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The Biden Malaise - July 18th, Hour 2
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We're in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, our town hall tonight with President Donald J. Trump on Hannity 9 Eastern.
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It's actually the same time, but with the new lineup.
Anyway, 800-941 Sean, our number, if you want to be a part of the program, the president will respond publicly tonight.
He put out the big statement.
We talked about it in the last hour about him getting this target letter earlier in the day from the special counsel, Jack Smith.
I was having on Sunday night while I was with my family, having just arrived from the turning point event in Florida where I won the straw poll against other Republican candidates with 85.7%, with all polls showing me leading the Republican primary by very substantial numbers.
Almost everyone predicting I will be the Republican nominee for president.
And as I am leading Democrat Joe Biden in the polls by a lot, horrifying news for our country was given to me by my attorneys.
He said the special prosecutor deranged Jack Smith, the prosecutor with Joe Biden's DOJ, sent a letter again.
It was Sunday night, stating that I am a target of the January 6th grand jury investigation and giving me a very short four days to report to the grand jury, which almost always means an arrest and an indictment.
And he goes on from there.
So now Joe Biden's Attorney General, Merrick Garland, who I turned down for the U.S. Supreme Court in retrospect, based on his corrupt and unethical actions, a very wise decision, together with Joe Biden's Department of Injustice, have effectively issued a third indictment and arrest of Joe Biden's number one political opponent, who is largely dominating in the race for the presidency.
Anyway, here to weigh in on this and so much more.
I think she's one of the best writers in the country.
The Wall Street Journal and elsewhere, great columnist, brilliant mind, has her new book out, The Biden Malaise, How America Bounces Back from Joe Biden's Dismal Repeat of the Jimmy Carter years.
Kimberly Strassel, how are you?
I am great.
It is so great to be here, Sean.
Thank you for all of that.
Let's get your reaction.
I mean, you follow the news as closely as we do.
And this target letter today, this will be indictment number three.
Yep, it looks like that's what's coming, the clearest sign yet.
And, you know, this is just problematic on so many levels, Sean.
The first one, I mean, never before indictment of a former president, basically on a document dispute.
Now, here we're going to apparently be moving forward with some sort of indictment on January 6th, despite the fact that, you know, whatever anyone might have thought of that day, there's no evidence that crimes were committed.
And, you know, and even the Senate said that when we went through that second impeachment trial.
So what this does is it really fuels the narrative out there that especially in light of the double standard that you are seeing with how the Hunter Biden case was handled, that the Department of Justice is gunning for the former president of one of the leading parties.
Well, I mean, you've got the leader in every poll.
You look at the real clear politics average.
It's 35 points, Kimberly.
That is a massive lead.
Every time this has happened in the past, Donald Trump's poll numbers, I would assume counterintuitive to what maybe politically we would think would happen, his poll numbers go up and they go up dramatically.
And then we have this whole other issue that is right in front of us, and that is a dual system of justice.
I go back to 2016, Hillary Clinton, no prosecutor would prosecute, you know, top secret classified information on her servers, more than actually what they found at Mar-a-Lago, interestingly enough.
Then, of course, the subpoenaed emails, 33,000 of them deleted.
Then the device is destroyed.
I don't know where I grew up, subpoenaed emails and servers and hard drives destroyed.
That would be called obstruction.
Then, of course, we now learn from the Durham report.
They couldn't corroborate, the FBI couldn't corroborate one single thing that Christopher Steele put together.
Hillary Clinton bought and paid for the dossier.
They couldn't corroborate any of it.
And the FBI, in early October 2016, they offered Christopher Steele a million plus dollars if he could corroborate it.
He can't get paid because he can't corroborate.
And then they use that as the information, the bulk of information, to get not one, what became four FISA warrants, in part backdoor spying on then candidate and president Donald J. Trump.
What happened to all those people?
Nothing.
Then we know about the 2020, you know, move forward to 2020.
What do we have?
That election.
The FBI has the laptop in December of 2019.
They verify its authenticity in March of 2020.
But yet FBI officials in the months leading up to the 2020 election are warning big tech companies on a weekly basis with these meetings that they may be victims of a misinformation campaign, and it may be about Joe and Hunter Biden.
That sounds to me like they're trying to put their cinder blocks on the scale of an election.
Yeah, and then, you know, look to what we're finding out of how they handled the Hunter Biden investigation internally.
We now have this new FBI agent who has testified in front of Congress saying, corroborating what the other whistleblowers have said, in particular, noting that, you know, they had spent FBI and IRS investigators have spent months gearing up for this day of action where they were going to go and surprise all these people on Hunter Biden's orbit.
This is how you do it when you're investigating.
You don't give them a heads up because you want to catch them, get them to talk to you without lawyering up, et cetera.
And instead, FBI headquarters tipped off Hunter Biden's team.
They believed that that allowed him to tell everybody else.
And whistleblowers noted that in the end, they only got one substantive issue out of that entire interview out of that entire day.
And yet we turn around and now, I mean, it looks like Jack Smith is going to extraordinary efforts to bring a case here in a much more politically fraught situation where there's even less tenuous reason to do so.
I mean, 10 more tenuous reasons to do so.
So in this case, the FBI whistleblower says that top bureau officials, now, by the way, this is a supervisory special agent here, somebody that had a leadership role in the FBI, just retired, who made the allegation that top Biden officials sabotaged the plans to interview Hunter Biden and said in December of 2020 higher-ups at the FBI tipped off the Secret Service a day before they were scheduled to interview Hunter,
and word came down to put off the interview, according to the agent telling James Comer's House Oversight and Accountability Committee.
And as a result, the change in plans, the IRS, the FBI criminal investigators, never got to interview Hunter Biden.
I mean, are you kidding me?
I mean, could you imagine if this was Trump?
Could you imagine if there was cocaine in the Trump White House?
Could you imagine if you had six IRS whistleblowers that said that they stonewalled what was a slam-dunk case?
And then the prosecutor, David Weiss's own office, recommended felony indictments against Hunter, but it was stopped.
So I don't know what to tell Americans anymore about our Constitution, these principles of equal justice and application of our laws anymore, because I don't think we have it.
Or what to tell them about the things that our most senior officials say, which proved to be patently false or incorrect.
Look, if these whistleblowers are telling the truth, it means that Weiss, as you said, was going to bring these felony charges, and he was blocked by the attorney in D.C., the U.S. Attorney in D.C., and the U.S. Attorney in Central California because they wouldn't bring charges side by side with him.
You know, that happened, and yet Merrick Garland, Attorney General Merrick Garland, looks at the country and says there's no politics involved in the Hunter probe.
Really?
Those attorneys were both appointed by Joe Biden, and they won't bring charges that another attorney wants against the president's son.
Unbelievable.
You talk a lot and compare in your book, The Biden Malaise, How America Bounces Back from Joe Biden's dismal repeat of the Jimmy Carter years.
It is amazing, isn't it, how history repeats itself and America seems to deviate, get off course, have this flirtation, if you will, with socialism.
And then the rubber band has in the past snapped back and common sense prevails.
I'm a little worried it's going to be a little harder this time.
And I'm concerned about the future of this country.
If, God forbid, this guy got a second term.
I just, I don't even think he knows that today is Tuesday, to be honest.
So, but you look at it, the similarities are all there, aren't they, in terms of the radicalism, the, you know, put your thermostat down to 68 and put on a sweater.
America was once lectured by Jimmy Carter.
Yeah, it's so outwardly striking.
It's amazing.
I mean, you look at inflation.
You look at energy prices.
You look at the foreign policy fiascos.
You look at the crime rates in both times.
You look at, a lot of people don't know this, immigration.
You know, the only two presidents who have had runs on the border, Joe Biden and Jimmy Carter with the Mariel boat lift out of Cuba, which was devastating for southern Florida at the time and one of the biggest mass illegal immigration events we'd ever witnessed in the country.
And yeah, you know, Sean, one of the points that the Biden Malais this book tries to make is that all of this is unfair to Jimmy Carter because, you know, he was dealt a harder hand in that we already had the great inflation around the globe.
We'd had an oil shock.
So he started from a harder place.
Now, he made everything infinitely worse.
But that's my point is to why it's not fair to Jimmy Carter.
Joe Biden inherited an incredible economy that was coming back after COVID.
He inherited a country that had for the first time become a net exporter of oil and an energy leader.
He inherited a country that had low crime.
He inherited a country that had low inflation.
And he single-handedly wrecked all of that with the policies that he took.
So he takes far more blame for these two scenarios.
And I agree with you.
I worry much more about us coming back from this because, you know, Jimmy Carter, he at least sometimes, when he messed up, tried to correct it.
This president has made no correction because there's an agenda here driven by the left, and they don't really care what the consequences are as long as they get European-style welfare state.
All right, quick break more with Kim Strossel, who's with us.
Wall Street Journal, terrific writer, reporter.
Her new book, The Biden Malaise, How America Bounces Back from Joe Biden's dismal repeat of the Jimmy Carter years.
Also, a lot more on our top story, and that is, of course, the target letter that Donald Trump got on, I believe it was, what, Sunday night?
And we are in Cedar Rapids, and we have a town hall with President Trump tonight.
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Hi, 25 to the top of the hour in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Great to be back in Iowa.
The people here are so nice, amazing people.
We had so much fun with them.
When I got out of the car, people slept overnight to come to tonight's show.
Anyway, you can watch it, Hannity, Fox News, 9 Eastern, with President Donald J. Trump.
Obviously, the big news of the day is that he received a target letter as it relates to a grand jury investigation into January 6th, which is pretty much 100% certain that he's going to be indicted, arrested yet again.
And by the way, did anyone ever find where or where is, what's that guy's name, Hur, Robert Hur?
Did any of you listening to my voice even know who that person is?
Yeah, that would be the special counsel that was appointed to look into the Biden classified document scandal.
We never hear about this guy.
Not a word.
Let's see.
They had classified documents next to that old Stingray Corvette in the garage at his home.
Then they had him at the Penn Biden Center.
Then they had him at the University of Delaware.
Then they had him at the beautiful beach home that he was able to afford on a senator's salary in Rehoboth, Delaware.
But not a peep out of him.
Anyway, we'll get to your calls here.
And the crazy ladies of the view reaction, it was a little comical in some ways.
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Anyway, so over at that hard-hitting news show, The View today, they were celebrating Donald Trump receiving his target letter from special counsel Jack Smith regarding January 6th.
Listen.
This appears to be the culmination of it.
And I expect Donald Trump to be indicted in the near future.
Again.
I mean, you could clap for that, sure.
It's almost like a weekly TV show.
Yeah.
Indictment.
Indicted in du jour.
He was so upset that it was Sunday night while he's home reading his upside-down Bible.
They're busy bothering him on a Sunday night.
How dare they?
He's so religious.
He's so, oh, it's pathetic.
The worst thing for a defendant or a prospective defendant is to get that target letter.
You either want to cooperate or you want to be turn, you know, state's evidence and testify in front of the grand jury or you're the target.
And so at this point, because he's the target, the likelihood of indictment is about 100%.
And I just, yeah, I have a little clapping over there.
Yeah, it's, it's, and I, and I only know this because I've sent these these target letters.
Okay, because I've sent these targets letters.
You know, our friend Whoopee Goldberg, I actually like Whoopee.
I defend Whoopi.
I think she's got a good heart.
I don't think politics is her strong wheelhouse.
And Trump should be in jail over the classified documents case.
You know, the young person that the young man they got for espionage recently?
Yeah.
Do you know that he's demanding to be treated exactly the same way as Trump was?
He wants to be, yes, he wants to be able to go home and do everything.
And that's the thing for me that is most egregious.
Nobody goes home.
And no one should be above the law.
Nobody is above the law.
You should not be walking.
You should actually be in the building that has the bars on it.
You took documents and gave them to other people.
They don't let folks walk around, but suddenly now we have that exception to the rule.
And this is the dangerous part of it.
Well, I think there should be no exceptions.
I think the reason there's...
Okay, no exceptions.
Hillary Clinton should be in jail behind bars.
Joe Biden should be in jail behind bars.
Okay, that's going to be the standard.
Tell me what the difference is.
Somebody, did anyone ever go on that show except for Tim Scott recently and challenge the ladies of the view?
They treated him like crap, too.
Not for nothing.
I mean, and no.
Well, they tried to, but let me tell you something.
He went in prepared.
He did.
He definitely put them in their place.
I mean, obviously.
You know, I'm sure he had some help and had watched some other people that may have been on that show.
That's unbelievable.
All right, let's get to our busy phones.
You know what?
We're in Iowa.
We're in Cedar Rapids.
Donna's in Iowa.
Don, how are you?
Glad you called, sir.
Hi, Sean.
Thank you for taking my call.
Great show so far, and I appreciate you being in Cedar Rapids with us.
By the way, are you coming to the event tonight?
I wish I could.
I'm in North Dakota.
You can hear construction in the background.
I'm unloading some of you.
There is no excuse the fact that you have to put food on your table, pay your mortgage, pay your car payment, and send your kids to school.
That's no excuse for not being here.
I know, Sean.
I'm so sorry.
I'm teasing.
What's on your mind?
Of course you are.
Well, I thought of an important topic to bring up for the president tonight, which is the rare earth minerals.
We've got a problem with China right now with rare earth minerals.
We have been letting them mine rare earth minerals in the United States since Bill Clinton signed over a mine in the 90s to them that like a million acres in Utah, and China was allowed to mine it.
I assume it was probably a similar proposition they gave, Hillary gave to the Russians for mining, you know, taking our uranium.
You know, go ahead and take all you want.
And now, you know, now we find ourselves in a shortage of it.
Back in the 80s, we had an AC Delco factory in Indiana.
They allowed it to be sold to China.
China took it and moved the whole plant over to China.
We're just giving this stuff away.
Well, I got to tell you, right now, I think America is making a lot of horrible decisions.
Open borders, a really bad decision.
Defunding the police, a really bad decision.
Abandoning energy independence, a really bad decision.
Abdicating America's role on the world stage as the world's sole superpower.
That void now being filled by an unholy axis of evil of China, Russia, and Iran scares the hell out of me.
It should scare everybody.
These are really unprecedented times.
And, you know, I planned on coming here today in Cedar Rapids with the idea that, you know what?
He's already done that interview on January 6th on the 2020 election.
I came here with a very different agenda.
I came here.
You know what?
I want to talk about the American people that are suffering.
The people that I have always referred to as the forgotten men and women.
In other words, the people that really make this country great.
You know, the nurses, the doctors, the orderlies, the construction workers, the plumbers, the electricians, the carpenters, people, whatever their field of endeavor is, and they get up every day and they work their asses off.
They put in their 14, 15 hours a day.
They raise their kids.
They pay their taxes.
They obey the laws.
And, you know, they're just getting squeezed left, right, and sideways.
And the country is being run into the ground by these radical extremists that have taken over.
And, you know, I wish I could say today, you know, it's, what, July 18th?
And I wish I could say on this day that I'm confident that in November of 2024, that the country is going to get back on track.
I can't say that with any degree of confidence.
Well, Sean, the Democrats need to be aware that the American people know that they keep indicting the president because they fear the president, because they know how much corruption has been going on for years.
Now, I won't be there tonight.
My friend Matt will be there.
So if you see Matt, tell him hello.
He's from Cedar Rapids, and he's a truck salesman.
He sold me my new international.
Well, tell him to get here early because there's a pretty big crowd out there now.
And he's camping out.
I know a lot of people camped out.
I was shocked.
I'm excited about it.
I mean, I'm glad people jazzed to be here.
And I'm happy to be here.
You know what's great about it?
By the way, I'd love to live in Iowa over New York any day of the week.
Any day.
It's the one place where when you see people camped out, they're not doing drugs.
They're here to see a president.
They're here to engage.
That's a good point.
If they're politically involved.
There's no heroin.
The worst thing they're probably doing, maybe they're having an adult beverage.
All right, quick break, right back.
More of your phone calls coming up.
800-941-Sean as we continue.
We are in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Our town hall with President Donald J. Trump is tonight, 9 Eastern.
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Anyway, that'll be on tonight at 9, especially in light of today's news that a target letter was sent to President Trump regarding January 6th.
We'll get the president's first verbal reaction and video reaction, all of that.
9 Eastern, Hannity, Fox News.
See you tonight.
Quick break, right back.
And more of the news of the day.
And why did Donald Trump's poll numbers go up every time he gets attacked?
We'll check in with our pollster straight ahead.
All right, from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where we have our town hall with President Trump tonight.
Let's get back to our busy phones.
All right, let's go to Danny's out in the liberal socialist communist bastion known as California.
What's up, Danny?
How are you?
Hey, Sean, how are you?
I'm good, buddy.
What's going on?
I'm in the best part of California.
You got to remember that.
The northern part.
That's the only part that matters.
Okay, the northern part, meaning the Oregon border.
What's that?
I'd like for you to come and visit us.
Well, are you talking about California Redwoodland and the border near Oregon, or are you talking about San Francisco and Oakland?
About Redding, California.
I've been to Redding, California.
I have.
I've actually driven the entire Pacific Coast Highway in my life.
Beautiful.
Beautiful drive.
Yes, it is.
Yes, it is.
And our lakes are full right now.
Well, good.
Don't let the Saudis get it like they're taking it out of Arizona.
I couldn't believe that story yesterday.
Anyway, what else is on your mind?
Water don't go elsewhere.
Yeah, exactly.
That's it.
Well, I mean, I was in the San Joaquin Valley and I did a show once, and it was about how farmers couldn't farm anymore in the San Joaquin Valley because the extreme radical environmentalists wanted to protect a little minnow fish.
It was like a minnow.
You know, I know because I use minnow fish, you know, to go out and throw a light out occasionally and try and catch some fish.
I don't not like my buddy Keith that catches everything.
I catch next to nothing.
And anyway, I sit out there, you know, just keep throwing them out.
And when I cast, they usually fall off the hook.
I bring it right back in and do it again.
But anyways, called the Delta Smelt.
Remember that controversy?
Yep.
Yep, I do.
Yeah.
They were protecting a non-endangered species minnow, Delta Smelt Fish, over the farmers.
Lie.
Another lie.
Yeah.
Crazy.
For their call, Sean, is that I want somebody that is a drug professional to look at 4th of July balcony video of the Bidens.
And I would be 100% confident that the daughter and the son were higher than a kite that night just by the way of their body reactions to certain things that the family did.
I don't know, and I'm not going to say.
Now, it would be perfectly logical to believe that people that had drug problems would be potential suspects if they have access to the entire White House.
And originally, this was the situation room or outside the situation room.
They gave us three different locations where the cocaine was found.
Now, somebody used to be a crackhead, and we have pictures of that individual sleeping with a crack pipe in their mouth and pictures of that individual with no teeth because they have cracked teeth.
What do you call it?
Crack mouth, I think is the official phrase of it, and needed new teeth put in because they were destroyed by the drug use.
That means that's severe addiction.
They would be a suspect.
But in 10 days, without interviewing one single person, they closed down this investigation.
If it was Donald Trump, he would have gotten a target letter today.
Would have been him.
They would have blamed him.
And by the way, the guy that doesn't even drink an ounce of alcohol, he's never had a drink in his life.
Which, by the way, if I was him and I was living through all this crap, I'd be drinking.
No, if you don't drink and smoke, you don't want to start because it's a bad habit and it's an expensive habit.
Okay, it sounds like you're guilty of both.
Now, the way you speak so professionally about it.
I've quit both in my years.
I was pretty radical.
But as I've aged, I've mellowed out and seen the light.
And only God and Trump can fix this.
Only God and Trump.
Well, God bless America then, because these are tough times for this country.
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