In 2023, Right Wing Watch posted a clip of former Trump administration official and unabashed Christian nationalist William Wolfe declaring that Christians were "getting close” to a point where they will need to “heed the call to arms."
When we posted that clip on RWW's social media accounts, Wolfe responded by bragging that his comments were "very based" while derisively thanking us for sharing them. But once criticism began rolling in, Wolfe changed his tune:
Shortly thereafter, once Christians began to voice criticism of Wolfe's comments, Wolfe pivoted to attacking Right Wing Watch, filling his timeline with posts calling us God-hating pagans, evil liars, and a hateful anti-Christian organization that wants to criminalize Christianity—a ridiculously false claim for an organization committed to religious freedom and whose board and staff include Christians.
On top of that, Wolfe and his defenders began claiming that Right Wing Watch had posted a "hit job" by taking his comments "out of context" to misrepresent what he said.
Since then, Wolfe, who now runs the Center For Baptist Leadership, has become a hard-line anti-immigrant activist who is growing increasingly fanatical in his support for the Trump administration's harsh deportation policies. In this capacity, Wolfe recently delivered a speech entitled "The Church's Response to Mass Immigration" during which he called for millions of immigrants to be deported to ensure that his children "grow up in a country where they're not minorities."
Once again, Right Wing Watch posted that clip on social media and, once again, Wolfe followed exactly the same pattern.
First, Wolfe stood by his comments.
Then he called us "demons" for posting it.
And then he insisted that he didn't actually say "what Right Wing Watch claims I did in their misleading header."
Wolfe's claim that he didn't say exactly what we reported is absurd, given that the accompanying video demonstrates that he did precisely that.
For context, Wolfe was complaining that he recently went to the DMV and was outraged to find that he was "the only person in line that day speaking English," which is what prompted the comment that we posted.
"I'm a Bible-believing Christian, and we're gonna get into why Bible-believing Christians can very easily say [to immigrants], 'It's time for you to go,'" Wolfe said. "That just sort of rubbed me the wrong way, because I have three boys—and I got a fourth boy on the way—and my boys all look like me and I want my children to grow up in a country where they're not minorities."
"I unapologetically, and I'm sorry if this offends anybody here or anybody who listens to this—I am actually not sorry—I want my boys to grow up in a country where they don't look like they're the foreigners here," Wolfe added. "That's a good and normal and reasonable thing and there's nothing about my Christian faith that says I can't want that or desire that for myself and for my children."
Wolfe was very clearly advocating for millions of immigrants to be deported so that America can remain a majority white country, one in which his children won't become a minority or look like foreigners. And that is exactly what we posted.
