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Our dear friend Leo 2.0 Terrell is now the senior counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, who is heading up a new Justice Department task force to combat anti-Semitism.
He's here to talk about that and also to talk about the violence that is at Tesla earlier in the program.
We had Elon Musk on talking about the Supreme Court race in the state of Wisconsin.
This will tip the balance of power.
If you are in Wisconsin, please, I urge you.
I'd beg if I could.
Let me play for Leo, who's going to join us in a minute.
We have this student.
His name is Grant Miner.
He was expelled from Colombia.
And then he's joining New York City protest, demanding that Mom Mood uh Khalil, who we've talked an awful lot about and is released.
Remember, Leo is going to do a multi-college uh tour nationwide tour uh to deal with the issue of civil rights and anti-Semitism on college campuses.
Here's what this guy said.
Twenty-two students, including myself, face uh expulsion, suspension, and degree revocation almost just expelled uh two days ago from Columbia.
Uh and we're not gonna stand for it.
We're gonna come back uh and we're gonna fight back.
Are you gonna fight back?
I'm gonna ask you one more time.
Are you gonna fight back?
I'm out here to support our uh former member, Matt Moore Khalil, who has been abducted and disappeared uh by DHS uh and sent uh out of the state away from his lawyers uh for no reason.
Uh the only and well, I mean there is a reason.
The reason is that uh he was supporting Palestinian liberation, and the government has decided that that is a uh a deportable crime.
You support us in our campaign to free Mahmud.
Support us in our campaign to overturn the expulsions, the degree revocations, and the suspensions against students, not just on our campus, but across the nation.
All right, also another issue that that Leo will be dealing with are these unhinged Tesla protesters.
We have seen violence at Tesla dealerships all around the country.
We've seen uh we've seen bullets fired into these dealerships.
We've seen cars on the lot firebombed and Molotov cocktails going off inside the dealerships.
Uh, we have also seen charging stations set ablaze and it gets worse and worse.
And then this weekend, they had over 200 protests, and here's a highlight of some of these idiots and uh what their stated goal, as Elon said, is to take down Tesla.
I'm a freaking okay.
Come on, bring it on.
Bring it on my Nazi, if you're not.
No!
Woo!
Woo!
you What has this man done to ex to garner this much rage, insanity, hatred, and now it's devolved into domestic terrorism.
And now his employees are at risk physically, and their jobs are now at risk if they're successful in hurting this company.
Because those people that make those cars on the line, they have high-paying career jobs.
They that Those jobs will be at risk if they're successful in taking down this company.
The people that work at the dealerships that sell Teslas, their jobs will be at risk.
The people that repair these electric cars, it is it is a highly engineered vehicle.
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Anyway, joining us now, our dear friend Leo 2.0 Terrell, sir.
How are you?
Sean, I really, you know, I listen to that montage of video and craziness and lunacy, and I'm so glad to be on your program.
I I can't threaten enough the following statement.
President Trump and Pam Bondi is going to stop this crazy left-wing domestic terrorism.
And I can tell all these lunatics, these professional agitators who are trying to take down a company because Elon Musk wants to make America great.
They're going to jail.
And there'll be no plea bargaining.
And I got news for you.
If they honestly believe they're going to continue this nonsense, I got news for you.
They're going to lose.
They're going to lose in court.
They're going to be arrested.
And there's going to be no lawyer who's going to work out a plea deal because Pam Bonnie and the Department of Justice is not going to give a plea deal for these criminals who are creating domestic terrorism.
I want everyone to understand what domestic terrorism is.
It's violence with the intent to create fear and intimidate the civilian population.
President Trump will not have that on his watch.
And I guarantee you, it's going to stop.
It's going to stop with conviction because these people are going to be locked up for anywhere between 15 to 20 years.
Well, I can't believe what's happening.
You know, I I look at this irrational rage, and I really can't explain it.
Nor can Elon Musk explain it.
But if you're trying to explain the minds of evil people, uh maybe that's that's an impossible task.
But you know, what has he done to garner this this level of hatred?
Um it's sort of like Trump derangement syndrome, it's like Elon derangement syndrome, right?
Um, I look at a guy that created go ahead.
No, no, I mean, listen, there you can't logically figure out irrational behavior.
These people are jealous of President Trump because he won the election, he is making America great.
They are jealous of Elon Musk for exposing the deep state for exposing the waste, for exposing how the system was corrupt.
He's saving the American taxpayers' money, and they resent it.
They resent the fact that he's telling the American people the truth about the government, and they're jealous of President Trump.
So these are professional agitators.
You can't get to them.
You can only put them in jail and make them understand the American government under the Trump administration, under Pam Bonnie will not tolerate this.
And I can tell you right now, Sean, without any doubt, in my mind, it's going to end.
I know, I know that you're the right guy for the job.
I know Pam's the right person for this job.
Um I I uh you're right.
I I if I try to analyze, I mean, all he has done is aligned himself with President Trump, who the left just you know reflexively hates, and that he has exposed what is the greatest examples of corruption, waste fraud abuse in in our nation's history.
You know, he's hoping to find a trillion dollars in waste fraud and abuse to save taxpayers' money so we don't have to mortgage our children and grandchildren's future.
I mean, a guy that created Starlink and then gives it away when people are in dire need and and can't communicate with the outside world, like after Hurricane Helene, people in North Carolina, Tennessee, like he helped the people of California after the wildfires out there.
This is a guy that, you know, because of SpaceX and he's Their chief engineer, you know, was able to rescue two astronauts that were lost in space and abandoned for nearly 300 days.
This is a guy that is is now losing money officially for trying to root out this waste fraud and abuse.
This guy's looking through Neurlink and his other companies for for solutions, medical solutions for blindness and spinal cord injuries.
And what is the worst thing that he did?
He exposed them.
And this is the reaction of the radical left in the country.
What I guess is amazing to me, and maybe I'm naive, Leo, is the level of vitriol.
It's it's so irrational.
It is so over the top.
And I worry uh if these bullets keep getting fired into these dealerships and these these vehicles keep getting firebombed, and if these charging stations keep getting firebombed, somebody's gonna end up dead here at some point.
Never mind all the people that will lose their jobs.
You just laid out the case, why what Elon Musk has done for America, and they resent it.
And let me tell you right now, this is the problem that is going on.
You know, you gotta blame not just the crazy agitators out there, who's bankrolling these people, and then the distortion from the left wing media.
It still exists.
And no matter how much, how good Elon Musk has been for America, they're going after him because of his association with President Trump.
John, the the most obvious thing is that you got the left wing media, the left-wing radicals who hate Trump.
He could do, he can't, there's nothing he could do.
He could cure cancer, and they'd still hate him.
They wouldn't care.
Yeah.
And I but I'll tell you right now, Trump has a marching order of 24-7 on the Department of Justice on the FBI to stop this domestic terrorism.
And I can't say that enough.
It's going to stop.
These people are going to jail, and I'm telling you, it's around the clock.
Let me go to the issue.
You have planned an upcoming tour of college campuses where there have been pro Hamas uh protests going on, a lot of agitators, people that have taken over school buildings that have been harassing students.
There was an incident I remember we were reported back last year when this was happening after October 7th, and people were being asked, Are you a Zionist?
And if they answered yes, they weren't even allowed to pass.
And places like Columbia University were saying that, you know, well, if you're Jewish, you're probably better off staying home and doing, you know, at home learning and not even allowed to show up at your own campus.
That has to stop, Leo.
Well, what error are we living in here?
Well, Sean, I can't tell you again, I gotta keep crazy President Trump.
He has an executive order to combat anti-Semitism.
You got Pam Bonnie giving the Department of Justice and my task force marching orders.
Let me tell you the news right now.
Harvard is number one on my campus tour later this month.
I invite you to show up.
Listen, I don't believe these universities.
We are going after them, Sean, with every type of legal mechanism.
You know, these schools put out these sony letters saying, oh, we're trying to combat anti-semitism.
That's a lie.
We gotta take them to court.
We have to get consent decrees.
Jewish American students must be allowed to go to school.
They must be allowed to get an education like any other person, and they're being denied because these universities, and really, Sean, if these professors, if these professors has got a stranglehold on these students, brainwashing them of this left-wing Marxist uh uh mentality.
And I got news for it.
This pro Hamas nonsense.
I applaud Marco Rubio, deporting these individuals who are here by privilege of the United States.
He has the right to cancel their visa, to cancel their green card.
And we have in the Department of Justice tools to charge them with hate crimes, to charge Title VII, to charge Title VI.
And I want to be very clear, Sean.
These blue cities like New York and Boston, we're not only going to Harbor and these universities.
I'm having a meeting with the mayors and the district attorney.
And I'm telling these individuals, you better prosecute these individuals for hate crime because I'm sick and tired of these police departments arresting these individuals for one day, and then I'm back on the street and protest and deny Jewish Americans the right to go to school.
It is outrageous, and I can guarantee you on your program, it's gonna stop.
All right, quick break.
We'll come right back.
We'll continue more with Leo 2.0 Torrell, now the senior counsel to the assistant attorney general for civil rights, and is heading up a new Justice Department task force for the purpose of combating anti-Semitism, also getting to the bottom of the Tesla domestic terrorism.
More with Leo on the other side.
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Leo 2.0 Terrell heading up a task force for the Department of Justice as the senior counsel to the assistant attorney general.
And it is to combat anti-Semitism and get to the bottom of the domestic terrorism acts against Tesla dealerships and Tesla charging stations around the country.
Now, I will tell you this.
I would imagine, and I will go with you if you're really serious about your invitation.
I'd be glad to go with you.
I'd be honored to go with you.
And if you're serious about it, um, I will tell you, I would expect that there's going to be a lot of hostility when you show up on these campuses.
I hope you have a ton of security with you.
Oh, let me be very clear.
I have told every university, how in the heck can you honestly tell us you're combating anti-Semitism and we're going to go to your campus and we're going to confront this type of nonsense?
That school better be protected.
It better be a picnic to walk on that campus, or we're just going to turn ourselves around.
We're not going to be part of a side show.
We're not going to be part of a circuit.
If you are committed, Harbor, uh Columbia, UCLA, USC, University of Miss Minnesota, you better show us your commitment by having the campus in a condition that not only we the DOJ can go there go there, but Jewish American students can go on that campus.
All students.
We will not tolerate it.
It will not happen, Sean.
Not on my watch.
Let me tell you right now, Trump and Pam Bonney are committed to eradicate anti-Semitism, not just on campus, but across this country.
And I'm proud to be part of it.
Well, I'm proud to be called your friend.
I mean, I remember a guy named Leo 2.0 Torrell.
Thank God he's long dead and gone.
I can't even proof.
I can't even find the tapes anymore.
It doesn't exist.
That's Leo, that's Leo 1.0.
Now that I'm in the DOG.
You know, with the goal to eradicate anti-00.
Oh, no, no, no, no.
Well, you're never getting past 2.0.
You're not, you're not moving on from 2.0.
You're perfect at 2.0.
Look, Sean, I'm the power of a wreck.
I don't, I don't want to go down to your station and arrest you for being, you know, there's no reason to arrest me.
You know, that was the last administration that would have been happy to arrest me, not you.
Um, anyway, Leo, we love you.
We appreciate you.
Thanks for all the great work you're doing.
Pam Bondi's doing, and everybody in the administration.
I'm glad you're going to get a hold of all of this.
Thank you.
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I mean, because the the a left-wing activist court will get involved in redistricting and they'll gerrymander at least two congressional seats, maybe more away from Republicans.
It will tip the balance on the court.
It is that severe.
Secondarily, if you look at other issues that this court will face, they'll be facing voter integrity issues.
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That will not instill confidence in election results.
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Before we get to our busy phones, I mean, Corey Booker did this long open Senate floor speech that went on through the night last night.
And here's Corey Booker talking about Americans being fearful of Trump and Elon Musk making cuts to Social Security and the Social Security Administration.
Both Musk and Trump have said over and over and over and over again, ad nauseum that they're not cutting Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid.
The only thing that might be cut is waste fraud and abuse.
When you have 15 million people on the Social Security rolls that are over 120 years old, those people don't belong on those roles.
Whether they're getting paid or not, I don't know.
The fact that they're there is scary.
Listen.
I know so many people personally whose parents have Alzheimer's.
I know so many Americans who are not powerful, they're not rich.
I know so many Americans who live in fear every day that one little thing will happen to them that will destabilize their financial well-being.
And now those millions of Americans because of a president and a man named Musk are driving fear into them, are whacking away the people that answer phones are firing the people in an agency that already was struggling with wait times and already was struggling with slow response times.
These people who are hanging on by a threat in their lives or are facing the people they love the most who are struggling with the diseases that so many of us in this body have been affected by they are now worried.
They're writing me letters with words like fear and terror.
They're talking about staying up at night and not being able to sleep because they don't have a president that comforts them.
They have a president that talks down to them that lies about the services that they rely on.
What is this?
It is not normal.
It is not normal.
These people on the left are not normal.
There's no other way to put it.
Anyway, don't forget you have time still to vote in both Florida and the in the Daytona Beach area in the panhandle area, two congressional seats that Republicans need to hold on to, and Brad Schimmel for the Supreme Court in the state of Wisconsin.
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Uh Don, North Carolina next on the Sean Hannity show.
Hi.
Hey, a couple of things.
Number one, that Booker.
I can't he sound like he was about to cry there.
And it it just amazes me how easy it is for these Democrats to just lie with a straight face.
But uh another point, I think Linda needs her own show.
I I don't know what you think about that, Sean, but she's uh she's a hoot to listen to.
You guys are great, you just bounce off each other and and I'm I'm uh listen, if she wants to go out on her own, I would fully support her.
Um I think there is a great risk factor that I won't go into great specificity in detail.
Um Linda, you is there's some truth to what I'm saying.
Now I think I mean, you know, I've already been doxxed and hated online, so I feel like I'm prepped, but I appreciate the love, man.
Thank you so much.
I appreciate it.
Yeah.
Well, my I'm calling about Sean is uh I was gonna say if we can change the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, I think the United States of America needs to just be changed to uh um you know just America.
Uh um, you know, because we're not united.
So I'm I want to start to unite us.
And by uniting us, I think we all need to talk about what you guys were talking about before.
AOC and Tim Waltz.
Let's let's let's help them.
Let's what do we need to do to get them as front runners for 2028?
Because, you know, I mean, I'm voting for Trump or whoever's gonna be there in 2028.
Oh, I'm I'm fine with Kamala, Tim Walls, I'm fine with AOC, Bernie, Jasmine Crockett, because they seem to be the emerging leadership in the Democratic Party, right?
Yeah, I mean, they just don't stand a chance right now in 2028 until somebody, you know, you might as well throw uh Anthony Wiener into the head just so we can have fun with his name.
But um anyhow, that's all I want to say.
It's that we're the states of America, let's be united, AOC, Wolf, Harris, all those other jokes you you mentioned.
Yeah, we need to we need to pull for them because they will they will at least get six percent of the vote uh versus Camilla's getting eight or whatever.
But uh the other thing is Elon needs to buy planned parenthood, because then the left will start hating planned parenthood too.
So we just need to have a Republican I wish I thought of that.
That's very clever.
Very, very clever.
All right, well, listen, I love you, man.
Keep doing what you do.
All right, my friend.
I'm glad I'm glad you're out there.
We appreciate you, Don.
We love our friends in North Carolina.
Let's go to South Carolina next.
Susan, you're on the Sean Hannity show.
Hi.
Hi, thank you for taking my call.
Thank you for calling.
What's on your mind?
Yeah, my pleasure.
Um, you know, as listening to all of the the uh rhetoric against Doge and Elon Musk, it's really really infuriating.
And it made me think that we need we the people need to get to have uh together and have a really vocal like rally, like a pro doge rally.
Uh just to counteract everything that I'm seeing on the media with all the protesters and the violence against Tesla, and I feel like you know, so those rallies really got a lot of publicity, and I feel like all the millions of people that are out here that are So happy about what the president is doing and what Elon Musk and the Doge team are doing.
We need to just have a really public display of our support.
I will tell you this.
Just remember this, and I don't think your idea is a bad idea at all.
And you know, the president's been working at the speed of light and he's got a lot on his plate right now.
Uh so I'm not sure if he has the time to get out and and do rallies, but I have no doubt at the right time he will.
But remember, the last three polls showed the Democratic Party in the twenty percent favorability range.
That is a disaster.
It is the lowest in over three decades.
So, you know, it's the lowest nearly in forty years.
So all of their although they may seem loud, there is a certain radicalism now that has just taken over the entire party.
They have a massive identity crisis going on, and I don't really see a way out for them.
I mean, if if Chuck Schumer dares to step out of line again, uh he's done.
He'll be thrown out.
And one of the radicals will take over.
And Hakeem Jeffries, so far he's kind of gotten a pass, but if he if he deviates from the AOC Jasmine Crockett, squad wing of the party, it's not gonna work out well for him either.
So, you know, let them let them implode.
This is the first time in my lifetime that I can think of that Democrats have created the circular firing squad, not Republicans, and that Republicans now seem to be uniting and circling the wagons.
It's usually the opposite.
You know, Republicans turn on each other constantly.
You know, the the Bible says something that's deep and profound.
Well, everything in the Bible is deep and profound, but it says he who's not against us is for us.
And you know, because the disciples were asking, well, what about all these people that are are doing these good works in your name?
You know, what about those people?
They're not with us.
And Jesus made that remark back.
And similarly, you don't hear me often criticize conservatives, if ever, or other people in the media that are generally conservative.
Maybe that they don't agree with me a hundred percent of the time, or maybe they don't even like me.
I mean, they've been they were conservatives back in twenty fifteen and sixteen.
I'll I'll name two.
I hold no grudge against them at all.
Uh they're very pro-Trump now.
Well Ben Shapiro and Glenn Beck were attacking me every day.
And I hold no grudge, no resentment.
I wish them all the best.
But it was just a Linda, you remember at that time, it was like every day.
As if, you know, I was evil, but I had spent the time vetting and having conversations with Trump that were very deep and significant about important things that matter to me, and I remember telling him I would not vote for him if he was not gonna govern as a conservative.
And early on there were thoughts that because he had donated to both parties that well, maybe maybe, you know, and Hillary Clinton had gone to his wedding.
He was playing the game of a contractor in New York, and that was to get along with everybody so he can put up buildings.
That's all he was doing.
He it was it's the way business works, especially in New York City.
Nothing illegal.
He was just it just was that's how the game is played.
Um Linda, you remember all that criticism?
Oh man, it was never ending.
I mean, there was no shortage of people who had an opinion that was in the adverse to what you were saying.
No, I mean, and it's it's funny if I say one thing that slightly deviates from you know pure MAGAism as defined by a person.
It's amazing, you know, how the attacks come in.
And I'm just not that quick to turn on people.
I think it's a little weird.
You know, I feel like there's it's great to support people and it's great to be in step, but supporting somebody doesn't mean that you agree with every single thing they do.
It just it's like, you know, sort of the 80-20, you know what I mean?
Right.
The eighty twenty that Linda's referring to is Ronald Reagan saying if you're eighty percent of the time in agreement with me, you're not an an enemy of mine.
I appreciate the call, Susan.
Good call.
800-941 Sean our number of Steve in my free state of Florida.
Steve, how are you?
I'm good, Sean.
How about you?
I'm good.
Big day today.
Two big races in Florida.
Yeah, yeah.
I'm in Tallahassee, so I'm not in either of them.
But uh I I I just want to say it's an honor to speak to you because you're right.
You were one of the few that are stuck with uh President Trump from the very beginning.
So proudly so.
I mean, you know what?
He is uh spar surpassed what I thought he'd be able to do in this term already.
And now it's now it's up to the Republicans to do their part, and I'm pretty confident, I have a high degree of confidence that they're gonna get it done.
Yeah, I I think so.
I I think Mike Johnson has been seems to be working overtime trying to uh get the agenda across.
My uh I was told actually I I'm from Vermont originally.
I was born and raised there and lived there for uh 40 years until I had enough and moved to Florida.
Um this Bernie Sanders and AOC nonsense that's going on.
Uh it's kind of a question I have for you.
Why do you think Bernie Sanders has become so popular?
I mean, he was in office since 1980 as a mayor, and was you know, nothing.
I can tell you why.
Because Bernie Sanders and his, you know, radicalism, statism, Marxism, socialism that he loves so dearly.
Who else honeymoons in the former Soviet Union?
Give me a break.
Uh, is now the mainstream of the Democratic Party.
That's why.
There's your answer.
In a nutshell.
The guy that you've known all these years, and you've watched all these years, as radical as he is.
That is now the mainstream of that party.
And anybody that dares to deviate in any way is going to be ostracized.
Mark my words, it's going to get worse before it ever has any chance of getting better.
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