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May 22, 2024 - Sean Hannity Show
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The Drama of the Trial - May 21st, Hour 1

Sean covers the latest on the Trump trial including the various levels of drama that has turned our justice system into farce.  Weaponizing the legal system is, apparently, our future....See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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You know, the the just the fundamental unfairness.
Let me let me just sum up really quickly what's been happening in the courtroom is this case has been an unmitigated disaster for the prosecution for D.A. Bragg for the third highest ranking Biden Justice Department official that came over.
And now they they the judge is angry.
So the Trump team, they want to bring in experts.
They want to bring in Bradley Smith and Bob Costello.
Bradley Smith, FEC knows the law, which is at the heart of the argument of this novel legal theory that Bragg and Company came up with.
Even though the FEC looked at it, nah, said no violation.
Even though the weaponized Biden Justice Department looked at it, nah, no violation.
Uh, even though the Southern District of New York looked at it, nah, no violation.
Even after Cy Vance looked at all the possibilities, uh, Bragg's predecessor, nah, no violation.
Uh, and and this is where they've now taken this, because they they can't charge him with the misdemeanor because the statute of limitations have expired on all of this.
I mean, it's really just unbelievable how corrupt.
And the judge, you know, we have two experts they wanted to bring on.
One is about the law in a court of law, about the very specific law and the novel legal theory that the prosecution is bringing in this case, and they they don't even want to hear from the expert.
I mean, what why is that?
Because the judge now understands that this has been an unmitigated disaster for Alvin Bragg and the prosecution, and they're likely to lose.
So the only chance they have is to get an assist from the judge, the Biden donor conflicted judge that should have recused himself.
So that's where we now find ourselves.
So, you know, you've uh you had a few this thing ended, I guess, you know, Costello's testimony.
It just did it just didn't really have any germane possibility because the judge just insured that everything that he was gonna say that would have impeached the testimony of Michael Cohn was not allowed to be brought up in the case.
It's up pretty unreal.
So anyway, the jury gets dismissed, and and now they're haggling over uh uh final jury instructions, which is you know, the last place the judge is gonna screw up.
But the judge's conduct are you trying to stare me to clear the courtroom, clear the courtroom.
Well, because he's upset.
Why?
Because Bob Costello was going to impeach Michael Cohn's testimony like he did before Congress last week and talk about how Michael Cohn and Michael Cohn even admitted it on the stand himself yesterday, on top of admitting that he's a thief on top of a liar and every perjury or whatever else he was charged with a lie in a Congress and everything else he's been found or admitted to being guilty of.
It's pretty unbelievable.
But this is not justice in America.
This is a sad day for this country.
And so jury instructions will be key.
And the judge reverses his decision on an expanded definition of intent.
We'll stick with the regular definition of intent.
Yeah, they have to, even the prosecution admitted that intent is fundamental to the law because it's written into the law.
What have they proven here?
Yesterday, Michael Cohn just destroyed the case.
He destroyed it the Tuesday prior, a week ago.
But he destroyed it yesterday by saying, Oh, yeah, yeah, I told everybody that I did all of this on my own.
Okay.
Well, if you're saying that you did it all on your own, then Donald Trump had no involvement in this and no intent that could be proven anyway.
And then you couple that with the lie that he got caught in last Tuesday on this minute and thirty-six-second call that went to Keith Schiller, the security guy for Donald Trump, and in that call and and the text messages corroborating the time stamp on this, that he was calling Schiller about a 14-year-old kid that was prank calling him and he was upset about it, wanted his help with it.
So he calls Schiller's phone and then actually says, well, the that that was the call that he had identified the week earlier is the call where he told Trump about the whole Stormy Daniels deal.
Whoopsie Daisy.
I guess they didn't prepare him well enough.
Just like you gotta wonder, did Alvin Bragg know that he stole from the Trump organization?
Or did that just come out, whoops?
Didn't know that was coming.
But anyway, I mean, you got a guy from in from the start.
What would you expect?
2018 pled guilty to campaign finance violations, bank fraud, five counts of tax evasion.
2018 pled guilty to lying to the Senate Intelligence Committee, the House Intelligence Committee, as it relates to the Trump Tower Moscow deal.
You got a guy that, you know, admits that he's stealing, but yet admits that he's got he gains financially or as the benefit of gaining financially from this case and benefiting from this case.
And then we find out he made over four million dollars from his books and his podcasts and whatever other gifts maybe people are giving him on social media that apparently he's asking for as he spends every day trashing and talking about Donald Trump.
He's obsessed.
You know, Cohn admits that, oh, it's whoopsie daisy, sorry, stole money.
This is their star witness.
The only thing they have left at this point, and you gotta understand this, and this is the biggest problem for the defense at this point, is that the judge in this case is trying to throw a lifeline to the DA in the prosecution here, and he's doing it by not allowing them to put on a defense and put on a and allow the former attorney, and remember, you cohn did forego attorney climbing privilege.
He waived it.
That is saying that, you know, he asked him, what do you got on Donald Trump?
I'm not gonna go to jail.
That's when he said he was suicidal, supposedly.
Okay, so I'm not gonna go to jail.
Well, I know one way to get you out.
What can you give them about Donald Trump?
He didn't do anything wrong.
I can't give him anything.
Okay, then he went on to explain to anybody and everybody that would listen, including Bob Costello, that in fact he did the deal and didn't even tell Donald Trump about it.
Then you have the phone call where he supposedly discusses it with Donald Trump, and it's really a phone call about his own safety, but then he claimed, well, no, I actually did both things in a minute and 36 seconds.
He dealt with the issue of the prank caller, the 14-year-old, and he dealt with the issue of Stormy Daniels in a minute and 36 seconds.
And Todd Blanch just said, You're a liar.
If if Cohn doesn't get charged with perjury in this after this case, I'd be shocked.
It seems like he's not exactly telling the truth, does he?
But now merchants' rulings that have pretty much overwhelmingly favored the prosecution, the prosecution, only the prosecution culminating in this circus that he created yesterday.
I'm sure out of frustration and anger that this has not gone down the way that he planned and the way that he wanted as a Biden donor with uh allegations of family conflicts, who clearly should have recused himself in this case.
Now he's mad it's not going, so he's gonna take it out on a guy with with impeccable credentials like Bob Costello, really?
So they've he starts yelling, are you staring me down?
Clear the courtroom.
Clear the courtroom.
Are you kidding me?
This guy's lost his mind.
But this is now where they have to contend with all this because he's allowed the novel theory of the prosecution to go forward.
And I can tell you right now, as of today, if you were to survey anybody that's on that jury, they have no clue what they're alleging here.
They don't have a clue.
And he allowed all this irrelevant immaterial nonsense about talking to dead people, every salacious detail that Stormy Daniels could that could bring up and every dumb joke she told.
They bring up this whole nefarious practice of catch and kill, but David Pecker.
And meanwhile, none of it's illegal.
An NDA is not illegal, paying a lawyer and and using it as a as a legal expense for something that happened, you know, years and years ago that Stormy Daniels herself repeatedly denied ever happened until, of course, the money issue came into play.
And anyway, and then the money get paid.
Money gets paid.
You know, so what you're going to have here are, you know, I would expect it's pretty predictable as Judge Mershawn, Biden's big donor judge, is going to give jury instructions that are going to be the least favorable as humanly possible to help send a lifeline to the to the prosecution that showed no law was broken.
Never mind intent.
They can't even define what the law is.
The alleged campaign finance violations allowed Trump Cohn to try to implicate Trump.
However, you know, he repeatedly told everybody that Trump had no involvement in it.
How do you overcome that?
Jonathan Turley points out it's exactly what the Justice Department tried and failed to do in the case of John Edwards.
And, you know, after that failure, the Justice Department dropped this theory of hush money as a campaign contribution.
And after reviewing the Trump payments, not only did the Justice Department decline any charges, but the FEC did not even seek a civil fine.
And the judge, you know, orders, you know, become more and more inexplicable because he's he's fury.
He's furious about this.
Basically, you know, attacking uh Bob Costello and accusing Cohn of multiple acts of because he's basically saying that Cohn is not telling the truth.
He's impeaching the testimony of the star witness.
Costello's one of the most experienced lawyers in New York, a former prosecutor.
He's done this his whole life.
You know, and at one point he just says this is ridiculous, and he's like rolling his eyes.
Then the judge chastised and challenged him.
Are you staring me down clear the courtroom?
What are you talking about?
What is wrong with this guy?
He's not well.
Maybe he sees his invitations to all of New York society.
About to be, you know, that rug is about to be pulled out from underneath him.
These are unbelievable times that we're living in.
I will tell you this, and I've been saying it's a boomerang effect, and it's and it's absolutely positively backfiring.
You know, since this case has begun and this, you know, five plus weeks of this crap.
This is not equal justice under the law, equal application of our laws.
We did learn that Alvin Bragg withheld exculpatory evidence, Brady material, if you will, from uh the grand jury indict Donald Trump, whoopsie daisy.
Uh, he has a legal obligation to present that, and he was given all of that from Bob Costello.
So, of course, the judge had to save Bragg from that embarrassment.
Anyway, majority of the polling data shows that, you know, this is a political prosecution and that it has to stop.
You got over two-thirds of voters saying the politics played a role in all the indictments of Trump.
And you got 60% of voters saying Biden played a role in the indictments.
And 53% of all voters think Joe Biden really wants to stop Trump from winning by putting him in jail.
Most voters are angry.
They're worried.
68% of voters say the country is on the wrong track.
80% of undecided voters say we're on the wrong track.
57% of voters disapprove of Biden, the job he's doing as president.
81% of undecided voters disapprove of his job, uh, the job he's doing as president.
It's inflation, it's the economy.
It's it's the border, it's our place in the world, our standing in the world.
It's you know, Biden inflation.
I mean, it's a disaster.
You see, if you see a mass exodus of what has traditionally been the Democratic coalition, African Americans, you know, most Hispanics, 47%, 27% of African Americans say Bidenomics is bad.
55% of women are likely to say Bidenomics is bad.
That's why all they're gonna want to talk about is Abortion and demagogue that.
Let's see how well that works out for them.
I mean, I wish I could give you better news.
I've said from the beginning, and I'm not been wrong, and I'm not backing off this.
Donald Trump could not get a fair trial in New York.
He did not get a fair trial in New York.
Regardless of the outcome, I'd say the odds of a hung jury are pretty high.
I wouldn't bet on an acquittal, although they're absolutely should be.
They can't even identify the crime.
There's been no evidence of a crime.
There's no evidence of intent of a crime.
None of it.
This is the weaponization of our justice system by Joe Biden, his Democratic allies, and the Biden Department of Justice.
Pretty sad.
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All right, 25 to the top of the hour, 800, 941 Sean is a number of people asking me, oh, they just put it forward the Trump team, a motion to dismiss.
What do you think, Sean?
I'm like, there's not a chance in hell that's gonna happen.
Are we not?
Are you not watching this judge in this case?
Have you not been following the case?
Do you not know he's a Biden donor?
What about a director verdict?
No, it would be pretty much the same thing.
No, he's not.
He's not gonna do it.
He's trying to basically send a lifeline to the prosecution and DA Bragg and Joe's third highest ranking Justice Department official that's been brought in to prosecute his opponent in the selection.
Unreal.
I think the jury is gonna go along with this.
I stand by.
I don't think he can get a fair trial in New York, and I don't think he's gotten a fair trial in New York.
We'll have closing arguments next week.
They're arguing over that, and they're arguing over, you know, jury instructions.
You know, what is the definition of intent?
It's just unbelievable.
What is the intent and and whether or not you're trying to conceal a crime?
They haven't identified a crime, let alone presented evidence of a crime.
But this is, you know, this is what you're you're stuck with on the other side of the aisle.
Joe Biden's out campaigning hard for him.
And he talked about signing this very important law.
It's called the PAC and PAC ACALACT.
I think I made this up.
After I signed the PAC and PAC Act into law.
After I said the PAC and PAC and lacked act into law.
Did I get that right?
Let me just check again.
Let me close with this.
After I signed the PAC and PAC Act into law.
Mm-hmm.
Well, make my day, debate me.
Then he actually said this.
I say to every young man thinking of getting married.
Marry into a Family with five or more daughters.
Remember Creepy Joe sniffing the hair of young children.
You know why we don't show the video on TV?
Because it upsets the parents.
And by the way, if you think about it, it makes sense, right?
If it was your kid, would you really want that?
Sniffing their hair, putting their hands, making them rubbing their backs.
It's just creepy.
Linda, did you hear about this?
I say it every young man thinking of getting married, marrying to a family with five or more daughters.
Have you heard that one?
It's real special.
He's a very special man.
And he's struggling to read into Chi and the teleprompter.
Must be a day ending in why.
That was in the RNC research.
Anyway, he's traveling to New Hampshire to speak on veterans' law.
There was a poll out.
I'll get to that a little later.
Shows that uh Donald Trump is dead even in New Hampshire.
You think I'm making it up?
I don't make things up.
Claire McCaskill.
There's a level of panic from Democrats wondering why the polls are tied.
I'm still at the point when I walk into a grocery store, people come up to me, grab my hand and say, We're gonna be okay, aren't we?
He he won't win, will he?
You know, they won't let him back in the Oval Office, will they?
So I do think there is a level of panic out there because some people look at the facts and circumstances go, wait a minute.
How could this be tied?
Hey, Claire, it's not tied.
Trump is winning in the polls.
Look at this.
Democrats have all but owned the granite states four electoral college votes, winning seven of the past eight presidential contests.
But the latest New Hampshire journal uh poll that has come out finds Biden tied with Trump.
Actually, Trump has a slight lead, one tenth of a point.
Donald Trump 36.6%.
Joe Biden 36.5%.
RFK Jr., 14.6%.
That's interesting.
Am I taking it as a possible state that could open up?
I don't know.
Yeah, but you got the five daughters coming?
We'll play it.
And by the way, I say to every young man think of getting married, marrying a family of five or more daughters.
I did.
My wife's the oldest of five sisters.
You know why?
One of them was always love you.
Not the same one.
One of them is always be on your side.
That's the biggest advantage of marrying into five daughters.
So funny.
The presidential election were held today between Trump and Biden.
49% of Americans would vote with the former president.
43% would choose the incumbent.
Trump would also tie lead Biden 43 to 39 in a three-way race.
By the way, once conservatives and Republicans learn about Bobby Kennedy Jr., they're not going to vote for Bobby Kennedy Jr.
You know, it's um is a survey out that talks about the vice presidency.
And apparently Tim Scott came out on top.
He leads the field of possible vice presidential contenders, including uh Vivek Ramaswamy and Senator Marco Rubio.
I showed last night, Glinda.
Did you see on TV the beat down that she that he gave the the whoever that host is on on NBC's Meet the Press?
I haven't watched the Sunday program in years, except I get notes from you guys.
Anyway, yeah, I mean, the guys on Sunday, the Sunday news shows.
I mean, we watch them.
It's pretty rough.
I mean, in the last week between Elise Stefanic on FNC, what happened with Rubio, you know, and then we had somebody else who did something crazy.
I'm trying to think of who it was, but people are just not taking it, man.
They're pissed.
Rubio just destroyed the NBC hole.
What's her name?
And he was right.
Who knows?
Who cares?
What's the name?
Welker.
Welker.
But it's like, you know, who cares?
Anyway, Scott got 25% in the Harvard Harris poll.
Uh and Ramaswamy 23.
Rubio 22.
Stefanic 13.
Tulsi Gavard, by the way, Trump's uh Stephon uh Gabbard got 19%.
Christy Noam got 16%.
Interesting.
Uh these are just unbelievable times.
You know who I like, Sean?
Who?
I have a new person.
You want to know who it is?
I don't know if I want.
Do I really want you?
No, not really.
I don't think I can guess.
So I really like Don Don.
I like uh Congressman Byron Donald.
I like Donald's.
I don't I don't know if he's ready yet, but I think it's a good thing.
Oh, he's ready.
Right.
I think he's I know he won't I th I think he's planning to run for governor of Florida.
I guess there goes my chances of ever.
I guess there goes my chances of ever being the governor of Florida.
Oh my god, come on.
You don't want to be the governor.
Give me a break.
Why not?
At least people like me down here.
First of all.
They didn't like me in New York.
First of all, what?
First of all, I'm not leaving.
First of all, I'm under contract for many years.
I'm not going anywhere.
Putting that aside.
The amount of public events, handshaking, lunches, dinners, you can't stand.
Yes, you don't like that stuff.
Well, it's not it's not my ammo, but uh however, I do like meeting people.
That's different.
Every time we have we we have those events, I have to do radio, I have to do TV, then I have to do m private meet and greets, then I have to do a speech, and then I have to fly, you know, and then I have to fly somewhere else.
It's insane.
I th that is insane schedules that what that I'm going through.
It's almost like you're famous.
It's it's weird.
No, I mean, all right, wise ass.
Um but I don't mind doing it.
I just wish if I didn't have a day full of work, you know, surrounding it.
I mean, could you imagine being a presidential candidate and having to do a three-hour radio show, an hour TV show, and then then travel, meet people, give a speech.
That's that's and then have to meet with donors or something.
Forget it.
You can't do it.
And that's that is that it that is what our average travel has been like.
We're we're squeezing in everything, running from place to place and to place, and the only thing I care about in those moments is the only thing that would make me feel somewhat uh gives me some comfort, and that's food.
That's why whenever we we talk about a city, what do I talk about?
My favorite food in that city.
That is very true.
Very obsessed.
Well, Joe has other problems too.
He referred to the erectionist.
He made nine errors in his speech on Sunday, uh, to the uh NAACP.
Well, first he made the mistake at the very beginning.
Oh, you want me to play it?
Is that what you're saying?
We can play it.
But anyway, we have to cracking down on corporate landlords who keep rents down.
He's clearly unhinged.
Just listen to him.
He calls the erectionists who stormed Capitol Hill Patriots.
Donald Trump has said if he loses again in November, there will be quote bloodshed.
Our protection is a good thing.
Let me explain this to everybody before because you really can't even understand them.
His first mistake was when he told the story about Obama dispatching him to Detroit during the pandemic.
No wonder they don't want the Robert Herr tapes to come out and and for you to have a chance to see it.
That's when he said, was I still vice president in 2009?
So he says that Barack Obama dispatched him to Detroit during the pandemic.
However, Biden went to the Motor City to meet with representatives from an auto industry hit hard by recession.
So the White House had to cross out the word pandemic and put in the word recession.
Moments later, he told the NAACP was humbled to receive this organization.
They corrected that with the word award.
We're cracking down on corporate landlords who keep rents down.
That had to be changed also.
We're cracking down on corporate landlords that we're cracking down on corporate landlords to keep rents down.
Whoopsie Daisy.
Very different.
Unbelievable.
Another unfortunate sentence.
You know, describing those that took part in the Capitol riots as quote, erectionists.
Erectionists, I have so many thoughts in my head right now that if I uttered them, I'd have to be dealing with the aftermath of this crap.
And I'm getting sc I'm scheduled to have a couple of days off.
And I'm like, you know what?
I'm not gonna ruin my couple of days off.
How many times have I done that just before I go on vacation?
I'd say something stupid and I gotta deal with it on my vacation.
I'm not doing that today.
By the way, you know what?
That's a sign of progress, right, Linda?
What do I need to talk to me about saying things that are coming uh into my head and out of my mouth?
You know?
That's that you kidding, you're the worst of everybody.
By the way, can I just say one thing that you talked about earlier with you know Creepy Joe and the sniffing?
You know, and these parents that are outraged.
And I'm kind of with you on not playing everything on all the time.
I heard from a parent or parent, and it got back to me that they don't like that I played it.
And I'm like, I would never.
Wait, but can I tell you what I don't like?
What are you doing?
Why are you letting him sniff, rub, touch, grab your child?
What is wrong with these parents?
Let me stick up for the parents because they're not watching.
Please.
Because you're standing, they're standing in front of a vice president or president and they're looking, you know, when you first see a president for the first time in your life.
I remember when I fur first went to the Oval Office, Bush was president.
It's it's almost like you meet him and you're like, is this really him?
You know, it's sort of like if said president that you can't take your eyes off of is suddenly reaching around and trying to grab your daughter's chest, butt, waist, smelling her hair, whispering her ear, all this creepy crap that he does.
I'm telling you, if you really look at the tapes that I have, the parents are clueless.
They don't know what's happening at the time.
Then when they see it later, they're sh they're they're horrified.
Anyway, let me continue with his screw-ups.
Uh anyway, he said he was humbled to receive this organization.
He they had to correct that to a ward.
They're cracking down on corporate landlords who keep rents down.
They had to change that.
We're cracking down on corporate landlords to keep rents down.
You know, and then of course the erectionists, which is where we kind of got distracted.
Uh, let's see.
My favorite is President Trump, you know, was saying, quoted him as saying that there'd be bloodshed if he loses in November.
He said, No, it'd be a bloodbath.
By the way, a term that Joe Biden himself has used.
As was a moment where Biden mistakenly claimed to have saved millions of families, $800,000 a year in premiums.
They corrected that to $8,000 a year in premiums, which also is a lie and incorrect.
Top of millions, billions, millions, billions.
Another one this week.
I mean, you can't make this up.
It's scary.
You know, he told the White House gathering that an American hostage, still held by Hamas, which he has surrendered to as he surrendered to the war on terror, is here with us today.
He literally said this.
Attendees at a White House Jewish Heritage celebration.
Unbelievable.
Obama, my favorite, though.
I don't know.
I think Uncle Bozy being eaten by cannibals is my favorite, but Biden saying Obama ordered him to go to Detroit during the pandemic to help fix it.
Boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop boop.
On top of his failed immigration policies, the clear and present danger that is all these people he's allowing in from our top geopolitical foes.
Just is so bad.
It's so bad.
Scary.
As we roll along, 800-941-SHAWN.
Judge Jeanine Pirro at the top of the hour.
Later on, Matt Gaetz will check in with us today.
You'll meet a brave, believe it or not, chairman of one of these prestigious schools, Board of Regents, that actually stood up to the insane asylum, the inmates running the asylum.
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