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President Trump and Hannity - May 15th, Hour 3
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Hey, welcome to the Sean Hannity Show.
It's Mark Simone here for Sean.
At the bottom of the hour, though, we'll hear Sean interview President Trump.
It's part two of the interview, and it's excellent.
So don't miss that.
I'm normally here on our big flagship station in New York, W-O-R, where you can listen to my podcast on iHeart.
And you can listen to the, where's the Linda podcast?
The Linda podcast is about 100 steps below the Mark Simone podcast.
Well, it just started.
Yeah, it's called Rogue Recap.
It's on there.
It's called what?
The Rogue Recap.
Because, you know, I go rogue, get it.
I know, but I like the Linda podcast.
And my husband has a podcast called Policy and Profits.
Oh, and how do we find that?
It's also on iHeart and on YouTube and everything else.
Well, you have gotten everybody on iHeart.
People got things to say.
iHeart, number one podcaster in the world, but you can get it if you go to any podcast.
Anywhere you go, yes.
So, hey, with us right now is Selena Zito, who is the national political reporter for the Washington Examiner.
Got a big new book coming out, Butler.
That's in Butler, Pennsylvania, and she's got a great article on the reason for the attacks on Senator Fetterman and a whole lot of stuff.
Lots to talk to her about, but make sure you pre-order that book, Butler, and she's with us right now.
Selena Zito, how are you doing?
Oh, just living to dream.
How are you doing, Mark?
I'm good.
I'm good.
And Butler, if that had happened to anybody else, it'd be a thousand books.
It'd be the most talked about thing nonstop day and night.
But because it was President Trump, the mainstream media Couldn't get off that story fast enough because he was absolutely heroic.
You know, if you look at what's going on as far as looking into it, it's shockingly tiny, this investigation.
You know, Oswald, the Kennedys, we saw a million press conferences, interviews, everything.
What's going on with them, digging into this assassin?
Well, if your listeners don't know, I was just four feet away from the president when he was shot at.
I was in Butler, and the reason I was so close to him in the buffer was because I was supposed to fly with him along with my daughter, who's a photojournalist who was beside me, to Bedminster to do an extensive interview about Pennsylvania.
Because I live in Pennsylvania, I cover Pennsylvania, I've been in Pennsylvania forever.
And so I saw the entire thing, and he made some very powerful and important phone calls to me the next day, and we talked several times after that.
But in terms of this investigation, you know, there was a congressional task force that looked into it.
And, you know, a lot of the failures were institutional.
There was little to no communication between the state police, the local police, and Secret Service.
It was one of the many failings, which I find particularly interesting considering that was one of the biggest failings of 9-11 because these larger institutions didn't speak to each other, right?
The CIA wasn't talking to the Secret Service, wasn't talking to the FBI, and you just saw this on a different scale on that day.
And you'll read a lot about that in the book.
You read a little more about Thomas Crookes and his family.
But there has not been a lot to dig into because the family basically lawyered up right after that day.
But even still, I have some pretty striking things in there that will really make, I suspect this new administration, we will see something come out.
And I suspect right now, as I talk to local law enforcement, that they're working on that currently.
Yeah, you keep hearing that, well, there was a lack of coordination, they were shorthanded, but simple things like when you go to the area, Secret Service standard procedure, scope out 1,000 yards.
They didn't do that.
They didn't bother to check all those rooftops.
How could that be?
I don't know.
But when I went back to my car, after everything they held us for a long time, those reporters, there was just, in fact, I was the only reporter in the buffer and a couple photographers.
When we came back out, I realized that my car was parked right below where he climbed up and got on that roof.
And I mean, it was a very open event.
And I remember saying that to my daughter when we got there, thinking, wow, there's, you know, I kept looking at the water tower because if you look at some of the photos from that day, there's a big water tower in the background behind where the stage was.
And I remember thinking, like, wow, there must be a Secret Service guy up there, right?
Like, there has to be, right?
There wasn't, but I tell you what, when I went back to Butler in October, there sure was.
It was a completely different event in a completely different set of security.
And wow, we're talking with Selena Zito.
I want you to order her book, Butler, the new book coming out.
So shots are fired, sometimes it takes a second or two or three or more to realize what's going on.
When did you realize what was happening?
Well, I'm a gun owner.
You know, I think most of the people in Western Pennsylvania are.
So I knew immediately what was happening.
And so four shots went over my head.
And I looked to the president and I saw the red streak across his face.
But when the second four shots went off, at that same time, I saw a sea of blue.
It already surrounded him.
I saw him get down on his knee.
And so I knew he wasn't taken down.
Oh, okay.
I was very obedient.
Remember, I'm four feet away.
I'm right there.
Yeah, because we assume they tackled him to the ground to cover him.
No, they just covered him.
They put a protective stance around him.
He kneeled down.
And I just happened, because I was writing about the event, I had my recorder on, and I picked up almost the entire conversation between him and the Secret Service as he's down and they're around him.
And I had an understanding that he was okay.
When the second four shots went off, his campaign press advance guy, his name is Michelle Picard, like took me down.
He was like, are you crazy?
And there's this sort of iconic photo of me that ran on like the front page of every newspaper in the country along with the shot of Trump because all you see are my red, white, and blue cowboy boots and him on top of me.
Like my entire family thought I was dead because they told me to not move and I obeyed.
I didn't move.
But as a reporter, as someone that is naturally curious, I'm watching everything that's going on.
And I'm taking, you know, photos with my phone.
My recorder is on.
And one of the most powerful moments in the book is when President called me the next morning, first thing in the morning.
And, you know, I've interviewed President Trump about 2,000 times over the past 10 years.
I don't know how many years has it been?
10 years?
Yeah.
And those conversations, well, the first thing he asked was, are you okay?
And then my mom's going to be really mad at me for swearing, even though I'm 65 years old.
But I said to him, Are you even kidding me?
You're the one that was shot.
But you will understand if you watch the expediency in everything that he has done since the moment he was sworn in, including this robust meetings that have happened in the Middle East.
You will understand when you read those conversations that he has with me why he is doing things at breakneck speed.
Well, you can read it in her new book.
It's called Butler, and people can pre-order it now.
Oh, it would be absolutely lovely if you pre-ordered it now.
It comes out July 8th.
But, you know, I'm not a reporter from D.C. or New York, so booksellers don't always stock authors like me unless there's a lot of pre-orders.
And the president has robustly endorsed my work.
Yeah, pre-order the book.
And I don't know why, but if you pre-order it, you always get it first.
For some reason, it comes like a week or two early.
No.
So pre-order it.
It's Butler, and it's by Selena Zito.
Get it to Amazon or wherever you get your books.
So when he was on the ground, they pushed him down.
They held him down below that bunting is bulletproof.
That's why they kept him down there.
But what did you see that we wouldn't have known about?
I know they wanted to take him out on a stretcher and he wouldn't do that.
And he wanted his shoes, but what else?
He wanted his shoes.
Actually, it's pretty funny.
At some point, you hear he's like insistent about his shoes.
And at one point, I hear one of the Secret Service agents, they're trying to get him off the stage, right?
And he's insistent about his shoes.
And finally, I hear one of them say, fine.
And so, you know, he, you know, they bring him past me as, you know, I'm, you know, sort of right there.
And I'll never forget this very surreal moment where his hat, which one of the Secret Service agents had in their arm, like in the crock of the arm, I think I bet there's video of it because you can see it in the corner of their arm.
And I think when you see them go over by the beast, it's no longer there.
Well, I don't know if that was the beast at that point, but whatever the hat.
It just like slowly, it was almost like something out of a movie.
So after he was gone, they took him away.
How long did you remain?
How long did the audience remain?
You know, it was really, I'll never forget this.
That crowd was so well-behaved.
They just quietly left and filed out of there.
There was no screaming.
There was no swearing.
People were really, it's hard to describe.
It was just this orderly exit.
And even they kept me for about an hour in the back.
When I come back, when my daughter and I come back out, the field is completely empty, which when we went in, there was 50,000 people there.
But when we get to our car, it's sort of like over a hill and just a rolling hill.
This is farmland, Pennsylvania farmland.
If anybody's been in Pennsylvania farmland, you know it's very slow rolling hill.
You get over the hill and there's everyone still in the parking lots an hour later.
And remarkably, people are outside their cars, some of them, hugging, talking.
They're sharing water back and forth.
They're sharing food back and forth.
It made me so proud to be a Pennsylvanian and to be an American in that moment because that could have gone very, very differently had it been a different crowd.
But that crowd knew that they were somewhere historic and they knew that there was something there that happened that was changed everything in the country.
And they behaved, they treated the moment with the respect that it deserved.
And I will never, I mean, I still get chills thinking about it.
There was a guy across from me in a car across from me.
And, you know, we could start talking.
And of course, there's always zero degrees of separation between people, right?
I find out his mom, who's 92 in the back of the car, went to high school with my mom.
You know, there were moments like that across this massive field.
You know, remember, there's 50,000 people there.
Nobody's blowing their horn.
Nobody's screaming.
Nobody's, you know, moaning or yapping.
It was really a proud moment.
Well, have you ever gone back there to that field?
Have you ever thought of going back?
Oh, yeah.
So the rest of the book is very much looking at Pennsylvania and how I saw how much this coalition was changing.
You know, I understood the youth vote.
I remember writing, saying, there are so many young people here.
You guys aren't paying attention.
And of course, people would laugh at me.
And I remember saying, there's a lot of minority voters here.
You know, as I went to each event or when I went across the state, I mean, I put 80,000 miles in Pennsylvania alone.
And I went out to Lehigh Valley after the Madison Square Garden, and everyone's like, and this is a highly concentrated Puerto Rican city.
And everyone was saying, oh, they're, you know, he's saying garbage.
They're not going to vote for him.
And I go out there and they're like, what do you think?
We can't take a joke.
And I kept reporting this.
And for somehow, it kept getting dismissed.
So it's really on the ground.
But I interviewed President Trump and Butler again on a desk.
I also was the only reporter to interview Elon Musk this entire election.
Well, I wish we had more time.
I'll have to do this again.
But Selena Zito's book is called Butler.
We want you to pre-order it right now.
Go to Amazon, pre-order the book.
It's called Butler.
As you can hear, it's a riveting book.
Selena Zito, thanks for being with us.
Oh, thanks so much for having me.
You guys have a great day.
All right, take care.
Order the book, Butler, Amazon, wherever you get books.
Coming up, Sean Hannity talks with President Trump.
Mark Simone here for Sean on the Sean Hannity Show.
Hey, welcome back.
It's the Sean Hannity show.
It's Mark Simone.
We'll hear Sean talk with President Trump in just a couple of minutes.
James Comey on Instagram.
How nuts you got to be to follow James Comey on Instagram.
You've got to be really lonely.
He does not have a lot of followers.
Let me see.
No, it's not a lot.
But he puts up a picture where it's spelled out in the sand, 8647.
47 meaning Trump, 47th president, 86.
You know, in a restaurant means gone, canceled, gone.
I don't know.
Is this a threat?
I'll tell you right now, for him to have ever have held the office of the highest leader in our policing, what a joke.
He's saying, you know, he's telling people to go out and kill the president.
Yeah, it's disgusting.
We have a new U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia.
Oh, Janine.
Yeah, Janine, you might want to put this on the list.
I know you got Andrew Wiseman.
Are you going to take a good look at that Merrick Garland?
What a sleazeball he was.
You got Jack Smith.
You got a lot of dirty cops to get to.
Comey, as disgusting as he is, you'd think he had half a brain.
You don't put something like that on Instagram.
Hey, we're out of time.
Mark Simone here.
Now, when we come back, don't go away.
This was an amazing interview, and it was too long to get into one show.
It's Sean Hannity talking with President Trump.
And he has Rubio tonight.
Don't forget Rubio tonight on Hannity, but you'll hear the part two of the interview.
Sean Hannity, President Trump, and it's next.
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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.
It's almost a dirty word, one that connotes conspiracy theory.
Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
Bad faith political warfare, and frankly, bullshit.
We kill the ambassador just to cover something up.
You put two and two together.
Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
Benghazi is a Rosetta Stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years.
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This is Fiasco, Benghazi.
What difference at this point does it make?
Yes, that's right.
Lock her up.
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We got a big interview coming up in just a second.
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Well, now, Sean actually interviewed the president at great length.
Now, Linda, you've had a preview of this.
It's pretty good.
I have.
He aired part one a couple days ago, part two.
He did this all on Air Force One as the president took his first trip in his second term here to the Middle East.
And he featured that second part last night.
So, although he can't be with us today, he asked that we please make sure that our radio audience got to see and hear this interview today.
This is important stuff.
Sean Hannity on Air Force One with President Trump.
There are many legs to your economic plan that you're laying out.
One is one of the trade deals.
Second is tax cuts permanent, no tax tips, no tax Social Security, no tax overtime.
Another leg would be energy.
Interest deduction on cars.
Remember that.
So it's no tax on tips, no tax on Social Security benefits for seniors, which is so great.
Think of it.
And no tax on overtime.
But there's a fourth leg that I think is really important of that, where middle-income people, but any people, if you buy a car made in America, only I'm not interested if it's made anywhere else.
I couldn't care less.
But if it's made in America, you get, and you borrow money to buy the car, which I guess 80% of the people do, you get a tax deduction on your interest payments.
That's a big deal.
That's never happened before.
Big deal for people that are buying cars.
That's a huge, that's a huge game changer for the car industry, too.
Huge, I think.
One part that you can't control, although maybe you really can because you have such influence with the Republican Party, is the one big, beautiful bill.
You put out a big statement on that today.
And how confident are you, having spent time with Majority Leader Thune, Speaker of the House Johnson?
First of all, Johnson and Thune have been unbelievable.
They've done a great job.
Their soul is into this, their whole heart and soul.
And they're working so hard.
And it's always tough when you have a very small, you know, we have a majority, but it's buying in the Senate three votes.
And in the Republican, in Congress, it's seven.
Now, it was one for a period of time.
We won some elections in the meantime, but it was actually one.
So now it's seven.
And I would say this, even before this big drug and, if you take a look, the cuts that I announced today, if you take a look at the pharmaceutical and drug cuts, they're so massive that I think a lot of Democrats have to vote for the bill, number one.
Number two, even if I didn't do this today, even if there was no such thing as these 50 to 90 percent cuts, I mean, think of it.
Where we're buying, you're selling drugs in other countries for five times more than it costs in the United States.
How horrible that is.
Anyway, but that's going to be a thing of the past.
Some of them are cancer drugs too.
Yeah, everything.
It's very unfair.
Very unfair to people.
They have cancer.
They don't have much money.
They have enough money to get through this, but then they end up going bankrupt.
You know, people were getting themselves fixed up or not getting fixed up.
Either way, and still they were going bankrupt all over the place because they couldn't afford the drugs.
But if they lived in a different country, they would have paid just a fraction.
Think of how horrible that is.
Anyway, so I fixed that.
Nobody thought it was fixable, and I fixed it.
But even without that, I think we would have gotten the bill passed.
With it, I think a lot of Democrats have to vote.
I saw that a couple of Democrats said, I'd like to be in charge of, I don't know if you saw that.
You have a couple of people that go on your show that I assume are moderate Democrats without mentioning names.
And both of them said, I don't know about you, but I think I'm going to be voting for this bill.
I think a lot of Democrats are going to be forced to vote for the bill because, you know, you add this new element that if this bill passes, you're going to get a 50 to 90 percent reduction in prescription drugs and pharmaceuticals.
When you add that in, how does a Democrat not vote?
I don't think they can win an election if they don't vote for it.
But even if you don't include it, I think that the Republicans are very unified and something would happen where they will get this vote.
I think it's imperative they vote.
But look at the Democratic Party.
Look at the leadership that's emerged.
Jasmine Crockett, AOC, the squad, Grandpa Bernie, they seem to be the most.
Look at Schumer.
He turned out to be a Palestinian.
I knew him right at the beginning.
And I tell you what, Schumer has turned out.
We call him the Palestinian senator, the senator from Palestine, Palestine.
No, Chuck Schumer is very disappointed.
Is he afraid to go against that radical base?
I think he's afraid, yeah.
I think he's, I watch him, he's lost his confidence totally.
I just watched Chuck Schumer.
I've known him so long.
And he's in the other party, but I've known the guy so long.
He's totally lost his confidence.
It's interesting.
We're talking about the radicalism of the left.
And what's really fascinating is you take up a lot of space in their head.
And it's funny, you said, how could they possibly vote against lower prescription drug costs?
But in the U.S. Senate, the Democrats were championing the right of men to play women's sports.
They've been the party of fighting for the rights of illegals, even Shrende Aragua, Brego Garcia, etc.
They're the party that thinks it's a constitutional crisis.
That you and Doge have had, what, nearly $200 billion in waste, fraud, and abuse.
They think that's a constitutional crisis.
So you're asking, how could they be that extreme?
Aren't they that extreme?
Well, not all of them.
I think you have a lot of them that they don't know where they are right now.
I think they don't know what to do, like men playing in women's sports.
I saw a guy that I know, good guy, Democrat.
He's trying to justify, two days ago on television, he's being hammered.
And he's trying to justify men playing in women's sports.
And it's sad.
I wanted to call him and say, you better get off that subject.
That's not an 80-20.
That's about a 97-3, okay?
If they talk about, you know, the famous, they always say it's 80-20.
A lot of these things are not 80-20, like transgender for everybody.
Let's have transgender for everybody, your kids, everybody.
That's not an 80-20.
They always say that's 80-20.
That's 99-1, I would say.
So, look, in one way, I don't like talking about it because I don't want to talk them out of it because, you know, it would be harder to beat them if they were normal and things.
It shows that they're almost insane.
And they do suffer from Trump derangement syndrome at a high level.
And I guess I'm honored by that.
But I'll say this.
Look, we had an election.
You were so wonderful to me.
You were really an amazing professional.
It's not, you did it for the right reason.
You didn't do it for the wrong reason.
But you were so professional.
And we won every swing state.
We won the popular vote by a lot.
We won everything.
We won a thing called that people don't like districts.
So in the country, you have districts, thousands of districts.
We got 2,750 districts versus 525 districts.
Think of that.
That's why when you look at a map, it's actually a very important stat.
When you look at a map, the map shows it's practically all red, the Republican Party.
And this is a big party.
You know, we won, look how well we did with the auto workers.
We won the Teamsters.
The Teamsters were big for us.
The unions were big.
The non-unions were big.
The right to work was massive.
But the unions, we won unions all over the place.
And we basically won workers.
We also won people of common sense.
Rich people, poor people, middle-income people.
We won sort of everybody.
If you take a look at this match, you know, we did great with Hispanic.
The Hispanic people came to us like nobody's ever seen before.
Do you think the Republican Party is now the party of working men and women?
I do.
When you put out the threat of tariffs, it was interesting.
Between countries and companies, and I would scroll the list on my TV show, pledging $8 trillion, trillion with a T, in manufacturing.
Chips, cars, pharmaceuticals, they're going to manufacture back in this country.
That was just the threat of tariffs.
Now the deals are beginning to follow.
So we're here for really two months because it's three and a half, but you got to give me a month to get ready, you know, make the Oval Office a little more beautiful and things like that that we're doing, right?
But so we're really here, let's say actively for two months.
So in two months, we have probably over $10 trillion committed, $10 trillion.
Whereas most presidents wouldn't have $1 trillion over the course of the entire presidency.
And if you look at this poor soul, this lost soul from the last presidency.
And I say that because he was a very mean person.
They went after our people, including me.
But he was a very mean person.
He was not a smart person.
In fact, if you go back 30 years ago, he wasn't a smart person.
You go back to prime time with him, he wasn't a smart person.
But he was a very mean person.
Joe Biden's a very mean person.
People don't understand that.
They've ruined lives.
They've ruined families.
They've ruined so many people.
They could have ruined me.
They tried to ruin me.
But we're now in Air Force One, flying nicely to the Middle East, right?
But they tried to ruin me.
But some people weren't able to fight back.
Their families have been destroyed.
And the level, he knew what was going on, too.
I've never been on Air Force One with you before.
But I did go to Helsinki, Singapore, and Vietnam.
I was on those trips, and I interviewed you on many of them.
Do you ever think that maybe in the end, in spite of all that they threw at you, that it was better that you had a break between terms?
Do you ever think about that?
Do you ever think, did you ever think about you took all of, they were after you so hard.
You took all your chips, put them in the middle of the table, and it was either here, Air Force One, the White House, or probably someplace that I don't even want to mention.
I knew that running was very dangerous because I knew how evil these people were.
I knew how they cheat, they steal, they lie.
They're a horrible group of people.
And I knew that if I ran, I exposed myself to a lot of danger.
But I felt I had to.
And especially after they started, they were so bad at running this country.
They were destroying the country, open borders.
I didn't believe it because I built hundreds of miles of wall.
And there were some areas that they should have built.
And I had, it was all ready to go up.
It was going to be put up in a matter of weeks.
And they didn't do it.
And I said, wow, they really offer open borders.
They should have automatically done it.
And after doing an incredible job building literally hundreds and hundreds of miles of wall, we were doing so good.
And, you know, we had the border really under control until he came in.
And then he just opened it up.
And I said, wow, he really wants open borders.
And then he actually announced he wants to have open borders.
And, you know, that means people coming from all over the world, from prisons, from mental institutions, from gangs all over Venezuela and other countries.
And, no, I saw what they were doing.
I felt I had to run.
If I didn't run, I really believe if I didn't win this election, this country would be finished.
I don't think it would have had a chance of surviving.
You would have had the most radical lunatics.
You would have had people rioting.
It would have been the, this would have been the experiment of, you know, they call it the great experiment.
The great experiment would have ended very badly.
But you personally put it all on the line.
There was a lot, obviously, writing on this for the country.
I did.
And a lot writing on it personally for you because you know what they wanted to do.
Yeah.
No, they wanted to do whatever they could.
They wanted to have me locked up for 300 years.
These are the worst human beings you've ever seen.
It was a fight against his political opponent.
And they said it, but it was a fight against his political opponent.
They would have used any means possible.
Look, Comey was horrible.
These were all horrible people.
And I fired Comey, fortunately, very early.
Very early.
But, you know, they would have used whatever means possible.
These are vicious people.
And Biden is a vicious person.
Biden's a stupid person.
He's a low IQ person, but he's vicious.
And that's a bad combination.
Last question.
We have our first American Pope.
He does seem to disagree with you on immigration.
Putting that aside, would you like to talk to him about that?
Sure.
I mean, I would.
He was really a surprise choice.
Great interview.
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