January 31, 2025 • 9 mins
SC Attorney General Alan Wilson 'boots on the ground' inside FBI pick Kash Patel hearing also talks 'Sanctuary Cities' and if your tax dollars are funding trans prisoner surgeries in the Palmetto state.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Are you Attorney General Wilson taking on Congresswoman Nancy Mason
Eras to replace Governor McMaster because she certainly seems to
think though honestly.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
This is the Kelly Golden Show podcast powered by Disaster
Plus on a big Fail Friday.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Tune in live Monday at seven four to three WSC
or you can hit the Charleston's Morning News podcast right
here on the app for that hot take. Plenty of
other fails to get to this week, as we mourned
the loss of life in the Potomac crash nightmare, I
will go deeper into that investigation as it unfolds. First,
the Attorney General from South Carolina, the Alan Wilson South
(00:39):
Carolina ag thank you for being here.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
They joined me and signing on to a letter supporting
your nomination.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Congratulations on your live shout out during the cash Betel
FBI director confirmation hearing. Attorney General Alan Wilson, thank you.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
So much, Kelly. It's great to be with you again, being.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
In the room. What is it like boots on the
ground as the corrupt three letter intel agencies got officially
put on notice?
Speaker 3 (01:05):
It was fantastic. It was great to be there in
that Senate hearing for cash Hotel's confirmation. Think some of
my former colleagues like Ashley Moody from Florida. You have
Josh Holly from Missouri, Eric Schmid from Missouri. You know
attorneys general who I'd served with who are now on
that in the United States Senate, and so it's great
to be there. I saw the questions asked of cash Betel.
I follow as response as I have no doubt he's
(01:25):
going to be the next director of the FBI, and
I think he's going to instill confidence, faith and trust
back into that organization and not allow it to be
weaponized against the American people, but targeted toward those who
deserve it the most, the corruption, the criminals, the drug traffickers,
human traffickers. And that's why I was there to support
my friend Cash Betel.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
So Cash Mittel equals game over for the deep state.
Everybody knows it, Yet both sides. Attorney General Wilson of
the Isle could actually jeopardize this, whether it's RFK Junior
or Tulsi's nominations. What do you think of DC Republicans.
You've been round them enough. Do you think they understand
the consequences of a no vote.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
A lot of them do, but there are some probably
more Over with Tulca, Gabbard and RFK Junior, they've been
in the swamp, they've been up in Washington, DC, and
they don't truly comprehend they're inside the box. They haven't
gotten outside of the Beltway, and so I'm hopeful that
they will come to their senses. But when you've been
in DC for that long and you don't go home
a lot, you start to become insulated from your constituents.
(02:26):
But look, I'm still guardedly optimistic. I'm confident that cash
will be confirmed. I'm concerned about Tulci's confirmation. It hasn't
gone down yet, but we'll see what happens. But again,
I'm very supportive of President Frump's appointments, basically taking the
deep state out of the federal agencies and putting people
in there who are going to return trust and confidence
(02:46):
of the American people back to those agencies.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Well, you see, the lawsuits are abound, whether it's transgenders
in the military or inmates or whatever from a federal level,
But what about bringing this down to the states. Here
taxpayer dollars being you for inmates to transition. Is that
happening in South Carolina?
Speaker 3 (03:05):
No, it is not happening here. But I am involved
in a lawsuit that I joined with a number of
other states in Indiana. And of course, the reason I
take the legal fights to other states and other judicial
circuits is to get a bright line drawn in the
sand so that if it ever comes up to South Carolina,
the question has been asked and answered in South Carolina
doesn't ever have to fight this fight. So there's a
(03:26):
case in Indiana where a man who identifies as a woman,
who is imprisoned for murdering by strangulation his eleven month
old stepdaughter, is serving a fifty five year sentence. In
twenty twenty, this individual decided they wanted the taxpayers of
Indiana to pay for his transition surgery so that he
(03:46):
could then go to an all women's prison for the
next five decades. So we joined in. Of course, a
federal judge struck down an Indiana law. Indiana had passed
a law that prohibited taxpayer dollars going to transition surgeries,
and of that federal judge struck down the law because
the ACLU and the transgender inmate said it's cruel and
(04:08):
unusual punishment to not allow someone to transition. Now, it
wasn't you know. I'm thinking about the cruel and unusual
punishment that the eleven month old suffered when they were
strangled to death. But this person gets to, you know,
transition to being the opposite sex, so they can go
to another prison. That can't happen in Indiana, and it
will never happen in South Carolina. And that's why we're
(04:28):
joining that lawsuit, and it will ultimately go up to
the Seventh Circuit and possibly the US Supreme Court.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
So talking cruel and unusual punishment, Attorney General Allen Wilson,
we now have a Dorchester death Row inmate no longer
behind bars, Miriam Bowman Junior being put to death in
South Carolina. It was twenty three years. I pray the
Martin family of twenty one year old Candy Martin who
was murdered, shot in the back and the head burned
(04:54):
in the back of a vehicle in the trunk. And
this man to his high school buddy said he he
was bragging about it. Of course, since I said he
was innocent, twenty three years it took again. I pray
that there's some closure for the Martin family. Any comments
about that, Well.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
First off, we've been fighting for years. You know, there
weren't any executions in South Carolina for about thirteen years,
and that was due in part because you know, to
do the lethal injection, it requires certain pharmaceutical drugs to
be procured, and pharmaceutical companies wouldn't give them to us
because the general public would know who did. And so
the General Assembly passed a law that would shield pharma
(05:29):
pharmaceutical companies from providing those drugs that are used in
the process of executions. And of course the General Assembly
also made not just lethal injection possibility again, but also
made it possible for firing squads, and so that opened
up those things combined to open up the ability for
the State of South Carolina to commute executions again. And
(05:51):
so this will be our third execution. We've had three
in the last several months. There were fixed totally on
the schedule. So South Colin's back in the business sift
carrying out the execuscutions for death penalty cases. Obviously, every
single defendant in a case, no matter how big or
how small, is entitled to due process, and you know
that can take years by itself. But now that we
(06:11):
have eliminated the impediments to these executions because of the
walls that were passed by the General Symbly that I
advocated for, we can now start carrying out these sentences.
So this is really about not revictimizing victims the process.
They deserve to see this go through, and I'm happy
to see it happen.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
So I want to stay in the General Assembly here
and quickly ask you about this billion dollar boon doggle,
the missing not missing, never existed billion dollars in our
state budget story. As our state's top prosecutor, is there
any criminality here? Because you know your eyebrows are raised
when your state comptroller general resigns, and I.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Want to remind the citizens of South Carolina that you know,
obviously based on the public reporting that you know there
was no missing money. It was an error in the
transition on the programs, the computer programs that were used,
the software that was used to transition the accounting report,
so there was no stolen or missing money. But as
(07:06):
it relates to South Carolina's legal exposure, I can't comment
too much on it because I am the state's legal
officer and you know, obviously, you know, our office is
on the side, not on the sidelines, but we are
obviously representing the state at this time, so there's I'm
limited to what I can say directly to that, but
just to re assert that there was no stolen money
or misappropriate or misused money. It was just an error.
(07:28):
But we will be obviously talking more about that as
the law allows us.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
To the headlines that made national news of sanctuary cities
in South Carolina. Literally hours into office, the President Inkedin
on the record that cartels equal criminals in our country.
Do we have sanctuary cities in South Carolina?
Speaker 3 (07:45):
We do not. And again, I can't tell you how
incredibly grateful I am for the executive order that President
Trumps signed, you know, basically delineating cartels as terrorist organizations
as well as gangs like MS thirteen and Trendy Argua
who have been infiltrating the interior of the United States
and even coming states like South Carolina. By labeling them
terrorist organizations, that gives us additional resources that we can
(08:09):
bring to bear to kind of get these people, catch
them and then prosecute and put them under a prison
and put them back in their countries where they came from.
So this is so good. I'm now getting the support
and I can tell you, Kelly, one of my closest
friends is the new US Attorney General, Pam BONDI. I'm
very good friends with Christy nom I'm good friends with
Cash Patel. I've got great relationships with the new EPA
(08:31):
administrator Lee Zelden. I mean, there's a lot of people
in the federal government now that I can call on
to help us to protect South Carolina, both on the
public safety side, but also on the regulatory and business side.
And so I'm really excited about the opportunities in front
of me right now to be able to marshal the
resources of the Trump administration to better serve South Carolina
(08:52):
in this residence. So I'm super excited.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
This big Failed Friday edition of that Kelly Golden Show
podcast is powered by Disaster Plus sol Bus.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Don't cuss when your past bus calls seven Cleeny follow
seven Cleeny follows seven Disasterbus
Are you Attorney General Wilson taking on Congresswoman Nancy Mason
Eras to replace Governor McMaster because she certainly seems to
think though honestly.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
This is the Kelly Golden Show podcast powered by Disaster
Plus on a big Fail Friday.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Tune in live Monday at seven four to three WSC
or you can hit the Charleston's Morning News podcast right
here on the app for that hot take. Plenty of
other fails to get to this week, as we mourned
the loss of life in the Potomac crash nightmare, I
will go deeper into that investigation as it unfolds. First,
the Attorney General from South Carolina, the Alan Wilson South
(00:39):
Carolina ag thank you for being here.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
They joined me and signing on to a letter supporting
your nomination.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Congratulations on your live shout out during the cash Betel
FBI director confirmation hearing. Attorney General Alan Wilson, thank you.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
So much, Kelly. It's great to be with you again, being.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
In the room. What is it like boots on the
ground as the corrupt three letter intel agencies got officially
put on notice?
Speaker 3 (01:05):
It was fantastic. It was great to be there in
that Senate hearing for cash Hotel's confirmation. Think some of
my former colleagues like Ashley Moody from Florida. You have
Josh Holly from Missouri, Eric Schmid from Missouri. You know
attorneys general who I'd served with who are now on
that in the United States Senate, and so it's great
to be there. I saw the questions asked of cash Betel.
I follow as response as I have no doubt he's
(01:25):
going to be the next director of the FBI, and
I think he's going to instill confidence, faith and trust
back into that organization and not allow it to be
weaponized against the American people, but targeted toward those who
deserve it the most, the corruption, the criminals, the drug traffickers,
human traffickers. And that's why I was there to support
my friend Cash Betel.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
So Cash Mittel equals game over for the deep state.
Everybody knows it, Yet both sides. Attorney General Wilson of
the Isle could actually jeopardize this, whether it's RFK Junior
or Tulsi's nominations. What do you think of DC Republicans.
You've been round them enough. Do you think they understand
the consequences of a no vote.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
A lot of them do, but there are some probably
more Over with Tulca, Gabbard and RFK Junior, they've been
in the swamp, they've been up in Washington, DC, and
they don't truly comprehend they're inside the box. They haven't
gotten outside of the Beltway, and so I'm hopeful that
they will come to their senses. But when you've been
in DC for that long and you don't go home
a lot, you start to become insulated from your constituents.
(02:26):
But look, I'm still guardedly optimistic. I'm confident that cash
will be confirmed. I'm concerned about Tulci's confirmation. It hasn't
gone down yet, but we'll see what happens. But again,
I'm very supportive of President Frump's appointments, basically taking the
deep state out of the federal agencies and putting people
in there who are going to return trust and confidence
(02:46):
of the American people back to those agencies.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Well, you see, the lawsuits are abound, whether it's transgenders
in the military or inmates or whatever from a federal level,
But what about bringing this down to the states. Here
taxpayer dollars being you for inmates to transition. Is that
happening in South Carolina?
Speaker 3 (03:05):
No, it is not happening here. But I am involved
in a lawsuit that I joined with a number of
other states in Indiana. And of course, the reason I
take the legal fights to other states and other judicial
circuits is to get a bright line drawn in the
sand so that if it ever comes up to South Carolina,
the question has been asked and answered in South Carolina
doesn't ever have to fight this fight. So there's a
(03:26):
case in Indiana where a man who identifies as a woman,
who is imprisoned for murdering by strangulation his eleven month
old stepdaughter, is serving a fifty five year sentence. In
twenty twenty, this individual decided they wanted the taxpayers of
Indiana to pay for his transition surgery so that he
(03:46):
could then go to an all women's prison for the
next five decades. So we joined in. Of course, a
federal judge struck down an Indiana law. Indiana had passed
a law that prohibited taxpayer dollars going to transition surgeries,
and of that federal judge struck down the law because
the ACLU and the transgender inmate said it's cruel and
(04:08):
unusual punishment to not allow someone to transition. Now, it
wasn't you know. I'm thinking about the cruel and unusual
punishment that the eleven month old suffered when they were
strangled to death. But this person gets to, you know,
transition to being the opposite sex, so they can go
to another prison. That can't happen in Indiana, and it
will never happen in South Carolina. And that's why we're
(04:28):
joining that lawsuit, and it will ultimately go up to
the Seventh Circuit and possibly the US Supreme Court.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
So talking cruel and unusual punishment, Attorney General Allen Wilson,
we now have a Dorchester death Row inmate no longer
behind bars, Miriam Bowman Junior being put to death in
South Carolina. It was twenty three years. I pray the
Martin family of twenty one year old Candy Martin who
was murdered, shot in the back and the head burned
(04:54):
in the back of a vehicle in the trunk. And
this man to his high school buddy said he he
was bragging about it. Of course, since I said he
was innocent, twenty three years it took again. I pray
that there's some closure for the Martin family. Any comments
about that, Well.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
First off, we've been fighting for years. You know, there
weren't any executions in South Carolina for about thirteen years,
and that was due in part because you know, to
do the lethal injection, it requires certain pharmaceutical drugs to
be procured, and pharmaceutical companies wouldn't give them to us
because the general public would know who did. And so
the General Assembly passed a law that would shield pharma
(05:29):
pharmaceutical companies from providing those drugs that are used in
the process of executions. And of course the General Assembly
also made not just lethal injection possibility again, but also
made it possible for firing squads, and so that opened
up those things combined to open up the ability for
the State of South Carolina to commute executions again. And
(05:51):
so this will be our third execution. We've had three
in the last several months. There were fixed totally on
the schedule. So South Colin's back in the business sift
carrying out the execuscutions for death penalty cases. Obviously, every
single defendant in a case, no matter how big or
how small, is entitled to due process, and you know
that can take years by itself. But now that we
(06:11):
have eliminated the impediments to these executions because of the
walls that were passed by the General Symbly that I
advocated for, we can now start carrying out these sentences.
So this is really about not revictimizing victims the process.
They deserve to see this go through, and I'm happy
to see it happen.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
So I want to stay in the General Assembly here
and quickly ask you about this billion dollar boon doggle,
the missing not missing, never existed billion dollars in our
state budget story. As our state's top prosecutor, is there
any criminality here? Because you know your eyebrows are raised
when your state comptroller general resigns, and I.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Want to remind the citizens of South Carolina that you know,
obviously based on the public reporting that you know there
was no missing money. It was an error in the
transition on the programs, the computer programs that were used,
the software that was used to transition the accounting report,
so there was no stolen or missing money. But as
(07:06):
it relates to South Carolina's legal exposure, I can't comment
too much on it because I am the state's legal
officer and you know, obviously, you know, our office is
on the side, not on the sidelines, but we are
obviously representing the state at this time, so there's I'm
limited to what I can say directly to that, but
just to re assert that there was no stolen money
or misappropriate or misused money. It was just an error.
(07:28):
But we will be obviously talking more about that as
the law allows us.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
To the headlines that made national news of sanctuary cities
in South Carolina. Literally hours into office, the President Inkedin
on the record that cartels equal criminals in our country.
Do we have sanctuary cities in South Carolina?
Speaker 3 (07:45):
We do not. And again, I can't tell you how
incredibly grateful I am for the executive order that President
Trumps signed, you know, basically delineating cartels as terrorist organizations
as well as gangs like MS thirteen and Trendy Argua
who have been infiltrating the interior of the United States
and even coming states like South Carolina. By labeling them
terrorist organizations, that gives us additional resources that we can
(08:09):
bring to bear to kind of get these people, catch
them and then prosecute and put them under a prison
and put them back in their countries where they came from.
So this is so good. I'm now getting the support
and I can tell you, Kelly, one of my closest
friends is the new US Attorney General, Pam BONDI. I'm
very good friends with Christy nom I'm good friends with
Cash Patel. I've got great relationships with the new EPA
(08:31):
administrator Lee Zelden. I mean, there's a lot of people
in the federal government now that I can call on
to help us to protect South Carolina, both on the
public safety side, but also on the regulatory and business side.
And so I'm really excited about the opportunities in front
of me right now to be able to marshal the
resources of the Trump administration to better serve South Carolina
(08:52):
in this residence. So I'm super excited.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
This big Failed Friday edition of that Kelly Golden Show
podcast is powered by Disaster Plus sol Bus.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Don't cuss when your past bus calls seven Cleeny follow
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