The Ben Shapiro Show - September 22, 2026


Patrick Clancy's Words Are Chilling

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Ben Shapiro
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Patrick Clinton Patrick Clancy Lindsay Clancy Lindsay Alba Michael Destronville Paula Davlin Laura Check Ross Cora
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8 minutes

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178.09

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1,588

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128

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Misogyny

7

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4

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00:00:00.000 The Lindsey Clancy trial quickly turned into a sort of bizarre fixation on the state of women in America.
00:00:06.000 And one of the victims of that was Patrick Clancy, Lindsey's husband, who was smeared, really tart and feathered by large segments of the internet, who suggested that he was in on the murder or he did the murder of his own children.
00:00:16.000 It's not true.
00:00:17.000 Well, Patrick Clancy sat down with CBS News on 60 Minutes, and it was rather stunning.
00:00:22.000 And Patrick spoke about the fact that eight month old Callan actually was still alive after the strangling and lived.
00:00:30.000 In the hospital until he passed away.
00:00:33.000 Horrifying stuff.
00:00:34.000 Here was Patrick Clancy talking about it.
00:00:37.000 So I didn't have all the details of Callan's condition.
00:00:40.000 I just knew that they got a heartbeat back.
00:00:42.000 So I remember that night, I really thought there was a chance that Callan would live.
00:00:50.000 And I remember just thinking, just give me one, just give me one kid, and I would raise him as best I could, and I would give him the best life I possibly could.
00:00:59.000 And I'd tell him about his brother and sister.
00:01:02.000 And I was holding out hope for that.
00:01:06.000 And then when I got to the hospital, I saw the doctor, I saw the look on her face, and I knew that it wasn't going to be a good prognosis.
00:01:16.000 Callan's heart kept beating for four days.
00:01:19.000 I'm so grateful for those four days that I had with him.
00:01:25.000 And I'm so grateful he hung on.
00:01:30.000 Did you talk to him in those four days?
00:01:33.000 Yeah.
00:01:34.000 Can you tell me anything you said?
00:01:37.000 I said, I'm so sorry.
00:01:42.000 And I got to hold him.
00:01:46.000 I got to lay down next to him.
00:01:51.000 And he died in my arms.
00:01:54.000 I mean, just horrifying stuff there, obviously, from Patrick Clinton.
00:01:57.000 Remember, this guy, according to all of the sort of viral TikTok ladies, is the one who actually murdered his children.
00:02:05.000 He should sue them into the ground. 0.69
00:02:06.000 He should sue them into the ground.
00:02:09.000 Here's Patrick Clancy on his wife, Lindsay.
00:02:11.000 He says he does believe it was her mental illness that did this. 0.76
00:02:15.000 I saw headlines that said, you know, killer mom and baby murderer monster, and none of them were accurate. 0.97
00:02:23.000 I believed that it was her mental illness that caused that. 0.97
00:02:27.000 So I shared those words. 0.53
00:02:30.000 And I think when it comes to forgiveness, I also felt that if.
00:02:35.000 I didn't get there, I would be eaten up inside forever.
00:02:40.000 Did you ask Lindsay why she did it?
00:02:46.000 I asked her if she remembered it.
00:02:49.000 And what did she say?
00:02:50.000 She said it was like a dream, and she remembered it much in the way you would remember a dream after waking up.
00:02:59.000 Has she ever asked for your forgiveness?
00:03:04.000 No, but I gave it to her.
00:03:08.000 Now, again, he seems like a good person.
00:03:12.000 He seems like a good person.
00:03:13.000 And the attempt to crucify him has been insane, totally crazy.
00:03:17.000 And, you know, he was asked by Ross Duthat about the accusations against him online.
00:03:21.000 And, you know, he has some words.
00:03:24.000 How do you respond to people who have that idea about you?
00:03:28.000 It's deeply harmful to the legacy of my children.
00:03:33.000 It is a huge distraction from what really matters here, which is perinatal mental health.
00:03:39.000 And it's done real harm to real people, myself included, but also others.
00:03:46.000 How does it affect you directly, the stuff that's out there online?
00:03:49.000 It's painful to see and it makes it difficult to be in public.
00:03:55.000 And it's possible that some of those people, after seeing lie after lie after lie, they start to believe it.
00:04:02.000 And that's what we're left with.
00:04:04.000 I mean, again, he is right about all that.
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00:05:28.000 The Clancy holdout juror is a man named Michael Destronville.
00:05:32.000 He is a black man and a Catholic who was the holdout juror who said he was not going to vote to acquit her under reasonable doubt standards. 0.59
00:05:42.000 He said, I didn't have any doubts.
00:05:43.000 As I tried to explain different possible theories during deliberation, I kept getting cut off as if I had doubts based on the evidence present.
00:05:49.000 Based on all the physical evidence, key witnesses, and what the prosecution presents, I thought it was enough proof that she knew exactly what she was doing and planned.
00:05:55.000 Okay, totally fair. 1.00
00:05:57.000 And I have to say that the female jurors are doing themselves no favors in the post trial period.
00:06:03.000 Those who are suggesting that they themselves were partisan hacks sounds a little bit partisan hacky to me.
00:06:09.000 Here's one juror named Paula Devlin saying, well, now men understand what women go through.
00:06:14.000 I don't know.
00:06:15.000 I don't think women go through, like, at a general level, wanting to murder all of their children.
00:06:19.000 I mean, I have a wife, we have five children.
00:06:22.000 I'm pretty sure because she has not suffered from, thank God, from postpartum psychosis.
00:06:29.000 And has not certainly experienced the mental travails of Lindsey Clancy. 0.98
00:06:34.000 I'm pretty sure normal ladies don't go through the I need to strangle my kids with the exercise ban thing. 0.99
00:06:39.000 And when you're a juror and you say this is like what normal women go through, it makes me think that you were trying to adjudicate feminism, not adjudicating the trial. 0.95
00:06:46.000 Even the guys in the room, you know, one of them had kids, and he was even thinking, wow, this is what my wife went through.
00:07:00.000 You know what I mean?
00:07:01.000 Because when you're going through, Through something like that, you can't articulate it.
00:07:05.000 You don't even understand what is happening.
00:07:07.000 And so, to have somebody try to support you, how are they going to know how to support you if you don't even know how to ask for the support that you need?
00:07:17.000 This is not what his wife went through.
00:07:19.000 And it is just unbelievable to me that people tried to make the Lindsey Clancy trial a referendum on women having children in America.
00:07:25.000 It's insane.
00:07:26.000 It's totally crazy.
00:07:28.000 I tried to examine the case, look at the evidence, and then come to the conclusion based on the law.
00:07:32.000 But apparently, very few other people did that.
00:07:34.000 And the whole thing's heartbreaking.
00:07:35.000 And the fact that Patrick has been dragged into a trial about his wife's mental illness is totally, it just shows how broken our politics is, truly.
00:07:44.000 This never should have been a political trial.
00:07:46.000 It always should have just been about the facts of the case.
00:07:48.000 Here's Patrick talking about dreaming about his children.
00:07:51.000 Do you dream about them?
00:07:53.000 Yeah.
00:07:55.000 All the time.
00:07:56.000 Tell me a good dream.
00:07:58.000 I remember early on having a dream, maybe six months or a year after.
00:08:07.000 And I'm in the kitchen at the house, and Cora walks in.
00:08:11.000 And I just look at her, and it was like I basically just said, Where have you been?
00:08:17.000 And she comes up to me and gives me a big hug.
00:08:21.000 Those dreams are so real.
00:08:24.000 It's like I'm lucid in those dreams.
00:08:29.000 Again, heartbreaking stuff. 0.96
00:08:31.000 So, you know, I think the big takeaway here Patrick believes that his wife was mentally ill.
00:08:37.000 I don't know what impact that has on how people think about the case, but one thing is perfectly obvious.
00:08:41.000 Patrick Clancy was yet another victim of Lindsey Clancy or Lindsey Clancy's mental illness, however you see the trial.
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