Sean Hannity Show - RFK Endorses Trump - August 23rd, Hour 1

Aug. 24, 2024 - Sean Hannity Show

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RFK Endorses Trump - August 23rd, Hour 1

Robert Kennedy Jr. has suspended his Presidential campaign and endorsed President Trump. Sean reacts to the latest news and what it means for November. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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	And I can report to you today that the American people are not fully aware in any way, shape, manner, or form of how radical, how extreme, how dangerous the policies, stated policies in their own words of Kamala Harris and Tim Walls.
	And that's where I am telling all of you, the media, and and I'm gonna get to RFK in a second, because this is what I just watched is fascinating.
	And he's actually still going on, but it is it is fascinating.
	I just listened to a person that I that clearly has had an epiphany, and I'll explain what I mean by that in a in a minute.
	But then it is critical that we use the power of alternative media, social media, to get the word out.
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	This is an inflection point for the country that we love.
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	It is a shared passion.
	And it is now a moment of truth.
	And knowing the fact that the media will not play Kamala Harris's radicalism in her own words, or Tim Wall's radicalism in her own words, and that they will protect at all costs Walls and Harris and hide them in the basement, the equivalent of what they did for Joe in 2020, and try and carry her across the finish line by being as corrupt as they are and abusively biased as they are, is to be expected.
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	That's why you gotta overcome your reluctance, your resistance to voting early, and you just have to do it.
	It's it's interesting to watch, and we saw this out of Arizona yesterday that every challenge, legal challenge about voting integrity, seems to be going uh in in Trump's favor.
	Uh the latest at Arizona and proof of citizenship that came out of the Supreme Court yesterday, Amy Coney Barrett.
	I I I have no words for what her rationale on this, but I don't agree with every Supreme Court decision.
	Now, let me get to where um the news is just broken.
	He was about 30, he was about 40 minutes late.
	Uh it was scheduled for two o'clock Eastern, and it's now 10 after 3 Eastern.
	So I got to hear a good 20 plus minutes of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
	And what really struck me is it was the things that we talk about often on this program, the challenges that we conservatives face every day.
	He is he has he has become deeply familiar with and has fully experienced, and that is that we have institutions, powerful institutions in this country that are unfortunately powerful enough to prevent somebody like him from being heard.
	Um I don't agree with everything that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says uh in any way, shape, manner, or form, but I still did a town hall with him, and when Joe Biden wouldn't provide Secret Service uh uh protection for him, I I I I thought it was a national tragedy in the making.
	He lost his father, he lost his uncle because they were assassinated in this country.
	I actually had a great conversation yesterday.
	I ran into Martin uh Martin Luther King Jr.'s son, uh Martin Ling uh the third uh at the DNC last night.
	We had a great conversation.
	Really good we really there was so much we actually agreed on.
	And I told him when I was spent my years in Atlanta how I really got to understand these real civil rights leaders and how courageous they were, and and how I've developed relationships.
	I'll never forget the first day I was in Atlanta.
	I got a call from the mayor of the city of Atlanta at the time, Maynard Jackson, welcoming me to his city, and then was a regular guest on the program.
	And civil rights icons that would come on the program, especially guys like Joe Lowry, the S uh SELC, and and uh I even Andy Young would come on occasionally, and and guys like Hosea Williams would come on, and our old friend Tom Houck from years ago, who was very close to uh uh Martin Luther King Jr.
	And and when you think of you know what they had to face and how they did it peacefully and the impact that they had on society.
	I mean, it is, you know, could you imagine walking arm in arm and and and having you know people sick dogs on you and use fire hoses against you and brutalize you and put you in jail, hit like like Kennedy, his father was assassinated.
	I mean, it's unbelievable.
	It was beyond turbulent times in this country, but but they changed the country for the better, and they did it just out of sheer wool will and and courage and conviction and principle, a simple understanding that you know God created every man, woman, and child in this country.
	We talked about all this last night.
	We had a really really good, I felt a really good conversation, and and he said he'd come on the program.
	And I'm looking forward to that.
	But back to my point about Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has suspended his campaign.
	He's endorsed President Trump, but he went into great specificity explaining the obstacles that he and his campaign were facing, and they were facing it from the deep state, they were facing it from the Democratic Party, Democratic Party wanted nothing to do with.
	He's been a lifelong Democrat.
	He feels this party's become too radicalized, and he had different views that he thought they should be focusing on.
	And he wanted to get his message out.
	Do you realize that CNN was carrying his speech and they stopped carrying it in the middle of it?
	When, you know, because He dared to challenge the media and and how few interviews they were willing to give him.
	And MSDNC, they didn't even try.
	They just did what they always do.
	This is the big challenge President Trump was facing.
	And I just think he was it was very clear that he has a deep understanding of how how impactful and powerful these institutions are.
	Donald Trump is facing these same obstacles.
	The media will not play Kamala Harris and Tim Walls in their own words.
	That's why we're deputizing and asking all of you to help us bypass this corrupt, abusively biased media in this country.
	And that means to go on so go to on Hannity.com, get them in their own words, post it on social media, share it with your friends, neighbors, coworkers.
	Same with Tim Walls.
	Because otherwise, there's not going to be widespread knowledge of how radical, extreme, and dangerous these policies are.
	And they get away with it.
	They're the single biggest contributors to the Harris Walls campaign out there.
	It is technically an in-kind donation, but whatever.
	They're allowed to have their opinions, but they claim that they're journalists and they're not journalists.
	You know, he went into, you know, all of the specificity and details And then, you know, he summed it up.
	And these are things that I've actually said about him.
	I said he's mostly voted Democrat.
	He's had pretty, it has a lot of positions that I don't agree with, but he has been right on a number of issues.
	And one of them being the war about freedom of speech in this country and how corrupt the media is and a war on children in this country.
	Tim Walls is a poster child for this.
	Oh, gender affirming care, but you don't tell the your parents.
	Oh, let's put uh let's put feminine high feminine hygiene products in boys' bathrooms.
	What is going on here?
	He's been good on securing the border and immigration, and he's been very outspoken about the war and America's role and how it's been handled with Ukraine.
	By the way, if we're going to help Ukraine, and and nobody's going to convince me that Putin is anything other than evil, if you're going to do it, we can't afford to provide tens and hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayer money when we're running a 35 trillion dollar budget deficit,
	and America is potentially could elect a president that wants to destroy capitalism as we know it in this country and institute Marxism communism, because that was her economic plan yesterday.
	And you know, so he said, Yeah, I'm throwing my support behind Donald Trump with very three very specific reasons the war on freedom of speech, war on children, Ukrainian war.
	And I will say that a lot of conservatives, you know, in the end, you know, when everybody was was absolutely you know head over heels.
	Hannity, you must tell people to get the shot.
	Uh we need to know what your COVID status is.
	I probably would have shared it with you.
	I've never shared it publicly on this radio or my TV show program about any of these issues.
	I wasn't qualified to tell you what to do on those issues.
	Anyway, here's here's Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
	Oh, I want everyone to know that I am not terminating my campaign.
	I am simply suspending it and not ending it.
	My name will remain on the ballot in most states.
	If you live in a blue state, you can vote for me without harming or helping President Trump or vice president Harris.
	And Red States, the same will apply.
	I encourage you to vote for me.
	And if enough of you do vote for me, and neither of the major party candidates win 270 votes, which is quite possible.
	In fact, today our polling shows them tying it to 69 to 269.
	And I could conceivably still end up in the White House in a contingent election.
	But in about 10 battleground states, where my presence would be a spoiler.
	I'm going to remove my name.
	And I've already started that process And urge voters not to vote for me.
	It's with a sense of victory and not defeat that I'm suspending my campaign activities.
	Not only did we do the impossible by collecting a million signatures, we change the national political conversation forever.
	Chronic disease, free speech, government corruption, breaking our addiction to war, have moved to the center of politics.
	I can say to all who have worked so hard the last year and a half.
	Thank you for a job well done.
	Three great causes drove me down to this race in the first place, primarily.
	And these are the principal causes that persuaded me to leave the Democratic Democratic Party.
	And run as an independent.
	And now to throw my support to President Trump.
	The cause of the causes were free speech, a war in Ukraine, and the war on our children.
	And there it is.
	And I will add that he's been pretty good telling the Democrats we've got to secure our border.
	What are we doing here?
	This is a form of insanity.
	And it, you know, how this plays out.
	Um, I think it actually helps President Trump.
	And he is facing the same exact powerful institutions that aligned against him.
	51 former Intel officials that know nothing about Hunter Biden's laptop organized by Wink and Tony Blinken.
	Oh, if it gives Joe a talking point for the debate, sure we'll sign it, but we've never examined the laptop.
	We know nothing at all about the issue, but we'll lie to help to help Joe get elected because we hate Trump.
	I mean, that's basically this is what the whole DNC was all about.
	Hating Trump.
	They hope you hate Trump enough that you'll vote against your own best interests.
	And we'll get into that in more detail in a second.
	That's what you know, the deep state.
	You know, you literally using something they were warned not to use, a political document bought and paid for by Hillary Clinton to get four FISA warrants to spy on a candidate, a president, a president uh a transition team, Trump.
	Never mind the cover-up, no reasonable prosecutor would prosecute a weaponized department of justice and a corrupt media that is so abusively biased they won't even they they allow Kamala a free pass to hide in the basement or the equivalent thereof and not answer questions and not do interviews, and maybe that's a good strategy they're saying over at CNN.
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	Uh yeah, no, we're gonna get to people's call.
	I know a lot of people want to react to RFK statement, and we're gonna go though first.
	Donald Trump is in Nevada.
	And he's speaking.
	And let's uh tune in and hear what the president has to say in reaction to RFK's endorsement.
	And I'm just uh talking to Javier.
	You got thousands of people outside on the street.
	They want to get into your restaurant, Avia.
	We're gonna have to expand.
	You're right.
	You're right.
	And thank you very much.
	I want to thank everybody for being here.
	Uh, we just had a very nice uh endorsement from RFK Jr., Bobby.
	And I'll be talking about that.
	We're heading out right after this.
	We're gonna be going to Arizona.
	We'll be talking about that, and uh a lot of other things too.
	But I just want to thank everybody and I want to thank Bobby, that was very nice.
	I was really very that's big.
	He's a great guy, respected by everybody.
	So thank you all for this incredible uh welcome we're getting.
	And I'm gonna tell Javier the next time we do this together, he's gonna give me a little light up here.
	You know, can you give me a little light so you can read this a little speech?
	But you know what it does?
	It makes you speak a little bit less, and that's okay too.
	But I do want to thank you all, and uh I want to thank Javier.
	This is a fantastic restaurant, and the uh reputation is uh as good as it gets, as good as it gets.
	And I'm gonna come here next time to eat.
	Is that okay?
	Huh?
	I will be doing that too.
	Uh we have uh with us Lieutenant Governor Stavros Anthony, wherever Stavros said.
	Thank you very much, Savros.
	That's an honor.
	We'll see you soon, okay?
	Thank you.
	That's really an honor.
	Great guy, too.
	And Nevada GOP chairman, Michael McDonald.
	Michael.
	And he's very happy about the no tax on tips because he was the one, he was the first one that presented us after the young beautiful waitress that suggested.
	I said, What do you think of it, Michael?
	He said, I think it's a great idea.
	But uh we've come here today to talk about the biggest promise I think that the restaurant workers have had in a long time, and that's no tax on tips.
	And in our case, we mean it.
	Uh, somebody that I know just copied it, she's copied it, but you know that's not gonna happen.
	If you're a restaurant worker, a bartender, hospitality worker, a caddy, a barber, a mover, driver of any kind, or anyone else, you rely on a lot of tip income, hopefully a lot.
	But when I win in November, hopefully we're gonna win.
	We're gonna turn our country around, we're gonna make America great again.
	We are going to let you keep 100% of your tip income and not be harassed.
	And just so you understand, the uh other side.
	Kamala, have you ever heard of her?
	Kamala.
	Nobody ever heard of it before.
	She lost in the first round.
	She was the first one out in the It's a weird thing.
	He got 14 million votes, and he's sitting on a beach angry as hell.
	And she got no votes, and she's running.
	So you explained that to me.
	But the United States is home to an estimated 5.5 million workers whose livelihoods depend on TIP income.
	And uh they work with their hands and their talent, their sweat and their skill, and they are really skilled people, and they're great people.
	They're people that have been with me always, and I'm with them.
	I'm doing them a big favor.
	Nobody ever heard of this concept before, and it's something that makes a lot of sense.
	As soon as I heard it, I said, Let's do it.
	And then they copied us a couple of months later, but I don't think anybody's buying it.
	I don't think anybody's buying it.
	It's like last night the speech, she made uh 26 different things that were lies.
	She lied, but that's okay because a lot of people lie.
	They'll do anything to get elected.
	But she lied about, you know, she's increasing taxes, I'm decreasing taxes, and she put it the other way around.
	Perhaps she misspoke.
	Perhaps.
	Nearly two-thirds of the workers are women, and an estimated 700,000 single mothers nationwide rely on TIP income to support their children.
	These are some of the best and hardest working people in America.
	And when I'm president, you are the ones I will be fighting for, and I'll be fighting for you very hard every single day.
	Kamala Harris is now pretending to endorse my policy.
	She's got a lot of other policies.
	She's a copycat.
	She's a she's a flip-flopper.
	You know the flip.
	She's the greatest flip flopper in history.
	She went from she went from communism to capitalism in about uh two weeks.
	But in fact, Kamala cast the tie-breaking vote to hire 87,000 new IRS agents to go after your TIP income.
	They're going after it in a lot of ways, so I don't know what they're doing now.
	This has happened with a lot of industries where we come out with something, they immediately fold.
	But you know that after the election, if something horrible, horrible happened, which is always a possibility, uh, especially the way they cheat.
	But if something horri horrible happened, you know that she'd go right back and you'd never see anything about no tax on tips, you know that.
	Under Kamala and Crooked Joe, Biden, where is he?
	Where's Joe?
	What happened to Joe?
	He's on a beach someplace.
	He's angry.
	The IRS has imposed costly and burdensome new reporting requirements on restaurant and other employees, and these employers are great people.
	They're great people.
	They really uh work hard.
	Like Javier, they work very hard and they do an incredible job.
	And this is gonna make their life a little bit easier because frankly, for them it's a lot better too.
	When they have happy employees that are making a little more money and just do a better job.
	Uh people like Javier are very happy.
	He was happy to hear about this.
	Every restaurant owner is happy to hear about this.
	All right, we're gonna continue along the Sean Hannity Show Network to cover uh President uh Trump's uh press or slash speech.
	Uh and then it'll be uh having a rally with RFK Jr. there tonight.
	Uh I believe that is out in Arizona.
	We'll have uh full coverage of that nine Eastern tonight on Hannity.
	Uh I know a lot of you want to react to this.
	We'll get to a lot of your calls if you want to give us your thoughts, your observations, 800.
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	Now they're not going to be able to do that.
	We're going to get this done very fast, too, by the way.
	Kamala also.
	She also sponsored legislation to blow up the TIP system entirely, which would inflict financial calamity on food servers and bartenders in Las Vegas and all across America.
	Uh, you know, they have bills pending and things pending and resolutions pending and special orders pending.
	Uh, where they're going after your tips.
	I don't know what they're gonna do with that.
	Are they supposed to be dropping?
	I assume they're gonna be dropping all that stuff at least until after the election.
	They'll bring it back after the election.
	Kamala supports a bill to eliminate the federal tip credit, which would force restaurants to impose large service charges on diners, meaning customers will not leave tips at all, and uh you'll be stuck with a minimum wage or whatever you might be making.
	This is something that they're forcing.
	I will I will never let that happen under the Trump administration.
	You'll keep your tips and restaurant workers will keep all of your hard-earned money.
	I met this incredible young woman.
	She was standing behind the counter.
	I walked into a restaurant, whatever it may be.
	What was that restaurant?
	That Chick-fil-A, right?
	Very religious owner and a great guy, and it's good good stuff.
	And she saw me and she said, President Trump, and she gave me the biggest hug.
	She said, You saved my college.
	And uh, and she loved that college, right?
	and and you love me, and I love you too.
	I do, actually.
	I do actually.
	But was it was like instant chemistry, right?
	I thought of my way at work as brain.
	Yeah.
	They didn't know I was coming.
	You know, we do that surprise.
	I guess we do that for certain reasons, like security and things.
	We don't want to broadcast it too much.
	But I walked in and we just she grabbed me and I grabbed her, but I saved her college.
	That's the historically black colleges and universities.
	And she loved her college.
	She loved her college.
	She thought it was good.
	I said, Do you really like it?
	Was it good?
	What would go ahead?
	Give it a little purpose.
	I love the illustrious market.
	Do you see?
	And uh she really did.
	It was great to see that, as opposed to, oh, it was okay.
	She thought it was great.
	So I'll see you in a little while.
	Thank you, honey.
	Thank you very much for being here.
	We'll all be joined today by Nicole Williams, a mother of a six-year-old member of the culinary union and a bartender.
	Will we can we get the culinary union to maybe vote for Trump?
	Because you know, they're great people.
	They're always uh have a head of you know, like a Democrat the head, even if the Republicans are better, and a lot of the Republicans aren't better, but I'm a lot better, and I'm the one that got this thing done.
	And so if we could speak to the head guy, let him be nice and easy, just relax.
	We're going to win.
	The state is looking very good.
	We just got a poll, we're leading by a lot.
	But we want to get the culinary union.
	How many members of the culinary union are here?
	Oh, you have a lot.
	I can tell you you have a lot.
	But I think a lot of them, we had a poll done, and a lot of them are voting for us.
	I can tell you right now.
	But people that depend on tip income for our family.
	So, Nicole, if I could ask you to come up and say a few words.
	Hi, Nicole.
	Hi, please.
	Thank you, Bill.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	This is the honor of my life to be up here with my favorite president.
	And his no-tax on tips policy is going to help my family.
	It's going to bring immediate relief to my pocketbook and my seven kids.
	And all of you here who have children and families to take care of.
	This is gonna be a great thing for all of us.
	So let's get out and vote for President Trump.
	Let's win Nevada for President Trump.
	Let's get out there.
	Register all your friends and family.
	Tell everybody about this policy.
	Thank you.
	Thank you very much.
	Very nice.
	That's great.
	Thank you very much, Nicole.
	Thank you.
	I'll bet she does a great job too.
	You I'll bet you do a great job.
	I've done do you have any doubt about Nicole?
	I don't think so, right?
	You you love it, right?
	You love doing it.
	It's great.
	I can see it.
	Thank you very much.
	We're also uh have a little bit of a special announcement.
	Our host, Javier began in the restaurant business as a dishwasher, worked his way up to being a chef.
	Now he owns an entire family of Mexican restaurants in Las Vegas and a Las Vegas here.
	How many?
	How many restaurants?
	How many?
	Five.
	Five.
	This guy's got a lot of cash.
	That's fantastic.
	It's just a great story.
	We love the Hispanic people and the Hispanic people love us.
	We just he was just saying.
	He was just saying he's he's not a big fan of what's happening on the other side.
	They'll destroy our country.
	We'll end up in a depression like in 1929 if they get in with what they're proposing.
	Last month, Joe Biden stopped at one of Javier's restaurants to tout his support in the Latino community.
	And you know, Joe walked in, it's like it's like not the most.
	It wasn't too exciting when he walked in, Libby.
	He didn't know where the hell he was.
	What kind of a restaurant?
	Is this Italian?
	Is this he says, is this a French restaurant?
	Looks like a French restaurant.
	No, we have to focus on her because he's gone, so we'll focus on her.
	She's terrible.
	She's worse than he is.
	By the way, he's the worst president in the history of the United States.
	Jimmy Carter is very happy because he is considered to be a brilliant president by comparison.
	He's A very happy man, and she's considered to be the worst vice president in history.
	I don't know who the hell did that.
	If they do polls and they do studies, she's considered to be the worst vice president in history.
	Six weeks ago they were laughing at her.
	She was a joke.
	And now she got and now she got the nomination.
	She she didn't get any votes, but she got the nomination.
	Explain that one.
	But I understand that Javia has something he would like to say about that, and so I'll ask Javi to come up and say a couple of words.
	Thank you.
	About the meeting you had with Joe.
	Well, thank you for being here, President uh Donald Trump.
	Uh me and my family really uh appreciated you guys uh give us the opportunity to host this event so important.
	And uh I was telling uh them earlier before you got here that I came when uh Ronald Reagan was the president, and you know what?
	I really meet those time.
	So I need you to please make America great again.
	Thanks, Abby.
	Thank you.
	And we will.
	We will.
	You you got a good you got a good sample of my daughter over there.
	Yes.
	And uh she agrees with you a hundred percent.
	My daughter over there.
	It's a beautiful daughter.
	She she really thinks that you are pure than come up.
	Uh oh.
	Oh, I see.
	She agrees on that.
	Well, that's a good thing to agree on.
	That's very nice.
	Thank you very much, Sony.
	Appreciate it.
	Great job you're doing.
	So thank you to Javier to everybody under my leadership.
	Our Latino American community has prospered like as you know, and as he knows, prospered like never before.
	Yeah.
	And you know, we were winning, we won places.
	The governor of Texas called me.
	The last election, we won every border town along the border, and they're almost entirely Hispanic.
	And uh, we won all of them, we won the votes.
	First time they said since Reconstruction.
	So I said, when you say reconstruction, you know, that's a little complicated word in a sense because uh it means a lot of things to a lot of people.
	But I said that means civil war.
	Is that what you're referring to?
	That's right, since the civil war, that's never happened.
	And we did it twice.
	We did it in 16, and we did even better in 20.
	We actually did much better in 20 than we did in 16.
	But lots of strange things happen in life, right?
	But we're doing better now than either of those two is more spirit.
	I mean, you look at outside in the street, how many people are out there, and I only hope they stick around when I leave and they they come into your restaurant, you'll never be able to serve them.
	But uh just too many people, but you're gonna see.
	But Hispanic American household incomes hit an all-time high under the Trump administration.
	Hispanic American unemployment rate hit the lowest it's ever hit, lowest ever.
	Hispanic American poverty rate reached a record low, the lowest number ever.
	And by the way, it's now inched up very substantially.
	And yesterday, Javier, they they did something that was terrible.
	It was just found out.
	They reported that 818,000 jobs were here.
	All right, President Trump uh and uh him uh responding in part to the endorsement, RFK Jr.
	I I look, I know I'm I'm looking at my phone's blowing up here.
	Well, why don't we just take a half hour, get your reaction to all of this, and and then we'll move on.
	We got some other issues to get to, including Jim Jordan and and so much more.
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