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March 25, 2024 - Sean Hannity Show
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President Trump Fights Back - March 25th, Hour 1

President Trump fights back on the New York court that has been asking for hundreds of millions of dollars in "penalties."  Sean has the latest...See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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If you want to be a part of the program, well, I mean, some sanity, some court in New York, although I still think $174 million is an awfully high judgment when you consider the case, the civil case at hand that we're talking about.
But I've got to give some credit to the New York Appeals Court for pausing this $464 million, but with interest, it was over almost, it was over half a billion dollars.
I mean, this is insane.
And we expected the possibility.
We weren't sure if the court would rule on this by today.
Thankfully, they saw the urgency in terms of the timing of this.
And they now have removed that $400 and what really is over $500 million, over half a billion dollars.
And the state appeals court panel said that it would act if the Trump organization and top executives posted $175 million within 10 days.
And this last-minute reprieve for President Trump and his lawyers, you know, anyway, here's the president reacting.
Thank you very much.
Judge N. Gorin has done a terrible disservice to the state of New York.
What he's done is terrible.
Businesses are fleeing.
You see that?
We just released a statement on Judith.
Businesses are fleeing and crime is flourishing all over the state.
And what he's done is such a disservice and should never be allowed to happen again.
New York State is being battered by his decision.
So I greatly respect the decision of the appellate division and I'll post either $175 million in cash or bonds or security or whatever is necessary very quickly within the 10 days.
And I thank the appellate division for acting quickly.
But Judge Ngorn is a disgrace to this country and this should not be allowed to happen.
Thank you very much.
He is a disgrace to the country.
I mean, how much more do we have to get into?
Now, the president put out a number of statements on Truth Social today.
The judge in that civil case, Ngoran, and the Attorney General of New York should be forced to explain why he ruled and maintained all throughout the penalty phase.
Because remember, he ruled by summary judgment.
There was not going to be a trial.
There was not going to be a jury.
He just decided through summary judgment that the case was over.
Well, he's guilty.
They just declared him guilty and moved to the punishment phase, which ended up being this insane amount of number.
Anyway, he points out in his Truth Social post that Mar-a-Lago was worth $18 million.
And he said that, in fact, it's worth 50 to 100 times that amount.
I don't know if there's anyone else on television that has done the simple research that we have done, and that is look for properties on the ocean in Palm Beach as a comparison.
And I think the most glaring examples, there are two that I have used, and I have shown both properties on TV, is if you want, there was, I don't know if it's still for sale at the time when I first did it, a plot of land on the ocean that had two acres on it.
It was dirt.
There was no home on the property.
Just for the two acres on the ocean, it was $200 million.
Then there's another lot that is probably in the worst location possible.
Now, it is on the intercoastal, and it has a street between whatever house you might build and the ocean in Palm Beach.
Palm Beach is an island, and at certain points there is a street that would divide the intercoastal from the ocean because they need the transportation and infrastructure for that without giving too much detail.
Now, here's what the facts about Mar-a-Lago: it is in pristine condition.
It is over 22 acres.
It is on both the intercoastal and on the ocean side of the island of Palm Beach.
It has not one, but two clubs associated with it.
And it is a historic property.
It has over 22 acres over in the main residence, I think, 50 some-odd bedrooms.
It's got cottages all over the property.
It's got great facilities and pools and whatever you could ever want or imagine is there.
Hair salon, a massage masseuse is there.
I don't like massages, but if people like it, I guess if you're a member, you can have that.
And it just is massive.
If there was no property there, it would be worth just extrapolating out the math of these oceanfront properties: $200 million.
I know it sounds insane to everybody because Palm Beach real estate is insane.
And a lot of coastal properties in Florida are going for massive amounts of money.
That's just what the market is bearing.
And I don't think it's going to get any better.
The baby boomers are not going to stop retiring.
There's still 10 to 15 years of them retiring and coming down to Florida, probably in droves, and other states, including Texas and Tennessee and the Carolinas.
That seems to be the area where the greatest migration is headed towards.
And anyway, so how is the judge able to get away with that?
This is why we call this the weaponization of our legal system.
This is what it is.
It is glaring.
Now, if they started to take Trump properties away today, I would argue that every single property they tried to take would probably lift Donald Trump's poll numbers that much higher.
Americans fundamentally sense unfairness when they see it.
But anyway, so he's got a reprieve.
He's got 10 days for that reprieve.
And, you know, Donald Trump put another post up about Judge Ngorn that he's refused to obey a decision of the appellate division relative to the statute of limitations.
I believe this has to do with Ivanka Trump, a confrontation between the judge and those that rule above him, a bad situation in which in New York, you have people like O'Leary over at CNBC and on Shark Tank, Kevin O'Leary, and even Mark Cuban saying this is insane.
This is not justice or equal justice under the law.
This is abusing the justice system.
Listen to Kevin O'Leary.
I mean, he's been ripping on this day in and day out on how he's not going to invest money in New York anymore.
You got this multi-multi-hedge fund billionaire.
His name is Ken Griffin.
And I only know because he actually knocked on the door of five major estate owners in Palm Beach on the ocean and said, I want to buy your property.
And he did it a number of years ago.
And I think he paid about $100 million for each and then knocked them all down.
And he's building two homes on five lots, one for him and one for apparently his mother, according to what I've heard.
I don't know the guy, but that's Palm Beach real estate for you.
All one needed to do was to go on Zillow or any other real estate website, and you'd be able to determine what the average cost of an oceanfront or intercoastal property is going for in Palm Beach.
Not that hard to figure out.
Real estate is actually pretty simple.
Supply and demand, and that kind of crisscrosses and dictates the price.
Here's Kevin O'Leary.
The collateral damage to the American brand is horrific.
If you go across the world and say, what's the number one economy on earth you want to invest in?
It's the United States of America.
That's why it is the number one economy on earth.
Transparency.
Property rights are mentioned 37 times in the Constitution.
Due process, very important.
Why steal someone's asset in 27 days?
Why not give them more time to come up with the cash?
Forget about Donald Trump.
Why would we want this to happen to them?
Do you want to bring $3 billion to build a data center in America, which I'm going to go and raise next week all around the world?
The number one question I have when I go to these countries to try and raise this capital is, what the hell is going on in New York?
And I tell them it's not America.
It's just an anomaly.
I swear to you, everybody, this is not America.
Don't worry, adults will enter the room soon.
It's like a dress-up party in court.
It was a crazy night out with the parents.
Pooh-poo happened, but someone will come in and fix this.
This is not America.
I swear to you, this is not America.
Well, it's not.
Now, we've talked at length and a lot about our Eighth Amendment to our Constitution.
It protects against imposing excessive bail, excessive fines, cruel or unusual punishment.
And it was adopted in 1791, along with the rest of the Bill of Rights.
And it serves as a limitation.
Now, all Donald Trump is pursuing here is an ability to bring this whole case to another court and make an appeal.
And already, I guess we're seeing indications of what I have always said.
The most dangerous part of every legal case that Donald Trump faces is that they have arranged this, that even a 2016 case, that would be the Alvin Bragg case, and we have some news on that today, that they can try that during the election year,
but the odds would be next to zero, probably impossible, of having an appeal where Donald Trump might have a better opportunity at fairness in court.
I have said, and I stand by, I do not personally believe that Donald Trump can get a fair trial in New York State.
I don't think he can get a fair trial in D.C.
I don't think he can get a fair trial in Fulton County, Georgia, for that matter.
In a new poll, McLaughlin and Associates, the only people I pay attention to in polls are Matt Towery, Insider Advantage, and Robert Cahale, the Trafalgar group, and McLaughlin.
56% of all voters think Biden wants to stop Trump from winning by putting him in jail or getting the conviction.
I mean, wow, it's unbelievable.
Only 30% don't believe Biden's trying to jail Trump.
You have a supermajority of Republicans.
86% agree what Biden is doing, weaponizing the justice system against Donald Trump.
It's also not a partisan issue.
Independents, 50 to 33, they think Biden is seeking to jail Trump for political reasons.
Moderates, 48-32.
These are not.
And if you look at even Democrats, by the way, Democratic constituencies have a negative view of Biden's actions.
You know, with African Americans, 41% negative view.
Hispanic Americans, 53%.
Women, 53%.
Why do you think Joe has gone so hardcore trying to rally his base and bolster support in his base?
Because he's losing the traditional coalition that represents the Democratic Party in droves.
He's down 2 some odd percent, 23, 4 percent among African Americans, according to a number of polls, than where he was in 2020.
You know, right now it's almost a dead heat with Hispanic Americans.
Again, down by over 20 points from where Biden was back in 2020.
You know, you look at the rest of this, you've got 58% saying that Biden played a role in the indictments of Trump.
You don't think we have a weaponized justice system?
Really?
You don't think so?
Really?
Explain Hillary Clinton, top secret, classified information on her servers.
Explain 33,000 subpoenaed emails erased by bleach bit, destroyed with hammers, sim cards removed.
It's unreal.
Look at Joe Biden, eight separate locations.
He willfully willfully withheld classified documents, held on to them, and tells a ghostwriter without any clearance whatsoever.
He tells the ghostwriter, hey, I found some new classified information.
I want to share it with you.
He doesn't have any security clearance from our government, but probably a jury would find him to be nice and old and very forgetful.
Therefore, we're not going to bring charges.
That sounds like equal justice in America, equal application of our laws in America.
It doesn't, does it?
Anyway, so that now comes to an end.
And Donald Trump saying that I guess he will pay it within the 10-day period, which I think is probably the right decision.
We've got a lot of other news.
We have a huge warning about 140,000 illegal immigrants, U.S. Border Patrol chiefs calling the southern border a national security threat.
I told you I'm not going to be proven wrong, but I pray to God that I am.
We got that.
We've got the inmates running the asylum over at MSDNC.
We'll get to that today.
James Carville under a little fire for something he said about his fellow Democrats.
Bill Maher is telling Democrats to move on from identity politics.
All right, as we roll along, 800-941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, we'll have more analysis on this last-minute reprieve.
The Trump bond reduced by the appeals courtiers 10 extra days, $175 million after it was over a half a billion dollars.
Wow.
But AOC is arguing there is a risk in not seizing Trump's assets.
They just were praying and hoping and just could just salivate anything that's anti-Trump.
Fake news, CNN, MSDNC, they live off of anti-Trump 24-7.
It's mana from heaven for them.
Even the New York Times did have to acknowledge, you know, seizing somebody's property, not exactly a slam dunk, not even likely to happen, Jonathan Turley pointed out.
These properties are partnerships, they all have leverage debt.
All of that has to be unraveled.
You know what it's like to unravel that mess?
Larry Cuddlow added.
So they aren't just, you know, this one and that one and that sort of math that goes along in the minds of people that know nothing about real estate.
In order to seize a property, they'd have to be pulled into court.
They're going to be challenges.
It wouldn't happen overnight.
I think he's going to probably end up paying based on what he said, that amount.
There will be seizure, Heath Ellison telling MSDNC they're happy.
That's the only thing.
They're just so deranged in their thinking.
It is a, at this point, it's a disorder.
I mean, they're psychotic over their hatred.
Anyway, we'll continue.
We'll have a lot more news to get to straight ahead, including the inmates running this asylum at MSDNC.
There is other news out there.
Look, we've gone through in great specificity, great detail on the issues involving Donald Trump and these legal issues.
I mean, the idea that this Bragg case, here it is 2024, and all the country knew about this prior to the 2016 election, pretty much tells you everything you need to know about that case.
You know, the documents case, well, we all see the clear double standard.
The shenanigans going on in Fulton County, Georgia, you see the disaster that that is.
You know, now we're learning a lot more about the January 6th case and the issue of presidential immunity, I believe, is a constitutional issue of our time.
And I don't even think they should have argued for unfettered immunity, if you will, or absolute immunity, as they call it.
I think they should have gone for legal immunity, and that would have been the end of it.
But look at all we've learned about the January 6th committee in just the last few weeks.
Oh, we just, all these files and documents, we can't find them.
How convenient.
Pretty amazing.
What else did we learn?
The blockbuster testimony, I bet you if you tested almost everybody in the country, did Donald Trump on January 6th try to commandeer the vehicle that was driving him from the Secret Service agent?
They'd probably say yes.
But little do most people know is that the Secret Service agent driver testified before the J6 committee and said, no, he never tried to commandeer the vehicle.
And if he did, it would be virtually impossible considering there's a barrier between where he sits and where I sit.
Whoopsie-daisy, that narrative's dead.
And of course, the five people that I have played on Hannity that were in the room in the days leading up to January 6th, all on tape saying Donald Trump was making National Guard troops available.
And of course, then we have the Capitol Police Chief, Sund, who's been on this program.
He said the same thing.
He said originally he didn't think he needed it, but in the days leading up to January 6th, he saw actionable intelligence that said, yeah, we need extra help on standing by.
And all of that fell on deaf ears.
Nobody heard that much.
They didn't bring in Mr. Sund or the sergeant of arms or Nancy Pelosi or Chuck Schumer in charge of capital safety.
How convenient.
Pretty unbelievable.
All these cases are now really tainted.
But they want to have the trials this election year with just 224 days until election day.
They want that conviction badly.
They want a jail sentence put out there desperately because they think that's going to help Joe Biden.
Polls show it.
I just read the McLaughlin poll.
Andy McCarthy had a piece out today about Alvin Bragg's prosecution.
He's saying it's on a false premise.
Former New York Southern District, very prestigious.
Andy McCarthy is now accusing D.A. Bragg of, quote, falsifying his prosecution of Donald Trump.
He writes, we should think of Bragg as falsifying his prosecution, just as he accuses Trump of falsifying business records.
In the statement of facts that Alvin Bragg issued in connection with the Trump indictment, the DA camouflaged his intentions knowing that a plain spoken admission that he was trying to enforce federal law, even though responsible federal enforcement agencies that opted not to charge Mr. Trump would ignite a firestorm.
Tellingly, then he goes on, Bragg avoided specifying the statute.
We still don't really know.
To which his key witness, you know, Trump's former lawyer, Cohn, had pled guilty to a federal statute that the state prosecutor has no authority to enforce, according to Andy McCarthy, not a dumb guy.
Far more consequential than the attorney of the Trump organization at the time was the Justice Department's carefully considered action adopted not to prosecute Trump, the DOJ under Trump and Biden.
And the FEC investigated the 2016, quote, hush money payments, and they found and took no enforcement action.
Why?
Because A, the payment was not technically a campaign expenditure.
B, federal spending restrictions did not apply to Trump.
C, even assuming that Trump had a disclosure obligation, the lack of regulatory disclosure cannot possibly have influenced the outcome of that election since no disclosure would have been required prior to the election.
Well, the bottom line is, quote, the other crime that he maintains Trump was trying to conceal was a federal crime, a campaign crime, one that the feds themselves didn't believe he committed.
But don't worry, they had that go on in New York today, and that trial is supposed to be in April the 15th.
This is so dangerous for this country.
So dang.
And the left is salivating.
They just, they can't wait.
There will be seizure, Keith Ellison saying.
AOC we must get his property.
Wow.
Pretty amazing.
We got a lot of news as it relates to what's going on at the border.
We saw what happened last week: Joe Biden's unvetted illegal immigrants that rushed the National Guard of Texas.
Oh, now we've discovered that authorities confiscated knives and shanks from many of the illegal immigrants that were celebrating after they tried to push, after they pushed through the National Guard down in Texas.
Joe Biden has been aiding and abetting in all of this.
I mean, it's literally just granting, is that insurrection?
Because I'm sure the Democrats, if it was a Republican, that's their favorite word.
And then, of course, give an unsupervised release into the country.
Here's the biggest problem we have today.
What have I been warning you about?
Terror cells in the country.
We have people coming from Syria, Iran, from Egypt, Afghanistan, China, Russia, unvetted into the country.
Well, now the U.S. Board of Patrol chief says that the southern border is a national security threat.
What have I been saying?
A clear and present danger.
He cited 140,000 illegal immigrants that have evaded capture.
Uh-oh.
And here, you're going to love this.
You love your Senate Democrats?
You want to vote for them this time?
Okay, go right ahead in 224 days.
Every Senate Democrat voted against barring taxpayer funds to fly illegal immigrants to U.S. towns.
In other words, why bother going to the border?
Makes us look bad.
We'll just fly you in in the dark of the night straight from your country to ours.
It's insane.
It is insane.
This is all caused by the radicalism that is now in charge, known as the Biden administration.
I got to get to the issue.
I don't know what's going on with James Carville.
It kind of cracks me up a little bit.
Anyway, he actually, I think, was quoted, was it in Maureen Dowd's column?
I think it was.
Anyway, he offered up to Maureen Dowd over the weekend for the New York Times that there are too many preachy females now controlling the Democratic Party.
A suspicion of mine is that there are too many, quote, preachy females dominating the culture of his party.
They don't drink beer.
They don't watch football.
They don't eat hamburgers.
This is not good for you.
The message is too feminine.
Everything you're doing is destroying the planet.
You've got to eat your peas.
I mean, he's not pulling punches here.
These are the people that want to force an EV into your driveway, take away your gas stoves, take away your refrigerator, take away your air conditioner.
I mean, what else do you want?
And take away your right to eat meat.
If you listen to Democratic elites, Carville said, NPR is my go-to place for that.
The whole talk is about how women and women of color are going to decide this election.
I'm like, well, 48% of people that vote are males.
And do you mind if they have some consideration?
Uh-oh, he's going to be in hot water with the woke police here.
I may have to come to James's defense.
I've actually debated him.
He's a fun, fun guy, and he's not dumb.
I'll tell you that he's not dumb.
When it comes to Biden's low approval ratings, he said, when I look at those polling numbers, it's like walking in on your grandma naked.
You can't get the image out of your mind.
I can't help it.
Is that a little funny?
Oh, he's on TV tonight.
My favorite senator of all time, Senator John Kennedy, Louisiana.
He just destroyed this Olympic skier.
Some guy named Gus Schumacher after the Democrats invited him to testify as an expert witness on climate change.
Anyway, he struggled to answer basic questions.
You couldn't remember the fact that he had, at the time, put out posts or tweets at the time claiming the war on drugs was designed to jail black people, calling for the police to be abolished.
And the exchange continued with Schumacher insisting that carbon dioxide is a huge part of our atmosphere.
Yeah, Senator Kennedy then pointed out it accounts for 0.04%.
His answer, well, okay, but I didn't know.
I mean, you just can't make this up.
We'll have Senator Kennedy on tonight.
We'll show it to you.
Bill Maher is telling Democrats, you better move on from identity politics.
He's warning them.
He says it's not working.
He says, I do give an Adam ship about who wins the next election.
And outdated racial pandering is one reason Democrats lose elections when Schumer and Pelosi put on, you know, whatever.
I'm not sure exactly what he said here.
I can't read it.
I don't think it's earned them one vote.
I guess when they're talking about when they're playing, I guess, identity politics.
Then he continues.
A lot of what he says, I just can't actually say.
I mean, which makes him kind of real.
You know the people that stuck up for Bill Maher when politically incorrect was being taken off the air?
It was conservatives.
People like me.
And I know he hates conservatives like me.
I don't care.
I believe in his right to free speech.
He's actually pretty independent thinking.
Anyway, what can I say here?
California doesn't just have amber alerts for our missing children.
We have ebony alerts for black children and feather alerts for Native American kids.
I just don't want to.
It's going to be on tape.
Hannity said this.
No, I'm quoting Bill Maher.
They're losing their minds at MSDNC.
The inmates are running the asylum and now throwing a hissy fit because they dared to hire an opposing viewpoint.
Oh, my gosh.
Ronna McDaniel, Liberal Joe, and Mika.
Now, Mika actually said, no, it's not that we're opposing different points of view.
No, they're opposing different points of view.
This is after Chucky Todd went nuts over the weekend.
I'll play both of this for you later.
We weren't asked our opinion of the hiring.
Joe Scarborough actually said that.
Liberal Joe.
Okay, I work at Fox News.
Nobody asked my opinion about hiring.
I'm the longest-running primetime cable news host in the history of cable news.
I know that makes me old.
Linda hates when I say that.
I mean, I didn't, when I started, I was the worst person on television.
If you bet that I would last this long, it was a bad bet.
I don't know why we can't play any of that old tape.
I actually think it's endearing.
Okay, it's not endearing.
It's awful.
My TV team wants to play it all the time, and my answer is a hard no.
I mean, honestly, when you drop the golden EIB mic, it's pretty funny.
Okay.
Can we not go back to that era tomorrow?
No, I know.
It's just, it shows that you've grown.
We've all, you know, listen, we all learn.
We evolved.
Well said, you're being such a wise assistant.
No, I'm not.
No, I'm not.
Oh, yes, you are.
You are being.
Oh, not it.
By the way, his voice goes up.
Not at all.
You have to make mistakes to learn and to rally and then to move on, right?
Okay, but can I move beyond what I did 28 years ago, please?
Well, no, because it's on video.
Because you're not going to let me.
You're right.
It's on video.
It's not up to me, brother.
That was your choice.
Get this.
We weren't asked our opinion of the hiring, but if we were, we'd have strongly objected to it for several reasons.
Let me tell you what Fox has never done.
I'm in my 28th year.
They don't ask my opinion.
I've offered my opinion.
Chucky Todd just lectures his bosses.
Here's what now happened.
Rana can't go on MSDNC, which I actually texted to her.
I said, well, that's a blessing.
I mean, who the hell wants to go on with those lunatics anyway?
I mean, the biggest conspiracy theory channel in the history of mankind.
But I mean, if these people, let me tell you, life doesn't flow that way where I work.
It just doesn't.
I would never be that disrespectful.
Let me tell you what my job is.
My job is my hour.
My job is not to critique other hours.
I always want to help my colleagues and my network do well.
Of course.
I want to be a good fellow employee.
I want to be a good employee.
But this is madness.
And they're all like speaking out.
Well, I'm going to outdo Chuck Todd's outrage.
I'm going to get more outraged.
They must be losing their Adam Schiff today over there over the fact that Trump had a reprieve over the half a billion dollars.
You know, if, God forbid, Trump ever goes out of the news for whatever reason, at whatever date, they're going to go through massive withdrawal.
They're going to have to be sent to Trump rehab.
We're going to have the need for therapy and emotional comfort and comfort little animals and furry little stuffed animals are going to have to be bought for these former MSDNC people.
All right, well, we come back.
We've got Greg Jarrett analyzing the decision by the court in New York today.
Not a small decision.
Now the half a billion has been reduced to $174 million.
The judgment against Trump, they have put a pause on it.
And we'll let you know more about the details.
John Solomon has some investigative news regarding why was Kevin, whatever his friend is out in California of Hunter, why did the CIA stop his interrogation?
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