The Matt Walsh Show - June 30, 2026


Ep. 1804 - We Investigated The INSANE Loophole That Lets Killers Walk Free

Hosted by
Matt Walsh
Mentioned
Precious Bland Young Washington Jacob Howard Angel Guild Walsh Jakari Jackson Amy Coney Barrett Thomas K. Gilhoul George Washington Chris Collins Lyman Trumbull Michael Landon James Uthmeyer Ronald Exantis Kelsey Grammer Kevin Cameron Jesus Christ Ben Kingsley Andy Serkis Anissa Ware and 9 more
The Real History of the Civil War Ep. 1805 - Dismantling the Disastrous 'Birthright Citizenship' Decision in 45 minutes

Episode Stats


Length

39 minutes

Words per minute

165.52

Word count

6,612

Sentence count

400

Harmful content

Misogyny

9

sentences flagged

Toxicity

22

sentences flagged

Hate speech

34

sentences flagged


Summary

Summaries generated with gmurro/bart-large-finetuned-filtered-spotify-podcast-summ .

The Supreme Court ruled that all children born outside the United States are automatically citizens. This is a ruling that could have been a historic victory for this country, if Republicans were anywhere near as effective and ruthless as the left when it comes to selecting Supreme Court justices.

Transcript

Transcript generated with Whisper (turbo).
Misogyny classifications generated with MilaNLProc/bert-base-uncased-ear-misogyny .
Toxicity classifications generated with s-nlp/roberta_toxicity_classifier .
Hate speech classifications generated with facebook/roberta-hate-speech-dynabench-r4-target .
Hosts, guests, and mentioned names generated with spaCy (en_core_web_sm), reconciled against Wikidata.
00:00:00 In today's uncertain economy, American financing is helping families find a way out of the high
00:00:05 interest trap. We're heading into summer, but the economic clouds aren't clearing for most
00:00:10 middle-class families. Between persistent inflation and the cost of daily life,
00:00:14 you're likely feeling the pressure. You've worked hard for your home, probably have more equity than
00:00:18 you realize, yet the summer surge is forcing many to rely on credit cards. It's an exhausting cycle,
00:00:23 but American financing understands that 2026 requires a real strategy. That's why they have
00:00:29 Salary-based mortgage consultants with mortgage rates in the fives.
00:00:33 Their customers are saving an average of $800 a month by wiping out high-interest debt.
00:00:38 That's money that stays in your pocket to fight back against rising costs.
00:00:42 No upfront fees, no pressure.
00:00:44 And if you start today, you could delay two mortgage payments.
00:00:47 Call American Finance today, 866-569-4711.
00:00:50 That's 866-569-4711.
00:00:53 Or visit AmericanFinancing.net slash Walsh.
00:00:57 Well, the Supreme Court just issued the ruling on birthright citizenship that we all expected.
00:01:02 This is a decision that could have been a historic victory for this country if Republicans were anywhere near as effective and ruthless as the left when it comes to selecting Supreme Court justices.
00:01:13 Democrats pick judges who return victories for their side in every case without exception.
00:01:21 And on the other hand, Republicans pick judges who are preoccupied with preserving the image of the court as nonpartisan, even though Democrats don't remotely care.
00:01:30 They're going to pack the Supreme Court and destroy the judicial branch the next chance they get.
00:01:34 With a handful of notable exceptions, particularly Dobbs, the allegedly conservative justices on the court have proven to be unreliable and far too timid.
00:01:43 And on this issue, that's especially disgraceful.
00:01:47 It's impossible to overstate this. 1.00
00:01:49 today's ruling will directly lead to tens of millions more foreigners flooding into this 0.94
00:01:55 country, most of whom will have multiple children who will be entitled to a slice of your paycheck. 1.00
00:02:01 Most of them will not even attempt to assimilate, which is why large portions of California now 0.99
00:02:05 resemble Mexico, why 30 percent of New Yorkers can't speak English, why Somalis run entire 0.98
00:02:11 neighborhoods in Minneapolis. None of this is lawful. The 14th Amendment states that all persons 1.00
00:02:17 born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens
00:02:23 of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. Now, during debates on the amendment
00:02:28 in the Senate in May of 1866, Senator Lyman Trumbull declared that, quote, the provision is
00:02:35 that all persons born in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens.
00:02:41 That means subject to the complete jurisdiction thereof. What do we mean by subject to the
00:02:46 jurisdiction of the United States, not owing allegiance to anybody else. That is what it
00:02:51 means. Meanwhile, Senator Jacob Howard, a free framer of the amendment, stated that he concurred
00:02:58 entirely with Trump. So he added that the 14th amendment would not quote include persons born
00:03:05 in the United States who are foreigners, aliens who belong to the families of ambassadors or
00:03:10 foreign ministers accredited to the government of the United States. Very clearly, as Michael
00:03:14 Landon has pointed out, Howard was listing three categories of people who would not be covered by
00:03:19 the amendment, including foreigners and aliens. No sane person alive at the time would have ever
00:03:26 contemplated the idea that if a Chinese woman flew into Miami while nine months pregnant and
00:03:32 then gave birth to a child, then that child must automatically become a United States citizen.
00:03:39 They certainly would have contemplated the idea that tens of millions of Mexicans and Haitians 0.75
00:03:43 and Guatemalans could colonize entire states simply by invading the country and having a 0.64
00:03:49 very large number of children. That's not what they had in mind, obviously, but that's exactly 0.93
00:03:54 what has transpired. And the conservatives on the Supreme Court, given a once-in-a-lifetime
00:03:58 opportunity to lawfully preserve the future existence of the United States of America,
00:04:03 decided instead, at least one of the alleged conservatives, Amy Coney Barrett, decided to 1.00
00:04:09 protect her own image as nonpartisan. I mean, catastrophic does not begin to describe this
00:04:17 ruling. It's yet another way in which our laws are being bastardized and distorted beyond
00:04:22 recognition as a way of transforming this country into something unrecognizable.
00:04:28 But rather than generally lamenting this horrible decision, this catastrophic decision,
00:04:34 We will go through the decision piece by piece and dismantle it and talk about also where we can go from here.
00:04:42 I mean, there are some things we can do in light of this moment to at least mitigate the damage.
00:04:49 And we're going to get into all that. We're going to talk about all that in great detail tomorrow.
00:04:54 So stay tuned for that.
00:04:56 Today, though, we're going to talk about another way, also disastrous, that the legal system has been manipulated in this country.
00:05:04 And this is a separate topic, but at the same time, as you'll see, it is related in more ways than you might think.
00:05:11 And maybe the most egregious example of what I'm talking about, which often flies under the radar, it isn't discussed very much, concerns the rise of the so-called insanity defense.
00:05:23 Now, if you ask the experts, they'll tell you that the insanity defense is rarely invoked.
00:05:28 And they'll claim that in the vast majority of cases, the insanity defense is unsuccessful.
00:05:33 And even when the insanity defense works, you're told, the perpetrators don't get off easy.
00:05:38 They supposedly have to endure a very unpleasant stint in a mental hospital where they'll probably spend the rest of their lives.
00:05:44 And you're just supposed to sort of take their word for all of this.
00:05:47 Now, all of these claims are false, as we'll discuss at length in a moment.
00:05:50 In reality, the insanity defense is one of the most overused and most effective legal defenses that criminals can employ.
00:05:59 But before we get into that data and what kind of brings all this up is a case that I want to highlight, which which has to be one of the most disturbing examples of this issue.
00:06:10 So in August of 2021 in Miami-Dade County, Florida, a woman named Precious Bland, that's her name, drowned her 15-month-old daughter in a bathtub, killing her, then stabbed her husband in the head and neck when he tried to intervene.
00:06:26 And then she also stabbed her teenage daughter, for good measure.
00:06:30 It's one of the most gruesome crimes that is imaginable.
00:06:35 But Precious Bland was, just a few days ago, this happened late last week.
00:06:40 found not guilty by reason of insanity, and she will not spend a single day in a mental institution.
00:06:48 She is a free woman after she just murdered her 15-month-old child.
00:06:55 Why? Well, because according to the judge and the defense attorneys, COVID made her do it.
00:07:02 Yes, COVID compelled her to commit murder and attempted murder, and therefore she's free to go.
00:07:07 Now, watch this news report where the anchors, for some reason, are on the beach.
00:07:12 I don't know, but here they talk about the case. Watch.
00:07:17 A mother here in Miami was found not guilty of killing her one-year-old daughter
00:07:22 after she claimed a medical crisis brought on by COVID made her do it.
00:07:27 So today, she told NBC6 how she is trying to rebuild her life
00:07:32 despite the tragedy that changed her family forever.
00:07:35 NBC6's Christian Kulong joins us with a story.
00:07:39 Satan is a deceiver.
00:07:41 You guys, he's coming back.
00:07:43 Accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, please.
00:07:46 These were some of the things Precious Bland shouted to police on an August night in 2021.
00:07:52 Shortly after, investigators say she drowned her one-year-old daughter,
00:07:56 stabbed her husband and teenage daughter.
00:07:58 I would not wish this upon anyone to have to go through. 0.65
00:08:04 something so tragic. After nearly five years facing murder-related charges for killing her
00:08:11 infant, Bland is now a free woman. This week, a judge found her not guilty by reason of insanity
00:08:17 after a bench trial where she waived her right to a jury. That was my child. As a mother,
00:08:22 I'm here to to protect children and to love them and to give them the best.
00:08:33 And that's what I did all my life with my children.
00:08:45 COVID took that away from me in that moment.
00:08:50 Bland's attorney argued the Navy veteran suffered a psychotic episode triggered by COVID,
00:08:55 causing hallucinations and voices that told her to baptize her family members who were also infected with the virus.
00:09:02 This was COVID. It's a woman who served our country for five years, combat duty.
00:09:09 As a mother, I'm here to protect my children and love them. That's what I did all my life.
00:09:13 COVID took that away from me in that moment.
00:09:16 Now, we're going to finish the news report in a moment because somehow it gets even more
00:09:20 outrageous. But already, just think about the implications of what she's saying and what the
00:09:25 judge agreed with. They're saying a viral infection, a respiratory illness that affected
00:09:30 more than 100 million Americans and more than 70 percent of adults, somehow compelled this
00:09:35 particular woman to murder her own child and then stab her husband and her daughter.
00:09:39 I mean, tens of millions of people contracted COVID without murdering anybody, but this one person had no other choice but to start executing her own children.
00:09:50 And therefore, we can conclude that COVID makes you commit murder.
00:09:55 COVID made her believe that Satan was coming and that she needed to baptize her child by committing murder.
00:10:00 What's the evidence for this?
00:10:02 There is none.
00:10:04 There's not a single person on the planet who can explain how COVID might force somebody to commit murder.
00:10:09 There's no scientific paper anywhere that even attempts to outline a biological explanation for any of this.
00:10:16 They'll just say that in rare cases, the brain can become inflamed.
00:10:20 So their whole argument is that out of 100 million people who contracted COVID, some of them eventually went crazy.
00:10:27 But, okay, that doesn't tell us anything because 100 million people is an enormous sample size.
00:10:32 In a group of 100 million people every day, some of them are going to act crazy.
00:10:37 They might experience some stressful life event, like the death of a family member.
00:10:41 They might do drugs.
00:10:42 They might have a stroke.
00:10:44 They might simply have bad luck in the genetic lottery.
00:10:47 Whatever it is, blaming COVID makes about as much sense as blaming whatever brand of cereal they ate for breakfast that morning.
00:10:53 It's complete nonsense.
00:10:54 But it's not totally unexpected.
00:10:56 I mean, this is a natural extension of the fraudulent long COVID narrative, and it's why we need to push back on those claims as well.
00:11:04 to be clear, there's no physical test, no blood test, no scan, nothing that a doctor can use to
00:11:10 diagnose long COVID, much less COVID psychosis. These are fake disorders, two fake disorders of
00:11:18 many that exist entirely in the mind of the person who claims to suffer from them. There's a reason
00:11:23 long COVID patients are 80% women, 40% of whom had a preexisting mental health condition. You have a
00:11:30 lot of people who are naturally prone to hysteria and panic, and they're blaming a respiratory
00:11:35 illness for all of their problems because they don't know what else to do. And doctors are happy
00:11:39 to go along with it because they get to bill more therapy sessions and prescribe more medications.
00:11:43 So that's what's happening there. But I interrupted that news report, which we should
00:11:48 finish. Let's continue here. Judge Miguel de la O ruled that Bland did not understand the nature
00:11:54 of her actions at the time and acquitted her. Her attorneys say they believe it's the first
00:11:58 successful COVID-related insanity defense in the country. But the decision has drawn sharp
00:12:04 criticism from Florida Attorney General James Uthmeyer, who was calling for the judge's
00:12:09 impeachment. You have somebody that's drowning a baby and then a judge is, you know, at a bench
00:12:13 trial letting her off for insanity and then she's going to go right back out into the public? This
00:12:18 is wrong. For Bland, she's now focused on her family, who continues to support her despite
00:12:23 everything that has happened. When asked how she wants people to see her today.
00:12:28 A loving mother, wife, friend, sister, daughter.
00:12:41 So Christian, in a nutshell, COVID made her do it. The judge agreed.
00:12:46 Even the news anchors on the beach don't seem to believe what they're hearing.
00:12:50 First of all, as best I could tell, this judge, whose name is Miguel de la O, ran unopposed in the last few elections.
00:12:59 Voters didn't have another choice.
00:13:01 Obviously, that needs to change.
00:13:02 If the impeachment isn't successful, which it should be, then somebody needs to run against him.
00:13:08 And really, he should be arrested.
00:13:09 I mean, this person is dangerous.
00:13:11 He's deliberately allowing murderers to get away with the most heinous crimes you can conceive of,
00:13:15 which is something, as we've seen, that's become all too common in recent years.
00:13:21 Ronald Exantis entered a random house, if you remember, and brutally murdered a six-year-old
00:13:27 boy before trying to execute the rest of the family. And he got out of prison in nine years.
00:13:33 And now we have a child killer getting zero prison time, period. She's not even going to 0.84
00:13:38 an institution. She's free to do whatever she wants. She has a license from the judge to finish
00:13:45 off the rest of her children or her husband, which there's a very good chance she will.
00:13:51 Now, for the record, prosecutors did establish a motive during the trial.
00:13:55 They made the case that Precious Bland was upset about the fact that her husband was cheating on
00:14:00 her and she snapped and she became violent. And in her hysterical and homicidal state of mind,
00:14:05 she killed her child to punish her husband before trying to kill him as well, which is a very common
00:14:10 motive in these kinds of crimes. Watch. Tears filled the courtroom as the mother who admitted
00:14:18 to killing her baby daughter was found not guilty by reason of insanity following a two-day bench
00:14:25 trial. As to count one, aggravated manslaughter. The defendant is not guilty by reason of insanity.
00:14:30 As to count two, attempted murder in the first degree. The defendant is not guilty by reason of
00:14:34 insanity. And as to count three attempted murder in the first degree, the defendant is not guilty
00:14:40 by reason of insanity. State prosecutors tried to prove that this mother of six killed her 15
00:14:45 month old because she told investigators her husband was cheating. The voices and the COVID
00:14:52 psychosis is a fabrication and an embellished story. The judge didn't buy it. That theory,
00:14:58 it doesn't make sense to me that she decided to do all the things that she did, going to all the
00:15:04 neighbors, calling her family members, putting the kids in the water, all of it because she was
00:15:09 angry due to some perceived infidelity. Her lawyers argued Bland was overcome by the voices
00:15:14 in her head and had a COVID-induced psychotic break. Satan is a deceiver. There's so much that 0.88
00:15:20 we don't know about COVID. And this was, you know, one of the first cases in the country to go to
00:15:27 trial on COVID-ing the defense to murder. Bland spent three and a half years behind bars before
00:15:33 being released about a year ago now after a judge cleared her of criminal responsibility in her
00:15:39 daughter's death she says she's focused on moving forward just ready to get my life back together
00:15:45 my husband and my children just move forward
00:15:50 she wants to move forward isn't that nice with her husband and her children uh at least the one 0.75
00:15:58 she hasn't killed yet and just on the basis of these interviews all by themselves this woman 1.00
00:16:03 deserves life in prison. She's obviously detached from reality right now in the present.
00:16:08 But in the eyes of the legal system, she was just temporarily insane when she tried to annihilate 1.00
00:16:13 her entire family and murdered her daughter in a bloody bathtub. We're supposed to believe that 0.91
00:16:18 she's completely fine now, which even if that were true, shouldn't matter, but it's obviously not 0.97
00:16:27 true okay you can't just be so crazy that you kill your own child and then a couple years later
00:16:33 you're fine like you got over the flu or something and you can listen to her for 10 seconds and come 1.00
00:16:39 to that conclusion now the the lawyers here are obviously scum as well no surprise there her 0.99
00:16:45 attorney is a guy named larry handfield who told reporters quote this was covid it's a woman who 0.97
00:16:50 served our country for five years living the american dream until covid came she didn't ask
00:16:55 for COVID. Yeah, well, her daughter didn't ask for a homicidal, psychotic mother either. 0.99
00:17:04 So just totally shameless. But I want to highlight what this judge, Judge De La Oh, 0.50
00:17:09 said when he rendered his decision in this case. He said that he simply doesn't buy the idea that
00:17:15 this woman would go through all this trouble if she was simply angry at her husband for cheating
00:17:18 on her. He thinks there's no way that a scorned woman would possibly go to the neighbors, call
00:17:24 her family, drown her daughter, all because she felt that her husband was unfaithful.
00:17:29 So put it another way, in Miami-Dade County, if you want to get away scot-free with murdering
00:17:34 your family, it's actually very simple. You just have to bother the neighbors for a bit,
00:17:39 call your family members beforehand, say a few words about Satan and baptism when the body cams
00:17:44 show up, and you're golden. The judge will conclude that you're obviously suffering from
00:17:49 a bad case of COVID, and therefore you can murder whoever you want to murder. 0.88
00:17:53 Now, of course, all these mental health questions are entirely irrelevant.
00:18:00 Whether this woman was truly psychotic or not, whether she had long COVID or not, it doesn't matter. 0.92
00:18:07 The fact that she killed her own child by itself is grounds for removing her from society permanently.
00:18:14 If a person is so mentally deranged that they allegedly cannot be held responsible for, as in this case, drowning their own child in the bathtub, that is all the more reason why such a person should be removed from society permanently.
00:18:30 And if you don't want to think of it as a punishment, don't.
00:18:33 You know, if it makes your tummy hurt 0.96
00:18:35 to think that we're punishing a mentally ill person, 0.98
00:18:38 which like, okay, why can't we punish mentally ill people? 0.96
00:18:42 Why does being mentally ill mean 0.99
00:18:44 that you're immune from punishment? 0.85
00:18:46 Has anyone stopped to question that premise? 0.99
00:18:51 Oh, they're mentally ill, we can't punish them. 0.98
00:18:53 Why? 0.99
00:18:54 Oh, so then you could just do the most evil things imaginable
00:18:57 and we're not even allowed to be mad at you about it.
00:19:03 But if you don't want to think of it as a punishment, don't.
00:19:04 Think of it as a very basic measure of societal self-defense.
00:19:08 Sane or insane, people who kill children must be removed from society permanently.
00:19:14 No other outcome could possibly be considered just, or for that matter, sane.
00:19:20 The left has spent decades trying to convince you that the founders were villains.
00:19:24 Well, young Washington is the antidote.
00:19:26 This film tells the real story of George Washington at 20 years old, the failures, the near-death experiences,
00:19:31 and the hand of God that preserved him to win America's independence.
00:19:35 Directed by John Irwin, starring Andy Serkis, Ben Kingsley, and Kelsey Grammer.
00:19:39 No revisionism, no apologies, just the truth.
00:19:42 March into theaters July 4th and help make it the number one movie in America.
00:19:48 And here's a tip.
00:19:48 Don't pay $30 to the box office.
00:19:50 A premium Angel Guild membership is just $15 a month, 25% off, locked in for 12 months.
00:19:56 Two free tickets to Young Washington and every future Angel release,
00:19:59 like The Brink of War, Runner, and Zero A.D.,
00:20:02 plus their full streaming library, Homestead, The Last Rodeo,
00:20:06 Green and Gold, Mike Rose, something to stand for.
00:20:09 It pays for itself.
00:20:10 Join the Angel Guild today.
00:20:12 Go to angel.com slash Walsh.
00:20:13 Take advantage of our special offer.
00:20:15 Become a premium member for the lowest price of the season.
00:20:17 You'll get two free tickets to see Young Washington in theaters
00:20:20 this Independence Day and be part of making this film
00:20:23 the number one movie in America for our nation's 250th birthday.
00:20:27 The people who change communities rarely start by trying to change the world. They start by helping one person, solving one problem, leading one team. Small actions become meaningful work. Meaningful work turns into impact.
00:20:39 at Grand Canyon University, students are prepared for that journey through academically rigorous
00:20:44 programs designed to help them grow professionally, personally, and spiritually. While many universities
00:20:49 are raising costs, GCU has kept tuition rates steady on its traditional campus for 17 years,
00:20:54 honoring their commitment to making higher education more affordable and accessible,
00:20:58 but they're not stuck in the past. 75% of GCU's programs and facilities have been built in just
00:21:03 the last decade. Summer is when a lot of people start thinking about what's next. Well, if you're
00:21:07 exploring your next step. Grand Canyon University offers hundreds of degree programs designed to
00:21:12 help you move forward with purpose. Whether learning on campus in Phoenix or online from
00:21:17 anywhere, students join a community committed to leadership, service, and purpose. More than
00:21:22 132,000 students have chosen GCU for one reason. They want an education connected to real
00:21:27 opportunities, real careers, and real purpose. Purpose isn't something you stumble into.
00:21:32 It's something you pursue. Grand Canyon University helps students do exactly that. Grand Canyon
00:21:36 University, private, Christian, affordable, non-profit. Learn more at gcu.edu. Now this
00:21:44 case, along with the Ronald Exantis trial that I mentioned earlier, got me interested in doing a
00:21:49 deep dive on the insanity defense, which we've talked about a little bit on the show, and how
00:21:55 it's become a cancer in our legal system. And my sense, although it's only anecdotal, is that we're
00:21:59 seeing a lot more of these criminals claim to be not guilty by reason of insanity, and we're seeing
00:22:05 the insanity defense work, even in cases where it clearly shouldn't. There was the infamous
00:22:12 Slenderman stabbing in 2014, for example, in which Anissa Ware and Morgan Geyser lured a friend into
00:22:18 a wooded area and attempted to kill her as a sacrifice to Slenderman, a fictional character.
00:22:24 They stabbed their victim 19 times. Somehow she survived. Both defendants were found not guilty
00:22:29 by reason of insanity. Ware was sentenced to 25 years. Geyser was sentenced to 40,
00:22:34 with both sentences to be served in a mental institution.
00:22:37 And guess what?
00:22:38 They were both released in just a few years.
00:22:41 They're already out of prison.
00:22:42 Ware was released in 2021 to live with her father.
00:22:44 Geyser was released last year to live in a group home,
00:22:47 which she promptly escaped before being recaptured.
00:22:51 These are criminals who should have been spending
00:22:53 the rest of their lives in prison at a minimum.
00:22:57 But because they were found to be insane,
00:23:00 they were never sent to prison.
00:23:01 They went to mental institutions that specialize in releasing criminals as early as possible.
00:23:07 In another case, 21-year-old Cora Vides lured a former classmate to her home and stabbed her repeatedly in the neck.
00:23:14 It was a premeditated attempted murder.
00:23:16 She told her classmate to lie on the bed so that she could teach her a meditation technique before she nearly decapitated her.
00:23:23 Guess what? The jury found that she was depressed at the time of the stabbing, so therefore, it's not her fault.
00:23:29 Her sentence for doing this?
00:23:31 Six months in a hospital.
00:23:34 And normally this is as far as any discussion of the insanity defense goes.
00:23:38 You'll hear about a series of outrageous cases where the law is clearly being abused,
00:23:42 but you're not able to draw any larger conclusions because it's all anecdotal.
00:23:48 Well, as it turns out, this is a deliberate quirk of the system.
00:23:51 There is no database, national, state-by-state, or anything,
00:23:55 that tracks how often the insanity defense is used or how often it's successful. Outside of
00:24:01 random studies by researchers, no one is tracking any important statistics on this subject, on the
00:24:08 insanity defense. And on top of that, even in states where the insanity defense has technically
00:24:12 been abolished, it's still being used in practice. Take Montana, for instance. It's true the defendants
00:24:18 can no longer plead not guilty by reason of insanity, but they are able to claim as part of
00:24:23 a regular not guilty plea that they lack the state of mind necessary to commit the crime
00:24:28 due to some mental illness. So just kind of a roundabout way of arguing the same thing.
00:24:33 And that said, if you get clever with the data, you'll be able to find some proxies for this
00:24:38 information. A few years ago, the Department of Health and Human Services in Virginia put out a
00:24:41 study that took a close look at state psychiatric facilities, the places where criminals typically
00:24:47 go when they're found not guilty by reason of insanity. In the absence of asylums, this is where
00:24:52 we're sending these people. This was a long-running study from 1999 to 2016, and during that period, 0.99
00:24:57 the researchers tracked the number of so-called forensic patients in state mental hospitals
00:25:01 over the years. A forensic patient is basically a patient who was ordered to go to the facility
00:25:06 as part of a sentence, or for an evaluation in a criminal trial, or because they're considered
00:25:11 potentially incompetent to stand trial. And here's what they found, quote,
00:25:16 states that are experiencing dramatic pressures accommodating forensic patients describe operating
00:25:20 at full capacity. Overall national trend lines show a 76% increase in the number of forensic
00:25:26 patients in state hospitals from 1999 to 2014, though the trend is not consistent across all
00:25:31 states. So this is a massive jump, obviously. The number of forensic patients in psychiatric
00:25:37 facilities has increased dramatically in just 15 years, and this data is only current as of 2014.
00:25:43 We can assume that, based on this trend line, as well as all the stories we're talking about,
00:25:47 that number has only continued to increase. But it's important to point out, as this chart
00:25:53 demonstrates, that much of the growth is occurring in one state, which is California. It's actually
00:25:59 hard to interpret this graph because California skews the results so much. Beginning at the turn
00:26:05 of the century, without ever holding any kind of vote or referendum on the topic, California vastly
00:26:10 expanded the use of the insanity defense, as well as rulings where criminals were deemed incompetent
00:26:14 to stand trial. Instead of sending criminals to prison, they began putting them in hospitals.
00:26:21 But this was not only happening in California. This chart helps to see that other states
00:26:26 increased their use of psychiatric facilities quite a bit as well. Florida, Georgia, Minnesota,
00:26:32 Nebraska, Nevada, Texas, Wisconsin all saw very large increases in their forensic populations at
00:26:38 state hospitals during this period. In general, the states with the highest percentage of forensic
00:26:43 patients, as you expect, were left-wing. Quote, seven states had an emission rate of forensic
00:26:48 patients that exceeded 15 per 100,000. District of Columbia, Hawaii, Virginia, California,
00:26:55 Washington, Colorado, and Ohio. And keep in mind, this massive increase in forensic patients is
00:27:02 taking place while the overall patient population at these hospitals is declining. Now, it used to
00:27:07 be that older patients, particularly patients with dementia, would receive care at these facilities,
00:27:11 but increasingly they're getting care at home or in a specialized assisted living center.
00:27:16 They've moved out of the state hospitals and they've been replaced in large number
00:27:20 by criminals. From 1999 to 2005, as for patients who were not guilty by reason of insanity,
00:27:27 quote, the total percent change calculations suggest there was a 9% increase between 1999
00:27:32 and 2005, a 3% decrease between 2005 and 2014, and a 6% increase between 1999 and 2014.
00:27:43 This is not a perfect statistic since it doesn't count states that abolish the insanity
00:27:47 defense, although they still have it in practice, as we discussed.
00:27:51 Additionally, as the report finds, from 1999 to 2014 across all 27 states, there was a
00:27:56 72% increase in the number of IST, or Incompetent to Stand Trial, patients receiving competency
00:28:01 restoration services on a given census day. Now, what's important to understand here is that as a
00:28:10 matter of policy, many of these hospitals simply can't keep these so-called IST or incompetent
00:28:16 to stand trial patients in their custody for very long for that purpose. Quote, 19 states indicated
00:28:22 they cannot hold an IST patient for competency restoration services for longer than two years.
00:28:27 11 of these 19 states cannot hold an ISD patient for longer than one year.
00:28:31 Six states reported that an ISD patient could be committed for competency restoration services for up to three years or more.
00:28:37 Four states indicated that the maximum length of time that an ISD patient can be committed can vary depending on the sentence length or the case itself.
00:28:44 Nine states reported having no specific limit on the length of time that an ISD patient could be committed for competency restoration services at a state psychiatric hospital.
00:28:53 Now, after this period has expired, only patients who are deemed unrestorable can continue to remain in the hospital indefinitely.
00:29:01 But there's a massive problem here because the hospitals are out of room.
00:29:05 State mental facilities in 35 of 46 states are experiencing shortages of psychiatric hospital beds, according to this report.
00:29:12 And 26 states reported a shortage of beds for forensic status patients committed by the courts for evaluation or long-term stays.
00:29:20 Now, this is not simply a matter of logistics. State-run hospitals that run out of room
00:29:26 that can't handle patients the court sends to them are held in contempt of court. They have
00:29:32 to pay fines. Administrators can lose their jobs. In fact, as this HHS report notes, 20 out of 37
00:29:38 states that participated in the survey reported that they had been threatened with or held in
00:29:43 contempt. And 11 of those states specifically said that the length of time the patients were
00:29:47 waiting for admission to the hospital was a major factor in their contempt charges. So you see how
00:29:53 this works. A criminal will stab someone. He'll say that he's mentally ill. A judge will send him
00:29:59 to a hospital, which has to determine whether he's competent to stand trial and whether he was insane
00:30:04 when he committed the crime. All this is totally arbitrary. But the hospital doesn't have the
00:30:10 capacity to make that determination because they don't have hospital beds. And also the whole
00:30:16 process for determining whether someone was insane when they did something is totally fake.
00:30:20 I mean, it's all just completely fake. And even if they do eventually determine that this person
00:30:25 is crazy, they can't keep them in the hospital because they have no room. So guess what happens
00:30:30 next? Well, you guessed it. The state hospital is held in contempt and the criminals are freed.
00:30:35 That's what just happened in Oregon. This is a report from just a few weeks ago. Watch.
00:30:41 In Oregon, a person charged with a crime but considered too mentally ill to aid with their own defense
00:30:47 is often sent to the Oregon State Hospital for treatment.
00:30:51 A new order from a federal judge will limit that option to the most serious cases,
00:30:56 felonies like assault, murder and rape.
00:30:58 It means defendants facing less severe charges now have fewer options
00:31:03 and they could be released from custody before getting treatment.
00:31:07 If there's somebody who is mentally unstable and needs the help and the assistance of the state hospital, we should be giving that to them.
00:31:16 Kevin Cameron is a Marion County commissioner. The state hospital is in his district.
00:31:21 He's one of multiple county leaders who are critical of the judge's ruling.
00:31:25 That causes a public safety problem, and it also is a challenge for those people.
00:31:32 I mean, we shouldn't be, it's inhumane to be sending people out on the street that don't belong out there.
00:31:39 The order also restricts extensions of a patient's stay at the state hospital,
00:31:44 meaning violent offenders could be released after six months.
00:31:48 The goal, get Oregon back in compliance with the federal order 0.77
00:31:51 requiring mentally ill defendants to move from a jail to the state hospital within seven days.
00:31:57 We know that every day a person with mental illness that is so severe they can't help their lawyer in their case
00:32:03 spends in jail is a day when they're at risk of suicide, they're at risk of harm from others, they decompensate.
00:32:11 It's been a decades-long problem in Oregon.
00:32:14 The state was found in contempt last year.
00:32:17 Oregon has since racked up more than $3.7 million in fines due to noncompliance.
00:32:23 the judge wrote, defendants, the Oregon Health Authority, are likely to achieve compliance
00:32:28 considerably sooner with these remedial measures in effect. So it really has everything. You've
00:32:33 got the black left-wing judge who's letting everybody out of prison. You've got the white 0.96
00:32:38 leftist woman with the glasses who said it's the humane thing to do. You've got the old white guy 0.71
00:32:42 trying desperately in vain to convince everybody that it's a bad idea to spring violent lunatics 0.99
00:32:47 on the public. But in Oregon, he is outvoted. Rather than throw these criminals in prison,
00:32:53 which is supposedly the worst-case scenario, a human rights violation, Oregon has decided to
00:32:59 release them onto the streets. Because who cares about the human rights of the law-abiding members
00:33:06 of your community? Who cares about them? So the murderous lunatics have a human right to
00:33:13 be free, but the law-abiding citizens of the community have no right to be free from 0.93
00:33:19 being brutalized and killed by those very same lunatics. Okay. Now, what's interesting is that 0.87
00:33:26 not too long ago when we had asylums, prison was considered the humane option. Bellevue was 0.95
00:33:32 notorious. They'd cut your brain up if you were too disorderly. Meanwhile, the Pennhurst Asylum 0.94
00:33:37 in Pennsylvania was so creepy and disturbing that they've turned it into a haunted house
00:33:41 in the present day. Now, if patients weren't insane when they walked into the asylum,
00:33:48 they often lost their minds before they left, and they certainly would have a tough time in there.
00:33:53 But towards the end of the 20th century, in our quest to be more humane, we shut down this asylum
00:33:58 and every other asylum like it. As the New York Times wrote in 1984, quote, the first lawsuit in
00:34:04 the nation to argue that the mentally retarded have a constitutional right to living quarters
00:34:07 and education in their home communities has been settled after 10 years with state officials
00:34:12 agreeing to shut down the Penhurst Center for the Mentally Retarded. This makes possible a new life 0.99
00:34:16 for retarded people across eastern Pennsylvania, across the Commonwealth, and across the country, 0.85
00:34:21 said Thomas K. Gilhoul, an attorney for the state chapter of the Association for Retarded Citizens,
00:34:27 an organization that was instrumental in the negotiations. They freed all the retarded people, 1.00
00:34:32 and one of them is now on the Supreme Court, Katonja Brown Jackson. So that's kind of an 1.00
00:34:36 inspiring story, but it seemed like a good idea to people at the time. We gave the retarded people 1.00
00:34:41 a better quality of life. But one of the many second order effects of this decision is that 0.98
00:34:46 without the horror of asylums looming in the back of their minds, criminals gained a brand new
00:34:51 incentive to make phony insanity pleas. I mean, it used to be that no sane person would plead
00:34:59 not guilty by reason of insanity because being sent to an asylum was effectively torture. It
00:35:04 was worse than prison. But now that asylums are gone and state hospitals are full, we've created 1.00
00:35:10 a very obvious reason for criminals to pretend to be insane. I mean, why not? The existence of
00:35:16 asylums guaranteed that insanity pleas were mostly legitimate, because by definition, no sane person
00:35:22 would want to go there. The absence of asylums ensured that most insanity pleas are fraudulent.
00:35:30 That's also ironic, because at one point, prisons were considered the progressive option. You know,
00:35:35 they were certainly more progressive than simply hanging criminals on the spot,
00:35:38 which is what we used to do and in many ways was a better system. Now prisons are seen as the worst
00:35:45 case scenario in the eyes of the social justice activists. They'll always complain about any
00:35:49 deterrent to criminal behavior. And as of 2026, their complaints have been effective. Society has
00:35:55 bowed to their demands consistently. That's why we're all conditioned to think that these insanity
00:36:01 pleas and this insane 76% increase in the number of forensic patients are all totally normal.
00:36:07 They're not, or they shouldn't be. I mean, that's the reality. Insanity as a distinct medical
00:36:13 category, actually, is a very new concept. It certainly is not some concept that's as old as
00:36:22 civilization, which is a ridiculous claim that I've seen circulating online. Yes, people have
00:36:27 behaved in bizarre and evil ways throughout all of history. Roman legal codes address people who
00:36:33 are mentally incompetent. That's true. But the idea that these people have a mental illness 1.00
00:36:37 or that they just need to take a few pills and spend a few nights in a hospital
00:36:41 is indeed very new. I mean, the rules that our courts use to determine insanity were established
00:36:47 around 1840, less than two centuries ago. Before that, we were capable of identifying
00:36:53 demons when we saw them. We also understood that evil people exist too.
00:37:00 Evil people do things that seem insane to people who are not evil.
00:37:05 We could identify evil people without pretending that COVID was controlling their minds,
00:37:10 and we could dispense with them accordingly.
00:37:12 One of the major lessons of the latest Supreme Court ruling
00:37:15 is that we have drifted very far from the legal system that our founders envisioned. 0.93
00:37:22 We've treated illegal aliens, as well as the allegedly insane,
00:37:26 in ways that don't remotely align with the fundamental principles of the Constitution. 0.99
00:37:31 These are all new inventions.
00:37:33 And despite what you may be hearing today,
00:37:36 they don't derive from any legitimacy from precedent or from Supreme Court rulings.
00:37:43 We are a weaker and more dangerous country for having allowed this madness to continue for so long.
00:37:50 But we can reverse a significant amount of this decline just as quickly as it began.
00:37:54 with one three-word policy that's long overdue, 0.97
00:37:59 reopen the asylums. 0.75
00:38:01 Give the criminals something to fear 0.92
00:38:03 that's infinitely worse than prison.
00:38:06 And at that point, the most evil among us
00:38:08 will have no more incentive to lie.
00:38:11 They can finally admit what they are.
00:38:14 And in turn, while ignoring all the inevitable wailing
00:38:17 from the social justice ladies with the big glasses,
00:38:21 we can deal with them accordingly. 1.00
00:38:24 That'll do it for the show today.
00:38:26 Thanks for watching.
00:38:27 Thanks for listening.
00:38:28 Talk to you tomorrow.
00:38:29 Have a great day.
00:38:30 Godspeed.
00:38:37 We have a terror warning in Northern Virginia. 1.00
00:38:40 Radical Islam has designs openly on the West. 0.91
00:38:42 The FBI thwarted a terror plot on New Year's Eve. 1.00
00:38:45 Violence attack over the Halloween weekend in Michigan.
00:38:48 Protests on college campuses showing no signs of stopping.
00:38:54 Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no!
00:39:24 To be continued...
00:39:54 You