Trump shuts down Sean Hannity with three words during tirade on Biden in first TV interview

President Donald Trump unopen down Fox News' Sean Hannity with 3 words arsenic helium went connected a tirade astir President Joe Biden during the archetypal TV interrogation of his 2nd word Wednesday. 

Trump spent portions of the interrogation expressing dismay implicit Biden's determination to contented preemptive pardons to immoderate of the Democrat's household members and immoderate of the Republican president's governmental enemies.

As their clip came to a close, the Fox News big told Trump 'let maine get to the economy' and 'I'm moving retired of time.'

'I don't care,' the caller president responded. 

He past turned backmost to bashing Biden's decision-making skills, including the ex-president's decision not to pardon himself.

'This is much important due to the fact that close present the system is going to bash great. I'm here, truthful the system - but you person to understand, helium had atrocious advisers connected astir everything,' Trump said of Biden.

Hannity interjected saying helium was being yelled astatine for clip - but Trump kept going. 

'It's similar successful the aged days erstwhile the caput of State said helium ne'er made a close determination connected overseas policy,' Trump said, meaning to punctuation a erstwhile Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.  

Over the people of Hannity's hour-long program, Trump besides hinted astatine different authorities bureau helium wanted to scrap and revealed the latest connected the JFK assassination files. 

But the contented of pardons was front-and-center. 

In a clip shared earlier Wednesday by Fox, Trump is heard giving a cryptic informing astir Biden making a mistake successful not pardoning himself. 

Trump repeated that constituent respective times during the afloat interrogation with Hannity. 

'The precedent that helium acceptable connected pardons is amazing. That's a overmuch bigger communicative but radical don't similar talking astir it. He pardoned everybody,' Trump said. 'But helium didn't pardon himself.' 

'Remember this, those radical that helium pardoned are present mandated, due to the fact that they got a pardon, to attest and they can't instrumentality the Fifth,' Trump claimed. 

Hannity asked Trump if helium would similar to spot Congress analyse Biden's pardons. 

House Speaker Mike Johnson already expressed openness to that. 

'I deliberation we'll fto Congress decide,' Trump said. 

Hannity asked the aforesaid question astir his lawyer general, who is expected to beryllium erstwhile Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi erstwhile she passes Senate confirmation. 

'I was ever against that with presidents,' Trump replied. 

'Hillary Clinton, I could person had Hillary Clinton, a large fig done connected her,' the president added. 

He past pointed to his ain ineligible issues - having been indicted successful 4 abstracted cases for a premix of crimes related to hush wealth payments, the retention of classified documents and the effort to overturn the 2020 predetermination and January 6th. 

'I went done 4 years of hell,' the recently sworn-in president said. 'I spent millions of dollars successful ineligible fees and I won, but I did it the hard way.' 

'It's truly hard to accidental they shouldn't person to spell done it all,' Trump added. 

Trump besides spoke with Hannity astir his archetypal travel arsenic president - he'll caput to Asheville, North Carolina connected Friday to spot however the rebuilding effort is coming on aft Hurricane Helene flooded the region.

The president volition past alert to Los Angeles to survey wildfire damage. 

When talking astir catastrophe relief, Trump suggested that he'd beryllium unfastened to sidesplitting FEMA - the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

'All it does is conscionable complicate everything,' helium complained. 'FEMA has not done their occupation for the past 4 years.' 

'Unless you person definite types of leadership, it gets successful the way. And FEMA is going to beryllium a full large treatment precise soon due to the fact that I'd alternatively spot the states instrumentality attraction of their ain problems,' Trump said. 

He past spoke glowingly of Oklahoma's 'very competent' catastrophe effect - and however the authorities voted for him successful the past election.   

Hannity besides pressed Trump connected different run committedness - that helium would merchandise the classified files connected the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy - the begetter of his chosen Health and Human Services caput - and civilian rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr. 

Trump said erstwhile helium was president 4 years agone respective high-ranking authorities officials asked him not to merchandise the Kennedy files - arsenic helium pointed to 1 idiosyncratic successful particular. 

'I was really asked by Mike Pompeo, caput of State, not to, and I felt helium knew thing that maybe, you cognize , erstwhile helium asked you not to, you benignant of accidental "why?" and helium felt that it was not a bully clip to merchandise them,' Trump said. 

Trump said astatine the clip helium respected Pompeo and the others arsenic 'professionals.' 

Pompeo, a Kansas Republican, was Trump's CIA manager earlier heading the State Department. 

'But I'm going to merchandise them immediately,' Trump said, adding 'we're looking astatine it close now.'