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April 19, 2023 - Sean Hannity Show
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Congressman James Comer - April 18th, Hour 2
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And our two, Sean Hannity Show, toll-free.
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Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, we have a lot of news as it relates to what I call the Biden Family Syndicate.
And this is big news.
In a second, we'll be joined by Congressman James Comer.
He is the chairman of the very powerful and important House Government Reform and Oversight Committee.
Remember, his committee is running point on the issue of what I call the Biden Family Syndicate, which we now know to be bigger than we ever dreamed of.
Congressman Comer is joining us now.
Congressman, great to have you back.
Thank you for being with us.
Thanks for having me, Sean.
Six additional Biden family members may have benefited from Hunter's business dealings.
What's going on?
Well, that's what we're trying to find out.
As you know, we were at Treasury.
My staff's been at Treasury for the past two weeks.
We've talked about this and battled Janet Yellen for many, many months, probably over a year, to try to have access to those Biden bank violations, which were called the suspicious activity reports.
It had been previously reported there were 150 of those.
We found many more.
And to our surprise, we found many more Bidens who were subject to many of those bank violations.
So when you have a bank violation, there could be multiple subjects mentioned in the bank violation.
And what we've learned, Sean, is there are a lot more LLCs that were tied to Biden family members, more than we realized, more than we would have ever dreamed.
And these LLCs were essentially breaking news on 710WOR.
This is Jeff McKinney in the WR Newsroom, and a settlement has just now been announced in the $1.6 billion defamation case being brought by Dominion Voting Systems against Fox News.
Dominion was saying Fox continued to air allegations that Dominion's voting machines were crooked and rigged the election in favor of Joe Biden.
And Dominion alleges Fox knew that those claims were false.
Fox News is saying, had been saying that it was just doing its job, reporting on what was a huge story, these allegations of the stolen election.
But we have just gotten word that a settlement has been reached.
Much more on the story throughout the afternoon.
Now it's back to Sean.
Services that were under suspicion of human trafficking, which is bad enough, Sean.
And I don't know if they were human trafficked.
I don't know.
You know, I don't, all I know is one of the LLCs was getting zinged because they were doing repeated business with an escort service or multiple escort services that had women working that were illegals from Ukraine, Russia, countries like that.
Nothing good, nothing good for national security, nothing good for morals or ethics.
But at the end of the day, I think the story, Sean, is this is a family business, and the business was influence peddling because there is no real estate.
There is no, you know, normal business expenses, rent, office supplies, you know, the employees, the normal thing, Chamber of Commerce dues, you know, not the normal business expenses, what we're finding in these bank statements.
And in these bank violations, you've got these LLCs that were receiving substantial amounts of money from adversarial businesses and adversarial countries, and then they were the very next day wiring money to Biden family members' personal accounts.
It makes no sense.
It fits the mold of a laundering scheme, and that's why they got so many bank violations.
And look, this isn't just one bank, Sean.
We're talking about multiple banks, big banks, little banks.
They all suspected the same thing.
They all found it odd that you had all these family members that were getting all this money from these countries that a lot of most Americans and most businesses aren't even allowed to do business with.
Let me go through this a little bit more slowly here.
And I'll tell you why this is important from my perspective, and I'd love your perspective, is I have been watching with great trepidation what's happening in the world, and that is China is now forming clearly what I'm describing as a new axis of evil.
It includes Russia, it includes Iran, allies of ours, the Saudis.
Remember, Donald Trump had the United States, Israel, Jordan, Egypt, the Saudis, and the UAE in an alliance against Iranian hegemony.
The Iranians now have joined China and Russia.
China has now negotiated a peace, which I never thought I'd see between the Saudis and the Iranians, and now they're doing one with the Saudis and the Syrians.
We see North Korea with more military activity than ever before.
Now, how is this connected?
I want to know an answer to the question.
I know you don't have it yet, but you will get there.
How much money the Biden family did in business with China and with Russia and Ukraine.
And you've told me well over a dozen countries.
And now that we're following the money is what you're basically saying here.
You know, how much money in business and how much money went in their pockets.
And is this in any way, has this compromised the president that we know lied when he said he had no knowledge at all of Hunter Biden's foreign business dealings?
We know that's a lie.
That is a lie.
He did have knowledge.
You say Fox has done a good job going through White House Vista logs to see that at least 80 times these people that President Biden claimed he never met have been in the White House when he was vice president.
We know from talking to our whistleblowers that they met multiple times while between the vice presidency and the presidency during that four-year period.
We know from text messages and emails that Joe even encouraged Hunter to connect with some of these guys that he claims he never met or didn't know Hunter was in business with.
So, yeah, the president's definitely lied about his knowledge of what his son was doing.
But what I think people don't realize is how many members of the family were involved.
Now, what the story was, well, these were legitimate business deals.
The president's son, you know, they always referred to Barisma.
He was very qualified to be on this board.
Wait a minute.
He was on Good Morning America and was asked if he had any background in energy.
No.
Oil, no.
Gas, no.
Ukraine, no.
That's right.
I'll tell you this, the barisma thing was probably the most above-board deal that I've seen of all these because there was an energy company there.
What it looks to me like, we've traced these LLCs and they're not legitimate businesses.
As I said, they don't have legitimate expenses.
Most businesses have a website, business cards, Facebook site.
These didn't have anything.
And I asked the question, and the question I wish the mainstream media would ask the Biden, the president, what exactly was the business?
Because they said, well, it's an energy company.
I don't find any energy company.
You know, Sean, you and I can form an LLC and call it Hannity and Comer Insurance, or Hannity and Comer Energy Company.
Well, that doesn't mean we're in the energy business.
We just have an LLC that has the word energy in it.
And that's what it appears to me.
What it looks like China was doing with respect to China was they wanted the Bidens affiliated with their efforts to go into these other countries, to go into these African countries, to go into these Middle Eastern companies and say, look, you all need to do business with China because no country is real eager to do business with China because they know they come in and take over.
I think China is unpopular in most of the countries in the world and feared in most of the countries of the world.
But when you walk in and you have Hunter Biden senior, this is the son of the former vice president of the United States, or this is the son of the leading contender to be president of the United States.
Then that adds credibility and it makes these other countries that fear China think, okay, well, this is, you know, we should do business with China.
We should sell them our farmland.
We should let them buy our manufacturers.
We should let them have a big footprint in our economy.
And everything they were doing from a China standpoint was to help China, which hurts the United States.
The Biden family was in on the gig to help China prosper and grow their regime and have a more competitive advantage over the United States, not just in business, but also in military and on the international stage.
You know, I want to ask you this.
I mean, I couldn't understand why Joe Biden as vice president demanded, leveraged a billion taxpayer dollars to get a prosecutor in Ukraine fired.
Turns out that prosecutor was investigating his son.
Right.
So to me, that's a quid pro quo.
They impeached Donald Trump over an alleged quid pro quo.
I don't understand, and I'd like to understand whether or not the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which was granted as a waiver was granted by Joe Biden early in his presidency while he was simultaneously canceling the Keystone XL pipeline.
And I want to know whether or not these countries are number one, number two geopolitical foes had the Biden family compromise the whole time because we know Joe lied.
We know he was involved.
We know he leveraged the billion dollars to protect his son.
And I want to know if there's going to be ultimate accountability here because those are all impeachable offenses, Congressman.
Yeah, no, Sean, you've done your homework, and there are five major decisions that Joe Biden made since he's been president.
And we're not even talking about the ones during the vice presidency, and obviously firing the prosecutor in Ukraine was an obvious decision Joe Biden did to help benefit his family, right?
Well, this year, there are five different decisions at Pipeline is one of them that we're investigating to see if this was done because of the millions of dollars that his family received from China and from adversaries around the world.
We think he made a lot of decisions in Russia that had an impact on his family receiving money.
So we're investigating Joe Biden.
And in the media, they want to try to say the Democrats in Congress, well, they've never tied Joe Biden into any of this.
Well, two months ago, Sean, they were saying, well, no, the Bidens didn't do anything wrong.
It's all conspiracy theories from Republicans.
They never thought that I would be able to have access to the bank records or the bank violations.
We're getting people coming in cooperating with us.
We're making progress.
I'm having to fight not just the Bidens and not just their mob-style attorneys.
I'm having to fight the media.
The media is criticizing us every step of the way.
They didn't report.
Outside of conservative networks, not a single network reported that we identified six additional Biden family members that receive money.
Now, can you imagine if that were Donald Trump?
No, I can't.
That's the problem.
And this is where Jim Jordan's committee is so pivotal.
The Judiciary Committee, because they're looking into whether or not the FBI is politicized and whether or not the DOJ has been weaponized.
They ought to look at the IRS because I will tell you, with all these LLCs, there is no way that they would pass an audit because I would assume that these LLCs, the only activity that we can see was they got their big wire from the state-owned entity or whatever in China or another country, whatever.
And then they turn around and start paying money to the Bidens and start paying for basic living expenses.
I mean, if these LLCs all showed losses, then that means the Biden didn't even pay taxes on the money they received for influence peddlings, essentially.
I mean, there is no business there, Sean.
I mean, and I keep saying this on TV, and no one that attacks me in the Democrat Party or in the media tries to challenge me on that.
There is no business.
The business was influence peddling.
And if nothing else, you asked about holding them accountable.
If nothing else, at the very least, the president's son and at least one of his brothers was what would be defined as a foreign agent.
They were an unregistered foreign agent.
And that is a felony.
I mean, at the very least, then you've got the tax evasion part.
You've got questions about espionage.
You've got money laundering.
The list goes on and on and on for what you could have already nailed this family on.
And then I see what they're going after Donald Trump on.
A misdemeanor?
Are you kidding me?
And I'm doing everything in my ability.
The Oversight Committee, I know Jim Jordan's Judiciary Committee, we're doing everything we can to uncover the truth and try to hold this family accountable.
Well, I appreciate the work you're doing, and we always appreciate the time you give us.
This is important work.
This is a massive development.
And I know you're going to follow every lead, and I think we're going to get to the bottom of this.
And then from there, the American people need to know everything that happened, how compromised they are, and what the consequences will be.
We appreciate you sharing your latest update.
Thank you, James Comer.
Thank you, Sean.
Linda, tell me if you think I'm wrong on this.
My takeaway listening to Comer is now that they've got, now that they're getting access to all of the suspicious activity reports, and now that they have, and it's been a very difficult uphill battle to get these banks to cooperate, and now that they're finding other entities now involved, now that they're finding out that other Biden family members are involved, I am really believing this is about to break wide open.
And we now know Joe lied.
We now know the whole family benefited.
We now know our number one and two geopolitical foes, you know, did millions and millions and millions of dollars in the case of China Billion Five Bank of China deal.
This is now real.
Joe Biden's presidency is hanging in the balance.
Am I wrong?
I hope you're right.
I hope we don't have a James Comey, Hillary Clinton moment when all the truth comes to light.
Yeah, unbelievable.
But anyway, I'll tell you what, when we get back, I know there's a lot going on.
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Is that fair?
Is that fair, Linda?
Or is that mean?
I mean, you know, I feel that as a New Yorker, directness is an act of kindness.
I don't want you to wonder what I think.
I'm going to help you out.
No, I mean, there are many ways to spell the name Sean.
S-H-A-W-N.
There's S-H-A-U-N.
And then there's the right way to spell it, which is S-E-A-N.
Which is also the only way to make it fit numerically for a phone number.
Ah, shocking.
Great point.
I mean, just thinking out loud, right?
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I know.
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I have no idea how they came up with that idea.
Whenever it falls on a weekend, they don't do it on the Monday.
They always do it on the Tuesday.
All right.
So I mean, I don't know anybody that does their own taxes.
Do you?
I don't know anybody.
I used to back in the day.
It's way too complicated now.
It got too complicated when I didn't even make money.
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Big Don.
Welcome aboard, sir.
How are you?
Captain Hannity, permission to come aboard.
Permission granted, sir.
What's going on?
I wanted to thank you for Jim Jordan and that Judiciary Committee for coming to New York City to expose the crime problem.
And a huge thank you to you, Sean, for showing this on your programming last night.
All of America got to see and hear about the horrible crime trouble hosted by Alvin Bregg.
And as a bonus, as a bonus, my friend, the Committee Democrats displayed for one and all their contempt for the victims' families, and they demonstrated how vile and empty they are.
Well, I just got to tell you something.
We played on the radio yesterday this poor woman who lost her son.
Her name is Mrs. Braem, and she was on TV last night, and it's just heartbreaking.
I mean, this woman will never be the same again.
Her son was murdered, stabbed to death, a veteran, and her husband stabbed and has injuries now that will stay with him for the rest of his life, life-altering injuries.
And then Bragg, apparently, she said last night, it blew me away, that the only reason they didn't go after the two people that they let go is because they didn't have enough money because so much money was being spent on Donald Trump.
They actually, she says, they said that to her.
I'm like, you got to be kidding me.
Let me play it for you.
This is what she said.
Alvin Bragg was handled a strong trial-ready murder case from the original district attorney.
All right.
These original district attorneys were professional.
They were old school.
And they had an airtight trial-ready murder case against all four people.
This is Cy Vance's.
Cy Vance, yes.
Okay.
Soon as Alvin Bragg took office, he was handed that strong trial ready murder case, and the original district attorney retired, like many, many of the ADAs left as soon as Alvin Bragg's day one memo came out about not prosecuting crime.
As soon as his office is breaking news on 710WOR.
Jeff McKinney in from the WR newsroom.
I mentioned this in the headlines a few minutes ago, getting more information.
Now, there is news this late afternoon of a partial parking garage collapse in Lower Manhattan in Phi Dye in the financial district on Anne Street between William and Nassau Streets.
Several people are reported injured and some are trapped.
There is some video now from the scene and it shows that cars have been crushed.
There's a large response from emergency crews now.
Reports indicate at least the top floor of the parking garage has collapsed and that's what it looks like.
So you have a lot of concrete and you have several cars crashing down onto the next level of this parking garage.
So from the face of it, from afar, it does not look good.
So a parking garage collapse, at least a partial collapse down in Phi Dye.
Much more on that this afternoon.
I'm Jeff McKinney in the newsroom.
Now it's back to Hannity.
We're dishing out.
And last night, she verbally kicked Hank Johnson's ass.
I loved it.
It was great.
And Hank Johnson is the one that said that they were props used for some MAGA propaganda, whatever comment he made.
Listen, I made a promise to myself when I started TV because I'd seen people crying on TV.
I'm not going to cry on TV.
But there are moments where I'm chewing and chomping on the inside of my cheek to keep it together.
And I just, you know, I felt so horrible for Madeline and her family.
And these people are cold and they're callous.
Jerry and Natalie, well, we put two of the people away.
I'm like, really?
I mean, that's your answer?
These people are pathetic.
These people are pathetic.
Calling a woman who lost her son, who was a hero, and saying she's a prop.
Unreal.
Big Don, we love you.
Thanks, man.
Appreciate it.
Let's say hi to Michael in North Carolina.
Michael, hi.
How are you?
Glad you called.
Hi, Sean.
How are you?
I'm good.
What's going on?
But yeah, I watched that on your program last night.
And to say that I was disgusted with what Hank Johnson had said towards that woman, that poor lady who just lost someone that close to her.
And for him to say that stuff to her, that was just absolutely scummy for him to say.
He shouldn't even be in that position.
She challenged him and said he was rich and out of touch.
Yeah, absolutely agree with her 100%.
Let me play where she said she gave a direct message to Hank Johnson.
Then you have the comments of Hank Johnson.
He called, you're a witness in this.
He's calling you and others props in a MAGA Broadway production.
Yes.
So you lose your child.
His father is forever injured.
And were you a prop?
What's your answer to him?
No, absolutely not.
You know, I would challenge this gentleman, whatever his name is.
Hank Johnson.
Hank Johnson to step one foot in the hood.
Step one foot in the hood and tell me if those people there in that hood are props as well.
You know, he's a rich black man.
All right.
He is a rich black man that's telling poor black men that they're props and that the crime and the things that they're experiencing is not as bad as they think that they are.
You know, and not just him.
Not just him.
All the elected officials.
You know?
All of them.
Especially the ones that are running New York.
I don't care who this woman votes for, but she made a point.
It's about you can't be free if you don't have law and order and safety and security.
She was referring to Hank Johnson saying this.
Like jack-booted thugs, they've descended on New York City using violent crime as their pretext.
The MAGA Republican extremists are not interested in gun violence or even knife violence.
The Republican witnesses who have used their time to criticize District Attorney Bragg has served as props in a MAGA Broadway production.
It's unreal.
I'll give you the final word.
Yeah, how can you even think of saying something?
Who would have the audacity to even think about saying stuff like that to crime victims that have just lost their own child?
Like, I bet, and to reiterate what she said about stepping in the hood, I bet he doesn't know a thing about it.
She's absolutely right.
And as a matter of fact, we were watching your show last night as she was saying that.
And we were like, this woman should be like in the government or something, like in the governor's office or whatever, because she was so passionate about what she was speaking about.
And it was just, it was tragic to watch, but she had such composure to keep it together.
She was such a strong woman.
And I feel so bad for her that she had to be told that by these radical left Democrats.
It's just terrible.
It's terrible.
And it's a sad direction that this country is headed towards.
By the way, this is the same dopey congressman that once warned that Guam could capsize.
That's what a genius he is.
Listen.
This is an island that at its widest level is what, 12 miles from shore to shore, 24 miles long, about seven miles wide at the least widest.
Yeah, my fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize.
We don't anticipate that.
Okay.
We don't anticipate that an island will capsize.
You know, these are the geniuses we're dealing with.
Anyway, Michael, appreciate the call, buddy.
Glad you watched that.
All right, quick break right back to our phones, 800-941-Sean.
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Up next, our final roundup and information overload hour.
All right, let's get back to our busy telephone.
John in Massachusetts.
John, hi, how are you?
Glad you called, sir.
Welcome aboard.
Thank you for taking my call.
I'm actually calling from an island in Massachusetts that I hope doesn't capsize anytime soon.
Which one?
Martha's Vineyard or Nantucket?
Nantucket.
I'm a Nantucketer.
I've been to Nantucket.
I've never been to Martha's Vineyard.
When I lived in Rhode Island, I went there.
You know what?
The only cool thing about it is you can rent like a moped for the day, and I just rode it all over the place.
Yep, that's the fun part of it.
We got a couple of those and absolutely enjoy them.
So we live here in Nantucket part-time and in Maine part-time.
That's awesome.
You're off the grid.
You're smart.
What's going on?
Very much so.
Just calling two things real quick.
First of all, I owe you an apology.
I've been a loyal listener for years.
And a few years ago, I started to allow myself to get annoyed with tuning in and constantly just hearing nothing about Russia, Russia, Russia, Quid Pro Joe, not hitting a billion dollars over and over and over again.
And so I kind of tuned out.
And after a while, I realized that no one else was talking about those things.
And I kind of quickly came to the realization that you were right about all those things.
And so I decided to tune back in.
And now after continuing to listen, I firmly believe that those are the things you need to keep saying over and over and over again so people understand the level of corruption that we're up against.
Well, first of all, you don't owe me anything.
You don't owe me an apology.
I'm grateful you're back listening because I can't do the show without you listening.
You know, there is a need for a repetitive nature in this business.
And I'll tell you why.
Because people are not listening every, I want everyone to listen three hours a day, but some people can't listen three hours a day or an hour at night.
And that story, those two stories that you referred to, it took a lot of detail and it took a lot to understand it.
And I felt it needed constant repetition so people would remember it and fully understand it.
Not because I want to hear myself talk.
I'm hearing myself talk one way or the other.
It's what I'm saying that matters.
You know, I've told the story before.
I was in Atlanta, Richard Jewell, the day that the article came out in the AJC, Atlanta Journal Constitution, that he fits the profile of the lone bomber because he lives with his mother.
I was on the air at the time.
I didn't know Richard Jewell was listening.
He was.
And I said, this is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.
Maybe he's trying to save money.
Just because you live with your mother doesn't make you a domestic terrorist.
And that has taught me and served me well.
And I don't rush to judgment.
And I didn't rush to judgment with Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman.
I ended up being right there or Duke La Crosse.
I met and met with the parents and the kids, Duke La Crosse, a few of them.
And I left there knowing that those kids didn't do it because I got information others didn't have.
I know that hands up, don't shoot didn't happen in Ferguson, Missouri because I worked my contacts, my law enforcement contacts.
Very early on, they told me there were multiple minority witnesses that would back up the police officers' claims.
I knew that they would back up his claim.
So I knew that that story, that narrative would fall apart.
The media went forward.
Hands up, don't shoot.
They rushed to judgment all the time.
The same thing with Baltimore and Freddie Gray.
The same thing with UVA.
The same thing with the Cambridge police.
And yes, the same thing with Barack Obama's radicalism.
The same thing with, you know, the Russia collusion hoax.
We get it right because I don't rush to judgment.
And it's amazing, you know, when I'm lied about and people say things and take them totally out of context, they want you to believe I'm lying to you.
I don't rush to judgment.
I'll wait, even if I don't believe it.
Let's see what happens and wait for evidence.
And that's not enough for some people.
I'd rather be right than first.
I appreciate it.
Listen, John, you owe me no apology.
Welcome home.
Glad you're back.
You're welcome all the time.
We're glad you're here.
Okay.
I've got tickets for Thursday night's show.
I'm going to be there Thursday night for a tape for the show.
So hopefully I catch a football.
You will definitely catch a football.
If you want one, come up to me.
Make sure you remind me of this call, okay?
I will.
All right.
Thanks, Sean.
Thanks for doing what you do.
Thank you, my friend.
Welcome home.
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