Sean reminds the world that oil is the lifeblood of the world's economy and it seems logical to see President Biden's visit to the Middle East as collusion to support Democrats ahead of the mid-term. Could you imagine if this was President Trump?!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
I cannot convey in words on this radio program the urgency that I wish I could convey.
It's only a radio show because there's a lot of feeling and a lot of emotion behind what I'm trying to convey to all of you.
This is a really, really, really important election.
Now, some of you have listened a long time.
Hannity, you've said that before.
This is the most important election, tipping point election.
Okay.
You're right.
Guilty is charged.
But this is different.
Can you imagine if we don't stop the madness that is the climate alarmist cultist new Green Deal socialist movement?
Can you imagine even a worst case scenario where the Democrats get control of the House and Senate and they get a bigger majority in the Senate and they end the legislative filibuster?
And that means that, yeah, the legislative filibuster will be over.
They'll pack the courts.
They'll move forward with D.C. statehood and Puerto Rico statehood because they think that'll ensure four Democratic candidates.
Although I'm not so sure about Puerto Rico, I have different thoughts on that.
But you know what the point is.
They will make any power move that they think will entrench them in power in perpetuity.
And then it's the agenda.
We know what the agenda is.
Now, you can say it anyway, and you can give it any name, any manifestation.
Socialism's history of failure, chapter four, live free or die, America and the world on the brink.
Well, we're at the on the brink point now.
I wish I was wrong.
I hadn't written a book in 20 years, and I just felt compelled.
I had to write it because I knew how bad it would get.
I didn't think it'd get this bad this fast.
That was my only mistake.
Everything else I was right on.
But I'm not patting myself on the back.
I just see it.
I know it.
You can feel it.
You can sense it.
You can touch it.
And this will be the implementation.
Now, you can look out in L.A., they have this new, what are they calling it?
$1,000 a month guaranteed income program that they're now basic.
They're offering universal basic income with $1,000 monthly payments for three years for about 300 people ages 18 to 24.
Who's paying for that?
So we're going to empower our government to confiscate through taxation one group of people's money so we can just give it to another group of people's money.
You know, look at what they try to do.
What do you think the student loan program at this time was all about?
Biden knows it's unconstitutional.
Biden, the guy that declared that the pandemic is over used the pandemic emergency mechanism to just do this unilaterally and bypass the co-equal branch of government known as the legislative branch.
This is not going to hold up, but it's an election year scheme.
It's an election year.
Oh, I'm going to be the guy.
Young people, hi, I'm forgiving you loans.
This loan forgiveness is not going to survive in the courts.
It's going to be defeated.
I'm just telling you, eventually it's going to be defeated.
If it's not defeated, we got bigger problems than we even thought of.
You know, why do you think Joe Biden, now that we have discovered the depravity of Biden, not only has he repeatedly been rejected by OPEC, OPEC Plus, as they call it now, OPEC Plus is Saudi Arabia, OPEC nations, the plus is Russia, because they're all aligned in their price-fixing scam, taking full advantage of America's stupidity.
And America's stupidity is rooted in climate alarmism.
And the climate alarmism, just so you understand, is that they want the price of energy to be higher.
So we are forced to transition into what they dream is some type of energy independence with renewable energies.
They've been saying it to us.
Well, you're going to have to suffer in the meantime, but you might want to get that electric vehicle.
And yeah, I know gas prices are high.
So first, Joe Biden, very cleverly, in some sense, he says, all right, gas prices are way too high.
I got to lower them before the election.
So Donald Trump had about 700 million barrels of oil in the strategic petroleum reserves.
It's now down in half, about a 50-year low.
Now, why is that a dangerous thing?
Because they're there for an emergency.
You got a guy that's waving his nuclear weapons around and threatening to nuke Europe every single day.
His name is Vladimir Putin.
And you better take it seriously because, yes, it can happen.
This is the guy with indiscriminate bombings that's going on as we speak.
He is targeting civilians.
He is targeting apartment buildings.
He is targeting high concentrations of innocent civilians.
And he's killing them.
Now, does it really matter if he kills them with one kind of bomb or a tactical nuclear bomb?
Does it matter to a killer?
I don't think so.
And he's got his back against the wall, and he's an egomaniac.
And if history has taught us any one thing, it's better believe that these characters do emerge all throughout history.
And if you look at the last century alone, we lost 100 million people because of some ism, communism, you know, Mao, China, fascism, Nazism, Imperial Japan.
Yeah, evil exists in this world.
And I'm saying this, that it is so bad that we're not prepared for an emergency any longer and that Joe compromised national security by reducing it nearly in half, a 50-year low, our strategic petroleum reserves.
Why?
It's not an emergency when Joe Biden and the Democrats think that high gas prices will hurt them in the midterm elections.
That is not, by definition, an emergency.
It's just not.
But they did it anyway.
Now we know that, and the stupidity of not tapping into our own resources.
You know, OPEC Plus, Saudi Arabia, Putin, they'd have no control over us because we've got more natural resources, energy resources than they do.
But for whatever reason, the climate cult or cultist will not allow their minds to be reprogrammed in the common sense.
You know, it's okay if we import them and we make countries that hate us rich, but we won't produce it domestically, which would be good for national security, good for high-paying career jobs in America for Americans.
And also, it would lower the price of the pump.
It would lower inflation because it would cost less to produce goods and services and transport goods and services.
So that's how stupid we are.
And now wait till you get your heating bills this year.
Anyway, so Joe did the strategic petroleum reserves, but now we know he did something else.
And this is the Saudi Arabia statement that they put out from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs regarding the statements issued about the kingdom by Joe Biden that there will be ramifications, repercussions for what they did.
Tough guy Joe, you know, he's getting real tough now.
There aren't going to be any ramifications because he still needs their oil.
And we can't ramp up production, nor do I think oil companies trust Joe Biden and the Democrats enough anyway to start investing in new production because it's going to get shut down at a moment's notice and they'll lose tens, if not hundreds of millions of dollars.
It's nuts.
Anyway, so in this document, the government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia would first like to express its total rejection of these statements that are not based in facts and which are based on portraying OPEC Plus, plus is Russia, decision out of its purely economic context.
This decision was taken unanimously by all member states of OPEC Plus group.
That's what it says.
So they're responding to Joe Biden.
They're pissed at Joe Biden.
They're mad that Joe Biden is out there saying that there will be retribution and that we will re-examine our relationship with Saudi Arabia.
Then this is the killer line here.
And by the way, they're not stupid people.
They may be hostile, but they're not dumb.
And so then in the middle of this statement, it says, the government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia would like to clarify that based on its belief in the importance of dialogue and exchange of views with its allies and partners outside of the OPEC Plus group regarding the situation in the oil markets.
The government of the kingdom clarified through its continuous consultation with the U.S. administration that all economic analysis indicate that postponing of OPEC Plus' decision for a month, according to what has been suggested, meaning Joe is asking for the postponement, would have had negative consequences.
You know what they did?
Not only did Joe Biden go over there and he had called Saudi Arabia a pariah nation, called MBS the murderer of Jamal Khashoggi, which he probably is.
And yeah, they are a pariah nation.
Joe actually got one right for a change.
He went over there and remember, in the lead up to that, he had been begging OPEC, begging them to increase production of oil.
They wouldn't do it.
They rejected him every single solitary time.
One time they said, oh, yeah, we'll do like another 10 million barrels a year just to shut him up.
How humiliating is it that an American president with more natural energy resources than they have is begging them for energy so we can make them rich?
They're called oil-rich nations for a reason.
They're rich as hell because they are smarter than we are.
They understand the world's economy is run on fossil fuels.
It's the lifeblood of the world's economy.
We've unilaterally disarmed because of climate cultists, and we're all paying the price.
But I digress.
What they're saying here is, Joe, excuse me, not only did they basically spit in his face and give him the middle finger at the same time and say, no, we're not increasing production, they told him they were going to decrease production.
They've known about this for a long time.
They've not told us about it.
They didn't say that, oh, I didn't really go there to talk about oil.
He's full of Adam Schiff.
We all know it.
He went there to beg MBS and OPEC to increase production.
They said no.
They stuck their middle finger in his face.
They basically spit on him and said, get the hell out of here.
Then, you know, to add insult to injury here, then they said, not only are we not going to increase production, we're going to decrease production.
They told him they would decrease production.
Now, rather than be honest and tell we, the American people, the truth, they come back and they didn't tell us Joe's next step was not to ask for more production.
Can you please delay the announcement for a month?
Now, why would Joe want to delay the announcement for a month?
Because we've got an election in 25 days.
And the price of energy and record inflation on top of borders and law and order and safety and security and bad schools, it's on the ballot.
So Joe Biden, I think a strong case could be made, wanted to collude with the Saudis, with OPEC plus nations, all the OPEC nations plus Russia, to get them to delay their announcement, a decision already made, for the purpose of helping Joe Biden in the midterm elections and the Democrats in the midterm elections.
That sounds like he's colluding.
What do you think the media reaction would be if Donald Trump had done anything similar, colluding with, trying to get foreign countries to influence a midterm election by begging them to delay what they know is the truth, that they're going to cut production?
He's asking the Saudis, the Russians, and OPEC nations, please delay the announcement just one month till the midterms are over.
And they didn't do it.
They let this document out to basically shove it down his throat and humiliate him and the U.S. on the world stage.
And guess what?
It worked.
Then they lectured him.
They will preserve their strength of its relationship with friendly countries, but it affirms that the Saudis reject any dictates, actions, or efforts to distort the noble objectives to protect the global economy from oil market volatility.
Wow.
Think they would have done that to Trump?
You may not like Trump's style.
Trump wouldn't have taken their, well, he wouldn't have been there in the first place.
Smart enough to be energy independent.
I know, but you hate his tweets.
I know he talks too much about 2020.
I know his personality is a little rough around the edges.
I'll take him and I'll take the strength and I'll take the fighter over this guy, the corpse.
So if Donald Trump went to Saudi Arabia, which he'd never do because he brought us energy independence for the first time in 75 years, he went to Saudi Arabia and was told, no, we're not increasing production.
As a matter of fact, we're going to decrease production.
And then Donald Trump turned around and said, okay, you're going to decrease, what, 2 million barrels of oil less a day?
Okay.
Would you mind waiting to make the announcement?
Just wait a month.
Can you do it a month later?
What do you think the media would do?
What do you think the Democratic Party would do?
Don't you think they would accuse Donald Trump of, quote, colluding with the Saudis, with OPEC nations, OPEC plus, including Russia, that are working together in conjunction with each other to fix prices?
Don't you think that they would accuse him of working with foreign countries for the purpose of influencing the outcome of an election?
Yeah, just announce it a month later after the midterms, so I don't get hurt politically and my party doesn't get hurt politically.
Yeah, just one month and then we'll make the announcement.
And not only did the Saudis have no respect, OPEC, no respect, Putin, no respect, and they think we're idiots and we are for not producing our own energy.
They said they exposed it on purpose.
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This is the Sean Annity Show.
All right, 25 now to the top of the hour, 800-941.
Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, I mean, I just can't believe we're living in these insane times.
You know, I don't know how many of you have been following what's been going on with this Danchenko issue.
So you got a guy that was the source for Christopher Steele's dirty dossier, Russian dossier that Hillary Clinton bought and paid for.
And his name is Danchenko.
Okay, so we now have learned that from, and it's interesting because Durham himself, John Durham, is running the case himself.
And John Durham has been very, very clear that it's the FBI that has messed up here.
The FBI actually, he had one FBI agent testifying he and a group of FBI agents went overseas in early October of 2021, early October.
That's before the first FISA warrant was ever signed on to.
And remember, it was Andrew McCabe that said, no FISA warrant.
You wouldn't have a FISA warrant without the dirty dossier.
Anyway, so he testified they went overseas in early October to talk to Christopher Steele about the dossier, the Russian dossier that he put together, paid for by Hillary Clinton with money funneled to a law firm that hired an op research firm called Fusion GPS, Perkins Cooey to Fusion GPS, and that from there, they produced this dossier.
So then we find out Christopher Steele was offered $1 million in early October if he could corroborate that the allegations in the dossier, you know, about peeing in a bed and all that sort of thing, hookers and the Ritz-Carlton in Moscow.
If he could corroborate that's true, they were offering a bounty.
Now, here's the interesting part.
He couldn't verify it, but they used it anyway.
Now, I'm sure most of you don't know that it says at the top of a FISA application, verified.
Now we know that it was unverified because Christopher Steele didn't get his million dollars that he would have gotten had he verified it.
So it wasn't verified.
And then when they finally talked to Danchenko, who's the source of the Steele dossier, Danchenko tells him, no, none of this is true.
It was all bar talk.
And a pretty amazing thing when you think about it.
Very amazing, as a matter of fact.
And so that means that Andrew McCabe, who said, without the dossier, without that dossier, there's absolutely no FISA warrant that's going to be granted.
And then, in fact, they didn't verify it.
They used it.
They lied to a judge so they could spy on Carter Page and ruin his life.
And then that they could also backdoor Carter Page's connections to the Trump campaign and then spy on the Trump campaign, which was what that's what happened.
Now, this is a pretty amazing development here.
And by the way, Durham slammed this FBI agent for saying that George Papadopoulos was a high-level advisor.
He was not a high-level advisor.
High-level advisor would be somebody that talks to a candidate every day.
High-level advisor would be surround the candidate every day.
George Papadopoulos happens to be a very nice man, but that wasn't his role.
He's young.
He's going to have a great, bright career.
I hope this didn't impact his life that much.
You know, it's interesting how Kimberly Strasse wrote this up.
She wrote, she's such a great writer with the Wall Street Journal.
And she says, Special Counsel Durham stepped into a federal courtroom this week officially to try Igor Danchenko for lying to the FBI.
And that's another part of this.
After Danchenko said none of this dossier stuff is true, they put him on the FBI payroll.
Why?
Because he could have exposed that they lied to the FISA courts, so they might as well control him with money.
Is that the reason that they started paying Danchenko?
Just like they offered Christopher Steele a million dollars?
You got to be kidding me.
Anyway, so it goes on to say, unofficially, Mr. Durham is putting the FBI itself on trial for their incompetence and political chicanery.
Yeah, I would say that if any of you said that this information we are providing to the judge is verified and you know damn well it's not verified, that's called lying to a judge.
It would not go over very well for anybody ever.
You would be put in jail for that.
Somebody like James Comey, he signed it off on it three times that we know of.
And then all the other people that signed it.
Now the question is, what is going to happen?
Now that that's been, and here's the saddest part of our day: nothing.
Nothing is going to happen in this case.
There's not going to be any consequences for the people that lied to the FISA court.
There's not going to be any consequences for the FBI that offered a bounty to Christopher Steele.
We'll give you a million bucks if you tell us.
And then they ended up using it knowing it was false.
Pretty unbelievable.
You know, now we have the Biden administration exposed as now trying to get Saudi Arabia and OPEC plus nations to cover for him.
And Biden, by the way, on Tuesday warned that there will be consequences for Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia did not take that threat well.
And here's what Jamie Dimon, Jamie Dimon is the CEO of J.P. Morgan Chase.
He's a smart guy, obviously.
And he made the point on a panel.
He says, you know, you won't hear from the mainstream media.
It was a small group of people close to the press, but it leaked, it got out.
And he said, the president of the United States needs to stand up and say we may not meet our 2050 climate objectives because of this effing war.
He's right.
He's not an idiot.
And he's telling and warning everybody that we better get back to energy independence.
And he even says so.
This is what he says as he goes further.
Hang on, I've lost my paper.
This is what he says.
He says, it's time to stop going hat in hand to Venezuela and Saudi Arabia and start pumping more oil and gas in the USA.
Why is that such a hard thing?
And then Biden goes out there yesterday, so out of touch, nine straight months, 40-plus-year high inflation.
And he says, well, if Republicans win, inflation is going to get worse.
No, if Biden wins, it's going to get worse.
The problem the Democratic Party, the modern Democratic Party has now is they are a socialist party.
The radicals run the entire show.
There is no such thing as a moderate Democrat.
Such a group does not exist anymore.
You don't have Joe Lieberman's, Scoop Jacksons in the Democratic Party of today.
They don't exist.
The inflation report, by the way, has dashed the Democrats' hope of changing the economic narrative.
That's for sure.
I mean, if they had any hope of saying, oh, we turned the economy around, that's gone.
Because if you look at the price of everything you're paying, it's all self-induced.
All of this was preventable.
Every bit of it was preventable.
We are all suffering needlessly because of their climate alarmism, their cult, their religion.
And that's how they view it.
It's a religion to them.
They're like indoctrinated.
It's like they've been programmed and you can't get them out of their programming.
You know, people that get involved in cults, they get programmed.
Well, they're now programmed.
By the way, White House Chief of Staff Ron Clain faced a big social media backlash for praising rising Social Security benefits following another high inflation report.
By the way, it's good for Social Security recipients because they're going to see their benefits rise to 8.7%.
Here's the problem.
You know, they promised to put Social Security, Medicare in something called a lockbox.
Well, they raided the lockbox, and as a result of them raiding the lockbox, we now know that we're going towards insolvency.
Medicare is headed towards insolvency.
So this is $100 billion cost to the American people at a time we have $31 trillion in debt.
It's an amazing failure on their part.
Because again, all of it was preventable.
Every bit of it was preventable.
You have a federal judge today in Missouri, yesterday, actually, will determine whether to temporarily block President Biden's student loan handout after attorneys representing the administration, several Republican-led states gave their arguments at a Wednesday hearing.
Sorry, it was not yesterday.
Missouri, Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, South Carolina all challenged the program.
Now, remember, he tried to use the executive order.
I'm sorry, the emergency resolution for COVID as a means of bypassing that other branch of government called the legislative branch.
Anyway, at least these states had enough sense to realize that's totally, completely unconstitutional.
And he's the one that said the pandemic is over anyway.
By the way, the pandemic is not over.
You know, there's big outbreaks in Europe.
That means it probably will make its way over here.
I don't know what the variant is.
Nobody seems to care that much anymore.
Nobody talks about therapeutics anymore.
And by the way, if you don't toe the line now and you're a medical doctor in California, oh boy, you better be careful.
You're on the bad doctor list that they put out.
Anyway, it's everything you would expect 25 days out of an election.
You know, yesterday's hearing with the January 6th committee and this dramatic vote, this crescendo, we are going to subpoena and we're going to do a roll call, Donald Trump to come before the committee.
They're not going to, they can subpoena him all they want.
The president is going to fight back.
He's going to assert privilege and he's going to fight it in the courts.
And if the first judge says no, well, he's going to go to the second judge.
And if the second judge says no, he's going to go to the third judge.
And in the interim, an election is going to take place.
And I would say the odds are pretty high that Republicans will take over the House and then it's a matter of he'll run out the clock.
It won't matter.
But they want to get him any way they can.
Jamie Raskin saying and talking about, well, we want to make referrals to the Department of Justice for what crime?
What is many of you will now peacefully, patriotically march to the Capitol so your voices will be heard.
They never played that tape.
Why didn't they ever play that tape?
The worst part about it is if you care about this country, you love this country, and I know all of you do, you don't want anything like January 6th to ever happen again.
The people that went into the Capitol the way they did.
We can't have that in our country.
We've got to protect our elected officials.
I said this in real time.
We've got to protect our institutions.
That's the people's house.
They have a process.
They need security.
If they were smart, they would have come up with security recommendations.
But instead, they wanted to bludgeon, in this case, the Republicans.
Once Pelosi said no to Jim Jordan and Jim Banks on the committee and Nancy Pelosi replaced them with Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, it was over.
It had a predetermined outcome, and the outcome was to hurt Trump anyway in every way possible.
That's what it was all about.
So instead of getting to the truth, how did this happen?
Where were these security failures?
What groups were planning what in advance?
What intelligence did we have that we didn't pay the right amount of attention to?
Why did we not listen to the Capitol Police chief that requested the guard on numerous occasions?
Why didn't we, you know, why didn't they bring in Nancy Pelosi?
She is in charge of the Capitol.
Why did Muriel Bowser, the mayor who had the authority to take the troops, why did she put in writing she will not call up National Guard troops?
Why didn't they bring in the five people that are on record on the 3rd of January?
I believe it's the 3rd.
There's been some ambiguity of the 3rd or 4th.
I think it's the 3rd.
You know, the people that were in the Oval Office with Donald Trump.
I have Donald Trump on tape.
I have Chris Miller, the Secretary of Defense at the time, on tape.
I have Kash Patel, his chief of staff on tape.
Mark Meadows, the president's chief of staff on tape.
And the Biden Department of Defense did a full inspector general report on the events surrounding January 6th.
General Milley was in the room, and he remembers and recalls talking about safety and security at the Capitol on January 6th.
So why didn't they bring these people in?
Why didn't they bring in the Capitol Police Chief, the Sergeant-at-Arms?
Why didn't they bring in Nancy Pelosi?
Why didn't they bring in Muriel Bowser?
Because you don't want this to happen again.
Why are they not talking about the 574 riots that took place in the summer of 2020?
Rioting's awful.
We watched with our own eyes, and many of these very same politicians that are on their high horse, they either said nothing because they didn't want to alienate their base or they lied to us and said it was mostly peaceful.
That mostly peaceful is defined as, let's see, thousands of cops pelted with rocks, bricks, bottles, and Molotov cocktails, and a couple of thousand, more than a couple of thousand injured, dozens of dead Americans.
We forget that part.
That all happened in the summer of 2020.
One of the saddest interviews I ever did was Horace Lorenzo Anderson Sr., his namesake, his son.
He was killed in the Chaz Chop Summer of Love Spaghetti Potluck Dinner Autonomous Zone.
And he was on national TV crying.
And I was getting choked up myself.
I've stayed in touch with him.
I like him a lot.
He was a very decent man.
And then the only politician to ever call him was Donald Trump.
And the mayor that was saying, oh, no, this is a summer of love zone, never called him up to that point.
I don't know if she has since.
I mean, it's unbelievable.
Where is the committee investigating that?
That's what I'd like to know.
Anyway, 800-941, Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, we're going to talk about the economy, the impact it's going to have on the election.
That's coming up straight ahead.
We have Governor Chris Sununu is going to check in with us.
I'm going to ask him.
He's a lock for re-election in New Hampshire.
We'll talk to him about his race.
We'll talk about General Bullduck and his chances.
He seems to be making strides.
Look, he's not a professional politician, but he's got two Purple Hearts, medals of honor with valor.
I think he has five of those.
He's highly decorated, 10 tours of duty, and they're trying to smear and slander him.
I mean, this is a war hero.
He's a hero.
Unbelievable what Democrats will say and do.
All right, 25 days till the all-important midterms.
We got a lot to talk about.
Now, the Democrats' last hope of any, well, slight bit of good economic news has faded.
Joe Biden has been exposed, is trying to manipulate, work with, have foreign countries influence our election and not announce that they're cutting oil supplies.