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Aug. 29, 2023 - Sean Hannity Show
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The Push for the White House - August 28th, Hour 1

Sean recaps the latest on the Race for the White House and highlights just how much the Donald Trump indictments have impacted the race.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Well, now we have Professor Dershowitz, Jonathan Turley now agreeing.
It doesn't look like, in their view, any of Trump's trials are likely to happen before the 2024 election.
I'm not sure I'm there yet.
I think the goal is very clear that, you know, these charges that going back two and a half years plus, now longer, they want to have in record time.
Meanwhile, they've had two and a half years to conduct their investigations, but they now say that it's highly unlikely.
I hope they end up being right because it would, in my view, if a Republican, if a conservative can't get a fair jury in jurisdictions where, you know, look at the case in New York City.
How does Donald Trump, who got 12% of the vote in New York City, end up with a fair jury pool?
I don't see it going against people that campaigned on the idea that they were going to go after one man, Donald Trump, one family, the Trump family, one organization, the Trump organization.
Anyway, Daily Caller is pointing out that Trump's criminal proceedings.
How unfair would it be if, in fact, the January 2nd date requested by the special counsel, you know, they began that trial on January 2nd at what is the single most critical point heading into the primary in caucus season because the Iowa caucus is right next to that.
And then wanting in Georgia to start the case on March the 4th, the next day being Super Tuesday.
How's that going to work out?
How does somebody go deal with lawyers on four separate cases and get all of the background, the research needed and necessary and evidence that have to be handed over, that has to be handed over, even have time to go through it in that period of time?
Doesn't make sense.
You know, so anyway, the Trump criminal proceedings in these four jurisdictions are currently in a pre-trial phase.
That means discovery and motions and jury selection, you know, and appeals, which experts believe will delay the process over a year.
It's like asking a brain surgeon to perform an operation with three days' notice at Professor Dershowitz.
They're trying to get convictions before the election, but they can't get it done in two weeks, and they know it's going to take longer than that.
Jonathan Turley is saying that these trial dates seem highly optimistic and a tad opportunistic by prosecutors.
Seems unlikely that most trials will proceed as scheduled.
There are threshold challenges and motions that will have to be addressed.
Some may involve appeals, and if Trump loses his motions, he will appeal.
So if he loses at the appellate court, he'll ask to be heard before the Supreme Court.
If there's a ruling in Trump's favor, the state will likely appeal.
I mean, so, I mean, this is the type of thing where posturing now goes on for a long time.
In terms of polls, this is pretty interesting.
Biden's favorability rating has now sunk to a 31-year, I'm sorry, to 31%, a new ABC news poll.
I mean, 31%?
I mean, now we're heading into Chris Christie territory.
Latest poll, 31% of adults said they have a favorable view of Biden.
That's why I would be on get rid of Biden watch as it relates to the Democrats.
I'm telling you, this is very real.
Pay attention.
I don't think I'm going to be proven wrong on this.
We have Emerson College, the New York Post, Reuters, three new polls showing Donald Trump defeating Biden in 2024.
I believe they're all post indictment, this most latest indictment.
Emerson has a hypothetical matchup between Trump and Biden, 46.44 Trump, 10% undecided, with Green Party candidate Cornell West added to the ballot.
It's 44 Trump, 39 Biden, 4 West, and 13 undecided.
New York Post teamed up with a brand new polling partner called Ledger.
They show a 41-44 victory margin for Trump.
And Reuters, in their hypothetical matchup between Joe Biden and Trump, at the election we're held today, it's 38.32 Trump over Biden.
So three polls, something to pay attention to.
Does it mean a whole lot now?
No.
The Democrats' mugshot stunt has resulted in a record-breaking fundraising haul for Donald Trump.
$7.1 million since he was booked at this Atlanta jail last Thursday evening, according to figures.
I think people are just disgusted by all this.
There's now a question.
Justthenews.com broke this story.
You know, why do White House visitor logs show that a top aide to the special counsel met with a member of the Biden White House's counsel's office and an FBI agent only weeks before charges were brought by the special counsel against Donald Trump and the mishandling of classified documents case?
Anyway, a guy by the name of Jay Bratt joined Smith's team in November of 22, met on March 31st, 2023 with Caroline Saba, Chief Deputy of Staff for the White House Counsel's office.
FBI Washington Field Office agent Danielle Ray also joined the meeting according to these visitor logs.
Nine weeks after that meeting, Smith, the special counsel, issued the first indictment of Trump.
Okay, does anyone say, I thought they were supposed to be fiercely independent?
There is a report.
Now, this involves yours truly, that the Biden White House is reportedly getting nervous about the debate between Ron DeSantis and Gavin Newsome.
This is the red versus blue, state versus state, you know, debate that both of them have, in principle, agreed to.
I think we'll have an announcement shortly about it, but I don't want to jump the gun on it.
I'll be moderating that debate, and I think a lot of people are going to be interested.
You know, you deal with issues of taxation and migration and illegal immigrants and law and order.
I mean, there's so much to talk about, and there's such a different philosophy.
I don't know how do you find compromise versus people that want the law enforced at the border and those that support illegal immigration and open borders and amnesty?
How do you find middle ground on the issue of we should be energy independent versus those that have no problem importing oil from OPEC and Saudi Arabia and Venezuela and Iran?
That doesn't make sense, especially in light of how many resources we have.
I think in the case, so I think it'll be a worthwhile debate for the American people, but I think more than Biden's people, I think it's Kamala Harris's allies that are furious about this because, and then there was a headline on Drudge: wait your turn.
You know, it's disrespectful.
An outside advisor to Harris said, Joe Biden's running with Kamala Harris.
That's the Democratic ticket.
Well, Gavin, in my interview with him, was very clear that he's defending Joe Biden at all costs.
They even showed him tape of Joe's cognitive decline.
He defended that, defended his record, defended that he's up to the job, said under no circumstances is he jumping in the race.
So what's their beef?
Doesn't make any sense to me.
The GOP is demanding the DA and the DOJ document letters, anything that has been shared with Fannie Willis and the special counsel's office.
They want all of it sent to the committee.
Sure, that'll take another three months and probably having a threatened contempt of Congress charges before we get anything.
There is an effort down in Georgia, I read, this was in Vanity Fair, to remove and oust Fanny Willis.
Georgia Republicans launched a push, according to Vanity Fair, to remove her and get her case against Donald Trump thrown out.
Apparently, in a Facebook post last week, state senator of Georgia, Clint Dixon, accused the DA of prosecuting the ex-president to become a sort of leftist celebrity.
How many more prosecutors are we going to have that run on a platform to get one man, one family, one organization and get away with it?
One thing that emerged over the weekend, I saw that Ron DeSantis was heckled at the Jacksonville shooting vigil.
Apparently, some psycho-Nazi person was responsible for it.
And a bunch of left-wingers apparently wanted to hijack it, but he's there and he's doing what you expect the head of a state to do.
It's what you would have expected Joe Biden to do as it relates to Maui and the response and his two-no comments.
And I don't want to be a, I don't want to get in the way.
There was nothing to get in the way of.
Or the Afghanistan Gold Star families blasting Biden, checking their watch and saying, you know, my son was brought home in a body bag and, you know, or flag draped coffin.
That didn't happen.
And by the way, why hasn't Biden ever gone to East Palestine and Ohio?
That never happened either.
You know, so he has, what did he say?
Biden has a comment on white supremacy is no place in America.
Why didn't you go?
Why wasn't he so quick with comments as it relates to what's going on in Hawaii?
Why did you wait so long?
And then we find out that their emergency alert system wasn't activated.
Then we find out they waited five and a half, six hours before they were willing to release the water to the firefighters so they can begin extinguishing them and to save people's lives and homes.
Unreal.
We're still missing, as far as I know, 850 people.
They haven't showed up over the weekend.
I think we would have heard something about it.
We have Biden has a new alcohol czar saying Americans may be told by official government employees to have no more than two beers a week.
The director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism saying on Thursday that they may follow Canada's footsteps on alcohol guidelines with all due respect.
I think every American over the age of 18 knows when you have too much alcohol.
I think they get that.
We really need monitoring of our big gulp usage.
The same people that don't want voter ID, demand IDs to get a jewel pod, if you can even get the flavor that you like anymore, or to buy a pack of cigarettes if you're 21, need to show picture ID, need to show picture ID to buy beer or alcohol, but you don't need to show it to vote.
Unbelievable.
So not just all too typical.
All right, let me get into what happened in Brian Kilmead's really good interview with Victor Shokin.
And I'll let Victor Shoe, remember, there's an interpreter here.
And anyway, talked about Biden's handling of Ukraine.
And he says why he was fired.
And that it was at the insistent of Joe Biden.
Now, before I start playing Victor Shokin, let me take you down a trip.
Let's take a trip down memory lane.
Let's remind you.
This is Joe Biden bragging about how he leveraged $1 billion taxpayer dollars to get this prosecutor fired, put it together with Devin Archer's testimony.
They thought they were going bankrupt, put it together with what we know Burisma executives begging for DC help.
And on December 4th of 2015, Hunter with Burisma executives, Hunter being paid a fortune, admitting no experience in the energy sector, but he did get pops on the phone, the same pops that said he never spoke with his son about his foreign business dealings.
Anyway, here's what the fired prosecutor in six hours had to say.
Why were you fired from your position by President Prashenko?
I have said repeatedly in my previous interviews that Poroshenko fired me at the insistence of the then Vice President Biden because I was investigating Burisma.
So did President Prashenko tell you that?
That he wanted you to stay on the job, but there was pressure from Vice President Biden?
You understood me correctly.
This is how it was.
There were no complaints whatsoever, no problems with how I was performing at my job, but because pressure was repeatedly put on President Poroshenko, that is what ended up in him firing me.
Oh, then he goes on to say a lot of other things, like he believes that in fact that Barice may illegally produce, sold, utilize gas.
Zolochewski's plea deal was a cover-up of a bribe, and that he believed that Joe and Hunter took bribes.
I'll play a lot more of that as we continue this Monday.
Anyway, one week from today, it's Labor Day, isn't it, Linda?
We've got vacation a couple of days.
Amazing.
Hey there, I'm Mary Catherine Hamm.
And I'm Carol Markowitz.
We've been in political media for a long time.
Long enough to know that it's gotten, well, a little insane.
That's why we started Normally, a podcast for people who are over the hysteria and just want clarity.
We talk about the issues that actually matter to the country without panic, without yelling, and with a healthy dose of humor.
We don't take ourselves too seriously, but we do take the truth seriously.
So if you're into common sense, sanity, and some occasional sass.
You're our kind of people.
Catch new episodes of Normally every Tuesday and Thursday.
On the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you listen.
Hey there, I'm Mary Catherine Hamm.
And I'm Carol Markowitz.
We've been in political media for a long time.
Long enough to know that it's gotten, well, a little insane.
That's why we started Normally, a podcast for people who are over the hysteria and just want clarity.
We talk about the issues that actually matter to the country without panic, without yelling, and with a healthy dose of humor.
We don't take ourselves too seriously, but we do take the truth seriously.
So if you're into common sense, sanity, and some occasional sass.
You're our kind of people.
Catch new episodes of Normally every Tuesday and Thursday.
On the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you listen.
Let me play the fired Victor Shokin saying that, yeah, I do believe Joe and Harder and Biden took bribes.
Do you believe that Joe Biden or Hunter Biden got bribes?
I do not want to deal in unproven facts, but my firm personal conviction is that, yes, this was the case.
They were being bribed.
The fact that Joe Biden gave away $1 billion in U.S. money in exchange for my dismissal, my firing, isn't that alone a case of corruption?
Why would a vice president leverage a billion dollars to get a prosecutor in Ukraine fired, especially knowing what we know now that in October of 2015, that the official policy of the Obama administration was they had made enough progress on the issue of corruption that that gave them an interagency recommendation, yeah, to give them the billion dollars.
It was Joe's job to deliver it.
It wasn't Joe's job to sit there and leverage it so that his son Hunter can continue to get paid a massive amount of money in a field of endeavor that he had no experience in.
Never mind the fact that he was destined, you know, we know that they were, you know, Burisma was reaching out, need DC help, need DC help.
Then, of course, the meeting, Dubai, December 4th, 2015.
Hunter, Burisma executives, they call Pops.
Five days later, Shokin's fired.
You want smart political talk without the meltdowns?
We got you.
I'm Carol Markowitz, and I'm Mary Catherine Hamm.
We've been around the block in media, and we're doing things differently.
Normally is about real conversations.
Thoughtful, try to be funny, grounded, and no panic.
We'll keep you informed and entertained without ruining your day.
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