Fox host Mark Levin opposes prison sentence for woman who threatened to hang Nancy Pelosi

Jan. 6 convict Pauline Bauer yelled: “Bring Nancy Pelosi out here now. We want to hang that f***ing b****.” Levin claims that “she literally did not do anything.”

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Fox host Mark Levin opposes prison sentence for woman who threatened to hang Nancy Pelosi on Jan. 6

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From the May 31, 2023, edition of Westwood One’s The Mark Levin Show

MARK LEVIN (HOST): And I see that a woman today, in a bench trial was tried, was sentenced to two years, and she literally didn’t do anything. She simply said, "let’s get" — whatever she said about Pelosi. She literally did not do anything, did she?

JULIE KELLY (WRITER, AMERICAN GREATNESS): No, she didn’t. I think that’s Pauline Bauer.

LEVIN: Yeah.

KELLY: Two-and-a-half years, I believe she got, from Judge Trevor McFadden, I think. The Trump-appointed judge. I think you and I have talked about him before.

LEVIN: Disaster.

KELLY: These judges are out of control. The prosecutors are out of control. Matthew Graves, the D.C. U.S. Attorney is out of control. This is something that’s never happened. Which is why, Mark, they want to keep these videos, documents, records, completely out of sight from the American people. Because the story they sold us from the beginning, including the January 6 select committee, is a total fabrication at every level. And that’s why you see, kind of, these outbursts today by groups called the Sedition Hunters who are, you know, tracking people down, trying to destroy their lives. They’re mad that we’re going to get access to these tapes, we’re going to turn this narrative on its head, and the American people are going to be pretty shocked and outraged at some of the clips, in context with new reporting, that they’re going to see over the next several weeks.

Mark Levin's guest during this conversation, right-wing activist Julie Kelly, has reportedly been given special access to security footage from the January 6 insurrection by Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA). Kelly is an election denier who claims the FBI perpetrated the attack, and she has viciously slandered police who defended the U.S. Capitol.

While discussing the Pauline Bauer case, Levin quickly glossed over “whatever she said about Pelosi.”

To be clear, Bauer was in a crowd about 30 feet from then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office when she yelled: “Bring Nancy Pelosi out here now. We want to hang that f***ing b****.” She also pushed a police officer who had tried to clear the area, telling the officer: “You back up. Don’t even try.”