Pursuing Truth in This Election

Here is a Question for you. In the last two weeks, have you heard anything about the following news story from your news source?

• The head of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reported that there are now over 13,000 known convicted murderers who were caught by ICE at the southern border but instead of being sent home as immigration law dictates were released into America because of the Democrat party’s catch and release policy? And those are just the convicted felons. The ICE director reported there are also another 1900 illegal immigrants who’ve been charged with homicide in another country, caught by ICE, but released into America.
• In the past two weeks did you hear any horrified female newscaster mention the 15,811 illegal immigrants who are convicted sex offenders who were caught by ICE at the border but released into the US by the Democrat Party’s refusal to enforce immigration law. Has any newscaster you know called attention to the additional 4,250 illegal immigrants charged with sexual assault now on the streets of America because of catch and release?

These shocking revelations came on September 30 in a letter from ICE Director Patrick Lechleitner to Congressman Tony Gonzales. Lechleitner revealed that under the Biden/Harris catch and release violation of immigration law, over 600,000 illegal immigrants with criminal records or pending criminal charges against them have been released onto our streets instead of returned home as US immigration law requires. Think of it. Over 13,000 convicted murderers and over 15,000 convicted rapists released into our land by the Biden/Harris administration and the corrupt mainstream media makes virtually no mention of it!

This episode examines the responsibility of Christians to be light to our culture—to expose what sin wants to cover up and, in particular, to expose the unprecedented suppression of the truth by the corporate media and Democrat Party of what is actually happening at our southern borders. Jesus said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life” (Jn 8:12). What does this claim mean for our mission? A disciple, by definition, pursues both BEING LIKE his master, and the master’s CAUSE. So, not surprisingly, Jesus said to his followers, You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others (Mt 5:14-16). Let's fill out the biblical picture of this mission.

OUR MISSION TO BE LIGHT TO THE WORLD

• We are called out of darkness: But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you OUT OF DARKNESS INTO HIS MARVELOUS LIGHT (I Pet 2:9).
• Sin causes humans to suppress the truth and hide from the light. And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed (Jn 3:19-20).
• Deceit is at the heart of evil. The devil was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies (Jn 8:44).
• God is unalterably opposed to dishonesty. A lying tongue is an abomination to the LORD (Prov 16:17).
• Jesus exposed hidden evil. “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. You blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and the plate, that the outside also may be clean. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people's bones and all uncleanness” (Mt 23:25-27).
• We follow a master who IS truth. I am the way the truth and the life (Jn 14:6).
• A commitment to truth belongs at our core in the battle for the kingdom of light to prevail.  Stand therefore, having fastened on the belt of truth (Eph 6:14).
• Notice that in Psalm forty-five’s description of Jesus’ messianic rule, he spreads truth. Gird your sword on your thigh, O mighty one, in your splendor and majesty! In your majesty ride out victoriously for the cause of truth and meekness and righteousness (Ps 45:3-4).
• Helping another see truth is an act of love. Love does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth (1 Cor 13:6).
• Our calling in the culture is to expose lies. You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house.

EVIDENCE OF THE CORPORATE MEDIA’S SUPPRESSION OF TRUTH

A. Trump Russian Collusion Hoax. Although I’ve known that over 90% of those in the media industry are Democrats, I did not see the extent of the mainstream media corruption until 2019 when Special Counsel Robert Mueller exonerated President Trump’s campaign from the mythical allegation of Russian collusion to influence the 2016 election. The world saw that this allegation was actually fabricated by Hillary Clinton’s campaign. For three years, the mainstream media had repeated the lie of Russian collusion. During that time, I repeatedly heard Greg Jarrett of Fox news give updates on these allegations. Mueller’s report confirmed that every single thing Greg Jarrett said true, while the wool was pulled over the eyes of everyday Americans for three years by a dishonest media seeking to undermine everything Trump tried to do. This experience opened my eyes to the sad truth. CNN, MSNBC, CBS, NBC, ABC, Sixty Minutes are no longer interested in real journalism. They are led by progressive ideologues, the same ideology that has overtaken what was for some a beloved Democrat Party. I have had many conversations with distraught friends who have spiritually mature Christian adult kids who seem to be blind to the takeover of the Democrat Party by Cultural Marxism. I think I understand why. If they get their news from the above sources, they don’t have a clue what is happening in America. Instead, they hear progressive spin at every turn. Sadly, some very intelligent Christians would be called naïve using biblical categories. Scripture says, The naïve believe everything but the prudent man considers his steps (Prov 14:15). Perhaps some of us need to say to friends and relatives, “The Bible says, The one who states his case first seems right, until the other comes and examines him. If your main news source is the mainstream media, what conservative news source are you listening to so that you get both sides?” (Conservative sources would be Fox News Channel, Newsmax, The Heritage Foundation, some talk radio broadcasts, and podcasts like the World and Everything in It, Breakpoint, Verdict with Ted Cruz.) So, it would be folly to ignore what the 3-year promotion of a hoax invented by the Clinton campaign tells us about the corporate media. They can’t be trusted. Period.

B. Cover Up of Hunter Biden’s Crimes Before the 2020 Election. Black Conservative thinker Kay Coles James asks, “While there’s little doubt that left-leaning bias is rampant throughout much of the political media, is that bias powerful enough to swing a presidential election? According to a survey of those who voted for Joe Biden in November of 2020, it made a big enough difference to hand six swing states to the former vice president.

Brent Bozell, president of the watchdog Media Research Center, surveyed swing-state Biden voters and found that the media’s refusal to cover certain stories may have cost President Donald Trump the election. The Media Research Center asked voters about eight news stories, including the unfolding scandal involving Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings that may have included Joe Biden himself, a former staffer’s sexual assault allegation against Joe Biden, and positive stories about Trump’s successes, including 33% economic growth during the pandemic, an upcoming coronavirus vaccine rollout, and Middle East peace deals. The Media Research Center found that 17% of Biden voters wouldn’t have voted for him had they known about one or more of the stories. Bozell’s calculations show that was enough to move six swing states into Trump’s column, giving him 311 Electoral College votes—enough to retain the presidency. For example, 39% of Biden voters said they didn’t know about the record 11 million jobs created from June to October in the snapback from the pandemic. If they had, 5.4% would have changed their vote. (Heritage.org “How Conservatives Must Counter the Media’s Left-Wing Election Advocacy”).

C. In April of 2023 Elon Musk bought Twitter for 44 billion dollars. In a TED interview, Musk said he aimed to make Twitter a "platform for free speech around the globe", hailing free speech as a "societal imperative for a functioning democracy" and insisting that he had not made the offer to increase his wealth. Musk himself had been the victim of twitter’s incredibly biased shutdown of voices with whom its leaders disagreed.

On July 13th Elon Musk endorsed Donald Trump. Musk is no political conservative, but he saw the way progressive ideology suppresses the truth. All forms of Marxism, including Cultural Marxism, which reigns in the Democrat Party, are totalitarian in nature. The elite must control and manipulate what the masses think. Six days ago, Musk repeated his reasons for supporting Trump in these words: “I think this election is the most important election of our lifetime. This is not an ordinary election. The other side wants to take away your freedom of speech.… Free speech is the bedrock of democracy. If people don’t know what’s going on—if people don’t know the truth, how can you make an informed vote.”

D. Facebook admits suppressing the truth. This past summer, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerburg made a stunning revelation about Facebook being pressured at times by the Biden/Harris administration and that it had deliberately buried stories about the Biden family receiving bribes by “demoting it.” Demoting a story means making it and references to it all but impossible to find anywhere on Facebook. Zuckerburg’s words: “In 2021, senior officials from the Biden Administration, including the White House, repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain Covid-19 content. In a separate situation in the lead up to the 2020 election, when we saw a New York Post story reporting on corruption allegations involving then-Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden’s Family, we… demoted it…In retrospect we shouldn’t have demoted the story.”

E. The Son of Robert F Kennedy leaves the Democrat Party and endorses Trump. On August 24th in one of the most stunning political reversals in US history, the reigning patriarch of the bluest of all Democrat blueblood families, RFK Jr. endorsed Donald Trump. His words are a stunning confirmation that cultural Marxism has taken over the Democrat Party and will do anything to force its ideology on voters, in utter disregard of the principles of democracy. His words:

"Sixteen months ago, I launched my campaign to be president of the United States. I began this journey as a Democrat, the party of my father and uncles, the party which I pledged my allegiance to long before I was old enough to vote. Back then the Democrats were the champions of the Constitution, of civil rights. The Democrats stood against authoritarianism, against censorship and were the party of government transparency. Our party was the bulwark against big money interests and corporate power. As you know, I left that party in October because it had departed so dramatically from the core values that I grew up with. It had become the party of censorship, corruption, big tech, big pharma, and big money."

"I’m sorry to say that while democracy still survives at the grass roots, it has become little more than a slogan for the media, and the Democratic Party. In the name of saving democracy, the Democrat Party set itself to dismantling it. Lacking confidence that its candidate could win in a fair election at the voting booth, the Democrat National Committee waged continual legal warfare against both President Trump and myself. Each time our volunteers turned in those towering boxes of signatures needed to get on the ballot, the DNC dragged us into court, state after state, attempting to erase their work and subvert the will of the voters who had signed those petitions. It deployed DNC-aligned judges to throw me and other candidates off the ballot and to throw President Trump in jail."

"In a campaign of over a year, when at times my poll numbers were in the high twenties, the DNC-aligned mainstream media networks maintained a near perfect embargo on interviews with me. By comparison, during his 10-month presidential campaign in 1992, independent candidate Ross Perrot gave 34 interviews on mainstream networks. In contrast, in the 16 months since I declared, ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC CNN combined had 2 live interviews with me. In my heart I no longer believe that I have a realistic path to victory in the face of this relentless censorship and media control. The causes for throwing my support to President Trump are free speech, the war in Ukraine, and the war against children."

F. Sixty Minutes was caught red-handed “fixing” Kamala’s answers. In an interview with Bill Whitacker broadcast last week, Kamala Harris answered Whitaker’s question about Hamas in a very unpresidential, windy, uncertain manner. Her words were:   “Well, Bill, the work that we have done has resulted in a number of movements in that region by Israel that were very much prompted by, or a result of, many things, including our advocacy for what needs to happen in the region,” But in the broadcast that aired, Harris’ response was crisp and confident, having been edited to this. “The work that we do diplomatically with the leadership of Israel is an ongoing pursuit around making clear our principles,” This is just one more example of the dishonest mainstream media in action.

MEDIA & DEMOCRAT SUPPRESSION OF BORDER FACTS

In 2020, the Trump Administration achieved the lowest rate of illegal immigration in 45 years. But all Democrats want open borders. The first week in office the Biden/Harris administration made three intentional decisions to open the border to illegal immigrants. 1). They halted construction of the border wall. 2) They reinstated the disastrous policy of catch and release. 3) They pulled out of the incredibly successful Remain in Mexico policy. The truth is that the Democrats have deliberately caused the border crisis. The executive branch refuses to enforce immigration law. Here are some examples of the deceptions.

• In recent interviews Kamal Harris lied in blaming the border crisis on Congress for not passing a necessary law. Tim Walz also lied in saying more funding is needed. There is no new law or funding needed. The only issue is the refusal of the Biden/Harris administration to enforce current immigration law. Why is it that members of the mainstream media did not challenge Harris or Walz with the dishonesty of their answers, since the 11 million illegal immigrant explosion is caused by catch and release, which defies immigration law.
• The Republican majority of the House of Representatives voted to impeach Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for dereliction of duty in not enforcing immigration law. When the case went to the Democrat-controlled Senate to be tried, every Democrat voted in favor of a bogus procedural motion to dismiss the charges. They would not allow the Democrat non-enforcement of immigration law to even be discussed on the floor of the Senate lest voters know what is happening at the border.
• Here is a story from this week that has been all but ignored by mainstream media as are hundreds of vicious attacks committed by convicted felons released into the US by the Biden/Harris administration. A woman in her fifties returned to her Briarwood neighborhood of Dallas and had just pulled into her garage when four men approached her, forced her inside at gunpoint, tied her up, pistol-whipped her, threatened to cut off her fingers, ransacked her home, stole money and jewelry. Police matched a fingerprint to one of the suspects, Manuel Hernandez who named the others involved. All four are from Venezuela. Ice would only give the immigration history of Manuel Hernandez, who in March illegally entered the US from El Paso and has been arrested at least twice before and released. Just months after illegally coming into the US, he pled guilty to a DWI. Despite the conviction, he was released right back into the US. By the way, this Dallas woman was fortunate she wasn’t raped or murdered like 22-year-old Gorgia nursing student Laken Riley and so many others by convicted felons released into our country through the Democrat catch and release.
• The Biden/Harris administration has admitted that it illegally flew 320,000 illegal immigrants secretly into the US. This would be a major news headline if the mainstream media were not committed to suppressing what the Biden/Harris is doing to bring illegal immigrants into America. The Biden administration was forced to admit these facts because it was sued under the Freedom of Information Act by the Center for Immigration Studies. I response to that lawsuit, they released documents that showed that the Biden/Harris administration paid for paid for secret flights of 320,000 illegal immigrants and unloaded them at 43 different American airports. They refused to admit which ones because that would be “a security risk."

In closing, I want to say that like most Christian leaders, I hate the very idea of bringing partisan politics into a discussion about Christian discipleship. Trump and the rest of the Republican Party are nowhere close to perfect. And EVERY politician spins the truth. But I cannot flee from my responsibility to shed light on the evil being covered up by the corporate media and Democrat party, especially with regard to our southern border.

For Further Prayerful Thought:

1. What do you think is the biblical case for Christians to advance the kingdom of light by exposing destructive actions that those in the culture are attempting to hide?
2. What two or three facts seem like the strongest evidence of the corporate media’s suppression of the truth? Why do you think Christians allow the mainstream media to blind them so much to what is really happening in our culture?
3. What facts about illegal immigration and the open southern border stood out most to you?  In view of these facts, what wise question might you ask a believer who naively thinks Christians should support the Democrat’s open border catch and release defiance of immigration law?