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March 25, 2024 - Sean Hannity Show
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Seizing Trump - March 25th, Hour 2
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And hour two this Monday, this busy news Monday of the Sean Hannity Show, toll free.
Here's our number.
It is 800-941-SEAN if you want to be a part of the program in what was not really a surprise decision.
Frankly, I thought it would be even lower than this.
New York appeals court said they would pause the clock.
enforcing this insane $464 million judgment against former President Trump.
And the state appeals court said they said it would act if the Trump organization and top executives posted a $175 million bond within 10 days.
Kind of last minute.
Nobody knew what was going to happen.
I did have a pretty good idea in my head what I thought might happen, but it was just a guess on my part.
And Donald Trump responded both on Truth Social and here as well.
Listen.
Thank you very much.
Judge Ngoran has done a terrible disservice to the state of New York.
What he's done is terrible.
Business is a fleeing.
You see that?
He just released a statement on truth.
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 further went on to post on Truth Social that Judge Ngorn and the Attorney General should be forced to explain why they ruled Mar-a-Lago was worth $18 million.
This whole case was about valuations.
It is not worth $18 million.
We've shown you property on television.
A two-acre plot of oceanfront property in Palm Beach, empty dirt, goes for sale for $200 million.
Another lot with a street between the ocean and the plot or the lot.
That's going for $150 million.
This is just unbelievable.
We have some other news and updates we're going to get to as well, but let's bring into the program Fox News legal analyst Greg Jarrett and, of course, best-selling author John Solomon, editor-in-chief, founder, and investigative reporter, just thenews.com.
Welcome back, both of you, to the program.
On the legal side, not really a surprise that the appellate court jumped in here and the president clearly happy about that part.
I mean, a half a billion dollars is not cash that anybody has laying around.
I don't care how rich you are.
Greg Jarrett.
Yes, I said, Sean, this morning on Fox that I still had confidence in the appellate court to do the right thing, and it did by knocking down this obscenely high appeal bond to a more reasonable amount.
So I think this is a slap of the face to Judge Arthur Ngoron and Letitia James, who seem to have conspired together to manufacture a ludicrous fraud case against Trump where all the banks testify there was no fraud.
They commandeered a consumer protection statute where no consumers were harmed.
Not a single dollar was lost by anybody.
And yet Ngoran awarded this astronomical set of damages in a case where there were no damages.
So today's appellate ruling, I think, bodes poorly for Ngoron and James because it suggests the higher court will actually scrutinize what these two did.
And Trump, I think, has a decent chance of prevailing on the merits.
I agree with you.
And there was no complaint in here.
Nobody complained at all.
Nobody was hurt here.
No bank, John Solomon, no insurance company, John Saloma, are either going to lend or insure hundreds of millions of dollars in property based on a loan application that somebody makes or an insurance application that they may sign.
But we do need to note, because I do believe this is critical.
In every one of those applications put forward by the Trump organization, they had a disclaimer saying don't use our valuations.
But of course, those companies would have the fiduciary responsibility to do their own due diligence, especially with the amount of money we're talking about here.
And the last thing is if this whole case is about valuations, you explained to me how do you value Mar-a-Lago with 22 acres, historic property, pristine condition on both the ocean side of the island of Palm Beach and the inlet side of Palm Beach.
And I'm trying to really understand how did they get to this crazy conclusion?
You have multiple cottages on the property, 50 some-odd bedrooms and 40-some-odd bathrooms.
I mean, this is insane.
The reaction.
I think the numbers are pulled out of thin air to be whatever Leticia James and Judge N. Jeron wanted.
And I think that what you're seeing is the complete corruption of our justice system.
Instead of there being merits, instead of there being facts, instead of there being very specific legal interpretations, the law for Democrats in New York and many other places around this country has become whatever the Democratic whims of the prosecutor are.
And I think that that's what you're seeing play out here.
I think the appellate court, by reducing this so much, has sent a signal to the judge and also probably indicates that the penalty itself is going to be reduced in a significant way since Nomi the Bond is designed to protect whatever the court believes the final penalty is for.
So I think Greg had it right.
I think that there's a powerful message that the appeals court was setting here.
A lot more litigation ahead.
But I think in all these cases now, we're beginning to see prosecutors reined in because they've exceeded the bounds of law.
56%, John McLaughlin, McLaughlin, and associates in a national poll believe that Biden really wants to stop Trump from winning by putting him in jail or certainly getting a guilty conviction.
They think it would help.
67% say politics played a role in the indictments of Donald Trump.
58% said Biden played a role in the indictments of Donald Trump.
I mean, these numbers are staggering.
Do you think that has a political outcome, Greg Jarrett, that maybe nobody on the left is anticipating?
They've gone so overboard and they've so weaponized justice in the country that nobody trusts the system anymore.
Why should they?
Well, I think Democrats have been in a panic.
They look at Biden's poll numbers sinking to historic lows.
And so his Department of Justice and local Democrat prosecutors in two blue states, Bragg and Willis, determined that the only way to prop him up, prop Biden up in the 2024 election, was to tear down his opponent, Donald Trump.
So their scheme, I think, Sean, was to manipulate the legal system by bringing a slew of specious criminal charges to damage or delegitimize Trump's candidacy.
This is classic lawfare.
And, you know, don't forget, Joe Biden himself lobbied for the prosecution of his political opponent.
His Confederates, you know, went about weaponizing statutes, contorting the law to accomplish it.
And others tried to banish Trump from ballots by bastardizing this provision in the Constitution's 14th Amendment.
Media handmaidens happily joined the cause, declaring Trump guilty in the court of public opinion before any trial ever began.
So as I say, this is classic lawfear, and it's boomeranging against Democrats because Americans see this for what it is, election interference.
You know, we've had these issues involving, for example, the FBI and no reasonable prosecutor would prosecute and the double standard on the documents case in particular, especially if your last name is Clinton and Biden.
You can get away with pretty much everything, including deleting subpoenaed emails and destroying devices with hammers and removing SIM cards and top secret classified information on your servers.
And you're only the Secretary of State or Joe Biden, you know, eight separate locations that he had top secret classified documents that he willfully, according to Robert Hur, John Solomon, he willfully kept and retained these documents, telling a ghostwriter who didn't have any security clearance, oh, I just found some more documents this morning, meaning top secret, and let me read them to you.
No security clearance.
So it raises the question.
Then we had a story that I know that you covered at length on justthenews.com about, you know, why did the CIA interfere and stop Kevin Morris from going before the House committee and testifying?
How did that happen?
That is a really great question, right?
Here's a guy that since Joe Biden began running for president very contemporaneously has given more than $6 million of loans and painting purchases to Hunter Biden.
This is the single largest source of revenue that Hunter Biden has lived on over the last four or five years.
And the U.S. government wants to speak to him as part of the tax case, and the CIA intervened in extraordinary thing.
What is a Hollywood lawyer doing with the CIA?
Those are questions that Congress is now endeavoring to answer inside the impeachment inquiry.
But you see this time and time again, where whenever there is accountability to be had for Democrats, there are roadblocks and contortions and Jim Comey press conferences finding a way not to punish the Democrats.
And then, as you rightly pointed out, Donald Trump so much as spits on the sidewalk, and there's already a bunch of cops ready to cite him and start legal proceedings.
You've been talking since we started the unraveling of Russia Clusion, you, Greg, and I, that there's a dual system of justice, and now the American people are 100% certain of it.
One of the greatest liabilities that Democrats have, they think the American people are stupid.
They're going to find out in the November election.
They're not.
They have figured out what's going on.
I think there's just so much going on.
And then that raises the whole issue of all the other legal cases.
You know, we've got President Trump now has this case with Alvin Bragg, but apparently that now is running into obstacles as we learn today.
And although that trial is set to begin, I believe now April 15th, according to the judge in New York City, and like in the civil case, I don't think Donald Trump can get a fair trial in New York City.
I don't think he can get a fair trial in D.C., and certainly not Fulton County, Georgia.
You know, Fonnie Willis now seems to have doubled down on getting Trump because she seems very angry after all that she's been through and the quote warning that the train is coming.
How do you interpret those remarks, Greg Jarrett?
Well, as to Bragg, first and foremost, he still hasn't identified the underlying crime that Trump allegedly committed.
It cannot be campaign finance because that's federal.
A state prosecutor has no authority.
So Bragg is playing hide the crime.
Regardless, the payment to Stormy Daniels did not constitute an illegal campaign donation.
The FEC investigated and said, sorry, no crime here.
Federal prosecutors investigated.
They said the same thing, no crime here.
Mainly because payments in exchange for silence in an NDA are not criminal at all.
They're quite common.
But the biggest charade of all is that Bragg's star witness against Trump is Michael Cohen, a notorious liar who told so many whoppers he was convicted of perjury and shipped off to the Huscal.
It's irrelevant legally that Cohen voluntarily pled guilty to a campaign finance charge.
He pled guilty to a non-crime.
He did it to curry favor with prosecutors and shave time off his sentence.
So Bragg is taking a misdemeanor case and bootstrapping it to a mystery federal charge that doesn't actually exist.
As for Fannie Willis, she's a model of self-immolation.
I do not see her case gaining traction and getting to trial anytime before the election.
All right, we'll take a quick break.
We'll come back.
We'll continue.
Toll-free, our number is 800-941-Sean.
If you want to be a part of the program, more with Greg Jarrett and John Solomon on the other side as we continue.
All right, we continue now with Greg Jarrett and John Solomon.
A lot of news breaking all over the place today.
Let me go back to the CIA question, John Solomon, because you really did a deep dive into this.
Because House Republicans are pressing the CIA.
Why?
Because they have this whistleblower.
This whistleblower claims the agency helped cover up Hunter Biden's tax crimes.
Now, by the way, I thought we put great weight in whatever any hearsay whistleblower said, never mind the real whistleblower.
Are we getting any satisfactory answers at all on this?
And what do you think deep down this is all about?
If you can give us more details from your investigation.
Well, what we know is that the CIA told the IRS that the reasons that they didn't want the government to speak to Kevin Morris were classified.
That's all we know.
There's some classified matter involving Kevin Morris that the CIA intervened.
It's rare for the CIA to intervene in a law enforcement proceeding.
We'll have to wait and see what those classified reasons are.
I think the process has begun, but it is extraordinarily unusual to see this in a federal law enforcement case.
And it could be challenging.
One of the questions that comes to mind is, why didn't the Justice Department push harder back then in 2021?
What's a Hollywood lawyer who's paying Hunter Biden a lot of money?
What classified mission does he have?
Those are questions that maybe the Justice Department could have answered in the beginning.
But these are important revelations.
And again, I just want to remind people, just think about this.
If any other president in the history of this country had a son who first took millions and millions and millions of dollars from foreign actors with significant reputational and legal issues, and then when he got himself out of that game, he suddenly gets large donations from a Democratic donor to his father's campaign, Kevin Morris.
This cycle of living off other people is so extraordinary.
And yet the Biden family seems to want to suggest there's no there there.
I think most Americans think this is not what we do in America.
There's not a for-sale sign out in front of the White House.
Well, we really appreciate both of you.
John Solomon, JoostTheNews.com, Greg Jarrett, Fox News Legal Analyst.
Guys, thank you.
What a news day we got today, 800-941.
Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, obviously our top story is the appellate court in New York lowering the bond amount and granting Donald Trump a stay for 10 more days down to $175 million from over what was half a billion dollars.
We're watching that.
We have more chaos on the border yet again.
U.S. Border Patrol chief talking about the southern border, citing 140,000 illegal immigrants who have evaded capture.
What have I been warning?
I've been telling you, you got a complete meltdown and utter chaos at MSDNC.
I mean, part of this just makes me laugh.
The idea that you're going to let the inmates run the asylum is pretty interesting to me.
I've been on longer than any of these people, the longest running primetime host in cable news history.
I know that sounds odd.
Doesn't that sound odd, Linda?
Basically, isn't that an announcement?
Hannity, you're getting old.
No, that's not true.
You're seasoned.
It is.
You're seasoned.
It's like a fine wine.
I'm a seasoned professional.
There you go.
See?
But, you know, now in my 28th year at Fox, the idea that I would make hiring and firing decisions is insane to me.
And people ask me, I mean, have I advocated for people that I think would be really good to have on our team?
Yeah, I have.
Do I ever ask for people to get fired?
No, I've never done that.
That's not my job, which I don't believe in cancellation.
Anyone that's listened to the show knows I don't support boycotts.
I don't support firings and cancellations because of what people say.
I'm open to any point of view.
You know, look at something like the hit show of the five.
And they've got all sorts of viewpoints on that show, and it's a great show.
Anyway, so, but the hiring of Ronna McDaniel, you know, you just got to listen to this meltdown.
He melts down.
And let me just play one of his cuts.
This is what he says.
What does Ronna McDaniel bring to NBC News?
Not that I'm afraid to speak my mind, but I just, it's not my channel.
I don't get to program it.
I don't get to hire and fire.
That's not what my job is.
My job is my one hour every night to do the best show I can do.
And my job is also to my viewers to deliver news and information in as entertaining way as I can that I know they're not going to get from the rest of the mob and the media.
But Chuck Todd just goes scorched to earth on the management at NBC News.
And then Joe Scarborough of Mika follow up doing the same exact thing.
Liberal Joe.
What's happened to Liberal?
Can you analyze that?
What's happened to Liberal Joe?
I think Liberal Joe, I think he just wanted to be on TV.
So if he had to be a liberal at MSDNC, he's going to be a liberal.
He used to beg Fox constantly to hire him.
I have all those details.
don't you remember joe's real dream was to be a rock star Just, I mean, listen to that.
It just, it really, you know, it makes you wonder.
How could no one else hear that and think, yes, welcome to the monkey house?
It's amazing.
Yeah.
Okay.
Thanks for the happy Monday.
All right.
Here's the cut of Chuck Todd and the cut of Joe and Mika Brzezinski.
Although Mika says, oh, we're not against other opinions.
Yes, you are.
That's exactly what this is about.
They don't want another opinion on that network.
Listen.
When NBC made the decision to give her NBC News's credibility, you got to ask yourself, what does she bring NBC News?
And when we make deals like this, and I've been at this company a long time, you're doing it for access.
Access to audience.
Sometimes it's access to an individual.
And we can have a journalistic ethics debate about that.
To be clear, we believe NBC News should seek out conservative Republican voices to provide balance in their election coverage.
But it should be conservative Republicans, not a person who used her position of power to be an anti-democracy election denier.
And we hope NBC will reconsider its decision.
It goes without saying that she will not be a guest on Morning Joe in her capacity as a paid contributor.
All right, let's get to our busy phones.
So much news out there today.
Zan is in North Carolina on the Sean Hannity Show.
Zan, hi, how are you?
Happy Monday.
Glad you're with us.
Hey, Sean, thank you for taking my call, man.
And we really appreciate everything you're standing for and what you're doing.
And I'd like to start with saying that, you know, this administration is acting illegally, unconstitutionally, and it's disgusting and repulsive.
Absolutely.
The Constitution is shredded.
I mean, think about the Supreme Court decision on the student loan issue, the debt forgiveness issue.
And look at Joe Biden's reaction to it.
He just keeps out handed, he keeps handing out tens and hundreds of millions of dollars.
And he just does whatever the hell he wants.
We have laws their butts off.
Yeah, what about them?
The people that make this country great every day?
Yeah, the guy that's the plumber, the electrician, the contractor, the tile layer, the painter, the wallpaper hanger, the secretary.
I don't know if we just, I guess, personal assistant.
Is that the proper title these days?
I don't know.
But whoever, they don't need to, they didn't sign for that loan.
They're not on the hook for that loan.
But that's who ends up paying for it as they go out there and try to appeal to a constituency to support them electorally.
I mean, to me, there's no difference in saying, here, here's $100,000.
Please vote for me.
What's the difference?
I paid my student loan off.
I didn't like it, but I paid it off.
I made a commitment.
Anyway, go ahead.
I digress.
Shoham, what I would like to address is the subject of this illegal invasion of what's going on and how the federal government is not going to do anything about it.
They're aiding and abetting.
But it comes down to the municipalities and the states, which should have more power than the federal government anyway, constitutionally.
And it's just so simple.
Look, if a municipality says, hey, you get no commerce here.
You get no vehicles registered in this county.
You can't buy so much as a bottle of water or use a public restroom or public transportation unless you can show proof that you're here legally.
It's just that simple.
And then with that being said, let's do a comparison several months later of the amount of crime and just what's going on in this community as opposed to the sanctuary cities and states.
Well, I'm going to tell you, and I'll take it a step further.
Every Senate Democrat voted last week against barring your taxpayer funds from flying illegal immigrants into U.S. towns.
They are, as a matter of policy, they're trying to codify something they can never get passed legislatively into law.
That's what that bad Biden border bill was all about.
Oh, Donald Trump says, blame him for not passing it.
Yeah, because it didn't kick in until 5,000 illegals already entered on any given day, number one, and they're all unvetted.
And number two, they have the authority not to abide by the new law if they so choose.
They have, quote, discretion.
And that would be Biden, and that would be the Homeland Security Secretary.
I mean, you watch this weekend.
I mean, you know, what, we see a stampede of illegal immigrants, you know, you know, plowing, trampling right through National Guardsmen and then celebrating that they got across the country illegally.
Are we not listening to the U.S. Border Patrol chief who's saying that our southern border is a national security threat, citing 140,000 illegals who have evaded capture?
Have you not heard the admonitions of the FBI director?
The chatter about terror has never been this loud ever.
He said it twice now.
The last two times he's been on Capitol Hill.
Not been his biggest fan, but you're not wrong about this.
All right, let's get back to our busy, busy telephones here.
Let us say hi to Greg in Minnesota.
Greg, how are you?
Glad you called, sir.
Hi, Sean.
Greg Olson, how are you?
I'm good.
What's going on?
My idea is very simple.
This is about Kevin Morris.
I believe that Kevin Morris is actually employed by the CIA as a domestic spy of some sort and using the pipework or the conduit of Hunter Biden and government to investigate other countries through that pipework.
It's just kind of an oddball.
Let me tell you, it's the oddest thing I think I've ever seen.
I know that Jim Jordan and James Comer, you know, the idea that the CIA is preventing them from interviewing, you know, Hunter's sugar brother, as they call him.
Why?
And why is the CIA protecting him?
Is he an asset?
You don't have to tell me, but you certainly should be telling James Comer and Jim Jordan.
There's got to be a good, reasonable explanation put forward.
Otherwise, after all that we have seen, 51 former Intel people and, you know, no reasonable prosecutor would prosecute illegal FISA warrants, as far as I'm concerned, signed four separate ones based on a dirty Russian disinformation dossier.
A court was lied to, no consequences.
But, you know, what are you going to do?
Anyway, I appreciate the call.
800-941-Sean, Todd, California, next.
Sean Hannity Show.
What's going on, Todd?
How are you?
I'm good.
How are you, Sean?
Thank you for taking the call.
I kind of been watching you since you were with Hannity and Combs.
Well, I appreciate it.
Have I changed a whole lot?
I hope I got a little better.
You got a little more gray.
I don't know if it's gray or white.
I have no idea.
You know, people.
Somebody wrote something the other day about how I look, and I'm like, if you only knew that the amount of time I take to get ready in terms of makeup and hair for my show, it's probably about 40 seconds maximum on any one given day.
It's powder, a comb over, and boom, I'm out there.
Okay, here's my, I got a couple points.
One, I think half this country never really hears the truth.
They don't listen to Newsmax.
They don't listen to your show, and they don't watch Fox.
And I'm saying if we're slowly becoming a banana republic, here's my idea.
And the lies that they talk to people and they don't want to hear.
What I think we should do is the same thing they do in these other countries.
One, in all the barrios, all the inner cities, all the little neighborhoods, start a grassroot program, people with their cars and speakers, and you could put up bullet points on your show of all the good things Trump did, of all the good things he's going to do, and then just blare it out there so that each person can hear it in their neighborhoods and be able to really understand and think about it so that they can see.
I mean, when I think about Trump, I think about the guy that never had to do this.
He had a great life, and then he gave four years.
He's only one of three presidents that worked for free, Hoover and Kennedy, the other.
And the things that he did, the stronger military, right to try, the border.
I live in Southern California, and I've seen my state change.
And I just want you to know, Hannah, here's another point.
One, there's a lot of patriotic, good people in Southern California.
We have the ocean, we have the weather, and we have very few bugs.
Yeah, they have a couple of bugs in Florida that I don't like.
Apparently, some of them actually liked me one day, and I got bitten.
It wasn't pleasant.
Not the worst thing in the world.
I'm not complaining at all.
I love Florida.
It's great.
But I'll tell you, there's something happening in this country.
I don't know.
I can't even put my finger on it yet.
But there is a movement.
It kind of reminiscent in ways of the Tea Party movement in 2010.
I think people have had it.
They are fed up.
And I hope I'm right.
I hope my instincts are right.
Because if they're fed up, they're going to want to get rid of the status quo.
I know I'm fed up.
I know I cannot believe lawfare.
I cannot believe weaponization of our justice system.
I cannot believe aiding and abetting lawbreaking at our borders.
I cannot believe the biggest national security threat.
I cannot believe how bad this economy is, how awful Joe's energy policies have been.
I can't believe government's trying to force electric vehicles down our throat and take away our gas stoves, our refrigerator, and our air conditioners.
I can't believe that we've abdicated our role on the world stage.
I'm hoping in 224 days that all of that changes.
I'm hoping.
800-941-Sean, our number, if you want to be a part of the program.
I've been telling you about, frankly, an organization that's very near and dear to me, the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, between Chuck Schumer, Kamala Harris now has joined the chorus.
You better not go into Rafael.
There's going to be consequences.
Really?
They're victims of terrorists.
Why don't you stand against terror and Hamas?
I don't get it.
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