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May 12, 2023 - Sean Hannity Show
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Comer Report - May 11th, Hour 2
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At hour two, Sean Hannity Show, toll free.
It's 800-941-SEAN.
If you want to be a part of the program, Congressman James Comer of the all-important House Oversight Committee will join us in a minute here.
Yesterday morning, he laid out blockbuster information ignored mostly by the mainstream media mob.
They were too interested in a, frankly, unknown freshman congressman from Long Island named George Santos to focus on the Biden family syndicate.
But.
But based on their financial records that they have found by his committee, it is now believed that the Biden family and their associates established over 20 LLCs that seem to be shell companies.
There is a difference between an LLC and a shell company.
We'll get to that in a minute.
No clear purpose for these LLCs other than to obscure the transfer of money.
Most of them were formed during Biden's time as vice president, and all of them seem to be used to distribute over $10 million from foreign nationals to the Biden family and family friends.
For example, from China, they ultimately ended up, money ended up in the hands of the Biden family.
It started at a Chinese state energy company controlled by a powerful Chinese national.
That money was then filtered through at least five separate shell corporations, LLCs, set up by Biden associates.
We still have no idea why this foreign energy company was paying the Biden family.
We don't know what they were getting in return or expecting in return.
And it's not just the money.
According to Comer's report that he outlined yesterday, the same Chinese energy company gave Hunter Biden a large diamond during a meeting in Miami.
So, you know, I guarantee it's not a marriage proposal, as I said on TV last night, but up to 10 Bidens now receive money, including children, which is very strange.
You know, why was Bo Biden's widow and also Hunter's girlfriend getting money from foreign nationals?
She's a school counselor, and it's not just China.
He outlined monies coming in from Romania.
So when Biden left office, the money stopped flowing.
What an interesting coincidence.
But anyway, here with much more, he is the chairman of the very powerful, very important House Government Reform and Oversight Committee.
And that's James Comer is with us.
Congressman, how are you?
Thanks for being with us.
Thanks for having me, Sean.
When Joe Biden said on the campaign trail repeatedly that he never once spoke to Hunter or any other family member about their foreign business dealings, did he lie?
He lied about that.
He also lied when he said his family never took any money from China.
I mean, we proved that yesterday.
The other thing that I don't know that Joe Biden said this, but his friends in the mainstream media did.
They repeatedly said that none of the money that the Bidens got from foreign nationals ever happened while Joe Biden was in political office.
They said it all happened during the Trump administration when he was between the Obama administration and the Biden administration.
And that's not true.
In fact, we showed just one wire from Romania that then was transferred to the Bidens in 16 different smaller transfers, a million-dollar wire to a shell company that then dispersed it in 16 transfers to five different Biden family members.
So that happened while he was vice president, and other transactions happened while he was vice president.
So the president of the United States has been nothing but dishonest with the American people when it comes to his family's shady business dealings.
Now, there are a lot of key moments that you outlined during his vice presidency that Hunter Biden and business associates formed all these LLCs.
You believe they were shell corporations.
And when you say that, that means the LLC is not used for a legitimate business, but it's an area where they can put money and then transfer the money to another LLC and then transfer money to another LLC, but they're not performing any service or providing any goods.
Is that correct?
That is 100% correct.
And if these were not shell companies, if these were, in fact, legitimate companies, then the Biden family can simply produce invoices for what they got.
what service they provided or what they sold or whatever they did to receive the payments from the foreign nationals.
If they had a legitimate business, they would have records.
They would have invoices.
They would have a website.
They would have things that they could dispel that.
But of all the things the White House said about me, they never once said anything that we produced yesterday wasn't true.
They just try to lean back and say, oh, it's conspiracy theories.
I mean, Sean, you can't lie about bank records.
And the bank records show the wires coming from the foreign nationals through the made-up, phony, fake companies and going into the Biden's personal bank accounts.
And you anticipate that you're going to find many more of these LLCs.
Is that correct?
That is correct.
And Sean, look, I've subpoenaed four banks, and we have bank records from four banks.
There are 12 banks that we've identified that are involved.
So we're talking about 20 accounts from four banks, and you're saying there's 16 more?
Yeah.
Well, some of the LLCs had accounts in multiple banks, which, again, is another red flag.
I mean, Sean, I was talking to our friend Jim Jordan, and we were talking about we need to put a chart up that shows ERIS.
I said, I'm all about that, Jim, but the chart would be from one end of the room to the other because they just intentionally made it as difficult as possible to trace this money.
But the way that I was successful in getting the bank records, the Bidens and the media and their friends at the DOJ, they thought that I would subpoena the Bidens themselves for their bank records, and then they could use their high-dollar attorneys and their friends in the judicial system to block the subpoena and just run out the clock, right?
But instead, I subpoenaed the intermediaries that we knew were the ones that were receiving the money from the foreign nationals in order to launder it to the Bidens.
We had subpoenaed their bank accounts, and two things happened when we got their bank accounts.
We got the wire from the foreign nationals coming in and the wire going out to the Biden.
So we got the wires for the Bidens.
We just came in the back door to get it.
And I think that, you know, I think we outfoxed, and it's sad to say, we out-foxed the Biden attorneys because they have done everything in their ability to try to obstruct and cover up this corruption.
I would like the answer to a number of questions.
How much money did the Biden family do in business with every foreign country, especially hostile regimes towards us, our number one geopolitical foe being China, number two geopolitical foe being Russia?
We know the Ukrainian deal is a big thing.
Now, why would the vice president of the United States be bragging about how he told the people of Ukraine, and he was in charge of Ukrainian policy at the time, he was there to give them a billion dollars in aid, and he said, you're not going to get that billion until you fire this prosecutor who we now know was investigating Barisma Holdings,
an oil and gas giant in Ukraine that was paying a large sum of money to Hunter, Hunter who went on Good Morning America and admitted he had no experience with Ukraine, no experience in energy, oil, gas, or coal.
Why would a vice president leverage a billion dollars to get a prosecutor fired in six hours and son of a bee, they did it?
That to me sounds like a quid and a pro and a quo from Joe to get the prosecutor, Victor Shokina's name, off the back of the Biden family, especially Hunter.
What's your take on it?
It sure does sound like it, Sean.
Yesterday, we talked about Romania, which is a country that I don't think has ever been mentioned very often in the influence peddling scheme, and the fact that Romania sent a million dollars to the Bidens while he was vice president and while he was in charge of Romanian policy, including foreign aid and things like that.
So we talked about Romania and we talked about China.
I didn't even talk about Russia, Ukraine, the Congo, Qatar.
I mean, the list goes on and on and on.
Well, we know a lot about Russia, don't we?
And we know more about China.
Peter Schweitzer, in his book, Secret Empires, he talked about a billion dollar deal with the Bank of China for a private equity company, of which Hunter got a big stake in it.
I can't see that Hunter has any experience in any of this.
And they claim they didn't get a penny from China.
Well, having a stake in a private equity company is probably a pretty, you know, profitable venture, I would imagine.
But I want to know, did the Bidens pay their taxes, Hunter and Joe?
Did they register as required by law?
The Faroe laws, did they follow those?
Do you know if he registered under the Faroe laws?
He did not, and that's a felony.
How much money did the Biden family do in business with all of these countries?
How much of that did they put in their pocket?
Did they pay taxes on all of this?
What did they do to earn this money?
What did these countries expect in return for the money?
And why go to great pains to hide it if it's a legitimate business?
And I want to know what Joe knew and when he knew it, and I want to know if Joe Biden benefited financially because his own son complains bitterly on his own laptop that half his income had to go to his father and that he had to pay for his father's home repairs and that the big guy got 10% of which Tony Bobolinski testified that in fact the big guy was Joe.
Well, I mean, the evidence is overwhelming on the laptop that Joe Biden's the big guy.
I mean, why, if Joe Biden's not involved, why do they go to great lengths in their communication between Hunter Biden and his associates, not to name Joe Biden, but to give him a nickname called the Celtic or the big guy?
I mean, that shows guilt right there.
And then the fact that you have to launder this money through so many accounts, if you say, Sean, and it's a legitimate business, then it's simple.
Just explain what you did to receive that money.
What service did you provide?
What thing did you sell?
What did you do?
Well, in the case of Ukraine, we know he had no experience in energy or Ukraine.
In the case of China, there's no experience that I've seen of him in private equity of you.
Why not go with ⁇ if you're going to do a deal, why wouldn't you hire Goldman Sachs or J.P. Morgan Chase or Deutsche Bank?
Everything, and according to the informants and the different people that we've communicated with that were in the Biden circle, it was just their business was to get a cut, to get a cut of everything, and that Joe would help or someone in the Obama administration or someone in the future Biden administration would help with, help them navigate the bureaucracy.
And every country that they're dealing with is somewhat adversarial.
I've said this many times, Sean.
I think at the end of the day, when we list all the countries that they were influence peddling in, China is probably the most reputable, most respected country that they were dealing with, if that tells you anything.
Let me ask about the letter that you and Senator Charles Grassley sent, and you sent it to the FBI and the DOJ, and you've subpoenaed them for a document, what's called an FBI-generated FD 1023 form,
after you believe what you call a credible whistleblower, alleged that the FBI and the DOJ were in possession of this and claimed it detailed, quote, an alleged criminal scheme involving then Vice President Biden and a foreign national relating to the exchange of money for policy decisions.
Now, you got a letter back from Christopher Wray denying your request, but saying that they will work with you.
Do you interpret that to mean that they know exactly what document you're talking about, which, by the way, for the record is not classified?
Oh, they know exactly what document we're talking about.
I would say they suspect we even have the document.
Well, wait a minute.
Do you have the document?
I can't answer that question, but I will say it's not classified.
Well, you actually can, but you're not going to, which I understand completely, but I'm just messing with you.
Go ahead.
Yeah, well, at the end of the day, Sean, we asked for the document because coming from the FBI, that shows the document's legitimate and real.
But more importantly, we asked, what did you do to investigate this allegation?
Is this allegation true?
Did you even look into it?
If you looked into it and it wasn't true, explain to us what part wasn't true.
And the fact that the FBI didn't deny the existence of the document, but then they sent a very patronizing letter that essentially said, Sean, oh, we'll look into it.
Don't worry about us.
Just trust us.
Well, I'm sorry.
I don't trust the FBI.
And I'll tell you what, Charles Grassley, who's dealt with the FBI for a long time and used to be a defender of the FBI, who's seen it deteriorate rapidly in the last decade, he's pretty upset right now.
Well, he should be.
I mean, we also have the issue of the FBI pre-bunking the Hunter Biden laptop story, meeting weekly with big tech companies, telling them you're likely to be victims of a disinformation campaign.
And it may be about Joe or Hunter Biden.
Yoel Roth said that in the case in Missouri.
And then we learned this week from Jim Jordan that the CIA had active employees recruiting former Intel people to sign on to that letter that Joe Biden used as a, quote, talking point in a debate against Trump, that the Hunter Biden laptop had all the earmarks of Russian disinformation.
So that's a big issue, too.
Well, it just shows that there's been a cover-up from day one.
You go back to the laptop.
When the repair guy called the FBI and they got it, then they left and they came back, what, two weeks later and said, did you make copies of this by chance?
And he said, no.
And they're like, okay, well, we've got rid of that.
Let me take a break.
More with James Comer, the head of the House Oversight and Reform Committee in Congress.
I have just a couple more questions on the other side.
We'll get to that.
We'll get to your calls, 800-941, Sean, as we continue.
All right, 25 to the top of the hour.
Thanks for being with us, 800-941.
Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, James Comer laying out his preliminary report, what is going to be a much longer, broader investigation.
Can you subpoena Christopher Wray and Merrick Garland and compel them to testify on this?
Well, we're talking about our options, but we're not backing down.
That's the first subpoena I've issued that someone didn't comply with.
Every 100% of the subpoenas I've issued.
Can you hold them in contempt?
Well.
Well, McCarthy talked about that today on Fox News, and he's personally, from what I saw on Fox News, I haven't talked to him yet.
We haven't had floor votes yet.
I'll see him on the floor.
But what he said was he's going to personally call Christopher Wray and encourage him to comply with our subpoena.
Because we're not asking for anything unrealistic.
We're leading a credible investigation of the president of the United States for public corruption.
And this is a very important piece of evidence in this criminal investigation that the Council Oversight Committee is leading.
And the FBI has information, and they're not sharing it with us.
So the FBI now has put their cinder blocks on the scales of two presidential elections, and now it appears the CIA may have put their cinder blocks on the scales of an election also.
And we have all of this money and no answers of what they did to earn the money.
And this is only the beginning of your investigation.
I assume we'll have a couple of interim reports, and then I have to run.
Absolutely.
But here's the thing about this whistleblower allegation.
It fits a pattern.
We produced all those wire transfers yesterday with just two countries.
And the question that the New York Times and everything, well, what does this have to do with Joe?
We can't explain why they got the money.
That's what the media should be asking the Bidens.
How did you get $10 million?
What did you do to receive the $10 million?
How did your grandchild, Mr. President, receive some of that money?
Who I think was in college at the time?
How did you receive that money?
Now, again, you were talking yesterday about China.
You were talking yesterday about Romania.
Have you confirmed what Peter Schweitzer and the Government Accountability Institute have come out with, that there's also a $100,000 shopping spree with a Chinese national and Hunter Biden's family?
Have you confirmed that there was a $5 million no-interest forgivable loan given to the Biden family from the communist Chinese?
Have you been able to confirm that?
We're still working on those things.
There's so many more things out there that we're almost certain are out there, and we're just working on it.
The one thing we wanted to make sure, the DOJ, the reason we had the hearing yesterday was obviously to update the American people, but the DOJ, all the reports where they were fixing to indict Hunter Biden on a little tax evasion and lying on a gun application charge.
Well, they need to think about money laundering.
They need to think about being an unregistered foreign agent, and they need to think about racketeering, too.
Let me ask you about Russia.
I mean, there are reports, the former First Lady of Moscow, Russian oligarch, $3.5 million again in business with the Biden family, and then reports that maybe as much as $100 million in real estate investments.
Have you confirmed that?
Is that true?
We're looking into that.
And, you know, also remember the oligarchs that didn't receive sanctions by Joe Biden.
That would be a policy decision that Joe Biden would have made if money was transacted.
So if those reports are true, that would be another example of a policy decision that Joe Biden made.
Well, let me ask another thing.
We had a spy balloon, you know, flying over the airspace of Alaska down the coast of the West Coast of Canada into Idaho over our missile silos in Montana, down to Kansas and Missouri, up to Kentucky, off the coast of the Carolinas before it's finally shot down.
And what were the consequences?
Nothing.
Nothing.
And we have Russia shooting down one of our drones.
What were the consequences?
Nothing.
Right.
Nothing with COVID.
You know, he didn't even bring COVID up or the Wuhan Lab up to President Z the last time he saw him.
I mean, When people say that this president's compromised, I mean, we produced a lot of evidence yesterday that would suggest that theory is true.
I mean, what has your family done to receive all this money from the Chinese Communist Party?
I think you're raising a lot of good points.
Have you looked into the issue of Kazakhstan and an allegation about a sports car being given to Hunter Biden?
Yep.
Like I said, John, we've gone through four of 12 banks.
So I said yesterday that we were fixing to issue another round of subpoenas for banks.
But again, all those countries you're mentioning, these are some of the worst countries in the world that a regular international company like, say, a Procter ⁇ Gamble or some company like that would do business in.
They're all the countries that big international companies probably don't do business in.
And there are countries that receive foreign aid or some type of foreign assistance from the United States.
There's a pattern here.
And that's why this whistleblower that Grashley brought forward is so important.
This fills in some blanks within our investigation.
And it fits a pattern of what we're seeing with these.
Let me ask you about that again because you said specifically that the FBI and DOJ were in possession of this 1023 form.
And, quote, it alleged a criminal scheme involving then Vice President Biden and a foreign national relating to the exchange of money for policy decisions.
Let me ask you how confident you are that that is absolutely true.
I'm pretty darn confident that out of a scale of 1 to 100, 100 being completely confident.
Confident of what?
So I'm confident that the allegation was made.
Now, am I confident that it's true or not?
I don't know because the FBI, their job is supposed to be to look into stuff like that.
Well, why isn't the FBI, they've had this laptop since December of 2019.
John Solomon reported that they corroborated it in the spring of 2020.
And then we have FBI agents pre-bunking the Hunter Biden laptop.
And we have 51 former Intel officials saying that it has the earmarks of Russian disinformation.
All of that was untrue.
I mean, this is beginning to look like an area of corruption.
And the media, they don't seem to care at all.
They did care a lot about the Russia hoax that never happened.
Yep.
I mean, this is the worst action that I've ever seen any type of government law enforcement agency do.
And we're talking about public corruption with the president of the United States and his family.
And there's so many patterns.
And Jim Jordan's doing a great job on his committee identifying areas where the intelligence community has just been dishonest with the American people and the whole way they handled the laptop.
And here you've got this whistleblower that what they're alleging, again, fits perfectly into the business model for what we presented yesterday with respect to how they take money from foreign nationals and then launder it through all these fake companies.
And then well, are you going to subpoena Hunter Biden and all of the people that were financial beneficiaries of this?
We plan on hearing from all of them.
And obviously, they're lawyered up.
They're ready to go to fight everything.
Well, I will say this.
They have one of Washington's best lawyers.
I'm not going to be shy in expressing this.
Abby Lowell, I mean, he's the guy that got off John Edwards and Senator Menendez.
This guy's a serious lawyer.
He's a serious lawyer.
He smacked talk to me every day.
That's part of the game.
A little bit.
So, yeah, we're prepared for battle.
But right now, I think we've got some assets out there with respect to whistleblowers and informants.
And hopefully we'll be hearing from them very soon.
Congressman James Comer, I know you gave us way more time than you anticipated, but I think it's important that we get to the bottom of this, especially considering the media mob wants nothing to do with it.
These are serious allegations, whether or not influence peddling took place.
And we need to know.
We need answers.
And we wish you well as you continue your work.
Thank you, sir.
Thanks for everything you're doing, Sean.
800-941 Sean, our number, if you want to be a part of the program.
All right, let's go to Chad in Texas as we hit our busy phones.
Chad, you're on the Sean Hannity show.
Hi.
Sean, good afternoon.
And happy Mother's Day to all the mothers out there.
My mother, my son's mom, Linda, all of the mothers out there.
Happy early Mother's Day.
Happy Mother's Day to everybody.
You know what?
Where would you be without your mom, right?
Exactly.
Someone I can always talk to.
So two talking points and something at the end, Sean, you're going to absolutely love.
So I didn't get to watch a whole lot of the town hall that Donald Trump had on CNN.
I don't watch CNN, but I saw a couple of the clips.
He gave him some ratings, which was much needed, but they don't like the guy.
It's funny how that works out, right?
One of the clips that I did watch where he said a comment, you're a nasty person.
I wish he would just kind of scale it back a little bit, but then again, that's what got him elected.
He's not going to be controlled by anybody what to say.
But sometimes there's a things of what to say and what not to say.
Other clips, the January 6th, he brought out, what, two pages of notes.
Didn't go through all of it, but highlighted the pinpointed timeframe.
The other thing that I wanted to bring up is yesterday's Jim Comer, which you just had on your radio show today again.
It's astounding that these revelations that are coming out, unveiling of the Biden family syndicate, it is so damning.
But then again, it's no surprise.
And it begs the question, how come Hunter Biden's wealth skyrocketed once the big guy, Daddy Joe, got to be vice president?
How come he couldn't have domestic business deals that were all overseas?
Now that it's coming to life, that it's coming to fruition.
Now, these charges, they'll be charges.
I don't even think the late Johnny Cochran could get Hunter Biden off or the infamous Mrs. Edma Guana Gambini could get him off.
Well, listen, I think one of the reasons that these rumors have been flying around about him being indicted for lying on his gun application and felony tax charges, it was to get ahead of this and to kind of mitigate any further investigation into this.
And that's why Comer was saying to the DOJ, don't indict him until you hear where this is really going.
Because he's saying it is a lot deeper.
It is far more complicated, more complex than anybody ever knew, and that we are getting to the bottom of it.
And any indictment would be premature.
Now, they can add more indictments later, but any indictment would be premature on this specific issue.
It would.
It's going to go lengthy.
It's going to take some more time.
Of course, patience, we don't have a whole lot of that because the magnitude of this is so large.
It is so large.
And the hypocrisy in it is even deeper.
So I'm just waiting on today that an episode on one of my favorite shows, American Greed, is about the dirty Choke Biden family.
Sean, the last thing I'm going to say is something you're going to absolutely love.
So the NFL schedule was released today.
Opening night is September the 7th.
The Kansas City Chiefs will have their home game.
But more importantly, Monday, September the 11th, Monday night football, Joe Buck, Cho Rikman, Buffalo Bills at the New York Jets Met Live Stadium, Monday, September the 11th.
You're probably going to have to get someone to fill in for your show.
Go attend it.
It's going to be, we all know what September 11th is.
Four months from today, Sean.
They have Aaron Rodgers.
And you know what?
This could be.
I hope Aaron has a lot of good years at the Jets.
You know, I like success stories.
I like people that are at the height of their profession.
Not always.
You know, being a great quarterback is dependent on a lot of other things.
You need a great front line.
You need great receivers.
You need a great defense so that you don't have to score 40 points every game to win the game.
So it's a team sport, team effort, but Aaron Rodgers is certainly one of the top quarterbacks of all time.
There's no doubt about it.
He is.
One of your best friends, Stephen A. Smith, loves him.
Call him the bad guy.
And Rodgers, it's quite fitting.
The New York Jets, I think you're a Jets fan.
They've not had this big of a name since who's going to be able to do that.
No, anytime you're a Jets fan, the season's over by week four.
I mean, that's been the reality.
So then you've got to look elsewhere.
Then I look for interesting games at that point.
An interesting game is Monday Night Football, September the 11th.
They have a home game.
It's going to be just there in New York.
New Jersey.
All right.
You've got to go easy on me here because I can't promote Monday night football when my show is on at the same time.
Monday night football for 30 years of my career has hurt my ratings on Monday nights.
It stinks.
It drives me nuts.
The only years it really didn't impact me was during the Trump years when all that Colin Kaepernick stuff was going on and politics entered football, which I thought was horrible.
For 17 weeks, you'll get a little bit of a tweak on your Monday night ratings, but that's what I was saying.
Gee, thanks a lot for my little tweak.
I'm going to give you a little tweak in your business, and what kind of business are you in?
I'm actually a free agent.
I'm stepping into the freelance market.
All right, I'm going to cut your freelance market by 25% during football season, all right?
That's good.
But Monday night, September the 11th, but I get the significance, obviously, of it.
I think it's a great choice by the NFL.
And by the way, the Jets have not been on Sunday night football, I think, for 10 years.
Anyway, 800-941, Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
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