Audio: R' Yehoshua Balkany Discusses the Rubashkin Release on Talkline Radio show

Last night on the Zev Brenner show Rabbi yehoshua Balkany brother in Law of Shalom Mordechai Rubashkin discusses the release. He slammed Senator Chuck Schumer for opposing Rubashkin’s release when President Trump initially asked him to write a letter in support of a presidential pardon. Trump would have done it sooner if not for the intense criticism he faces on a daily basis from the media. He said it was Satmar and not Lubavitch who spearheaded the campaign to free Rubashkin from prison. A group of 24 stamar chasidim are to thank for igniting the campaign joining both factions of Satmar who worked day and night. They visited him every week and took on a large financial chunk. He mentioned Rabbi Pinchos Lipshutz of the Yated for helping with lawyers and advertisements spending hundreds of thousands of dollars in advertising that brought up millions of dollars to help R' Shalom Mordche for the great injustice
that was done to him. Alan Dershowitz brought thPresident e case to Obama. Obama asked Dershowitz to get public support, they sent in 76,000 letters but the bluff was called and nothing was done. He concluded it was a klal yisrael simcha everyone did their part to free him.