After four months, officials in D.C. are finally telling us the truth about the alleged deadly riot at the Capitol on January 6th. And the truth is the opposite of what we ve been told this whole time. Also, 5 headlines, including mainstream media journalists and legal analysts, prove that they don t understand how our court systems work in this country at all. They don t even understand it on a fundamental level.
00:00:00.000Today on the Matt Walsh Show, officials in D.C. are finally, after four months, telling us the truth about the alleged deadly riot at the Capitol on January 6th.
00:00:08.500And the truth is the opposite of what we've been told this whole entire time.
00:00:11.340Also, five headlines, including mainstream media journalists and legal analysts, prove that they don't understand how our court systems work in this country at all.
00:00:19.060They don't even understand it on a fundamental level.
00:00:21.300The judge in the Chauvin case also admonishes Maxine Waters.
00:00:24.800Planned Parenthood faces up to its racist past, sort of.
00:00:28.220And incest advocates make their case for marriage equality.
00:00:32.280Why shouldn't we tolerate and accept their alternative lifestyle?
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00:02:00.640So we've been told nearly every day since January 6th that what transpired at the Capitol that day was a deadly riot.
00:03:06.520Well, we were told that four of those deaths were among the rioters, and one was Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick.
00:03:13.400Of the latter four, or of the former four, I should say, one was Ashley Babbitt, an unarmed woman shot and killed by an unnamed Capitol Police Officer.
00:03:24.000That's one death that we could confirm from the beginning because it was caught on video.
00:03:29.100The other three were more vague, suspiciously vague.
00:03:33.860The media wanted us to know that three individuals died during the chaos or after it or sometime in the vicinity of it,
00:03:43.320and they wanted us to draw from there the conclusion that they were not so subtly pointing us to.
00:03:49.960They wanted to give us a mental picture of a riot where the participants were beating and trampling each other to death.
00:03:56.240In fact, it was reported that at least one of the victims was trampled to death.
00:04:00.120It wasn't until the first part of this month, four months after the riot, that the D.C. medical examiner finally told us the truth or began to tell us the truth.
00:04:11.160While Ashley Babbitt's death was, of course, a homicide committed again by a Capitol Police Officer, the other three were not.
00:04:18.180Two died of natural causes, a stroke and a heart attack, and one was an accidental overdose.
00:04:26.240So already, five of that original tally of seven had been revealed to be false.
00:04:32.700The deadly riot that claimed seven lives had been reduced to potentially two lives, which leads us to Officer Brian Sicknick.
00:04:40.480Now, if you listen to the show, you know that I questioned the story about Officer Sicknick from the very beginning.
00:04:45.620It was reported early on that Officer Sicknick was killed in the riot, murdered.
00:04:50.900Originally, the media said that he was beaten over the head by a fire extinguisher and basically bludgeoned to death.
00:04:57.640That gave way to a story that he was sprayed by some foreign chemical, and that's how he was killed.
00:05:03.000I didn't believe either of these stories, and my reasons were, one, because I'm always going to be suspicious when the media and the left pretends to mourn a dead cop.
00:05:14.380I mean, they'd never found a dead cop they cared about until this one.
00:05:18.200That alone makes me question everything they say about the case.
00:05:22.080His value to them was purely political.
00:05:24.460That doesn't necessarily mean that they're lying, but it does mean that you can't take them at their word.
00:05:28.700Number two, the story was far too vague to be true, or to be entirely true.
00:05:34.680Initially, it was reported that Officer Sicknick was injured, quote, while engaging with protesters.
00:05:40.200Injured while engaging with protesters.
00:05:42.440That's what we were, the initial report was that.
00:07:39.040By that spray while on the front lines.
00:07:41.520D.C.'s office of the chief medical examiner said Monday that Sicknick's cause of death was acute brainstem and cerebellar infarcts due to acute basilar artery thrombosis.
00:08:03.640Now, to be clear about this, the medical examiner, along with officials in D.C., elected Democrats, the national media, all of them almost certainly knew this very early on.
00:08:17.980I mean, there were reports to this effect in conservative media and conservative blogs a day later.
00:08:28.400Are we supposed to believe that the mainstream media didn't know?
00:08:33.560It would have been extremely clear that Officer Sicknick was not bludgeoned to death.
00:08:37.340It didn't take them four months to figure out that he died of a stroke.
00:11:33.300I'm a responsible, I'm a responsible adult.
00:11:36.160And I need my voice to do my job, you know.
00:11:38.460So it's like a really important tool for me anyway.
00:11:40.960And so as a responsible person, I said like last night, I need to make sure that I give my voice a rest, you know, and that I just take it easy.
00:11:52.900And so I spent the night smoking cigars and drinking whiskey.
00:11:56.840So that was my responsible way of dealing with it.
00:12:00.080One of those times when the nighttime version of yourself writes a check that your morning self has to cash in.
00:12:08.780Well, you know, maybe in your 20s you have a lot of moments like that.
00:12:56.380Chauvin's lawyer said it flies in the face of common sense to say that Floyd's death was not caused, at least in part, by his underlying conditions of drug use.
00:13:04.060This argument is in direct contradiction to the prosecution's case, which says, believe your eyes.
00:15:10.720That is the defense's whole job is to sow reasonable doubt in the jury.
00:15:19.620And it would be misconduct on the part of Chauvin's lawyers.
00:15:26.880If Chauvin's lawyers got up there in the closing and said, we want you to believe that Derek Chauvin is completely innocent and is an innocent, great guy.
00:15:46.440No, the way it's set up is that the bar is supposed to be lower than that.
00:15:50.880You don't have to believe that Derek Chauvin is innocent.
00:15:53.980You don't have to believe that he's innocent.
00:15:56.520You certainly don't have to like him as a person.
00:15:58.600But yeah, you don't have to believe he's innocent.
00:16:02.720You just have to think that there could be a reasonable chance that he may be innocent.
00:16:10.460And if you think there's a reasonable chance that he may be innocent, then you can't convict.
00:16:15.760That's what the defense is trying to get across.
00:16:23.040And that's as far as you can go anyway, because that's what this trial really comes down to, right?
00:16:28.000There is no way the defense can prove, can categorically, absolutely prove that George Floyd died purely of a drug overdose and not because of the knee on the neck.
00:16:42.160They can't absolutely prove that, but they don't need to.
00:16:47.000The prosecution needs to absolutely prove that even though he had a fatal dose of fentanyl in his system, that's not what killed him.
00:17:46.620This goes back to what I've been saying from the beginning.
00:17:49.440I wish elected officials would stop talking about this case, especially in a manner that is disrespectful to the rule of law and to the judicial branch in our function.
00:17:58.180I think if they want to give their opinions, they should do so in a respectful and in a manner that is consistent with their oath to the Constitution to respect the co-equal branch of government.
00:18:11.160Their failure to do so, I think, is abhorrent, but I don't think it has prejudiced us with additional material that would prejudice this jury.
00:18:19.340They have been told not to watch the news.
00:18:20.920I trust they are following those instructions and that there is not in any way a prejudice to the defense beyond the articles that we're talking specifically about the facts of this case.
00:18:31.640A congresswoman's opinion really doesn't matter a whole lot.
00:18:37.160Anyway, so motion for mistrial is denied.
00:18:40.100Okay, a congresswoman's opinion doesn't matter a whole lot.
00:18:42.440It doesn't matter in terms of changing the reality.
00:18:46.080It should, and I think what he means to say is it shouldn't matter.
00:18:51.680If you're on the jury, it shouldn't matter to you what this crazy, wacky, scumbag politician has to say.
00:18:59.380Shouldn't matter, but that's a far cry from saying that it doesn't.
00:19:08.080I don't see why this prejudiced the jury.
00:19:09.580Well, you know, we told them not to watch the news.
00:19:11.340So this all, in order for this to really be a fair trial, we have to hope and assume that the jury, first of all, went in without any preconceived biases.
00:19:26.000That they're not going to make the decision based on emotion, but based on facts.
00:19:28.640That they're not going to be intimidated, even before Maxine Waters, they're not going to be intimidated by, you know, thoughts that their lives could be ruined, they could be doxxed, they could be hunted down if they find the Chauvin not guilty.
00:19:43.780They're not going to watch any news throughout the trial.
00:19:45.820And also, now that there's politicians there trying to rile the rioters up, they're not going to be affected by that.
00:19:55.600I mean, we are expecting a lot of this jury.
00:20:00.080You may say expecting an unreasonable amount from this jury.
00:20:06.660Almost, we're expecting at this point to exercise superhuman restraint and courage.
00:20:16.280That's really the only way that this ends up being a fair trial, is if these jurors have superhuman restraint and courage.
00:20:24.420Restraint to not watch the news at all, even though nothing's done to prevent them from doing it.
00:20:29.920And courage to look at the situation and say, yeah, you know what?
00:20:35.040If I find him not guilty, my life could be over, but I'm going to do the right thing.
00:20:43.260It's just not, it's almost certainly not going to happen.
00:20:46.120If there was ever time for a mistrial, this would be it.
00:20:51.840And if you have the trial again, you don't have it in Minneapolis.