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Protecting Hunter - May 8th, Hour 2
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Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, two bits of breaking news before we get to John Solomon and Greg Jarrett.
One, the White House now has banned the New York Post from the Biden event as their reporting has, I guess, not pleased them very much.
Anyway, they barred the New York Post from attending Biden's only daytime public event today as federal prosecutors are nearing a decision on whether they will criminally charge Hunter Biden for tax fraud, gun violations, at least as we have been reporting and major news outlets had reported.
Wall Street Journal also has accused Joe Biden of interfering with the DOJ investigation into Hunter.
And this was on justthenews.com.
And they're saying that it's highly inappropriate from the president to give the message basically because the DOJ is part of the executive branch of government and essentially telling prosecutors that they are wrong to bring an indictment against Hunter because Hunter is innocent.
His exact words, which we played in the last hour of Joe Biden, couldn't be any more clear.
He said that Hunter has done nothing wrong.
I'm proud of him, et cetera, et cetera.
Now, just to quick sum up what's going on and what we're expecting this week, this is getting very interesting as James Comer, Oversight Committee Chairman, and Republicans on the Oversight Committee are holding this press conference on Wednesday at 9 a.m.
And they say the Oversight Committee is investigating the Biden family's influence peddling enterprise to determine if the Biden family has been targeted by foreign actors, if President Biden is compromised, and if there is a national security threat.
The committee has already obtained thousands of pages of financial records related to the Biden family and their associate transactions.
And recently, the committee revealed one deal that resulted in several members of the Biden family and their companies receiving over $1 million in more than 15 incremental payments from a Chinese company through a third party.
So Comer now is apparently sitting on some bombshell evidence, and he is now urging the Department of Justice to hold off on any indictment of Hunter Biden until he's able to make that evidence public on Wednesday morning.
What does this all mean?
Well, John Solomon, editor-in-chief, justthenews.com, investigative reporter.
Greg Jarrett, author of the soon-to-be bestseller, the trial of the century, Amazon.com and Hannity.com if you want an early first printed edition.
Welcome, both of you.
What do you make of Comer's statement and what the committee is going to release or what we expect them to release on Wednesday, John Solomon?
Well, listen, there'll be a roadmap to just how widespread the Biden family influence operation across the world was, who was involved, how many companies were involved, how much money changed hands, who got the money change hands, and then overlaying that, how many times actions by the Obama-Biden administration just happened to take actions that were favorable to the very people paying the family.
So the very strong connection between public actions by Joe Biden and the cash collecting operation that his family members led by Hunter Biden and his brother James Biden were doing.
And, you know, he called it an influence peddling scheme.
And I think that he intends to prove that with his interim report on Wednesday.
That's a good point.
By the way, John Solomon, I did forget to mention, has a new children's book.
How did you get time to write a children's book?
I got to tell you, it wasn't something I was thinking of doing.
I'm just so glad I did.
It's about free speech.
It's called Hidden Headlines, which is really that defines you.
Well, thank you.
It was a great honor.
Brave books are great people, and it was one of the most fun experiences I've ever had in my career.
Anyway, that's on Amazon.com, Hannity.com, and bookstores everywhere.
All right, Greg.
So now James Comer is urging prosecutors, urging the AG, don't indict Hunter until after Wednesday because they have all these revelations.
Now, Joe Biden defended his son, said he's innocent over the weekend.
The DOJ is part of the executive branch of government.
Is the Wall Street Journal correct in saying that that was inappropriate?
Number one, and number two, what do you expect?
We're going to hear from Comer on Wednesday.
Apparently, Joe Biden's brimming with pride over his son's astonishing success in making tens of millions of dollars for the Biden syndicate.
And according to Chairman Comer, you know, the whistleblower document, the latest one, directly implicates the president himself as complicit in Hunter's schemes and the beneficiary of the payola.
You know, the public pronouncement by Biden that his son has done nothing wrong, that was a veiled message to his pal Merrick Garland to exert political influence.
The Wall Street Journal is right, making that very point in their editorial today.
Partisan favoritism, Sean, and, you know, retribution.
That's been Merrick Garland's calling guard ever since he took the helm at the Justice Department.
It's why the Biden-appointed AG refused to recuse himself from the investigation of his own boss and his nefarious son.
He refused to appoint a special counsel, even though federal regulations require it.
So, you know, the push is on for a sweetheart slap on the wrist deal for Hunter Biden.
Joe Biden has sent the message loud and clear.
What about last week when we heard a whistleblower allegation that is out there that when James Comer and Senator Charles Grassley sent a letter and they believe they have a credible whistleblower and that there are documents that will reveal that Joe Biden himself took official actions in exchange for money?
That's called bribery, John Solomon.
What's the latest on that?
Well, listen, we now have two instances, once in 2018, once in 2020, where a credible source, someone that is working with the FBI or worked with the Justice Department, walked in an allegation to be investigated.
All it is is an allegation, right?
And when it's someone that's in such high power as the Vice President Joe Biden or the future president Joe Biden, you would think that it would get investigated.
And instead, in both cases, we see a pattern where it appears to have been thrown into a circular and not investigated.
So today, in 2023, we don't know if it's true.
That's what concerns James Comer.
That's what concerns Chuck Grassy.
The first one is a confidential human source from Ukraine who in the summer of 2020, June 2020, to be exact, met with his FBI handlers and laid out a detailed information, detailed allegations that Joe Biden was in a pay-to-play scheme involving Ukraine policy.
Two years earlier, a former U.S. attorney in Little Rock, a very respected former federal prosecutor, decorated, did a good job.
He says, hey, I've been contacted by the Attorney General of Ukraine.
He has some evidence and some witnesses.
John Doe one, John Doe two.
So he wasn't just bringing allegations.
He was going to bring witnesses who claimed that Joe Biden was involved in a pay-to-play bribery scheme.
Sounds exactly the same thing.
The U.S. attorney never gets contacted.
They don't reach out.
They don't engage him.
But two years later, they take his phone records and they investigate him for trying to report wrongdoing.
That's the pattern that so concerns members of Congress.
What about this guy, Bud Cummins, who's a former federal prosecutor?
That's it.
Yeah, first reporting the bribery allegations to then New York U.S. Attorney Jeff Berman.
That was in October of 2018 in an email claiming that he had evidence that Joe Biden, quote, had exercised influence to protect his son's Ukrainian employer in exchange for payments to Hunter Biden, Devin Archer, and Joe Biden.
Now, that does bring, it does bring back into play, in my view, tell me if I'm wrong, Joe Biden bragging on tape that he leveraged $1 billion to get a prosecutor in Ukraine fired, the prosecutor investigating the group Barisma, and Joe Biden's son Hunter, who admitted on GMA that he had no experience in Ukraine, oil, gas, coal, or energy, but yet was being paid all this money.
To me, that's a quid pro quo, isn't it?
That was the concern then, and it remains so today.
And one of the things I've been, I've been suing and filing lawsuits.
And in a couple of weeks, I'm going to reveal new documents from our own State Department, from our own FBI, from our own national security agencies that will directly challenge some of the testimony that was given at the impeachment trial that tried to dismiss all of this as conspiracy theories and political attacks.
The testimony and the documents don't match.
We're going to make those public in a couple of weeks when we get a couple more of them.
But there is some real concern that time and time again, every time an allegation about Joe Biden came up, there was a campaign to bury it and to also to bury the people trying to raise the questions rather than legitimately investigate it.
Add to that, too.
Greg Jarrett, the IRS whistleblower's attorneys, have met with congressional investigators on the Biden probe.
To me, that might have jump-started all the talk about Hunter's indictment because at that point, they recognized that the world knew what they probably had known for a long time.
Oh, I think you're 100% correct.
I think that's why all of a sudden now there seems to be a flurry of activity by the Department of Justice.
It's not that they've just suddenly awakened from their slumber.
It's that they've been now publicly pressured.
And, you know, big picture here, Sean, if these accusations involving Joe Biden directly, the exchange of money for policy decisions, that constitutes the crime of bribery under federal law.
But it's also another felony, a separate one under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which makes it a crime to exploit a public office for self-enrichment from a foreign entity or government.
But beyond that, and this is equally important, it rises to the level of an impeachable offense.
Why?
Because the U.S. Constitution specifically provides that a president can be removed for treason and bribery.
Well, betraying your country to a hostile adversary for cold hard cash.
What is that?
It's both treason and bribery.
Let me ask you, Miranda Devine had a number of articles.
One, that Biden is setting the stage to pardon his son Hunter, framing the DOJ charges as a, quote, witch hunt, interesting use of a phrase.
Also, that Biden's ex-business partner, Devin Archery, has one more shot in a New York court before he has to go to jail.
Will he spill the beans on Hunter to avoid prison?
And also that Joe Biden bribery allegations were brought to the DOJ, which we just talked about.
And then what happens to the former CIA chief Mike Morrell, who wrote the ex-spy letter signed by 51 former Intel people, that in fact the laptop had all the earmarkings of Russian disinformation.
But when Mike Morrell wrote John Brennan, just to name one of the 51, he said, sure, you can add my name to the list.
And he knew nothing about the laptop.
John.
Yeah, listen, let me go back to Miranda, who does such great reporting and was canceled back in 2020 by a censorship machine trying to prevent the American public from knowing that.
And Mike Morrell was part of that censor machine.
Joe Biden campaign, Mike Morrell, and the current Secretary of State were all involved in an effort to cancel her.
And she's persisted, and she's gotten more and more truth out there every day.
The single most important thing, I think Congress is missing a big opportunity.
Devin Archer is awaiting to go to prison.
He was right-hand businessman to Hunter Biden.
He's involved in Ukraine.
He's involved in Russia.
He's involved in China.
The Republicans in Congress have not found an effective way to engage him.
And that is a big mistake.
He has documents and eyewitness testimony that could transform the congressional investigation that the Justice Department has done gymnastics to avoid learning about.
They've structured all these cases not to ask the questions about Hunter Biden.
I think Comer and Grassley and Johnson and Jordan should spend some time and try to get his cooperation, or if not get it, compel it, because I think he answers more questions than anyone, any other figure in this investigation.
Last word, Greg Jarrett.
Yeah, it's called a lawful subpoena.
Issue it.
Exercise it.
You have the authority to do it.
But let me just hit one other thing you brought up.
Mike Morrell, ex-CIA chief who composed the phony lying letter that helped Joe Biden get elected.
Apparently, it was quite easy for Morrell to round up 50 liars in the intel community who were more than happy to deceive the American people and help Joe Biden get elected based on a lie.
They completely invented the false claim that the laptop was Russian disinformation.
It wasn't based on any evidence.
No discussion.
Just sign your name.
We'll help conceal Biden corruption involving foreign adversaries.
And the net effect was it was one of the dirtiest tricks ever perpetrated in American politics.
The lie was pivotal.
Polling data shows rough 15% would have cast their ballots differently.
Is that election interference by law?
I have five seconds.
If it were just about everybody behind bars in Washington would be behind bars for their lives.
Good answer.
Greg Jarrett and John Solomon, thank you both.
All right, when we come back, we're going to hit the phones.
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I told you this poll, as I mentioned at the start of the show today, is just devastating from ABC News, Washington Post polled.
68% of Americans think Joe Biden is too old for another term.
Well, he is too old for another term.
And I mean, he blames the negative media coverage for his low poll numbers.
What negative media coverage?
I mean, for the longest time, we were the only ones out there that I know of regularly pointing out that this guy is weak and frail and a cognitive mess.
Now, everybody finally figured it out.
Well, I actually believe they knew at the time.
They just tried to cover it up for him.
But that's what he's saying.
Listen.
You're talking about real practical solutions when you reference insulin that you've come up with.
Why do you think you don't get more credit for it?
Why do you think your polling is where it is?
Well, I don't think people, by the way, every major one who won re-election, their polling numbers were minor now.
Put polling aside, then, right?
Sentiment in this country, despite all these wins, is not very good.
All they've heard is negative news for three years.
Everything is negative.
I'm not being critical of the press, but you turn on the television, the only way you're going to get a hit is if there's something negative.
You know, you don't.
Anyway, that's number one.
Anyway, but I digress, as I usually do.
I mean, then he defends his age by saying he's more experienced than anyone who has ever run for office.
Well, that's one way to put it, but you decide.
Critics would say you're elevating her because they think you wouldn't serve a full term.
And it is fair to say that there's not a Fortune 500 company in the world looking to hire a CEO in his 80s.
So why would an 82-year-old Joe Biden be the right person for the most important job in the world?
Because I've acquired a hell of a lot of wisdom.
I know more than the vast majority of people.
I'm more experienced than anybody who's ever run for the office.
And I think I've proven myself to be honorable as well as also effective.
Okay, that I'll leave up to the American people.
It's getting worse and worse and worse.
And this is his problem.
And if they try to hide him in the basement this time, which seems to be the planned strategy, it's not going to be effective.
The only reason he got away with a lot of that in 2020 was because of COVID.
That was the main reason.
That was the rationale behind it anyway.
But he does not have, I mean, I loved when Jen Saki and others in the administration, I think Corine Jean-Pierre said the same thing, that he's so energetic, I can't even keep up with him.
Well, you're in pretty bad shape if you can't keep up with Joe, unless you take as many naps as Joe takes.
Anyway, so he defended his age.
Let me play him answering the question about Hunter.
Now, as we've been telling you, James Comer is asking the Justice Department, do not indict him until information is brought forth on Wednesday of this week.
I mean, that's a powerful statement for the head of the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee that has been investigating the Biden family syndicate.
Anyway, here's Biden defending Hunter as having done nothing wrong and how proud he is of him.
Sir, there is something personal that's affecting you.
Your son, while there's no ties to you, could be charged by your Department of Justice.
How will that impact your presidency?
First of all, my son's done nothing wrong.
I trust him.
I have faith in him.
And it impacts my presidency by making me feel proud of him.
Why didn't she ask, why did you lie to the American people about saying you never had a conversation with Hunter about his foreign business dealings?
That would have been good.
Anyway, 800-941-Sean is our number if you want to be a part of the program.
We have Sergeant Trey Penny, our friend from Dallas, is going to join us at the top of the next hour to update us on this horrible shooting over the weekend.
Let's go to New Hampshire.
Bill is next on the Sean Hannity show.
Bill, how are you?
Glad you called, sir.
Glad you're with us.
Oh, thank you very much.
Proud United States Marine Corps veteran and proud Tunnel Federal.
Senator Fidelo, sir.
How are you?
Very good.
Thank you.
I'd like to talk a little bit about term limits.
82% of the American public is in favor.
And I know Newt Gingrich with a contract for America tried to get that done and Senator Cruz as well.
But in New Hampshire, they have what they call the pledge.
And it's a grassroots effort to get the governor coming in to agree with no new taxes, no incomes or sales tax.
So I was wondering if it was possible, maybe I'm being a little bit naive, but if we formed a grassroots effort to get every politician to make that pledge of term limits, if there's any hope.
Listen, I've always said about term limits, I wish they weren't necessary, you know, because I really, in my heart, my soul, I want the greatest amount of freedom possible.
However, history has shown us again and again, you know, people go to Washington oftentimes with the best of intentions, and I really believe that.
Then they get there, and then they're vying to get on this committee, and they're vying for seniority on that committee.
And, you know, the way that you have gerrymandering, it always works in favor of the incumbents, and deals are struck left and right.
So you have a very small pool of vulnerable candidates during an election.
The reason I like term limits is maybe people will go there.
And if you only have four years, you can serve as a congressman or a congresswoman, you're not going to spend all your time thinking about reelection.
You're going to spend your time serving your constituents and not really giving a hoot if you're going to get re-elected again, especially in your second term.
So, or the same with senators, you know, maybe two terms, maybe one term, and out.
You're done.
I think it works pretty well in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
You get one term as governor, you're done.
You can run again, but you have to have an interim governor in the meantime.
So, I call it a bad idea, but its time has come because the incumbency, the reelection rate for incumbents is way too high.
They can become part of the swamp.
They all begin to resemble each other.
They're doing the horse trading thing.
I'll support your bill if you support my bill that benefits my district.
And I think a lot of that would go away, and we would be better served as the American people.
That's what I think.
Yes, sir.
I also think the founders did not intend for career politicians.
And I think it'd be great if they could go home and live by all the laws that they passed.
It'd be nice if they had to take the same plans that they burden us with, like Obamacare, right?
Yes.
I mean, it's breathtakingly arrogant on their part.
And they do it again and again, or just like when they just recently, however long ago, voted themselves a new pay raise.
I'm like, nobody I know in the world gets to vote for their own pay raised.
You know, one thing we should adopt, maybe can adopt as a country, are referendums where the American people vote straight up or straight down on issues like a pay raise or something like that.
Anyway, Bill from the live free or die state.
Thank you, sir.
Appreciate you being with us.
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Our number, if you want to be a part of the show today, Don, Iowa, Iowa is going to be front and center sooner than we think.
How are you, Don?
Glad you called, sir.
Hi, Sean.
Thank you for taking my call.
I appreciate it.
Thank you.
There's one great steakhouse in Des Moines, Iowa.
I've been there many times over many years.
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Maybe, I'm not sure.
Yeah, they do a good job.
But there's quite a few, actually.
So you can't go bad with a corn-fed state, that's for sure.
And they're all corn-fed out here.
Man, it's terrific.
The only problem is I have to run into other people from the media mob.
I understand.
Easy to hide out here, though.
We've got plenty of cornfields.
Well, that's what am I going to do?
Take my steak in a cornfield in the middle of the Iowa caucus when it's freezing?
No, thank you.
What's on your mind today?
I called about this Hunter Biden a couple of weeks ago.
You had mentioned Hunter getting favored treatment thanks to his father being senator, which, by the way, anytime you do a segment on Hunter Biden, you should play John Fogre's senator's son.
It's so pruscient to.
I know the song.
Yeah.
Well, that's not a bad idea.
Yeah, give it a thought.
I'd love it.
I'd love to hear it once.
We're going to learn a lot on Wednesday.
We're going to see, you know, what I want to know is I think what they're looking at now, just so you know, is low-hanging fruit.
Lying on a gun application, that's the low-hanging fruit.
If the reports are true that there are a couple of felony tax charges, to me, that's low-hanging fruit.
If there's not a FARA violation and he didn't register under the Farah law, but Paul Manafort did get charged with it, that's dual justice under the law.
But what James Comer is saying here is very deep and very profound, that Wednesday at 9 a.m. Eastern Time, he's going to give an update on the investigation into the Biden family and their influence peddling to enrich themselves and announce the next investigative actions.
And he's asking, pretty much demanding, that the Department of Justice very loudly and very clearly do not indict Hunter Biden before Wednesday.
Now, for him to say that, you know, he's putting his ass on the line by saying it.
So he better have the goods to back that up.
So far, he's not been wrong.
No, absolutely.
And Hunter may be lucky that there's not a limit on how many pardons his dad can give him because he has lived a life of privilege due to his father's position in the Senate, vice president and then presidency, starting with getting appointed to the Board of Amtrak without knowing anything,
then getting appointed to the U.S. Navy without even having to do a boot camp, then multiple drug test failures, and they don't give him a dishonorable discharge.
Anybody else would have got a dishonorable discharge from that.
And all the multi-million and billion-dollar deals he's got with all these energy companies.
It's just always daddy's privilege.
And we saw him admit to it on television when he was asked, why did you get the job?
And you've repeatedly said, you've repeatedly copied him and said, because it because your father is the vice president?
And he says, I don't know, probably.
And that's absolutely correct.
Well, I mean, would you take a deal where you got to advise an oil giant gas company and an energy company in Ukraine, and yet you had no experience in energy, oil, gas, coal, or Ukraine?
Do you think that's the type of deal that any normal person gets?
Do you think any normal person gets a forgivable, no-interest, $5 million loan or $100,000 shopping spree from a Chinese foreign national or a $1.5 billion Bank of China deal?
The forgivable loan, it should not be called a forgivable loan.
It should just be called a bribe because that's nothing more than a bribe when you give somebody $5 million.
Well, I want to know, did anybody forgive it?
Did they ever give it back?
I tend to doubt it.
Yeah, I doubt it also.
You're absolutely right.
And Sean, one more thing.
I've got a former liberal cousin from Boston, by the way, my cousin from Boston.
Cousin Joey absolutely thinks Sean Hannity hung the moon.
You have convinced a liberal that you've been right all along.
So I thought you'd appreciate hearing that.
Well, that's my job.
If I do a good enough job, my job is, look, there are a lot of people that hate listening to this show, hate watch Hannity on Fox.
But interestingly, over a period of time, if you watch long enough, you listen long enough, you realize that guy's not so dumb after all.
Maybe he's making more sense than I ever thought.
Maybe it's time for me to reevaluate my principles that guide me, the political philosophy that I've been clinging to all of these years because it doesn't seem to be working out very well.
You know, I ask every liberal I argue with, tell me three things that Joe Biden has done that you're really proud of as president.
And there's not one that most people can answer.
You're absolutely right.
And I never had to tie down Cousin Joey and tape his eyes open to make him watch you.
He did it voluntarily.
I got to send Cousin Joey football.
Stay on the line.
We'll send him one, okay?
Thank you.
I appreciate that, Sean.
You have a great day.
You bet, buddy.
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