Michigan GOP candidate Ryan Kelley speaks out after FBI arrest： 'Christians are being persecuted'
Summary
On this episode of the John Henry Weston Show, we have Ryan Kelly on the show to talk about his recent arrest and the impact it has had on his campaign for Governor of Michigan. Ryan Kelly is a family man and is running for governor of Michigan and is a dedicated family man. He has been the focus of so much media attention since his arrest on January 6th, 2020.
Transcript
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President Joe Biden has turned the United States into something of a banana republic.
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It is unbelievable, his corruption, not only his family corruption, not only his stumbling
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over words and being unable to do anything without a teleprompter, but this latest thing
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Ryan Kelly, by the way, running for governor of Michigan, he's a family man.
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We're going to get into that because we've got Ryan Kelly with us today.
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But it's unbelievable that Biden would have political opponents arrested for no reason,
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Let's begin, as we always do, with the sign of the cross.
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In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.
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So, Ryan, it's just an incredible time for you because you have been the focus of so much
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Tucker talked about you one night, then had you on.
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Fox News has been talking about you because it's unreal.
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And what's so beautiful to me is that, yes, you are already the frontrunner, but your lead
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So, tell us, first of all, a little bit about those numbers and what you've seen of late
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since the arrest and its effect so far for your campaign.
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The most recent polls, the last few of them that have come out, John, have showed that
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I'm the frontrunner by at least 4% and that they continue to expand that lead.
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And the real poll that matters, as we know, is what happens on August 2nd in the primary
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But I'll tell you, the day that I was arrested, so many people came down to the courthouse in
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support, and since then, it has been exponential with the amount of supporters that have become
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activated, the ones that have reached out and support, the ones that have been on the
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Well, I wasn't sure who I'm decided to vote for yet, but now I am.
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It's really been a tremendous amount of blessing, I think, in regard to the number of people that
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are now behind me, and I think going into these next few weeks here, I think it looks
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very good for us to win the primary election here.
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And I think you just had a debate with the other candidates.
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There was a debate in Sterling Heights, and the straw poll that came out from the ones that
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were attending there, I won that straw poll with almost 56% of the vote.
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Absolutely beautiful what's going on, but despite the beauty, and it is beautiful, and it very
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much looks like our Lord is blessing you through the trial you had to endure, but I want to
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President Biden is turning America into a country that is full of corruption.
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His own corruption is spilling out onto the American scene, and it's changing America.
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It's making it look like something that it's not.
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We're not used to arrests for no reason, for political expediency, but that's what we've
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From the very start of when people started accusing me of being there in Washington, D.C.
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on January 6th, I never denied it from the very beginning, back in January of 2021.
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I said, you know, absolutely I was there in Washington, D.C.
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And, you know, the way that our 2020 election was handled, right?
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I was there supporting President Trump, the fraud that happened in the 2020 election here
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We were unhappy on how that process turned out, and we were unhappy that those that had
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the ability to take a closer look refused to want to uncover the truth in what happened
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So I'm there exercising my First Amendment of assembly, protesting the government, right?
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You know, I went there to exercise my First Amendment as an American citizen.
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And the political left-leaning narrative with all of this is to try to eliminate and destroy
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the Trump supporters, the ones that really love America, the ones that really love our country
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as a republic, and the ones that are calling foul on the 2020 election, saying, hey, that
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was fraudulent, and we want to get to the bottom of it.
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Now, this is so interesting because I think Biden sort of spills the beans, perhaps in ways
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Didn't he say just before that he was going to be arresting his political opponents?
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Let's have a look at this, a clip of his on Jimmy Kimmel.
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If we do the same thing they do, our democracy will literally be in jeopardy.
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And I understand that argument, but also it's like you're playing Monopoly with somebody
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who, you know, won't pass go and won't follow any of the rules.
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And how do you ever make any progress if they're not following the rules?
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Well, you've got to send them to jail, you know.
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12 hours later, after he said that, the FBI showed me at my house to arrest me.
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But it's no coincidence here, John, because what we see is that, you know,
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they continue to come after anyone that they disagree with, right?
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They continue to weaponize the FBI and really, you know, their failed Democrat policies
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The high inflation, the high record, high gas prices, food prices are skyrocketing,
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especially for families like mine and many others that have multiple kids.
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You know, we have energy blackouts here in the state of Michigan, right?
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We have baby formula shortages, things that matter to everyday Americans.
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And, you know, yet the left still thinks that January 6th is the top of everyone's not.
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And so, you know, the timing of that was, you know, in correlation with the primetime
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January 6th committee starting back up and, you know, the same time where I'm leading
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I put in the hard work traveling around the state, meeting with people.
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And I speak it clearly, strong conservative values, and it's attracting people to our message.
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And that's how we're going to win this whole entire thing and make Gretchen Whitmer a one-term
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However, I wanted to get into what this means, what this looks like.
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You're a father, you're a husband and father of six little children.
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Difficult for the family to have to experience something like that, right?
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And, you know, it was, it negatively impacted them for sure.
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I mean, you know, invading our privacy, you know, coming into our house, raiding our house,
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It negatively impacted them over, you know, misdemeanor charges.
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Sending all those agents to the house, you know, and as litigation moves on more with
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the case here, we'll be able to share more of the details and the specifics of everything
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So, you know, there's a limited amount that I can talk about without, you know, diving
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into the specifics because we want to have a strong defense here.
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And it's still something that, you know, that impacts them negatively.
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What an alarm for your family, for your children especially, what a negative impression that's
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going to leave with them when they know you're innocent, you're upstanding, you're a citizen
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who is trying his best to protect life, family, faith, and freedom, not only for your
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country, but you're stepping out to do that for your state, for your country.
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And yeah, this is the aiming to silence conservatives.
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And this is, you know, something that, you know, we talk with my kids about, you know,
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There's going to be people that don't like us and try to shut us down.
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And, you know, we look for the things that we can find in all of this to grow from, to
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becoming stronger, to having, you know, more faith that leads us to, you know, a better
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So, you know, you look at it from the flip side of the coin as well, but we have these
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discussions as a family and, you know, we knew it was going to be hard.
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We knew that Christians are being persecuted right now.
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And I'm a strong, conservative Christian and speaking up and they want to silence me.
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And they know that, you know, Governor Kelly is, you know, a threat to their left-wing
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We're going to shut down their hormone blockers for children in our schools and the pushing
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of transgenderism and the sexualization of our children.
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That's not going to fly with Governor Kelly, right?
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We're going to get rid of this leftist indoctrination on our schools.
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Whitmer talks about pushing a social justice agenda.
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I want to push an economic agenda and an academic agenda.
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What's really beautiful is you're overtly pro-life and you're overtly pro-freedom.
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Um, it's amazing to see that you are going against the sort of mandates and lockdowns and all
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these things that so harmed the people, not only of Michigan, all the United States.
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And, uh, it's also amazing to me, you're willing to fight despite the overt persecution you're
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And you're instilling into your children as young as they are, that example of willing
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to fight for your country, even when things are going bad.
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And the adversity that comes along with it is something that helps us to grow to those
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And when Ronald Reagan mentioned that freedom is one generation away from extinction, you
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You have to teach your children, you have to show them.
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And that's how you pass it on in the bloodline.
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It's something that has to be law, uh, learned and taught.
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And so that's part of what's happening here too.
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And it's not just my family because, you know, there's a lot of eyeballs on this case.
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I'll tell you the name recognition from this alone.
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I mean, can't really buy that kind of publicity, right?
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And so, you know, there's been a lot of other people that have seen what's happened.
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And as I mentioned in the beginning, reached out with support, but, you know, talking points
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for their kids as well and bringing the whole picture together.
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And, you know, as you mentioned in the beginning of the show, the corruption from the Biden
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administration, the corruption that we have at the state level here.
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And, and so much in our, in our government is really truly being exposed and the America
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first Republicans I see are coming out in very strong numbers for school boards, county
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commissions, state reps, senators, governors, Congress, and that wave, I believe of really
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Republicans have failed us in a lot of ways as well.
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And, and I think that that is what you're going to see a majority of, you know, moving
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forward to, to take some of these strong positions in our government and really turn our country
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around, push globalism away and really bring God back into the fold of, of a hopeful, prosperous
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Ryan, I love what you said, that you couldn't have paid enough for the kind of advertising
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There's a, there's a saying that what the devil intends for ill, God can use for good.
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And in your case, it's already shown that even at this early point, where can people
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You can go on my website, which is ryandkelly.com, r-y-a-n-d-k-e-l-l-e-y.com, ryandkelly.com.
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You can see there's a spot on there for the legal defense fund.
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If people are willing to give to the legal defense fund, that's going to go to help fight
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So people can see the hundred day plan that I have laid out.
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There's other information about my Michigan first policy.
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It's, it's, it's in depth, but it's not too much information that you can't digest either.
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You can find me on the different social media links.
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We, we have a very big online presence with social media and plenty of information for people
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Would you come back on when you're elected governor?
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And thank you so much for what you're doing for America.