March 13, 2025 - Sean Hannity Show
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| He is the chairman of the House Oversight Committee. | |
| Uh James Colmer is with us. | |
| Although also the author of our brand new book out, uh bestseller. | |
| It's called All the President's Money, investigating the secret foreign schemes that made the Biden family rich. | |
| Mr. Colmer, sir, welcome back to the program. | |
| Glad to have you back. | |
| How are you? | |
| I'm great. | |
| Thanks for having me on, Sean. | |
| All right. | |
| So apparently, I guess Hunter Biden had sued this guy in claiming he was responsible for the contents of the laptop from hell from being released. | |
| And now apparently he wants to go to another country for three months. | |
| This after he claimed that he's no longer selling his paintings and no longer can provide for himself, and he's trying to use, I guess his the home he was renting was burned to the ground, which I wouldn't wish on anybody uh in the Pacific Palisades fire, the wildfires out there. | |
| Um, but that does not seem to excuse or be a rationale to get out of a deposition to me. | |
| And my question is, what is your take on that? | |
| More importantly, all these people that got preemptive pardons, uh are they going to be brought before the committee? | |
| Because none of them can can invoke their Fifth Amendment rights after receiving that pardon. | |
| That's exactly right, Sean. | |
| With respect to Hunter Biden, the house he was living in was from a big Democrat donor, his sugar brother, Kevin Morris. | |
| So he wasn't even, you know, he wasn't paying rent. | |
| He had he he was living there free, and it was $40,000 a month or some outrageous price. | |
| Uh he had no income the entire four years Joe Biden was president. | |
| But yet he he lived in the finest homes and drove the finest cars and aided the finest restaurant. | |
| And and you know, he claimed he sold artwork. | |
| Well, the only artwork we found that anyone bought was the few Democrat donors. | |
| So it still wasn't enough to pay for not only his his living expenses, but he also had child support to pay, and he had the most expensive lawyer in America to pay. | |
| So who was paying for all this? | |
| It was Democrat donors. | |
| Well, once Joe Biden left office, the Democrat donors, surprisingly, John left uh left the Biden family. | |
| They don't care about him anymore. | |
| So, you know, he's trying to get out. | |
| He started all these lawsuits, and they were they were weaponized lawsuits to intimidate and and to try to work with the false narratives that the media were saying that the Biden didn't do anything wrong. | |
| Now that there's no one paying his legal fees, the lawyers have walked away, so here we are. | |
| Uh with your question about ho's and why doesn't he just drop the lawsuit then? | |
| Yeah, I I don't know that he has a lawyer that'll go in and file the paperwork to drop it. | |
| I mean, the he he clearly wasn't paying his legal fees. | |
| I I quite wait a minute. | |
| I thought he I thought he claimed he was a lawyer, didn't he? | |
| Isn't he a lawyer? | |
| Yeah, he he got uh the only legal fees he ever collected were from the shell companies. | |
| That was the funny thing. | |
| He had a LLC that was his professional LLC, and the only money that was ever wired into there was from the other shell companies. | |
| It was all a scheme. | |
| He never practiced law while while Joe Biden was, you know, vice president, or or while you know Trump was president, or or during the first uh uh the Biden term. | |
| So look, the the balls in Pam Bondy's court. | |
| We Jim Jordan and I have have strongly encouraged uh the the Department of Justice to uh not give up on the Biden simply because of the preemptive pardons. | |
| I don't believe the pardons would hold up in court, and I believe Americans deserve uh to hear from the the Biden family. | |
| Let them let them do depositions. | |
| I would be happy to do the depositions in the oversight committee if Pam Bondy gives me the green light. | |
| The problem that I've always had with bringing the Bidens in is you've got to have the the Department of Justice get your back. | |
| If Pam Bondy wants to go that route, if President Trump wants to go that route, I will be more than happy to bring the Biden in either for a committee hearing or or for a deposition, which honestly I would prefer a deficit. | |
| Okay, but at that well at that point, then they're at risk of perjury. | |
| And why do you think I always believed that the power of the pardon was absolute? | |
| Even a preemptive pardon. | |
| Um maybe I'm just trying to be a little bit of a constitutional purist here. | |
| Why do you think they're not valid? | |
| I just don't think you can preemptively pardon uh your entire family for for things that they haven't even been charged on. | |
| The only two that had been charged were Hunter and Jim, uh, and we charged them in the oversight committee with with perjury, and then of course, Weiss had that little gun charge and tax evasion charge. | |
| What I said, you know, in my book that you mentioned, all the president's money and what we released in our our uh a lot of our uh uh bank memorandums was that you know, ten different Biden family members received this money. | |
| The the the twenty-seven million dollars from influence pedelling, then there was eight million dollars in loans that was never repaid or or or loan or interest paid or anything. | |
| That's thirty-five million dollars, Sean. | |
| And according to the Irish whistleblower, Shafley and Ziegler, no one in the family ever paid a penny of taxes on it. | |
| So at the very least, the Biden family would would owe twelve or thirteen million dollars in taxes at the very least, not to mention Farah violations, money laundering, and the other stuff. | |
| We we know from Hunter's laptop that he implicates his own father as a beneficiary in in this business, that he paid half of Pops he gave half his income to Pops, that he paid for hop Pops' home repairs. | |
| He would be talking to their financial guy, I believe it was Eric Sherwin, correct me if I'm wrong, that uh about which account they ought to pay dad's home repairs or Pops home repairs uh from, which accounts should they be using for that? | |
| Uh then Joe Biden said numerous times that he never once talked to his son, brother, or anybody for that matter about their foreign business deals, and we have evidence to the contrary, and that would be pictures of Joe and Hunter and business partners and foreign business partners. | |
| Is that correct? | |
| That that is correct. | |
| And remember, we found in the investigation Eric Sherwin was doing all the bookkeeping work, and and Joe Biden never paid him a penny. | |
| You think I know in my businesses what what I pay for uh a CPA and and for all the financial disclosure forms I have to fill out, which would pale in comparison to what Biden has to fill out. | |
| Sherwin was doing them, and he was working for Hunter. | |
| So that's something Hunter was paying for. | |
| And then the lead the law firm, they had the same law firm, and Joe Biden ever could provide any documentation that he had paid that law firm. | |
| So Hunter was paying for a lot of expenses in the email that you mentioned, Hunter put a new roof on Joe Biden's house. | |
| I mean, the list goes on and on and on from the benefits that Joe Biden got, in addition to the 240,000 that we found Joe Biden got from the influence failing schemes. | |
| You know, it's just amazing to me, and uh there's a part of me that does not want this weaponization of justice to continue. | |
| And although I and we saw what they did to Donald Trump, and now Joe Biden's out of office. | |
| I think what he did with Barisma and demanding and leveraging a billion taxpayer dollars to fire a prosecutor that was investigating his son. | |
| Uh I I I think clearly he knew what he was doing, and that benefited the family, the Kazakhstan oligarch, the the former First Lady of Moscow, Elena Botarina, the the WhatsApp call uh message that said, I'm sitting here with my father and why didn't you keep your word and based on you know he everybody he knows of my ability to hold a grudge you're gonna regret it how many millions were sent into one account days after that and that was from a big energy conglomerate | |
| in China at the time. | |
| How much money did they get from that transaction after that message exchange? | |
| A hundred thousand within twenty-four hours and within three days they got five million dollars worth so five point one million dollars that's an awful lot of money and this is a guy that went on Good Morning America did he not admit that he had no experience in energy oil gas coal or Ukraine and and I don't think he had any any background with China either did he except that he went on trips with with Pops. | |
| That's all his whole business career was was influence peddling and just selling access to Joe. | |
| There was never uh even in the deposition not one time did he say I put together this deal or or because of my expertise this happened it was it was all yes I was on this board and I was here and I was there but it was all because his the board was because his dad got him the border put I mean he never provided anything he never owned a business the Biden you know the the what drove me crazy in the investigation Sean that they were talking about the Biden businesses or the Biden business associates. | |
| There was no business the only thing they did was sell access to to the brand and the brand was Joe Biden. | |
| That's what Devin Archer said that's what Tony Bobalinsky said. | |
| I mean it was all a big shakedown uh for from the Biden family. | |
| Are you frustrated after you did all this work uncovered all of this information that in many ways you could argue nothing came of it or do you feel like you did the country a service anyway? | |
| Well I I think we did the the country a service I mean when Joe Biden's last act as president of the United States was he pardoned his entire family preemptively over an 11 year period which just so happened to be the 11 years worth of bank records the the the dates coincided with the bank records that I subpoenaed I think that validated everything that we said. | |
| But I want to see justice served and I know that the fear that the Trump administration and that Bondy's fear and okay the media's going to say it's retaliation that it's a weaponized government but it's not retaliation. | |
| It's accountability and I you know I strongly encourage them uh to hold this family accountable we've done the investigation it's out there Joe Biden admitted it's true when he pardoned his entire family and the fact that he never issued a statement as to why other than well I'm afraid the the the Trump administration will will go after him. | |
| Well I mean if they haven't done anything wrong then they don't have anything to worry about. | |
| But they have done things wrong and I I hope they're held accountable to send a message to to anyone in the future you better not influence pedal and lie about it and not pay taxes. | |
| Let's talk about the budget I mean the House passed the CR. | |
| It's now moving on to the Senate. | |
| It's a higher bar they're gonna need at least at least seven Democrats uh to go along to get to the 60 vote threshold do you believe Republicans understand how important it is like they did yesterday with the CR that they have to stick together that not everybody's gonna get everything that they want and that it is imperative we get out from under the Biden Harris economy that we're all currently living under. | |
| I hope so and look the the sheer strength of Donald Trump was on display yesterday in the House because there were a lot of members that didn't want to vote for that. | |
| But at the end of the day that was the best deal we could get Donald Trump realized that you've got you know Democrats wanted to spend more money a lot of Republicans myself included wanted to spend less money but you have to compromise because you have to have Democratic support in the Senate. | |
| There's no way to pass this bill without uh eight Democrat votes so the compromise is is no spending if you can go without increasing spending in the federal government sadly that's a pretty big win that's about as big a fiscal win as there's been in in decades. | |
| Now the next step and the most important step is is the budget reconciliation bill which you don't have to have this bill the rules are different you just have to have a majority in the Senate so if every Republican will stick with Trump we'll pass this and this is the Trump agenda this is the significant reforms this is the doge cut this is everything that that we've been talking about and Trump's been talking about. | |
| And we had to pass that continuing resolution first. | |
| Next is a reconciliation bill, and I hope we stick together. | |
| It's not gonna be as many cuts as a lot of uh real, you know, my real conservative friends would love to see, but it's gonna be cut. | |
| And that you you when you're talking about trillions in cuts, that's a pretty good day in Washington, because all I've seen in the eight and a half years I've been watching is trillion plus dollar uh deficits. | |
| So I think this What do you make? | |
| What do you make of the Democratic Party? | |
| It seems to me that they're a party that has lost their their soul and just a defeated group of people with no no idea how to get out from underneath where they are. | |
| If you go in any town in America and you ask the average voter, what is the Republican Party stand for? | |
| They they stand for securing the border, they stand for common sense, they stand for uh eliminating wasteful spending. | |
| If you ask anybody what does the Democrat Party stand for, they'll say uh obstructing Donald Trump. | |
| They hate Donald Trump. | |
| That's all they stand for, and that's what was on full display during the president's address to Congress. | |
| I mean, the Democrats are a joke, and I know they're good Democrats in America, they're probably good Democrats listening to your show right now. | |
| But the Democrats in Congress, uh I mean, they are tone-deaf to what the American people want. | |
| They're attacking Congress or attacking Elon Musk because God forbid we want to audit these federal agencies and and eliminate improper payments and and put common sense back into you know how we spend our tax dollars. | |
| So I think the American people are seeing it, and hopefully, if the Republicans will stick together like we did yesterday, Sean, I think we're gonna pass Trump's agenda, and I think we're gonna see uh uh a new golden age like what Donald Trump talks about. | |
| Oh, we certainly need it, especially after the last four years. | |
| I appreciate your time. | |
| Uh, the book is called All the President's Money Investigating the Secret Foreign Schemes that made the Biden family rich. | |
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| Uh thank you, Congressman James Comer. | |
| Always appreciate your time. | |
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| A couple of days ago when I announced that I was going to buy a Tesla, I'm not under any illusions that. | |
| That I'm going to be able to counter what has been an effort to harass, intimidate, threaten Elon Musk. | |
| I mean, what has he done to deserve this treatment where his charging stations are being set ablaze and vandalism and cars set ablaze at his dealerships and this boycott effort of the left. | |
| And I I'm like, okay, well, what has he done to deserve this? | |
| He must be a terrible person. | |
| No, he likes Donald Trump, number one, and number two, he is exposing waste, fraud, abuse, and corruption in the DC swamp. | |
| And that's why they hate him. | |
| And what has he done to bring on this kind of hatred? | |
| And I just said, I'm just sick of it. | |
| I can't stand people that are bullies. | |
| And I decided, you know what, I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna buy a Tesla. | |
| And now that I found out about it, I love the car. | |
| Absolutely love it. | |
| It goes, I I ordered mine. | |
| I test drove the car that I wanted. | |
| It goes from zero to sixty in two seconds. | |
| It's got over a thousand horsepowers. | |
| It has self-driving capability mode, which I love. | |
| I'm so excited to try this out. | |
| And use it regularly. | |
| And it's an amazing, it's the most American bill car out there. | |
| I figured, okay, I'm gonna I want to give one away on the air. | |
| Now we will start the contest on Monday. | |
| I can announce that. | |
| And it was kind of cool after we did this yesterday. | |
| We had we announced this the day before, President Trump. | |
| He sees what's happening with Elon Musk, and he brought a bunch of Teslas to the White House and he bought one himself. | |
| I was like, Oh, that's cool. | |
| Anyway, so I want to play some of the president and Elon at the White House yesterday when the president was praising Elon and talking about how horrible people are being to him. | |
| Mr. President talks about some of the violence that's been going on around the country, back dealerships. | |
| Some say they should be labeled domestic terrorists. | |
| I will do that. | |
| I'll do it. | |
| I'm gonna stop them. | |
| We catch anybody doing it because they're harming a great American company. | |
| You know, I've stuck up for the NFL. | |
| I've stuck up for a lot of American companies and other companies, but American companies. | |
| I did a very big favor for the NFL. | |
| I do favors for all of them. | |
| When you heard an American company, especially a company like this, supplies so many jobs that others are unable to do. | |
| Uh, when you do that, uh, those people are gonna go through a big problem when we catch them. | |
| And we have a lot of we get a lot of cameras up. | |
| We already know who some of them are, and we're gonna catch them. | |
| And they're bad guys. | |
| They're the same guys that screw around with our our schools and universities, the same garbage. | |
| And no, we're gonna catch them. | |
| And let me tell you, you do it to Tesla and you do it to any company. | |
| We're gonna catch you, and you're gonna you're gonna go through hell. | |
| Mr. President, your comments the other day, not ruling out a potential recession, seem to rattle the stock markets. | |
| The commerce secretary said, just so you know. | |
| Specifically on the recession. | |
| Yeah, do you think there will be a recession? | |
| I don't see it at all. | |
| I think this country is gonna boom. | |
| But as I said, I can do it the easy way or the hard way. | |
| The hard way to do it is exactly what I'm doing, but the results are gonna be twenty times greater. | |
| Remember, Trump is always right. | |
| And what do you think? | |
| You look at what I've said over the last 10 years. | |
| Trump has been right in all the time. | |
| This is the uh this is the way to do it. | |
| We're gonna make America great again. | |
| You know, to make it great, you have to have jobs, you have to have factories, you have to have I look at I look at some of the things that like this last administration. | |
| He was the worst president in the history of our country. | |
| Nothing was happening. | |
| Nothing. | |
| He had no idea what's going on. | |
| Our country went to hell, and then to allow millions of people to come in that are prisoners and mental institutions, patients, all of the things that gang members, drug lords. | |
| We're we're searching them all down now, trying to get them out of our country, and we're gonna do that. | |
| But on the financial end, uh the economic end, what we're doing is to me, it's the most exciting. | |
| Our country will be greater than ever before, and it won't take too long. | |
| So, Mr. President, when you look at the market selling off, that didn't concern you, and where do you see? | |
| I think some some people are gonna make great deals by buying stocks and bonds and all the things they're buying. | |
| Uh I think we're gonna have an economy that's a real economy, not a fake economy. | |
| It was a fake economy. | |
| They were putting in all government jobs. | |
| You see what happened last week, last month? | |
| We had more real jobs, and government jobs are way down. | |
| That's gonna continue. | |
| Those are real jobs, those are jobs that keep the country going. | |
| You can't have all government jobs, you have no income to pay the workers. | |
| And a lot of those workers didn't show up to work. | |
| That was the other problem. | |
| And President Trump, there's this protest leader from Columbia University that the administration is moving to deport. | |
| He said that his arrest is gonna be the first of many. | |
| How many? | |
| I think we ought to get them all out of the country. | |
| They're troublemakers, they're agitators. | |
| Uh, they don't love our country. | |
| We ought to get them the hell out. | |
| I think that guy we ought to get him. | |
| I heard his statements too. | |
| There were plenty bad. | |
| And I think we ought to get him the hell out of the country. | |
| I watched him, I watched tapes specifically. | |
| I watched tapes. | |
| And uh you can have them. | |
| Okay, you can have them, and you can have the rest of them. | |
| Let them go to school, let them learn. | |
| Columbia used to be a good school. | |
| Now it's been overrun because of bad leadership. | |
| That's what happens. | |
| Happens to countries, and it happens to universities, and it happens to companies. | |
| And I don't want it to happen to a guy that did nothing wrong. | |
| He did everything right because he did a great company. | |
| But what he did by coming into government to help government from years of abuse, from decades of abuse. | |
| And you see that. | |
| When you look at Social Security, where you have 200-year-old people on the rules of society. | |
| That's just uh he uses the word care. | |
| People don't care. | |
| Everyone knows this. | |
| But it's also, I believe it's also large fraud. | |
| I think it's that, but I think it's also large for the case. | |
| I guess I'm just telling people, this man is a great patriot, and you should cherish him. | |
| You should cherish him. | |
| You know, I have a little statement. | |
| We have to take care of our high IQ people, because we don't have too many of them. | |
| Mr. President. | |
| And we got to take care of them. | |
| You guys are looking for fraud and waste and abuse. | |
| Can you guarantee people who are concerned about an interruption to benefits that there will not be? | |
| Uh, yes, we're gonna be very careful with uh any interruption benefits. | |
| In fact, uh only by tackling the waste of fraud and entitlements like Social Security, Medicare. | |
| Can we actually preserve those programs for the future? | |
| Because with unchecked fraud and waste, uh, we won't be able to afford them. | |
| Uh the president's very dedicated to solving the budget deficit, of which if we don't solve budget deficit, we're gonna go bankrupt as a country. | |
| We'll go bankrupt as a country. | |
| There's no social security, there's no medical, there's no nothing. | |
| And to I could sort of echo what the professor was saying. | |
| Uh, what really matters is we'll leave people from jobs that are relatively low productivity in government to high productivity in the private sector, increasing the true output of products and services. | |
| That's the real economy. | |
| That's what actually enables Americans to have a higher standard of living, and that's what's happening. | |
| And that's I think you'll see that you'll see the truth to that in the in the months to come. | |
| And we're gonna make it really uh much stronger by taking people that don't exist or taking people that shouldn't be there out by taking illegal aliens that are on social security or Medicaid or Medicaid and Medicare, by taking them out, we'll make it a much stronger. | |
| The country will be much stronger, but it's gonna really be stronger economically, and when you look at what we're doing, I've been called by so many companies. | |
| Yesterday, as you know, I had a meeting with some of the biggest tech companies in the world, and all they're talking about, they can't IBM was there, we had a we had a lot of them. | |
| Uh, Dow, Michael Dell was there. | |
| We had a lot of great companies, youlett packard, and uh all they're talking about is investing in this country. | |
| They want to be sure, don't forget, they're looking down the road ten years and fifteen years. | |
| They want to make sure we have a strong country. | |
| They're all coming in. | |
| Uh, as you know, Apple, Tim Cook, he said that uh he's gonna invest 500 billion in the United States. | |
| He never did that before. | |
| He invested in China, he's got his plants in China, and now he's got them gonna be building them in the United States. | |
| And if I didn't have uh victory in that election, he wouldn't be doing it. | |
| And if I didn't say what I'm saying, and I'm being very honest, and it's much more difficult than just sitting around and having a great time. | |
| It's a very glamorous position if you want to do that. | |
| We could have kept it, but eventually bad things would have happened this way, good things. | |
| I'm very optimistic about the country. | |
| I think we're gonna have the greatest markets we've ever had, and it's gonna be really fueled by what we're doing. | |
| All you had to see these companies yesterday, they're investing billions and trillions. | |
| They're investing trillions of dollars here. | |
| They wouldn't have invested 10 cents. | |
| Mr. President, will you talk to Vladimir Putin about this ceasefire deal? | |
| Do you think you need to have a conversation with him to get the Russian space? | |
| I'll talk to Vladimir Putin. | |
| Yeah, but I want to get looked that's the other. | |
| It takes two to tango, as they say, right? | |
| So hopefully uh he'll also agree, and I really think that would be 75% of the way. | |
| The rest is getting it documented, and you know, negotiating land positions itself. | |
| So you'll talk to him this week about the ceasefire in place on the Ukrainian side. | |
| How close do you think then you are to a total ceasefire with the. | |
| Well, I hope it'll be over the next few days. | |
| I'd like to see. | |
| Uh I know we have a big meeting with Russia tomorrow, and some great conversations hopefully will ensue. | |
| Uh the people have done a great job. | |
| Marco Rubio's been great, Steve Whitkoff's been great. | |
| Michael Waltz. | |
| They're all every one of them. | |
| They've really stepped up. | |
| They are into it. | |
| They want to see, they want to see two things. | |
| By far number one is death. | |
| The people that aren't citizens of our country. | |
| But they're people, just like you. | |
| They're people. | |
| And we want to stop. | |
| And we also don't want to give billions and hundreds of billions of dollars away. | |
| We're there for three hundred and fifty billion dollars. | |
| And there was no reason this war would have never happened if I was president. | |
| So it's a very sad thing. | |
| Thank you all very much. | |
| I love Tesla. | |
| Which one did you buy? | |
| Which one did you buy? | |
| Uh the one I like is that one. | |
| How does this work? | |
| And I want that same color. | |
| Are you going to put down a credit card? | |
| Elon, would you take a personal credit for the president? | |
| I do it the old fan. | |
| I give checks. | |
| I like it. | |
| I think it's better as good. | |
| You still have to. | |
| You know, I like a check. | |
| Better than this modern system of all of a sudden there's money in your account, nobody knows. | |
| Are you buying a Tesla? | |
| Well, boost Tesla sales and boosts. | |
| Look, look. | |
| Was that your body? | |
| I care about one thing. | |
| When somebody's a great patriot, they shouldn't be hurt. | |
| He's a great patriot. | |
| He didn't know me from Adam until we we met a little bit when I was in my first term, but he came out, he endorsed me very strongly. | |
| And I admired that and respected that. | |
| And I respected him for years. | |
| I respected it. | |
| And when there was a chance to help our government, you know, you're not going to use an average person. | |
| Some people say, well, let's use somebody that failed in business for his whole life. | |
| This guy has been amazing. | |
| And the kind of thinking is uh it's from a different age. | |
| It's really from a different age. | |
| When we said uh let's cut two percent, he said let's cut sixty percent, and he turned out to be right. | |
| And a lot of people were are just not here, they don't work for us. | |
| I mean they're getting checks and they don't work. | |
| And you know, Peter, we've been we've look, we have so many different stats and so many different figures. | |
| And it's so embarrassing to us as a country. | |
| No, we're gonna have a streamlined country with good people, and one of the reasons and I called for the it wasn't a cabinet meeting, it was just a meeting of some cabinet members, and Elon, the one thing, and I think he agrees with me a hundred percent. | |
| It's one thing to cut, but we want to cut the wrong people, meaning we want to cut people that aren't doing the job. | |
| We want to keep the right people. | |
| Absolutely. | |
| And I said, I don't want to just say we're gonna cut 50 percent. | |
| I want to cut the people that aren't doing the job, the people that aren't there, the people that are scamming the system. | |
| And he agrees with that a hundred percent. | |
| Are you sure you don't want to take a test drive? | |
| I'd love to do it. | |
| Maybe I'll do it some other time. | |
| I mean, I is there gonna be an end date for the two of you working together? | |
| I don't know. | |
| I you know, I was thinking about that the other day. | |
| I think he'll know when it's time. | |
| Okay. | |
| Well, he doesn't want to stay right now. | |
| Although I think he does like it. | |
| There's no place like the White House, maybe would you want to stay? | |
| I don't I don't think that uh I think he wants to get the job then get back to his businesses. | |
| That's what I think. | |
| I just so yeah, just want to I'll I'll stay as long as it's useful and not productive. | |
| Thank you so thank you, everybody. | |
| All right, that was Elon and the president uh at the White House yesterday. | |
| Uh and and uh listen, I I just I can't stand bullying. | |
| There's nothing this man has done that has warranted this level of hatred. | |
| He's now getting death threats. | |
| He's now you know seeing acts of terrorism as far as I'm concerned at his dealerships and his charging stations, and all because he's helping the country for free. | |
| There's just something morally wrong with that. | |
| Anyway, we're gonna give away a Tesla. | |
| All the details will be on Hannity.com on Monday, and we'll talk about it more when that happens. | |
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