Sean Hannity Show - James Comey's At It Again - May 19th, Hour 3

May 20, 2025 - Sean Hannity Show

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James Comey's At It Again - May 19th, Hour 3

Gregg Jarrett, Fox News Legal Analyst and Best Selling Author weighs in on James Comey’s walks on the beach. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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	If you want to be a part of the program, well, we've got this issue that is now hanging out there, and that relates to James Comey.
	Uh and I have found what he did, and and we spent the better part of three years on this show with a very small ensemble cast.
	You know, John Solomon, Greg Jarrett.
	I mean, I'm not going to mention Sarah Carter, Catherine Heridge, and there were others, but there weren't many of us.
	And we all had sources in Washington.
	There weren't many of them that were willing to share the right information.
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	It was all hands on deck, but it took us three years to unliterally unpeel every layer of an onion to get there, while the state-run legacy media mob just flat out lied about every aspect of it.
	You know, starting with the dirty Russian disinformation dossier and and everything in between.
	Pfizer warrants that never should have been filed.
	James Comey signed three of the four Pfizer warrants.
	The bulk of that information came from the dirty Russian disinformation dossier.
	Um really bad, dangerous things for our country that never should have happened in our country.
	Never should have happened.
	And so now we have uh the former FBI director, James Comey, had another anti-Trump uh seashell moment prior to this Thursday Instagram post that showed seashells arranged to show the numbers 8647.
	Is not a person I know that doesn't mean 86 somebody, what that means, especially if you're in law enforcement.
	And Comey posted a photo of a single larger C shell that was painted blue with the words vote Harris on it in October 24.
	So I guess this is his little cute way of communicating his bias against Donald Trump.
	And now the question is well, what becomes of this?
	Uh Dan Bongino and Cash Patel have weighed in on it over the weekend.
	Dan Bangino issued a sharp public condemnation of Comey accusing him of disgracing the agency, as now authorities are investigating.
	Apparently, the Secret Service will be interviewing if they haven't already.
	Comey's 8647 Instagram post, and there's a belief of many that that is a message of a direct threat against Donald Trump.
	Now, what's ironic about this, and it should be taken seriously.
	The White House says it's being taken seriously.
	Donald Trump Jr., very angry.
	Don't blame him.
	It's his father, accusing Comey of calling for his father to be murdered.
	Um 86 is kind of a a clear term.
	Um, the same James Comey, Mr. Higher Honor, that warned about demagogues using the internet to radicalize uh one day before this controversy.
	He appeared on some podcast uh to promote some legal thriller.
	And uh in the interview, which was recorded before the eighty-six forty-seven post, Comey described his book as a story about a right-wing demagogue podcaster whose inflammatory rhetoric incites violence from his followers.
	Uh and it's it is it is beyond ironic.
	Anyway, so the former FBI director uh will be looks like he did meet with with the Secret Service facing questioning over this now deleted social media content post.
	Uh Tulsi Gabbard saying Comey should be put behind bars for issuing, quote, a hit on this.
	Um it it just none of this surprises me.
	This is this is the the sad thing.
	Now let me play the president in his interview with Brett Baer talking about this very issue.
	He knew exactly what that meant.
	A child knows what that meant.
	If you're the FBI director and you don't know what that meant, that meant assassination.
	And it says it loud and clear.
	He apologized and said he doesn't want to be violence, but look, he's a very good thing.
	What do you want to see happen?
	What do you want to see happen?
	Uh I don't want to take a position on it because that's gonna be up to Pam and all of the great people.
	I have cash, I have Pam, I have great people.
	Uh and I'm gonna let them because if I if I tell you something, they'll say, Oh, I I'm not gonna get involved.
	Anyway, here to weigh in on it is Greg Jarrett, Fox News legal analyst, best selling author, uh, who did a lot of investigative reporting on James Comey himself.
	He was part of our ensemble cast that broke down how bogus the Russia hoax was.
	Uh this is right up your alley.
	Let's talk about the legality of it.
	Your thoughts on it.
	Well, the Secret Service uh within 24 hours of the posting by Comey, uh they were at his door, and they questioned him for about 90 minutes, reportedly.
	Um, you know, we don't know what load of uh BS that Comey said to the investigators, but I'm betting it has little to do with the truth, because Comey's incapable of honesty.
	He's a phony through and through, always has been.
	Deception is his calling card.
	Uh, you know, he has this weird Machiavellian complex compounded by his obsessive anger and hostility uh toward Trump.
	The question is, should he be criminally charged for threatening the president?
	That'll be up to the U.S. attorney in Washington, along with the attorney general Pan Bondy, as you point out.
	There are a couple of relevant uh criminal statutes, but they both would focus on Comey's intent behind his purported threat.
	Uh the legal standard is the same for both of those statutes.
	And and it's this.
	Did Comey know that his public message could be understood as a threat to harm the president, particularly Sean, in the context of two assassination attempts.
	In other words, did he mean it as what the courts have called a true threat?
	And if so, and that's a big if, but if so, yes, he could be prosecuted because a true threat is not protected as political speech under the First Amendment.
	Now what?
	Comey knew exactly what he was doing.
	Um and that's why he immediately tried to cover it up and backtrack by claiming, oh, gee whiz, you know, I I didn't really realize that term 86 connects getting rid of somebody by violence or murder.
	Is that excuse believable?
	Not to me.
	Uh and and again, as you mentioned, Sean.
	This is a guy who was a federal prosecutor.
	He was head of the FBI.
	He in his office put mobsters away for 816 people.
	Comey's not an idiot.
	He's malevolent, and I think he's now trying to weasel out of it by playing dumb, which is what he always does.
	He plays the village idiot when he gets caught.
	And uh, you know, I don't buy it for a minute.
	I don't buy it for a minute either, but the this one thing, how do you prove the intent that he meant this to be a message?
	I mean, it's very hard to get in uh it's one of the problems I have with hate crime legislation is you're trying to get into the heart and head of somebody rather than just deal with the actual crime of it.
	Well, what's frustrating here is the former FBI director, he's trying to convince the public that oh, I had no idea what the term eighty-six meant, and it just so happened to follow the with the letters 47.
	Um maybe he's being too cute by half here, but on a from a legal standpoint, I don't I don't know how you possibly get to charges without him him basically implicating himself.
	I don't see him doing that.
	Well, the only way out is to lie about it.
	And of course, Comey's lives and deceptions are legendary.
	Um so you know, there's no reason to believe that he didn't try to mislead or invigel the Secret Service during that 90-minute interview last Friday.
	You know, he's notorious for that.
	Um, but of course, when you start lying to uh Secret Service agents, um you are putting yourself in additional risk, because you you know, if it can be proven that you're lying, and sometimes it can be proven by circumstantial evidence, uh if not direct evidence, then he could additionally be charged with giving false and misleading statements, which is the same thing as uh the perjury statute.
	Uh, you know, Comey's story here didn't make any sense.
	He explained on social media when he got rid of the post that uh gee, I I thought the seashells were a political message of some kind.
	Really?
	Like what?
	You're gonna post for millions of people to read a political message you don't even understand yourself.
	And uh you know, but maybe Comey told the Asians, you know, I I I do that all the time, and and you know, that's true.
	He has a long habit of posting bizarre, inexplicable things on social media.
	You know, you'll recall when he was FBI director, he created fake accounts and posted strange photos and messages uh until he got busted, and then he came out of the closet, admitted it, and then started his own named accounts, filled with all kinds of subliminal messages.
	Umoting himself, but the rest of the time he was hurling insults at Trump, you know, as he pretends to be Saint Comey the Righteous, uh, and he's the antithesis of that.
	So, you know, I I don't put it past him to have lied to the Secret Service investigating agents last Friday.
	Yeah, I don't put it past them at all.
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	Greg Jarrett is with us talking about James Comey, 8647.
	Um just an accident.
	Instead of a mere accident, opacamala, mere accident.
	Guy like Shells.
	He's obsessed with sending messages through shells.
	I mean, none of these people, these deep staters that like, for example, how did James Comey remember back in July of 2016?
	No reasonable prosecutor would prosecute, meanwhile, all the top secret classified information, and then the intent behind Hillary Clinton with bleach pit and hammers and devices and SIM cards removed, and and there was too much there not to go forward.
	He didn't want to do it.
	And then he used Hillary Clinton, and you and I both know he was warned in August of 2020.
	Bruce Orr was the one to warn him not to use the dirty dossier that it was political in nature.
	It was bought and paid for by Hillary Clinton.
	And as a result of that, look what look what happened.
	We all know what happened.
	Uh that it was uh it ended up years later.
	He said, Well, knowing what I know now, I wouldn't have signed those three of uh out of the four Pfizer warrants, which was a backdoor despite on all things candidate Trump, transition team Trump, and then President Trump.
	Um but all of this that he was actively involved in, you know, with nobody was ever held accountable.
	Right and uh and that to me is very frustrating, Greg.
	The answer is he should have been held in criminal contempt and thrown in the hooscow for lying to the Pfizer court.
	But guess who was in charge of the Pfizer court at that time?
	James Bosberg.
	And of course, we know his anti-Trump views.
	No one did more to corrupt the FBI and demolish the rule of law than James Comey.
	And I was encouraged to hear from the FBI director, currently Cash Patel, over the weekend in an interview on Fox News, that he has uncovered damning evidence.
	That, you know, Comey and McCabe and Strzok and the whole gang lied to the federal courts, abuse the surveillance powers, as you point out, uh suppressed exculpatory evidence to target Donald Trump.
	And frankly, you know, this is not new to you and me.
	I mean, I wrote two books about it, The Russia Hoax and Witch Hunt.
	This was the dirtiest trick ever perpetrated in American political history.
	Comey was the villain in all of it.
	He knew at the outset that Trump never colluded with Russia, knew that the dossier was garbage, knew that it was all invented by Hillary and Democrats to smear Trump.
	And in fact, Hillary and the DNC actually paid for Russian disinformation In the bogus dossier.
	So they're the ones who colluded with Russia.
	And yet James Comey covered it all up and he exploited the sham dossier.
	I I really urge people to go back and from today's perspective, you know, read your your number one best selling books, Russia Hulk, switch on both of them, because you did, I think, the most comprehensive and the deepest dive of anybody.
	We appreciate it as always.
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	Great to be back in our home country.
	Um and I'm I it was the greatest trip ever.
	Experience of a lifetime.
	I'm so grateful.
	Um, and however, it's great to be home.
	Linda, when you're in when you're in Saudi Arabia and you see housing projects and the last row of homes in a uh in a housing project, all you see is arid desert, and it's a hundred and ten, hundred and twelve degrees.
	Not exactly not exactly Florida and the coastal areas of this country that I love so much.
	I like it.
	Where was that?
	Was that in Saudi Arabia?
	I remember we said that.
	That was in Riyadh, yeah.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, the only the the night to me the nicest of the three was Qatar, uh, or you can say cutter, cutter or guitar.
	It's actually Qatar.
	It's just that with the accent, it sounds like cutter, but it's not.
	It's Qatar.
	Okay, but if we put you the your New York accent to it, it's a lot of people.
	No, we had a bunch of people calling it.
	We're going to cut up.
	We went to Qatar and we had some sauce.
	I'm actually pretty good, just like my homage moments, you know.
	They serve coffee and and then we did talk radio from the How was the coffee, actually?
	Hey, uh, listen, if you want to save money in this tough economy, although things are getting better, every indication is they're getting better, uh, thanks to the Trump policies.
	I I think these trillions of dollars in commitments are gonna serve all of you very, very well.
	That's gonna be opportunities for the American people.
	I think there's one big beautiful bill if we can get these these people off their asses and get this thing done, and everybody, you know, pulls the boat in the same direction.
	We're gonna by the end of the week, I promise, we'll be giving our phone numbers because some of these people are being so stubborn and stupid, and you live together, you die together.
	How many times, Linda, did I say that?
	I'd go to Washington, I'd have my town hall with members of Congress.
	I'd ask them, you all know you're not getting everything you want here.
	Oh, yeah, we know.
	You know that you're elected on the Trump agenda.
	Oh, yeah, we know.
	And now the president wants this bill.
	It's not perfect, but you're not going to get perfect with the reconciliation process, that arcane, you know, system.
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	Uh let us say hi to Elaine in my free state of Florida.
	There's no place like home, Elaine, I'll tell you that, although it was the greatest trip, greatest experience one could ever want.
	Oh, I understand that.
	And to be able to come back to Florida, what a blessing, right?
	Well, I mean first congratulate you for being uh chosen by our great president to attend his trip.
	And um you did a wonderful job.
	I love the interview on the plane.
	It looked like you had a little turbulence.
	I don't know.
	Um I honestly turbulence is natural for every flight.
	Most people, I I mean, I've flown so many hours in my life.
	When you fly through clouds, you're gonna hit turbulence.
	Just people don't expect it and they get all wigged out.
	I turbulence does not impact me.
	I've talked to too many pilots.
	It really was not much at all.
	And it was it was very cool, and and um I posted on social media if you haven't seen them, maybe we'll repost some of them.
	You know, we we uh it every country when we were getting within airspace, they sent up either F-15s or F-16s to escort Air Force One to the ground.
	It was very and they were flying really close, really close.
	And it was a very cool experience.
	Um looking out the window with Pete Heggseth next to me, and we're just looking at each other like, wow, this is pretty cool.
	Yeah, I would think I I would think so.
	So I have a two-part question.
	I'm a great big fan.
	Um, so probably a little a little too much about you, but now I'm wondering how you handled the McDonald's truck, because I know you're a protein man.
	So I'm curious, did you resist the McDonald's?
	And if you did not, did you remove the bun?
	Okay, if I do eat burgers, I do remove the bun.
	That's number one.
	Number two, the only thing that I saw, it's it's you're asking a great question.
	Like when I traveled to the U.S., I mean almost every city looks the same in in this regard.
	Um like New England has a certain architectural look to it, old style New England homes, etc.
	Um if you go out to Arizona or Nevada, it it has a a desert style look to it, uh far different than what you would experience in in our free state of Florida, and the Saudi government, you know, had a special McDonald's truck outside of the President's Hotel in Riyadh.
	And I thought it was funny.
	I never I didn't ask him if he had one.
	But the the the food that they uh on Air Force One is incredible.
	It really is.
	They they they do feed you way more than I want to eat.
	I kind of stuck to my diet, though.
	I was pretty good.
	Good.
	Good for you.
	Because I know that that's um difficult when you travel, but I was curious when I heard about the truck and you know one of the.
	When you don't sleep, you you tend to want to eat more.
	Now it doesn't mean you gotta go off the wagon, you know.
	Well, I'm not I'm not gonna say I didn't cheat a little.
	I did, but it was worth it.
	Let's put it that way.
	Everything that I cheated with, I it was worth it.
	Um, but you're asking great questions.
	Anyway, I appreciate your kindness, Elaine.
	God bless you.
	Um, but I did not get up to close and personal to the McDonald's truck, and uh I I was not in a position where I would be able to stop at a McDonald's.
	The McDonald's when I was in Israel, I don't know if Linda, if you remember this, I think you were on this trip.
	Remember we stopped at a McDonald's and it tasted so much different.
	Oh, yeah.
	And there was what I I f I'm not a big hummus person.
	I'm I love it.
	That Mediterranean diet, I can live on that the rest of my life.
	Okay, you loved the food.
	I only loved one meal when we were in Israel, and that was the last one we had at a hotel.
	Yep.
	We were on that it was like the top roof, and we were able to like finally get something you liked.
	I still ate homous and olives.
	Yeah.
	Well, I do like olives, so th we do have that in common, and they are spectacular there for sure.
	Um I love green olives.
	I just love I think they're the best.
	Why do I like them?
	Because they're salty, of course.
	Um James in Oklahoma.
	James, how are you?
	Glad you called, sir.
	Well, hello, Sean.
	Uh what's going on, sir?
	Well, I just had a uh kind of a flashback in memory whenever uh James Kelly posted that thing on the seashells.
	I've only seen the term, only been around the term once in my entire life prior to this little event of of eight six.
	And um many years ago, forty probably forty-five years ago, I walked into a restaurant where I recognized a guy as a friend.
	He's sitting with a bunch of guys I didn't know.
	I walked over, shook his hand, said hello.
	And he invited me to join them at the table, so I did.
	Turns out these are all Vietnam vets, and they were talking and and they didn't all serve together, but they're they lived near each other.
	So they're having a luncheon, they're just visiting, hanging out, and uh one of them had been telling a story.
	Now, mind you, I I didn't hear the first part of the story.
	I don't know who the person was or talking about or all the details, but um the guy continues with his story, and then one of them says, Well, what'd they do with him?
	And he said they ate sixty, and it means that mean eighty eighty-six somebody.
	What does that mean?
	They're all nodding and they're all very somber and, you know, and heads turned down and I didn't know.
	I said I said, What is that?
	And one of them turns to me and he says, eight by six is the size of a grave.
	And I said, Well, oh, that explains everything to me.
	And so you don't need more than that.
	So anyway, um fast forward to Comey's little deal and and I'm sitting there and I'm looking at it, and I'm at first it didn't even dawn on me.
	And then all of a sudden I'm like, oh wait, I r I remember what eight six means.
	And yeah, you a eighty-six somebody, eighty-six.
	You're you eliminate that's what it means.
	Exactly all these people are are defending that it means something in a restaurant, it means something well, I worked in a restaurant many years ago and I never heard the term there.
	Me either.
	And and if you're in law enforcement, you know what the term eighty-six means.
	He will never convince me otherwise.
	I don't care how many times he goes on MSDNC to sell his book.
	Uh did he do it because he wanted attention and he knew he could back out of it?
	I don't know.
	I have my suspicions, but um it just is even a customer in a restaurant, you're terminating service by that that code that they use eighty six.
	Well, that means they're term it it all boils down to terminate, does it not?
	Uh yes it does.
	It's all it's just terminate.
	Whatever the scenario is, you're saying to terminate that customer's alcohol if he's had too much to drink, terminate that customer, get him out of the restaurant because he's being obnoxious.
	Is to terminate, and it it has to be based, in my opinion, the only place it came from is the size of a grave.
	It came from terminate in real life, terminate an individual, eighty-six, him put him in a grave.
	And I I went and looked this up after Comey did what he did.
	I went and looked it up.
	Eighty-six, eight by six by three is the actual size of a grave.
	I think everybody has their opinion, and to me it is so obvious.
	Um I don't know what to say.
	That's my interpretation.
	Uh there's nothing he can say.
	That is gonna convince me otherwise.
	Anyway, James, we appreciate you, man.
	Glad you're out there.
	Uh well, stay in my free state of Florida again.
	Joel is there.
	Joel has an important question.
	How are you, sir?
	Hi, sir.
	Great.
	And thanks for taking my call.
	Um I'm a little bit frustrated because it seems like every time we get to the point of getting something done, we have three or four holdouts in the Republican Party and And then the bill barely gets through.
	And now it's got to make its way through like three different uh parts, I guess now before it goes to the Senate.
	And and you do so much for America.
	Is there anything you'd like to say to Congress or the Senate or people that you know that can help uh get this thing through?
	And like you said, it's not perfect, and we're not perfect humans, but we have to get something through to you know, for our our constituency because we voted for President Trump.
	We and and a lot of Democrats voted for him too.
	I said after the election, there are going to be days on this program where I am going to need your help.
	I imagine this week is going to be that week as the week unfolds, and that what is the what is your help mean?
	To contact your congressman or contact specific congressmen and women and tell them to pass the president's bill.
	Nobody uh the look, I wish I didn't have to go through this ridiculous arduous explanation of what is an arcane procedure in the United States Senate, known as reconciliation, whereby you don't need cloture and 60 votes.
	You can actually pass budget bills with 51 votes.
	It's how Obamacare was passed, the inflation reduction act was passed, and Lindsay Graham did a great job as budget chairman in the Senate to make sure we could do it on this bill.
	It's not going to be perfect, but it will make the Trump tax cuts permanent.
	It will eliminate tax on tips, Social Security, and overtime.
	It will give us money to secure our border.
	It will give us money for the next generation of weaponry.
	It will achieve a lot of the president's uh agenda and goals, and time is of the essence.
	If these guys want to break the historic trend, which is usually in the midterms, again, I will I will come to you, this great audience, and ask for your help because only you can make it happen.
	But if if Donald Trump, if the House and Senate go to the Democrats, they will impeach him, I predict, you know, at least five times.
	And that's a minimum.
	So this is in imperative for the 26 elections.
	It will be imperative for the 28 elections.
	It's imperative.
	You cannot resolve this country's problems in four years completely, but you we're going so far so fast at the speed of light.
	We cannot delay progress.
	If the econom if elect if I'm right, elections are based on a peace and prosperity.
	This is a critical component in terms of all of their success.
	So we're going to get the names of holdouts, and we will ask you to respectfully call them and to help support the president's agenda here.
	It's not perfect.
	I'm not saying it is.
	The procedures are not perfect to begin with.
	Start there.
	Anyway, my friend, we will stay on it all week.
	That I can promise you.
	Um, that's going to wrap things up for today.
	Hannity tonight, 9 Eastern on the Fox News Channel.
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	Also, the prostate cancer diagnosis.
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	Dr. Ronnie Jackson, Miranda Devine, Horace Cooper tonight, Greg Jarrett tonight, Nicole Parker on James Comey, 8647.
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	All I know is apparently it's very good.
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