When last we checked on this story, Texas Republican Congressman Dan Crenshaw was threatening to sue YouTuber Shawn Ryan over comments Ryan had made about Crenshaw, and Crenshaw had agreed to come on Ryan’s show to address the issues.
Guess what? Rep. Crenshaw appears to be pussing out by refusing to sign Ryan’s standard release form.
“I need to talk to you about the Dan Crenshaw situation. As many of you know, he sent me a cease and desist, threatened to sue me. I made a rebuttal. I invited him on the show. Then he challenged me. I accepted. I said, ‘Okay, perfect. January 2nd to come on this show, you have to sign a release form.'”
“Everybody that’s been on this show since around episode 10 has signed a release form. President Trump, J.D. Vance, Tulsi Gabbard, Joe Kent, lots of very important people, much more important than a congressman have signed that release form. Everybody that has been interviewed in the new studio has signed the exact same release form.”
“Dan and his attorneys, they don’t want to sign the release form. They want special concessions. We sent them that release form on December 26th. They then sent a bunch of red lines. We said we’re not making any special circumstances or modifying our release form for the congressman. I’m sorry, that’s not going to happen.”
“But we will make some special concessions for his protection on another document and send that over.” You know, I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest that Rep. Crenshaw doesn’t need more protections than Donald Trump.
“Well, they have yet to sign either one of those documents. I have to have those documents signed to interview somebody. Everybody’s done it.”
“I talked to my attorney. I said, ‘I think this is what’s going to happen. They are going to wait until close of business on New Year’s Eve to send some type of a communication in hopes that we don’t get it because who the hell is checking their email at 10:00 at night on New Year’s Eve?’ Well, guess what?”
“We get an email at 10 o’clock at night from Dan’s campaign manager on New Year’s Eve, where the next day is a national holiday and nobody’s behind their decks. And the next day it’s game day. It’s interview time.”
“They said, ‘We’re booked. We’ve booked the hotel that you’ve recommended. Will somebody be there to pick us up?’ There was no mention of the release forms.”
“So, here’s what’s going to happen. They’re going to come here and they’re going to make a big stink on how I didn’t interview them and how I was scared to interview them or whatever, but they’re hiding behind the paperwork.”
“Dan, I am now redacting my invitation for you to come on my show. I gave you the opportunity to be a man. You didn’t take it.”
“I gave you the opportunity to speak to five and a half million people and prove to them that you are not insider trading. That’s a fucking gift. I might add, a gift that not very many people get, and you turned it down.”
“I’m not going to interview you now. I don’t play games.”
“This is what you do, Dan. You’re a bully. You bully people into submission. Anybody that scrutinizes you, you send them a nasty gram and you threaten to sue them. And that works. Unfortunately, it didn’t work on me.”
Assuming all this is true (and right now I have no reason not to believe it’s true), Rep. Crenshaw comes off looking even worse than he did before threatening to sue Ryan.
If Crenshaw doesn’t have anything to hide about his finances, he’s sure acting like someone who has something to hide…
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2 Responses to “Is Dan Crenshaw Pussing Out On Shawn Ryan?”
What does the release form say? I never knew that guests on talk shows had to sign some release form. Many years ago I was a guest on a talk show and didn’t have to sign anything.
It is possible that this is all Shawn Ryan cherry picking communications and assuming the worst possible interpretation of them to make Dan Crenshaw look bad. However, even accepting that, I’ve seen some of those communications and none of them should have been made by Crenshaw.
Crenshaw wasn’t called out by name during Tulsi’s interview. Even if it was really a member of DevGru that contacted Crenshaw about the interview; there is no reason to respond to the interview in public nor mention SEAL Team 6. And once that happened, no legal threats were needed nor promise to appear. Just move on with doing the work for your constituents rather than getting into pissing matches. Instead, Crenshaw seems more concerned about himself than his constituents and we notice.
What does the release form say? I never knew that guests on talk shows had to sign some release form. Many years ago I was a guest on a talk show and didn’t have to sign anything.
It is possible that this is all Shawn Ryan cherry picking communications and assuming the worst possible interpretation of them to make Dan Crenshaw look bad. However, even accepting that, I’ve seen some of those communications and none of them should have been made by Crenshaw.
Crenshaw wasn’t called out by name during Tulsi’s interview. Even if it was really a member of DevGru that contacted Crenshaw about the interview; there is no reason to respond to the interview in public nor mention SEAL Team 6. And once that happened, no legal threats were needed nor promise to appear. Just move on with doing the work for your constituents rather than getting into pissing matches. Instead, Crenshaw seems more concerned about himself than his constituents and we notice.