The America left LOVES to show their concern about a political prisoner — when it advances a political cause. But that ‘deep concern’ and enthusiasm completely evaporates the second it doesn’t.
Prime example: remember the basketball player that was arrested in 2022 by Russia for drug charges when even she admitted she brought a marijuana vape across international borders? The stories about her trial and incarceration were endless, right up until Biden bargained for her freedom by releasing a Russian war criminal being held for arms dealing. Arms dealer to Russia while the rest of the world tries to squeeze Russia for their war in Ukraine. What could possibly go wrong?
The press was far less interested in the fact that Marine Paul Wheelan waited another two years for his release, as part of a larger prisoner swap. They’re even less interested in praising Trump for his successful efforts at setting political prisoners (including foreign nationals in places like Venezuela and China!) free.
But right from the beginning, Trump has prioritized repatriating Americans on foreign soil, from Otto Warmbier in North Korea (and the remaining American war dead there), to the story we shared earlier this year about Seb Gorka bragging on the fact that 108 American hostages have been repatriated since Trump returned to the White House.
It’s not just American hostages whose freedom he is helping secure. Several months ago he was appealing to China to release pastor Jin Mingri who was arrested on one of the biggest crackdowns against Christianity we have seen in the Xi tenure.
China has released the founder of an underground church who has been detained since October last year, his church and family said yesterday, after US President Donald Trump raised his case with Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平).
Jin Mingri (金明日) is the founder of Zion Church, one of China’s unregistered churches that some Christians choose to worship at instead of state-sanctioned ones regulated by the Chinese government.
Jin was detained along with other church members on Oct. 10 last year on “suspicion of the illegal use of information networks.”
Trump raised his case when he visited Xi in May, and had said the Chinese president would “strongly consider” releasing him.
On Saturday, rights group ChinaAid said in a statement that Jin had arrived in Los Angeles after being released from detention in China.
The pastor was told by Chinese officials that his release “resulted from discussions between US President Donald J Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, and was presented as a goodwill gesture coinciding with America’s Independence Day,” the statement said.
“We thank God for this tremendous miracle,” Jin’s daughter, Grace Jin Drexel (金婷雅), said in a statement. “We hope this is a signal of a positive turn for people of faith in China and relations between our two nations.”
Her statement thanked Trump and his administration “for their tremendous leadership.” — Taipei Times
You can read more about the crackdown and his arrest from the story we published last October: China Cracks Down HARD On Christian Churches… AgainIt’s the biggest wave of arrests of Christian leaders since 2018
You will notice that when he fled China for refuge, he came to America. It’s a good thing the Trump administration takes religious freedom more than Biden did when his admiration explicitly targeted Christian groups, or Obama, who fought to revoke the asylum that courts and granted to the Christian Romeike family when they agreed they deserved relief from the religious persecution they were getting from a hostile German government. (Covered here: Homeschoolers Face Ghosts of the Third Reich)
Even Trump never claimed he lived a life worthy of a Christian exemplar. But so far as defending the freedoms of others to live their faith? He’s far friendlier to it than anyone elected on the other team has been of late.
Don’t take our word for it, we’ve got a DOJ report giving chapter and verse with original source evidence included right here:
The 2026 Report by the Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias
Pursuant to Executive Order 14202
