Fox news's Sean Hannity apparently acknowledged on his radio program
that yeah, maybe Trump is a felon.
But even if he is, don't worry, he could still be our dear, dear leader.
So in other words,
here's Sean Hannity wanting a felon to be the leader of this country.
Let's watch.
>> If they think that they're gonna somehow make this about Donald Trump and
prevent him from running from office.
Well, they obviously have not read something called the constitution cuz
the constitution is pretty clear on what qualifies one to be able to run for
president.
In other words, okay, even if section 2071 in the federal penal code has penalty
provisions upon the conviction that the defendant shall forfeit his office and
be disqualified from holding any office under the United States.
Okay, but we do have something called the constitution and the qualifications for
one to be President of the United States, that is very clear and enumerated.
And you can't alter it by any statute precisely, because our framers in
their wisdom didn't want the executive branch dominated by the legislature.
As would happen if Congress could disqualify any incumbent or potential
president simply by passing a law and the constitution's qualifications are simple.
You gotta be over 35 and a natural-born citizen,
being a felon is not a disqualification.
>> Now, he's actually partly correct being a felon.
>> Very partly.
>> Very partly, right?
So being a felon isn't necessarily a disqualification but
it really depends on what kind of felon you are.
And so, let's talk about that a little bit because section 3 of the 14th amendment,
according to PolitiFact says, that no person shall be a Senator or
representative in Congress or elector of president and vice president.
Or hold any office, civil or military, who had previously taken an oath
to support the constitution and then quote, engaged in insurrection or
rebellion against the same or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.
That section was added after the civil war.
Now, there is an issue here though, because as PolitiFact notice, notes and
as other legal experts have weighed in, the likelihood of this portion of
the constitution being used against Donald Trump even if he is found guilty, right?
That disqualifying him is still gonna be a tough sell.
It's still unlikely, they tried to use this against Madison Cawthorn,
it didn't work.
So look, do I think that it'll actually prevent Trump from running for
president in 2024?
No, I don't think it's gonna stop him, but I do find it
interesting that Hannity seems to have accepted that Trump is a felony.
>> So I wanna come back to the felon thing in a second.
But first on the legality of all of this, just cuz the constitution says, hey,
here are two minimum things you need, like including the age limit, right?
It doesn't mean that you can't exclude him for anything else.
It just means you can't run if you're 34, so you don't need a clause in
the constitution that says, hey, if the president is working for a foreign
country and took a bribe from a foreign country, he's not allowed to run again.
Or any office holder, that could be a law.
And then the question is, is the law unconstitutional or not, right?
And so, and there are many laws that say you cannot hold office if you do X,Y, or
Z, none of them have ever been found unconstitutional.
Now, is it possible that this incredibly corrupt conservative Supreme Court will go
even though there's no precedent on that.
And we've never, ever held anyone else to the standard, we're gonna invent a Trump
standard that law is unconstitutional and it applies to Donald Trump, okay?
Is that possible?
It's possible, but they definitely be lying and cheating.
So yes, he can be disqualified by a law.
It doesn't have to specifically stated in the constitution.
So I wanna be clear on that.
Now, to the second point that Anna's making, Hannity's saying, well,
if he's a felony, you can still vote for him, You know?
So what, right?
Now, wait, okay?
It depends on what kind of felony, right?
And did he do his time, is there, was there, did he serve time for
the crimes that he committed and paid back service to the people, no,
Trump didn't do any of that, right?
And was it, hey, you know what?
That's a felony, but that's trafficking.
That's legal in California, illegal in Missouri, okay,
maybe you do a pardon or or maybe you vote for that guy anyway.
No, this would be a felony, if it's true, remember he's granting that it's a felony.
If he gets convicted for it, it would be a felony of mishandling
top secret information of the United States that has our nuclear secrets.
They're not gonna prosecute him for that.
If he just took him home and thought that they were just Mementos,
they're gonna prosecute him if he was trying to sell them, okay?
That's the kind of monster Donald Trump is and Hannity says, so what?
So what that he was gonna try to sell our nuclear secrets?
Technically, technically he could still run and you would vote for that guy?
You'd vote for
a president who tried to sell our nuclear secrets last time to our enemies?
You're technically, technically you're a monster.
You hate this country and you love fascism and you've got a fascist leader,
you can't wait to support him.
>> I just can't help but think about the days when Hannity and
all his pals on Fox News, spent time broadcasting their disdain for
Obama's tan suit and the fact that he puts mustard on his hamburger.
Like they couldn't help themselves.
Any little thing, by the way, there were plenty of things to be critical
towards Obama on substantive things like helping Wall Street, the big banks,
being supportive of quantitative easing by the Federal Reserve.
Which pumped all this cheap money into banks and private equity firms.
And what did they do with that money?
Did they trickle down to all of us?
No, they used that money to make investments for themselves.
They did stock buybacks and they created all sorts of asset bubbles in the country
that we're now seeing the ramifications of today.
But nonetheless, I mean it's just amazing to me because there wasn't anything
Obama could do that would lead to positive commentary by these individuals.
And now, years and years later you have Sean Hannity saying.
So what if he's a felony, you could still vote for him?
>> Yeah, guys just it's a devastating point.
Just think about it for a second.
Always think show on the other foot, right?
And that includes when it's your guys, okay?
In this case, imagine if Sean Hannity had information
the FBI just raided Barack Obama's house and
they found nuclear secrets that he has no business holding, no business at all.
What the hell is he doing with nuclear secrets after his left office?
Do you think Hannity would be like no big deal.
No big deal, maybe, and
then his son in law got a $2 billion from Saudi Arabia coincidence.
No big deal, Hannity in that case imagine it's Biden and Hunter,
Biden got a $2 billion payoff from Saudi Arabia and
Hannity would come out and go, no big deal guys.
And so, what if Obama or Biden are felons, they should be allowed to running it?
Do you think he would say that?
Of course, he wouldn't say that.
>> Of course not.
>> Of course not cuz he's a goddamn liar, okay?
That's why, it's super obvious.
>> And let's not forget while Hannity has just made it clear that he's supportive of
a felon running for president, he's supportive of voting for a felon for
president.
In huge parts of this country, felons are not even allowed to cast a ballot.
And Hannity, interestingly enough, seems to have scrubbed any of his
commentary on that topic from the internet.
I was searching all morning for it, but I did come across one tweet doesn't
have much commentary, but they did wanna go after Michael Bloomberg after
Florida had allowed inmates to vote after a ballot initiative passed in the state.
And then what the lawmakers in Florida did in response to that because they didn't
like the outcome of that ballot initiative is they said you don't get to vote until
you pay all of your legal fees, until you basically pay back any debt you have.
Michael Bloomberg comes in and he's like, I'm gonna pay all of their fees and
stuff so they can vote and Fox News was furious about that and
Sean Hannity had tweeted about it.
Report Bloomberg group paid fines for 30,000 felons so
they can vote in Florida in 2020.
>> So back then he thought felons shouldn't have any rights,
they shouldn't even be allowed to vote.
But now that his big guys a felon, he's like, not only should felons be allowed
to vote, they should be allowed to be president gee.
I wonder if they're hypocrites over at Fox News?
Hard to tell.
Well, they report, you decide.