Tim Ballard

wish I had more with the movie.

Tim Ballard, Paul Hutchinson, Andrew McCoven, Jimmy Rex, Joseph Glee.

And I'll have to ask if we can actually use that for who they are.

But amazing men and women that put up and did it.

yeah.

So right about that time is the time I was researching Tim Ballard and all the work he was doing with anti-trafficking.

Yeah.

So I knew that I could use my platform to also bring awareness to human trafficking and what's going on there.

So why would the church put a non-intellectual property guy at the head of its, an intellectual property lawsuit? The second thing that's interesting is he's known as the fixer.

Um, if you follow Tim Ballard really carefully, guess who the attorney was who was kind of the public, uh, face or the he- lead attorney on the church's legal interactions with Tim Ballard? Guess who it was.

Oh, David Jordan.

Interesting.

David Jordan.

In fact, I, I remember a video where Tim Ballard calls out David Jordan.

So David Jordan is v- he's not Kurt McConkie.

That's something that people get wrong.

Let's see.

It's a drama about Tim Ballard.

Yeah.

So that I mean, that movie did so well.

And yeah, so some of that was kind of eerie.

But then also when I was writing book five, I started researching Tim Ballard and a lot of the work he was doing against human trafficking before that became like a well-known thing with the sound of freedom and all that.

And it was very disturbing to me.

So I wanted to take that mission on my shoulders as well.

He was very much involved in the media on September 10th.

Him and Tim Ballard started Operation Underground.

It was Glenn Beck that funded it.

Tim Ballard had the idea.

And yeah, that's a Operation Underground is rescuing children from human sex trafficking.

I believe their story began in Haiti.

I did interview Tim Ballard there.

Erica lived in China and worked with child sex trafficking victims, according to her.

He was very much involved in the media on September 10th.

Him and Tim Ballard started Operation Underground.

It was Glenn Beck that funded it.

Tim Ballard had the idea.

And yeah, that's a Operation Underground is rescuing children from human sex trafficking.

I believe their story began in Haiti.

I did interview Tim Ballard.

Erica lived in China and worked with child sex trafficking victims, according to her.

Or I think about these other images that John McDonough has produced that reaffirm this idea that founding fathers were these divine inspired individuals that the conservative cause is celebrating Despite the dangers of progressivism and these evil leftists who are challenging them.

Or you think about someone, a more egregious example who has a bit more complicated history in recent years would be Tim Ballard, who wrote a series of books, first for Deseret Book and then Covenant and then before he got in trouble and denounced by the church.

But he wrote a... two books titled The Washington Hypothesis and The Lincoln Hypothesis, in which he argued that not only were these great American men inspired by God, but they were inspired by the Mormon God.

And Abraham Lincoln went forward and pushed for the Emancipation Proclamation because he read the Book of Mormon.