10 08 25 We talk with Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Jonathan and Kelly Show.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Jonathan Rush, the Congress has obtained evidence that shows that
the Biden White House was directly involved in trying to
help start Jacksmith's investigation on the January sixth probe against
President Trump, Kelly Nash basically seeking the Justice Department on
his future rival in the twenty twenty four election.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
Jonathan and Kelly Show.

Speaker 4 (00:24):
I thought it was going to be a fireworks display,
and it was just hearing Pam Bondy and her supposed answers.
But these guys don't deserve answers anyway. But in the
midst of all that, John Solomon explained it to you
yesterday and then again last night. If you saw the news,
the weaponization that the Democrats are screaming about Donald Trump's

(00:45):
weaponizing our federal agencies, the weaponization under the Biden administration
was out of control.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
Lindsey Graham got pretty red faced yesterday, so screaming about
the fact that who are they to be tapping my phones?
What's that about?

Speaker 3 (01:00):
You know?

Speaker 1 (01:01):
Why?

Speaker 3 (01:01):
Why me?

Speaker 5 (01:02):
Why?

Speaker 1 (01:02):
Why these other seven senators? Why that House member? And
it turns out those are the people who spoke to
the president most often and in other words, what they
were really doing was tapping the president of the United
States phone. That's what they were actually doing.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
All right.

Speaker 4 (01:15):
We can get into some more of that coming up,
and some of the other revelations from yesterday's conversation, some
of the comedy that ensued as well. But first look
at this, Kelly Nash, Welcome in the studio, Richly Kenny
sheriff for Leon Lott.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
Hello, sir, Good morning.

Speaker 5 (01:27):
There, good morning, right to be with John again. I
missed last month. My apologies y'all re issue. I know
I tried to reschedule. Kelly just said, hell wold, I
ain't gonna res if you didn't make it time there
you always walk had a funeral to speak at. So
called Kelly and said, look, I gotta do this. Can

(01:47):
we do it now? Sorry, you're a law man. I
got your tag number. Come on now.

Speaker 3 (01:55):
Well.

Speaker 4 (01:55):
One of the reasons I wanted to talk to you
is because even last week and again this week, I
was looking of the television screaming at the national reporters.

Speaker 3 (02:03):
You ought to call Leon Lotte. You'll set you ask straight.

Speaker 4 (02:06):
We'll get back to that in just a second. It
is a big week A lot of people coming into town.
And you know with the South Carolina State Fair, it's
like four hundred thousand people coming to this thing.

Speaker 5 (02:16):
Yeah, and we've got a ball game on the weekend too,
not this weekend, but the following weekend. We got a
ball game. So that's gonna double even more. But you
know what, we were prepared. We prepare for it all
year long. We run it like a major event. We
have a big command post to set up. We've got
cameras that are monitoring and everything. We've got high visibility
of our deputies, and we've got deputies you don't see,

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we've got eyes in the sky. We were monitoring everything.
Probably the biggest thing we got is is to escort policy.
You ain't coming in as a teenager or a kid
and run around the fair with actual parents, so you
can't get in. And then also we got part of
our gang unit that works the gates and this is
this is private property. You don't have a right to
come in. So if we see someone that we knows

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in a gang, they we turned them around and they
don't come in.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
You let them pay for the ticket first. Yeah, Now
when you say teenagers aren't allowed, is that like.

Speaker 5 (03:09):
Sixteen, seventeen and unders to go to a parent and
will they they're checking IDs at the gate pretty much. Yeah,
when we look at you and go hmm, hold you okay.

Speaker 4 (03:20):
And you have that show an ID to be clear,
you have to be eighteen in order to gain entry
by yourself.

Speaker 3 (03:25):
That is correct.

Speaker 5 (03:26):
If you're seventeen, you ain't coming in.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
And if I'm bringing my if I'm a nineteen year
old and I'm bringing my seventeen year old girlfriend.

Speaker 5 (03:33):
No, no, that you got to be your parent or
guardian adult god and not coming on. And this is
not the first we've done this in the past, and
it's been very successful. You know, the number one go
of the fair is to make it a great, safe
family event. This is for families. This is ain't for
you to run around and show out and and Calle's problems.

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We got allowed at you know, a lot of people come.
We've had very few incidents there. I don't think we
hardly locked up maybe two or three people last year,
and that's probably a couple of carnies that had a
little bit too much to.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
Drink or smoke.

Speaker 5 (04:08):
But by and large, it's a very safe event. And again,
lots of cops there, lots of cops.

Speaker 1 (04:15):
Flood the zone.

Speaker 5 (04:16):
We flood the zone, and the fairs never scrimped on money.
Every year after the fair we have a meeting. Okay,
what could we do better? What improvements and whatever we recommend. Man,
they jump on it. They don't hesitate. Example, a few
years ago, you know, you got all the roads that
go through the fair. So when we would say you

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go to the ferris wheel, you know sometimes and I said,
why don't we name the roads in there? Lo and
behold they named all the roads. So now when you
get on the radio and say, hey, report the so
and so, did not know that they're going to name
one road after me, lot Lane. I walk up and
there's Lot Lane with that. This is my fifty first
year at the fair.

Speaker 3 (04:57):
Wow.

Speaker 5 (04:57):
Wow, I've been since I started the Sheriff's Apartment and
been associated with a fair. But they're so great to
work with, and it is I'll I'll end up there
four or five times doing the fair, taking my grandchildren
and going that's it's a family event and I feel
safe going there. I feel safe for my kids. My

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daughters go there. I feel safe for my grandkilled kids
go there.

Speaker 1 (05:20):
Don't you feel safe everywhere? Though you you look like
you'd be safe no matter where you went.

Speaker 5 (05:25):
Yeah, but the rest of us can do so make
sure the community feel safe. That is so important that
the community feels safe. It will be crowded now, I'm
just asking people be patient. The lines will be long
to part, the lines will belong to get in, You'll
be long to get in the rides. But that's just

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part of the fair. Also part of the fair is
eating too much and getting sick. Just don't throw up
on a little thing that goes up above and throw
up on everybody. But now that's the fair. People save
up all here long to go to the fair. It's great,
it's great.

Speaker 4 (06:01):
You know, we learned tragically a while back. The nation
learned this past week about a young lady named Logan
feder Rica. Yes, I have long since wondered since we
have you and I in this podcast with Kelly, we've
talked about this for gotch catching release, maybe three years,
catching release, maybe longer longer. But I have long since

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wondered who would be the person who we would see
on the news whenever he had an opportunity in front
of a camera. Because he's going to make this his
personal mission because he himself lost a family member and
now we know that to be mister Federco.

Speaker 3 (06:38):
He's not going to go away.

Speaker 5 (06:40):
Now, and he shouldn't go away. And it's sad that
it takes a young girl like that to be murdered
to get people's attention. And we have been talking about
this for quite some time. I have talked about it
and lots of press conference about catch and release. Catch
these bad guys, let him out, catch him, let them out.
It's the same few people to commit the majority of crimes.
I think this guy that murdered his daughter, it's been

(07:00):
a rested like thirty nine times, yes, and he just
keeps getting in fee yes, and he keeps getting out
that that is the crack in the system that I've
been talking about so long. We catch him, but somebody
else releases them, and that's that's terrible. And this young
girl is an example of that. And I hope the
dad continues to scream and yell, and it's got and

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now it's got politics involved in it, so it's not
going to go away anytime soon. I think it's this
is going to be a campaign issue. Is campaign issue now?
And I think that's going to carry on right on
through the next year.

Speaker 1 (07:35):
When you talk about politics, you brought it up, I
think before this case Byron Gibson, specifically as the solicitor
for Richmond County, he has failed the people here and
you've been talking about that for a while. Now you've
got everybody calling for this guy to resign or be impeached.

Speaker 5 (07:54):
And we also talked about the master system too, and
we made some progress on that. I applauded a general
Assembly and governorment master who's in charge of the master
it's and appointing them to listening, because the masters are
the ones who let them out of jail, you know,
we catch them, they're the ones who set a bond
on them, and they were letting their body out and

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you go right back, you know, go back to doing
what you were doing. And that system has been changed now.
I just had we had a deputy shot at recently,
and I went to the bond court on that and
asked for no bond and got no bond. So I
applauded the masters for doing the right thing on that time.
But why should I have to go to the bond here,
Why should I be doing not that I'm anything special,

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but why should I have to go Why shouldn't that
almost be automatic. Here's somebody who's four counts of attempt
to murder trying to kill deputies. That should be an automatic.
You ain't getting out of jail's staying in, And so
that system changed. I think we're filling that crack in
a little bit, but we're still having problems on the
prosecution side and holding these people accountable. And I think

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you're going to see a lot of attention on it now.

Speaker 3 (09:01):
Well.

Speaker 4 (09:01):
The reason I wanted to talk to you about it
the years I was screaming at the television and alluded
to it earlier, is that there was I've forgotten where
he was. He was a sheriff here in the US,
and he was talking about if we only locked up
this certain amount of persons with a recisicism rate so high,
and I've forgotten to quote that you gave me. I

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want to ask you again, if you were able to
arrest what percentage again of the criminals ten percent, ten percent,
our crime rate would go down.

Speaker 5 (09:30):
By your n ninety percent, Wow, ten percent commit ninety
percent of the crime. And that's the ten percent that
don't deserve to be out in our community. Not everybody
who's arrested needs to stay in jail, that is a fact.
But those that we identify as ones, it's not gonna
bide by bond and I gonna buy rules. They gonna

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do whatever want. They need to stay in. That's the
only way to protect our community. And I don't mean
just stay in for six months. They need to stay
in for a long time. That's what we built a
prison system for.

Speaker 1 (10:01):
We've got the Attorney General who is now I guess
taking the case away from Byron Gibson.

Speaker 5 (10:07):
He is sent to solicter a letter and gave him
a timeline on deciding if he's going to go for
the death penalty or not. And then the slister responded,
that is too early for him to make that decision.
So I don't know where it's at. I do know
the Attorney General has assigned one of his people, but
Attorney General's office, to assist the solicit in making that decision.

(10:28):
So again that's here you got the political football being
kicked back and forth, back and forth. And while that's
going on, though, we still got criminals being released and everything.
You know, unfortunately may have a young girl murdered like
we just had with that father's everybody needs to listen
to that father and listen to the anger. But that

(10:50):
is pain. He is talking out of pain for his
daughter being executed.

Speaker 4 (10:54):
And we believe this, although this is not in your jurisdiction,
we believe this. According to the newspaper articles, could have
actually happened again this past weekend at South Carolina State. Yeah,
because the shooter who tragically in a I believe was
an eighteen year old girl from Saluta who was tragically
killed at a party. I'm assuming he having to do

(11:16):
a homecoming a South Carolina State that shooters I read
it was out on bond.

Speaker 5 (11:21):
Correct, Right, there's two separate shootings. One of the shootings,
you had an eighteen year old who don't go to
South Carolina State from b Livewood that was there. He's
got a gun in his car and he sees some
people shooting. He just gets out of his car and
starts shooting too. What's what's the thought process in that
it's not any he's out on bond though he's been

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released amazing by.

Speaker 1 (11:47):
I mean, you know, we talked about how like in
Chicago they got a crazy crime rate, right, you know,
they call it shah rak and stuff because of the
murder rates or they had fifty five people shot last weekend.

Speaker 5 (11:58):
There not a problem in Chicago. But then that when
I heard the mayor and the governor and all of
them say that they don't have But my family's from Chicago,
I can tell you what Chicago's about. But that's a
choice that the local voters have made by continuing to
elect people who do that. Now Here in Richland County,

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we have a solicitor who's apparently gone soft on prosecution,
and we've got you saying if he was stronger on it,
the crime rate would drop. Now it's pretty good in
Richland County, but it could be much better. Yeah, And
so the voters need to make that choice. In Richland County.
We need to do better with our elections. And I

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hate to make it. You know, this sounds so ugly.

Speaker 1 (12:43):
But I've heard people, I've read people on social media
talking about the fact that the only reason the media
and everybody's making a big deal about this murdered girl
is because she's a white girl. If she had been
a black girl, we wouldn't be talking about it, which
is totally false.

Speaker 5 (12:56):
That is definitely fault because I talk about all victim
is a victim. I don't care what color are, sex
they are. If you're a victim, you're a victim. I'll
talk about it. And so this, this is not a
race issue. This is a right issue. This is a
different between right and wrong. And you know, we got
to do what's right because if not, we're going to
continue to have people killed. I'm not going to say,

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young white girl, I said, we're gonna have people killed. Yeah,
And we can put a stop to that a lot
better if we would just hold people accountable. And we're
not holding people accountable. You know, you got some that said, well,
we don't want to keep them in jail on them
when no bomb because it costs the taxpayers money. I
don't think the taxpayers care. If you keep a murderer

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or a tempted murder in jail, that's who they want
to be in jail.

Speaker 1 (13:41):
You can start a go fundme page for that.

Speaker 4 (13:43):
Damn right. We will right now. So and the reason
I bring it up is because I told somebody, what
is somebody this staff the other day and they all
but called me a liar, and I said, okay, I'll
ask the sheriff again, maybe I'm an idiot. I'll ask
if I've had this conversation like ten times again, you're
telling me ten percent, ten percent of the criminals CAUs

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ninety percent of the crime ninety percent. And is there
a doubt in your mind that a majority of those
secondary crimes that commit are violent crimes.

Speaker 5 (14:14):
Yeah, and that's what usually what I'm talking about with
violent crime. Breaking in people's houses. Can I consider that
a crime to sure? That's how this young girl was murdered.
And we'll go back to her story. She was visiting friends.
She was in the bedroom sleeping, and this guy breaks
in the house and there she is in the house.
So he decides he's going to kill her. But he

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was breaking in homes. I consider that a violent crime.
If you're going in somebody's home, you going in there
with the mindset somebody may be in there, so I
may have to do something to them.

Speaker 3 (14:44):
We're dealing with.

Speaker 4 (14:45):
People who aren't that well thought out in their methodology. Now,
so he went into the house to burglarize it more likely, yes,
did not realizing somebody was there. But now somebody's there, Well,
now he's going to get caught. Well, now we've got
to kill the person to make sure you can't identify
me so I won't get prosecuted.

Speaker 3 (15:00):
Right.

Speaker 5 (15:01):
I don't know what their thought process is, but it's
to me, it's like I don't care. Somebody's there, fine,
I'll take care of If not, fine, just I'm gonna go.
I'm gonna do what I want to do. I'm gonna
break the law. I'm gonna go break in houses, I'm
gonna steal cars, I'm gonna shoot at cops. You know,
this guy that shot at us, you got four deputy

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sheriff's cars basically surrounding him. But he's shooting at us.
What does he think he's gonna do?

Speaker 3 (15:29):
You know what happened.

Speaker 5 (15:31):
You know that's not a well conceived now, so you
know what was gonna happen. And I said that the media.
You put a gun and you shoot at us, We're
gonna shoot you. We're gonna shoot back at you, and
we're gonna do what we gotta do. And that's what
we did that night. So there's so you can't try
to put reason behind what these people are doing, these
criminals are doing. There's there's they're not reasonable enough. Like

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me and you and Kelly just sit here and think
this is what's gonna happen. These are the consequences. This
is my plan. And there's no such thing as a
perfect crime. Everybody thinks they're gonna you know, perfect crime.
They you know, they may get away with it once
or twice, but guess what, they have to be lucky
every time. We only got to be lucky one time

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to catch them, and we do. We've had twenty murders
in Richmond County so far this year. We solved twenty
murders in Richmond County. We've solved all of our murders
for the last three years. So we catch them.

Speaker 3 (16:25):
I just.

Speaker 5 (16:27):
I just wish they we didn't have them. I wish
we could prevent more murders. And that's where the community
comes involved in it.

Speaker 1 (16:34):
I'm wondering, is there any ice activity happening in Columbia.
I haven't heard of it now, you really you haven't,
because you guys turn over the worst of the worst
if they.

Speaker 5 (16:44):
Are and we've done that for years. That's not just
something that we've just started with that program. You know,
we catch somebody that's committed a violent crime, and we've
always always turned them over. Now the process is a
little bit easier now for them to be picked up.
But that's not nothing new for us. We have very

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very very very little crime involved and involving someone here illegally.
Usually if they're involved in the crime is because they're
a victim. So it's just we have a great working
relationship with our Latino Hispanic community. They keep us up
to date on who's breaking the law. They don't want
stuff like that uh here, So they great relationship with them.

Speaker 4 (17:30):
I've been reading for a lot of different reasons. People
are shopping for Christmas sooner and sooner this year. They're
already I already know people that are shopping for Christmas
right around the corner.

Speaker 5 (17:38):
Yeah, and the packages are being delivered, you know, I
think ups and all them other things. Just got my
permanent address because my wife has ordered something every day
and it's out there. But yeah, so you got to
be careful with porch pirates. That's the news for the
last few years since we've went since COVID when everything
started being bought online. You know, they are thieves, are
transitioned to that that porch pirates. But you know, Halloween's

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coming up kids are going to be out. School's fixing
and be out with Thanksgiving and Christmas. We've got to
watch out for our kids. Bad guys are going to
be out in full force because more victims, more people out,
that's more victims for them. So, but you know a
couple of things. Don't want to hit real quick. Your
vehicle's not a hoster. Don't leave your gun in it.
The gun that was used to shoot at our deputy

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a week or so ago was a stolen gun out
of a vehicle that somebody left in there. You know,
you can prevent that crime. Uh, just just be aware
of what's going on and don't be so focused on
the holidays that you forget about safety.

Speaker 4 (18:38):
My wife had me put up some new ADT signs
because we do have a DT right. So, but my
wife having put up new signs, and as I was
putting them up, I was wondering, the criminals even look.

Speaker 5 (18:48):
At this, Yes, they do, they do?

Speaker 3 (18:50):
They do? They do?

Speaker 5 (18:51):
They look at those signs that I've had them tell
us that why didn't you break in this house? And
you've broken this house that one had those signs up
to said they had a law arm system. I'm gonna
mess with that. And this house here didn't have no
sign up, so well.

Speaker 4 (19:07):
I'm glad I put them on a couple more.

Speaker 5 (19:10):
You might get to put up the more and maybe
your neighbors might borrow someone and put in your ear.
I tell people, I say, even if you don't have alarm,
go buy so many signs at the storm and put
them up in your yard. The criminal is not going
to take your chance and see. You know, if you've
got that alarm system or not. Don't still your neighbors,
but you know, go get you some alarm signs put
out there.

Speaker 3 (19:30):
Great advice.

Speaker 1 (19:31):
I love having my alarms.

Speaker 5 (19:32):
Up, and I know you keep setting yours off all
the time. We have to respond to you. You get so
many thoughts, calls at your house.

Speaker 1 (19:38):
You love to make up stories about me.

Speaker 5 (19:41):
You always show you your text message is what you're
don't call me.

Speaker 1 (19:45):
I thought you was a text message.

Speaker 5 (19:50):
I just set my alarm.

Speaker 3 (19:53):
Gefity all life. Thank you so much.

Speaker 4 (19:55):
Big salute to all law enforcement, no matter which agency.
Also for our volunteers, because I know there's an arm
me over them. People who volunteer to work at the
Sheriff's Department and other law enforcement agencies make a big difference.

Speaker 5 (20:05):
They do our Citizens Alumni. We have a Citizens Academy
which is just citizens comes through, go through our program,
find out what all we do. They get involved and
love it so much they joined the Citizens Alumni. They
just had a huge yard sale. They raise money to
pay scholarships for deputies to go to school and continue
their education. So lots of opportunities to volunteer. If you

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want a volunteer, call me eight oh three five seven
six three zero two one five thirty twenty one.

Speaker 4 (20:32):
If you don't have time to volunteer, you can always
make a contribution on the web page through the foundation,
which is a separate entity from the Sheriff's Department. Correct
and those moneys also go to great things like the
end of the year.

Speaker 5 (20:45):
Awards banquet where we recognize deputies done great things. But
also again more scholarships that we give out. We try
to encourage deputies continue further under education. So you know,
with the salaries they make, we want to help them out,
so we give scholarships out. We have deputies that are need,
We have deputies that are doing some cancer battles and
heart issues and stuff like that, and out and we

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help them out, and the Foundation steps up and help them.

Speaker 4 (21:10):
Big salute to law enforcement. I can thank you sheaf
for lot. Now we have a few minutes left. We
had a lot of things we could talk about. I
think everybody pretty much saw the back and forth, and
you can imagine if you didn't see any of the highlights.
Pam Bondy was not going to be pushed around yesterday
by the likes of Dick Durbin.

Speaker 1 (21:25):
You know, I'll be honest. I did not like Pam's attitude.
I know a lot of MAGA folks loved it.

Speaker 3 (21:31):
She was aggressive.

Speaker 1 (21:32):
She was very aggressive. I saw poor Chris Coons look
startled by the whole situation. He said, it felt like
I was in a football game. But you know, you
can say things like like when she said, I'm never
gonna answer that. What you could have said is there's
a thing called executive privilege, and we're not going to

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discuss anything that I've discussed with the president. The president
has to sign off on that. I can't tell you anything.
I told him.

Speaker 3 (22:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (22:00):
Surprisingly, every now and then she doesn't exactly give the
answer that we would have thought she would have given,
kind of like Christin Holme. Hey here in South Carolina,
we talked about this a little bit, and it's going
to pan out even more as we get closer to
the election, because we're going to have the endorsements come
down from all the county representation through the GOP county
parties and the like.

Speaker 3 (22:19):
In the upstate, if you remember.

Speaker 4 (22:20):
A while back, there was a huge blow up as
some more conservative MAGA members, as they claimed to be
the true Magus, wanted to take over the leadership of
the Greenville County GOP or Republican Party. So there was
a big It got so ugly. Jeff Davis actually ended
up in court in a lawsuit and then got fined

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by the judge for contempt a court or something. He
is not backing down, is the reason I bring all
that up. So it actually ended up creating a split
which as we go into the elections coming up, not
just for the governor's race, although this is why this
made the news, there's also going to be a couple
of people on Republican side challenging Lindsay Graham, for instance,

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So they're going to be different races are going to
play out in different parts of the state or statewide
as it may be, but we have a split in
the Republican Party in Greenville that even that whole thing
in Greenville is even bigger than what happened in Georgetown.

Speaker 1 (23:17):
Well, and here's the problem. If you're going to end
the Republican dominance in South Carolina, the only way to
do that is within fighting, and what we've got going
on right now in Greenville is a legit split. I
was not aware of how ugly this had gotten, and

(23:38):
now they are. The Greenville County Republican Party is censuring
Pamela Evitt because she has not attended any of their meetings,
and like you pointed out earlier, she only lives ten
minutes from the headquarters, so.

Speaker 3 (23:52):
It's not like you can't swing by and see.

Speaker 1 (23:54):
She could have done it, but she doesn't like them.
She and the other one is called what is it
the fourth District? Yes, a party, and so that was
the former heads of the Greenville County Republican Club. So
it's just insane that we're getting to the point where
we're actually trying to censure politicians because they won't come

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and talk to you.

Speaker 4 (24:18):
Well, it's interesting too, because I guess we're trying to
read through the tea leaves on this and the way
this is going to play out because of no Nancy Mays,
for instance, has spoken for the Republican the Greenville Republican Party,
the party that made the news because they're going to
censure our lieutenant governor. But at the same time it
was recognized in the article our current governor nor Alan Wilson,

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we don't know about Ralph Norman have also not been
at any of the Greenville County Republican Party meetings.

Speaker 1 (24:45):
I would assume Ralph Norman was never invited because he
didn't support Donald Trump in the last time.

Speaker 3 (24:50):
Jeff Davis would not cot into that.

Speaker 1 (24:52):
Yes, so it's really about who's maga. That is the
whole thing.

Speaker 4 (24:56):
Is it going to be that we're going to use
this as a microcosm that's going to go on with
the Republican Party because the true MAGA, the Nancy Mace's,
the outspoken MAGA, will be endorsed by the Greenville Republican Party.
The other the other group is going to endorse maybe
Alan Wilson, or would they or is Alan Wilson not

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going to go to the Greenville Republican Party meetings as well?
I don't know it's going to be because Greenville is
a huge part of our Republican vote.

Speaker 1 (25:27):
But I mean, and you can have different endorsements, and
I think that's fine. I think it's actually encouraged. That's great.
But when you get to the point where you start
issuing censures to Republican candidates, it appears because again, most
people in this state, I know, this is shocking that
there's about two million people who vote in South Carolina.

(25:49):
Of the two million people who vote, probably about one
point eight million don't give a crap about shows like this.
They don't pay attention to the news. They're not they're
not looking for this type of information. When it comes
across as oh my gosh, they're censuring, and then this
other group is fighting them, and it sounds like the
Republicans are just all insane. That's what it becomes. It

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becomes just a drive by look at what's going on
with the Republican Party. It seems like we're going insane here,
and if that's the general vibe, that's when people would
start voting Democrat. Thankfully, the Democrats also look insane right now.
So I don't think we're at any risk right at
this moment. But this is how it this is how

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it could end.

Speaker 4 (26:33):
Now we don't have any official report and to follow up,
and Yesterday's mentioned in this podcast about the tragic house,
the tragic house fire that in fact burned a judge's
house down to the ground. It's gone right, Oh yeah,
that was going on weekend. The video on that was unbelievable.
I've seen some house fires. That's a damn house fire
and it could have been. I wonder if it's because

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it's upon still because it's a beach house though the
air coming underneath just really made that thing explode into
a gigantic flame.

Speaker 3 (27:02):
I mean it was huge.

Speaker 4 (27:04):
But we don't have any further information from law enforcement
about the actual cause of the fire.

Speaker 1 (27:09):
Although then at this point, according to Tuesday Night, they
said we do not suspect arson.

Speaker 4 (27:16):
That's true. Now, Nicole Wallace apparently we got huge pushback
on MSNBC on the higher ups at MSNBC because Nicole
Wallace just came out and told you Donald Trump burned
it down.

Speaker 1 (27:28):
Well, I mean she's not alone. I mean Dan Goldman
said the same thing. The New York representative said, you know,
I hope Donald Trump will condemn this act of violence
done in his name.

Speaker 4 (27:38):
I mean, and it's the Democrats are telling you it's
the damn Magas.

Speaker 1 (27:43):
It's really it's really kind of crazy because how long
did it take for Donald Trump to condemn what happened
by a Trump supporter at the Mormon Church. Took him
about fifteen minutes. It took you know, the VP, about
fifteen minutes. As soon as you hear about these things,
it doesn't matter if you're a MAGA supporter, a Trump supporter,

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log Cabin, Republican, a Rhino, whatever. If you are doing
something and you're one of the republic on the right
side of the aisle, and you do any act of violence,
that's going to be condemned by everybody on our side instantaneously.
If we had somebody sending out text messages talking about

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how they wish there was a bullet in Nancy Pelosi's head,
we would all condemn that. We would all condemn the
idea of wishing harm on any of the legislators on
the left, no matter what we think of them personally.

Speaker 4 (28:41):
And I can't remember specifically anybody the credit, but how
long did it take in the same example, only a
shoe on them a different foot. How long did it
take for Republicans to come out and say we don't
condemn Bernie Sanders, who is supposedly one of his supporters,
started taking the potshots on the baseball fields.

Speaker 3 (28:59):
But Steve Callisa the hospital.

Speaker 1 (29:00):
Well, that might have been a little longer, because I
think there are still some Republicans who feel like, you
know what, Bernie, you should dial back the rhetoric. You
should stop calling us Nazis.

Speaker 3 (29:10):
I had not done my research on that. Maybe you're
right