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June 1, 2022 - Sean Hannity Show
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Where's Sean? - May 31st, Hour 1

Mark Simone fills in for the vacationing Sean...but he's not really vacationing!  Sean will be live from London later this week. Mark has the latest details on this interesting trip!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Is that because I'm here?
Or you say that?
You say that to all the guest hosts.
It's Mark Simone here for Sean.
Certainly glad you guys don't waste a lot of money on air conditioning here.
But no, I can feel it now.
It's starting to come now.
The company will be glad to know you're not wasting money on frivolous things like air conditioning.
We got a great program for you, David.
A lot of big guests coming up.
We've got lots to talk about, big stuff developing, breaking as we speak.
Sean will be here tomorrow.
Can I say where he is?
Yeah, I think you should say.
Oh, my God.
A ghost from Hannity Past.
Is that Linda?
Indeed, it is.
Just on the other side of the pond.
Now, it doesn't sound like we're in the room together, Linda, me?
She is thousands of miles away.
Where are you?
Unfortunately, I'm in London and not there in beautiful New York with all of you.
I miss you terribly.
Yeah.
I wish I could be there.
Well, you're late.
I'm sweating in 97 degrees.
It's raining and cold here if it makes you feel any better.
That's summer over there.
No, it's 93, sunny.
I got allergies.
That's why I sound a little raspy.
You are there with Sean, and you're going to do a big program from there tomorrow, right?
The next, the rest of this week, we are going to be here live in London for a bunch of stuff going on here.
For those of you not aware, it's the Queen's Jubilee.
So we're going to be here doing all of our shows right in the center of London.
So it should be an interesting week.
Yeah.
You know.
This technology, you sound like you're right here in the room and everybody's working hard, even when you're not here.
Big hat tip to Blair.
Blair has been busting his hump over here and Ethan's men and Katie are over there working hard.
So everybody's working hard.
And of course, we have your lunch, but they'll be back.
Later in the you know, they got it ready and they got it all warmed up and now they could take a break.
You know, that's how it works.
Yeah, so uh, and Sean will do the TV show from there as well, obviously.
Everything, not gonna fly back each night for the show, but that would be so weird.
Yeah, no, we're not gonna do that.
And what have you done in your first day in London?
Uh, let's see.
Uh, I haven't left the hotel.
All we've done is work since we got here.
Oh, and uh, just setting up and testing and just nonstop working on the show.
That's it.
All right, nothing fun to report yet.
All right, well, go do something fun and then report back to us.
Come back for hour two, yes.
Oh my gosh.
Well, you're going to have a lot of fun over there.
You can watch, they got great television there.
They run like Dallas from 1987 on the BBC.
A lot of old stuff on those.
And you're going to have fish and chips, right?
Listen, you know, I already came over on the plane and they were already offering me things I had never heard of.
Like, you know, just like certain jams and, you know, they offer marmalade.
Marmalade is a thing here.
Oh, yeah, like gooseberry marmalade.
Yeah, just odd things.
I'm like, and then, of course, we have all the power outlets.
You know, fortunately, from our last time here, I was able to bring all of the adapters and plug-ins.
So that's always a good thing.
And yeah, you know, it's been fun.
And then, you know, they come to, they've checked on the room, I don't know, maybe 83 times since I checked in.
Do you need anything?
Do you need anything?
No, no, I need you to not knock on the door anymore.
Yeah, that's what's weird about very weird about London.
Great service, polite, everything.
Very, nothing else.
That's the problem.
I'm from New York.
I'm like, is someone going to hit me or mug me soon?
Because I'm feeling very uncomfortable.
It's also 2022, and you still have to bring 55 adapters just to plug anything into it.
You know what?
I know you're a technology guru.
I don't know if the audience knows this, but Mark Simone is the guru of all things technology.
He always has the latest and greatest of the iPhones and the Macs, and he takes beautiful pictures.
If you ever go on his Instagram, he has the best pictures of food and scenery and everything.
So a hat tip to you, Mark Simone.
But you're very welcome.
But I'm telling you, the adapters here, it's ridiculous.
But they do have, which is nice, the USB.
So I can just plug in.
So that's cool.
Yeah, but the iPhone is so busy with the 13 and 14, making wireless charging, wireless wire.
Now you get to London.
That's crazy.
42 adapters, nine different cables just to plug it in.
I had an extra bag just for the adapters, you know, so it was good.
It was my extra carry-on.
It was good.
Well, all right.
So we'll check in with you later in the show.
Perfect.
I look forward to it.
All right.
Great.
All right.
Have a good first hour.
Yeah, we will.
I got to do a whole hour?
I mean, I hope you do three.
No, I have really, really, really prepared for this show.
Oh, for sure.
You always do.
I mean, listen, there's nobody better than you.
You know, you do your amazing number one show in the morning.
You get all warmed up and then we bring you in for round two.
Yes.
We can't thank you enough.
All right.
Anytime.
Anytime.
You're the best.
All right.
Good talking to you.
We'll catch up with you later in the show.
Also, we'll talk to Larry Kudlow, the great Larry Kudlow, one of our, I'd say, three best economists in the world.
You got Art Laffer, you got Steve Moore, Larry Kudlow.
I'll throw Steve Forbes in there too.
And he'll be with us at the bottom of the hour.
So if you got stocks going crazy, you're 401k, you're worried, he'll tell us exactly what to do.
11 minutes into the program, I don't think we should be talking about something by this point.
I guess so.
Yeah, here's the bad, upsetting part: the Michael Sussman trial is crucial to the Durham investigation.
You got to convict this guy, Sussman, so he's facing jail.
And as a result, he turns in everybody else.
That's how it works.
You take the lowest guy, the littlest guy in the operation, convict him, facing 10 years in jail.
Then you tell him, you turn in everybody else and we'll get rid of the jail sentence.
That's how it works.
Well, today the jury acquitted Sussman.
Now, I don't know what else Durham has planned, but this is a big blow to the Durham investigation.
Sussman is acquitted.
He walks away a free man, no cares, no worries, doesn't have to give up anybody.
How did this happen?
It's a Washington, D.C. court.
In Washington, D.C., you're going to get the most pro-Hillary Clinton, pro-Democratic jury ever.
Now, here's the other thing.
I don't know, you know, if you're the defense, you can go argue we have to move the trial to a more neutral location.
We can't have it here because the jury will be prejudiced.
Everything will be prejudiced.
If you're the defense, you move the trial.
I don't know.
Is a prosecutor allowed to do that?
I don't know if you're allowed to do that if you're a prosecutor.
You generally have to do it where the crime took place.
And I guess if Durham could have, he would have, but they should have moved the trial.
Now, here's another thing.
Again, it's Washington, D.C. courts.
They are the most slanted, biased courts in the world.
So I guess he must have tried to change the judge.
It's not just the jury.
The judge in the case.
Now, let me see if I can get all this straight.
The judge in the case, his name is Christopher Casey.
He was not only an Obama appointee, he was on Obama's transition team.
He's married to the lawyer who represents Lisa Page, one of those sleazeball, corrupt FBI, part of that James Comey, sleazy cabal he had put together.
The judge is married to the lawyer for her.
He's also, his wife is also a top aide to Eric Holder in the past.
And he married his wife.
Guess who presided over the ceremony?
Attorney General Merrick Garland married him.
So how this guy doesn't recuse himself.
Now, obviously, he didn't recuse himself because he wanted to rule on this trial and he wanted to take care of things in this trial.
And he did.
For instance, they had a ton of emails between Sussman and the Clinton campaign, 38 emails between this guy Sussman and the Clinton campaign.
And the judge ruled most of them inadmissible.
Inadmissible.
He said, you know, they're attorney client privilege, attorney work product privilege.
But in any case in the history of the world, whenever the work you're doing or whatever you're doing in the email is the crime, then there's no more attorney-client privilege.
That's usually the end of it.
So it's a pretty bizarre ruling.
Anyway, we'll get back to the Sussman trial and how I hope it's not a total defeat for Durham.
I hope he's got something else up his sleeve.
Hey, by the way, you know, the Sussman thing is the beginning of the Russian hoax, which was a total hoax, the Russian collusion.
Donald Trump has published a letter now to the Pulitzer Prize Board because they gave a Pulitzer Prize to the Washington Post, to the New York Times, for uncovering the Russia collusion scandal.
Well, it turns out it was a total hoax and fake.
Trump's letter to the Pulitzer Prize board demands that they rescind the award, demands they take back the Pulitzer Prize.
The story turns out to be fake.
The story turns out to be completely made up.
If somebody had really investigated, Robert Mueller, you're listening.
If anybody had really investigated, they would have uncovered that it was made up from the beginning.
So not only is the story false, but the reporters are obviously incompetent.
Otherwise, they would have uncovered that themselves.
He's demanding they rescind the award.
And if they don't, Trump says, see you in court.
He's threatening to sue them.
And Trump, when he threatens to sue, always follows up with a lawsuit.
And I don't know, there's an acting president now of the Pulitzer Prize Board.
And I don't know if they want to go into court because they have a history of giving out totally biased awards.
It's the most biased thing in the world.
Trump could start laying that out in court.
That's not going to be good for them.
And I don't think they want to be deposed under oath for like 10 hours a day for a week.
So who knows what they'll do?
Maybe they'll do something.
Anyway, we've got lots to get to.
We'll get to you ever watch The View in the last year or two?
They're completely insane.
Completely nuts.
Here is one of them now defending the attack on the Mona Lisa, why it was justified.
We'll get to that coming up.
Hey, we'll get to Joe Biden wrote an op-ed.
Joe Biden wrote an opinion column.
He didn't even read it.
But we'll get to what he said.
It's absolutely ridiculous.
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It just got on there.
I don't know.
Try.
See if you can follow me on Truth Social.
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Hey, welcome back.
It's Mark Simone here for Sean Hannity.
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So are you guys on Truth Social?
I mentioned you are, right?
I like it.
Just a little, I have noticed some tweets disappear.
You don't call them tweets on Truth Social.
How many people you think are on Truth Social altogether?
There's one way you can always tell.
No, people don't think there's no way to tell.
Just go to Donald Trump's account.
I would assume anybody signing up for Truth Social is going to sign.
That's the first person they're going to follow is Donald Trump.
So he has 3.1 million followers.
So that's the number on there.
I know they'll say Twitter has 300 million, but Elon Musk, when he was going to buy it and started doing his due diligence, started to say, you know what, maybe it's like 30 million people that are really on it.
A lot of these accounts aren't real.
And maybe it's just a couple million that really use it every day.
I don't know if that Neil's going to go through Musk now trying to get the price lower.
And I don't blame him.
Do you know what Black Sit is?
At the White House, a lot of black staffers are quitting in frustration.
At least 21 African Americans have just quit the White House.
And one of them said it's Black Sit, you know, like Brexit, Britain leaving.
So it's apparently a problem over there because, you know, there's nobody that cares less about African Americans than Joe Biden.
I know he mentions it every two seconds, but that's all.
You mention it, you make a speech back to sleep.
That's it.
He's not going to do anything for anybody.
There's crime all over the streets of our cities.
People are getting wiped out.
You never hear him say a word.
We got district attorneys.
We've got one here in New York.
He's got 26 others letting everybody out of jail.
This poor guy was shot in the subway here.
Turns out the guy that shot him released 19 times, 19 previous things.
Have you heard Biden say anything about it?
Nope.
It's just so, but he's always trying to win the African American vote.
It's important to Democrats.
And it was a big part of his campaign.
22% of Biden's voters were African Americans.
That's important.
So he's got to appeal to them in every way.
So that's why he hired a lot of African-American staffers.
But 21 of them have quit privately saying, it's pretty obvious we were just hired for decoration.
Nobody comes to us for anything.
We're not being promoted into anything.
We're not being given the opportunities for promotion.
And they've quit in frustration, 21 of them and more to come.
Now, this is a big problem as a word of this starts to get out for Biden.
You know, the other problem he's having, younger voters are important, crucial to a Democratic victory.
And the latest polling shows he's losing younger voters, especially people in 20s and 30s.
That's plunging.
They're losing them like crazy.
That's why he keeps talking about paying off student loans.
They were trying to find an issue that would affect them.
And they found out that most of them have student loans.
And that's why he's offering to pay them.
It's impossible.
The cost would be staggering.
So now he's talking about, well, pay $10,000 of your student loan.
He'll pay $10,000 of your student loan.
That's like a millions and millions and millions.
Now, what he doesn't mention is he's not paying it.
You're paying it.
I'm paying it.
They're going to take it out of your tax bill.
So if you decided to just go into the workforce, maybe you didn't go to college and you're working very hard, you're going to pay for these student loans.
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Hey, we'll talk to Larry Kudlow in just a moment, the great economist.
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Truth Social.
Ethan, you decide.
Should I keep mentioning Truth Social?
A lot of people love it.
So I would keep mentioning it.
I know a lot of people are switching over from Twitter to that.
And we'll see what happens.
I mean, I hope it succeeds.
Yeah.
It's about truth, if I may, just for a moment.
Oh, there's Linda.
Oh, hello.
Yes.
You know, the good thing about Truth Social is they're bona fide experts in truth.
And when you have these little, you know, moments of brilliance on their platform, they call them truths as opposed to tweets.
So, you know, it's not like a little hummingbird in your ear.
It's like a moment of brilliance, you know?
Okay.
You got to say quick and short, and you get it out there.
Explain a couple of things.
If I tweet, I'll say, oh, I just tweeted something.
On Truth Social, what do I say?
I just, what?
I just gave you some truth.
Oh, okay.
I just truthed.
I just truthed you.
All right.
No, it'll be.
It's a drop in knowledge, you know, things like that.
It'll be big.
It's way ahead of where Twitter was at this point in its development.
Do you remember Facebook in the beginning?
It was the most primitive, awful thing in the world.
It was awful.
It was terrible.
It was all terrible.
It's CNN banned from Truth Social.
I mean, because all they are is fake news.
Can they even sign up for truth?
Yeah, I don't think there's a lot of people over there in the CNN building desperately trying to sign up on it.
It may not be their thing.
They'll start their own disinformation site over there.
So we're going to talk to Larry Kudlow.
We are going to talk to him.
He's going to be here momentarily.
Oh, okay.
There was a little hiccup, but we're good to go.
He's going to be here any second.
So I'm just letting you know that.
Linda is in London with Sean and Annity.
He'll be broadcasting tomorrow live from London.
Will you be attending all the Queen's Jubilee events?
You know, she actually asked for me to be there personally.
She said, you know, I heard about you and your conversations with Sean, and I thought they're somebody I wanted the Jubilee.
You know, you're going to add a lot of vibrance and color to the event.
So come along.
And I was like, you know what?
For you, Queen, anything.
Of course.
Well, there you are.
I've actually met the Queen.
No, you haven't.
Yeah, I have.
When?
First time was about 1999.
I mean, it's not the most exciting thing in the world.
I think I dosed off twice.
They make you watch a video first on what you're supposed to do.
Are you serious?
Yeah.
When you're supposed to say hello, how you address her, when you bow, when you don't.
Yeah, it's like a 10-minute video.
Well, I will tell you, I know very, very little about the royal family.
And the one brief moment where I wanted to learn more was when Will and Kay got married and I was ceremoniously ridiculed in the studio by everyone who thought it was absurd that I wanted to talk about it, including Sean Hannity.
So I look forward to making fun of him tomorrow that we're here and talking about the queen.
I'm just teasing, of course.
Maybe not.
Maybe I will make fun of him.
I'm not sure.
But I think it's pretty funny that we are here.
Yeah, no, it's going to be great.
And I did talk to Prince Philip once.
It was like having a conversation with a mummy.
It was the worst thing ever.
Well, it's just like Joe Biden then.
Just keeping good company.
I mean, I mean, mumbling Joe over there, mumbling, stumbling Joe.
Joe Biden's different.
And I remember him even when he was younger.
And it was more fun to talk to him because you could see he was a really bad guy when you're up close.
You could see this guy lie to you, con you.
He just has that, there's a certain weirdness about him that makes him interesting.
Well, I don't know if I would say it makes him interesting as so much, you know, frightening.
I think that would be the word that I would use.
You know, Joe Biden is, to me, at any given moment, it's just the most bizarre things come out of his mouth, how close he talks to people, the way he touches people and grabs their shoulders and their hair and the way he is around children.
I mean, the whole thing I find incredibly repulsive.
And I just, I don't even have words for how disgusting I find.
Well, but that's what I'm saying.
It's so weird.
It's interesting.
You know, he's making a speech and he's talking and then he whispers like this.
It's just bizarre.
It's like suddenly it's an obscene phone call whispering.
And then you watch him.
You don't know, is he going to fall over?
Does he have any idea what he's saying?
Is he going to find out?
I think he falls a lot.
I mean, if climbing up the stairs to the plane is any indicator.
I mean, God knows.
I mean, how long has it been now since he's done an interview?
How long has it been since he's on a one-on-one?
And even then he's reading a teleprompter.
Well, people have fallen down before.
Remember Gerald Ford would fall down the stairs.
Joe Biden's the only guy I ever saw fall up the stairs.
Yeah, he falls up.
Going up here.
I mean, that's how he got the presidency, right?
He just keeps falling upwards.
You know, 47 years of screwing up and he was elected into the local office.
It's actually just insane.
Linda does an incredible job running the show, producing the show.
She books the greatest guest.
She got us Larry Kudlow.
I did.
And you know what?
And you know what?
And I am being told that there was some confusion and he is not going to make it.
So I'm going to step in here and I'm going to let you know the economy is terrible.
All right.
We're going to ask everybody reassurance about their 401k.
Your 401k is tanking.
Your IRAs are plummeting.
Your mortgage rates are skyrocketing.
Gas prices are out of control.
And nobody has a clue what's going on because they wouldn't know the difference between a bear and a bull market if it hit them in the face.
I actually do Kudlow show a lot.
I'll tell you what he would say because I've heard him say it.
And Steve Moore, the great economist, and Art Laffer, the great, well, I would tell you the same thing.
Well, just before you get ahead of yourself here, Steve Moore is actually going to call in now.
Oh.
So you're welcome, Mark Simone.
Oh, okay.
That's what I'm here for.
He'll tell you working on the fly.
Don't go, don't panic.
Things are plunging.
Stocks are way down, 401k is down.
Don't sell when you're down.
The secret is don't sell low.
Wait, be patient.
Steve Moore.
Let's see when Steve Moore shows up.
You sure he's showing up?
This is not like a Larry Kudlow thing.
I mean, I'm not sure.
It might be a Larry Kudlow thing.
I mean, I'm full of surprises today.
This is what we do when we're across the pond.
We mix it up, we make it different.
We say guests are going to be there and they're not there.
Everything's up for chance.
Well, we'll find Larry another day.
We will.
Yeah.
And now, what do you exactly do tomorrow from London?
People are going to be listening.
It'll be live from London.
Yeah, we're going to be live from London.
Sean will be here in the studio.
We came in today to get all the equipment in the entire studio all set up so we are good to go.
And we're really looking forward to doing radio and TV.
And the wonderful and illustrious Steve Moore is on hold and ready to talk to us about all things economy.
All right.
We'll check in with Linda later.
Thank you for coming to us from overseas, thousands of miles away.
Steve Moore wrote the great book, GovZilla.
It's a brand new book.
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Steve Moore, how are you doing?
Hi, Mark.
Well, it's good to be with you.
Well, I just finished reading the president's piece, Joe Biden's piece in the Wall Street Journal.
By the way, what do you think the odds are, Mark, that Joe Biden actually wrote that piece?
What do you think the odds are that Joe Biden has ever read the piece?
Exactly.
So it reads like a kind of progressive manifesto of doubling down on all of his policies that have created this inflation crisis in the first place.
And it's more price controls, more government spending, more taxes.
They can't get off this message.
And, you know, they don't quite understand that the trillions and trillions of dollars that Biden spent.
And incidentally, just as a side point, he talks in this piece about how fiscally responsible he is.
You'd think he was like the most fiscally responsible person in history.
He came in and he spent $3 trillion we didn't have last year.
So it's disturbing, actually, that they actually believe that more and more of these policies are going to solve the crisis when what we need to do is stop the spending and start producing more American energy and gas so that we can, you know, I paid six bucks a gallon, Mark, this weekend.
Six bucks.
Six bucks.
The Democrats, do they have any idea how cruel and brutal this tax is on the average family?
It can be $300,040 a month in extra costs.
It can.
No, because they live in the bubble.
They live in the swamp where everything's different.
And so they're inoculated from these price increases.
And, you know, I have to say, Mark, because you and I talked a lot on your other shows, you know, when I say on your shows, you know, we have 8% inflation.
I get angry letters and emails from people saying, Steve, why do you keep saying that inflation is only 8%?
You know, my gas-bolen prices are up 58%.
My rental payments are up 42%.
My electric power bill is up 37%.
The mortgage is up.
Everybody feels like the real inflation is 15% to 20%.
So people are really feeling a financial strain from all these policies.
But it really is 15% because haven't they a couple of times changed the way they measure it so it comes out a little lower?
Well, they do.
I mean, look, what they do is they take into account things like computer prices and things.
And those have come down.
You know, there's no question technology costs have come down.
But when you look at the essentials, and this is what I love.
Don't you love this, Mark?
You've been in this business a long time, how they talk about core inflation.
And core inflation is, well, we take out energy and food costs.
Well, duh, that's what we spend most of our money on, energy and food.
I never really understood the logic of that.
But no, I think most families are paying a lot more than 8% inflation right now because of the essentials they have to buy, which is food, medicine, housing, and energy.
And incidentally, I got to tell you, Mark, I was in Colorado this past weekend speaking at an event of the Colorado Auto Dealers.
And I was talking to these men and women who run these auto dealerships.
And they said, you know, one guy told me, he said, normally I have 1,200 cars on the, you know, and he said, Steve, do you know how many I have right now?
I said, no.
He said, I have 50.
Even if you want to buy a new car, you can't get one.
And if you want to get one right away, instead of normally how you haggle the price down, you have to pay, they say, $10,000 or $15,000 premium above the sticker price to get a car.
Wow.
Hey, we don't have much time left.
I just want to ask you, he says he's going to meet with the Fed today.
What can a president do with the Fed?
He can't tell them what to do.
There's a separation here, isn't there?
Well, look, I think the Fed and the Biden administration have been kind of have a marriage.
And so basically, what's happened, so people understand this inflation crisis, because by the way, we didn't have an inflation crisis under Trump.
The inflation rate was less than 2% in his four years in office.
He left office.
We had a 1.5% inflation rate.
In 14 months, Biden takes up to 8.5%.
Do you think that happened by accident?
But anyway, so Biden comes in with all this massive trillions of dollars of spending.
And what the Fed did is, because we don't have $3 trillion of the revenues to cover that.
So they just printed money.
So I think they're partners in crime on this.
And the pots on both their houses.
We got to get the Fed to suck some of this money out of the economy because it's causing inflation.
And we've got to cut government spending.
That's the word for the day.
Cut government spending.
Of course, Biden doesn't want to do that.
He wants more spending.
Yeah.
Hey, for everybody worried about their 401k or their stock portfolios way down, what should they do?
Would you just say, don't panic now?
You know, I mean, markets down a lot.
This has been a really ferocious bear market.
I don't like the idea of selling low.
I mean, you taught me this, Mark, right?
You know, buy low and sell high.
And so a lot of people, they tend to make the mistake of buying, you know, in a bidow market.
And I mean, selling in a Dow market.
And I just don't like it.
If you're in, look, let me put it like this, Mark.
If you've got a 401k plan, so you're investing for five or 10 or 15 or 20 years.
No, don't sell your stock now.
Don't sell it.
All right.
Well, great talking to you.
Thanks for jumping in at the last second there.
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Sean will be back tomorrow.
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Mike, how are you doing?
Hi, Mark.
How are you?
Good.
Where are you in New Hampshire?
I'm where?
On the seacoast.
Oh, like Portsmouth, one of those towns?
Exactly.
Oh, okay.
And what did you want to say, Mike?
I just had a question that's been eating away at me.
Yeah.
Of all the trillions of dollars being spent with no oversight, how much of it's being squirreled away for a slush fund?
You mean for Obama and people like that?
Obama, Biden, the DNC.
All right, well, let me just clear this up.
Thanks for calling, Mike.
That's quite an accusation.
What it doesn't go into a slush fund for them.
What they do is they hand it out to people who can help them.
You know, Obama has gotten to be close to a billionaire now.
He's very close to a billionaire.
A lot of big people have cut him in on a lot of big deals.
Now, what they do with that trillion-dollar spending package is those guys' companies get contracts and get pieces of that in exchange for helping Obama.
We'll get to this later in the show.
For instance, if you go to Biden's brother, you know about Hunter, but if you give James Biden some work, he'll get you on that list of that stimulus spending.
And that's how it really works.
But we'll go into that a little more.
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