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April 22, 2025 - Sean Hannity Show
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New Dem Leaders? - April 21st, Hour 1
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First, I'll start the Pope, Pope Francis, has died at the age of 88, and I didn't agree with a lot of his political views or left leanings on politics, or frankly, that I particularly like the lectures.
The Catholic Church is complicated for me, and I don't really want to get too deep into it because it just is.
On the one hand, I can say unequivocally that my parents taking me to church every Sunday and going to Catholic schools for 12 years and a seminary for high school and even studying Latin and theology and having to go to Mass every day played a very, very vital, important component in the growth of my faith in my life and my moral compass of my life.
However, I just have real issues with the church institutionally.
I just feel like they have lost their way.
I don't think that Pope Francis should have been involved in the cause of illegal immigrants with telling America what to do with that, but that's not really the crux of where my alienation is.
And I have deep respect for the mass.
I get a lot out of it.
I still do.
I have so many friends that are Catholics.
Both my parents were very devout.
And it just has helped me enormously in my life.
So I'm kind of hesitant when I want to criticize what I find wrong in the church.
I just feel like they institutionalized a lot of corruption that was known in the local parish level.
The bishops knew, the cardinals knew, Rome knew, and there were not steps taken, affirmative steps, to fix this.
I also have some fundamental disagreements.
If you study the first 11, 1,200 years of the Catholic Church, priests were allowed to marry.
11 of the 12 disciples that Jesus chose were married.
And I don't understand why they changed that rule.
I think the pool of potential candidates was reduced to a very low number, which means the standards probably went down dramatically with it, which I would argue might be fundamentally a cause of drawing some of the wrong people into the church or people that otherwise would not have passed the vetting process.
And I think that was a big mistake.
I personally don't have any problem with, I've listened as a non-denominational Christian now, I've listened to many, many women that are preachers and they're phenomenal and they offer a lot.
And I'm not really sure why that rule, now Jesus didn't pick a woman as a disciple.
Fine, they could stick to that rule if they want, but I think the women could play a very vital role in the church.
And I just have listened to some phenomenal people.
With that said, if you watch the movie Conclave, Linda, did you watch the movie Conclave?
I have not.
You know, it's interesting to watch, I will tell you.
Is that new?
Oh, my gosh.
It was like one of the biggest movies last year.
I can't believe you didn't see it.
I'm not good with movies, though.
Don't go by me.
Yeah, that's true.
You're not good with movies.
But with that said, our prayers are with him.
And for people of deep faith that this has impacted them and hurts them, prayers are with you, too.
And I think his heart was in the right place.
I just feel that I don't really like the politics of the church and where they stand on a lot of issues.
I just don't.
We'll see what happens and what comes out of this.
You know, popes have had like the combination of John Paul II and Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher changed the world.
Newt Gingrich did a whole series on this.
Probably wouldn't like some of my comments or criticisms of the church, but he would know that they're deeply held, firmly held beliefs.
And, you know, he definitely would encourage that part of it.
On to some of the political news of the day.
Now, one of the things you need to know, Gallup carried out a poll April 1st to the 14th.
It shows confidence in the Democratic congressional leadership now is at an all-time low since the organization has surveyed voters going back all the way to 2001.
Only 25% of respondents express confidence in Democratic congressional leadership, down nine points from the previous historic low of 34% in 2023.
The confidence level is also significantly below the Democrats' historic average, which has been about 45% since 2001.
Meanwhile, confidence in congressional Republican leadership is on the upswing, is double digits ahead of the Democrats.
And so what does that mean?
It means what the Democrats are doing is not good.
Now, Jim Clyburn's out there blaming the media for being a big factor behind the Democratic Party's historic unpopularity.
And, you know, he goes on MSDNC and he's speaking to the choir of lunatics.
And so I'm not really expecting that to change people.
But if you look at this party, Democrats in the Senate had a chance to stand up for women and women's sports, and they chose to be the champions of men's right to play women's sports.
You see what is unfolding with Senator Van Holland and couldn't even answer a question this weekend, which we'll get into, about whether Abrego Garcia is a member of MS-13.
And he decided not to even ask the deported illegal alien, twice designated by two separate judges.
And by the way, according to his wife, a wife beater, whether he was a member of MS-13.
And, you know, the sad part is this is the same Senator Van Holland who never called the family from Maryland of Rachel Morin, mother of five, never called her mother Patty.
She had five children she left by and they'll never see their mother again.
He never picked up a phone or Kayla Hamilton.
Both these women were brutally raped and murdered by illegal immigrants from El Salvador.
So keep that in perspective.
Maybe that's why they are so underwater when it comes to polling.
Look at lunatic Democrat Jamie Raskin.
He's now warning foreign leaders that if they cooperate with our president during the next four years, that the Democrats will take revenge on their nations when they regain control of the White House.
Wow, this was in the New York Post today.
He threatened foreign leaders who facilitated authoritarianism in our country by currying favor with Donald Trump on issues like deportation, saying Democrats will not look kindly on his supporters when they come back to power.
Well, I think that's a pretty broad assumption on his part that they're coming back to power because the American people are not where they are.
They're not for championing the rights of men to play women's sports.
They're not for, you know, poll after poll.
It's an 80-20 issue.
Americans want illegal immigrants deported out of this country, and they don't want, and the Democratic Party has now become their champion.
And frankly, when the American people hear the appalling, disgusting amount of waste, fraud, abuse, and corruption, and the misuse of their hard-earned money, they get pretty pissed off and pretty angry.
Anyway, he was threatening foreign leaders who facilitated authoritarianism in our country.
Okay, and he was referencing the El Salvadorian president, suggesting the Democrats should keep score of foreign leaders who brown-nosed Trump during his second term.
Implicit in it would be the idea that if and when we come back to power, and we will, we're not going to look kindly upon the people who facilitated this in our country.
He was on the Pod Save America.
Okay, so it's threatening, what, all-out revenge?
I mean, there's just a complete meltdown.
So who's the leader of the DNC now?
I forget.
The second in charge is this guy, David Hogg.
Remember him?
He was involved in some controversy years ago.
Anyway, so this guy is literally, he's been serving as one of three DNC vice chairs.
This is the heart and soul of the Democratic Party.
And as the second in charge, he's announcing that his organization is going to pump $20 million to challenge moderate House Democratic incumbents.
In other words, if you're not AOC and you're not Congresswoman Omar and Congresswoman Presley and Jasmine Crockett, then you're going to get primaried.
And anyway, Democratic leaders are now on the verge of an all-out civil war as a result of this.
And Hakeem Jeffries, the Democratic House minority leader, rejected the plan of the DNC official to fund primary challenges against passive party members in safe districts.
I'm looking forward to standing behind every single Democratic incumbent, he said.
And And Hogg's arguing that the Democrats are asleep at the wheel, not meeting the moment, because they don't know what to do with Donald Trump.
You know, it was an interesting exchange.
We have time later, we'll try and get to it.
But, you know, Reince Priebus tried to, you know, debate this guy and educate this guy.
And he said that you have no message.
You have no leader.
It doesn't get any worse.
You're defending Harvard and Columbia and all these universities that are allowing these students to express pro-Hamas, a known designated terrorist organization, as some type of champions when their very charter calls for the destruction of Israel and with no understanding of the murder, the rape, the torture, the beheading, the kidnapping that took place.
40,000, the equivalent of 40,000 dead Americans, if you extrapolate out for population.
And, you know, then you got these guys traveling to El Salvador to defend and bring back to America an MS-13 gang member.
And then you can't stand for mothers that lost their children at a joint session speech with the president.
You can't stand for the wife of a slain hero officer.
You can't stand for a young man that beat cancer and became a Secret Service agent or a young man who lost his father that got an appointment to West Point, a commission of West Point.
I mean, and that's where we are.
James Carville called him a little twerf.
What's his plan?
Well, James Carville's kind of, you know, fallen into this, you know, support the radical wing of his party also.
And you got Democratic leader Jasmine Crockett saying that a Brego Garcia is a lot less criminal than the person that's sitting in the White House.
How does this invite people into the party?
If you want to know the state of the party, there's another poll that came out.
The only Democrat I've been citing that speaks a little bit of sense when it comes to Israel, voters, working men and women is John Fetterman of Pennsylvania.
And I'll be honest, he's the last person I thought would have taken these positions.
Him and Stephen A. Smith, in this new poll that came out about potential 2028 candidates, a Yale youth poll, it points out it found that both men are upside down with their party's young voters, and they found a plurality of Democrats would vote for Kamala Harris 27.5%, AOC, 21.3%, Pete Buttigudge, Pothole Pete, 14%.
No other Democrat got more than 5% of the votes.
The top three candidates were the same among young Democrats only with even stronger support for Harris at 37.4%, Ocasio-Cortez at 28.2%, which, by the way, if you're a Kamala, you should be paying very close attention to it.
Anyway, Harris and AOC both at about plus 60 net favorability, while Fetterman and Stephen A. Smith, now, they have one thing in common.
They've been critical of the Democratic Party, and they come in a negative net favorability rating, 17.2%, minus 17.2 for Fetterman, minus 16.9 for Stephen A.
And I've been trying to tell Stephen A. they'll never elect you.
They don't want to hear what you have to say.
They're not going to change.
And you have some belief that they're going to.
Even Bill Marsa this weekend, mocking AOC Bernie Corey Booker.
It's not about crowds and speeches.
It's about bringing people in.
And then you hear the Democrats singing and chanting all weekend.
And then we learn that Kamala Harris's campaign paid $50,000 to the production company of NBA superstar LeBron James, who endorsed Kamala Harris in a deceptively edited video attacking Donald Trump days before the presidential election.
It sounds like money going to Harpo, which is Oprah Winfrey's group.
Did the money go there or not?
We never got a straight answer.
Democrats with the POTUS potential take aim at their own party.
Roe Conna said the Democratic Party needs to have a whole rebrand coming from new leaders, not the old guard.
Well, the new leaders are AOC, the squad, and Jasmine Crockett.
And so that is their new leadership.
We have one other bit of news.
It turns out that Anthony Fauci earned a whopping $3.5 million in his first year of retirement.
Good grief.
Who would ever hire him for anything?
What, for his advice on virology labs in Wuhan that do gain of function research with coronaviruses?
He might be an expert at that part.
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All right, it makes no sense to me.
Democrats are apparently so enthralled with this white beating designated by not one but two judges as an illegal gang member designated a terrorist organization called MS-13, a Brego Garcia.
I guess maybe they'll nominate him next for the Medal of Freedom or Medal of Honor.
I mean, why not?
Why stop here?
Because it turns out four more Democratic lawmakers apparently have landed in El Salvador as the party is ramping up their efforts to secure the release of the, let's see, according to his wife's spouse abusing, according to judges, gang member, border jumper, by admission, tossed out of the country by Donald Trump.
Now you have Democrats Robert Garcia of California, Maxwell Frost of Florida, Yasmin Ansari of Arizona, Maxine Dexter of Oregon demanding the White House abide by the court order.
Return this guy to the United States.
That is now their cause celeb.
Forget about, you know, picking up a phone and calling women in Maryland like Rachel Morin or Kayla Hamilton and saying, I'm so sorry for your loss.
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All right, so now we've got four more Democratic lawmakers have landed in El Salvador as the party is ramping up their efforts to secure the release of, what is what?
According to his spouse, a spouse abusing, according to two judges, MS-13 gang member, admittedly in the country illegally.
And these guys are going, you know, this is now the Democrats going to the mat.
The Democrats in the Senate went to the mat for the right of men to play women's sports rather than protect women's sports.
No, Democrats, they sided with men and their right to be able to participate in women's sports.
Longtime Democratic strategist Moa Lethi is his name, advised his party, do not align too closely with Abrego Garcia.
He said that we don't know all the details about this guy.
He warned against making him a martyr.
They would be smart to listen to him, but don't expect him to.
Van Holland over the weekend twice would not answer the question if Abrego Garcia is a member of MS-13.
Let me play this for you.
He was on Fake News CNN.
In 2019, police alleged a confidential informant claimed that Obrego Garcia was an active MS-13 member.
His wife and his attorney deny that, of course.
Can you say with absolute certainty that he is not, nor has he ever been a member of the MS-13 gang?
And did you ask him point blank?
Well, Dan, what Donald Trump is trying to do here is change the subject.
The subject at hand is that he and his administration are defying a court order to give Abrego Garcia his due process rights.
They are trying to litigate on social media what they should be doing in the courts.
They need to put up or shut up in the courts.
But since you were the one person to have met with him, and since this is a thing, you say on social media, it's what we hear from Donald Trump and Republicans every day, all day long.
You didn't ask him?
I didn't ask him that because I know what his answer is.
What he told me was he was sad and traumatized that he was being in prison because he has committed no crimes.
And that goes to the heart of this issue because he's being denied his due process rights.
Sad and traumatized, denied his due process rights.
What do you mean sad and traumatized?
Is he a member of MS-13?
Is that who you're advocating for?
Why didn't you demand an answer?
Why didn't you demand an answer as to whether or not his wife is telling the truth twice when she filed police reports in her own handwriting saying that he was a wife beater?
Why didn't he ask those questions?
Because this is now the martyr of the Democratic Party and he can't answer if this guy's a member of MS-13.
Let's know what we are dealing with here because that's what Democrats and now four more are in El Salvador.
And, you know, then Gavin Newsom, you know, the sanctuary state of California, sanctuary city of Los Angeles, sanctuary city of San Francisco.
Oh, he called it a distraction.
That really offended Chris Van Holland.
And he said, you know, the distraction of the day.
He said Democrats are playing right into the hands of Donald Trump.
How did he respond?
He says, I don't think it's ever wrong to stand up for the Constitution.
When did illegal immigrants all of a sudden have American constitutional rights?
I'm trying to figure out when that happened, and I must have been sleeping.
Anyway, Van Holland said he didn't ask whether he was a member of MS-13.
I don't know what I know what the answer is, what his answer is.
Well, if you don't know, why are you there?
You know, if you're going to change, this is a guy, remember, he had two women in his state that were brutally raped and murdered, and he didn't lift a finger.
He wouldn't lift a phone and dial a phone number to his own constituents.
And by the way, maybe you should have spoken with the wife of this guy because, you know, all of a sudden she got tight-lipped Friday when asked about a protection order.
She filed against her husband.
This wasn't that long ago.
This was 2021.
And the filing that was written in her own handwriting, she alleged that Abrego Garcia repeatedly beat her.
At this point, I'm afraid to be close to him.
I have multiple photos, videos of how violent he can be and all the bruises that he has left me.
Anyway, she apparently went on ABC, denied that her husband is in MS-13 or any other gang.
I know that this is a sensitive question, but I have to ask it.
They said, you did take out a temporary order of protection against your husband.
Were you in fear of your husband?
Her answer, she pauses for a moment.
My husband is alive.
That's all I can say.
Oh, okay.
Did he beat you?
As you alleged, or did you file a false claim?
It is interesting as a side note.
It's a 1799 law.
Never really thought the Logan Act was never been enforced before.
But if you remember the notes from Peter Strzok back in the day, VP, meaning Biden, Logan Act, suggested that then Vice President Joe Biden float the idea against using it against General Flynn while then FBI Director Comey and others, you know, appeared legitimate.
So, you know, if we're going to follow their rules, that would be the rule for that.
So anyway, it's pretty unbelievable that this is where the Democratic Party, you know, what they have come down to.
Now, there's a lot of talk about people mentioning tattoos.
There are some tattoos.
I'm not a tattoo expert.
I don't know a whole lot about them.
Never had an interest in getting one.
But there is confirmation from enough people we have interviewed over the years that have spent decades and decades at the border.
And often gang members have tattoos that are dead giveaways that they're in gangs.
Anyway, Tom Holman was on this weekend talking about all of this.
And he said Trende Aragua, MS-13 have been designated terrorist organizations.
That's something we have to remember here.
That's where the Alien Enemies Act comes into play.
And what you don't know, most readers don't know and haven't seen or experienced what he's seen in the 40 years he's been doing his job.
And all these young girls as young as nine that were raped by members of these gang cartels.
He said, you read the Alien Enemies Act.
We follow the Alien Enemies Act, and you're talking like it's a Title VIII removal.
This is not a Title VIII removal.
That's a different procedure written in a law by Congress.
And just for the record, the Alien Enemies Act has been used by four prior presidents, and there's a Supreme Court precedent on this.
He says, you know, there have been many, many, you know, he said, tattoos.
It was asked, well, what about tattoos?
He said, tattoo is one factor, but then you have other factors that make the final determination.
What I'm saying is you can't ignore a tattoo.
Anyway, the Alien Enemies Act means you can grab somebody.
Now, let me ask you a question.
What other person, if you're not a member of MS-13, or if you're not a member of Trende Aragua and you have a tattoo that reflects such, why would you ever want that tattoo if you're not a part of that gang?
Tell me how you know how believable that is to anybody with common sense.
But Jasmine Crockett on MSDNC is saying a Brego Garcia, you know, that he got a lot less, he's a lot less of a criminal than the person that's sitting in the White House.
If Senator Van Holland can get down there, if the president can get up here and get to the White House, then I don't understand why we can't get a Brego up out of there.
I mean, we know that they admitted that they were wrong.
Now they're trying to double back and say, well, he's this terrible person and all this kind of stuff.
But here's the reality: as far as I'm concerned, he's a lot less criminal than the person that's sitting in the White House because last time I checked, he doesn't have any criminal convictions.
I don't even think he has any outstanding cases versus the guy that still had cases pending when he was sworn in on January 20th and also has 34 felony convictions.
So, listen, I don't want to hear anything from the Republican Party about how they're trying to keep us safe when their fearless leader is actually the biggest criminal thus far that we have seen because I haven't seen anybody with a rap sheet that looks like the president's unbelievable.
By the way, Homeland Security Secretary Christy Noam's handbag, which carried her work badge and $3,000 in cash, apparently stolen Sunday night while she was eating dinner in D.C., the Secret Service reviewed security footage.
It showed a man in a mask steal Noam's bag and leave the restaurant.
Her entire family was in town, including her children and grandchildren, using the cash withdrawal to treat her family to dinner activities and Easter gifts.
According to the spokesman, Tim Wall's daughter is now comparing MS-13 gang members to Jesus.
Here's the comparison: if Jesus were alive today and in the United States, this administration would already have taken him and removed him from this country without due process.
Okay, this person was deemed to be in the country illegally, not once, but twice.
Deemed to be a MS-13 gang member, not once, but twice.
And I'll tell you where I put a lot of the fault in this.
There are 19 states in this country, 19 of them, and the District of Columbia that allow illegal immigrants to obtain legal driver's licenses.
And now Americans will need to obtain a real ID, which is a federally compliant driver's license or other ID that meets higher standards than state-issued licenses in order to easily travel by air, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
This is a big deal because a lot of people don't have a good ID.
They just don't.
It's becoming a very big deal for people.
Stephen Miller is urging reparations for illegal immigrants' damage to Americans.
He's not wrong.
I mean, think about it.
Why shouldn't the family of Rachel Morin and Kayla Hamilton and Jocelyn Nungarry and Lake and Riley be compensated for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris's policies that allowed people in?
I found a surprising person that sounds an awful lot like Donald Trump.
Let's do a little flashback.
Here's Hillary Rodham Clinton.
I think we got to have tough conditions.
Tell people to come out of the shadows.
If they've committed a crime, deport them.
No questions asked.
They're gone.
If they've been working and are law-abiding, we should say, here are the conditions for you staying.
You have to pay a stiff fine because you came here illegally.
You have to pay back taxes and you have to try to learn English and you have to wait in line.
I think you should be sent back and get to the back of the line.
And that then raises this whole Supreme Court decision, 7-2 decision on Saturday.
Sam Alito, in a fiery dissent, writes, the court issued an unprecedented, legally questionable relief without giving the lower courts a chance to rule without hearing from the opposing party within eight hours of receiving the application with dubious factual support for its order and without providing any explanation for the order.
He further goes on, joined by Clarence Thomas.
I refuse to join the court's order because we had no good reason to think that under the circumstances, issuing an order at midnight was necessary or appropriate.
Both the executive and judiciary have no obligation to follow the law.
The executive must proceed under the terms of our temporary Trump v.
JGG 604 U.S., you know, and the court should follow established procedures.
He's not wrong, and he's 100% right.
And, you know, Justice Alito just shredding his fellow justices.
If you don't think politics plays a part in some of these decisions, oh, it does.
One appeals court did halt Judge Bozberg's contempt order in a deportation case.
On the economy, there's a lot of news.
All right, you're going to say, oh, the Dow's down.
I don't like the Dow being down.
I know that the issue of tariffs has shaken up the market a little bit, but you got to ask yourself, what's the alternative?
We just allow the establishment and the institutionalists to continue to allow America to be ripped off, or we challenge the system and change it and give countries the option of free and fair trade or reciprocal tariffs and get these deals done.
As deals get done, I would predict, assuming that they get done, if they get done, when they get done, I would assume that things turn around rather quickly.
New Gallup poll shows the American people trust Donald Trump to handle the economy a lot more than Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell or congressional leaders of both parties.
Whoopsie Daisy.
In case you haven't noticed, gas prices since President Trump took office are now lower than they've been in three years.
Oopsie Daisy.
That's good news.
Sure, people don't like that.
The U.S. Census points out retail sales are up a whopping 4.5% over last year at this time.
That is a significant increase.
Jobless claims have hit a two-month low despite media predictions of an economic collapse.
The sky is falling.
If the stress of trade wars starts to pressure the U.S. economy, one of the first signs is likely to be an increase in layoffs and unemployment.
Yet so far there's no evidence the labor market is suffering.
I think most people expect the deal maker Donald Trump is going to make deals.
That's what I expect.
And then the GOP will keep the tax cuts permanent.
They'll open up drilling and liquefied natural gas.
They'll have no tax on tips, Social Security, or overtime.
And all of which I think will be good for the economy.
You know, you just can't change it all overnight, especially in this environment where you're hated by the state-run legacy media mob.
And no matter what you do, Democrats will hate you.
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What I told people I was making a podcast about Benghazi, nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why?
Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
From Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries, this is Fiasco, Benghazi.
What difference at this point does it make?
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