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And if you want a little come along. If the
technical definition is two quarters of contraction, you're saying that's
not a recession. That take No, that's not the technical definition.
In terms of the technical definition, it's not a recession.
The technical definition considers a much broader spectrum of data points.
What is exactly the White Houses definition of a recession? Again,
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we don't, We don't define. I'm not going to define
it from here. I think we're going to God think
recession freedom is back in style. Welcome to the revolution. Yeah,
where I'm coming to y'all sent You're going to play
our gifts off and saying you a conscious new Sean
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and show behind the scenes information on breaking news and
more bold inspired solutions for America. This is a special
edition of the Sean Hannity Show, Amery Good Trap Behind
Enemy Lines, Day number three forty eight. All right, Day
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three forty eight. We're coming up on the one year mark.
Glad you're with us, toll free. It is eight hundred
and nine four one Sean. If you want to be
a part of the program, Well, it is everything that
we told you it was going to be. It's I
wish it weren't true. It is true. You know, obviously
the administration was anticipating it, or they wouldn't have spent
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so much time and effort, etc. Trying to convince us
that the definition of a recession, which is two consecutive
quarters of negative economic growth or contraction as they call it. Well,
it's now official. The first quarter GDP number minus one
point six percent, today minus point nine per quarter number two.
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That's the second straight quarterly decline in GDP. And then
we're gonna get into this whole issue Democrats reaching this
insane agreement with billions of new taxes and spending. And
by the way, I've got you know, fake moderate Joe
Mansion who went along with the Schumer Deal and got
suckered into Green New dealism. I'll tell you what he did.
If you live in West Virginia. Joe Mansion just buckled
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and caved to the radical climate alarmist and it's gonna
hurt the state of West Virginia. What had been so
admirable up until yesterday was Mansion was standing up with
the people of West Virginia and telling the swamp in
DC and his own party to go pound sand go
jump in a lake. Anyway. Now, this now they want
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to play word gymnastics with all of this, and the
White House Communications directors saying, this is exactly what the
American people are asking for. What inflation record? We're asking for?
Record high gas prices? Are you high? What are you?
Are you on crack? Are you a junkie? Come on man,
Come on man. Anyway, the GOP is saying this is
going to lead to double digit inflation. I don't doubt it.
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It is political suicide ahead of the midterms. Every single
Republican needs to keep it simple, stupid. I'm running against
so and so, so and so along with Joe Biden,
is destroying our economy, is giving us open borders, causing
record high gas prices, record high inflation has now pushed
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us into a recession. Is a mess. And foreign policy,
what do you hear? What happened when the call read
out today with President she? Oh yeah, President She threatening
Biden on the call and he's too weak to stand
up for our country. It is humiliating, It is embarrassing.
I can't even believe that I'm going to report where
you're gonna hear anyway. The Powell yesterday is saying he
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doesn't think the economy is in recession, Janet Yellen saying,
I mean, we don't think it's in a recession. New
York Times, a so called liberal economist who just admitted
he was wrong about inflation the whole time. Now he
goes out there and and even urged Americans to ignore
the real definition of a recession. This is how insane
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these people are, and the very people the left, liberals
democrats claim to have a monopoly of compassion for they're
destroying poor people in this country, and the middle class
in this country, and people on fixed income in this country,
and the elderly that are struggling. Of half of the
elderly population in the country now, you know, can't even
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make ends meet because of these insane policies. Record high inflation,
record high gas prices. Oh but we have we got
leaders that have no economic real world experience. So what
would you expect? And now play it later. But Peter
Doucey just eviscerated White House Press Secretary Karin Jean Pierre
by reading the Biden economic advisors that have the two
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thousand and eight definition of a recession. Their own economic
advisor said exactly what a recession is. The miss of
a technical definition for a recession. This is Biden's own
economic advisor, and it is two consecutive quarters of negative growth.
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Nobody that knows anything about the economy disagrees with that.
Why we're sparring over that, I don't know. But now
Joe Biden and his insane climate alarmist cult, energy dependence,
religion cultism has now driven this country's into a recession.
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Great job, Joe, really terrific. I can't believe how amazing
it is. Lower income Americans look at the starting to
cut back on any restaurant spending. By the way, I'm
not talking about a fancy steakhouse. I'm talking about Chipotle.
I'm talking about McDonald's. They have reinforcing data showing lower
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income Americans they are cutting back on fast food because
they can't afford it. I listen, I remember being a
point one point of my adult life, and I'm like,
I couldn't afford to go to McDonald's. I was that
close to paying my rent every month. It sucks when
you're in that position. Chipotle singled out diners who are
in less than fifty grand a year. They're not going
to Chipotle as often. I don't happen to love Chipole.
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I of my kids love Chipotle. I'm not a big
Chipotle person. I'd rather get a burger and fries and
pizza and any day, although I'm mostly a pealo eater
now anyway, so the chief executive officer of Chipotle said
in an interview, and a lot of people love Chipotle.
Everything is more expensive. McDonald says. Lower income customers are
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shifting to a less expensive menu items, skipping combo meals
that includes fries and a drink. My favorite as a
quarter pound of a cheese french fry and a coke.
I don't, I hardly ever have it, like next to
never now, and I love it. I'm not gonna lie.
I just am that discipline. US pending home sales down
twenty percent, and this is just the beginning, you know,
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And you know, in the lead up to all this,
I was wondering why they keep releasing all these strategic
petroleum reserves because they knew this week was coming, so
they wanted to at least have some fake good news.
And it's fake in as much as they put a
band aid on the high price at gastly still double
what Donald Trump handed off to Joe Biden, but they
wanted to put a band aid. Oh, gas prices have
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been down for thirty eight days. They're releasing our strategic
petroleum reserves. What if there's a hurricane that God forbid
knocks out a refinery in Houston one day, what are
we going to do then when we don't have reserves,
And even given some of the reserves to China. And
I got a lot to say about China today. You know,
Biden said this week we're not in a recession. He
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said it before the numbers ever came out. I kept
telling you who do I believe? Do I believe the
Atlanta Feed or do I believe Joe Biden? Or in
Janet Yellen and Jerome Powell and this idiot economic advisor
at political convenience now has changed the definition of what
it is to be a recession. Biden says, it's no
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surprise the economy is slowing down. It's not because your
policies are idiotic and almost guaranteed it would slow down.
JD Power reporting dismal car sales in July. We now
have repossessions at numbers that we haven't seen in years.
And here's the same thing then we got this idiotic
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deal with Joe Mansion and Chucky Schumer. You know, seven
hundred and thirty nine billion dollars tax and spend bill
and literally Joe Mansion. Let me play Joe Mansion in
twenty ten. I don't think during a time of recession
you mess with any of the taxes or increase any taxes. Listen,
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I don't think during a time of recession you mess
with any of the taxes or increase any taxes. I
can't look to people in West Virginia any eye and
ask them to pay a penny more until I know
we're running the government efficient. Well, we're not running an
efficient Joe. You just screwed your own constituents in West
Virginia because as part of this package, they have a
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fifteen percent corporate minimum tax. All right, you think it's great. Yeah,
I let those rich corporations pay more taxes. That's it.
That's going to be the answer. They want more money. No,
corporations don't pay taxes. Everybody needs to get this in
their head in their thick skull and understand they just
pass the cost onto you. So that's more money you're
gonna have to pay more inflation for you and your family.
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And by the way, as prices are going back to
five dollars a gallon because guess what they have, what
twenty million more barrels of strategic petroleum reserves they're gonna
release and then once they stopped releasing it. OPEC isn't
picking up the slack. Saudi Arabia told Joe to pound
sand literally, We're not going to get it from Venezuela.
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That seems to not be working out, thankfully. What we're
going to now do a deal with the RAND. You know,
when Joe said he's gonna we're gonna leminate, you know,
our dependence on fossil fuels, he didn't say eliminate domestic production.
He said eliminate it. He didn't say that we're gonna
stop drilling for gas, gonna stop tracking for gas here,
and stop drilling for oil here, and stop mining for
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coal here, and we're gonna go to Iran, Russia, Saudi Arabia, OPEC,
and Venezuela. How stupid is this? You want to end inflation,
go back to energy and dependence. You want to secure
the border, go back to the Trump border policies. Oh,
you mean the guy that gets people all riled up
and manned because he's out there tweeting good grief. It's unbelievable.
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At seven hundred and thirty nine billion dollars tax and
spend bill, Oh yeah, this is the new Green Deal.
They're gonna spend a lot on climate and energy programs,
including tax credits for buying electrical vehicles. Here we go
back to pushing electric What about the all of the
mining that goes into creating a battery for an electric vehicle?
You know, the cobalt, manganese. Let's see what else do
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they got, nickel and all the other minerals that they
use these very very expensive, powerful equipment that's powered by
diesel to extract from Mother Earth and damage the Earth
in the process and put out all those carbon emissions
from all that fuel that they need to get it
to build to build the battery for the electric car.
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Oh and then how do you charge the electric car?
That's right, use electrical power. Where does most of the
electrical power come from? Because only twelve percent of our
grid comes from quote renewables, and they don't have the
technology to change us over, switch us over to renewable
energy and to be renewable energy independent, as Pete Buddha
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Judge says, Remember, more pain, more progress, more benefit. He
said this week, it's unbelievable. But we don't have the technology.
It's not going to be cheaper. So why how do
you justify begging enemy hostile regimes Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia,
OPEC nations, and Venezuela. I don't like any of these nations.
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They're all hostile to the US. They're all a real,
clear present danger. And Joe Mansion capitulates and gives in.
They'll pass this through reconciliation, they'll shove it down our
throats and we're stuck. And the dumbest thing, by the way,
even Obama agrees with me about raising taxes in the
middle of a recession. Listen, you don't raise taxes in
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a recession. The last thing you want to do is
to raise taxes in the middle of a recession. Now
we're doing the exact thing. Even even Barack Obama, I
never thought i'd quote him on this program, but here's
here's what I did. Anyway, you look at it, and
it's so funny. There's a lot of things you really
need to understand about this, you know, but when you
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look at now, all right, So they're gonna give us
seven thousand, five hundred dollars in tax credits for a
new electric car, four thousand dollars for used electric cars
for the first time if you're buying one, okay, but
they still cost twenty thousand dollars more than a gasoline
power car. So it's not going to benefit people. And
the electricity is coming eighty eight percent of it is
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not coming from renewables, so that means you're using gas
and call, etc. To fire up your electric vehicle. So
how's that good? And now this is all going to
drive and the housing market issue. I keep telling you
it hasn't hit yet. I've been we're now beginning to
read reports about it. It's coming anyway. Mansion is it's
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just unbelievable. In the middle of all of this, they
have build back broke New Green Deal, radical socialism, and
mansion went along with it. It's this, This is a disaster,
my words. It's gonna get worse. It's not gonna get
better on its own. These policies are going to accelerate
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the problems and the housing market's next new home can
instruction will stop. Mark my words, sale of pre existing
homes is gonna come to a screeching halt. Nobody's given
up their two point eight three point two three point
eight percent thirty year fixed rate mortgage in exchange for
a seven eight percent fixed rate mortgage. Nope, not gonna happen.
They don't want to pay that money, nor should they.
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And then the next thing that's going to happen is
home values will plummet, along with your iras and your
four oh one k's that have already plummeted. Great job, Joe.
Socialism is really really doing wonders for the economy. Giving
up energy independence is doing wonders for the economy. And
then they just lie about everything. I have a whole
list of all the lies they tell. I'll get to
that next. I have never had any conversations ever with Hunter. Well,
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we got news today that that's an absolute lie. Joe
Biden met with Hunters business associates at least fourteen times.
We now have a smoking gun email proving Joe Biden
was the big guy. As if you needed another smoking
gun after Bob o Lynsky collecting ten percent from Hunters
the deals whoop see daisy. They lied there. They denied
that majorcas last week. We don't have a you know,
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the bad secure you're in denial. It's a recession denial.
I'll never impose a vaccine mandate. He denied he'd ever
do that. They did it. Denied the Taliban is killing people.
They were and they are, and then called their withdrawal
a success. That's denial. Denying the administration is limiting oil production.
That's a denial, and it's a lie. Denying that we
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have a supplied supply chain crisis. They say it was averted. Well,
still going on. Inflation is transitory, denying the truth about that. Oh,
the inflation is over. In December, Joe told us we've
now peaked at seven percent. This is it. We're done.
It's now going to go down. Didn't happen. Deny that,
you know, the recessions a recession. Not everyone predicted a
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winter COVID surge. They weren't ready. They ran out of
tests last Christmas. Never mind the therapeutics that would actually
work and help people, you know, Denied the Russian invasion
was imminent. Troops were all over the border. As long
as it's a minor incursion, denying the major gaffs in Europe.
They didn't, they weren't gaffs, denied it when that he
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was alerted about the baby formulas shortage. He was alerted
repeatedly months in advance, denying that his massive spending package
caused inflation, Blaming Putin, blaming Fox, blaming Trump, you know,
blaming everybody that you know. Isn't them just lying, It's
another word for it. Lying. You can't always get what
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you want, but you can get Sean Hannity online at
Hannity dot com ID twenty five to the top of
the hour, eight hundred and nine four one Sean, if
you want to be a part of the program. Right, So,
we are officially in a recession. There's other news today.
So after funneling millions of dollars into the Biden family syndicate,
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meaning China, President Chi knows, just like Vladimir Putin knows,
just like Ukraine knows, they've got Joe over Barrel. Remember,
Libya had a dossier on Zero Experience Hunter. And I
don't even know how much business he did with Zero
Experience Hunter, but they had a dossier on Zero Experience Hunter.
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And in that dossia, they knew it was a crack addict.
They knew we had a proclivity with you know, prostitutes,
hired prostitutes. I think about this if you think that
Don Junior, Eric Trump, Ivanka Trump. If they lied on
a gun application and that gun gets thrown in a
dumpster somewhere and thankfully a good samaritan finds it and
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hands it over to the police. It was near a
school and didn't end up in the hands of some kid,
and a disaster could have been unfolding after that, you
think they would have gotten away with a slap on
the wrist or not charged at all, because apparently Delaware
prosecutors thought that Hunter was a victim in this. I mean,
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you know, it's there's such a double standard. And and
by the way, part of the mansion build back broke
deal includes hiring more IRS agents. You know, I'll tell
you right now, you're just what that means for most
of you is you're now going to get the Hannity treatment.
What do you mean by that, Hannity A Hannity treatment
meaning every year they pull my file so in the
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preparation to get every single eye dotted t cross penny
paid because I'm not taking chances with a government that
is so hostile to all conservatives. Liberals. Oh, it's anymous
mistake a conservative. You're short ten dollars on your tax form.
Therefore we're gonna put you in jail for ten years.
So I tell everybody, pay taxes, don't mess around with it.
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Pay it, pay it, pay it. My accountants call me,
what do you want me to do? This is a
legal deduction. You know they might challenge it, but pay it.
That's what I said constantly. So I go through a
process where I got a financial team that does my taxes,
and then it goes to my lawyer, and then my
lawyer brings in his accountants to go over the work
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or the other accounting firm, and he gets done twice
before it ever gets sent in. And of course every
penny is paid, and by the way, a lot of
it's taken out anyway, so it doesn't matter. But anyway,
so President calls today, they have this two hour phone call.
Now I would argue that what happened in Ukraine is
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not unique. In Ukraine, we had Vice President Joe Biden.
He leveraged one billion of your taxpayer dollars, and he
said to Ukraine. Either you fire that prosecutor over there.
His name is Shokin, Victor Chokin. I believe you fire
Shokin or You're not getting a billion dollars. He tells
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the story, brags about it, and he goes, oh, he
got six hours until I leave, got to fire the prosecutor.
You're not getting the billion. You don't believe me, Call Obama,
he'll support me. Okay, So, son of a bee, he says,
they fired the guy. Why would a vice president withhold
a billion dollars to fire some stupid prosecutor in Ukraine? Well,
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now we know the answer, because the prosecutor was investigating Hunter.
And Hunter then goes on Good Morning America and he's
asked simple questions. Do you have any experience and energy?
No oil, no gas, no Ukraine? No huh? Well why
do you think they paid you millions of dollars? I don't.
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I don't know, I really don't. Do you think maybe
it's because your dad was the vice president in charge
of Ukrainian policy. Probably, probably that's it. Probably a lot
of things wouldn't happen about what experience did you have
WHI I was on the board of Amtrak? What does Amtrak,
have to do with energy or Ukraine, nothing but Joe Biden.
That's the real quid pro quel. But because your media
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is so corrupt, because our Department of Justice is so corrupt,
because our FBI, you know, the leadership is so corrupt.
We have whistleblowers out this week trying to tell people
that they're protecting Hunter Biden, and they're purposely labeling evidences
as Russian disinformation to cover for Hunter. Think that would
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ever happened to a Trump's Country's a mess if you
don't have equal justice under the law, an equal application
of our laws, and you politicize the Justice Department the
way we have, you know, you see it's all January sixth,
But forget about the five hundred and seventy four riots.
They killed dozens of Americans, injured thousands of cops, and
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caused billions of property damage. Ignore the vice president, then
candidate for Vice president, Kamala Harris. They're not going to
stop talking about the rioting in the summer of twenty twenty.
They're not going to stop before the election. They're not
going to stop after the election. Take note she said,
be where she said they're not going to stop. They
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shouldn't stop. We're not going to stop. Take note, beware,
And then she tweets out where people can donate to
a bail fund to bail out the writers, to baill
out the people arrested. It's insane. Why isn't that causing
insurrection in a city? See how you see how politics
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is now? You know whatever happened to the people that lied?
Can you imagine what would happen to any of you
listening to my voice right now? If you lie to
a judge. I'd never lie to a judge. You never
lie when you're under oath if you don't know the answer. Honestly,
you don't know, you don't know the answer, But you
don't lie. If you lie, it's called perjury. If you're
a conservative and they say or they actually set perjury
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traps for conservatives, we've seen that before. But you just
tell the truth under oath, you have to. That's my advice.
Tell the truth. You know, there's certain people in life
you should never lie. You never lie to you a minister,
that's not going to do you any good. You shouldn't
lie to you a doctor. No, I don't have cheff, no,
not at all. That's not a good idea. You can't
if you lie to your lawyer. Your lawyer can't do
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his job or her job and defend you. Shouldn't lie
to your significant other. You know which is better off
telling the truth.