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Biden Legal Woes Continue - July 25th, Hour 2
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Former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, Newt 360, writing a great piece about what it is that the Biden family syndicate is actually facing here.
We've got two simultaneous investigations going on.
One is into the Biden family syndicate.
That's issue number one.
And whether or not the DOJ, the FBI, and we can add to that the IRS, after hearing from whistleblowers last week, ended up being and running protection for everything that is Biden, while simultaneously going after Donald Trump for jaywalking and spitting on the sidewalk.
Newt Gingrich also observing, rightly so, that this scandal is now becoming so big, what I'm calling it the Biden bribery scandal allegation.
It's that we may even be to the point that the New York Times and the Washington Post may be forced to cover it.
Mr. Speaker, great to have you back, sir.
How are you?
I'm doing well.
I think you put your finger on something which is evolving.
I thought when, and you're going to have a great show tonight, when Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
the other morning said, you know, he'd finally concluded that Biden really did have to be investigated.
That's the first major Democrat, the first really big break in the wall.
And I think with all the different things coming out, Hunter's business partners, apparently, and we'll see what happens next week, but apparently prepared to come in and testify under oath that they routinely called Joe Biden.
And I think we're going to find that Joe Biden probably had a business phone given to him as a cutout so that they could call him without it ever showing up on the White House logs or on any other kind of document.
And apparently they just routinely talked to him and had business people talking to him.
And this is a guy who has been consistently lying to the country now, I think for at least eight or nine years and has been part of the largest corruption scandal.
I mean, most of Hillary's scandals involved the Clinton Foundation.
So there's sort of a test here between who stole more.
And Clinton may still be ahead, even though she hasn't been investigated certainly.
But certainly for a president, Biden, and taking it from foreigners, Biden is setting a record for corruption in the White House.
So I think we'll all come crashing down.
I do think there's a critical mass after which even the New York Times and the Washington Post can't hide.
So there are like three canaries in the coal mine that I'm looking for.
I can check one box.
When Maureen Dowd went hard after Joe Biden for not acknowledging his seventh granddaughter, this is the four-year-old little girl in Arkansas.
That to me was a sign.
This is A hardcore Democratic columnist, that began to, you know, cogitate my brain a little bit.
And I'm thinking there are a lot of Democrats that don't want Joe on the ticket in November of 2024.
I would argue he's one major fall away from Democrats en masse saying to him, you can't be the candidate.
You're not fit for the job.
And then the last one would be: if we see prominent Democrats now jump on these allegations that now we have all this evidence emerging daily as it relates to the amount of money that the Biden family was doing in business with our foreign adversaries,
some of our top geopolitical foes, China, Russia, Romania, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Mexico, and a dozen other countries, and the sheer amount of dollars that we're talking about, tens and tens of millions of dollars.
And now the revelation that Joe lied repeatedly during the campaign, saying that he'd never once even spoke to his son about his foreign business dealings or his brother or anybody else for that matter.
And they've had to walk that back this week, and they look silly doing it.
So if that happens, to me, that is going to be an indication that he's done.
The Democratic Party will be the party that pushes him out of the 2024 race.
Am I wrong?
No, I think that's very possible.
I think, again, this is a guy who has survived a long time.
He's surrounded by people who are totally loyal to him.
They have a government that spends about $4 trillion.
So they have a lot of assets they can use to bribe, bully, blackmail.
I don't think he's going to go down peacefully.
You know, he didn't get this far by being nice, and he didn't get this far by being honest.
And I think he has no future.
I mean, if he caves and he leaves, how much can you bicycle in Delaware?
So I think he will fight desperately to survive.
And frankly, Kamala Harris makes it a much harder problem for the Democrats because I don't think they can get rid of her.
And I think the country clearly would repudiate any effort to make her a president.
What did you think of, and I don't know if I'm assuming here, I'm not sure if you had an opportunity to watch my interview with Gavin Newsom.
I hope you did because I want to get your take on that.
Number one, not only did he do the interview, I mean, at one point in the middle of the interview, I said, here's Joe Biden's problem.
He can't sit down and have the conversation we are currently having.
He's not capable of it.
And at another point, you know, he's defending Joe Biden, and I've got to believe that his phone is pinging probably every, you know, 50 times every hour with prominent Democrats begging him to jump in the race.
Do you think I'm wrong in my theory?
No, I don't think they're begging him yet.
But I think, look, Newsom is a very smart guy, former mayor of San Francisco.
He's very clever.
And I think he's figured out that if he runs around the country saying nice things about Biden, it is the least risky way of getting known and the least risky way of picking up IOUs.
And then magically one morning, if Biden's not available, here will be the governor of our largest state, and he'll have been everywhere.
And he'll be willing to sacrifice to leave Sacramento to serve the country.
He's willing to sacrifice that.
The biggest problem he has are his policies and the impact it's had on California.
Even going as far, though, is willing to debate with me as the moderator, Governor DeSantis, for two or three hours.
What do you think of that?
Well, I think Newsom thinks he beat DeSantis.
Look, Newsom is much more articulate than DeSantis.
Do you really believe that?
I mean, Ron DeSantis is not a lightweight.
I mean, he's a smart guy.
I think he went to Harvard, Yale.
Didn't he go to the military academy also?
Yeah.
Look, look, DeSantis will have a very simple problem.
He will try to actually stick to the facts.
Newsom has no boundaries.
He can make up anything he wants to.
He's a left-wing Democrat.
He lives in a fantasy world.
And he'll say things that will either draw you, you know, your jaw will just hang open.
This is what I love.
Here's what I want to know.
Do you think now we're at a point, first of all, you're right in your analysis that you wrote on Newt 360 that there are two simultaneous investigations ongoing.
Up to this point, the FBI and the DOJ and the IRS, and we heard from the whistleblowers last week, they have been protecting the Biden family.
Now, that in and of itself, to me, is a massive scandal.
They've had the information about Joe Biden.
They had this FD 1023 form, a very credible FBI informant meeting with the CEO of Burisma.
And I've read the quotes extensively.
They are devastating to the Biden family, that this family was paid a fortune.
And Joe is on tape bragging that he leveraged the billion taxpayer dollars to get a prosecutor who was investigating his son and Burisma fired.
He, son of a bee, got it done in six hours, and Hunter continued to get paid.
What is the word that you would use to describe that type of activity?
Well, look, I think you have two different things.
You have crooks.
I mean, the Bidens are a criminal family.
It's not complicated.
This is a gathering of people who are willing to break the law to do business with America's enemies, to take the cash and to lie about it.
So that's Avenue One.
Avenue two is obstruction of justice.
And if we find a lawyer, I mean, if we find a judge, like, if you remember, Judge Sorica was one of the keys in Watergate because he broke the system open because he was very tough.
46 people were convicted out of Watergate because the more they got involved in obstruction.
I think the current Attorney General has forgotten that John Mitchell, Attorney General for Nixon, is the only cabinet officer ever to go to jail, and he went to jail for obstruction.
And I think that there's no question that the current Attorney General is engaged in obstruction.
There's no question that the senior FBI leadership has been involved in obstruction.
The senior IRS leadership has been involved in obstruction.
And I think once that dam breaks, and once you begin to have honest people applying the law, the number of people who are going to turn out to be at risk will be amazing.
And, you know, Andy McCarthy wrote a book called Ball of Collusion.
And when you go through that book, and McCarthy is a professional Justice Department attorney with 20 years experience on terrorism, and he writes, it's very meticulous.
When you go through that, it is sickening how much, starting with the whole Trump-Russia collusion lies, and how much the U.S. government was actively involved in undermining the president of the United States, the intelligence community, and the FBI.
And now, of course, it's extended to the IRS.
And I think all of this is, frankly, very frightening because if the instruments of the police power end up being willing to break the law, then there's nobody to protect you.
All right, quick break.
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Then we'll get to your calls after the news at the bottom of the hour.
So what do you think?
Now, let me play for you, Kevin McCarthy, and I want to know what you think that the Republican strategy on this ought to be.
Here's what he said on my TV show last night.
If you're sitting in our position today, we would know none of this if Republicans had not taken the majority.
We've only followed where the information has taken us.
But Hannah is rising to the level of impeachment inquiry, which provides Congress the strongest power to get the rest of the knowledge and information needed.
I believe we will follow this all the way to the end, and this is going to rise to an impeachment inquiry the way the Constitution tells us to do this.
And we have to get the answers to these questions.
So what would your advice be to Kevin McCarthy and the Republican Party in the House, especially on how they should move forward with this?
Well, I think they should move forward methodically, exactly the way they're doing it.
They have three different committees that are working on this now.
I think every day that goes by, we learn more.
And I would draw a real distinction between an impeachment inquiry, which is important because it broadens the scope of what they can ask for, and actual impeachment.
And my reasoning is very simple.
You know, this is a terrible comment on where we are.
You don't want to replace Joe Biden with Kamala Harris.
I mean, Joe Biden may well be a crook.
I think he is actually.
He may well have cognitive problems.
I'm pretty sure he does.
But he isn't active.
He may have cognitive problems.
Is that really an issue in dispute, Mr. Speaker?
Or are you being gracious?
I'm being gracious.
You know me, Sean.
Whenever I can be, I try to.
I'm from New York.
You're from Georgia.
I get it.
You're a much nicer man than I am.
I'm just checking.
As dangerous as Biden is, he is not an active, aggressive disaster.
She will be.
I mean, I can't imagine how bad, how much damage she would do the United States.
Not necessarily because she's, you know, just left-wing, but just because she's totally incompetent.
Well, I don't think she's up for the job for sure, which is why I think you're right in observing, as I've been observing, the movements of Gavin Newsom.
From the, you know, what I'm also concerned about is part two of this, you know, the level and the extent to which, you know, look at the FBI involvement in the 2020 presidential election.
Were they putting their cinder blocks on the scale of a presidential election after they did so in 2016?
Of course so.
There's no question about it.
But look, the senior establishment of the elite bureaucracy hates and fears Donald Trump.
They know that he's the end of their world.
They know that his values are radically different from theirs.
And they see destroying him as a moral cause that allows them to break any law they want to.
But I think what the Republicans should do is the House Republicans should defund large parts of the Department of Justice.
I totally agree.
And I think they've got to restore the FBI to once again become the world's premier law enforcement agency.
And that may mean taking the counterterrorism part of it out of the FBI and putting it somewhere else.
Wow.
Having counterterrorism and crime in the same box is a very dangerous process because counterterrorism starts with an assumption of guilt, and the criminal justice starts with an assumption of innocence.
It's really well said.
It's a disaster.
All right.
If people want to get your podcast and your newsletter, where do they go to new360.com?
If they go to gingrich360.com, and also my new book, March the Majority, is available there.
So we'd love to have them come.
And I just did a podcast, by the way, which I think we're releasing tomorrow with Eduardo, who helped do The Sound of Freedom.
And I'm going to be at the Capitol with Kevin McCarthy.
Chris and I are going up to watch the movie tonight.
So it's very exciting.
It's going to open your eyes.
It's devastating what's happening in this year, 2023.
You think it couldn't happen around the world, and it's worse than ever.
And the United States needs to really crack down on this because we are some of the biggest consumers of a lot of these products and this just sex trafficking that goes on.
Speaker Gingrich, always great to have you, sir.
Thank you.
Thanks.
Take care.
All right, 25 to the top of the hour.
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Kenny, Florida, the free state of Florida.
What's up, Kenny?
How are you?
It's beautiful weather down here, some sunshine, and here comes a cloud and some rain.
So it's good to talk to you, Sean.
I'll tell you what, I watch you every night.
Thank you.
Those guys, that if I'm not there, the DVR is going.
And you cannot change this channel in my house.
We had our niece move in with us recently.
She put it on one of their channels.
Don't take it off, Fox.
Put that back on there.
Put that back on there.
Now, if I can get everybody to just do exactly what you're doing and set their DVR Monday through Friday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday to 9 p.m. Eastern, my life is golden and I can keep doing this for as long as you'll have me.
As long as you're talking, I'll be listening.
I just wanted to touch one thing real quick.
Some say you're kind of beating a dead horse.
Well, the horse isn't dead yet.
Jason Aldean and this song, The View, bless their hearts, they need to change their name to The Twisted Sisters because they just twist everything around.
This song is not about violence.
If anything, it's about nonviolence.
When you come to a small town, even there's some of them here in Florida, the people are like a family.
And if something happens to one of those families, the rest of the families rally together.
Whether it's a sickness, an illness, if their house burns down, our neighbor next door to us here a few years ago had a tree blow down in their front yard.
I just went and got my, I didn't ask anybody.
I went and got my chainsaw, started cutting.
Next thing you know, people are coming out of the woodwork to clean it up.
That's what this song is about.
It's not about violence.
It's about stopping the violence.
And it's sad that people want to twist the truth and turn it into a lie.
They take that truth and turn it into a lie.
And shame on these other networks that won't play it.
Some of the local stations in here, they'll play them sparingly, but not nearly enough.
They need to play it more.
Well, it ran to the top of the charts as a result of the controversy.
I played yesterday what Jason Aldean had to say himself at his concert over the weekend.
He had already spoken out about it, and good for him.
Country music fans, man, they just rallied to his side.
It was instantaneous.
I can't believe CMT was stupid enough to take that video down.
That video had real footage of the rioting, the 574 riots that nobody wanted to look into from the summer of 2020, riots that injured thousands of cops, pelted with bricks and rocks and bottles and Molotov cocktails, the riots that killed a couple of dozen Americans, the riots that caused billions in property damage, the riots that Kamala Harris tweeted out the bail fund for in Minneapolis after a precinct was burned to the ground.
And then they're trying to say, well, it was done in a lynching video because it was the courthouse in the background in 1914 had this.
It's so stupid.
And meanwhile, it was used in like, it's one of those, there's certain images that production houses have licenses for.
And it's been used in many movies, many other videos.
And what most people don't realize is in most cases, musicians and actors will do a lot of the work in front of what's called a green screen.
It's like a neon bright green screen.
I mean, for example, have you seen the latest Fox video of Laura and Jesse and me and Greg Gutfeld walking?
Have you seen that video?
I have.
Okay.
You know what I did that in front of?
A green screen.
Yes.
And guess what?
They weren't next to me.
They show pictures of the four of us together.
We didn't do it at the same time.
It's called a filtered video.
Yeah.
I mean, and I'm like, okay, I understand why maybe laymen and lay women may not understand that, but, you know, this was a stretch from the get-go.
You know, I think I was the only one.
I could never understand.
And maybe you can help edify this for me and shed some light on why this is what it is.
Why were the Democrats only interested in one riot?
Why weren't they interested in the actionable intelligence that even NBC reported that law enforcement failed to act on?
Why weren't they interested in asking why Muriel Bowser said no to the National Guard?
Why didn't they ask Nancy Pelosi, who was in charge of security at the Capitol, for her cell phone records and her text messages and her email messages?
Mine were all released publicly in the January 6th hearings.
I'm sure you probably know that.
Just like they've been released many, many times before.
I guess I don't have privacy in America anymore.
Why didn't they want to get to the story for the purpose of preventing anything like that ever happening again?
And why did they only care about the one riot, not the 574 other riots that took place with all the damage and death and destruction that went along with it?
They're only given an ounce of truth and a ton of lies.
That's exactly what they do.
They shed just enough truth, just enough truth to make it look like a lie.
And I'm going to tell you what, one of these days I'm going to get up there, even from Florida, down to New York, and I'm going to let you throw me one of those footballs because I miss that so I wish you could throw one far enough all the way to reach down here to Gainesville.
Now, where do you do?
Listen, I wish I could too, but why don't you just come up one day and visit the show and sit in our studio and bring a bodyguard with you on your way to New York?
I might have to do that.
I enjoy talking to you, Sean.
I'm going to be watching you tonight, too.
All right, my friend.
Appreciate it.
800-941-Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
All right, let's go to Brian in South Carolina.
Brian, how are you?
Glad you called.
Thanks, Sean, for taking my call.
It's an honor and privilege to talk to you today.
You know, here's one of the not only my concerns, but a lot of the people that I associate.
Exactly what is President Trump doing to gain that swing vote?
A lot of the people I associate with were data were, you know, history.
We just look at the numbers to see what happens.
And we're seeing that, you know, a good part of his loss was because of that independent female suburban housewife, you know, and we just don't see what action is being taken to gain that vote.
You know, we understand that, you know, past history, he did get cheated.
There was a lot that went on.
There was a lot that was brought to light over that.
But maybe we have to put that on the back burner right now and move in a direction to convince those that particular group of people, you know, that he is the right person on his, you know, on his record, on things that he is.
Listen, we're going to have a primary.
We're going to have we're going to have Iowa take place and the Iowa caucuses take place and the New Hampshire primary take place and the South Carolina primary take place.
And, you know, not far behind that, we're going to have Super Tuesday and a bunch of other states.
And Republicans will have a nominee and whoever that is.
And right now, all indications would be that it would be Donald Trump, that we better get behind them because otherwise we're stuck with four years of this disaster.
And I don't think the country can survive it, to be honest.
I've never been this worried about the state of the country, about the state of the economy.
You know, here we got.
We got gas prices now soaring again.
There's your economic news for the day.
You got more hostility out of China.
There's your foreign policy news of the day.
You know, more hostile actions taken against our fighter jets and our drones in this particular case.
And there's been no consequences at all whatsoever.
The only thing that we've heard is Joe Biden is considering lifting sanctions on China.
What?
Rewarding them for spy balloons, rewarding them for unfair trade practices and intellectual property theft, reward them for confronting our Navy ships in international waters, confronting our fighter jets in international airspace.
That's our way of saying thank you, lifting sanctions.
Gee, thank you so.
Thank you so much, President Xi.
And thanks for COVID while you're at it also.
I mean, this is weakness playing out right before your eyes, and it always ends one way, and that's aggression.
Dorn, that's all I know is in 24, in November, we have to, as voters, we have to blow those machines up with votes for Trump.
It just has to happen.
Well, I'm just going to tell you, it's very hard for any Republican.
I'm just giving you the reality.
I'm giving you a reality check even.
For a Republican to become president, it used to be, okay, we had to worry about Ohio and Florida.
I'm not that worried about Ohio and Florida this time around, but I am worried about Georgia.
You know, we better pay very close attention to North Carolina.
And then I'm worried about what I call accelerated migration, conservatives leaving states like Pennsylvania and Wisconsin and Michigan and, you know, all the Californians making their way into Arizona and Nevada.
We got to run the table.
Who's the best candidate in terms of who's going to win the most votes?
I just don't have a crystal ball.
And this is where an informed American electorate is going to come into play here.
You know, I truly believe with all my heart Republicans better change their attitude towards Election Day and voting.
It's not the system I want.
I've explained the system I want.
I want Election Day to be a national holiday.
I want every precinct to have paper ballots.
I want partisan observer winner.
I think that would bring the most integrity to the system and give us the most confidence in the results.
With that said, it's not our system.
So Republicans better embrace voting early, voting by mail, and they better embrace what the Democrats are doing.
And that is legal ballot harvesting in many of these states.
And that allows other people to hand in ballots on their behalf, which I think is nuts myself, but it's the system that exists.
And Republicans better play in the same arena that the Democrats are playing in.
And they better do it as good or if not better.
So I'm trying to warn people.
And when November 2024 comes around, you know, don't say you weren't warned because I've been now doing it for a year and a half.
Well, they better be listening.
I hope so, my friend.
God bless you, buddy.
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Up next, our final roundup and information overload hour.
All right, let's get back to our busy phones.
All right, let's say hi to Jeff.
Jeff is in Vegas.
K-Dawn Radio.
What's up, Jeff?
How are you?
Hey, Sean, hanging in there.
I want to share a story with you that actually happened to me back July 9, 2021, getting that COVID shot.
And I was on the road.
I'm a musician, entertainer, singer, and came back from Georgia, as a matter of fact, and was taking care of my mother.
I was her caregiver.
And I got back to Minnesota, actually.
And on July 9th, I got that shot.
And about, and I kept putting it off.
I didn't really want to get it.
And about a week and a half or a week later, I was in a coma.
And they hauled me off to a hospital in the Twin Cities, had no say in the matter, and had me on that ventilator.
And I was out for like three weeks, I was told.
Did you get COVID or are you saying this is a reaction to the vaccine?
It was a reaction to the vaccine.
And then I got COVID when I got on that ventilator.
Oh, man.
Yeah, I woke up.
By the way, when did this happen?
What month, what year?
Yeah, it was two years ago, actually, July 9th of 2021.
You know, let me tell you, at that time, if you got on a ventilator, especially in 2020, it was a little bit better in 2021.
But if you got on a ventilator in 2020, the odds of you surviving and getting off that ventilator were less than 15%.
I mean, you're lucky to be alive, to be very blunt with you.
I'm cursed and blessed at the same time, but let me tell you what happened when I got woke up in my room.
There were a bunch of people standing around, doctors and other people, and they amputated eight of my fingers.
And being a guitarist for over 60 years, I mean...
Oh, no.
You're kidding me.
Of course not.
No, I'm not kidding you.
It was quite devastating.
And, you know, we got to thank Dr. Fauci and, you know, a few other people for, you know, giving us the big OI and going by that.
And there's not one day now that goes by that I'm not in pain.
I've been seeing doctors back in Minnesota when I go back at the Mayo Clinic and in the Twin Cities, but it's just like I'm in pain every day.
But the good part about this is, I guess, the good news is that I went back to performing and my voice came back.
That one, too, because on that ventilator, they had the wrong tube stuck down my.
They shove it down your throat.
They can ruin your voice.
I know that's happened to people too.
Oh, yeah, absolutely.
So you can actually play even though you lost eight fingers?
Well, no, what I did, let me explain.
I went back to playing piano, which I started on when I was like nine years old, but I'm playing slide guitar.
And I played guitar for a couple real famous Aldi's groups.
And I've been playing.
I was doing this.
I've been doing a single solo show for 20 years now.
And so I'm playing sly guitar.
But obviously, I'm not playing sly guitar to Frank Sinatra when I do that kind of genre.
Well, the fact that you were able to, in spite of all of this, get back to your passion and what you love most in life is that's at least a little bit of a blessing.
But nobody would want to go through what you went through to get there.
I'm just up on the clock here.
I wish you all the best.
And if we can ever help you or promote one of your concerts, let us know, okay?
I appreciate that.
One quick thing.
I was on with RFK Jr.
He interviewed me about a year ago.
I was on with him.
And I know you're having him on tonight.
So I don't know if he'd remember, but say hello.
I'm sure he's going to remember your story.
Yours is very memorable.
But I got a roll.
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