He is only 27 years old and is already on the front line of the ideological war that the “Make America Great Again” movement has declared in Europe.
Immediately after his election for the second time to the presidency of the USA, the young man, a high-ranking adviser in , began to plow the Old Continent with the aim of returning Europe to the path of God and “real values”. And the achievement of this goal goes through the tightening of Washington’s relations with the European.
In just one year, Samson met Nigel Farage, leader of Britain’s far-right Reform party, French far-right leader Marine Le Pen, far-right Viktor Orbán, until recently prime minister of Hungary, and leaders of the far-right AfD (Alternative for Germany).
“Europe has degenerated into a hotbed of digital censorship, mass immigration, restrictions on religious freedom and attacks on democracy,” Samson said in an essay on the official account of the US State Department.
A deeply religious and conservative child
With a Filipino mother and an American father, Samson was a God-fearing child. In 2013, as student body president at the Catholic elementary school he attended in Houston, he spoke of the need for “faith in God, deep respect for spiritual values, and a social conscience that leads to action.
In high school, he was already known as a “hardline conservative.” He studied Political Theory at the University of Texas, Austin, where he graduated with honors in 2021. However, his experience at the university was unpleasant as he reported receiving racial slurs and threats because of his conservative views.
“I can’t go to class wearing a shirt with Reagan and Bush on it without someone cursing at me,” he had said. During his studies he worked, for one summer, as an associate in the office of Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz,
America’s Moment
His activism quickly brought him to Washington and the circle of the current US Vice President, Jay D. Vance. As a senator, Vance was among the first supporters of American Moment, a nonprofit organization dedicated to securing careers in American government for young conservatives. Samson worked for almost three years in the organization.
Appointment to the State Department at age 26
When Trump returned to the White House, Samson was named an adviser to the State Department’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, which was established by Congress in 1977 to promote freedoms around the world.
The Office has developed relationships with organizations that support freedom of the press, free elections and the independence of the Judiciary, women’s and LGBTI rights.
The Office of Natural Rights
But for Samson, this particular service represented the “woke” ideology, while his own goal was to give a voice to Christians and conservatives. He even took issue with the name of the agency because it included a reference to human rights, and he himself wished to rename it the “Office of Natural Rights.”
According to Samson, the concept of human rights is the radical expression of a man-made political ideology. In contrast, “natural rights” refer to something given by God.
Natural rights versus human rights
In his article in the Eureopan Conservative (22/12/2025), Samson, after referring to Aristotle, who taught that man is a political being and that virtue, i.e. action according to our nature, leads to happiness, concludes that Christianity is the one that fully revealed the highest nature of man: that he is made in the image and likeness of God. St. Thomas Aquinas, Samson writes, synthesized these notions, grounding natural law in Divine Logic. And no government can deny these natural – God-given – rights.
Based on these views, the young advisor distributed to the employees of the service, a document entitled “Theory of Natural Rights”, in which he argued that “the distortion, by political ideologies, of what is and what is not a natural right” should be prevented. And because he failed to change the name of the Office because it is determined by Congress, he created within it, the “Office of Natural Rights”.
Visits to Europe to reverse the course of the rot
For Samson, Europe has become subservient to the “woke” ideology while values such as patriotism and national pride are degraded. He believes that the legislative framework for regulating technology in the EU, (Digital Services Act) hurts freedom of speech by trying to regulate the action of American technology giants.
Samson discussed censorship and abortion in London in March 2025 with Nigel Farage, leader of the far-right populist Reform party. Two months later, in Paris, Samson tried to convince a human rights commission that Marine Le Pen, leader of the far-right National Rally, which is eyeing the victory of her party in the presidential elections of 2027, is being unfairly prosecuted by the French Justice, which convicted her of embezzlement of community funds, with a ban on the right to vote for five years. In another meeting in Paris, with members of the organization “Reporters Without Borders”, on the occasion of the European legislation Digital Services Act, Samson “said that France is gradually turning into North Korea”.
On his last major trip to Europe last December, Samson visited Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary, where he launched his fiercest attack on “woke” Europe.
Samson’s views are part of President Trump’s National Security Strategy (NSS).
By the end of 2025, the US ideological offensive in Europe, which had begun with US Vice President Jay D. Vance’s speech at the Munich Security Conference in February 2025, Samson’s aggressive approach to issues such as technology regulation, had begun to be reflected in official US policy – the National Security Strategy (NSS, 12/12/2025) of President Trump.
At the same time, in a memorandum sent to American embassies in Europe, the State Department stated that its goal, for the period 2026-2030, was “the reconstitution of the cultural alliance” with European states that had been “tainted by the doctrine of the neoliberal period after the Cold War.” According to the New York Times, the memo instructed US diplomats to “condemn undemocratic actions that limit freedom of speech or the free exercise of religious rights” and to address mass immigration as a “threat to national cohesion, social stability and cultural values” in Europe.
