Eric Metaxas

Eric Metaxas ( ; born June 27, 1963) is an American author, speaker, and conservative radio host. He has written three biographies, Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery about William Wilberforce (2007), Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy about Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011), and Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World (2017). He published a memoir, Fish Out of Water: A Search for the Meaning of Life (2021¹) as well as several books, including If You Can Keep it (2017) and Letter to the American Church (2022). He has also written humor, children's books and scripts for VeggieTales.

Eric Metaxas ( ; born June 27, 1963) is an American author, speaker, and conservative radio host. He has written three biographies, Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery about William Wilberforce (2007), Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy about Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2011), and Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World (2017). He published a memoir, Fish Out of Water: A Search for the Meaning of Life (2021) as well as several books, including If You Can Keep it (2017) and Letter to the American Church (2022). He has also written humor, children's books and scripts for VeggieTales.

Biography

Metaxas was born in the New York City neighborhood of Astoria, Queens, and grew up in Danbury, Connecticut. He is Greek on his father's side and German on his mother's; he was raised in the Eastern Orthodox Church. He graduated from Yale University (1984, B.A., English). While there, he edited The Yale Record, the nation's oldest college humor magazine.

Political views

Metaxas is a prominent supporter of Donald Trump. In 2019, he published two children's books called Donald Builds the Wall and Donald Drains the Swamp in a series called "Donald the Caveman". Other characters in the book include those Metaxas has called "an angry little girl who looks a little bit like AOC" and "an angry, crazy old man who looks a little bit like a guy named Bernie." In a November 2019 interview with Franklin Graham, Metaxas said that "screaming protesters" to Trump were "almost demonic". After the 2020 presidential election, Metaxas endorsed Donald Trump's claim that the election was tainted by voter fraud, predicting on Twitter: "Trump will be inaugurated. For the high crimes of trying to throw a U.S. presidential election, many will go to jail." Metaxas also told Trump on Metaxas' radio show that "Jesus is with us in this fight" to overturn the 2020 election. "I'd be happy to die in this fight", Metaxas added. In an appearance on Charlie Kirk's show, he repeated the claim saying, “We need to fight to the death, to the last drop of blood.” Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Metaxas told his followers not to get the vaccine.

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