The 9/11 Cover Up Nobody Talks About & The Lindsay Clancy Trump Pardon Panic Explained

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On today's brand new Philip DeFranco Show, you daily dive into the news starting with this. Every time you think that the Lindsay Clancy case and situation, it can't get any more complicated or upsetting, it just does somehow. Right, so if you didn't see, her case officially ended in a mistrial on Friday. But also on that same day, you had an Illinois mom who was "very invested in the trial," being charged with murdering her two-year-old son in what many think is a copycat crime. But actually, where we should start here is with the major updates on the Clancy case. Right, because after five weeks of an incredibly intense trial that shed light on postpartum depression and sparked heated, divisive debates on TikTok, the case ended in that very unsatisfying way. The jury was unable to come to the unanimous decision because one juror would not agree with the 11 others. Where with that juror allegedly refusing to follow the judge's instructions on reasonable doubt. And as we've talked about, you had Clancy being charged with strangling her three kids: Cora, Dawson, and Callan. And you had her defense arguing that she shouldn't be held criminally liable given that she was suffering from severe postpartum psychosis. So on the other side, you had the prosecution arguing that she was well enough to intentionally plan and go through with these murders. And so with this mistrial, you had people on both sides going, "Okay, so are we not going to get any closure?" Especially because if there is a retrial, you have people saying it's going to be so incredibly difficult to find an impartial jury pool. Right, since everyone and their mother knows about this case and they seem to have a very strong opinion on it. And actually, in a press conference after the mistrial was declared, you had Plymouth County District Attorney Tim Crews not ready to comment on a potential retrial. Saying that the decision will be made at a future court hearing, stressing that it's been an emotional trial for everybody. And then just this morning, you had Clancy's attorney, Kevin Reddington, stopping by Good Morning America to comment on the mistrial outcome and the future of the case. So they have a decision to make. Now, they could seek a retrial. They could seek a plea agreement. What are you expecting? What are you willing to do? I'm willing to listen to Tim. I've known Tim for, you know, 30 years. He's a very hard-charging prosecutor. Conservative gentleman. I hope, however, after sitting through this trial and seeing the evidence that was presented from the government as well as from the defense, that he would revisit that issue and hopefully would be able to work something out that would be acceptable to both sides. And then also, in a surprising move, he asked President Trump to get involved. Mr. President, I would hope that you would consider this young lady, the type of person she is, what she's been through, and consider a pardon. Which, one, you could say is a creative idea, but also, two, a very odd request, considering that the president actually has no power here. Right, because the president can only pardon someone who's been convicted or accused of a federal crime, not a state or a local crime. And also, I'll say, when Trump commented on the mistrial outcome on Friday, he didn't exactly sound sympathetic to it. It's a terrible situation. Look, she did a horrible, horrible thing. Can't be worse. But you'll find out what the price to pay is. There'll be a price. It's going to be mental institution or jail or something. But I guess they're going to go through another trial. It's too bad. And so, seemingly for multiple reasons, a pardon from Trump isn't going to be the next step here. Though I will say, there was another update from this morning, and that's because Lindsay's ex-husband, Patrick Clancy, released a pointed statement aimed at conspiracy theorists who believe that he was involved in his children's murders. And you had his lawyer, Howard Cooper, saying on his behalf, "Patrick Clancy and his family have been subjected to a relentless, escalating, and destructive defamation campaign." Saying, "This campaign of misinformation has been launched and promoted by minor celebrities, so-called influencers, and outright conspiracy theorists who appear intent on boosting their own social media profiles and potential profit by publishing what they know to be outright falsehoods that Patrick was somehow involved in the death of his young children and other vile claims." With a warning that enough is enough, and that there will be consequences for people creating this kind of content. And so we're going to have to wait to see how that plays out there, and if there ends up being a retrial. But for now, you've got Clancy going back to Tewkesbury Hospital in Massachusetts, where she'll continue being held without bail. But then with all of that, it brings us to this very disturbing potential copycat situation. Because on Friday, you had a 40-year-old Illinois mom by the name of Corrie Walsh getting charged with the murder of her two-year-old son, Barrett. And she was charged with three counts of first-degree murder, and is actually appearing in court as I'm recording this. And with this, you had prosecutors saying that she was following the Clancy case closely and texting friends about it a few hours before her son was found dead. And then also, in addition, to apparently taking an interest in this case, there were some notable disturbing parallels. Reportedly, a 17-year-old neighbor found Barrett hanging in the basement of Walsh's home, and the teen called 911 began CPR, but he was pronounced dead at the hospital. Meanwhile, you had Walsh being found in a bathtub in an apparent suicide attempt. And then as far as who else was around, her husband was reportedly out of town, but there was an infant in the house and two school-aged children who got home shortly after the murder. And then also, similarly, you had Walsh's attorney, Andrea Lyon, saying that Walsh was experiencing a psychotic episode. With Walsh reportedly telling investigators that she killed her son because she believed that he was the devil and the antichrist. And so for now, we're gonna have to wait to see how this plays out. Though I will say, you already have legal experts saying that her texts about Clancy are gonna be a key piece of evidence for the prosecutors. That'll be the first thing they say in opening statement, the first piece of evidence they introduce, and the first and last thing they say in closing argument. That's how important that is. Whether or not Walsh was copying Clancy, I will say, I still don't think we fully understand the enormous impact of the Clancy case yet. But then, from that, we gotta jump to this news, where you have Zoran Mamdani releasing the files. And while they're not the Epstein files, they are the 9/11 files. Because according to administration officials, they discovered 68 boxes in a city office last year that have been kept from the public for the past quarter century. And inside of them, you had more than 170,000 pages of air quality reports, contamination records, and correspondence between city officials following the attacks of September 11th. And so Mamdani, he's releasing all of them through an online portal, and just from the little bit that we've gotten so far, it's pretty explosive. With the big headline right now being that for months after the towers came down, while you had the city reassuring people that the air around Ground Zero was safe to breathe, officials were still actually finding evidence of asbestos as much as half a mile away. Which is, one, incredibly fucked up, because thousands of people are estimated to have gotten sick and died from those pollutants, which is actually more than the death toll from the attack itself. But also, two, this document dump could help surviving victims and families get compensation and may even prompt new lawsuits. Speaking of which, one of the most outspoken advocates for 9/11 victims and first responders over the years, Jon Stewart, he just reacted to the revelations alongside Mamdani. I want to be fair to the city. If you look at the Harding memo, they didn't find out, they didn't recognize that the air that everyone was breathing in downtown Manhattan was toxic until October of 2001. So to be fair to them, they only buried that information for 25 years. And what we all knew who live in downtown Manhattan is that there was poison in the air and on the ground and in the windowsills and in your air conditioners and covering your pets and your clothes. And it stayed there for months. Everyone knew. And you've got all of this, obviously, time to coincide with the 25th anniversary of 9/11, which is coming up this Friday. So you have the situation where this year's remembrance ceremony in Manhattan, it's going to be an extra big deal. But then also, you have someone that's right thinking that Mamdani actually shouldn't go. And in fact, there's an online petition calling on him to not go that's gathered over 100,000 signatures so far. And as far as why, they cite his alleged support or association with people who are dismissive of American institutions or insufficiently critical of extremist ideologies. And with this, you have two notable voices that are backing the petition. The first you've got is New York's former Republican governor, George Pataki, who was in office when the attacks happened. But this had reasoning being that Mamdani wouldn't distance himself from Hassan Piker or reject the phrase "globalize the intifada." And then the second one you've got is Trump's election denying lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, who went on the election denying outlet Newsmax to say this: Having lost friends there, and being very close to many of the families, it offends me that he's coming. If he had a little bit of a heart, even with his views, he wouldn't go because he would know he's disturbing the people who are the most important people at that celebration. You've got to listen to the families. You've got to listen to them. And they don't want him there in the thousands because he's going to hurt them. He stands in direct support of the movement that killed their children. And given the rate we're going, even with the great work of President Trump, I mean, this could happen again tomorrow. This is not, they want to be just another religion. They want to dominate us. Mamdani is a clear, a clear supporter of that. All of the, all of the, all of the Muslims he supports are murderers. So yesterday with this, you had a reporter asking Mamdani about Giuliani's comments, and Mamdani was pretty much like, "I don't, I don't know what this dude's on about." this week to be a focus on is on the families. whose loved ones were stolen from them 25 years ago in the horrific act of terror of September 11th. - And a big reminder with this is that Mamdani, he's just attending, there's actually no speech from him. And in fact, if anything, you could argue that if there is one person who wants to make this whole event about himself, it's Donald Trump. Or because among other things, according to the New York Times, he's decided not to attend it at least in part because he wanted to give a speech and they wouldn't let him. Though also to be fair to the president, another potential reason cited by the article is that it would be hard to fly to his golf course in Ireland the next day from New York City. And so instead, you've got him holding his own commemoration of the Pentagon where I'm sure it'll be completely normal and not at all divisive, right? If I say it, maybe it will become true. The bar's low, the bar's in hell, let's hope. But I say this knowing that with Trump, this is a guy who in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 told a TV station about how one of his buildings just became the tallest in downtown Manhattan thanks to the Twin Towers falling, which also isn't even true. Oh, and also, by the way, Trump's advisors have reportedly discussed taking federal control over the 9/11 memorial. Right, so in addition to a million other things, it's not unthinkable that there are gonna be calciats about that whole thing being covered in gold by the time that he's finished dismantling our democracy. But also, back to Mamdani, 9/11 is not the only big thing that he's commemorating this week, right? And that's because yesterday was Labor Day, which is also why you may have noticed there was no Philip DeFranco show. I know, we did the unthinkable. We actually took a holiday. I hung out with my children, touched grass. Right, but on Labor Day, you had Mamdani tweeting out, "On Labor Day, we honor the workers who came before us by fighting for the workers who come next." And that's also why he signs that executive order creating the Mayor's Office of Worker Power, a first-of-its-kind agency meant to help private sector workers unionize. - Whether you are working in a hotel, whether you are working in a hospital, whether you are working as a barista, you are a worker. And as a worker, you should have protections. - What would the ideal outcome be for a worker who comes to the office? - To me, it is that a worker leaves the office with a better understanding of the rights they already have and the ways in which that they can win the rights that they deserve, knowing what is often an arcane landscape of laws and regulations. Now we're saying you can actually just go to nyc.gov/workerpower. - Now, also, I should explain how unprecedented this kind of thing is, at least in the United States. Because while we do have labor departments in the NLRB, these are mostly just meant to act as referees between workers and employers and make sure that the existing law is being followed. But what Mamdani is actually doing appears to be different. He's actually taking a side between classes, right? Or in his words, this office will, quote, "Put the full weight of City Hall behind the people who keep New York running." And if you live there, or even if you just look at the numbers, you see why New York would be a place to try this. And that's because both the city and state have a union density rate that's twice the national average, right? 20% to 10%, and higher than any other state except Hawaii. But that's largely because most of New York's public employees are unionized. So if you take them out, the percentage drops to 12.5%, which is actually half of what it was four decades ago, right? And that tracks with the long-term decline of organized labor since the end of the New Deal era, sometime around the '70s. And then, if you look at the trends with inequality, right? I don't need to tell you how things are nationally, but we did just get a report detailing the just huge gap between rich and poor, specifically in New York City, where they're finding that between 2019 and 2024, the top 0.1% took home 22% of all income and over half of all income growth. And of course, that's not because they just worked harder than you. Most of that is just them owning shit. Or with the richest 1% getting 69% of their income from investments, rents, and proprietorship in 2024. Meanwhile, you've got the real median income for everyone else falling by 3.2% over that five-year period. And so ever since taking office, Mdani's tried to rectify that imbalance with a long list of pro-labor policies. He teamed up with District Attorney Alvin Bragg to crack down on wage theft. He signed an order protecting 1.4 million outdoor workers from extreme heat. He claims to have returned over $100 million to app-based delivery workers by cracking down on deceptive tipping practices and proposed a measure to force delivery companies to hire employees instead of contractors. And so this office of worker power, it's just an addition to that list, but also it's gonna do more than just one thing. First up, and maybe the biggest thing, you got the mayor saying that it's gonna bring people together, rank and file workers, union leaders, worker centers, immigrant workers, gig workers, and platform workers. Secondly, it'll provide information at everyday touch points, so that includes workforce centers, city ID offices, schools, libraries, and community centers. Third up, it'll send referrals to workers support organizations. Fourth, it'll conduct research on workers' issues, develop policy proposals based on workers' experiences, and hold public hearings where workers will speak for themselves. With those, apparently it modeled on Mdani's rental rip-off hearings, where some 23,000 tenants voiced their complaints as of July. And lastly, the order that created the new office also directed other agencies to start investigating workplace violations and other predatory policies and predatory practices, even when there's no complaint. And with that, you had Mdani's deputy mayor for economic justice explaining that oftentimes the most vulnerable workers do not report, either because they're afraid or don't know their rights, so it is not enough for government to simply wait until workers come forward. But then with all that, as you might imagine, there are a number of conservatives and kind of the business community at the top not the most happy about this. I wrote, for example, the New York Post, calling it a taxpayer-funded office with an undisclosed price tag, and the Manhattan Institute's Ken Girardon telling the outlet, "It's remarkable that the Mdani administration "conflates being forced to pay a union "with being protected from exploitation," saying the city shouldn't be putting its thumb on the scale to squeeze more dues out of workers. You had a business group leader adding, "City government should not be interfering "with a process that is between employees and the employer," saying small businesses should be supported, especially in a place like New York City, where it is unaffordable to keep the doors open and lights on instead of having the deck stacked against them. Though in response to that, you had a fair share of people saying that is not what this is doing, saying this is not about going after mom and pop shops, this is about large organizations taking advantage or even, abusing their workers. For now, we'll continue to wait to see how this plays out, and that includes the worker power office, as well as everything 9/11. And then, there's even more we gotta dive into in just a minute, but first, let me thank a sponsor. A few years ago, I needed to find a new doctor, and I made a mistake at thinking the hard part was the appointment itself, but it wasn't. 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And specifically, he mentioned his care for low-income patients, and even told stories about women who'd drive 100 plus miles to come see him because his office accepted Medicaid. Except now, you have some of those same patients that he talked about helping actually saying he colossally screwed them over. You have a recent investigation by the New York Times finding that his office routinely charged patients an 18% interest rate on unpaid balances, which is insane by itself. But it gets so much worse because when those medical bills remained unpaid, he actually sued the patients. So again, we're talking about more than 700 lawsuits against patients with outstanding bills. Half of them filed under Marshall's name, and half of them filed under Heartland Regional OB/GYN, which is the practice that he ran for decades. And a key thing here is that this wasn't about just major bills that were ignored for years. We're talking about bills ranging anywhere from a little more than 100 bucks to several thousand dollars. And because we're talking about an OB/GYN here, some of those lawsuits were filed against new moms with outstanding bills for their deliveries or for their postpartum visits. You had people like Kelly Klutz, who was sued in 2015 over a $129 bill from a postpartum visit. And according to Kelly, the lawsuit came in when her baby was only nine months old. And she told the Times, "I was recently divorced trying to do everything on my own. "I told them I could make partial payments, "but it seemed like no matter what I said, "they wanted the full amount at once." With eventually the lawsuit resulting in Kelly's bank account getting garnished. But that was also actually one of the better outcomes. In more than 80 cases where patients were sued for unpaid, unpaid bills to Marshall's practice, they were also arrested, which is what happened to Joe Vasquez, who got sued for an unpaid bill for his wife's emergency hysterectomy in 2004. Three years later, he and his wife were arrested in front of their grandchildren on Easter weekend and spent two days in jail before their son could borrow the money to bail them out. They were arrested after they missed a court date for the lawsuit, except Joe says that they never received a summons and had no idea what was going on. And interestingly, that's also what we saw from other patients like Mycia Zimmerman. She was also arrested for missing a court date related to an unpaid bill for a C-section in 2011. And at the time, she had a two-year-old daughter and was eight months pregnant with her saying, "I asked them quietly, "can you not handcuff me in front of my daughter? "I explained to my daughter I was going for a ride." And her situation was made worse by Marshall's insane interest rates, right? She managed to set up a payment plan, but with the interest, her bill reportedly went from $3,596 to more than 7,000. And you had her saying to the Times that even with the payment plan, there were many times she couldn't make ends meet, saying, "I had to choose whether I'd pay my electricity "or pay $50 to a doctor who didn't need it." And Zimmerman was actually arrested three times for the unpaid bill, each time, posting $200 bonds to get herself out of jail. And with that money, reportedly going towards paying down her debt. And these are just a couple out of court examples. There are others who fought their bills through the system, including one mom who lost her twins and argued that she couldn't be held liable for the $1,200 bill. I mean, she lost and ended up having to pay. And then another hired a lawyer and fought back protesting a $520 bill for a surgery to remove placenta that was left in the patient's uterus after childbirth. And you had their lawyer saying, "The service that the plaintiff seeks payment for "should have been part of the original birthing services "for which the plaintiff has already been paid." And these types of lawsuits "and arrests and garnishments on Marshall's patients. "It went on for years, and according to experts, it's very rare, actually, to see a doctor take this route. Because doctors actually have a pretty wide discretion on how they handle unpaid bills. They can involve debt collectors, file lawsuits, or drop the debt entirely. But Barack Richman, the co-director of the health law program at George Washington University, noted that Marshall resorting to this level is definitely on the extreme side. However, at least according to Marshall and his legal team, he's not doing anything out of the ordinary. With a spokesperson for Marshall saying that he spent decades caring for patients regardless of their ability to pay, and adding, "Judges issue warrants when people repeatedly miss court dates, not doctors." Except, thing is, according to court records, Marshall's legal team repeatedly requested arrest warrants, saying that they were necessary because of the defendant's, quote, "refusal to obey court orders." With also one of Marshall's attorneys saying that he was no different than any other client, that he just allowed the law firm to do what was necessary to pursue an outstanding bill. And adding, "If defendants were allowed to appear only when they wanted to without any consequences, the court would get no business done." And one of the craziest things is that this actually continued while Marshall was in office. You had the Times finding that his collection work went all the way up to 2021. Five years after he was elected to Congress, which also ends up being a little ironic considering that just last year he introduced legislation that would prohibit hospitals from suing patients if they did not publicly post their medical prices. And now what you're seeing as he's facing reelection is that his office is doing its best to dismiss the whole situation as inconsequential. And so you had his spokesperson saying, "60 days before an election, the New York Times has decided that a rural doctor keeping the hospital's lights on is some kind of scandal." And saying, "Kansans know better." And the thing is, it will ultimately come down to Kansas voters. Obviously this midterms, things are leaning a little more blue. Does his Democratic opponent, Adam Hamilton, does he have the juice to get across the line in this election year? And will Kansas voters not only take issue with what Republicans have been doing, but will they specifically take issue with a guy who's built his political identity around being a doctor who is helping the little guy, the little lady? When there is a scandal that comes out about what he is actually doing to that little lady when she can't pay him. Or when life gets hard and the bills don't stop. Time will tell, and the midterms are pretty much just around the corner. But then jumping from that, oh my God, we have to talk about this. Elizabeth Holmes is back in the news. Because a trailer about a documentary that goes into Elizabeth Holmes's life just about a month before she reported to prison, got dropped. - I don't have anything to deceive you on. Of course I'm not deceiving you. I'm engaging with you as a human being. Why would I deceive you? There's no, there's no reason for me to do that. - I have to tell you, when I saw this trailer out in the wild, my initial reaction was, "Oh my God, who is this actress that's just nailing, crazy, that's playing Elizabeth Holmes?" And then the realization that that was Elizabeth Holmes. It hit me like a ton of bricks. And in case some of you have forgotten, Holmes got about 11 years behind bars for defrauding investors with her company Theranos, which was a sham blood testing company. And the situation just by itself, it was a lot. It's very, very fascinating, interesting. But also there were a lot of things about Holmes herself that got a lot of attention, right? A lot of people found really off-putting, like the mannerisms that she'd used to cosplay a powerful CEO. We had people saying she put on this fake deep voice, she talked really slowly, and she also spent a lot of time not blinking, like it was a whole thing. And while she hasn't really popped up in headlines, we then got the news about "You Can See Everything," which was this top secret world's premiere at the Telluride Film Festival. Because that is when you had people finding out that Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim started shooting it back in 2023 without anybody knowing. And that was a time that Holmes was keeping a pretty low profile, or I guess we thought was keeping a low profile. Because Fielder and Oppenheim reportedly got 36 days to film her and her partner, Billy Evans, in their home, getting access that no one's ever gotten, like nothing off limits. So you had early reports saying that they shot a lot of moments that people are gonna consider too close for comfort. There's apparently even a shower scene with Evans that leaves nothing to the imagination. And actually throughout the process, reports say that Fielder offered to cut the cameras multiple times, but I guess they were really ready to let it all out. And a very interesting is that, at least according to the reports, originally Fielder was gonna be doing most all of this from behind the camera. The story is, is that as his interactions with them kept getting weirder, those conversations became a central part of the story. So then the next thing you know, he's starring in the doc with them. And by the end of it, you have Fielder saying that even he, was pretty shook, saying in a post-screening interview, "I'm really struggling to this day "to understand what I experienced." And adding that he's excited for people to see this so that the audience can actually help him figure it out. And so with all that, the doc comes out next month. It's also reportedly just under three hours. And so we will see shortly what a ride it was. Also in big international news, you've got Israel's government reportedly losing its mind right now after the UK, France, Canada, and nine other nations joined forces to slap sanctions on a legal settlement throughout the West Bank. Are you with UK Foreign Secretary, Ed Miliband, announcing a comprehensive import ban on all goods originating from West Bank settlements while speaking in parliament? And you had him saying that extremist settlers are conducting an ethnic cleansing and warned that the ongoing expansion is destroying any chance of a two-state solution. France and Canada then quickly backed the coordinated crackdown joined by countries like Sweden, Ireland, Spain, and Norway. So that means this is one of the largest joint international moves against settlement trade to date. And you had Israel's government not only responding almost immediately, but they were angry. Foreign Minister Gideon Saar blasted the claims as outrageous lies from a hostile government. They also moved to shut down Britain's consulate in East Jerusalem, which handles diplomatic relations with the Palestinian Authority. And then on top of closing diplomatic channels, Israel terminated British training programs for Palestinian police forces, booted the UK out of the US-led Gaza Coordination Mission, and announced bans for certain officials. Which is a very big reaction when you consider that in reality, these sanctions are largely symbolic since very little is actually produced and exported from settlements. Though a key standout from the situation is that the only country to back Israel up is the United States. And actually, based on recent polling, I should note that I mean the US government. Are you with US officials openly criticizing the move by the UK and a ton of other allies for pushing the sanctions? Which of course creates a clear division between America and many European countries over how to handle the West Bank? Because it's supposed to be the future home for a Palestinian state as part of a two-state solution, something that the US claimed to be in support of, I guess, before this administration, right? Or is it supposed to be just a feeding ground for Israeli settlements? Because it doesn't take a genius to see that constantly encroaching on Palestinian homes and territory. That's not a recipe for viable peace. Though that is very likely a feature and not a bug for Netanyahu's policies towards Palestine. And then from that, we've got to dive into this crazy situation with Lindsay. But first, a quick word from our sponsor. Imagine getting a message saying your family member was just in an accident without thinking you clicked the photo attached, except there was never an accident. Because that's the trick behind a new scam where criminals use fake emergencies to get you to install malware that can compromise your personal information and accounts. 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So as many of you know and have been supportive of, my fantastic, amazing wife, Lindsay DeFranco, is running for office here in her home state of Georgia. Specifically, she is running for a state house seat in District 47, and she is a part of this fight to help turn Georgia's state house blue. Without re-explaining things that I've talked about in past videos, she is going against a non-incumbent in what should be a pretty strong red seat, except for the fact that Republican politicians have fucked up so bad, and my opinion, her opponent is a uniquely horrible, weak candidate. And I think what is happening now comes from one of two things, maybe both. One, I think some people out there might have some internal polling that has them spooked right now. And two, they're freaked out by Lindsay's ability to raise money from actual people rather than billionaires and PACs. And actually, you know what? Lindsay herself could explain the ridiculousness of what people are trying to pull right now. - Oh, hey everyone, me again. I'm not here to ask you for money this time. I am here to cover a story in which I am a big part of it. On Friday, I got my very first ethics complaint, which I've been told is a good sign that your opponent is very scared of you. So what does this mean? It means that somebody filed a complaint with the State Ethics Commission and asked them to investigate me for doing something improper. And I have 30 days to file a formal written response to these allegations, but I'm not wanting to sit back and do that. So we're just gonna address them here. So this whole process and this ethics board is in place to ensure that there's no financial funny business going on when people are running for office. But it is also frequently weaponized by people who want to smear their opponent even when they've done nothing wrong. And in this case, the complaint was filed by none other than someone named Orion Roy. You heard that name before? When I saw it, I was like, that sounds familiar. Orion lives in my district. He is a paid operative for Turning Point, he is also vice chair of the Fulton County Republican Party, and he is also first vice chair for Georgia's 7th Congressional District Republican Party. Now, hold on. We can't just assume someone's intent based on the organizations that they're associated with or the fact that they grew up in the same area at the same time as my opponent. We cannot use that context, especially because when you file these forms, you have to swear in front of a notary that you are filing them and doing this on your own, that you are not an agent paid or otherwise for anyone else that you are doing this in your interest and orion signed that right here you can see he signed it so to be very clear i'm going to take him at his own word orion roy is a private citizen who filed this complaint but you all know i'm a huge proponent of media literacy and i feel like it's important to know that the organizations that this person is involved with before i continue but wait why would anyone want to do this when there's not actually a big scandal that they are accusing you of well like i said these forms can be weaponized to suppress dissenting voices now anyone who wants to can send out a mailer with my big beautiful face on it that says lindsay defranco six ethics complaints they filed the paperwork it's been notarized there's a case number and everything and a lot of people aren't going to stop and really look into what all of this paperwork says they're just gonna assume that it's true but what i need you to know is that the state ethics commission has not charged me with anything and the papers that i am about to show you they were not written they were not written they were not written they were not written they were not written by the state ethics commission these were written by orion roy himself he's made them look very official very serious he's even labeled them count one count two count three it's all very law and order very much not six violations that the state is alleging i committed this weaponization of state bureaucracy is wasting tons of taxpayer time and money to investigate very little issues that mostly come down to paperwork they all pretty much stem from misunderstandings or small errors that are being blown up for my opponent's political game there are hundreds of candidates at the state and local levels who have very similar or greater issues but they're not being investigated because nobody has the motive or knowledge to file a complaint a very recent example is representative mitch horner up in katusa county he had hundreds of discrepancies on his last financial disclosures for tens of thousands of dollars and they all went unnoticed until a local democratic party chair did some digging and figured it out that is what the state ethics commission is supposed to be for let's get to it and i'm going to tell you exactly what i'm being accused of again these are the papers written by orion but i'm pretty sure these are all ai anyway count one improper transfer or re-characterization of contributions from a campaign for a different elected office i first started running for school board and when i was running for school board my dad his name is roswell dotey donated the max amount which is thirty three hundred dollars but then when i decided to switch to the state house race when the incumbent retired i said dad do you want your money back and he said no please keep it and i said great thank you with your permission i'm going to transfer this money from my school board bank account to my state house bank account and that's that orion is claiming that that is not allowed he is wrong moving on and also some of the statutes he cites in here are not correct just so we know count two acceptance of contributions exceeding the maximum primary election contribution limit wow this one sounds serious again my dad i stopped running for school board started running for state house in my opinion this was a bigger deal so i decided to have what they call a launch party my dad bought a hundred dollar ticket which essentially put him one hundred dollars over the max amount that he was allowed to donate so when orion says acceptance of contributions exceeding the maximum primary election contribution limit it is 100 that my dad donated to my campaign so that he could support me at my launch party anyway if the answer is that i need to refund my dad that 100 dollars i will do it i will survive this financial hardship next now it gets kind of boring counts three and four are paperwork count three acceptance of general election contributions prior to the primary without filing an option to choose separate accounting so this count is about a form called kusa and it basically is when you're collecting money you need to let the state or whoever know that you are intending to collect donations for the primary and the general now when i was running in the primary i was unopposed just keep that in your mind orion claims we didn't file that and he's right we didn't we didn't file a separate form because we didn't think we wouldn't need it we were running unopposed and now it's not really about filling out a form that's dated information you can really just check a specific box when you're forming your campaign committee essentially like opening a bank account that indicates that you are raising money for the primary and the general and we did that if he went back to look at our financial statements he would see that we didn't even accept any outside donations that would have been covered under this form anyway next the counts make it sound so serious what are you talking about serious what a drama queen count four failure to file required two-day business contribution reports before the may 19th 2026 primary election in the period immediately before an election there's a form that you need to fill out if you get a contribution of a certain size after the last filing deadline you essentially have to make a separate report within 48 hours of receiving that money and it's really most important to file these when you are in a contested election which means you are running against somebody and most people who are running unopposed do not file these forms i was running unopposed i did not realize how much support i was going to get from you guys so at the time we didn't have a compliance staffer like we do now it's kind of like turning in a school assignment on time you have everything there that you need but you forgot to email your teacher a copy that's what this is you still turned in the assignment your teacher still has all the information you just didn't do the final administrative step i guess that's essentially what happened here we still disclosed all our donations like we were supposed to we're not keeping anything a secret the ethics commission asks us to go back and file these forbes we will but i don't think they will again this is another thing where we did not conceal anything this is a bureaucratic error being blown right out of proportion count five five is my lucky number i can't believe it's getting this far inconsistent or incomplete personal financial disclosure of fiduciary positions sounds exciting and scandalous doesn't it this one really confused me because orion wrote a bunch of words but did not give substantial information about what he was talking about so i went back and did his work for him he likely used ai to scan and look at all my stuff and didn't like double check to make sure that his counts were not incomplete so i went back and i looked at my disclosures i only have one fiduciary position and that is with rogue rocket this company when i filed my school board financial disclosure didn't put it on there my bad not running for that race anymore it is disclosed on my personal finance disclosure for this race so this was basically orion saying hey i know you have a new job now but i went back and looked at your application for your old job and you made a mistake on that application so now you deserve to be in big trouble i'm sure they're going to weaponize it and make it sound like i am hiding financial interests and something which is like so dumb next here's the fun one the pièce de résistance am i using that right maybe i did take french three two times wait where'd it go this one is the longest one and quite literally the dumbest okay failure to report in-kind media advertising streaming and promotional services all right video evidence indicates that the philip defranco show provided substantial media streaming and promotional services for the benefit of blah blah blah all right the philip defranco show the show that you're watching right now this is the one that i think got orion really invested because i don't know if this was included on accident i think it was probably included on accident but he only provided one piece of actual evidence and remember orion is part of turning point and he included this thumbnail of the philip defranco show of me this was the first time i spoke to you guys and asked you for support and look at what the title says the erica kirk situation is worse than you think yeah that video did really well and you guys were super supportive on that one so thank you it says april 30th approximately three minute spot from intro i had a really good spray tan that day so i think this is what originally got our homeboys attention so for anyone unfamiliar with my deeply secret relationship with this program i'm lindsay defranco philip defranco is my husband we've been together for about 20 years the show has been around for about 20 years and we have grown this company together i've appeared on the show before and like i said earlier this year i went on here twice the first time was this when i was just talking about my campaign and then the second time i came on to talk to you about the buffoonery that is the new state election commission that they basically came up with during the special session this summer and both times i asked if you guys would be willing to donate and you did and that was amazing and i love you so much and then also sometimes phil included my donation link in the description of the video because he's my husband and he loves me okay jokes aside the allegation is that because rogue rocket produced this video aka my husband and i sat down to film together and rogue rocket distributed the video aka it was uploaded to the internet orion is saying this counts as something called an in-kind donation and if you don't speak campaign finance an in-kind donation is basically like somebody giving your campaign something that has monetary value but that is not money you have to report those things for instance if i had a campaign fundraiser and somebody brought a tray of chicken nuggets a 500 tray of chicken nuggets i would have to disclose that on my financial report saying mr jones provided food at this fundraiser and the monetary value was 500 orion is basically saying that this show is the chicken nuggets that's the allegation an appearance on a media program does not mean it is an in-kind contribution and we'll provide the necessary context in our response because this is so those are the counts the counts the very serious counts that because this has now been filed will be used on mailers and in ads against me and context is a funny thing because when the state ethics commission receives a complaint like this they don't have all the context they just look at the paperwork and they say it sounds legit let's send this to them and ask for a response again these are not things that have been written by the state this is legalese that somebody probably used ai to help them compile and submitted and those allegations leave out the fact that roswell doughty is my dad and he gave permission for me to move that money from the school board campaign to the state house campaign and it leaves out the part that that hundred dollars has already been refunded and that those two forms were essentially unnecessary in an uncontested race and that i'm no longer running for school board and when it discusses my appearance on the philip defranco show it leaves out the context that this show belongs to my husband and i've been on it before you know the deal and as far as orion roy private citizen goes the sworn complaint says that he is doing this on his own he is not doing this on behalf of anyone else but there is important context and that is that he is directly involved with at least three organizations that directly oppose my campaign and that is necessary context too so when you inevitably see mailers that say lindsay defranco six counts of ethics complaints or whatever or you see an ad just know that this was complete weaponization of the system that is put in place to protect against real fraud anyway whatever you do do not go to lindsay4ga.com donate don't you dare do it and at the end of the day remember that the best disinfectant is sunlight so go get yourself some vitamin d but hey that my friends you beautiful bastards brings us to the end of your tuesday show thank you for watching hitting that like button subscribing to the channel for these daily dives into the news also i can't wait to see a bunch of you all this weekend we're going to be in san francisco phoenix and denver this friday saturday sunday as part of the crashing out tour and if you're in or around or want to be in those areas you can get tickets at crashingouttour.com but hey whether we're taking things next level to irl or we're keeping things remote i'll see you right back here on this channel to dive into more news tomorrow