Marco Rubio is a Catholic, not Mormon. Christopher Hale, the man pushing this lie, also pushed a story in April claiming Pentagon official Elbridge Colby has threatened Cardinal Pierre in a 2026 meeting, which turned out to be fake. What is Hale's goal here? This is what I'm going to talk about with him. This is what I'm going on in Catholic. I'm going to talk about with him. This Christopher Hale guy, what is his angle? What is it going on? Is there an op at play?

I'm not totally sure.

We're going to bring on Wade here to discuss. Let's see. Hey, Wade, can you hear me? I can't take. Oh, and we can hear you. We're in business. We're in business. Well, Wade, thank you very much for coming on today. Look, people probably saw you, you know, I think it was Wednesday or Thursday, and we tried to previously have you on.

Obviously, we had some tragic audio issues. So I'm very glad to have you back on. And your thread, this is the thread that caught my eye, was this thread on Christopher Hale. Now, of course, yeah, thanks for having me on, Tate. I appreciate it. Yeah, absolutely. Now, you know, granted, a lot of people have probably seen stuff from christopher hale and there's not entirely sure what to make of him

um maybe you could give people a quick intro of who you are what you do and sort of what this whole

saga is really about and what it says about this current moment right yeah so i'm wade surrell

i'm a 23 year old recent catholic convert who works for LifeSight News as their media and Pentagon correspondent.

So Christopher Hale, a lot of people have seen him on Twitter, and he sort of presents himself as this

well-meaning and legitimate Catholic journalist who's just presenting the facts about MAGA and about

their treatment of Catholics and about how Catholic the MAGA movement

really is. And of course he paints this in a negative light. He tries to agitate Catholics against

the MAGA movement. And so you can do some cursory digging into who this guy really is, but I think

it's important first to point out the stories that he's pushed recently.

So last week, just before Marco Rubio met with Pope Leo, he claimed that Marco Rubio is Mormon.

So this tweet blew up because of course you can just Google this information.

Marco Rubio is not Mormon.

He's Catholic.

Marco Rubio attended a Mormon church in his teenage years, so he was Mormon for a little bit,

and then converted to Catholicism and attends a Catholic church.

So Marco Rubio is Catholic.

Obviously, that's just like straight up disinformation.

And of course, when he's pushed on this, everyone in the replies is saying, this just like blatantly isn't true.

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