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April 18, 2025 - Sean Hannity Show
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Trump vs. Maine - April 17th, Hour 2
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So Pam Bondy announcing a civil suit against the state of Maine Department of Education over their refusal to protect women, girls in sports.
And here's the announcement from yesterday.
Today, the Department of Justice is announcing a civil lawsuit against the Maine Department of Education.
The state of Maine is discriminating against women by failing to protect women in women's sports.
Pretty basic stuff.
This is a violation of Title IX.
The Department of Justice will not sit by when women are discriminated against in sports.
This is about sports.
This is also about these young women's personal safety.
All right, that was Pam Bondi.
Uh Riley Gaines, who has been probably the voice of this movement to stop, you know, Democrats from championing the right of men to play in women's sports.
Riley Gaines saying Democrats supporting trans and women's sports is a misogynistic betrayal.
Here's what she said at the same DOJ presser.
I'm sure you guys saw the clips and the visuals that surfaced uh following President Trump's executive order signing of uh this this EO barring men from participating in women's sports within any educational program that receives federal funding.
And it was the most amazing thing to be there.
And you have all of these young girls.
I'm talking five, six, seven, eight years old.
They've got their jerseys on, their sports uniforms, their their big bows in their hair that they wear on the soccer field.
That visual means more to me than I could possibly put into words.
And that is what it's is at stake here.
That is who Governor Mills is fighting, not Donald Trump.
It's those little girls.
And I believe that's that's sick.
It's regressive is what it is.
They do this under the guise of a progress, indicating we are moving in the positive forward direction.
No, what Governor Mills is doing, and again, Democratic governors across the nation is deeply regressive and utterly misogynistic.
Now, this all in response to Maine officials now having filed a lawsuit against the Department of Agriculture of all places on Monday following the agency's decision to freeze funding to the state for its refusal to reverse their transgender athlete participation policy in schools.
Um you might recall President Trump in the same room with the governor of Maine warning that I'll see you in court.
Here's how that went down.
The NCAA has complied immediately, by the way.
That's good.
But I understand Maine.
Is it Maine here, the governor of Maine?
Are you uh not going to comply with it?
I'm fine with state and federal law.
Well, I'm we are the federal law.
Well, you better do it.
You better do it because you're not going to get any federal funding at all if you don't.
And by the way, your population, even though it's a liberal, although I did very well there, uh, your population doesn't want men playing in women's sports.
So you better comp you better comply because otherwise you're not getting any any federal funding.
See what every state good, I'll see you in court.
I look forward to that.
That should be a real easy one.
And enjoy your life after governor, because I don't think you'll be in elected politics.
Ouch, ouch, ouch.
Anyway, joining us now to update us on this situation is Mae Mailman, deputy assistant to the president, senior policy strategist.
Uh May, welcome to the program.
Thanks for being with us.
All right, so we saw Pam Bondi, we heard from Riley Gaines.
You see what the state of Maine is doing.
Uh, what are the next steps?
Well, this is actually pretty advanced as far as next steps because we gave Maine every opportunity.
Both the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Education both did investigations.
Obviously, pretty their their uh violations of Title IX were pretty obvious, but we still went through that.
We sat down with them, we asked them to change their behavior, and they refused.
I mean, they really wanted to violate the rights of women.
And so now with this complaint starts the legal process where we are asking for a few things.
One, stop doing this, stop making women compete with men in women's sports.
You can offer co-ed.
You can you can do all sorts of things.
You can make the men be nicer and have them be more inclusive, but you can't subject women to this sort of unequal treatment.
Two, we want the trophies back.
We want the right winners to be named.
So if it is the female categories, those are female winners.
And then three, it's damages.
But not only that, if you are found guilty of uh Title IX violation, then you don't get federal funds.
It's as simple as that.
You want to take the money, then you have to not discriminate against women.
You can't discriminate on the basis of sex.
So they are free to not take the money if that's what they would like to do.
And then Title Nine will have nothing to say about that.
But if you want to take the money, then it's a very, very simple request, which is don't treat women and girls unequally.
Well, I think it's a no-brainer.
Uh let's talk about the the court system because you can start at a lower level low lower level court.
We've been watching the left and the radical left uh basically go judge shopping in the hopes of of getting some type of benefit for them starting out.
Uh then we find out either on appeals or you know, maybe appellate court judges or the Supreme Court that those decisions have been going in favor of the administration.
Do you expect the same thing to unfold here?
Yeah, so because this law is so clear, it says that and there's a regulation that says that if if you provide sports, you have to do it on equal terms.
And if you're making women compete with men, then obviously women do not have equal opportunity.
So I do think there's a pretty good chance just straight up in the district court that we will win this.
But the reason that, you know, even if we don't, I think that there's a really good chance in higher courts, including the Supreme Court, is that Biden basically laid out this test case for us where Biden said Title Nine means that men have to play women's sports.
He outlaw women's sports.
And twenty six states challenged that law alongside a lot of uh independent groups.
And this went all the way up to the Supreme Court on an early posture, and nine zero, even the liberal justices agreed that Biden's interpretation was very unlikely, and so they allowed that injunction to stand in those twenty six states.
So we have an early indication, nine zero from the Supreme Court that they know that Title Nine is a sex protective statute and not a gender identity one.
So even if this takes a little bit of time, I think that this is a good case.
I think this really does need to be cleaned up by the Supreme Court.
So we are happy to litigate this all the way to the Supreme Court.
No, I agree.
And we've been watching a a lot of this unfold.
What do you make of Havid and all of these these Ivy League institutions?
Now the administration is gonna probably cut off any funding, and they've even talked about now places like Harvard that have said they're not gonna comply with the president's DEI uh executive order, uh, that now the White House is saying, well, maybe they should lose their tax exem status.
What is the legal standing on that?
Yeah, so Harvard, for whatever reason, has decided that it wants to pick this fight with the administration, even though we we want no fight with Harvard.
If Harvard just wants to not take the federal money and they Oh, I I I actually do want to fight with Harvard because I'm sick and tired.
Why why should any American that works so hard for a living, why should every uh personal assistant or nurse or construction worker or the people, the fishermen in this country, why should they be funding elite institutions uh when in fact that's not their ownity.
Uh and especially when they have over a fifty billion dollar endowment, and I would imagine they could afford to give ever every kid a scholarship if they weren't so cheap with their own money.
Exactly.
So I went to Harvard Law School and I had to take out Susan.
Sorry to hear that.
I'm only I'm only teasing it.
And so uh and this is you know, you you spend years and years uh paying it off, including the federal government has loans, and a lot of kids don't pay it off, and so the taxpayers end up paying it twice.
Um and so you know, Harvard is free if they want to discriminate, if they want to be as crazy as they want to be, then don't take billions of taxpayer dollars.
And Harvard can afford to do it.
But if you want to take the money, and Harvard has treated this like, how dare you invade my institution?
Nobody has invaded your institution.
You asked for money.
You wanted this money, and you made some promises when you took the money to c to comply with federal law.
One, you're not gonna discriminate on the basis of race or national origin, which you clearly do, which a court found that you did, and two, that you're not gonna discriminate on the basis of sex, and I would be shocked if Harvard had uh female dorms that were all female, right?
Like the the policies at these universities are insane.
And the ironic part is these universities are all woke and have all these harassment discrimination policies in place.
You can't discriminate based on race and sex and orientation.
Uh you can't discriminate uh or or make people feel uncomfortable and you better use the proper pronoun.
But it's perfectly okay as we saw Elise Defonic tear uh just rip apart all these presidents of these elite institutions uh apart because the their hypocrisy reeks, but it's okay, you know, on Columbia University's campus when kids were asking, are you a Zionist or not?
And if they were a Zionist or if they were Jewish or Israeli, they weren't even allowed to walk to past their encampment that they took over uh on the college campus.
Exactly.
And so Harvard has so much to lose here.
Yes, it's the money, but they get a lot of benefits over having a positive relationship with the federal government, and they're throwing that all in jeopardy.
And you know what?
At at the End of the day, fine.
You want to try and make it on your own and use your own endowment and not have any perks from the federal government, not have uh taxpayers not have moms have to take out a second job and not see their own kids so that Harvard can have a few extra billion dollars, then that's Harvard's choice.
But this is no federal takeover.
This is Harvard's choice, and they still have the opportunity to choose the right thing.
All right, we really appreciate your time.
Uh, Mary Melman, thank you so much for being with us.
I hope you'll come back again.
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Let us say hi to Bruce in California, the United Socialist Utopia of California.
What's up, Bruce?
How are you?
Glad you called.
Hey, Sean, thanks for taking the call.
I'm calling on the topic of conversation from yesterday with the Democrat Senator going to uh El Salvador to try and sanction this criminal.
And I I gotta tell you, man, I am just appalled that the Democrat Party would partner to get a terrorist out of prison in a foreign country to bring them back to American soil where we have so many problems in this country that this is what they concentrate on.
They concentrate on negative.
They don't want to do anything for the American people.
They want to do everything for the opposite.
So we should just call them the opposite party.
Well, I I this is insane.
And this Chris Van Holland, who's looking for all this publicity and acting like a jackass, and and frankly, he had to leave.
He wouldn't even get a phone call with the guy that he's talking about.
I've gone through this in great detail and specificity.
And I'll do it again if you want, but this is not an American cit citizen.
If I hear one more time as we played in the first hour today, a Marylander, he's a Marylander, he's not a Marylander.
No, he's not a Marylander.
No, not at all.
I mean, you know, the you want to talk about the face of hypocrisy and the phoniness of the Democratic Party.
Why didn't this guy pick up a phone pick up a phone and call the mother uh of Rachel Morin, who is a mother of five, that was brutally raped, brutally murdered by this illegal immigrant from El Salvador on a Maryland hiking trail.
He couldn't find the time to do it.
Nor could Joe, nor nor could Kamala, nor could uh Alejandro Mayorcas.
He couldn't find it either.
Or when twenty-year-old Maryland woman, Kayla Hamilton was raped and murdered in her own uh Maryland home by another illegal from El Salvador, Chris Holland did nothing.
And I'm just sick and tired of hearing, oh, he's a Marylander, Maryland or Maryland.
No, he's an El Salvadorian.
That would be the more accurate description.
And not one judge, but two judges uh said, in fact, uh confirmed that he was a gang member and you know, MS 13.
What else do you want to know?
And this guy's rushing before every microphone that he possibly can.
He's not a Maryland man at all.
He's not an American.
He's not this guy's constituent.
He was not in our country legally.
He had no right to be here.
And Rachel Morin and K uh Kayla Hamilton should be alive today, except for weak, pathetic jackasses uh and publicity seekers like Chris Van Holland, who is trying to exploit a situation, manipulate and lie to the American people, just that like they lied for four years and said the borders closed and the borders secure, and that was a big fat lie, too.
And as far as I'm concerned, all of them have blood on their hands.
All of them.
They're responsible for this.
When you saw her mother in the oval office with the president, you saw her heart was on her sleeve.
It was horrible.
The horrible I had her on I had her on the show two nights ago.
Oh, I'm not sure.
It was horrible.
And they never picked up a phone and called Patty Moran, Rachel's mother.
They never called Alexis Nungary, Jocelyn Nungary's mother.
They never called the family of Lake and Riley.
Now I've spoken all three of those families and others that have lost loved ones.
The number of rapes, murders, and other violent crimes committed against Americans, it is now in the thousands, and every one of them I place on those people for doing what they did.
And it was done by design.
It's pretty disgusting.
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Say hi to Doug in Maryland.
Doug, hi, how are you?
Glad you called.
Hi, Sean.
I just want to make a comment and I have a question for you.
Van Holland has a nickname down here in a Jen Holland Wiggle.
Wait a minute, let me guess.
Jackass, idiot, stupid, moron.
Which one?
Wiggles worthless.
He's always wiggling himself into a the spotlight and wiggle out with it.
I like that.
That'll work.
Wiggles worthless works.
My question is if let's say he's he's able to free this person to illegal.
Can he be charged with smuggling and or treason since they're on a watch list?
He's not gonna be uh no, I don't it it's I don't think he's gonna be successful.
I'll tell you why, because the president of El Salvador, I don't see any chance in hell that he's gonna let this guy go.
Not gonna happen on his watch.
This is an El Salvadorian.
I mean, I keep going back to the fundamentals and the basics here.
He is not a Maryland man.
He's not an American.
He he he's not a constituent of Van Holland.
He's not in the country legally.
He has no right to be here.
And if not one but two courts designate this guy part of uh what is now designated as a terrorist organization, MS 13, uh the president had not only a right, he had a duty and an obligation.
It's get him the hell out of here.
And if Von if Van Holland is somehow, you know, if if wiggle what do you call him?
Wiggles worthless.
Wiggle worthless.
If Wiggles worthless is somehow successful, I suggest that the guy live with him.
Live right inside his house.
And let's see how impressed he is with his great work.
I don't think I want a guy that two judges said was an MS 13 gang member, now designated a terror organization.
I don't think I want him living with me.
You want him living with you?
He's a wife beater.
Well, that's by her own invention.
Well, why is the wife then advocating so that's true?
She not only filed once, she filed twice.
Pam Bondi was on last night.
And you know, said he punched her and beat her on board with his shoe.
With a shoe.
With a shoe.
Gave her a black eye.
You used a baseball bat on me one day.
I'd never forget that day.
I did.
No.
Um and no, but in all seriousness, I mean, I don't understand how a woman that was beaten and and twice reported this guy.
It's called battered wife syndrome.
It is, it does have a syndrome.
And and she's now fighting for this guy.
I don't know.
I don't understand it.
And why didn't your senator, Mr. Wiggles, why didn't Mr. Wiggles uh get involved and even pick up a phone and call Patty Moran, the mother of Rachel Moran.
Why didn't he pick up a phone and call Kayla Hamilton's family?
What is too much effort, time, too much work?
I mean, what this guy is screwed up in the head.
I'm watching these the the obsession.
He's like Chuck Schumer.
Don't ever get between a camera and Chuck Schumer.
God help you.
Anyway, I appreciate the call.
Uh back to our busy phones.
Uh let's say hi, George in Florida, my free state.
George, I will be back tomorrow.
I hope you miss me.
I will, too.
Um yeah, I sure did.
Well, it's 85 degrees down here though, so it's you know, but I'd rather have it a little bit cooler right now in April.
But I'll be honest, I like eighty-five degrees.
Oh, God.
I'll take eighty-five degrees, nice, nice ocean breeze any day of the week.
That pasty Irish skin?
Why what are you so proud of?
No, I if I w walk outside, I have long pants and a long sleeve shirt on and a hat.
I'm not saying I'm getting sunburned.
I'm like, what is going on?
But I love my workouts.
I have my workout, which I can't I built my dojo in my garage and I work out in the garage and I sweat like crazy.
I love those workouts.
You wearing Hawaiian shirts now, no, I don't want no.
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Anyway, continue, George.
Sorry.
Yeah.
I uh I'm sitting out on the here underneath a tree right now when while my mom my Irish mom sitting in the house because she doesn't want to so wait a minute.
So you're off work today?
Yeah, yeah.
I'm off work.
Um yeah, I work actually I work, I'm I I work part time right now, so I'm actually semi-retired, so I got I work.
Oh nice nine days off.
Well, maybe maybe in the next break, you can go inside, make yourself a little cocktail, and go back outside, hang out under the tree and listen to the rest of the show.
I think that'd be the perfect day.
And then uh have one more cocktail, watch Hannity tonight at nine.
We have RFK Jr. in studio.
It'll be fun.
Oh, yeah, we we got that we got the nine o'clock hour already pegged with my mom and I and my w my wife, so the the reason why I called, I wanted to ask you with all the stuff going on the news.
Um I'm gonna ask you the same question I asked I asked Rush Limbaugh back in two thousand seventeen.
Do you think the mainstream legacy media will ever change, Sean?
Do you think they ever changed the the you know, by the way, we miss Rush.
Uh we miss his voice, we miss his incredible intuitive insights and wisdom every day, and that booming voice I had Sean Hannity is up next.
Um, but um do I think th it's a lot has changed since he passed away.
And what has changed, and look, I I you get to fire me anytime you want.
If you don't watch my show, you don't listen to my radio show, I won't have a job because I won't have an audience.
The only network that is thriving is Fox.
The only shows that are thriving are shows like this, we're now over uh seven hundred and fifty radio stations, and we're on a serious uh exam, and we podcast the audio to the show.
So when you look at the total numbers, the only shows that are successful that are are ones that offer news, information, and opinion, and a little entertainment that you're not gonna get anywhere else, and one other important component and ingredient.
We tell you the truth.
I've gone through a laundry list of cases where we've been right, they've been wrong.
It goes all the way back in my career.
I was right about Richard Jewell, we were right about Ferguson, Missouri, we were right about Duke LaCrosse, we were right about UVA, we were right about George Zimmerman, we were right about the Russia hoax, we were right about Pfizer abuse.
Uh we were right about with the only ones vetting Kamala Harris, vetting Barack Obama, Obama's radical associations.
You know, we played Kamala in her own voice, Tim Walls and his own voice.
So that's not stuff that they do.
So these sh the answer to your question is they're done.
They have lied too many times, and there's too many alternatives available for people now.
And you don't were no longer you know, they had a monopoly, the monopoly's broken.
It's over.
Now, if you want to be successful, you better tell your audience truth and you better give them news information, opinion uh that they're not gonna get elsewhere.
That I think is the single reason why we have been successful and so many others have tried to come after us and they've failed.
The number of people that have been up against me in cable over the years is just too many to count.
And now we beat often on a lot of nights, we'll beat ABC, MBC, and CBS.
We'll be the number one show in all of television, not just cable.
It's crazy.
So I think that it's a very different environment.
So is I'm sure that was a different answer than Rush gave you, right?
Yeah, well, he he said like he said uh before the the legacy media had a monopoly on the news.
And what that did, it gave them the opportunity to report what they wanted to and want to ignore.
And then when you and and what rush came along that became a uh a full-fledged alternate media, and what the what that did is it made people who know who were not being fairly represented by the news, uh realize that hey, w there are people who think like me and stuff, and that gave us a voice and gave us a power.
And and that's why it's you know real important right now during this time is to continue to uh have uh other voices out there and what we need to do, Sean, is just abandon we need to abandon a legacy and means.
Let me let me tell you something.
Here's a little secret.
People have abandoned them.
I see their numbers.
They used to get five times the numbers they're getting today.
They they'd have no audience, no influence, and we saw that on November fifth because they threw everything they had at Donald Trump and they lost.
They got their asses kicked.
And I'll add one thing.
You gotta give props to Rush.
He paved the way for all of us that followed, and he had to forge the path, and he took a lot of heat for doing it.
They wanted to destroy him from day one.
Uh anyway, I do appreciate uh your call, my friend.
Uh, you hold down the fort while I'm here in the swamp.
I'll be back.
I'll take a quick shower as soon as I arrive home.
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Alabama, uh let's say hi to Robert.
Robert, you're on the Sean Hannity show.
Hey, Sean.
Good to see you.
What's going on?
It takes forever to get through to you.
Well, glad you made it.
How are you doing?
I'm doing all right.
Listen to you all the way back to uh uh Hannity and Combs days.
Uh I appreciate it.
What part of Alabama are you in?
Uh South Alabama, place called Andalusia.
I know where Andalusia is.
Uh I was in Huntsville, Alabama, actually Athens, Alabama, but h the Huntsville Metro, uh, and I was a local radio host for two years of my life.
Loved it there.
Yeah.
My question is and and now that I've been listening, it that you know, there's a plethora of of other topics I'd like to talk to, but I don't I know I've only got a couple of minutes.
Um I want to know what you think and what you know about uh the Chinese president going on his little Asian tour uh and speaking to all these pe these other countries.
Uh obviously he's trying to go behind the United States back uh try to under undercut our deal or whatever.
Well what what do you know about that and those conversations, if anything.
I I know that China has taken a very aggressive posture, and we went into great specificity and detail on this show yesterday.
I won't repeat myself, and they've ratcheted up a a tariff war with the United States.
And on the other hand, you have a hundred and thirty other countries that want to come to trade and tariff agreements with the U.S. There are 15 solid deals on the table.
I believe is it Japan uh today?
I think Japan is uh now negotiating with the U.S. today.
My expectation is is that in fairly short order, pretty quickly, we're gonna get deal after deal after deal after deal after deal, and forty, fifty, sixty years worth of America being ripped off and abused is gonna come to an end, and I think it will be beneficial for our country for American workers for our economy that the president took this stand as it relates to China.
I think at some point down the road, they're gonna realize that they're gonna want access to our markets, and more countries, I promise you will side with us than side with China.
Oh, I believe that.
I believe that.
We we become d dependent on China.
They make everything.
I'm sure if we can get products elsewhere, we don't have to deal with China.
Well, I I totally agree.
I think the more that we can be independent of anything, and any vital anything that is vital to our uh our economy, our national security, and our health, I believe needs to be made in the U.S. And and to watch even foreign co auto automotive manufacturers now wanting to expand facilities in the US.
Um, I think is a sign that that Donald Trump's you know threat of a tariff and reciprocal tariffs has worked.
The eight trillion dollars in committed investment over the next four years is evidence it's working.
And I think it's in America's best long term interest to get this thing resolved and get rid of the institutionalized thinking that has guided Washington for far too long.
I appreciate the call.
God bless you.
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