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Let me first play for you.
Now there are really three reasons why this all happened to Hunter Biden, and I've got to give credit where credit is due.
Number one, it was the Hunter Biden laptop.
And the fact that Rudy Giuliani's attorney got a copy of it and it got released to the public.
That is pivotal in this entire case.
Number two, you got to give credit to these whistleblowers.
And three, you gotta give credit to that judge in Delaware that, you know, when plan A fell apart, which was, oh, we're going, we're not gonna charge Hunter with anything.
Uh and the whistleblowers uh spoke out.
Well that then prompted them to do something, and that evolved into what was the sweetheart deal that the Delaware judge said uh to the prosecutors, have you ever seen a deal like this before in your life?
And they had to admit No.
Uh, then why is it happening here?
If it wasn't for that judge, we wouldn't be here.
If it wasn't for the whistleblowers, we wouldn't be here.
Uh justice would not have been served, and the same with that laptop, if they didn't get it and get it out publicly, uh, we wouldn't be here either.
Uh speaking of the whistleblowers, let's go to Gary Shapley on Hunter Biden being treated differently than quote, other tax cheats.
Listen to this.
The evidence that we collected the that were uh uh uh mashed up with the elements of the criminal violations that we referred in the special agent report this exhibited to the House Ways and Means Committee, those elements were met, and then some if the these facts were from the local businessman or the neighbor next door, they would have been charged, they would have uh uh uh already probably uh had their entire sentence.
Um so it's it's it's a little bit challenging when you know I'm I'm you know I'm pro IRS CI, I'm pro-mission, I'm pro-agency.
I have a lot of great I've been a senior leader at this agency.
I have a lot of great friends and senior leadership, and I believe in what we're doing, but I believe in what we're doing when we're treating people fairly, and uh, you know, it just didn't happen in this particular case.
The other whistleblower, Joseph Ziegel, who happens to be a Democrat, I mean a statement earlier this week uh excoriating Democrats that have been attacking him was very powerful.
Uh he was warned that the Hunter investigation would get the IRS in hot water.
Here's what he said to Catherine Harrison.
Why did you want to interview Hunter Biden's adult children?
So a lot of the um business deductions expenses related to the adult children.
Did you get the approvals?
So we never received the approvals to to talk to those people.
What did the assistant U.S. attorney tell you?
That that's gonna get us in the hot water.
Is that in the IRS handbook?
Avoiding hot water?
No, but I mean, I was asking to do these certain things, and roadblock after roadblock was put up in front of me.
All right, joining us now, Jay Seculow, Chief Counsel, American Center for Law and Justice is with us, uh also personal friend and attorney of mine.
And uh let me get the big picture from you.
What you the thing about Jay that I love, he's so so thorough.
He's read every page of this multiple times now, and I'm sure you have more insight than anybody else.
What did you find?
Well, look, I mean, what they what they pled here was a case that should have been pled three or four years ago.
When I said pled and put in in the indictment, pled in the indictment, not like a plea bargain.
It's a basic tax case.
And if you look at it, it's it's nine counts.
Six of them are failure to file and pay taxes, those are misdemeanors.
But three of the accounts are actually felonies, uh, including false or fraudulent tax returns and one count of evasion of tax assessment.
So it you know, it's a it's a serious tax complaint, but you think to yourself, how did this take you know three or four years to work up?
This was a tax case.
It wasn't some offshore tax case.
Um when I say offshore, you know, tax havens and tax treaties you had to get through.
This was a basic tax case.
And I I I appreciate what you said in the beginning of this, Sean, uh, with you know, if it if it wasn't what Rudy did, if it wasn't what some of the others did, but if those whistleblowers didn't come forward, I don't think any of this would have seen the light of day at the end of the day.
I mean, we represent some whistleblowers right now in actions involving the FBI, and these are brave individuals that are willing to take on this agency because they lose their positions.
I mean, we're fighting for one right now with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
And you have to understand that when it's when it's really a fight like this, it's those whistleblowers that that put the Department of Justice into this position.
But here's the problem, and this is this is not a popular statement, but it is the problem.
You now have the leading contender for the Republicans, Donald Trump, who's clearly gonna be the nominee, dealing with four major cases, two federal felony cases, or two cases that are in federal criminal court, and then two state court proceedings uh that are criminal, and then one civil fraud case.
And now you've got the leading Democratic nominee, the current president of the United States, who has a special counsel still looking around, although doesn't appear to be doing anything, and his son now has a nine-count indictment.
And you think to yourself, what what is the FBI and Department of Justice doing again with getting involved in all of this like they do?
This should have been brought three to five years ago, it would have been disposed of by now.
I still think it's gonna be pled out.
I mean, he's got a Very good lawyer in Abbey Lowell, one of the best in Washington, one of the best in the country.
Well, by the way, so you're one of the best in the country, and and Rudy's lawyer, Bob Costello's one of the best in the country.
Uh I'll say that, but however, I would argue that he doesn't have a great hand here in in as much as you know, look at all the money that he he's taken in.
Look, look at what this indictment says.
I mean, they la they lash out at the extravagant lifestyle he's living and not paying his taxes like the rest of us.
But at the end of the day, the question is, did you pay your taxes or you did not?
And he did not.
So that's where the you know, all the other stuff is it's salacious and tawdry and all of that.
But at the end of the day, they've got to be able to prove a tax case.
Now, apparently there was an unreporting of income.
The question is going to be is and I think I still think these cases end up getting pled out.
I I I still believe there's a plea at the end of the day.
But may maybe they try it, but I I don't I don't see it.
Um I got a lot of calls on our broadcast said is the president have the power to uh pardon the son, and the answer to that is yes.
The pardon power is plenary.
So of course he could.
I I politically he wouldn't do that right now, obviously.
And the question is, did the Democrats use this to say, you know what?
Joe Biden's got too much baggage now.
He's eighty-two years old when he if he wins, we need somebody else.
Did they use I'm gonna ask you that, Sean?
Well, by the way, we're we're gonna know next week, won't we?
Because the House will vote on the issue of whether or not they'll there will be an official impeachment inquiry.
And if a lot of Democrats that usually circle the wagons, Republicans create circular firing squads, but if they circle the wagons, that'll tell us one thing that they're standing by Joe.
If in fact Democrats defect and they want the impeachment inquiry, uh depending on the number, that may be the first indication that Joe Biden is being pushed out.
That could be the canary in the coal mine if Maureen Dowd and David Axelrod and Van Jones were not the canary in the coal mine.
Well, and uh and now uh uh James Carvel.
Um listen, you know this because you and I talk every day and every night.
I I I watch, of course, your program every night, but I I am always looking at the other networks.
I have to.
That's my job.
And I've noticed even on CNN and MSNBC, they're starting to raise questions about all this.
Not not about the kid, not about Hunter, but about his the father's fitness to be president.
And again, I'm not trying to draw analogies, you know, that we've got all these, you know, we cu we kind of look like Venezuela here as a country.
But it's not just his fitness, Jay.
He he lied to this country repeatedly.
I never talked to my son, my brother, anybody for that matter.
I'm just saying the reality is I'm trying to look at the legal reality is this is a tax case.
Okay?
I handle tax cases.
This is a criminal tax case.
It's gonna be resolved.
Are we gonna have a Farrah case on top of that?
Are we gonna have other charges brought?
Like, for example, let's look at Barisma.
What do we know about Barisma?
We know that Joe Biden bragged, he leveraged a billion dollars of taxpayer money uh to get a prosecutor fired.
Uh the net result of that is his son.
Okay, but but the net result of those actions were his son who had no experience by he says it himself on Good Morning America at a time he's struggling with addiction, uh, is being paid millions.
Uh then we have a WhatsApp message, again, no experience in energy oil or whatever.
Yeah.
Um sitting next to my father.
That implicates his father.
Uh we're talking about tens of millions of dollars, what Comer describes as, you know, two dozen or so shell corporations.
You've got Joe meeting with oligarchs like Elena Baterina in at the Cafe Milano and others, uh, pictures and emails going back and forth with uh the money man of the company, Eric Sherwin, over three hundred of them we learned this week.
Yeah.
I mean, you know, that sounds to me like it's beyond influence pedaling, Jay.
Well, but but that but the charge here is not any of that.
The charge here is criminal tax fraud.
That's what the that's the complaint.
The indictment is based on tax fraud.
So that's where this case ends up at the end of the day.
You can't indict a sitting president.
We argued that for President Trump successfully.
You cannot indict a sitting president because of separation of powers.
So they're not gonna indict Joe Biden on this.
They've now issued the indictment on Hunter.
Could they be investigating other things?
They could, but Sean, the reality is the statute of limitations on this stuff is getting further and further away.
So they've done one, you know.
Look, again, if it wasn't for the whistleblowers and Bob Costello and these others, none of this would have come to light.
No question.
This would have been and a judge, as you said, that said, wait a minute, something doesn't smell right with this plea.
So you you gotta put all of this together, and I just go back to the political equation here.
Did the Democrats use this to move Joe Biden off the ticket?
Well, I think that's gonna be, I think we'll get our first indication.
However, I I think that Joe is going to be dragged into this legally.
By the way, if he had nothing to hide, why would he be lying even this very week about the issue of talking to his son and brother about foreign business deals?
We know he's lied.
We have evidence that he lied.
We have photographic evidence that he lied, Jay.
Sean, I get the frustration, but who's gonna charge Joe Biden?
You can't charge him while he's a sitting president.
You can't.
It's unconstitutional.
I I agree with that, but however, he can be charged post-presidency.
And if the American people are convinced.
Okay, if the American people believe that Joe Biden to took official actions that benefited his family, and they they probably would think in their minds in their mind, and I've asked Comer and I've asked Jason Smith and I've asked Jim Jordan, is this a bribery investigation of the president of the United States?
and they've all confirmed it is.
Because that's what we're talking about here.
Official actions for the benefit.
It doesn't have to be for the person, but for people involved with the person.
And in this case, that would be Hunter.
Yeah, so, I mean, but they can, you know, look, like you said, they can impeach the president.
Could you charge a president after they leave office?
As long as the statute of limitation hasn't expired, you can.
Do Democrats want that person?
President, sure you can.
That's what they're arguing with President Trump.
He's out of office.
We can charge him.
And they did.
Do you think in any way, with all the charges President Trump is facing, that in a lot of ways this is going to negate that?
I think there's this sense that politically, that's, yeah, I think the Democrats will be saying, well, now that we've lost the ability to say Trump has got all these criminal problems, and that's a factor now that Biden's family's got them.
So I do think it negates that.
But again, I go back to, but did the Democrats use that, as you said with Maureen Dowd and all these others talking, that we need somebody else?
Maybe the guy you had in the debate the other night, Gavin Newsom.
Does that happen at the convention?
Remember, Democrats have superdelegates.
They can do anything at that convention.
Pretty unbelievable times we live in.
I'll tell you that.
And I've got to believe they have to be looking at Farrah violations also, don't you think?
I would have thought that would have been in this indictment.
They may still be doing investigations on that, but you would think that would have been in this indictment.
Because this was a speaking indictment.
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Remember, uh, Mr. Weiss did not want to charge Hunter with anything.
Then the whistleblowers came out.
Then that resulted in the sweetheart plea deal.
That fell apart because of that judge and the whistleblowers.
Yep.
And now here we are, charges brought by now special counsel Weiss, but Weiss was on both sides saying on the one hand that he did not have the authority to charge in jurisdictions, and he said something else to uh another elected official, and Merrick Garland said he always had the authority, and clearly he did not have the authority.
And so it's a lot of people have a lot of explaining to do to do.
Yeah, well, he had to bring in it, he brought it in California because that's where the actions took place.
And you're right.
If he wasn't a special counsel, he wouldn't have had the authority to do that.
So I don't know what Merrick Arlen was talking about.
But he is a special counsel now, so they've done it.
Are there gonna be more?
I don't know.
Um, you know, you always hear about these superseding indictments.
I heard there might have been one today.
Nothing, I've heard nothing since then.
So you just don't know.
But the fact is you I do think it negates that it takes the whole issue of of pending criminal matters kind of off the table politically.
Um I don't think it helps Biden.
It's helped Trump.
I don't think it helped it's helped Trump, and every time he's gotten indicted, his number goes up.
I'm I don't think this helps Biden.
I do not know.
All right, I gotta I gotta run.
But by the way, I am uh a senior executive producer on a movie with your son Jingle Smells and Jim Brewer, by the way, the comedian who's in the movie is gonna be with us in the next half hour.
And you just go to rumble uh uh and you can get the uh movie there.
Rumble.com or jinglesmells.movie, and it tells you now all the places you can get it.
It's on Rumble, of course, is the proverb provider, but it's already on Voodoo, Which is owned by Fandango and our friend John Schneider's got a studio that's doing the DVD, so you can get it in any way you can't.
It's a great movie.
Jim is hysterical.
And it's also it's a funny movie.
It's about Christmas, but it's got some very serious messages, including cancellation culture, uh supporting our military, and you're in it, and I'm in it.
Now I'm very minor, you're like a star.
Oh, yeah, okay.
That's a mischaracterization.
Uh I need to throw the challenge flag on that one, but we appreciate it, Jay Secular.
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I told you we just mentioned with Jay Sekulo who was on, but uh I worked with one of his sons, and we produced a movie that is family-friendly and funny as hell, and has a great message for kids and a great message uh against the woke world that we live in, uh, which is getting more insane by the day.
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It just was a fun movie, and when you get to the plot of this, it's very funny.
Uh anyway, if you don't know who Jim Brewer is, you need to know this guy.
He is hilarious.
Uh, here's him making fun of climate change.
Send in Spock!
Stock comes in.
Um, and they're showing blizzards.
Weather experts.
The biggest scientist experts in the world.
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I don't ever curse during my shows, but that's a major f*** up.
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Google it later for those who like anybody we say, because I don't like that he made fun of Donald Trump.
All right, Jim Brewer joins us now.
Um he stars in the movie Jingle Smells, of which I'm the executive producer or one of them.
Uh, and I make an appearance myself.
By the way, my appearance sucks compares to yours, by the way.
Uh great to have you on the program.
I know your podcast is kicking ass.
Oh, and I got I gotta say this.
On YouTube, you have a special you put out, Country Boy Will Survive.
Now that's the famous Hank Williams Jr. song.
And man, that is a great special.
What?
You're almost at a million views when I last looked.
Congratulations.
Thank you very much.
I think the uh Trump derangement bit is really taking off on that.
I just uh You know what I think people are ready for common sense, uh comedy, and just get back to our morals of family, faith, and and what is right.
And you thank God that you put yourself part of this movie.
I left Hollywood a long time ago.
And um But but didn't Hollywood really leave us, Jim.
They got out of touch with the people.
You're right.
You know, at the end of the day, you you're right.
It was another takeover.
They took that, they took over that whole establishment.
But but they think back.
Like, think of like it's a wonderful life.
Or think of Miracle on 34th Street.
They don't make movies like that anymore.
No, they don't, and I don't understand why is that so difficult.
Why is it, you know, when I watch Saturday Live, you know, I used to be a cast member.
I it baffles my mind.
I I wish you want to make some money, Sean.
I've been saying forever, let's do a new Sunday Night Live with common sense and for the right.
How do they not crush this administration with laughter?
It writes its own comedy week after week.
Why is everyone so petrified to folk have we become uh communist China?
You're not allowed to speak about the government.
That's uh that's a weird place to be in history.
There's so much to laugh at.
Now think of think of this.
You have Colbert, you have Fallon, you have Kimmel, right?
They these guys have the lowest ratings ever.
On a bad night, I I double their audience.
And I'm not competing directly.
But when Greg Gutfeld was, he a cable host was kicking all of their asses.
And it just goes to show you, for example, if you just played Joe Biden's, you know, blunder of the day, you know, you get a lot of kicks and giggles.
People would laugh at it.
And they refuse to do so.
It's just bizarre.
I've never seen anything like it in my life.
It's I I look deeper and go, is this a is this are do they fear something?
Are they being are they being told?
Well, this comes from the higher up.
So who's running the show at the end of the day?
But it just it doesn't make sense.
It makes zero sense.
That's why I I was super stoked that you're behind this movie.
Um the script is really good.
It's a cute, adorable family movie, and it's got a great message.
It really does.
Oh, it's got a great message.
It's a great message.
That's why parents will get a kick out of it watching it with their kids.
Yeah, no, they do.
And I on my life, I'm not just saying this.
Uh I live down in Naples, Florida.
I had neighbors come over and they say, Oh, we loved your movie.
And I went, What the movie?
You're talking about 20-something years ago.
Then, no, no, the jingle smells.
Oh, you saw it?
And they went, we loved the message of that movie.
It was such a good-hearted, loved the whole canceled culture.
It was really good.
So once I heard that, and I didn't see it yet.
I still haven't seen uh at that point I haven't seen it yet.
So I was I was super stoked to hear other people bring it up.
So it's definitely hitting people, and whoever watches it likes it.
So it's good.
And you you are to a credit for that.
Well, I don't know how much credit I really deserve in all this.
I have a minor role.
I'm gonna leave the acting to the professionals like yourself, uh the comedy to professionals like yourself.
Um tell me some of the stuff that you say that gets the best laughs when you do your specials.
Um, in this new one, I well, I think it started a couple years ago where where it was I said the special was called somebody had to say it.
And I went after COVID hard with the six-foot safe, five foot danger.
In this one, I go into, hey man, the Trump derangement.
I'm not even it's beyond politics.
But if you can't, they say love is blind, hate is blind.
You can't look at this administration and go, well, I I still hate Trump.
I don't care who you hate.
You are deranged if you can't see the serious issue that we're all in right now.
That crushes the climate change crushes.
And to be honest with you, I never wanted to be a hunter.
I never hunt in my life, Sean.
In my life.
You know why I went to hunt?
Because I don't trust the government anymore, and I want to know I can survive.
God forbid things go down.
And that's uh it's a hilarious story.
It's a true story, and people resonate with all of it.
They resonate that my wife found Jesus, and we talk about that.
And just there's a lot of real life issues that I that I bring to the table.
And and everyone wants truth and laughter.
It's not that hard.
It's really not that hard.
It really isn't.
Look, I hope people will watch the movie.
It's you can go to the website Jingle Smells Movie Smells.movie or Rumble.com.
Great family Christmas movie.
Everybody will love watching it, I think.
Uh, you do a great job in the movie.
Uh, I urge people also go to YouTube and check out Country Boy Will Survive.
Uh about to surpass a million views.
Pretty amazing.
Uh anyway, Jim Brewer, thanks, man.
Appreciate you being with us.
Appreciate it.
I appreciate it, Sean.
All the best to you.
God bless.
Take care.
You too.
800-94-1 Sean.
You want to be a part of the program.
All right.
Let us get to our busy phones.
Uh, Barbara Merrill and next Sean Hannity show.
What's up, Barbara?
How are you?
Oh my goodness.
I'm so glad I was able to get through your phone lines.
They're so busy.
We love you so much.
How are you, Sean?
I'm good, Barbara.
I love to hear your voice.
You're happy today.
You sound like you're in a good mood.
I'm glad, because you know what?
These are tough times we're all living in.
I'm in a very good mood because after listening to, you know, with Greg, your connections, your the people that you consult with are wonderful.
I finally, today, I feel like I had got some hope that something might come of this stuff.
That Joe Biden and Hunter Biden, uh, you know, that something might happen to them and that they'll stop hounding President Trump.
Well, you know, look, uh, do I think this I I think the Hunter part is the low-hanging fruit.
But the low-hanging fruit was out there forever.
What bothers me is they purposely ignored the low-hanging fruit.
But I'm telling you, this goes right to the top.
When I say this is the Joe Biden bribery and money laundering scandal allegations, I say it for a reason because that's what this is about.
And that's where ultimately, if we have justice, will lead, in my opinion, based on the evidence accumulated by the House Ways of Means Committee and Jason Smith, by the House Oversight Committee and James Comer, by the House Judiciary Committee, and that's of course Jim Jordan.
So that's where I think it's all headed.
I'm just concerned that they won't impeach him.
I mean, you know, they they impeached Donald Trump for making a phone call.
And here we've got a president who is actually involved in criminality.
He's got millions and millions of dollars that he cannot prove where he got it from, other than selling us down the tubes to our enemies.
And it's just it's it's distressful to see it happening, and we know it.
He lies all the time about it.
He'll never admit it.
He'll never admit it.
Even if if if they convicted him, he would never admit it.
He would say they were lying, Mike.
So I you know, unbelievable times.
But I'll tell you, hopefully now, because of, let's see, uh the brave attorney and brave former mayor of New York City, Bob Costello's lawyer, Brudy Giuliani, because of a brave judge in Delaware and two brave whistleblowers.
Uh, guess what?
Uh justice is now coming.
They're not going to be able to hide anymore.
Hang in there, Barbara.
Have a good weekend.
We appreciate you.
800-941 Sean on number.
You want to be a part of the uh program.
Chad is in Texas.
Chad, how are you?
Glad you called.
Sean, I'm just fine.
Even better know now that I get to talk with you, get to the busy phone lines.
And so you made my day going into a weekend.
Merry Christmas to you, Linda, your entire staff.
I know you're about to go on your much deserved, much deserved end of the year vacation.
I am crawling to the finish line like every year.
I've I honestly get to this point.
I'm like, I'm like crawling all the way, working my heart out.
I promise.
I'm not.
I was supposed to be off today, to be honest with you, but I can't be off on a newsday like this.
I just can't.
Of course you did.
And so that's even more of a deserving this amount of time off.
You've been doing it for 33, 34 years on the radio, so you just about to gotta figure it out.
Your Fox News, you've been there number one, all in all.
So you're very well deserving of the end of the year.
That's only because you blessed me with this microphone and that camera, and I'm very grateful.
But we have a minute.
I want you to make it count.
I wish I had your set of pipes.
So two things.
Kudos to you for sitting there with with Gavin Newsom, who's a sliggy, sneaky oil salesman.
He's so aggravating.
And and Ron DeSantis.
That takes a lot of, it takes a lot of uh courage, if you will, patience.
That's why I couldn't be a doctor.
I don't have any patience.
All the back and forth, the talking over.
So kudos to you on that.
The last thing I'll hit you with, not hit the audience with, Is that the thing about Hunter Biden, take away the charges or whatever.
Remember all the entire left, Democrats, liberals, just entire woke media, politicians going after not just DJT, but his three adult sons and his young Baron now, which is taller than a dadgum building, but all of them were going after the Trump children that are squeaky clean.
And now this.
So they're not going to have the it's going to be hypocr hypocrisy is when I'm saying that they won't say anything about Hunter Biden on these charges, which is going to be a slap on the hand.
He'll play the fifth.
Ain't nothing gonna happen.
The similar charges that the that I his name is dropping me, but he's a rapper, and he went to prison four or five years, and it's not long.
But then again, it is.
So my whole talking point on this was about the Hunter thing, and also that what you had to sit through in the red blue state debate.
Sean, thank you so much for everything that you do day in and day out.
We absolutely love you, and so do I. You're a voice, a beacon.
The conservatism, maybe not 100% Republican, libertarian, all of that, but conservatism.
No, I'm I'm a conservative, man.
I'm I'm not even a uh I don't register as a Republican.
Put it that way.
Anyway, look, I appreciate your kind words, and I thank all of you for giving me this opportunity every day and and that opportunity every night.
Uh it's my passion.
Glad to be here.
I did not in any way mean to insinuate that somehow uh I had to come in on my day off.
I'm not complaining.
I'm glad to be here.
It's my job, and I'm grateful for it.
Have a great time.
Have a great holiday season.
If I don't talk to you, 800-941 Sean is on number as we continue this Friday.
All right, that's gonna wrap things up for today.
Tonight on Hannity 9 Eastern on the Fox News Channel, set you DVR, James Comer, House Oversight Committee, Jason Smith, Congressman, uh, head of the Ways and Means Committee, Senator Ron Johnson, John Solomon, Judge Piero, Charlie Hurt, Morgan Ortegas, and Jason Chaffetz, all happening at 9 Eastern on Hannity at Fox, set you DVR at 9 Eastern.
We'll see you tonight back here on Monday.
Have a great weekend and thank you for making this show possible.
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