‘Dog the Bounty Hunter’ Cries While Talking About His Faith on Nationwide TV

Despite his tough-as-nails persona, there’s no less than one subject that makes Duane Chapman, higher often known as “Dog the Bounty Hunter,” weep in public—even on nationwide tv: his religion.

During a phase Monday on the Fox News Channel, host Jesse Watters started by exhibiting a number of video clips of violent migrants attacking authorities earlier than saying, “If [Donald] Trump is elected, you are going to see lots of deportation movies that will look a bit like that, and the media goes to soften down.”

He then launched Chapman with: “Do you’ve got any recommendation for Donald Trump if he assumes workplace once more? Is he going to make you deportation czar?”

“I would really like a job like that,” he advised Watters. “It would not matter who you’re, what nationality, what tribe you belong to: If you are a lawbreaker and also you’re on this nation unlawful, and you’re booted from one other nation since you’re a felon and advised to go to America, that is the place we will begin.”

After discussing the latest in non-lethal weaponry—a PepperBall gun “that may drop a mule”—the dialog drifted to Chapman’s new guide, Nine Lives and Counting: A Bounty Hunter’s Journey to Faith, Hope, and Redemptionand that is when the tears flowed.

“It talks about my life, my walk with Jesus Christ, and I’m gonna cry, I’m sorry,” he advised Watters.

Chapman, who wore darkish sun shades by way of many of the interview, mentioned he has put greater than 10,000 alleged criminals in jail. Now he and his spouse, Francie Frane, communicate at church buildings about their religion.

“You know the story concerning the two felons that have been crucified with Jesus? One of them mentioned, ‘If you are God, you’d get off the cross,’ and the opposite one mentioned the 2 phrases: “Remember me,'” Chapman advised Watters.

“Jesus mentioned, ‘Today you are gonna eat dinner with me and my daddy.’ And so I’m purported to observe the steps of Jesus as I be Christ-like, so I’m gonna take as many felons to Heaven as I can, and this guide’s gonna assist me. It’s like a calling card. ‘Here, felon, learn that.'”

Noticing that Chapman was trying unsuccessfully to carry again tears, Watters mentioned: “It’s factor you are sporting sun shades.”

“I cry on a regular basis, and so do you, and you understand it,” Chapman advised Watters as he eliminated the glasses and wiped away the tears. “Don’t out me,” the host responded.

Chapman, 71, is a one-time felon himself, convicted within the Nineteen Seventies of third-degree homicide as a result of he sat within the automobile exterior of a home the place a pal killed a person whereas shopping for marijuana. Sentenced to 5 years, he served 18 months in a Texas jail.

He rose to fame in 2003 when he captured Andrew Luster, an inheritor to the Max Factor cosmetics fortune. The high-profile occasion led to the truth TV present Dog the Bounty Hunterwhich ran on A&E from 2004-2012, adopted by a number of spinoffs.

Two years in the past on The Prodigal Stories Podcasthe spoke about coming to Christ. His great-great-grandmother was a pastor, and when he returned home after his stint in jail, his mom would play Bible recordings as he slept, he mentioned.

Two of his 11 organic kids have predeceased him, and his fifth spouse, Beth, died of most cancers in 2019. He advised the Christian Post he was praying for a Christian spouse when he met Frane. The two married in 2021.