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William Wolfe Admits Christian Nationalists 'Are Going To Impose [Our Morality] Upon You'

Kyle Mantyla at People For The American Way's RWW:

When a group of religious-right activists and Christian nationalists were invited to the White House to pray over President Donald Trump at in the Oval Office last month, they also sat down for a meeting with faith adviser Paula White and members of the White House Faith Office. Among the topics discussed at the meeting, according to former Trump administration official and an ardent Christian nationalist William Wolfe, was conservative Christians' desire to see Trump carry out mass deportations.  Trump-loving right-wing pastor Jim Garlow was among those, along with Wolfe, who were invited to meet Trump and attend the meeting with Trump's faith advisers, but he does not seem to share Wolfe's desire to see mass deportations, at least if they involve Christians.  On Sunday's episode of his "World Prayer Network" podcast, Garlow brought on immigration attorney Esther Valdes Clayton to sound the alarm over the prospect that tens of thousands of Latino Christians could be forcibly deported from the United States because of the Trump administration's policies.  Valdes Clayton opened her remarks by working to reassure Garlow's conservative audience that these Latinos share their values. "I just want to reassure everybody ... that Latinos love God," she said. "We have the same God. We have a monotheistic religion. Our tradition, our values; 97% of Latinos go to church. We believe in a male and female. No transgender. Our language is gendered. Everything ends in an O and an A, meaning that everything is masculine and feminine, and we go to church regularly." "Right now, we're experiencing a number of executive orders that are affecting the Latino church primarily," Valdes Clayton continued. "Why? Because the bulk of a lot of the congregations are filled with people who enter here either unlawfully or legally and their permission to stay here is expired." Valdes Clayton warned that "approximately 10 million Christians may be subject to mass deportations," which she said will have "huge ramifications" for churches all over the country.  "Up to 32,000 [pastors] may be deported unless the Trump administration does something urgently," she added, explaining that these people came to the United States legally on religious worker visas but have been unable to apply for permanent residency because of backlogs in the immigration system.  As such, Valdes Clayton said, "their visa expires [and] they can no longer stay in the United States" because of Trump's executive orders. 

'I Don't Care How Much They Scream': William Wolfe Backs Trump's Violent Deportation Operations 

Radical Christian nationalist William Wolfe backs the Trump administration's brutal deportation operations: "I don't care how much they scream. I don't care how much they cry."

'I Don't Care How Much They Scream': William Wolfe Backs Trump's Violent Deportation Operations

1/23/2026

by Kyle Mantyla

William Wolfe is a former Trump administration official and radical Christian nationalist who has become increasingly fanatical in his support for the Trump administration's deportation policies.

Wolfe, who now runs the Center For Baptist Leadership, put his fanaticism on full display when he recently appeared on the "Give Me Liberty" program, hosted by Ryan Helfenbein of Liberty University's Standing For Freedom Center, to discuss the anti-ICE protests taking place in Minneapolis.

Wolfe praised the administration and was quick to remind everyone that mass deportations were a key plank in the GOP's 2024 platform and so they have no right to complain about the brutality of the operations.

"People are saying, 'I voted for Trump and I wanted illegals out, but I didn't vote for this,'" Wolfe declared. "Well, if you're a Republican, you voted for the biggest mass deportation in American history. You did vote for this and it's going to look like this and it's going to be ugly because if we win, we take this country back. And if we don't win on the ICE and the deportation, the left stays in power."

In the years before he was murdered, Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk had transitioned the group away from its libertarian leanings and toward a dominionist Christian nationalist ideology and agenda. It appears that the group’s current leadership is continuing that shift.

TPUSA Faith, the group’s religious organizing arm, is hosting a “pastor roundtable” featuring two Christian nationalists, Oklahoma state Sen. Dusty Deevers and author and former Trump administration official William Wolfe, according to a flyer Deevers posted on his X account Wednesday. Both men have connections to extreme Christian nationalist Doug Wilson, who has been in the news recently, both for his claim that women should not have the right to vote and for his efforts to strengthen his influence within the Trump administration.

Anna Merlan, Julianne McShane, and Kiera Butler at Mother Jones:

Wednesday’s fatal shooting of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk was greeted with widespread grief, horror, and shock by many MAGA and right-wing figures, some of whom counted Kirk as a friend or cited him as an inspiration for their own work. But while many simply expressed their grief for Kirk and his family, and politicians on both sides of the aisle condemned the killing, some public figures used the moment to make incendiary claims.  On Wednesday evening, FBI Director Kash Patel announced on X that “[t]he subject for the horrific shooting today that took the life of Charlie Kirk is now in custody.” (By that point, far-fetched conspiracy theories about Kirk’s death were already emerging, including claims that Kirk was assassinated by the Israeli government.) But Patel subsequently posted that the person in custody had “been released after an interrogation by law enforcement.” This did not stop some figures from stoking outrage, particularly against “the left,” whom—despite lacking any evidence as to the shooter’s identity and motive—they blamed for the killing. Former DOGE head and Tesla CEO Elon Musk posted to his 225 million followers, “The Left is the party of murder.”

Conservative activist and Trump confidant Laura Loomer sent a barrage of posts to her 1.7 million followers. In one, she called for the Trump administration to “shut down, defund, & prosecute every single Leftist organization,” adding, “The Left is a national security threat.” After Kirk’s death was confirmed, she wrote: “They sent a trained sniper to assassinate Charlie Kirk while he was sitting next to a table of hats that said 47.” It is unclear which “they” she was referring to.  “More people will be murdered if the Left isn’t crushed with the power of the state,” Loomer added. Former White House staffer and current podcast host Katie Miller, wife of White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, wrote on X that liberals “have blood on your hands.” And Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) went so far as to blame the killing on the Democrats.

Sean Davis, the CEO and co-founder of the Federalist, an influential conservative publication, posted on X: “I hope that Trump also orders the extermination of the entire anarcho-terrorist network that has been terrorizing Christians in this nation unabated for more than a decade.” In a separate post, Davis wrote, “When Democrats lose elections they couldn’t steal, they murder the people they were unable to defeat.” 

[...] Others blamed Kirk’s killing on an unnamed group of opponents. On Fox News, host Jesse Watters claimed: “Whether we want to accept it or not, they are at war with us. And what are we going to do about it? How much political violence are we going to tolerate?” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) wrote, “They just shot Charlie Kirk.” (It was unclear whom Watters and Greene were referring to.)  [...]

Andrew Tate, the British-American masculinity influencer turned far-right culture warrior, kept his message simple: “Civil war,” he wrote. Anti-abortion activist and president of Students for Life Kristan Hawkins also invoked civil war and seemed to imply that Kirk’s killing was a result of his opposition to abortion. “We all know the work we do to protect Life comes at a cost,” Hawkins said. In another X post, she wrote: “This is a new civil war. One that we must fight with love to restore a Culture of Life.” Chaya Raichik, the creator of the far-right Libs of TikTok Twitter account, quickly began sharing posts that were meant to show left-wing and progressive people, including many who aren’t public figures, celebrating Kirk’s killing. In her own post on X, she wrote: “THIS IS WAR.” 

The right-wing media pundit class is reacting to the killing of far-right TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk as you would expect: retribution and vengeance against the left, even though both the identity and the motive of the shooter hasn’t been released.

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