: Indeed. It's not at random. These ICE agents have not been moved.
>> Walker Wildmon: No, they're former LEOs, many of them federal LEOs. Yeah, clown.
>> Bobby Roza: When I was in Virginia.
>> Walker Wildmon: Yeah, the 40 plus day enrollment period, folks, that's, that's no problem at all. these, these, some of these local officials get deputy deputized in 24 hours or less with zero training because it's not needed. They, these agents have been in law enforcement for decades and they're actually some of them coming out of retirement to work for ice. they've got the training. This is not a training problem. Okay. And on the worst day you look at what happened in Minnesota, that was not a training problem.
>> Walker Wildmon: There was simply no breakdown in policy and training here. There are effectively zero instances under the last 12 months of the Trump admin.
>> Walker Wildmon: Of training showing up of training and the lack thereof showing up in the tactics that ICE is using. These are some of the best of the best in law enforcement, both local, state and federal. That's just a straw man argument. There's no problem here.
>> Walker Wildmon: What Senator Warner didn't address is the. Fact that President Obama deported 5 million illegal immigrants. And so here we have it documented on the record, just in case someone didn't know that the Democrats are not only in favor of open borders, but. They'Re also in favor of not deporting. Anyone, of deporting no one. That's their policy. Now open the border and don't deport anyone. This is the position of the Democrat Party.
>> Walker Wildmon: A, total neglect of the Constitution, a total refusal to enforce the laws of the country. This is the position of the Democrat Party and what happened in Minneapolis. And we'll talk a little bit about this after the break. What happened in Minneapolis is completely avoidable.
>> Walker Wildmon: Completely avoidable. And the Democrats don't have anything to run on, folks. They don't, they have nothing to run on. This is why they lost in 24. This is why they had to rig.
>> Walker Wildmon: It in 2020 is because the Democrat Party has become the destruction of America party. And when you're for the destruction of. America, because we want to take down. The west and we want to take down liberty and we want to take down freedom. And when I want to take down prosperity and religious freedom and human flourishing, which by definition is the west, when you want to take down such and sabotage it, there's nothing to run on. There's nothing to run on. That is appetizing for the American people.
Many of the left wing advancements in our country have not happened by popular vote
Because as wayward as we are, the American people at least have some ounce and semblance of sanity left in the populace. This is why radical feminism, radical transgenderism, the homosexual agenda, all of this has been broadly rejected by the populace. And you might feel as though our country is just way far left, but let me just tell you, we've got our own problems.
>> Walker Wildmon: Maybe we're a 50, 50 country. Actually, I think we're probably a 60. 40 with 10% sitting on the sidelines of the 60. But the fact of the matter is, the left wing advancements in our country over the last 20 years have not happened by popular vote. Obama is the only exception. Okay?
>> Walker Wildmon: And he was a sheep and
>> Walker Wildmon: He was a wolf in sheep's clothing. President Obama was, he was far natural marriage, then he wasn't. And he flipped and flopped and flipped and flopped, whatever he needed to do to get elected. And while he was doing it, he deported 5 million illegal immigrants.
>> Walker Wildmon: And so this, this Democrat Party, the point is they don't have anything to run on. When you don't have anything to run.
>> Walker Wildmon: On, you just blame the other side. You blame the other side. And that's what the Democrats are doing.
>> Walker Wildmon: You blame the other side.
>> Walker Wildmon: You pretend to be the victim. You agitate the base, incite violence, stir up chaos and anarchy, and then you sit back and watch everything burn. This is straight out of the Marxism playbook. And this is why the Democrats, with.
>> Walker Wildmon: All the faults of the Republicans, which.
>> Walker Wildmon: I'll gladly parade out, the faults of the Republicans, the Democrat party, with their core tenets and principles and worldview, or the lack thereof that they have, are unworthy of holding public office in our country. Their views are far left extreme and antithetical to the Constitution. Prove Me Wrong.
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Renee Good's death from ICE encounter was completely avoidable
>> Walker Wildmon: Welcome back to the Core here on American Family Radio. Well, to further, this discussion, but before we do jump back into, the topic at hand, I do want to mention preborn again, because we're promoting preborn this week and we want to get as many ultrasounds underwritten as possible for the week. So if you want to help us with preborn ministry to help, each mom and baby get an all free ultrasound, $28 is what each ultrasound cost. So $140 donation provides five free ultrasound sessions reaching five women with the message of life. So Our goal is 5,000 ultrasounds this week. And we would greatly appreciate it if you could call in 877-616-239-687-76162396 and donate. Or you can go over to afr.net afr.net well, this clip's from CNN. And, this commentator makes the point that the Renee Goode tragedy was completely avoidable. Had the Democrat lawmakers and elected officials not continually, continually incited their base and their voters to violence. This was completely avoidable.
>> Walker Wildmon: And furthermore, the local and state law.
>> Walker Wildmon: Enforcement should have been cooperating with ICE and this would have never, ever happened. Listen to this on cnn.
>> Speaker D: It's a tragedy that Renee Goode is dead and we should all mourn it. We should all mourn it. We also should look back what went wrong way before that. Peggy Flanagan, the lieutenant governor of Minnesota, encouraged people to put, put their bodies on the line. That is irresponsible Democrats who are encouraging people to obstruct law enforcement, they're putting them in harm's way with their rhetoric and it's wrong. Republicans shouldn't do it. Democrats shouldn't do it. We also have a problem that the Minneapolis police are not allowed to participate to do crowd control. The encounter between Renee Goode and those ICE officers shouldn't, shouldn't have happened. Minneapolis police should have been there as a buffer, but we don't have it because Minneapolis ordinances prohibit them from even being, being there when there's ICE and coordination. We have to change this. We have to have. Christine Ohm, said it this morning. State and local officials need to help ICE do their job, not encourage people to stop them.
>> Walker Wildmon: So in the past, state and local officials would cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, especially when there was a threat level increase, such as when you have mayors and governors telling citizens to impede on ICE operations and investigations, which is effectively what you have here.
>> Walker Wildmon: And so Democrats to show further, if. It'S not already abundantly clear, that. This is a Democrat problem. When you have Democrats, whether it be.
>> Walker Wildmon: Mayor, city council or governor, having press conferences and going on television telling people and encouraging people to block ice, to stop ice, to protest ice, then simultaneously you tell the local police department, the.
>> Walker Wildmon: Local police chief and the state police to not aid immigration officials under any circumstance.
>> Walker Wildmon: You are setting up a confrontation. And that's the point here. Renee Goode is tragically dead now because of Democrat policies.
>> Walker Wildmon: It's the opposite of what you're being told. You're being told that because Donald Trump sent ICE into Minneapolis, that's why Renee Goode is dead. It's the opposite because Democrats incite their base and refuse to do their job until law enforcement agencies to stand down. They are setting ICE up for these confrontations.
>> Walker Wildmon: And they're encouraging their own voting base to be martyred, for illegal immigrants. I mean, the bizarreness. I mean, I just can't comprehend why an American citizen, out of all the things that they could be doing, would go put themselves in front of law enforcement, federal agents, and try to run over them for illegal immigrants. This is not some kind of virtuous civil rights cause here. We're a sovereign nation and the whole amnesty talk and pathway to citizenship, you can throw that out the window. You can throw it out the window.
>> Walker Wildmon: And here's why.
>> Walker Wildmon: Because the Democrats have proven that they're unserious people. They're unserious people that don't have the best interest of our country at heart. And so you cannot negotiate with such.
>> Walker Wildmon: You cannot negotiate with such.
>> Walker Wildmon: And as a matter of fact, I don't think if the Democrats could get.
>> Walker Wildmon: Amnesty, they would want it.
>> Walker Wildmon: Because then there's nothing to stir everybody up again with. And so I think if you entered.
>> Walker Wildmon: The country illegally, you're eligible for deportation. Of course, we can prioritize the repeat offenders first. No brainer.
>> Walker Wildmon: But why should we give amnesty? I mean, nobody can make a compelling.
>> Walker Wildmon: Reason to me without either speaking anecdotally or, tugging at the heartstrings.
>> Walker Wildmon: But from a pure policy, unbiased, objective standpoint, there is no compelling case for amnesty. There's just not.
>> Walker Wildmon: I mean, you can say, well, you.
>> Walker Wildmon: Know, I know a friend that has been here 10 years and they've got.
>> Walker Wildmon: A lot of friends here and they've been living here for a while and so we shouldn't deport them. Okay, well, that sure does tug at the heartstrings.
>> Walker Wildmon: But when you cross the border without legal documentation and without going through the proper process, what do you expect to happen here? What do you expect to happen?
>> Walker Wildmon: I mean, this is just.
>> Walker Wildmon: I can't just show up.
>> Walker Wildmon: Well, I actually can in Europe, but maybe it depends on where I'm from.
>> Walker Wildmon: But you can't just expect to just come across the border of a sovereign land and then when people figure out that you're not legal, then you just get to stay. That's just not how this stuff works. But even if amnesty were a serious.
>> Walker Wildmon: Discussion, the Democrats are completely unserious about it. Even if the people were serious about amnesty talks, the Democrats themselves were completely unserious about it because it would actually be addressing a problem. And all they want to do is create more problems. That's what we've learned from their history.
President Trump talked about the need for a strong America on foreign policy
Well, speaking of Marxism, communism and the modern day Democrat Party, President Trump is in Davos, Switzerland, talking about how globalism and communism have utterly failed, have utterly failed the world and utterly failed the West. And so we're going to talk a little foreign policy, talk about the need for a strong America. We'll even get into why President Trump is really serious about Greenland and combating Russia, and China and others. But before we do that, let's set the stage by listening to about a one minute clip of President Trump and the need for a strong America.
>> Donald Trump: The United States cares greatly about the people of Europe. We really do. I mean, look, I, I am derived from Europe, Scotland and Germany. 100% Scotland. My mother, 100% German, my father. And we believe deeply in the bonds we share with Europe as a civilization. I want to see it do great. That's why issues like energy, trade, immigration and economic growth must be central concerns to anyone who wants to see a strong and united West. Because Europe and those countries have to do their thing. They have to get out of the culture that they've created over the last 10 years. It's horrible what they're doing to themselves. They're destroying themselves. This beautiful, beautiful places. We want strong allies, not seriously weakened ones. We want Europe to be strong.
>> Walker Wildmon: There you have it. So this is what I want people. To be reminded of. And most of you already know this. Anybody who's paying attention for the last 12 years understands what's going on here. or 10 to 11 years since President Trump came down the escalator.
>> Walker Wildmon: This is. We cannot get distracted by the rhetoric, okay?
>> Walker Wildmon: And I'm even talking about the rhetoric.
>> Walker Wildmon: From the White House or President Trump. This, you know, people getting upset.
>> Walker Wildmon: They think that President Trump's going to send the military into Greenland.
>> Walker Wildmon: Are you kidding me?
>> Walker Wildmon: Who seriously thinks that the White House and the Department of War is going to send Delta Force to Greenland like we did Venezuela to do a forced takeover of a, Denmark territory?
>> Walker Wildmon: If somebody seriously thinks that's a threat. Then they should not, they themselves should not be taken seriously. Okay? So anybody who's like sweating over this and saying, I cannot believe President Trump said that, which I don't even know if he said that directly. I think a lot of this has been impossible, implied. Or when President Trump says things like, we'll do whatever we have to do, people then automatically go, oh, we're sending the military in. No, but even if there is some.
>> Walker Wildmon: Amped up rhetoric from the White House on this whole Greenland situation, to think that the White House and the President and the Department of War would seriously do that is just laughable. It's just absolutely laughable.
>> Walker Wildmon: And if anything can, if we can.
>> Walker Wildmon: Say anything definitively about what the future actions of the Trump administration will be, they have a very good track record of being rational. Okay?
>> Walker Wildmon: President Trump has a very good track. Record over the last decade of being. A very rational actor. All of the military and foreign policy. Decisions of the first administration and all. Of the military and foreign policy decisions.
>> Walker Wildmon: Of this administration have been very level headed. We went into Iran and we strategically bombed the nuclear facility.
>> Walker Wildmon: We didn't send 100,000 troops in.
>> Walker Wildmon: We didn't go and get involved in.
>> Walker Wildmon: A seven year war.
>> Walker Wildmon: We didn't drop a trillion dollars.
>> Walker Wildmon: We sent planes in the dead of.
>> Walker Wildmon: Night, bombed the nuclear facility, and before.
>> Walker Wildmon: They knew what happened, we were gone and we left and we're out.
>> Walker Wildmon: Majuro, we fly in, an hour later.
>> Walker Wildmon: We fly out, we're gone.
>> Walker Wildmon: No boots on the ground, Majiro's arrested, problem solved.
>> Walker Wildmon: And so President Trump and his cabinet members have a very good track Record of not doing dumb things. And so anytime you suggest that President Trump is going to do something bad, like send the military into Greenland, that. No, there's no, there's no history here.
>> Walker Wildmon: Of doing stuff like that.
President Trump talking about needing Greenland for strategic military purposes
>> Walker Wildmon: All right, if I could bet this is a typical President Trump negotiating position where you say that all options are on the table, when in reality, if you could get just a quarter of what you're asking for, then it's a win for America. And here's what I want to set up. I don't want to get too in.
>> Walker Wildmon: The weeds on Greenland because I think it's a little bit overrated the topic.
>> Walker Wildmon: But just this general restore the west.
>> Walker Wildmon: Strategy that the Trump administration is deploying. And when I say restore the West, I mean shore up, the Western Hemisphere, okay, Venezuela, central South America, go after the cartels, make sure that we can project military dominance in our own backyard.
>> Walker Wildmon: Europe has failed at this. And the Russia, Ukraine war is exhibit A in your face. Failure of Europe to be taken seriously.
>> Walker Wildmon: On national defense matters.
>> Walker Wildmon: And so when Denmark or other European.
>> Walker Wildmon: Countries get all upset, including Macron, over.
>> Walker Wildmon: President Trump talking about needing Greenland for.
>> Walker Wildmon: Strategic military purposes.
>> Walker Wildmon: They don't have credibility here. Okay? They don't have credibility here.
>> Walker Wildmon: And here's why.
>> Walker Wildmon: The Russia war on Ukraine would not be nearly as successful, from a Russian viewpoint.
>> Walker Wildmon: And even Russia's struggled here. So I'm not saying they've completely won.
>> Walker Wildmon: This thing, but I don't think it would have been nearly successful and damaging to Ukraine had half or, more of, of the NATO members not been buying gas from Russia. They are paying for the war against Ukraine. That you cannot make this stuff up. No exaggeration. No, this is not just fanfare talk. Europe for a long time has been buying gas from Russia and it gets very cold over there in the winter. And President Trump, the first time he warned, this is pre Russia invasion of Ukraine. President Trump warned NATO and other European.
>> Walker Wildmon: Members that you need to get off the Russian gas.
>> Walker Wildmon: This is a bad idea.
>> Walker Wildmon: And what did they do?
>> Walker Wildmon: Completely ignored him. Completely ignored him. And so today, Europe is still getting its gas from Russia. That doesn't even make sense. And so on the other hand, France.
>> Walker Wildmon: Denmark, all of them, they.
>> Walker Wildmon: Want to lecture America about how woke.
>> Walker Wildmon: They are and how progressive they are and how enlightened they are and everybody should follow the EU and, and no, no, no, usa. You don't need Greenland.
>> Walker Wildmon: Greenland's fine.
>> Walker Wildmon: As Chinese and Russian ships are docking there.
>> Walker Wildmon: No, you, you, Macron, NATO, now all these European leaders Guess how much credibility you have to be at this table talking about smart military decisions? Zero. The US Is the only Western country.
>> Walker Wildmon: With the exception of maybe some smaller.
>> Walker Wildmon: European countries, of a long track record of defeating communism, socialism and Marxism.
>> Walker Wildmon: And I'm not just talking militarily, economically.
>> Walker Wildmon: From an education standpoint, all across the board, America has the most consistent track record in modern history of defeating these.
>> Walker Wildmon: Wicked ideologies wherever they come up.
>> Walker Wildmon: And so if anybody can lead on fighting China and Russia, it's the U.S.
>> Walker Wildmon: We'Re the only man standing.
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>> Jeff Chamblee: This is at the Core on American Family Radio with your host, Walker Wildmon.
President Trump has expressed interest in buying Greenland
>> Walker Wildmon: Welcome to the Core here on American Family Radio. Glad to have you with us here on the program. continuing our discussion of Europe and trying to fend off Russia, ultimately fend off China. the point I was making, which is really uncontested, it's not even close, is that America has been for a long time a leader, obviously in the West. The leader in the west, but a leader in the world.
>> Walker Wildmon: Of fighting against.
>> Walker Wildmon: And ultimately defeating on multiple occasions these Eastern or foreign value systems that do not align and run directly contrary to the west, whether it's Japan, Nazi Germany, Soviet Union. America has great credibility in maintaining and projecting values of freedom, liberty, individual responsibility, etc. Free market ideals.
>> Walker Wildmon: And there's nobody left and there's nobody. Currently standing with the level of credibility that we have.
>> Walker Wildmon: And so this, this resistance to follow.
>> Walker Wildmon: In the leadership of President Trump and America more broadly is quite interesting to me. It's quite interesting to me and maybe I shouldn't be surprised with the rise of globalism over the last 20 years, but it is quite interesting to me the level of resistance to American superiority further expanded across the world.
>> Walker Wildmon: I don't know why a European country. Would not, especially a, ah, long standing ally, which most of them are, why. You would not want America to further. Expand its influence over Greenland. And I don't want to, I don't. Want to get too hung up here on the US Buying Greenland or not buying Greenland. I really think that's, that's one detail of many. I think the larger thing that President. Trump is looking at Here is having m. More of a say and more of a presence in Greenland than we currently do. And we do have some. So that's important to note. We're already there to a degree.
>> Walker Wildmon: But another angle that the President is. Looking at and Stephen Miller and Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State, have expressed. Such is that America is over investing.
>> Walker Wildmon: In other people's security without getting anything out of it. Okay. And this is probably ultimately the thinking. That is driving the Greenland discussion.
>> Walker Wildmon: And the fact that the President has.
>> Walker Wildmon: Said on multiple occasions he would like Greenland. And they're. They've apparently put together a package to purchase Greenland.
>> Walker Wildmon: And by the way, purchasing territories is.
>> Walker Wildmon: something we've done before. Hello, Louisiana Purchase.
>> Walker Wildmon: How do you think we got Alaska? How do you think we got multiple.
>> Walker Wildmon: Parts of our country? We purchased it.
>> Walker Wildmon: And so, Bobby, it is. You really have to not know history to balk or laugh or scoff at the idea of buying a territory.
>> Bobby Roza: Yeah, exactly right. And Greenland has been the topic of discussion, literally for over 100 years. it can go back as far as, Andrew Jackson, if I'm not mistaken. More contemporarily, it's been perused by fdr. It's been perused by Truman. many, many presidents have tried to go after that purchase. And that was, a, big reason for that was because of the military settlements that we did end up putting in there. The biggest one that comes to mind for me is Thule Air Base in Greenland. It's in the, northwestern corner of the country, and it's been there for a long, long time. And it's been a key asset for security for us.
>> Walker Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Walker Wildmon: If you're, if you're Denmark. I mean, other than pride, I'm not sure why you would want to argue over, over keeping this. I mean, there's just not, Not a lot there, honestly. I mean, there. It stretches them in terms of what they have to do.
>> Walker Wildmon: Right.
>> Bobby Roza: for supporting them. you can find several, interviews on the Internet, whereby they're interviewing Greenlanders who are espousing the fact that they get free education, free health care, etc. Etc. And this is all on the back of Denmark, which, remember, it's a very, very small country.
>> Walker Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Walker Wildmon: so again, if I'm going to pay you the Greenlanders, I'm going to pay you Denmark, I'm going to pay you EU.
>> Walker Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Walker Wildmon: to the tune of $500 billion. However you cut that up, I think.
>> Walker Wildmon: I think the President.
>> Walker Wildmon: And again, you're going to protect me.
>> Walker Wildmon: Correct, Correct. I think the President knows from his military advisors that we need to bolster our ballistic missile defenses in Greenland. Well, let's say the quiet part out loud.
>> Walker Wildmon: That's right. And Greenland would be a significant part of the Golden Dome.
>> Walker Wildmon: Yeah, correct.
>> Walker Wildmon: Correct. And so the people saying, we don't need Greenland, we can protect our country without Greenland. That's, that's, that's viewing this way too simply. And that's just, in fact, not true. anyone who has read up just the mildest bit about ballistic missile defense and Russia, you will quickly find out that most of the experts agree that, that one of the most common ballistic missile paths is directly over Greenland.
>> Walker Wildmon: Correct.
>> Walker Wildmon: So if the President and the military, by the way, see, this is not.
>> Walker Wildmon: Just President Trump having a McDonald's at 11 o' clock at night going, I want Greenland.
CNN denigrated President Trump for saying he could use Greenland for missile defense
No, no, no, no, no, folks, the media has disrespected the President so much and the President doesn't help himself sometimes.
>> Walker Wildmon: But the media and the Democrats have.
>> Walker Wildmon: So denigrated the President and the serious nature that he can offer that everybody thinks that President Trump is just sitting around mean tweeting and talking about taking over countries.
>> Walker Wildmon: That's just not true. This is a.
>> Walker Wildmon: He might be bombastic and say things that are off the cuff and unhinged.
>> Walker Wildmon: At times, but the people around the President are very reasoned people.
>> Walker Wildmon: Marco Rubio, Stephen Miller, Pete Hegseth, the entire Pentagon, National Security Council, etc.
>> Walker Wildmon: And so if the Department of War.
>> Walker Wildmon: Says we could really use Greenland for ballistic missile defense preparations, then they don't just say that off of like a one hour study that they did.
>> Walker Wildmon: This is stuff the military and our.
>> Walker Wildmon: Department of Secretary of State and the Department of War have been talking about.
>> Walker Wildmon: For decades, for decades. The difference is they actually have a.
>> Walker Wildmon: President who might actually be able to get it done. And that's why they're taking advantage of it.
>> Walker Wildmon: That's the real aspect of it.
>> Walker Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Walker Wildmon: And that's what they're afraid of.
>> Walker Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Walker Wildmon: And so if President Trump makes it.
>> Walker Wildmon: Clear that the military advantages to the west of America, not just owning and operating, but having strategic ballistic missile defenses in Greenland, I don't know why some European members would just be opposed to that. It doesn't even make sense.
>> Walker Wildmon: because as I told Bobby during the break, this moves us closer to.
>> Walker Wildmon: Russia, on the eastern side. Over on the west, we're very close to Russia, with, Alaska. But on the eastern side, this puts.
>> Walker Wildmon: Us very close to Russia or closer and very close to some European countries.
>> Walker Wildmon: Some European allies.
>> Walker Wildmon: And I just don't know why projecting.
>> Walker Wildmon: That strength in Greenland further would be a problem for Europe, especially NATO members. I just don't know why they would be opposed to it.
>> Walker Wildmon: and I think the President is also at the place where we're not investing further in lands and countries that we don't control. And this is what we've done, for a long time, a long time.
>> Walker Wildmon: 50 plus years, is we have, done strategic military buildups and put in bases all around the world. We have military bases everywhere. All right?
>> Walker Wildmon: And it's worked out very good for us.
>> Walker Wildmon: You look at a map of Iran and look at US Bases around Iran.
>> Walker Wildmon: We have Iran surrounded, especially on the.
>> Walker Wildmon: West, we have Iran surrounded with US Bases or ally bases.
>> Walker Wildmon: And so America has been able to, project strength. But unfortunately, when you set up bases.
>> Walker Wildmon: In other countries that we don't control.
>> Walker Wildmon: There'S a lot of volatility there, and.
>> Walker Wildmon: Different administrations change, and some countries, their leadership falls, and then anarchy takes over and we have to pull our forces out. And so a lot of things can happen. I think letting go of that Afghanistan base was a very strategic dropping of the ball.
>> Walker Wildmon: but Greenland, I think, is important.
>> Walker Wildmon: And I think it just is part of an overall topic of if America is going to continue being a protector of the west, not just our homeland, but also our NATO allies as well, then we're going to need to get something out of this. And that's where Greenland comes around. And so we'll keep track of this. It's a very interesting discussion. And, the U.S. i mean, has, as I said, has a long track record of fighting back against, communism and socialism. And if I were Europe, I would want to be hanging out with the West, I'd want to be hanging out with the U.S. and, just like if I was Venezuela, Venezuela's leaders today, I would want to be friends with President Trump.
>> Walker Wildmon: let's play clip three here.
>> Walker Wildmon: This is Marco Rubio pointing out the fact that when everybody talks about defending Ukraine, there's unanimity, there's consensus, there's allies. But when we talk about defending the USA, everybody starts wanting to overthink it. Clip 3.
>> Marco Rubio: I don't think that the European Union gets to determine what international law is. They certainly don't get to determine is how the United States defends its national security. The United States is under attack from organized criminal narco terrorists in our hemisphere, and the President is responding in the defense of our country. I do find it interesting that all these Countries want us to send, you know, and supply, for example, nuclear capable Tomahawk missiles to defend Europe. But when the United States positions aircraft carriers in our hemisphere where we live, somehow that's a problem. So I would, I would say that the United States, and this president has made very clear his job is to protect the United States from threats against the United States. And that is what he's doing in this operation.
>> Walker Wildmon: Well, there you have it. this is in response to some criticism, not much, but some criticism on the Maduro raid. And the fact that when these type activities are carried out in the Middle east, nobody has a problem, or when they're carried out against Russia, nobody's got a problem. But we do it in our own backyard. And all of a sudden people want to talk international law.
>> Walker Wildmon: also the move for Greenland.
>> Walker Wildmon: I just can't keep not going back to this because it's all so interconnected and it points out the inconsistent positions of NATO members.
>> Walker Wildmon: But remember President Trump was accused of.
>> Walker Wildmon: So for so long of being in bed with Vladimir Putin. He's a Russian spy. I mean all these just fake stories that, you know, Russia influenced the election. Russia, Russia, Russia. We had a special counsel over this nonsense.
>> Walker Wildmon: Are you kidding me?
>> Walker Wildmon: I cannot believe we had that.
>> Walker Wildmon: So we wasted four to six years.
>> Walker Wildmon: Of our country's history exhaustively talking about this. This very bad to be very kind and radio appropriate here.
>> Walker Wildmon: Very, very wrong.
>> Walker Wildmon: Russia hoax and investigation.
>> Walker Wildmon: And some of our so called allies.
>> Walker Wildmon: In Europe were in on this and Hillary Clinton led the charge and they investigated Donald Trump for at least four years, had an entire Pete. Impeachment over it. And not an impeachment, an entire special counsel over it.
>> Walker Wildmon: But, but here we are. And then, and then under Biden, Russia invades Ukraine. And so all of this talk about how President Trump is a liability.
>> Walker Wildmon: Vladimir Putin wanted Trump to be in the White House, he's a Russian asset. All of these utter lies that we were told for years wasted all of our time.
As it turns out, President Trump is actually one of the greatest threats to Russia
>> Walker Wildmon: As it turns out, President Trump is actually one of the greatest threats to Russia and Vladimir Putin. What do you know? Because if President Trump and the US.
>> Walker Wildmon: Gets Greenland.
>> Walker Wildmon: And we set up massive.
>> Walker Wildmon: Military operations there beyond what we already.
>> Walker Wildmon: Have, who is that going after, who is that a threat to? It's not a threat to uk, it's not a threat to Sweden, it's not a threat to Denmark, Are you kidding me? This is a direct and aggressive military threat against, ah, none other than, than Vladimir Putin. And so all of this talk about.
>> Walker Wildmon: We need to take down big, bad Putin.
>> Walker Wildmon: And Trump's like, okay, let's set up ICBMs in his backyard in Greenland, and let's set up a strong defense against Vladimir Putin. And then now all these NATO members are like, well, I don't know about that.
>> Walker Wildmon: Can't have it both ways.
>> Jeff Chamblee: The views and opinions expressed in this broadcast may not necessarily reflect those of the American Family association or American Family Radio.
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