{"id":2262645,"date":"2024-06-07T19:58:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T23:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/did-comedian-russell-brand-endorse-president-trump\/"},"modified":"2024-06-07T20:00:04","modified_gmt":"2024-06-08T00:00:04","slug":"did-comedian-russell-brand-endorse-president-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/did-comedian-russell-brand-endorse-president-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Comedian Russell Brand Endorse President Trump?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdid-comedian-russell-brand-endorse-president-trump%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2262645&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In this article,\u2062 comedian Russell \u2063Brand is interviewed about his opinion\u200d on the upcoming 2024 \u200dpresidential election between Joe Biden and Donald Trump. Brand \u2062expresses his belief \u2064that those\u200d who care about democracy\u200b and freedom should vote for Trump despite the establishment media&#8217;s \u200dportrayal of him as\u200b a threat. \u200cHe also discusses\u2064 the dangers of &#8220;technological feudalism&#8221; and references George Orwell&#8217;s novel\u2063 &#8220;1984.&#8221; Brand recently \u200bbecame a Christian and believes that voting for Trump is necessary for freedom from oppression. The article ends with a message from the staff at The Western Journal\u200b urging \u2063readers to support\u200d their coverage of the 2024 election.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<header> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/commentary\/\">  Commentary <\/a>   <span> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/michael-schwarz\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <span>   By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/michael-schwarz\/%20\"><span>Michael Schwarz<\/span><\/a> <\/span> <span>   June 7, 2024 at 2:11pm <\/span> <\/span>  <\/header>\n<section>\n<p>The more the establishment reveals its totalitarian intentions, the greater the spiritual awakening among freedom-loving people across the world.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/russell-brand-its-choice-between-trump-biden-only-one-candidate-protect-democracy-freedom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox News<\/a>, longtime comedian and actor Russell Brand, host of the popular \u201cStay Free with Russell Brand\u201d podcast on Rumble, believes that freedom-lovers have only one plausible option in the 2024 presidential election contest between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn a straight choice between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, if you care about democracy, if you care about freedom, I don\u2019t know how you could do anything other than vote for Donald Trump for precisely the reasons that they claim that you can\u2019t,\u201d Brand told Fox News\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/person\/p\/elizabeth-pipko\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elizabeth Pipko<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Brand\u2019s conversation with Pipko, an author and former model who currently serves as spokeswoman for the Republican National Committee, was set to premiere on Friday\u2019s episode of his podcast.<\/p>\n<p>To explain his choice of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-pledges-arizona-crowd-rescind-bidens-weak-border-executive-order-day-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump<\/a> over Biden, Brand first cited the establishment media\u2019s anti-Trump histrionics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey act as if a vote for Donald Trump is almost like you\u2019re directly voting for Armageddon, like you see hysterical performances outside of courtrooms, endless MSNBC bombast,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Then, Brand conjured chilling images reminiscent of those found in history\u2019s most famous dystopian novel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I\u2019m starting to think that no, a greater threat to democracy is this kind of technological feudalism, that tells you that it cares about you and that it\u2019s protecting vulnerable people, all the while increasing censorship, increasing the funding of wars, increasing the division between ordinary Americans,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTechnological feudalism\u201d should remind readers of English author George Orwell\u2019s \u201c1984.\u201d In that classic novel \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-versus-biden-revisited-75th-anniversary-orwells-1984\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">published 75 years ago<\/a> on Saturday \u2014 Orwell depicted a nightmarish future in which a sinister regime used tools of surveillance and censorship such as \u201cBig Brother\u201d and the \u201cThought Police\u201d to construct and maintain a totalitarian superstate.<\/p>\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-container\">\n<p>Do you agree with Russell Brand&#8217;s opinion?<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Posterity remembers \u201cBig Brother\u201d and the \u201cThought Police.\u201d But it does not always recall the identities of those who brought about Orwell\u2019s totalitarian revolution in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>In a review of \u201c1984\u201d that appeared in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/1949\/06\/18\/orwell-on-the-future\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New Yorker<\/a> two days after the book\u2019s publication, American author and literary critic Lionel Trilling identified the type of people who ushered in Orwell\u2019s dystopian nightmare.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOrwell tells us,\u201d Trilling wrote, \u201cthat the final oligarchical revolution of the future, which, once established, could never be escaped or countered, will be made not by men who have property to defend but by men of will and intellect, by \u2018the new aristocracy . . . of bureaucrats, scientists, trade-union organizers, publicity experts, sociologists, teachers, journalists, and professional politicians.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If Orwell\u2019s \u201cnew aristocracy\u201d responsible for the \u201cfinal oligarchical revolution\u201d does not describe the modern establishment and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/fox-news-cameras-show-real-impact-bidens-border-executive-order\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Biden<\/a> coalition, then one can hardly imagine what would.<\/p>\n<p>Brand had \u201c1984\u201d on his mind when he spoke to Pipko.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe idea of this \u2026 Orwellian nightmare continuing all the while they\u2019re telling you that they\u2019re helping you, is a far greater threat than their constant portrayal of Trump as a mad strongman figure, a kind of twenty-first-century reiteration of the despotism of the last century,\u201d he said according to Fox News. \u201cFor me, what we are facing now is a bigger threat than that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A former hedonist best known by movie audiences for his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1258970\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">supporting roles<\/a> in bawdy comedies such as \u201cForgetting Sarah Marshall\u201d (2008) and \u201cGet Him to the Greek\u201d (2010), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/conservatives-speak-russell-brand-accused-raping-4-women-including-teen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brand<\/a> faced allegations of rape, sexual assault and emotional abuse, according to a September report in the U.K.\u2019s The Times.<\/p>\n<p>That report immediately raised <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/governments-news-outlets-social-media-giants-targeting-russell-brand\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">suspicions<\/a> that the establishment media had targeted Brand because of his large platform and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-blasts-fox-news-during-interview-on-network-tucker-must-be-smiling\/\" title=\"Trump criticizes Fox News in interview, Tucker Carlson likely pleased.\">anti-establishment views<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As of Friday, Brand had close to two million followers on <a href=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/c\/russellbrand\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rumble<\/a>. In recent weeks, he has interviewed other prominent anti-establishment figures such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/donald-trump-jr-nikki-haley-dads-vp-wont-happen-watch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump Jr.<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/tulsi-gabbard-asked-vp-gop-ticket-2024-think-every-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tulsi Gabbard<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Happily, no matter the outcome of the 2024 election, Brand has embraced humankind\u2019s only source of peace and hope. In April, he turned to Christ.<\/p>\n<p>On May 27, the former hedonist marked his first month as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/interview-rev-michael-f-bird-role-christian-political-witness-perilous-times\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Christian<\/a>. In a video posted to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-new-acting-attorney-general-jeff-rosen-recently-wrote-an-essay-on-foreign-influence-in-us-elections-this-tells-us-a-little-about-his-knowledge-of-whats-going-on-today\/\" title=\"The New Acting Attorney General Jeff Rosen Recently Wrote an Essay on Foreign Influence in US Elections \u2013 This Tells Us A Little About His Knowledge of What\u2019s Going On Today\">social media platform<\/a> X, he spoke of \u201crepentance\u201d and \u201csurrender\u201d to \u201can ever-present, internal and accessible Jesus.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">One month as a Christian, and already\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1wBt9CJYaG\">pic.twitter.com\/1wBt9CJYaG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Russell Brand (@rustyrockets) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rustyrockets\/status\/1795105034566287429?\">May 27, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In short, Brand has acknowledged that Jesus offers freedom from sin and spiritual death. The Lord taught us to seek Heaven first, and earthly good will follow. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Matthew+6%3A33&#038;version=ESV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Matthew 6:33<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>With that in mind, Brand also knows that freedom from Biden\u2019s Orwellian oppression will require voting for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/months-admitting-maybe-trump-answer-top-rapper-says-black-community-now-identifying-45\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div>\n<p><b><i>An Important Message from Our Staff:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span>In just a few months, the world is going to change forever. The 2024 election is the single most important election of our lifetime. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>We here at The Western Journal are committed to covering it in a way the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/caitlin-clark-lands-historic-nike-shoe-deal-worth-millions-just-before-her-rookie-season-kicks-off\/\" title=\"Caitlin Clark Secures Multi-Million Dollar Nike Deal Ahead of Rookie Season Kickoff\">establishment media simply<\/a> will not: We will tell the truth, and they will lie.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>But Big Tech and the elites don\u2019t want the truth out. That\u2019s why they have cut us off from 90% of advertisers. Imagine if someone cut your monthly income by 90%. That\u2019s what they\u2019ve done to people like us. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>As a staff, we are asking you to <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/subscribe\/?utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><i><span>join us<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>  to fight this once-in-a-lifetime fight. Without you not only will The Western Journal fail, but America will fail also. As Benjamin Franklin said, \u201cWe must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Will you support The Western Journal today and <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/subscribe\/?utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><i><span>become a member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>A Western Journal <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/subscribe\/?utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><i><span>Membership<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>  costs less than one coffee and breakfast sandwich each month, and it gets you access to ALL of our content \u2014 news, commentary, and premium articles. You\u2019ll experience a radically reduced number of ads, and most importantly you will be vitally supporting the fight for America\u2019s soul in 2024.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>This is the time. 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He has published one book and numerous essays on Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and the Early U.S. Republic. He loves dogs, baseball, and freedom. After meandering spiritually through most of early adulthood, he has rediscovered his faith in midlife and is eager to continue learning about it from the great Christian thinkers.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>  Michael Schwarz holds a Ph.D. in History and has taught at multiple colleges and universities. He has published one book and numerous essays on Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and the Early U.S. Republic. He loves dogs, baseball, and freedom. After meandering spiritually through most of early adulthood, he has rediscovered his faith in midlife and is eager to continue learning about it from the great Christian thinkers. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commentary by Michael Schwarz, June 7, 2024: As the establishment shows its totalitarian side, a global spiritual awakening grows among those cherishing freedom. 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