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Tucker Carlson: This is unequal justice by any measure

2021-10-16 | 🔗
‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’ host reacts to the sentencing of January 6 protesters.
This is an unofficial transcript meant for reference. Accuracy is not guaranteed.
So, on Tuesday, three days ago, a 53 year old, hair salon owner from Indiana called Donna Sue Besi, was sentenced in a federal courthouse in Washington. As the day began, it seemed pretty obvious that Donna Besi was not going to go to prison. Even Joe Biden's Justice Department had recommended probation. That's because the crime she was accused of committing was not serious by any measure. The crime was quote, parading, demonstrating or picketing in a capitol building that would be on January. Six. Donna Besi did not set fire to any property. She didn't attack police officers. She didn't hurt anybody. She paraded as she thought, was her right as an American, then the sentencing began and very quickly. It became clear that Donna Besi would not be going home to her family and her hair salon. Again, the topic is, if anything she did on January six, it's because of what she believes: a Doj prosecutor, a fascist, called Joshua, Rothstein, labeled Donna, Besi, a quote avid consumer of conspiracy theories, including that Covid is a quote hoax
pandemic. Apparently, according to this prosecutor, you're not allowed to believe that believing that is a crime. It's a thought crime and you can go to jail for it. Keep in mind again. This was ostensibly a trial about what happened on January six, the physical facts of that day. The judge also heard that Donna Besi is not vaccinated against Covid nineteen and, of course, that's a crime too. It's a thought crime. She needs to go to jail, and so she is now you remember. Last year the government released thousands of inmates telling us it was to protect them from the coronavirus, but no such sympathy was extended to Donna Besi of the hair salon in Indiana quote it's one thing to believe in conspiracy theories in your basement. The fascist prosecutor said it's another thing to act out on them, really he's a shrink now to. In the end, the judge overruled the prosecutor's recommendation of probation and sent on ABC to prison for the crime of quote parading in the capitol building and for disputing the official narrative on Covid. That's now a crime and Don Abysses life is
now ruined she's in jail. What's interesting is that, just a few months ago, Don Abysses friend, a woman called Anna Morgan Lloyd, was sentenced to probation for the exact same offense that would be parading in the capitol. So why the difference now? Well, here's the difference. Unlike her friend Donna, a appeared before a judge called Tanya chunk, Tanya chunk donated many thousands of to Pacs, supporting Barack Obama and then Barack Obama in exchange appointed her to the federal bench in twenty fourteen where she has been a disgrace ever since a real disgrace in the last few months, chunk has repeatedly overruled prosecutors to impose long prison sentences on Jan six defendants. That would include Robert Bauer of Kentucky Edward Hemenway of Virginia Matthew. Masoko of Texas, Anthony chunk is not the only run running political show trials in or formerly free country, the one in which you were guaranteed equal treatment under the law, but no longer receive it. There's another Barack Obama appointee Beryl, Howell who's, repeatedly overruled prosecutors to punish Jan six
defendants, far more harshly than even the Doj asks. For now. This is unequal justice. By any measure, it contradicts the central principle of our legal system and our country, which is we're all citizens and all of us, stand equal before the law. It's not about what you believe. It's about what you do. It has nothing to do with who you vote for nothing to do with who you listen to on the radio or watch on television. It has to do with whether you violate law, but that's no longer. What has to do with should know that none of the code pink protesters who stormed Senate buildings during the Kavanaugh hearings wound up in jail. Of course, not they weren't tossed in solitary confinement. Another were the self described environmentalists who just raided a federal building in Washington. This is footage. From yesterday at the Department of the Interior Watch well come
on the water shut down, my brain, you can't get back up and stand up. Don't do this don't do this, and that, ladies and gentlemen, is the single worst attack on our democracy since 9 11, Pearl Harbor and the sort of civil war? Oh no, it's not we're not liars. It is what it is. You just saw it: go inside, go inside chant the rioters they're in video trying to push through a police barrier so by the standards now set by the behavior on January six. That is an insurrection against the government. So how did our government respond to what you just saw? Well, the department of the Interior under Joe Biden just issued a statement that refused to condemn it or the rioters we're quoting directly. The interior department. Leadership believes strongly in respecting and upholding the right to free speech and peaceful protest. End quote: oh so they're not insurrectionists they're peaceful protesters
because they voted for Joe Biden. This is what happens when law enforcement becomes partisan. This is the nightmare scenario. This is the country you don't want to live in. This is the country that judges you, on the basis of who you vote for and will put you in jail if you vote the wrong way. This is not a defense of any criminal conduct that occurred on January six, but the events of that day keep in mind were an organized demonstration against the unequal enforcement of law in this country. For the past four years, and that's exactly what we have seen period, that's not a partisan point. That's true! And anyone who's awake knows it's true, and yet, instead of heeding the call wait, people are upset. What are they upset about? Maybe we should fix the disparity our leaders doubled down on unequal treatment under the law, which is what they're doling out in even bigger helpings. At this point, so criminals with the right politics suffer no consequences. In some cases those criminals are put in charge of enforcing the law themselves. Here's one example: the former deputy FBI director
Andrew Mccabe Mccabe, admitted lying to federal investigators. That's a felony by the way, unlike parading in the capitol, but Andy Mccabe was never hauled off to jail. Never lectured about his vaccine status by some lunatic prosecutor. In fact, Andy Mccabe just got his federal pension back and he's bragging about it on television to have a settlement of this lawsuit and one that so clearly indicates. This should never have happened. It is both an incredible relief. It's it's satisfying, but it's also. You know it's also kind of sad. I mean like this. Should never have happened. My family should never have had to go through this. This is the current department of Justice standing up for fairness. What you're the country's second in line in our biggest law enforcement agency and you've admitted committing a felony, and all that happened to you was that you lost
your padded federal benefits, and you say that was unfair and you're still whining about him. Even after you got it back. Are you the same Andy Mccabe who destroyed MIKE Flynn's life and bankrupted him tried to send him to prison on a charge of lying to federal investigators? Yes, that charge was in fact engineered by Andy Mccabe for the sole purpose of getting rid of Michael Flynn at the behest of Barack Obama and his cronies, and we're not speculating about this because FBI documents prove it on those documents. It's literally written, get him to lie. Get him to lie. Andy Mccabe was never punished for that. He still has a seat waiting for him on CNN and when Andy Mccabe lied to investigators about leaking to the media, was he charged? No, that wasn't parading in Congress now he gets his pension back and he celebrated on national television. Why is that? Because Andy Mccabe is on the right side he's a member of the National Security state which the left now generates, because the national security state is on their side. The FBI can label political
dissidents, domestic terrorists which justifies killing them, and everyone applauds when they die so Ashli Babbitt. I hurt not a single person. On January six, she was unarmed and yet watched. This is Andy. Mccabe's defenders justify shooting her because the FBI says she was somehow a threat to national security, Ashli Babbitt, who was a trained air force specialist trained by our tax to kill. She was a military member. If she'd gotten through that door, God knows what kind of harm she could have done. His supporters who attacked the capitol are terrorists. It's two plus two equals four stuff like Ashli Babbitt. All those who attack the capitol are terrorists because the FBI director has said it was an act of terrorism. Ashli Babbitt is the woman that was leading the mob that was about to storm the house floor and she was shot by a brave officer who was the last line of defense for many members of Congress, and many of these members were the slowest least mobile members, because they were having the hardest time getting out if they had been overrun by that mob people would have been
killed yeah. So you watch that and you get frustrated and then you're reminded these people are so stupid. It's amazing they can breathe unaided, and that is some comfort. They just told you that Ashli Babbitt was trained by the air force to kill people. Oh really, a lot of people in the air force trained to kill people. She was a threat to their safety. She was like 5', two and totally unarmed. She was not warned by the way before she was shot to death. We've never seen the results of that investigation. We know the man who shot her was completely reckless. He left a loaded firearm in a men's room in the capitol he wasn't fired for that. For some reason, no one in the federal government is ever fired, so that's clearly over the line in a functional country, but then to see those ghouls gloating about the death of an unarmed woman. How would they treat you so they're telling you that, for the crime of praying in the capitol building, Ashli Babbitt deserved to be executed? In the same time, they're telling you that they're ignoring other crimes once committed with
people by who are actually armed and 18 year old, who opened fire in his classroom in Texas shot? Several people got out of jail in a single day. He told us he was bullied yet another victim of white supremacy and he got a pass and that's fine Hunter Biden got to pass his firearm winds up in a trash bin behind the grocery store and then disappears threat to public safety. Anyone know not, according to our government, the feds didn't care about his gun and said the secret service showed up, which was not working for him at the time, went to the gun store to shred, the paperwork showing that Hunter Biden committed a felony by lying on a federal gun form when he acquired the gun. So if you're the President's son, you can commit a federal gun felony and nobody cares. The worst they'll do is invite you on their shows and let you explain it away in a sentence. Why did you have a gun? Well again, you know the period
of my life. That was difficult. It was, but you know I I don't know according to the reporting at one point, the secret service went looking for the record of sale. Do you know anything about that? Nothing? No, but you know about the secret service being involved. No, I had no idea, I don't know whether the secret service were or why they would be, or I don't think that that's true right, it's not on your laptop or anything. So you commit a gun felony. You lie about it in the laziest possible way, and no one really cares. But if you dare to criticize the incompetent bureaucrats leading say our military is to scheller, did they send you to prison? If you try to visit your sick daughter in the hospital you get arrested, I told them that I wasn't going to leave my daughter's side. She had taken a turn for the worse and I wanted to stay, and I told them that I wasn't leaving. She said the nurse said: she'd have to call security, I said,
do whatever you have to do, but I'm not leaving my daughter's side good for you good for you. I wish more Americans would take that really. Thank you for doing that, but they handcuffed you. Yes, they handcuffed me behind my back and led me out to the cruiser where I sat for three hours with my hands cuffed behind my back. What was your? What was your crime? Were you spreading covid to people? I mean like what did you do wrong? Exactly stayed past seven o'clock? Oh handcuffing, a grandmother because she stayed past seven o'clock, shooting an unarmed woman in the neck without warning her because you didn't like what she was saying, but if you torch a federal courthouse in Portland, no problem, if you show up at a school board meeting and object to your 14 year old daughter being raped in a bathroom, that's when you get thrown to the ground and taken to jail, and I tried to tell the lady what had happened to my daughter and she looked me dead in the face and said: that's not what happened
and that just struck me like. How do you know what happened? You don't even know me and she started in on me again and threatened my family business, my livelihood, everything that you gives my family, what we need she threatened to ruin my business on social media. The next thing I know I'm getting touched from all over the place. I didn't know who was touching me who was grabbing me. I turn around. The police are grabbing me and next thing. I know I'm tackled to the ground we could go on and on. We could spend all night giving you example after example: here's the bottom line they're, not for defunding the police and we apologize for ever suggesting they were there for repurposing the police they're, not against the use of force. They embrace the use of force as long as it's against their political opponents, they're for letting criminals off the hook and redefining people who oppose the regime as criminals, the only ones who get punished. What form
of government is this? It's not democracy, it's anarcho tyranny. It is selective punishment even as they ignored the rule of law, and this is a threat to the very center of the american idea, which is equality under the law. Everyone treated the same by the justice system. Right now, you can loot a target in Minneapolis. You can burn a Wendy's and face no consequences, but try to defend your own property, like the mccloskeys. Try to exercise your constitutional right to state your views about the last election and you go to jail. That's true by the way. Next month, we're releasing a multi part series on Tucker, Carlson Originals on this topic. It's the best thing. We've ever made we'll tell you much more about it soon. It will be on Fox nation. So one thing we've learned in the last twenty four hours. You can say pretty much whatever you want in this country, but there are limits guardrails as we call them and the main one is. You can't make fun of PETE Buttigieg.
You must take PETE Buttigieg very, very seriously. We learned that and more we'll tell you all about it in just a minute. Plus american diplomats are reportedly suffering from mysterious neurological symptoms. It's called Havana syndrome, but does it actually exist? Is it real one expert doubts that he joins us next, but we can still get a copy of the long slide on Tucker Carlson, we'll be right back.
Transcript generated on 2021-10-16.