CLEVELAND — Traveling with the permanent security detail provided by the Dutch government because of threats due to his stance on Islamic immigration, Dutch politician Geert Wilders showed up at the Republican Convention advocating the election of Donald Trump.

“Mr. Trump is a politician, whether the Europeans like him or not, who has one interest, and that is the interest of the American people,” Wilders said in an interview at Quicken Loans Arena.

Europe is notably lacking such leaders, said Wilders, who wears a bullet-proof vest, lives in a safe house and is escorted to his office at The Hague in an armored vehicle each work day.

“We have hundreds of Obamas in the European Union and, in a political way, we have to get rid of them,” he said.

Wilders said Trump is “fighting for his own people, and that is what we are lacking in Europe, when it comes to trade, when it comes to immigration, when it comes to jobs, when it comes to so many issues.”

Europe, he said, suffers from the “disease of cultural relativism” which has led to an open-border policy that makes “no demands for assimilation for people who come to our societies.”

Wilders, who distances himself from European anti-immigration extremists such as Marine Le Pen of France and Joerg Haider of Austria, insists he

Dr. James Dobson, founder of Family Talk radio and an adviser to previous presidents, has announced his endorsement of Donald Trump for the office of president in 2016.

Dobson, who had endorsed Texas Sen. Ted Cruz while he still was in the race, confirmed the choice in a statement that was released on Time.com.

“I have decided to endorse Donald J. Trump for president of the United States, not only because of my great concern about Hillary Clinton,” he wrote. “I am supporting Mr. Trump primarily because I believe he is the most capable candidate to lead the United States of America in this complicated hour.”

A spokesman for the famed Christian leader told Time the endorsement was prompted by Cruz’s address to the Republican National Convention, when Cruz congratulated the GOP candidate but did not endorse him.

Dobson’s statement continued with the comment he’s “very enthusiastic” of Trump’s choice of Indiana Gov. Mike Pence as the vice presidential candidate.

He also expressed his approval of “Trump’s commitments to ‘appoint conservative Supreme Court justices, preserve religious liberty, rebuild the military, and defend the sanctity of human life,’” the report said.