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Feb. 22, 2024 - Sean Hannity Show
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Save America - February 21st, Hour 3
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Programming reminder on Hannity tonight, you know, Jim Biden, Joe Biden's brother, went before, I believe, joint committees, House Oversight, House Judiciary Committee, looking into the Biden family syndicate.
And apparently, he's coming off as very old and very forgetful.
Is that by design or is he really sick?
But anyway, we'll have more details by the time we get on the air tonight, 9 Eastern on Fox.
That's all straight ahead.
So many people, it's been so interesting to watch and listen to just everyday people that I meet and I talk to and that know that I have been a supporter of Donald Trump's for a long time, asking me what the hell is going on with our legal system.
And most people now have figured it out.
It's not complicated.
We have now weaponized the Department of Justice, criminalized political differences, and we have cast aside fundamental principles as it relates to our Constitution and the rule of law in our great country.
It's that simple because the facts of the case are easy as well.
How many times have we played for you, you know, AGs, DAs running on a platform to go after one man, one family, and one organization?
And the idea through summary judgment, a lot of people did not understand.
I think the civil trial in New York brought by New York's Attorney General, they did not fully understand that this was not a trial of any kind.
This was the, quote, punishment phase.
This is now the reality of what's been happening in the country.
And that is in the middle of an election year, they are trying to drown President Trump's campaign and have them gulping water every day as it relates to legal matters.
And unfortunately, there are too many people that are happy with it because they just don't like Donald Trump.
And if this is the way we've got to beat Donald Trump, this is what we're going to do.
If you look at the facts of the case, they're pretty straightforward.
Donald Trump took out loans from big banks.
He had insurance policies on his properties.
He built a nice portion of the skyline in New York, employed a lot of people.
And anyway, had in every single agreement with every bank and every insurance company disclosure forms about his financial statements with the disclaimer that they should not rely on their numbers.
Now, no company would lend hundreds of millions of dollars or insure hundreds of millions of dollars if, in fact, if their valuations were not their own, they would totally be, you know, take their fiduciary responsibility and just say, oh, I'm going to believe what his estimate is.
That's not how it works in the real world.
And then the most egregious part of this, considering this whole case was about valuations, is the fact that you have a judge in this case, Ngoron, who still maintained the entire time that Mar-a-Lago is worth, you know, $18 million.
Well, it's worth a lot more than $18 million.
I've shown many empty lots on the ocean, one and a half, two acres, all selling for anywhere between $150 and $200 million.
We've talked about the massive size of Mar-a-Lago, 22 acres, both oceanfront, it has a beach club, it has another club.
It's a historic property.
It's in mint condition, probably in the best place.
Intercoastal, it's connected to the intercoastal as well.
Many buildings along the property.
The main building with, what, 50 some-odd bedrooms, 40 bathrooms.
I mean, this is in a state of much closer to a billion dollars, just based on comparisons that we have with New York.
So the question is, what is the next step?
And that's where Alina Haba comes in.
She is the legal spokesperson for President Trump, General Counsel, Save America PAC as well.
And this will be appealed.
And Alina, let's talk about that process.
Welcome back to the program.
Thank you, Sean.
Thank you.
Yes, that's the plan.
And you really summarized the case well.
I'm pretty sure I should have had you do my closing argument.
You know, the reality is that facts do not line up here because of desperation politically.
That's really the best way I could explain to the American people what is going on.
The good news is that we will be appealing, of course.
We will be in the appellate division frequently and soon.
And the basis is going to be not only the facts that you mentioned, not only the fact that there were no aggrieved parties, not only the fact that literally no victims and the people that Letitia James has come in for her campaign to quote unquote protect made millions and hundreds of millions of dollars.
Not only on those facts, but also what was happening in the courtroom, gag orders, you know, incorrect decisions on evidentiary issues, the fact that we were dead upon arrival on a summary judgment motion, the fact that, Sean, the appellate division in New York shut down this case for effectively statue limitations, narrowed it in half, and the judge throughout the trial failed to acknowledge the appellate division's decision prior to trial.
I mean, what kind of banana republic are we living in?
So the appellate division will have a happy record on appeal.
It will be thorough, and it will really tell the world what was happening in that courtroom for the 11 weeks and, frankly, the three years that I've been handling this craziness.
Well, craziness is probably a good way to describe it.
But there's something deeper at play here.
I mean, when you look at all the cases, frankly, I've argued from the beginning, I don't believe that Donald Trump can get a fair trial in New York City, where I think he got maybe 10, 12% of the vote.
I don't think he can get a fair trial in Washington, D.C.
I don't think the Georgia case will hold up anyway.
Maybe he can get a fair trial in Florida.
We'd have to see over time what the charges are, the facts are.
And then, of course, the double standard in that case.
So the next step would be the appellate division.
And that would then be, I'm sure, is it a motion to vacate?
Is it a motion to reduce the fine?
Walk us through the process.
Sure.
There's going to be several motions, obviously, because of privilege and strategic reasons.
I don't want to get into too much detail, but I think you've hit a lot of them close to home.
We will obviously, this verdict, as in the other verdicts that we've seen this past month, are insane.
They make no sense.
There were no damages.
We don't even know who these checks are going to, right?
I mean, who is the victim?
And you've got no damages.
You actually had experts saying that people made money.
You had the banks themselves say they made money.
So the appellate division is going to be the biggest thing.
We will be moving for all of that, saying that the verdict is, frankly, incorrect, wrong.
Don't forget, Sean, Ms. James filed this complaint asking for $250 million.
Mid to late trial, she changes it and ups it.
The judge effectively gives her whatever she wants.
It's crazy.
So we will be setting that aside.
It's not based on anything.
If you look closely on the order, he can't justify the number.
We will be breaking that all down, which I will get into in the papers, not on the radio beforehand.
And then we will go to the appellate division, probably move accordingly.
I'll be honest with you, I think on all these cases, we knew it was going to be a long game strategic plan here.
You can't get a fair trial, especially when you have judges that have clear animus.
And I think that that was made very evident to everybody that was in the courtroom with me for those three months, including if you look at the decision on the gag order itself.
So, you know, all those things will be brought up in the appellate division.
It'll all happen very soon.
And let's talk about, for example, the testimony of officials at Deutsche Bank.
They said, no, appraisals are subject to interpretation and then was very clear that it is the responsibility of the bank to make a determination if somebody's putting anything up for collateral, that they have the fiduciary responsibility.
It lies with them to determine what the value is and whether or not that would suffice.
So, I mean, it's absolutely meaningless at the end.
But how ironic, I would argue that the judge is far more guilty of the very thing that they're accusing President Trump of with that insane valuation of Mar-a-Lago.
And who is he to value it?
I mean, what is his knowledge?
He's a guy that was reversed for a decision very anti-landlord landlords in New York.
He's known for it.
He doesn't like the big guy.
It's obviously clear.
He doesn't like those big businesses.
And that's fine.
That's par for the course.
But, you know, I would just say, why would you ever want to be reversed?
You know, it's such a bad look.
But this is the state that we are in.
And Sean, let me remind you, Deutsche Bank testified that Trump was the whale of a client that they wanted.
They paid their loans early.
Zurich is still working with Trump.
There truly was no victim, but this judge wanted to help Ms. James, clearly, fulfill her campaign promise.
And we can't forget that.
You know, she ran on getting Trump before she even knew anything about him.
That is the state of our country right now.
And if we don't have judges in the appellate division in the Supreme Court that look at it and really apply facts to law, our country's in deep trouble.
Now, the appeal, it's very simple here, is that you basically have to show an intent to defraud, but that disclaimer that is in every Trump contract based on their valuation is very, very clear that telling lenders and insurers don't go by our valuations or they'd have to show false statements of fact rather than opinion, right?
And look at the law, materiality, causation, damages.
All of this seems to work in your favor.
All right, quick break.
We'll come right back.
We'll continue more with Alina Haba, who is Donald Trump's legal spokesperson, general counsel, Save America Pact.
And we'll get to your calls coming up as well.
Toll-free.
Our number is 800-941-Sean, if you want to be a part of the program as we continue.
All right, we continue now with Donald Trump's legal spokesperson and general counsel of the Save America Pact.
Alina Haba is with us.
I know you have to run, but I want to get this last question is it is it seems to be a strategy to drown the campaign in legal issues.
And if, for example, on a criminal trial, if the president were to be found guilty, I would argue, you know, he can't get a fair trial in New York City or Washington, D.C.
That would happen during the election year.
But the appeal where I think the president would have a much better shot of having things overturned, that would be post-election.
That's a problem to me.
Yeah.
On the criminal side, yes.
I mean, we do obviously have a March trial slated.
But again, that's one where we have a motivated DA who, if you look at Pomerance's book, made it clear that they had no case.
And then all of a sudden, election year, here we go.
Let's go to trial, March 25th.
Nope, I don't want to move that trial.
We're going to go on something that happened years and years and years ago.
I mean, Sean, you know, the problem is when you and I are talking about it is we're using common, we're using intellect, you know, and this isn't based on intellect.
It's not based on facts.
It's not based on the fact that Deutsche Bank does their own valuations, doesn't listen to what a borrower says his property is worth.
They don't want to hear that.
They want to figure out a way to get Trump.
So I think you're bringing this up.
Yeah, it's a good point.
We have a problem timing-wise.
But on these things, look, Letitia James, we've got to post a bond, and that money then sits there while you're in the appellate division.
And him being president does not change the fact that these cases are going on.
You know, they're so desperate.
That's all I can say.
They are so desperate.
And I think the American people get it now.
I know people come up to me all the time.
I'm sure they do you as well.
And they're nervous.
And they keep saying, you know, Alina, keep fighting.
Keep fighting hard.
Don't listen to the noise because we're in trouble if this is us.
You know, Trump has the means.
He has the team.
He has a voice.
What if it's us in New York?
What if it's, you know, you moved out of New York?
I'm most certainly going down south.
I mean, it's crazy.
Did you hear what Kevin O'Leary said from Shark Tank?
He said he had been considering investing in one of his big companies.
I mean, he's a great business guy.
I don't know him well, but I've interviewed him a number of times.
And he's like, I'm done.
I can't consider New York.
It's not even a possibility anymore.
I think he was thinking about taking his business to Texas or somewhere.
I don't remember.
But he wants a business-friendly state.
Yeah.
Hochl's putting out statements.
You got nothing to be worried about.
We only do this to Trump.
We won't do it to you.
What the heck was that?
I couldn't believe it.
It was like an admission beyond admission.
Hey, don't worry, guys.
We'll only create the Adult Survivors Act for Donald Trump because we want to get him, and we can't get him on politics.
So we need to distract the country and talk about legal lawfare.
Warfare in the political world is now coming into our judicial system.
That is the only way they can get him, and it's not working.
If they look at the polls, they've gone up every time they hit him with these legal battles.
And I think Ms. James's goal was to try and bankrupt him, forgetting that the man has, you know, billions and billions of dollars worth of assets.
He's an incredibly intelligent businessman.
The organization and the kids are incredibly intelligent, really walk a straight line.
But again, it's a distraction.
We've got Miss James.
We saw during the trial.
We found out she was visiting the White House right before the complaint got filed.
What is that?
It sounds like Fannie Willis and her boyfriend down in Georgia.
It doesn't sound any different.
Listen, I know you have to go.
I don't want to impose too much on your time.
I want to be fair.
But Alina, we always appreciate you coming on.
Thank you.
Of course.
Thank you for having me.
25 to the top of the hour.
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Well, Harvard Havid is back at it.
Linda, did you see this?
I can't believe it.
But Harvard caught in yet another anti-Semitism scandal allegations, a faculty group posting an old cartoon filled with, you know, beyond offensive, quote, tropes depicting a Jewish person hanging an African-American and an Arab man.
And the Harvard faculty and staff for Justice in Palestine reported the cartoon after it was shared by two student groups and the Harvard Undergraduate Palestinian Solidarity Committee and the African and African American Resistance Operation, according to the student newspaper.
And it shows a hand with a dollar sign inside a Star of David that appeared to be, you know, one, I guess it was the New York Post that compared it.
It says it looks a little like Muhammad Ali and former Israeli, I'm sorry, former Egyptian president Nasser with Third World printed around the black arm swinging a machete emblazoned with the words liberation movement.
Wow.
Unbelievable.
Is this what you hope for?
You hope that maybe you work your kids hard and you teach them how to study and you want to send them off to a prestigious university and you end up at Harvard.
You know, not particularly easy to get into.
And Linda, this is the result.
This is what these kids are being taught.
I got to be honest with you.
You know, I find it so shocking.
You know, it's funny.
You know, when I was in college in my undergrad, I did a whole thing on Hitler and I started it when I was in high school.
And I was obsessed with trying to understand how anybody could hate one group that much.
I just didn't understand.
I'm like, just out of nowhere, Hitler was just like, yep, hate all the Jews.
And so I did all this research into it.
And what I came to find was that he was just a very sick psychopath and there was no reason or rhyme to what he was thinking.
But what really bothered me was the complacency, the ability of him to almost like mind control all of these people.
And they just followed blindly, like not affecting me.
And I tell you, I see it again now.
I mean, you see these people marching in the streets.
They have no idea what they're marching for.
They're completely misinformed, totally given this leftist ideology and lied to it every single turn.
And I'm like, nothing in you is curious to ask a question and say, this isn't true or this isn't fair.
I mean, just the mere idea that Rashida Tlaib would be the only person in the house on a bipartisan bill to say that sexual violence and rape against these, you know, Israeli and Jewish women that are held by Hamas, you know, is not a crime.
I'm like, you know, and she's still out there talking, doing her thing.
I just don't.
It's not a crime.
And well, what I'm having a hard time understanding here is this was an unprovoked invasion attack and slaughter.
It was, you know, murder on a scale that Israel had never seen in their homeland.
And yet, you know, here we have our own government, pretty much Joe Biden for political purposes, doing everything possible to stop Israel from winning the war.
Now, if I'm the prime minister of Israel, obviously I never will be, but if I was, my goal, if my country was attacked in this vicious way, which would be, if you extrapolate population out, it would be the equivalent of losing 40,000 Americans in a day, somewhere around that number, because the population in Israel is very small, actually, just less under 10 million people.
And all these people that lost their lives, all these people that were taken hostage, and we're finding out many of the hostages now have been killed.
And you see this virulent anti-Semitism just seemingly come out of nowhere.
And I'm like, has this existed?
And we just didn't see it to this level.
Gas the Jews, F the Jews, you know, on college campuses, in the streets of our big cities, all across Europe, all across other continents, Australia, I mean, all across the world.
And I'm like, wow, now the faculty of this prestigious university, Havid, you know, bringing in this trope.
What is going to, are there going to be any consequences?
Well, here's what's interesting.
I don't think so.
That professor is now resigned and not there.
And again, we have a situation where action is not taken by the university, but it is given as an option to the professor, right?
So just like they gave to Claudine Gay, now they're giving it to this professor, like, hey, we don't want to make a scene out of this.
Just resign, go away quietly.
We'll give you a severance package.
I'm like, I'm sorry.
You need to go, period.
You need to be fired.
You know, do not PASCO.
Do not collect 200.
You're out.
Sorry.
Goodbye.
Maybe you can go work for Antifa.
I think you have a better likeness there.
I mean, this is the whole problem, this acceptance of like, well, it's okay.
So the same group that's telling you that everyone has to be loved and accepted is like, well, except the Jews.
We can hate them.
Oh, but you can't use the wrong pronoun.
Oh, except the Jews.
You can hate them.
Oh, but you can't say that this person can't feel this way.
They're allowed to express that.
Oh, except the Jews.
We can rape them.
I mean, look at that hostage they rescued just last week.
67 specimens of sperm.
She'd been raped by over 65 men.
I mean, that's it is coming.
We had on this program.
The mother who lost her daughter was raped and murdered.
And I'm like, in that case, over illegal immigrants, when you hear stories like this, whether it's in Israel or whether anywhere, whether at our border, wherever it happens.
And it's like, wow, if you doubt that evil exists, it exists because we're now living an evil.
This is evil in our own time.
Listen, this is spiritual warfare.
It's not a joke anymore.
You know, everybody knows that this is Satan's playground and it's up to you to fight back.
But if you choose to not fight back until it touches your home, I promise you it will.
It is coming to a theater to you, which is what Netanyahu said to you when we went there in 2013.
You think this isn't going to come to you?
It is coming to you.
It's going to come 2014.
It's 10 vengeance or 2014, excuse me.
10 years ago.
But the whole idea is that.
Crazy.
I mean, it's just crazy.
And I think that people are completely and totally desensitized.
There's so much stuff out there.
They can't even catch up to have an emotion or a reaction to it.
Let's go to Dana in Michigan on the Sean Hannity Show.
Dana, how are you?
Glad you called.
I'm fine, Sean.
You know what?
There Linda is again.
She is so right on point.
She's like the great philosopher at your show.
All right, I got to stop you there.
There's a lot of great compliments that Linda absolutely deserves.
Great philosopher is not one of them.
No, Socrates.
I'm all right with you.
Yeah, okay.
No, she is, and I'm going to tell you why, because it segues into why I called.
Linda is, if you listen to her, she's all about standing on principle.
She just said that, that you've got to stand on principle or it's going to get you.
It's already gotten conservatives, and now it's going after the Christians, calling them Christianists.
Christian nationalists.
Nationalists.
I'm sorry.
You're right.
So anyway, this is about the Bud Light thing.
You have brought it up on many occasions, and Linda completely disagrees with you.
And I agree with her.
This is why.
Every time you bring it up, my stomach clenches.
And I finally decided I'm going to call you out on it.
So here's what the, well, I, you know, I'm, I'm out a day.
I did a 10-hour shoot in the desert, man, and I come back to getting my head handed to me.
But you go right ahead, Dana.
You have a headache.
Okay, no excuses.
So here's the saying.
Go ahead.
Okay.
The left gets their teeth into something and they don't let go ever.
We do something, and because most conservatives claim to be Christians, and they are, you know, they forgive and forget because that's what we're taught, and they let go.
So if we let go of the buzz light thing because of what you claim, the distributors and the truckers, then they're not going to learn a lesson.
You've got to stand on principle.
If you have no consequences, did you ever ground your kids for a week and say, oh, I feel so bad.
You can go in an hour.
So all you kids are going to do is wait out that hour the next time they commit an aggression.
And that's what companies are going to do.
They're going to say, but Dana, let me ask you a question.
Do you think I'm not standing on principle?
Because I actually am.
And here's the principle.
How so?
Okay, I will give you an answer.
I'm standing on the principle.
And I think it's really related to my blue collar roots, where I started and living paycheck to paycheck in my early adult years and struggling to pay my rent and buying a $200 work van and a $350, $50,000 mile Ford Maverick that I had to fix myself.
And that's the way I live for a lot of years, more than I care to remember.
And I remember it wasn't fun.
I never felt poor, but I just, I knew I had a struggle to pay rent every month.
And here's the principle for me.
The principle is the guys that you just mentioned that you're kind of dismissing, if you don't mind me being frank, the guys that pay a fortune for beer distributorships, that the truck drivers and the guys that work in Anheuser-Busch factories, not one of those people had anything to do with the Dylan Mulvaney issue.
Nor do I and nor am I so myopic that I can't see the big picture.
And the big picture is Anheuser-Busch does have a history of doing very, very generous, patriotic things for our veterans and for other groups.
I mean, tens and tens of millions of dollars.
Now, did they screw up?
Absolutely.
What did I warn about?
Now, I've never supported a boycott.
I've never supported a cancellation.
I've never supported a cancel culture in any way.
I could never call for firings.
And there's a reason because you don't have to buy Bud Light.
I'm not even telling you to buy Bud Light.
I'm not.
I'm just saying for me, the principle is, is that those people that work career jobs that have been getting fired, they did lay off a number of people.
Those people mattered to me.
And those people had nothing to do with this.
And do I like the fact that they did it?
No.
Do I think Bud will ever do it again or Anheuser-Busch will ever do it again?
No, I think that the American people, consumers, taught them a lesson.
Now, the number one beer in the country is Medello.
But as an outside thought on that, you might not know this, but not in America, but in other parts of the world, it's Anheuser-Busch that is, you know, partnering with Medello.
So they have a big part of that outside of our country.
So I know that's the people's choice.
But here's my final point to you.
I care too much because I'm not willing to nonchalantly go out there and just say, I'm canceling and I don't care what impact it has on innocent people.
And I don't give a flying rip about the managers of Bud Weiser or Anheuser-Busch.
They're not factoring into my thinking.
But I do care about hardworking men and women that will be the ones that pay the price.
Innocent people losing their jobs.
But here's the end.
Here's the last point.
You get to decide and do whatever you think is the right thing to do.
And I'll support your decision, whatever it is.
And if you just, if that's, if you feel as strongly as you do, then don't drink Bud Light.
But I got to take a break.
I do appreciate your call.
Check in anytime.
You know, I've been telling you all about burner and burner non-lethals.
All right, that's going to wrap things up for today.
We got a great Hannity tonight, 9 Eastern on the Fox News channel.
And tonight we'll be checking in after James Biden was interviewed by the House Oversight and Accountability Committee and the Judiciary Committee.
Jim Jordan, James Comer, Jason Smith, also Vivek, Ramaswamy, also Governor Ron DeSantis, mentioned as a potential vice president for Donald Trump by Trump.
That's interesting.
And Pete Hagseth, and much more.
Set you DVR, 9 Eastern tonight.
Please join us on Fox.
We'll see you then.
Back here tomorrow.
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