Former Homeland Security agent Tim Ballard said the Sound of Freedom film is forcing the Left to have a discussion about “why 85,000 children showed up unaccompanied at the border.”
The film, which is distributed by Angel Studios, details the true story of how Ballard quit his DHS job and risked his life to journey into the jungles of Colombia in an effort to save children from sex slavery.
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Ballard rejected claims that the film is somehow connected to QAnon.
“You know, I can’t understand it. The film was made, produced, written like five years, six years ago, way before anyone heard the name QAnon. I still don’t even know what QAnon is,” Ballard said on Jesse Watters Primetime. “In the meantime, they are trying to connect it to some conspiracy when, in fact, like you said, this is a true story. These are real kids.”
“I think that the Left, these media outlets — they don’t want to have a discussion about what this film is going to compel, a discussion about why 85,000 children showed up unaccompanied at the border and got released into the interior of a country that is the highest consuming country for child exploitation material on the planet,” Ballard continued.
Ballard noted that the film shines a light on how the commercial sex industry propels child trafficking.
“They don’t want to talk about why these same publications are pushing an agenda to change the word ‘pedophile’ to ‘minor-attracted persons,’ in order to normalize sexual activity with the children,” Ballard said. “I think that’s what they are trying to avoid. They know this film’s going to shine a light on all of the things, all of the atrocities happening to children, so they have to discredit it by lying about it.”
Ballard added that those who criticize Sound of Freedom are “running interference” for those who are committing crimes within the human trafficking industry.
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Sound of Freedom opened in theaters on July 4 as the No. 1 film and finished its opening week in third place, grossing more than $40 million in box office sales.
The film features Jim Caviezel, from The Passion of the Christ, Academy Award winner Mira Sorvino from Mighty Aphrodite, and Bill Camp from 12 Years a Slave. The film was produced by Eduardo Verástegui and was written and directed by Alejandro Monteverde.
