>> Recently defeated and unpopular governor of Kentucky Matt Bevin, on his way out the
door, he decided to go ahead and pardon many convicted criminals.
Many convicted of heinous crimes, but even with that, one particular stood out, it was
Michael Shortell, who was convicted of sexual assault rape of a nine-year-old girl amongst
other things.
Let's go to some what happened.
Matt Bevin pardoned Micah, who was convicted last year raping a nine year old child in
Kenton County.
He was sentenced last year to 23 years in prison.
Bevin wrote the shoulder was convicted of a heinous crime based, quote, based only on
testimony that was not supported in any way by physical evidence.
He added that the case was investigated and prosecuted in a manner that was sloppy at
best.
I did not believe that the charges against Mr. Schoettle are true.
Well, Matt Bevin also went on a radio show to explain himself further, and at the basis
behind what he had to say, let's see what he had to say there.
>> A child rapist though, that is the lowest form of human life.
>> Absolute scum of the Earth.
For people who have raped children, anybody who volitionally assaults another person,
and any kind of a sexual assault in particular, and especially on a child.
To me is reprehensible, to assume, however, that everybody who has ever been accused of
this and even convicted of this, has in fact done this, is a big assumption to make, it
really is.
There was a second one, this is a guy named Mikus Schoettle, I don't even know how to
pronounce his last name.
Let me tell you about this fellow, he was accused of sexually assaulting repeatedly
over the course of almost two years, well, over a year.
Every single Wednesday, I believe it was, repeatedly sexually assaulting her and her
sister, this girl claimed.
She said that every week he came in and sexually assaulted me and my sister.
Well, this sister who was in the same room every time, denied all of it, these girls
both were examined medically.
They were examined physically.
There was zero evidence, zero, both their hymens were intact.
This is perhaps more specific than people would want.
But trust me, if you had been repeatedly sexually violated as a small child by an adult, there
are going to be repercussions of that physically and medically.
There was zero evidence of that.
Man doesn't trust me.
Trust me.
>> A new TI.
>> Yeah.
>> And so, look guys, you think it can't get worse wait until you find out why he might
have done the parts.
Okay, that's a bombshell, it's gonna come in a minute.
But I want, look, we don't need, that he's a monster.
I mean that is stands on its own, but nonetheless, we're gonna give you even more facts to show
how ridiculous he is.
The Kentucky medical examiner Dr. George Nicoles says he clearly doesn't know medicine and
anatomy and he also doesn't know the law.
And he was so mad, he said fortunately, I didn't have to report to that A-hole, so the
medical examiner is like, no, that doesn't work but hold on even more.
Forensic Science international says, quote, a survey of pediatric child abuse rape cases
indicated that only 2.1% of subjects examined had visible lesions on the hymen.
In other words, in 98% of the case, the hymen is still intact.
And this idiot monster goes on so what time it was.
She's nine years old.
Why didn't you do this?
So let's get to why he did this.
It wasn't one guy.
He thought for whatever reason he got obsessed with that case and he was in his he thought
he was innocent.
Whatever.
There's no excuse for, right?
No, he pardoned 428 people, rapists, child rapists, murderers is on his way out.
What the hell is he doing?
And so these are the Republicans who claim to be tough on crime, if a Democrat did this,
the whole country would explode.
Now, so what could possibly be his motivation?
There's two possibilities, cuz I was reading through this going, Jesus, I've never seen
anything this monstrous.
So one is kind of like, yeah, you voted me out of office.
Why don't I let all the rapists and murderers go?
>> Deal with it.
>> Like a Bane move out of Batman.
>> Yeah.
>> Right?
>> Yeah.
>> Wow, okay, but no, it's worse.
So it turns out at least for one of the guys, Patrick Baker, who committed murder, robbery,
impersonating a police officer, tampering with physical evidence.
By the way, these people are all convicted, all convicted.
He'd only serve two years of his 19 year sentence.
Why is he up?
Well, probably a coincidence, but Baker's family members raise $21,500 at a 2018 fundraiser
for Matt Bevin to alleviate debt incurred in his first Gubernatorial campaign.
Other family members also made direct personal donations during and after the event.
Just when you thought catering to donors could not get any more craven and immoral.
Matt, Pat Bevin says, no, wait, I will let murderers and child rape is going free.
If some of their family members are my donors wow.
>> Wait, do they pull the money from the 428 people and who are being pardoned?
To donate to Matt Belvin cuz like, hats off to those total criminals.
But like, that's so bizarre.
>> No but look, we've gotten used to corporations bribing our politicians.
And by the national media doesn't call it bribery, they're like no Exxonmobil is doing
charity, right?
And by the way, there's a lot of times they break the law then they give money to politicians
so they can get away with it.
The people who invented that are the Koch brothers.
They'd been stealing oil from Native Americans.
And when they got caught, they realized, I'll just buy the politicians and they bought a
Senator from one of the big mess with Midwestern states and I remember Kansas, because the
Senator they bought at the time was Bob Dole.
And those senators happened to dismiss the case.
So criminal corporate interests have been buying our politicians for a long time.
So then criminals, it was only a matter of time before the like, we could bribe anybody,
and they'll do whatever we want it.
So, hey, our family member murder people, which is by the politicians.
They'll do anything.
>> Then pardon a bunch of others to just like kinda conceal the one dude who gave you money.
I don't get why you had to pardon all the other child rapist.
>> No, no.
Francesca, I'm 100% with you.
I thought the same thing.
I wonder the same thing.
We're now at this point.
Those are all facts now.
It's speculation, right?
Speculation is one was the bane move like, yeah, I'll let the worst people in Kentucky
out, that will show you guys.
The other is, if I released 428, they might not catch the 1, 2 or 3 that were my donors.
And by the way, that's a legal maneuver that lawyers sue not in terms of releasing terrible
people.
But if you're looking for a document, they'll send the other side so many documents, they
will not be able to find a needle in a haystack.
So in fact Matt Bevin told about the child rapist might be a way to distract people from
his donor that he released.
Like because everybody's talking about what an unbelievably monstrous thing it was to
talk about how the hymen wasn't broken for understandable reasons.
Meanwhile, he's like, did the check clear?
Okay, good, good, don't talk about that guy, don't talk about that guy, talk about the
child rapist I released.
>> It's definitely the last question that was asked, and I said, man, you already did
it.
You have something, you said that was written about it that was absolutely ridiculous.
Then, you go on radio.
And I guess the fact that Terry Mainus was on the radio, so he was challenging him on
it for 17 minutes.
Then, at least, I was like, man, you should probably just go home and sit down right now.
But no he's out there vocally saying what he had.
>> Please don't ever say that word ever again also, just don't say hymen.
>> I know.
>> Don't say that word.
>> So by the way and other rapists he released was Dayton Jones, first degree sodomy, first
degree one endangerment, first degree distribution of matter portraying sexual performance by
a minor who was a 15-year-old boy at a party.
The rape so violently he had internal injuries and it was filmed and posted on social media
and Matt Bevin let him go.
Matt Bevin let him go.
Jesus Christ.
>> I hope there were at least some inmates on nonviolent drug offenses.
Silver lining marijuana possession, pardoned.
>> The worst of worst are released.
And I mean this is the corruption of our politics at its logical, horrific conclusion where
you could bribe any politician and you get this.