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Aug. 19, 2022 - Sean Hannity Show
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Holding Back Trump - August 18th, Hour 1
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America trapped behind enemy lines.
Day number 369.
All right, day 369.
It actually was one year ago today, August 18, 2021, three days after the Taliban seized the Capitol of Kabul and forced the U.S. Embassy to evacuate.
Um Biden telling George Stephanopoulos the U.S. military would stay in Afghanistan until all Americans and Afghan allies were evacuated.
Are you concerned about the making sure that the troops stay until every American who wants to be out is out?
Yes.
So Americans should understand the troops might have to be there beyond August 31st.
No, Americans should understand that we're going to try to get it done before August 31st.
But if we don't, the troops will determine at the time who's left.
And if you're American force, if there's American citizens left, we're going to stay till we get them all out.
Oh.
Are you committed to making sure that the troops stay until every American who wants to be out is out?
Yes, Biden responds.
The commitment holds to get everyone out.
In fact, we can get everyone out that should come out.
Yeah.
Well, guess what happens?
A congressional investigation has come out about this, and it turns out, according to the this investigation by House and Repu Republicans, uh, more than a thousand Americans were abandoned by Joe in Afghanistan.
And we know because since that time, uh, you know, Joe Biden's hand-picked ambassador to Afghanistan decided to take a two-month vacation just as Taliban forces began to conquer the country.
Anyway, in a two-page summary, uh, Congressman Michael McCall's 115-page report, Republicans on the panel noted the White House repeatedly said about a hundred Americans were left behind after the last U.S. troops departed Kabul on August 31, 2021.
However, they added the State Department has evacuated more than 800 U.S. citizens since that date.
In addition, outside veterans groups have evacuated several more hundred, meaning well over a thousand Americans abandoned in the country.
And even Winkin Blinken admits today that there are hundreds of Americans there, and we're not even talking about the thousands with green cards.
They just lie through their teeth.
That's what they're good at.
That's what they do.
Um gotta give a tip of the hat uh to Governor Ron DeSantis today.
Uh they just found, in fact, voter fraud that went on inside of uh what the state of Florida.
We'll get to that in a minute.
We'll tell you more about that.
And anyway, so but I want to first start with the news of the day.
There was this hearing today, this Florida magistrate, the one that was not approved by the Senate, but just the magistrate that was used by Merrick Garland, who authorized going to this particular judge who on social media trashing is there trashing Donald Trump, who even recused himself from a case previously involving Donald Trump and a guy that donated to Barack Obama anyway.
He has ordered now the Department of Justice to redact portions of the Mar-a-Lago raid affidavit that it believes would compromise their investigation and release the unredacted version.
Now, this seems like it would give, You know, the lie to Biden's DOJ's claim that releasing any information from the affidavit would compromise their investigation.
Because if you go back, I mean, they will they were fighting tooth and nail about not releasing anything.
They filed the motion on Monday and said if disclosed, the affidavit will serve as a roadmap to the government's ongoing investigation, providing specific details about its direction and likely course in a manner that is highly likely to compromise future investigative steps according to the DOJ.
They don't want the affidavit released.
The affidavit is what did they present to this biased judge that he signed off on to allow the raid of a four former president's residence?
And the fact that this investigation implicates highly classified materials further underscore this the need to protect the integrity of the investigation, exacerbating the potential for harm if information is disclosed to the public prematurely or improperly.
The DOJ filing goes on to say the investigation pertains to national security and releasing the affidavit could interfere with their efforts to secure cooperation of interviewed witnesses.
So this is getting fairly interesting.
So now, ruling from the bench, the judge that donates to Obama hates Trump and had previously recused himself in a Trump case.
He actually said there are portions of the affidavit that could presumptively be unsealed.
Whether those portions would be mean meaningful for the public or the media, he added was not for him to decide.
So his decision struck a middle ground, if you will, between the Justice Department, which wanted to keep the entire affidavit under wraps, and their investigation into President Trump's handling of classified documents to continue, and news organizations that requested it be released.
So he's between a rock and a hard place.
So what he really came up with is a way that, okay, you guys take out what you want to take out and then release the rest of the American people.
That's not how it should be done.
Because you know the Department of Justice is going to think almost everything in the affidavit is worth worthy of redaction, so they're not going to give us anything out of this.
The judge, he should be the one.
He's the one that signed this order.
He should be the one that does the redacting.
Now you can do it in consultation with both sides, but that's what should happen.
Anyway, 800 941 Sean, other Trump news, the witch hunts never stop.
So you have this Trump uh chief financial officer admitting to quote 15 felonies.
It's related to 1.7 million dollars in perks that he didn't file on his taxes.
All right, process crime.
By the way, I tell everybody pay your taxes.
They're after you.
Now they're gonna have 87,000 more agents, so you're all gonna get the Hannity treatment.
Get ready.
It's not fun.
Make sure you dot every I across every T. In my case, I hired not one but two accounting firms and a law firm to go over it independently, and then, you know, give me the okay and the sign off to say, okay.
And then I'll get at least five calls in the course of the process.
Well, you you can definitely, you know, this is legal.
You so it's a definite deduction, and uh, but they may question it.
And I usually say pay it.
Because if I don't pay them, I'm gonna be paying the lawyers and wasting my time.
Anyway, so he'll get five months in jail uh at Rikers, it looks like, and five years probation.
Uh they're trying to say that he flipped, and yet there is absolutely nothing that indicates in any way, shape, manner, or form.
As a matter of fact, just the opposite, he's not going to be testifying against Donald Trump the way they wanted him to.
And that's what they were saying.
It has to do with, I guess, company cars, a company apartment, and monies that were given to the guy so his grandkids could go to school.
And in New York, if you send your kid to school, it basically means you have to be a wealthy millionaire.
It's ridiculous.
The prices and the competition to get into private schools in New York, I've never seen anything like it.
I mean, you're you're literally preparing your three four-year-olds for interviews uh to get into nursery school.
That's how sick it gets in New York.
It's insane.
Um, but I'm sure that they will try to make a bigger deal of this than it is and try to bring in the family, but it's not it doesn't really matter.
Um, by the way, President Trump sharing a social media uh his declassification memorandum about quote materials related to FBI's crossfire hurricane investigation.
So apparently he put that out today.
Now that's interesting, because that probably, you know, there has been a couple of theories out there that maybe the FBI wanted to get some of those materials and say that they weren't declassified.
This is going to get interesting.
It's not going to go down exactly the way the DOJ thinks it's going to go down.
They did not expect all the negative pushback that they got on this rate of a former president.
I'm telling you, they didn't expect it.
And it took them days to get their footing, and that's when they leaked to the Washington Post.
It might have to do with nuclear something, something nuclear, to scare everybody to s to create some form of justification for a raid of a former president's home, which had never happened before.
So they're beginning now also to leak more and more so that they can get a better track, get better traction on public opinion regarding this.
And according to the Biden DOJ, the American people can't be told under any circumstances about any evidence that their claiming justified the raid of the president's home at Mar-a-Lago.
We're not even allowed to know what crime the president's being accused of.
Just this broad sweeping espionage act from 1917 with specific, and we've gone over all the specific uh clauses that they cited in their warrant.
Now, meanwhile, the FBI investigators, along with their super secret bosses of the DOJ, you know, oh, uh, they they said Merrick Garland said that they I'll do our talking in our filings in a court of law.
Well, it seems like they're leaking like a sieve.
We now have had that Trump was hiding nuclear secrets leak.
That went to the Washington Post.
That was also leaked to uh Newsweek.
Officials have direct knowledge of the FBI's deliberations were granted anonymity in order to discuss sensitive matters.
This is exactly what they did during the whole Trump Russia collusion lie.
We've had the, you know, Trump is lying about his passports being stolen, Nora O'Donnell, fake news CBS.
That turned out to be completely wrong, and they had to return the president's uh passports.
Then we had, you know, Merrick Garland didn't approve the raid claim again to Newsweek leaked by a senior Justice Department source.
Nobody ever gives their name.
You know what that means?
That's them leaking so that they get they they're running a PR campaign to justify what they did.
So secret sources, anonymous sources, unnamed sources, it's all a game that they're playing.
NBC News say more than a week after they searched the president's Florida residents, FBI agents are still sifting through the C's documents to law enforcement officials briefed on the matter, told MBC News, I thought Merrick Garland was going to do all his talking in court.
The FBI's filter team, a group of agents independent of the overall investigation is tasked with separating out documents that are covered by attorney client privilege and material deemed not relevant to the probe.
Records deemed relevant or turned into investigating turned over to investigating agents, while those that are not relevant will be returned to President Trump.
The officials who spoke to MBC News said it was the filter team that determined that Trump's passports, which he claimed the agents stole during the search, were considered not relevant and returned them to him.
I mean, what is their justification?
Because if they're gonna make one up at the end of the day.
And in August 17th, that's yesterday, letter to the FBI director, Christopher Ray, Senator Charles Grassley demanded an accounting for the alleged political bias influencing all these high-level investigations, particularly out of the FBI's Washington, D.C. office.
Starting in May 31st of 2022, I have written three letters to you regarding political bias that has infected the FBI's Washington field office.
He said two of those letters provided specific credible allegations based on numerous whistleblowers that have approached my office with information that one can only conclude is indicative of a deeply rooted political infection that has spread to investigative activity into former President Trump and Hunter Biden.
Then Grassley goes on to claim that the FBI approved investigative activity into the Trump campaign with questionable predication while choosing to shut down investigative activity and sources, which included verified and verifiable information related to Hunter Biden.
And by the way, that would include the big guy, Joe Biden.
In a July 18th letter to Ray, the attorney and Attorney General Merrick Garland, Grassley said FBI whistleblowers allege a pattern of political bias from high-ranking officials, including the assistant special agents in charge, and he names the person.
According to Grassley, the whistleblowers say the DOJ and FBI employees must follow strict, substantial, factual predication guidelines in order to open an investigation, and that in fact they did not follow these guidelines.
Grassley said the whistleblower had indicated that this guy, along with others who serve in the election crimes branch of the DOJ public integrity section, were at the center of an ongoing investigation into Trump's campaign, and Grassley wrote that he has previously investigated them for misconduct.
And Grassley is seeking a comprehensive organizational breakdown of the Washington field office to see how it is staffed who's responsible for the units.
That's the real interesting question.
Because we already know the FBI's been weaponized and politicized by the upper echelon.
You know, using Hillary's dirty dossier, lying to Pfizer courts, the stuff that everyone got away with.
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Uh, a majority of voters agree Joe Biden is using the FBI quote as his personal gestapo.
Not my words.
I'm reading from the Washington Examiner.
This is uh a poll from Rasmussen.
A lot of polls I don't trust.
Rasmussen does a pretty good job.
Anyway, the FBI rate on Mar-a-Lago is now has now increased the percentage who believe that President Joe Biden is using the G Men, FBI agents, as his personal Gestapo.
That's the latest Rasmussen report survey.
53% of likely voters agreed, quote, there is a group of politicized thugs at the top of the FBI that are using the FBI as Joe's personal gestapo.
Well, now I do want to make a point here.
There are so many good people in law enforcement.
Don't become like the left.
If there's one bad apple cop, you don't, you know, defund and dismantle police departments.
We know how that ends badly.
It's the same with the FBI.
Find the bad apples, those that abuse power, and maybe this time hold them accountable because they didn't do it with the Russia collusion conspiracy theory hoax.
Holding them accountable.
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So I've I just mentioned the Rasmussen poll uh after the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago.
It has increased the percentage of people, according to Rasmussen that believe Joe Biden is using the G Man as his quote personal Gestapo.
Look, I wouldn't, I personally wouldn't use that term.
However, and there's a lot of nuance to this, and you've you've got to pay attention.
You know, one of the things that I I cannot stand about the left is they use their broad sweeping generalizations.
Every election year, Republicans, racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic, now transphobic, dirt, dirty air water, blah, blah, blah.
Okay.
So, or you know, all the attacks, we got to defund the police because we had one bad cop in the case of George Floyd, and and look at what the ramifications have been.
Defund, dismantle, no bail laws, and you have more you have rising murder rates in all these blue states, all these deep blue cities run by liberal Democrats for decades.
Now, we have more than any other show chronicled abuse of the upper echelon of the FBI as it relates to Hillary Clinton, her email server, 33,000 emails.
They even admit she committed crimes, but they did nothing.
They didn't raid her house.
Then she pays for a dirty dossier.
The FBI's warned not to use it.
It's political and it's not verified, but they lie before a FISA judge so they can backdoor spy on the Trump campaign and later the Trump presidency.
The problem is nobody ultimately gets held responsible.
And it's sort of like the conversation with Peter Struck and Lisa Page, he's not going to win, is he?
Well, we'll stop that.
It's not the role of a of a high-ranking FBI official to stop the American people from voting for the candidate of their choice, and then say we've got that's why we like your plan that you laid out in Andy's office, but you know, it's like you need an insurance policy in the rare case that you might die at the age of 40.
An insurance policy.
So the FBI decides this guy, we don't like him, we don't, we're not gonna let him be president.
These top people at the FBI, and the problem is that we haven't held them accountable.
And this is what the American people see.
Now we know that the FBI has had Hunter Biden's laptop, and we know the contents of that laptop, a lot of the contents, and we know that there's evidence, prima facie evidence of multiple crimes committed on that laptop.
We also know that laptop implicates the president of the United States, Joe Biden himself.
And people see, oh, so they'll raid Mar-a-Lago and Hunter Biden, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, every top Democrat, every FBI that agent that lied to Pfizer courts uh and didn't take the admonition of even people within their own ranks not to use the information, then they got a free they they escape by.
If any of you lie to a Pfizer court, I promise you, if you lie to a judge, you're going to jail.
That's what happens.
But not if you're a Democrat.
So Americans with a sense of fairness.
Now, with all this new information about Senator Grassley and the letters to Christopher Ray and the letters to Merrick Garland demanding accountability for political bias influencing high-level investigations, especially out of the FBI's Washington, D.C. office.
You know, why would we expect somehow we think that the FBI was not held accountable after they got away with everything with Operation uh Crossfire Hurricane that that they changed?
They didn't change.
You know, it's and now all these leaks from the White House.
President Trump sharing on social media on his platform the declassification memorandum of materials related to the FBI's crossfire hurricane investigation.
You know, did they fear that maybe Donald Trump had those documents at Mar-a-Lago?
Could that have been an ulterior motive to get in there and get them?
You know, it is um ABC's now reporting that weeks after the raid that you have people vowing to publish damaging documents about the FBI's Russia-Gate investigation stored at the National Archives.
I don't know whether they have them.
I don't know whether, in fact, they've been given access to it.
I have no idea.
But it would be interesting.
You know, this whole battle of a president has pretty broad powers in terms of declassification.
And there's no, I'm not getting any straight answer in terms of the actual process that needs to be used.
It seems like the president has the authority to declassify anything that he wants.
Anyway, the DOJ claims they can't reveal details from the Mar-a-Lago affidavit because it would compromise the investigations whistleblowers.
Meanwhile, we know plenty about the claims from 14 Grassley and Ron Johnson FBI whistleblowers.
So you got Joe Biden's media protection squad, just like they had the candidate protection program, claiming that the Florida magistrate had no way of complying with demands to unseal the affidavit without exposing the whistleblowers involved and compromising the investigation.
I'm sure that's going to be redacted.
Why is he given the full power and authority of redaction to the DOJ?
Why doesn't the why don't Trump attorneys get a say in that as well?
And why don't they argue it behind closed doors in front of the Obama donating Trump hating judge that issued the warrant in the first place?
Anyway, the excuse they say is it prevents the FBI from releasing even a redacted version of the affidavit, which would explain what crimes they claim Donald Trump committed that warranted FBI rage agents to raid his home.
And of course, you know, you got the other double standard.
General Flynn.
Yeah, uh, why did uh why did they go in in the early days of the Trump White House when there's nothing but chaos going on?
I sent them comy bragged to take advantage of the chaos.
And they went there under false pretenses.
And then you have the raid at Roger Stone's house, and then you have the raid of Paul Manafort's house.
Paul Manafort's book, I'm telling you, it's great.
It just came out Tuesday.
We had him on the program.
It's called Political Prisoner.
You know, persecuted, prosecuted, but still speaking out.
That's him.
Uh, but never silenced.
Anyway, so we're gonna watch very closely what happens with all of this.
Um, the FBI unit leading the Mar-a-Lago probe earlier ran discredited Trump Russia investigation, according to another report out today, real clear investigations at the FBI division overseeing the investigation of Trump's handling of classified material at Mar-a-Lago is also the focus of John Durham's investigations of the Bureau's alleged abuses of power and corruption and political bias during the Russia Gay probe.
The FBI's nine-hour 30-agent raid of the former president's estate as part of counterintelligence, a case run out of Washington, not out of Miami, interestingly enough.
We have an FBI bureau uh in Miami.
Why didn't they do it there?
Why didn't they run it out of that office?
The Miami field office.
Anyway, according to an FBI documents and sources with knowledge of the matter, the Bureau's counterintelligence division led the 2016-2017 Russia collusion investigation.
I mean, oh, so we got the same bad actors, maybe those that we haven't even heard of working on this case yet again, another attempt to take down Donald Trump.
You know what this is all about?
I think Trump is right in this observation.
Donald Trump sat down with all these people and said, what?
All right, we're gonna look into the legality of this uh Judge Reinhardt and his ruling.
We'll check in with Greg Jarrett and uh David Schoenel join us later on, Dr. Oz.
Uh it's amazing.
We got another Biden uh baseman bunker candidate, and his name is John Fetterman, who won't answer a single question, who's only been seen twice since he had his stroke and is to the left of Bernie Sanders, And the media in Pennsylvania is giving this guy a pass.
And that's got to stop.
And if they won't do their job, we'll do it for them, like we always often have to do.
These races are too important in Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, New Hampshire.
We got to pay attention to Ohio, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Arizona, Nevada.
These Senate races matter.
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