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Shutdown Finally Over, Protecting Nigerian Christians & ANTIFA Violence Targets Turning Point

Published | Video Starts at 21:43

In other instances, they actually use the law to facilitate the persecution. But after I filed the legislation and I began pressing the administration to designate Nigeria as a country of particular concern, President Trump did so, and he sent out a tweet [designating Nigeria as a country of particular concern]. here's what his tweet says. It says Christianity is facing an existential threat in Nigeria. Thousands of Christians are being killed. Radical Islamists are responsible for this mass slaughter. (21:43–21:47)

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