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JUST IN: President Trump Issues Statement On Christian Persecution In African Nation – “COUNTRY OF PARTICULAR CONCERN”

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President Trump on Friday said Christianity is facing an “existential threat” in Nigeria, saying “radical Islamists are responsible for this mass slaughter.”

“Thousands of Christians are being killed,” Trump stated.

“I am hereby making Nigeria a ‘COUNTRY OF PARTICULAR CONCERN’ — But that is the least of it. When Christians, or any such group, is slaughtered like is happening in Nigeria (3,100 versus 4,476 Worldwide), something must be done!” Trump said.

“I am asking Congressman Riley Moore, together with Chairman Tom Cole and the House Appropriations Committee, to immediately look into this matter, and report back to me. The United States cannot stand by while such atrocities are happening in Nigeria, and numerous other Countries. We stand ready, willing, and able to save our Great Christian population around the World!” he added.

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“Congressman Riley Moore today sent a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio calling on the U.S. Department of State to redesignate Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC) due to the alarming and ongoing persecution of Christians across the country,” Rep. Riley Moore (R-WV) stated in a press release earlier this month.

“Thank you @POTUS for your incredible leadership by designating Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern,” Moore said Friday following Trump’s statement.

“You have always been a champion for Christians around the world, and I’m grateful for the opportunity to work with you and Chairman Cole @houseappropsgop to defend our brothers and sisters in Christ who are being slaughtered by radical Islamists in Nigeria,” he added.

Moore stated in the press release:

In his letter, Congressman Moore urged President Trump’s administration to take “immediate action to address the systematic persecution and slaughter of Christians in Nigeria,” highlighting the nation’s growing reputation as “the deadliest place in the world to be a Christian.”

Congressman Moore’s letter detailed that over 7,000 Christians have been killed in Nigeria in 2025 alone—an average of 35 per day—with hundreds more kidnapped, tortured, or displaced by extremist groups such as Boko Haram. The Congressman also pointed to reports indicating that 19,100 Christian churches have been attacked or destroyed since 2009 and that elements of the Nigerian government may be complicit in the violence. Reports from Open Doors indicate that more Christians are killed every year in Nigeria than the rest of the world combined.

The Congressman noted that President Trump previously designated Nigeria as a CPC, a designation reversed under President Biden, and called on Secretary Rubio to restore the designation and suspend all U.S. arms sales and technical support to Nigeria until the government takes swift action to protect the persecuted.

“Nigeria has become the deadliest place in the world to be a Christian. Just this year, a priest was kidnapped and murdered on Ash Wednesday and 54 Christians were martyred on Palm Sunday. 7,000 Christians have been martyred this year alone. More than 50,000 Christians have been murdered since 2009,” Moore said.

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“The United States cannot stand idly by while believers are slaughtered. We must acknowledge the religious nature of this scourge of anti-Christian violence from radical Islamic terrorists. It’s time for the United States to defend our brothers and sisters in Christ, and designating Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern will provide the diplomatic levers to do just that. I urge Secretary Rubio to designate Nigeria as a CPC without delay,” he continued.

Newsweek shared:

Earlier this month, Ted Cruz said that more than 50,000 Christians have been killed in Nigeria since 2009, a claim the Nigerian government denies. The Texas senator said in a post on X on Tuesday that Christians have been “massacred” in Nigeria, while thousands of churches and schools have been destroyed.

Sunday Dare, the spokesperson for Nigerian President Bola Tinubu, called Cruz’s post “careless rhetoric that fuels misunderstanding,” adding: “Nigeria is not witnessing a Christian genocide; it is confronting terrorism that targets everyone.”

Nigeria and the alleged persecution of Christians there have been at the forefront of international conversations about the country recently, especially after comedian and commentator Bill Maher said Christians are being “systematically killed” and blasted Americans for not paying enough attention to it on September 26.

The U.S. State Department previously told Newsweek that it is “deeply concerned about the levels of violence against Christians and members of other groups in Nigeria.”

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BILL MAHER: “100,000 Christians Killed In Nigeria, Where’s The Outrage?”

Credit once again to Bill Maher for actually broadcasting truth!

Hear me out…

On his show this week, Bill just tackled an issue that no one else in the “MSM” is even mentioning, and that is the systematic slaughter of 100,000 Christians in Nigeria.

Maybe you didn’t know about it either?

That’s because almost no one is talking about it, so credit to Bill for bringing it up on his show and shining a light on it asking where the outrage from the Left is on this topic.

I can’t believe I’m typing this but “very well said, Bill…thank you!”

Watch here:

TRANSCRIPT:

Nigeria—so, I mean… mm-hmm. The fact that this issue has not gotten on people’s radar—right, no one’s talking about it—is pretty amazing.

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If you don’t know what’s going on in Nigeria—mm-hmm—your media sources suck. You are in a bubble.

Not—and again, I’m not a Christian—but they are systematically—yep—killing the Christians in Nigeria.

They’ve killed over 100,000 since 2009. They’ve burned 18,000 churches.

This is so much more—these other Islamists, Boko Haram—this is so much more of a genocide attempt—mm-hmm—than what is going on in Gaza.

They are literally attempting to wipe out the Christian population of an entire country.

Where are the kids protesting this?

Yeah.

Th—there is—thank you. Thank you.

Of course. Yeah.

’Cause no one will talk about it, so thank you.

Absolutely.

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WATCH: Bill Maher ENDS Kamala Harris’ Career In Brutal Takedown

Bill Maher is never going to go full MAGA, but he will tell the truth even when it’s against his own side.

Bill Maher has famously gone on record as saying he had a very nice dinner with President Trump when invited to the White House…

He has also long been on record as being against the Far-Left woke crap…

And now he just told the brutal truth about Kamala Harris, totally eviscerating her BS campaign and BS career.

Watch here:

FULL TRANSCRIPT:

Kamala Harris’s new memoir of the ’24 election is called 107 Days, but it should have been called Everyone Sucks But Me.

107 Days is a victim’s title because, get it, she only had 107 days to win. Yeah, uh, and a half. And a billion and a half dollars. And a built-in army of about 75 million people who’d vote for any human-adjacent life form that wasn’t Trump.

But in 107 days, nothing is ever Kamala’s fault. Biden lets her down by not stepping down sooner—pouty face emoji. Gavin Newsom, he was asked for his endorsement, but texted, “Hiking, will call back.” But then never did. And then he didn’t even ask her to prom.

America, America itself, lets Kamala down by not being ready for the running mate she really wanted, Pete Buttigieg. So, she’s stuck with the Home Depot paint salesman—and the rest is her-story. Poor Kamala, we made her the star of a rom-com and didn’t even give her a gay best friend.

Kamala writes that on election night, when it was clear she’d lost, an aide peeled the words “Madam President” off the cupcakes before handing them out. Oh-ho-ho-ho.

Oh, geez, that’s like a scene from Bridget Jones Runs for President, for Christ’s sakes.

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Bill Maher: I Felt Way More Comfortable Talking To Trump Than I Would Have Clinton or Obama

A couple weeks ago, Bill Maher joined President Trump, Kid Rock and Dana White for a personal dinner at the White House.

Since then, everyone has been dying to know what Maher will say.

Not because we think he’s some sort of oracle worth following, but just because it’s interesting.

How did it go?

Were any of your preconceived notions proven wrong?

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Spoiler alert: Yes!  In a big way!

I don’t watch Bill’s show and I generally don’t find him all that funny or amusing, but I found this absolutely fascinating.

Credit to Bill Maher for telling the truth and admitting that the man he met in person is nothing like the image he had of him in his mind.

And I think that’s the most fascinating point, and something the entire country needs to experience.

For 10+ years now, the MSM has lied to you.

They have told you “orange man bad!” over and over and over.

They even flat out lie and distort video footage to make it seem like President Trump said things he didn’t say.

Anyone remember the “very fine people” hoax?

If you’ve never actually seen this raw footage before, this is stunning.

Check out the video below, and on the left you’ll see the MSM lies about President Trump and then played side-by-side you’ll see the actual footage and what President Trump actually said.

The truth is that the media flat out lied and said Trump said something he didn’t say.  He actually said the exact opposite of what they claimed he said.

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And they repeated that lie over and over and over.  Because if you repeat a lie often enough, people will start to believe it.

Watch here:

TRANSCRIPT:

Jake Tapper
You have it?
Okay, I’m being told we have it. Thank you. Run it, please.

President Trump
Excuse me. To protest.
And you had some very bad people in that group,
but you also had people that were very fine people on both sides.

Jake Tapper
That was President Trump saying that very fine people
were marching alongside neo-Nazis and skinheads and white supremacists.

President Trump
I’ve condemned neo-Nazis.
I’ve condemned many different groups.
But not all of those people were neo-Nazis, believe me.
Not all of those people were white supremacists.

And you had people—
and I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists,
because they should be condemned totally.
But you had many people in that group
other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists, okay?

Jake Tapper
This is a president who said there were, quote,
“very fine people on both sides”
in a Charlottesville neo-Nazi, Klan march in Charlottesville—
and his infamous reference to “very fine people.”

There were, quote,
“very fine people on both sides” of that Charlottesville, Virginia march.

And candidate Trump—
I tried to get him three times to condemn David Duke.
He wouldn’t do it.

President Trump
Well, you’ve got David Duke just joined.
A bigot. A racist. A problem.
I mean, this is not exactly the people you want in your party.

Jake Tapper
A lot of people think that he has a soft spot in his heart for,
or at least won’t condemn, white supremacists.

President Trump
As I said on Saturday,
we condemn in the strongest possible terms
this egregious display of hatred, bigotry, and violence.
It has no place in America.

Racism is evil.
And those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs—
including the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists,
and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans.

We are a nation founded on the truth
that all of us are created equal.

Jake Tapper
And there’s this big effort by Trump supporters
to pretend that the president didn’t say what he said—
to call this all a hoax.

President Trump
And you had people—
and I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists,
because they should be condemned totally.

But you had many people in that group
other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists.

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And that, folks, is exactly what Bill Maher is waking up to.

For years, Bill drank the MSM kool-aid.

Orange man bad!

He called White Supremacists “very fine people”!

What a terrible person!

Except….none of it was true.

And when Bill Maher finally meets President Trump in person he’s stunned that the man is so different than the public persona of him.

Come on Bill, you’re a smart guy….what’s the reason for that?  What’s the only difference?

The only difference Bill, is that you met him face-to-face with no MSM twisting the facts and telling you what to believe and feeding you a distorted version of reality.

It’s amazing what happens when you remove the lying MSM and you just take Trump at face value…almost everyone says “what’s not to like about this guy?”

It’s why for over 10+ years, whenever I run into someone who hates Trump and all they can say is “orange man bad” I ask them one simple question: Have you ever actually watched a Rally speech before or attended one?  I mean the full thing, raw feed, not CNN’s interpretation of it or small little clips, I mean the full thing.

Almost always the answer is no.

And in the rare times I can convince them to watch one, they almost always have the same exact experience as Bill Maher.

Anyway, I thought this was excellent.

Thank you Bill for telling the truth.

We don’t expect you to suddenly start wearing the MAGA hat, all we wanted was just the truth and you delivered on that.

Watch here:

FULL TRANSCRIPT:

Bill Maher

And now, for what I know you’ve all been waiting for, I’d like to give you my book report on my visit to the White House.

Okay, as you know, 12 days ago I had dinner with President Trump—a dinner that was set up by my friend Kid Rock—because we share a belief that there’s got to be something better than hurling insults from three thousand miles away.

And let me first say that to all the people who treated this like it was some kind of summit meeting—you’re ridiculous.

Like I was going to sign a treaty or something. I have power—I’m a fucking comedian—and he’s the most powerful leader in the world. I’m not the leader of anything except maybe a contingent of centrist-minded people who think there’s got to be a better way of running this country than hating each other every minute.

So thank you.

So okay, so meet up in person—maybe it’ll be different.

Spoiler alert: it was.

First good sign, before I left for the Capitol, I had my staff collect and print out this list of almost 60 different insulting epithets that the president has said about me.

Things like: stupid, dummy, low-life dummy, sleazebag, sick, sad, stone-cold crazy, fired like a dog, his show is dead, the sixth year…

I brought this to the White House because I wanted him to sign it.

Which he did. Which he did with good humor.

And I know, as I say that, millions of liberal sphincters just tightened…

“Oh my God, Bill, are you gonna say something nice about him?”

What I’m gonna do is report exactly what happened.

You decide what you think about it.

And if that’s not enough pure Trump hate for you—I don’t give a fuck.

So no, I didn’t go MAGA. And to the president’s credit, there was no pressure to.

After we left the Oval Office, he showed me the little room off the office—you know, the one where Clinton used to…

Okay, the blowjob room, okay?

Well, not anymore. That’s where they keep the merch now.

And he gave me a bunch of hats—but he didn’t ask me to take a picture in one, which I appreciated.

The guy I met is not the person who, the night before the dinner, shit-tweeted a bunch of nasty crap about how he thought this dinner was a bad idea and what a deranged asshole I was.

I read it and thought, oh, what a lovely way to welcome someone to your house.

But when I got there—that guy wasn’t living there.

Now, does Trump want respect? Of course. Who doesn’t?

My friend said to me, “What are you gonna wear to the White House?”

I said, “I don’t know, but I’m not gonna dress like Zelensky, I’ll tell you that.”

Just for starters—he laughs.

I’d never seen him laugh in public, but he does—including at himself.

And it’s not fake. Believe me, as a comedian of 40 years, I know a fake laugh when I hear it.

And I thank you for that.

Okay, example: In the Oval Office, he was showing me the portraits of presidents and he pointed to Reagan and said, in all seriousness, “You know the best thing about him? His hair.”

I said, “Well, there was also that whole bringing down communism thing.”

Waiting for the button next to the Diet Coke button to get pushed and I go through the trap door.

But no, he laughed. He got it.

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I said to him at one point, “Mr. President, you know the dog? That’s unusual in the White House.”

He said, “Well, a lot of the presidents, they had a dog for political reasons.”

I said, “No. People love dogs. That’s what that is.”

“Oh yeah. Okay. That’s true.”

At one point we were walking through his—amazing, it is an amazing—tour of the whole house.

And I don’t remember exactly what we were talking about, but it must have been something with the 2020 election, because I know he used the word “lost,” and I distinctly remember saying, “Wow, I never thought I’d hear you say that.”

He didn’t get mad.

He’s much more self-aware than he lets on in public.

Look, I get it.

It doesn’t matter who he is at a private dinner with a comedian. It matters who he is on the world stage.

I’m just taking it as a positive that this person exists—because everything I’ve ever not liked about him was—I swear to God—absent, at least on this night, with this guy.

Bob, Kid Rock, told me the night before—he said, “If you want to get a word in edgewise, you’re going to have to cut him off. He’ll just go on.”

Not at all.

I’ve had so many conversations with prominent people who are much less connected—people who don’t look you in the eye, people who don’t really listen because they just want to get to their next thing, people whose response to things you say just doesn’t track. Like, what?

None of that with him.

And he mostly steered the conversation to “What do you think about this?”

I know your mind is blown. So is mine.

There were so many moments when I hit him with a joke or contradicted something—and no problem.

At dinner, he was asking me about the nuclear situation in Iran in a very genuine, “Hey, I think you’re a smart guy, I want your opinion” sort of way.

And I said, “Well, obviously you’re privy to things about it and I’m not. But for what it’s worth, I thought the Obama deal was worth letting play out because we made Iran destroy 98 percent of the uranium, and they were 15 years away from a bomb.”

And then I said to him, “But we got rid of that. You got rid of that.”

He didn’t get mad or call me a left-wing lunatic.

He took it in.

I told him I thought parts of his plan for Gaza were wacky, but that I had supported him in the idea that Gaza could be Dubai instead of hell.

I told him he was wrong when he tweeted the night before that I was critical of all things Trump. Not true.

Check the tapes.

Moving Israel’s embassy to Jerusalem? Loved it.

The border did need to be controlled.

I’m glad the cops are getting their morale back.

DEI had gone too far.

Biological men shouldn’t be playing women’s sports.

Europe should pay for their defense.

And of course it makes sense that Arab countries should take in Arab refugees—like the million Syrians who wound up in Germany when Saudi Arabia took none.

He said to me, “You’re right, they took none.”

I said, “Well, you should remind your boyfriend in Saudi Arabia that the next time you see him.”

He laughed.

I never felt I had to walk on eggshells around him.

And honestly, I voted for Clinton and Obama, but I would never feel comfortable talking to them the way I was able to talk with Donald Trump.

That’s just how it went down.

Make of it what you will.

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Me, I feel it’s emblematic of why the Democrats are so unpopular these days.

He was even okay when I checked him on the orangutan.

Lost it, you know? He said to Dana White, “You know, Bill said my father was an orangutan and I really love my father.”

And I said, “Well, Mr. President, I did that because I didn’t like what you were doing regarding Obama’s birth origins. I thought that was low.”

Again, no anger. Just a little smile, as if to say, “Yeah, I get it.”

The most surreal part of the whole night was when I got home.

I flew back right after the dinner and I’m in bed watching 60 Minutes from the night before.

And there’s Trump in one of their stories, standing at a podium in a room that looked to me like one of the rooms and places we’d just been in.

And he’s ranting—“Disgusting! You’re a terrible person!”

And I’m like… who’s that guy?

What happened to Glinda the Good Witch?

And why can’t we get the guy I met to be the public guy?

And I’m not saying it’s our responsibility to do that. It’s not.

I’m just reporting exactly what I saw over two and a half hours.

I went into the mine—and that’s what’s down there.

A crazy person doesn’t live in the White House.

A person who plays a crazy person on TV a lot lives there.

Which I know is fucked up.

It’s just not as fucked up as I thought it was.

And I have no illusions, now that I’m back to work at my job, that he might start a new list.

But I also think he now understands I have a job to do—or at least he did on this night—because he said to me early on that he’d seen our last episode, which was the Friday before this dinner.

And he said, “I thought maybe you’d be nice, but you hit me really hard.”

“Oh, I did. Because I’m not going to pull my punches that presidents get to propose a third term for themselves.”

He understood that—and without animus.

That doesn’t mean he’s not going to try to do it…

At one point I said to him, “You’re scaring people. Do you really want to be scaring your own citizens so much?”

And I know now you’re all saying, “And what did he say to that?”

Honestly—I don’t remember.

But it wasn’t, “Okay, I’ll stop.”

So MAGA fans, don’t worry. Your boy gave me nothing.

Just hats.

Hats, and a very generous amount of time and a willingness to listen and accept me as a possible friend—even though I’m not MAGA.

Which was the point of the dinner.

My favorite part of the whole night was—we were standing in the blowjob room…

And he said, “You know, I’ve heard from a lot of people who really like that we’re having this dinner. Not all, but a lot.”

And I said, “Same. A lot of people told me they loved it—but not all.”

And we agreed.

The people who don’t even want us to talk—we don’t like you.

“Don’t talk,” as opposed to what?

Writing the same editorial for the 1,000,000th time and making 25-hour speeches into the wind?

Really, that’s what liberals have?

He takes the piss out of everybody else—and we can hold ours.

Okay, that’s my report.

You can hate me for it, but I’m not a liar.

Trump was gracious and measured—and why he isn’t that in other settings, I don’t know, and I can’t answer, and it’s not my place to answer.

I’m just telling you what I saw.

And I wasn’t high.

Damn. Missed.

Backup video here with captions added if you prefer:

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And I’ll wrap up with Kid Rock’s opinion of the dinner too in case you haven’t seen that:

UPDATE: Kid Rock Says “Weirdly Awesome” Dinner With Trump and Bill Maher Went “So Well”!

This is a Guest Post from our friends over at 100 Percent Fed Up. View the original article here.

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