Mark Walker’s nomination to be religious freedom ambassador has been slow-walked by Senate Republicans for many months:
Donald Trump is the only President in history that has had recess appointments blocked by his own party.
— C3 (@C_3C_3) December 12, 2025
Think about that.
Traitors.
They held 2 minute pro forma sessions every few days during vacation to block recess his appointments.
Sickening.pic.twitter.com/ZH9tjnFXbe
I can’t imagine what the Senate Republicans find objectionable about Walker.
Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Jim Risch, has held up Walkers confirmation.
Pastor Andrew Brunson, who was held in a Turkish prison for two years before Trump secured his release in his first term, penned a letter to Chairman Risch pushing for a confirmation hearing for Walker , which has yet to materialize. Brunson detailed the vital reasons for Walker’s swift confirmation:
“Today, however, I am compelled to raise an urgent alarm: the global persecution of Christians is worsening at an alarming rate. In country after country — Nigeria, Nicaragua, China, Iran, Pakistan, North Korea, and many others — believers are being imprisoned, tortured, displaced, and killed solely because they follow Jesus Christ. Open Doors now estimates that over 380 million Christians live under high or extreme levels of persecution. This is not a marginal issue; it is one of the greatest human-rights crises of our time.”
Religious freedom is important, Fred, as you know. We need to do what we can. Trump needs to have his person in place for this function.
But it’s not just Mark Walker– it’s US Attorneys, judges, other appointees…
The Senate GOP’s biggest prize, once again, was Matt Gaetz. That killed nomination cost Trump severely.
Amen to your last 2 paragraphs, Triad. Add to that the just-passed $900 billion defense authorization bill sends many hundreds of millions more to Ukraine–America First, don’t you know–and removes the explicit prohibition of the Fed using CBDCs (the most totalitarian arrow in the quiver) …And a year into the Trump administration and not one DeepState malfeasant is under arrest! We may have stopped the border invasion and gotten some tiny gains from RFK, but it feels like the Swamp (Sewer) is in control.
Republican leadership is Uniparty. The denial of Trump his appointments is a very clear expression of it. When the “good guys” only claim to being good is that they are not as thoroughly evil as Democrats, you’re in a lot of trouble.
The NDAA, J. Sobran, is yet another expression of what we have seen all along. The Republicans’ congressional leadership has been abysmal. And that is a reflection of the overall state of the Republican caucus in the Senate and in the House. The leadership is bad because many of the individual members are bad.