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Uh we did bring up with Newt Gingrich earlier in the program today something that is now a legitimate issue.
Uh even ABC News uh dot com uh had a story about this.
Georgia uh court's apparent error and early publishing of charges gives Trump an opening to attack the case.
Uh yes, it does, and President Trump's legal team has now already suggested that they would claim prosecutorial misconduct, saying shortly after the document was posted that this was not a simple administrative mistake, but it was emblematic of the pervasive, glaring constitutional violations which have plagued this case from its very inception.
The events that have unfolded today have been shocking and absurd, starting with a leak of a presumed and premature indictment before witnesses had testified and grand jurors had deliberated and ending with the DA being unable to offer any explanation at all.
Uh these are lawyers uh Drew uh Binling, Jennifer Little, and Marissa Goldberg in a statement that they had released.
In light of this major fumble, the Fulton County DA's office clearly decided to force through uh and rush this 98-page indictment.
Now that is true because we know that witnesses that were scheduled to talk tomorrow.
Axios had a piece, you know, uh yesterday that came out said, yeah, the the former lieutenant governor of Georgia was scheduled to go in on Tuesday.
Well, he went in on Monday.
And and that led to the expedited process, the late night uh session that they had, etc.
etc.
Uh anyway, President Trump himself and the Trump campaign jumped on this as well, uh, saying that the grand jury testimony had not even finished, but it's clear the DA has already decided how this case is gonna end.
Is that prosecutorial misconduct?
Anyway, by the way, when you go to Fanny Willis uh last night, she was asked about this, had no answer for it.
Listen.
Today there was a fictitious document according to the Fulton County Clerk's office that was circulated online with charges against former President Donald Trump.
Those that fictitious document uh matched exactly the charges that we now see in this indictment.
Can you tell us more about that document leak?
Uh because now you have the former president's lawyers who are saying this is emblematic of a serious problem with your office.
No, I can't tell you anything about um what you refer to.
What I can tell you is that we had a grand jury here in Fulton County.
They deliberated till almost eight o'clock, if not right after eight o'clock.
An indictment was returned.
It was true build, and you now have an indictment.
Um I am not an expert on clerks duties um or even administrative duties.
I wouldn't know how to work that system, and so I'm not gonna speculate.
Not gonna speculate, okay.
Ask directly if she has had contact with the special counsel, Jack Smith.
Doesn't want to uh answer that question either.
And have you had any contact with the special counsel about the overlap between this indictment and the federal indictment?
I'm not going to discuss our investigation at this time.
Uh that's a simple yes or no answer.
And then on the Trump indictment, the law is completely nonpartisan.
Really?
We're supposed to believe that.
Is this like a big joke or you know, comedy hour, stand-up, you know, open mic night, call it whatever you want.
Here's what she said.
Uh the arguments uh made by former President Trump that this is a politically motivated indictment.
I make decisions in this office based on the facts and the law.
Um the law is completely nonpartisan.
That's how decisions are made in every case.
To date, this office has indicted since I've been sitting as a district attorney.
Over 12,000 cases.
This is the 11th RICO indictment.
We followed the same process.
We look at the facts, we look at the law, and we bring charges.
Okay.
Anyway, our legal panel is with us, Greg Jarrett, author of the now current bestseller trial of the century.
Uh Brett Tolman, former federal prosecutor, served as U.S. attorney uh for Utah.
Uh, by the way, welcome both of you.
Nineteen people indicted last night.
Uh the theatrics earlier in the day.
Do Uh I'll ask you, Brett, does the Trump campaign have a case to make here?
Uh as it relates to this dump early in the day.
Whoopsie Daisy, uh they hadn't even heard from witnesses, but they were confident that they wouldn't be able to indict a ham sandwich.
Uh and and already had it all written out, pre the press was ready to go.
Yeah, Sean, thanks for having me on.
I'll tell you that they're adding up, they're piling up the types of motions and arguments that the Trump team are are going to be able to make.
When when you consider the special purpose grand jury that assembled and the the foreman of the grand jury and the comments made there, the comments made by by Fanny Willis, you know, leading up to the investigation and during the investigation, and then you have this leak.
I will tell you though, I think the the the bigger um issue is actually what they charged.
I describe this as a true Frankenstein.
Mary Shelley would have would have been been you know repulsed by it is law and facts being put together.
It needs to be scorned, torn apart, and its creator ran out of office.
Uh truly you take a RICO case, for example, I've brought these cases.
You have to prove a corrupt organization, but you have to actually have evidence of an organization, and it can't be just uh a client and his lawyers making legal arguments, and then you have to show if you can satisfy that that there is an organization that is corrupt.
You have to satisfy the the evidence that the purpose of the organization is to commit predicate crimes.
Well, the crimes they list, Sean, in the in this indictment are actually lawful actions.
They don't list criminal predicate that they can use in their RICO case.
So for me, it it it it's sad that we're here.
It's another political you know, weaponization of the of a justice system, but it's embarrassing.
I think it's a grounds for for an investigation of of this DA and and disbarment.
Well, I mean, we now have th you know three examples where it was it's obvious.
I mean, you have an AG in New York, you have a DA in New York, they ran on a platform to get one man, one organization, one family.
And that was the Trump family, the Trump organization, Donald Trump himself.
Uh and and obviously the the radicalism does not exclude other uh DAs and prosecutors in other states, Greg Jarrett.
We we have talked at length about, for example, the documents case and the treatment of Hillary Clinton, the treatment of Joe Biden and the treatment versus Donald Trump.
Uh we have talked at length about corruption.
You know, we we now are investigating the Joe Biden bribery and and you know, money laundering uh scandal allegations and the evidence is accumulating daily, and and everybody seems to want to ignore that.
Seems far more serious in my mind, especially because it involves our top geopolitical foes than uh a document issue that you know a lot of people seem to have uh or this this stupid indictment in New York, or you know, relitigating nine uh January 6th for the 400 million time.
You know, these four indictments uh are more like a corrupt criminal enterprise being run by prosecutors than anything Trump ever did.
You know, when you read this Georgia indictment, it is really a political denunciation of Trump.
I mean, the DA claims that everything Trump did on social media, public comments, speeches, messages, telephone calls, all part of a grand criminal conspiracy.
And I'll give you some examples.
I mean, Fanny Willis insists that when Trump urged his supporters to watch a hearing on TV or sign petitions or verify signatures or solicit phone numbers.
He was committing, and I'll quote here, overt acts in furtherance of a conspiracy.
She literally makes that claim in the indictment.
Now, the absurdity of that is self-evident.
She also claims that everything Trump said was false.
Well, even if you accept that, so what?
The Supreme Court has said that false claims are protected lawful speech under the First Amendment.
So, you know, this is a partisan DA determined To uh weaponize the legal system against uh political opponents, and and this is a frontal assault on the rule of law.
Well, let me ask overall when you look at the charges and you know, the quote enterprise and the the RICO and racketeering aspect of all of this.
I I mean I found it a little bit strange and a little bit odd that they went through chapter and verse in Pennsylvania and Arizona and Michigan and all these other states.
Uh is that relevant to the case that they're trying to bring here in your view.
It's only the only relevant to individuals who aren't aren't going to be shown the full picture, and and that's that's a grand jury.
You know, they get to go in, they get to use hearsay, they get to couch it in terms of you know, misbehavior and and and lies about the election, and and so a grand jury sitting there, ordinary people have no background in the law, will will trust and rely on on the prosecutors on this.
But but to what Greg was articulating, and I think Sean, you you very well summarized.
It's it's not that we're irate because Donald Trump is being mistreated.
Well, what what causes those of us who have brought RICO cases or conspiracy charges and sat in front of juries and and sent you know individuals to prison for these crimes.
This doesn't come close to being in the heartland of those cases, nor even in the in in the atmosphere of the intention of those statutes.
And so then we look at how they're using the criminal justice system and we say this right here jeopardizes our ability to have confidence in the rule of law and in our trust that our our leaders that we elect into those positions will actually use that power, that incredible power with solemnity and thoughtfulness.
That's out the window now.
And and so we live in a different America going forward.
Well, that's pretty scary if we have a dual justice system.
It's scary if we weaponize the Department of Justice and and politicized it, like the FBI.
Uh is that the state of America today?
You know, we've been spending a lot of time, Greg, going over the the outright lies of of Joe Biden, you know, never discussed foreign business deals with Hunter, my brother, or anybody for that matter, lie.
Uh, I've never met with any of my son's business partners.
Well, talk about the Cafe Milano and the phone calls that he made and and the discussions he had, even with Barisma executives leading to the actions that Joe Biden took uh that resulted in the enrichment, uh continued enrichment of his son Hunter in Ukraine, uh, or the lie that the Hunter but that the Biden family didn't get any money from China.
We've debunked that lie.
Uh the idiocy of his statement that Hunter's done nothing wrong or that the laptop was Russian disinformation.
A lot of lies that Joe has told here and tens of millions of dollars in the family coffers funneled through shell uh corporations uh paying, according to James Comer, nine Biden family members, including uh one addicted to drugs and even grandchildren.
Uh what did they do for that money when they admit in the case of Hunter he had no experience in any of these fields?
You know, Americans are pretty smart.
They see this for what it is.
They watched in disbelief as Hillary Clinton got away with clear crimes, including obstruction of justice and her email scandal.
They watched as James Cumming and the FBI lied and committed crimes uh in in their Russia collusion hoax.
Um and they watched Trump being victimized in that hoax.
For for three long years, as the media insisted, he he was a Manchurian candidate and a Russian secret Russian agent.
Um and now they see these prosecutions not as legitimate, but as political persecutions.
And I I agree with Brett.
This tactic of bringing racketeering charges is such an egregious abuse of the statute.
I mean, racketeering requires proof of a corrupt organized criminal enterprise and a repeated pattern of systemic illegal behavior.
It's usually extortion for monetary profit, control of property.
Here the DA is treating RICO like this Elastic rubber band and stretching it until it snaps.
And you know, the chilling effect is severe.
In the future, uh, losing candidates will certainly fear that they'll be criminally prosecuted if they exercise their rights under law by filing an election challenge.
Which, by the way, we played it at the bottom of the last half hour montage uh that you know shows that they've done it many, many times.
All right, quick break for with our legal panel, Greg Jarrett, Brett Tolman on the other side.
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We continue our legal panel, Greg Jarrett and Brett Tolman are with us.
Let me ask you both 15 seconds each.
What is the political fallout of this?
Does Donald Trump uh does the strategy, the plan to burden him and put the weight of all of these these indictments on him and and ultimately trials on him?
Does it have the effect that they want, which is to stop him from being a viable candidate?
Uh Brett, you go first.
Only only if they put him in jail.
And otherwise he's gonna grow stronger.
People are gonna they're seeing why would they not put him in jail if they get a conviction, which I would argue in New York, DC, and Fulton County is highly likely.
It is likely.
I think it it's where they want to go.
If they get that done prior to the election, it'd be very, very difficult to run.
Um but he even then, Sean, he's strong and he grows in strength as they attack him.
Your take, Greg, real quick.
I don't know what the political result will be because this defies all models of American political history.
This is uh unique uh beyond description.
So who knows?
All right, Greg Jarrett, thank you.
Brett Tolman, thank you.
We appreciate it.
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I know a lot of you standing by, angry, mad, upset, frustrated, wondering what's happening to your country, worried about the dual system of justice, weaponization of justice, uh criminalizing political differences.
I get it.
Trust me.
Uh Wayne, Pennsylvania next, Sean Hannity show.
Hey, Sean, thanks for taking my call.
Hey.
I'd like to make two quick points on taxes, and I have a question to you concerning Georgia.
Um two points on taxes.
First one, I have an LLC and I have an accountant do my taxes.
And you have to be very specific on what your business what it does, whether it performs a service or deals with products.
And your taxes are paid quarterly.
Uh state and federal.
Now, I'd like to know who Hunter's accountant is, because he must know taxes weren't being paid on all these LLCs that he had.
Second point, personal taxes.
A parent cannot gift more than I believe it's either 14 or 17,000 a year.
Anything over that is taxable.
Now you mentioned that Hunter's been floating money to his father well over 14 or 17,000 a year.
Where's the accountant?
I'd like to retain his I think it's way more than that.
Hunter Hunter claims he was given half his income to Pops, paying for Pops' home repairs.
We see those emails with the the financial guy of the Rosemont Seneca group, uh, this guy Eric Schwerin.
I think he's supposed to testify before Congress.
Hopefully it'll shed some light on a lot of this.
But you know, massive home repair bills for Pops.
Uh never mind 10% for the big guy.
Well, shouldn't shouldn't his accountant be called in and questioned?
There's red flags there.
Um, no, I mean James Comer's now asking for all these financial records of the Biden family, and now he's gonna be calling in Biden family members to testify.
Call in the accountant, too.
And my question to you on Georgia is that um, and correct me if I'm wrong.
There was a location where they were counting votes, and there was supposedly a water main break.
Yeah, that w my understanding and memory, if my memory serves me well, is that had happened earlier in the day, and there was that controversy about that, and apparently it was not a big deal.
Um, but it was brought up as a reason that maybe they were gonna stop counting I just don't fully remember, but that was an issue, yes.
And remember there was video of these tables with long black tablecloths that reached to the floor, and I think they evacuated or something happened where all of the Republican counters had to evacuate.
Well the media and and other people were asked to leave the room, is my recollection, but I can't say a hundred percent, because now we're going back almost three years, so you gotta cut me some slack here.
All right, can someone do some research?
Yeah, I'll go back and take a look at it for sure.
I but you know, I don't think this really has to do with the legal side of it.
Do you something fishy is going on if you're hiding boxes underneath a table with a black tablecloth that reaches the floor, that should be all out in the open so people could see that and not hidden.
If I remember, wasn't it like a suitcases?
Uh I something like that.
And it just seemed odd.
There If I recall correctly, um again, I'm giving myself some breathing room here.
Uh, but if I recall correctly, uh, they just claimed, oh no, no, they they they had had that under there and it was perfectly normal.
You know, do I look do I think things nefarious things happened in terms of the elections being run properly in 2020?
I do not.
I mean, let me start with the basics.
Well states have laws that partisan observers got to watch the vote count.
Those laws were were bypassed with COVID being the main argument for not enforcing the law.
Did we have states like Pennsylvania that had constitutions that you know, for example, this very specific constitutional limits on people that can vote by mail in the state of Pennsylvania?
Now the legislature, rather than doing the the right and and difficult thing of amending the constitution, they took an easier road and they passed legislation.
But but that's not how you amend the Constitution.
I would argue that is unlawful.
Uh yet a similar case in in Wisconsin, a three-four decision that that went against uh uh President Trump's side, and and in that case, the chief justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court wrote a stinging rebuke of his fellow justices, uh saying if if if you're gonna allow this lawlessness to continue, it's never gonna stop.
And it was pretty powerful, but again, it was a three four close decision, and you know, now I believe over the issue of abortion, I think now they have a uh, you know, a majority liberal or left Supreme Court in Wisconsin, state Supreme Court.
So uh anyway, appreciate the call, my friend.
Thank you.
Delaware and Trisha next on the Sean Hannity show.
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Anyway, um I wanted to okay.
I'm sorry, some of you came in.
Um I wanted to say um that interview that you did with Tony Babolinski.
Is there any way that we you can bring that on or or even better, have one of those one on one uh with Tony to because it because uh I remember in this interview, I'm not sure if it was with you you talking or Tucker talking.
Um my memory is like blah.
Um Tucker did the first interview with him.
I had a follow-up subsequent interview with him.
Um my understanding is I know his name has come up to be a witness.
I don't know what the status of that is.
Well, here's the thing.
I remember in the interview when you guys were talking about um Tony meeting him in a in a um bar in the hotel, and he was there.
I mean, they're they're always saying that they never meet each other.
They never, you know, he doesn't have anything to do with his business partner, which we all know is balloony.
Um, but I remember that part of the interview when they met a couple well, they've actually met a couple times, but particularly in that bar.
Um I don't know, I just feel I'm in the background.
I'm chanting, get Tony, get Tony, have another interview because he had so much information about the going on between the Biden family, you know, the business and everything.
I mean I would I would think that the committee's probably you know uh ahead of us, and my understanding was his I know his name has come up, I've heard it before, uh, as going before the House Oversight Committee.
We told you yesterday and and again today, uh that you have this this former supervisory agent for the FBI uh testifying, and I mean, I I thought it was very, very powerful testimony, and and he goes, you know, before um, you know, the committee, and you know, very you know, powerfully lays out the case about how things weren't run right on on a lot of fronts.
Absolutely.
But those two interviews remember too, he's the one that tipped us off about the FBI supervisory agent.
He tipped off Team Biden about a planned interview, FBI interview with Hunter.
And that interview never ha happened as a result of that.
So much interview.
And this is I think this was back in 2020 when I first aired or viewed that.
I'm in the background saying, yes, somebody's finally coming forward.
And then with all these other whistleblowers that have been coming forward, I'm like, this is going to happen.
I think this is really going to happen.
That they're going to um can you know calling them down for what they did, what they're doing.
And we know it's true.
The American people see it.
Uh look, I I think this House of Cards, I think the walls are closing in on the Biden family.
And there are two things happening simultaneously.
I think that the number of Democrats that know that Joe is weak and frail and a cognitive mess and not up to even this term, never mind uh a second term, and his policies are are failing, they will either use some, they will use this scandal to take them down.
Now, if you go to New York, I I maybe the perception is is that Republicans in New York took out Andrew Cuomo.
I could tell you for a fact that's not true.
It was Democrats that wanted Andrew Cuomo out, and and they made it their mission to get rid of him.
Uh, even some political rivals of him.
So that that was not the the workings of of Democrat of uh the Republicans.
That was Democrats.
And I think there are a lot of Democrats that will be very quick to jump off the Biden train when once given a really good opportunity.
And and once this gets into the political bloodstream about all of Joe Biden's lying about the the family syndicate and the business and what he knew and how he participated and how he benefited financially and and all of the ways that the money was you know filtered through varying show corporations.
I think it's going to become very apparent.
This is far bigger than any one of these four indictments of Donald J. Trump, and that some Democrats are gonna not want him at the top of the ticket.
You know, uh look, I I don't think it's an accident that Gavin Newsom did an interview with me, and he's gonna debate Yes, I watched it, yeah.
And that he's gonna debate Ron DeSantis with me as the moderator.
You know, give him credit for it.
But I think that's gonna be interesting TV.
Uh if he's not thinking about 2024, which he says he's not, and I'll take him at his word, but he's certainly thinking about 2028.
I don't think there's any doubt about that.
I think so too.
But I'm so happy that you took my call, and I'm so happy to watch you every night and see all that you do for our America.
Um and I see what we get to see what's truly going on.
It's the only station, the only show that I watch that I know I'm getting the truth.
And I just want you to know that I appreciate it.
And if heroes come with it without Capes, it would be you, Comer, Jordan, all of you guys up there just trying to, you know, hit the ball out of the park for the American people.
And I just want you to know that I appreciate you, and I'm like I said, I'm a staunch stand.
Well, it means it means more than you know.
Look, let me just say this, and this is important for everybody to understand.
Everybody is important in this.
It's all hands on deck.
It is very, very hard for a Republican to win the presidency.
You've got to run the table.
And I know states have changed in in many ways because of what I call accelerated mass migration out of states like New York, New Jersey, California.
That's one thing.
You're not gonna win those states anyway.
But the conservatives that are leaving Pennsylvania, the the conservatives leaving Wisconsin and Michigan is very alarming.
And the numbers of liberal Californians heading into Arizona and Nevada are very alarming.
So it makes the electoral map for Republicans that much harder, and it was hard enough to begin with.
And And you got to run the table.
It's not just Florida and Ohio anymore.
I'm not that worried about Ohio and Florida, but I'm worried about Georgia.
And I'm worried about even North Carolina.
You got to keep an eye on it.
And Pennsylvania and Arizona and Wisconsin and Michigan.
I mean, they they these will be the states that determine the outcome of the 2024 election, in my view.
Anyway, appreciate the call.
Thank you, Trisha.
I appreciate you.
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Laura Trump tonight, Kellyanne Conway, uh Donald Trump's attorney, Alina Haba, Lindsey Graham, the great one Mark Levin, Bob McDonald, who was charged and found guilty.
Uh he was once the Virginia governor.
Uh in and that was done by the special counsel, uh Jack Smith, and then the Supreme Court overturned that conviction, 9-0.
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