Anti-ICE Terrorist Tries to Firebomb Federal Building

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Live from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, it's America's favorite, gun-toting, Bible-clinging, deplorable American. Todd Stearns.

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So we're following several breaking news stories, of course, the very latest from the Middle East. And we're going to get into more of that in just a few moments with our good buddy, retired general, brigadier general, John Tykert, who will be along to explain what happened over the weekend and where we are right now in this war with Iran. That's coming up in just a little while. Right now, though, we're following this breaking news out of New York City, where an anti-ice terrorist tried to blow up something in front of the federal building in Lower Manhattan. And I would walk by that building many, many, many times over the years that I lived in New York City. I know that area quite well, just a block over from the New York City Hall and a block over from the World Trade Center site. And the video, and we have the video at toddstarnes.com. We had the video of the guy throwing the device that set off even more of an explosion. There was a lot of fire. We've got the video of that at toddstarnes.com as well. I encourage you to check that out. And then we have video of federal agents swarming the suspect, who appeared to be a guy. I don't know. And he looked to be south from south of the border, but we'll find out more information about the suspect. No doubt about that. Anyway, we have video of that guy being taken into custody. And the FBI is now saying this was an act of terrorism. This was an act directed towards Immigration Customs Enforcement Officers. And at least three people that we know of were injured. One of those people had to be taken to the hospital. They're all going to be okay. These are non-life-threatening injuries. But no doubt a terrifying situation there for morning commuters. I think it happened around 9 o'clock Eastern this morning. So a lot of people on the sidewalks when all of this went down. Let me just say right out of the gate that the suspect's not the only one who ought to be arrested here. I mean, if you want to talk about people responsible, we need to have a conversation about the Democrats that have been going out of their way, calling ICE agents, brown shirts, storm troopers, Nazis. We need to start holding these elected leaders accountable for the vitriol that's spewing out of their filthy mouths.
We also ought to be taking a long hard look at the propagandists in the mainstream media, the people that are using their megaphones to broadcast these lies about these federal agents. I got to tell you, I'm not surprised by what happened. I'm really not. I am surprised there have not been more attacks directed at ICE agents. So coming up a little bit later, we're going to be talking to Greg Bavino, who was the former Border Chief and Customs and Border Patrol Chief. And he's got a lot of things to say about this. We're going to sit down with him for an exclusive interview. And by the way, Bavino's also very, very upset over what's happening on the deportation side of the administration. He says that right now, they are softening their efforts to deport the illegals. Ladies and gentlemen, that is a very bad mistake. And this is, look, this is coming from people. President Trump puts people in charge of these agencies, and it's then up to the agencies to follow through. The president can't be doing, he can't micromanage every single department. So whatever is happening or is not happening, that's on the people the president put in charge of these agencies. So we're going to get into that with Greg Bevino a little bit later on. We'll keep you updated on this crazy story out of New York City. So I wrote something over the weekend that went a little viral. And by a little viral, it went a lot viral. And I normally, Dylan, I normally try not to post on my personal Facebook page, only because so many of our, so many people I know are not exactly, what's the word I'm looking for? Conservative or open minded. And so I thought, you know, I'm going to step back and I will leave my personal page for personal stuff. So I ended up, I ended up writing something on my personal page. And for some, and I did it inadvertently. I thought I had actually done it on the main Facebook fan page, where we've got almost a half a million people that follow us. And that just exploded. And what I wrote on my personal page exploded. And I wanted to just, I don't know, share it with you and share some thoughts, because something happened over the weekend that really, that really bothered me. And it just caught my attention. And I'm curious to hear your thoughts on this. And it really is a warning for Christians specifically. Jews, yes, you're in this too, but it really impacts Christians more so. And I'll get to that in just a moment. But something happened over the weekend. And I thought, you know, this needs to be addressed. Ironically, I wrote about this very theme and the subject matter in my upcoming book, The Golden Age, How Trump Saved America. And it involves socialism. Now, over the weekend, we had Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and she was in town campaigning for a radical progressive, a socialist candidate by the name of Justin Pearson. You might have seen him in the news. He's a black dude, skinny black dude, massive power throw. It kind of looks like a pez dispenser, right? It's really odd. So no, it just, I mean, he does. It kind of looks like a pez dispenser. And this is the guy who talks, he went to Bowdoin College in Maine and comes from a very, very affluent background. And now all of a sudden he's like, wants you to think he came from the hood. And so he's adopted this, this accent that is just simply not his accent. And then AOC comes down and AOC was leading this big rally. They had over a thousand people turn out and it was held inside of a large church, a black mega church in the Memphis, in Memphis proper within the city limits. And Ayanna Pressley was a part of this gathering and also Congress Gal Summerlee, who is from Pennsylvania. So anyway, they're up there and I sat down and watched, it was like a two and a half hour thing. It was incredibly long. And so the pastor gets up and the pastor announces to the congregation that Jesus was a socialist and therefore they should be socialist. And it really caught my attention. They had over again, over a thousand people, this new direction Christian church. And AOC came back and reiterated what the preacher was talking about, about how being a socialist is a Christian thing to be.