Sorry, folks, I can’t take transcribing Hannity and Trump any longer. Some highlights:
Trump claimed he wouldn’t be in the White House if it wasn’t for the job Obama and Biden did. He claimed he rebuilt the military and got rid of regulations more than any other administration.
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Hannity put together a “highlight reel” of Biden misspeaking or having technical problems in online interviews (such a birds chirping or a phone ringing in the audio) over the last 18 months. Hannity then framed a question asking Trump to evaluate Biden’s mental health.
TRUMP: “… But, ah, I just, it’s hard to comment on somebody. He’s an opponent. You have to be very sharp. I’m dealing with the heads of these countries and every one of them is a world-class chess player, and if you’re not a hundred percent on your game, if your not a hundred percent, uhhhh, sharp plus, you got a problem. … I see the statements he’s making now and I don’t think he has much of a clue.”
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From mask-wearing to Iraq to Chicago: “Well, y’know, at the beginning, at the beginning, many people, many very respected people, I won’t mention names, but many respected people were saying don’t wear a mask, that they’re bad, you touch your feese, you touch your face too much, you get your hands near your eyes and your nose and they’re bad and then all of a sudden ahhh, it was a big thing to masks, because I’m all for it. Look, whatever’s going to help, if it was a 5% chance, a 2% chance, wear it. And… I’ll wear it. I wore it at Walter Reed Hospital the other day. I visited soldiers that have been so badly [sniff] injured in Iraq and, uhhhhh, it’s, uhh, terrible and Afghanistan, I saw one that was so badly injured in Afghanistan and you know we’re largely… [sharp inhale]… we’re down to a, uh, very small force in both places. We were serving as policemen over there, and we can police our own country, especially when you look at Chicago and you look at what’s happening around our country and, ahhh, we’ve done a lot. We’ve done a lot.”
FACT CHECK: The United States military is prohibited from being used as a policing force within the borders of the nation unless a federal emergency is declared, and one has not been declared.
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Trump said, “We’re doing very well with vaccines and therapeutics,” before Hannity said he had Dr. Oz on his radio show and that hydroxycloroquine was redeemed by a study. Trump finished by saying, “And I think we’re going to have some very good answers very soon. And I think they’ll come up with the answer.”
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HANNITY (on reelection): “If you’re given the four more years, what will this country look like four years from now?”
TRUMP: “So… It’s all gonna be about America First. We always put other countries before us which is so foolish and so horrible and it’s been so destructive for us. It’s about America first. We’ll help other countries but we want to take care of ourselves. We’re gonna be building factories, we’re gonna be bringing in jobs like you’ve never seen. We were all set to do it until we got hit with the virus. Our troops will be home. The endless wars are already ending. There are very few soldiers in, as you know, in Afghanistan, very few in Iraq. Syria’s largely out except we kept the oil. We have oil there that we kept. I didn’t want to leave the oil. We kept it, that we took it over. ahhh… We’re going to be about jobs like you haven’t see. We’re going to be respected and we are now by other countries. They’re respecting more than they have in many, many decades, I will tell you that. We’re going to have a wall that’s complete, we’re up to 257 miles on the new wall and by the way, if we didn’t have that wall in right now you would have numbers in Texas and California and New Mexico like you wouldn’t believe, but we built, ah, 257 miles of, ah, 450 but we’re gonna do about 537 miles altogether, a complete wall on our Southern border that’s really helped. And the other thing is, we’re going to start making our product, and I’ve been pushing this from before this happened, we’re gonna make things here. We’re gonna make ’em here. Right now, China and many other countries are doing what we’re supposed to be doing. They became globalists. These great geniuses became globalists, and they really hurt our country. We’re gonna start making it here. I was with Elon Musk. I said, “Elon, build a factory in Texas.” He just announced today they’re building one of the biggest plants in the world, auto plants, for Tesla and it’s gonna be in Texas, and it’s great, he called me up just a little while ago to say I got it done. Meaning that he got it done, but I was pushing very hard for Elon because we work with him and we do a lot for him and I said it’s time and he was, he was great. He’s doing a good job. And the other thing we’ve done is Space Force. Y’know we put in, it’s the first time in 76 years, we have a new force, we have so important the army, navy, the air force, marines, coast guard, and now we have the air force [sic]. It’s so great. And it’s so important, it’s gonna end up being–at first, I didn’t even talk about that in the campaign. This was after I got in office, I realized we need it because China and Russia were going to dominate space, and we can’t let that happ–and now we’re going to be dominating space. They’re not too happy about ta–what we did with air force [sic] but we have it. And, ah, with space force. So we have now space force, so important, and so many other things, Sean. Regulation cuts, tax cuts–biggest tax cuts in history–biggest regulation cuts in history, and we’re gonna continue that forward. There are still many things we can do. But the bottom line we’re, we’re putting America first, we’re making America better than it’s ever been. You’re going to see that. We’re going to have a great year next year. We’re gonna have a great third quarter. And the nice thing about the third quarter is that the results will come out before the election.”
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HANNITY: Would you consider pardon for the people involved [who Hannity and connedservatives claim were set up by the Obama Administration though the as-yet unproven claim that the Obama Administration spied on the Trump campaign].
TRUMP: “I’ve looked at a lot of different people. They been treated extremely unfairly. I think I probably would, yes.”