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May 16, 2025 - Sean Hannity Show
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The Diddy Trial - May 15th, Hour 2
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Sean, well, he's been with the president on this trip.
They were in Doha, Doohoo, Babau, where all these different places.
I can't keep back all these places.
And the president actually coming back, they call it deliverables.
Before you go on a trip, they make sure that you're going to get something done, a deal, a treaty.
They call that a deliverable.
Well, normally you try to come back with one of those.
He's come back with dozens and dozens and dozens and lots of money.
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Carol Roth, how you doing?
Always good to be with you.
How are you?
I'm good.
I'm good.
You've been following the Diddy trial closely.
It's certainly the sleazi stuff I've ever heard, but I'm not hearing a definite crime yet.
I know it's there, but I don't think they've gotten that across, have they?
Well, it's interesting that you say that I've been following every detail.
The thing that stands out to me, Mark, about this is that there haven't been that many details compared to all of the other celebrity trials that we've lived through.
If you think about the circus that was around Amber Heard and Johnny Depp and all the memes and the coverage of that, and then the one that sort of defined our generation, the O.J. Simpson trial, where do you remember on Jay Leno that he would have the dancing Edos?
Yeah, the Edo, right?
So I feel like there was so much pomp and circumstance around that.
And now it's pretty quiet.
And given the fact that this is a celebrity and it's got sex and it's got salacious details and violence, you kind of have to ask the question, it's almost like, what is the media hiding by not covering this?
Well, it's a little more difficult because the trials you mentioned are California.
They allow cameras in the courtroom.
They don't allow it here in New York, so we can't see it.
It makes it tougher.
And it's too long also.
I mean, we got the point with the freak offs and all that.
Like, get to something else.
Don't you think they're moving a little slowly?
Well, I do.
Well, first of all, I have to say that the one thing that has come out is some very grotesque courtroom sketches.
And you almost feel like the person who's doing those is weighing in by the fact that they're just so absolutely awful.
But yes, unfortunately, I've learned the difference between what a white party and what a freak off is.
And A, I never thought I would be discussing that on a radio, but B, it's more than I ever wanted to hear, I have to say.
Yeah, let me just point out.
You saw a million big stars, celebrities all at his parties.
The white party was the presentable party.
In the evening, everybody would come for that.
The freak off was later, the disgusting stuff.
But all those big names you hear, they all left after the white party.
They weren't there.
Or were they?
Were there a couple there, a couple of exceptions that stayed for the freak off?
Well, I think that's the question, right?
Is that certainly the high-profile celebrities, and we're talking everybody, we're talking about business people, political figures, film, television, music, anyone who's anyone.
This was sort of a cultural moment.
If you were invited to this party, you called the white parties because they would dress all in white and it would be in a fancy location like Beverly Hills or the Hamptons and everyone wanted to be a part.
And then so we've been told, obviously I've never been invited to one of these, but so we've been told that, yes, that later on would be when all of the bad stuff happened.
That's at least the narrative.
But you do see a lot of celebrities that have distanced themselves, deleting social media posts, trying to not be in the circle that they were so desperate to be a part of later.
And that just sort of begs the question is, why, even without the cameras, are we not getting more information?
There were so many people who were in, been around this.
Do we believe that nobody else was taking part in what was going on here, given what we know about Hollywood and politicians and whatnot?
And why is it so quiet on the home front?
Yeah.
But just to be clear, at the White Party, you died down, like Martha Stewart would go home.
She wouldn't stay for the orgy because you know her.
She'd put place cards everywhere.
It wouldn't work.
She had good things to attend to.
She had to attend to her garden and other things.
Yeah.
Now, P. Diddy's a handsome guy, always well-dressed.
So for the trial, they got him, his hair is all gray and white now, and he's wearing a rumpled sweater.
Is that a good tactic, or does the jury not fall for that stuff anymore?
I mean, he's one of the highest profile celebrities.
I've got to imagine, even as they were going through the jury, to say, do you know who this person is?
I've got to believe that they've seen him somewhere.
And yes, he's known for being impeccably dressed and looking very suave.
So I'm not sure, particularly given the charges, that looking more disheveled and out of the ordinary, it seems like a good tactic.
I don't think that that's going to create any sort of feelings of, yeah, okay, this guy, I'm feeling more empathetic towards him.
I don't know.
Does that work on you?
No, no, not at all.
But again, you look at everything that's being presented.
He's a disgusting, immoral, awful guy.
But again, when do they get to the actual crime and how do they prove that?
It's a good question.
You know, I'm not a lawyer.
I don't want to play one on TV or the radio.
But we do have these videos that have been leaked that we've seen on social media that showed some pretty horrible violent acts.
And I think that some of the sexual issues may be questionable whether Cassie was pressured into these and a willing participant or she was under duress and groomed.
But the violent acts, that is what it is.
And it does seem like they're taking far too long to kind of get to the point.
And you know how it is these days.
People's attention spans are so short, the jurors aren't going to be any different.
So you think you want to quickly get to these key moments to make your point because the longer it takes, the more likely it is that they're going to zone out and forget what you've said along the way.
Yeah.
Hey, that hotel video where he's beating her up.
I mean, that's not New York.
They can't do anything here.
Why wasn't he ever tried and convicted for that?
Statute of limitations.
I don't know.
I don't know why, but it certainly was sort of that pivotal moment that came to social media.
And that does seem like when everything started to unravel.
So even if that wasn't sort of center to the conviction, that's what caused everything to be looked into.
Because before, while there have been allegations and rumors and nothing that seemed provable, here you have something concrete to move on.
And that's when you saw sort of everything else kind of, it was the first domino to fall, so to speak.
Yeah.
So this trial is supposed to be like eight weeks.
It looks like it's going to go longer.
It's going to last longer than the tariffs.
We're going to have a polymarket on, you know, which is going to fall first.
We're going to get the next 12 Trump deals.
Are we going to get to the end of the Diddy trial?
And certainly it seems like President Trump is making deals at a much more quick pace than these prosecutors.
So maybe they need to learn something from the president.
Now, Carol Roth was an investment banker.
That's why she said the polymarket.
And we all nod, like we know what that is.
What does a polymark?
Polymarket.
Sorry to go into my Wall Street speak.
No, it's this fascinating thing that's come along with social media that it's a betting market.
And the betting market where you can sort of bet on any outcome of anything.
A lot of them have with like political figures and things like that, different chances of somebody becoming president.
So just another point of degeneracy for our society.
But that's a good place if you're looking for odds on something, what's going to happen versus something else.
A lot of people will turn to polymarkets to figure out the odds making.
You have to go to a bookie for that, and now you can just do that on how far we've come.
If I go to the polymarket right now, who's got the best odds for being the Democratic nominee?
Oh, that's a good question.
I don't know.
Should we look that up?
Yeah, it's probably ⁇ I hate to say it's probably AOC.
I know.
It's very depressing.
I'm pulling it up right now and see if I can get an answer on it.
But they've got the NBA champions.
They got Fed decision in June.
Let's see if we can get the Democrats.
Pete Buttigieg is running around like a lunatic trying to get some traction here.
But with the air traffic controller disaster, the antiquated system, he's there four years, didn't even notice.
How does he run for anything?
How does he, you know, he's like the Peter principle, right?
That, you know, you just keep failing upwards.
And so far, you know, he's managed to just do a bad job at everything that he's been given, yet moved on to the next stage.
I mean, I guess that happens quite a lot, but certainly, you know, he's been doing that.
And the nice thing is with a lot of these guys is they have no shame.
So for them, it's just a way for them to raise their profile, maybe sell some books, get campaign contributions and whatnot.
And they're able to take advantage of it, even if they have no sort of real belief that they're going to become president.
Yeah, that's a good point.
People forget, you can just run and take in massive donations, and you know you're not going to win.
But at the end of the day, you got $5 million, $10 million in the bank, and you can keep that and spend that forever, as long as you say you're going to run again.
But in other words, you could use it to pay for a car, a driver, an office, a secretary, take care of your expenses with it.
A lot of people right now that that's what they're doing for a living, living off that money.
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Let's go to Janice in Georgia.
Janice, how you doing?
Hey, hey, Mark and Linda.
Good.
Thank you.
How you doing?
Good.
You know, I'm just wondering why there is no conversation around the surrounding folks around Diddy who were complicit, like the cameraman or the guard.
You know, he couldn't have done what he did without some sort of collusion from others.
And to me, it's no different than a murder cover-up from people that get arrested if they did the driveway car from a bank robbery or whatever.
Yeah, well, I don't know.
If you're the cameraman, you're just a cameraman.
If you're the guard, you know, there were a couple of guys that said he kind of threatened them.
He said, give me your driver's license.
And he had somebody do that.
Give me your driver's lesson.
They took a picture of it.
You remember the movie Goodfellows where De Niro, they're robbing the truck and they take the guy's driver's license.
He says, you may know who we are, but we know who you are.
So, you know, it's a threat.
So that guy could get arrested.
But the cameraman, the lighting guy, I'm sure they brought in makeup artists.
Yeah, and it's got to be somebody that did the threatening.
So that'll come out at some point.
I know there were recruiters.
You know, Epstein had that woman, Ghelane Maxwell.
Ghislaine Maxwell.
Ghelane.
Ghislaine or Ghislaine, depending on where you're from, but it's Ghislaine Maxwell.
I always called her Ghalane.
Well, that's weird because it's not a name.
I actually knew her.
I mean.
Okay.
Well, let's clarify that again.
She was like the Linda of that operation.
Oh, take it easy, boy.
Oh, my God.
No, what I mean was, if you talk to him, he was kind of a sleazeball.
Like, as soon as you saw him, you knew he was a sleazeball.
So who is the sleaze ball in this situation?
Is that you?
No, no, no, no.
I'm just saying Ghelane.
Oh, my God.
No, she was classy.
She was like the boss.
She was good at recruiting, organizing.
She made the, what do you call it?
She was the executive producer of child trafficking.
Fantastic.
Well, one thing about him, it wasn't all, some of those guys liked young girls.
In most cases, it wasn't young girls.
Like Bill Clinton liked 40-year-old Floozies.
They would get him that.
Bill Gates liked mousy librarian types, older ones.
So it was whatever you wanted.
I'm not going to ask why you know any of this.
I didn't get to it.
And you know who used to warn me?
Don't get involved with it.
Don't talk to Epson.
Donald Trump.
I know Donald Trump, honestly, God bless that man.
He doesn't drink.
He doesn't smoke.
The worst thing he does is he eats McDonald's.
Yeah.
And when Epson went to Palm Beach, he became a big guy and he joined Mar-a-Lago.
At one point, he went after a young girl who worked in the locker room, daughter of a member.
Trump threw him the hell out of there and warned everybody, stay away from this guy and don't go near him.
But I would imagine Diddy had a bunch of, they all have them, recruiters go out and find him victims.
Listen, at the end of the day, if you do not say something, you are complicit.
If you see somebody being hurt and you know that they're there against their will, you have to say something.
You have to.
You got to be a snitch.
Well, Ethan looks like he wants to go home.
Ethan does want to go home.
He has two children that are five and under.
So you're holding this poor guy here.
I'm being held here until.
You are against your will.
You're welcome.
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Speaking of breaking news, Janine Pirro just sworn in as the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia.
Now, I know she gives up a lot here.
You're on the five, one of the biggest, biggest shows in television.
You're big TV.
Give all that up to go be the U.S. Attorney in the District of Columbia.
But now she's got a lot of practice and experience as a prosecutor.
She was a great district attorney in Westchester County.
In fact, her office for years, very innovative, copied by a lot of other offices.
So she's great at this.
But you're giving up a lot to go be the U.S. Attorney, District of Columbia.
I have a feeling that there's going to be some very big cases she'll be handling.
And that's why this was important.
There are a lot of guys there, dirty swamp creatures, lawfare guys.
There's that Andrew Wiseman, who was the guy running the Mueller investigation.
I know they got a lot of stuff on him.
These guys, and who knows that I'm blanking out.
What is this?
Oh, Jack Smith, that awful, awful prosecutor, special counsel.
Somebody needs to go after him.
You remember the pictures of those boxes at Mar-a-Lago?
All you saw were these pictures.
150 boxes.
Here's another 75 boxes in the bathroom.
Here's another 52 boxes in the storage.
You know, and he never made this clear, none of those boxes had classified documents.
He never made that clear.
In the end, they found 35 classified documents.
If you put them in a folder, it's about an inch and a half thick, maybe two inches at the most.
That's two inches of one box.
All those boxes you saw, no classified documents.
Somebody needs to go after that guy.
But I have a feeling Janine Pirro is going down there to do some very, very, very important cases.
She'll be back.
She's the interim U.S. attorney there.
And when that's all done and fixed and things are cleaned up, she'll come back.
But Linda, you're looking at me funny.
What's the matter?
I don't know.
I'm just curious.
I mean, listen, Jack Smith, the fact that Jack Smith had anything to do with anything, given the fact that his wife was the documentarian that worked with the Obama family.
So, you know, they're completely in that whole very elite liberal world.
He's, you know, he's not a person that is operating strictly as a man of the law.
I mean, if anything, he's looking to abuse and misuse the law in any way possible so that he can hurt his enemies, right?
Because the enemy of anyone, of his wife, you know, that's his enemy.
I mean, he was ridiculous.
Yeah.
And also, I need to get technical here.
He's a bug-eyed weirdo.
I mean, those pictures of him with that weird bug on the bottom.
You know what I thought was very strange?
And this is obviously being, I'm, I'm meticulous, so we'll start there.
But he shows up to this huge presence.
Here's the weird part.
We were watching it.
We were in California.
Sean was interviewing Governor Newsom at the gubernatorial mansion.
And Jack Smith is like, yes, I'm going to release these documents.
And we're all sitting there like, okay.
And he had nothing.
He had absolutely nothing.
It was a 400-page document that said nothing.
Nothing was found.
Nothing was in the boxes.
Everything was exactly as they had asked President Trump to keep them.
You know, the vault that they asked him to create, the FBI already had all the codes.
It was absurd.
Yeah.
And also, anybody that's ever been in the White House with classified documents will tell you the same thing.
90% of them are absolutely nothing.
They just overclassify everything.
There's things like a weather report for a battlefield.
Well, unless you're Comey, then you give it to your friend who works at the New York Times.
Yeah.
And Jack Smith, remember that picture with him with the cape on?
Any guy that owns a cape.
He's absurd.
I mean, like, if you want to be a Marvel character, go audition.
I'm sure they're looking for weirdos like you.
So I have a feeling there's going to be a lot of people in courtrooms down there.
Listen, Janine Thero's tough, man.
She's not taking any prisoners.
Yeah, no, no.
She's given up a lot to go down there.
So I think they've discussed what possible things she could do down there.
So that'll be interesting to see.
And then you got the president wrapping up the trip tomorrow.
I'm looking at the schedule for tomorrow.
It is one busy day tomorrow.
He's got a lot of stuff to do.
Then he comes back to the White House.
He'll be back in D.C.
It says 10.35.
I guess that's Washington time.
This is seven-hour time.
Yeah, that's Washington time.
Well, actually, it's an eight-hour time difference with UAE.
Yeah.
So that's right.
He's not in.
He left Dabu Pabu or wherever he was.
He went from Saudi Arabia in Riyadh to Doha Qatar.
Doha Qatar.
And then now he's in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates.
Yeah.
It's a lot.
It's complicated stuff.
But now watch when he comes back.
I guarantee you got a lot of ideas and a lot of inspiration from the decor there.
You're going to see things change.
A lot of gold.
You're going to see even more gold at the White House.
It's going to get fixed up even more.
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The site Mediaite.
I know you guys all listen.
What the hell did you do to the site?
You changed the graph.
It looks terrible now.
Go back to that.
It's not easy.
First of all, let's be honest, that site is not functional.
It's not easy to follow, in my opinion.
It's all over the place.
There's a million things on it.
I know, but it looked better before it.
I don't like this new graphic.
And I love Mediaite because everything is so slanted to the left.
It's the most slanted site.
And there's two things.
If you don't speak Mediaite language, anytime you see this in a headline, bombshell revelation, whenever it says bombshell, it means it's nothing.
It'll go away in a week.
Check the record.
Every time they said, bombshell, it's going away in a week.
So for those of you who don't know Mark Simone, Mark Simone is the equalizer.
This is a man who comes into any room, any conversation, and you think you've got news.
You've got something to share.
You've got something to say.
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Oh, here's the other one.
If you ever see this word, explosive.
That means it's nothing.
So the big story here is.
What if it's huge?
I know somebody who uses the word huge a lot.
Yeah, well, that's the problem with the Mediite.
What's about Donald Trump?
If you ever really had a big story, but this one, look at this.
Jake Tapper's explosive Biden book.
Yeah, nobody knew that he had cognitive problems.
I got to be honest.
I didn't even know Jake Tapper had a book.
Oh, yeah.
He's the guy with this.
I know, but I didn't know.
Yeah.
But don't buy it.
I gave you the revelations.
Whenever you see, in fact, the Mediite the other day, here's the five revelations.
There's nothing else in the book.
Even the New York Times said, no news here.
Oh, here's the other thing, if you ever want to read Media.
Whenever they say meltdown, it means the guy made a joke or something.
Like it says, I had the story yesterday.
Donald Trump's meltdown during the ABC interview.
That's where he made a joke about Terry Moran.
He said, I don't even know who you are.
That's called a meltdown bombshell explosive.
Well, look at Scott Jennings on CNN.
I mean, every other story is about him on CNN, on Mediite.
Yeah, because they're so upset that there's a conservative voice on CNN.
I like him.
I think he's good.
He's great, but they, CNN, and I guess he's like the token guy just to say they have a conservative on him.
100%.
I got to be honest, though, to your point, I'm not watching him on CNN.
I'm getting all of Scott Jennings' clips on X.
Yeah, that's a good thing.
Again, you don't have to watch CNN.
Nobody does.
It's like 200,000 viewers.
You know, they're over in the Hudson Yards there in the middle of Manhattan.
I didn't know that.
Yeah, actually, if you're listening to CNN.
They moved from Columbus Circle?
Oh, yeah.
Oh, I didn't know that.
Yeah.
You're over there.
It's in the middle of Manhattan.
You could just open the window and yell.
You'd be reaching more people than you are on the air.
What's wrong with you?
Now, I want you to think about this.
You're right.
They were at Columbus Circle.
They moved to Hudson Yards, which is right on the water.
These left-wing cooks have been telling you for years that the sea level is going to rise and that the water is going to come.
Meantime, they move to the waterfront.
CNN has moved to the waterfront.
Obama buys another mansion on the water every week in California.
Well, look what they did during the Hawaii fires.
They were the first ones down there.
We had The Rock, Oprah, Obama.
Oh, yeah, let's build out Zuckerberg.
Yeah, but they keep telling you the water levels, the whole coast will be gone.
You know, we don't hear about anymore, the Palisades fires.
Yeah.
How's Mayor Karen Bass doing with her $500,000 a month reconstructive architect?
Yeah, if you get the liberal media behind you, just remember, like the fires, Garcia, about two weeks later, they're going to go, eh, enough with you.
Next.
Next thing.
Moving on.
Now it's the plane.
Actually, there's no plane coming from Qatar.
He is furious, and he's right, and he's fuming at Boeing.
They've been so bungling and inept the last couple of years.
They can't get Air Force One built.
It's ridiculous delays.
So the idea of the Qatar plane is to troll and humiliate Boeing publicly.
There's no plane coming.
And I think left-wing media, fake news, I think they're starting to figure that out because I noticed they no more plane story today.
They've cut back on it.
Well, it's like the Medicaid story, right?
So you've got all these congressional representatives.
I was talking to Newt Ginkrich about this the other day, and they're showing up on the floor of the Capitol, and they've got these big signs like your children will die.
The elderly will die.
Everyone is dying because of Medicaid cuts.
Meanwhile, it doesn't affect the seniors.
It doesn't affect children.
It doesn't affect babies.
It's utter and complete nonsense.
But they're expecting and they know that the average Joe is a headline hero.
They're not getting to the weeds of the article or listening past the first three minutes.
I mean, look at these people on C-SPAN.
They put everybody to sleep.
Yeah, but the hoaxes, one hoax after another.
And what's the last one?
I remember the blue suit.
He violated protocol at the Pope's funeral.
He wore a blue suit instead of a black.
You're supposed to wear a black suit and a black tie.
How hard was this?
I googled the pictures and looked at the crowd.
I saw like 14 blue suits.
Joe Biden was wearing a blue suit.
I'm looking at the ties.
I saw a red tie, a green tie, a purple tie, a blue suit.
I'm sure Pope Parances was really outraged.
He was like, oh, I can't believe he wore that to my funeral.
Yeah.
I think you're supposed to wear a black tie and a black suit, but I think that was just a little bit.
Yeah, traditionally you wear, it's like not wearing white to the wedding because, you know, the bride's in white.
That's rude.
And then you see there's always one dumb lady that shows up in a white dress to somebody else's wedding.
Like, hello.
It's understood.
But when they said protocol, they meant the Vatican people.
Exactly.
That's all they meant.
Listen, don't even get me started.
And I'm a Catholic.
What those people did in those ceremonies leading up, some weird stuff going on with the hats and the cloaks and the, I don't, I really don't understand all the procedural and ceremonial effects.
It was a lot.
These are not the people I pray with on Sunday.
I'm just telling you right now.
Yeah.
We wish the new Pope great success.
But when I see a guy like that has a Twitter account and he's tweeting about Vance and Trump and, oh my, why would you even be tweeting about that?
Yeah, I'm not a fan.
Yeah.
So I said we'll take some calls.
We should actually take some.
Let's go to Dave in Florida.
Dave, how you doing?
I'm fine, sir.
How are you?
Good.
Yeah, I was just wondering, Cal, Trump, of course, has been catching a lot of hate for years.
And I don't know if anyone's ever done this.
Maybe it's something that you could do, interview a psychologist, sociologist, something like that to, you know, maybe try and figure out what is the root cause behind all of the hate that comes his way.
Yeah, we could do that.
Although I found most psychologists, psychiatrists don't know what the heck they're talking about.
They never have the answers.
But I saw it long before he got into politics, even here in New York, when he was a big business guy.
Some of the business guys loved him, but there was a whole bunch of these business guys.
And this wasn't about politics.
He just set them off.
They just went nuts.
You know, there was a psychologist once said, a lot of times if somebody hates you, it's because you have things they want.
It's like they hate what they see in you, what they'd want to be.
So it could be, because even back then, he had an incredible personality.
He'd be the star of any room he walked into.
He'd get a ton of attention.
He does know about this hatred and he plays on it.
That's why the plane and all this stuff, he knows that these crazy, hate-filled Democrats, he loves to just send them into a rage every day with something else.
That's why sometimes he'll, you know, you say, well, why did he have to say that?
And that's why he says it.
There's not going to be any plane, but what did he make such a big thing out of that plane?
Just to get them just going nuts.
You know, it's like a bad kid at the zoo.
He's always like rattling the cage, trying to get the animals to start yelling and screaming.
He does that with the fake news.
Hey, yeah, we'll take some more calls in a minute.
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