Sean Hannity covers the nationwide "No Kings" rallies, examining Public Citizen's claims of democracy defense and digging into the protests' funding sources. Sean frames the issue as one not just of rhetoric but real danger, citing research from Seamus Bruner of the Government Accountability Institute and firsthand reporting from Andy Ngo, who details personal encounters with violent extremists. Both guests expose over $300 million in funding from high-profile billionaires including Soros and Zuckerberg fueling these demonstrations. The conversation highlights why this matters: as the normalization of left-wing political violence escalates, drying up funding and raising awareness is vital to protecting public safety and democracy.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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So around the country this weekend in towns and cities, uh, at least I've read the number 2500.
There are going to be what they're calling the no kings rallies that are going on.
And the progressive watchdog group called Public Citizens say their no kings demonstrations are meant to defend democracy.
I mean, it's like a broken record.
It really worked so well for them in the 2024 election, didn't it?
Uh, in terms of, oh, uh a threat to democracy.
Now we're learning because of the deep state, everything we had spent years and years and years and years on this program unpeeling every layer of every onion on peeling that the real threat to democracy was a deep state uh that was putting cinder blocks on the scales of presidential elections.
I'll save that for another day.
But so all these demonstrations are going on as as a public service.
I will just warn most of you that I would stay away and keep your families away from any location where these rallies are taking place uh for a long time.
We have uh supported the government accountability institute.
This is Peter Schweitzer's group.
If you recall, we did the first interview with Peter way, way back in the day, and he wrote a book called It was number one New York Times bestseller, Secret Empires.
And in that book, he was the first to reveal, you know, all the the the Biden family syndicate and their business and and a lot of other corruption that all turned out to be true, but it didn't come out until years later.
Were we able to get to the bottom of all of it?
Um, and anyway, the government accountability institute has been looking into what is now the funding of of these radicals.
You know, we hear about AstroTurf.
We know about paid protesters.
You know, how how widespread is this and is it a danger to the country?
Now, anyway, James Brunner's with us, director of research at the Government Accountability Institute with Peter, author of uh Control agarch, Andy Noah's a journalist, well known online, best known for reporting on Antifa and far left extremism.
He authored a book, Unmasked Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy.
It's fascinating.
We've been hearing from Democrats, oh, Antifa is not real.
It doesn't exist.
Now, both of them were invited to President Trump's uh round table on Antifa.
I think it was last week.
Uh, and both of them were questioned extensively about their knowledge, what they know about the funding of these organizations, and we welcome both of them to the program.
Uh, Seamus Bruner, good to have you back.
Andy No, good to have you.
Welcome aboard both of you.
Thank you.
All right.
Seamus, let it it look, if there's no money behind it, and and in the a lot of these instances, you have AstroTurf or paid protesters.
Uh, and then you have groups that have other agendas that want to agitate crowds and create a violent environment.
I mean, that is that is a clear and present danger to to cities and towns around the country.
Your thoughts.
Yeah, exactly right, Sean.
Uh, the protest industrial complex or riot inc, as we're calling it, and and thank you for the shout outs for Peter Schweitzer.
You know, Sean, that we follow the money.
Uh, Riot Inc.
is extremely networked.
It's very coordinated, and it is flush with cash.
Over 100 million dollars is what I uh told the president last week.
Uh, we crunched the numbers, did a full cash analysis on this no kings day of defiance this weekend uh of the dozens of organizations that are either official organizers or official partners.
We have found almost 300 million dollars coming from the very top.
And it's extremely ironic that these protesters, they hold up signs that say no kings, no billionaires.
Well, that is who is backing the entire thing.
We found uh, you know, people, of course, like George Soros, but then you've also got Bill Gates, uh, Mark Zuckerberg, Mark Benioff of Salesforce, and even some foreign billionaires, people like Hans Jorg Vies of Wait a minute.
Mark Zuckerberg told me personally that he was no longer gonna be funding this crap.
Well, is he is he backfunding it?
Because he told me after 2020 and he told Jim Jordan in that letter that he wrote that he was out of that business and he felt like he was manipulated and lied to.
Well, he may not be funding right now this weekend, but the money that has flowed from his personal foundation, it's still in the coffers.
I mean, this is over 50 million dollars over the past five years.
So if he stopped, and I know that Bill Gates has also said he's stopped, giving $10 million, $20 million, $30 million to the tides and Soros and uh Arabella funding networks, that money still can go a long way.
Yeah.
Andy, uh I I know you've been very active.
You've been out and about, and it you your star has risen dramatically, and congratulations to you, in part because you courageously go out there and and go amongst these groups of people, and uh you paid a very dear price for it back uh a while ago.
You want to remind people what happened?
In 2019, whilst reporting in downtown Portland, I was ambushed and I'm all beating robbed and punched repeatedly in the face and head and suffered a brain bleed from that and nearly died in 2021.
Also in downtown Portland, I was tackled to the ground and uh strangled, nearly choked out, barely survived that.
And in both of those instances, nobody was ever arrested by the Portland police.
Andy, I got a question.
Are you staying away from these protests this weekend?
I have.
I I've uh unfortunately um have learned through these near death experiences that these militants are willing to kill people that they mock as so-called fascists or Nazis.
They lie about the target so that one of their unhinged comrades will take actions to kill.
And that's the danger of Antifa.
And I think people have a misperception that because they are really fat or really skinny, that they're not uh dangerous, but they carry weapons and they work as a group that conspires to carry out crimes.
I mean, two alleged Antifa members in North Texas were just federally indicted yesterday with uh federal terrorism charges, which is the first time it's happened uh in the U.S., by the way, um amongst people accused of being part of an Antifa cell.
Now, shame is they have officially been designated a terrorist organization, a domestic terrorist organization.
Um, and I believe rightly so.
Um will that deter them?
And and do you fear what I fear could happen this weekend?
Uh I think it would I well, it won't deter the crazies, but what it will deter is the funding mechanisms, the people who have been involved in this, and I uh applaud President Trump's leadership on this designation, because like you said, uh Mark Zuckerberg has pledged to not be funding these types of activities, these unrest in the streets and the protest orgs and uh stuff like that.
Bill Gates, just six months ago or so said he would not be funding the Arabella funding network anymore.
And he had provided a couple hundred million in years past.
So what this is, and then you might might have seen recently, Mark Benioff, the Salesforce CEO, called for National Guards to come into San Francisco.
That is a huge uh reversal.
He got a lot of heat from the left for that.
And so what President Trump's leadership is doing is drying up the funding sources.
Now, as far as the chaos actors on the ground, the people who are uh unemployed or maybe secretly employed, uh, no, I think there's still going to be hot spots.
I am uh in the free state of Florida.
I don't worry about it here, but up in Portland in Seattle, uh in Chicago, where these anti-ICE violent demonstrations have been going on, they're probably going to pop off just as they have been in the weeks past.
And Andy, let me go back to you.
Fox News reporting today, federal grand jury indicted two alleged Antifa members with terrorism-related charges for a July 4th attack on the ICE facility in in Texas.
Uh, for the first time ever, the FBI arrested uh anarchist, violent extremist, and charged these Antifa aligned individuals with material support to terrorism, according to the FBI director, Cash Battel.
Uh political reports today, it's not only Jay Jones, the Virginia Attorney General candidate uh that is caught advocating for political violence.
Uh Graham Pl uh Plattner, who is running as an insurgent Democratic candidate in for the Senate in Maine, once suggested on online that violence is a necessary means of achieving social uh change and uh and worse.
Uh Don Lemon, uh, this just broke on Fox News before, uh, suggesting that, quote, black and brown Americans, quote, of all stripes, quote unquote, should legally arm themselves in case immigration and customs enforcement agents show up at their doors.
Um, he said, you know, the the left hook clarifying he's not condoning or promoting violence, but he was tired of the niceties while ICE agents are rounding people up off the street.
If you believe in the second amendment, you believe in the constitution, black people, brown people of all stripes, whether you're Indian American, Mexican American, whoever you are, go out in your place where you live, get a gun legally.
Well, I mean, what's the implication behind that?
I I read deeper into what he's saying.
He has a little caveat to protect himself, but uh, I don't like it.
The implication is uh left-wing political violence has become normalized and mainstream in the last 12 months.
There have been so many deadly attacks and attempted killings.
Uh people either aren't aware because of the lack of mainstream media coverage, or they've uh forgotten, or worse, they may think it's normal.
You know, Trump supporters have been killed, like in Butler.
Um, Tesla stores were shot up and set on fire.
There was the ICE facility in in July in North Texas that was shot up in an ambush shooting.
There was the killing of Charlie Cook.
There was the deadly attack on the ICE facility in Dallas.
And I can go on and go on and go on.
And I just wonder at what point is it enough?
All right, we continue our preview of all of these protest rallies.
The No Kings uh rallies expected around the country all weekend.
Please be safe and secure.
We'll have more with Seamus Bruner and Andy No on the other side.
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Uh we continue, you know, our lead up to what is going to be probably a scary weekend in a lot of towns and cities, and that is the No Kings protests around the country.
Seamus, all these years I've known you and all these years I've known Peter.
And it just keeps getting worse.
You know, you would think after the 2024 election, the closing argument, racist Nazi fascists, Hitler Stalin Mussolini, that they might have learned something, but they don't.
You know, and it it just seems to be getting worse every day.
If you're listening, listen to Pritzker and Brendan Johnson and you know a lot of these these other elected officials, I'm like, what part of the environment we're living in are you people not understanding?
You know, because there comes a point where we gotta say uh that they are inciting this in people by doing it.
I always hold the people accountable to do it, but I mean at what point are they being motivated by elected officials that are insane.
You're completely right Sean.
And it's I mean unfortunately the problem is even bigger than that what we're seeing here on the surface.
It goes very deep all the way down into the the school system.
I mean, kids are being radicalized by these teachers.
You saw them celebrating after Charlie Kirk's assassination.
It starts at, you know, the confusing of kids, the instilling Marxist values starts at a young age.
And then once they're at the age of rioting, then, yeah, they're being activated by the political officials, by these groups that are, you know, they're not doing the groups are not doing violence themselves.
But they are enabling this entire ecosystem of the protest industrial complex, like groups like the ACLU.
I mean, an Antifa member out in Portland just admitted on video coordinating with the ACLU.
uh it's a huge problem and it's really big and the Trump administration I know is every tool in the toolbox is has it has a whole of government approach here but it's going to take years to sort of deprogram the radicalization that it it begins at a young age.
We'll give you Andy the last word I just um I I just wonder how many more people needed to die before we wake up and and say this is enough I uh through all my I originally went out years ago with the videos because I wanted the public to see the brutality of what was happening on the streets because if it were not for the videos we would continue to be gas lit just as we are right now if you turn on liberal media.
Well um you know what we've got to expose it and you guys getting to the root of this which is a a has a lot to do with the financing of it uh I can't wait to read your next book and Peter's next book and Andy your investigative work uh I appreciate both of you more than you you know you're doing the country a great service by doing it and I want to thank you both for being here.
Thank you.
Sean uh all right let's get to our busy busy telephones here as we say hi to Jerry Syaset Long Island New York.
What's up Jerry?
How are you?
Glad you called.
Thank you, Sean.
Thank you for having me.
I was watching the debate last night and Mom Donnie is just like a wolf in sheep clothing and he just smiles like a like an idiot.
And just and I believe that if Schumer had could have stopped this a long time ago to bring in this progressive left socialist into this, if he had stuck up against Ocasio-Cortez and Alain and, you know, the whole group there.
And if this world, if New York wants to have a socialist, we're going to be like Venezuela and Cuba.
And you see how well that works out.
Well, you know, the smile just drives me up a wall.
Because it's fake and it's phony.
And it's, you know, the quintessential slickness that a lot of these politicians have.
And his policies are an unmitigated disaster.
His hatred of Israel is clear.
It is apparent.
You know, can't condemn the global antifada.
Doesn't want Hamas to disarm.
You know, playing word games constantly.
I'm just sick and tired of it.
And unfortunately, you know, the odds are very high that this guy is going to be the next mayor of New York City.
Linda hates, as we discussed earlier in the show, Linda hates it.
When I just, I'm not Pollyannish.
And I don't, you know, it's possible to beat him.
I hope they beat him.
But I can't tell you they're going to beat him.
he hates Israel is he hates Jews.
We really have to change the word it's not anti-Semitic it's not anti-Zionism it's Jew hating that's what it boils down to.
He do you realize polls show that that Jewish New Yorkers, about a third of them are voting for Mamdani, according to the polls.
It it sickens me.
It sickens me.
I don't know where they were not brought up the way I was.
My mother was a Holocaust survivor.
My father-in-law and my father both were in World War II and in the Korean War.
And they, my father-in-law was in Germany.
And he they saw the truth.
I think we're just so removed from really what happened is the problem.
And now New York State took out the Holocaust section in the history section, which is another incredible thing.
So sad to me.
It's you know, the rise of anti-Semitism is it's actually chilling.
And it's get it's getting louder and it's more commonplace.
And you know, I I'll tell you what the my analysis of it is, it is all based in ignorance, not just ignorance of of the Holocaust, it's ignorance of what Israel as a state is enduring and has had to endure for decades and decades.
I mean, what would you expect the American government to do if hundreds of thousands of rockets were being fired regularly in our towns and cities?
You know, what would you do?
The equivalent based on our population size versus theirs of 40,000 Americans killed in a day.
You know, what would you want your government to do if if innocent women on video taken by terrorists raping women and ripping women and children away from each other and kidnapping and torturing people, you know, what do you expect them to do?
It's got to end.
Hamas, it's got they they've got to disarm.
It must be demilitarized, or they will be obliterated.
Israel can no longer I've always said that their missile defense systems are a band-aid.
And at some point, they're gonna come up with a way to bypass these missile defense systems.
It was imperative that Donald Trump take out Iran's nuclear sites.
Or I think we'd see a modern-day Holocaust, I would think we would have seen a modern day Holocaust.
I don't think it's I don't think it's uh hatred.
I think it's jealousy.
What 0.2% of the world are Jews, and what we have done and we survive in every every circumstance that we survive and we prosper.
I think it's all about jealousy.
Israel was sand, and look what it is now.
It I think that's what it is.
And I think it's a misnomer.
It's a hatred jealousy for the first time since the UN partition plan in 1948.
Arab nations that have either been hostile or not wanting anything to do to be a part of the solution, now are committing themselves to be part of the solution.
And that gives me hope that we've never had before.
The the reuniting of these families with the hostages uh is hope for me.
It's all based on one man, Donald Trump.
Uh Jerry, I gotta run.
Appreciate you.
Noah, a lot of friends in Syas at Long Island and and the home of ice works.
Spent many a day there when my son used to play hockey.
Uh appreciate you being with us.
Uh back to our phones.
Michigan Mark next on the Sean Hannity show.
What's up, Mark?
How are you?
Good.
How are you, Sean?
I'm good, man.
Happy Friday.
Happy Friday to you too.
So the reason I'm calling is about the whole John Bolton thing.
You know, I love how everybody wants to say it's retribution from Trump.
No.
What it is is a crime is a crime.
And if the crime was committed, it needs to be punished.
But it seems like the left only wants to acknowledge crime, you know, certain crimes by certain people.
What happened?
Well, no, the the left is actually you know, made up crimes where they don't exist.
They have abused the legal system.
Uh they have abused government, you know, Powers and and targeted individuals to an unprecedented level that were really getting to the bottom of now.
Look, either John Bolton had top secret classified information that he shouldn't have had and shared it uh as he shouldn't have, or he didn't.
It's kind of cut and dry to me.
And you know, that's the case that'll have to be proven before a jury beyond a reasonable doubt.
And I think it's a pretty, you know, it's a a simple case.
Either Letitia James, you know, lied on her mortgage applications and claimed this to be her primary residence in Norfolk while she's the attorney general in New York, or she didn't.
You know, and either she she corroborated that lie on multiple occasions or she didn't.
So, you know, I I think those are are pretty difficult.
The sad thing with co the Comey case to me is that's the low-hanging fruit because that was the only one that had not hit the statute of limitations, but I think what he did with Hillary Clinton, the C the servers, uh what he did with the dirty Russian disinformation dossier signing three of the four Pfizer applications, you know, to me is is far, far worse.
Um, and I think we're only beginning to touch the surface of weaponization.
Brought up the statute of limitations because in my eyes, it's very hard when you have like we all know what took place from 2015 and on.
But anytime you have a change in parties at the top, you essentially almost lose four years of investigation.
I I totally understand what you're saying.
I get it.
So, and I I you know, thank you for the time, but I want to leave on one parting note.
I've been trying to push this amongst uh in you know, state senators and things like that, but I think it's a novel idea.
If any if any federal uh like lifetime appointed judge, either side, if they get overruled by a higher court, say ten times, they should lose their lifetime appointee because they're not acting constitutionally from the bench.
Mm-hmm.
And I something like that as a check and balance to make sure that people, you know, once you set a few examples, then I think you might get people towing a line a little bit better.
It is it is scary to me how the left is using the courts and have politicized the courts as well.
And that's what you know, when we talk about you know, judicial activism, that's what we're referring to.
Uh, rather than those that follow the law of the constitution, uh, they take on these, you know, what Democrats can't get done legislatively, but they can't get done uh at the ballot box, uh, they try to get done through judges.
It's pathetic.
Anyway, my friend, I appreciate you being with us.
Uh, Mark, thank you.
Have a great weekend.
Christy in Alabama next on the Sean Hannity show.
Happy Friday, Christy.
How are you?
I'm great.
How are you doing?
I'm hanging in there.
How are you doing?
Good to talk.
When I went to Huntsville, I was Sean New York Talk Radio.
I didn't realize how thick my New York accent was.
It is because I lived in Huntsville when you were on the air and I listened to you all the time and you didn't have that accent then.
Oh, what?
The uh thick New York accent?
Yeah, exactly.
I tried, well, I worked hard at trying to minimize it, unlike Linda New York coffee talk radio.
But but when I was in Alabama, people, and how are you doing, Sean?
Man, you talk funny.
And I'm like, what are you talking about?
You talk funny.
You know, it's funny.
I have a few questions about the shutdown.
Yes, ma'am.
By the way, you must be in the Huntsville area.
Congratulations to Rocket City, USA.
You guys are about to have a major economic boom there.
Yes, it is.
It's gonna be unbelievable.
But Huntsville has changed so much.
If you haven't been there in a long time, it's really changed.
It's grown.
No, I I'm very aware of the change.
It changed when uh Jimmy's lounge ended up in Madison County.
I don't know if you remember that controversy.
Oh my gosh.
Yes, I did.
Yes.
I absolutely so my question is okay, just shut down.
We can continue to rock and roll.
So what do you think the core change, a reform will be that justified them Continuing to shut it down.
What do you think?
You know, we all know it's not uh health care.
And are there any statistics on how many illegal immigrants are still receiving services?
We know that they are demanding over 200 billion dollars uh for what remember the one big beautiful bill said no more, and they're demanding 200 billion in the restoration of funds for health care for illegals.
We know that they want to refund MPR and PBS.
We know that they have these crazy DEI initiatives all over the world in the Balkans and elsewhere.
Uh that's what they're fighting for.
1.5 trillion dollars.
I prefer we not rob our children to reward people that don't respect our laws, borders, and sovereignty.
Simple.
I agree.
And another question is okay.
So let's say they agree to go back and dig this clean this clean bill.
Well, there's only is the timeline gonna start with the amount of time that is actually left, or it will be this seven weeks, and then they'll go through this rigmarole all over again.
You know, I guess it's probably only for seven weeks so they can go through the appropriations process.
Um look, I don't know if you're aware of this, but Senate Democrats tanked the Republican plan just to pay our troops to fund the Pentagon.
I'm like, you know, the shutdown is now on day 16.
If they think they're getting 1.5 trillion out of Trump, and that he they that they're gonna out last Donald Trump in this negotiation, they picked the wrong guy.
Uh, you know, I I've known this guy for 30 years, man.
You you you picked the wrong guy to pick that fight with.
You just did.
Like there are certain people I'm never gonna get in a fight with because I know I'm gonna get my ass kicked.
You're you're not gonna win.
Schumer's not gonna win.
They want to get past this No Kings rally weekend so they don't get brutalized themselves.
Eventually, they will cave.
When, I don't know.
But you know, for the sake of government workers and essential workers and our troops, I hope it's sooner than later for their sake.
Uh, although I've never really feared these government shutdowns because they always end.
Um, Christy, Alabama, uh, all my best.
I had I had two wonderful years in Huntsville, and the people there are salt of the earth.
We appreciate you.
Thank you.
All right, that's gonna wrap things up for today.
Caroline Levitt tonight.
We get the White House uh briefing from Caroline.
Also, Greg Jarrett on the indictment of John Bolton, Marsha Blackburn, targeted by Jack Smith.
Uh, did he violate the law?
Uh, what do they plan to do uh in terms of getting to the bottom of this?
Also, Lee Stefanic is uh rising in the polls because Kathy Hokel supports Bom Dani.
It's a one-point race in New York.
Unbelievable.
And Jimmy Phaela, he'll put a smile on your face.
Set you DBR.
Hannity tonight, nine Eastern on the Fox News channel.
We'll see you then back here tomorrow.
Thank you for making this show possible.
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Thank you.
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