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Republican Rep. Riley Moore said the United States could take a range of actions – including sanctions and "even kinetic military action" – in response to what he called the "genocide" of Christians in Nigeria.
Trump designated Moore, a member of the Appropriations Committee from West Virginia, along with Chairman Tom Cole, R-Okla., to lead an investigation into the killing of Christians by Islamist militants in the African nation.
WASHINGTON—If the Nigerian government does not take action to protect Christians from persecution, President Donald Trump is warning that the United States may go in “guns a-blazing” to “completely wipe out the Islamic terrorists” murdering Christians.
“I am hereby instructing our Department of War to prepare for possible action,” Trump said on Wednesday evening in a video message posted to social media. “If we attack, it will be fast, vicious, and sweet.”
WASHINGTON — Rep. Riley Moore is pushing a resolution “condemning” the slaughter of Christians in Nigeria after President Trump threatened to enter with US military forces “guns a-blazing” to halt Islamic extremists.
It is great to be with you here at In Defense of Christians. Your work stands like a shining city on the hill in a time of darkness. You remind us all that the call to defend our brothers and sisters in Christ is not optional, but essential.
Just before Charlie Kirk was tragically murdered last week, he was asked this question which now echoes in my mind: “If you could be remembered for one thing, what would it be?”
At a celebration in North Dakota on the 110th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, future President Theodore Roosevelt told those gathered: “We have fallen heirs to the most glorious heritage a people ever received, and each one must do his part if we wish to show that the nation is worthy of its good fortune.” President Roosevelt would do his part in stewarding our tremendous national heritage by protecting more public land than any other president in American history.
CULTURE WARRIOR — Pat Buchanan may have lost the 1992 GOP presidential nomination, but it appears he won the war.
More than three decades after his quixotic primary bid against President George H.W. Bush, the former Nixon aide is experiencing a rebirth of sorts as a new generation of conservatives discovers the parallels between the paleoconservative former television pundit’s right-wing populism and the key tenets of Donald Trump’s MAGA ideology.
This is a lightly edited version of a speech that was given at the National Conservatism Conference on September 3, 2025.
The column below, authored by Representative Riley Moore and Kevin Roberts, ran on September 2, 2025 in The American Conservative.
Rep. Riley Moore (R-WV) sent a letter to President Donald Trump Thursday urging him to award Patrick J. Buchanan the Presidential Medal of Freedom, The American Conservative has learned.