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The Joe Rogan Experience.
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sir i'm good nice to meet you i really enjoyed you on tucker carlson show shout out to tucker uh it was a very eye-opening podcast and you know uh whenever someone is uh convicted of you know any any political figure any person of power that's uh convicted of corruption you automatically assume that they're guilty and after listening to you on tucker show i was like oh jesus like
It was such an eye-opening podcast and such a disappointing one, too. It was so disturbing to hear your version of the story, which was so different than the version that was put out on the media. And it was just, oh, corrupt politician goes to jail. He went to jail. He must be guilty. And then you hear your take on it. You're like, oh, God. It's very disturbing.
And I just wanted to show you this just before we get rolling. Biden just released— A bunch of people. Multiple Chinese spies and an individual convicted of possessing child pornography. I think he's released – how many people has he pardoned today?
I saw a number of 1,500.
He's going ham. Everybody can get their – sign your checks, send them in, let's go. Wow. Wow. Possession of child pornography should be like you shouldn't be able to pardon for stuff like that. It's like there are certain things. It's like, come on.
You know, I spent almost eight years in prison for politics, not for crimes. I'm happy to answer any questions you have about any of it because I didn't do it. It was all politics. But the first three years, almost three years, they put me in a higher security prison. And I'm in there with Crips and Bloods and Gangster Disciples and Sinaloa cartel drug dealers. Why would they do that?
They were squeezing me and pressuring me because they wanted me to basically say I did something that I didn't do. They wanted me to plead guilty to non-crimes.
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