Senator Eric Schmitt
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The Chinese have gotten away with literally murder and with cheating and lying. And on some level, Trump respects it. It's like, okay, if you can get away with it, why not take advantage? But guess what? We're not going to let you, sorry, we can't let you get away with it anymore. He is brilliant. President Xi must understand this.
Kevin O'Leary, Mr. Wonderful yesterday was saying that we should slap 400% tariffs on China. And then Xi would be on a plane to DC to make a deal yesterday. It is about time. We confronted the bully in the schoolyard. And it is only President Trump who has the courage to do it. We need men and women of courage. And this president is a gift from God, not just to this nation, but to the world.
I think many around the world are just applauding him. And it's exciting. Praise God.
I'll tell you, Charlie, the real headline here, first of all, today, literally today, April 9th, is the 80th anniversary today of the death of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, one of the greatest heroes of the 20th century. He stood against the bullies and the monsters and the evil figures of his time fearlessly in the way that President Trump and others are standing up today.
Of course, Bonhoeffer way ahead of everybody. Why? Because he did it. to the point of death. He was killed by the Nazis. So he's the ultimate model of courage.
And we're living in a time right now where you have a lot of Christians out there, sort of Christians, who don't understand that if you do not live with heroic courage in the face of evil, if you don't stand up to bullies, if you don't say the thing that everybody's afraid to say, you're a coward and you're not serving God.
You can't fake it and say, well, I have faith if you're not behaving like you have faith. So Bonhoeffer is the ultimate hero. But the reason I wanted to come on your show today, Charlie, is because a lot of folks in the MAGA movement don't know this.
The Bonhoeffer film that came out in November, an amazing film, not officially tied to my book, but it is an amazing film about this amazing hero killed today, 80 years ago. That film was targeted by the left, mostly by the pro-Hamas, lunatic left. And they did everything they could to crush the film in the box office, and they were pretty successful. It's insane.
I don't want to give you the details. But I was stunned because this is a film made by people that are not pro-Trump people. They just said, we want to make a great film about Bonhoeffer. They made a great film partnering with Hollywood royalty to make a great film about this hero. And the radical left – did everything they could, pulled out all the stops to destroy the film.
So what I'm saying, folks, if you believe in standing up for Israel, I'm not saying you have to agree with everything Netanyahu does, but if you believe in standing up for the Jews, this guy is the ultimate hero. And the left, which we now know is...
insane in case you haven't covered that subject they did everything they could to crush the film so the film is now on amazon prime it's on apple tv it's you can find it almost everywhere but it's a genuinely great film and it kind of takes my breath away charlie that the left is so crazy that they would try to harm a film like this about a man who gave his life for the jews of europe because of his christian faith that's where we are but that's what they did
Well, there are a couple of reasons. The first one, and this is, of course, what attracted me to his story, because my mother grew up in Nazi Germany. So when I heard about the story of a pastor who, because of his faith in Jesus, spoke up for the Jews, a pastor and a theologian who, because of his Christian faith, spoke out against Adolf Hitler, I thought, whoa. courage, amazing courage.
But that is kind of why most people don't know about Bonhoeffer, because he was explicitly Christian. And in fact, people on the left who do praise him, they kind of make it sound like, well, he was sort of an agnostic at the end of his life. Complete baloney.
And the reason the left hates me is because in my biography on him, I make it clear that his Christian faith was deepened, if anything, at the end of his life. Just the opposite. They kind of act like he slid into this, like, ethical humanism.
I was watching Charlie Rose, like, I don't know, 15 years ago, and Christopher Hitchens was debating, you know, and somebody said, well, what about Bonhoeffer's faith? And he goes, oh, Bonhoeffer's not a Christian. He was a humanist. Complete lie. So the left has tried to make him out to be sort of a Christian, not a Christian, and his Christianity makes them uncomfortable.
So in my book, of course, his Christianity is front and center, not because it's my book, but because that's who Bonhoeffer was. So that's one of the reasons that his heroism makes some people uncomfortable. But right now, the reason the left tried to crush the film It's because they no longer feel comfortable even standing up for Jews.
They think, well, that's kind of too close to worshiping Netanyahu or standing up for Israel. We stand with the Palestinians. We're in an insane world. And I can't overstate it, Charlie. They worked overtime to crush this film in November. I mean, it was really shocking to me that a film that your average liberal would love the film. This is not some MAGA version of Bonhoeffer's Life.
It's a film for everybody. They just pulled out all the stops to destroy it. And that's how sick they are. I mean, they are sawing off the limb that they're sitting on. And we see them doing that on other issues, just happy to destroy the country, destroy the economy.
because they hate Trump, and they have attacked me, and they even attacked the film as somehow being a dog whistle for Christian nationalism and political violence, which is so insane, I can't even believe I'm saying it. So the left worked hard to crush the film, which is why I want to get the word out to patriots in America. This is a great film. Everybody should see it.
And literally today is the 80th anniversary of this great man's death. So obviously it's available. I think I mentioned Amazon Prime, Apple TV, it's out there, but he is such a hero. And you know, Charlie, you and I were talking several years ago and you said, you know, through TPUSA Faith, you want to raise up an army of Bonhoeffers, real great, Thank you.
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