Sup, you beautiful bastards. Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco show you daily dive into the news.

My name is Philip DeFranco. We have a lot to talk about today, so let's just jump into it.

This is a news show. Is Donald Trump really about to pardon Derek Chauvin? That is the question that

many are now asking a renewed

push for many top conservative voices to do just that as we near the five-year anniversary

of the police killing of George Floyd. And in fact, we're now learning that officials in Minnesota

are now actively preparing for that possibility. Because in addition to being convicted

on state murder and manslaughter charges for which he's serving over 22 years, Chauvin also pleaded guilty to federal charges back in 2021.

And specifically there, you had the former cop admitting that he had abused his power as a police officer and willfully deprive Floyd of his right to be free from unreasonable seizure by kneeling on his neck even though he wasn't resisting.

And this, as Chauvin also pled guilty to violating the same rights of a 14-year-old boy at a separate incident back in 2017. And so as a result, he was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison where he's currently serving time.

But now, because Donald Trump has the power to pardon or commute federal sentences,

you're seeing conservatives come out of the woodwork to encourage him to do just that.

And one of the main leaders of this effort has been Ben Shapiro, who started a whole campaign to convince Trump to grant Chauvin a pardon back in March. With Shapiro even circulating a petition, filming a five-part docus series called The Case for Derek

Shovem, claiming that he's innocent and using his podcast to publicly call on Trump to grant a federal

pardon. President Trump should in fact pardon Derek Chauvin. He should. He should pardon him his

federal charges. The evidence demonstrates that Derek Chauvin did not, in fact, commit murder of George Floyd.

I think it is worthwhile to remember that there is a man who is rotting in prison

because the media decided in the middle of 2020 that they were going to turn a tragic law

enforcement stop that ended with the death of a man who had a significant problem with drugs

and preexisting health problems into

the raise-on debt of the entire 2020 election. Notably, there you have experts arguing that

the evidence doesn't actually back up the claim that Shapiro is getting at. Instead, saying

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