The Rising Republic: Pardon Power and the Ponyboy

[00:00:04] I don't want to set the world

[00:00:10] We are not merely transferring power from one administration to another or from one party to another, but we are transferring power from Washington DC and giving it back to you, the people.

[00:00:39] Hello everybody, welcome back to The Rising Republic. I am El Douglas Hogan.

[00:00:43] And I'm Ryan Buford. Great to have you everybody.

[00:00:45] Hey, I mean it's, I'm so glad actually that hearing that, hearing Trump say that, I know it was 2016 when he said that, but it kind of rings, it's still ringing, it's like ringing true again and I can feel it like, I don't know, goose pimples kind of. It's like, I like the thought of power coming back to the people.

[00:01:02] I think, yeah, I think there's a lot of sentiment, especially over the last couple of weeks is some of the concepts that have been thrown out there have started to really stick, you know, and people are paying attention to policy and people are engaged, which is something that hasn't really been as prominent as it used to be, like in the last probably three or four decades.

[00:01:26] Yeah. And we, and we need to get back to the people because everybody talks a lot about, well, this is a democracy and he's a threat to our democracy. Let's get one thing straight. This is not a democracy. It's never been a democracy. It was designed by our forefathers, our founding fathers rather, to be a constitutional republic.

[00:01:43] The difference being in a democracy, the 51% of the governed will dictate the rights of the 49% of the governed. That's a democracy. And the constitutional republic simply means that every person has their own unique individual rights. And no matter how many people disagree with you, your rights are given by God and they're unique to you and nobody can take them away.

[00:02:05] Yeah. And there's really, there's not a lot of gray area there.

[00:02:12] No, it's like, it's like, uh, you're right to breathe. It's as simple as that to me in my book, you know, the way I think about it, me, if I want to go to go up to go to someone who is selling firearms and buy say a pistol off of him and take it back home, that to me is as natural and as right. And as free as somebody breathing, breathing oxygen, you know, as long as I'm not doing something bad to harm somebody else.

[00:02:35] Because my rights should not be taken away from me by anybody. Uh, and my rights cease to exist when they impede upon your rights. Right. So I can't go and take your rights, take your, your pistol away from you because I want your pistol. I have a right to take your pistol. No, because you have a right to have that pistol also.

[00:02:52] Yeah. And you decided to use that pistol against me for whatever reason. And then at that point, you know, your, your rights tend to, you know, in a perfect society, they would be forfeit as a result.

[00:03:05] Yeah. Because I, I chose to commit a crime by, by superseding my rights over yours. You don't, I think it might be, you don't have a right. I'm going to, you know, take from you. No, I don't have a right to take from anybody. I have a right to exist and to have my own possessions, to have my own privacy. My rights are only good within my bubble and cease to exist when I overlap into your bubble.

[00:03:27] Correct. And that's how I see that. It's the best way I've always been able to interpret big news happening. Uh, what was it? I actually think it happened maybe earlier on prior to our last recording earlier than last week, but it was still developing news at the time with the, the Hunter Biden, um, pardon.

[00:03:46] By now everybody's heard all the old sound bites of Joe Biden saying, I'm not going to pardon my, I'm not going to pardon Hunter. You know, I will respect the rule of law. And knowing that it's at least a dozen times by the press secretary tell on the press that, that Joe Biden is not going to pardon his son, that he said this repeatedly. It's not going to happen. No, it's not going to happen in several words. It's not going to happen.

[00:04:11] And I think he pulled the blanket out from everybody, you know, even ABC, NBC, MSNBC, uh, CNN, everybody thinking press secretary even. Yes. Like, I don't think obviously she wouldn't have been saying all those things. I, maybe she would, maybe she's guessed like that, but you would think that people are smart enough to know if you know in advance anyway, that's something like that's going to happen down the road that you would at least cover for yourself by saying, you know, you know, I don't know the answer to that. Maybe I can get back to you later, you know, something, some kind of blanket like that.

[00:04:40] So that you're not blatantly later on telling a lie because you know, she knew would have known full on that she was telling a lie each time she answered that. That just makes her bad as a press secretary.

[00:04:49] Yeah. When it's, I don't know my personal opinion on this. I don't know if we're ready to seem to start talking about this, but it's, it just reminds me of, you know, the, the rich kid's dad bailing him out every single time, you know, uh, the partier, the guy who always gets in trouble.

[00:05:03] And he always knows he can get himself out of trouble because daddy or mommy or whoever's going to come bail him out, you know, prominent names, prominent, you know, status in the community or whatever it might be.

[00:05:16] And it happens everywhere, but I mean, this is top level. You would think that there would be a level of, you know, Hey, personal responsibility.

[00:05:23] But I mean, this is just like the last straw, I think. And any American who wasn't against Joe Biden at that point, I think that was a turning point for, for that level of words.

[00:05:33] It's like, wait a second. You know, you, you, you claim to be, you know, the type of person that's going to have your son answer to his own crime, do it responsibly.

[00:05:45] But the other side of it is I kind of, I'm realizing now why, you know, they sent him to trial to get convicted and all this before Biden left the office, because then he could officially pardon him before he left office.

[00:06:00] Yeah. That's kind of, it makes you wonder though, how long far in advance did he actually know that he was going to do this?

[00:06:07] There's definitely some premeditation there.

[00:06:09] Well, I mean, you can't, you can't help but to doubt it because let's face it, you and I know, and probably most listeners, you know, who are listening to this right now know that, that the whole Biden family, it's basically a crime syndicate and it's been happening for years.

[00:06:24] And the crazy thing about that laptop that, Oh, I also have, I also have this something I want to, I have a soundbite later on.

[00:06:31] We'll get back to what I'm talking about in a second.

[00:06:33] Cash Patel, who I believe has been formally announced to be the new FBI director.

[00:06:39] Does that sound right?

[00:06:40] I think so.

[00:06:41] He's, he's talking about the Hunter Biden laptop.

[00:06:44] And so that's very interesting.

[00:06:45] And I want to play a soundbite because he's got some thoughts on that.

[00:06:49] However, that, that whole thing was mishandled and it was misconstrued.

[00:06:52] If you remember back whenever that the Hunter Biden laptop was, was very early on.

[00:06:55] Russian collusion.

[00:06:57] Yes.

[00:06:57] Thank you.

[00:06:57] It was Russian collusion and they knew full on that it wasn't.

[00:07:00] They were the ones that read it, wrote out the statement that it was Russian collusion, knowing that they had possession of it and that it was in fact not Russian collusion.

[00:07:10] Our own government lying to us.

[00:07:13] Well, and it's interesting too, because what is it?

[00:07:16] What was the thing that, what's her name said?

[00:07:19] Nancy Pelosi about the smear, you know, basically the smear and wrap up or whatever.

[00:07:25] Oh yeah.

[00:07:26] Basically you mess up someone, you know, someone's deal.

[00:07:30] And then I think this is kind of like one of those things, but as part of it, they're, they, they use the FBI to lend credence to this false narrative.

[00:07:42] And as a result of it, the FBI basically just forfeited all the credibility they had.

[00:07:48] I'm looking for that soundbite right now of Nancy Pelosi making that comment here.

[00:07:52] Yeah.

[00:07:52] You know which one I'm talking about.

[00:07:53] I do.

[00:07:53] And it's kind of like, you know, for the longest time, like I always wanted to be a cop when I was a kid.

[00:07:59] I wanted to be a detective.

[00:08:00] Dick Tracy was my hero.

[00:08:02] You know, I thought this is what I want to do.

[00:08:04] I want to stop crime and, you know, be this kind of guy.

[00:08:07] And as time went on, I realized that that, that wasn't in the cards for me.

[00:08:12] It wasn't necessarily the way I wanted to go with my life.

[00:08:15] But then the other, the opposite thing happened.

[00:08:17] I started to realize that, wait a second, this FBI doesn't really seem like it's doing a whole lot for the people as much as it is, you know, mishandling certain cases or, you know, infringing on civilian rights.

[00:08:32] I mean, Ruby Ridge and that whole scenario, I didn't want to get started on that.

[00:08:36] But I mean, I know there are good cops and there are bad cops and good federal agents and bad federal agents.

[00:08:42] But I think when it comes to the FBI, there's definitely enough of a, how do you say, a seedy group that it's probably something that will be worthwhile to really severely gut and open up some of these files.

[00:08:59] Like, look, this is the truth.

[00:09:01] Let's pull that bandaid off.

[00:09:03] Like we were talking last week.

[00:09:04] I am for one looking forward to, to that happening.

[00:09:07] Cause I don't think that I really believe that the, and you could, you saw this all running up to this election, how they were so confident that Kamala Harris was going to win.

[00:09:15] Even though her internal polling knew, I've read this, that her internal polling knew, like I'm talking about her campaign.

[00:09:22] They all were fully aware that she had no chance of winning against Trump whatsoever, but they kept taking these donations and taking these donations, right.

[00:09:28] Yeah.

[00:09:29] From all these big top, yes.

[00:09:30] And now she's, she's several million dollars in debt.

[00:09:33] I even had a rumor around, well, that's true, that, that, that Trump offered to pay some $20 million of it.

[00:09:38] Oh, really?

[00:09:38] I heard it.

[00:09:39] I don't know the truth.

[00:09:39] I haven't verified.

[00:09:40] That would be so funny.

[00:09:41] That would be, it would be something.

[00:09:43] That being said, it's going to be really, really interesting because here they have now started something about taking out your political opponents with lawfare.

[00:09:51] Do I want to see it happening again?

[00:09:53] I don't, but we both know who's really guilty of, of criminal activity when it comes to either side of the poll.

[00:09:59] Yes, it's been on both sides for years and years and years, but more so right now, the Democrats have been doing it, not even like under the radar.

[00:10:07] They're doing it openly now, and we've seen it happen with, with Alvin, Alvin Bragg.

[00:10:13] We've seen it happen with Fannie Willis.

[00:10:14] We've seen it with, with that judge merchant in the case.

[00:10:16] We've, we've, we've seen the smear, all the indictments and everything out of, out of the White House, you know, Washington DC against Donald Trump, all these crazy impeachments and everything.

[00:10:24] It's been, it's been an onslaught against him.

[00:10:27] And it's, it's curious now that we're going to have control of the executive branch, the legislative branch.

[00:10:33] And I, you know, not to leave, I'm not going to say anything about our justices because we believe them to be honorable and true and leave them to do their thing.

[00:10:40] However, when it comes to being in control of the government, we have the House, right?

[00:10:45] We have the Senate, correct?

[00:10:46] And the executive branch.

[00:10:47] So there's a lot of power right there and a lot of crazy, especially with all the nomination switches that's been going on with the dream team and all that that's coming in.

[00:10:54] And we can get some people, hopefully we can uncover some of this crazy stuff that's going on.

[00:10:59] But I did find that stuff with Nancy Pelosi.

[00:11:01] It's called the, the wrap up smear.

[00:11:03] And let's listen to this real quick.

[00:11:04] It's a diversionary tactic.

[00:11:05] It's a self-fulfilling problem.

[00:11:07] You demonize and then you, we call it the wrap up smear.

[00:11:10] If you want to talk politics, call it the wrap up smear.

[00:11:13] You smear somebody with falsehoods and all the rest.

[00:11:17] And then you merchandise it.

[00:11:19] And then you write it and they'll say, see, it's reported in the press that this, this, this, and this.

[00:11:26] So they have that validation that the press reported the smear.

[00:11:30] And then it's called the wrap up smear.

[00:11:32] Now I'm going to merchandise the press's report on the smear that we made.

[00:11:36] And it's, it's a tactic.

[00:11:38] So ain't that extremely interesting that we have heard now on record talking about that, Dennis,

[00:11:43] to show that the mainstream media has been perpetrating this garbage because it's been fed to them

[00:11:49] by the Democratic Party.

[00:11:50] And they don't care, right?

[00:11:51] They don't care that they're reporting a true story.

[00:11:54] They just want to be the first to report it.

[00:11:56] Correct.

[00:11:56] And when it comes to the feds, I think that's exactly what they did on the fed side

[00:12:01] because they're, they use those feds to create a false report and make it valid

[00:12:06] because they had so many of them signing it.

[00:12:08] And the general public wrote an article about it.

[00:12:11] Next thing you know, oh, this is fact.

[00:12:13] When in reality, there wasn't one bit of fact in it at all, you know,

[00:12:17] and that's, that is the ideal perspective or how do you, not personification,

[00:12:25] but example of weaponization of the Department of Justice and the FBI.

[00:12:31] Yes.

[00:12:32] And it's a prime reason why we need it.

[00:12:33] We need it to, somebody in there that's going to be more transparent,

[00:12:37] somebody's going to get in there and undo the corruption that's so heavily ingrained into the system now.

[00:12:42] And it's been there for so many years and it's going to be, it's going to be hard to root it out.

[00:12:46] It's going to be very hard to root it out because there's a culture now that has developed.

[00:12:50] And one of the hardest things to undo in our world and our lifetime is a culture.

[00:12:54] Yeah.

[00:12:56] Well, I think, I mean, I would imagine also like if you say that you had a police department that was corrupt,

[00:13:01] the only way to really uproot that whole thing would, would be to shut it down or restart it or figure out a different way.

[00:13:10] And, you know, there, there's a lot that can go wrong in the media, in the, you know, in the in-between section.

[00:13:15] That's one thing that I'm really concerned about.

[00:13:16] You know, yes, we do have an FBI, a CIA, you know, all that kind of stuff.

[00:13:21] And they do work that is significant to making sure that we as American citizens are capable of sleeping at night

[00:13:28] and not having to worry about international threats coming on our doorstep for the most part, you know.

[00:13:33] But I think that, you know, that period in between when they're, you know, when that ripple effect starts to happen

[00:13:40] is a weak point that we have to be very cautious about, you know.

[00:13:44] It needs to be done.

[00:13:45] Don't get me wrong, but I think at that point, once these people are in office and those ripples start happening,

[00:13:51] we really need to be vigilant as citizens to make sure that, you know, we're paying attention

[00:13:56] and we're doing what we can to keep each other up, but also, you know, maintain safety and security in our own homes.

[00:14:03] Definitely.

[00:14:04] Yeah.

[00:14:04] There's an audio clip I want to on this topic of hardens and stuff that, because it's, it kind of shows the hypocrisy of those on the left

[00:14:14] when it comes to this kind of thing, because Rachel Mowdow has been serving the Kool-Aid for a lot of years now,

[00:14:20] and she gets paid a lot of bucks to do it.

[00:14:22] But if you all remember some time ago when Trump was talking, maybe possibly about pardoning the January Sixers

[00:14:30] or something along those lines, or his family members, I can't remember what the argument was,

[00:14:33] but I got the sound clip here, we'll play it.

[00:14:36] She, he was talking about doing such things, she was making a big deal out of it.

[00:14:39] Like, I can't even believe that this is happening.

[00:14:41] And then fast forward four years, and now Joe Biden has, has pardoned his son with a blanket pardon,

[00:14:48] which is well beyond the scope of any kind of presidential power.

[00:14:52] And she's just being nonchalant about it.

[00:14:54] Like, oh, you know, poor, poor whoever, you know, and she's, she's being kind of cynical about it.

[00:14:59] Here's that soundbite.

[00:15:00] President Trump, as he winds down his last few weeks in office,

[00:15:04] is considering preemptive pardons for all his adult children, including his son-in-law, Jared.

[00:15:11] Okay, that's December of 2020.

[00:15:13] He's talking about preemptive pardons.

[00:15:15] And I don't really know what that means, because I don't know what Jared Kushner did.

[00:15:18] Have you, did you recall back then?

[00:15:20] I didn't really follow that.

[00:15:21] I think it was kind of ambiguous to me.

[00:15:25] But so no, I don't, I can't answer that.

[00:15:27] I can't either.

[00:15:27] I really don't know what she's talking about.

[00:15:29] But again, there's so many lies that gets peddled, you know, in some of this, especially her, the view.

[00:15:34] I mean, people who aren't journalists, you know, these, these people will get in front of a camera and get behind the microphone and they just make up stuff.

[00:15:41] So it's hard to tell them what she's talking about, but I'm going to pick it back up right there where she left off.

[00:15:48] What a mess.

[00:15:49] More as we know.

[00:15:51] Cue all the hand wringing and gnashing of teeth today about a president using his power, his pardon power.

[00:15:59] His powers as president to do something for a family member.

[00:16:04] Tell me more about how outraged we all are.

[00:16:09] You see the cynicism right there.

[00:16:11] She's not outraged.

[00:16:11] She's being cynical and she's rolling her eyes and stuff like that.

[00:16:15] And that's an interesting because as a journalist, your word choice is very important.

[00:16:20] And the difference between those two, there's an obvious slant for the exact same thing.

[00:16:25] I mean, not exact same, but pretty damn close.

[00:16:28] So, I mean, if you're, if you're looking at that as an actual trained journalist, you should be able to see right through that.

[00:16:34] And I think most of the American people can.

[00:16:36] Yeah.

[00:16:37] I would hardly call her a journalist by far.

[00:16:39] I think for journalism is a hard thing to find anymore where somebody's just, you know, delivering the facts.

[00:16:46] That's true.

[00:16:46] Journalism.

[00:16:46] Just we're delivering the facts right now.

[00:16:48] We have, it seems anymore is opinionated journalism.

[00:16:51] Like they'll dig up some facts and they'll put their, their spin or their opinions on it.

[00:16:54] And what that does is it, it, it, it gaslights people into believing whatever their narrative is.

[00:16:59] And it reminds me of pregame and postgame shows for like the NFL.

[00:17:04] You know, you got these guys that are kind of like former players or coaches or whatever.

[00:17:10] And they're, that's half of the scenario.

[00:17:13] Like the actual game, it's only a couple of hours.

[00:17:17] But then these people behind the scenes are like, okay, this is this person.

[00:17:20] I'm not, and this is what's going to happen.

[00:17:22] And then this is, and that's all opinion.

[00:17:24] And people don't realize that with the news media today, that's exactly who these people are.

[00:17:30] They're mouthpieces that don't actually just report the stats.

[00:17:33] They sit there and they put out opinions based on the facts that they have, which not always obviously are vetted.

[00:17:44] Like the laptop, for example.

[00:17:46] Yeah.

[00:17:46] And citizen journalists are the ones who started peeling away the layers and saying, hey, wait a second.

[00:17:52] This ain't true at all.

[00:17:53] Same thing with COVID.

[00:17:54] Yeah.

[00:17:54] And it turns out that, you know, that almost that 99% of everything that was, that us conspiracy theorists were talking about, you know, back way back when it first came out is now factual.

[00:18:05] You know, the conspiracy theorists are right.

[00:18:07] They're no longer conspiracies.

[00:18:09] No.

[00:18:10] And I think people with, with the help of technology and communication, people are sharing information faster and more efficiently than ever before.

[00:18:19] So if something's a lie, people call each other out on it.

[00:18:23] And I think that's why Trump is wanting to, I don't know if you heard this now.

[00:18:26] I might've actually mentioned it a couple of shows back, but Trump is wanting to, at least a Trump admin is wanting to, to, to license podcasters, at least influential podcasters.

[00:18:36] Uh, because like you said, certain, uh, you know, citizen journalists are able to get out there and, and, and we're the reason why, cause we don't have big shows.

[00:18:45] We don't have all the money and all the fancy cameras and everything else that these multi that legacy media has, for example, who's dominating the airwaves.

[00:18:53] But we are the men on the ground.

[00:18:55] We are the people in the grunt, in the fields, in the ditches, right?

[00:18:58] We're the ones that's actually out here getting dirty and we're living the man on the street story.

[00:19:01] And we're the ones, like you said, peeling back the layers.

[00:19:04] Yeah.

[00:19:05] Because it actually affects us in, in most cases, or it affects our finances or our retirement or our whatever, you know, our taxes, the cost of food, you know, you start realizing how these policies and politicians and federal government agencies are affecting everything.

[00:19:23] Um, and it, it's eyeopening, you know, and it should be, but it's like people are just now starting to pay attention to things that have been slowly creeping in for the past 20 and 30 years, 40 years.

[00:19:35] President.

[00:19:36] Right.

[00:19:36] Here's I'm sorry.

[00:19:37] Uh, I started a little bit too soon.

[00:19:38] Here's a clip of, of Trump.

[00:19:40] Like I said earlier, um, probably a couple, two or three days ago, sat down with ABC news and she's asking him about, are you going to pardon?

[00:19:48] I can't remember who she says she's going to pardon.

[00:19:49] Maybe the January sixers or, or members of his family, whatever it is.

[00:19:53] Or no, no, it's him himself.

[00:19:55] Are you going to pardon yourself?

[00:19:56] And here's what he has to say.

[00:19:58] I find this very interesting and it shows kind of the caliber that he is versus the caliber that Joe Biden is.

[00:20:02] I asked you last time we sat down for an interview, if you were going to pardon yourself, you said no, but now that president Biden has pardoned his son Hunter, are you reconsidering?

[00:20:14] Might you pardon yourself?

[00:20:44] I didn't do anything wrong.

[00:20:45] Willis, Fonny, uh, a total hoax.

[00:20:49] That's a total hoax.

[00:20:50] It's all being dropped.

[00:20:52] Yeah.

[00:20:53] Interesting.

[00:20:54] Interesting.

[00:20:55] Because what, what would, what would Joe Biden be forgiving right now?

[00:20:58] Right.

[00:20:58] What's he, what's he pardoning for his son?

[00:21:00] It makes you wonder if, if, if Trump's legal team is saying, if you, if you pardon yourself, you're admitting guilt.

[00:21:06] So what did Joe Biden do in your opinion?

[00:21:08] Exactly.

[00:21:08] He was admitting guilt for his son.

[00:21:11] And, and the thing is, is that presidential pardon, from what I understand, is not specific to the federal charges that he was actually convicted of.

[00:21:20] It's actually wide open and goes back 10 years.

[00:21:24] I mean, how would you like a blanket federal pardon for anything that you did wrong in the last 10 years?

[00:21:31] And there's actually, there's actually something that's even more crazy than that is that, that, that Hunter Biden was actually, he actually pled guilty and he was actually convicted.

[00:21:40] He's actually right.

[00:21:41] So, um, and we have here, uh, he was sentenced, correct?

[00:21:44] Was he not?

[00:21:45] And, and so we, what we have here is, is yes, a pardon was, that would actually be effective because he's actually a felon.

[00:21:53] He's been convicted and he's been sentenced and he's, he's got X amount of time.

[00:21:56] I can't remember what it was that he got.

[00:21:58] However, Trump was never sentenced.

[00:22:00] He, uh, and it's the sentence, you're not a convicted felon until the judge writes the writ saying, and here's your sentence, by the way, you know, have, have fun in jail.

[00:22:09] And that's when you become a convicted felon at that moment.

[00:22:11] Trump has never been a convicted felon.

[00:22:13] In fact, all those cases are being dropped.

[00:22:15] As Trump said, they're all, they're all dropping to the wayside.

[00:22:17] But yet the people on the left aren't being told that because it meant lamestream media legacy is not covering this at all.

[00:22:22] They're not dropping, dropping how Fannie Willis, she's the last holdout right now.

[00:22:25] And, uh, and it's funny that people are talking about this because they don't believe that she's going to do it on her own accord because she's that her ego was that huge.

[00:22:33] But, um, Trump's new lawyer.

[00:22:35] I don't know if it's a new lawyer, but it's, it's a lawyer and he's, they call him the pit bull.

[00:22:38] And I can't remember his name right now for save my life, but the pit bull, uh, has, has, has made a declaration that you are setting an unprecedented attack right now against a, uh, a president elect.

[00:22:52] And, uh, actually a former president, uh, with, with continuing to, to go after him and to do this with this, this, this crazy, cause she's, she's got the weakest case of them all.

[00:23:02] And she's still on his case about all of this.

[00:23:05] And meanwhile, Alvin Bragg has decided to drop his crazy, uh, whatnot, whatnot.

[00:23:09] And, and, uh, everybody, uh, was it Joe Joseph?

[00:23:12] I can't remember the guy's name.

[00:23:12] That's in the department of, of, of defense right now.

[00:23:15] Uh, that guy, ah, and my brain is freaking skipping me right now.

[00:23:19] Um, but he's decided to, to, to, to back off of all that stuff that was going on with the impeachment inquiries and, uh, everything that's going on there.

[00:23:26] So everything's dropping off to the wayside, except for this Fannie Willis on the way calling Fannie.

[00:23:30] I might look at the word Fannie now to see what, cause Trump didn't do anything accidental.

[00:23:34] Yeah.

[00:23:34] I mean, it's, it's really, it's, it is a show of character on both sides of the fence.

[00:23:39] And I think that, especially for, for Biden to have done that, it really just is the final nail in the coffin on anybody who had any doubts prior to this.

[00:23:50] I think should be fairly awakened to that reality by now, because especially with all the, the weird street cred that Trump got just for getting a photo taken, you know, when he was booked, turned himself in, did the whole thing.

[00:24:06] I mean, all of a sudden he became an overnight sensation for minorities and, and even non-minorities just for the fact that he actually was like, okay, do you know, let's do this.

[00:24:21] And he actually stood up for himself.

[00:24:24] And I think the opposite side of that is you have someone that's basically bailing out their kids every time they do something wrong.

[00:24:32] And if my, most people who have heard me before or know of my other podcasts on prepper broadcasting know that I care very much about my children and Colin, especially if Colin did something and was convicted of a felony, I wouldn't bail him out.

[00:24:51] I would be there for him, but he would serve his time.

[00:24:53] He would do what he had to do to survive and he would take care of himself.

[00:24:57] And I would try and, you know, make sure to still be there.

[00:25:00] I'm not, I wouldn't abandon him.

[00:25:02] But he would serve his time because that's his sentence.

[00:25:05] And that's, that's what responsible parents do.

[00:25:09] So I think it's just kind of another, another drop in the bucket of the Joe Biden crime family and what they're willing to do to make sure that they stay out of prison or whatever.

[00:25:21] But honestly, I think Hunter Biden is probably the most wanted man in the United States right now.

[00:25:25] Not by the feds, but by every other United States citizen, because that's frankly, it's a crock of shit.

[00:25:31] Oh yeah.

[00:25:32] And it was, it was Jack Smith.

[00:25:33] I was trying to think of the name of a while ago for special counsel.

[00:25:36] So this is from CNN.

[00:25:38] It says, so take it for what it's worth here.

[00:25:39] And this was just, when was this posted?

[00:25:43] November 1st.

[00:25:43] All right.

[00:25:44] It says one year after, after bringing historic indictments against former president Donald Trump, the prosecutors left special counsel Jack Smith's office.

[00:25:50] Are gaming out legal options and bracing for retribution.

[00:25:54] If Trump returns to the office house, Trump has called Smith a sick puppy and pledged to fire him within two seconds.

[00:26:01] So we already know that Jack Smith is gone.

[00:26:02] And I think he tried saving his job by, by dropping all the entire case against Trump on at that level because he's worried for his job.

[00:26:11] However, that's an affording point of position.

[00:26:13] So he's probably just going to fire him like, like any good president would do and put their own people in there.

[00:26:17] Uh, I would want somebody aligned with my, my beliefs, right.

[00:26:21] My, my political alignment that somebody needs that could, that could jive with me and, you know, we can vibe together.

[00:26:26] That's kind of person I need working with me.

[00:26:28] It's not somebody that's been a low dog at me and trying to, trying to bury me, you know, for the last previous four years.

[00:26:35] And then all of a sudden I'm what, what trust you now to, to run things.

[00:26:38] No, it doesn't work that way.

[00:26:39] Uh, let's see here.

[00:26:41] Okay.

[00:26:41] This is the cash Patel thing.

[00:26:43] This is interesting.

[00:26:44] Let's listen to this again.

[00:26:45] And this is a, so cash Patel is talking to, uh, to Glenn Beck.

[00:26:49] So when you hear the other voice, you hear cash Patel and, uh, and you'll hear, you'll recognize if you listen to show what Glenn Beck sound or what his voice sounds like.

[00:26:56] Who has Jeffrey Epstein's black book, black book FBI, but who that is that?

[00:27:04] I mean, that's under direct control of the director of the FBI.

[00:27:09] Just like the manifesto from the Nashville school shooting of the Catholic school.

[00:27:14] We still haven't seen that.

[00:27:16] Right.

[00:27:17] It's not the Nashville police or PD saying, we don't want this out.

[00:27:20] The FBI air mailed into that operation and said, this is not getting out because they do that because they, this is another government gangster operation.

[00:27:29] All these local law enforcement communities get funding from the DOJ and FBI for local programs.

[00:27:34] And if you don't cooperate, you're not getting your million dollars for this and you're not getting it.

[00:27:38] And that's a lot of money to these local districts.

[00:27:40] That's how they play the game.

[00:27:42] That's why you don't have a black book.

[00:27:44] But the black book, it's not just sitting.

[00:27:46] I mean, that's, that's, that's Hoover power times 10.

[00:27:52] And to me, that's a thing I think president Trump should run on on day one, roll out the black book.

[00:28:00] And not just that on day one, roll out all of the text messaging communications.

[00:28:04] We were told were deleted.

[00:28:06] We talked about that last week.

[00:28:07] Play the rest of the video of the pipe bomber on day.

[00:28:09] You know, he needs one of the reforms I talk about government gangsters is you need a central node to be continuously declassifying.

[00:28:16] There's another thing they do.

[00:28:17] They overclassify, and I'm telling you as a former number two in the IC, they overclassify 50% of the stuff there to protect the deep state.

[00:28:27] Oh no, you can't see that.

[00:28:28] Nothing to see here.

[00:28:29] Gina was a master at it, of doing it.

[00:28:32] And we still haven't seen half of the Russiagate report that we wrote.

[00:28:37] Still under lock and key.

[00:28:39] On how the ICA was originally constructed.

[00:28:43] We went, we put 10,000 man hours against John Brennan's team that did it.

[00:28:47] And we found out why they came up with their bogus conclusion.

[00:28:50] But we couldn't sell it to the world because we couldn't talk about it.

[00:28:54] And the government gangsters came in and buried it.

[00:28:56] All of these things, there needs to be a continuing central power, whether it's the White House or offsite that says every request that comes in, just right out the door, as long as it's not a major threat to national security.

[00:29:08] I love what everything that he just said.

[00:29:11] Absolutely.

[00:29:12] I mean, you talked about this last week.

[00:29:13] I mean, this, it needs to be like, this stuff needs to be open.

[00:29:16] It needs to be out there.

[00:29:17] And we talked about it.

[00:29:18] I remember saying clearly that if there's, if there's UFOs out there, we need to know about it.

[00:29:22] Yeah.

[00:29:23] Yeah.

[00:29:23] So a little bit about Kash Patel.

[00:29:25] Yeah.

[00:29:25] He's an American lawyer, federal prosecutor at the U.S. Department of Justice.

[00:29:28] He previously served as chief of staff, U.S. Secretary of Defense.

[00:29:33] He served to U.S. Secretary of Defense, Christopher C. Miller, and senior advisor to the acting director of national intelligence, both during the presidency of Donald Trump in November 2004.

[00:29:43] And President-elect Trump has recently nominated him to succeed Christopher A. Ray as director of the federal.

[00:29:48] So this guy has, he's been, he's made his rounds.

[00:29:51] He knows how these things work.

[00:29:53] What's your thoughts on it?

[00:29:53] I mean, I think it makes total sense.

[00:29:56] If you are funded by their government in any way, shape or form, 100% transparency should be the standard.

[00:30:06] And if the federal Bureau of Investigation is funded by the government, then everything that they do, with the exception of net direct national security, needs to be 100% available to the American public.

[00:30:21] Whether that's on a forum, a website, whatever, but it should be made available and unredacted, 100%.

[00:30:28] So if somebody wants to know if there were UFOs in Roswell, here's the full report.

[00:30:34] That's the only way that we're going to be able to move from where we are today is full transparency.

[00:30:39] And I think that is the right thing, with the exception of national security.

[00:30:43] Because granted, if there are things that have to do with national security, I 100% agree that yes, we need to protect that for the sake of our servicemen and women and other things like information, infrastructure, that kind of stuff.

[00:31:00] Absolutely.

[00:31:01] But just because someone mentions a hydroelectric facility in a report doesn't necessarily mean that the whole report should be redacted or deemed classified.

[00:31:14] And I think that's kind of what's happening.

[00:31:16] They find one particular thing or one name or one instance or something like that.

[00:31:23] And guess what?

[00:31:24] We need transparency.

[00:31:26] There is actually in most states, if you're a state employee, for example, there is a transparency law where all the wages of every employee is made public.

[00:31:37] You can go into the state websites and it's usually transparent like Illinois or transparency wages, stuff like that.

[00:31:47] You can go in and see what everyone else's wages.

[00:31:49] And initially, I thought that was a horrible idea, but then I started realizing that actually that's kind of smart because we know where our tax dollars are going, who's doing what, who's actually producing.

[00:32:00] If you're a government employee.

[00:32:01] If you're a government employee.

[00:32:02] Absolutely.

[00:32:03] Yeah.

[00:32:03] And when it comes to the private sector, it doesn't matter.

[00:32:08] If you want to run private black ops, sure.

[00:32:12] Hide that.

[00:32:13] I don't care.

[00:32:14] I mean, that's black ops stuff.

[00:32:15] I don't that's but the U.S. government should not be involved in that much secrecy, period, when it comes to its own citizens and handling of, you know, collusion accusations or who knows what else.

[00:32:30] I mean, this when you have these media lawfare type situations, there's absolutely no reason that there should be anything hidden from those.

[00:32:39] And what we're finding is that there was a reason for the laptop to be hidden because guess what?

[00:32:45] It was real.

[00:32:46] And a felony would would definitely be a be required as a result of what was on that laptop.

[00:32:54] So, you know, to sit there and smear to be able to do that is law.

[00:32:59] It's lawfare.

[00:33:00] And that is not the U.S.

[00:33:03] That's not the United States.

[00:33:05] That's basically Russia, you know.

[00:33:08] Right.

[00:33:08] And when we're talking about this, all this crazy stuff that's being covered and buried up, this this here's a fine example, because we got to ask ourselves why is one of the first very first questions I was wondering, which I knew, but I want I want I want all the answers.

[00:33:22] I want it to be unrolled.

[00:33:23] I want I want the entire package to be hand delivered to me that I can open it up and I can read and see for myself, not just me, but the entire American population.

[00:33:32] Why why why Hunter Biden was pardoned for things he might have done all the way back to January of 2014.

[00:33:39] This is, as some one judges said, well outside the scope of presidential powers, because I know for a fact that the judge that sentenced him and it tried him in his court was very upset with Joe Biden pardoning of him.

[00:33:58] The way he outlined his put the reason for his pardon, because in his speech, he made reference to him being singled out and being mistreated in this like like he's the only crackhead, you know, arms arms purchaser.

[00:34:11] You know what I'm saying?

[00:34:12] Oh, yeah.

[00:34:13] Yeah, these guys get get get get get prostituted on the daily.

[00:34:16] And there's nobody step in and to pardon them.

[00:34:19] This guy, this this this guy's a I mean, he's he's the worst.

[00:34:22] He's he's a professional crackhead.

[00:34:24] And he's one of the worst ones in my book because he's a president's son and he don't care about it.

[00:34:31] That's what's so big about the Hunter Biden laptop is because there were so many pictures of him in there snorting crack dealing drugs.

[00:34:39] Underage prostitution.

[00:34:40] Underage prostitution.

[00:34:41] I even saw some very early on.

[00:34:42] They seem to have been disappeared and swept under the rug.

[00:34:44] But children pick images of children.

[00:34:47] So very scary things hanging on his wall, you know, just weird, weird things.

[00:34:52] There's there's comments about his dad being the big guy with his his work as the chairperson.

[00:34:58] And was it Burisma where he was a chairperson, this energy company where he's had no no experience whatsoever.

[00:35:03] He was a lawyer, I think, for a little bit, at least went to school to be one.

[00:35:08] And he's got no experience doing anything in energy, but he's made the chairperson and he's calling the for 10 percent to go to the big guy.

[00:35:15] Who's the big guy?

[00:35:16] Well, we know that the big guy, according to this laptop, was his dad, because in other emails, other communications from Hunter Biden to other people, his dad, the vice president or the senator at that time, I believe, was the big guy.

[00:35:30] And he got 10 percent of these dealings, whatever they were, these millions and millions of dollars that were coming out of this energy company.

[00:35:35] Dad, the big guy got 10 percent.

[00:35:38] Anyway, that being said, I want to go way back to very early on when Joe Biden was the vice president.

[00:35:44] And this is a recording of him sitting down talking about how he fired or put pressure on Ukraine to fire the guy that was prosecuting his son or at least investigating his son for the things that he was doing wrong.

[00:35:59] He said, if you don't, if you don't, if you don't fire that prosecutor now or this guy that is working to prosecute my investigating my son, if you don't fire him now, then we're going to pull your funding.

[00:36:09] And and the guy says, well, you're not the president.

[00:36:12] He says, he says, well, I'll call the president right now.

[00:36:15] He said, I'm going to let you guys do it right now for yourself, because this is crazy.

[00:36:19] This is the quid pro quo that the lamestreet media legacy has failed to report.

[00:36:24] This is the kind of stuff that Joe Biden wants to pardon.

[00:36:26] He's essentially pardoning himself.

[00:36:28] We impardons Joe Biden because Hunter because Hunter was in deep with Joe.

[00:36:32] And if Hunter gets his stuff buried, well, it's likely Joe will, too.

[00:36:36] But there's a twist.

[00:36:37] And remind me later, Ryan, I want to talk about this this loophole with you.

[00:36:40] Hold on a second here.

[00:36:41] Here's the audio.

[00:36:41] I remember going over convincing our team or others to convincing us that we should be providing for loan guarantees.

[00:36:49] And I went over, I guess, the 12th, 13th time to Kiev.

[00:36:54] And and I was supposed to announce that there was another billion dollar loan guarantee.

[00:37:00] And I had gotten a commitment from Poroshenko and from Yatsenyuk that they would take action against the state prosecutor.

[00:37:08] And they didn't.

[00:37:09] So they said they had they were walking out to press conference said, no, I said, I'm not going to we're not going to give you the billion dollars.

[00:37:16] They said, you have no authority.

[00:37:18] You're not the president.

[00:37:18] The president said I said, call him.

[00:37:21] I said, I'm telling you, you're not getting a billion dollars.

[00:37:24] I said, you're not getting a billion.

[00:37:25] I'm going to be leaving here.

[00:37:26] And I think it was about six hours.

[00:37:28] I look.

[00:37:28] I said, I'm leaving in six hours.

[00:37:30] If the prosecutor is not fired, you're not getting the money.

[00:37:33] Oh, son of a bitch.

[00:37:35] Got fired.

[00:37:36] And they put in place someone who was solid at the time.

[00:37:41] Well, there's still they.

[00:37:42] So they made.

[00:37:43] So there we go.

[00:37:44] He said, if you don't fire the prosecutor, he's talking about as one that was assigned to prosecutor investigate Hunter Biden.

[00:37:51] If you don't fire him, you're not getting the billion dollars.

[00:37:54] It's extortion.

[00:37:55] Yes.

[00:37:56] Quid pro quo.

[00:37:57] You do for me.

[00:37:57] If you don't do for me, I'm not doing for you.

[00:37:59] It's quid pro quo.

[00:38:00] And it's illegal.

[00:38:00] Yeah.

[00:38:00] And it's it's like one of the number one things is a as a government.

[00:38:06] Worker of any level that you cannot do.

[00:38:09] I mean, you can't even you sometimes you can't even accept lunches.

[00:38:13] I know it's different at that level with, you know, politicians and stuff like that.

[00:38:18] But for most state workers, it ain't happening.

[00:38:21] You know, not like in the private sector.

[00:38:23] But I mean, this this guy's dealing with billions of American dollars and he's going to sit there.

[00:38:29] If if nothing else, people should have recognized that his willingness to protect his son at any cost was something that was above and beyond whatever ethics or, you know, perceived well-being he could possibly have as a human being in general.

[00:38:49] You know, it's the sleazebagginess of him and his whole family is is beyond.

[00:38:57] It's off the Richter scale, basically.

[00:38:58] I mean, it's disgusting.

[00:39:01] And we dealt with it for four years and it's over.

[00:39:03] So I'll drink to that.

[00:39:05] Yeah, I'm kidding.

[00:39:07] So all the more weeks.

[00:39:08] Well, yes.

[00:39:09] And that's the thing, right?

[00:39:10] We got to get through January 6th.

[00:39:11] We got to get, you know, through inauguration day.

[00:39:14] So we got January 6th and we got January 20th to get through.

[00:39:18] And then then we're there.

[00:39:19] I hope we'll be pretty solid, even though there's I guess there's landmines being planted out there by the current administration to not comply with anything that Trump requests or does not work with him at all, which I find mind boggling.

[00:39:32] Because guess what?

[00:39:34] You get fired.

[00:39:36] Like right.

[00:39:37] I'm the new boss.

[00:39:37] You come into my position, into a position where I'm now the boss.

[00:39:41] And if you don't do what you're told or you don't do what I tell you, you know, then I don't need you no more.

[00:39:46] I'll put somebody in your place that knows your job.

[00:39:48] And any good running government agency understands the importance of having somebody junior to them knowing how to do your job.

[00:39:57] At least that's how it was for me in the military.

[00:39:58] You got to train the people under you to know your job.

[00:40:01] So if you get killed, you know, in combat, somebody can can can pick up your your your your job duties, your responsibilities and be able to make the calls.

[00:40:09] It's the same way in any government organization.

[00:40:11] You need to know what you're the person immediately above you, what they do.

[00:40:15] A loophole.

[00:40:16] So tell me about this loophole.

[00:40:17] Yes.

[00:40:17] Before you get too sidetracked.

[00:40:18] So I was OK.

[00:40:19] So I got a soundbite and I don't even know if it's right soundbite or not, because I went back and I tried looking for the original judge that was talking about this.

[00:40:27] There's a popular judge that always is a Fox News contributor.

[00:40:30] He always goes on there.

[00:40:31] And I think I've heard Judge Jeanine talking about it, too.

[00:40:34] But there's a Fifth Amendment loophole here.

[00:40:36] I don't know if you've heard about it or not.

[00:40:37] However, once.

[00:40:39] OK, let's say Hunter Biden is pardoned.

[00:40:41] OK, even though they're saying, well, this is way outside the scope of his part.

[00:40:45] Let's say that he is, in fact, pardoned.

[00:40:47] OK, once you are once you have been pardoned.

[00:40:51] Right.

[00:40:51] You cannot be tried for the offense at which you were accused.

[00:40:54] OK, correct.

[00:40:55] All right.

[00:40:55] So let's say all going all the way.

[00:40:58] Double jeopardy.

[00:40:59] Yes.

[00:41:00] I was getting ready to say that.

[00:41:01] So we're going all the way back to January 1st, 2014.

[00:41:04] He cannot be tried for something that he's already been tried for.

[00:41:07] Not only would it be double jeopardy, but now he can come out and tell his now he can come out and tell the story in full.

[00:41:13] OK.

[00:41:14] And guess what?

[00:41:15] He doesn't have.

[00:41:15] He doesn't have a Fifth Amendment at this point because because the what the Fifth Amendment does, it protects you from from incriminating yourself.

[00:41:23] That's the whole point of the Fifth Amendment is to keep you from from saying I, Ryan Buford, you know, I did this blah, blah, blah, blah, blah outside of the presence of your lawyer.

[00:41:31] You have the right to self-incriminate.

[00:41:32] You have the right to plead the fifth.

[00:41:33] Everybody's heard that comment.

[00:41:34] I plead the fifth.

[00:41:35] You're on.

[00:41:35] That means you don't you don't have to answer questions outside the presence of your lawyer.

[00:41:38] Your lawyer can speak on your behalf because no American citizen, when they feel that they might incriminate themselves, have to speak.

[00:41:47] However, if you've been pardoned, you cannot be incriminated.

[00:41:51] Therefore, there is that there's a legal loophole there.

[00:41:54] Now, now that any any court can compel Hunter Biden to come forward and to testify about his dealings in Ukraine.

[00:42:04] And who's attached to those dealings in Ukraine now that I played that video a few minutes ago?

[00:42:08] The big man.

[00:42:09] Right.

[00:42:10] The vice the president then vice president.

[00:42:12] Also, when he was a senator, this was going on.

[00:42:14] And currently as a president that we know him, we know him as Joe Biden, the big man.

[00:42:20] He essentially threw a monkey wrench into this entire system.

[00:42:25] And I don't think you can pardon yourself.

[00:42:28] You know, it's we heard that soundbite a while ago.

[00:42:30] I mean, you I mean, you should be admitting admitting I don't know if it's ever been done in history, but you'd be basically admitting that you are guilty of it.

[00:42:39] And if we go back that far, we find out everything that we need to see.

[00:42:43] We're going to find out that, in fact, that there was a lot of treason stuff going on, treason and stuff going on.

[00:42:47] And I believe that that could potentially remove because no traitor could be president of the United States.

[00:42:55] So essentially, you know, back back in the old Egyptian days, when when when they shamed a former pharaoh, whatever, they would scratch him from history.

[00:43:05] They literally a pharaoh could say, I want him removed from history.

[00:43:08] And they would go into the catacombs, wherever they recorded the history and just scratch him out the walls and out of the books and they'd be gone forever.

[00:43:16] And their name would be forgotten because they're not allowed to utter their names anymore from that point on.

[00:43:20] It essentially be like that.

[00:43:22] So it's very interesting here that with with with him pardoning his son, he no longer has the right to self-incriminate because he cannot be incriminated.

[00:43:30] Therefore, he could be compelled to testify.

[00:43:32] And if he refuses to testify, then a court order to testify would be would be used.

[00:43:37] And then if he still refuses to comply, he could be sentenced to prison, I believe, up to two years.

[00:43:41] So is he willing to go to prison for two years for daddy?

[00:43:43] And at that point, there's no pardoning.

[00:43:45] There's no nothing.

[00:43:45] You're just in the slammer for two years.

[00:43:48] Yep.

[00:43:49] You know, and the thing is, honestly, I think he's probably safer in prison than he is walking the streets.

[00:43:55] Oh, yeah.

[00:43:55] Because if if you have that much power or you could never go to prison because of what you say, all of a sudden you become the the number one target as a narc for anybody who had dealings with you illegally.

[00:44:10] Anybody.

[00:44:10] The Clintons, the Zelensky's of the world, you know, whoever was in Ukraine at the time that he was messing around with, you know, it.

[00:44:20] Who knows?

[00:44:22] I mean, you know that he.

[00:44:24] Yeah.

[00:44:25] Walking the streets is probably not he's not long for this world.

[00:44:29] We'll put it that way.

[00:44:31] I mean, it's either way.

[00:44:34] If he would have served his sentence and just been a man about it and not had his daddy come and interfere, then that would have been something where I think most Americans would, you know, be like, OK, whatever.

[00:44:46] You did your time, you did your crime, whatever.

[00:44:49] Let's move on.

[00:44:50] But I don't think anybody's going to move on from this.

[00:44:53] No, I don't think so, because how many people are out there?

[00:44:56] We like, you know, you're if this if this doesn't invoke what the left is has always been the term that the left has been used for a long time now.

[00:45:04] White privilege, white male privilege.

[00:45:05] I don't know.

[00:45:06] Oh, yeah.

[00:45:07] Essentially, Jesus.

[00:45:08] This is like the epitome of it.

[00:45:09] Like if I had to put a picture of white male privilege in an encyclopedia Britannica book, it would be Joe Biden pardoning Hunter Biden because he's just a rich white kid who got away with with with tax evasion, who got away with fraud, who got away with purchasing illegal firearms and doing crack habitually and recording it.

[00:45:29] And the underage strippers, all this other stuff that he did, you know, and just getting a blanket pardon.

[00:45:36] He might have bodies buried in his backyard, you know, between January 1st, 2014 and now that nobody knows about.

[00:45:41] But because daddy threw out a blanket pardon, anything he could have potentially done, any any problems that he might have done, any any crimes that he possibly could have done, known or unknown.

[00:45:52] Right.

[00:45:53] Come on, man.

[00:45:54] There's just too much of that.

[00:45:55] So I got a couple of sound bites here.

[00:45:56] Let's and let's just listen to Andy McCarty here, former assistant U.S. attorney, what he has to say.

[00:46:04] And we'll see if this is the right sound bite.

[00:46:06] At least he might add a little bit of thought to what we're talking about here.

[00:46:09] Hold on one second.

[00:46:11] But by giving Hunter this pardon, what you've done is immunized him.

[00:46:16] He now has no Fifth Amendment privilege, which means if they're really worried about a Trump Justice Department investigation,

[00:46:22] they could bring Hunter into the grand jury and make him testify about everybody else who was involved in the scheme.

[00:46:30] So if what you're really worried about, which is what Biden appears to be worried about, is that kind of investigation,

[00:46:37] which looks into the things, especially 2014 through 2016, that the Biden Justice Department didn't look at.

[00:46:44] But it doesn't make sense to pardon only Hunter.

[00:46:47] You'd have to pardon everybody.

[00:46:49] What, Andy, as we leave you off here, I guess like what what what's what shocks you the most about all of this?

[00:46:57] Because there are some obviously who will say in reaction to this, well, not shocking that as the outgoing president would choose to pardon his own son.

[00:47:06] But what really sort of stands out to you the most as we continue to cover this?

[00:47:11] Well, I think the cynicism of Biden is the most shocking thing because he said again and again and again that he wouldn't pardon Hunter.

[00:47:19] And I always said that was laughable, Sandra, from the first time that he said it,

[00:47:24] because if you looked at Hunter's litigation strategy in these cases, it only made sense if he knew he was going to get a pardon.

[00:47:32] But when I say the cynicism is what backs me up, it goes on to this day.

[00:47:37] I mean, even after that history of lie after lie today, they come out where they began to come out on Sunday saying that Hunter was selectively prosecuted

[00:47:47] and there was prosecutorial misconduct in connection with his investigation.

[00:47:54] All of that prosecution was play acting.

[00:47:57] They tried to get rid of the Hunter case.

[00:47:59] They tried to make it disappear and they only prosecuted him because they knew in the end his father would pardon him if all else failed.

[00:48:06] But as the guest that you played the clip from before said, he hasn't fired anyone if he really believed there was prosecutorial indiscretion here.

[00:48:14] Such a great point.

[00:48:15] We heard that earlier right here on this program.

[00:48:17] Andy, great to have you on.

[00:48:19] Thank you so much.

[00:48:20] Again, that was Andy McCarty on America Reports.

[00:48:24] But what do you think?

[00:48:24] What's your thoughts on that?

[00:48:25] Crazy, huh?

[00:48:26] Yeah, I mean, it's kind of just like that.

[00:48:30] Like the guy said, you know, it was what was the term that he used?

[00:48:34] Not laughable, but cynical.

[00:48:37] Was it cynical?

[00:48:38] Yeah, he said cynical.

[00:48:39] I mean, it's just kind of like, yeah.

[00:48:42] On one hand, I guess I would have figured that he.

[00:48:47] Sorry, I dropped out there.

[00:48:49] Yeah, we lost you.

[00:48:50] Yeah, sorry.

[00:48:50] I guess I figured that if he was, you know, having all of his the presidency and his presidential run swept out from underneath of him.

[00:49:01] And then all of a sudden, you know, he's got to deal with this whole mess.

[00:49:06] I figured that he would have been like, no, this you need to do your time.

[00:49:11] But I was surprised that he parked him personally.

[00:49:14] But the way this guy described their prosecution and how they were running it.

[00:49:20] I mean, it's kind of like it.

[00:49:21] Like you say, it's just that white privilege on a on a loop.

[00:49:25] You know, it's it's really kind of disappointing.

[00:49:28] And on the other hand, you look at the other side of the fence.

[00:49:31] Where's the white privilege there?

[00:49:32] I mean, the former president showed up, turned himself in book for booking at the at the precinct that he was required to show up to.

[00:49:42] And he was ready to do his time.

[00:49:44] You know, he was ready to.

[00:49:46] Didn't he spend a night or did he get bailed out?

[00:49:49] I can't remember.

[00:49:49] But anyway, I guess it's not that important.

[00:49:51] You know, the fact that he actually answered to his own lawfare, even though he knew it was baloney.

[00:50:00] And then on the other hand, we have factual evidence that seals this person as a felon convicted as a felon.

[00:50:10] And all of a sudden just gets pardoned because he's daddy's kid.

[00:50:14] I mean, it is the epitome of white privilege.

[00:50:17] It's just crazy how that played out, because you see all this hypocrisy that I mean, and it always shines through in the end because they were always about talking about how I remember how many.

[00:50:27] I saw the soundbites or listed the soundbites rather of of Joe Biden throughout the past saying, no, I'm not going to I'm not going to pardon my son.

[00:50:36] And this was this is following the conviction and all this other stuff of Hunter Biden.

[00:50:40] And then and then the legacy would take to it and say, this just shows a stark contrast between between Trump and and Biden and how how Biden respects the letter of the law and the system.

[00:50:52] And Trump doesn't.

[00:50:53] And they were all touting that kind of sentiment across the board.

[00:50:58] Lo and behold, you know, it's none of it was true that they're all being buffaloed.

[00:51:03] They're all being lied to.

[00:51:05] And I don't I don't I don't buy that he had a last minute change or change of heart.

[00:51:09] You know, he just said all of a sudden last minute decided, you know, yeah, I'm just going to change.

[00:51:13] He knew from the very beginning.

[00:51:15] Yeah.

[00:51:15] And maybe he figured that he wouldn't be the one giving the pardon.

[00:51:18] Maybe he figured Kamala would go in and give the pardon.

[00:51:21] Yeah.

[00:51:22] You know, that's swept under the rug.

[00:51:26] Nobody would have.

[00:51:27] There would have been other stuff going on.

[00:51:29] Kamala was president day one within the first hour, pardon Hunter and then move on with whatever cackling BS she decided to come up with.

[00:51:37] And I think that was probably to me why someone would say, oh, I'm not doing I'll never do.

[00:51:43] I'll never do it.

[00:51:44] Well, guess what?

[00:51:45] His plan didn't exactly work out to even be reelected.

[00:51:49] And then the backup failed also.

[00:51:53] So this is the last ditch effort to keep his kid out of jail.

[00:51:56] Oh, yeah.

[00:51:57] And here we are.

[00:51:58] I have an interesting soundbite collection here from.

[00:52:01] Are you familiar with David J. Harris, Jr.?

[00:52:04] Oh, yeah.

[00:52:05] Black guy, right?

[00:52:06] Yes.

[00:52:06] Yeah.

[00:52:07] He's a pretty staunch conservative.

[00:52:09] Great.

[00:52:09] I've been following him for a long time since he had just a few thousand people up to the millions.

[00:52:14] Yeah.

[00:52:14] He's got a pretty, pretty significant following on Twitter.

[00:52:17] He does.

[00:52:18] Yep.

[00:52:19] Yep.

[00:52:19] He does.

[00:52:20] And on Instagram as well.

[00:52:21] But I got something here from pull from him off of Instagram.

[00:52:23] I just want to kind of play this.

[00:52:24] And he's kind of a citizen journalist too, right?

[00:52:27] Oh, yeah.

[00:52:27] He is.

[00:52:28] Yep.

[00:52:28] Him and like Officer Tatum, you know, different citizen journalists that get out there and they do their own digging.

[00:52:34] And you got people like Charlie Kirk.

[00:52:36] They're kind of along those lines.

[00:52:38] They're just conservatives trying to get their base, you know, get some information out there.

[00:52:42] And I know that a lot of the people like Charlie Kirk likes to go to campuses around election season and set up a tent and have, you know, young voters come up or future voters come up and talk to them and ask questions.

[00:52:54] And they kind of get offended because don't you think it's a little silly or unfair that you're asking us questions.

[00:53:00] You're skilled and prepared and we don't, we're not.

[00:53:03] And he's like, I'm just out here talking to future voters.

[00:53:06] I want you to be aware.

[00:53:07] So if you have questions, like I don't have notes, I don't know what you're here for.

[00:53:10] Just, you know, lay it out.

[00:53:11] That same thing with David Harris Jr.

[00:53:13] He, you know, he likes to, he likes to talk about and cover these kinds of things.

[00:53:17] But this here, apparently he posted no one is above the law unless you're a Democrat or Hunter Biden.

[00:53:23] Let's listen to this.

[00:53:24] Yeah.

[00:53:25] No one is above the law.

[00:53:27] No one is above the law.

[00:53:29] Nobody is above the law.

[00:53:31] No one is above the law.

[00:53:33] No one is above the law.

[00:53:35] Nobody is above the law.

[00:53:36] No one is above the law.

[00:53:38] No one is above the law.

[00:53:40] No one is above the law.

[00:53:41] No one is above the law.

[00:53:45] these are all

[00:53:46] Democrats and no one is above the law

[00:53:48] of course unless you're Hunter

[00:53:50] Biden right

[00:53:53] what it does is

[00:53:54] it reflects poorly on the rest

[00:53:56] of us white males

[00:53:58] I mean

[00:54:00] because that white privilege is just going to get

[00:54:03] basically tarnished

[00:54:04] to the point where anybody

[00:54:05] is going to think that any police officer

[00:54:08] you know pulling over a white

[00:54:10] kid is going to give them a

[00:54:11] free pass right back to the whole race

[00:54:14] war and race baiting and all that BS

[00:54:16] that we wound up dealing with

[00:54:18] the first part of 2016

[00:54:19] I can't you know and I

[00:54:21] can't stand it I gotta say something right now

[00:54:24] being a police officer you know I gotta

[00:54:26] say that I don't get out there

[00:54:27] and look for a black person to pull over

[00:54:30] like it doesn't happen in fact

[00:54:32] it's quite the opposite I don't know who I'm pulling

[00:54:34] over until I get

[00:54:36] up to the vehicle right so

[00:54:37] I see a violation I turn

[00:54:40] on my lights I pull out

[00:54:41] I pursue you know

[00:54:43] they pull over I pull behind them

[00:54:45] I can see at that point maybe in their

[00:54:47] mirrors because I'm watching their movement

[00:54:48] to make sure that they're not

[00:54:49] you know doing they could call furtive

[00:54:51] movement is legal terms make sure

[00:54:53] they're not reaching grabbing hiding

[00:54:54] that kind of a thing you know

[00:54:56] and then when I get up to them

[00:54:58] I'm not 100% certain till I get up

[00:54:59] to them you know what color their skin

[00:55:01] is but it's like but at that point

[00:55:02] I'm like holy crap you know I feel

[00:55:04] it's like it's like I feel just the

[00:55:05] opposite so I feel because the reverse

[00:55:07] racism is there now it's like yeah oh yeah

[00:55:10] if I give this guy a citation am I racist

[00:55:12] you see I'm saying it's like I had no

[00:55:14] intention from the start to pull over a

[00:55:18] black any black individual I'm not

[00:55:20] looking for any color I'm just looking

[00:55:22] for violations I'm not I should

[00:55:24] rephrase that I'm not even looking for

[00:55:25] a violation I'm just out there I tend to

[00:55:28] violations when I see them but I'm you

[00:55:31] know I'm the whole point being that

[00:55:32] whenever I get up there it's like oh god

[00:55:34] what is there am I gonna be called a

[00:55:36] racist because you pulled me over

[00:55:38] because I'm black you know when I didn't

[00:55:40] run that stop line you just pulled me over

[00:55:41] because I'm black and that stigma is

[00:55:43] there for all police officers and and

[00:55:45] and it's oh yeah it's because it's been

[00:55:47] put into the fabric that that white

[00:55:50] police officers are racist and it's it's

[00:55:53] farthest from the truth and I think

[00:55:54] that's that's a hard I mean that's a

[00:55:56] hard pill to swallow especially just being

[00:55:59] a normal person I mean I never saw color

[00:56:01] growing up and we don't even need to go

[00:56:03] this route on this particular podcast

[00:56:05] but I mean it's kind of like it just to

[00:56:08] me it goes to show that these presidential

[00:56:11] actions reinforce that what do you call

[00:56:15] it's it's a trope that concept of white

[00:56:20] privilege especially when it comes to

[00:56:22] white wealthy males and it's it's messed

[00:56:26] up because it ruins it ruins our like

[00:56:30] anybody else's ability who's also a white

[00:56:34] male who's trying to get ahead you know

[00:56:36] and trying to just be lead a normal life

[00:56:39] without having to deal with all the

[00:56:41] bullshit basically you know we just want

[00:56:44] to live a normal life have normal friends

[00:56:46] regardless of color race religion creed

[00:56:48] whatever and be able to you know earn what

[00:56:52] we earn do what we do without having to

[00:56:55] come back to be like oh well the only

[00:56:56] reason you're able to get away with x y and

[00:56:58] z is because you're a white male right it's

[00:57:01] fucking excuse me sorry it's bullshit

[00:57:05] and the problem has just been it's just

[00:57:07] been exacerbated now because here we got

[00:57:10] we got you know let's face it Joe Biden

[00:57:12] has been over over four decades in public

[00:57:15] office you know serving in Washington DC

[00:57:17] and he's a part of the system he's part

[00:57:18] of the deep state and this system has all

[00:57:21] you know got us to where we are today and

[00:57:24] for for them for somebody that's been you

[00:57:26] know touting that they're they're the

[00:57:28] people you know that represents blacks you

[00:57:31] can see that their cities by far and large

[00:57:33] have have the have the biggest issues

[00:57:35] with with damage and destruction and low

[00:57:38] income in the inner cities and it's it is

[00:57:42] it's it's those cities it's the

[00:57:44] portlands you know it's it's all those

[00:57:45] kind of areas where Minneapolis is all

[00:57:48] those those areas that are full of crime

[00:57:49] that are run by by Democrats and because

[00:57:51] the issues aren't being addressed and

[00:57:53] you got to wonder why why why are these

[00:57:55] issues being exacerbated well it's

[00:57:58] because you're not addressing the issues

[00:58:00] with with crime being the issues and if

[00:58:02] you don't address the issues well we

[00:58:03] can't get past past the problem and every

[00:58:06] time you send more police officers into

[00:58:07] the high crime areas well it looks racist

[00:58:10] and see just now listening to that you

[00:58:11] say what's he saying that the high cry

[00:58:13] high crime areas are all black areas

[00:58:16] not necessarily but you can pull out your

[00:58:18] statistics and look for yourself I'm

[00:58:19] just saying do your own homework people

[00:58:20] get out there and do your homework and

[00:58:22] you see where the high crime rates are

[00:58:24] I mean we need police officers any high

[00:58:25] crime area I don't care if it's black

[00:58:27] white Latino Hispanic it doesn't matter

[00:58:29] to me if there's a high crime area we

[00:58:31] need police officers in that area and

[00:58:33] you know that that's just a matter of

[00:58:35] fact because we need to drive crime down

[00:58:36] and and by by defunding the police

[00:58:39] every time you know you you get a

[00:58:42] democrat in charge that believes that

[00:58:43] the police are part of a systemic racist

[00:58:46] issue it's you're not helping anything in

[00:58:48] fact you're exacerbating the problem by

[00:58:51] driving crime rates up by taking money

[00:58:53] away from the police where that money

[00:58:54] would otherwise be used to enforce

[00:58:56] crime reduction yeah yeah it's just it's

[00:58:59] it's a weird slippery slope and I think

[00:59:01] this one event has really you know just

[00:59:06] been one of those things but man I that's a

[00:59:10] lot to handle for tonight yeah going on

[00:59:14] there yeah but I think that's kind of a

[00:59:18] great way for us to probably wrap up or

[00:59:20] at least on that point do you have

[00:59:22] anything else you want to add to that

[00:59:24] no no it's freaking it's good I'm glad

[00:59:27] that that everybody's still out there

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