Todd Starnes appeared on the AFA’s “Today’s Issues” radio program last week to discuss the release of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl where he suggested that President Obama has “deserted” the United States of America.
Claiming that Bergdahl is a traitor who had betrayed his country, Starnes declared that “this soldier may not be the only one who has deserted; I think President Obama has deserted his obligations and responsibilities as President of the United States of America.”
AFA president Tim Wildmon agreed, asserting that he feels like he is “living in the Twilight Zone” because “it’s as if our own president is against our country … I look at what’s going on and I go ‘whose side is this guy on?'”
While Wildmon predicted that this story would help the Republicans in the midterm elections because “Democrats are scurrying like rats on a ship that’s on fire” to distance themselves from this story, Starnes simply stated that “I cannot wait for the day that we have a president that loves America”:
