Speaker 1: Hey, this is very, very strange. There is a new report that radical Trumpist Republican
Congressman Matt Gaetz under investigation for a number of different potential crimes,
including trafficking of a minor across state lines for sexual purposes. We have a report
now that Matt Gaetz sought a Trump pardon before before the Trump riots. This is this is strange
because it raises the question of why did he want that pardon? Newsweek report says
Florida Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz had been personally pushing for a broad presidential pardon
from Donald Trump before and after the January 6th attack. The House committee investigating
the riot revealed one of the biggest revelations from Thursday's hearing was the testimony naming
six Republicans, including Gates and others who wanted clemency from Trump before he left
office. By the way, that includes Louie Gohmert and Marjorie Taylor GREENE. Additionally, Alabama
Representative Mo Brooks allegedly, allegedly sent an email on January 11th seeking, quote, all
purpose pardons for every lawmaker who objected to electoral votes from Arizona and Pennsylvania.
Gates has been contacted for comment. The other gates part. In her recorded testimony,
it was described how Gates had been asking for a presidential pardon before the other
Republican lawmakers accused of being involved in attempts to overturn the 2020 election.
Quote, Gates was personally pushing for a pardon and he was doing so since early December. I'm not
sure why, said Hutchinson. He reached out to me to ask if he could have a meeting with Meadows
about receiving a presidential pardon. Eric Hirschman, a Trump White House lawyer,
also said in testimony played on Thursday. Gates wanted a wide reaching pardon from Trump. Quote,
The general tone was we may get prosecuted because we were defensive of the president's position
on these things. The pardon he was discussing requesting was as broad as you could describe
from the beginning of time up until today for any and all things he mentioned Nixon and I
said Nixon's pardon was never nearly that broad. This is very strange. So the natural question is,
why did Matt Gates so early and so broadly want a preemptive blanket pardon? The natural speculation
is, was Gates trying to crowbar in a preemptive pardon for the things he's being investigated for
personally? Well, it's merely speculation, but it's a reasonable question to ask. The issue is
most of the stuff. Let me I'll put it a different way.
Many of the things Gates is being investigated for are state crimes and not federal crimes. And
a presidential pardon wouldn't help you with state crimes. That being said, the interstate
trafficking of minors, that's a federal crime and that's a really big deal. So one speculation is
Gates figured, you know, everybody's going to try to get pardons and we're going to say it's
for supporting Trump's view about the election and trying to fix it and all these different things.
But maybe I can sneak in some help with what I may be up against criminally for my personal
activities. That's one possibility. It is amazing that we regularly are charging, regularly and
quickly charging all sorts of different people, poor people, nonwhite people, people not in
positions of power for insignificant, oftentimes kind of contrived charges. The war on drugs,
you could argue, is contrived at the big picture, as we know the origins of it
to be a sort of racist reaction to the Civil Rights Act of the 1960s. And then meanwhile,
Gates and his fellow, whatever can be suspected of having committed pretty serious crimes.
And they just walk around. They often never even get charged. And when they do, it's all done
very respectfully to their image and to their PR. Even when there is, in the case of Gates,
corroborating witnesses, corroborating witnesses who are cooperating, as we know. Jared Greenberg,
I think, is the guy's name and the example of Gates. So, you know, Trump likes to talk about two
justice systems, the one for right wingers and the one for everybody else. It's a completely bogus
framing of the entire issue. We do have two justice systems in the United States. I've talked
about it for a long time. It's people in positions of power and who have money and who have influence
and then everybody else. And we are definitely seeing that with Trump and his cronies and the
people around him and maybe also with Matt Gates. The reason for Gates wanting this preemptive
blanket pardon? We can speculate. Maybe at some point we will know. But it's a real question mark.