Savannah Christley, who fought so hard to get her parents a pardon from President Trump, a heartwarming story of courage, bravery, fidelity, and family, joins me live from the Bitcoin Studio to talk about her case.
00:00:00.000Hey everybody, Charlie Kirk here live from the Bitcoin.com studio.
00:00:04.000Savannah Christaly who fought so hard to get her parents a pardon from President Trump, a heartwarming story of courage, bravery, fidelity, and family.
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00:08:14.000So it was $17 million in restitution, which is something it's really funny because when you look at the media headlines, they love to talk about this $36 million worth of fraud.
00:08:57.000He had the largest asset management company.
00:09:00.000And the government just tried to add up as much money as possible without taking into consideration what properties or artwork or furniture was held as collateral.
00:09:10.000And even at trial, one of the government's own witnesses who was the vice president of a bank said, you know, back in 08 when the world was on fire, everyone was throwing their loans back at us.
00:09:21.000And Mr. Christley came to us and said, let's try to make you as whole as possible.
00:09:26.000That was the government's own witness.
00:09:28.000And that right there is not conspiracy to defraud.
00:09:32.000So then you went from sibling to parent overnight?
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00:12:12.000We asked for my parents to be staggered, but the judge looked at us in the courtroom and said, she actually looked at my parents and said, you didn't care about your children when you were committing these crimes.
00:13:56.000No, Lexington was three and a half hours one way, so...
00:13:59.000so we would get up and call it six seven hours seven hours yeah so when it would be when we would go to see mom we would get up 3 4 a.m and drive to see her that day and stay until 3 p.m and then drive home that night and then for dad we would drive 15 hours in one weekend and then the kids had to be up for school monday morning and you had to make sure that they were fed and fed civilized like therapy all of the things there were they were in therapy every single week that was one because of this yes because of this
00:14:29.000am because I refuse to allow these children to be another statistic.
00:14:34.000Whose initiative was it to visit 48 times?
00:15:29.000You know, they go after the man and then if they, the male figure doesn't plead guilty, then they use their spouse or girlfriend as a pawn to get that plea.
00:15:40.000Do they regret not going through the plea deal?
00:17:16.000Well, actually, so I'm visiting regularly and then I became very vocal just about the conditions of the prisons because they were very inhumane.
00:17:26.000And when I did that, a very, you know, another conservative group reached out to me and asked me to speak at their conference.
00:17:33.000And I spoke there and it kind of, that took off.
00:17:36.000And a lot of other politicians like wanted to meet with me and hear my side of the story.
00:17:42.000And then the president's team reached out and asked me to speak at the RNC.
00:18:36.000And walk us through these couple months up to the, was it a partner commutation?
00:18:39.000It was a full, actually, so the story that people don't know was, I guess before, it was probably four to six months before he won the election.
00:18:50.000I got invited to an event at Mar-a-Lago and this was when all of his stuff with Fulton County was going on at the same time as us.
00:18:58.000And I went to take a picture with him and I just word vomited.
00:19:02.000I was like, this is my one opportunity to tell him my story.
00:19:05.000And I started talking to him and then secret service comes up and they're like, all right, time for you to go.
00:19:10.000And he looks at them and goes, no, I'm speaking to her.
00:19:57.000But when the president called to let me know that he was giving my parents the pardon on the phone, he looked at Alice and he said, he's telling me my parents are getting their life back.
00:20:06.000And then he told Alice, he was like, is this a commutation or a full pardon?
00:20:10.000She was like, well, as of now it's a commutation.
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00:21:36.000So the months prior to the pardon, you were working the circuit, hopeful.
00:21:47.000I mean, we just ran into Nancy Mace as we were walking up, and she hugged my mom.
00:21:51.000She was like, I just have to tell you, your daughter took every single opportunity.
00:21:55.000Anyone she came in contact with, she shared their story.
00:21:58.000She shared your story, and if she saw someone that could help, she made a beeline for them.
00:22:05.000And I have no shame in it, because when your family's on the line, and my dad's in his late 50s, like he would have been in his late 60s coming home, the best years of his life are gone.
00:22:17.000So there was nothing that was going to hold me back.
00:22:20.000I never thought I was too good to ask or beg for help.
00:22:23.000And I mean, Carrie Lake, I FaceTimed her as soon as I got my dad, and she told my dad the same thing.
00:22:30.000She was actually crying on the phone when she saw him, and she was like, your daughter did it.
00:22:55.000Once you're in it, you're in it, as you know.
00:22:57.000But now my main focus was to help my parents.
00:23:00.000But in the midst of helping them, I saw how many broken individuals there are in the system and how much injustice has been done.
00:23:09.000So now I'm on my kind of tour to help others.
00:23:12.000And if I can provide the gift for other families that people provided for me and that the president provided for me, then that's what I'm on my mission to do.
00:23:22.000And so what about the prison system do you think people should know about that they don't?
00:23:29.000I like to say if it can happen to us, it can happen to you.
00:23:34.000I mean, it's a federal crime to ship an orchid without proper paperwork.
00:23:39.000Like, you could literally go to prison for that.
00:23:43.000So there are more federal— But it's not a crime to break into America.
00:24:26.000Criminal justice reform is not a very conservative way of thinking.
00:24:30.000But think of it as being your mother or your daughter or your child.
00:24:35.000And there should never be a time to where a human being is sitting in a prison that is 110 degrees because there's no air conditioning.
00:24:44.000I even had Tom Homan look at me and say, Savannah, you would be pissed if you saw the criteria for these ICE detention facilities and then saw the criteria for where your parents are at.
00:25:11.000But with the conditions you're being subjected to, you're serving a life sentence when you leave.
00:25:15.000And so now, like I said, with the director of the Bureau of Prisons, Billy Marshall, and deputy director Josh Smith, they have made it a commitment to actually go into every single one of these prisons.
00:25:26.000And they're going to start shutting them down.
00:25:27.000Or they're going to start making the necessary changes to give these people a second chance at life and
00:25:34.000rehabilitate them and for people that don't care about prison reform and you think all right bad people go to prison well 95 of them are coming out one day so care about yourself enough i mean they're going to be your neighbors so care about yourself enough to make sure that these individuals get rehabilitated so the um this process has been unexpected yes and has has changed you what is the role of faith that it played in all oh i I've said when my parents left that first,
00:27:25.000Did they both get released simultaneously?
00:27:28.000So I, they did, but I had to fight with the prison to let my dad out because they wanted to try to pull some nonsense on me because it was past five o'clock.
00:27:36.000We dealt with this with January 6th, guys.
00:27:39.000And I went outside, did a press conference in front of the prison and said, like, the president signed an order that said they must be released immediately.
00:27:48.000And I looked at the head person at the prison.
00:27:50.000I said, keep him past 11.59 p.m. and you'll be in prison next.
00:27:55.000And he was like, I don't want any problems.
00:30:19.000It is, but you do, and that's the biggest misconception too, is yes, it's a camp, but a lot of people work their way down.
00:30:25.000So like there, my dad was in there with some of the biggest drug dealers and he, they were some of his best friends, you know, and that my dad said it was the, it was such a life-changing experience because he grew up in a world to where you were friends with people who were like you.
00:30:41.000And then going to prison showed him that we really are all the same.
00:30:45.000And he got to be friends with people he would have never have been friends with in the outside world.
00:31:31.000It's kind of, it has to be a lot for them.
00:31:33.000I cannot imagine being locked in somewhere for two and a half years and doing the same thing every single day and then getting out and the world being all over you and cameras in your face.
00:32:24.000And we went back to her resentencing hearing and the judge gave her more time.
00:32:29.000So she kept the seven years, but then gave her two more years of supervised release.
00:32:34.000And which should have been, she should have had time served at that point.
00:32:40.000And the judge looked at me, and this was after I spoke at the RNC.
00:32:43.000She looked at me, and it's in the court transcripts, and she said, to the person who has these minor children in their custody, you need to be more concerned with their well-being than spreading false information to the public.
00:33:34.000And that was the crazy part was we had audio recordings of government officials talking about wiping their government devices clean of anything that had to do with the Christley case.
00:33:45.000They accused us of terrorism just so they could run a FinCEN report.
00:33:51.000And then once they ran the FECEN report to obtain all the financial information, they destroyed the case number that they created.
00:34:12.000So when the president got shot and we weren't sure if he was dead or not, did it go through your head that your parents might have to serve their entire sentence?
00:34:31.000And so when that happened, I just went numb.
00:34:34.000And I genuinely love the president for the encounters that I've had with him because it's been very human to human encounters.
00:34:42.000But then, yeah, I think when the dust settled, I thought to myself, like, again, that's my only way out.
00:34:50.000Like the president is literally the only way out to make sure that my parents come home, that my dad is there for my wedding, that my parents are there for my kids.