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April 24, 2024 - Sean Hannity Show
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Making Up Laws - April 23rd, Hour 1

Sean reviews the case against President Trump and outlines all of the ways in which the liberal left is weaponizing the justice department and is actually making up laws to prosecute President Trump. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I didn't think I'd be starting with Alec Baldwin today.
I'm not, I won't spend that much time on it, but I found this very, very interesting.
And I can't actually believe I never thought that they would come that I'm gonna actually support Alec Baldwin.
I've had my fights with him over the years.
Uh you know, Mr. Father of the Year, and you know, we had one, we had a couple of classic Twitter wars back in the day when I was on social media, which I'm not anymore.
And, you know, uh I'm gonna play this tape for you.
And he goes in to buy a cup of coffee, and there's an anti-Israeli agitator there who's just as demanding, just say it one time, Alec, one time, free Palestine.
Say it one time.
He's in a coffee shop.
Trying to get a cup of coffee, go home and be, you know, not bothering anybody.
This person will not stop harassing him.
You know, and the the individual, the actor, while he appeared to be on the phone, probably well, he really wasn't.
It was just a way to ignore the person, and at the cash register at the shop, and just this person relentlessly harassing this guy.
Alex, one time, just say free Palestine, one time, goes on and on and on.
Just one time, I'll leave you alone.
I'll leave you alone if you say it one time.
Then she blurts out F Israel, F Zionism, and then adds, why did you kill that lady, Alec, and and killed that lady and got no jail time?
Well, he has a trial in July in terms of uh the cinematographer, Hutchins, and it is while it's a felony, it is you know, involuntary homicide.
It's not, it's it's it's gonna be, you know, we'll see what happens.
But put all of that aside.
This lady's such a jackass, whoever this person is, harassing the hell out of the guy, which is you know, which I does any decent person act like this.
Let me play it for you.
Alec, can you please say free Palestine one time?
Why did you kill that lady?
You killed that lady and got no jail time.
No jail time, Alec.
No jail time, Alec.
You're putting innocent people in jail, Alec Baldwin.
Free Palestine, Alec, just one time, and I'll leave you alone.
I'll leave you alone.
I swear.
Just say free Palestine one time.
One time.
One time.
One time, Alec.
You know he's a criminal.
You know he's a f criminal.
Come on, Alec.
Just say free Palestine one time.
One time, just one time, please.
And I'll leave you alone.
Free Palestine.
Israel Zionism.
Please say it.
One time.
He just smacked the phone out of the lady's hand.
Yeah, you know what?
The worst part of this is, you know, in a screwed-up city like New York, he's gonna end up on the other end of this uh uh having to defend himself.
And that's how sick and twisted and bizarre our system of justice is in this country.
It's pretty unreal.
Um we have a lot of news today.
We have a lot of news over what's going on on the Trump trial.
We have a lot of news what's going on on college campuses.
And I will tell you it what we are witnessing on these college campuses ought to scare the living hell out of any decent American.
Uh, because what we're hearing is just I didn't think we'd ever be debating this in the course of doing this program when I started on radio years ago.
And as a result, you know, we hear the Death to America chance, we are Hamas chants, etc.
etc.
Columbia now, you know, meanwhile, the courtyard in Colombia has been taken over by a bunch of radicals.
They now have had to put their classes online.
You have a rabbi on campus saying that any Jewish student needs to needs to, you know, stay away from the campus.
It's not safe for them.
And then, of course, you got you know, beginning with the the Jewish holiday of Passover, one of the most important religious festivals in the Jewish calendar.
They celebrate the feast of Passover to Commemorate the liberation of the children of Israel who were led out of Egypt by Moses.
And anyway, just hours before the commencement of Passover, Joe Biden, you know, it it's it's sort of like, really, Joe?
Because he ends up, you know, talking about the pro Hamas protesters, lavishing praise on, you know, one of the squad members, which have their anti-Semitic wing.
Uh, in this case it was AOC, and the message from the Biden White House was, you know, about this well, I condemn the anti-Semitic protest.
I also condemn those who don't know don't understand what's going on with the Palestinians.
Now, hold on a second.
And a lot of people have rightly pointed out.
Oh, I thought that's what the left got all worked up about when they talked about this whole issue of Donald Trump and the issue of Charlottesville.
Now, if you look at the whole comment, I went back and looked at it.
You're you're changing history, you're changing culture, and you had people.
Now, listen to this part.
This is what Donald Trump, and remember the media.
Oh, he's praising the the neo-Nazis in Charlottesville.
He said, I'm not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally, but you had many people in that group other than the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, and the press has treated them absolutely early now in the other group.
Yeah, you in the other group you had some fine people, but you also had troublemakers, and you see them come back with a with their black outfits and with their helmets and their baseball bats, and you got a lot of bad people, a lot of bad people in that other group.
Oh, well, what's the difference with what Joe Biden is saying?
But of course, the mob, the media, oh, they won't see an analogy at all.
But now the kids at Columbia will have to finish their classes online.
The campus still remains pretty much under siege.
Uh, President Trump has weighed in on this and and he called it a total disgrace.
And he said it's really on Biden.
He's got the wrong signal, he's got the wrong tone, he's got the wrong words, he doesn't know who he's backing, and it's a complete mess.
If this were me, they'd be after me.
They'd be after me so much, but they're trying to give him a pass on what's going on, but and it's a disgrace to our country, and it's Biden's fault.
Because Biden has not had the moral clarity that a president that you would expect to have from a president on this.
I mean, Professor Dershowitz, you know, was on Hannity last night, and and he's he actually he said, Look, what I'm gonna say is very controversial.
This is more dangerous than January 6th.
He said, Because those didn't involve as many students, not as many elite people, not as many future leaders, and we are Hamas.
In other words, what we're rapists.
And think about this.
This is Joe Biden.
We uh have we really forgotten what happened on October the 7th, the murder, the rape, the beheadings, the kidnappings?
Have we really forgotten the biggest terror attack in Israel's history?
And now the Biden State Department is citing Israel with human rights abuses.
Well, what about the abuses?
The people that are responsible for all of this would be the terrorist group, Hamas that has in their charter the destruction of Israel.
And it's not just Columbia, it's not just NYU, it's not just MIT.
It's now Harvard, it's Yale, it's Berkeley.
It's happening all around the country.
You know, you have uh, you know, Obama, by the way, a Columbia alumni, is he's he's been silent.
We now learn the university has all of these tenured professors that are repulsive anti-Semites that celebrated the terrorist attack of October the 7th.
You know, it's one one House Democrat actually said he'd be worried to send his his children to Columbia after watching this.
We got more protests planned for NYU.
I actually went to MYU for a year.
We saw them protesting during Hannity last night, and and the radicals now are controlling these college campuses, and these presidents don't have the moral clarity to say no.
I mean, and think about this the college campuses that you can get expelled from If you use the wrong pronoun.
And colleges now can't they don't know what to do.
They're paralyzed by all of this.
Harvard, Yale, Columbia, MIT, Berkeley, and it keeps going on and on.
You had another story out today about a Jewish student at Columbia, you know, saying it these anti-Israeli protests snatched and burned his Israeli flag, struck him in the face with rocks during the unrest that took place over the weekend.
He was displaying the flag before 10 p.m.
You know, elite schools now or uh the New York Post had a column.
They're turning into Hamas University.
Anti-Semitism is running rampant.
You want to talk about a scary generational statistic?
You have nearly half of Generation Z voters are sympathetic towards the terrorist group Hamas, according to a summit.org RMG research survey.
Wow.
Do you think Israel's wealth and military power make it its campaign against Hamas unjust?
Well, most voters across the board believe Israel's campaign is just compared to 21% that believe it's unjust.
Only 42% of voters aged 18 to 24.
Well, these are Joe Biden voters that he's been losing in droves if he does a little bit of help.
It gives a little bit of help to Israel, which is the bare minimum.
You know, where is the president's moral compass to stand up against radical Islamic terrorist groups like Hamas?
I pointed out on TV last night since 2005, the tens and tens of thousands of rockets that have been fired from Gaza into Israel.
I've been there.
I've seen it.
I've been there during a flare-up.
I've seen it with my own eyes.
And now this is just running rampant, and none of these college professors have any idea how to deal with this.
It's not that hard.
You if you're going to enforce such strict uh woke regulations as as pronounced proper usage, and you're so politically correct, then you ought not be allowed to do this and take over the campus the way they've taken it over and chant, you know, we are Hamas and we support Hamas and all the hostility that are being brought towards Jewish students.
It's unbelievable.
But they still set up their tents.
They're now setting them up on other college campuses.
This is now growing out of control.
By the way, down in Florida, they didn't put up with this crap.
Yet all of this happening, you know, starting at the Golden Gate Bridge, Columbia University.
Now it's spreading like a cancer.
And what happened?
Ron DeSantis stopped it right in its right in its tracks.
You can stop it if you have the will to do it.
Robert Kraft, who I've known for many, many years, owner of the New England Patriots.
He was on Hannity last night.
And he literally says that he's going to stop donating to Columbia.
He's donated a fortune.
It was through a full academic scholarship, he wrote to Columbia that gave me that I was that I was able to attend in college and get my start in life, and I have I've been tremendously grateful.
However, the school I love so much, the one that welcomed me and provided me with so much opportunity is no longer an institution I recognize.
I'm deeply saddened at the virulent hate that continues to grow on campus and throughout our country.
I am no longer confident Columbia, its students and staff.
I'm not comfortable supporting the university until corrective action has been taken.
And then he says they hope they'll stay.
They're not standing up.
This is the problem.
You saw all of this unfolding last night, you know, with, you know, on the campus of New York University, and then the police had to, you know, arrest hundreds and kick people out.
Then during my my show at 9 Eastern, they were walking through the streets.
It was pretty unbelievable.
You know, the only two senators are Tim Scott and John Fetterman calling for the Columbia president to step down.
It's unbelievable.
But this is this is life in America.
Now we we don't have the moral clarity, and Joe Biden cares more about the votes that he lost in Hamas and uh I'm sorry, the votes that he lost in Michigan at a people rebelling against the support of Israel against Hamas, and he lost 18.9% of Democratic presidential primary voters.
And so now he's he's telling Israel, yeah, we support you, but we're not going to support you defending yourself against Iran firing missiles into your country.
Why?
Because he wants those radicals to vote for him.
That is the only reason he's doing it.
You know, he talks about the urgent concern over Israel and Gaza human rights and the State Department now attacking Israel.
Where are their statements against the terrorist group, Hamas for crying out loud?
It's repulsive.
All of it.
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And I'm Carol Markowitz.
We've been in political media for a long time.
Long enough to know that it's gotten, well, a little insane.
That's why we started normally a podcast for people who are over the hysteria and just want clarity.
We talk about the issues that actually matter to the country without panic, without yelling, and with a healthy dose of humor.
We don't take ourselves too seriously, but we do take the truth seriously.
So if you're into common sense, sanity, and some occasional SAS.
You're our kind of people.
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Back to New York and this sham of a trial with Donald Trump.
I mean, it's really insane, everything that I keep laying out to you.
It's insane that the judge in the case voted for, I'm sorry, donated it.
I'm sure he voted also, but donated to Joe Biden in 2020.
Then you've got the other conflict of interest involving a family member.
Then you have the issue of the statute of limitations have run out on what would otherwise be it's it's really all about a bookkeeping error and the fact that they said it was a business expense.
Uh and they went into a non-disclosure agreement, which for those of you that don't know, probably every big company in America has gone into numerous ones.
And it's it's basically often a financial calculation.
How much would I have to spend in legal fees?
How much do I pay to make an agreement with this person that has whatever whatever grievance they may have, whether it's legitimate or not, uh, they'll make a financial calculation to either do it or not do it, or maybe they did something wrong, and they just say, okay, let's settle this between ourselves, and they settle it.
They have a non-disclosure agreement, end of the day.
But you know, Jonathan Turley, and there's there's so many smart lawyers that have weighed in on this, and they're just right.
And he called this this trial an embarrassment.
He's a Democrat.
He's a pro professor, but he cares about the law.
And he said the fact that we're talking about this case being presented in a New York courtroom leaves me in utter disbelief.
The arguments in this case capture all of the problems here.
You had a misdemeanor under state law whose statute of limitations had run out.
This is a case that goes back to 2016.
They've had eight years to litigate this, but they never did.
And then they try to use a federal law, you know, going back this far, that doesn't exist, as he points out, and in in terms of election law, as a as a means of bringing these charges, which should never have been accepted by any judge that really cared about the rule of law and the truth.
This is the weaponization of our legal system.
This is What we've been telling you about.
And by the way, Turley then made a comparison that's applicable here.
Because if you remember Hillary Clinton, remember she paid for the steel dossier.
Remember how she paid for it?
She paid for it as a quote, legal expense.
Sound familiar?
And she hired a law firm, Perkins Cooey.
That was the legal expense that they claimed it was.
Perkins Couy hires op research firm, Fusion GPS.
Fusion GPS hires former MI6 official, Christopher Steele.
He puts together a series of documents.
They became known as the Steel Dossier.
You know, remember when when they funded the dossier, which they denied to reporters, they put it as a legal expense.
And they fought the eventual fine, but they received from the federal government saying, well, it was a legal expense.
Now you got the same Democrats supporting this bizarre theory against Donald Trump and the prosecution being led in part, by the way, by a guy who gave opening arguments who was actually the U.S. associate associate attorney general under Biden.
They brought in a Trump hater from the Biden administration who's leading opening arguments and maybe all the arguments for Alvin Bragg.
And anyway, he supports the accused.
Hey, this is coordinated.
The fact that most people in most courts would be like, whoo, you have a former Biden Justice Department attorney that left his position just to do this case for Alvin Bragg and get Donald Trump, and that somehow Trump orchestrated a criminal scheme to corrupt the 2016 election.
Well, people go into nondisclosure agreements for all sorts of reasons.
And if it has to do with what Stormy Daniels, who, though in writing, denied that she ever had an affair with Donald Trump and ever was paid hush money, just to put as an aside, you know, then maybe the real rationale or reason might have been, well, maybe I don't want my spouse to find out.
Not saying I agree with it.
I'm just saying that would be a motivation for many people.
You know, Andy McCarthy writing, why do we call this a hush money trial?
And he talked about the media democratic complex, they love salacious overtones.
That that, you know, connotes, you know, that is implied there, but if Trump robbed a bank or whatever, you know, it's, you know, we'd be talking about the crime.
The problem he writes is that the Democrats and the media mob elected progressive prosecutor Alvin Bragg, and is this is what they what they want to accuse Trump of in his words, is not a crime.
Yeah, sure, Bragg indicted Trump on business record falsification offense, a misdemeanor, had abusively tried to inflate into 34 felonies, which in and of itself is is beyond the pale.
They use all these opening arguments, oh, conspiracy to commit election fraud.
That's not what this case is about.
That's not what he's been charged with.
Four years, you know, telling the American people Trump is the most profound threat to our constitutional order, but Bragg's elaboration of Trump's supposed criminal scheme laid out in the statement of facts or so-called that he penned and published when the indictment was unsealed.
You know, it shows what he's accusing Trump of is not a criminal conspiracy.
And that is why Democrats and their their media mob allies have to say hush money trial.
Because that's not what they're alleging here.
They're not even alleging a conspiracy.
Everything they said in their opening remarks is not even part of the trial.
I like Greg Jarrett's take on this.
He called it, you know, hocus pocus.
It's a meaningless distraction or illusion that is intended to fool in this case the jury.
And the DA hopes to basically snooker this Manhattan jury into convicting the former president with a bag of legal trip tricks.
He says the first sleight of hand happened the moment the lead prosecutor addressed the jurors during opening comments on Monday, and the assistant DA, Biden's, you know, former number three official at the Justice Department that we know is weaponized, said this case is about a criminal conspiracy.
Well, then why wasn't Donald Trump as as Jared points out ever charged with a criminal conspiracy?
Because he wasn't.
He repeatedly accused the defendant of participating in a criminal conspiracy, conspiracy, conspiracy.
You know, it's not in the charges because there was no criminal conspiracy, but that didn't stop the prosecutor from deceiving the jury.
And, you know, he points out like a skilled magician, he hopes the pretense will fool them.
And then he slipped in another one.
And he points out, oh, he accused Trump of election fraud.
Oh, okay, that's what this case is about, election.
No, that's not what he's been charged with.
Ignoring the fact that the Federal Election Commission examined Trump's payments and determined there was no fraud because the money conferred did not qualify as a campaign donation.
Federal prosecutors who investigated this case reached the same conclusion.
Gavin Newsom, by the way, is saying you better you better watch it.
This overindulgence and your obsession with the Trump is going to backfire, less is more.
And then the Biden number three from the Justice Department uses pejorative terms to portray the Daniels, you know, cash as a nefarious case.
We're talking about 130,000.
And then this catch and kill device, you know, used by, I guess, a friend of Trump's from the National Inquirer.
You know, it's uh I hate to tell you, this happens in business all the time.
And the idea that Hillary Clinton did it, that doesn't bother anybody.
And the defense now is even having to defend themselves.
Even the New York Times pointed out that Bragg's case against Donald Trump is a historic mistake.
I can't even believe they allowed this op-ed to be written.
Anyway, it was written by this guy Sugarman.
He said that he was more concerned than ever about this unprecedented use of a state law.
And he pointed out in his essays of Boston University.
He pointed out in his essay the Boston University law professor, John Handelsman.
Well, Sugarman argued that Bragg was overreaching in his attempts to try a federal election crime under New York state law.
He said the Manhattan DA's allegation against Trump is vague since the prosecution failed to specify an election crime or a valid theory of fraud.
But yet they've pulled up what, 34 counts of falsifying business records?
It's actually one.
That's all it is.
And it's a misdemeanor whose statute of limitations had long passed.
Unbelievable.
Points out most of them were entered in in early 2017 before Trump filed his FEC report that summer.
And Trump may have foreseen an investigation into his campaign, and Trump may have falsely recorded the internal records before the FEC filing as quote part of the fraud.
However, a law professor noted that Bragg's filing in Monday's opening statements don't indicate prosecutors were following this approach.
They're just going off and just throwing out big words like election interference and conspiracy to defraud, none of which he's been charged with.
Alan Dershowitz, another, you know, respected law professor.
And he goes on to argue that this is one of the worst abuses of prosecution, prosecutorial discretion I've ever seen in 60 years.
He said it on Hannity last night of practicing law.
I've never seen a worse abuse of prosecutorial discretion ever.
And he goes on to just lay it out there.
Then they had this battle of, you know, the whether or not this gag order is legitimate and a fight between Trump's attorneys and the judge are losing credibility.
Well, why does everybody else involved in the case allowed to talk and give their opinions and Trump can't go out and defend himself?
Seems pretty straightforward.
If you're going to let one side talk, you got to let all sides talk.
There was no crime here.
They made it up.
They have to combine a non existent state misdemeanor beyond the statute of limitations, tied to a federal felony which was not prosecuted by the federal government that did look at it.
And all of this is just the way that I guess American justice works under a weaponized justice system of Merrick Garland and Joe Biden.
Well, Donald Trump put on truth social this and he put on truth social that.
American law is supposed to have a crime, Dershuit said.
And then you look for who committed it.
Not first decide who you want to prosecute and then rummage through the statute books to find some technical violation.
Unless they're continuing to do this, then it's going to spread and it's going to be a precedent of American justice that if you run for president, your opponent's going to try and find something on you.
That is the stuff of a banana republic.
That is not what the United States is supposed to stand for, and it's not.
But this is the world that we're living in.
This is the world of a weaponized justice system.
Wall Street Journal, you know, weighing in pretty much saying the same thing.
Derschwitz again, prosecutors are violating voters' rights with this trial.
And it just goes on and on and on.
And Donald Trump now has to spend the next month, six weeks in a courtroom while the field is wide open to Joe Biden to campaign any place, anytime he wants, and Trump's spending $76 million draining his funds to fight Biden in the campaign, which is only 195 days away.
Shockingly, Michael Avenatti said, yep, Trump's a victim of the of the system.
He said that in a Fox News interview.
That's pretty interesting to me, considering his position in this case or what it was in this case.
And it just goes on and on and on.
And this, if they have their way for the next 195 days, Donald Trump will be in a courtroom in New York.
He will be in a courtroom in D.C. He'll be in a courtroom in Fulton County, Georgia.
He'll be in a courtroom in Florida.
And then, oh, then we get to election day.
At what point does America, and the polls show that Americans see this?
At what point do you say enough is enough?
They can't, and I think Stephen A. Smith was really onto something.
They can't beat him.
They don't have confidence they can beat him.
So instead, they're going to try to weaponize the justice system.
Meanwhile, Joe Biden doesn't know what day of the week it is.
You can't make any of this stuff up.
It's pretty bad.
By the way, uh Biden apparently is pressing on with a visit to Syracuse after two cops were slain despite pushback from law enforcement who are grieving the loss of their fellow officers.
They don't want them to go.
By the way, Biden in big trouble because he implied his uncle was eaten by cannibals.
Now New Guinea's prime minister is furious.
I told you about that yesterday.
And uh, and now Morehouse College is gonna have Joe give their commencement exercise, and they're scared to death that Joe Biden's gonna bring with him a lot of uh protesters.
By the way, Biden tries to have it both ways, condemning the anti-Semitic protests on college campuses and people that don't understand the Palestinian situation.
Oh, sounds like uh oh, what the media hated about Donald Trump's uh Charlottesville comment in which he said, I'm not talking about the neo Nazis and white nationalists because they should be condemned.
He said that.
The media didn't report it.
But you had other people on the other side, other than the neo-Nazi white nationalists.
Then he went back to say, yeah, this other group of people, you had a lot of bad people in the other group, a lot of them.
But why why let details get in the way of a good lie, political lie?
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