Apparently, Tucker Carlson thought it would be a good idea to use his platform to attack Franklin Graham, Samaritan’s Purse and the faith-based community. Tucker Carlson made a big mistake.
There are situations that we sometimes have a great deal of familiarity with. The work of Samaritan’s Purse and Franklin Graham is one of those situations for me. Readers here will know of my time spent as a CERT volunteer during national disasters, most of which involve hurricane relief.
I have worked closely with Samaritan’s purse, spent time inside that organization and know the scale of assistance they provide. They are, quite simply, the single most effective emergency response mission in our nation.
On his podcast, Tucker Carlson and guest “Bro” Nathan Apffel spin a conspiracy tale that’s wildly out of touch with reality.
At the same time, they mock Christianity and Christian beliefs while taking aim at Franklin Graham, accusing him, among other things, of profiting from the Samaritan’s Purse mission.
You can watch Carlson and Apffel HERE. I’m not going to promote it, because it is sick, twisted, very dark and full of flat out lies.
Carlson even goes as far as to claim: Franklin Graham has a billionaire doomsday bunker in Alaska which he created from the donations to the organization, Samaritan’s purse has a $2.5 billion war chest and ownership of private airplanes worth $15o million which Graham and his leadership use for personal travel and self-enrichment.
Let me be very specific and very clear, every single thing they claim is false; demonstrably false and easily disproven for anyone who spent even five-minutes looking at the IRS filings of the organization [SEE HERE].
Why Tucker Carlson would choose to attack Franklin Graham and Samaritan’s Purse is a bewildering question. President Trump’s decision to ostracize Carlson from any contact with the White House completely makes sense now.
Listening to the dark voices and whispers on your shoulder, is dangerous. That internal gnawing inside the spirit of Carlson is NOT the voice of God.
♦ Starting with the conspiracy theory first, Carlson claims Franklin Graham holds a doomsday bunker in Alaska. This is False.
Franklin Graham hosts “Marriage Encounter” events in Alaska, near his own small property (less than a quarter acre). The events are for military husbands and wives who are in desperate need of marital support, before the marriage collapses.
Usually this is a husband and wife in crisis, often driven by the stress of military service, extended absences, financial pressures, pornography and/or serious disturbing events that have fractured the marriage.
Franklin Graham and his entire ministry believe that marriage is a sacrament, and every effort must be made between spouses to hold on to their relationship with God. The Marriage Encounter events are designed specifically to renew Christianity in the relationship and save the marriage.
The area in Alaska is not an “end times” bunker complex. It is a few buildings, cabins on a lake, in a very remote area where the military family marriage encounter workshops take place. There are no distractions, and the remote area is next to a small quarter acre plot where Franklin Graham has a home.
The entire area is very remote and does not have municipal electricity. They use generators for power. The 60,000 gal above ground diesel storage is brought in to power the generators that provide electricity to the venue. The remote area is only habitable for 3 months in the summer. It is part of the Samaritans Purse mission. The small native community around the area also benefits from the provision of electricity.
I am going to be quoting from the IRS 990 forms that are available HERE:
♦ Next, the issue of compensation. Franklin Graham received $466,000 in base compensation and $407,000 in other reportable IRS compensation.
What is “other compensation” as required to be reported by the IRS filing? Food, Lodging, Benefits, Air Travel, charter travel, security, logistics for Franklin Graham’s mission and much more. As outlined in the 990 form.
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♦ Tucker Carlson claims that Samaritan’s Purse has $150 million in private aircraft. That is false!
The $150 million valuation is the total value of all equipment owned and operated by Samaritan’s Purse and includes: Hospital tents, field hospital equipment, semi-trucks, tools, chainsaws, ATVs, small and medium sized trucks, hammers, logistical supplies, food, fuel, front end loaders, backhoes, tractors, pile drivers, portable air conditioners, lumber, MRE’s, all the equipment – the works.
The “equipment” is all the stuff that is dispatched when Samaritans Purse goes on lifesaving emergency disaster operations, in the USA and abroad, with a Christian focus to the mission. They spent $348 million purchasing it, the equipment has depreciated $196 million, it is now worth an estimated $151.8 million. This stuff is not hard to find out.
♦ Tucker claims that Samaritan’s Purse has $2.4 billion in liquid assets. Again, false.
As the 990 shows, the $2.4 billion is the total of all Samaritan’s Purse assets. Land, Buildings, Equipment, accounts, tangible assets, property, leases, everything.
Samaritan’s Purse took in $1.83 billion with the vast majority of it coming from donors ($1.76 billion) all around the world, not just in the USA. They spent $1.1 billion on operational expenses, disaster relief and mission work, leaving them with $746 million residual which is added to the prior year net totaling $2.4 billion in all assets at the end of 2024.
The total assets of the organization including all tangible property, equipment and cash totals $2.4 billion.
Summary: There is no charity more vital, more successful, more faith based and functionally responsible for helping our nation in times of crisis than Samaritans Purse.
Importantly, everything they do is above board, easy to research, easy to inquire about and accessible to anyone who would have questions about any of it.
There is no conspiracy, no hidden agenda and no dark organizational intention other than to help people, spread the word and love of Jesus Christ and show up when people and communities are in crisis. That is what Samaritan’s Purse does, and they are exceptionally efficient doing it.
The organization is a stickler for detail and financial responsibility, and they are light-years more effective than FEMA.
I have no idea what Tucker Carlson hoped to achieve with his attack against Franklin Graham and the people at Samaritan’s Purse; however, one thing is certain – none of it came from a place of light or good. Tucker Carson is on a very dark trajectory, and I have dismissed several issues of his in the past thinking he was just making poor decisions.
This attack on Graham and Samaritan’s Purse, however, is not a poor decision. He is doing this with a willful attempt at deception bearing false witness, and it will not end well.
It is totally understandable why President Trump and the people around him have pushed a great distance from themselves and the dark imaginings of Tucker Carlson.
Without a fully repentant apology from Tucker Carlson toward Franklin Graham and the entire Samaritan’s Purse organization, I will never highlight anything from him again. This time he has just gone too far.
My God, Tucker is in a very dark place and now further proves he has been captured by Satan.
There is no Satan. Of course, forget the fact that “God” supposedly created “Satan” – a flawed angel for whom even “Heaven”… (Heaven!!) wasn’t good enough. Thought “God” was perfect? Eh? Not so much.
I do agree with you when you say, “That girlish, giggly, laugh he did when on Fox. Bizzare.” But I am wondering by what authority you boldly say that “there is no Satan.” And where did the idea that Satan was “a flawed angel” arise?
I do agree with you when you say, “That girlish, giggly, laugh he did when on Fox. Bizzare.” But I am wondering by what authority you boldly say that “there is no Satan.” And where did the idea that Satan was “a flawed angel” arise?
Vile excrement pours unabated from Tucker’s mouth. His thoughts and utterings are non-existent to me.
I thoroughly researched Samaritan’s Purse before donating to this charity. They are the real deal.
I live on Grandfather Mountain which was significantly affected by Hellene. The first and most effective responders were from Samaritan’s Purse. As FEMA, the National Guard, utility companies were missing in action for days to weeks to months, Samaritan’s Purse and locals were out within hours. Many in this region will reflect the same experiences. Thanks especially to Samaritan’s Purse.
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You just lost me Tucker
I already cancelled by subscription with Tucker due to his affinity for Candace Owens and her hateful comments.
I am a proud (please forgive my pride Lord and Savior) monthly donor to Samaritan’s Purse.
We are donors, too!
Loved his daddy, Billy
…and Franklin Graham
has been doing a wonderful job
continuing God’s work.
Who really knew anything about Tucker. He is a media personaility, and since when have they ever been the good guy? Of course, unless you are Rush Limbaugh (love, you man & RIP) Not sure why Tucker has been elevated to anything other than a talking head, and that is the extent of who he is. Trying to confuse all of us with his random targets, that only makes it harder, if you let it, to sleep at night. I for one, do not care, I think Trump is doing a great job, and there are a lot of people who do not want to see him soar and win for the USA,, glad things are in his hands, and not any of the other numbskulls. There is a force, that is dedicated to our/USA destruction. You have to know how to discern, if you can’t do that, just turn people like Tucker and the others off.
Believe it or not, I never really like Tucker. That girlish, giggly, laugh he did when on Fox. Bizzare.
I believe the main thrust of Tucker’s criticism was are you really a “Christian charity” if you are accumulating billions of wealth and using much of that to live a fabulously wealthy lifestyle? We all know that many of those grants given include more salaries to family and friends so that even when they look like much is going to charity it really isn’t. The same grift that the politicians use all the time. We should all remember good old Tammy Faye and that grift back in the day.
Name “ONE THING” the “TUCKER” has done benefitting humanity! As far as I KNOW THE ONLY BENEFICIARY has been TUCKER HIMSELF! The SAME for the rest of the GRIFTERS above!
You are way off if you are comparing Franklin Graham to Tammy Faye
In addition, the above commentary about “Tammy Faye Bakker” is also incomplete and short-sighted — if not cruel.
Tammy Faye was a gay-rights icon, and the product of a broken Pentecostal home. As a “Bible -school” graduate, and later an itinerant accordion player and vocalist with her traveling “evangelist” husband, Jim Bakker, Tammy Faye was far from a manipulative genius.
Tammy Faye suffered for nearly 10-years with colon and later lung cancer, her two husbands had both served lengthy terms in prison for various form of fraud. There is no indication the Tammy Faye was intelligent enough to have been involved in anything — other than doing what she was told and being manipulated by her “handlers”.
Many posters on these on-line formats delight in boosting their own miserable, little lives by being cruel to others — and especially deceased persons, who cannot defend themselves.
Tamy Faye’s entire life was a Greek tragedy. The lessons to be learned therefore are individual, of kind.
NO,
Tucker had the information that shows that what he was spewing was a LIE.
Tucker is a liar. Influencing lazy thinkers that don’t question or look up the facts.
Schools and colleges quit teaching students to question, just accept what they say (propaganda) without question.
So why did Tucker bear false witness? I don’t know. It is killing….a person’s character/reputation.
God does warn about criticizing pastors…..you had better be correct.
You can’t just paint a broad brush that everyone does it, plus “tammy Faye” him.
But, what about you? With your reasoning we could say you’re a grifter, because it takes one to know one.
Maybe Tucker’s faith died at the “WHY?” Why pain, why misery, why poverty, why death, why war, why crime, why loss, etc. Some people just can’t or won’t make the leap of faith that leads on to a relationship with Holy God. Perhaps he’ll find his way back out of his mind maze before it’s too late.
It’s past time for Tucker to do some foot stompin’ on the liar Satan.
Lying sack of crap.
Please stop attempting to re-write Tucker’s nasty and deceptive attack — i.e., by “sanitizing” it. Tucker’s “main thrust” was a volley of false statements that were design to mislead.
With Tucker, it is all about “Tucker, the Great”. Tucker is desperately attempting to carve-out a niche of purported “relevancy” — and, specifically, to find (qua create) a dedicated clientele. The terms “conspiracy theorist” and “contrarian” come to mind. Moreover, this is also the kind of negative thought process that is associated with heavy drug usage.
Tax –
i appreciate your opinion, but… His approach seems disingenuous and designed to create a controversy that isn’t there.
How long have you been beating your wife?
See, I can do what Tucker did in this case.
I never believed that the anti-Christ would be a person…no…”he” is the darkness that has come over the world…”he” is represented in the minds of men. We have to make this our mantra that: “The light shines in the darkness and darkness has not overcome it”. John 1:5…
To hear some of our posters, Tammy Faye was the anti-Christ…or maybe Franklin Graham.
Tucker,Kelly,Owens…all suffer what I call the ‘Father Corapi’ syndrome. It is nothing more than the powerful ability of the camera to destroy a life. Read the story of Fr. Corapi. Or: Jimmy Swaggart, Jim Baker…and never forget Alex Jones. The camera will simply will destroy anyone. Of course its not really a simple camera…its Pride. And who lures us with Pride?
I would respectfully posit a (somewhat) limited exception to placing Jimmy Swaggart entirely in this category.
No doubt, Jimmy Swaggart had had a sexual “(tw)itch” — that may have been initiated or exacerbated by the strictness of his multi-generational Pentecostal background, wherein everything (that is any “fun”) was a sin. Specifically, there is no indication that Jimmy Swaggart had had a sexual relationship with anyone other than his wife until he had reached his mid-50’s. He likely had wanted to experience a degree of sexual license — just to see what this “sinning”-thing was all about — something that many, if not most, American youth had sampled, and thus could put-aside as adults (but, which many don’t).
The important point in assessing the life of someone who is up for criticism should be to view their entire life. There is no indication that Jimmy Swaggart had been anything other than a “straight-arrow” for (i) the first 50 years of his life, and (ii) the last 30-years of his 90-year life. In some respects, the transitory dalliance of his mid-50’s might be viewed as having been a 35-year delayed-reaction.
Wherefore, let us not be too hard Mr. Swaggart’s and his confessed “sins” — let us just take a look in the mirror — occasionally.
God bless you, Sundance, for exposing the depths of pure evil and lies that Tucker proudly promotes.
I fully agree with you. Carlson has crossed my last line. He certainly has shown his dark side which seems to now be his dominant side. I gave up following him about 6 months ago as he has changed from being a champion of truth to nothing more than a click baiter like the others.
Tucker is obviously possessed.
That’s what I thought.
Tucker appears to have crossed over the line into malignant narcissism. Best to always avoid those types or they’ll drag you down into the darkness with them.
People who claim to hear the voice of “God” (whether Christian, Islamic, Jewish, or anything else) are delusional from the start. There is no God or gods. We’d better stop allowing our politicians to refer to this country as “Judeo-Christian” or it will only be a matter of small time before we reach a tipping point and people like Mamdani start referring to this country as “Islamo-Judeo-Christian.” And wait for him and others to start invoking the name of Allah from podiums (if not already), the way Hegseth literally invoked the name of “Jesus Christ” in discussing the Iran War (“conflict” if you prefer) – he needs to knock that off. We’re not a theocracy, we have separation of church and state, and invoking your flavor of religion under color of your office and actions is very, very wrong. It simply opens the door to you know what. plainsenseandsanity.substack.com
Tucker Carlson’s “Christianity”—a bespoke blend of Episcopal inertia, anti-Zionist rants, and Trump-bashing Easter sermons—is a religion entirely of his own making, preached exclusively through his podcast microphone with zero evidence of pew-sitting devotion or any actual church involvement. Adding insult to hypocrisy, there’s a glaring absence of public documentation for his personal charitable giving to any church or Christian cause—no IRS filings, no disclosed tithes, no verified donations—despite his wealth and endless moralizing on faith from the safety of his studio. It’s all performative piety, untethered from sacrifice or accountability.
My take is that this matter boils down to theological issues. Much of the evangelical world believes that the establishment of Israel as a nation-state represents the fulfillment of Biblical prophecy that God will reinstate Israel as a called-out people in the ‘end times’, as a partial means of re-establishing His covenant with them. Other people within the church and the conservative world believe that modern Jewry (traceable to Eastern Europe and central Asia) makes up the main body of globalist networks seeking a one world government, and use an appropriated Jewish identity as cover and leverage to achieve their goals. This is a deeply divisive issue to start with, and it looks like it will not be resolved anytime soon, and the Iran operation exacerbates it to a volume level of 11. But as Sundance suggests, if you have lie about someone to make your argument, you discredit your argument as well as your self.
I’m beginning to wonder about who he bought on his program, Nathan Apffe.
He makes his money trashing Christians.
I wonder if an over abundance of nicotine use ( his company, ALP nicotine pouches) can cause some sort of fantastical thinking or personality changes? He uses a lot of it. Religiosity is also relatively new in Tucker’s life. Started mainly after his demonic encounter while sleeping. He’s become enthusiastic about his bible study and pronouncements of Christianity. His mood swings from I hate the baby-boomers to I’m a Christian and are called to forgive and love. Some people wear their Christianity as a warm comforting enhancement to their personality and other’s use it like a baseball bat against those perceived to not live up to their standards. Tucker seems to wear it like a hair shirt. Something seems to be off with him the past 2 or 3 months. Hope he finds his way. I too cancelled my subscription, I can’t pay to watch a man destroy his career and himself.
I’m a former fan, and subscriber of Tucker – but have totally dropped him, since he went off the rails…
As a Christian, it’s more and more apparent to me, that he is possessed by a demon.
It’s the only possible explanation for this total change. We should pray for him.
Just when you think, Tucker can’t sink any lower!
The Devil is certainly staying busy over in’Hate Trump’s world. I_ve never seen anything like it, tho Democrats started viscerally and irrationally hating, hating, seething at Republican presidents going back to Reagan. But it has really really gotten bad since Bush and Trump.
Insever liked him. I don’t like folks that laugh while trying to make a point about something.
I should have said giggle instead of laugh.
Tucker Carlson has had his head securely tucked up his ass for quite some time.