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Um we are only a mere sixty days until election day.
Early uh mail in ballots are being sent out today in North Carolina, then in other states around the country as well, Delaware, etc.
11 days till early voting in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, where we were earlier this week, and we'll be next week for the debate.
That is on Tuesday with President Trump and Kamala Harris.
That'll be the longest she has spoken off the cuff in her life, maybe since the last time she debated, and that was what?
Against Mike Pence.
Uh one of the issues we haven't spent a lot of time talking about demographically.
One thing that Kamala Harris is now finding in all of the polls is that she is trailing fairly dramatically uh where Hillary Clinton was in 2016 and where Joe Biden was in 2020.
And demographically, when you look at the numbers, you see that she is trailing, you know, where they both were uh in a lot of cases by double digits, and um among very specific uh demographic groups, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, women, men, the only one she's one point up in, and that would be older people.
Uh and that means that she's not at this point in the campaign doing anywhere near as well as either Hillary or Joe Biden were doing at this point in the race when they were running.
And I know that surprises people because if you turn on any of the fake news, oh, this things are going great.
They're wonderful.
They're outstanding, they're amazing.
Um, I think one thing that people have learned about Donald Trump is if you look at his policy positions on the economy, you know, we've learned a lot, for example, about you know, a lot of the jobs that have come out, you know, millions of them are going to illegal immigrants, and that is taking jobs away from Americans.
We learned that when Donald Trump was president pre-COVID, he had set record after record after record low unemployment for African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, women in the workplace, African African American youth unemployment.
Those are things that that no other administration had ever accomplished before.
We saw what the what happened with the price of gasoline when we became energy independent for the first time in 75 years.
We saw what Donald Trump did for minorities with historically black colleges and universities, the largest financial commitment of any administration in the history of the country.
We also saw what he did with criminal justice reform.
Um to this day, I'm I'm still friends with and love Alice Marie Johnson.
Nobody can ever forget that moment when she came out of prison.
She was a one-time offender, and it was a drug offense, and she was going to spend the rest of her life in prison.
And this woman has such a good heart that she accepted her fate, and she spent her time in prison rather than being bitter, angry, or checked out.
She she used it to basically start a ministry to help a lot of the younger inmates in the prison and and help them to develop their lives and their faith and and skills that would prevent them from ever going back because they were getting out of there and she wasn't until Donald Trump came along.
And Donald Trump with criminal justice reform.
Well, that was promised by many Democrats.
They never did it.
Another case has to do with uh a good friend uh Charles Duke Tanner, and by the way, is a new book out, Duke Got Life and a Boxer's Fight for Freedom and One Last Shot at Redemption.
It's a powerful testimony to the strength of the human spirit and the quest for justice.
And anyway, he's a promising young boxer.
His life was shattered when he was sentenced to two life terms.
He didn't want to die behind bars.
Who would want who would want that?
And anyway, he had the world at his feet when he was twenty.
He was undefeated, a professional, nineteen and oh.
He was on the cusp of fulfilling his lifelong dream of becoming a world champion.
And then he was faced with the harsh reality of providing for his family.
He took a detour into the world of drug dealing.
And he was put in jail.
And it became a grueling sixteen-year battle against an unbeatable justice system that didn't give a rip about him.
Or did they not believe in in redemption or second chances?
Anyway, Charles Duke Tanner's back on the program.
How are you, my friend?
I'm doing great.
How are you doing today, sir?
Why don't you just tell us a little bit about that story?
I mean, you here you are, you're nineteen and oh.
I mean, you're on your way.
You know.
Mike Tyson, you know, watch out.
I mean, go back and look at some of the YouTube videos of Mike Tyson as he throughout his career knocking everybody out.
I mean, he was an amazing boxer, but so were you.
You were an amazing boxer.
You had this bright future.
And what happened?
How did you how did you make a wrong turn?
Well, first and foremost, you know, I'm always give my praise and glory to God, you know, because without him I wouldn't be here today.
Um I mean, I come from Gary Indiana.
It's it's no excuse for what I did, but we didn't we couldn't run to certain people and get loans and know how to get grants of these things.
We weren't brought up taught like that.
So, you know, the guys that were and that had money and that will help you that I knew was, you know, the the drug dealers or the robbers or things of that nature.
So I needed money to, you know, help support my family at the time because if I felt like everybody was on my shoulders and I needed to be successful in boxing, which was my dream to help take them out of that field in that community.
And so I went to the streets and and I started working for this guy, the Mexica guy, Urbe Solis, who ended up um getting in his own personal troubles, him and War Moore, who was like, you know, guys we looked up to who's both boxers and older than me, and then they start cooperating with the government and I refuse.
I wanted to accept my responsibility um for what I did, you know, without lying on other people to get a lesser amount of time and the the the justice.
So you basically are saying you would have gotten a better deal if you would have started ratting out other people and not taking responsibility for your actions.
I mean, that's what they wanted me to do, and I refused to do it.
And it pretty much said that my sister's transcript to judge that they gave you ample amount of time to help yourself.
And you chose not to.
That's why I'm giving you a double life sentence today.
Man, oh man, that must hit you like a ton of bricks.
I mean, but if you look at it, who do I got to tell them?
The boss is set set me up.
You know, you're supposed to go up the tree, not down the tree.
So they just I mean, but I mean, I'm not here for mercy on that, but my rest on the guidelines now for what will happen to a guy like me, I could get as low as five years.
You know, so where do these life sentences come from?
It makes no sense on this criminal justice system.
And um that's why I'm so thankful that President Trump signed off on the um first step back because it freed and helped over thirty thousand people as of today to be released home to their families.
So let me ask you for all those years, how many years total were you in prison?
What sixteen years?
Yes, I was over sixteen years.
Well what was that like waking up in prison every day?
I mean, I had to suck.
I mean, it sucked, but when you got uh when you got a vision and you know, um I had built a stronger relationship with God and I was, you know, my fight was to get home to my son who was two years old, who had the mindset that you receive and the book Duke Got Life.
Um, you know, he he got his own chapter in there where he explained what he went through so many other kids and um even parents would know how to deal with a situation and even mine was worse because it was said I was never coming home and federal custody life means you come home in a fine box.
So I just had to get up every morning before I put my feet down on the ground and say a prayer and say no matter what, I'm going home today, and I used to tell myself that every morning I'm going home today.
And I October 21st, 2020.
I said I was going home that morning and by five o'clock PM I was in the hotel.
Did you know you were going home that day or you're just praying you were going home that day?
I said I I w every morning I woke up since two thousand and ten.
I would tell myself after I pray, I'm going home today.
And that was just something that I always said.
Let me ask you this about prison though.
Prison is a tough place.
There are tough people in there.
There's a lot of fighting in there.
I mean, you you gotta fight to survive, but I gotta imagine your boxing skills probably kept you pretty safe and and protected you from any anybody challenging you, or if they did, God help 'em.
Am I guessing right?
No.
Um prison in a US P which is in um, you know, you start off where you got the camp, which is the lower level, then you got the low, then you got the medium, then you got the high.
I started off in the high.
I mean, it is you you see fights, but that's because they have to happen.
But most of the time people are stabbing you or you know, a bunch of other guys jumping on you together and stabbing you.
So they don't care about your boxing or whatever you got.
I mean, if it gotta go, it gotta go.
Um, I believe that my box show helped me with my discipline and my character as a person to make me mind my own business and you know, stay on my lane to where I was okay like that.
But it's false.
If if you go are you saying that if you go into prison and you mind your business and you just you just you know, keep your head down, that you'll probably be okay?
Or are there still bad people that would come after you?
No, it's gonna be people that's gonna try you, but I'm basically saying the character, your character is what makes you survive in there.
If you're the type of person that's, you know, you steal it, you be in other people's business.
You you talk up behind people back, stuff like that, uh, you know, those type of things uh get you dealt with quickly.
And you saw people get killed in prison?
I was a murder every year in the USP that I don't think.
The last murder that happened, it was in USP Macquarie in Kentucky.
The kid wasn't in the unit 30 minutes, and they pretty much tried to cut his head off.
He was stabbed seventy-two times.
Oh my gosh.
What what what changed your heart and how did this happen with Donald Trump and how did you receive you know how did you get this this opportunity to get out?
It's through prayers and um I got denied all my appeals have been denied, and then the Obama administration denied me clemency in 2016 when he left office.
So, you know, I was it was over with.
But um I made a vow to write the White House once a month.
I was in the same letter.
Um I had a dream.
God told me President Trump was the one that was gonna let me out.
So I focused and wrote them every m every month, and then I will also write um the different advocates that was fighting that was working with the presidents and the agencies.
And people like the Candy Foundation, Brittany Burnett, um, Alex Murray Johnson, all these people kept hearing like, who is this kid that you know got all this time for his first arrest, never been in trouble.
I took every program that the B.O.P. had my letter came across Brooke Rylance, who was working with the administration at that time, and she was just like, all the advocates are saying, look into this case, and she gave it to the president, and he read it for a fact, and um he came back, they said a week later and said that um, hey, I signed off on this kid, um, petition he needs to go home to his son.
That's what I did.
You ever talked to President Trump since then?
I actually got to meet him, me and my son in Marilago um November of last year, and he the first thing he's telling me how beautiful my son is and our teeth and that I got a hard um I got a hard sentence and he was just like this makes no sense because you know,
we came under the hundreds to one ratio uh crack cocaine and powder cocaine that don't doesn't exist, and there was so many men still sitting with life sentences and thirty years, and um he just said, I know you're gonna go out to be great things, but your son gonna be great.
And we smiled it off with Coach Lou Hose and we walked away and he tell me on the back of his head, continue to be a great father.
I know your son love you.
I remember the words like it was yesterday.
What an what an incredibly inspiring story.
All right, quick break, we'll come back uh more of our conversation with our good friend Charles Duke Tanner, his new book, Duke Got Life, a boxer's fight for freedom, and one last shot at redemption, Amazon.com, Hannity.com, bookstores around the country.
We continue now with Charles Duke Tanner, uh Duke Got Life is new book.
It's on Hannity.com, Amazon.com, bookstores around the country, a boxer's Fight for Freedom and One Last Shot at Redemption.
I hope people pay attention to this.
What do you say to the African American community that are always told Republicans and conservatives are racist and sexist and all these horrible things that they're not?
I don't think I'm a real dark-skinned man, and I'm think I'm black as I can be.
And President Trump could have said no to me if he was a racist or if the Republican Party, they didn't want to help so many people.
You know, different races based on that's what a racist is.
They're not dealing with none, but they're like I said the first step I bill alone.
Let go of a 30,000 people early.
I'm not saying all 30,000 was black.
Well, we had a big number and ever say maybe more than half.
So I will say that you gotta do your homework in the start off doing your homework, go to Amazon and order Duke Life.
Um highly recommend it.
It's great.
And and how much do we love Alice Marie Johnson?
Is she not the best or what?
Uh, that's my seat.
That's my mom, so I I think I want to adopt her as my mom.
I love her so much.
Uh Charles Duke Tanner.
It's called Duke Got Life, A Boxers Fight for Freedom.
One last shot at redemption.
Um, God bless you.
And uh, I'm glad you're free, and I'm glad you're with your family, and God bless your son and the rest of your family.
All right, my friend.
Thanks so much, sir.
All right, appreciate you being with us.
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We got such a huge reaction to our town hall in Harrisburg this week.
Uh we had part two last night, and this was well, me asking the final question about is he ready for Kamala to agitate, aggravate, annoy, and piss him off during the debate, but also questions from the people of Harrisburg for President Trump, something that Kamala Harris and Tim Walls will never do.
Uh, but let's play that portion that we aired last night on TV.
Senate candidate from Pennsylvania.
Senator, great to have you.
Thank you.
Thank you, Sean, and thank you for Mr. President being here at the Keystone State.
And the Keystone State is gonna decide the future of the country.
Put you back in the White House and a majority in the Senate.
Thank you.
Thank you.
And uh, you know, it's Mr. President, it's a scary time in the world.
Our adversaries around the world, Iran, China, Russia, North Korea are testing us, they're telling us we've lost deterrence.
They think America's weak.
They think America's on retreat.
And my question to you is on day one when you're back in the White House.
How do we restore deterrence?
How do we bring strength and capability back to our military?
And how do we make sure that uh everybody in the in the world knows that America is back?
So thank you, David, and good luck with the race.
It's really important that you win.
I hope you're gonna vote.
He's a great gentleman and a great warrior.
Uh the first thing we have to do, we have to strengthen our country from within.
And we have a lot of bad people from within, but we have to straighten it.
We have to number one have a border like we had it four years ago, which was strong, where the wrong people didn't get in.
We have to have that.
The other thing, we want to become again energy independent.
We were energy independent three years ago.
And what we really want is energy dominance, and then as you know, we re I rebuilt the entire military, and we had it like nobody's ever had it before, and then this guy gave away 85 billion dollars worth of equipment to Afghanistan in the most embarrassing moment in the history of our country.
But we have a lot more than that.
We rebuilt the military.
We want to be strong, but we want to do it peace through strength.
That's what we want.
Peace to strength.
We shouldn't have to use our military.
We're gonna have the greatest military in the world.
Thank you, David.
All right, uh, ma'am.
Hi, uh, what's your name?
Um, my name is Deborah Williams.
Hi, Deborah, how are you?
I'm good now.
I Deborah.
Oh, because of me or because of the president?
Uh I'm just guessing.
Oh, I'm kidding.
I plead the fifth.
Good answer.
Um, Mr. President, I want to thank you for coming and sharing your time with us today.
Thank you, Deb.
Um what could you share that you've learned during the first time being in the Oval Office for those who are hesitant to vote for you now?
So we need a strong president, and you know, uh, I actually think we had a very stable uh administration, but we were hit with this weaponization, we were hit to weaponize, they've never done this before, the weaponization, all of the different Russia, Russia, Russia hoax, all of the different hoaxes, and we won every single one of them.
The most important thing, and I found it, and you can say this is true in business also.
Uh, we have to get the right people.
When I first went there in 2016, we were I had a lot of good people, I had a lot of good advice, but I put people in that in some cases were not what I really wanted, and I know now the people, and I know them better than anybody would know them.
So thank you very much.
Thank you, Deborah.
Ma'am, hi.
Ma'am, what's your name?
Sue Helm.
I'd like to welcome you to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
We love you both.
So that's thank you.
I'm the small business owner.
I'm the owner of Century 21 at the Helm Real Estate.
Good.
The four years of your presidency, Mr. Trump, were the best economically I have experienced in the 35 years I own this business.
And my question is what are your plans and policies to restore the economy so small business owners can thrive and make America great once again?
Good.
Thank you.
Good.
You know, we had a woman who was uh very spectacular, Linda McMahon, and she ran the small business administration, did a phenomenal job, and that's a very important group for what we're talking about with small business.
But uh to put it a little simpler, we're gonna have low interest rates, we're gonna have low taxes, we're gonna give you tremendous incentive to grow and to build your business.
Small business is much bigger than big business in this country when you add it all up.
And we're gonna take care of small business in this country.
Thank you very much.
Thank you, ma'am.
Sir, uh, what's your name?
Uh Travis Finkenbinder, and from uh Palmyra, Pennsylvania.
I um like to welcome uh you both here, and uh it's an honor to uh to stand before you.
Thank you, Travis.
Um, Mr. President, is it possible to correct the extensive damage the current administration has caused related to our safety and security from the border crisis to the plethora of weapons left behind in Afghanistan?
I fear for my three adolescent sons at night.
What do I tell Kale Caden Cole about their safety and their future of this great nation?
Well, the first thing you should do is pray.
Amen.
Because what they've done to our country, right?
What they've done to our country, what these, what these, and I hate to use the word, what these stupid people, naive people, but bad people, you know, weaponization.
Again, they're after me.
I got more court cases.
On Friday I have one, on Monday I have one.
And they do that for very bad reasons.
They don't want you to campaign.
They want to keep you off the campaign.
They want to try and take as much money as possible instead of putting it in.
But let me just tell you, the hardest problem we have, because a smart president will be able to get along with Russia, China.
There are a lot of reasons why.
But the biggest problem we have is they've allowed 21 million people into our country.
And this, and I told you last night, I tell you tonight, it's the single biggest problem.
They've poisoned our country.
They're coming in from prisons, they're coming in from mental institutions, terrorists are coming in, the criminals are coming off the streets in Caracas, Venezuela, but all over the world, not just in South America.
It's the single hardest problem that we would have never had.
If I were president, you wouldn't have that problem.
You wouldn't have inflation, you wouldn't have Russia attacking Ukraine.
You wouldn't have had October 7th with Israel.
You wouldn't have had the Afghanistan disaster, which I think is the most single most embarrassing day in the history of our country, where they have billions of dollars of equipment.
We lost 13 great, great soldiers, and I celebrated and honored their wonderful, and they call them their children.
Then they are their children, their wonderful children.
They're their kids.
And at their request, at their request, and Sean knows it's better than anybody.
And it was very tough for me to get there, I will tell you.
I don't want to say that, but it was very tough.
I was in a different part of the world, frankly.
And I got there, and we had a beautiful couple of hours together.
First we had a ceremony, and then we had a we went down to the grave sites, and they said, sir, could we have a picture with my son?
In one case it was a daughter.
Could we have a picture with my daughter?
We took pictures.
We had stayed for a long time, and then I left, and that was it.
I thought it was beautiful.
And those people are phenomenal.
What they've done.
Joe Biden and Kamala killed those children because of their incompetence.
Just like they had, just like they had a gun that killed them.
And I went home and I thought it was a beautiful thing.
I told my wife, I told a great first lady who people love.
They love her.
But I said, it was so sad and yet so beautiful and joyful in a sense.
I mean, the people, they had something that was very special.
And I went there, and you know, I had them up to Bedminster.
I got to know many of them, most of them.
But I get home and I get a call from one of my people, sir, they're saying that you use this for public relations purposes.
And you know what happened?
It was so beautiful.
Every one of those people made a video to say that Donald Trump came there.
I got enough publicity.
I don't need publicity.
I'd like to get half the publicity.
I'd be very happy.
But they said that, and you you saw the videos.
The videos became very, very well known and famous, actually.
Some beautiful statements that I went there.
I got nothing out of that except to take care of people that were not taken care of by our government.
And Joe Biden and Kamala should call those people and apologize.
Because that was the most incompetent withdrawal in the history of our country.
There's never been anything so think of it.
We took the military out first.
You're supposed to take the military out last.
Once the military was gone, they had free shots at us.
But we took the military out first, and then it began.
We lost 13 soldiers, Many were horribly wounded, meaning no legs, no arms, the face was obliterated.
Many we don't even talk about those people, and we have to.
And for them to go out of their way, and every one of them made a video.
They said, sir, could you take a picture next to the grave of my son?
I said, Of course.
Could you imagine if I said no, I don't want to do it.
I don't want to do it.
But every one of those people appreciated it, and every one of them made a tape and they sent it out, and it became very viral as they say nowadays.
And it was a great honor for me to be there.
Thank you.
And I should, I should add, Kamala Harris and Joe Biden were both invited.
And this was not you knew these families.
You you had met with them at Benminster.
You were familiar with them.
You knew them.
And they they invited you, you went, and they said, would you take a picture?
And then you did, and then you were attacked by and then the families were furious at Kamala about it.
I want to ask you one final question.
In five nights, you'll be on the stage, not with me, but with Kamala Harris.
Now if I'm gonna make a prediction, I think she's going to try and annoy, agitate, irritate, frustrate, and piss you off to use a phrase.
And are you aware of how she debates and probably every name in the world every name in the book she can call you and are you without giving away your tactics.
Yeah, I I you don't want to do that, but you know, when I had Biden, you and I had the same discussion.
Um, and I let him talk.
I'm gonna let her talk because you know we've all seen it.
There are those that say that Biden is smarter than she is, okay.
And if that's the case, we have a problem.
But you know, debating's an interesting thing.
I've been in many debates.
I think I probably have one because of debating, maybe, you know.
We had a lot of debates with the Republicans, then we had Crooked Hillary.
We had a lot of different people we had a debate, and we had some great debates.
You do remember the Rosie O'Donnell debate.
Remember Rosie O'Donnell.
That's a real she's a real great one.
Isn't she a great one?
Anyway, but but a debate is interesting.
You really you can go in with all the strategy you want, but you have to sort of feel it out as the debate's taking place.
I've seen it.
You go in there and you have a strategy.
Mike Tyson made the statement.
Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face.
It's true.
It was a brilliant statement.
It's a brilliant statement.
So I could tell Sean exactly what I'm gonna do, but uh, you know, things change.
It depends a lot on ABC.
Uh will they be fair or not?
If they're not gonna be fair, I'm gonna be a little bit different than if they are.
If you know she's gonna try and annoy you, but that's well, I think we have a bigger problem.
I think that ABC will try and annoy me.
I bet that's her.
Okay.
All right.
That was our interview, our town hall with President Trump from earlier this week in Harrisburg.
The people were phenomenal.
I want to thank the people of Harrisburg again for hosting us and and coming on out and and a massive crowd.
Wrap things up for today, Hannity tonight, nine Eastern on the Fox News Channel.
Obviously, the big delay in President Trump's sentencing to post-election.
We'll get to that.
Also, the continued law fair and weaponization of justice.
Uh, we've got Alina Hobbes is going to be on the program of Vake Ramaswamy, New King Rich, Tammy Bruce tonight, Joe Concha, Charlie Hurt, Jimmy Phaela.
D V R, Hannity, 9 Eastern on Fox.
We'll see you tonight back here on Monday with only 57 days until election day, and only eight days until early voting in Pennsylvania.
And yep, ballots are out in North Carolina.
We'll have the latest news you'll never get from the media mob.
Monday edition, Sean Hannity Show.
See you then.
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