Newsom says he’s disappointed by Biden’s decision to pardon son. But here's why Newsom will never be president.
No, it won't be anti-trans ads. Or being denounced as a San Francisco liberal. Not even the French Laundry restaurant visit during Covid.
Just imagine this 2028 presidential debate scenario ... and that political ads that will be made.
Think of the Willie Horton ad on steroids.
Any Republican campaign operative who doesn't use this against Newsom should be indicted for political campaign malpractice.
PANEL: Gov. Newsom, in 2024 you criticized President Biden for pardoning his son Hunter, who was indicted for failure to pay back taxes and illegally owning a gun while being a drug user. Hunter Biden was facing up to 25 years on the gun charges and 17 years on the tax charges.
NEWSOM: That's right. I could not support President Biden's decision.
PANEL:: But in August 2022, you acquiesced to the parole of Frederick Newhall Woods, who along with two accomplices in 1976, kidnapped a school bus driver and 26 children, ages 5 to 14, at gun point and forced them two vans. They were then driven to quarry in Livermore, California, where they were made to get into a buried truck trailer, as the kidnappers intended to make a $5 million ransom demand.
Two one-hundred pound batteries were then placed on top of the closed hatch and the trailer was then covered with dirt and debris. The kidnappers then left the scene in an attempt to make their random demands. But the bus driver and children, after 16 hours in unbearable heat in the middle of the summer and with little ventillation, were finally able to pry open the hatch and dig themselves out.
In the years since, many of the victims have suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder.
At the parole hearing for Woods, Lynda Carrejo Labendeira, who was 10 at the time of the kidnapping, recalled how she and the other children struggled to escape as a flashlight and candles flickered out while “the makeshift, dungeonous coffin was caving in.”
“I don’t get to choose the random flashbacks every time I see a van similar to the one that we were transported in,” she told the board.
“Insomnia keeps me up all hours of the night,” she said. “I don’t sleep so that I don’t have to have any nightmares at all.”
Jennifer Brown Hyde, who was 9 at the time, recalled “the lifetime effects of being buried alive and being driven around in a van for 11 hours with no food, water or a bathroom in over 100-degree weather.”
“His mind is still evil and he is out to get what he wants,” she told the board. “I want him to serve life in prison, just as I served a lifetime of dealing with the PTSD due to his sense of entitlement.”
The kidnappers were caught, convicted and sentenced to life without the possibility of parole. But an appellate court overturned the finding of bodily harm. Subsequently, the kidnappers were resentenced to life with the possibility of parole. Your late father, Judge William Newsom, was on that appellate panel in 1980 that reduced the kidnappers' life sentences to give them a chance at parole.
You, as governor, could have demanded a review by the full California Board of Parole. But you left it up to the Madera County District Attorney to bear the brunt of the appeal. Your office has issued press releases on your appointments to the CalAccount Blue Ribbon Commission. But silence on Woods. Why didn't you put the weight of the governor's office behind a full parole board hearing? Why didn't you join victims at the hearing advocating he be kept behind bars?
What do you say to the surviving victims of that heinous crime, that your silence and apathy is what perhaps gave that final kidnapper freedom but yet you made it a point to let the nation know you were opposed to President Biden pardoning his son who was facing 42 years in prison time for tax charges and a paperwork omission on a gun ownership filing?
NEWSOM: ???
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Just imagine this 2028 presidential debate scenario ... and that political ads that will be made.
Think of the Willie Horton ad on steroids.
Any Republican campaign operative who doesn't use this against Newsom should be indicted for political campaign malpractice.
PANEL: Gov. Newsom, in 2024 you criticized President Biden for pardoning his son Hunter, who was indicted for failure to pay back taxes and illegally owning a gun while being a drug user. Hunter Biden was facing up to 25 years on the gun charges and 17 years on the tax charges.
NEWSOM: That's right. I could not support President Biden's decision.
PANEL:: But in August 2022, you acquiesced to the parole of Frederick Newhall Woods, who along with two accomplices in 1976, kidnapped a school bus driver and 26 children, ages 5 to 14, at gun point and forced them two vans. They were then driven to quarry in Livermore, California, where they were made to get into a buried truck trailer, as the kidnappers intended to make a $5 million ransom demand.
Two one-hundred pound batteries were then placed on top of the closed hatch and the trailer was then covered with dirt and debris. The kidnappers then left the scene in an attempt to make their random demands. But the bus driver and children, after 16 hours in unbearable heat in the middle of the summer and with little ventillation, were finally able to pry open the hatch and dig themselves out.
In the years since, many of the victims have suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder.
At the parole hearing for Woods, Lynda Carrejo Labendeira, who was 10 at the time of the kidnapping, recalled how she and the other children struggled to escape as a flashlight and candles flickered out while “the makeshift, dungeonous coffin was caving in.”
“I don’t get to choose the random flashbacks every time I see a van similar to the one that we were transported in,” she told the board.
“Insomnia keeps me up all hours of the night,” she said. “I don’t sleep so that I don’t have to have any nightmares at all.”
Jennifer Brown Hyde, who was 9 at the time, recalled “the lifetime effects of being buried alive and being driven around in a van for 11 hours with no food, water or a bathroom in over 100-degree weather.”
“His mind is still evil and he is out to get what he wants,” she told the board. “I want him to serve life in prison, just as I served a lifetime of dealing with the PTSD due to his sense of entitlement.”
The kidnappers were caught, convicted and sentenced to life without the possibility of parole. But an appellate court overturned the finding of bodily harm. Subsequently, the kidnappers were resentenced to life with the possibility of parole. Your late father, Judge William Newsom, was on that appellate panel in 1980 that reduced the kidnappers' life sentences to give them a chance at parole.
You, as governor, could have demanded a review by the full California Board of Parole. But you left it up to the Madera County District Attorney to bear the brunt of the appeal. Your office has issued press releases on your appointments to the CalAccount Blue Ribbon Commission. But silence on Woods. Why didn't you put the weight of the governor's office behind a full parole board hearing? Why didn't you join victims at the hearing advocating he be kept behind bars?
What do you say to the surviving victims of that heinous crime, that your silence and apathy is what perhaps gave that final kidnapper freedom but yet you made it a point to let the nation know you were opposed to President Biden pardoning his son who was facing 42 years in prison time for tax charges and a paperwork omission on a gun ownership filing?
NEWSOM: ???
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