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Best of Hannity - Biden Controversy - January 16th, Hour 1

In this Best of Hannity episode, Sean visits the many ways in which President Biden has taken advantage of the American people.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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He paid out of the general funds of the university for that.
It was his largest source of salary after he left the office.
Obviously, he made a lot of money on speeches and books, but his salary, this was his main salary after he left or the vice presidency.
And during the time he's at the university, donations from China accelerated significantly.
So uh this university is one of the larger recipients of China money.
Uh it got sixty-seven plus million dollars between twenty thirteen and twenty nineteen.
But almost all of that money came in the narrow window when Joe Biden was named as a professor.
His center launched in twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen, and twenty nineteen.
And we're talking large and sometimes anonymous donations.
For instance, 14.5 million dollars come in comes in in a single day, just a few weeks after Joe Biden opens the door to the Penn Biden Center.
Now, Joe Biden moves on, he becomes president.
He takes some of the people that were affiliated with Penn, he makes them ambassadors.
The former president of the university, the former chairman of the trustees, he makes them ambassadors.
And then uh uh early last year, right as FBI director Chris Ray is warning America, we have a big spy problem with China.
They're all over our universities.
He gives an incredible speech at the Reagan Library.
Two, three weeks later, Penn University and its faculty starts pressuring the Justice Department, open letter, shut down the FBI's main espionage program targeting academia for Chinese spies, and within eleven days, Merrick Garland takes him up on the offer.
He shuts down this program over the objections of the FBI, over the speech that Chris Ray gave.
The University of Pennsylvania was not only a sponge for Chinese money, it helped carry out one of China's objectives, which was to handicap the FBI's counterespionage programs for Chinese spies embedded in American academia.
Let's get your take.
Uh Greg Garrett.
Incredible reporting as always by by John.
You know, uh the university collected uh who promised full transparency.
We don't get it until there's a media leak earlier this week.
And now what do we know?
There are three separate discoveries of classified documents in Joe Biden's um uh possession.
The first November 2nd found at the Penn Biden Center.
The second, December 20th at the Biden garage next to his Corvette in the lock garage.
And then this January 5th, they found another classified document inside the home of uh President Biden.
Keep in mind, that's a home that Hunter Biden often visited and was associated with uh all of his foreign clients must have been loving the idea that maybe there was classified documents in his dad's home.
These are really serious issues.
And the man that they've named, this guy Robert Herr, I I came across him in some cases in 2018, 2019.
He took on the Baltimore Democratic establishment and took down several Democrats for public corruption, including the mayor, Catherine Pugh, including members of the assembly and a state senator.
He's a kind of a dogged pursuer of democratic corruption in a state that was famously corrupt, Maryland, uh, but he has a significant record of doing that.
He has a little bit of background also in national security.
People who worked with him in the FBI say this guy is a go-getter when it comes to corruption.
Now we will be the same against the president.
must wait and see now greg you wrote a great column and put out great points as it relates to the implication now of joe biden having top secret classified information uh as it relates to now the special prosecutor and the raid at mar-a-lago and there are very distinct differences the media i think has gotten the differences all wrong and uh frankly
the one big distinction in my mind is the fact that Donald Trump as president had the ability to declassify any documents he wanted, any time he wanted, and there's no process set forth.
I think there should be one, but there isn't one.
There wasn't one uh in terms of how he is to go about that process.
Yeah, you're right.
Um you know, uh so many people, especially the New York Times and the Washington Post have uh have portrayed Trump's uh insistence that he declassified these documents as as a lie.
Wait a minute.
How do they know?
Because under the law, Trump is obligated, he's not required to tell anyone.
I mean, he can simply do it uh without notifying any relevant agencies.
He can do it without removing the classification markings on the documents himself.
He doesn't have to sign an executive order or any other declaration saying I hereby declassify these documents.
He can simply do it by his own actions and tell no one.
So how in the world is Merrick Garland going to disprove that Trump declassified the documents?
It is a legal impossibility.
I mean, he would have to have somebody say, Oh, Trump told me he never did declassify the documents.
Well, uh, that's a long shot, and I doubt he's got anybody who's going to say that.
Uh you know, so the problem with Merrick Garland is he appears to be running, as you have long stated, Sean, a protection racket.
Uh, he was reluctant to appoint a special counsel, should have done so immediately in the Hunter Biden case, obvious conflict of interest, and then he dithered before now appointing a special counsel because of the classified documents.
He appointed one for Trump because there's an obvious conflict of interest for Garland to investigate his boss's political opponent.
Well, my goodness, there's a greater conflict of interest for Garland to investigate his boss directly.
He's answerable to Biden, and the law requires him to accuse himself.
And I wonder why he has waited so long.
Have they been trying to come up with some defense, a set of excuses?
Is there some secret cooperation going on?
Well, he certainly had an obligation to tell the public before the election, and he didn't.
Right.
And that's comprehensible.
That is reprehensible.
All right, quick break more with Greg Jarrett, more with uh John Solomon on the other side.
We'll get to your calls in the next hour.
We'll look at the e economic picture that is unfolding in the country.
None of it's good.
Greg Jarrett and John Solomon.
We have one other aspect to this that we haven't really even touched.
Now, you touch on it in your column today, John.
On April 25, 2016, the the representative agency known as Creative Artists Agency, CAA, uh their agent emails Hunter with confidential notes of their meeting in which he lists apparent plans that were discussed for the vice president upon leaving office.
One of those plans included, quote, wealth creation with no further explanation, and another included an apparent reference to the Penn Biden Center in D.C. and a possible job for opportunity for Hunter.
Where it gets interesting is Hunter's response as he says, yes, in theory, that's the way I'd like to see it all shake out, but please keep this very confidential between us because nothing has been set in stone, and there's still a lot a lot of sensitivity around all of this, both internally and externally.
Uh he hasn't made any decisions, and this can be changed overnight.
The question I want answered is the China financial involvement in this equation.
Yeah, listen, it is what uh James Comer, I just interviewed him a few moments ago.
He said we are expanding the documents investigation to look at the flow of China money, because the money flowing to the university.
By the way, it goes into the general conference.
It doesn't have to go to the Penn Biden Center, it's enriching the whole university.
University Then pays for everything that Joe Biden wants, including parking his staff there.
He parks some of his staffers here, like Blinken and Carpenter and others at this center at various times.
So it's beneficial for him to have his staff on payroll there, in addition to him scoring $910,000.
But in the same window of time that this university is standing up at 47.7 million of the 67 million comes into the university from China.
Hunter Biden is dealing with these.
Just to point out, you're not saying 54 million.
You're saying what?
67 million.
Yeah, we have new figures now.
We've been able to find some new money that went to the university.
There's sixty-seven million dollars of Chinese money that goes into the university between 2013 and 2019.
Of that amount, 47.7 occurred in the two and a half years why Joe Biden was affiliated with university.
We're going to put a timeline out tonight so people can see all the events that go on at Penn University.
But what's most important about this, at the exact same time that China's dumping money into the new employer of Joe Biden, the place where he's got his post-vice presidential salary in his center and his staff.
China is reaching out to Hunter Biden and creating the CEFC natural gas business.
And that includes a $5 million.
You allowed me to talk about on your show a few months ago.
A $5 million, no interest forgivable loan to the Biden family.
They walk away with five million dollars of free cash from China to help China try to take American gas and give it to the Chinese market.
So Joe Biden doesn't want Americans to use gas, but he's glad letting Chinese uh uh officials buy it through his son and send it over to China.
That there is all of these China connections going on why Joe Biden is standing in the city.
And China wanted an investigation shutdown.
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We haven't even hit the Twitter files yet, which we will.
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All right.
25 now to the top of the hour.
All right, we continue our deep dive.
Merrick Garland appointing a special counsel to look into the top secret classified information, now found in two locations as it relates to Joe Biden.
We have other issues that we're going to get into as well.
Let me go back to the issue and the involvement of Hunter Biden in this and the email exchange that I explained in the last hour with this guy from CAA, uh Greg Jarrett, and Hunter's demand that this has to be, you know, this has to be confidential.
We don't know how this is going to happen.
And then you put that together with the money that John Solomon just laid out in the half hour, last half hour, it's 67 million to the Biden Penn Center, you know, 47.5 million of which came when in the two and a half years Biden was at the Penn Center.
That's a lot of money from China.
Yeah, it sort of looks, Sean, like Joe Biden was bought and paid for by the Chinese.
Uh has that now jeopardized our national security?
I mean, as John Solomon had pointed out in his column, his excellent column, you know, the original plan was to share the office with the Chinese.
The Chinese were literally going to fund Biden's office at the University of Pennsylvania.
Uh that didn't come to pass, but it got to the point where Hunter Biden was asking that uh keys be given to a Chinese official to share the office uh with Joe Biden and Joe Biden.
And Hunter Biden wanted keys too.
And I'm sure that wouldn't have been bugged that office at all.
I'm certain.
I totally trust people from the communist uh nation of China.
Well, and the other aspect of it is with all this money flowing into the University of Pennsylvania where Joe Biden had this executive suite where the classified documents uh uh were housed.
Um, it would have been very easy.
Any uh foreign intel agent worth his salt could have easily gained access past a snoozing geriatric Renicop security guard and picked the lock.
Uh and I have no doubt that that happened.
Uh I suspect that foreign adversaries got their hands on these classified top secret FCI documents.
If they didn't get it at the University of Pennsylvania, they probably got it from Joe Biden's garage, easy access.
And of course, he played the clip of Biden saying, Well, they weren't on the street, my garage was locked.
I mean, I couldn't stop laughing when I heard him say that.
Yeah.
Now, John, let's go to your other report today, and that is the headline was the university that housed Biden Center, they pressed to end the FBI China spy probe after Beijing gave the donations.
We're talking about sixty-seven million in total, forty-seven point seven million of which uh from China in the three years.
This is the Penn Biden Center.
In the three years that Biden was affiliated with it.
Uh, Greg just brought up the point about potentially sharing an office, but there's a bigger point, I think, to be made here, as and that is that Merrick Garland shut down the FBI's so-called China Initiative in February of 2022, uh, shortly after more than 160 members of the UPenn faculty signed and made public an open letter demanding the program be shuttered on the grounds that it amounted to racial profiling.
Uh and the faculty letter was part of the larger university battle against the program.
Now remember, we're talking about sixty-seven million dollars.
Uh a lot of professors uh, I'm sure were happy that money was flowing into UPenn's coffers.
No doubt.
It's picking up salaries like Joe Biden.
That's that's the big issue here.
China buys its friendship, and then it's able to turn these Americans to do something that the FBI didn't want done.
The FBI wanted to continue this program.
There's a uh uh a document on the Justice Department site today.
A year after Merrick Garland shut down this program.
This document though just it shows all of the Chinese penetrations that the FBI was able to stop and arrest and convict and charge through this program, and then Joe Biden shuts it down after his old university and his old faculty friends uh pressure the Justice Department to do it.
That's what's happening here.
And I'm gonna throw one more name out because I think Greg is, as he always is, right on the money about this.
In the time frame, all this is going out.
Hunter Biden is in business with a gentleman named Patrick Cohen.
let's remember earlier when the Ukraine sham was going on, Hunter Biden was in business with a guy named Devin Archer.
Devin Archer ends up being convicted of fraud, uh a fraud he was committing right as he was working with Hunter Biden.
In 2017, Patrick Coe was trying to set up the Chinese business deals that are going to come into the family's private business, just as Joe's getting all the money from UPenn.
He gets arrested by the FBI.
He's convicted of making bribery payments to foreign countries to try to get China business industry.
At the very moment he's working with Hunter Biden, he's making illegal bribe payments around the world.
And he goes to prison.
But here's the other thing.
If you go into the court files, the court uh during the trial, prosecutors produced evidence that he also was trying to help Iran get around the Iranian embargo of the United States with China's help.
What document did they find in Joe Biden's office at uh UPenn?
They found an Iran intelligence document.
The connections of Hunter Biden's friends and business partners in this moment when these documents are sitting out in an unsafe location, very concerning to the experts I've talked to today.
So there's an interest there's been an ongoing grand jury in Delaware, Greg Jarrett.
Let's get to the legal side of this.
Uh and the New York Times reports that David Weiss, the U.S. attorney for Delaware, uh, is closing in on a decision about whether to prosecute Hunter Biden.
They're not looking into Hunter and Ukraine, the five million dollar no interest forgivable loan, the hundred thousand dollar uh Chinese national shopping spree.
There's a lot of of stuff beyond the low-hanging fruit that wouldn't really mean much at all.
This has the unmistakable stench of a fix.
The fixes in.
How else do you explain we are now in the fifth year of an investigation into Hunter Biden's influence peddling schemes, which were prolific.
They set a record for influence peddling, which is endemic in Washington, D.C. You factor in the fact that we now have uh solid evidence that the FBI uh buried the Hunter Biden laptop story, suppressed it, censorship by using Twitter and other social media platforms as proxies and surrogates, which is a violation of the First Amendment.
And actually, it's a criminal conspiracy to violate civil rights and should be prosecuted as crimes.
But I fear the fix is in, and what's gonna happen is Hunter Biden's gonna cop a plea in exchange for probation.
Uh and they're gonna ignore all the bribery, money laundering, influence pedaling schemes, foreign corrupt uh practices, act violations, uh, because Merrick Garland and Christopher Ray have been running this protection racket.
But they've got a problem.
And their problem, I'll give you two names that are their biggest problem.
Jim Jordan and Jim Comer, and the timing couldn't be worse for either Ray or Garland or Hunter and Joe Biden.
Because House Republicans, they have now commenced their investigation in the House Oversight Committee with Jim Comer into the Biden family syndicate.
So we know that this information will be made public.
And at that point, what impact that might have on the Biden family it could potentially be the biggest influence peddling scandal in the history of the country.
Then what's gonna happen and Ray will hide the evidence, they'll cover up, they'll stonewall, they'll say, oh, we, you know, we have a ongoing criminal investigation.
We cannot provide you with any documents whatsoever.
They'll force Congress to try to pursue it in court and they'll tie it up for more years till the end of Biden's presidency.
That's what's going on here.
And you think they'll be able to skate through the next two years at least and get away with that?
Uh it won't be pretty, uh, but the hardcore documents that the FBI and the DOJ have in their possession of of Biden corruption.
Yeah, I think they're gonna continue to hide the most important documents of all.
And that's where Jim Jordan's investigation into whether or not the FBI is politicized and the DOJ's weaponized uh comes into full focus.
Also, I'm I'm looking in front of me.
Now, this agent will be on Hannity tonight, an incredible piece why I left the FBI.
And it talks about some an individual that was working for Merrill Lynch, 911, one of the top on the top floor, 911, 2001, uh evacuated and left a multi-billion dollar hedge fund to be one of 45,000
people in 2009 that applied to become an FBI special agent and in fact became one and and went into great specificity and great detail about how they have but politicized the FBI and why this person quit as a direct result of it.
Now we have, according to Grassley Johnson, Jordan, and others, we have apparently dozens of whistleblowers that will say similar things, John Solomon.
What does that do?
Oh, listen, it creates a lot of credibility to the narrative that you and Greg and I have been talking about since 2016.
The weaponization of law enforcement and the dual system of justice.
Hunter Biden's going to get treated different than President Trump.
President Trump gets president different treated differently than Joe Biden did on this issue.
We have seen so many uh the January 6th defenders get treated differently than those who wrecked cities during the George Floyd protests.
These will be the frontline agents who can say, you know what?
I saw it in real hand.
I got an instruction to treat someone differently because of their political affiliation.
We heard that from Steve Friend just a few weeks ago, the first FBI whistleblower to go public with his name.
This whistleblower is coming out now.
Uh we are learning of a culture in the FBI that suddenly put its thumb on the scale of justice to achieve political outcomes.
It started with the Russia collusion case, and it hasn't stopped according to these whistleblowers.
They will be the most famous names of 2023 when it comes to accountability, these whistleblowers.
I agree with all of that.
Where do you think that had what what does that add to the equation in your mind, Greg Jarrett?
It tells us even more of what we've long suspected that the FBI is a cesspool of corruption.
And I long ago said we need to consider now totally dismantling the FBI, defund it, uh, and reconstitute a brand new premier law enforcement agency in the United States that is not infected terminally uh with political partisanship.
And you know, this is this is what James Cumming and Andrew McCabe and Peter Strzok and the whole gang wrought.
This is what they brought about.
It is now an arm of the Democratic Party and the Biden family, and you know, it's gotta stop, or there will be no equal justice under law in America.
Quick break, we'll come right back, 800-941 Sean, our number as we continue more with Greg Jarrett, more John Solomon.
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All right, our final moments, a deep dive into Merrick Garland and all things Hunter and Joe Biden today and the news of the special prosecutor.
We continue with uh John Solomon and Greg Jarrett.
You know, what I'm wondering here is all of these foreign countries combined, and you look at all of the money that went into the Biden family coffers, and and we're looking at a company run by a crack addict at the time, according to reports.
And then Joe's big lie that he never once, not one time, ever spoke to his son or any family member for that matter about their foreign business dealings, and now we have photograph photographic evidence that proves he lied.
We have specific dates, specific meetings that he was involved in, involving Hunter and his foreign business partners, John Solomon.
Uh, it seems like that's a pretty slam dunk case to me.
And then I want the Next thing I want to see are the banking records, which I understand there's been some resistance to getting them handed over, but once they get those, I think it'll paint the picture even, you know, make it brighter and clearer for everybody.
Yeah, no, there's no doubt about it.
And that one of the things that James Comers talked about doing is taking, picking up where Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson ended in the fall of 2020 when the Senate flipped to the Democrats.
All those suspicious bank activities give us dates in which foreign money comes into Hunter Biden's account.
Now, what the investigators in Congress want to do is how many times after a foreign dose of money came in, did Hunter Biden then transfer money to cover a bill for Joe Biden to cover uh a cell phone bill, a repair bill.
Because we have the email showing that he was paying his father's bills regularly.
We have an email saying that Joe.
No, no, no, he complained bitterly.
I have to give half my salary to Pops.
Go ahead.
Claire.
And we also see a moment in 2010 when the Joe Biden is the vice president.
Joe Biden's accountant is saying I uh the tax refund he's about to get to go to Hunter Biden because he owes Hunter Biden so much money.
That stands out in these congressional investigators.
So the timeline, how much money comes in and how much does it benefit Joe Biden?
That's going to be one of the big missions of the House Oversight Committee in the next few weeks.
It's going to be fascinating to watch, and I don't think it's going to be as heavy a left lift as people think.
I think a lot of the information is already available and they already have it.
Uh, and then it's just going to be a uh uh who who is willing to tell the truth, uh, probably to save their own ass, and I think that's gonna unfold as well.
Uh anyway, phenomenal work.
Uh John Solomon, Greg Jarrett, by the way, uh, guys, buckle up.
Uh, you will have a very, very busy year on radio and TV this year.
I'm just I'm just telling you ahead of time.
There's a lot of layers to these onions that must be peeled off, and we'll do it one by one like we did with RussiaGate, and we will be right, and they will be wrong.
Which I didn't even have time to get to, the whole Twitter reveal today, which proved that Devin Nunes was right and Adam Schiff was exactly what I called him a congenital liar.
Uh anyway, thank you both.
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