Did Josh Duggar Really Say He Never Wrote His Confession?

**SPEAKER_1** (0:00)
This is Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski. Here now, Tony Brueski.

**Tony Brueski** (0:07)
Josh Duggar's lawyers want you to know that Josh Duggar is the one who was wronged. I'm glad we've established that. Now we can all move on. They said it, it must be, must be true. Must be that, you know. Well, not so much in those words, but that's the message. Delivered in 2026 after Josh's brother was arrested in Florida and charged to the life felony involving a girl who was nine from a federal prison cell, four years into his own 12 and a half year sentence for crimes against children. Josh and his attorney released a statement. They thought it was a good idea. And the statement was about Josh, about how he lives with the painful reality of how accusations can destroy a life, about how publicity can twist the truth into sensationalized fiction. Can you imagine being his attorney and keeping a straight face?
I mean, I don't know. I do not know.
Consider who's saying it. A jury already convicted him. A federal judge refused to overturn that conviction. A federal appeals court upheld it. The Supreme Court of the United States set F off and declined to touch it. Four levels of the federal judiciary have now examined the case against Josh Duggar. Not one of them found a reason to disturb it. Josh Duggar is still telling anyone who will listen that he is the person this happened to.
Here's what's actually new. And it's a contradiction. His own lawyers can't quite square up. Over a stretch of months in 26, Josh Duggar was moved. Not once. He was pulled out of the facility where he'd spent most of his sentence and run through a federal medical center. Then he was staged at the government's main transfer hub. Then he was deposited at a low security prison in Ohio, more than 800 miles from his wife and their seven children in Arkansas. Four facilities in one summer, three states, his attorney and Chicago lawyer who once represented R. Kelly. You know you got it going on when your attorney once represented R. Kelly. Took that to a press conference with an explanation ready to go. The transfers, he said, are retaliation, payback, because Josh complained that guards were opening his legal mail. Oh, he complained they're going to move him. And then telling Josh isn't an inmate being processed through the system, he's a whistleblower being punished by a vindictive one. Then there's the release date and the release date tells a bit of a different story. When he was sentenced, Josh Duggar was projected to walk free in August of 2032 That date has now moved to October, and then it moved again now to December. Then it now sits in February 2nd of 2033, into the next year. Three separate revisions, and here's the part that really matters. Every single one of them pushed the date later. Not one of them moved it up. In a federal system, a release date drifting in that direction again and again is not what happens to a model prisoner quietly running out his clock.
The Bureau of Prisons won't explain any of it. It won't say why he keeps getting transferred, and it won't say why the day keeps sliding. It offers only that a projected release date can shift for a handful of reasons. Good conduct credits, program credits, additional charges, or the loss of good time over disciplinary problems. A relative has stated publicly that Josh keeps landing back in solitary confinement over rule violations, and forfeiting credit as a result. The Bureau can't confirm that. It's an unverified account, but, you know, I think we can say it's probably pretty damn true.
But set the two versions side by side, and look what they really are. The lawyer's version is a press release, that it says the system is persecuting an innocent man. The other version is a number on a federal record, and that number has been revised three times, and it has never once been revised in Josh Duggar's favor. A press release is a thing a person writes. A release date is a thing a person earns, or doesn't. And the number fits him better than the persecution story does, because working around the rule that stands in his way is the single most consistent thing Josh Duggar has ever done. It is the through line of his entire life. It started when he was a teenager, and it is going on now from a cell. In case you don't know the lovely story of this man, he was fifteen at the time. Five girls, according to the police report, investigators finally documented years after the fact, four of them were his sisters. His parents did not call the police, they did not call a hotline. They took their son to a family acquaintance who happened to be an Arkansas state trooper, and that man gave the boy a stern talking about what would happen if he kept going, and then sent him home. No report filed, no state agency notified, and under Arkansas law, that trooper was legally required to report exactly what he'd been told, and he did it. You'll find out why in a moment. That quiet in-house handling did something specific. It ran out the clock. By the time actual police opened an actual investigation, the window to charge Josh Duggar had already closed by a matter of months, and the trooper his parents trusted with their son is now serving 56 years in an Arkansas prison for the same category of crime. Here's what will happen if you keep doing this.