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Dec. 25, 2024 - Sean Hannity Show
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Best of Hannity: Schweizer: Biden Family Syndicate - December 24th, Hour 2
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Well, it is it is getting incredible reaction.
I think what we're gonna play later in the program will will kind of shock you.
Oh no, Joe will never, ever, ever pardon Hunter.
And of course, Joe in his own words, which we have been playing and will continue to play.
Um over there at fake news CNN, one analyst actually saying that the Hunter Biden uh pardon will tarnish Biden's legacy.
He'd lied to us.
Well, he lied and said the borders were secure, and he lied repeatedly and said that inflation was transitory, and he lied about Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans, and he called this garbage, and all this surrogates called us Nazis and fascists, etc.
etc.
just never ends.
Anyway, here's uh even fake news CNN.
Well, I totally agree with the governor that this pardon will tarnish Joe Biden's legacy.
I mean, Joe Biden, let's be clear here.
He lied to us for a long time.
He w said categorically, I will not pardon my son.
He said I will take it off the table, and he couched it in very high-minded terminology.
I respect the Justice Department, I respect the jury's verdict.
Well, now he's gone back on that.
I don't know how many people actually believe him.
I certainly didn't.
Okay, and it's it's not just that.
It was the lies that Kamala told that Donald Trump will he's he's going to limit your access to contraception.
He'll sign a national abortion ban, Project 2025.
He'll he'll stop IVF treatment uh for treatments for women, etc.
And now you've got women out there getting hysterectomies and shaving their heads and and swearing off sex, divorcing their husbands, and stockpiling abortion pills, and that's just the beginning.
It gets crazier and crazier.
Uh then of course you've got Biden repeatedly saying, denying that he would, you know, that he ever talked to his son about his private business dealings.
There are Democrats saying, you may want to pardon yourself too on the way out, Joe.
Listen.
There's this testimony now where one of your son's former business associates is claiming that you were on speakerphone a lot with them talking business.
Is that what never talk business?
I know you'd have a lousy question.
Well, what do you it's why is that a lousy question?
Because it's not true.
How involved were you in your Chinese shakedown text message?
Were you sitting there?
Were you no?
Mr. Vice President, how many times have you ever spoken to your son about his overseas business dealings?
I've never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealers.
I have never discussed with my son or my brother or anyone else.
And they have any of their businesses, period.
You stand by your statement that you did not discuss any of your son's overseas business dealings.
Yes, I stand by that statement.
Okay, so whatever.
Um, we know that all of this was a lie.
Now the person that first broke this story is a friend of this program, and that's Peter Schweitzer.
He's the president of the Government Accountability Institute.
He broke this story six years ago.
And the Biden family syndicate and their business.
And most of the mainstream media ignored all of it.
We did not.
We paid very close attention to it, had Peter on this program often.
I would say, you know, take a bow, but you're never going to get the credit you deserve, but history needs to know all that you did because I didn't know about this until you exposed it in your book and did the first interview with you.
Well, thanks, Sean.
Great to be with you.
Merry Christmas.
And uh yeah, you're right.
It's funny how things have uh come full circle.
And I think one of the reasons that they latched on to the Democrats tried to create the Russia collusion narrative, is they know how powerful and troubling it is to the American people that prominent American political figures would somehow be taking money or have a relationship with our foreign adversaries.
And of course, in the Russia collusion case, it was all made up, it was stony, it was fake.
In the case of the Bidens, it's not.
And so what's happened now is that Joe Biden has not just pardoned his son, he has also effectively pardoned his co-conspirator, which happens to be Joe Biden himself.
Because let's remember, Sean, uh six months ago when they filed the tax charges against Hunter Biden for failing to pay taxes on millions of dollars from money coming from overseas.
They said in that statement that there was an ongoing influencing influence pedaling investigation that the DOJ was embarked on, looking at Hunter Biden, who would have been the subject of that foreign influence pedaling scheme.
That would have been Joe Biden himself.
So by pardoning Hunter, he's not only absolved him of all crimes, that's what the um pardon says, but he has also basically ended this foreign influence peddling investigation, which was of course directly involving him.
Let's go back to the beginning because you were able to expose this and the corruption of others.
And I think it was the book Secret Empires.
You've written so many number one bestsellers, I don't remember, but I think that was the first book uh that exposes.
Am I wrong?
No, you're right.
It was 2018, uh, came on your show.
Um and at that point, you know, people didn't really know much about Hunter Biden.
They knew that he had gotten um kicked out of the Navy uh for cocaine use.
Um but what we were able to show is that that there was a systematic effort by the Biden family, Hunter was the center point of it, to profit off of foreign deals uh because Joe Biden was vice president of the United States under Barack Obama.
And we uncovered it, frankly, uh, because we ran across some posts in Chinese social media in late 2016, where Sean, you have Hunter Biden, the son of the vice president of the United States in 2013 meeting with in China by himself with one aide, uh, the equivalent of the Treasury Secretary of the United States, the head of the Federal Reserve, the head of Goldman Sachs, and the head of J.P. Morgan.
And I wondered why is this guy here?
He has no and then we've discovered, oh, lo and behold, he has launched this business, uh, and that's what got us looking at to the deals that he was doing in China, he was doing Ukraine, and he was also doing in Russia.
The thing that really amazes me is the sheer amount of money and the the total lack of coverage altogether, especially with with all that was going on involving Donald Trump.
Like, for example, Mar-a-Lago is rated, but they never rated Joe Biden's four locations where he had top secret classified documents.
Hillary Clinton deleted 33,000 emails uh with bleach bit, destroyed, you know, phones with hammers and and removed SIM cards.
Uh her home, her office was never raided.
Uh so we had all this double standard.
I mentioned FISA.
FISA's another issue where I feel it was nothing but, you know, an abuse of power.
And and then you have the whole Barisma issue and the Biden family business, and then you have uh, you know, uh Betharina, the the Russian oligarch lady, and and the monies that came from there, but we also talked about Russia uh money coming from Barisma.
Now, in that particular case, you have Hunter Biden at a time when we're told he was addicted to to drugs, and Hunter Biden, who also uh is making millions of dollars for something in which he has no experience.
And he said, and Joe Biden himself is out there saying, I never once spoke to my brother, my my son, or anybody for that matter, about their foreign business deals, and all this evidence emerged thanks to your initial research that proved that Joe Biden met with many of Hunter Biden's business partners.
So we learned all of this in the course of this investigation.
Again, it was like unpeeling layers of an onion, like the Russia hoax that was exposed and it became a big fraud.
And it's just as amazing to me that this level of corruption does exist in our government.
Yeah, and Sean, look, none of the details of the story that you're talking about, the research that I did, the research that John Solomon and others exposed, none of the story was exposed by the mainstream media.
None of the investigative journalists of the New York Times or the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post broke any of those stories.
So the fact that the Bidens got $30 million from five Chinese businessmen.
This all came from the laptop.
And the fact that all five of those businessmen had direct ties to Chinese intelligence, meaning the Ministry of State Security.
The fact that they received, they continued to receive payments, even though there was absolutely no discernible legitimate thing that they did for that money.
You know, why does money keep showing up?
Because you're giving them something that they want, but you're not providing any legitimate service or good.
Something is going on here.
All of those elements uh came together in this story.
The same thing in the research uh when it came to Ukraine.
Uh, you know, as you mentioned, John Solomon did a lot of work on Ukraine.
You reported on a lot of it.
Again, none of the out main elements of those stories were ever broken and reported by our established media.
And that tells you all you need to know that that as far as the mainstream media is concerned, investigative journalism uh that that looks at both sides is completely and totally dead.
Um, and I think it's not going to come back.
And it's damaged their credibility to the extent that they now have lower approval ratings in Congress.
They're at about 17% for the mainstream media.
That is one of the consequences of of what's gone ahead.
And as I've always said, you know, let's have transparency.
If you want to investigate Trump, have it, but be honest about it, be truthful about it, but also be investigating the other side.
And they never want to do either one of those, unfortunately.
All right, well, take a quick break.
We'll come right back more with our friend Peter Schweitzer, president of the Government Accountability Institute on the other side.
We'll get to your calls coming up as well.
All right, we continue now with Peter Schweitzer.
He is the president of the Government Accountability Institute.
And it was Peter himself through the book Secret Empires exposing the Biden family syndicate from the very beginning.
The mainstream legacy media mob, of course, ignored all of it.
They were too busy obsessing over Donald Trump every second, every minute, every hour of every 24-hour day, seven-day week, and every year for nine years.
They were a little busy.
We continue with uh Peter Schweitzer.
I think what they fear the most is that a lot of this corruption is going to be exposed.
I think that's one of the reasons that you're seeing such a reaction to, for example, Cash Patel, um who has promised to do the very thing that we're talking about here, and that is de weaponize, you know, get rid of the weaponization of the DOJ.
And uh frankly, my goal, Peter, is not revenge.
My goal is to restore what used to be the world's premier law enforcement agency to its former grace greatness and put in place measures that will prevent the FBI, our intelligence community from ever being weaponized again.
And but and to your credit, you've not only exposed Democrats, you've exposed Republicans that have been involved in these foreign deals and making a lot of money for themselves and their families and using their their access and influence.
Well, as as you have as well, Sean, and I think you're right.
That that's exactly what we need to do with the FBI.
There's a lot of people that I think are saying, hey, we need to go after them.
The problem with that is once you continue this cycle of weapon weaponizing the FBI, guess what?
Probably, I hate to say it, at some point the Democrats are probably going to win some election at some future time.
You don't want to perpetuate this cycle.
And so I think what you need to do is what Cash Patel and others have called for, which is mass transparency.
I mean, so for example, let's go back to 1963.
Really, the JFK assassination files.
I cannot think of a legitimate reason uh that something that is now sixty years old can't be declassified.
I see no reason why we cannot release um internal communications to how the FBI became politicized.
Let's put it out there, let's fire people, and let's put people in place and put systems in place that guarantee the integrity of the system.
But I think your instinct is exactly right here.
It's the time to go forward to return the FBI to what it once was.
It was never perfect, but it was certainly less political than it is now, and that is our best hope.
Uh because we need a vibrant F FBI.
The FBI, let's remember, is the same agency that deals with counter-terrorism, they deal with Chinese espionage.
So they do some terrible political stuff and they overreach, but we still need to have a vibrant, effective FBI that is protecting us and doing the job that it's supposed to do.
Especially in this day and age when the threat level's never been this high, Peter, which is my greatest concern.
You know, because of Harris Biden open borders, we have known terrorists in the country, cartel members in the country, gang members in the country.
Uh we have people that have been committing murders and rapes against hundred and vi other violent crimes against thousands of Americans.
And these people need to be returned home.
They did not respect our laws, borders sovereignty, and most Americans support that.
Um anyway, Peter Schweitzer, great job.
Uh a tip of the hat to you.
You were six years ahead of the curve, and here we now find ourselves.
Last question should Joe Biden himself be how held accountable for his role in this.
I think they should continue to investigate um this.
I don't know the legalities of what the pardon does in terms of changing um uh a case against Joe Biden, but the American people need to know what went on.
Uh, I do believe there were FARA violations.
That's the foreign agents registration act.
There are plenty of people that are in jail for those violations.
Um and look, we're not talking about rank and file corruption where some guy back in a home congressional district, you know, gave a congressman money for a paving contract.
That's bad.
That ought to be prosecuted.
We're talking about uh corruption at the highest level involving foreign governments and foreign officials of our adversaries.
Uh, and if we cannot root this out, deal with it, expose it, and accept as a country this is wrong, uh uh, we are sunk.
Um so yes, I think we need to continue, even if it's at the congressional level, let's get Hunter Biden there.
Uh, he can't really plead the Fifth Amendment anymore because he doesn't risk any criminal action because of this blanket subpoena.
So let's continue to investigate this to find out the full extent of foreign corruption, how much money and what deals were done uh for the benefit of the Biden family to the detriment of the country uh with our foreign adversaries.
All right, appreciate uh appreciate you.
Thanks so much, Peter Schweitzer, 800-941 Sean is our number if you want to be a part of the uh program.
Let's go to that uh hard-hitting news show, shall we?
The view and Alyssa Griffin uh is calling out Whoopi, saying that Biden lied about Hunter's uh pardon and Whoopi Goldberg not to is not too happy about it.
Listen.
I respect it as a parent.
I understand why he would do it.
But I wondered to understand why lie about it for so long.
I stopped calling it a lie.
Okay, why repeatedly say you're not going to do?
And secondarily, for the c part of this country, half of it that doesn't support Biden, doesn't know him personally, doesn't get to have phone calls, and they're just looking at a system that seems like it's only benefits the people who are not.
This is very different than any other situation that we have ever dealt with.
Because when we're talking about who gets a pardon and who doesn't get a pardon, this man, I think Biden had no intentions of pardoning Hunter.
And I think the more stuff that went down.
I think he said, Well, why am I busting my behind to stay straight by to do that when nobody else is doing?
Well, uh, I mean, it's pretty amazing because uh that all you heard, and wait till you hear we have a long montage we're gonna play in our final half hour of the program today of of the media reassuring us though they would never do this, never ever.
You know, but Joe Biden's never gonna do it.
He means it.
Unlike Donald Trump, he means what he says.
Grabian put it together, and it is so powerful and so entertaining and so funny that you really can't make it up.
Over at MSDNC, Molly Zhang Fast uh has no take at all after learning about Hunter's pardon.
Listen.
NBC News is reporting that President Biden is expected to pardon his son Hunter Biden.
The president's son was convicted on all three felony charges in June related to the purchase of a revolver in 2018 when prosecutors argued Hunter lied on a mandatory gun purchase form by saying he was not illegally using or addicted to drugs.
According to MBC News, the president made the decision this weekend.
Um fast and furious, what do you make of this new news?
Um I I just heard it.
I I have to process it.
I I don't have a take.
I'm sorry.
I don't have a take.
I can't believe that Joe did something that he said he would never do.
But isn't that the story of the entire presidency?
I never once spoke to my son, my brother, or anybody for that matter, about their foreign business deals, and then we find out about meetings with Hunter, his business partners, overseas partners and their business deals.
You know, he all the money from Barisma, good case in point, millions and millions of dollars addicted to drugs, no experience at all whatsoever.
You know, it just you can't make it up.
Anyway, Miranda Devine, who was in been in the forefront.
And I need to point out anybody that talked about this issue that exposed this issue.
We had Peter Schweitzer on earlier.
Um, let me tell you something.
You exposing yourself to a lot of criticism and even potentially legal attacks by Hunter and his team.
True or false, Miranda Devine.
Yeah, hi.
Hi, Sean.
That is true.
Um they don't play fair.
Uh they don't play clean.
Um, and I don't think anyone would be surprised about that.
Um, I think what's surprising is that anybody is surprised that Joe Biden lied.
That's what he does.
He lies.
And um, I think, you know, you just played the montage of various you know, whoopi Goldberg and other Trump deranged people.
Um they are so naive.
Are they naive or are they lying, or are they just so mentally addled because of their Trump derangement that they just swallowed the Blanny from Joe Biden?
I mean, it's hilarious hearing them even now um swallowing the story that Joe made any of this decision reluctantly on the weekend uh on Thanksgiving weekend.
Um I mean that's just so preposterous.
Obviously, Joe Biden planned uh pardoned Hunter from the start.
Hunter knew that, and that was why he and his lawyers behaved in such a reckless fashion, thumbing their nose at um, you know, the n the no normal norms, uh defying subpoenas from Congress, um gate crashing one of the House Oversight Committee hearings of the stunt um for the TV cameras.
Uh all in all, Hunter is behaved like a smug, arrogant, entitled elitist, which is what he is.
He's the son of Washington Privileged.
It's such a good way of of putting it.
You put you put it all on the line on two very big issues that I think in the end were very impactful to voters when uh leading into this this election, and and you did it with two number one best selling books, and the first one, the laptop from hell.
And we saw deep corruption.
There were fifty-one former Intel officials that in the weeks before the 2020 election were organized by Wink and Tony Blinken, according to reports, and these people that knew nothing about this very real laptop, uh, these very same people were acting like they all said the same thing and had all the all of all the earmarkings of uh Russian disinformation.
Not one of them had ever examined the laptop, not one of them knew a thing about the laptop.
The only thing that that they were looking for at with the then Biden campaign was a talking point for Joe Biden to use in his upcoming debate In a couple of days against Donald Trump.
And that is exactly what he he did in that debate.
And he just flat out lied to the American people.
Nobody had ever seen it.
The laptop was always real.
John Paul Mack Isaac, the the repair shop guy.
Look at how his life has been overturned.
He lost his business over this whole deal.
And, you know, look at the other people.
You know, go back to Pfizer.
Car whatever happened to Carter Page.
His whole life was ruined.
And it turned out that Carter Page, you know, would go to these foreign countries, come back and be debriefed by our intelligence community for crying out loud.
He was helping our country.
And I know because he he said it right here on this radio program and it had been confirmed.
And then you follow up with the big guy, how a president and his son sold out the country.
My question to you is, okay, Hunter's in the clear.
Is Joe in the clear?
Well, look, very good point, Sean.
I think this the greater story, even greater than the tale of Biden corruption, is the corruption of the very uh agencies and entities that we pay to keep us safe, and that being the FBI and the CIA and the State Department, Department of Justice, uh all conspired to protect Joe Biden and Hunter Biden and uh Joe's brother Jim Biden from the consequences of their own actions.
And um we have seen that over and over whenever Hunter was in trouble, there'd be an invisible hand would reach out to save him.
Uh same with Joe, whether it was by censoring um our uh first stories out of the New York Post about Hunter Biden's laptop.
Um they we saw there the FBI um co-opted the social media companies to censor our stories.
Um and thus, you know, protecting Joe Biden and ensuring that he won the 2020 election.
Um they sabotage the criminal investigation in Delaware into Hunter Biden.
Uh you saw the prosecutors there just putting every obstacle in the way of those valiant IRS investigators who turned whistleblower.
Um so I think that that's the task ahead for the Trump administration is to ferret out the wrongdoers in all these agencies and reform them top to bottom to ensure that this kind of politicization and weaponization never happens again.
Um this was really the power of those agencies harnessed uh on behalf of one political party against the American people.
And you can see how the bureaucracy desperately wants to preserve and protect the bureaucracy.
I mean, just look at the reaction to Cash Patel, because this is the very thing that Cash Patel said he would do, and the deep state more than anything wants to protect itself, does it not?
Absolutely.
And uh Cash Patel is exactly the dose of faults that they need, and he has several very good ideas that he's made public already.
Uh part of that's transparency, uh, to declassify documents that have been overclassified.
And the other part of that is to sever from the FBI this intelligence arm that has been at the root of so much of the perversion of justice that we have seen, including the cover-ups for the Bidens.
Um, I mean, you just even look at this uh the the Russia hoax and so on.
Um so uh just to task the FBI to do what they were originally set up to do, and that was to be a federal crime fighting force.
Cash Patel said he wants them to go across the country and solve crimes, catch criminals, and that's exactly uh what they should be doing.
Nothing less.
They should not be um, you know, having swap raids on uh Christians whose crime is praying outside an abortion clinic, or um you know parents who've uh spoken up at school board meetings.
Um that is really not the way the FBI should have been utilized, and that's exactly what happened under the Biden administration.
And you know, a lot of that you can stem back to corruption, uh those agencies being corrupted because they were co-opted by uh Obama and Biden during his vice presidency.
All right, quick break, we'll come right back more with Miranda Devine, author of Two Bestsellers, The Laptop from Hell and The Big Guy, how a president and his son sold out America in light of Joe B Biden's pardon of his son Hunter.
More on the other side.
Your call's coming up 800-941 Sean as we continue.
All right, we continue now with Miranda Devine, author of two big bestsellers, The Laptop from Hell and The Big Guy, how a president and his son sold out America in light of Joe Biden pardoning his son Hunter.
Then you go back to James Comey.
I think Director Ray had the opportunity of a lifetime, and that was to return the FBI to its former greatness.
But yet he did just the opposite.
I mean, he he protected the institution.
He's an institutionalist in my view.
And he turned a blind eye, look at something as as obvious as not enforcing the laws at our border.
And he allowed all of that to go on and would go back to Congress again and again and again and say the threat level's never been this bad.
Well, if you allow in known terrorists and you allow in gang members and you allow in cartel members and in the process, thousands and thousands of Americans have been victims of of murder and rape, by the way, even children and other violent crimes, on top of the high cost of illegal immigration.
You know, how how does an FBI director turn a blind eye to that, Miranda?
Well, I mean, that's exactly what Chris Ray has been doing.
Uh he's just been quite happy to sit atop uh this organization as it rots from within and to punish whistleblowers in the cruelest uh and and harshest way.
Um he presents a benign face when he turns up when he deigns to turn up occasionally for uh oversight hearings in Congress.
Um but even there, he's uh arrogant and dismissive.
He can never forget what he did to Chuck Grassley when he said he had to leave early from one oversight hearing uh and saying that he had business to attend to.
Turns out um I traced his uh FBI plane and it was hightailing it back to his family's holiday house in Adirondack.
Uh he lied to Chuck Grassley, and Chuck Grassley was not very happy about it at all.
So um he he should definitely be replaced with Cash Patel.
And I don't care if people uh rant and rave uh that uh Donald Trump's picks are unorthodox.
Uh they need to be unorthodox because you don't want to have any more the situation that happened with some of the nominees in Trump's first presidency when he didn't know the full extent of the corruption of uh the deep state.
Um, that these people were as you called them institutionalists.
Uh they may not have been bad people, but they went with the flow and they were never going to buck the system.
And they trusted the people underneath them who were committing all sorts of atrocities in their name.
So I think that will never happen again.
I don't think Trump's going to be snowed twice.
It's pretty unbelievable.
Amazing times we're living in.
It may be one of the most I don't know, impactful presidencies uh, I think that we may ever see in our lifetime.
And I think this is uh a one in a hundred year opportunity in terms of its potential to be transformative.
And it's my hope that if he just keeps to his agenda, meaning President Trump, he'll get us there.
Miranda, you deserve a tip of the hat.
You've done phenomenal work.
You have not gotten the credit from the the mob and the media, the legacy media, I think, has died in the process, but you you do get credit from us and everybody in this audience, and they're never going to survive because they don't tell the truth.
And that's why they were ignored in the lead up to this election.
But people like you were listened to.
Miranda, thank you very much.
Appreciate it.
Thanks so much, Sean.
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