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PA Still In Play - September 6th, Hour 2
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Hour two, Sean Hannity Show, toll-free.
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We have a lot coming up today.
And we are only 60 days away until Election Day.
We have early ballots going out to North Carolina today, Melon absentee ballots, 11 days voting in Pennsylvania.
And here we are on the eve of all of this.
A ton of news breaking between yesterday and today as it relates to the weaponization of our Justice Department.
But one bit of good news, I think it's good news, in my opinion.
I frankly think this entire New York trial should be vacated.
I mean, based on the Supreme Court decision involving immunity.
Anyway, Judge Mershon in this ruling said, cited the unique timeframe that this matter currently finds itself in and scheduled sentencing for November 26th.
He had previously planned to hand down Mr. Trump's punishment September 18th, only seven weeks before Election Day.
This is not a decision the court makes lightly, but the decision is in this is the court's view best advances the cause and the interests of justice.
Now, this is on top of the fact that, you know, in spite of what has been a long-standing DOJ policy not to bring political cases before elections, well, we saw this unfold in D.C. just yesterday, where in the D.C. case,
the judge is likely going to allow damning evidence, not in a trial, because the trial is not going to take place, in the D.C. case prior to an election, which would be very prejudicial towards Donald Trump.
And this is where we now find ourselves.
We have with us Attorney General Ashley Moody is with us.
And by the way, she's suing the Biden administration for documents proving the federal government is pushing criminal illegal immigrants and aliens out of prison and into our communities.
Alina Haba is the legal spokeswoman for President Trump.
Alina, let's start with you.
Let's start with Mershawn and today, and let's go back to yesterday and the judge in D.C. in the January 6th case that was just refiled.
Yeah.
Well, Sean, you know, obviously we think the judge made the first step, which was a right decision on the hush money, as we call it, case in New York.
But I agree with you completely.
Number one, this case, along with January 6th, should never have been brought.
Number two, we can't ignore the fact that these were all brought as election interference cases.
You just can't deny it because the timing doesn't make sense.
For us to be inundated, it makes actually perfect sense, let me be clear.
For us to be inundated, held up in courts as we have, only to now be 60 days out of an election.
They've had failed Jack Smith indictments that now he has had the opportunity to refile only because of delays, because of the amount of evidence that they had their hands in the cookie jar and mess up, okay, is so inappropriate.
That's on January 6th.
And that case, along with this hush money case in New York that we now have a sentencing delay on, should frankly be completely wiped out.
We're hearing rumblings of issues that if come out to be true from Congress, that there was authentic and donations made to authentic.
That is inappropriate.
Look, Sean, you and I have talked about this ad nauseum.
We cannot have a weaponized justice system.
The people need to believe that the DOJ is there to protect the American people, not to be political, not to be arms of the Democrat Party, or frankly, any party, the Republicans either.
And that is what we need to get our country back.
But what they're doing to President Trump in the middle of election and what they've done to this man for the last three and a half years to get him off the campaign trails, what they did taking Biden off, putting Kamala in, he is the most resilient person I have ever met in my life.
And if you ever have any doubt about somebody who can withstand any amount of trauma, any amount of attack, and take care of this country, I don't know how you could stand with anybody but Trump at this point, Sean.
Let me ask you, Attorney General Ashley Moody, I think this, if you look at this case and you juxtapose it with the Supreme Court decision on presidential immunity, that decision was very clear in this case that took place in New York.
As I said, it was a misdemeanor case whose statute of limitations had long since expired.
And Alvin Bragg comes up with this novel legal theory and a crazy left-wing political activist of a judge goes along with this.
And anyway, but evidence presented in that case was from the time when Donald Trump was president.
How do you not vacate that verdict in that case completely?
Well, look, exactly, right?
This was a well-documented judge who had ties to donations to Biden.
You describe him as an activist judge.
I would argue people could say the prosecutors were activists.
And what concerns me, I think, yes, having the sentencing delayed, I think that is great news.
But what's concerning to me is this decision on the motion to vacate conviction is going to be set right after the election.
And you know as well as I do that the media is going to continue to talk about all of this as it leads right up and through that election on November the 5th to hit that next gate.
And how can that be the case in a country where you have someone on the presidential ballot being the discussion of a conviction of 34 counts of convictions, which we will all call, and I know you've called them zombie charges.
So, you know, I think that it's good news that this was set off, but the fact that it's set off just after the election, you know that the media surrounding this motion to vacate conviction is going to draw everyone's attention back to all of this evidence that that judge let in, which as a former judge myself and a former federal prosecutor, I can tell you so much of that should have never come in.
And I think it's going to be argued that look at the witnesses they were calling, Hope Hicks, others, that were directly related to his official duties.
So how can you say so much of that evidence wasn't related to what's going to come under that immunity ruling by the Supreme Court?
And the fact, I'll go back to what Mazaba was saying.
The fact that we're discussing this right now, seven weeks out from election, shows that what they have planned all along is happening.
And while we're focusing on this stuff, these cases, the evidence that should have never come in in those trials, the charges that should have never been tried in court, they're talking, they're allowing their candidate to run around and make up lies and basically say what he said, what Trump said.
She's copying all of his policies.
And meanwhile, instead of talking about policies, we're having to, the campaign is having to respond to these allegations that have already been discussed in court.
And now we're having to go through motion practices and preparing for a sentencing.
It's unbelievable the state that we find ourselves as a country during this 2024 election.
There is not a legal scholar, Alina, that I don't know that doesn't see this being overturned on appeal.
And therein lies a huge problem: you can't appeal this until sentencing takes place.
And that would otherwise vindicate Donald Trump before the election.
So the lawfare, if you will, or the weaponization continues through the election.
That's problematic in and of itself.
It is.
The damage is done.
You're right.
Look, they controlled the narrative, and the radical left media definitely had their hand in this, in making sure that it was inundated with nothing but Trump legal issues, be it women, be it financial, be it their company, in an attempt to take him down.
So, yeah, you can't ignore what has happened for the last three years.
I will say, though, I think, Sean, and I know you'll agree with this, who else could be where he is after all these attacks?
It's impossible.
Nobody could withstand this.
The polls are unbelievable considering what he's withstood.
So, you know, I agree with you.
The damage is done.
But more importantly, the American taxpayers have had damage.
They've been paying for this nonsense through taxpayer dollars.
They've been funding these DAs and AGs.
They elected these people, and they said they were going to get Trump, and that's frankly exactly what they tried to do.
And now they've got mud on their face.
So I think what I would like to do as an American, as a mother, as a human being that is sick and tired of this, is get back to policy and let the American people see and talk about how the country was better under Trump.
Because this lawfare is such a distraction.
We all know what happened yesterday with Hunter, frankly, is just because he knows he's going to get a pardon.
I know that.
You know that.
It's a joke.
And to act like he's a martyr, that was another thing I never thought I'd see.
But, you know, they never cease to amaze me, this current administration, and it's a sad thing what they're doing.
It really is.
I'd be negligent if I didn't get into what you're doing down here in Florida, the free state of Florida.
And I have no idea why you're still in the Northeast, Alina, but, you know, that's your choice.
Everyone's free to live wherever they want.
You can pay all the taxes.
And what's that?
I am moving down to the free state of Florida, actually.
I don't blame you.
But Attorney General Moody, you did file a lawsuit against the Biden-Harris administration for their failure to produce public documents responsive to the Freedom of Information Act request filed by your office in March seeking documents regarding the administration's policies permitting the release of dangerous criminals into the U.S.
And following the release, they're released from U.S. prisons.
But it's even worse than that because FoxNews.com has been trying through the Freedom of Information Act to get details on the nationalities and backgrounds of people with terror ties that Harris and Biden have allowed into this country unvetted.
Absolutely.
And so much of this is being done without any knowledge by the American people.
When I tell folks that people that they have brought into our country specifically to prosecute and put behind bars because they are committing crimes against America, Harris and Biden have decided that instead of immediately deporting these criminals out of our U.S. prisons, they are just going to release them straight into our community.
That is the opposite of what every administration has ever done.
So it's not just that they're letting people on the terrorist watch list in, gang members, traffickers flood into our country over the border.
They're taking those that they have brought here and put into our prisons for criminal prosecutions.
And when their sentences is over, they're Saying, no longer are we going to send them home.
They're just going to live among us.
And you see how well that's working out in Colorado.
You're seeing how well that's working out in New York City.
In fact, Mayor Adams just said, look, we can't work with them.
We can't deport these people because the administration, even when we arrest them, they won't support them.
So when you have liberal mayors stating we're in a state of chaos and it's because we can't deport these people and they're not doing what they're required by law to do, you know we're in for a world of hurt.
And my biggest fear, and I'll go back to how we started this discussion, while we're sitting here talking about cases, while we're sitting here talking about presidential immunity and all of the conviction and all of the cases that have been sought and targeted against President Trump, we aren't highlighting this, exactly this, that they are allowing our country to rot from within and covering it with like a candy-coated sugar of Harris going around pretending all is well.
And that has to be the focus of this next seven weeks.
What do you want the country to look like?
And this is happening, and I will continue to fight to make sure the American people know it because it's affecting law enforcement.
It's affecting our community in Florida, and I know every state is feeling the same thing.
It really is.
All right, quick break.
We'll come back more on this ruling sentencing in the New York case now has been put on a delay post-election.
We'll continue with Alina Haba and also Ashley Moody, the Attorney General of Florida.
Attorney General, great state of Florida, my free state of Florida, Ashley Moody is with us, and Donald Trump's presidential legal spokesperson, Alina Haba, is with us.
Alina, let's talk about where we go from here.
And if Donald Trump wins this election, I have to imagine that all of this has to go away.
But am I wrong in my thinking?
No, you're not wrong in your thinking.
Obviously, the sentencing will be null and void.
And I think the judge acknowledges that.
I think that, you know, that's a good first step.
But yeah, no, these cases effectively are done.
We know Georgia's been done.
We know that they should never have been brought.
But yes, they would be completely void.
And, you know, it's what we shouldn't even have to do that.
But yeah, that's unfortunately what would happen.
Yeah.
What's your take?
Do you think this does have an impact on the American people?
Attorney General Moody, we'll give you the last word.
I think the fact that we have the Democratic candidate Harris running around telling people she's basically supporting all of the policies that Trump did during office that kept this nation safe and protected our people, I think that's indicative that she is trying to scan the American people and distract us with all of this other stuff so that people won't dig in and find out the truth.
But I'm telling you, we're committed to doing that.
I think Alina is committed to doing that, and I'm hoping we give it a final push-up into November to make that a reality so people know what they're voting for.
I think that's all very, very important.
We'll have a lot more on this on Hannity tonight, 9 Eastern on Fox.
We thank you, Alina Hava.
Thank you, Attorney General Ashley Moody.
We appreciate both of you being with us.
Thank you so much on this Friday.
Anyway, we proudly welcome back Tony Abou to the program.
And anyway, he's the executive director of VTA, Vapor Technology Association.
They're at the forefront of defending the vape industry.
And you might say, well, Hannity, why do you care about this?
Well, we've seen you on TV.
You vape.
I'm like, okay, guilty is charged.
Probably not the healthiest thing that I do in my life.
But you know what?
I do it.
So, or I chew Nicorette.
I do that too.
And I kind of go back and forth between the two.
And anyway, long story short, is I gave up smoking cigars many, many years ago.
I was smoking way too many of them.
And the same with when I was a kid, I smoked cigarettes when I was 11 and 12 in a restaurant.
It's ridiculous.
It was a different time.
My parents smoked.
My sisters at the time all smoked.
They ended up all giving it up, as did I.
I think I gave it up when I was 20.
It never was a big, I never really liked how to smell.
But, you know, I don't know why.
I like a very low, I use two different vapes, one that has no nicotine at all and one that has nicotine, just a very low 0.3%.
And, however, I believe in freedom.
And this is an ongoing discussion that we have had that the party of joy and the party of freedom would take away and tax you to death on the issue of choosing to vape or not vape.
I would not recommend smoking.
I would not recommend drinking in excess.
I, you know, for example, but I don't want my guns confiscated with a mandatory buyback.
That doesn't sound like freedom and joy.
You know, the price of democracy, Kamala calls high gas prices.
Not a lot of joy and freedom paying, you know, $1.50 more a gallon than I was paying under Donald Trump, not having my private health insurance, no joy, no freedom there either.
Freedom and joy, not to join a union if you don't want to.
You know, I'd like to have, for example, the right to own the car that I want, but I believe in freedom.
And I don't think car companies should be pressured to buy, to produce vehicles that their customers don't want and lose $4.5 billion in a single year like Ford did, which puts at risk high-paying career jobs for the people that work in the auto industry.
Those are great jobs for people.
And I don't want people messing with my dishwasher or my stove or my washing machine or the light bulb of my choice.
I notice Kamala now has flipped and flopped again and flailed on the issue of plastic straws.
I mean, is there anything she's not going to flip on?
You know, that's just in 40 days.
You know, she has flipped and flopped and flailed on nearly every major topic.
Oh, now we're being told that the woman that cast a tiebreaking vote on taxing tips for service workers that directly went after service workers and funded the IRS to do it.
Oh, no, no, no, I'm again, I'm for not taxing tips because Donald Trump is for that.
The person responsible for the EV mandate in 2019 or say, oh, no, no, no, I don't want an EV mandate.
The person that says it's the price of democracy to pay high energy prices and says she would ban fracking and drilling.
Oh, I didn't really mean that.
I said it in 2020.
Well, she didn't say it in 2020.
She lied on CNN in that 16 and minute and 29 second interview.
She co-sponsored Medicare for all universal health care that would eliminate private insurance.
That's not freedom.
I'd like the freedom to live in safety and security and not have unvetted Harris Biden criminals and murderers and rapists and people who would territize into the country either.
He wants to decriminalize illegal immigration, give free housing, health care, and education.
I mentioned mandatory gun buybacks and all these other issues that she's flipped and flopped and flailed on.
I'm just getting tired of all of it.
Who is the real Kamala Harris?
We're dealing with a ghost who just hides.
We'll see her next week for 90 minutes.
I guess we should be so blessed.
Anyway, joining us now, our friend Tony Abouda is back.
And Tony, great to have you, sir.
How are you?
I'm doing really well, Sean.
Thanks for having me on the program.
I appreciate it very much.
You know, I'm not recommending anybody get nicotine patches and Nicorette gum or vaping or I'm not recommending any of that for anybody.
But there are zero nicotine vapes.
I have one that's a menthol.
It's actually very good.
But, you know, a lot of these, if I lived in New York, I wouldn't even be able to buy it there.
Right.
That's true.
Well, look, this administration is doing everything in its power to take away your freedom to vape and as well as every American's freedom to choose flavored vapes or any other flavored nicotine product that you know, I know, and the FDA knows is dramatically less harmful than smoking cigarettes.
What this really amounts to, Sean, is I view this as an attack on working people.
I mean, who are the people that smoke?
People with low incomes now, struggling from paycheck to paycheck, not people on Wall Street, people who work in the trades, not in Silicon Valley.
But this administration is literally ripping these vape products, which are the least expensive and the most effective smoking cessation tool, out of the hands of everyday, hardworking Americans.
And as you noted earlier, they're trying to tax them out of existence also.
I mean, shouldn't we want a tax on less harmful products to be lower than the taxes on cigarettes?
This is not about public health anymore.
This is about restricting personal freedoms and trying to convince Americans that they should quit everything, which isn't a realistic public policy, and it's not good for the people themselves.
Well, I mean, this is part of a pattern.
They claim that they're doing this all out of our best interest, but none of this is in our best interest, is it?
No, it's not.
I mean, Sean, the hypocrisy on nicotine goes beyond anything that you and I have seen in our lifetime.
The same people who are pushing legalized marijuana are the same people that are trying to ban flavored vapes and other nicotine products from the market.
By the way, how bizarre is that?
I mean, because especially marijuana, I mean, look, I know there are some people that use it and I guess can be functioning, high-performing, functioning adults, but that's not the average person that I've experienced in my life.
You know, a lot of people that I know can't, they end up wasting their lives away.
And it does lead, I have found it to be in my own personal experience, and there are mixed studies on it.
I don't want to get into a study versus study debate.
But in my view, it is a gateway drug.
And once you like getting high, you're going to keep getting high.
Well, there's no question that it has a psychoactive impact on the person that does impact kind of how they perform.
But nicotine, as you've experienced, is, by comparison, relatively benign.
But these, again, are the same people who are advocating for flavored cannabis gummies, but they refuse to even let adults choose a flavored vaping product, which can help them quit smoking.
They're also the same folks that are using taxpayer funds to give people tools such as free needles to continue using heroin, but they want to tax out of existence e-cigarettes, the tool that people are using to quit smoking.
None of this makes any sense.
And this is where Americans can smell hypocrisy very, very quickly.
And even with fentanyl, Sean, I mean, taxpayer-funded campaigns right in New York City telling people it's okay to use fentanyl as long as they use it safely.
But this administration's FDA has refused to tell Americans they should even try using an e-cigarette, and they have to quit everything altogether.
I mean, that's just not real policy.
It's not real science.
And it demonstrates a desire to get rid of all things that are related to nicotine.
They just don't.
You can get addicted to anything.
I mean, you know, there's an epidemic now that is emerging in the country that people don't talk about, and that is, you know, online betting.
I mean, you could literally be in a casino in your own home 24 hours a day for most people, depending on what the state law is, and it's most states.
You could be sports betting all day long, too.
I'm not against people doing it.
I believe in the liberty and freedom to do it, but it is leading to an epidemic of addiction that I don't think we're paying enough attention to.
Yeah, I think that's right.
And I think that the key here is when you think about where this discussion has gone.
In 2019, the FDA tried to convince President Trump to ban flavored e-cigarettes, saying that it would protect kids.
But he did something a lot smarter, if you remember.
He chose to raise the age to 21 to buy any tobacco product.
And since that decision, guess what?
Youth vaping in this country has plummeted.
In fact, the numbers just came out again yesterday.
Youth vaping year over year is down another 25% and down 71% since President Trump made that bold move when he was being told, oh, he has to get rid of flavored vaping.
We can't trust Americans in making the correct choice.
I mean, that's a huge victory and one that we were proud to be a part of.
But unfortunately, since he left office, the bureaucrats at FDA, they've revved up their banned e-cigarettes machinery and they're doing everything in their power to deny access in the marketplace.
And they're doing everything they can right now.
This is the scary part, to shut down the 13,000 small businesses that President Trump saved in 2019.
And the way they're doing it is even more concerning.
They're going into mom and pop shops, Sean, finding one flavored vape on the shelf and issuing a first-time fine of $20,000 on a small business.
I mean, the administration cannot pretend it's trying to bolster small businesses in this country when its agents are taking them down every day.
It really is amazing.
Well, we appreciate you talking about the issue of liberty and freedom from the Freedom and Joy Party that is anything but the Freedom and Joy Party.
But of course, you know, we can't question them because they won't do an interview, a gaggle, a press conference, anything.
They won't talk to anybody.
Tony Aboud, thank you, my friend.
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Mike in North Carolina.
By the way, ballots going out today in early voting ballots in North Carolina.
What's going on, Mike?
How are you?
Glad you called, sir.
Hey, Sean, thank you so much for taking my call.
Yes, North Carolina is kind of a fickle state.
We have Roy Cooper as a Democrat governor, and then we have a supermajority in the House that are Republicans.
Thank God, because if it wasn't for that, then we would be California here.
But my question is, is that we're getting ready.
They're getting ready to send out mail-in ballots here.
And I want to do what you've been preaching.
I'm a creature of habit.
I've always voted on the day of voting.
And how do I know, you know, if I do mail-in ballots, how do I know that my, you know, that I'm actually going to be counted?
Listen, I'm just going to tell you this.
And I know this is for many a tough pill to swallow, and I have been beaten up because of it.
But I'm going to reiterate my very strong position on this.
We cannot start out election day down hundreds of thousands of votes.
I'll give you a quick example.
You remember the George Santos race?
When I used to live in New York, that happened to be my district.
Okay.
In that race, he's out of Congress.
They have a runoff.
The Democrats bank their votes the day of the runoff.
It's hailing.
It's sleeting.
And it happens to be a district with a lot of older people, an older population.
They couldn't get to the polls at a time that would have worked for them.
That suppressed day of voting.
We don't know what's going to happen in these swing states on Election Day.
It's not the system I want, I believe.
But the only way we're going to change this system and get to paper ballots and proof of citizenship and voter ID and signature verification and chain of custody controls and updated voter rolls and partisan observers in every precinct in the country watching the voting all day and the vote counting all night is to win elections.
So it is my very, very strong opinion that we have to deal with the system we're stuck with, not and the one we have, not the one we wish we had.
And the only way to change it is to win.
And don't wait.
Vote and bank your vote.
Okay.
I guess my question, let me clarify.
I think my question is, is how do I know if I vote by mail that it's going to get to the right people?
Well, you could actually drop off your mail-in ballot to the, you know, to the location where your voting takes place usually.
Oh.
So that's one way you can do it.
But I would urge everybody in North Carolina.
North Carolina is a very close state.
And we're watching Georgia and North Carolina, two very pivotal states.
They are must-win states for Donald Trump.
And North Carolina will be a bellwether of how the night's going to go in just 60 days.
So please, I encourage everybody, vote early, embrace it.
And, you know, I think we'll do a lot better than you think.
That's my hope and prayer because if this is an inflection point for the country.
Anyway, I do appreciate you call, my friend.
Thank you.
I hope that answers a lot of people's questions.
And for those of you mad at me, I understand because I have the same suspicions you do.
I don't like it.
I want same-day voting, a national holiday, paper ballots.
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