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Dec. 10, 2024 - Sean Hannity Show
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What Is A Hero? - December 9th, Hour 1
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If you want to join us, not guilty, Daniel Penny in this case in New York.
And what has gone on here is another New York City Attorney General Bragg, travesty of justice.
We'll get into all the details of this.
We'll also be hitting the issue.
The left, you know, we now have a suspect in custody as it relates to the assassination of this CEO of United Healthcare.
His name is Brian Thompson.
The guy has a wife and kids.
And, you know, these parasites had it coming.
You know, apparently the suspect arrested had a manifesto, you know, railing against health insurance, according to one report.
We've not independently corroborated that, but the suspect is named.
And the more we learn about him, it seems like a radical left-wing Kaczynski type, if in fact these reports end up being true.
But we're watching it very closely.
We're monitoring.
We don't want to get over our skis.
Let's wait and see till we can totally confirm it.
And all this is happening.
And then we have the toppling of Syrian dictator Assad, which I'm as happy as the next guy about.
What bothers me the most in all of this is you have no idea who's going to replace him.
And these war Islamic rebels that toppled him.
And then I just couldn't believe what I read today that as happy as I am that Assad is gone and he's now with Putin in Russia.
And that definitely diminishes any influence that Putin has in the Middle East, which I think is good for everybody.
The danger is who will replace Assad.
And anyway, but all of a sudden, Joe Biden, he has 42 days as president or something thereabout left in his presidency.
And why is he trying to, it's seemingly trying to start World War III in Europe now in the Middle East.
I mean, we see that he now has announced almost a billion dollars more in additional weapons to support Ukraine.
In recent weeks, he's given the go-ahead for Zelensky in Ukraine.
And he knows that Donald Trump has ran on a platform of a negotiated settlement.
And now we have Zelensky, and we'll get into some of this news later in the program.
Zelensky saying he wants a negotiated settlement.
It's obvious that Vladimir Putin probably wants it.
And then in comes Joe Biden, the guy that wouldn't allow MiGs to be given to Ukraine in the beginning of this conflict to be used defensively against the superior Russian Air Force.
And Poland offered them 28 MiGs.
And Joe Biden gave a veto to that.
He was vetoing other weapons of war that would help you win a war and basically dictating what the rules of engagement for Zelensky and the Ukrainians were going to be while providing all the weaponry.
And then here in this final hours as being president post-election, he's now giving ballistic missiles to Ukraine that they're firing into Russia, which then resulted in Russia firing ballistic missiles, hypersonic technology being used in this conflict for the first time, and a change in Russia's nuclear policy to say if you do fire a ballistic missile, we have the right to nuke you.
And I'm like, what the hell is this guy doing?
Now he wants to give on the way out the door billions more.
He's not helping the people of North Carolina, but he wants to get billions more in terms of dollars, tax dollars to Ukraine and this war effort, even though we're on the precipice, hopefully, of a negotiated settlement and an end to war in Europe.
This is insane.
And then all of a sudden, now we, what the Israelis did was smart.
The Israelis, knowing there's this unknown issue of who's going to ultimately emerge to replace Assad, but these are radicalized rebels that, in fact, were responsible for toppling him.
It does diminish Putin's influence in the region.
All right, put a big check mark there.
That's a good thing.
Assad was a horrible human being who used chemical weapons, according to many reports.
So the Israelis, not knowing who's going to be in charge, they took out their chemical weapons plant, which was a smart strategic move on their part.
But the Israelis, they have neutralized Syria going back now decades.
I think one of the most underreported military maneuvers in our lifetime were the Israelis.
They did it in Iraq.
They also did it to Syria.
They were able to fly below their air defense systems, and they took out all of Syria's nuclear sites, and they did it, and the world barely noticed.
It was an unbelievable military maneuver on their part and strategic on their part.
Now they've taken out their chemical weapons sites, which I think was a smart move preemptively on their part.
And now Biden, in his final hours as president, launched dozens of airstrikes in Syria after rebels ousted Bashir al-Assad, and the strikes were carried out against known ISIS camps, they tell us, and operatives based in central Syria.
Anyway, our military, the U.S. military, struck 75 targets, including B-52s, F-15s, A-10s, and so far no indications of civilian casualties.
I mean, they can make any excuse that they want, but I mean, to do this without any knowledge of what's really going on on the ground there is pretty striking to me.
And it comes right after Donald Trump said the U.S. should not even get involved in Syria's civil war, which we should not.
And after slamming Barack Obama's capitulation of Russia in the Syrian conflict, he wrote in all caps that the U.S. should never have nothing, it should have nothing to do with the war going forward.
Syria is a mess.
They're not our friend, and the U.S. should have nothing to do with it.
This is not our fight.
Let it play out.
Don't get involved.
And I think that's the right policy.
Then you have to ask, well, why in God's name is Joe Biden in his final hours doing this?
I mean, he's literally stoking the flames of war.
Now, I will say it was rather entertaining to watch the rebels that overthrew Assad, you know, go into his palace and basically go on a treasure hunt and take everything out of there, including apparently he had a Porsche in his driveway, but living the life of a typical dictator in luxury.
But even Assad, murderer-in-chief, is now in Moscow.
Apparently, Putin has been in touch with the rebels and said, you know, trying to protect his military assets inside of Syria.
We'll see how that ends up in the end, but it's crazy.
You know, Zelensky had a meeting with President Trump.
I mean, it's almost like Donald Trump is president now, except that Joe Biden wants to get some attention, and this is his way to get attention.
It's nuts.
Anyway, we'll get back to that later in the program today.
I've got to go and start with the verdict in the Daniel Penny case.
It was a travesty of justice that this case was ever brought.
It really was in so many different ways.
And I'm going to give you some of the details of this, but what was even worse than this, they never should have brought charges against this guy.
When we heard from witness after witness in this case describing that they feared for their life, well, that is then at that moment, that's justifiable force to protect your own life.
And we're never going to have anybody like Daniel Penny ever again want to step in when there are innocent women, children, the elderly on a subway train, and a guy steps on the train and says he's going to kill everybody and kill himself.
What is somebody supposed to do in an environment like that?
That is a clear and present danger to everybody.
You're supposed to wait till he does kill somebody?
You don't know what weapon this person may be having.
Anyway, he's calling for the police.
He is able to restrain the guy.
Then they didn't even do a toxicology examination on this guy.
Turns out that he didn't die from asphyxiation as originally told to us, the public.
And here's a guy, a former Marine, that they put him in this kangaroo courtroom, and you have this judge that actually recognized that the defense made the right argument in terms of, once Alvin Bragg's office wanted to get rid of the manslaughter charge and only consider the lesser charge of criminally negligent homicide, I mean, at that point, that case should have been over.
Now, first, the case should not have even been brought to begin with.
Alvin Bragg asks for this favor to drop the manslaughter charge, and it just destroys, you know, any shred of his claim about caring to make the justice system more fair.
And the move shows you just how corrupt it is.
And the reason is this.
If you look under New York law, DAs must choose the charges before the trial.
They don't get to change their minds once they learn that the jury is not buying their arguments.
That's not how it works.
And the reason for this is very simple, is the law aims to avoid what's called a compromise verdict.
And that's a verdict wherein jurors split the difference so they can finish up and go on with their lives rather than reaching a true agreement on the facts of the case and how the law applies.
You know, hence the judge's initial instructions to the jury, you know, come to a 12-0 consensus on the more serious charge, and then you can consider the lesser charge.
They didn't come to an agreement, meaning some jurors were adamant that Penny was guilty.
That's scary too, especially in light of the testimony in this case from eyewitnesses.
But the law does clearly indicate that this requires a mistrial, meaning that Penny would go free, but the prosecution, if they had wanted, if they chose, they could try for an all-new trial.
Instead, Bragg just thumbing his nose at the law.
And the worst part is the judge acknowledged that on this issue of a compromise verdict, the arguments of the defense were dead on accurate.
But then he allowed it anyway.
They shouldn't have even had to come back today.
You know, this should have been a mistrial.
It should have been over.
And if Bragg wanted to retry it, he could have.
But he allows Bragg to put the jury in this position where they have to basically have a compromise verdict.
Now, we're lucky that it came out the right way.
But the fact that, you know, if you had jurors that were willing to convict on manslaughter and they all come back unanimously and say not guilty on reckless endangerment, you've got to ask yourself a question.
Explain that logic to me because there is no logic to that.
I mean, if you thought he was guilty of manslaughter, certainly you're going to think he's guilty of the lesser charge.
And it just shows just how corrupted our system can be.
You know, it just is so awful that we have people in these positions of power.
And we saw this with Judge Erdogan, the guy that stuck to a valuation of Mar-a-Lago at $18 million.
The property is worth a billion, billion and a half dollars.
That's what the property, I know it sounds insane to 99.99999% of you listening to this program, but that's the price of 22 acres and an estate and a historic property with a club on the ocean and on the intercoastal side of Palm Beach.
That's it.
That's what a property like that would go for, that amount of acres.
If you want to buy a one-acre lot, you can get one for just dirt for close to $100 million.
And the judge Erdogan would not hear of it.
Didn't want to even hear from some of the top professional realtors in Palm Beach.
Wouldn't even allow testimony on it.
And Joe Biden, you know, as he pardons his son, talks about, well, they only went after him because I'm the president and political enemies went after him.
Did Biden ever speak up?
Did Biden ever talk about the dual system of justice and the weaponized DOJ that he presided over?
No, he didn't.
Did he care one bit, you know, about 51 former Intel officials lying?
No.
Did he care that his four locations with top secret classified information were not rated, but Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago was rated?
No, he did not.
He doesn't care about justice.
He wanted the weaponized system of justice and he got it.
And that's why we need to clean out the Department of Justice, the FBI, restore these institutions to their former greatness, including that group, the intelligence community, and those that have politicized and weaponized these institutions and departments.
They need to go.
And that means, you know, clean it out top to bottom.
The reaction, Al Sharpton blasting Daniel Penny's acquittal.
Yeah, Black Lives Matter speaking out about it.
We'll get to that too.
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I mean, you have witness after witness on that subway car testifying in this case.
And I'll give you one example.
There was an older African-American woman telling the jury that she said to Daniel Penny after the incident, thank you.
Thank you for your actions.
She felt he saved her life.
And then she even smiled at him while she was giving testimony, like, thank you.
I really appreciate you stepping up the way you did.
And person after person, witness after witness, testifying that indeed they thought that Daniel Penny, you know, had saved their lives.
They felt that their life was in jeopardy.
When somebody says that they want to kill you and they plan on killing you and they don't care if they kill themselves, you're just supposed to sit there and let them randomly pick out a victim on a subway train and not do anything.
And, you know, to watch the injustice and then the reaction.
Where do you hear some of the reaction when we get back on the other side?
I'll play it for you.
We'll also get to the other news.
You know, the left happy at the assassination of this healthcare CEO, Donald Trump.
Seems like he's president more every day and Joe Biden trying to sabotage him.
The jury clearing in this verdict today, not guilty for Daniel Penny of any criminal wrongdoing.
And the courtroom erupted immediately in applause once the not guilty verdict was read.
And I mean, they were going to put this guy away for 15 years.
If they went forward with the manslaughter, there obviously were a couple of jurors that were willing to do this.
This is nuts.
And then, you know, reckless disregard.
I mean, the fact that they unanimously said not guilty, I thought for sure they were probably going to come back with that compromise verdict anyway.
There was immediate reaction, immediate applause.
I got to give props to golf legend Phil Mickelson.
I mean, he spoke out about the case on Friday and he thanked Daniel Penny for being a good Samaritan as he was awaiting his fate.
You know, and he basically, you know, went out there and said he put his own safety at risk to help others.
He didn't cower.
He didn't pull out his phone to film when Jordan Neely started threatening to kill people.
He took it upon himself to protect the subway passengers.
And, I mean, the guy could have died here.
Megan McCain had some good comments.
I don't think the left fully grasps how much they are radicalizing people when a Marine that saves a bunch of people on the subway from a violent person with mental illness, yelling someone is going to die today, is demonized.
Daniel Penny did nothing wrong.
He didn't do a thing wrong.
Now, if you listen to Black Lives Matter activists, there's one guy in particular, a guy by the name of Walter Hawk Newsom, and he's calling for race-based retaliation.
He posted on X, we need some black vigilantes.
People want to jump up and choke us and kill us for being loud.
How about we do the same?
And he was escorted out after he appeared to threaten Penny, saying it's a small-uffing world, buddy.
And anyway, then he went to the microphones, of course, and, you know, he went on to say anyone that thinks he's innocent is racist and the KKK got another victory.
Listen.
Racism is still alive and kicking in America.
There's no other way to view this.
Everyone has looked at the case.
And those among you who say that Daniel Penny is innocent have racism and bias in your heart.
If you look at the facts of this case, then you understand that Daniel Penny is guilty.
But today, white supremacy got another victory.
Today, the KKK, the Klansmen, the evil in America, got another victory.
They got that top charge dismissed.
America shall continue to America and shall continue to pace second-class status on black people.
We need some black vigilantes.
That's right.
People want to jump up and choke us and kill us for being loud.
How about we do the same when they attempt to oppress us?
Now, I go back to the testimony in the case, including an African-American woman who thanked Daniel Penny for his actions that day and all the people that felt that their life was in jeopardy when this guy jumped on this train.
And he didn't die of asphyxiation as was originally reported.
Remember, they didn't even bother to do a toxicology report, which is insanity in and of itself recklessness.
And then they found, you know, the drugs in the system.
This guy had 42 run-ins with the police.
You want to talk about the biggest failure in all of this?
Government failure at the highest level.
This is what, you know, defund, dismantle, no bail laws, letting people out, not institutionalizing people that are obviously very, very unhealthy and not doing well.
Anyway, so the Black Lives Ladder Matter leader calling America a racist, effing country in the wake of all of this, and that the KKK gets another victory.
Al Sharpton couldn't resist jumping in here, condemning the jury's decision.
Reverend Al, will somebody ask Reverend All if he bothered to follow the case?
Does he think that the African-American woman that testified in this case was racist?
Anyway, he goes on to say, you know, that today's verdict in the Jordan Neely case does not change what we have known to be true in our hearts since the beginning.
Jordan Neely's life was brutally taken away because of unnecessary vigilanteism.
This kind of behavior was inexcusable 40 years ago when Bernard Goetz opened fire in a subway car, and it remained the case more than a year ago when Daniel Penny took Jordan's life.
How about people, why does Nal Sharpton with his National Action Network go down into the subways in New York City, find people that are obviously mentally ill, find people that are violent, and maybe, you know, put them up and get them some, I don't know, mental health treatment of some kind.
Anyway, he goes on, Jordan was in the middle of a mental health crisis.
Okay, but that crisis was threatening innocent people on a train.
This verdict represents the blatant legalization of civilian vigilanteism.
It's called self-defense.
Daniel Penny would have no problem with Jordan Neely had Jordan Neely not threatened everybody on the subway car.
It was his actions that caused Daniel Penny's actions.
You know, it's unreal.
The father of Neely has now spoken out.
And anyway, after the verdict, Neely's father, present in the courtroom for the verdict, escorted out of the courtroom after an audible outburst with expletives outside the court.
Neely's father and family attorney expressed their disappointment with the jury's verdict and the broader criminal justice system.
My son did not have to go through this.
Well, he had run-ins 42 times with authorities.
Why didn't the father step in?
Why didn't the family step in?
Did they do anything?
I'd like to know.
Did they do anything to help this person out?
My son didn't have to go through this.
I didn't have to go through this either.
You know, what are we going to do, people?
What's going to happen to us now?
I've had enough of this.
The system is rigged.
The system is not rigged.
The guy, his son was a threat to the people in that car, according to the eyewitness testimony of the people that were in that subway car.
Governor Ron DeSantis has weighed in on this verdict.
He said the acquittal of Daniel Penny is clearly the just and correct verdict.
He posted on X, I must admit I was skeptical that a jury in New York City could reach a unanimous not guilty verdict, and the jury deserves credit for doing the right thing.
Meanwhile, is there a worse prosecutor in America than District Attorney Alvin Bragg?
Anyway, shortly after Neely's death, DeSantis did help raise money for Penny's defense.
We must defeat the progressive billionaire George Soros, funded DAs, stop the left's pro-criminal agenda, take back the streets for law-abiding citizens.
And this is all common sense.
And we've got to stand with good Samaritans like Daniel Penny.
Let's show this Marine America's got his back.
And the Give, Send, Go page on Monday showed more than $3.2 million was raised.
By the way, they thought that Daniel Penny will ever see a penny of that like zero.
All that money is going to go pay for attorneys, probably every penny of it, and then some.
And he's not going to have enough.
I'm having a hard time understanding the left and their insanity.
We now know that the guy, there is a suspect that is being questioned in the fatal assassination, the shooting nearly a week ago of United Healthcare, the CEO of New York City, after he was found Monday in Pennsylvania with a gun and a suppressor like the one used in the homicide because they have the photos of it.
He'd been arrested on charges tied to the gun, according to law enforcement.
The weapon is what they call a ghost gun.
It's untraceable.
It's a homemade weapon.
The 26-year-old picked up at a McDonald's in Altoona, PA, after an employee thought he resembled the man in New York.
Good for the employee at McDonald's.
And he called officials.
He also had fake IDs, including one the NYPD believes was used by the suspect in New York.
And police in Altoona, about 280 miles from the New York Hotel, where Brian Thompson, the United Healthcare CEO, was fatally shot, responded to the call.
They picked the guy up.
They searched him.
The man also had a two-page document rallying against the healthcare industry and suggesting violence is the answer.
It sounds like they got their guy.
The sprawling manhunt for whoever shot Thompson has intensified as across state lines.
Anyway, I'm not sure why, but New York City police have been searching Central Park and the lake in Central Park after looking around where the iconic boathouse and Bethesda Fountain were a day ago.
And apparently they thought that the weapon used could be in that lake.
And also there was a missing electric bicycle that the suspect rode towards Central Park, according to surveillance images released by authorities.
By the way, you can't go anywhere without being on a camera in New York City.
It's unreal.
Anyway, Daily Beast mediaite now giving us more details on the alleged suspect in this case.
Daily Beast reporting that the person of interest in the murder of CEO Brian Thompson's killing is identified as a 26-year-old computer whiz who graduated valedictorian from his Maryland prep school.
The guy was carrying a weapon similar to the one used in the fatal shooting.
And he is one of six kids graduated valedictorian in his high school where he played soccer.
According to the New York Post, upon graduating, he said he intended to study AI at the University of Pennsylvania.
On his ex-account, he identifies himself as having a bachelor's degree and a master's of science in computer science from the Ivy League school.
Social media accounts believe to belong to him paint him as an anti-capitalist who liked online quotes from the Unibomber, according to this report in the Daily Beast.
That's Ted Kaczynski, you might recall, that blasted the medical community.
And, you know, that's pretty much what we know at this point.
And fake news, CNN, reported that this guy was railing against the healthcare industry, which would fit into the scenario here.
He talks about how these parasites had it coming.
He starts off basically saying, I don't want to cause any trauma, but it had to be done.
On the second page, he really kind of goes into problems with the health industry talking about health care and the need for violence, and then highlighted the beginning of the document where he wrote that it had to be done.
These parasites had it coming.
I'd say it sounds like they got their guy.
And then the sick part of this is you have leftist professors, you know, literally celebrating the incident.
Today, we mourn the death of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, gunned down.
Wait, I'm sorry.
Today, we mourn the deaths of 68,000 Americans who needlessly die every year so that insurance exec like Brian Thompson can become multi-millionaires.
That's Columbia's professor, I guess, senior lecturer in Columbia's School of Social Work, an activist on issues of racial justice, income inequality, and climate justice.
There's been a ton of people on the left celebrating this.
This is sick stuff.
Saturday Night Live got slammed for their classlist jokes about it over the weekend, too.
On the Donald Trump front, I mean, what a weekend he had.
Not sure if you saw the opening of Notre Dame, but he was there seated between Macron and Macron's wife.
A lot of social media picked up on the fact that so many, it was so much goodwill, seemingly, between Jill Biden and Donald Trump, and she was seen many times smiling at him.
That went pretty viral.
And I thought that was pretty interesting.
Trump and his, we'll get to it later in the program.
He did an NBC Meet the Press interview, and he said he will not order the FBI and the DOJ to do to Democrats what Biden did to Republicans.
He pledged that, in fact, he would treat everybody in this country the same, whether you voted for him or didn't vote for him, whether you're a MAGA Republican or not a MAGA Republican.
It is interesting, the Trump effect, that he got the seat of honor with all these other world leaders there for the opening of Notre Dame.
I mean, basically, he's president in the eyes of the world as of now, except Joe Biden has been undermining him now in Syria, but formerly in Ukraine in this conflict there and ratcheting up the conflict there.
Even MSDNC reported that Trump was placed in the most prominent seat during the Notre Dame reopening with world leaders.
And you can see him with Prince, not Prince Harry.
How can I think Prince Harry?
Prince William, and he met with Zelensky and every other world leader.
And he sat next to the French president.
You think that maybe Macron's trying to send a message?
Yeah, we know a new sheriff's in town.
Anyway, so getting, these are interesting times.
We can call it all the Trump effect.
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