Candace Owens - This Is My Biggest Political Regret
Aired: 2024-03-12
Duration: 06:19


=== Regrets Behind Bars (03:51) ===

[00:00:00]  You know, nobody ever asks me any fun questions in interviews.
[00:00:02]  They're always gotcha interviews.
[00:00:04]  How are we going to take down Candace Owens?
[00:00:05]  I'm going to ask myself a fun question.
[00:00:07]  Candace, do you have any regrets in politics, any stances you've taken that have radically shifted?
[00:00:12]  Yes, I'm so glad you asked that, Candace.
[00:00:14]  My biggest regret, you guys, and I'm not kidding, is that I supported the criminal justice reform bill under Trump, and I will tell you why I did that.
[00:00:22]  I'm going to be completely honest.
[00:00:24]  I was very green.
[00:00:25]  At that time, which is just a way of saying that I was very new to politics.
[00:00:29]  Everything was exploding in my face, and I had never imagined that it would inspire so much hatred towards me, especially regarding the black community.
[00:00:39]  And I was being called somebody that was anti-black and hateful, so I already had that.
[00:00:44]  You know, imprinted on my mind that this is awful, that I'm being smeared this way, and I don't feel this way.
[00:00:48]  But then the other element of it is that when this was pitched to me—the person that pitched it to me, by the way, was Jared Kushner—and I should have done my own research, so this is no excuse, but he just gave me the highlights.
[00:00:58]  Oh, this bill's going to be great.
[00:00:59]  You know, this is really about trying to reduce recidivism.
[00:01:03]  We're really trying to make it clear that when people leave prison, they have to have
[00:01:06]  a pathway, you know, get jobs that will help them be able to restart their lives so that
[00:01:12]  they don't end up back in prison because they're desperate.
[00:01:14]  Like, that was sort of the pitch.
[00:01:15]  Again, I should have done my own research and I should have read what was in the bill.
[00:01:19]  And if I had, I would not have supported it.
[00:01:21]  So I just want to own that.
[00:01:22]  I was completely wrong.
[00:01:23]  And one of the things that made me wake up to that is because one young woman who basically
[00:01:29]  had her sentence commuted due to this bill, I met her and she's a complete and utter psychopath.
[00:01:34]  And she's probably going to end up back in prison.
[00:01:36]  And then I read it, and I was like, actually, you know, sometimes people should just be in prison because they're crazy.
[00:01:42]  Anyways, I'm saying all of this to tell you this unbelievable story.
[00:01:46]  So there's this ex-con who is friends with the woke New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg, and obviously they are pro-criminal justice reform.
[00:01:55]  And he somehow landed an appearance on Joe Rogan last month.
[00:02:00]  He told a very, you know, appealing story about how much he's learned and how grateful he is to be walking the streets again.
[00:02:08]  Take a listen.
[00:02:10]  To Sheldon Johnson, a criminal justice reform advocate.
[00:02:15]  It was at that moment where I really said, I have to change my life.
[00:02:21]  I have to change my life.
[00:02:23]  I just can't do this.
[00:02:26]  I had a wife.
[00:02:27]  I had family still.
[00:02:28]  My son was growing up.
[00:02:32]  He was hearing stories about my so-called notoriety and I just didn't want to be that dad.
[00:02:43]  Like, I really was looking at myself and really evaluating, asking myself, like, yo, what the f*** are you doing?
[00:02:51]  I was still smoking a lot of weed at the time.
[00:02:53]  I was drinking Jailhouse Hooch.
[00:02:57]  And I was at my worst.
[00:03:01]  And I had to figure out how to get to my best.
[00:03:05]  So it pulls at your heartstrings.
[00:03:06]  You're like, man, I want him smoking that jailhouse hooch or drinking that jailhouse hooch.
[00:03:11]  I want him to have something better.
[00:03:12]  So to be clear, he was sentenced for 50 years for two violent robberies, but his sentence was commuted.
[00:03:19]  He only spent 25 years in prison.
[00:03:22]  What you're hearing there sounds like a man who most certainly had change, and the purpose of whoever got him on Joe Rogan landing him that appearance is to make everybody go, oh, no, people can change.
[00:03:32]  Except, as I asked, what if they can't?
[00:03:34]  What if we're actually getting it right when we jail somebody because of two violent robberies?

=== Alleged Dismemberment Incident (02:43) ===

[00:03:40]  What if the mistake is being made in having our heartstrings pulled out?
[00:03:44]  And I think that would be kind of the moral of the story when you look at all of America today.
[00:03:49]  We feel bad for the illegal aliens.
[00:03:51]  Oh, no, they've killed someone.
[00:03:53]  Oh, they killed somebody again.
[00:03:54]  Oh, they want free money.
[00:03:56]  They want you to go to work so they can get more free.
[00:03:57]  Maybe we should just stop caring so much as a society.
[00:04:02]  And you know who is definitely now going to substantiate that plausibility that we should just stop caring?
[00:04:07]  Well, the man that you just heard, Sheldon Johnson, 48 years old.
[00:04:12]  He has been arrested again and charged.
[00:04:16]  Guess why?
[00:04:17]  He dismembered a body, allegedly.
[00:04:19]  Of course, he still has to go through the court system.
[00:04:22]  He has allegedly dismembered a person.
[00:04:25]  There was a body that was found in a bin and a head that was stashed in a freezer belonging
[00:04:32]  to a victim named Colin Small, who is 44 years old.
[00:04:37]  Now why did they charge him and not somebody else?
[00:04:40]  Well, they looked at some surveillance footage, which showed him transporting a large number
[00:04:46]  of bags to and from an apartment.
[00:04:49]  And the building's super had speculated that he was hiding something, not your average thing to just be transporting a large amount of bags back and forth.
[00:04:59]  Neighbors then allegedly told investigators that they heard a victim pleading for his life before two shots came from the apartment.
[00:05:07]  At least, that is what those sources told the New York Post.
[00:05:10]  Before the grisly discovery, he was spotted in surveillance images appearing to disguise himself in a blonde wig.
[00:05:17]  and transporting large boxes and trash bags.
[00:05:21]  So he has now been charged with murder, manslaughter, and weapon possession.
[00:05:25]  So, again, this is allegedly what likely happened is he got into an argument with somebody.
[00:05:29]  He was not so reformed as people had hoped.
[00:05:33]  And upon that argument, a man pleaded with him.
[00:05:36]  He shot him anyways, and then said, you know what?
[00:05:39]  This is probably not going to be good for criminal justice reform, especially my job as a criminal justice reform advocate.
[00:05:44]  So what am I going to do with the body?
[00:05:46]  I'm going to put on a blonde wig, and I'm going to dispose of it.
[00:05:49]  And I'm going to dismember it so that people don't see me carrying out, you know, a full body.
[00:05:52]  I'm going to put it into bags and boxes and get rid of it.
[00:05:56]  It's allegedly, plausibly what happened, but we will find out.
[00:06:01]  Again, my biggest regret is standing in line with criminal justice reform without having read thoroughly what was actually being proposed.
[00:06:09]  Maybe if I hadn't supported it, that man would not have ever been walking the streets and given the opportunity to commit another crime.
[00:06:16]  Hey guys, if you liked this video, you will definitely like the full episode even better.