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July 18, 2025 - Sean Hannity Show
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Epstein Case Continues - July 17th, Hour 1
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A lot of issues involving uh transparency that have been coming up.
We had uh David Schoen on this program who was the attorney for Epstein, who is you know has repeated over and over again that there is there is no quote client list, and that that he asked Epstein repeatedly over the course of a year, and he was his he was the final attorney he had before he died.
Um, involving us.
Now what's interesting about this is there's been an outcry from a lot of people.
Everyone has was mostly talking about it while I was away.
Um and I, you know, the the it's interesting.
I kind of always wait, stand back, try to gather facts, try to get things right, don't rush to judgment.
It has really served us well on this program to do that.
Um I learned that story, and I've told it many times in the case of Richard Jewell and the Atlanta Journal Constitution, and he fits the profile of a lone bomber because he lives with his mother.
That was the argument.
The media went hog wild with this, and it ended up not being true.
That he was not the bomber.
He was not a terrorist over time.
I didn't know, and and I I expressed skepticism.
I was live on the air when the story broke, and I didn't know Richard Jewell was listening to the show.
And I expressed a healthy dose of skepticism.
Like, okay, you it doesn't make you a terrorist uh because you live with your mom and dad or your mom and you're trying to save money, and that maybe you have ambition to be a law enforcement officer.
And that was that was kind of the argument.
And again, they just they just brutalized this guy.
Uh remember the kid, uh, what was the name of that kid that was at the Capitol?
Is that a pro-life event?
And and all of a sudden everyone wanted to jump on this guy, this kid's case, and then we looked at the video.
I think he ended up getting paid a lot of money, and um uh I I guess a Native American leader was banging on a Nick Nicholas Sandman, right?
Okay, I mean they went hogwile there.
We were we got that right.
We got it right on on Duke LaCrosse.
I actually took the time, didn't rush to judgment, met with the families and some of the kids, some of the families, some of the kids, and I knew from that meeting that exculpatory evidence would be coming out proving that these kids weren't even there at the time of the alleged incident that didn't happen.
And years later, many years later, the individual that made the accusation admitted that it was made up, but the media rushed to judgment.
And yet 90 to 100 professors at Duke University, you know, signing on to a letter condemning these kids with without any due process at all whatsoever.
And I've I've the Richard Jewell case really taught me to be more deliberate, more careful careful, and I have found That doing things that way, and I'm not making judgments or casting aspersions on other people.
I'm not.
But this is what works for me.
You know, we diligently went through the Russia hoax.
We went through FISA abuse.
We went through the real valuation of Mar-a-Lago.
We went through the double standard when it comes to top secret classified information.
We went through, you know, the 34 charges in a case of a legal nondisclosure agreement that was put together by a lawyer and labeled the legal expense and how that, you know, evolved using this insane, never before tried novel legal theory of and turning it into 34 felony counts.
Insane.
And we got all of those things right.
And in the case of the Russia hoax, you know, we had a very small ensemble cast.
We were talking about it earlier this week with John Solomon, because now they're looking at a criminal conspiracy over the last 10 years, whether or not the attacks on Trump were orchestrated by deep state representatives.
But there were other cases.
UVA, we got that right.
Freddie Gray Baltimore, we got that right.
How did I get that right?
Because I talked to law enforcement that knew the facts, and I knew very early on in that case that there was never going to be a conviction of any of the officers that were brought up on charges.
In the case of Ferguson, Missouri, I was I had sources that told me very early on that there were numerous eyewitnesses, African American eyewitnesses, because in some ways that became racial in the media's eyes, that officer Darren Wilson, that his story was completely corroborated by eyewitnesses that saw what happened, and that Michael Brown first tried to get the gun of Darren Wilson while it was in the car.
That was when the first shot was fired, and Michael Brown walked away, then turned around and charged that officer Darren Wilson.
And yet all these I knew all these witnesses were coming out.
The media, hands up, don't shoot.
Never happened.
And I know people are very quick to rush to judgment.
Now, in this particular case with Epstein, I'm watching, talking to people, and you know, trying to piece it all together.
I'm not fully done, to be very honest.
Still have some unanswered questions, and like a lot of you, I want answers.
Um, but I I think there's also a predicate here.
There was an assumption that it that people had that I believe is not true.
But if you listen to David Schoen, who we had on this program and you listen to Alan Dershowitz, Alan Dershwitz said, if you're looking for information, you're gonna find it in the Southern District of New York.
Now, the Southern District of New York is maybe one of the most pretty one of the most prestigious places for people to work.
Uh, that's where piece people like Rudy Giuliani came out of and Andy McCarthy came out of.
Uh, unfortunately, like a lot of uh, you know, under Alvin Bragg and Letitia James, unfortunately, it's become political and politicized.
Uh and one of the people that apparently works there is Maureen Comey, who is the daughter of former FBI director James Comey, who's now under an official investigation along with uh former CIA director Brennan uh for various issues.
Remember, Comey signed, and he was warned not to, signed three of the four Pfizer warrants.
You know, uh he's the one that applied the double standard as it relates to top secret classified information, more no reasonable prosecutor would ever prosecute.
Later on, his successor goes and raids Mar-a-Lago, but there was more top secret classified information on Hillary's servers that were washed clean with bleach fit and devices destroyed with hammers and SIM cards removed.
It gets complicated.
Anyway, the Justice Department now fired Maureen Comey, daughter of former FBI director, Mr. Hire Honor James Comey, and a federal prosecutor in New York City who worked on the case of Sean Diddy Combs and Jeffrey Epstein, three people familiar with the matter telling the AP there was no specific reason given for the firing.
Uh Maureen Comey is a veteran of the SDNY, long considered the most elite of the Justice Department's prosecution offices, and her cases included, for example, the sex trafficking prosecution of Epstein who killed himself, according to you know, people people that I know and trust.
You know, I've known Dan Bongino forever.
I've known Pam Bondi forever.
I've known Cash Patel for a long time.
They have a lot more leeway with me than the people that were there beforehand.
Everybody seems to forget that all this quote information was available to the Biden Department of Justice for Biden's entire presidency.
And I'm like, well, why didn't you ask them to release all of this?
Why did and if there's so much damning information as some are suggesting against Donald Trump, there's no surprise that Donald Trump knew Jeffrey Epstein.
He knew him so well that he kicked him out of his Mar-a-Lago club because of his treatment of young women.
And if Epstein had anything on Donald Trump, I would imagine he would have probably released it out of pure embarrassment and anger and likely rage over being thrown out of that club 20 years ago or whenever it was.
Anyway, so this is, you know, her cases include the sex trafficking and the Diddy Combs case and some other high profile cases.
What's her name?
Giselle Maxwell is one of them.
Um but more recently, Comey was the lead prosecutor of six female prosecutors in a sex trafficking and racketeering case against Combs, the failure to convict the hip hop mogul and on the main charges, the RICO charges, while gaining a conviction on,
you know, a very relatively lower level issue of prostitution related charges that it will likely result in a prison term of just a couple of years, was viewed by some fellow lawyers as uh defeat by the prosecutors, but she was successful in fairness and numerous other prosecutions.
Now, what Dershowitz is claiming, and I can't back this up because I don't know, is that if you're looking for the information that so many people I think rightly want to see, uh, that it likely would be found in grand jury information and testimony that a judge in New York can release.
And the administration is, you know, apparently going to try and get that information out to the public to be transparent.
Now, why do I bring this up?
Because transparency seems to be somewhat refreshing.
Um I'm not sure how many of you uh saw the announcement.
It's um because I think it's very interesting.
Uh, and that is about President Trump today.
And I I never like any I never like to hear anybody sick.
I don't.
And anyway, it was announced by the White House that the president has chronic venous insufficiency.
It's a condition that occurs when the veins in your legs um don't effectively pump blood back to your heart.
Normally, one way valves in the veins prevent the blood from flowing backward.
However, in these cases, these valves weaken or become damaged, allowing the blood to leak backward and pull in the legs, and it can be, you know, lead to increased pressure in the leg veins and various symptoms.
Now, is it life-threatening?
No, it's absolutely not life-threatening, according to all the experts.
The president's been diagnosed with this vein condition, chronic venous insufficiency.
He noticed swelling in his legs.
Uh, Caroline Levitt announced all of it today at the press briefing.
And it just happens when veins in the legs struggle to allow blood to flow back to the heart, according to the Cleveland Clinic.
Uh I did some research on it.
It was only noticed by mild swelling, has showed no evidence of any deep vein thrombosis.
I'm sure most people have heard of that or arterial disease.
Uh, but there is pooling, blood pooling in the veins, and she added that it is pretty common in people that are over 70 years of age.
He said that bruising on the president's hand, which has been a cause of concern because it was covered up by makeup, is consistent with irritation from frequent handshaking and the use of aspirin, which thins your blood.
And that, but otherwise, the pre the prognosis is that the president remains in excellent health, and they're being honest and they're being open, et cetera.
Um, look, I just know I know I have a lot of friends that are older.
Almost all of them, you know, they're dealing with some crap.
Everyone's dealing with something.
Such a pain in the neck.
Uh and Linda gives me headaches every day.
I get migraines.
They and she's the cause.
See all are and there's no cure.
I just keep at you.
You poor man.
There actually is a cure.
I guess.
You can't do this without me.
It would be zero fun for you.
So your option is suffer or lose me upon my firing because I'm irritating.
Why are you being so mean to me?
Because you like it.
You're a masochist at heart.
You do a much better show when I irritate you.
And everybody knows.
This is your this is Linda's theory is I do a better radio show when I am pissed off and angry.
I don't want to be in a state of pissed offness and anger all the time.
Why wouldn't you have a lot of people?
I don't know what to tell you.
You're impossible.
No, I don't think you I think you can be a good talk show host, and I think my longevity's kind of proven that you can be yourself and you don't have to be pissed off on the city.
I know I've been here twenty years.
I know.
I've been irritating you a very long time.
I've gotten very good at it.
Um you're very good at it, but it's not something to be proud of.
Oh, thank you.
You shouldn't you should not want to you brag about annoying and irritating me with your disapproval.
Mm-hmm.
And somehow I disapprove with the boss's decision.
That's what that means.
No, it's because I'm not sure.
Does Anthony have to put up with this?
I just have a question.
Does Anthony I no?
I get it all out on you.
You don't mm-hmm him at home.
Nope.
Use it all for you.
Why would I ever share that with anybody else but you can't do that?
That is the most unbelievable, non-believable uh line that you've got to do.
I would never lie.
Absolutely not.
I'm a Catholic.
You lied to me about Liam liking air cooked French fries over McDonald's, and then when I asked him on air, he said, No, I like McDonald's a lot better.
I think you just converted him.
It was no the pressure of the mind.
I converted him, yeah, because no because every kid wants a happy meal, and you wouldn't give your kid a happy meal.
Well, your happy meal days are over.
I'm here to irritate you, so get used to it.
Oh, I don't know if you saw it.
Did you see uh the cut online?
Uh I think it's on Mediaite.
Uh Liberal Joe checkmated um what's his name?
Uh what oh uh Jamie Raskin.
You know, why didn't the uh Biden DOJ release the Epstein files?
They had him for four years.
I you know, I just I've interest inquiring minds want to know.
That's all.
I find it so frustrating.
Yeah, I have it, but we don't have time to play it here.
I'll play it on the other side.
Also, the Zoran Mandani, the Marxist Mandami uh well, freak out is in full pan it's it's just in full democratic meltdown mode.
We'll explain all of that and play some of it for you next week.
Well, it's not often that Liberal Joe does something worth talking about, but he had on Jamie Raskin.
He's like a vile human being.
He's just like he's such a hack.
I I mean, I watch this guy.
I can't stand this guy.
Uh but Jamie Raskin, you know, was asked by Liberal Joe why the Biden DOJ didn't release the Epstein files.
Listen to this.
Congressman couldn't have gotten that from 21 to 25 when Democrats controlled the DOJ.
Why the it was a crisis then?
It's a crisis now.
Why didn't why didn't Democrats call for it from 21 to 25?
So uh the I mean you'd have to go back and look specifically at particular prosecutorial decisions, um, and what was taking place in terms of the other cases.
So I don't know.
We could try to reconstruct that record.
But the point is is that Donald Trump is the one who has led the crusade to say that uh that Epstein, who was his very close friend, and there's all kinds of pictures of them and so on, that Epstein was at the center of this broad conspiracy.
He's now in a position to do exactly what He demanded, which was to release all of the files.
And so why is that not happening?
That's the question.
I I can't answer for Merrick Garland or any of you know anybody else in the Department of Justice.
I can't answer to any of them.
Why didn't they release it in the four years?
This is a good question.
And who put it together anyway?
Are they people that we trust?
They're not people that I trust.
I can tell you that for sure.
Um the Democrats have a Zoron Marxist Mamdani problem.
I mean, it's and it's a bad problem.
You know, is there anybody?
And I was asking this question last night.
Is there anybody in the Democratic Party that will stand up to this extremely woke and and frankly seemingly anti if you can't condemn the global antifada after giving all the opportunities this man has been given?
Uh what is that?
What is is that anti-Semitism?
Well, somebody asked Chucky Schumer that question.
You know, is a Marxist communist statist, you know, the people now that lead their party, you know, they are their silence is deafening.
They are paralyzed with fear.
Um, and it's a fear at a level that I can't even you know.
James, you can go next door, by the way, when you're done.
Thank you.
Uh it's pretty unbelievable.
It really is.
Anyway, so um let me give you an update on this because I think this is becoming a bigger story every day because if if let's I said this yesterday on the program, Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, they are only leaders in name only.
But they are scared to death of this 33-year-old devout Marxist, Zoran Mamdani, Marxist Mondomini, as we affectionately call him.
And Zoran, first of all, he has no experience at all.
He has no list of accomplishments, none whatsoever, no experience in the private sector.
I mean, a tiny minor minor bit of experience in government.
He's certainly no expert on economics or logistics or the ru or law, but you know, he all he knows is he puts a smile on his face and he's an avid believer in communism.
And he is in today's radical democratic party.
He fits right in with the leadership of that party, as exemplified by AOC and the squad, and by you know, Grandpa Bernie and Jasmine Crockett and Pocahontas.
You know, and you know, there's a lot of communism with with plenty of, you know, in that group, I believe, anti-Semitism in the halls of Congress.
And we've debated and we've talked about various things that have been said by this by squad members, etc.
Anyway, yesterday he goes to Washington, Democratic lawmakers welcomed Marxist Mamdanny with open arms, and he attended a breakfast with spiritual leaders of the Democratic Party, including AOC in the squad.
I mean, were they privately praying for the global antifada that he steadfastly refuses to condemn?
And whatever happened to Hakeem Jeffries, who's came out and said, uh no, he I really won he needs to condemn that.
Did he did he back off of that promise and that pledge?
I know Bernie Sanders loves the guy.
Bernie Sanders, the only guy I know.
Oh, I think I'm gonna go honeymoon in Moscow.
I think it was in the middle of the Cold War.
I'm deeply impressed by the grassroots campaign Mam Dani is running.
The oligarchs are prepared to undermine democracy and spend tens of millions to buy the election for his opponents.
Uh, we will not allow that to happen.
You know, the fascinating thing, it came out the fight, the oligarchy tour.
That Bernie spent another whopping quarter of a million dollars on his private jets.
Now, uh, I thought that was only for oligarchies or the evil rich people that are successful.
Now, according to the New York Post, uh billionaire George Soros has already funneled nearly 40 million dollars into far left groups backing Mom Dani.
Mam Dani now leads in the polls.
Uh we had Curtis Lewa on last night.
He was talking about Mam Dani.
He was talking about uh he was really passionate.
Did you see Curtis last night?
Linda?
I did.
I thought he was on fire.
Listen, our choices are a communist or a normal person who actually, as he put on X last night, you know, he's the one riding the subways at 1040 at night, seeing the actual it's a debacle down there.
You know, we had water railing up over the weekend because they have they don't know what they're doing.
I don't know where the money's going for the MTA, I'll tell you that much.
When I first went to New York and I was on the same radio station as Curtis, I used to see him and I did it for one year I did 11 at night till two in the morning.
I loved it.
It was great.
I mean, because hardly any commercials you just it's kind of like a podcast.
You just talk and talk and talk and talk and you don't take breaks.
I like that part.
Anyway, so we have Mamdani uh Curtis is running and he really went after Cuomo too but they now have a huge huge Mam Dani problem, squad problem, radical left problem, and everybody's scared to death now, it was interesting to watch New York governor Kathy Hochel saying she's the therapist in chief for New Yorkers worried about Marxist Mom Donnie.
Listen to what she said.
I've spoken to hundreds of business leaders saying listen nothing is going to happen to this city without me being aware of it and involved in it.
So don't talk about packing up and leaving and all these other you know overreactions.
We're going to be okay no matter what happens.
And so I've had to do a lot of I've become the therapist in chief it seems so saying everybody we're going to be okay.
Maybe it's the mom and me.
I know how to calm down situations and we'll get through this.
Don't panic everybody.
He's trying to, you know, don't worry that you're about to elect a communist that's promising and running on a platform to make New York City a socialist utopia.
And she's the governor of the state oh I'm going to be a therapist for everybody.
He'll be okay.
Well this is the same guy if you look at Mamdani and you look at his record the same guy he wants to defund the police and cash bail and instead of police he wants to put social workers you know in the subways in Times Square.
So you have people that are threatening to kill innocent people that are walking around and you know that maybe they're out of their minds maybe they're mentally ill maybe maybe they're on drugs maybe they're on heroin fentanyl cocaine whatever on crack I don't know maybe they they have a a combination of of mental health issues and drug issues and they're threatening to kill people you say you're going to send in a social worker?
Now let's game that out.
How's that going to work?
Hello, sir.
Ma'am, I see that you're very angry and you're threatening innocent people.
Would you have a few minutes to talk?
Can we talk about what are you feeling inside?
I mean, Linda, what would a social worker do?
They're not going to be armed.
You know, would you maybe, is there something that maybe triggered this moment?
Did anybody say any, did they use the wrong pronoun I hope they have good health insurance because they're going to spend a lot of time in the emergency room I'll tell you that much.
If they even survive 100% is there anything that happened to you in your childhood that is causing this moment of rage that maybe we can talk about and discuss in a in a comfortable setting.
If you'd like we can we could sit right here on the street together and have a conversation I mean do you really think that's going to work?
That person needs to be thrown in handcuffs, put in jail and taken off the streets and protecting innocent people.
This is nuts.
These people are absolutely positively nuts.
But Mamdani goes to Washington.
Gets gushing praise.
You have squad member, what's her name, Jayapal, heaping praise on Mamdani.
Here's what she said.
Zoran Mamdani, who is the leading candidate for mayor in New York City.
He has so many incredible firsts.
But the thing I love about Zoran is what he is doing to lift up working people.
Zoran what can people do to help your campaign well first of all I just want to say thank you to Congressman Ja Paul for having supported this campaign being a part of the story that brought us to this point.
Yeah why do you think George Soros according to the New York Post has already funneled 40 million dollars into far left groups that are backing Mam Donny who's now leading in the polls what do you think that is?
It's the same guy that supports what?
Alvin Bragg and the same guy that supports Letitia James.
And you know, people ask me why'd you leave New York?
I mean, do I even have to answer that question anymore?
I mean, uh my question is why are any people staying?
Now, with that said, I kind of felt bad last night.
I had Curtis Lee with passionately fighting, you know, to get elected so that he can get in the streets, bring back law and order and safety and security, uh, lower taxes on businesses, fix these the broken school system that is New York City, which is an unmitigated failure and a disaster.
They have institutionalized failure, institute the policies, it would be like Rudy Giuliani 2.0.
He knows he knows the model to follow.
And you know, if this guy is elected, then there's not gonna be any if he's not elected, nobody can rescue New York City.
It's over.
I mean, it's kind of like California.
And now one of these people, including Chucky Schumer or Hakeem Jefferson, none of them have any anything but praise for Zoran Marx's Mam Dani.
Here's some Democrats praising him.
I think he's a very personable, smart young man.
They're just beautiful to have someone who is so authentic.
You know, that's money cannot buy that.
Soran Mamdani is an incredible talent not to be won over.
Yeah, ALC and Zahran.
That's a leading combo.
This guy is not a communist, he's not a socialist.
He's uh an advocate for uh small C capitalism.
This guy is literally bound to ridiculous.
You're liking that, huh?
He's bowed to seize the means of production, hike New York's already high taxes through the roof.
He doesn't believe billionaires should even exist.
And needless to say, New York business leaders, the the top guys in Wall Street and banking in New York, uh, they're like, they didn't even show up for the meeting.
They're they're too busy planning their exit, which is gonna happen as well.
Yeah, you know, that's we need to start doing the Obama test.
You remember when Barack Obama was running and nobody knew who he was, but he was this great speaker and you want me to do an investment.
The thing is, is this is uh you although it is it does bleed over into what the Democrats what has become a big problem for him.
Now, they don't nobody even has the courage to insist that Marxist Mamdani, you know, fully condemn the global antifada.
Now, to be clear, the antifada is a holy war against the Jewish people.
During the first Antifada, more than a hundred Jews were murdered and more than a thousand were injured.
And at this closed door meeting, he says, Well, he promised he will not use the term globalize the antifada.
That's far from a condemnation of it.
He's been given numerous opportunities three times in one interview, and he'd failed to do it.
Do you condemn that phrase globalize the intifada?
That's not language that I use.
Do you condemn that phase?
Globalize the intifada, which a lot of people hear is a call to violence against Jews.
I've heard from many Jewish New Yorkers who have shared their concerns with me.
quickly for the people who care about the language and who feel really concerned by that phrase why not just condemn it my concern is to start to walk down the line of language and making clear what language i believe is permissible or impermissible takes me into a place similar to that of the president who is looking to do those very kinds of things all right you have Of course, blame Trump.
This is a guy that wants to tax white neighborhoods more than other neighborhoods.
Let me play him saying he would remove police police from high crime areas and replace them with social workers in domestic disputes.
You know what that's going to result in?
Dead people.
Listen.
Do you think that we have to almost do without policing in certain areas, which are labeled to be in high crimes, to have alternative um bodies to do the police in a more uh compassionate,
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