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May 29, 2024 - Sean Hannity Show
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Predictions for Trump - May 28th, Hour 1
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All right, thank you, Scott Shannon, and thanks to all of you for being with us.
Happy Monday, if you want to call it that, 800.
That's a Tuesday, actually.
Uh, hope you had a great memorial day or very thanks to all of those people that sacrificed all so that we may live free.
Pretty amazing.
The the blood, the sacrifice that that so many gave for all of us.
No greater love hath any man, is there?
Uh when you think about it.
Um I will tell you, and before we get to the ins and outs of all that's been happening with closing arguments in this sham New York courtroom today, uh, let me just give you a quick headline as the defense has now, I'm sorry, with the prosecution has now begun their closing arguments.
I am I am completely stunned.
Absolutely stunned at the fact that the prosecution is spending so much time in efforts to to rehabilitate Cohn's disastrous testimony, and I think it just speaks volumes.
They sound desperate, and the same with Stormy Daniels.
They're trying to rehabilitate her image with the jury.
And I mean, to get to the point that there's so many lies that they even they realize that they have to rationalize, which is why the prosecution, this guy Steinglass was given the clothes for the prosecution, you know, then says, Oh, well, forget about Cohn.
There's a mountain of other evidence.
What other mountain of evidence?
And and w if so, why did you bring him on the stand to begin with?
I mean, it's pretty unbelievable.
He starts out by telling the jury the noise, you know, ignore tune out the noise, the side show of the defense.
Cohn is understandably angry because he he's the only one paying the price, understandably angry.
He's selling t shirts of Donald Trump in jail and admitting he will profit if in fact on the outcome of this case.
This is a convicted liar, admitted liar, proven liar, and also a thief on top of it.
And then to have to, you know, go into this long drawn out defense of of Michael Cohn, do you can't blame Cohn selling merchandise and making money on Donald Trump?
Well, it certainly goes to the heart of and the motives of of their star witness.
Of course, of course you can blame him for that.
It that he has an that he has a that he'll benefit from the outcome in this case.
And yeah, Stormy Daniels' story is messy.
I cannot believe how defensive they are.
And and this effort at rehabilitating them.
And anyway, Comb was was convicted of a crime that was at Trump's direction that immediately got an objection.
Rightly so.
Because there's no evidence that was brought forth in this trial that can that says any of that, just the opposite.
Regardless of what Comb may have testified at different points in this trial, at one point he had to acknowledge that he told many people in the press and elsewhere that he and he alone did this without informing Donald Trump.
And then the absurdity of of him writing Keith Schiller, Trump's security agent, and and saying that he's got this 14-year-old prankster where you help me with the prankster aligning with the phone call that he says is the phone call that Donald Trump that he informed Donald Trump about the Stormy Daniels deal.
That whole phone call was a minute and thirty-six seconds, and he had testified to that a week prior.
And then when it he admits that that was the phone call, he tries to save it by saying, Oh, I did both.
I talked about this the 14-year-old Starker, and I talked about Stormy Daniels that he went into excruciating detail with, so he said.
And this doesn't matter in this case.
And, you know, Cohn feels Trump did him dirty.
That's their best argument.
So that you want to justify away that the fact that this admitted convicted liar that is making money off of Donald Trump by selling t shirts and and merch with Donald Trump in jail.
I mean, this is how bad this got.
And then Cohn and Schiller, they know each other well.
They they spoke in a coded language, huh?
Okay, where did that conspiracy theory come from?
And you know, Donald Trump picked Cohn.
We didn't pick Michael Cohn.
Trump did.
Well, you picked him as your star witness, so you did pick Donald Trump, uh, pick Michael Cohn to go against Donald Trump.
And then says, well, if if Trump, if Cohn is such a liar, why didn't he go all the way and say that Trump slept with Stormy Daniels?
That's an easy one.
Because he'd been on record repeatedly saying the opposite.
That's probably why.
You know, Cohn was drawn to Trump like moth to a flame.
What does that have to do with anything about the veracity of their star witness and the testimony here?
And the prosecutor saying that they don't even well, we don't even need Cohn.
There's a ton of other evidence without them without listing the other evidence without them.
You know, this case is not about Cohn, but Cohn can connect the dots.
That's if you believe Cohn, whose testimony was impeached, and again, he's an admitted convicted liar, and even in this case, you know, many experts are pretty convinced he told multiple lies here.
I mean, it is it is unbelievable what has gone on in this courtroom.
But let me let me backtrack for a second as as all of this is unfolding here.
And I'm going to be very honest with you.
I'm not Pollyannish about things.
I have a duty to be honest with you, my audience.
And I I will follow through with that.
You know, I told you from the beginning of this trial that Donald Trump could not get a fair trial in New York.
I also mentioned D.C. or Fulton County, Georgia.
He can't.
This is, you know, nine out of ten people in New York in this venue are registered Democrats.
Okay, not exactly Trump friendly territory.
I think maybe he got 12% of the vote, I think, in 2020.
You know, you just go back to the beginning.
You have a judge is a Biden donor.
You have the judge's daughter and these allegations that, you know, she not allegations, she works with prominent Democrats and might actually benefit from the outcome of this case and fundraise off it.
Okay, that's a problem, too.
We never got to the bottom of.
We have a DA that ran on a platform to get Donald Trump.
We learned from Bob Costello that he spent an hour and a half on a Zoom call with the DA's lawyers explaining all the exculpatory evidence that he had that was purposely withheld from the indictment jury in this case.
That would be uh, excuse me, any prosecutor has a legal obligation to do so.
One of what will be many means of appeal for Trump should there be a conviction in this case.
The the judge, you know, look at the judge's actions towards the end of this case.
The judge basically is trying to put cinder flocks on the side of the prosecution and the scales of justice to bring this case back because it was such a disaster with all the testimony of their star witness and Stormy Daniels, and he allowed it to go on.
The judge won't allow the former FEC chair to actually go into great specificity and explain the law in a court of law by lawyers.
That no, no, no, no, that's my job.
Oh, okay.
He's been so fair up to this point.
And and the jury instructions will will be the you know, all but be a you know a judge's conviction based on the desperation that the judge has shown in the final days of this this whole trial, the sham trial.
But you got to remember a couple of facts here because they're very relevant.
Biden's weaponized Department of Justice, the FEC, the Southern District of New York, Bragg's predecessor, uh Cyrus Vance, and Bragg even himself didn't bring the case or want to bring the case.
Bragg was embarrassed into bringing the case after these two guys in this case, you know, left at a protest that because they wanted to get Donald Trump so bad.
But again, Bragg ran on a platform to get Trump.
You have a misdemeanor whose statute of limitations had long passed, and then the mystery novel legal theory that nobody even to this this day can explain that allows a city jurisdiction to upcharge to a federal felony crime.
Again, the statute of limitations had run out.
This star witness had admitted liar and and and convicted felon for lying.
Now a thief that comes out in this case.
Well, Trump signed the Trump said he knew everything that went on at the Trump organization.
He signed the checks.
Okay, if he knew everything, how come he didn't know Michael Cohn was stealing from him?
Add to that the fact that a non-disclosure agreement is not illegal.
Catch and kill is not illegal.
Stormy was allowed to drone on about you know irrelevant immaterial information's hellacious innuendo, allowed to discuss talking to dead people, and Costello, you know, ordered by a very angry judge who clears the courtroom in spectacular fashion because he rolled his eyes.
Oh my God, to think of it.
You know, he can't impeach their star witnesses' testimony, not in front of a jury, not in his courtroom, or expose the expo exculpatory evidence that was withheld from the grand jury.
Now there's so many reasons why any guilty verdict would be overturned on appeal.
But likely that would be post-election.
That's why Donald Trump keeps saying that, you know, the this is election interference.
I mean, hopefully there are people on that jury that will see all of this for what it is.
But beyond that, let me just start by saying this is a sad, sad day for this country.
This is a pathetic day for justice in America.
This is a really dangerous time for our constitutional republic.
You see the rule of law dying before your eyes.
Equal justice, equal application of our laws, you know, dissipating before our very eyes.
And I got to tell you something.
I think maybe the best thing then in closing that the defense did was rightly identify Michael Cohn, who they're desperately trying to rehabilitate in the prosecution's closing arguments and refer to him as the gloat, the greatest liar of all time.
Ouch.
I think the jury will remember that.
You know, the the only corroboration of Cohn's testimony in the crucial meeting would be this guy Weisselberg, Weissenberg is his name, who prosecutors could have immunized give immuniz uh they could have given him immunity in this case, and they could have called him.
The only reason they wouldn't call him is because they know he would have testified that Cohn lied about the meeting.
And at that point, after the disaster that was Cohn, they weren't going to make it any worse than it was.
Which is why, I mean, they are just they are just fixated on trying to rehabilitate and then just totally dismiss their own witnesses in this case.
I don't think I've ever seen a case like this in my life.
It's unbelievable.
It's uh, you know, trying to say in 2015 a meeting at Trump Tower was a subversion of democracy, and the judge is going to let that in as if it has any relevance in this case.
It does not.
Now, back to earlier in the day, Todd Blanch, you know, offering closing arguments for the defense and rightly just pointing out President Trump's innocent.
He didn't commit any crimes.
The DA did not meet the burden of proof.
That should be the end of it.
And here's the saddest part of all of this to me after talking to so many people that have been watching the case in the courtroom and their observations of the jury.
I mean, I'll refer to Matt Gates.
There's six to eight people on that jury, he thinks that would convict Donald Trump for killing Jimmy Hoffa.
Well, I don't like the odds in that case.
So I can't tell you what outcome to expect, but you better expect the worst in this case in this courtroom with this judge that is a Biden donor.
I mean, it's simple, basic common sense by New York law.
He should have recused himself.
He didn't recuse himself.
You know, as the as the defense pointed out, they they they should want more than Michael Cohn and demand more than the testimony of Keith Davidson, an attorney who was trying to, in their words, extort money.
He says the consequence is simple.
It's a not guilty verdict.
This case is about documents, and we seem to forget that part.
In other words, it's a paper case.
It's not about an encounter with Stormy Daniels 18 years ago that she repeatedly denied ever happened.
Including as late as January of twenty eighteen.
It's not even about a non disclosure agreement of eight years ago.
The charges are about whether or not Donald Trump had anything to do with payments to Cone on his personal accounting ledger, and the answer is the bookings were accurate.
There was no intent to defraud, and intent is part of the law.
Not that I think the judge will bring that up and make it as conspicuous for this jury as he should, and no conspiracy to influence the twenty sixteen election, and there's been no evidence to prove that there was.
Case closed, not guilty.
But you can't count on that.
I cannot emphasize how shocking this is at the desperation of the prosecution in this case.
I I mean that they are now trying to defend Cohn, and don't get me wrong, Cone made his bed.
A few jurors just shook their head at the prosecutor.
Uh I'm told by people in the courtroom jurors are yawning now, very in the weeds, hard to follow.
But how spectacular is this?
You have the closing arguments of the prosecuting pr prosecution admitting that Michael Cohn committed grand larcen larceny and they knew about it.
They didn't charge him with it.
Then justifying him selling merchandise, you can't blame him because he has only his this connection to sell.
He's portraying Cone like he's selling goods on the street to support his family.
What to live in Trump a Trump condo, and he's making what, four and a half million dollars between the podcast, the books, and the merch?
Really?
That's what they're saying?
Wow, I've never seen anything like this.
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I cannot get over that you have the prosecution for in this case, and we've just gone over all the reasons, you know, from the beginning how conflicted they were, and the judges conflicted in this case.
But then literally just, you know, dismissing Michael Cohn's admission, he stole from Donald Trump.
He could call it larceny, whatever term, legal term is is justified in this case.
But anyway, and then justifying him selling all this merchandise and saying you can't blame him.
You can't blame him.
If Donald Trump was responsible for this, would you blame him?
I mean, he's literally, you know, we're not talking about a guy that's living on the streets of New York.
He's living in a multimillion dollar Trump condo.
And he struggles, you know, what?
We made four and a half million dollars on his books and his podcast and his merch is the as the prosecution even admits, oh, there's nothing wrong with selling merchandise, you know, selling merchandise on Trump.
You can't blame him.
What do you mean you can't blame him?
And he has an outcome in this case.
He has a bias in this case.
That's why it's relevant.
You know, then he, of course, belittles his past perjury, and he says, you know, well, he has a little problem with taking responsibility.
That's your answer.
This is your means of rehabilitating the your star witness in this case.
This is what they're now offering, an excuse it's okay to lie to Congress, lie to a court, lie to your family, lie to your client based on what your own testimony said.
I mean, it's pretty unbelievable.
You know, let's just forget about the larceny and the perjury and the convictions and the admissions.
Let's just move straight to the convicting Trump.
And that we're going to use him as your star witness, but we don't need him.
There's a mountain of other evidence that they have yet to identify.
One thing Andy McCarthy pointed out is the DA in New York just made up a property right, supposedly vested in the pup voting public to politically damaging information about candidates.
And he said this is important on the intent to defraud because there's no fraud unless there's a deceptive scheme to deprive someone of some property right.
Well, that's Bragg making up his own version of federal campaign finance law in which any expense which is intended to influence the outcome of the election, no matter whether the expense would have existed independent of the campaign as a campaign expenditure that triggers the FEC.
Again, I go back.
The FEC didn't act on any allegations here.
They didn't find any wrongdoing, nor did Biden's weaponized DOJ, nor did the SDNY, nor did Bragg's predecessor and originally brag himself until he was embarrassed into bringing this case.
And then, of course, the third highest ranking Justice Department official under Biden brought in to argue this case.
Let's leave my prestigious position of the DOJ, and maybe that will result in me getting a promotion down the line.
Who knows?
But this is not the law.
And this is why Bradley Smith, former FEC chair, his testimony was crucial.
And of course, he was only going to be able to testify on a limited basis, but if he was free to testify on the law in a court of law being a, you know, it would put a whole different take on this case.
It's pretty amazing.
You know, or the prosecutor in this case stressing Cohn pled guilty to the crime committed at Trump's direction.
Okay, the defense objection was overruled.
Just like everything else this judge is trying to throw their way.
It's just the most unbelievable thing I've ever seen.
I mean, the judge in the final days, based on the disaster, You know, Donald Trump was trying to subvert democracy.
Well, they're attempting to subvert democracy here.
And that willing to make up, you know, new case law that doesn't exist and come up with a novel legal theory to do it.
You know, there are two things that he expects the jury must find relating to the documents.
The documents contain false entries that Trump acted with intent to defraud.
He said the records are not false.
They were labeled as a business expense.
He's correct.
There was no intent to defraud, nor is a catch and kill operation illegal, nor is an NDA illegal.
And unless you prove an intent to defraud is a whole host of reasons why somebody might sign an NDA.
One might be just be the sheer cost to one's family.
Let's start there, which is believable, and that again, the burden of proof is on the prosecution in the case.
You know, Blanche pulled out invoices and vouchers, you know, that, you know, create the voucher based on what they knew on the at the time, and he says the info on the checks was auto-inputted by the invoices and the vouchers.
Not a single invoice was ever sent to Donald Trump.
And there's no recollection that the invoices were staple to the checks at all, and it was the general practice of the Trump organization.
But there's no evidence that anybody ever brought forward in this case.
I can't tell you how many times I have my accountant sent me something to sign, and I'm like, okay, I'll sign it.
They just, you know, you count on people to do this.
Why do you think Weiselberg was never called in this case?
Because he would have contradicted everything Cohn said.
And that case would have been closed shut.
And the prosecution chose not to bring him.
You know, Blanche showed a 2017 May email from Cohn to Weiselberg.
He says the government wants the jury to believe in a conspiratorial agreement to falsify the records that Cohn was working for free.
But that contradicts a Cohn and his own testimony.
And McCone said that he did this of his own volition and told members of the press he did it of his own volition without the knowledge of Trump.
Blanche said that the email that you can see Cohn asked Weiselberg to call based on work Cohn was doing for Trump.
Blanch, you know, it's unbelievable.
And, you know, as earlier in this by the defense, the closing argument what Cohn told you on the witness stand is not true.
Blanch continued.
There's no evidence President Trump knew anything about this voucher system.
There's not been a shred of evidence presented.
Not a single word of it.
Then he discussed the DJT trust when Trump became POTUS, calling, you know, it you know, matters because initially he wanted to pay Cohn out of his trust, etc., etc., but Trump wasn't running the Trump organization at the time.
Remember, he had to give that up at the time.
It's unbelievable.
You know, it's uh it's really unbelievable.
Blanche then gets to the underlying, quote, so-called crime and laying out that a conspiracy to influence the election.
Well, that's true.
That's called trying to win an election.
It's not sufficient to find there was an intent to commit a crime in this case.
Jurors must find that there were unlawful means.
Actually said, I expect prosecutors will say that unlawful means means were established through either campaign finance violations, tax violations, or books or records violations.
Then he just tore apart the whole Stormy Daniels issue, says, you know, it was it was already published in 2011.
She had denied it multiple times.
How could it at that point influence the 2016 election?
What a great point.
It's unreal.
Blanche says Stormy went public because Larry Flint was willing to pair legal fees.
Blanche says the recording between Cohn and Davidson and Davidson calls the payment settlers remorse.
Blanche says Stormy was able to get out of the NDA, write a book, have a podcast.
He says it started out as extortion and ended very well for Stormy.
Blanche says Costello testified last week and said Cohn told him Trump did not know about the payment to Stormy.
Blanche said that this is another example of Cohn taking the stand and quote, lying his words.
He continues, I don't know how many lies or enough lies to reject Cohn's testimony.
You know, he's the gloat, the greatest liar of all time.
It was pretty devastating.
Then he did ten things that I thought were very effective.
He laid out ten reasons for reasonable doubt.
One, invoices created by Cohn, accurate, and Trump had no intent of defraud.
No evidence Trump knew the invoices were sent.
No evidence.
That's reasonable doubt.
Any testimony of Cohn is reasonable doubt, too.
We'll put that aside.
He says that February 14, 2017 vouchers, no evidence Trump saw anything.
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Thank you.
That the this person Tarasov who testified did with the vouchers.
Three, no evidence of intent, which is part of the law to defraud the 1099 issue.
Trump tweeted and submitted to Office of Government Ethics.
He ready he they didn't defraud it.
Four, no intent to unlawfully influence the 2016 election.
And he says he'll have to prove a conspiracy of unlawful means.
The Federal Election Campaign Act must willfully violate the FECA.
And that is no evidence of willfully violating that or tax laws.
Weisselberg says, you know, well, gross up.
No evidence of improper handling by Trump.
No evidence of falsifying business records.
No falsification of business records.
It was labeled as a legal expense.
No evidence that Donald Trump knew anything, which is key and critical to the paragraph that says you must show intent.
No evidence of an illegal effort to influence the 2016 election.
Well, okay, because uh how would you prove that when everybody knew about it 2011?
No evidence, you know, AMI would have, you know, the story that Trump had fathered this other child, which was completely false and debunked shows that you know when people make false allegations, oftentimes people pay for them.
That ought to make people sympathetic to people that you know are in that situation.
Stormy had already gone public.
McDougal didn't want the story to go public.
She wanted a career to continue.
That's where she made the deal with AMI.
Government made mistakes with presenting evidence.
Melania's texted Cohn asking him to call Trump, but no evidence of a phone call.
Text between Cohn and Schiller about the 14-year-old harassing him.
Cohn's phone sink, no evidence, you know, on the device used for sync or or wiping sinking.
How come how can you trust the recording between Cohn and Trump as reliable?
And by the way, they didn't hear the whole recording.
And then he ended with Michael Cohn is the human embodiment of reasonable doubt.
He'd lied to you repeatedly.
He is biased, he is motivated.
And then the president's attorney said the kind of witness you want is one to tell the truth.
Wow.
This is what's going on in a courtroom today.
But I go back to where I started.
And nothing in this trial.
Nothing.
You know, an expired crime.
Statute of limitations have run out.
The mysterious secondary crime, you know, and a lying witness who turns out to also be a thief.
I mean, that's that's that just sums it all up, which is why it's it's kind of shocking to hear it and see it, but they really don't have any choice but to try and rehabilitate the damage done by both Cohn and Stormy Daniels.
It really is.
And then I guess they'll go on with four hours of closing arguments from the prosecution.
But you do have this missing witness, and that being Weisselberg, which the prosecution didn't call because he would not confirm what Cohn said.
And that would have probably ended the case even for the moment.
And by the way, they rightly said this isn't about Trump.
And the jury promised they wouldn't make it about Trump.
Good luck with that part.
Unbelievable.
They're making up a fraud crime with no evidence.
That's what's been going on here.
Unbelievable.
You know, if you worry about, you know, equal justice, equal application of our laws.
Well, this is a sad day in the United States of America.
Regardless of the outcome.
You can't make the case that Donald Trump got a fair trial in New York.
Just like in the civil case, the Mar-a-Lagos were $18 million.
No, it's not.
It's worth closer to a billion.
And the judge stood by that, stands by that, and was able to get away with that.
How do you possibly get there?
You know, then the prosecutors defending Michael Cohn's phone records.
He's really defensive about Michael Cohn.
The call between David Pecker and Trump makes it impossible to claim that Cohn acted independently.
Where's the evidence to prove what happened in that?
Where is the evidence there?
Where's the mountain of evidence that they say exists beyond Michael Cohn?
Doesn't exist.
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All right, when we come back, uh, I know Greg Jarrett and Roger uh Severino and Leo 2.0 Torrell.
Uh you know, I'm sure they have a lot to say.
Everybody I've been watching is just like aghast at what has been happening.
The court is in a recess.
Uh, but we'll go through the day's events and try to get you up to speed on everything.
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