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July 10, 2025 - Sean Hannity Show
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Trump Triumph - July 9th, Hour 2
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And welcome back to the Sean Hennedy Show.
I'm Greg Jarrett filling in for Sean today and tomorrow.
I'm a Fox News legal analyst and a trial attorney by trade.
And uh obviously the big news today is the newly launched criminal investigation by the Department of Justice and the FBI into the actions of James Comey and John Brennan in the crossfire hurricane, otherwise known as the Russia hoax.
Happy to have with us Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House, author of a new book that is out today.
You've got to get it.
Trump's Triumph, America's Greatest Comeback.
Newt is obviously number one New York Times bestselling author, and uh so many of his books I've read, and all of them are absolutely terrific, Mr. Speaker.
Many thanks for taking the time on what I know is a biddy busy day.
And let me begin by uh you you got one heck of an endorsement on social media from Donald Trump, and if you'll allow me, uh let me just read it.
It's pretty short.
The wonderful Newt Gingrich has just written a book that is the talk of D.C. It's called Trump's Triumph, America's Greatest Comeback.
Word is that it's fantastic, but I haven't read it yet.
I've been a little too busy.
When I do, I'll let you know but what I think of it.
But Newt always does it right by a copy now.
Uh, Mr. Speaker, uh that's a fantastic endorsement, isn't it?
Well, Cliss and I were both sort of surprised when it came out, and of course, obviously very grateful and delighted.
Um I I do think that the Trump's triumph has a lot in it that helps people both understand the recent election and helps them have a sense of where we're going in the next couple years.
And it's been an astonishing rate of change.
I mean, the number of things that President Trump has done per day is just unimaginable, I think.
And of course, you're a great analyst, and we've done a number of podcasts and other things together.
I'm always impressed with your knowledge.
And this decision, which I think personally as a non-lawyer, I think is exactly right to go after the former head of the CIA and the former head of the FBI for what I think are clearly felonies, uh, where they were deeply abusing uh the power of government.
Uh doesn't surprise me, but it sure does take a lot of courage on Trump's part.
Yeah, it absolutely does.
And I do want to talk to you about that and get more of your thoughts on that, uh, as well as the big beautiful bill.
But your book is so opportune at this moment.
Again, it comes out today.
It's called Trump's Triumph, America's Greatest Comeback, really, really is since uh the re-election of uh Grover Cleveland, the only uh person to uh you know uh get non-consecutive uh terms.
But as your book points out, Trump was never a typical political candidate.
He was the leader of a movement which he recognized in the American people.
Trump didn't invent make America Great Again, you write.
He intuited it.
That's pretty remarkable, isn't it?
Well, it is.
I mean, look, I I think Trump is one of the most extraordinary presidents in American history.
Uh he's certainly a very, very small group of genuine change agents, and he has a remarkable ability to sense where the American people are.
I mean, I thought in a way it was captured during the campaign when he went to McDonald's to hand out French fries, recognizing that 87% of the country goes to McDonald's at least once a year.
I mean, you could not place yourself anywhere that has a greater natural affinity for Americans than to be having French fries at McDonald's.
And it's just typical of his ability to sense the country.
Uh, and the thing which I think is driving the Democrats crazy, but you know, that the American people and Trump are singing one song, and the Democrats are off in a corner singing a weird, radically Different song, and nobody's joining him in singing it.
You know, um your book makes a great point when it it says that Trump assembled a massive coalition of Americans from all backgrounds who were tired of being told what to do, what to say, what to believe.
And he made historic inroads with voter groups that traditionally don't vote Republican.
Um you know, how how did he know how to do that?
Was it instinctual or or do you think he actually has an uncommon understanding of the working class in America that uh used to be championed by Democrats who have now turned against them?
Well, I look I think it's a couple of things.
I think first of all, he was a construction real estate guy, not a finance real estate guy.
So he was out there on the street talking to the folks who were building the buildings or who who were developing the golf courses.
I mean, Trump's ability to hang out with people, listen to them be pleasant with them is just amazing.
Uh years ago, um Oprah uh uh Oprah Linfrey uh actually did a whole series of videos with Trump where he went to one of his hotels and he wore the uniform of every different job in the hotel.
Now my my my favorite is he's the doorman and he walks the the the dog for one of the guests, comes back and says, Now now do I get a tip?
It's amazing to watch.
So he has this instinct.
Second, remember, for thirteen years he had a top-rated NBC show.
And I always used to tell reporters in Washington that if the apprentice had come on PBS right after Downton Abbey, they would have understood uh how really good Trump was at doing this.
And then third, he I for some reason, and I think it's coming from Queens to Manhattan, uh, for some reason he intuitively understands uh being the underdog and being the everyday guy and never being accepted by the elites.
Uh is I think it was for his own life was like that, and I think as a result, uh he has far more affection for African American or Latino or blue-collar workers uh than for the folks who are at the Harvard Club in Manhattan.
Yeah.
You know, I don't recall an American president who has had as many successes in such a short period of time as Donald Trump.
Uh, you know, we're five you know months into his presidency, and of course it looks all the more impressive following the bungled presidency of Joe Biden on foreign policy, whether it's Iran or uh negotiating ceasefires and you know,
long-standing uh what we hope will be long-standing treaties here at home, Supreme Court victories uh in the last couple of weeks are really quite astonishing, finally getting the High Court after decades to kill the insane practice of judges issuing nationwide injunctions that were halting his agenda and freezing the function of government.
But you know, he won that one uh in a landmark decision, and of course, the most recent is his big, beautiful bill.
What's your assessment of, now that it's been passed, of the impact that will have on the nation?
Well, it's enormous.
I mean, it's the largest tax cut in history.
Uh, it is a huge bill in terms of deregulation.
It's a big bill in terms of energy production.
Uh, it is begun to cut parts of the federal government that need to be cut.
Uh all of these things wrapped up in one bill, which uh frankly uh I give John Thune a lot of credit.
Getting a bill that big through the Senate that quickly is virtually miraculous.
But its impact is going to be felt in every part of America, and it begins to reset some key values.
It says, you know, if you're able-bodied, you ought to be working.
Well, that's what we did in the 90s, but the Democrats hated it.
Uh for some bizarre reason, Democrats don't believe in work and don't want to incentivize work.
Uh the bill provides that we're not going to pay tax money uh for illegal immigrants.
And again, the Democrats hated that because they want to give our tax money away to anybody who shows up.
So you go down the list and you realize this is a very powerful, uh remarkable bill that's going to take months and months to totally work its way through the system.
But when it's done, it will have moved America decisively away from the corrupt establishment that we have been saddled with and towards a very different future.
Have the Democrats lost their way?
They seem completely lost.
They don't seem to be in favor of anything, only opposing everything that Donald Trump does and stands for.
No, I don't I don't think that's fair.
Look, I mean, with all due respect, Greg, they are in favor of transgenders competing in women's sports.
They are in favor of open borders.
They are in favor of uh defunding ice.
Uh they are in favor of a weak America overseas.
I mean, there are a lot of things they favor.
I mean, if if you look at their newest great leader, uh who Mamdanis, who is Mamdanny, rather, um, who favors getting rid of all the billionaires in New York, wants to radically raise taxes, uh, favors a government-run grocery store.
Uh you you go down the list and you think, I mean, this guy is like nuts.
Uh, but he's probably going to be the Democratic mayor of New York.
Yeah, I think you're right about that.
And uh you know, he calls himself a socialist, but when you look at what he advocates, particularly, you know, taking over all manufacturing and production, that's straight out of Karl Marx.
Um he and Jonathan Tirley wrote about this.
He said, you know, uh Mandami is a Marxist.
And of course, anybody who's read uh Hegel and Marx know that the ultimate goal of Marxism is communism.
Um and uh you know, the I envision uh a New York City that's gonna wake up the day after the election and be mortified, and they should only blame themselves because if the last election is anything like the one coming forward, which had like 23 percent of people actually voting, um they're gonna have buyer's remorse on the first day, aren't they?
Well, I look, I think that what you're gonna see is people who are rational will leave.
I mean, New York could have the biggest exodus in its history.
Um you have to ask yourself, given the failure of communism in Cuba, Venezuela, uh Russia, uh, why would you think this is going to work?
Why would you think that a government-run grocery store is going to be better than the private sector?
Uh and you you just have to wonder.
I mean, how do these people manage to avoid learning?
Yeah.
No, I mean, it's uh I uh it befuddles me.
I'm confounded uh at what has become of New York.
Let me shift over to what has been our top story in the last hour in this uh criminal investigation by the Department of Justice and the FBI into John Brennan and James uh Comey.
Um, it's been a long time coming.
I wrote two books about it, The Russia Hoax and Witch Hunt, and I identify all the crimes that I suspect people like Comey and uh Brennan and and all the others have committed.
Um people Democrats will say this is retribution, it's vengeance by Trump.
No, isn't it upholding the rule of law?
I mean, I I would say, what are we supposed to do if we discover that the head of the CIA and the head of the FBI deliberately and willfully broke the law, knew they were breaking the law, and did it for political purposes.
I mean, you shrug your shoulders and say, I hope you have a nice retirement.
Uh I think it's absolutely totally correct, uh and an example of the rule of law uh to investigate them, to to indict them.
They have every right to then defend themselves in court.
Uh and I think the trial candidly, I think the trial will be fascinating, and you will have a heyday by explaining it to the American people.
You know, I called it um the dirtiest political trick in American history, this uh collusion delusion that was perpetrated by people like uh Comey and Brennan and Hillary Clinton who financed it and so many others were involved.
I mean you're uh you're a professor of politics.
Would you agree that this has to rank among the dirtiest political tricks ever?
Well it's it's among the most frightening because if you have your national police force which is the FBI and you have the center of your intelligence system which is the CIA and the top two are actively plotting against the President of the United States.
I mean this is the stuff of novels and movies uh you know this this is totally I mean the ver it's virtually it really verges on treason what they were doing.
Yeah and the irony of course is it was John Brennan who publicly accused Donald Trump of treason.
Newt Gingrich I I want to thank you so much.
You've got a wonderful endorsement uh by President uh Trump of your brand new book it's called Trump's Triumph America's Greatest Comeback it comes out today you can order it online go to your local bookstore uh former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich many thanks for being with us today.
Great to be with you.
We're going to pause and take a quick break.
I'm Greg Jarrett, filling in for Sean Hannity.
Give us a call.
Pretty soon we'll be taking your phone calls, 1-800-941-7326.
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Look forward to your calls and your comments.
Welcome back to the Sean Hannity Show.
I'm Greg Jarrett, filling in for Sean today and tomorrow.
Sean, artist working guy in television news industry.
is taking a little break he richly deserves it and coming up next I'm looking at the board we've got a bunch of people and we're gonna hear from them Harla, Norm, Matt, Jim if you'd like to make a comment or ask a question, all you have to do is give us a call or number is 1-800-94132600941 Sean.
And when we come back we're gonna hear from Harla and then Norm, Matt, and Jim Hey welcome back to the Sean Hannity Show.
I'm Greg Jarrett filling in for Sean today.
We have a lot of callers we're gonna get to uh right away you can follow me uh on social media on X, formerly Twitter at Greg Jarrett.
I've got a new column out today.
A new CIA report finally reveals the secret plot to take down Donald Trump.
And of course, it comes on the heels of late yesterday's breaking news that the FBI and the Department of Justice have opened criminal investigations into the former CIA director, John Brennan, and the former disgraced FBI director, James McHugh.
Comey.
So you can read that on social media on X or you can go to my website theGregard.com.
Let's go to our callers Harla joins us from uh Doylesburg Pennsylvania Harla thanks so much for waiting and appreciate your phone call do you have a question or comment?
I just like to comment that I'm uh big fan of Sean show and I really enjoy your interview style with Nick Gingrich that you just did today.
Well thank you that's very nice of you.
You know Nude is such a learned uh person and you know he he is a wealth of knowledge when it comes to American politics and American history.
Of course he used to be a history professor before he became a member of Congress and later Speaker of the House but you know he's uncommonly eloquent and yet very direct with plain language in his books are all worth reading.
Uh thanks so much.
Did you have any other question or comment, Harla?
Well I definitely believe what's going On with what they're discovering today, what you were talking about.
I'm a big fan of certain writers of espionage stories.
And they would believe it because it's what they would write about.
Yeah, you know, it's funny.
I have often made the remark, similar to yours, Harla, that I mean, you couldn't make this up unless you were writing detective fiction or some sort of uh spy novel.
Uh and you know, I love uh fiction.
Um I mostly read nonfiction, but I read books by Michael Connolly, uh John Grisham, um uh Dan Brown.
Uh recently I read uh seven books by uh Daniel Silva, uh, who is such a uh fine, fine writer.
And yeah, you know, I don't think any of those terrific authors could have come up with a plot as devious as this was against Donald Trump, the Russia hoax.
And if anybody wants to read uh more about it, uh my second book on the subject called Witch Hunt, uh the story of the greatest mass delusion in American political history.
Uh I invite you to read it.
Uh you can buy it on Amazon.com or it's in many bookstores as well.
Harla, thanks so much for your phone call.
Norm joins us from Long Island.
Hey, Norm, how are you?
Good afternoon.
Hi, I'm good.
I have a couple of questions.
The first one is what's going on with Letitia James?
You know, we heard a lot about it.
It was one page in the New York Post, and now you don't hear anything going on of her being indicted or Yeah, you know, it's interesting.
Um there is, of course, the Department of Justice lawsuit against uh Attorney General Letitia James, the A.G. in New York, um, for obstructing federal immigration and enforcement and deportation.
There is also a criminal investigation uh that was launched against uh Letitia James based on allegations of mortgage fraud that in order to get favorable terms, she lied about a variety of things.
Now that is still pending, and of course, we are also waiting for the appellate court in New York to completely knock out or knock down the case she brought against Donald Trump, in which she accuses accused him, ironically, of loan fraud and tried to put him out of business.
And you know, I listened in to some of the appellate arguments, and it was pretty clear that the judges weren't buying what Letisa James sold.
And so we're waiting for that uh decision to probably overturn some, if not all, of the judgment against uh the Trump organization.
So thanks for your call.
I was wondering the same thing.
Matt joins us now from Massachusetts.
Hey Matt, how are you?
Uh good, Greg, and it's uh great to talk to you.
I it's a two two-part question.
As uh as a lawyer, I believe the CIA had and the FBI uh had swore an oath uh to uphold the Constitution and the laws of the country, and also the politicians that allowed this invasion of dangerous uh criminals into the United States to cause havoc.
Now, they also swore an oath, and I don't know, under the law, uh is that high crimes and misdemeanors and considered treason or is it not?
Well, it's an interesting question.
Um high crimes and misdemeanors relates to impeachment, but both uh Brennan and Comey are no longer in office, so that doesn't really apply.
Treason.
But the the first part.
Yeah, I mean, look, um uh ironically it was Brennan who accused uh Trump of treason.
And then of course, uh when the Mueller report came out and found that there was no collusion conspiracy, uh Brennan sheepishly on television said, oh uh gee, I guess I had bad information.
But it it was worse than that.
And your point is is well taken, Matt, because you know, if you are abusing the reins of power and breaking the law in the process, it could constitute a number of different crimes, deprivation of rights under color of law, perjury, false statements, fraud upon the government.
Whether it's treason, um, I I tend to doubt.
I'm not a fan of uh treason cases, they tend not to succeed when it comes to political activities.
So uh we'll wait and see what happens.
You know, uh this criminal investigation should have happened a long time ago, but with Merrick Garland as the attorney general under uh Joe Biden, um, of course, all of it was swept under the rug.
And uh he spent most of his time as attorney general trying to protect Hunter Biden uh and those who conspired with Hunter Biden and the Biden family uh to uh basically sell out the presidency and the vice presidency of Joe Biden for financial gain.
Um, I think that is something that uh the pardons that uh Biden issued to Hunter and uh five of his family members notwithstanding should still be investigated.
Let me go to Earl on our phone line.
He joins us now from Indiana.
Hi, Earl, how are you?
Um very well.
Thank you very much, sir.
I appreciate what you say, and and especially your your legal uh uh responses on everything.
But I like to tell you that uh I was uh born uh very, very poor.
My father was uh uh oil field laborer, had six major back operations, my mother in and out of the hospital for ten years because of the list of failure surgery.
So my brother and I were alternately raised between my maternal and paternal uh grandparents.
I got a job uh after uh high school, attending rights high school in Evansville, Indiana, and I got a job and uh and uh saw a rides at an airport, two dollars.
I took a ride.
I was hooked.
I was only making twelve fifty a week at the time, and I uh was hooked on flying.
I eventually got my private pilots, commercial buyers, because I was poor, the people at the airport took a collection, sent me to Earth Orleans where I received my flight instructor's rating.
So I have just under 6,000 hours uh flying time.
But I say this because I uh have I so God's been so good to me.
I uh have uh uh uh bachelor's, masters, and I was working on my doctor at Indiana University, taking legal courses and all of that.
But I when I was first able to vote, I voted for John F. Kennedy.
I think a very conservative Democrat.
But quite frankly, the Liberal Democratic Party left me.
Yeah.
Since I've been a very, very conservative Republican, and I want to say that I backed President Trump and everything he does, and I want to say I'm uh also a member of the LSG 325, the only LST born on the Ohio River, only LST that's sailing the orders of the United States.
Proud member of that crew, but I must say, God bless President Trump, and everything he is as uh people are doing, and God bless America.
Well, God bless you.
You've had an incredible life and uh you've achieved a great many things, and thank you for sharing that with us.
Uh, you know, you bring up John F. Kennedy.
It's so interesting how Democrats have changed over the years.
Uh, you know, it was the Democrats who uh lobbied against uh civil rights.
Um it was also John F. Kennedy who in enforced civil rights, and he also cut taxes.
Um and his theory famously was that a rising tide lifts all boats.
And that, you know, if you cut taxes for even the wealthy, they're the job creators through their businesses.
Uh You know, they're the ones who put money in people's pockets.
And if the government's taking away all that money, there is no entrepreneurship.
There is no investment in research and development and expanding corporate America, which provides jobs.
And Kennedy understood economics.
It's sad that uh Democrats don't.
They want to continue to raise taxes, which is why they oppose the big beautiful bill, uh, which if if it hadn't been passed, would have raised taxes.
They would have reverted uh back to pre-Trump uh first term taxes.
So, you know, I think Democrats need to study a little bit more of history and economics.
And but if they want to bankrupt America, if they want open borders and a welfare state and free everything, um that ain't gonna end well.
Let me go to my next caller, and Earl, thank you for that.
Our next caller is Jim from Minnesota.
Hey, Jim, how are you?
Hey, uh, Greg.
This is yeah, I'm from Wisconsin.
I'm just I'm a trucker, I'm driving to Minnesota.
I got a statement, two quick questions.
My statement is please keep track of Tim Walls.
You're such a great investigative journalist.
That guy is so corrupt and he wants to be president.
So keep keeping track of Tim Walls, the governor of Minnesota.
Here's my two quick questions.
Is there anything Trump and the executive branch can do with these rolled district judges legally other than impeachment?
We're wasting so much of our taxpayer money going all the way to Supreme Court.
Uh Supreme Court keeps over overturning these district judges.
Is there anything legally they can do to get rid of these judges so that they quit uh uh you know they're they're obviously political, they're not going by the rule of law.
And then my second question I thought of with one of your other callers was uh can a police officer legally go against his mayor or his governor when they're telling him he can't help ice.
Isn't he also supposed just like a military person supposed to uphold the rule of law?
Yeah, I mean, look, most sheriffs and but not a wall, and and uh police chiefs, again, not all, um, are elected.
I'm from Los Angeles, um, where you know the sheriff is elected.
Uh, I think the police chief uh is not, but no, I mean they have a duty to enforce the law, and they should do that.
And likewise, I think your point is well taken about judges.
For example, uh, this Massachusetts judge Indira Tawani just recently blocked uh Trump's administration from cutting off Planned Parenthood funding, even though the Supreme Court just about 10 days ago said the Trump administration can cut off funding of Planned Parenthood.
That is a serious ethical violation, and it would merit impeachment proceedings of a federal judge.
Fifteen have been impeached, and some of them for ethical violations.
We'll be right back with more of your phone calls, 1-800-941-73-26.
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We've been taking some of your phone calls, and I'm looking at the board.
We've got John and Lewis and Mark standing by, and I'll ask you to stand by, if you would, just a little bit longer.
I've got a great interview coming up with Mike Howell, who's president of the Oversight Project.
We're gonna be talking about the autopen scandal and the investigation into uh President Joe Biden's declining mental health.
You're not gonna believe what happened today during an investigation hearing.
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