FBI informant: Russians routed big bucks to Clinton Foundation to grease skids for uranium monopoly

While concerns over Russian penetration into the political system in the 2015-16 election cycle continue to percolate, allegations of other such penetrations continue to gain steam. The Hill’s John Solomon reports that an FBI informant has testified to three congressional committees that Moscow had taken special aim at political figures in its attempt to corner the global market on nuclear fuel. That penetration involved the Clinton Foundation, William Douglas Campbell insists, and the Obama administration knew it:

An FBI informant connected to the Uranium One controversy told three congressional committees in a written statement that Moscow routed millions of dollars to America with the expectation it would be used to benefit Bill Clinton’s charitable efforts while Secretary of State Hillary Clinton quarterbacked a “reset” in US-Russian relations.

The informant, Douglas Campbell, said in the statement obtained by The Hill that he was told by Russian nuclear executives that Moscow had hired the American lobbying firm APCO Worldwide specifically because it was in position to influence the Obama administration, and more specifically Hillary Clinton. …

Campbell said Russian nuclear officials “told me at various times that they expected APCO to apply a portion of the $3 million annual lobbying fee it was receiving from the Russians to provide in-kind support for the Clinton’s Global Initiative,” he added in the testimony.

“The contract called for four payments of $750,000 over twelve months. APCO was expected to give assistance free of charge to the Clinton Global Initiative as part of their effort to create a favorable environment to ensure the Obama administration made affirmative decisions on everything from Uranium One to the U.S.-Russia Civilian Nuclear Cooperation agreement.“

As Solomon reported in October, the FBI discovered a Russian bribery and kickback operation in 2009. Campbell became an informant for the FBI, pushing bribes with their knowledge, often with his own money, in order to help illuminate the trail. His efforts helped get lower-level indictments, but then a funny thing happened, Campbell told Solomon. Rather than shutting down the efforts to grab control of US uranium producers, the Obama administration instead approved the deals — despite what Campbell had helped the FBI uncover:

Campbell, whose work as an informant was first disclosed in a series of stories published last fall by The Hill, helped the FBI gathered evidence as early as 2009 that the Russian nuclear industry was engaged in a kickback, bribery and racketeering scheme on U.S. soil. The criminal scheme, among other things, compromised the U.S. trucking firm that had the sensitive job of transporting uranium around America, Campbell testified.

Campbell says he provided the FBI the evidence of wrongdoing months before the Obama administration approved a series of favorable decisions that enriched Rosatom, including the CFIUS decision.

Even more curiously, the Obama administration went ahead with the deal even though they knew Russia was helping Iran to advance its nuclear industry. Sara Carter noted this in her report yesterday:

An informant who spent years gathering information on the Russian energy and uranium market industry for the FBI, met staff members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, House Oversight, and House Intelligence Committees on Wednesday. He gave explosive testimony on his years as an undercover informant providing information to the FBI on Russian criminal networks operating in the United States. He also contends in his testimony, and written briefs, to the FBI that Russia attempted to hide its ongoing aid to help sustain Iran’s nuclear industry, at the time the Obama administration approved the sale of 20 percent of U.S. uranium mining rights to Russia. …

Campbell testified before numerous Congressional members and investigators that his extensive counterintelligence work on Russia and stated that during his time as an informant, he obtained information that Russia was continuing to aid the Iranian government by providing tools and equipment necessary for the nation’s nuclear reactors, despite promises that they were not sharing such technology with Iran.

In an April 16, 2010, summary brief provided to his former FBI handlers and obtained by this reporter, he stressed his deep concerns about Tenex, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Russian state nuclear arm, Rosatom and its ongoing work to provide Iran with the technology needed for its nuclear reactor program.

At the time, Rosatom was seeking the approval to purchase the Canadian mining company Uranium One, which controlled roughly 20 percent of American uranium.

“TENEX continues to supply Iran with fuel through their Russian company TVEL,” stated Campbell in a 2010 brief provided to the FBI in 2010. TVEL is a Russian nuclear fuel cycle company headquartered in Moscow. “They (TVEL) continue to assist with construction consult and fabricated assemblies to supply the reactor. Fabricated assemblies require sophisticated engineering and are arranged inside the reactor with the help and consult of TVEL.” …

“I was speechless and angry in October 2010 when CFIUS approved the Uranium One sale to Rosatom. I was deeply worried that TLI continued to transport sensitive uranium despite the fact that it had been compromised by the bribery scheme,” stated Campbell in his testimony to lawmakers. “I expressed these concerns repeatedly to my FBI handlers. The response I got was that “politics” was somehow involved. I remember one response I got from an agent when I asked how it was possible CFIUS would approve the Uranium One sale when the FBI could prove Rosatom was engaged in criminal conduct. His answer: “Ask your politics.”

And yet, the Obama administration did nothing to stop the deal or cut off Russian penetrations. Why? Recall that in 2009, Hillary Clinton was busy handing a “reset button” to Russia’s Sergei Lavrov and Barack Obama was insisting that he could manage a friendly relationship better than George W. Bush did. Even as late as 2012, Obama was caught on a live microphone telling then-Russian president Dmitri Medvedev to ask Vladimir Putin to be patient, as Obama would have “more flexibility” after the election. Obama wanted a grand deal with Putin on nuclear arms, just the same way he wanted a grand deal with Iran on the same issue. Only when later Russian penetration into American politics cut against Obama and Hillary’s interests did the Russians finally become a bête noire for both of them.

Carter and Campbell’s attorney Victoria Toensing discussed this last night on Sean Hannity. It’s mainly a recap of the two articles linked above, but it’s doubtful you’ll see any other coverage on other networks, so enjoy it while you can (via Jeff Dunetz):

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Windbag Pelosi Speaks for Over Eight Hours to Advocate for Illegals

Let it be recognized that Democrat Nancy Pelosi spoke for the longest amount of time in over a century when she mounted what some are referring to as a “filibuster” on the House floor.

In another stupid Democrat trick, the San Francisco septuagenarian defended illegal in an epic display of why her party is out of touch with mainstream America. Pelosi has never seen fit to speak for even a fraction of the time defending actual American citizens and her stunt will do little for the “Dreamers” although it’s a slam dunk that it will end up in GOP campaign ads this fall.

And she did it in heels too!

Pelosi has been one of the loudest voices advocating for the restoration of Obama’s DACA program that many argue puts natural born citizens at a disadvantage in the job market by granting work permits to people who are not here legally.

According to the Associated Press “Pelosi stages 8-hour speech to push for vote for ‘dreamers’”:

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi staged a record-breaking, eight-hour speech Wednesday in an attempt to force a House vote on protections for the “Dreamer” immigrants — and to prove to an increasingly angry wing of progressives and activists that she has done all she could.

Wearing four-inch heels and forgoing any breaks, Pelosi spent much of the rare talkathon reading personal letters from the young immigrants whose temporary protection from deportation is set to expire next month. The California Democrat quoted from the Bible and Pope Francis, as Democrats took turns sitting behind her in support. The Office of the House Historian said it was the longest continuous speech in the chamber on record.

“You see, these people are being deported,” Pelosi said around hour six of her speech. “We can do something today to at least make whole the children.”

The performance had no immediate impact on Republican leaders who have not agreed to a vote. But it was perhaps equally aimed at the liberal wing of Pelosi’s own party, who seethed Wednesday as Democrats in the Senate cut a budget deal that could quickly steal the momentum behind the effort to resolve the Dreamers’ plight.

While she spoke on the House floor, immigration activists rallied in Washington and threaten political retribution against the congressional Democrats who abandoned the strategy of demanding that a budget deal be paired with an immigration deal. The fresh threats exposed deepening divisions within a Democratic Party struggling to address a liberal priority in Republican-controlled Washington.

Pelosi had little original to say but rather delivered stories of illegal aliens that were chosen to bring a tear to the eye of even the most cynical, but it is not likely to accomplish anything of substance.

This was strictly Pelosi covering her own lousy ass with a very vocal segment of the party base and one that her home state of California places a high priority on for the low-cost labor provided by the illegals.

There are already rumbles that Pelosi may face an internal revolt from younger Democrats if that “blue wave” that she has been promising fails to materialize in November.

By engaging in such an obvious stunt as on Wednesday, Pelosi once again went on record that her party is more concerned with illegal aliens than American citizens.

That may sell well in California, but it could be a deal killer just about everywhere else.

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Nancy Pelosi Says Illegal Aliens Are The Only Ones Who Matter In America

In case you didn’t know that democrats care more about illegal aliens than American citizens, Nancy Pelosi has proclaimed that border jumpers are the ones who really matter in this country. Then again, democrats did shut down the government to protect illegal aliens so you probably already knew where their loyalties lie.

This is a real tweet that the House Minority Leader sent out, just one day after saying her grandson wished he was an illegal alien:

“Just seeing all of these #GoNancyGo messages. Truly very moving. But let’s not lose focus of who really matters here. Thank you to our #Dreamers. And thank you to your parents for allowing us all the pleasure of having you be a part of our American family every day,” wrote Pelosi.

Holy shit! Is this the craziest thing she’s ever said, or what? I mean, she’s definitely nuts, but there isn’t one thing here that is true or non-horrible.

First off, any “Go Nancy Go” messages she may be receiving are her constituents begging her to retire. It’s the rest of the Democratic Party wishing she’d ride off into the sunset and stop the destruction she’s done to their brand. I’m sure many others are simply hoping Nancy Pelosi would go f*ck herself.

Next she says that “Dreamers” and their parents are who really matters here. “Here” is the United States of America and Dreamers and their parents are illegal aliens. There’s no gray area in this, she’s not just saying that illegal aliens matter more than Americans, but they are the only ones who matter. In other words, Americans don’t matter in America. I’ve known for some time that this is the democrats’ attitude, but I never thought I’d see one of them actually say it.

Pelosi also thanks illegal aliens for sneaking into this country and bringing their illegal alien children with them. Put another way: she is praising scumbag lawbreakers for destroying lives and burdening the American people (who she says don’t matter) with billions of unnecessary spending every year.

As a final indignation, Pelosi indicates that she considers these illegal aliens as Americans. Not the kind of Americans she hates like you and I, but the kind the democrats like which is people who don’t belong here and can’t vote but do anyways. She literally says these law-breaking foreign citizens are part of “our American family.”

Even if Republicans cave with a DACA law, the Dreamers are not going to be US citizens, they will be legal residents. Their parents will never be US citizens. Whatever happens, none of these illegal aliens are currently US citizens, which is the only requirement necessary to be an American.

Personally I’m glad Pelosi put this out in the open. This will further kill democrats in the midterm elections. Even moderate liberals (is there such a thing?) are going to be turned off by a party leader saying that Americans don’t matter, while claiming illegal aliens are the only important group of people. This is a message that might work in radical leftist California but in the rest of the country it just means GOP votes.

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How Come It Wasn’t Fascist When Chuck Schumer Wanted A Military Parade?

The liberal outrage du jour or du week (sorry I don’t know the French word for week and I don’t feel like looking it up) is that President Trump wants to have a military parade in Washington DC to honor the men and women of our military. The leftist freak-out has them calling Trump a dictator and a fascist. Interestingly enough, democrat Chuck Schumer also wanted a military parade but for some reason he wasn’t viewed as the second coming of Joseph Stalin nor was he compared to Hitler or Kim Jong Un.

Here’s a CBS report from 2014 where the liberal media calls a military parade “an honor reserved for heroes and champions.” Then, they got Schumer saying this about holding a parade to honor soldiers who fought the War on Terror:

“After all, they risked their lives to protect us. They experienced terrible trauma and tragedy along the way,” said Scumer.

Schumer petitioned the Department of Defense to hold a military parade in New York City. This parade would have included marching soldiers, military bands, and fighter jet fly-overs. You may be wondering why this parade never happened. Well, Schumer called for it to occur as soon as combat operations were over in Iraq and Afghanistan, but Obama never really came through with his promise to pull the US out of those regions.

The stated purpose of Schumer’s proposed parade was to show American soldiers that the entire country is behind them. Now that Trump is President, the liberals literally hate our military so that ship has sailed. With Trump’s proposed military parade, the left is planning a massive protest against our fighting men and women.

So why was a military parade a great idea 4 years ago and now it’s something only a fascist dictator would want? That’s an easy answer: Trump Derangement Syndrome. Liberals are so conditioned to oppose the freely-elected President of the United States that anything he says or does is instantly the worst thing ever on the left.

I think the President should use this bizarre affliction to his advantage and hit liberals with some reverse psychology. He should say that the only way to Make America Great Again is by not building a border wall. Within minutes Maxine Waters would introduce a bill funding a border wall and calling Trump a racist for not wanting one. Then Trump could say he wants to fully implement and expand ObamaCare and by the end of the week it would be repealed.

Democrats may be full of shit, but they are predictable. I see no reason why this shouldn’t be fully exploited.

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Uranium One Informant Attorney: Clintons Can Attack All They Want, But My Client Has the Truth

Uranium One Informant Attorney: Clintons Can Attack All They Want, But My Client Has the Truth



During a Thursday appearance on “America’s Newsroom,” Victoria Toensing, attorney for FBI informant Douglas Campbell, fired back at Hillary Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill for saying her client was participating in a “charade” by informing the FBI that Russia paid a lobbying group $3 million to “provide in-kind support for the Clintons’ Global Initiative.”

Toensing argued that $3 million is “a lot of money for a year of lobbying” and defended her client’s credibility.

“[Campbell] came out because he thought he was dying from cancer and he wanted his story to be told,” Toensing explained. “They can go attack all they want to. He’s got the truth, he’s got briefings, the FBI has all kinds of videotapes.”

Toensing added that the Russians thought they had “died and gone to heaven” when Clinton became secretary of state in 2009 and said that is when they began planning out the Uranium One purchase.

The 2010 controversial deal transferred 20 percent of all U.S. uranium to Russia via the sale of the Uranium One company, a Canadian mining company, just as nine foreign investors in the deal gave $145 million to the Clinton charity. Given the stake in the U.S. uranium reserves, the deal required approval U.S. government.

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Chuck Schumer 2014: You know what we should have? A military parade

A nifty catch by the Daily Wire’s Ryan Saavedra. Do we know for a fact that Schumer is against Trump’s new proposal for a military parade? He has to be, right? If it ends up happening, opinions on the right will be mixed but opinions on the left will not. Your membership card in the #Resistance will require you to hate the idea. A lot.

Which means Schumer’s going to have to figure out some way to explain this:

How many times has this guy tripped over his own feet — or his own party’s feet — in trying to build an anti-Trump message over the past 12 months? Last January, when he was whining about Trump’s cabinet appointees, he was stuck grappling with the painful fact that it was Harry Reid, not Mitch McConnell, who chose to nuke the filibuster for presidential nominees in 2013. Last month he got blown up by an old clip of him congratulating his party for having never done something as foolish as shutting down the government over an unrelated pet issue like immigration. Which, errrrrr, is exactly what Democrats did in their brief shutdown standoff with Trump. Now this.

Worth noting, though: The parade Schumer wanted in 2014 was a ticker-tape procession up Broadway in NYC, not a presidential review of armored troops in D.C., and he wanted it to mark a specific occasion rather than as a show of “strength.” Schumer’s parade wouldn’t have involved jets or tanks, I don’t think; it would have been a march by veterans of the war on terror, to thank them for their service. (The clip says, quaintly, that the parade would have been timed to coincide with the end of combat operations in Afghanistan. In reality operations in Afghanistan will never end.) But Trump’s parade *could* be similar depending upon what he and the military ultimately settle on. A Veterans Day or Memorial Day march of servicemen minus the armor and explosives for the public to say thanks would be enjoyable. Would Trump agree to that or does he want the full Independence Day nukes-on-parade saber-rattle? A military parade and a Trump parade featuring the military are different things.

Here’s a veteran who’s not crazy about the idea:

If his name sounds familiar, there’s a reason. That’s the same Rob O’Neill who’s on Fox News regularly. The one who put a bullet in Osama Bin Laden’s brain as a member of SEAL Team Six.

Another veteran, former Army Ranger Andrew Exum, isn’t crazy about the parade either:

As a young lieutenant in the U.S. Army, I marvelled at the amount of time our units could spend rehearsing for changes of commands and other events. This was time we could have better spent training our bodies in the gym, rehearsing battle drills, or almost anything else that could have contributed to our combat effectiveness…

Americans don’t have a problem of appreciating the military too little. Americans have a problem venerating the military too much. I spoke to a retired allied naval officer recently who confessed to me that he could not understand why, after 17 years of inconclusive war in Afghanistan, the U.S. military remains on such a high pedestal in the United States. It’s a good question.

There’s an easy answer to that question, I think. Americans are rightly ashamed of themselves for how they treated Vietnam veterans and are trying to atone by overcorrecting with younger generations of troops. They’re also rightly awed by the sacrifices the military has made in Iraq and Afghanistan, particularly when so little has been asked of civilians during the war on terror. That’s part of the impetus for Schumer’s parade idea to honor post-9/11 veterans. They’re widely praised in American culture but also largely taken for granted. And there’s clearly never going to be a “victory” in Iraq or Afghanistan that’s so clear-cut it would trigger popular demand for a celebration honoring the victors. If that’s where Trump’s impulse for a parade is coming from, genuine gratitude for bravery in a thankless task, it’s worth considering. If instead it’s just a campaign commercial with the military expressing Trump’s “strength,” forget it.

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Fake News Flashback: CNN Declared Trump ‘Bonkers’ for Saying Clinton, Dems Behind Dossier

Writing for the far-left CNN back in October, Chris Cillizza declared President Donald Trump “bonkers” and “crazy” for suggesting what turned out to be 100 percent true: that the Democrats, Hillary Clinton, the FBI, and Russia, were all behind what is known as the “Russian dossier.”

“[I]t is deeply irresponsible for a president of the United States to even flirt with this sort of conspiracy talk,” the overwrought Cillizza wrote, adding, “[T]he idea that the Russians, the Democrats and the FBI co-funded a dossier designed to discredit Trump’s 2016 campaign is totally bonkers.”

What set Cillizza off on his fake news spree was an October 19, 2017, Trump tweet that said, “Workers of firm [Fusion GPS] involved with the discredited and Fake Dossier take the 5th. Who paid for it, Russia, the FBI or the Dems (or all)?”

In the months since that tweet, everything Trump suggested has been proven correct.

Thanks to congressional investigators (and no thanks to a media that has worked overtime to stop these facts from coming out), we now know that 1) some of the most salacious and discredited details in the dossier came from Russian operatives. 2) Democrats and the Hillary Clinton campaign paid millions of dollars for the phony dossier. 3) the FBI also funded the dossier by hiring its author, former-British spy Christopher Steele, who was determined to see Trump defeated in the presidential election.

Moreover, even disgraced former-FBI Director James Comey has declared the dossier “salacious and unverified.” Unless you want to count mundane details that do not matter, in the months since October, despite billions of corporate media dollars being spent to verify the dossier, still nothing is verified in what we now know is a political document paid for by Democrats to spy on their political opponent, which, to their disgrace, the FBI did.

Trump’s tweet was dead on accurate — every single point in it, every word. And yet, here is CNN’s left-wing Cillizza smearing Trump as “crazy” and bonkers,” even though CNN had no way of knowing if his tweet was or was not accurate [emphasis added]:

The bigger issue — at least to me — is that Trump is suggesting that the dossier itself was funded by some combination of a foreign power, the opposition political party and a federal law enforcement agency.

It’s easy to roll your eyes at the very suggestion and dismiss that idea as just Trump being Trump. “You guys always take him literally,” Trump’s supporters will say. “You shouldn’t.

But here’s the thing: President Trump is, um, the President. Which means he is held to the same standard every past president is held to. And by that standard, this tweet is crazy.

The point here is that it is deeply irresponsible for a president of the United States to even flirt with this sort of conspiracy talk. You can love Donald Trump and still believe that the idea that the Russians, the Democrats and the FBI co-funded a dossier designed to discredit Trump’s 2016 campaign is totally bonkers.

Without knowing the facts, CNN declaring Trump “crazy” and “bonkers” is, of course, more evidence of the Climate of Hate the last-place cable channel has been building around Trump for almost two years.

The failing network has been working overtime to plant the idea that Trump is a unique danger to America, or as CNN anti-Trump commentator Jake Tapper regularly puts it, Trump is “un-American,” “unpatriotic,” “unmoored,” and “unhinged.”

Despite the Daily Caller calling Cillizza and CNN out for this false reporting, nothing has been updated, corrected, or retracted.

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Drag Queens to Teach Children at Swedish Library, ‘It is Important to Break Societal Norms’

Drag Queens to Teach Children at Swedish Library, ‘It is Important to Break Societal Norms’



Cross-dressers ‘Lady Busty’ and ‘Miss Shameless’ are to teach children in Malmö the importance of equality and not to fear immigrants at events starting later this month.

From February 17th, Malmö City Library will begin holding Drag Queen Story Hours at which men dressed as women will read fairy tales encouraging children to experiment with gender, local media reports.

“As an LGBT-certified library, we want to work actively with these issues,” said communications officer Johan Björkwall. “So when we were approached about [Drag Queen Story Hour] we said yes.”

Stefan Anderson and his husband Mats, veteran ‘drag queens’ who both work with young people, first held a storytelling session for children as their alter egos Lady Busty and Miss Shameless at last year’s Malmö Pride, taking inspiration from a similar project in San Francisco.

“Drag queens are mostly only seen on television and at nightclubs and pride parades, so it’s not often that they are close to children,” lamented Stefan, asserting that Drag Queen Story Hour will be “very useful for the children”.

Through storytelling, children will learn that it’s “important to break taboos and social norms”, Anderson said, adding: “We want to show that it’s fun not to have any limitations.”

The pair will also use “playfulness” in the sessions to stress the message everyone is equal, and teach children not to fear that immigrants might be dangerous.

“Everyone is different. We come from different places, different cultures, we are different and we behave differently from each other. What’s important is not to be afraid of the unknown,” Stefan told Malmö24.se.

Though usually a pioneer in forwarding “progressive” programmes and policies aimed towards creating a gender-neutral future, on issues of promoting LGBT lifestyles to children, Sweden has lagged behind Britain since the UK government launched a war on “hate”.

Breitbart London previously reported that Drag Queen Story Time events are being rolled out across nursery schools, with cross-dressing men brought in as “queer role models”, supposedly in order to stop two and three-year-olds committing “hate crime” later in life.

And government-backed guidance issued in December demanded primary schools stock books and learning resources which “celebrate” transgender people in order to “fight prejudice”, and to ensure school uniform lists are gender neutral and “avoid stereotypes” so as not to upset “non-binary” people who believe themselves to be neither male nor female.

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Police Officer Working to Deport Illegals Threatened at Home by Muslim Extremists

Police Officer Working to Deport Illegals Threatened at Home by Muslim Extremists



A pair of Islamic extremists confronted a police officer in the German region of North Rhine-Westphalia in front of his apartment to intimidate him because he is involved in deportations.

The unnamed officer is said to be a member of the Federal German police force which is responsible for border security in the country. The two men, described as belonging to the radical Islamic scene, threatened the officer who was forced to flee to his home where his dog confronted the men, barked and caused them to flee, Focus reports.

While the incident occurred on January 26th, the information was only recently released to the public. Officials say the two men approached in a Mercedes-Benz S-class vehicle, were wearing long beards and traditional conservative Islamic clothing.

Two days before the threats, the officer had been involved with the deportation of 19 failed Afghan asylum seekers who were returned to Kabul.

The report is the first instance known of Islamic radicals attempting to threaten and harass police officers involved in the deportation process but not the first time Islamic radicals have clashed with German police.

Last year in Hamburg, two officers were attacked by Muslims who had been praying in the street. The officers attempted to perform a routine identification check on the groups of five men but were set upon by them. The Muslims later alleged that they had been “provoked” by the officers.

Some have also expressed fears of Islamic radicals within the police force itself. In Berlin, a leaked recording from the Berlin police academy revealed a teacher expressing the opinion that Muslims were an “enemy” in the ranks. The instructor warned that the Muslim officers would become “second-class police officers who will only be corrupt.”

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Christian Faith a Central Pillar for Many Philadelphia Eagles Players

Christian Faith a Central Pillar for Many Philadelphia Eagles Players



With great fanfare, the Philadelphia Eagles fought their way to a Super Bowl win, but with less fanfare, many of the team’s players quietly made their journey with a Bible in hand.

While sports fans know all the stats about the Eagles as the team surged forward to win the NFL’s big game, fewer know that many members of the team feel that their faith in Christ is the one reason for their success. It turns out that the Eagles are one of the more religious teams in the NFL.

One of the first major hints of the team’s evangelism came when winning quarterback Nick Foles thanked God for his success on Super Bowl night. Foles takes his religion seriously and has even said that he wants to minister to young people once his football career is over.

But Foles is hardly alone. A large number of Eagles players have been unafraid to publicly declare their faith in God, according to FaithIt.com.

Last year, for instance, the religious site reported that wide receiver Marcus Johnson very publicly got baptized into the Christian faith with his fellow teammates in attendance around a hotel pool.

Along with MVP quarterback Foles, another player who has been very proud of his faith is fellow quarterback Carlos Wentz, who vowed to play for an “audience of one” through the playoffs.

According to reports, the players’ Christian faith became “the locker room’s binding force” as the team played its way to the Super Bowl.

The Eagles even posted a video to speak to the players’ faith featuring interviews with Carson Wentz, Torrey Smith, Chris Maragos, and others:

“I went to church often growing up, but it wasn’t until I was in my last year of college where I realized I was kind of living off of everyone else’s salvation,” Smith explained in the video. “I wasn’t really finding out things on my own. I wasn’t diving into the Word or exploring that the way I was exploring everything else around me. That’s when I kind of realized I was living the wrong way.”

Maragos also noted how his coming to Jesus saved his life.

In all, religion has been a very important part of the Eagles’ success as it has brought the players closer together as a team and as individuals.

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