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Rick Green: President Trump lashed out at supporters questioning handling of Epstein files

>> Rick Green: Welcome to At the Core with Walker Waldman and Rick Green. I'm Rick Green, America's Constitution coach. Thanks for joining me on this Thursday as we, sort of, kind of try to make sense of the. I gotta say, man, just the lashing out by President Trump, At his supporters for questioning the handling of the Epstein files. I don't have a silver bullet answer for you folks. You know, I touched on this a little bit Tuesday. I'm going to, I'm just going to touch on it again today. I don't want to be absorbed with this. I think that's kind of part of the, Well, in fact, I think I said that Tuesday that, you know, we're distracted by this. Instead of prosecuting Anthony Fauci and some of these other people that should be prosecuted, it's become too much of a focus for us. So definitely going to comment on it. We'll talk about it. Love to take your phone calls on it, but, certainly want to cover a lot of other subjects as well.

The Senate has defunded NPR and PBS, which raises questions about constitutional funding

super excited to see NPR and PBS getting defunded. I have been screaming for this. I'm not exaggerating here when I say for two decades, in fact, 15 years ago, when I first recorded our constitutional live course, that was one of the Main things I pointed out in Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution, we are, absolutely distorting that clause. When we fund things like Big Bird, when we fund, NPR or any of this domestic, media that is a state controlled media, or when we fund science, scientific research, the only excuse you can have for scientific research being funded by the federal government, not state. This doesn't address state. This is what's constitutional under our federal Constitution. the only scientific research I think that you can justify constitutionally is if it's for the military. So if you're, if you're spending dollars on scientific research that could potentially fit under one of the military clauses of Article 1, Section 8, then that's justified. And I understand that. But you know, if you go to, let me just read the sentence that is what I'm referring to here. So if we, if we open up our handy dandy Biblical Citizenship in Modern America workbook and we go back here to the, copy of the Constitution, which is our Constitution made easy, which has the original language of the Constitution on one side of the page and then easy to Understand with all 27amendments Incorporated language on the right. All right, so the sentence that refers to this, where we get into why the Senate did the right thing in defunding NPR and pbs, when it says, let's see. Okay, this is article one, section eight, and I believe it's paragraph five. Maybe it's six. Let's see. Here we go. All right. To promote the progress of science and useful arts, comma, very, important there. By securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries. Let's just take this opportunity. Since the Senate has taken action, this makes this a hot topic of the day. Gives us the opportunity to address this. To promote the progress of science and useful arts, comma, now if that had a period right there, if it just said under Article 1, Section 8, to establish post offices and post roads to promote the progress of science and useful arts, period. To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court, to define and punish piracies and felonies. Okay, if it read like that, then you could absolutely say, okay, well, the Constitution says that Congress can promote the progress of. Promote, the progress of science and useful arts. Doesn't say how. Doesn't say how much money or how. How far and wide they can go. I mean, if you're going to promote useful arts, then, yeah, we need to not only promote, but somebody could make the argument that that means we also need to fund the useful arts. So that means we need to pay for all of this satanic, evil, awful art that we've actually been paying for. and we need to have, not only art that is not even really art, certainly not what I would argue is useful art as the term is used here in the Constitution. but also music and, you know, television shows and Sesame street and Big Bird and all of these things. You know, Constitution says we can do that, but that's not what the Constitution says. What does the Constitution say and what did they intend? The Constitution says, I'm going to read it again. To promote the progress of science and useful arts, comma, very important, comma. And then it describes for us how the federal government is allowed to promote the progress of science and useful arts. And here it is. By securing for Limited Times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries. What are we talking about here? Patents, copyrights, trademarks, intellectual property. Protecting your property, not funding your property, not, becoming your partner in creating that property. Not paying for your show, not. Not paying for your scientific research, not, paying for your, art. Art. Art. What you might call art. Definitely in the eyes of the beholder these days. not funding any of it. Simply doing the job of government all the way back to the Declaration of Independence. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Well, if your pursuit of happiness is science and the useful arts, if your pursuit of happiness is writing songs or performing songs or painting or sculptures or whatever, if that's your pursuit of happiness, great God bless you. We need you. And we need Christians in that arena, for sure. Okay, so then how do we promote your use of that art? How do we do the right constitutional thing? Here we look At the Declaration. It says, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the government. So what's the purpose of government to secure these rights, to protect these rights? So when the founding fathers say to promote the progress of science and useful arts by securing, they're saying the way that you will get more scientific research, the way that you will get useful arts is if you protect the people that create those things. If you protect their ownership of it, you keep people from stealing it, you keep people from knocking it off. You actually have intellectual property laws that say for a limited time notice, it doesn't say forever, which is why you have the limitations on, trademarks and patents. So it's a time for a Time you get your exclusive ownership of that creation so that you can profit from it, so that you can actually make money on it and then turn around and do more of it. That's what promotes the progress of science and use watch. If you invent something and you just give it away to the marketplace and don't make any money on it. Well, that's nice. That's great.

Some people do that sometimes. And that's why the constitution very clearly says you protect inventor or the artist

Some people do that sometimes. That's wonderful. But it's not going to help you do more of that if you can't pay the bills, if you can't pay the light bill, if you can't feed your family, if you can't get, you know, from one place to another. And so if we protect your invention so that you can make money off of it, if we protect your song so that you can sell it and make money on it, if we protect your painting or whatever it might be and you make money on it, you'll probably turn around and do more of that. And here's the best part. If we're not funding it, if we're not deciding through government bureaucrats what art is useful and what art isn't, if we're not deciding which scientific research should be done and studied and funding, if government's not deciding that and the market decides it, then you actually. The money will flow to the science and to the arts that are actually useful, and the money will flow away from, stop going to or never go to art that isn't useful, that isn't. That nobody wants to look At or listen to or enjoy. The money doesn't go there. Who pays for a song that nobody wants to hear? Who pays for these, absurd works of art that you see in so many government buildings now and on government property? And we all have to go look At it because some government bureaucrat used our money to pay for some goofball artist that created something that is a blob of material that's not even art. And the market didn't decide that that was a, you know, multimillion dollar sculpture that needed to be supported. No, some friend in government scratched the back of their friend. And that's why you don't allow government to fund these things. And that's why the constitution very clearly says you protect the inventor or the artist, limited time, limited to exclusively own that thing. And if it's worthy, the market will say so, and people will pay for it. And then that person will make more of it. They will. They will produce more. And that's how you promote the progress of science. And useful arts, not by funding Big Bird or npr. And these entities that have actually become enemies of the state, enemies of our country, enemies of our value system, we are funding through our taxpayer dollars, our money. That money that's taken out of your check every week. that FICA dude that you're always wondering, how'd this guy get such a big chunk of my check? You know, you look At that, you remember when you're 16, 17, 18 years old, first time you get that first paycheck from working At the fast food store, in my case, the lumber yard or the movie theater or wherever it was. You get that check and you see how many hours you work, you see how much you were supposed to be paid. And then some dude named FICA has taken a huge chunk of your check. Did anybody else wonder who this FICA guy was? Well, yeah, that's the government taking your money to go give it to somebody else. And if it was for roads and, you know, legit government functions, border patrol to protect the border, all of those things, we can all kind of go, okay, I don't like having fica, take my money. But, you know, if it's doing these things that need to be done by government, I can live with that. I can support that, actually. But now your money has been used to pay for things like, oh, I don't know, Jesus on the cross, upside down, immersed in urine. Yeah, yeah, I'm talking disgusting, satanic, anti God art, research, all kinds of things that undermine the value system of our country. NPR reports on and pushes narratives and agendas that are actually tearing down the very fabric of this Constitution we just read from, and the principles of the Declaration of Independence. These shows, Big Bird and the rest, Sesame street and all the ones that we grew up on and were great for learning how to spell words and be entertained by these, these, these puppets. wonderful. When we were kids. What do they do now? They lie to children about their sexuality, their gender, about God, about country, about racism, about all of these things. It's, a poison. And it's paid for by you. It's paid for by me, and we're sick of it. And so thank you, Lord, for a president, a vice president, and just enough members of Congress barely to defund this stuff. We've been yelling from the rooftops everywhere we could all over this country in our Constitution classes. No kidding. For two decades. Well, I guess a decade and a half with the Constitution classes for three. For three decades. Just in terms of our ministry and our our speaking engagements and that sort of thing, that this should happen, and praise the Lord, it's happening. We're actually getting this kind of a victory. I mean, this. I will be, I will be brutally honest with you. My cynicism from being in this arena for 30 years. Unfortunately, too often I've watched too many people get elected saying they would do these kind of things and never doing it, saying they would get rid of the Department of Education and never doing it, promising to stop the waste and the unconstitutional spending, promising to defund the things like usaid, where they're taking billions and billions of dollars in funding evil all over the planet, taking our money and doing those things with it. I just kind of. I'm not saying I got to the point that I thought it would never happen and it never diminished my passion or our willingness to still speak truth and fight for truth. I just had gotten to this place where I thought, it's probably not going to happen in my lifetime. We're going to have to raise up an entire generation that understands these things before we'll be able to get these victories. Well, I mean, I guess in 30 years, we have in many ways raised up a generation. We do have, you know, thousands and thousands of our graduates from our programs that have, that have gone into the arena and, serving in Congress and legislatures and that kind of thing. So maybe that is what happened. But it's here, folks. The victories are right here happening right now in front of us. We are seeing things happening At the federal level of government that I did not think would happen in my lifetime. And this defunding of NPR and pbs, it may sound small to you. I mean, the numbers are small compared to the overall budget of the federal government and all these things, but symbolically huge. Absolutely huge. All right, quick break. Phone calls. When we come back. 8885-898840-88858-8840. And a few more headlines before we get to those phone calls, but, go ahead and call in and we'll get you in the queue. You're listening to At the Core with Walker Wildmon and Rick Green.

American Family Association vice president Walker Wildmon heads to Greece next March

>> Walker Wildmon: Hello, everybody. I'm Walker Wildmon, vice president here At American Family Association. Well, my brother Wesley and I were following in the footsteps of my dad, our dad, and my grandfather, Don Wildmon, by leading tours to places of the Bible. And so this next March, we're going to be going to Greece and following the footsteps of Paul. So we're so very excited about this trip, and we'll hope you'll join us. Here's a couple of the places that we're going to visit. We're going to visit Philippi, Thessalonica, Corinth, and all the various Greek cities that you read about in the Book of Acts in Paul's Epistles. And so you can find the dates, locations, pricing and much more [email protected] you can also find out more about my dad's trip and my mom over, to Israel. They're going to be in Israel in March as well. These trips are back to back and you can do both. If you would like all the information about footsteps of Paul, Greece, Israel, all of these trips in March of 2026, just visit wildmangroup.com.

>> Jeff Chamblee: This is @ the Core on American Family Radio with your host, Rick Greene.

Senate passed bill to defund NPR and pbs. org; now it's up to House

>> Rick Green: Welcome back to the Core with Walker Wildmon and Rick Green and Rick Greene, America's Constitution coach, celebrating the victory out of the Senate, defunding NPR and pbs. And of course it's got to go to the House now and be approved. And I think the deadlines tomorrow. If I'm reading these headlines right, somebody call in and correct me on that if I'm, if I'm wrong. But, so it's not a victory yet, hasn't actually happened, but it's a huge victory just to get it out of the Senate. I mean, that's, that's, again, I'm pinching myself. I mean, even if somehow, some way this ends up not making it all the way through, just the fact that they took this step and that we're having the debate is way, way better than it's been my entire life. It's just been assumed that, oh, no, we gotta fund these things or, oh, the votes aren't there. There's too many constituencies that'll, that'll be upset and wah, wah, wah, all the way. You know, I'm just so tired of all that, this. So this is a huge victory just to get it through the Senate. Even if it doesn't ultimately go through now. I hope it does. This is the, this is that whole rescission process that, you know, thank you, Russ Vaught and, and, and the guys that, that did the homework, the hard work to figure out that this can even be done. So this is basically the, the congressional process for being able to, it's almost like a line item veto, but reversed. In other words, it's a way to, you know, pick some things out of these massive bills and, and rescind Them and take away the spending that had been approved a year ago but never actually got spent. Or, you know, there's all kinds of ways they monkey with the numbers and it's all these accounting things and. And usually it's used to spend more money and get around, you know, the public even knowing what's happening. In this case, they're actually using these accounting techniques to save money and to get rid of some of the bad stuff. And so, anyway, I'm just thrilled that they're being that creative. this is. This is one of those great examples where, you know, for decades and decades, the left has outmaneuvered us and been more cunning than us. I can't remember the scripture that talks about that, how the, you know, basically Satan's minions are way more cunning than, Christians and God's people. And it's foolish. We should be. We should. We've got the gift of God's creativity and all of that. We should be the ones that are cunning and know how to work the process and find creative ways to win. It's part of what we teach At Patriot Academy is it's not enough to just be right on the principles. You got to know the process. You got to learn the rules so well that. That if you. If you don't have the votes, that you know the rules well enough that you can use a point of order to kill a bad bill. You know, maybe the momentum is unfortunately going the wrong way on something and a bad bill is going to get passed in your legislature, but you find some rule that was violated and you're able to bring a point of order and kill it. God bless you. Use the rules. Use the cunning skills of a warrior to win the battle. And. And, that's what this whole rescission thing reminds me of. At any rate, this is. This, is a big, big deal. This is a huge. Not just symbolic. It actually does take billions of dollars off the table for the evil Marxist propagandist that have been controlling the narrative for way too many in this country. It's, let's see the total here. If I'm reading this right, we're talking, $8 billion is being cut from the USAID, that you heard a lot about that, you know, paying for crazy stuff around the world. A billion dollars from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. And then, And that's the. That's where the NPR and PBS, money is spent. I don't know what the total is that they normally get. So it'd be interesting to see how much of their overall budget that is now granted folks, listen, this is a small amount of money compared to the 2 trillion in cuts that that Elon wanted to see with the Doge cuts that we all would like to see. So small amount of money. But, but it matters. It absolutely matters. Now let me just point out a couple things with why NPR is so bad. Okay, Let me just give you a couple of examples of why they should be defunded. Not only the constitutional argument. So I've already made the constitutional argument for why there's no reason we should be paying for things like that. Not no constitutional reason to be paying for things like that, but then just from a practical perspective and from a, you know, not having the nations values undermined and having our taxpayer money go to lies, going to pay for, in an Orwellian fashion, pay for the Ministry of Truth to lie to people. That's essentially what's happening. And if you hadn't read, you know, George Orwell in 1984 and all that, go read it and then you'll know what I mean by Ministry of Truth. Not truthful. The Ministry of Truth.

Rick Green: NPR cuts 1.1 billion dollars from its budget

All right, so the NPR just in the last. This is just recent lies and that they have said and the liberal bent that has, that has come through. let's see, they had one story where they were basically saying, I mean essentially saying that there's no advantage, there's no evidence that there is an advantage to men in women's sport. Really. There's no evidence that men have an advantage when they compete in, in women's sports. Okay. That's the type of things that we were getting from npr. I was trying to find, I had a couple of other examples and now. Oh, here we go. Yeah. so let's see, they've, they've said over the years is not quite as recent, but NPR has reported that country music is racist and that birds are racist. they've told Americans to stop eating juicy cheeseburgers and they've got all these far left anchors, that deliver the news. So they make it sound like they're essentially the government sanctioned, you know, truth monitors. And so anything from us is unbiased. We don't have a profit motive. You know, they act like that's better to not have a profit motive. Actually a profit motive makes you be honest because you're gonna lose your credibility if you lie to the American people. People stop watching you. Well, At NPR doesn't matter. They can lie all they want, and it doesn't affect their pocketbook, but because we're gonna pay for them through our tax dollars, no matter how few people listen to them anymore or how much of their credibility gets lost. Hey, Rick, if I may, I got some numbers for you here. Yeah, man, go ahead. 1, uh,.1 billion. It's part of the clawback of what, 9.4, I guess it was. And the 1.1 funds the corporation for Public Broadcasting, which controls the budgets for both NPR and pbs. Oh, man. If we, if it gets rid of them completely, I am going. I may just go dancing the street. Okay, not like David, I didn't. I didn't mean like that. But I may go dance in the street and, and even try to do a cartwheel. And At my age, that's. That's dangerous territory to even try to do that. This is good stuff, folks. You should be excited about this kind of victory. Now, let's, let's, let's, let's flip the coin a little bit here. Do a little bit of the bad and the ugly. I like, you know, good, bad and the ugly. So this is good. Celebrate this. And this is a nice cut and a good symbolic gesture here.

President Trump has been dismissive of questions about the Epstein files

I realize that a lot of you out there listening right now are completely absorbed with the Epstein thing. We're all kind of taken aback by President Trump's statements that have been, let's just say, curt, caustic, insulting to people that are even raising questions about the Epstein files. Now, this is the same guy that told us before that it need to be revealed, promised to reveal, said it's interesting what's in there. This is the same guy that actually helped to prosecute. Not actually prosecute, not as a prosecutor, but, helped, go against Epstein in the Florida case, all of those things. And yet now, all of a sudden, he doesn't want anything revealed. He's saying that we're wrong for asking that it be revealed. And it appears that he's turning on his own supporters because of the demand that this promise be followed through on. Now, there's a lot of pontificating out there as to why there. There are a lot of smart people that, have more inside baseball than me and have more contacts inside the administration or inside the FBI, DOJ or whatever that are throwing out a lot of theories as to why the President would do a 180 like this and why he would be so adamant about it, knowing that a big chunk of the MAGA movement sees this situation as symbolic, appropriately Symbolic of the deep state of the corruption of both parties, of the, power, being used to do evil things. And that justice in this case would, would At least symbolically say that we're restoring justice in the country. That, that we're, that we're, you know, no one is above the law. That, that, that no matter how much money and power Epstein had or the people on his list, that At the end of the day, you get prosecuted in America if you do bad things to kids, that we're not going to give you a walk, because some of our friends or supporters or donors happen to be on the list. That if, even if you have done things that helped me in the past, that if you do something that evil, I am not going to stand by you and cover it up or, you know, in any way, facilitate your evil. It should be that no matter how much you might have done good things or appeared to be good things, or maybe you were just buying favorite, if you turn around and do bad things to kids, that At that point, that's a line that in America, we don't accept. That when you cross that line, that is something we will not accept, and you will pay the price for it. And that's just how everybody that I've talked to feels about the whole Epstein situation. We're talking about doing evil things to children. And I don't think there's any way that, that this is going to be let go or that we're going to forget about it. Now, I have not changed my position from last week when all this first started becoming an issue, when I said this is not as important as Anthony Foushee being prosecuted. I think I said that Tuesday, actually. But this is not as important as Anthony Fauci being prosecuted. This does not, negate or wipe away all of the victories of the last 6m months. And that if someone is saying, I'm no longer going to support President Trump because of this, I believe they are being, emotionally, politically and spiritually immature. I'm sorry if that's an insult to you, but, but you have to take everything in its totality. You have to look At the whole big picture and say, okay, President Trump, now this, obviously this, this position that I'm stating right now would change if it turns out there's evidence that President Trump himself was part of the perpetrating of evil on these kids. I don't think there's any chance of that. If it is, it'll come out. I really believe it will come out. I don't think. I just, I don't think anybody watching this, listening to this, believes that that's the case. Did he, you know, obviously cavort with people like Epstein and the party scene in New York and, you know, 40 years ago? you know, obviously participate in a lot of, immoral things? Yes, but with kids, No, I don't see it. There's. And again, you're going to have really good evidence if that's the case. But that's what they're trying to project. And I think that's probably, At the end of the day, what the real problem here is. If you look At the things that he has said and what other people are saying now, the most, the most likely explanation is that the reason the Democrats didn't release the Epstein files is because they were going to wait and plant stuff into the Epstein files to make it look like Donald Trump was more involved with Epstein than he was. We all know that he. There's a video of him At parties with Epstein. There's, you know, we know all that. but again, not this stuff with kids, never At the Epstein island and that kind of stuff that happened there. and so anyway, I think what they've tried to do is take, take this, issue and these crimes that took place with Epstein and because Trump and many, many other people At high levels of political and financial power were, you know, in that circle in New York and Florida and all around with Epstein. And some of them, I'm sure, did participate in the worst of this stuff, because of, there were these other people that were in the periphery of it, but not in the evil stuff. They're trying to conflate all that. They're trying to. Because we don't, you know, the American people are not going to pay attention to the details, At least not for long, and then they'll forget and they'll just think, oh, everybody's guilty of all the same things. And so I think that has to be what happened here, is that Trump is probably in the files. But what does that mean? Is he in the files because he committed crimes against children? I doubt it. Seriously. I. In fact, I think that's virtually impossible. Well, it's possible anyway. Very, very, very unlikely. But just the hint of it is enough to make him probably say. And people are probably saying to him, you know, it's going to look bad. And they've thrown your name all over these files in order to make it look like you were more involved than you were with Epstein. And and so they're try, you know, for whatever reason, making the strategic decision to just not publish it. And maybe there's false stuff in there. I mean, that's why he's saying these are the same people that created the Russia files and the Russia hoax and all this other stuff. So, I. That's the only explanation I can think of. And so they tainted the files. They've tried to put stuff in there about Trump, and. And now it's made him not want to release them or his people not want to release them. And I just got to say, man, I would rather see them go ahead and say, here's everything, and there is no way for us to know what's true in here and what's not with all these other people. But as for me, here's what's true and here's what's not, and then have Trump make his case for that. It's the only way I could see this happening. Now, the bad part about that is that there's a lot of people that are going to be caught up in that and be guilty by association once those files are released, because there is a duty here on the part of law enforcement and the government to, you know, protect people's reputation where, where somebody made a false accusation, about them. And so that's probably part of what's probably being balanced, not just for Trump, but for other people, too. So it is just a massive mess. And here's why the left wins on this thing, because I'm sitting here talking about it. That's why they win, because we're all talking about it, and, and, and they've managed to take the evil that these people did and, and, and now somehow turn that against Trump and the machine that was winning all of these victories, meaning the, the MAGA movement, we were making so much progress and continue to every day, just like the victory in the Senate that we just talked about. And they're trying to derail all of that. They're just trying to get us off our game. This has been the most successful six months in politics that the Constitution and the conservative movement has had in my lifetime and maybe of the last century, and they want to derail it, and right now, they're succeeding. So when we come back from the break, let's talk about how we could possibly get things back on track. How do we keep them from being victorious in the derailing of the movement? And what can you and I do about it? What do we do with this? Regardless of what President Trump does with It. Regardless of what everybody else does. What. What can you and I. What is our job and our duty when something like this happens? What's our responsibility?

Rick Green: America's constitution coach speaks out on anti-gay bias

Not just to turn a blind eye, but also not to be fooled into being completely taken off our game. And what we're supposed to be focused on. That'll be our topic in the final segment today. Stay with us. I'm Rick Green, America's constitution coach. The phone number is 8885-8988-4088-8589-8840. You are listening.

>> Jeff Chamblee: This is At the Core on American Family Radio with your host, Rick Green.

Rick Green discusses the Epstein files controversy

>> Rick Green: Welcome back to At the core with Walker Waldman and Rick Green. I'm At Greene, America's constitution coach. All right, we said we were going to talk about what should we do, what should our response be? And I'm going to do my best not to. I said I wasn't going to dwell on this. When we get to a lot of other topics, I've spent more time than I really wanted to, but I think we do have to try to. We have to try to get this thing into some sort of an understanding of what do we do with it. Okay, so we got all this stuff bouncing around there. You know, we know what we know about Epstein. There's questions about whether or not he committed suicide. There's questions about, you know, who were the. Where is the list? Where is the client list? when we say Epstein files, what are we talking about? I don't even know how broad that goes. You know, what's important to me is the client list. Who actually went to the island and did evil things to kids. That. That's what matters. What they're trying to do is muddy it with the Epstein files. Now I'm going to guess is going to become. Anyone ever seen with it, Jeffrey Epstein anywhere At any time? Now that I think is. Is, again, immature. I think that's. That's foolish. That's. You're. You're literally going to cause a lot of people to be guilty of things they did not do and, just again, guilt by association, guilty of bad judgment for hanging out with him At a party or, you know, whatever. Absolutely. But did they actually take an evil step? Did they actually do something evil? Did they know about his evil when they were doing that? That's what matters. Those are the questions that should be asked. So all, that. That's the. The issue in terms of the Epstein files. Who did evil things to children? We want justice against those people. And for those victims. That, that's what, what I want. That's what everybody that I have talked to and listened to wants. Now, how do we get there? So what can you, what do we do? What do we as individuals do with all of this information? Well, number one, we don't go off, you know, emotionally, irrationally and knee jerk reaction to this. We don't walk away from quote, unquote politics or say, oh, see, everybody's correct. It's just, oh, the whole system is broken. There's no, we don't do the children of Israel, you know, 10 spies. Oh, the promised land is just too hard. There's too many giants, there's too many fortified cities. We can't win. We don't do that. So let me start with what we don't do. If you have noticed the victories of the last six months and frankly the victories of the last, you know, few years At the judicial level, because of what Donald Trump did in his first term with his appointments to the Supreme Court, if you have noticed all of these victories, then you cannot rightfully throw the baby out with a bathwater. You cannot say, I no longer support President Trump in any way, shape or form because of this issue over here or his handling of this issue, the Epstein files. I think that is foolishly immature to do that. You can, and I think what we should do is continue to question this particular issue, continue to demand justice. Now, what I think we also have to do, not only do you not walk away from the movement or the person that you supported, you have to extend some level of trust and grace. Grace. In terms of the fumbling of how this was announced, handled, released, all that, I totally agree. This has been a dismal, you know, failure in terms of not just pr, but just how, what to do with the information when you, when you have it. No doubt. Okay, that's, that's fine. Have some, we have to have some grace on that and say, huge fumble, guys, major turnover, but we're going to get the ball back and we have a chance to go on offense again. And so we recognize that and we don't walk away. And we have some faith and trust of the guy in the room or the team in the room. And so like I said Tuesday and last week, I still have enough trust because they've earned it for what they've done so far in the six months. Trust that the President will get to the bottom of this, despite his statements telling everybody to ignore it. I actually have the feeling he's doing the whole, you know, mirror with the cat thing, where he's shining the light off the mirror and distracting the cat so that he can get some other things done. I'm hoping that's what's happening here. I'm hoping that he is, he is once again playing 4D chess while we're, you know, playing checkers and that he's saying these things to start to define the narrative of what the overall Epstein files look like. Because there probably are a lot of false things in there and there are some hoaxes in there, and that's what he's preparing people for. I think that might be what happening. What's happening. And so I am going to trust him a little bit longer. I am going to trust Cash Patel and Dan Bongino and even Pam Bondi, because I don't think six months, barely six months At this point, really five months from when they actually got into, into their positions is enough. I don't think that's long enough for us to pass judgment completely. I. Yeah, we can absolutely respond to the statements, respond to the, you know, handling in the last couple of weeks, but we don't, you know, take our ball and go home and say we're not playing anymore. That's just foolishly immature. Okay, so what can we do? Number one, we don't run away. We don't, we don't quit. Number two, obviously, we pray for these people. We pray for discernment and wisdom. We pray that the plans of the enemy be thwarted. We pray that the gallows that, that, that have been built for Donald Trump will be used to get rid of the actual enemy out there. And I'm speaking metaphorically here, for all of you At right wing watch that monitor, everything I ever say, but metaphorically, you, you need a Hayman and Mordecai situation here where whatever, whatever, plot and twist has been planted here and scheme has been devised to get us completely off our game and to potentially trap President Trump, that whoever's doing that and whatever design they've created for that, that it is completely turned on their head, pray for that. Pray for complete and total reversal and actual justice and mercy, which is what we're supposed to do, according to Micah, right? We're supposed to be doing justice and having mercy. And so we pray for that. We pray for discernment. We pray for the victims. We pray for justice for the victims. We pray that the perpetrators that actually did evil things to children, that they are brought to justice in this situation, and then we continue to stay in the arena.

Let's not let Epstein Fails become the only issue we care about

We continue to stay in the fight, and we don't let this become a myopic. This is the only issue I care about. But we take this issue, we make our statements about it, we frame it, we define it, we figure out what it really is and what the outcome is that we'd like to see. And. And what are the things we can do to help get there. And then, you know, not that we throw it away, not that we just file it and forget about it, but we kind of set it. We got to set it aside a little bit and go, okay, there's all these other issues. There's all these other battles that we're in the middle of. We're literally redefining education in America that's going to have an effect for three generations. We're literally restoring the Ten Commandments and the Bible and the basis of Western civilization to our classrooms and to our communities. We're remaking, we're rebuilding. We're restoring the constitutional republic itself. So there is so much At stake right now. This is not a time to walk away over this one issue. So let's. Let's define it. Let's. Let's figure out what victory is. Let's. Let's fight for that, and then let's walk and chew gum At the same time. Let's have it on the table, not get rid of it completely, but then keep fighting these other battles. So what can you do? Well, you cannot release the Epstein files, can you? I can't. You can't. What can you do? You. You can't go prosecute the people that did evil things. Neither can I. What can you do? You. You can't. You can't, You can't even review those files unless they're. Until they're really completely released. So what can you do again, Let your voice be heard, but then shift your focus to something you can actually make a difference on. What can you do right there in your community that really matters? I'll tell you. Number one. You can host a Rebuilding Liberty course in your home or At your church. Get people together. If you want to talk about the Epstein Falls, after you watch the class videos and get into something, fine. Just don't let it consume you. Don't let it be the only issue that you focus on. But get people together and have civil discourse. Don't retreat. Advance. Advance truth. Get in the fight even more. Let this motivate you to say, okay, yeah, this. This clearly shows that there's corruption At the highest levels in both parties. And everybody's trying to hide this stuff because, you know, everybody, a Democrat, Republican, all the part, there's a lot of people that are going to be found guilty of these things. And so they're all trying to hide. Okay, yes. Then what can we do At the local level? Rebuild. Your place At the wall rebuild. In fact, this isn't that different from Nehemiah. I mean, think about what Nehemiah said when they started lying about him. He said, you're making this stuff up in your head. He called him out on it. And he didn't stop rebuilding. He kept the work going. And that's what we've got to do as individuals is say we're not going to be so consumed with this thing and we're not going to let it affect us to the point that we check out of the process. Instead, I'm going to go do something right now locally to help rebuild Liberty. I'm going to host a Rebuilding Liberty course. I'm going to go get the Ten Commandments put on the wall At my local county courthouse or in my local school district. I'm going to get the national motto In God We Trust with a really cool artistic display. Useful arts. Remember how we started the program? Today there's a useful art for you all. you artists out there design a really cool In God We Trust logo of the national motto for your local school board, city council, county commissioners, all of them. And, and take it and get it, get it hung At the dais so that every time they meet, they remember that it's in God We Trust, not in them and not in government. Every time somebody goes and testifies At that whatever entity, government entity, they, they are looking At that In God We Trust logo that you designed and got hung up. And they're thinking, yeah, you know, that's right. In God We Trust. I don't. My whole world does not revolve around whether this resolution passes or whatever it is that they're debating. Those are things you can do right now locally. Go find some kid that you can mentor. Find some young person that you can send to a Patriot Academy leadership Congress. I've got, I've got a big one happening in two weeks right here At the Patriot Academy campus. We're going to have, you know, 150 young people here doing our legislative simulation. It's going to be amazing. And a couple of weeks after that, we're going to be in Indiana and I've got slots available right now for a three day Leadership Congress event. At the Indianapolis, At the Indiana State Capitol in Indianapolis. Go get somebody and send them to that program. You really want to make a difference. You find a 16 to 25 year old that you can sponsor. I think tuition is like 400 bucks. I don't remember 4, 300, 500 somewhere around there. Patriotacademy.com to find out more. That would be a tangible step you can take that will pay off for generations. You'll be investing in that young person to help them become a leader. Patriotacademy.com get them there.

Rick Green: We need to be more strategic in how we influence the culture

You got a whole month for them to get their application in for you to get their tuition paid. Or if you can't afford to pay for their tuition, go call a few friends and neighbors and Everybody put in 50 bucks each and pay for their tuition and send that young person to get trained so that they can be a leader of the next generation. That will make way more of a difference than whether or not the Epstein files were released. So I'm not, I hope I don't come across as too, dismissive of this issue. As I said Tuesday, I'll say it again, it's a huge issue. It is important, but it is not the only issue. And we have got to be more mature as a people. We've got to be more strategic in how we influence the culture. We've got to be more strategic in how we're salt and light, how we simply live out our citizenship, how we live out our biblical mandate to be a positive influence on the people around us and be good salt and light for the community. We got to do better At this. And so, this is honestly a good test for us. Are we ready to lead? Are we ready to actually take the reins of the mountains of culture? You know, we rant and rave all the time about the left took over Hollywood and the left took over music and the left took over education, the left took over politics, half the pulpits in America and all the scientific community and the arts and all the. We rant and rave about it all the time. We talk about how Christians need to take those arenas back. Well, are we ready to do that? Are we doing the things necessary to be good leaders and be effective in those areas? Are we encouraging our young people to find that purpose and that passion that God has put on their heart? And then are we connecting them with the people that can train and equip and sharpen them into instruments that can be used by God? That's why we do what we do At Patriot Academy. Help that young person, discover their passion, plan their purpose, and execute the plan. That's what we do. And so I don't, I don't think we're ready in some of these areas. We've got a great farm team going into civil government right now. We've trained thousands, as I said earlier, thousands and thousands of thousands of people to go into that arena. And we're seeing great fruit from that. I don't think we're ready to take over the arts, television, music, you know, even the entertainment through books and, you know, media like that. We're getting there, we're starting to do better. But if we're going to take that mountain that influences the culture so much, we're going to have to do a better job of thinking generationally and investing in the young people of today that can do the things necessary today so that tomorrow they're ready to lead, they're ready to step into that, that position and actually lead, effectively defeat the enemy, win the position, do a better job than their peers. So, yeah, I'm concerned that, that we are too easily distracted by things that get us off track from the mission At hand. What's the mission At hand? To take ground, to advance truth, to make the most of this window of opportunity that God has given us and not fumble the ball and lose sight of what we're really in this for. We're in this to bring glory to God and to take his ways and influence the culture with those things. And we need to be doing that in every single one of these arenas. So I guess my sign off for the day is what can you do locally? I'll tell you what you can do right now. Today. Go to patriotacademy.com, get signed up to host a class so that you can take the next step. Bring people over to your house, watch the videos, and then sit around and talk about how to then go take more action steps in the community and do some of those ten Commandments in God we Trust, sponsoring young people to go to our leadership congresses. All of these different things are right there At your fingertips. So don't be whining about the system's too corrupt, I can't make a difference. I don't want to hear any of that snowflake wimpy spies, you know, like a bunch of, you know, skinny jeans wearing snowflakes. Forget that stuff, man. Let's be warriors like Joshua and Caleb and let's say giants, yes. Fortified cities, yes. But God has given us the land and we're going to go take the land. God bless you. Thanks so much for listening today to At the Core with Walker Wildmon and Rick Green.

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