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Ben Shapiro calls for the pardon of Derek Chauvin, Canada, Mexico, and China seek to match Trump's tariffs

and an effort to recall L.A.'s mayor gets underway. I'm Daily Wire editor-in-chief John Bickley

with Georgia Howe. It's Tuesday, March 4th, and this is your morning wire afternoon update.

Daily Wire editor emeritus Ben Shapiro has called on President Trump to pardon former police officer Derek Chauvin.

Shapiro argues that evidence does not support Chauvin's conviction in the death of George Floyd.

He says that pressure on the jury in the trial, as well as legacy media influence, played a major role in the verdict.

Here's Shapiro.

The media decided in the middle of 2020

that they were going to turn a tragic law enforcement stop that ended with the death of a man

but a significant problem with drugs and preexisting health problems into the raise-on

debt of the entire 2020 election. And it led to vast chaos.

It led to, again, the destruction of racial comedy in the United States,

$2 billion in property damage, and a guy rotting in prison,

who the evidence demonstrates certainly was not guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in that case.

DailyWire has launched a petition at pardon derrick.com in an effort to rally support for the dismissal

of Chauvin's federal charges. Currently, Derek Chauvin remains in prison where he's serving

at 22 and a half year sentence on state charges. President Trump will deliver his joint

address to Congress tonight with many special guests in the audience. Daily Wire's senior

editor,

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