LEMON DROP | I Beg Your PARDON! - December 6th, 2024
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What is the episode's focus on presidential pardons beyond Hunter Biden?
Let's talk pardons, shall we? No, relax. Not that pardon. Not President Joe Biden's pardon of his son Hunter. I'm all talked out about that one. Either you think it is a scandal or you don't think it's a scandal and no one's ever going to change your mind. And by the way, I don't even think it's Should have ever been a discussion. I want to talk about the next pardons for Joe Biden, the ones that he should pursue, the ones that could actually do something that the election didn't do, pardons that will help to save our democracy. Let me explain that. Trump's pick for the FBI director, Kash Patel, we've talked about it. He has made it perfectly clear that he wants to weaponize the criminal justice system and he wants to sick the criminal justice system upon Donald Trump's enemies.
OK, Don, that's hyperbole. You don't believe me, right? OK, so this is Kash Patel in his own words. Listen closely.
Highly confident that when you go back and is a senior member of this administration, President Trump's administration, starting in the afternoon of the 20th of January of 2025. Do you feel confident that you will be able to deliver the goods, that we can have serious prosecutions and accountability? And I want the Morning Joe producers that watch us and all the producers to watch us. This is just not rhetoric. We're absolutely dead serious. You cannot have a constitutional republic and allow what these deep staters have done to the country. The deep state, the administrative state, the fourth branch of government never mentioned in the Constitution is going to be taken apart brick by brick. And the people that did these evil deeds will be held accountable and prosecuted.
Criminal prosecutions. Cash. I know you're probably going to be head of the CIA, but do you believe that you can deliver the goods on this in a pretty short order the first couple of months so we can get rolling on prosecutions?
Yes. We got the bench for it, Bannon, and you know those guys. I'm not going to go out there and say their names right now so the radical left-wing media can terrorize them. But, excuse me, the one thing we learned in the Trump administration the first go-round is we got to put in all-America patriots top to bottom.
Who is Kash Patel and what did he say about prosecuting political opponents?
And we got them for law enforcement. We got them for intel collection. We got them for offensive operations. We got them for DOD, CIA, everywhere. And the one thing we will do that they never will do is we will follow the facts and the law and go to courts of law and correct these justices and lawyers who have been prosecuting these cases based on politics and actually issuing them as lawfare. We will go out and find the conspirators, not just in government, but in the media. Yes, we're going to come after the people in the media who lied about American citizens, who helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections. We're going to come after you. Whether it's criminally or civilly, we'll figure that out.
But yeah, we're putting you all on notice. And Steve, this is why they hate us. This is why we're tyrannical. This is why we're dictators.
So just who is Cash Patel looking to go after? We actually have a pretty good idea of the folks he wants to go after because he wrote it in a book in 2022. It's called Government Gangsters. Patel names them all. 60 of them. He has 60. Interestingly enough, not all of them are members of the media or Democrats, as you might expect. Almost 20% of the people on his list consist of people that Trump himself either appointed or nominated during his first term. Take, for example, the former Trump Attorney General Bill Barr. Remember, Bill Barr helped Donald Trump a lot. Bill Barr's only offense appeared to be threatening to resign if Trump installed Patel as his deputy. In addition to his once-almost boss, Patel includes two actual former bosses, the National Security Council Chairman John Bolton and Mark Esper.
There are a few picks that are less petty than outright bizarre. Alyssa Farrah Griffin, right? A former Mike Pence staffer who's now a co-host of The View.
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