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June 22, 2023 - Sean Hannity Show
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Congressman Jason Smith - June 22nd, Hour 3
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So earlier today, House Ways and Means Committee, the chairman of which, Jason Smith from Missouri, will join us in a minute, sent letters to the Department of Justice's Office of Inspector General and the Treasury Inspector General for tax administration at the IRS,
demanding information related to the committee's investigations into whistleblower allegations and potential retaliation.
Jason Smith confirms now we have credible whistleblower testimony alleging misconduct and government abuse resulting in preferential treatment for President Biden's son, zero experience Hunter.
He points out that not one but two IRS employees, whistleblowers, have now brought forward evidence that the federal government is not treating all taxpayers equally when enforcing the tax laws.
We already know that with the sweetheart deal for Hunter.
And the whistleblowers are suggesting that the search warrants and charges for Hunter Biden were blocked.
In the interim, the statute of limitations ran out on previous tax years, not the two that are part of this deal, that sweetheart deal that Hunter Biden just got.
Anyway, he's the chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee.
Jason Smith of Missouri is with us.
Sir, how are you?
Great, Sean.
It's good to be with you.
Let's talk about these two whistleblowers.
Let's talk about how Hunter Biden was treated, and let's talk about the consequences they face for being whistleblowers.
I always thought Democrats praised whistleblowers.
They even praised the hearsay whistleblower in the impeachment of Donald Trump.
Well, I'll tell you, Sean, Democrats, they change their opinions on the subject depending on who they are targeting.
I'll just tell you that.
But we set up this whistleblower hotline in my first week as chairman of the Ways and Means Committee for any IRS employee to come to us for anything that we should look at.
And we had numerous whistleblowers, but the two today that we released their depositions, actually, it's over 14 hours of depositions.
They voluntarily came to us because they were IRS investigators of the Hunter Biden tax investigation case.
Like you said, since 2018.
And what we discovered, without a doubt, is the IRS is not treating all taxpayers the same.
If you're wealthy or politically connected like Hunter Biden, you're getting better taken than you're getting preferential treatment, is what you're saying.
Absolutely.
And the whistleblowers, their statements are backing that up.
But also what's more concerning is that the whistleblower statements are backing up that the Department of Justice interfered in the investigation into Hunter Biden's clear tax issues with a delay, divulge, and deny campaign that ultimately shielded him by allowing the statute of limitations to pass in the first few tax years, 2014 and 2015.
Some of the items that came up, Sean, were absolutely atrocious of what they did.
For example.
Well, let me explain what this means here.
So you're saying in the years 2014 and 2015, and by the way, some of this is corroborated on Hunter Biden's laptop.
Correct me if I'm wrong, where he even acknowledges he didn't pay taxes on $400,000, I believe, from Burisma.
Is that correct?
That's exactly another example of how they were trying to stand in the way of these IRS investigators.
These whistleblowers said that they requested the IRS laptop so they could look into it.
The Department of Justice would not allow them to do that, which is so unusual in the course of investigations.
But you are correct.
There's like $8.3 million that Hunter Biden got from the Chinese, from the Ukrainians, from Romanians, that he did not pay taxes for over the period of 2014 to 2019.
He got gifts, Sean, like an $80,000 diamond, a Porsche of over $140,000.
Well, didn't he have global income streams from Ukraine, Romania, China, to the tune of, what, $17.3 million from 2014 to 2019?
And that he personally received $8.3 million himself?
Absolutely.
Him and his associates received $17.3 million from 2014 to 19, but he himself individually got 8.3 million.
We also released a WhatsApp today of a text message from Hunter Biden to a Chinese official saying that he is waiting for their response to their conversation, sitting right next to his father, right next to his father is what's in it.
And so with the current president of the United States saying that he knew nothing of his son's business dealings, that text in that WhatsApp tweet to a Chinese official proves that that's not true.
Well, you know, this is pretty amazing.
So they basically ran out the statute of limitations.
The DOJ ran cover for the Biden family, which makes this sweetheart deal that he got for the 2017-2018 tax years even that much more egregious because this was a long-standing practice of Hunter not to pay his taxes.
I guess if you're a Democrat, you get away with it.
You know, meanwhile, nobody was held accountable and Lois Lerner was the head of the IRS and they were targeting conservative groups.
But you talk in great specificity, or these whistleblowers do, that if normal procedures had been followed, they would have executed search warrants and Hunter would have been charged for these years because they had the information back in time where the statute of limitations had not expired.
Am I wrong on that?
You're exactly right.
You know, in fact, the whistleblowers claimed that one of the U.S. attorneys in the case, quote, said, told them there is no way a search warrant for evidence would ever get approved because the evidence of interest would be found in the guest house of former Vice President Biden, because that's where Hunter Biden was living, was in that guest house.
There's so many examples that these whistleblowers are highlighting where the Department of Justice saw things or wouldn't allow things because it was the president's son or the vice president's son.
You know, it really boggles the mind.
We really don't have equal justice or application of our laws in America today, do we, sir?
It's very, very frustrating.
If you look at what's going on, it looks like a two-tiered system.
Well, does it look like it or is it a two-tiered system?
I'll give you other examples.
Hillary Clinton, according to James Comey, had top secret classified information on her servers, but no reasonable prosecutor would prosecute.
They didn't raid Chappaqua.
They have four separate locations.
Joe Biden now, we've identified, had top secret classified documents.
Neither one of those four locations ever got raided.
None of them have been charged with any crime regarding this.
Hillary Clinton deleted 33,000 subpoenaed emails.
I'd never heard of Bleach Bit prior to this.
She washed or acid-washed their servers and hard drives clean and had aides destroy devices that might have copies of these emails on them with hammers and remove SIM cards.
That sounds like a case of obstruction to me.
Doesn't it sound like that to you?
You're exactly right, Sean.
The list goes on and on.
If your last name's Biden or Clinton, it's a whole different system of laws that you are operating on.
But you know what?
If you're Trump, you're going to go to the hammer in every kind of indictment or charge.
It's just, it is absolutely unacceptable.
It's important for us to get this information out there.
There's a lot more names that we need to interview, talk with, get additional information.
And we're all the members of Congress, whether it's the Judiciary Committee, the Oversight Committee.
And most people don't view the Ways and Means Committee as a committee of oversight.
But when you deal with tax records and tax filings, big time that's in your jurisdiction.
I mean, all tax laws come out of the Ways and Means Committee.
So let me get this straight, too.
The DOJ tipped off Hunter's attorneys.
There was probable cause to search a Northern Virginia storage unit in which Hunter Biden had stored files.
And that, according to one whistleblower, they ruin your chance to get the evidence before it being destroyed, manipulated, concealed.
Another whistleblower saying that the IRS were told by U.S. attorney Leslie Wolf, there's no way they're going to give a search warrant for evidence that it would ever get approved because the evidence would be found at the guest house of former Vice President Biden.
Well, they didn't seem to have those qualms going after Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago.
They absolutely didn't.
And that's what's extremely disturbing.
You just highlighted examples that came out today that we voted to release so that the public could see that when actually straight Republican Democrat lines, not one Democrat would join with us, even though they've been part of the conversation.
But the fact of what the Justice Department has interfered with in these investigations by tipping off Hunter Biden's counsel before they would go with a search warrant into those storage units.
So we have officials that are involved in enforcing our laws, tipping off the Bidens.
Hey, there might be a search on this property or this storage unit.
Go get your stuff out.
That's exactly what we found out from the whistleblowers is that attorney for Hunter Biden was tipped off about actions relating to the investigation in advance.
And that's what the whistleblowers alleged and stated in their deposition.
And that's one of the numerous reasons why we needed to publicly release it.
All right, quick break.
We'll come right back.
We'll continue.
Toll-free, our number is 800-941-Sean, if you want to be a part of the program or with Congressman and chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Jason Smith of Missouri, is with us more on the other side.
Then we'll get to your calls.
He continues the chairman of the all-important House Ways and Means Committee, Jason Smith, talking about the two IRS whistleblowers and how Hunter Biden got special treatment.
What a shock.
Tell me about the retribution that these two whistleblowers are facing.
Let me tell you, I asked the commissioner of the IRS right after the whistleblowers came in before my committee if there would be any retaliation.
He said, absolutely not.
But guess what?
Just 10 days later, both of these whistleblowers were removed from the investigation of Hunter Biden that they had been on since 2018.
Don't tell me that that just correlates.
In fact, they claim that the Justice Department removed them from the investigatory teams.
So there's a lot of issues that they're worried about.
One of the whistleblowers said that they were passed up even though they were most qualified for a higher position because he was a whistleblower.
And so.
I thought we had whistleblower laws that protected whistleblowers.
I thought Democrats love whistleblowers.
Apparently they only like whistleblowers that hate Donald Trump.
Yeah, apparently they don't even like whistleblowers that are Democrats because that's what one of these whistleblowers is.
So I mean, give me a break.
It's just if it doesn't work their way, they apparently are going the other direction.
You know, Congressman, I'm going to be very clear.
I've been clear with my audience.
Pay your taxes.
I tell everybody, pay your taxes.
I just assume every year because I've unfortunately been involved in this business for too long, and I just assume that my tax file is pulled every year.
And for the record, I know for a fact it's been pulled in many years.
And, you know, so I have gone through great pains to hire not one accounting firm, but two.
The first one does the original tax draft.
The second one, you know, does it separately and double checks, you know, every box.
And then I send it to a legal firm to make sure that they sign off on it.
Because why do I feel like if I missed a comma or missed one payment of some kind by accident, you know, they'd want to throw me in jail for the rest of my life.
And I'm telling you right now, a fortune of my income goes to the government, which, by the way, they should look at the number and they say, oh, he makes this much and he pays that much.
It's that kind of, oh, no-brainer tax return.
Sean, you're a smart man.
You're doing exactly what I would encourage all your listeners to do.
Well, most people can't afford two accounting firms and a lawyer.
I'm being very honest here.
And most of my life, I couldn't have afforded that.
That's exactly right.
I grew up in a family where my grandparents didn't even have running water and my dad was an auto mechanic.
Exactly.
I mean, you know what?
The people like, and they're the people, by the way.
Even Janet Yellen said if they hire 87,000 more agents, that 90% of the people that are going to be investigated are the people you just described, like your parents.
You know, Sean, that's exactly a point that we brought up today.
They wanted that $80 billion to hire the 87,000 new IRS agents to go after people who are not paying their fair share in taxes.
But guess what?
If it's the president's son who owes like 8 point, I mean, $2.2 million in taxes, it's okay to not go after him.
By the way, who's this guy that paid Hunter's tax bill?
Do you know him?
Is that allowed?
Is that a gift?
Or is that a loan?
Do we know?
You know, they claim it's a loan.
I'm not for sure exactly of his name off the top of my head.
I mean, that is something.
This guy in California, this sugar daddy that loves the Bidens, yeah.
Yeah.
And by the way, you can legally loan money.
I've done that in my life to people, to friends.
And, you know, if they get in a tough spot, I don't mind helping my friends out.
I think, you know, but you got to do it the right way, actually.
My lawyers tell me that too.
Exactly.
And especially, there's certain guidelines about elected officials and their family members.
I remember his name.
It's Kevin Morris, some guy out, I believe, in California.
Okay.
I think he's the one that lent the jet so that Hunter can go plead his case in the Arkansas courtroom not to pay as much money for his own four-year-old daughter that Joe and Jill Biden refuse to even acknowledge.
How pathetic is that?
Your own flesh and blood.
It's so embarrassing.
It's absolutely embarrassing.
Well, you'd have to have shame to be embarrassed, and clearly they have none.
Anyway, great job today, Congressman.
We really appreciate it.
Very informative.
And please keep us up to speed.
We'd like to support these whistleblowers if we can.
They deserve the legal protections that they're supposed to have.
And it's clear that retribution seems to be in their future.
And that should not happen to anybody.
Anyway, sir, thank you.
We appreciate it.
It's whistleblowers.
Thank you, sir.
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All right, let's get to our busy telephones here as we check in.
Russell is in New York.
What's up, Russell?
How you doing?
Good to talk to you.
Hi, how are you doing?
What's going on, sir?
I'm calling.
I'm calling because you have a voice and you can get to many people.
And I think that one of the things that we should see happen in our legislation is that companies like, say, Disney or TikTok or Discourse or Netflix or any of the real powerful companies out there should publicize who owns them.
Just like when you buy a box of cereal, you get the calories, you get the content, what's in it, how many vitamins.
They should have something that comes across their screen.
You're hit right in the face with it.
I'm owned by, you know, let's say Communist China or I'm owned by the Target company.
And if you saw that, you're like, well, I don't want to have anything to do with it.
And you don't put your money towards it.
You don't buy it.
You don't buy their services.
And because we're kind of limited in power.
I mean, you can vote, and that's about it.
I mean, if you have money and you can control how much money is going out there, at least you can say, well, you know, this is owned by the Communist Party of the Communist Chinese Party.
And I don't want to have anything to do with them.
So I'm not going to not use TikTok or I'm not going to buy anything from Disney.
Like, I don't buy Disney stuff.
I don't agree with their politics.
And I won't go into Target anymore either.
So I think that would help.
Well, I mean, it's obviously effective.
I mean, look at the market cap decline in Target and look what happened to Bud Light.
There's no doubt going woke has created a major backlash for a lot of companies.
I think what has shocked me and stunned me is that this is almost, it's now been almost institutionalized.
And it's like, I'm like, are you kidding me?
It's like everywhere.
And every corporation, you know, has to Seemingly, or in their minds, they seemingly think they have to check that box, you know, to make sure that they're not targeted by this group.
In the meantime, they could be alienating their entire base.
And, you know, when companies hire either outside companies for HR or hire these woke HR people, I mean, these are people that bought into this hook line and sinker.
You know, I don't know.
To me, the workplace and businesses should try to keep all of this stuff out of the political realm, stick to the business side of it.
You know, certain states require a certain amount of this, believe it or not, like New York, California, and others.
So that becomes problematic for many, many corporations.
But it doesn't mean that our schools should be indoctrinating our kids.
It doesn't mean that a teacher that has a captive audience of kids should circumvent parental values and authority.
And so.
And they make it sound like it does.
And their base, the people, the majority, really don't want to have anything to do with their ideas of inclusion into their particular political viewpoint.
And I think that would make a big difference in the dollars and cents.
Just like Bud Light, they lost market share.
I bet you if they could go back, they'd say, no way.
They'd fire the guy and say, your idea is crazy.
And they would never even approach the idea.
And the base doesn't have, the majority doesn't really have a word.
I think most of them.
I think the American people have spoken pretty loudly to Bud Light and Anheuser-Busch.
They're not the number one selling beer anymore.
Let me say this too.
Look, and I know that one of the chief, I guess, executives has spoken out saying, okay, we hear you.
We've learned.
Maybe the word I'm sorry would have been a little bit better and a little stronger and a little more effective in my view.
But putting that aside, what I'm worried about with Budweiser, and maybe, I don't know, I just, the way I was raised, I'm worried about the innocent victims in all this.
You know, I like Bud Light.
I like Coors Light.
I like them both.
And the problem is, is that the guys that work on the line and the guys that work in their manufacturing centers and the guys that pay a lot of money usually to get these beer routes and have invested their life savings to get these beer routes, they're seeing a 27% decline in sales or a 30% decline in sales.
I'm worried about them.
Now, the question is, the message has been sent.
Now, management has to hear from its employees and it's got to hear from the public.
It's heard from the public.
But I would hate to think that if this goes on for an extended period of time, it's not going to be the dopey HR director at the company that's going to pay the price for this.
It's going to be the guy that drives the truck that delivers the beer.
It's going to be the people that work on the factory floor that manufactures all this.
It's going to be the truck drivers that deliver all this.
So in that sense, I'm just a little bit more willing to understand that, you know, I kind of know how bureaucracies and management works.
I mean, you know, I'm just lucky I don't listen to management.
I just don't care what they say.
No, I follow the rules like everybody else.
However, you know, it just to the extent, but I'm not changing who I am.
You know, if that's the case, then it becomes a situation that is intolerable.
But, you know, I've been blessed in my life that I am free to be who I am.
I'm not censoring anything that I say.
And, you know, unfortunately for the truck driver and the factory worker, they probably don't have the freedom that I have to just say, sorry, I'm, you know, go pound sand.
And I worry about them.
Their families have mortgages to pay.
They got rent to pay.
They got car payments to pay.
They got college to pay for.
Does that make sense?
I don't want those guys hurting this, do you?
Well, no, you don't want anyone to get hurt.
But it's no different than the entire American people.
You got Biden, who's our president, and he's hurting the entire people.
At some point, the people have to wake up and say, No, I'm not going to have any part of this.
I'm not going to agree with you.
And I think the majority of Americans do not want to have what's going on in their world and in their country today.
And the only way that you can do that, really, have a major impact on it is financially.
And if Bud Light, if those people lose okay, at some point, though, are you hurting the people responsible, or is there a lot of collateral damage?
Well, I guess you're getting the message out that it won't be tolerated by the populace.
Okay, and at what point do the people realize that the ones that are going to get hurt are not the people responsible for it?
When will they realize that?
Yeah, I mean, I'll be honest.
I'm going to listen.
I was with everybody, and I don't support boycotts, never called for them, never will.
Don't call for canceling and don't call for any of this.
I think people make their choices.
American people made their choice.
Now I'm making a choice that I don't want to see innocent people at Anheuser-Busch hurt.
That's my choice.
And now, if the dopey management of Anheuser-Busch, if they do it again, then they're responsible for what happens to the truck drivers and the factory workers and everybody else.
And I would hope they would put the work future of their workforce ahead of what their political agenda or the political agenda of some might be.
But they're getting pressure from the mob, right?
And they're okay, but the pressure I would respond to is the pressure from the people that are my customers.
Remember the old saying?
I know it's outdated: customer is always right.
That's it.
You know, when people call my show and they tell me they don't like something about my show, I take very closely to what the criticism is.
And if I agree with them, I'm going to make a change.
It's that simple.
I've read research about me for many of the years I've been in this business, and a lot of it is not complimentary.
And when I see a common theme jump off the pages of commentary made by people that listen or watch the TV show, and I'm like, okay, they must be right and I'm wrong.
I better look at this.
And I've made adjustments based on the observations of my audience because they've made, and I think they've made me a better host.
That sound reasonable?
Well, sure, but you're not like everyone else, right?
I mean, as the majority of, if you want to put you up against management, you take Bud Light.
Will they learn their lesson or you take the people in charge of Target?
Will they sit there and say, well, the majority of people disagree with our ideology with the LGBTQ?
And we're not going to push this political agenda on our customers, which then intacts.
Well, then you don't hire Dylan Mulvaney again.
It's that simple.
Well, right.
And then, so will they learn their lesson?
Well, that is yet to be determined.
I think they will.
That's my bet.
That's my guess.
I think 30% decline in sales going from number one to number two, I think, is a wake-up call for them.
And if they don't learn from it, then innocent people will suffer and they will be the ones responsible.
Okay?
Point.
They learn that they lose market share because their customers don't want.
All right, we're repeating ourselves here.
I've gave you my best answer here.
Anyway, I appreciate the call.
Let's go to Steve of Massachusetts.
What's up, Steve?
How are you?
Sean, just a new listener.
You're a great patriot, my friend.
Well, thank you, my friend.
Glad you're with us.
I don't know what the hell you're living in Tassachusetts for, but whatever.
Unfortunately, I've been stuck here all my life.
But there's some good things about it as long as you ignore the politics, I guess.
Well, you can always follow the Bruins and the Celtics.
Forget the Red Sox.
I'm not a Red Sox fan.
Well, that's why everybody's such great sports fans up here because nobody cares about the politics.
I'm going to say I hate Boston fans, but I love them and admire them.
Does that make any sense?
I mean, especially with the Red Sox-Yankees battle that's gone on for years.
However, one of the greatest basketball teams of all times, Parrish, Mikael, Bird, DJ, Danny Ainge.
I mean, it didn't get any better than that.
Amen to that, my friend.
Bird, back to Mikhail McHallen and the Parrish Parrot, Danny Age.
Shout star!
Johnny Most.
Johnny Most, for sure.
What's going on?
For sure.
Well, the reason why I'm calling is just a little bit frustrated.
It seems that the Democrats have an awful lot of district attorneys that can file frivolous lawsuits.
I'm just wondering where the Republican district attorneys are hiding.
It's a great point.
You're raising a great point.
Well, one, you should take hope in the fact that there are people that actually don't politicize justice.
There are people that believe in equal justice.
I don't think the answer to unequal justice is for Republicans to treat them the way they're treating us.
I don't think that's the answer.
I want them to follow the law and apply it equally.
And that didn't happen and is not happening under Biden's DOJ.
It didn't happen under Comey's FBI, and it's not happening under Director Ray's FBI.
And you know what?
The rot stinks.
It's a rotting fish, and it's destroying faith and confidence in what should be, again, the world's premier law enforcement agency and the greatest constitution on the face of this earth.
They're shredding it every time they adhere to this dual justice system.
Absolutely.
Scary times, my friend.
I'll tell you that.
Really, really scary times.
Like I tell my grandchildren, I'm glad I've only got a few more years left.
Man, oh man, that's a very optimistic message.
I got to give you credit for that.
Anyway, I hope you have longer than that.
You know, Gomez writes me today, Hannity, it's the last quarter.
I'm like, gee, John, any other uplifting message you have for the day?
You know?
All right, that's going to wrap things up for today.
Hannity, tonight, 9 Eastern Fox News Channel.
The two IRS whistleblowers go before the House Ways and Means Committee.
The chairman of that committee, Jason Smith, will join us.
Congressman from Missouri, Alan Dershowitz, Greg Jarrett, Congresswoman Boebert, who wants to impeach Joe Biden and is also at war with Marjorie Taylor Greene.
I'm not sure why.
Again, our condolences, our prayers go out to the families.
We now know that the Titan, that's the vessel that went down to see the remains of the Titanic, has, in fact, they first caught wind of the tail cone being separated 1,600 feet from the bow of the Titanic.
Other debris was found as well.
And at that point, it was obvious that this has resulted in a catastrophic loss of life of the pressure chamber itself.
And, you know, a lot of credit to all those people that have been working around the clock from many countries, you know, top people that were willing to devote all the time and attention in the hopes of saving these lives.
Our prayers are with their families.
Our thoughts are with them.
And, you know, it's just sad.
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