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Sept. 19, 2023 - Sean Hannity Show
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Biden's Confusion - September 18th, Hour 3
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Very interesting interview.
Chuck Todd, who's done a lousy job on Meet the Press, has now been replaced by Kristen Welker.
Her first week, her first interview was with Donald Trump and the media and social media in particular.
They just had a complete meltdown.
How dare you platform Donald J. Trump?
You know, now he said he went into a lot of detail in this interview.
It'd shut down the government if Republicans can't make the appropriate deal.
Well, Republicans need to have that spine.
You know, he talked a lot about, yeah, I support cognitive testing.
He took one the last time.
The one that needs it is Joe Biden.
You know, it's Donald Trump, in spite of one statement, oh, it'll start World War II.
Oh, see, he's suffering from cognitive decline.
Meanwhile, okay, Joe Biden every single day?
You got to be kidding me.
And when I interview him and the hours I've spent with him, and when it's a scheduled one-hour interview and it becomes a two-hour interview because he's got that much to say and he's that well-versed on every topic, they just don't even want to hear his point of view.
Don't even platform him.
You know, he said, I don't think Biden's too old.
He's just incompetent.
Well, he's also cognitively compromised.
And he went on to say some things that we've been saying.
The issue of abortion did not help Republicans in 2022.
There's got to be some level of compromise.
And everyone knows that I'm pro-life and I believe in the sanctity of life.
But that's on the moral side of it.
On the political side of it, it is a losing proposition.
And we saw that play out in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the last election, in my view.
You know, he's talked about Europe needs to do more on Ukraine.
We've been saying that.
And how he would be able to broker a deal.
He believes expeditiously within 24 hours.
That might be a hard sell, but I think he certainly was more respected than Joe Biden by some of these geopolitical foes of ours.
I don't think he'd be paying ransom to the mullahs in Iran the way Joe Biden is.
I don't think he would have gotten us back in the Paris Accords.
He got us out of those accords.
We never got better trade deals with China.
We didn't have any issues with China.
You know, it's interesting when Joe Biden was vice president, they annexed Crimea.
Then when he's president, they invade Ukraine.
That didn't happen when Donald Trump was president.
Why?
Because they feared him and they respected him.
That's the bottom line.
He says, well, I got along with Putin.
It doesn't mean he likes him.
It doesn't mean he doesn't think he's a dangerous guy.
They just had a forthright drop-dead honest relationship.
If you do A, I'm going to have to do B.
That simple.
Like the conversation that I've explained many times about that he had with the Taliban before there was going to be any pullout of Afghanistan.
And the same with President Xi.
You know, did you ever think that China would end up doing a trade deal with Donald Trump that benefited America?
Well, it happened.
Just like NAFTA is out, and we got better trade deals with Canada and Mexico.
Yeah, and you could take those savings and actually use it to help build the wall, like he said he would do.
But it really got interesting when fellow media mob members like Peter Baker over the New York Times, their chief White House correspondent, had to defend Kristen Welker for daring to interview Donald Trump.
Well, he's the top polling candidate for the Republican Party.
It just makes sense.
Listen.
We have gotten criticism for just sitting down with former President Trump.
He is the former president.
He's facing four indictments as journalists.
Just set the scene in the backdrop why there is still news value and value for the public to hear from you.
Well, this is a huge challenge for American journalism, of course, right?
It can't be that a person can run for president of the United States, be a frontrunner in his party and possibly win without ever being challenged by a tough independent interviewer.
And that's, I think, an important part of our system.
Now, obviously, the challenge for us because he is just going to spout out one thing after another.
And fact, I mean, real time is a real hard thing.
But what you've done here is edit it and make sure people understand what's real and what's not.
I have a whole list of Biden lies.
No, why isn't this media upset or concerned?
Why don't they ever challenge if they don't really get a lot of access to Joe anyway?
Because Joe can't possibly, cognitively, he's not strong enough to have real press conferences or spend any significant time with anybody, for that matter.
I mean, I've never seen a president with a lighter schedule than Joe Biden.
But he claimed, oh, he's the guy that convinced Strom Thurmond to vote for the Civil Rights Act.
He was 21 years old.
No one making less than 400 grand will pay more in taxes.
Yeah, that was a lie.
Biden claims he got started at a historically black college and university, Delaware State.
No.
He claims he taught at the University of Pennsylvania.
No.
He's, you know, I mean, I can, the Amtrak story, remember he told the tale, the conductor congratulated him when he was vice president, riding more miles on a train home to Delaware than on board Air Force Two.
Here's the problem.
That claim, the Amtrak on Amtrak miles, well, had surpassed this.
It would only have happened after the conductor died.
He repeats the lie that he traveled 17,000 miles with President Qi of China.
That's been debunked.
He accuses border agents.
Remember, he accused them of whipping illegal immigrants.
Claims he attended a black church, fought segregation in the civil rights movement?
No, that's not true.
Claims he was arrested in South Africa trying to see Nelson Mandela.
Another lie.
Claims he was arrested during the civil rights protest.
No, he was the guy in the 70s partnering with the former Klansman and trying to stop the integration of public schools because he didn't want those public schools, in his words, to be racial jungles.
Biden claimed all these things, claimed he had repeatedly denied ever talking to his son or his brother or anybody for that matter about these foreign business deals.
Claims he used to drive an 18-wheeler.
Claims his house almost burned to the ground and he nearly lost his Corvette and his pet and his wife.
It was a kitchen fire that lasted less than 20 minutes.
Claimed that he was sort of raised in the Puerto Rico, Puerto Rican community at home politically.
That he went to Israel to serve as a liaison during the Six-Day War.
He said he visited the Tree of Life synagogue.
He said his first job offer was from an Idaho lumber company, Boise at Cascade.
All these things have been debunked.
Says after he was elected VP, he awarded his uncle Frank with a purple heart that he had earned during the Battle of the Bulge.
No evidence of any of this being true.
He repeats the lie his great-grandfather was a coal miner.
He lies about the number of times he visited Iraq and Afghanistan, claiming anywhere between 30 and 50.
Okay, not true.
His claims he spoke to the man who invented insulin.
That would be impossible because multiple scientists are credited with discovering insulin.
Two died before Biden was even born.
No evidence Biden met the others.
None.
You know, claim that his grandfather died in the same hospital.
I was born two weeks before I was born.
No, he the grandpop died in 1941.
He wasn't born until almost over a year later in 1942.
He claimed he was responsible for the revival of the Quad, the strategic partnership between Australia, India, Japan.
All this, just one lie after another.
But that doesn't matter because the media won't call him out and they give him the pass.
They let him hide in the basement.
They facilitate all of it and they just fixate.
It's obsessive, compulsive fixation on all things Trump.
Think the media is going to tell you the history of this Democratic Party?
How is it?
What Republican would get away with, I don't want public schools becoming racial jungles, therefore I'll partner with the former Klansman to stop the integration of public schools and claim that he's his big civil rights champion.
Because that's Joe Biden.
Not a word uttered by anyone in the media.
No one ever dared ask him.
It's unbelievable, the unholy alliance and corruption.
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And I'm Carol Markowitz.
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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.
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William in Indiana.
What's up, William?
How are you, sir?
I know.
I'm very concerned what's going on nowadays.
You know, when Biden went on television with the military stand behind him and the red screen saying the mega is the greatest enemy, not China, not Russia, the MEGA party.
So you got to remember.
Maybe the MAGA party ought to just do business deals with the Bidens and then they'll get more praise.
Well, you know, the government, the court systems are so corrupt, just like in this civil case against Trump.
You're telling me that a complete jury, not one honest person in New York, could say, hey, there's not reasonable doubt.
30 years ago, this woman claimed something happened, never told anybody.
I'll tell you what did happen was that what Joe Biden did to one of his workers, and her mother called the Larry King show, it's on tape, saying her daughter was assaulted.
And I believe her story completely.
And not because she's a Democrat.
She loved Biden.
She worked for him.
He raped her.
And he's got away with it like he does everything.
Just look at the videos of Creepy Joe.
Look at what we have evidence on.
And it's so creepy.
I can't even believe it.
But I hear you.
Thanks for the call, my friend.
800-941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
Tim, Texas, next, Sean Hannity Show.
What's up, Tim?
What's going on, Sean?
Longtime listener, big fan of yours.
Thank you.
I wanted to talk about this potential government shutdown and let everybody know you said roughly 70% of people is living paycheck to paycheck, correct?
Yeah, well, 61 if we're going to be exact.
Well, I fall into that category.
So and when it's not.
By the way, I've been there.
It sucks, doesn't it?
Yes, but it's not a free vacation for us.
You have what they call essential and non-essential.
I'm a federal correctional officer.
You're essential, trust me.
My mom was a correction officer.
So when we do get back pay, it's a one-lock sum and they tax the mess out of it.
Well, no, I mean, if you're essential, you will usually be paid during that time.
It's the people that are furloughed that don't get paid.
No, we don't never get paid.
Okay, so you get back pay and you're living paycheck to paycheck.
Look, as long as you're working, for example, let's say you have a car loan and a mortgage.
I don't know if you have a car loan or a mortgage or you're renting, whatever it happens to be.
You usually, once you show people that you're working and they understand, I can't imagine any reasonable person wouldn't understand that this is through no fault of your own and that this money is going to come to you and that when it does come to you, you'll gladly catch up on your mortgage, your car payment, or your rent, whatever it happens to be.
Now, it doesn't make it easy.
It's not convenient.
What's that?
Groceries, house insurance, the electric bill.
All that still got to be paid because they're not trying to hear that.
They want their money.
Yeah, my understanding always was that the military is paid, essential workers are paid for those deemed essential workers.
You're telling me the opposite.
But yeah, that would be a hardship for a lot of people.
I tend to agree, but here's the problem.
You know, it's also going to be a hardship for the country if we continue to rob our children blind with 30, what, $3 trillion in new debt and debt that we have in this country and another $2 trillion last year alone.
So unfortunately, that's how they make sandwiches in Washington.
It's ugly.
It's messy.
Innocent people get hurt in the process.
I don't know any other alternative except to just continue down the same old path, which eventually will lead this country to a far worse economic condition.
Does that make sense?
Yeah, but I want you to think about this, though, essentially.
So basically what they're telling us is that the welfare checks go out.
So the people that don't work, you're telling them they know it's okay, you're going to get to eat.
But you're telling me and people that work for the TSA, the air traffic controllers, and everybody else that's essential workers, you're going to come to work.
You're not going to get paid.
And guess what?
You don't get to eat.
Yeah, listen, if you know for a fact that you're not going to get your paycheck and you're going to have to go to work every day, I mean, they're putting you in a bind that nobody should be put in.
That just doesn't make sense because the whole purpose of it is to just cut back on non-essential workers.
The military gets paid.
Social Security checks go out.
Medicare is paid.
So, well, I mean, I don't think they're using you as a pawn as much as they've there are certain really fundamental principles at stake here.
And that is that, you know, we have got to get control of our borders.
There's no reason that every American now is paying more for gasoline seasonally adjusted than we've ever paid before.
You know, now we're back up to four bucks a gallon, and now we're getting squeezed even further because the Saudis and OPEC refused to up production.
So, I mean, there just is a there's a lot in play here.
And as a country, these guys are going to make some tough decisions.
And believe me, I sympathize with you.
I've been in your spot.
I've lived there.
It's not fun.
No.
You know, sometimes if you have a relationship with the bank, if you have a relationship with other people, you know, maybe you can get a little bridge loan.
And then when you get paid, you'll be able to pay everybody back.
Now, obviously, you're a hardworking guy.
You know, I'm not giving you the answer you want to hear.
What's that?
They shouldn't put us in that position.
Yeah, I would think that people that are deemed essential need to get paid.
Yes, I agree with you.
All right, Sean.
Well, have a good day, bud.
Well, thank you for what you do.
By the way, it's no picnic working as a prison guard.
I'll tell you that.
I watched my mom.
How many double shifts do you have to work a week?
It's getting better since they're hiring people now.
Yeah.
It's getting a little bit better, but some of our other institutions, they're getting hammered weekly.
My mom spent nearly half her life in a prison.
Just not a great life, not a great job.
She did it for her family.
She worked more double shifts than I could even count.
It was unbelievable.
Anyway, God bless you.
You're an American hero for doing what you do.
Anyway, 800-941-Sean, our number, if you want to be a part of the program.
Didn't the IRS scandal and the NSA atrocities convince you?
You need a watchdog on Washington with insider sources.
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Hi, 25 to the top of the hour.
By the way, a tape emerged over the weekend.
It's from 2005.
I mean, you don't think Joe's involved with his son's business dealings?
Anyway, so Hunter with Pops at a, what, Jefferson Jackson Day dinner, and they meet some guy, and, oh, well, meet my son, Hunter.
I mean, you know, you guys should, you know, talk.
Listen.
Rich has mostly grand signs.
Yeah, well, maybe he can work some out, man.
Hunter was just telling God his firm in Washington.
Yeah, you have a car sign.
I do.
I don't.
I'll give you my guy.
And then I'll give him.
I gave them all away.
And then Hunter just, you know, pops, moves on, and Hunter stays and talks with the guy.
And I don't know what they got done.
What deal?
A preview of what would be coming attractions when he's vice president.
Anyway, 800-941-Sean, our number, if you want to be a part of the program.
But folks, let me first talk about your personal safety and what a fan I am of this non-lethal, well, they call it a launcher.
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I can hit targets easily at 40 feet.
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Now, I use Burner, and of course, I have carried my entire adult life and firearms as both as very vital parts of my personal security strategies.
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Linda got orange, I think.
They have yellow and pink as well.
But it works.
That's the bottom line.
God forbid somebody breaks into your house, wants to bring harm to you or your family, and maybe you don't feel comfortable with the firearm.
I do, but if I could, I would rather use a non-lethal option first.
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Linda, you actually shoot this better than you do your firearm.
Listen, let me tell you something.
There is something, there's a certain confidence that comes with knowing that this is a less lethal form of self-protection.
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Let's say hi to Dennis in North Carolina.
Dennis, how are you?
I'm doing great.
I hope you are.
I'm good.
All's good.
Nothing to complain about.
The reason I wanted to talk to you and talk to people, I keep hearing that the inflation rate is 3%.
It's not 3% when you're a small business owner and you're having to pay your employees twice as much as you did before Biden was in office.
Everything costs more.
Basically, my idea is when fuel prices go up, everything goes up.
Well, let me just say, they're now even writing about this disconnect between all these polls that show that the American people are bearing the burden of Biden's horrific energy and economic policies and the disconnect by them out there saying, Bidenomics, Bidenomics.
I'm like, it couldn't be any worse than it is right now.
And this is what's frustrating for so many Americans here.
Gas prices now at a seasonal record.
Now we're back to $4 a gallon.
And now we're controlled by the Saudis and Venezuela and OPEC, countries that hate our guts.
Then California, Newsome is suing, quote, big oil for alleged climate change deception.
And, you know, we feel the pain of the pump.
Now we feel the pain of rising interest rates because of the inflation that they cost.
But they want to tell you what kind of car you ought to buy, even though Americans don't want electric vehicles.
It's a big part of this UAW strike.
It's, well, there's more.
It's the minimum wage.
When Biden was elected, supposedly, they wanted to raise minimum wage.
Republicans were against it.
The truth is, they raised minimum wage anyway by paying people to stay home and not work.
And businesses got so desperate that you can walk into a convenience store here in North Carolina, and they got signs up paying people $16 an hour to work in a convenience store.
And so it's been my idea.
If you want to make money, you learn how to do something.
You learn a trade.
And the people like me, the working class, I'm going to call me middle income, middle to lower, we're bearing the brunt of this.
The money that I used to have that would last three, four, six months only goes for about six to eight weeks now because of what it costs to run a business now.
And this is a small business.
And I go through all kinds of money.
And, you know, my employees don't even understand it.
People are getting wiped out by this.
This is the problem.
I mean, you're feeling it every day.
And as are the 61% of Americans living paycheck to paycheck.
The estimates now are because of Biden inflation, you know, the average household is paying anywhere between $8,500 and $10,000 annually.
Well, that for most people is the difference between saving money and going deep into debt.
It's not like there's a lot of margin for big portions of this country.
And these policies are killing us.
And what's their answer?
To put even more restrictions on energy companies and drive the prices up even further.
I mean, it's so counterintuitive to what any person with common sense would do.
When Trump was in office, we were producing more oil than any country in the world.
And now, here we're back to where we were before him.
I remember when Trump, before COVID, I told my wife, I said, babe, we're fixing to have the most successful year we have ever had.
COVID came, and I got my opinions about COVID too, but I'm not going to say it here.
And then Biden came, and the economy just went nuts.
We're paying too many people not to work.
And I hate the word entitlement.
The only thing you're entitled to in life is what you work for.
The Bible itself says a man that will not work will not eat.
By the sweat of thy brow, earn thy bread.
That's right.
And until we get back to some of these old ways, people will never understand.
People think that the country people like me are stupid, but we're the ones who always survive while everybody in the city is going hungry and everything else.
It's like Hank Jr.'s song, Country Boys Will Survive.
That's right.
And I mean, it was, there's got to be change in this country, and people have to wake up and think for themselves and quit watching the propaganda that's on the television news on most stations.
They've got to wake up and see for themselves and quit listening to what they're told.
People believe anything now.
These are scary times.
And innocent people are being hurt by horrific policies.
Look at our border.
Look at energy.
Look at law and order.
Look at foreign policy.
Look at our school systems.
You just go on down the list.
Every single crisis we're facing was self-induced, policy-induced by a bunch of radicals that are now running our government.
Our government right now, and I'm saying, I hate to say it, the Republicans, most of them are just as bad.
We'll do anything to get elected.
Anything, stay in power, and come out rich.
Listen, I'm not particularly enthusiastic about just because you have an R in front of your name.
I mean, it's so frustrating because, I mean, they have a small, slim majority.
You've got all these varying factions.
Then you have, you know, idiots like, in spite of a plethora of evidence, email evidence, laptop from hell evidence.
You know, then you've got these idiots like Ken Buck out in Colorado.
Oh, there's no evidence that Joe had any involvement or was compensated.
There's a plethora of evidence.
But nobody wants to hear it.
Well, he certainly doesn't.
Mainstream media will cover that if it doesn't serve their agenda.
They do it every day.
That's why shows like this, not any great talent I have, but that's why shows like this are successful.
Well, I thank you for what you do, and everybody on this talk radio station that I'm listening to.
I'm going to plug it 1061.
Yeah.
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Great station.
I love what y'all are doing.
Well, we appreciate it, my friend.
Thank you.
God bless you.
God bless you, too.
You're what makes the country great, my friend.
Joe Ellajay, Georgia.
What's up, Joe, from Ella J. How you doing, my friend?
Sean, love your show.
You're doing a great job.
And I love, I tell you what, Mark Levin, I heard him last night.
I bought two copies of his great new book, Everybody in America Needs to Read That Book.
I think Levin, along with you, y'all are the two best friends of the taxpayers in history.
I want to recommend everybody buy the great book, Why the Democrats Hate America.
It's just the fan.
I hadn't read it yet, but I've heard all Levin for the last six or eight weeks.
I listened to his program just like I listened to yours, watch his, and he's been talking about it for a long time.
And I just think it's, I can't wait to read.
I got one for my wife and myself.
And Sean, just want to thank you for all you do for the taxpayers.
You're the best, my friend.
The Democrat Party hates America.
I'm sure.
I wish I could see the reaction when Libs hear the great one or hear him on this show or on my TV show.
And I'm sure they bubble and fizz and just burst out.
It's like popping a pimple that'll explode so much, just even at the title.
Never mind the deep substance in it.
But Joe Ella J, we appreciate you, man.
Thank you.
Joel in Florida, the free state of Florida.
What's up, Joel?
How are you, sir?
Hey, Sean, how are you?
I'm going to disagree with you.
I don't share your pessimism about Trump getting a jury, a fair jury in New York based on what's happening now.
You know, all it's going to take is one guy or one juror that has to walk 15 blocks to go to work because he can't get on the subway.
Or his kids can't go to school or any number of reasons.
And also, we can segue right into the fact that, you know, I believe New York is right to be flipped.
And the perfect guy to do it is Donald Trump.
You know, all it takes is that he could go out there and do a couple of rallies, you know, just drive up from Bedmister.
You know, there's plenty of places, you know, the Metalins, the Yankee Stadium, and some of the airports out on Long Island.
I would love to see him do a rally out there and say, look at these people that are trying to put me in jail.
Look what they're doing to our city because he's still got a record in New York.
He's got people I think would support him.
Now, especially it'd be great if, you know, if he drawed maybe 50,000, 60,000 people, wouldn't that send a message to Alvin Bragg?
Good luck picking the jury there, Alvin.
Well, the last gubernatorial race in congressional race showed, you know, Republicans could get close.
Lee Zeldon did a really good job.
However, I will tell you that what I call accelerated migration out of states like New York, New Jersey, and California and Illinois, it's now made those states that were once near impossible totally impossible.
The demographics are just what they are.
Now, could eventually there be people so fed up that they could be a rebellion.
Maybe I thought if it would have happened or had a chance to happen, Lee Zeldon would have won.
He did a great job, and he would have been a much better governor than the one we have now.
But unfortunately, I don't share your optimism because so many people are leaving.
They're losing hundreds of people, leaving the state completely every day.
And by the way, they're being haunted by New York State IRS people.
There are more of those people working down in states like Florida than there are in New York.
You know, just on Wall Street alone, the last couple of years, over a trillion dollars in wealth left.
I mean, they're going to end up going broke before this is all said and done.
And then add to it the cost of illegal immigrants.
Forget it.
Well, but it's worth a try, Sean.
I'm not against trying.
I'm just, you know, I think our odds will be much better in Pennsylvania, although they have an accelerated migration problem there.
Wisconsin, same thing.
Michigan, same thing.
Arizona, same thing.
Nevada, well, they're taking in way too many California residents.
But it's always hard.
I'm giving you the reality of it.
It's hard for any Republican to be elected president.
You've got to run the table.
And Democrats have gotten very, very good at this early voting, voting by mail, legal ballot harvesting game.
And Republicans, they're trying to catch up.
They certainly have launched a very good initiative with Bank Your Vote because so many Republicans have been reluctant and resistant to daring to vote early or vote by mail.
They've got to get over that.
And then the next step, in my view, is that these Republicans absolutely must get in the legal ballot harvesting business, just like the Democrats, and match or hopefully surpass those efforts.
Anyway, appreciate the call, my friend.
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All right, that's going to wrap things up for today.
Hannity, tonight we got breaking news with John Solomon, legal analysis with Jonathan Turley.
Also, Sean Penn came out with a documentary.
I'm actually in the documentary.
But, you know, we're going to discuss why conservatives have pulled back support for the Ukrainian effort.
And to his credit, I mean, this guy kept going back and putting himself in harm's way because of a cause he believes in.
I know he's sincere in his belief, but you can blame Joe Biden for the disaster because they didn't fight the war to win the war.
Anyway, he'll join us.
Curtis Lewis, Jason Rance, much more.
Hannity at nine, set your DVR, Fox News.
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