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Author and filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza visited the headquarters campus of the Philadelphia Trumpet in May. He spoke at Armstrong Auditorium, in a Trumpet Daily interview and in his own subsequent podcast about the force exerted on America by radical leftists, especially Barack Obama.

D’Souza toured the auditorium’s latest archaeology exhibit and then attended a showing of Celtic Throne. The Irish dance production, presented by the Philadelphia Church of God, publisher of the Trumpet, portrays the historical connections between the ancient Israelites and the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland and Israel. That evening, after students from Herbert W. Armstrong College and Imperial Academy sang the full four verses of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” he delivered an at times humorous and at times pointed message in Armstrong Auditorium titled “Why Fight for America.”

Delivered without notes or a lectern, D’Souza shared his personal experiences growing up in India, moving to the United States as an exchange student, coming to believe in “the American dream,” and becoming involved in politics (he worked in the Reagan White House). He dwelt on his prosecution and imprisonment for breaking campaign finance laws and what he learned from the experience, as well as the fact that what he suffered was almost certainly retribution from Barack Obama for D’Souza’s 2012 film, which is still his most popular: 2016: Obama’s America.

D’Souza warned that the problem with radical liberals is the fact that conservatives are allowing and enabling them, acting as though they are too “principled” to fight back effectively and powerfully like President Donald Trump. D’Souza closed out the evening by appearing in the lobby to meet and chat with attendees.

The next day, Trumpet Daily host Stephen Flurry interviewed D’Souza about everything from his impressions of the archaeology exhibit and Celtic Throne, to his views on what makes America exceptional, to The Roots of Obama’s Rage (a book that especially caught the eye of the Trumpet staff when it was published in 2010), to Obama’s America and his future filmmaking projects, to the gravity of the dangers Americans now face. The interview, broadcast in two parts, is available at theTrumpet.com/Stephen-Flurry.