Sean Hannity Show - Protecting Joe - December 29th, Hour 1

Dec. 30, 2022 - Sean Hannity Show

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Protecting Joe - December 29th, Hour 1

Greg Jarrett fills in for the vacationing Sean Hannity and talks about the liberal media's efforts to protect Joe Biden... plus, President Biden had even more coverage from the FBI.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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	I'm Greg Jarrett, filling in for Sean Hannity.
	And it's a great pleasure to be here, subbing for Sean.
	And I want to thank you for joining me today.
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	I'm Greg Jarrett, Fox News legal analyst.
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	My previous books, The Russia Hoax and Witch Hunt.
	I think one of the most valuable parts of those books is when I outline in what I think is meticulous detail, FBI corruption.
	The FBI is absolutely corrupt.
	Not the rank and file, mind you.
	They're commendable people.
	No, I'm talking about the people who run the FBI out of Washington's headquarters, the Hoover building.
	And anybody who has bothered to read the recent Twitter files now knows that the FBI secretly spied on Americans and directed social media companies to censor political views and stories that the FBI did not like.
	And the damning evidence is there.
	It's contained in more than 150 FBI emails that were exchanged with the top Twitter nitwits, I like to call them, or Twits.
	That's kind of a nifty name.
	Twitter nitwits, because they really are.
	They happily, gladly capitulated with the FBI's demands.
	And much of it was done to unduly influence the 2020 presidential election in favor of Joe Biden to the detriment of Donald Trump.
	The FBI abused its powers for purely partisan reasons.
	It worked to suppress conservative dissent.
	The FBI pushed hard for censorship.
	They even furnished lists of accounts to Twitter.
	Suspend these people, ban them.
	And you know what?
	I know what you're thinking.
	You're saying, well, you know, it is a private company.
	Back then, it was a publicly held company, now a privately held company.
	The First Amendment doesn't apply.
	You're right, technically.
	Of course, you're violating the principles of free speech.
	But here's the thing.
	When the government does that at any level, including the FBI, using social media as a proxy, that is an egregious violation of the First Amendment, and it is actionable in a court of law.
	As many as 80 FBI agents, 80 of them, were assigned to this surveillance and censorship project.
	They were monitoring your social media posts.
	If they saw something they didn't like, they went after you.
	Moreover, dozens of former FBI and CIA agents infiltrated social media companies, including Twitter.
	They left those agencies and they gained employment as new hires at places like Twitter.
	Now, were these moles?
	Were they operatives that the FBI deliberately planted inside the platform?
	Well, what do you think?
	Sure looks like it, doesn't it?
	But that's not all.
	The FBI paid Twitter $3.4 million, your taxpayer money, by the way, to do its dirty work for them.
	All of this is in the Twitter files.
	You'll find it in the internal Slack messages and other emails that the new owner, Elon Musk, and he should be commended for this, released to a handful of journalists to review and report.
	I interviewed one of them, Michael Schellenberger, and I'll tell you what he told me.
	But you know what?
	The most diabolical part of all of this was the Hunter Biden laptop story.
	The newly exposed evidence shows that the FBI pressured and manipulated and coerced Twitter into suppressing the laptop story and banning anybody who repeated it in the run-up to the election.
	They were running, folks, a protection racket for Joe Biden because they knew the laptop implicated the father as complicit in his son's influence peddling schemes.
	Now, how do they know that?
	Well, it's pretty easy because the FBI seized the laptop in December of 2019.
	That's almost a year before the election, a year before the story broke.
	But you know what?
	The Bureau knew that the damning story would eventually surface because they were spying on Rudy Giuliani.
	Rudy had a copy of it, a copy of the hard drive.
	He was trying to get it published.
	And that's what the FBI feared.
	The Twitter files show that the FBI warned the platform in advance that the story was going to hit.
	And the FBI worked tirelessly to convince Twitter to kill the story by falsely claiming, oh, you know, it's just Russian disinformation.
	Pay no attention to it.
	The FBI knew it was not Russian disinformation because they'd examined it themselves.
	This thing was smoking.
	It was the genuine article.
	It had the makings of a full-blown indictment for corruption, money laundering, influence peddling, fraud, bribery, tax evasion, maybe even racketeering.
	Think of it this way.
	The same agency that should have been recommending criminal charges to the Department of Justice against Hunter Biden and maybe his dad as an accomplice, selling access, selling potential influence.
	The DOJ and the FBI instead buried the criminal case, and then they tried to bury the story itself.
	Now, I long ago accused the FBI of being lawless and corrupt.
	As I mentioned, I wrote two books outlining FBI misconduct, malfeasance, misfeasance, all around crooked behavior.
	The Russia hoax and Witch Hunt.
	You can still buy them.
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	They're online.
	Not coincidentally, some of the same people who were involved in the collusion lies, they were also involved in the laptop Twitter lies, notably Jim Baker.
	You remember old Jimmy Boy?
	He was a Comey crony, instrumental in fueling the Russia hoax.
	It was Baker who pushed relentlessly the fabricated phony dossier, knowing full well that it was all made up.
	It was just fiction.
	The FBI had secretly debunked the dossier, but they told no one.
	They didn't tell Congress.
	They didn't tell the American public.
	They didn't tell the FISA court.
	The same month that Donald Trump was inaugurated, sworn into office, the FBI had already sat down with the people behind the phony dossier and they all confessed that they invented the whole damn thing.
	But the FBI kept it carefully under wraps, under seal.
	And then old Jimmy Baker, he helped craft the deceptive FISA warrants that turned out to have been doctored to exclude any exculpatory evidence.
	And the incriminating evidence was all lies based on the dossier.
	Oh, but the FBI said to the FISA court, we trust our source, Christopher Steele.
	They'd fired him already for lying.
	Oh, he's credible, they said to the FISA court.
	They lied to the judges.
	And some of that was Jim Baker's handiwork.
	And of course, he eventually landed in trouble.
	So what did he do?
	He grabbed his pension and he fled the FBI just as the Inspector General was digging deep into Jim Baker's handiwork.
	Where did Baker land?
	Well, he landed at Twitter, of course, as deputy general counsel.
	A nice, rich-paying, plush job.
	And Baker played a key role while at Twitter in suppressing the laptop story.
	But he wasn't finished.
	When Elon Musk took the helm and decided to expose the Twitter files, Baker got into those files without anybody really knowing about it, and he started cleansing them, sanitizing them.
	And then he got caught.
	And when he got caught, he got canned by Musk.
	And Jim Baker is a prime example of how the FBI has run amok.
	It has become a political arm of the Democratic Party, abusing its immense powers for political reasons.
	They went after Donald Trump with a vengeance while protecting Joe Biden.
	You might ask yourself, did their schemes work?
	You bet they did.
	Take a look at the Media Research Center survey.
	They found roughly 15% of Joe Biden voters would have cast their ballots differently had the laptop story not been suppressed.
	So the inexorable truth is the Russians didn't interfere.
	They didn't interfere with our presidential elections, but the FBI did.
	So what does the FBI have to say for itself?
	Well, given the recent revelations in the Twitter files, they did what they always do.
	They lied about it.
	They issued a statement that said, oh, you know, we really never directed Twitter to do anything.
	Really?
	Read the emails.
	The FBI manipulated and coerced and groomed Twitter into believing the laptop was Russian disinformation.
	They provided blacklists of those they wanted banned from Twitter.
	So the FBI is simply lying.
	The Bureau also claims, oh, anybody who believes this, you know, you're just a conspiracy theorist.
	What arrogance, what hubris.
	That is gaslighting in the extreme.
	Director Christopher Wray should be fired.
	He's done nothing to clean up the cesspool of corruption that began with James Comey, Andrew McKay, Peter Strzok, and in many ways, it has only grown worse at the FBI.
	The Twitter files prove it.
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	Welcome back to the Sean Hannity Show.
	I'm Greg Jarrett, Fox News legal analyst filling in for Sean.
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	This hour, we're talking about the Twitter files.
	I interviewed Michael Schellenberger, one of the handful of journalists who reviewed the Twitter files and reported on them.
	He told me that the FBI was running a psyops campaign, psychological operation into Twitter to convince them that the laptop was Russian disinformation.
	Even though Twitter executives researched it, they did their due diligence.
	They found no evidence of Russian disinformation.
	What was it?
	It was FBI disinformation.
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	All right, we're talking about the Twitter files.
	Let's jump right in.
	I want to go to Lance in Texas, who joins us now.
	Lance, welcome to the Sean Hannity Show.
	Thanks for calling.
	Hi, Greg.
	Thanks for having me.
	So we're talking about the Twitter files, but if you look at what happened with Twitter, I think one of the larger questions is why?
	Why would they go to such lengths?
	Zuckerberg said the same thing happened at Facebook.
	Every major big tech platform, I'm assuming, was involved in doing the same exact thing.
	And more acute is the media's lack of coverage as it relates to the Twitter files.
	If you look at every major network, ABC, NBC, CBS, no one has covered the Twitter files at all.
	So you ask yourself, why?
	Well, why are they going to such great lengths?
	For the media to cover the Twitter files would be an admission that they got it wrong.
	Remember, the media went along with the suppression of it.
	They refused to report the laptop story.
	So to now report on the Twitter files would be a direct admission that they were wrong.
	And of course, you know, NBC News, CBS, The Washington Post, and the New York Times belatedly finally confirmed publicly, oh yeah, the laptop's real, and the documents therein are incriminating of Hunter Biden and maybe of Joe Biden.
	So, you know, just as the mainstream media got the Russia hoax wrong, claiming that the dossier was real when it wasn't, they got the laptop story wrong.
	As to why this happened to begin with, it goes back to the Russia hoax.
	The FBI hated Donald Trump, and they went after him with their unlimited resources and immense power, even though they knew he never colluded with Russia.
	They debunked the dossier.
	There was no other evidence.
	But they, you know, they pushed it because they wanted to drive Donald Trump from office.
	So when the 2020 election happens and it's Trump versus Biden, and they knew the laptop story was about to emerge and would help Trump and hurt Joe Biden, they ratcheted up their protection racket to protect Joe Biden.
	That is the only reasonable, sentient explanation for why it happened.
	Let me go to our next caller, Lance, though.
	Good question.
	Let me go now to Mike in Texas.
	Mike, thanks for being here.
	Welcome to the Hannity Show.
	Thank you, Greg.
	Thank you for taking my call.
	Yeah, you've laid it out very nicely.
	And so the question is, who does the FBI report to?
	And whoever they report to, it must be blessing what the FBI is doing.
	Yeah, you're absolutely right.
	The FBI is a division of the Department of Justice, which is headed by the attorney Merrick Garland, who's in on it.
	I mean, how else do you explain the fact that the Department of Justice has taken no action against Hunter Biden, notwithstanding a trove of incriminating evidence, not just on the laptop, but through other documents and testimony of others who were involved?
	I mean, because Attorney General Merrick Garland is, in my judgment, biased and corrupt.
	So Christopher Wray, who runs the FBI, reports to Merrick Garland.
	Who does Merrick Garland report to?
	Joe Biden.
	And Merrick Garland has consistently refused to appoint a special counsel, even though it is mandatory under federal regulations.
	Why?
	Because Garland has an obvious, blatant conflict of interest.
	He is tasked with investigating his boss's son over evidence that implicates his boss.
	You can't investigate for potential crimes the man you're beholden to, the man who appointed you to the high position of Attorney General.
	Of course you're going to run a protection racket for him if you're a dishonest person.
	If you're an honest person, you say, hey, conflict of interest, can't do it.
	I'm appointing a special counsel.
	Merrick Garland won't do it.
	Let me go to our next caller.
	Joining us now is Paul from my home state of California.
	Paul, thanks for joining us on the Sean Hannity Show.
	Hey, you're my favorite guest on the Sean Hennity Show.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Twitter is a private company, and Congress should not be meddling around the affairs of private companies.
	But you want to get these unconstitutional, unaccountable, secret government agencies from trying to spy on people and control the information they're getting.
	It has totally corrupted our government.
	Yeah.
	You know, Congress has a constitutional oversight duty to look into evidence of crimes and corruption in the executive branch.
	And, of course, the FBI is part of the executive branch.
	And you're right.
	I mean, Twitter and Facebook, these are all private companies, publicly held.
	Twitter now privately held by Elon Musk.
	So they don't have to strictly abide by the First Amendment.
	Remember, the First Amendment says Congress shall make no law abridging freedom of speech and free press.
	What does that mean?
	Well, it's not just Congress that cannot abridge free speech and freedom of the press.
	It's any level of government, according to the U.S. Supreme Court rulings.
	The FBI is a part of the government.
	So when the FBI gets involved in censorship by proxy or surrogate, they're violating the First Amendment.
	But, you know, it was wrong for Facebook and Twitter themselves under First Amendment principles of free speech.
	You know, Twitter violated their own promise to their Twitter users.
	When they launched the platform, they said we are going to be a platform for the free exchange of ideas, information, and opinion.
	But suddenly, when a story comes across that they don't like and the FBI is pushing them and manipulating and grooming them, they kill the story even though the story was true and accurate.
	Let me go to another one of our callers.
	I'm trying to run through a bunch of them here.
	Jim joins us from Colorado.
	Hey, Jim, how are you?
	Good afternoon, Greg.
	Thanks for taking my call.
	As an average citizen, is there a reason I can't hire an attorney like yourself and create a class action lawsuit to sue somebody like the President of the United States for dereliction of duty or not upholding his constitutional?
	um you know the the the oath he swore when he took he was sworn in as president you know it's an interesting question jim and thank you for posing it uh And I've given it some thought.
	You know, whenever something like this happens, people are outraged and they go, I want to sue the government.
	Generally speaking, the federal courts say you have to have standing.
	You must be materially injured.
	And, you know, that's a rather broad, sometimes vague, amorphous concept standing.
	Who has been injured here?
	Well, one could argue, as I think you are, that we've all been harmed because, you know, we all cast votes in a presidential election for the leader of our country based in part on false information that was peddled by the FBI through Twitter and Facebook and so forth,
	not to believe the Hunter Biden laptop story when in fact it was true and accurate.
	So, yeah, I mean, we've all been harmed in a way, but I think it's going to have to be someone else who was more directly harmed by it.
	And it's a difficult concept, but it is actionable in a court of law whenever the federal government or any government agency engages in censorship in violation of the First Amendment.
	Let me go to our next caller, Nelson, joins us from Rochester, New York.
	Nelson, I hope you're surviving the cold and snow up in northern New York.
	How are you?
	I'm doing good, Greg.
	Thank you.
	And I've been following you for years.
	Your legal take on things are just right on.
	Thank you.
	To get to the point, thanks for taking my call.
	I have thought for years, going all the way back to Lois Lerner, Hillary Clinton, et cetera, et cetera, the deep state now.
	And I've listened to your take.
	They are in violation of our laws and the Constitution.
	Nobody seems to get held to account in court and get fined or go to jail.
	And I was just wondering if someone was to, if that was to happen, would that open things up that you would see more people, would that stop some of this activity if people knew they were going to get prosecuted?
	Sure, absolutely.
	I mean, anytime you successfully prosecute somebody for a crime, it has a deterrent effect, a chilling effect on others doing the same thing.
	One of the great disappointments in the Russia hoax was that the people behind it, meaning Hillary Clinton, who personally approved the plan to falsely accuse Donald Trump of colluding with Russia, she personally approved it according to now declassified CIA documents in July of 2016.
	You know, remember at the time that she was, you know, under siege over her crimes in the email scandal.
	And so she came up with this plan.
	Let's invent an accusation against Donald Trump that he's colluding with Russia to draw attention away from my own scandal.
	Well, she was lying and perpetrating a fraud incidental to an election.
	And yet she has never been held to account.
	And whenever confronted, rarely, oh, that's been debunked.
	Nothing to see here.
	Let's move on.
	But it was Hillary Clinton, her campaign that paid for the phony dossier.
	And most of the information in that dossier came from Hillary Clinton cronies.
	So she not only bankrolled the big lie, but she supplied the false fictive information in the lie.
	And she got away with it, just as she got away with committing crimes in her email scandal.
	I identified 110 different crimes that she committed.
	And you can read about it in the Russia hoax and witch hunt.
	We're going to pause, take a quick break, a couple of more of your phone calls on the other side.
	Our number is 800-941-7326.
	I'm Greg Jarrett, sitting in for Sean Hannity on the Sean Hannity Show.
	Welcome back to the Sean Hannity Show.
	I'm Greg Jarrett.
	I'm going to try to squeeze in one more telephone call.
	Joining us now from Texas is William.
	William, thanks for being with us.
	Hi, Greg.
	I was wondering why you and all of the other talking heads and conservatives on the TV and on the radio are claiming that the rank and file with the FBI are not the problem.
	It's the leadership.
	Leaders can't accomplish anything without followers.
	You have 80 people that were involved in this?
	Even if they were lied to, surely they would have quit after they found out they were lying convinced to do this.
	I mean, look, I still stick by what I say that I think most FBI agents in all the field offices, except for the Baltimore field office, which was involved in this, are honest, honorable people that work to protect us every day.
	I commend the roughly two dozen FBI whistleblowers who have had the courage to step forward and expose the corruption and lawlessness of those principally in the Hoover building in Washington, D.C.
	It's the top officials who have conducted the kind of corrupt acts that are so regrettable for our nation.
	And those are the people who should be held responsible.
	As I've said before, Christopher Wray should resign in disgrace or be fired.
	And I'm looking forward to talking to James Comer, who is going to be leading the congressional investigation.
	He'll be joining us coming up.
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