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Lunatic Protestors Are Real - June 16th, Hour 3
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Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, it is interesting.
The one moderate voice in the Democratic Party is just not accepted because the radicals have taken it over.
And that is John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, who supported the president.
That parade this weekend was pretty amazing, actually, the 250th anniversary of the Army.
And when you think of all the people that have fought and bled and died for this country, do they not deserve to be honored?
And do we not celebrate their great success for the cause of freedom?
Pretty amazing that people would be against it.
And of course, he supports Israel's right to defend itself.
But anyway, so the left does what they do best, and they have these meaningless performative art sessions.
In this case, they're no kings rallies around the country where they use the most vile language.
And John Fetterman wasn't even there in Philadelphia this weekend, but he got booed anyway.
Now, this is not a rally for one party.
We've got Democrats here today.
Republicans and independents here today.
Wait for us, because even today there are folks among the Democratic Party who think we should roll over and play dead.
John Fetterman.
John Fetterman.
What did John Fetterman do?
Oh, we have moderates and we have everybody here, but not John Fetterman.
Oh, because he doesn't go along with groupthink.
Then you could thank James Comey for one of the chants that broke out, this one in Washington, D.C., 8647.
You can thank James Comey, former FBI director, Mr. Higher Honor himself for this one.
Why don't we just say assassinate Donald Trump because that's what they're saying.
Then we have chanting from these no kings protests.
You know, again, performative art.
Anyway, here's some of the chanting from the left in this country.
Now remember, they're getting their talking points from the swalwells of the world, Mr. Fang Fang and other Democrats.
We played it earlier comparing Trump to Hitler.
We refuse to accept!
We refuse to accept a fascist America!
A fascist America!
We demand the Trump regime!
We demand the Trump regime!
MUST GO NE- Hands off, LA!
No fascist USA!
No fascist USA!
Hands off, LA!
Hands off, LA!
No fascist USA!
No fascist USA!
Trump must go now!
Trump must go now!
Beautiful.
Let's go, LA!
Let's go!
Okay.
Anyway, he reported last week on a lot of this madness going on.
Cam Higbee, who's from Seattle, went to the Seattle protest over the weekend, the No Kings protest, and apparently was violently attacked and ended up in the hospital.
Cam, I know you're an independent journalist.
What happened?
Yeah, well, I had run into one of the attackers at Seattle City Hall a couple weeks ago, and they were rioting there against a Christian group.
And he ID'd me.
And then he was back out again the night of the No King stuff outside the Seattle Federal building.
And he ID'd me and a group of three of them approached me, held me down, beat the crap out of me, and then held me to the ground, choked me out.
Yeah, I've got big dents in my helmet.
I believe the guy who was punching me was wearing sap gloves, which are filled with lead or steel shot.
Not good.
And you even had a helmet on?
They cracked your helmet?
What kind of helmet do you have on?
Well, they dented it.
It was a cheap bicycle helmet.
I had to blend it.
I didn't wear my good helmet because I would not fit in.
I would not fit in.
Did you think you fit in with the helmet you had on?
Well, yeah, it was a $5 helmet from Walmart, I figure.
Pretty much.
So what happened?
Did they actually recognize you from your online reporting?
How did this all unfold?
Yeah, so I'm pretty sure that this guy already had it out for me.
He knew who I was.
He actually had threatened to kill me a week before, a couple weeks before, after this city hall thing.
I reported that at the King County Sheriff's Department.
They said they'd take him in, never did, of course.
So he said the next time he saw me at a protest, he'd have a gun with him.
So what I think was happening is they were monitoring me on Twitter and trying to find out who I was.
I was in full black block, so I'm undercover.
So that's why I was wearing the $20 helmet or whatever from Walmart.
So I'm undercover, and they're looking for me out of the sea of people in black block.
And I think they might have had somebody go up behind me with a shoulder surf my phone and see what I was looking at and stuff like that.
Or they saw me take my mask off and I put my gas mask on.
I foolishly believed that SPD was going to move in and disrupt the riot or they were lighting fires underneath occupied vehicles and stuff like that.
Of course, SPD wasn't actually doing that.
So you end up getting injured.
And I mean, did they get an ambulance to you?
Or did you get yourself to the hospital?
What happened?
Yeah, well, no.
I called 901.
SPD never moved on the riot until after I called them.
And then, like, 30 minutes later, they sent a contingent of officers.
They said that they were going to meet me at my location after I had, you know, fled six blocks away.
Officer never came.
So I went home.
I went to my car.
I drove home.
And then I went to urgent care.
And then last night, I had some concussion symptoms flare up, dizziness, nausea.
You know, light flashes, ears ringing.
So I went to the ER again, and they said it's not a brain bleed, but it's going to get better and worse and better and worse.
I did land a pretty good pepper spray on the guy, though.
Well, it's not something that should happen, but you didn't have any help from the police.
And that was very reminiscent of the summer of love and what took place out there.
It's kind of dangerous now that you are a target, and it's kind of dangerous.
Look, I've lived with this my whole career for the most part, and I don't talk about it a lot publicly.
I've had my fair share of threats.
Trust me.
It's not fun.
It's not fun, especially when you have young children, which is at a point in my life when it also happened.
And it is a little scary.
What are your plans moving forward?
Well, I've gotten a lot of self-defense tools, we'll say.
So both for in the field and for at home.
So I think I'll be fine.
I'm just going to have to decide, you know, what days I'm going to wear a plate carrier, what days I'm going to be undercover, if I'm going to continue to do undercover stuff.
I don't want to be intimidated by these people.
That's what they want.
They want to decommission me.
They want me to stop recording them committing crimes.
They want me off the streets.
And they want to send a message to every other independent journalist who's actually doing the work that they will also get beat up.
Let me ask you, do you have the information on the person that made a specific threat against your life?
I do.
I have two of them.
Okay, so you're lucky you got two.
And have you shared that with the police?
Yep, I've shared it with the police.
So I doubt SPD is going to, they basically indicated to me that it's low priority because it's an assault and that prosecutors in Seattle never do anything about crimes committed at protests.
So this guy's probably going to skirt on local charges.
And you have very specific evidence of a death threat against you and they consider that low priority?
Yep.
So I was informed that there are nine detectives for the entire city of Seattle.
SPD, the night of the assault.
You got to bring in the FBI.
Yeah.
Dan Bongino and Kash Patel will not ignore this.
And if you know exactly who's doing it, I promise you they won't ignore it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I don't want to give anything away yet, but there's some stuff in the works.
Well, you've got to protect yourself.
If you have specific threats on your life, that those people, first of all, it's a crime.
It's a terroristic threat.
You can't make terroristic threats against innocent people.
You're allowed as a journalist to go out there and cover events, whether they like your coverage or don't like your coverage, just like I'm allowed to give opinions, whether people like it or not.
And trust me, I've got an entire security team that gets on any threat, and it's happened a lot more than you might imagine in the course of my career.
Yeah, exactly.
Well, hang in there.
I've been there.
It's not fun, but you've got to take all of those threats seriously because these people are crazy.
And please stay safe out there.
And I hope we wish you a speedy recovery.
Thanks, Sean.
Cam Higby.
I mean, that's the thanks you get.
Go out.
You try and cover a story in a way that the rest of the media won't.
All right, quick break.
Right back.
We'll hit the phones.
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Mark Florida, my free state of Florida.
What's up, Mark?
How are you?
Sean, it is such an honor to talk to you from Crispy, Florida today.
How are you doing, sir?
I'm good, sir.
What's going on?
I was just wondering, you know, we have these no kings that the left is protesting, but back in when the country became free, they was the British loyalists that after the war was over, they had their hands out.
Okay, what about us?
You know, they was traitors, and they've always been traitor to the nation.
But I'm just wondering, Sean, these crowd for hires, is there any way that they can be held pecuniary liable?
If I said that word correctly, pecuniary liable.
Yes.
Damaging.
It's a little bit more complicated than that because they think they're clever and they cleverly donate money to, quote, innocuous groups that supposedly are involved in innocuous political causes and that gives them plausible deniability.
However, I would imagine that there is evidence somewhere that would link them to the real purpose for their donations at some point, place in time.
Yeah, I think governors and mayors, if the damage is being done for these bad actors, that they need to start holding their feet to the fire.
And what I'm noticing the uptake this year is more people are coming online on television and saying, we have a crowd for hire, a protester for hire, and they're actually bragging on it now.
Like they are proud of the fact.
Oh, yeah.
I mean, they, and some of this is being made public.
And if they're offering money to build these crowds, it is a clear and present danger to a city, to people in the city, to people, lawful people that live in the city, to law enforcement that are in the position of having to keep people safe.
It's a clear and present danger to everybody involved.
Yes, sir.
Okay, Sean, thank you.
Have a great day, sir.
All right, my friend.
You be safe, please.
800-941-Sean.
And by the way, what is the point of it all anyway?
There is no point.
No Kings protests.
Trump is a Nazi.
I mean, what's the point?
There is no point.
They're just bitter, sore losers that lost an election, and they know that neither the media nor the Democratic Party are going to lift a finger to condemn the violence that they're involved in.
And if they think this is their path back to power, I think that they're dreaming.
I think the American people are sick and tired of this, and I think it's wearing thin on people.
Anyway, 800-941-Sean is a number if you want to be a part of the program.
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All right, let's get to our busy telephone, shall we?
Let us say hi to Greg.
He's in the United Socialist Utopia, Gavin Newsom's California.
What's up?
Greg, how are you?
I'm doing fine, Sean.
How are you doing today?
I'm good, sir.
What's going on?
Well, you know, I was watching last week and listening last week to the amazing job that Israel and Mossad did over in Iraq, Iran, rather, and especially where they built a hidden drone launch base inside Iran, and then they used that to go and target the military and they took out their leaders.
That's amazing.
And then it hit me.
We are letting the Chinese buy property right next to our military bases.
The Biden administration let, what, several thousand military-AIDS Chinese men into the country up to as high as 10,000.
And they couldn't do the same thing that the Mossad did.
At first, I thought it was just for intelligence purposes, but now you see what Israel did, and it is pretty awesome that what could happen.
We are going to pay a price for decades to come because of Biden's most, it is the most preventable national security disaster.
This is why I say they have blood on their hands, and they're going to have a lot more blood on their hands.
This is why I pray to God I'm wrong, but I don't think I am.
It's a matter of when, not if, because they've allowed known terrorists in the country.
I've been warning about what you're saying now for a long time.
The Chinese nationals have been buying up thousands and thousands of acres of ranch land, farmland, land near military installations.
You think President Xi would allow me to buy up any land in China near those places?
I doubt it.
Of course not.
As a matter of fact, I know he would not.
It is it is a clear and present danger that Joe this entire thing with Iran wouldn't exist if Joe Biden just kept in place the sanctions on Iran.
We wouldn't have Iranian assassination squads in the country.
We wouldn't have the situation that you're mentioning with Chinese nationals.
We wouldn't have known terrorists in the country, murderers, rapists, cartel members, gang members, drug dealers.
We wouldn't have any of it.
This is the mess of Joe, Kamala, and Majorkis and all the Democrats that sat idly by and said nothing or just flat out lied to us.
This is what they've done.
Keep them on here.
They don't want us to ship them out.
That's what's crazy.
Just crazy.
Yeah, now they're fighting to keep them in.
What has I been doing out in California in Los Angeles?
They've arrested murderers.
They've arrested child molesters.
They've arrested gang members, drug dealers, and other horrible crimes.
Oh, let's go protect them.
It's insane.
All right, Greg.
God bless you, man.
Appreciate it.
Let us say hi to, well, stay in the Socialist Utopia, California.
Lynn, how are you?
Glad you called.
Hi, Sean.
It's an honor to speak with you.
Thank you for taking my call.
Thank you for calling.
What are you doing out in California?
I know it's beautiful out there.
It is.
I lived there five years.
But what are you doing out there?
It is beautiful.
I've been here.
You're paying a fortune for the beauty.
You have the same beauty in Florida, I promise you.
Right.
It is.
It is.
You pay a big price for the sunshine and the beauty.
That's for sure.
And yes, I am considering moving very shortly.
But I wanted to say the protest, the Kings, No Kings protest here in San Diego.
I mean, they were very successful, they said, and so forth.
And I met with some dim family members yesterday, and they had attended on Saturday the protest, and they said it was wonderful.
There was so much support, and there were no foreign flags waved.
But they failed to mention about the signs they were carrying was absolutely, you can't even read.
I don't even know how they showed it on television.
It is despicable.
It is absolutely despicable.
And the saddest part is when you ask them what they're protesting for, they have no idea.
They don't.
They just know that they got their marching orders from the crazy left and that they hate Trump.
There is a psychological condition.
It is Trump derangement syndrome.
And the very sight of Trump makes them bubble and fizz and like Alka-Seltza and water.
And they feel like they're being productive.
All they're doing, though, let them keep doing it because they're reinforcing to the American people that they have no agenda, that they're radical, and that they are not your modern, this modern Democratic Party doesn't even resemble Bill Clinton.
I played last week, Bill Clinton on immigration.
He sounds just like Donald Trump.
And this is how far they now have embraced the 20% issues on 80-20 issues.
They'll champion the rights of men to play women's sports.
They'll champion wide open borders.
They'll even fight for the rights of illegals that are guilty of heinous crimes to stay in the country.
And they're just out of touch with the men and women that live in this country.
And we're watching a political transformation before our eyes.
It's kind of cool to be a part of history.
And that is the Republican Party is now the party of hardworking men and women that believes in law and order and safety and security, that believes your kids deserve a quality education.
They're not going to be beholden to the teachers' unions.
That believes in energy dominance, a party that is going to cut your taxes, eliminate tax on tips and overtime and social security, and a party that is committed to manufacturing, especially vital essential things like pharmaceuticals and semiconductor chips and automobiles in this country.
Donald Trump has $10 trillion in investments.
Wait till that gets into the bloodstream of our economy.
And look how many high-paying career jobs in the energy sector, manufacturing sector are going to take place.
It's going to be a renaissance.
So anyway, they're destroying themselves.
Let them keep doing it.
That's why I want to keep hearing from Jasmine Crockett and AOC and Elizabeth Warren and Grandpa Bernie and the squad.
Let them keep talking.
You know, Corey Booker, they can have them all.
Anyway, Lynn, good call.
Appreciate it.
Back to our phones.
Aaron in Arizona next, Sean Hannity Show.
What's up, Aaron?
What is wrong with your governor out there, Hobbs, who vetoes this bill that would have prevented the communist Chinese from buying up land near military installations?
That was not an exactly smart move on her part.
No, that was not.
Hopefully she's not going to be there long.
She is a horrible governor.
And I just want to say, too, I think most of America stands with Israel.
And what Netanat Yahyu had to do, I agree with that 100% because Iran is out of hand and they're looking to get Israel and America.
So appreciate the call.
I think you're death to, you know, when people say death to Israel, death to America, and they say they want to wipe you off the map.
And then the number one state sponsor of terror, and they're fighting proxy wars, and they want a nuclear weapon to hold the world hostage.
Yeah, Donald Trump would be right.
And Donald Trump is the founder and leader of the MAGA movement and America First Movement.
And he says, you can't have peace if you have a nuclear arm to run.
I agree with President Trump.
He tried peace.
He really did.
He gave them every opportunity, and they didn't take advantage of it.
Let us say hi to Tim in Alaska.
Tim, how are you?
Glad you called.
How's the weather up there?
It's been nice last week where we live on the peninsula.
It's been about 75, a little cloudy today at Girdwood, where I'm at, working.
Yeah, don't worry.
You're only like two months away from freezing again.
No, we got a little bit longer.
October.
All right.
October, you start freezing again.
Call me in October.
It'll be nice down here in Florida.
Yeah, you better come to the peninsula.
I'll catch you some fish.
Anyways, thanks for taking my call.
We do stand with Israel where we live.
And I just want to let all our callers know that we got out of California six years ago.
I got a wife and four kids.
It was scary.
But now we're thriving in a state that we love to be in.
So basically what I'm saying is don't be afraid to leave.
But if you're going to stay, know that that's your choice to pay those taxes.
And Governor Newsom and all them crazy people can do what they want with it.
And you can see what they're doing with it.
Listen, I got out of New York for a whole variety of reasons, not the least of which is people hated me there.
I mean, I'd walk in a restaurant, and honestly, you can read a room.
And I mean, the just utter disdain on people's faces at the sight of me.
And I'm like, I don't have that problem in Florida.
Just the opposite.
You know, people are friendly.
They did if you came up here.
Well, you know, I do love the, I'm obsessed with these shows like Life Below Zero and all these.
The rugged individualism of the people of Alaska just fascinates me and inspires me.
I mean, people living off the grid, and you don't have to live off the grid in Alaska.
You can be on the grid, but the people that withstand very harsh winters and they thrive.
And those people that live off the land and those people that build their own homes and cut down their own trees and do their own trapping and hunting and fishing and prepare for these long winters.
It just fascinates me.
I mean, they're brilliant.
They're creative.
They're innovators.
They're pioneers.
They're frontiersmen and women.
I'm fascinated by it, but I have an interest in watching it, but not an interest in living it.
Does that make sense?
It's not.
I mean, basically, you acclimate to wherever you're at.
You know, you're in Florida now.
It's probably pretty humid there, but you're going to acclimate to that up here.
It's about 90 degrees today at a high where I am.
You buy good gifts.
It really barely goes above 93 because I have a coastal breeze in the area that I'm in.
I like to live near the ocean.
Yeah.
No, that's good stuff.
We're right on the ocean, too.
But I just americans to not be afraid to leave.
Don't let Social Security or retirement or anything get in the way of doing the right thing for our country.
Do you ever watch the show Deadliest Catch?
Well, I was a crabber and a longliner for 12 years out in the Bering Sea, so I didn't have to watch it.
I lived it.
Wow.
Wow.
I love those guys.
But, you know, what's sad, if you watch the show for any length of time as I have, and I'm friends with Mike Rowe, I donated to his charity.
Linda, did I ever get what he promised me?
I wanted all the captains to sign a poster.
He never said it to me.
What's up?
He never said it.
I never strands.
Yeah, all of that.
Did you really?
So, yeah, I do.
So I just, I look at those guys and, you know, you see swells sometimes.
What are they like?
40 feet?
I mean, to me, it's like.
Real quick, the last King Crab Derby in 2004, we got caught in about 120-not winds, and I couldn't tell you how big the seas were, but they were big.
And we were about 100 miles due north in the Bering Sea from Dutch Harbor.
Did you puke your guts out?
No.
No, no.
I don't think I think I'd be puking my guts.
How long does it take to acclimate till you stop puking?
It all depends on the individual.
Me, I think I may have puked once in 12 years, and that was about three days into it, and I never puked again.
Well, you have my admiration.
Tim in Alaska, thank you, buddy.
And Godspeed to all those guys on the high seas.
I do love crab.
Steve, Delaware, next Sean Hennery show.
Hey, Sean, thanks for taking my call.
I wanted to share with you a story we have here going on in Delaware.
We have a Democratic governor who has called for a boycott of an airline because they're cooperating with ICE of deporting criminal illegal aliens.
I don't know if you want me to say the name of the airline or not, but this guy is absolutely insane for what he's doing because he's trying to hurt the airlines financially and the state financially as well.
Yeah, well, let me tell you, you're a Delaware governor backed the protests of this guy, Avello's deportation.
Are you familiar with that story?
Yep, yeah.
And they had protests over at the airport over here as well.
And he's also, I believe, advocating for, we call it California to become a sanctuary state.
Yeah.
Well, I'm going to tell you right now, we can fix all of these places, but it's going to take the average American is going to have to realize that the Democratic Party of their parents is long dead, gone, and buried.
Period.
End of sentence.
It just is.
Appreciate the call, my friend.
All right, that's going to wrap things up for today.
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