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Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, you might remember the Citizens United case.
That's Dave Bossi's case that won before the United States Supreme Court.
It's actually fairly amazing.
I've known Dave for a long time.
We've been friends for a long time.
I didn't even know he was working on this project until fairly recently.
He has a new movie out.
It's a documentary that blows the lid and exposes this $400 million effort by Zuckerberg, Mark Zuckerberg, the Facebook CEO for the 2020 presidential election to bolster then-candidate Joe Biden.
Let me play the trailer for the new movie.
On the day that he was inaugurated, the Washington Post did an article on impeaching.
I Donald John Trump to solemnly swear Donald Ch.
Trump is now president of the United States.
They had an absolute legitimate meltdown.
If you try to change a system that big, the system fights back.
The story behind the biggest election takeover in history.
We're only now being able to finally confirm exactly how this worked.
Mark Zuckerberg and his wife are donating more money to local governments ahead of the election.
$100 million on top of a $300 million gift.
The most money any individual has ever spent to win a presidential campaign in the history of our country.
I actually became infuriated that someone had allowed Zuckerberg to tip the skip.
The election was bought way before Election Day.
They stole it fair and square.
They changed the voting rolls in the middle of the game.
A nation divided.
This was the greatest billionaire assault on election integrity we've ever seen.
A billionaire-funded fight against the president.
Do you believe that they used the COVID emergency as an excuse to pull this partisan voter turnout operation?
Am I allowed to give you a one-word answer?
Yes.
You can find the movie.
They set up a special website.
It's rigged2020.com.
We'll actually link it to Hannity.com if you want to take a look at it.
I didn't have time last weekend to watch it, but you've explained enough of it to me.
And you were on television with us last night.
But what we're pointing out, and there had been numerous reports all over the press that Zuckerberg was giving all of this money to individual groups.
I don't think we knew the extent of it.
And in your documentary, we'll blow that wide open.
Good to have you back, Dave Bossi.
Well, thanks for having me, Sean.
Yeah, this film's exciting.
It's the facts and evidence that the American people have been demanding since the election of 2020 because they know that something was wrong.
And what was wrong with it is a billionaire put $400 million.
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative put $400 million into the election in the last 120 to 150 days of the election, totally off the books.
No federal election laws, no nothing.
Through two C3s, nobody ever knew what was happening.
And that's why Joe Biden won.
All right.
So most people, including myself, have no idea what you mean by C3s, how the money gets distributed, what kind of groups we're talking about.
I would guarantee you that probably 98% of my audience doesn't know what a super PAC is and doesn't know the rules, regulations, laws.
I couldn't even cite them regarding super PACs.
So what we're talking about specifically here is monies that are sent to groups for efforts to help a presidential candidate because otherwise there are limits on what you can donate to a candidate.
But then you have super PACs that are not allowed to coordinate, if my memory serves me well, with campaigns, and they can independently run, I think, unlimited amounts of ads, or is there a limit on that?
No, sir.
You're exactly right.
No limit on super PAC ads.
That's correct.
But it's all disclosable.
Everything's disclosed.
Okay, so then Mark Zuckerberg comes along and he's through various groups, left-wing groups, donates this massive amount of money, which one can argue would have a pretty profound impact on any race.
$400 million, a lot of money.
Tell us what he did.
So the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative donated $400 million into a pair of 501c3s to assist voter operation efforts during COVID.
That was the cover during COVID-19.
The Center for Tech and Civic Life received $328 million.
And the Center for Election Innovation and Research received $69 million.
So of the $328 million that went to CTCL, about $272 million went through 160 grants to Biden-dominated districts.
So 92%, 92%, Sean, of $272 million was given to Biden districts and that Biden won.
It was overwhelming.
It's a thumb on the scale.
The likes no one has ever seen before.
And just to put $400 million into perspective, and we talk about this in the film, we detail and have all of the data backed up using their own organization's tax filings.
That's where we found all of this.
But the DNC, Sean, the Democrat National Committee in all of 2019 and 2020, a two-year cycle, presidential cycle, spent $461 million.
And Zuckerberg came in in the last 120 days and spent $400 million just on a voter turnout operation.
So before we put you on last night, as we always do, we contact people and ask them if they want to comment on it.
Just before the show, it took a while to get it.
I forgot what time we got it.
It was pretty late, though, in the evening, I was told by my staff.
And they gave us a quote attributable to Brian Baker, who's the spokesperson for Mark and Priscilla.
And what they're spinning this as is this.
When our nation's election infrastructure faced unprecedented challenges in 2020 due to the pandemic and the federal government failed to provide adequate funds to allow states and localities to conduct elections, Mark Zuckerberg, Priscilla Chan stepped up to close that funding gap with two independent nonprofit organizations to help the American people vote.
In full transparency, Mark and Priscilla announced their support for this effort well in advance of the election.
So this documentary is neither new nor newsworthy.
I'm going to give you a chance to respond.
They also did not participate in the process to determine which jurisdictions received funds.
And I know your answer on that one, but we'll get to that in a second.
The facts are clear.
Nearly 2,500 election jurisdictions, 49 states applied, and each jurisdiction that applied received funds, no matter whether they were historically Republican, Democratic, or swing districts.
More jurisdictions that received funding historically voted Republican than Democrat, blah, blah, blah, blah.
The film, of which we've only seen two minutes, appears to feature the same people advancing the same claims that have been debunked.
They're admitting they gave the money anyway by multiple federal and state courts and respected news organizations, only this time set to dramatic music.
Now, I want you to respond to all of that.
Take your time.
So a couple of things.
One is we invited Mark Zuckerberg and his wife to participate during the production.
We went and asked them for interviews.
Of course, they didn't even respond to our request.
So that's first and foremost.
So they can now participate after the fact, but it would have been better if they had done it up front.
Now, as far as their accusation or their defense of what they did, what they knew, what they didn't know, we know this.
Barack Obama's campaign manager, David Pluff, is the chief strategist at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.
Okay?
And Tina Eps Johnson and Donnie Bridges are the founders of the Center for Tech and Civic Life.
And prior to being there, Epps Johnson is currently an Obama Foundation scholar fellow.
And Donnie Bridges worked, and both of them worked for the new organizing institute, a group that the Washington Post described, and I quote, the Democrat Party's hogwarts for digital wizardry.
That is not nonpartisan.
Okay?
So Mark Zuckerberg can say whatever he wants today that he gave it to nonpartisan.
Those are not giving it to hardcore leftist activists, organizations is not giving it to a nonpartisan organization.
Okay?
And so, and then those people gave it into the money into the Biden districts.
You know, in 160 grants, what I was saying earlier, approximately 160 grants that they gave out, doesn't matter the 2,500.
It doesn't matter that a majority of the 2,500 went out in $10,000 increments to red counties.
That's not what we're talking about.
We're talking about the 160 grants from CTCL of $400,000 or more that equated to $272 million, and 92% of that money went to jurisdictions carried by Joe Biden.
That's what we're talking about.
And that's what they're going to have problems in defending because those are the facts.
Well, get David Plump, Obama's chief guy, you know, running the thing.
You know, it's political.
I mean, to me, that's the biggest smoking on evidence of the whole thing.
Did they offer any conservative an opportunity if they really cared about being fair?
Well, conservative.
Yeah, look, you know, I don't know that they offered any conservatives any opportunity to do this.
I know that we offered to have them tell us during the production what they did and what they didn't do.
And they didn't do that.
So we have the facts and the evidence provided in these two organizations' own 990s, their tax filings that they filed themselves.
That's where we got most of this information.
So we know what they spent in Georgia and the percentages.
So in Georgia, they spent $45 million just out of CTCL, $45 million, the most out of any state in the country.
Wonder why that happened.
Quick break more with Dave Bossy.
His new documentary is out.
It's called Rig2020.
It's on his website, rig2020.com.
We'll link it on Hannity.com.
Then we'll get to your calls coming up.
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Dave Bossie out with a new documentary about Mark Zuckerberg and the nearly $400 million that he spent weeks prior to the 2020 election.
He has a website, rigged2020.com.
I will link it to Hannity.com, make it easy for you to see it.
Let me ask you this question, because I think this gets to the heart of all of this.
Because we just talked about super PACs and they can spend unlimited amounts of money.
And you're describing the Democratic effort.
And my question is, is the antidote and the answer that Democrats have figured out a way to maximize their voting turnout, and maybe Republicans have not matched that effort, should Republicans get $400 million or close to $400 million themselves?
Yes.
So what this is, Sean, is private funding.
It's not for TV commercials.
It's not for anything.
Oh, this is get out the vote stuff, right?
Forget out the vote.
Sean, it's for mail-in voting, absentee ballots, drop boxes, ballot curing, employees and equipment to run the actual elections.
It's not what is supposed to happen.
So no, I don't believe that.
And by the way, if it was okay to do, why have 12 states passed and 12 governors signed laws that now explicitly outlaw Zuckerberg style funding from happening again in their state?
And five other states have passed the laws and five Democrat governors have vetoed it in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin and other places because they want to be able to do it again.
Are there other swing states that are part of the 12 states that have banned it?
So like Pennsylvania vetoed it.
Wisconsin vetoed it.
Arizona signed it into law.
Georgia signed it into law.
Florida signed it into law.
So you can see where this is, where this is going, and you see what it is.
Let me just say this.
What about Georgia and North Carolina?
Those are two important states, too.
North Carolina vetoed it.
North Carolina vetoed it.
Georgia signed it and passed it.
So you can see exactly what's going on here, Sean.
But let me just give to you one other thing that was in the Zuckerberg statement that you had.
Real quick, because we have a minute.
I want to make sure people can watch this on their own and you can tell them I'm going to go.
They want to go to rig2020.com and see this film.
But they said in their statement that all the courts are throwing it out yesterday, Sean, just yesterday.
And I talked about it on your TV show last night.
In Louisiana, in the Court of Appeals, Jeff Landry, the Attorney General, was allowed by the Court of Appeals to move forward with his ongoing investigation into CTCL to get to the bottom of where the money came from, how the decisions were made, the discovery that gets involved in that investigation.
So the Zuckerberg statement isn't even true on his face.
We're going to put it up on our website.
Dave Bossi, president of Citizens United, friend of this program for a long time.
By the way, it's a link.
You watch it online.
It's rig2020.com, link on Hannity.com, or you can just go there yourself.
We appreciate you being on the program.
We always appreciate having you and all the work that you do.
Dave Bossi, thanks so much for being with us.
Hey, thanks for having me, Sean.
I really appreciate it.
You bet.
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Sharon is in the great state of Texas.
Sharon, hi, how are you?
Thanks for being with us.
And I hope you're ready for the next surge of illegal immigrants because they're coming right to a town near you.
Yes, you're right, Mr. Hannity.
You are so right.
And down here in Texas, we're very concerned.
And that's right.
That fits in with the point I want to make.
And that is earlier in the week, you were on the issue of depleting our supplies.
How President Biden is Depleting our supplies of oil and gas, and he's doing it all over the world on the world stage and here at home and everywhere.
He's working against American interests in oil and gas production.
And so, and then he's leaving our border way wide open.
And I want to thank you for keeping on message with both these topics, as well as Ukraine, as well as Afghanistan, because I believe that Joe Biden is purposely depleting our supplies,
and he is purposely destroying our economy, and he is purposely overwhelming all our systems, which is exactly what the Socialist Democrat Party posted on their platform in the 1940s.
And that was the decade that I was born.
I was born in the 1940s.
So I remember this.
And our friend, Mark Levin, reviewed this several years ago.
Thank you.
God bless us.
I'll say it.
Nobody else will say it.
I said it.
I'm done.
All right, there.
Yeah.
You got to admit, that's pretty good.
He reviewed this about Cloud and Pivens and how the Socialist Democrat Party in the 1940s posted a platform, and they said they intend to open all borders, our borders, and denude our citizenship and overwhelm all our systems.
And we're seeing that going on today.
Mark, as usual, is right.
And it's on every single front.
It's on every level.
Everything that he touches is a failure.
It is destroying this great republic.
The damage is real.
I mean, think about it.
He can't even, he can't even, he ran out of COVID tests over Christmas, monoclonal antibodies.
We had a 30-year high record, you know, his open borders policy.
And it's about to get worse if they get rid of Title 42, which is their intention, although they're trying to back off that and say, well, then the CDC says we can do it because they've gotten so much pushback.
Yep.
And the last thing, and crime, they're the, you know, defund, dismantle, no-bail idiots.
And then they're scratching their heads why we have record crime in every city and every town all across the country.
And they're wondering why we have record high gas prices and a 40-year high of inflation.
This is not brain surgery.
I'm at, I've been at radio 35 years, and I know it works, and I know it doesn't work.
And they know it too, but they don't seem to give a hoot.
All right, back to our phones.
Joan is in New York on the all-new AM710 WOR.
What's going on, Joan?
How are you?
Hi, Joan.
How are you?
Sean, I'm fine.
How are you?
I'm good.
Thank you.
Don't know if you remember, but one of your very first jobs when you were just about 14 was mowing our lawn in Franklin Square.
So I do remember mowing lawns for tons and tons of people.
Yeah, I used to take the lawnmower and I think I charged five bucks a lawn.
Do you remember?
I wouldn't remember.
Do you remember what Sean charged?
Yeah, I don't remember.
Oh, he's saying, yeah, $5 a week, yes.
All right, so that's what I remember.
At least that part of my memory is working better than Biden's.
Yeah, and why I'm calling is just to let you know, I don't know if you've been back here recently, but it's not the same as it was back when you were here.
Because of all this no-cash bail and anti-police, the crime and law that is starting to branch out into Franklin Square.
And, you know, we're close to New York City now.
We are absolutely afraid to go into Manhattan now.
But now at night, we don't even feel safe in Franklin Square.
There's literally groups of criminals hitting entire blocks at 5 a.m. in the morning and breaking into cars, even if they're locked, cutting out the catalytic converters under the cars.
There was a smash and grab at our local Walgreens, and a gas station was robbed at gunpoint, and the suspects are running loose through the neighborhood.
I don't know if you remember Polk Street.
Do you remember where Belmont Park is, where they have the Belmont Stakes?
And there was a town next to our town called Elmont, which I guess maybe is where Belmont came from.
I don't know.
And I remember at that time because it was right on the Queens-Nassau County border.
And Elmont used to have the Argo Movie Theater.
You might remember that.
I'd occasionally go there.
But the stores in Elmont usually had bars on the window like stores in Queens.
But Franklin Square did not have that.
Has it now evolved into that?
Well, maybe not quite that big, but I can tell you that we do not feel safe going out after dark and coming into the house because it's getting a little bit out of control.
And I think what I would, my message would be that we just need to vote these Democrats out because of all these crazy, crazy laws and everything.
The other thing I wanted to talk about is we were alive.
We can remember the Cuban Missile Crisis.
I was only in the sixth grade.
And not that there ever would have been or will be anything when Trump is in office.
But with Biden, we're just really worried.
Now, I would suggest for people to go and Google the Kennedy speech during the Cuban Missile Crisis and a few minutes of it.
And it's the antithesis of what Biden would say.
So I have to say, for the first time, we were talking recently saying, gee, you know, God forbid what would happen if this escalated with Biden in charge.
It's just very disturbing.
All right.
Can I ask you a serious question?
And I have nothing against, obviously, the town that I grew up in.
And you know my story.
My dad grew up poor in Bedstead.
My mom grew up poor in the South Bronx.
And, you know, getting that Cape Cod house on that 50 by 100 lot that we all lived on was a big deal to them.
And, you know, it's sad to hear this.
Isn't it time for you to just take, you know, pack up, sell your house, move to Florida, find a nice little place, nice town that you want to live in.
Maybe go to the villages.
America's friendliest hometown.
I don't know.
Wherever you feel comfortable, or maybe one of the coastal regions, the West Coast, East Coast, I've been on both.
I like them both.
And just get out of here.
Because your property taxes are through the roof, I'm sure.
Yes, yes, yes.
And also, yeah, gas prices.
Yeah, I was excited the other day.
Gas was $4.03.
Yeah, we would, and we have considered that.
The only thing is we have three adult children and seven grandchildren.
So at this point, we're not ready to do that.
But we are considering maybe in the winter, either renting a place somewhere out of New York State.
But yeah, we're not as happy as we were.
Well, thank you for calling.
Thank you for remembering.
If I did anything wrong as a kid, I was a little bit encouraged about that.
Yeah, actually, I need to talk to Joan because I think Joan will be more honest with me.
Joan.
I'm admitting my sins.
Joan, we have to ask you: was Sean Hannity a good lawnmower?
Yes, the only little bit of criticism I would have is we had an apple tree, and we still have it.
And he didn't always love picking up all the apples.
So my husband would complain about that.
Other than that, that sounds like me.
I can hear that.
You know, I used to love breaking the lawn for my dad.
We had this huge big oak tree, and in the fall, I mean, it covered the whole backyard.
And I didn't mind raking them up into piles, but putting them in the bags, I hated that part.
So that's the thing.
Honestly, if that's the worst thing you did, I think if Joan doesn't remember the other stuff, I'm not getting into it.
I am not telling this audience every aspect of my personal life growing up.
I'm just admitting I was incorrigible.
It's a fair statement, and it's an honest statement, Joan.
But I remember you.
We used to hang out at the creek in Wrath Park, right?
Oh, yeah.
Oh, wait, that's another thing.
The creek, because we went walking there recently.
Every house that borders on that creek has these phenomenal cameras because that's where the bad guys go when they're running away from the police.
Oh, the creek.
Wow.
There's no water in it anymore, but there is.
But no, there's much water than in there then at the time.
You could actually walk from Wrath Park down through the creek and get all the way to Oaks Drive.
Yes, and also Wrath Park, the town pool.
Not the greatest place anymore either.
A lot of issues down there.
They took the high diving board down.
I used to love that high diving board.
Oh, yeah, we were actually just there.
I don't even remember.
We updive.
But also, I remember you with your hockey net on your shoulder driving up to Polk Street.
We played hockey up there all the time.
And we played stickball up there all the time and baseball up there all the time.
We used to fight all the time.
But it's still a lot of people.
It's a very, very different era that we grew up in, Joan.
Yes.
Yes, absolutely.
But now, unfortunately, you can get into the schoolyard.
I'm sorry?
My favorite pizza ever.
And I've taken both my children a number of times to Carmella's.
If I'm within 15, 20 miles, I'll make my way to the Carmella's.
And Hamstead Turnpike?
Excellent.
Oh, they're so good, right?
Yes, yes, yes.
And well, if you're ever in Franklin Square, you can drop by.
Remember, we're not, I'm sure you remember where we are a few houses down from where you lived.
Yeah, I spent many a night with a blue lounge.
When I was like 14, they'd even serve me.
And then the nook and cranny later, but I was tender at the Merry Peddler in Floral Park.
But anyway, I love reminiscing, Joan.
I think most people listening to this have no idea of the life that we had growing up.
It wasn't perfect, but it was such a step up for our parents that we were very blessed.
And looking back, I appreciate their sacrifice more and more.
And I know I stand on their shoulders.
And I had nice neighbors like you ratting me out all the time.
My next-door neighbor would constantly see me doing wrong stuff and tell my parents, and it was the right thing to do.
They did the right thing.
God bless you, Joan.
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All right, quick break back to the phones.
We go 800-941, Sean.
If you want to be a part of the program, Mel Gibson is going to check in with us.
We haven't talked to him in a while at the top of the hour.
We're facing with gas prices as two roots.
First, the pandemic.
When COVID struck, demand for oil plummeted, so production slowed down worldwide.
Because of the strength and the speed of our recovery, demand for oil shot back up much faster than the supply.
That's why the cost of gas began to rise last year.
The second route is Vladimir Putin.
The start of this year, gas was about $3.30 a gallon.
Today, it's about averaging 420, 422 is higher in many states.
Nearly a dollar more in less than three months.
The reason for that is because of Putin's war.
All right, back to our busy phones.
Mel Gibson at the top of the hour as we continue.
Alabama, I lived two years there.
I might hear about my time there.
James, you're up next.
How are you?
I'm doing all right, Sean.
How about yourself?
I'm good.
What's going on?
Yes, sir.
I was listening to your show yesterday.
You were talking about Russia's economy and how we're pretty much collapsing the ruble and things like that.
But did you know that they actually are charging the countries that are buying oil from Russia?
They're only allowed to be paid in rubles?
Listen, they're not getting hurt because they're getting Western European dollars from oil and gas.
But don't worry, NATO's going to have a task force looking into it.
That's going to be really helpful.
Well, the currency is actually backed by a commodity now.
The ruble has stabilized.
The ruble itself, though, has stabilized.
I don't know if what they did is they talked about all these tough banking sanctions, but they carved out an exception so NATO countries, Western European countries, can pay Putin, probably not in rubles.
Putin's not stupid, and Putin has all the leverage.
So they're paying him in real, real money.
I don't think their economies are hurting as much as people's making it not to be.
And I don't think he's upset as much as people think he is either.
And if Joe Biden keeps going out there and everyone keeps trying to embarrass him, saying what a disaster it is, he's just going to get more fierce because he obviously is soulless.
This man does not care about killing women and children.
And if you're that soulless, you'll just ratchet up the killing.
You know, he's an evil, maniacal, megalomaniac, narcissist, you know, murderer.
And it's, you know, we've talked about evil over the course of history.
This is real evil unfolding in our time.
And that's why I support giving the weaponry for the Ukrainian people who've shown an incredible strength, fortitude, and valor and willingness to fight to fight their own battle and stop Putin right there.
It'd be great.
I got a roll, though.
I appreciate the call.
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