Extra: The President's Clemency Controversy

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🗓️ 29 December 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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This past week, President Biden granted clemency to 37 of the 40 federal inmates facing death sentences. They will now serve life in prison without the possibility of parole. Former DOJ Prosecutor James Trusty joined FOX News Rundown host Dave Anthony to react to the news and give his take on the President’s decision to commute the sentences of notorious murderers. In the segment released Tuesday, Trusty also explained how he worked on some of the cases impacted and why he believes Biden’s decision will not sit well with victims and those who worked hard to put these violent criminals behind bars. We often must cut interviews short during the week, but we thought you might like to hear the full interview. Today on Fox News Rundown Extra, we will share our entire interview with former DOJ Prosecutor James Trusty, allowing you to hear the whole discussion and learn more about some of the convicted killers who received clemency. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:15.5	This is the Fox News Rundown, Extra.
0:22.1	I'm Dave Anthony.
0:24.3	Today, the early Christmas present President Biden gave to condemned murderers, the gift of life.
0:33.1	Back on Monday, the president spared 37 of the 40 prisoners on federal death row, commuting their
0:39.8	sentences to life without parole, adding to the controversy the president created when he
0:45.4	pardoned his son Hunter Biden for a gun crime and tax evasion, and then also this month
0:51.4	pardoned or commuted the sentences of more than 1,500 other convicts.
0:55.9	It's been a lot of Republican outrage over the president's actions.
0:59.0	On Christmas Eve morning, President-elect Trump posted on truth social, it makes no sense, commuting the death sentences of what he called the worst killers of the country.
1:08.8	When you hear the acts of each one, he wrote, you won't believe the president did this.
1:13.3	Victims' relatives are devastated.
1:15.4	Then another Trump post vows as soon as he returns to the White House next month,
1:19.3	the president-elect will direct the Justice Department to vigorously pursue the death penalty
1:24.0	for violent rapists, murderers, and monsters.
1:27.8	On Tuesday on the Fox News rundown, we talked to Jim Trustee, a former federal prosecutor
1:32.6	who was part of the case against one of the murderers taken off death row in the Biden order.
1:39.1	He had a lot to say also about Josephine Gray, a woman nicknamed the Black Widow,
1:46.3	who was set free in the earlier Biden commutations. Now, the conversation that we had was too long to fit in the rundown. So today,
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