Tucker Carlson recently interviewed Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, 42, who was re-elected earlier this year with over 83% of the vote. Interested in possible lessons for the U.S., Carlson pressed Bukele about his successful transformation of the Latin American country from a blood-soaked gangland into the second-safest country in the Western Hemisphere. While the two discussed possible replicable successes that the United States could benefit from as well as God's role in MS-13's defeat, the Salvadoran president also obliged Carlson in providing former President Donald Trump with some advice in light of the Republican's recent conviction before a Democratic judge in a Democratic enclave on charges brought by a Democratic prosecutor. Self-congratulatory losers "What advice would you give to another former democratically elected leader seeking office who is facing jail time?" asked Carlson. After a pregnant pause, Carlson added, "Anyone, just if there was such a person." "If there was a way to stop the candidacy, then he's probably in trouble," said Bukele. "But if there's no way to stop him from competing in the election, all the things that they do to him will just give him more votes." 'They're making a huge mistake.' "That seems to be happening," Carlson replied. "Either you stop the candidacy or you let him be," said Bukele. "But just, you know, hitting him with — you're making the greatest campaign ever." When pressed on whether he thinks Democrats are conscious that their efforts to imprison the presumptive Republican nominee ahead of the general election might backfire, Bukele indicated that some are likely aware, but others are ostensibly preoccupied chasing after the admiration of their peers and congratulating themselves. "They're making a huge mistake. Huge, huge mistake," added Bukele. The Salvadoran president's suggestion that Trump might be best served leaning into Democrats' attacks so long as the attacks do not preclude him from competing in the election was far from the only insight he shared with Carlson. To replicate a 'miracle' Early in the interview, Carlson asked, "If you can fix El Salvador, what are the lessons for the rest of us? What did you do first?" 'Once you achieve peace, you can struggle for all the other things.' "You cannot do anything if you do not have peace. Right. And when I say peace, I include wars, civil wars, invasion, crime," said the president. "Once you achieve peace, you can struggle for all the other things." Blaze News previously reported that there were 51 homicides per 100,000 in 2018, the year prior to Bukele's election. Under his leadership, the homicide rate fell to 7.8, such that El Salvador witnessed fewer homicides that year (495) than were reported in Democrat-run Chicago during the same period (695). Reuters indicated that crime dropped again last year by an estimated 70%, leaving the country with a murder rate of 2.4 per every 100,000. The former "murder capital of the world" claimed earlier this month that the rate in 2024 presently now sits at two homicides per every 100,000. While Canada long had the lowest murder rate in the Americas, its rate has alternatively climbed every year from 2018 to 2022, such that it is poised to lose the top spot to El Salvador if it has not already. To bring about the peace he referenced in his conversation with Carlson, Bukele's administration waged war on terroristic gangs, cracked down on some civil rights, and tossed 1% of the adult population in jail, citing proven and alleged gang affiliations. "I can tell you the official formula [for busting the gangs] and the real formula," Bukele told Carlson. "So the official formula is that we did a plan ... that was comprised of phases. So we rolled out the first phase and then the next one, then the next one. And then gangs started attacking back, so we had to roll out everything at once." Bukele noted that the accelerated crackdown prompted by the gangs' counteroffensive ultimately worked. "In a couple of weeks the country was transformed because the gangs were not yet arrested but they were on the run," said the president. "We basically pacified the country in a couple of weeks. To successfully execute each phase, Bukele indicated he doubled the size of the army and equipped it to effectively combat the gangs. While effective strategy and force of arms were apparently the official formula for success, Bukele indicated the unofficial formula was prayer. 'Victory was because we won the spiritual war.' "It's a miracle," said Bukele. "When gangs started attacking us back, basically, they killed 87 people in three days, which for a country of 6 million people is crazy." Bukele said that this bloodletting made clear that the defeat of 70,000 gangsters, clearly willing to inflict maximum damage on the country's 6 million citizens, was an "impossible task." The president told Carlson that at the time, he met with his security Cabinet and said, "We are looking into an impossible mission here, so we pray." Sure enough, everyone present — all apparently believers — apparently asked God for wisdom, for minimal civilian casualties, and for support in their battle against MS-13, which Bukele underscored is a "satanic" gang. "Victory was because we won the spiritual war," concluded Bukele. "Because [we] didn't have competition. I mean, they were satanic. I think that made it easier." — (@) Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Anti-white racism has infiltrated nearly every institution in America — and unfortunately, that includes the church. “I want to talk about a little more how this is manifesting itself in the church,” Allie Beth Stuckey says to author and senior fellow at the Claremont Institute Jeremy Carl, who wrote the book “The Unprotected Class: How Anti-White Racism Is Tearing America Apart.” “They perpetuate this narrative that yes, white people, you are collectively responsible for being the initiators of reconciliation because of what some black people at some point in history went through,” Stuckey continues, adding, “This has been 100% accepted, celebrated, glorified, even among conservative evangelicals.” Carl has noticed the anti-white narrative gaining power in various organizations led by Christians around the country. “I talk about Christianity Today, the Gospel Coalition, Acts 29 Network — and again, I’m not painting with a broad brush both from knowledge and also not wanting to falsely accuse everybody who is associated with that with engaging in this, but you saw these sorts of problems pop up in these very prominent evangelical spaces,” Carl says. One senior editor at the Gospel Coalition, Brett McCracken, called on “white Christian leaders to listen to and defer to non-white and nonwestern Christian leaders” in a post on X. “We see this kind of language over and over again,” Stuckey says. According to Carl, even the head of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary admitted to being a racist and declared he would be one until his “glorified body is resurrected.” “It’s such a virtue signal, because if you’re actually racist, at least in the popular understanding of that, well then you certainly shouldn’t be running the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary,” Carl says. Stuckey notes that to her knowledge, none of them have come forward to admit they were wrong. “I haven’t seen any apologies from these people saying, ‘Oh, I don’t think deriding white image bearers of God was the right thing,'” she says. “I think you’re probably going to be waiting a long time before you get that type of apology,” Carl laughs. Want more from Allie Beth Stuckey?To enjoy more of Allie’s upbeat and in-depth coverage of culture, news, and theology from a Christian, conservative perspective, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

The Georgia Court of Appeals has paused the trial court proceedings in Donald Trump's 2020 election case involving Fani Willis — likely delaying the trial until after the 2024 election. “It would be, I would think, best case scenario for this to be punted until after the election for Donald Trump,” Sara Gonzales says, but Glenn Beck’s chief researcher Jason Buttrill is “worried.” “That’s something he cannot do anything about, if they continue on with the trial after he becomes president, he’s not going to be able to pardon himself from that if he’s found guilty — which I have no faith in some of these courts and judges and some of these juries,” Buttrill says. Buttrill also notes that if he is found guilty in a case like that, his sentencing for his most recent conviction can get bumped up. “I don’t know, there’s just so much gray area and so many things that could happen and I’m not putting it past some of these people because they really want to put him in jail, bad,” he continues, adding, “I’m not seeing any of this news as wins, until it just goes away.” BlazeTV contributor Matthew Marsden is concerned as well. “I don’t know what it’s going to take for people to actually say, ‘Hang on a second, this is very, very, very, very important,’” Marsden says. “You get on social media, people go, 'Well, you know, I’m a conservative and I’ve got to work and I’ve got to put food on the table and I’ve got to look after my kids.’” “I get that, I get that. But they’re going to try and get your kids, and they’re going to try and take the food off your table,” he continues, adding, “The old days of thinking that we can just get by are gone. We’ve seen it with Trump. They’re never going to stop.” Want more from Sara Gonzales?To enjoy more of Sara's no-holds-barred take to news and culture, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

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