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🗓️ 29 January 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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In this special episode, Dinesh is in studio with January 6 political prisoner Matthew da Silva, just out of prison thanks to a pardon from President Trump. Prior to his incarceration Matt did research for Dinesh, and for this podcast. Dinesh and Matt have a candid one-on-one conversation about January 6, the experience of imprisonment, and the struggle of the human spirit under conditions of injustice and persecution.
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0:00.0 | Guys, welcome to a special edition of the podcast, as you might see if you're watching as opposed to listening. |
0:09.0 | I've got a friend in the studio. |
0:12.2 | He's Matthew De Silva. |
0:14.0 | He is a January 6th political prisoner. |
0:17.8 | Now out, thanks to President Trump's pardon of the January 6 hostages, as he calls them. |
0:25.8 | And as you'll see from today's episode, Matt is no ordinary January 6th defendant. |
0:33.9 | He's actually someone that has been known to Debbie and me for a while, and we're going to |
0:39.4 | go through Matt's story and draw out the larger significance of his incarceration and also |
0:47.4 | of January, of January 6th. Hey, if you're watching on YouTube or Rumble, please subscribe to my channel. |
0:56.4 | You're listening on Apple, Google, or Spotify. Please help get the word out. I'd appreciate it. |
1:00.7 | This is the Dinesh D'Souza podcast. America needs this voice. |
1:16.0 | The times are crazy, |
1:17.3 | and a time of confusion, division, and lies. |
1:20.2 | We need a brave voice of reason, understanding, and truth. |
1:24.0 | This is the Dinesh D'Souza podcast. |
1:31.7 | Thank you. |
1:34.1 | You came to our neck of the woods to do this, |
1:38.3 | and we had the pleasure of having dinner with you and your lovely wife. |
1:48.5 | And, you know, wow, you have been, |
1:56.3 | you have been behind bars. Talk about how long and talk about the feeling of freedom. How did you find out that you were going to get out? Well, that's a very interesting story because on January 20th, |
2:03.3 | we were all anticipating some kind of news. And as the day went on, President Trump did |
2:10.7 | speech after speech after speech, and he never quite said it. So we were all on the edge of our seats wondering what was going to happen, if it was going to happen, and when it was going to happen. |
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