The Eric Metaxas Show - #36 - Emerald Robinson

Episode Date: January 12, 2026

In this episode, I talk with @EmeraldRobinson about the @RealLindellTV , media culture, and election integrity claims tied to Venezuela and Cuba. In continued with Dr. Gerson Moreno-Riaño of @CornerstoneU about why governance breaks down across Latin America. TIMESTAMPS(0:00) Intro(10:34) Why Does The Media Misread Trump?(23:13) Are We Uncovering The 2020 Truth?(27:15) What Do Venezuela Whistleblowers Claim?(32:14) Did Cuba And Venezuela Flip US Officials?(38:22) Why Are Protests Accelerating Before 2026?(44:48) Why Does Latin America Struggle To Govern?SPONSORS & PARTNERS Reclaim Financial Freedom: https://metaxascrypto.com Help Save Lives in Israel TODAY: https://savinglifeisrael.org Legal Help Center - Get Free Legal Help Today: https://legalhelpcenter.com MyPillow — Save BIG with code ERIC: https://mypillow.com Christian Solidarity International: https://csi-usa.org/metaxas/ ten Boom Coffee— Save 10% with code ERIC: https://tenboom.coffee

Hey there, folks, it's Monday. My staff tells me that it's Monday. I have no sense of anything anymore. I'm writing a book on the American Revolution. I'm finishing the book. So I'm, I don't know. It's been a, it's don't ever be a ride. Don't do that writing thing.

It's tough. It can be very tough and difficult. But some really exciting news right now. Some of you are watching me now on, Lindel TV. Today is our premiere on Lindel TV. Now, I know most of you watch us on my YouTube channel, Eric Metaxis or on X, but today, 4 p.m. Eastern time, we are airing on Lindel TV. If you're unfamiliar with LindelTV.com. Most of you know how much I love Mike Lindel and I feel honored that he wanted to have me on every day.

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So not that you're a stranger, but I'm just saying. Okay, I also want to remind you, this is more big news. But I should have said it before. My guest today is the great Emerald Robinson. We're going to be talking about current events. This is in two minutes. and we're going to be talking about election integrity, in case he didn't know, the 2020 election was stolen in case he didn't know. We're going to talk about that.

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I want to talk about Greenland. I want to talk about Venezuela, Minnesota. the Iranian Revolution. Have I mentioned that I'm going to go to Davos? No kidding in a couple of weeks. Anyway, we'll be talking about that in the days ahead. But for now, let's just stop. And I'm going to go to my guest, Emerald Robinson.

Be right back. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the program. This is the Eric Metaxus show. Today, I'll be playing the role of Eric Metaxus. I've studied for it, but you know what? Sometimes it just is what it is. I'll do my best. I am really excited to make an announcement right now.

Today, for the first time, I'm not wearing a jacket. And even more important, we are premiering right now. I'm so excited on Lindell TV. Some of you are watching me right now on Lindell TV. If you don't know about it, folks, go to lindelTV.com. And I thought it would be fun to start today speaking with one of the stars and the people behind the success of Lindel TV. Emerald Robinson, welcome to the program. Well, and I should say welcome to you, Eric.

Welcome to the Lindel TV family. I can't tell you how excited everyone was when we made the announcement. And I don't think we've ever gotten such a reaction from the whole staff as we did. that you were coming on board. So we're just so happy to have you. Wow, I'm really pumped up. I honestly, it thrills me to hear that because Mike is someone that I just love. I love, but people know I've had him on this program so many times. I just love him because he's such a hero and what he has put together with Lindel TV and so many other outrageous, amazing heroic projects that he has taken on. I want to talk to you today about one of the biggest ones.

the issue of election integrity. There's something that is sort of important, I think, to talk about. But there's so much happening, Emerald. I mean, some of it is so delightful and funny. The fact that you and I are going to be each commanding a tank division to take over Greenland in a couple of weeks. A lot of people don't know that's part of the plan that the president is putting together. and he has deputized you, Emerald Robinson, and me, Eric Metaxus, each of us to command our own tank division in the hostile takeover of the island nation that is Greenland.

I just got to say, I'm honored that the president would include me in that plan for military takeover. And there's some people, of course, who have no sense of humor and they will be disturbed by this because they really do believe in their minds that President Trump, would put boots on the ground. I mean, I guess let's start there. Can you believe the disconnect in our culture that there's some people who get the president

who understand the way he communicates and then there are some who don't. And the left doesn't get it. And their heads explode because they can't, they don't understand that he's joking or what? I don't know what it is. What is it that they don't seem to get him? You know what?

There will probably be a political headline tomorrow. Eric saying the president, has tapped Lindell TV host to leave the invasion into Greenland because they do. They take it so literally. They have no sense of humor, and it's funny that you say that because one of the reasons that President Trump

started to call on me in the White House Press Corps during the first Trump term and kind of got to know who I was is because I did, I was one of the few people in the room that had a sense of humor. And when he would crack a joke in the Rose Gardeners,

some of those briefings, I would get it. And I would snicker, just like a regular, person would while everyone else in the room was in the press corps was completely outraged. So he started calling on me because I would like nod and smile and laugh because he's funny. He's like wickedly funny the guy is, right? He's just got such a great sense of humor.

And that's why the American people really, he endeared himself to the American people, is that he communicated the way the average American does with humor and with anecdote and story. and so he really appealed to people, but he does not appeal to the press corps. And a lot of that is just, they're just, I wish I had a better explanation for you, Eric. They're just kind of hateful people and they're not the most impressive people. And as we know, communists, many of them are just really about communists. Communism doesn't really incentivize humor. Well, look, what you're saying, you're hitting it exactly.

There is this piety. I mean, when you think of the Red Guard under Chairman Mao, when you think of the shock troops for the Nazis, when you think of the Bolshevik revolution, you don't think about normal, healthy, joyful people. You think of people that are not fun to be with. And this is very telling. This is very telling. So they don't really speak for the people. They claim to speak for the people. They claim to speak for the people, but they don't speak for the people. So the folks that you're talking about in the press corps, I went to college with people like this. I was trained up in that way of thinking.

It's that kind of Ivy League, United Nations, Manhattan cultural, elite liberal world of thinking. It's what happened to PBS. Look at PBS. Have you ever seen anything less humors? I mean, the last funny thing that they aired was Money Python, 19. They don't believe in humor. They don't believe in joy. Everything has to be somehow pinched.

And when I watch any of it, I mean, it's just, it's absolutely incredible to see the lack of joy, the lack of humor. And I think most Americans, I mean, it kind of reminds me of Martin Luther who was this. And again, I'm a pro-Catholic, non-Catholic. but there was something about Luther that he had this humor and he was able to speak to the people and they connected with him because of his humor because of the irreverence and whatever it was. I think that's what's happened with Donald Trump. People didn't think we ever could have a leader who actually said what we are thinking. And so there's just a tremendous joy to it.

But it's bizarre if you, I force myself to look at CNN or something just to see what they're saying. and it is so painful. In fact, the other day, and I'll stop my monologue here, but the other day I was watching, I was flipping through, and I came to the PBS News Hour. And the PBS News Hour, they have, their conservative is David Brooks,

which tells you everything you need to know. Couldn't be more pious and more, you know, a New York Times conservative, we know he's not going to be that conservative. And then I can't I can never remember the name of the guy, but of course he's black and of course he's gay. And the dread on their faces as they're talking about what's going on in America, the dread, the false piety, the concern for, you know, the national conversation. It's it's absolutely hilarious because they don't seem to have any sense of who Americans really are. They live in a bubble and they don't ever talk to people that, you know, I don't know,

are worried about the cost of groceries and gas. I guess that's really what it boils down to. It does. And I applaud you for coming out of that kind of education circle and being able to have this humor and reach people. It's funny because I remember going into amongst this group of people. And when you're, especially when you're talking about the White House Press Corps, they're known as maybe the most elite.

right in journalism. It's this very high status beat to cover. And I did not come out of that world. I went to a state school in Virginia, D2, University of Virginia at WISE. And I felt intimidated because I know a lot of those people had went to yell and Harvard. And I was expecting the best of the best. And I didn't feel that I would be very qualified being in there. I was shocked. To me about two weeks to realize, A, they weren't that bright. They were totally indoctrinated. They couldn't see reality that was right in front of them. And part of it, like you said, was that they stay in the D.C. bubble in New York, the Accela Corridor, the New York, D.C. bubble. They only talked to each other. And that's when I decided I was going to be the reporter,

the correspondent in the White House that talked to real people, like my family in Southwest Virginia, who loved Trump's humor, but was also very concerned about what they were seeing with the communist takeover of America, but talk about real. issues than real questions that they had. So anyway, they're just not an impressive group of people. They're also just very controlled. And it really is all about their status as it was in their school days, right? It's their status in that corridor. And what those people think, they could honestly care less what, you know, the guy working a blue collar job down the street trying to feed his family a four or five think. They just don't even care. While the corrupt federal elites have been

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making retirement great again. Well, the way I see it really is because, again, I was, by the grace of God, got to go, you know, to see the inside, go to Yale University and to learn how to think the way they think, to speak that language. And what is that language? I mean, I remember it because I was raised in a working class home. My parents are European immigrants who love America, drag me to church every, Sunday, they're naive enough to believe in right and wrong, you know, that kind of stuff.

And suddenly I was in an environment at Yale where, you know, I picked up the hints of how do you act here. You don't talk about patriotism. You don't love America. They were all leftists, basically. And I was not grounded enough to stand against what they were doing. I was just kind of floating along. They hate America. they mock God, they mock people who believe in the Bible.

They're part of this culturally elite group that's very, very secular. But where it really breaks down for me is they sneer at the idea of honor. They sneer at the idea of dignity. They sneer at the idea of virtue. They mock virtue. Now, you think that's so interesting. Is that how you would raise your kids? Is that how people raise your kids to mock the idea?

idea of virtue to be constantly sneering at people who care about right and wrong. But that is the culture of the cultural elites in America. And they had a long run, but they're going down. And they know it and they hate it. And it's only, you know, you say you give me credit. Let me just say, I know. It's only by the grace of God that I broke free. I know that, right?

It wasn't because I'm smart or wise. No, it's only by the grace of God that he pulled me out of that world. And it kind of, you know, because I want to talk to you about election integrity, it really, for me, became real. I mean, it became real when I had my born again Jesus experience in 1988. But it became very real for me in 2016 when Trump was elected. And I saw the hatred among many evangelical Christians and so-called conservatives. for Trump. And they were siding with the cultural elites. They wanted to be respectable and he's not respectable and his people are deplorables. And I thought, wait a minute, you're talking about my

mother and father. You're talking about the people I grew up with. These people are salt of the earth. These are God's people. They care about, they love America. And you are basically spitting on those people. And it happened in 2020, much more so, that the people who sided with Trump, against, you know, can we even believe it? Joe Biden, a cipher, a brain dead cipher, a puppet. I thought, you know, at that point, I have to make a choice. And it's only by the grace of God that I chose to stand, you know, with the salt of the earth people of America,

the people that are watching Lindell TV and love Mike Lindell and love George Washington and love Donald Trump. It's kind of funny. So that brings us in my unfortunately long-winded way to election integrity. Are you excited that we're finally getting to the bottom of, or I shouldn't say getting to the bottom of, but we're just beginning to uncover the reality of what happened in 2020. I saw your interview with Sidney Powell, and it was great. I was so pleased to see you speaking with her because a lot of what she said in 2020 and early

2021 has now been proven right. So we knew a lot of this, right? But if you presented this information, as she did, you were called crazy. You were called a traitor to America by the corporate media and the Democrats. And Sydney and others paid the price for it. But she's now being vindicated. So a lot of what we're talking about, we knew we just now have someone in the White House who refuses to let it go.

And there's a few people around him and his government. government right, like Tulsi Gabbard at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence being one of them that are vetting this information that was brought forward. They're confirming it. They're getting the receipts. And that's being done at a government level. And there are some encouraging moves being made more so even Eric behind the scenes. I've confirmed there are grand juries convened. There are indictments ready to roll out. What we have to worry about is that there are still some people, okay, in the Department of Justice who would rather not have accountability. They don't want to reveal this information.

And there are still, Lindell TV, we talk a lot about blockers because that's the terminology Mike Lindell uses. There are blockers who want to make this go away that even tell President Trump, let's not talk about 2020. You know, as they did during his campaign leading up to 2024, which he finally, you know, know, there was something done it, and he was able, he won, he won, he won in 2020, but he officially won and was put in the White House right in, in 2025, that are still telling him not to talk about it.

But there are real investigations, and there are real investigators, finally, at the federal level, who are taking this information, not just what we're learning out of Venezuela, right? And we have the Venezuelan whistleblowers, which is very important and they're very key witnesses, but also some of this information that, that, Americans had gathered from Pennsylvania, from Antrim County, Michigan, from Fulton County, Georgia, from Maricopa County, Arizona. That is also all that information that we talked about. So I've been rehashing a lot of that at Lindell TV to remind people of what we talked about years ago because this evidence has now been submitted to federal investigators. But I do feel that these indictments can't come soon enough because we're approaching, I know we say this every election, but this really is.

some of the most, if not the most important midterms of our lifetime. And we have to have real elections or it will be a sweep for Democrats. They are fighting hard. They have not let go. Yes, they are on their heels. Yes, Donald Trump is putting them on their hills. But they don't give up easily. And I want people to understand that.

They're also preparing indictments for if they can take back power for President Donald Trump and more than we even saw under the Biden regime and key officials of the Trump administration or any key advisors on the outside that would be helping President Trump. So we're in a pivotal moment here, Eric, and a lot of this information you're not going to see anywhere else because there's still a lot of people, even in so-called conservative media that are afraid to talk about it, right? That's why I'm so glad that's why you're at our network, seeing you and Sydney kind of go through, you know, what's happening now and what we knew before.

because it's going to become very important again. And I had a key interview today on my show that I would say, you know, go back to Lendell TV and watch on the Venezuela. It was a Venezuelan whistleblower talking about exactly how all this worked. And the Cuban influence, right? Because today, today specifically we're seeing President Trump and over the weekend talk about making moves on Cuba now. And a lot of people are saying, okay, this is going too far. He's cutting off the Venezuelan oil going to Cuba.

He's saying Cuba make a deal. He's saying Cuba, you no longer have. have the stronghold over Venezuela. And a lot of people weren't aware that they were. And it's been a whole counterintelligence issue for the United States. So there's a lot happening right now. It's almost unbelievable. And this is the answer to the prayers of millions of Americans. There are people out there who have really interceded who really know the power of prayer and know that this is a spiritual battle. Folks, it's a spiritual battle. They're demonic entities. There's evil in the world. So when you talk about,

about Cuba, Venezuela, the evil. I mean, it's unbelievable. Most Americans are so naive. They have not suffered under communism. My mother escaped East Germany. When the Communists took over East Germany, my mother escaped at age 17 in 1951 because she could feel it. It is evil. My father was in Greece when the communist tried to take over Greece in the late 40s. Communism is evil. It crushes human beings. It is just like radical Islam. It's just like what we've had in Iran for 47 years. It is evil, ladies and gentlemen. It is a false religion. And guess what a false religion is B minus. No, it is demonic. It is from the pit of hell, a false religion worshiping false gods. They are bloodthirsty. They're cruel. They're anti-human. They're anti-God.

So when you're talking about Cuba, people have this quaint idea of Cuba. Do you understand that people have been tortured, have been imprisoned for their Christian beliefs in Cuba? Do we talk about this? Does PBS NewsHour cover that story? They don't cover that story. Do they cover any of this stuff? There's Christian revival happening in Iran. I had the head of Iran alive ministries on this program in the past.

there's revival happening. There's Christian faith bursting out in Iran around the Middle East. The mainstream media doesn't cover that kind of stuff. They don't care. To them, it's bad news. It's a bummer. They would rather just ignore it. They would be perfectly pleased if the mullahs stayed in charge.

They're not in touch with the reality. So we're seeing such an earthquake emerald around the world right now that we have to be honest. This is unprecedented, folks. seeing right now is absolutely unprecedented. And we don't know how far it will go. The realignment everywhere, the realignment with these NATO countries who have themselves sold their souls to the devil, that we have, we have countries that used to be our allies that we thought of as our Western allies like France and England and Germany, they have, they have, they no longer have,

and J.D. Vance talked about this in Munich almost a year ago. They don't have the values that we do about free speech and freedom. They don't know what they believe. They're just kind of drifting along. So we're seeing an absolute earthquake because we have a president that sees these things and is willing to follow the truth and to be a disruptor. Let's put it that way. And for the people praying, I would agree with you on that.

And the 2024 election was, I think, big proof of the result of Christians who got down and prayed for God to answer in some way. a lot of my women's Bible study was interceding and fasting before. And I have to say, I just have to say this again, plug this. My Bible study was more, the women in my Bible study were absolutely thrilled that you were coming on board, Lindell TV, because your name pops up a lot in that Bible study. But let's talk about the, you talk about communism and Islam, right? One thing I did learn that became more, I've always, you know, I'm a preacher's daughter. So I've, you know, I've always been a Christian, of course, had my moment where I really committed myself to the Lord. But the spiritual

battle became more real to me. I could see the war between good and evil when I started covering politics in Washington, D.C. You hear about it in the news and you don't really think about it as a spiritual battle, but when you're on the ground reporting on it and you are a Christian, you see it front and center and you're dropped in the middle of this war. And when we're talking about Cuba and Venezuela, the red-green axis, the red-green axis of, the nexus of power, excuse me,

really finds a home in our hemisphere, not far from our borders in Venezuela. And Cuba, you think about it, I guess I always looked at Cuba as a failed communist island, right? You think they really will know power that we had basically neutered them, but they have a lot of money, especially when you pair it with the Venezuelan oil.

The transnational criminal organizations that exist there have as much money in GDP as whole nations, and they have used it to wield war against the United States. And Hugo Carbohal, I don't know if your audience knows that name, but Hugo Carbohal is the former high-level military intelligence, officer under Hugo Shafas, defected. We picked him up on drug trafficking charges. He was extradited to the United States in 2023.

He's now singing, of course, he's made a deal with the government. And he has told investigators, and he actually revealed this in a public, it was like an affidavit. It was an open letter to President Trump that was printed in the Dallas Express just before the Christmas break. he said that with Cuba's guidance and Venezuela money, they flipped dozens of U.S. officials, CIA officials, and high-level State Department diplomats. So that's what we've been up against while we weren't looking, right? Because there was a decision made, a direct decision made back about 20 years ago,

to ignore intelligence in the Western Hemisphere, specifically, specifically as it related to Cuba and Venezuela. And so you were able to get Hezbollah. You were able to get Iranian influence, Russian influence, Chinese influence, building in Venezuela in our own hemisphere, not very far from our shores, right, because of a concerted effort from bad actors in our own intelligence community. And yes, John Brennan is the head of that snake,

to ignore the intelligence, so that these subverts of actors can build their apparatus in our hemisphere. They had declared war on us a long time ago, Eric, before President Trump ever came into this office this time and decided he was going to fight back. Well, it's amazing. You bring up, you know, these horrible people, Brennan Clapper, Comey. Do you have a sense that they're going to be brought to justice? I do. I don't know the details.

I really do. I think we have the strongest possibility of that right now that we've ever had. You know me. I am hesitantly hopeful because I really believe they would resolve the 2020 election back in 2020 and they did not. So I guess I have been burned a little bit. And I do see the bad actors that are still in place. We've got a lot of problem at people at the DOJ.

We've got, I mean, the CIA is still operationally essentially under the control. love Brennan. He had put so many of those people in place. They're still loyal to him. So we have a whole problem there with them trying to block any kind of accountability. But yes, each day now with who I'm talking to and what I am seeing and what I hear President Trump say. I know that President Trump said that about Cuba because he's listening to the right people. He's gone the briefings that I've seen, right? He's seen that intelligence from Hugo Carvajal and another. former high-level Venezuelan military official who's also talking to the government. There's also a former body guy for Chavez who's talking.

And so he's seeing this. So he's well aware. And I can hear in the words he says when he's asked questions by reporters. And it seems to me a lot of people think this is about oil. It is a little bit, right? Because the oil is what funded these nefarious actions against the United States. They had to have money to send Tranda Aragua to invade the United States. They get that from the oil, right?

And the engineers for Smartmatic, the voting machine software company that allowed for vote rigging, that served as the predecessor for all of these other electronic voting software companies, you know, they served as the basis for it. They were former Petavisa engineers. So, yeah, it is kind of about the oil, but people don't understand in what context. And when I hear President Trump, he's not letting it go. And at the end of the day, the buck stops with him. So I do, I am more humble.

hopeful of accountability based on what I'm hearing him say publicly and what I'm hearing privately from my sources. Well, he has been more vocal about the fact that the 2020 election was stolen. He's been more and more vocal about that. And this is, you know, the good news. People say he's a narcissist. This is the good side of narcissistic personalities. They actually care about like, I won the election and everybody needs to know I actually won the 2020 election. You know, it's sort of funny to me because he should care. It's a healthy thing to care about what is true and what is a lie. And the fact is that the American people have to wake up to this. So I think that it's going to be, again, it's part of something that is

happening that takes time. There are plenty people that they're ignorant. They don't really understand what is going on. But day by day, the information is coming out. Good. things are happening, but we are in a war. I mean, the fact that CBS News has been taken over by Barry Weiss, who actually is not a leftist, you know, I mean, she's not where we are, but she's not a leftist and she's willing to talk about things. She's willing to talk about President Trump and not only demonize him. That already is shocking to have a mainstream news organization that is tacking toward the center. That's a big deal. So there are market forces at play. there are wise people out there who are saying, wait a minute, I don't know that we want to double down on the leftist lunatic viewpoint.

I mean, which takes us to what happened in Minnesota. We haven't touched on this. The woman that was killed, I mean, everybody knows that, yes, it's sad when someone gets killed. But I have to say, I am astonished that people would be so foolish as to provoke antagonize. and not listen to the orders of people with guns doing a dangerous and important job to get in their way, to be that foolish. It's just amazing to me. It's like having a kid mouthing off to a cop.

You get pulled over because you're speeding and you're like, no, I'm not going to get out of the car. No, I'm not going to give you my license. Do you understand what's going to happen to you, young man, if you mouth off to the officer? maybe he's had a bad day. Maybe he's not going to react in the best way. So he may not do anything illegal, but he may not know what to do in that moment. So your job is to keep your mouth shut, to do exactly what he tells you to do. So the idea that we have leftist politicians

pushing people out there to provoke, antagonize, and hinder the work, the dangerous, important work that we the people elected them to do. We elected a president to deport all these folks. He is doing it. These are the people who have the dangerous job of actually doing it. So the fact that we just saw a woman who doesn't understand when the cops tell you something or when immigration and customs officials tell you to do something, you need to do it. I mean, that's kind of amazing to me, Emerald. I guess that's my big. biggest takeaway is that there are people that are dumb enough to mess with law enforcement, to mess with folks doing the job that the President of United States has told them they must do.

In fairness, they have not had real consequences before, right? Because the police are afraid to do their job or even ICE officials. because in the previous four years prior to Donald Trump taking office again, it would be the ICE officers who would get in trouble with the Biden regime, right? So they were kind of a little more hands off. They were afraid to do their job. But yes, in this particular officer had had a history, right? He'd already dealt with violence of an illegal criminal and had some injuries from that, from what I understand. I'm not as read into this, but what I do know, is that this woman was also a trained to agitator.

So there is, going back to communism, there are the dollars of the globalists who want to destabilize the United States with this communist-Marxist ideology. They're seeding dollars into NGOs that are training people to behave this way and try to. this is color revolutionary tactics, right?

And this woman was trained to do this and she put herself in the middle of it and she paid the ultimate price. We are going to see a lot more of this ahead of the 26 midterms. We knew this. We had seen the signals there from these communist groups

that are funded with these NGO dollars. There are good investigative reports. who had, you know, went undercover and set in on these Zooms. There were clear indications that they were going to start. It is kind of amazing, though, Eric, how quickly they have started after the start of the year, right? It is as if it's on cue and you're seeing it all across the country. We're seeing it in Los Angeles. We're seeing it in, there was a, in my smaller city in Virginia, which is a blue city.

there are now demonstrations here. It is if someone hit the button and they're happening. And these people are not stable anyway. The communist ideology is destabilizing even to themselves. So there are going to be a lot more people putting themselves in harm's way. I think it's going to be all across the nation. And Donald Trump is aware of this, but they have to get it under control. Yes.

We're in a war, folks. It's our job to fight and pray. It's our job to do the right thing, vigilantly, and lead the results to God. And that's what we're going to do. Emerald, we've got to have you back soon. Again, thank you for being my first guest on Lindell TV. Just a joy to be part of the team. God bless you, and we'll talk again soon.

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As you know, I, Eric Mataxis, have the privilege of being a distinguished presidential fellow at Cornerstone University in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and we today have the president of Quarterstone University, Dr. Gerson, Moreno, Moreno, Riano, Morino. This is unbelievable. Welcome. Eric, thank. It was great to see you again and happy New Year. My first question to you is always, would you please pronounce your full name for me, please? Sure, I'll process it where my mother does. How's that? Yeah, but with Gerson also. Jerson Moreno Reaño

Wow Beautiful Well listen I wanted to I kind of wanted to start with your name For a reason Because I want to talk to you about Maduro Or as they say on CNN

Maduro Because they have this politically correct desire To say You know Maduro As though we're supposed to say You know when we say

When I say I'm flying at Athens I don't say I'm flying to Athena or if I'm going to Berlin, I don't say I'm flying to Berlin. But we have this kind of thing, you know, because there's the pressure, the political correct pressure. I remember in the 80s talking about Nicaragua. So you obviously, well, maybe not so obviously to my audience who don't know you, but you grew up in Colombia.

What is your sense, generally, before we get into details, of what is happening right now in our hemisphere? Yeah, that's a great question. You know, one of the things that's so sad to me about Central and South America is the inability of the nations in Central and South America to govern themselves well. The lack of what I call great governance, great statesmanship in Central and South America has been there for generations. I mean, this has been a longstanding problem.

I remember my grandmother telling me the most horrific. stories of political civil violence in Colombia that she grew up in, right? And I remember seeing some of those things as a child. And so there's been an endemic problem in South America and Central America for the lack of governance, a lack of civil society, a lack of the common good, a lack of how do we address problems well without violence, without dysfunction, without abuse, without manipulation. This has been there for a very long, long, long time. And consequently what happens is you have the cropping or generation of strong men, right, of corrupt regimes throughout Central and South America. And that abuse, that manipulate, they take advantage of.

So it's been a book going out for a very long, long time. And the reality is that there is not the will at times, the real will. I'm not talking about what people will will will say in the media, but the real will within these nations. to really do the right thing and govern well and take care the people in the country and the resources. And I think that's what's been happening for a very long, long, long time, unfortunately. So the situation with Maduro even before him

or if I look at Columbia right now, I mean, this has been going on, Eric, for decades. And it's not getting any better. In Colombia, it's getting worse now, actually, more than ever. Well, because as I know I mentioned to you, you know, I'm finishing my book on the American Revolution and looking at the roots of our revolution, which is the only real revolution. Everything else is just like political uprisings, but not a revolution in thinking. And at the heart of the American Revolution,

it's undeniable. It's undeniable. Is a Reformation Puritan ethic about education, about throwing off the shackles of what John Adams calls the feudal and canon law. In other words, there's a worldview that comes to some extent, this is cultural, but it comes to some extent, I have to be careful, to some extent out of Catholicism. Now, people always know I'm a pro-Catholic, non-Catholic. I'm not Catholic. But the point is that out of those cultures, there's a, I guess you would call it a sacerdotal elite that sort of tells people it's like we're in power and we're educated and we're going to tell you what to think. You don't need to think for yourselves. We'll take care of you. You get that idea in the Catholic monarchies at the time of the American Revolution to some extent. And so we get this seesawing back and forth in a way where people, People want to rebel against that, but the question is, where are they going to replace it with?

And of course, we would say you should replace it with self-government. But in order to govern yourselves, you have to be educated, you have to be virtuous. You have to have a lot of things in place in the culture, which we had in place in the culture, mostly of the 13 colonies in 1775, 1776. most places around the world do not have that in the culture. In other words, it really takes something to govern yourself. And a lot of people don't have the ability to do that or to think it through or they don't have the kind of civic muscles to know how to do that. So they just submit to whatever regime is there.

And so it's not something, I mean, it has to some extent with the culture. But, you know, you can't blame Latin America when you have the same thing going on all around the world. This Christmas, as we celebrate the Supercentennial coming up, Supercentennial 250th, there's no way better in a way to support it than by supporting my friend, an American hero, Mike Lindell. He's one of the main sponsors on this program. He's the man behind Mike Pillow. He put his money where his mouth is. Some of you know this. If you've watched the program, he stood up for the country.

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