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Top-rated Fox News host Sean Hannity gave an important update regarding the FBI’s raid on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate.
During his opening monologue, Hannity said spoke with Just The News founder John Solomon about documents allegedly showing that President Joe Biden’s White House helped facilitate the Department of Justice’s probe against Trump.
Hannity also ripped the FBI for conducting the raid in the first place — the first one ever involving a former U.S. president in the country’s history.
Below is a transcript of the exchange:
Hannity: Breaking news surrounding the raid at Mar-a-Lago. According. According to a brand-new report, the Biden White House, get this, facilitated this ongoing witch hunt against former President Trump. They lying to the American people about what they knew and when they knew it. Here with big breaking news, he’s the editor in chief at just the news.com. It’s a big story because they knew. They told us they didn’t know anything. The Biden White House news.
Solomon: Not only did they know, they are pushing the investigation. They gave them permission to the national archives to send the original boxes of documents Donald Trump had sent back the archives to the FBI. That launches the criminal investigation. They then give the archives, the permission, Joe Biden’s blessing to wave the president’s best legal defense by saying you can’t claim executive privileges. The current president will not allow it to happen. All that occurs long before a grand jury drops a subpoena on President Trump lawyers in may and June and long before the raid. The Biden White House is at the ignition point of this investigation and it’s ironic because if you remember back in 2019, 2020. The Biden Democrats were complaining about efforts to start an investigation of Hunter Biden. Now they are caught doing the same thing, try to push an investigation of their political rival, the opposition leader of the party. Likely to face him in 2024.
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Last week, Hannity said that his sources have confirmed that the security cameras at the palatial home were never turned off, as FBI agents requested.
He also ripped the Biden administration, the Justice Department, and the FBI for conducting the raid in the first place — the first one ever involving a former U.S. president in the country’s history.
Hannity began:
Many of you tonight are very angry, rightfully so. The FBI is blatantly targeting our fellow Americans for their political beliefs. The bureau’s reputation has been shattered. My faith in an organization – I’ll be honest. I had two family members. They were dating my family because they worked for this organization. I revered this organization for decades of my life. If you listen to my radio show, watch this show, you know my love of law enforcement. It is now pretty much been utterly destroyed.
And more specifically, I just do not trust nor I think should anybody be able to trust high ranking people that have now perpetuated those people at the top of the FBI. The Trump Russia conspiracy theory hoax, it was all a lie for years. They knew it was a lie. They kept perpetuating the lie. Those that purposely lied to FISA court judges to spy on a presidential candidate and a president again and again and again. They have hurt this institution.
We needed institutionalized reforms. We didn’t get that. They protected the corruption. They protected the deep state.
The raid on the former president’s private home is shocking. It is wrong. It is a clear and gross abuse of power and corruption…
And according to my sources tonight, on Monday morning, up to 40 FBI agents rolled up tomorrow Largo unannounced, guns ablaze in about a dozen vehicles, including a large moving truck. Over the course of the next several hours, the agents went room by room, scouring the property, boxing up every document they had in sight.
They even rifled through Melania’s wardrobe. Agents also demanded that the Mar-a-Lago staff turn off all security cameras. Well, we can tell you tonight those security cameras kept rolling. They were not shut off. And now we can report exclusively tonight that the FBI and the bureau is desperately trying to obtain all the footage.
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