57 Facts About Chuck Baldwin

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Charles Obadiah Baldwin was born on May 3,1952 and is an American right-wing politician, radio host, and founder-former pastor of Crossroad Baptist Church in Pensacola, Florida.

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Chuck Baldwin was the presidential nominee of the Constitution Party for the 2008 US presidential election and had previously been its nominee for vice president in 2004.

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However, during the 2000 campaign of Republican George W Bush for US president, Baldwin left the party and began a long period of criticism of Bush.

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Chuck Baldwin endorsed US Representative Ron Paul for the 2008 Republican nomination for president, and Paul in turn endorsed Chuck Baldwin for the presidency in the 2008 general election.

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Chuck Baldwin identifies as an anti-Zionist, believing that Zionism is the main threat to the US Chuck Baldwin writes that Zionists control the media, "the mainstream Christian religion, and the US government" and that Zionism is responsible for the ills of US society and culture.

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Chuck Baldwin was born in La Porte, Indiana on May 3,1952, from Edwin J "Ed" Baldwin and his second wife, Ruth.

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Chuck Baldwin graduated from La Porte High School in 1971 and attended Midwestern Baptist College in Pontiac, Michigan, for two years.

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Chuck Baldwin met Connie Kay Cole there and married her on June 2,1973.

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Chuck Baldwin received unaccredited bachelor's and master's degrees in theology through correspondence programs from Christian Bible College of Rocky Mount, North Carolina.

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From 1980 to 1984, Chuck Baldwin served as Pensacola chairman and then state executive director of the Florida Moral Majority, organized by the Rev Jerry Falwell.

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Chuck Baldwin helped carry the state twice for Reagan electors; he says he helped Falwell register some 50,000 Christian conservative voters.

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Chuck Baldwin considered himself an independent affiliated with the Constitution Party.

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Chuck Baldwin writes a semiweekly editorial column carried on its website, Chuckbaldwinlive.

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Chuck Baldwin has appeared on numerous television shows and radio shows, including on MSNBC and CNN, and in churches across the country.

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Chuck Baldwin was the keynote speaker for the 50th anniversary of D-Day at Naval Air Station Pensacola.

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In 2006, Chuck Baldwin said his only organizational memberships were in his church, the Constitution Party, Gun Owners of America, and the National Rifle Association.

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Chuck Baldwin voted in favor of disaffiliation, favoring the more conservative position.

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Chuck Baldwin remained with the party, but several conservative state parties subsequently voted to leave the national party, believing it to have unacceptably compromised the anti-abortion plank of its platform; rump factions have been orchestrated by the national Constitution Party in some of these states.

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Chuck Baldwin was nominated on April 26,2008, after what was described as the most contentious battle in the party's 16-year history.

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Chuck Baldwin received 383.8 votes, ahead of Keyes, who drew 125.7 votes from delegates; Keyes had abandoned the Republicans for the Constitution Party, much as Baldwin had done in 2000.

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Party members such as national chairman Jim Clymer said Chuck Baldwin's stands were more in line with party thinking.

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Chuck Baldwin asked the convention to nominate bankruptcy attorney Darrell Castle of Tennessee as his running mate, and this request was honored.

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Chuck Baldwin wrote specifically against the candidacies of Barack Obama and John McCain, and those of vice-presidential nominees Sarah Palin and Joe Biden.

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In 2010, Chuck Baldwin retired from his position as pastor of Crossroad Baptist Church and announced his intention to move with his extended family to Montana, because he believed God had told him that the mountain states were the "tip of the spear in the freedom fight".

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Gaede described on the Stormfront website how Chuck Baldwin's sermons move her to tears.

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In 2011, Chuck Baldwin spoke at a survivalist expo in the Flathead Valley, hosted by Flathead Liberty Bell, an organization led by former militia leader David Burgert, alongside Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the right-wing Oath Keepers movement.

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Chuck Baldwin withdrew his candidacy for lieutenant governor on February 12,2012, several months before the June primary.

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In January 2013, Chuck Baldwin launched a network of Second Amendment Pastors, which resists the registration of firearms.

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Also in 2013, Chuck Baldwin became the national chaplain of the anti-government Oath Keepers group.

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Chuck Baldwin resigned from his Oath Keepers position in April 2020, due to the group's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Chuck Baldwin called Anthony Fauci a "Big Pharma fascist" in 2020.

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Chuck Baldwin believes that America has evolved into "a matriarchal society" and that it is losing the "inner toughness" of masculinity.

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Chuck Baldwin supports American sovereignty and is an opponent of what he sees as the New World Order.

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Chuck Baldwin has stated that fighting against one-world government is his top priority.

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Chuck Baldwin believes globalism in government has led to many connected threats and issues, among which he lists illegal immigration, the United Nations, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the North American Free Trade Agreement, CAFTA, the North American Union, the Trans-Texas Corridor, the Iraq War, China, the Security and Prosperity Partnership, and the Free Trade Area of the Americas.

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Chuck Baldwin believed that "the invasion and occupation of Iraq was absolutely unnecessary" and said his presidency would result in troop withdrawal from Iraq.

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Chuck Baldwin has long been a critic of neoconservatism, and argues that recent wars that America has fought in the middle east are "waged on behalf of the Zionist state" [of Israel].

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Chuck Baldwin is especially critical of attempts at regime change in Iraq, Libya, Syria and Iran, considering American involvement therein to be intended to assist Israel in the creation of a "Greater Israel" that would make "Israel the dominant political and military force in the region".

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Chuck Baldwin opposes Donald Trump, calling him a "Zionist puppet"; he believes that Trump has betrayed his previous campaign promises to keep America out of wars, even going so far as to argue that "Trump is making all of the overtures of taking us into the Third World War" and speaking favorably of General Smedley Butler's anti-war book War is a Racket.

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Chuck Baldwin believes that the "castrated churches" of America are terrified of "Judaizers".

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Chuck Baldwin argues that Israel is a fascist apartheid state that "commits mass murder against defenseless Palestinians" and is responsible for the deaths of innocent Palestinians and hundreds of thousands of other Arabs, as well as thousands of Americans.

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Chuck Baldwin considers Israel a creation of the Jewish Rothschild dynasty, to which he ascribes much of the blame for the Russian Revolution.

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Chuck Baldwin argues that "Christian Zionists" are influenced by the Scofield Bible, which he considers heretical.

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Chuck Baldwin is highly critical of media personality Ben Shapiro, calling him a "Zionist Christ-rejecting blasphemer", comparing him with the Pharisees, and arguing that Shapiro is not a true conservative.

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Chuck Baldwin says he would end all federal income taxes and phase out the Internal Revenue Service.

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Chuck Baldwin has said that as president he would streamline the federal government and tap oil reserves in Alaska, the Dakotas, and the Gulf of Mexico.

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Chuck Baldwin believes the United States should return to the gold standard.

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Chuck Baldwin believes that "the South was right in the War Between the States", and that the leaders of the Confederacy were not racists.

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Chuck Baldwin uses the term "War for Southern Independence" and "War of Northern Agression".

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Chuck Baldwin criticized George W Bush's failure to rescind executive orders by Bill Clinton that Baldwin argued undermined states' rights and private property rights.

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Chuck Baldwin "believe[s] the federal 'war on terror' and 'war on drugs' are mostly a cover for power-hungry, Big Government zealots to trample constitutional government and squash freedoms and liberties, which are supposed to be protected by the Bill of Rights and Declaration of Independence".

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Chuck Baldwin opposes the Patriot Act and related legislation and orders, saying that it "deprives the people of their rights secured under the Fourth and Fifth Amendments under the guise of 'combating terrorism' or 'protecting national security".

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Chuck Baldwin believes that the right to keep and bear arms should not be infringed by the government:.

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Chuck Baldwin had already begun promoting militia movements on his radio show as early as 1995.

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Chuck Baldwin says that in his opinion, people like Morris Dees, head of the Southern Poverty Law Center, try to "pander the market of fear, trying to convince everybody that anyone with a gun, any person who wants to own a gun, and anyone who would consider themselves part of a citizen militia is a threat to our government and to our society".

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Chuck Baldwin takes a critical view of the federal government's handling of Randy Weaver, the Branch Davidians, and Hutaree.

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Chuck Baldwin has received two honorary doctor of divinity degrees, from Christian Bible College and from Trinity Baptist College in Jacksonville, Florida.