Apparently it's horribly offensive to some in the leftist media that our president sees Christians being slaughtered in Africa and is speaking out in an attempt to stop it. On CNN's NewsNight With Abby Phillip on Monday, the host expressed her outrage over Trump's focus on the mass killings of Christians in Nigeria by Muslim terrorists, and also ripped his "race based" policy of granting asylum to white South Africans, who have also been victims of violence in their country. This comes one day after MSNBC's Reverend Al Sharpton also went after Trump for trying to save Christians in Nigeria.
Phillip quoted statistics from an Associated Press article attempting to "fact check" Ted Cruz on the slaughter of Christians, which was headlined “A US senator claims ‘Christian mass murder’ is occurring in Nigeria. The data disagrees.”
Phillip said the data from that article showed Muslims are also being killed in Nigeria by Muslim terrorists, as if that makes the slaughter of Christians not so bad. This prompted the first of many confrontations between Phillip and Scott Jennings.
JENNINGS: I don't think you can minimize this, Abby. There's been about 100,000, upwards of 100,000...
PHILLIP: Hold on a second.
JENNINGS: Seven thousand this year. It's a real deal.
PHILLIP: Hold on a second, Scott. I am not minimize -- just because I'm putting facts on the table, doesn't mean that I'm minimizing the deaths of anyone. ... It's called information. Information is okay to consume. Like, it's fine to say that it is both bad that Christians are being killed and also it is bad that Muslims are being killed. Are you able to say that?
JENNINGS: Here's what I'm able to say. Upwards of a hundred thousand Christians in Nigeria have been slaughtered. It is a genocide.
PHILLIP: Okay.
JENNINGS: The same people who are worried about --
PHILLIP: Okay. So, hold on a second.
Next, if you can believe it, Panelist David Hogg then chimed in, and went after Jennings for not giving Phillip a yes or no answer to her question.
HOGG: The question that you were just asked has a simple yes or no answer and you decided to drag it on. You just condemn that this is --
JENNINGS: I don't want anyone to die, but I'm telling you right now, Christians are being systematically slaughtered and they have been for years and nobody cares until Donald Trump.
Phillip also repeated reports that Trump saw a report on Fox News about the situation in Nigeria and then issued his threat to send in troops, as if this had never been talked about before, but this has been in the spotlight for Republicans. Back in September, Senator Ted Cruz introduced the Nigeria Religious Freedom Accountability Act of 2025. The bill protects Christians and other religious minorities being persecuted in Nigeria.
Cruz has pointed out that since 2009 52,000 Nigerian Christians have been murdered by jihadists and over 20,000 Christian churches and religious-based institutions have been destroyed, and on June 13 more than 200 Christians were murdered by Fulani jihadists in a Nigerian village.
Next on the Phillip hit list was Trump's "race-based" policy, started in February, of granting asylum to white South Africans who have been targeted in their country for being white. She wondered if Trump would grant Nigeria's black Christians the same opportunity, while appearing anxious to minimize the plight of white South Africans. She asked, "What about the black Christian Nigerians? Are they going to get special status if they're being persecuted?... They (white South Africans) are not the victims of genocide..." And finally she said, "It's a race-based policy of South Africa. I'm curious if Trump will extend that same grace and preference to Nigerians who he claims are also facing persecution."
Phillip should check out the release put out by the White House in May, documenting the discrimination and violence targeted at the innocent minority in South Africa.
This is really sick stuff and so sad. Yet another example of the bias leftist media being more concerned about trying to show that Donald Trump is a bigot and a racist, at the expense of acknowledging his attempts to save those who are being brutally murdered and abused.
