Sean Hannity and John Solomon expose alleged "deep state" conspiracies where the intelligence community weaponized corruption against Donald Trump, citing December 2020 documents revealing withheld evidence of Chinese hacking in 12 to 18 states. They detail claims that analysts altered assessments to downplay China while exaggerating Russian interference, alongside FBI tactics designed to entrap the president and protect Joe Biden's candidacy. The episode concludes by contrasting California gubernatorial debates on immigration and transgender sports with caller frustrations over anti-ICE protests, suggesting a broader erosion of democratic principles through systemic deception. [Automatically generated summary]
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Intelligence Community Censorship00:15:07
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It is 800 941.
Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
I mean, this guy never stops breaking news.
It is remarkable what we have now been able to discover.
I mean, a lot of issues that we have covered now for 11 years on this program, on TV, full time, never ending, nonstop weaponization, corruption.
You know, look at how Obama himself.
Took the intelligence community assessment report after the 2016 election that said, no, no Russian interference.
And then he meets with Brennan and Biden and his entire team and Clapper.
And no, no, let's do another assessment that sets Donald Trump for three years of living hell.
Now we find out John Solomon, editor in chief, founder, chief investigative reporter, justthenews.com, headline DNI, Tulsi Gabbard, Spurs probe into evidence Congress, Trump were misled on election security, according to memos.
The evidence continues to stack up that the intel community sought to downplay China's actions in 2020 as President Trump was seeking re election, and that perhaps at the cost of legal or ethical rules.
And John Ratcliffe, the CIA director, said that there was a false impression that Russia sought to influence the election and that China did not.
Tulsi Gabbard now spurred this investigation into the evidence that spy agencies, in fact, tried to conceal U.S. election vulnerabilities.
Including straight up whistleblower claims that a CIA officer was asked to alter evidence of China meddling that President Donald Trump and Congress were intentionally kept in the dark.
Remember, they were in office at this time about concerns involving China, Venezuela, according to unclassified memos reviewed now by justthenews.com.
All right, here to really give you the scoop on it is John Solomon, as I said, founder, editor in chief, chief investigative reporter, justthenews.com.
Sir, how are you?
Good to be with you.
By the way, your interview with Kash Patel was amazing.
I learned a ton of stuff from it.
We did some stories off of it, but great interview.
You just got so much clarity from the interview.
So thank you for doing it.
Well, by the way, you and Greg together started all this.
And that led to the interview with Dan Bongino.
That led to the interview with Kash Patel.
You know, what's different is we just don't have the time on radio or TV to go into that long form, hour and a half, two hours, two and a half hours, in some cases, interviews that you can just get deep in the weeds and the depth.
And.
And you and Greg did a great job laying it all out because this is what you've been doing for the last 11 years as we have.
Yeah, well, it was a blast.
I love the interview format.
I love the long form.
And again, when you can get an FBI director to get that much information out of them, I learned a ton of stuff.
I thought it was just a great interview.
So thanks for doing it.
It was really fun.
Well, you did a great job.
All right, let's tell us what you found.
Okay, yeah.
So first we have to remind everybody because time passes fast that in December of 2020, we were all told by the FBI, the Homeland Security Department, the CIA, and the intelligence community.
that we had a perfect election, that it was the most secure election in American history.
There was one objector at the time, the DNI at the time, John Ratcliffe, now our CIA director.
His objections have now been proven 100% right.
There was significant evidence being withheld from the American public, being withheld from Congress and its intelligence committees, and more amazingly, being held from the chief executive officer of the United States, the president of the United States, the commander-in-chief, President Donald Trump, that China had begun taking malign actions in America, specifically hacking into and gaining access to voter registration databases.
They also discovered that some of our infrastructure was incredibly vulnerable, more vulnerable. than we were led on to believe.
And then there was also concerns that Venezuela was involved in some sort of malfeasance that could eventually have an impact on U.S. election security.
All of that information was downplayed.
It was obfuscated.
It was withheld from President Trump.
According to these whistleblower documents that Tulsi Gabbard dug up, she's now sent them to the new inspector general of the intelligence community.
And there's an active investigation on multiple items.
One, the withholding of the information from the president, keeping actionable intelligence from a president in congress, to efforts to retaliate against the whistleblower who was telling the truth, who actually was revealing in real time how this information was done.
Now it's amazing stuff what uh Tulsi Gabbard's team has found about what the nature of was going on in one case.
They quote unquote massaged the pdb to take out all the China stuff so that president Trump wouldn't know that China was meddling in potential way.
For those that don't know, presidential daily briefing, go ahead.
Sorry about that.
Yes, the pdb is daily brief, the thing that the president Gets every day to make sure he makes the best decisions on foreign and national security.
All right.
Can I forgive me and those that say you interrupt, Hannity?
I want to digress for one second.
Please.
That presidential daily briefing, everybody that I've interviewed that knows, that sees it, that understands on the issue of Iran, they all have told me without an exception on Iran, the president had no choice based on the intelligence.
Have you heard the same thing?
And then we'll get right back to what you were saying.
No doubt.
Listen, I think we did this on your show a few weeks ago.
They knew that China was getting hypersonic missiles and possibly getting them to Iran.
They knew that Russia had sold Stinger missiles or solder-fod missiles to Iran.
They knew that there was some efforts to restore some of the nuclear weapon capabilities right away.
All of those things pointed to Iran escalating in a big way and getting capabilities to strike either Europe or the United States.
That intelligence has not been disputed by a single person, and that is what drove the president to make that decision.
Not Israel, not all these silly arguments that have been out there.
actionable intelligence.
That's why they do to PDB.
Now, in 2020, President Trump was very concerned that China was acting badly.
He was starting to put pressure on them.
Imagine the intelligence community telling its people, don't tell the president about what China's doing.
We don't want to help out his policy.
We don't like his policy.
We don't want him to know that China might be meddling in the election to help Joe Biden win and not President Trump.
That is an amazing thing, but that's what's in these documents.
Now, the documents are based on highly classified information, emails, intercepts.
And now those are in the hands of the inspector general of the intelligence community.
There's a very active investigation going on.
Tulsi Gabbard, I think, has come into a mother load of information that shows how we knew in the past intelligence agents worked with FBI agents to create false stories to hurt Donald Trump.
Now we know they were withholding information from the president and from Congress that could have made presidential decisions more important, more secure, make America secure.
They were willing to keep the president in the dark about national security issues and election integrity issues.
That's what these new documents show.
They're stunning.
I mean, they're literally, you're numb when you're done reading them.
Let me understand this.
In 2016, they changed the career senior intelligence official's assessment that Russia did not interfere in the 2016 election.
Obama orders that personally.
And in this particular case, this approach that was taken at the time, and we call it, quote, the deep state, but people that didn't like Donald Trump, that were deeply embedded in the intel community, et cetera, and within the FBI, and they sought to bury real evidence of Chinese government.
Efforts to undermine Donald Trump's candidacy in 2020.
I mean, all of this is spectacular to me because it is, these are people that are undermining the core principles of a democratic republic.
If you remember the one infamous post on X of Dan Bongino that said, This republic can't survive based on what I just saw, this is the stuff that he saw.
This is the stuff that was in the burn bags.
That were in a safe room that the FBI, when they got there, when Bongino got there, and Kash Patel said this in my podcast, that they didn't even know this room existed.
It is stunning.
And what you just laid out, Sean, is one element of that grand conspiracy case that Kash Patel wrote up last year that's now at the heart of what grand juries in multiple states are doing, particularly Fort Pierce.
If you're the intelligence committee, your job is to give an honest assessment to policymakers of what happened, and you hijack it to make it look like Donald Trump.
was aided by Russia when that's not what the intelligence showed.
In fact, the intelligence showed the opposite.
First, you changed the intelligence in 2016 to hurt Donald Trump.
And then four years later, when Donald Trump's in office, you're changing the intelligence again.
You're massaging it.
There's an instance in these memos where an intelligence analyst was told, change your document, alter the document.
We can't let people see that we know about China.
You actually instruct an intelligence agent to falsify an intelligence document.
Now you're trying to handicap the president so he can't defend himself or the nation against actionable threats that China was conducting.
It's an ongoing conspiracy.
And I think that that's what Kash Patel laid out so brilliantly on your podcast.
It's what we've been writing about with Greg and even going all the way back to Sarah.
But it is a repeated use of the intelligence community to do the opposite of what we pay our intelligence officers.
We pay them to give us the truth, to give us their best estimate.
In these instances, from 2016 all the way to 2024, there is an ongoing effort to hijack intelligence, change it to false intelligence, simply to hurt Donald Trump.
And people say, John, prove it to me.
How do we know?
That the goal of these intelligence officers was to hurt Donald Trump.
In the emails that Tulsi Gabbard has found, there are efforts where the people who are saying, hey, let's cover this up.
We're not giving this intelligence.
They call Donald Trump the vulgarian in the Oval Office.
They use the pejorative name showing how much they hate it and despise them to justify why they wouldn't give the commander in chief intelligence.
I'm sitting here, and everybody listening to this should be stunned that that's how.
People working for our government refer to their elected president, duly elected president, as the vulgarian, and that they purposely are setting him up left, right, and sideways, and that this level of corruption, weaponization, politicizing the most important system of justice in our country is going on.
Yeah.
And the patterns each time are the same.
Remember in 2016, an FBI agent altered a CIA document to try to get the fake FISA warrant.
In 2020, a CIA officer is being asked to alter an intelligence document so that Donald Trump won't know that the intelligence community knows that China is doing bad things.
Those modus operandi create that conspiracy because you have the same tools by the same people and the same agencies over many years.
And I think that's how Kash Patel got to the grand conspiracy.
And there's one other nugget in this because I think it will give us a sense.
And I think right after the Xi summit that President Trump is going to have with the Chinese leader, when that ends, I think Tulsi Gabbard will be preparing another giant release of information.
And we got a little tidbit of what's likely to be in these unclassified documents we got last night.
There is a document that says that the U.S. Intelligence Committee assesses that between 12 and 18 states, 12 and 18 states had their voter registration databases penetrated by China in 2020.
That would be one of the largest penetrations and impacts on election security in American history.
Remember what we were told five years ago.
It was perfect.
Oh, secure.
It wasn't.
They knew in real time that 12 to 18 voter registration databases Were penetrated by China, and they also knew how China could use them.
There's a whole assessment that China could go make fake ballots or they could go deregister people so when they showed up in the polls to vote for Trump, they couldn't vote.
That is amazing that all of that was happening, and it was kept from the president, kept from the Congress, kept from the American people.
That is why it looks like a conspiracy, repeatedly creating false intelligence to mislead the American public, the president, and others.
Unreal.
Quick break more with justthenews.com, founder, editor in chief, chief investigator, reporter John Solomon.
Then your call's coming up 800 941 Sean if you want to be a part of the program as we continue.
You know, now that the adults are back in office, maybe we can get some work done around here.
Are you ready?
Welcome back, President Trump.
This is the Sean Hannity Show.
I'm going to go to bed.
We continue now.
John Solomon is with us, founder, editor in chief, chief investigative reporter at justthenews.com, breaking more news about how deep corruption, how wide the corruption in our government has been over the years, especially weaponized against President Trump.
Now you're working on a number of other stories.
What headlines can you give us?
What's going to be coming out in the next number of days that you expect to have?
I think there's going to be some uncomfortable news for Democrats who handle intelligence, maybe some new leak information, maybe spurred by the National Security Agency.
I keep an eye on that.
I'm putting the finishing touches on that.
I think next week we will get some more new documents with the FBI showing how the FBI, new tactics, new people, new ways that the FBI was trying to set up the president to try to create some form of a criminal prosecution, literally trying to entrap him into crimes.
And I think we'll get some new information on that.
And then I think as this continues to play out and we wait for Tulsi Gabbard's new election materials, I think we'll get the first documents from Round River, which I think is of the four.
Intelligence investigations that targeted the president for 10 years, Round River may be the most shocking because it deals with criminalizing people just by what they said.
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And we still assume First Amendment protected us.
By the way, is this like when they were spying on congressmen and senators?
Are you telling me they were spying on American citizens?
I believe that's what we will find out.
We're not there yet.
Let me guess.
You've got to be at the top of the list.
I'm just guessing.
I'll see.
Yeah, you know, we'll see.
The most important thing for me is not to be the news, but to keep reporting it.
But we'll see.
Maybe there's some evidence that it does appear that in the effort. to neutralize the true story about Hunter Biden in Ukraine, that the intelligence community and the FBI may have been spying on Americans to stop them from being able to accurately report, to censor them, stop them, block them, prosecute them, whatever it would take to protect Joe Biden's viability against Donald Trump.
I think that's what Round River ultimately will be.
But we'll see.
Let's see how the documents go.
I think the next big thing that will break will be some new revelations about the leak machine that Democrats do.
When they leak classified information, they put America's Security at risk.
And I think there's a new investigation we'll be able to talk about in the next couple of days.
All right, John Solomon, justthenews.com, founder, editor in chief, chief investigative reporter.
Thank you, sir.
Appreciate you as always.
More than you know.
And I know that people ask, well, when are people going to be held accountable?
I'm hoping soon.
I'm hoping that this evidence is so overwhelming, so incontrovertible we get there.
Hear what everyone really thinks in D.C.
This is the Sean Hannity Show.
One California Democrat pushing for new legislation to allow illegal alien professors now who get deported to continue to teach remotely.
You can't make that up.
So they had this mayoral debate, and Karen Bass refuses to give a simple yes or no answer on whether non citizens should be able to vote in L.A.
Well, it depends.
Well, no, you're in the country illegally.
The internet absolutely rightly erupted after this California Democrat on the debate stage admitted the quiet part out loud.
This is this lady that loves to yell at her staff.
I don't yell at Linda.
I should, but I don't.
And if you recall, she's the one that was screaming and screeching at her staff.
Oh, I said I'm sorry about that four years ago.
How many times do I have to say I'm sorry?
Now she's making jokes about it.
And she went on to say that the job of the California governor is to protect every single Californian.
After being asked if she would work with federal authorities to deport illegal immigrants during this California gubernatorial debate, the sanctuary state policy is designed to make sure that our state resources, taxpayer dollars, the public servants that we have are focusing on doing their jobs, which is not cooperating with the federal immigration authorities, which, by the way, what she's saying is completely, utterly unconstitutional.
We do have the Supremacy Clause, and that means that federal laws are enforced by the federal government, and the state ought not be aiding and abetting in law breaking.
California Democrats rally around health care for illegal immigrants.
Every Democrat asked during this debate said that they supported providing health care coverage for illegal immigrants, which they took moments after the candidate spent several minutes warning that California's health care system.
Is already too expensive and straining families.
And you have a California immigration judge suing the DOJ, alleging she was fired for being a registered Democrat, a woman over 40.
Lawsuit naming Todd Blanch, the acting attorney general, 30 other judges who were fired or not converted from probationary periods.
I mean, this just gets nuttier and nuttier.
Now, on top of this debate, you've got a story of an illegal alien, Biden Harris Mayorkas, of course.
Honduran illegal indicted for murder in a deadly shooting out in Long Island at Huntington Station at a delicatessen last month.
Dellies are very popular in New York, if you don't know.
Not as popular around the rest of the country, but they're very popular in New York.
You know, bacon, egg, and cheese, roast beef on a roll with lettuce, tomato, mayo, salt, and pepper.
A would be carjacker has been ID'd as an illegal after he was gunned down by a hero dad trying to protect his.
Family of eight.
Here's surveillance footage.
This is out of Dallas, showing Jose Ramirez forcibly trying to carjack the man's vehicle before the hero dad fired shots at the guy.
Video shows a prolonged struggle that ensued between the two men as the family bolted from the car, including a young boy, two adult females, and a baby.
The father had to draw his firearm, fired more than 10 rounds at the suspect.
Ice had, I mean, I can keep going, Linda.
I mean, I don't get time to go into all these stories every day.
We've hit immigration so hard.
Thank God Donald Trump has secured the border.
But the aftermath of Harris Biden Mayorkist remains with us.
12 million plus unvetted illegal immigrants from over 200 countries, including known terrorists and murderers and rapists and child molesters, other violent criminals, cartel members, gang members.
Here's another story.
It's in the Daily Caller.
ICE announced the arrest of an illegal and alleged child rapist after he'd been previously released by Fairfax County.
Because of Virginia's sanctuary policies now put together by Governor Abigail Spanberger.
I mean, it just doesn't, it does not end.
It keeps going.
I have videos showing this father shooting this illegal immigrant, as I told you.
It's just one story after another story after another story.
Unbelievable.
Let me actually, I think this is worth playing.
Linda, you have Congressman Becerra.
There's no such thing as lost kids in the Biden administration.
And he's talking about illegals.
Listen, using Trump lies to try to damage your opponents is worse.
And that's what we see happening.
Everyone knows that Trump campaigned in 2024 talking about lost kids when there were no such thing as lost kids.
To hear these candidates now talk about that, if they're so concerned, why haven't they taken any action to find these lost kids?
I think it's shameful.
For people to use Trump lies to try to gain favor with voters when you know it's not true, use the facts.
We should have a governor who relies on the facts.
Then, this same idiot, again, wants to be governor, you know, calls to prosecute and jail ICE agents.
Again, we have the supremacy clause, but he's too stupid to understand it.
Listen.
I think we should police Donald Trump's masked mercenary force that they call ICE.
I think we should prosecute any of the forces that.
That violates the law.
And I think we should jail anyone who has violated the law.
That goes all the way to the top.
I agree.
If anyone has violated the laws of California, they should serve time.
And I'm telling you, no one has.
Now, as part of the debate, then you have the I love to yell at my staff, Katie Porter, saying illegal immigration is one of the only ways California has been growing in recent years.
She's kind of saying the quiet part out loud, which is yeah, this is why.
California, with all of their taxes, the highest income taxes, sales taxes, gas taxes, and their billions and billions, tens of billions in debt.
Gavin can't balance his budget, and Gavin doesn't care.
Anyway, this is Katie Porter.
Well, that's how they're growing their population because everyone with a brain is leaving, especially before this idiotic wealth tax vote that is not just for billionaires, that is smoke and mirrors.
And it will tax income that you haven't even realized.
If you own stock, oh, we're going to tax it based on today's valuation.
What happens when you sell the stock and the valuation is 25% of what it was?
Listen.
Congresswoman Porter, on the question itself on these farm workers, which are a big part of California's economy, what's your answer to that?
As Mr. Hilton is saying, it's the decision of the federal government.
It's the job of the governor to protect every single Californian.
Period.
There are no qualifications on that.
The job of the California governor is to protect every single Californian.
The sanctuary state policy is designed to make sure that our state resources, the taxpayer dollars, the public servants that we have, are focusing on doing their jobs, which is not cooperating with the federal immigration authorities.
These are Californians.
They contribute to our economy, they pay taxes, and they're one of the only ways that our state has been growing in recent years.
And then Katie Porter again.
I mean, you can't make this up.
He wants to fund health care for illegals.
They're bankrupt.
Medi Cal is bankrupt.
And they can't, with the highest taxes in the country, pay their bills.
Listen.
Congresswoman Porter, your thoughts on the idea of funding health care for undocumented immigrants statewide?
Yes.
Yes.
And that's, by the way, what I think Californians deserve as answers to these questions, Alex.
And for critics who say that we can't afford it, what do you say to that?
We can't afford to have people who are sick who are making the rest of us sick.
It's unbelievable.
Then you have California Democrats saying yes to taxpayer funded health care for illegals.
They said it all during this debate.
Listen to this.
As of this year, undocumented adults can no longer enroll in Medi Cal.
Would you reinstate this if you become governor?
Yes or no?
Mr. Villarregoza?
Yes.
Ms. Porter?
Yes.
Mr. Bianco?
No.
Mr. Hilton?
No.
Mr. Sire?
Yes.
Mr. Becerra?
Yes.
Mr. Meehan?
Yes.
Now, Steve Hilton, who's now leading in the polls, a Republican, the actual top two leading.
People that are polling are Republicans.
Steve Hilton's number one, and I think he'd be a great governor in California, although he would have a hard time with the assembly and the Senate out there, but who cares?
He can stop the bleeding.
But he's vowing to work with the federal government to actually enforce federal immigration law.
Listen.
Mr. Hilton, right now, President Trump is enacting a policy of mass deportation.
As you know, roughly half of California farm workers, which are an essential part of this state's economy, are undocumented.
As governor, would you push to deport them?
So I'm the only.
Immigrant on stage.
I'm a legal immigrant.
And Americans support immigration when it is properly controlled.
And what we saw under the Biden administration, open borders, undermined everybody's support for immigration.
And as governor, I've made it very clear.
Although it is the federal government's responsibility to determine and implement immigration policy, I think it's important that all the laws are peacefully enforced.
And as governor, I would make sure that we work with the federal government to enforce our laws.
All right, we'll take a quick break here.
I want to play one or two more of these cuts, then we'll get to your phone calls.
I promise coming up, 800 941 Sean, as we roll along.
I mean, this is like manna from heaven because this proves how radicalized the left is.
Sean Hannity, is he the most dangerous man in America?
Well, some people think so.
You are two things, Sean.
You're the most dangerous man in America, and.
You're one of the most powerful.
This is the Sean Hannity Show.
Let me get back to playing the insanity from this gubernatorial
debate out in California.
Am I playing too much, Linda?
Because there's one more cut I think I need to play from this debate.
Oh, no.
I think it's critical you're doing what you're doing.
It's critical.
The work I do is critical, don't you think?
I think it is really, really critical.
It's critical.
It's the word of the day.
These same dopey, dumb, idiotic, radicalized Democrats in this debate supporting California law to allow men to play women's sports.
You can't make it up.
They all supported the same thing.
Let's play that.
Under a California Education Code, you perform in an athletic event K through 12 based on your identification by gender.
Would you change that law to match the IOC that you identify based on your birth at gender?
Yes or no?
Very quickly, we have 30 seconds left.
Mr. Mahan?
Sorry, change which law?
The current law says you'd identify and that's how you participate.
Yeah, but at higher levels, I would let the leagues decide.
Okay, Mr. Becerra?
Enforce the law.
Okay, Mr. Steyer?
Allow trans athletes to participate.
Mr. Hilton, I have a wristband that says save girl sports.
And I'm the Akko, Katie Porter.
Yes, enforce the existing law.
Unbelievable.
I mean, you want to talk about why people are leaving California in droves?
I think this pretty much sums it up.
800 941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
Let's get to our busy, busy telephones.
John, in my free state of Florida, John, how are you?
Glad you called.
Good afternoon, Mr. Hannity.
Good afternoon, sir.
Good afternoon, sir.
How are you?
You go back.
We go back to the Hannity and Combs days.
Thank you, my friend.
Have I changed a lot?
Am I getting a little gray or a little older?
How do I look?
All right?
A little grayer, but you're in good shape.
Two thoughts.
These Democrats that hate our country, that want to destroy it, why can't we just let the cities burn?
The Democrats seem to be okay with illegal immigrants between the crime.
Stop them.
You want to let the cities burn?
What about the innocent people?
Law abiding people.
The people that deserve law and order.
Yes, but the innocent people are the ones electing these idiots.
My second thought was we have all these anti ICE, anti Trump, anti this, anti that protests.
Why can't we have some pro conservative, pro ICE, pro American, anti socialist, anti communist protests that are organized the way these people like Soros and this Chinese guy?
You want to know the reason that conservatives don't get out and protest a whole lot?
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I mean, it's kind of cool when they show up like at a Trump rally because most of them have jobs and we're busy.
We're busy taking care of our responsibilities.
What are our responsibilities?
Raising our families, going to work, providing for our families, you know, making sure that we have time for our kids' activities and making sure they study and making sure that they have good food in their bodies and reading them bedtime stories and putting them to bed.
Now, that part of my life is over, you know, but you have, you know, Bigger kids, bigger problems in some respects, although I'm kind of past all that, thank God.
That's why we don't have time for this, Adam Schiff.
We don't have time, but you do raise a good point.