Biden's record-breaking prison "reform" (12-16-2024--Hour2)

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[00:00:28] We're looking at reports that are now coming in from Madison, Wisconsin, where there is a reported school shooting at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin. It is a K-12 school. Both Fox and CNN are reporting multiple injuries. We do not know anything other than that.

[00:00:53] There might be some sort of a news conference here. And we'll endeavor to bring it to you as it happens, if it happens. We don't have any information. That's all the information I've got right now is that police are responding to a reported shooting at a school, Madison, Wisconsin, the Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, K-12 school.

[00:01:22] Multiple injuries reported. Always keep in mind in these types of events that the initial information, the initial reports often turn out to be incorrect in some form.

[00:01:40] Not all the information, not all the information, not the total story, but there is a race to be first and not accurate.

[00:01:51] And so keep that in mind as you see things. Do not see some piece of information and allow that to be the narrative that calcifies, the story that calcifies, and that's the truth.

[00:02:03] And then you can never be swayed off of that initial report. Always keep an open mind.

[00:02:10] We will learn a lot more details, I'm sure, in the coming hours.

[00:02:16] And we'll endeavor to bring them to you. But that is all the information we've got right now.

[00:02:20] Also, Joe Bruno from WSOC-TV reports that Davion Crawford pleaded guilty to shooting five people in Romare Bearden Park in Charlotte, Uptown.

[00:02:39] And so under the terms of this plea deal, according to Bruno, he will spend 20 to 36 months in prison.

[00:02:50] And he will get credit for 350 days served.

[00:02:58] So this was the shooting that occurred New Year's Eve, I want to say, last year, right?

[00:03:04] He's been incarcerated in the jail for 350 days.

[00:03:08] So that nearly one year time spent will be counted towards the 20 to 36 month deal.

[00:03:17] Nobody was killed.

[00:03:20] But the judge, Carla Archie, agreed to this, the terms of this deal, and our DA agreed to the terms of this deal.

[00:03:30] 20 to 36 months for shooting five people in Uptown Charlotte.

[00:03:33] This is nuts.

[00:03:36] This is nuts.

[00:03:37] So he gets a three-year term for shooting five people, so less than a year per injured bystander?

[00:03:48] Yeah, I don't get it.

[00:03:50] Maybe there was weakness in the case.

[00:03:52] I just, I don't understand it.

[00:03:56] Also, I don't understand the pardoning and commuting of sentences for, you know, 1,500 people that Joe Biden did.

[00:04:07] He commuted the sentences of almost 1,500 people.

[00:04:12] He pardoned 39 others convicted of nonviolent crimes.

[00:04:18] That's what the White House said.

[00:04:20] The pardons were for the nonviolent offenders.

[00:04:24] And the White House described it as the largest single-day grant of clemency in modern history.

[00:04:31] Yay!

[00:04:33] Or something.

[00:04:35] The individuals whose sentences will be commuted were placed on home confinement during the coronavirus pandemic

[00:04:43] and have successfully reintegrated with their families and communities.

[00:04:48] Well, wait a minute.

[00:04:50] If they've been on home confinement, why wouldn't they have reintegrated with the families?

[00:04:57] They never deintegrated, right?

[00:05:01] They were always with the families.

[00:05:04] They were there on home confinement.

[00:05:05] So the reintegration process actually began four years ago, did it not?

[00:05:12] Many of those whose sentences he commuted would have received a lower sentence

[00:05:16] if they were charged under current laws and practice, according to Joe Biden.

[00:05:23] No other details about that.

[00:05:25] And honestly, when you are commuting the sentences for 1,500 people all at once,

[00:05:32] it's kind of difficult to sift through every single case and examine all of the individuals

[00:05:40] and all of the circumstances of the case and all of the sentencing guidelines

[00:05:44] and what they are now versus what they were when they got sentenced.

[00:05:49] It's almost like that's a feature, not a bug.

[00:05:53] In the final days of his second term in 2017, this is according to the Washington Post,

[00:05:59] President Barack Obama granted 330 commutations to nonviolent drug offenders,

[00:06:06] which at the time was the most granted in one day in U.S. history.

[00:06:10] I saw a stat over the weekend that Obama plus Biden, those two men,

[00:06:19] account for somewhere in the neighborhood of like two-thirds of all commutations or pardons or both

[00:06:25] from all presidents, which is nuts.

[00:06:30] Like you got to go back to FDR.

[00:06:32] FDR, and I actually have this data.

[00:06:34] Hang on a second.

[00:06:35] Here it is.

[00:06:37] This is from the Pew Research Center.

[00:06:45] Of the 21 presidents who have served since William McKinley was president,

[00:06:51] that's when the pardon records date back to,

[00:06:54] of the 21 presidents who served since 1900,

[00:06:59] FDR issued the most pardons, over 2,800 pardons.

[00:07:06] Among those pardoned were people who were still in prison 15 years after being convicted under Espionage Act

[00:07:13] and the Selective Service Act for their public opposition to U.S. involvement in World War I.

[00:07:22] So that was what the, you got 15 years for opposing World War I.

[00:07:28] FDR, the champion of the freedom-loving left.

[00:07:33] In modern history, dating back to the Carter administration, Jimmy Carter has issued the most at 534.

[00:07:40] These are pardons, remember.

[00:07:43] Obama started doing the commutations more so than the pardons because after Carter did all of the pardons,

[00:07:51] Reagan takes over and Reagan only pardoned like 12% of the people that asked him.

[00:07:57] And then the percentages have decreased down into single digits for every president since George H.W. Bush.

[00:08:04] But the Obama administration exploded the use of commutations.

[00:08:11] So by the numbers here, the number of pardons, going back to Carter, he had 534.

[00:08:20] Reagan, 393.

[00:08:22] George H.W. Bush only had 74.

[00:08:25] Bill Clinton had 396.

[00:08:29] So what, three more than Reagan did.

[00:08:34] George W. Bush only 189.

[00:08:38] Barack Obama, 212.

[00:08:39] Donald Trump, 143.

[00:08:44] Before Thursday's announcement, Biden had commuted the sentences of 140 people.

[00:08:50] More than that, actually.

[00:08:51] And he had already granted 26 pardons in office, including one to his kid,

[00:08:57] who is like 50-something years old, Hunter Biden.

[00:09:01] So as time now goes on and we are able to sift through the list of people that have gotten the commutations,

[00:09:10] some of the people are a little problematic.

[00:09:15] For example, Mofid Abdel Khader Marshall.

[00:09:23] He is the brother of former Hamas political wing chairman Khalid Mashal.

[00:09:31] He was unexpectedly released from the U.S. prison where he was being held.

[00:09:36] The Jerusalem Post reports that the U.S. has not confirmed his release,

[00:09:41] but the news has been widely reported in Arab media.

[00:09:45] The release comes amid talks regarding a possible hostage deal.

[00:09:53] See, when you do 1,500 commutations,

[00:09:57] maybe a couple of them slip past that don't get a lot of attention.

[00:10:03] And is it possible that Biden is doing a prisoner swap?

[00:10:07] Or, sorry, is it possible that Dr. Jill is doing a prisoner swap

[00:10:13] and doesn't want everybody to realize it?

[00:10:15] So you do a commutation of 1,500 people, so it kind of gets lost in the shuffle.

[00:10:20] So who was this guy?

[00:10:22] Who is this guy?

[00:10:23] Besides the brother of the Hamas, former Hamas guy.

[00:10:26] I'm assuming Mashal was whacked.

[00:10:30] I'm assuming that.

[00:10:31] I don't know.

[00:10:32] Because is there any leadership left in Hamas?

[00:10:34] Israel's made a thorough job of taking them out.

[00:10:39] So I don't know.

[00:10:39] But Mashal, this guy who was in jail in America,

[00:10:42] he was sentenced for 20 years.

[00:10:46] He was in jail in 20 years on charges of financing Hamas through the Holy Land Foundation.

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[00:11:59] So the Holy Land Foundation.

[00:12:03] Do you know what its original name was?

[00:12:08] Occupied Land Fund.

[00:12:11] The OLF.

[00:12:13] The Occupied Land Fund.

[00:12:15] It was the largest Islamic charity in the United States, headquartered in Richardson, Texas, and it was run by Palestinian Americans.

[00:12:26] In 2004, a federal grand jury in Dallas, Texas charged the Holy Land Foundation and five former officers and employees with providing material support to Hamas and related offenses.

[00:12:45] The government's assertion was that the Holy Land Foundation distributed charity through local zakat or charity committees that were located in the West Bank.

[00:12:56] And those charities may or may not, but totally did, pay stipends to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers and Hamas prisoners.

[00:13:09] That Hamas controlled these zakat committees.

[00:13:15] And that by distributing charity through the Hamas-controlled committees, the Holy Land Foundation helped Hamas build a grassroots support amongst the Palestinian people.

[00:13:25] And that these charity front organizations served a dual purpose of laundering money for all of Hamas's activities.

[00:13:35] The Holy Land Foundation.

[00:13:37] This was a big case about 20 years ago.

[00:13:43] And.

[00:13:45] One of the commutations that Biden handed out was for Mofid Abdel Qader Mashal.

[00:13:55] Who was sentenced to 20 years on charges of financing Hamas through the Holy Land Foundation.

[00:14:02] He has apparently served 16 of the 20 years.

[00:14:07] And now he will spend one year in a rehabilitation facility.

[00:14:14] Maybe it's part of a prisoner swap.

[00:14:16] I don't know.

[00:14:19] What else?

[00:14:20] Who else?

[00:14:21] Oh, a former judge who sent kids to prison.

[00:14:27] He got a commutation.

[00:14:29] Uh huh.

[00:14:30] This was the kids for cash kickback scandal.

[00:14:35] I admit I had not heard of this story.

[00:14:38] Kids for cash.

[00:14:40] A former city official in Illinois who orchestrated the largest municipal embezzlement in state history.

[00:14:48] Also got a commutation.

[00:14:52] Also, a journalist who manufactured a fentanyl like drug dubbed the most potent in the United States.

[00:15:01] She got a commutation.

[00:15:03] The White House framed this move of all the pardons and commutations as part of Biden's record of criminal justice reform.

[00:15:13] See, reform means let the criminals out.

[00:15:16] Give them a break.

[00:15:18] Sorry we're being so harsh on your antisocial behavior.

[00:15:22] It's all to reunite families and strengthen communities because nothing strengthens a community more than forgiving somebody who killed a bunch of people with a fentanyl like product.

[00:15:34] Or took your kids and threw them into jail so they could make money from the company that built the jail.

[00:15:44] That was the kids for cash kickback scheme.

[00:15:49] No, no, no.

[00:15:50] It's all about reintegration.

[00:15:52] Biden has faced intense pressure to do these mass clemencies after pardoning his own son, Hunter.

[00:16:01] Oh, look at that.

[00:16:02] It's the consequences of his actions.

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[00:16:34] You know, you can't spell communism without the same first letters of commutation.

[00:16:40] You know that.

[00:16:41] I don't know what that means, though.

[00:16:43] I'm going over some of the people that got the.

[00:16:47] The benevolence of the outgoing president on the way out the door when he's not running a fire sale on the border wall materials.

[00:16:58] And helping to escalate the Ukraine Russia war into World War three.

[00:17:02] Joe Biden was doing commutations.

[00:17:04] One for a the brother of a former Hamas guy who was doing a 20 year stint for financing Hamas.

[00:17:13] By the way, that story reminded me of the one out of Charlotte.

[00:17:18] You remember the the providing foreign aid to a terrorist organization case out of Charlotte right around the same time?

[00:17:27] Except. Yeah, there were two brothers, I want to say, that were purchasing van loads of cigarettes from the outlets in North Carolina, driving them all the way up to Michigan, selling them because the Michigan taxes on cigarettes were so high.

[00:17:48] They would drive them up to Michigan and then offload them there and keep the profits.

[00:17:55] To then hand the profits off to Hezbollah.

[00:17:59] And they got busted.

[00:18:03] And I covered that trial and this was providing material support to a terrorist organization.

[00:18:08] And that's what Holy Land Foundation was doing, too.

[00:18:11] So he he got a sentence commutation.

[00:18:14] Who else do we have here?

[00:18:18] Dan Fillerup does not work at a gas station.

[00:18:22] He was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

[00:18:26] That's his last name.

[00:18:27] Fillerup.

[00:18:28] Fillerup.

[00:18:29] I'm not kidding.

[00:18:30] That's a Daniel Fillerup.

[00:18:32] Sentenced to 10 years in prison for selling fentanyl that killed an Albany woman.

[00:18:39] And another one named Shellander Agarwal, an Alabama pill mill doctor who the Department of Justice said, quote, directly contributed to the opioid epidemic.

[00:18:52] So both of them got commutations.

[00:18:54] Biden also commuted a 17 and a half year prison sentence for former Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, judge Michael Conahan.

[00:19:05] Conahan took two point one million dollars in kickbacks from a for profit prison executive in exchange for sentencing juveniles to the facilities that the contractor was operating.

[00:19:22] This is a piece by Chuck Ross and Joseph Simonson at the Washington Free Beacon.

[00:19:28] Freebeacon.com is the Web site.

[00:19:30] Also on the list, Rita Crundwell.

[00:19:35] She was the comptroller and treasurer for a little town in Illinois called Dixon.

[00:19:41] She embezzled just a smidge, just a taste.

[00:19:47] Fifty three million dollars from that small town in what the Department of Justice described as the largest theft of public funds in Illinois state history.

[00:20:00] And Illinois is home to Chicago.

[00:20:04] Like that is saying something.

[00:20:06] This woman stole more money from a tiny town in Illinois than all of the grifters and thieves in Chicago.

[00:20:14] That is impressive.

[00:20:16] I actually saw a actually saw.

[00:20:20] A documentary about this case.

[00:20:23] And so when I read this, I was like, oh, my God, that woman got a commutation.

[00:20:28] She used the money that she stole to, yes, not just buy a, you know, massive home, lavish lifestyle with the trips and such.

[00:20:37] But she used the money to breed racing horses.

[00:20:41] She had this whole horse farm.

[00:20:43] I remember watching the documentary where they were doing like the auction of all of this stuff.

[00:20:47] She was sentenced to over 19 years in prison.

[00:20:55] OK, so almost a 20 year sentence.

[00:20:58] And she was hit with that sentence in 2013.

[00:21:02] So she should not be out until 2033.

[00:21:06] But she's out now.

[00:21:09] She is out now.

[00:21:12] And then there's Wendy Heckman.

[00:21:17] She was sentenced to 15 years in prison for leading a drug ring that police blamed for a surge of overdoses and deaths in Omaha, Nebraska in 2017.

[00:21:32] Joseph Chervesky.

[00:21:35] He got clemency for his role in a two hundred fifty five million dollar real estate Ponzi scheme that authorities said was targeted at Orthodox Jews.

[00:21:47] He was sentenced to 22 years back in 2011.

[00:21:51] So he did a little bit more than half of his sentence.

[00:21:58] I don't know if he was part of the prisoner swap with Hamas for targeting Jews.

[00:22:02] I don't know if that's possible.

[00:22:05] I mean, it is possible.

[00:22:08] James, welcome to the show.

[00:22:09] Hello, James.

[00:22:11] Hey, you were talking for a minute there about the the Hamas folks that we had here in Charlotte.

[00:22:17] Well, to be to be clear, they were supporting Hezbollah.

[00:22:21] Totally different.

[00:22:22] Yes.

[00:22:22] Right.

[00:22:23] Right.

[00:22:23] Well, there were three brothers and they were running a discount cigarette business.

[00:22:28] And on this and their sideline was shaking down Palestinians who had moved to the area, threatening their families.

[00:22:35] Oh, I did not know that aspect.

[00:22:38] Yes, that was that was how it came to the forefront, because one of the Palestinian families was friends with a law enforcement officer and went and spoke to the law enforcement officer.

[00:22:50] And then the defecation hit the rotary oscillator all the way up to the federal level.

[00:22:54] Well, the feds got the story.

[00:22:57] I mean, that as I recall, and again, it's been 20 years, but the story, as I recall, was that they they were seen purchasing this very large amount of cigarettes.

[00:23:06] And it was a security guard at the R.J. Reynolds outlet that had tipped off law enforcement.

[00:23:14] Well, they actually owned a discount cigarette business in Charlotte.

[00:23:19] And the it was one of the one of the wives was from these.

[00:23:26] These were all Palestinians.

[00:23:28] One of the one of the wives was from over there.

[00:23:31] The other day, the second wife was hit from here.

[00:23:34] And the three brothers all ended up getting charged.

[00:23:37] Was that was that also the case that involved the the sham marriages?

[00:23:43] No, that was a different one.

[00:23:46] That would have been a different one.

[00:23:48] However, this one did have a little side entrance in that one of the brothers was trying to find somebody who would remove the federal attorney.

[00:24:01] Oh, really?

[00:24:02] Yeah, they got him on the phone.

[00:24:04] Oh, that's yeah.

[00:24:05] I remember they blocked off like the entire area around the courthouse because there was a hotel that was there, like a little two story hotel or something that was right across the street.

[00:24:18] It's not there anymore.

[00:24:18] It's now some big, you know, skyscraper.

[00:24:21] But I remember there was like a hotel or something right across the street.

[00:24:24] And there was concern that somebody may try to, you know, take out law enforcement or reporters or even the suspects or something like a terrorist act.

[00:24:35] Again, this was all after 9-11.

[00:24:37] And so people were really, really nervous about that trial.

[00:24:41] Yeah, they were.

[00:24:42] They were.

[00:24:44] The brothers were very, very actively involved in funding the terrorists.

[00:24:51] Yeah.

[00:24:51] Oh, yeah.

[00:24:52] They were buying and shipping night vision goggles and stuff over to Hezbollah.

[00:24:55] It was.

[00:24:56] Yeah.

[00:24:56] I mean, it was a pretty clear and direct link.

[00:25:00] Yeah.

[00:25:01] Very easy.

[00:25:02] And unless I'm mistaken, the three of them are still guests of the federal government.

[00:25:08] Well, who knows?

[00:25:09] Joe Biden might have something to say about that now.

[00:25:11] We shall see.

[00:25:12] Well, he's letting he's letting everybody else out.

[00:25:14] I mean, why not?

[00:25:15] I know.

[00:25:16] That's what I mean.

[00:25:16] Like he let out the brother of the Hamas leader, the guy from the Holy Land Foundation.

[00:25:20] So, you know, why not these other guys?

[00:25:22] So, yeah.

[00:25:23] Hey, James, I appreciate the call, sir.

[00:25:25] Joe Biden's 1,500 commutations.

[00:25:29] Believe the largest in a single day ever by a president.

[00:25:34] Who else got some commutations?

[00:25:37] Some of the sweet, sweet commutation love.

[00:25:39] Paul Burks.

[00:25:41] Paul Burks was serving a 14 year sentence.

[00:25:43] He was convicted in 2017.

[00:25:46] So he was still.

[00:25:48] Well, gosh, he still had like a decade left on his 14 year term, but he's now gotten a

[00:25:55] commutation.

[00:25:56] He's out.

[00:25:57] What did he do?

[00:25:58] He operated a nine hundred million dollar Internet Ponzi scheme.

[00:26:04] I guess he figures, you know, well, Joe Biden figures, well, you know, like we're already

[00:26:09] doing it with Social Security.

[00:26:11] Why should this guy?

[00:26:13] Why hold him to a higher standard?

[00:26:15] How about Eric Bloom?

[00:26:18] He was sentenced to 14 years in prison for defrauding his financial firm's clients of more than six hundred sixty five million dollars.

[00:26:31] So I'm sorry.

[00:26:31] Are we putting his image now onto the prayer candles like Luigi's?

[00:26:39] Have you seen this?

[00:26:40] The left is doing this.

[00:26:42] They've got merch.

[00:26:44] They've got.

[00:26:45] Yeah, I've seen images.

[00:26:46] They're putting.

[00:26:48] The United Health Care murderer.

[00:26:52] The CEO murderer.

[00:26:53] They're they're putting Luigi's image on prayer candles.

[00:26:56] How about Taiyoshi Alatish?

[00:27:06] This person was resentenced in 2022.

[00:27:10] To one hundred twenty six months in federal prison.

[00:27:13] That would be a ten and a half year sentence in 2022.

[00:27:16] So they did two years for conspiracy to commit credit card fraud, wire fraud, aggravated identity theft in a scheme that targeted the mentally disabled.

[00:27:28] Commuted.

[00:27:30] Prison reform.

[00:27:31] Don't you know, Bob, welcome to the show.

[00:27:36] Hey, Bob.

[00:27:37] Hey, Pete.

[00:27:38] Thanks for taking my call.

[00:27:39] Sure.

[00:27:41] So on these commutations.

[00:27:45] What's the connection?

[00:27:46] I mean, are they random?

[00:27:49] I mean, are they literally random or are they?

[00:27:52] Is there a reason why he's meeting these specific people?

[00:27:57] Well, my question is, I guess I guess my ultimate question is, did they make donations to his campaign?

[00:28:03] I mean, I don't know.

[00:28:04] I've not seen that connection made.

[00:28:07] It could be that you do fifteen hundred of them.

[00:28:11] So this way, the one or two or five or ten that you want to hide, you know, that you don't want a lot of attention to you.

[00:28:19] This way it helps to cover that, you know, to hide it in plain sight.

[00:28:23] Basically, that could be one explanation.

[00:28:26] The other that I've seen referred to is that a lot of these people were on.

[00:28:32] They were not in the prisons.

[00:28:35] They were on home arrest, basically, because of the pandemic.

[00:28:40] And so they so this is this was an effort to prevent them from being sent back to jail, back to prison when Trump comes in.

[00:28:50] Well, and then so and the vast majority of the fifteen hundred are like common criminals, right?

[00:28:56] I mean, it's not like they're, you know, I don't know.

[00:29:00] Is there any other thing besides a common criminal?

[00:29:02] I don't know if you're a criminal, you're a criminal.

[00:29:04] Right.

[00:29:05] Well, a lot of a lot of these are sort of, you know, quote, white collar crimes, embezzlement, stealing, that kind of stuff, bribery, corruption.

[00:29:13] So it's kind of on brand for Joe Biden.

[00:29:15] Right.

[00:29:15] For.

[00:29:16] Yeah.

[00:29:16] To commute the the corruption.

[00:29:19] So, Bob, I appreciate the call.

[00:29:21] The other explanation I've seen mentioned here is that he got a lot of pressure from Democrats and lefties because he had pardoned his own son.

[00:29:30] So how do you not say yes then to all of these commutations?

[00:29:33] So remember, a commutation is not an expungement of the charge or the verdict, I should say, the conviction.

[00:29:41] It's that you don't have to finish serving the time.

[00:29:44] So it's not a full blown pardon.

[00:29:48] Who else?

[00:29:49] James Burkhart, a health care executive.

[00:29:52] He had 114 month term for fraud.

[00:29:57] He also laundered money from the firm.

[00:29:59] He will not have to serve the remainder of his sentence.

[00:30:02] Jacqueline Mills, 2017, sentenced to 12 and a half years in prison for stealing about four million dollars from a USDA program to feed poor kids in eastern Arkansas.

[00:30:13] Mira Sockdiva, a Mississippi doctor sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2012 for defrauding Medicare by providing diluted chemo drugs and old needles to cancer patients.

[00:30:26] One patient at the clinic claimed to have contracted HIV because of the old needles.

[00:30:34] Funny, Joe Biden, I thought, was supposed to cure cancer.

[00:30:40] Well, OK, commuting the sentence of a.

[00:30:43] Of a person who diluted the chemo drugs, I guess that's close enough.

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