The Rich Zeoli Show- Full Episode (05/02/2024):

3:05pm- Did Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s “hush money” case against former President Donald Trump just blow up? Matthew Haag of The New York Times writes: “Defense lawyers for Donald J. Trump painted the lawyer who negotiated the hush-money deal at the center of his criminal trial as a serial extortionist, accusing him of taking aim at Mr. Trump before the 2016 election with a porn star’s account of a sexual liaison. The lawyer, Keith Davidson, spent hours on the stand describing how he received the $130,000 payment for the woman, Stormy Daniels, from Mr. Trump’s longtime fixer, Michael D. Cohen, and the mad scramble that ensued when the story got out anyway. The cross-examination quickly turned hostile: Mr. Trump’s lawyers sought to cast Mr. Davidson as a shakedown artist who took aim at celebrities including Tila Tequila and Charlie Sheen, while he fought back by suggesting they were using loaded language like ‘extortion’ to stigmatize legitimate settlements.” During his opening monologue Rich notes that during testimony, Davidson said he did not consider the payments from Trump to be “hush money.” You can read more here: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/05/02/nyregion/trump-hush-money-trial/trump-trial-keith-davidson-testimony?smid=url-share

3:30pm- Does anyone else think former Trump attorney Michael Cohen simply sounds bitter because he wasn’t selected for a prestigious position in the Trump Administration in 2016?

3:40pm- Drum Roll Please: Rich will be at Mulligan’s Shore Bar in Wildwood on Saturday May 11th from 5pm to 7pm for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s big campaign rally in Wildwood, NJ!

4:05pm- Listeners call-in and offer their opinions on the Trump “hush money” trial—but Rich gets sidetracked when he starts receiving compliments!

4:30pm- Former President Donald Trump spoke with the press briefly after court concluded on Thursday. PLUS, the New York Times’s Maggie Haberman claims that “Trump left the courtroom, squinting strangely at Lawrence O’Donnell, the MSNBC host, as he did.” Don’t forget, Haberman famously complained that Trump “glared” at her during a court appearance last month. Will Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Brag prosecute Trump for “glaring” and “squinting” next?

4:40pm- In a particularly bizarre segment from MSNBC’s Morning Joe, host Joe Scarborough predicted that if Donald Trump wins the 2024 presidential race, he will “arrest political enemies” and “execute generals that don’t follow his commands”—even using “SEAL Team 6 to execute political opponents.” Speaking of dictators, did you know that an estimated 16 million people are descendants of Genghis Khan?

5:05pm- After leaving court on Thursday, former President Donald Trump visited with the NYPD and FDNY—brining a mountain of pizzas with him!

5:10pm- While speaking with the press, a spokesperson for the UCLA anti-Israel protesters proclaimed that the university was “founded on colonialism,” calling it a “violent institution.” She went on to condemn the United States of America as being evil and called for the dismantling of the country’s institutions.

5:20pm- The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board writes: “Why pass laws when the Biden Administration ignores them? The latest example is a new rule that purports to codify permitting reform in Congress’s debt-ceiling deal last year. Instead, the rule creates a pocket veto for fossil fuels and public works while rubber-stamping green projects. Permitting reform for we, but not thee… The Administration’s new rule ignores the law by making it easy to kill projects that progressives oppose… Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer promised West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin he’d take up permitting reform in return for suppor ...

The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 4:

6:05pm- Amy Swearer—A Senior Legal Fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss a maddening story about an elderly Pennsylvania homeowner who has been arrested for defending himself during a home invasion. You can read more about the story here: https://reason.com/2024/05/01/this-elderly-man-was-arrested-after-shooting-a-burglar-in-self-defense-because-his-gun-was-unlicensed/. And you find Swearer here: https://www.heritage.org/staff/amy-swearer.

6:30pm- Did Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s “hush money” case against former President Donald Trump just blow up? Matthew Haag of The New York Times writes: “Defense lawyers for Donald J. Trump painted the lawyer who negotiated the hush-money deal at the center of his criminal trial as a serial extortionist, accusing him of taking aim at Mr. Trump before the 2016 election with a porn star’s account of a sexual liaison. The lawyer, Keith Davidson, spent hours on the stand describing how he received the $130,000 payment for the woman, Stormy Daniels, from Mr. Trump’s longtime fixer, Michael D. Cohen, and the mad scramble that ensued when the story got out anyway. The cross-examination quickly turned hostile: Mr. Trump’s lawyers sought to cast Mr. Davidson as a shakedown artist who took aim at celebrities including Tila Tequila and Charlie Sheen, while he fought back by suggesting they were using loaded language like ‘extortion’ to stigmatize legitimate settlements.” During his opening monologue Rich notes that during testimony, Davidson said he did not consider the payments from Trump to be “hush money.” You can read more here: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/05/02/nyregion/trump-hush-money-trial/trump-trial-keith-davidson-testimony?smid=url-share

6:40pm- Rich Lowry of National Review points out: “The Alvin Bragg case has gotten grander at trial, but also more ridiculous. The Manhattan DA has a meaningless business-records misdemeanor wrapped within a theory about an alleged Trump conspiracy to defraud the voters by denying them disparaging information before the election and obscuring, after the fact, the payments that were used to do so. Bragg is accusing Trump, in effect, of stealing the election. If this is the standard by which we judge elections, we need to go back and conclude that Bill Clinton wasn’t elected legitimately in 1992, either. The Arkansas governor’s political operation was, in part, an elaborate conspiracy to keep women who alleged to have had affairs with Clinton quiet. Hillary Clinton was an active participant in the schemes. And so, by Bragg’s logic, this Democratic power couple—dominant in the party for a decade or more and still honored today—comprises election thieves.” You can read the full article here: https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/04/remember-when-bill-clinton-stole-the-1992-election/

The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 3:

5:05pm- After leaving court on Thursday, former President Donald Trump visited with the NYPD and FDNY—brining a mountain of pizzas with him!

5:10pm- While speaking with the press, a spokesperson for the UCLA anti-Israel protesters proclaimed that the university was “founded on colonialism,” calling it a “violent institution.” She went on to condemn the United States of America as being evil and called for the dismantling of the country’s institutions.

5:20pm- The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board writes: “Why pass laws when the Biden Administration ignores them? The latest example is a new rule that purports to codify permitting reform in Congress’s debt-ceiling deal last year. Instead, the rule creates a pocket veto for fossil fuels and public works while rubber-stamping green projects. Permitting reform for we, but not thee… The Administration’s new rule ignores the law by making it easy to kill projects that progressives oppose… Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer promised West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin he’d take up permitting reform in return for supporting the Inflation Reduction Act. But Democrats in Congress blocked significant reforms, and now the Administration guts even the minor reforms in the IRA.” You can read the full article here: https://www.wsj.com/articles/permitting-reform-rule-biden-administration-green-projects-fossil-fuels-environment-2396058a?mod=opinion_lead_pos2

5:40pm- Pro-Israel and Pro-Palestine demonstrators at Alabama University shared a brief moment of unity when both sides began chanting “F*** Joe Biden.” Who says we can’t all come together?

The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 2:

4:05pm- Listeners call-in and offer their opinions on the Trump “hush money” trial—but Rich gets sidetracked when he starts receiving compliments!

4:30pm- Former President Donald Trump spoke with the press briefly after court concluded on Thursday. PLUS, the New York Times’s Maggie Haberman claims that “Trump left the courtroom, squinting strangely at Lawrence O’Donnell, the MSNBC host, as he did.” Don’t forget, Haberman famously complained that Trump “glared” at her during a court appearance last month. Will Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Brag prosecute Trump for “glaring” and “squinting” next?

4:40pm- In a particularly bizarre segment from MSNBC’s Morning Joe, host Joe Scarborough predicted that if Donald Trump wins the 2024 presidential race, he will “arrest political enemies” and “execute generals that don’t follow his commands”—even using “SEAL Team 6 to execute political opponents.” Speaking of dictators, did you know that an estimated 16 million people are descendants of Genghis Khan?

The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 1:

3:05pm- Did Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s “hush money” case against former President Donald Trump just blow up? Matthew Haag of The New York Times writes: “Defense lawyers for Donald J. Trump painted the lawyer who negotiated the hush-money deal at the center of his criminal trial as a serial extortionist, accusing him of taking aim at Mr. Trump before the 2016 election with a porn star’s account of a sexual liaison. The lawyer, Keith Davidson, spent hours on the stand describing how he received the $130,000 payment for the woman, Stormy Daniels, from Mr. Trump’s longtime fixer, Michael D. Cohen, and the mad scramble that ensued when the story got out anyway. The cross-examination quickly turned hostile: Mr. Trump’s lawyers sought to cast Mr. Davidson as a shakedown artist who took aim at celebrities including Tila Tequila and Charlie Sheen, while he fought back by suggesting they were using loaded language like ‘extortion’ to stigmatize legitimate settlements.” During his opening monologue Rich notes that during testimony, Davidson said he did not consider the payments from Trump to be “hush money.” You can read more here: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/05/02/nyregion/trump-hush-money-trial/trump-trial-keith-davidson-testimony?smid=url-share

3:30pm- Does anyone else think former Trump attorney Michael Cohen simply sounds bitter because he wasn’t selected for a prestigious position in the Trump Administration in 2016?

3:40pm- Drum Roll Please: Rich will be at Mulligan's Shore Bar in Wildwood on Saturday May 11th from 5pm to 7pm for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s big campaign rally in Wildwood, NJ!

The Rich Zeoli Show- Full Episode (05/01/2024):

3:05pm- Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump held a campaign rally from Waukesha, Wisconsin. While speaking he proclaimed, “Joe Biden’s economic plan is to make China rich and America poor. My economic plan is to make America richer than ever before!”

3:20pm- During Wednesday’s White House briefing, Press Secretary Karine Jean Pierre refused to directly answer whether President Joe Biden has been reluctant to vociferously condemn anti-Israel protests on college campuses out of fear it could damage his standing with far-left voters in the 2024 presidential election.  

3:40pm- A.J. Edelman—an Israeli Olympian, writer, and commentator—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss his latest piece at The Daily Wire, “They Shoved Me to the Ground at Columbia for Wearing a Kippah.” Edelman writes: “I pointed with pride to the red Kippah, Jewish skullcap, that adorned my head. It was soon forcefully ripped off by a ‘peaceful’ student who dug his nails into my scalp as he pulled it off, along with some hair. This was one of three assaults I was subjected to at Columbia University.” You can read his full article here: https://www.dailywire.com/news/they-shoved-me-to-the-ground-at-columbia-for-wearing-a-kippah

4:05pm- During Wednesday’s White House briefing, Press Secretary Karine Jean Pierre refused to directly answer whether President Joe Biden has been reluctant to vociferously condemn anti-Israel protests on college campuses out of fear it could damage his standing with far-left voters in the 2024 presidential election. When pressed by Fox News’ Peter Doocy, Jean-Pierre cited Biden’s efforts to forgive student loan debt as an appeal to young, progressive voters.

4:15pm- During a Wednesday press conference, Mayor Eric Adams announced that the New York Police Department (NYPD) arrested an estimated 300 protesters at Columbia University’s campus on Tuesday night.

4:20pm- Green Party presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein was recently arrested while protesting alongside students at Washington University.

4:30pm- According to reports, including from Fox News, “protest consultant” Lisa Fithian and other outside sources assisted student protesters at Columbia University and may be at least partially to blame for how quickly things escalated.

4:45pm- During Wednesday’s Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-OH) revealed that there are “15,000 samples 'in freezers in Wuhan'” as well as “700 coronaviruses” samples that have not yet been analyzed. Rep. Morgan Griffith (R-VA) accused EcoHealth Alliance President Dr. Peter Daszak of downplaying the possibility of the COVID-19 outbreak being the result of a lab leak—despite having previously classifying “bat coronavirus spillover into humans” as being “very rare” prior to the outbreak. Meanwhile, Rep. Raul Ruiz (D-CA) revealed that Dr. Daszak had done subsidiary work in Wuhan, China. 

4:50pm- Could Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, a Florida resident, select Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) or Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) to be his Vice President? Rich explains the 12th Amendment—then yells at Matt.

5:05pm- During a Wednesday press conference, Mayor Eric Adams announced that the New York Police Department (NYPD) arrested an estimated 300 protesters at Columbia University’s campus on Tuesday night. While speaking with Sean Hannity on Fox News, former President Donald Trump called on the Biden Administration to vocally condemn the anti-Israel protests taking place.

5:20pm- Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump held a campaign rally from Waukesha, Wisconsin. While speaking he proclaimed, “Joe Biden’s economic plan is to make China rich and America poor. My economic plan is to make America richer than ever before!” A cli ...

The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 4:

6:05pm- During a Wednesday press conference, Mayor Eric Adams announced that the New York Police Department (NYPD) arrested an estimated 300 protesters at Columbia University’s campus on Tuesday night.

6:10pm- According to reports, including from Fox News, “protest consultant” Lisa Fithian and other outside sources assisted student protesters at Columbia University and may be at least partially to blame for how quickly things escalated.

6:20pm- Green Party presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein was recently arrested while protesting alongside students at Washington University.

6:25pm- During Wednesday’s White House briefing, Press Secretary Karine Jean Pierre refused to directly answer whether President Joe Biden has been reluctant to vociferously condemn anti-Israel protests on college campuses out of fear it could damage his standing with far-left voters in the 2024 presidential election. When pressed by Fox News’ Peter Doocy, Jean-Pierre cited Biden’s efforts to forgive student loan debt as an appeal to young, progressive voters.

6:30pm- Vincent Altieri—a former candidate for North Penn School Board in Montgomery County—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss progressive ideology being promoted not only on college campuses, but also in high schools and grade schools—including locally. Earlier this month, a 7th grader in the North Penn School District was viciously attacked by a fellow student with a steel Stanley cup. According to reports, the student responsible for the attack may have been undergoing hormone therapy.

6:40pm- Isabel Vincent of The New York Post writes: “When indicted Sen. Bob Menendez first began dating his current wife, she vanished for a week—and was declared a missing person by cops because her other lover feared for her safety. Nadine Arslanian left the lights on and TVs blaring at her Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, home without even her children knowing where she was, The Post has learned. And she left a ‘weird’ typewritten note on the door for the man she was casually dating, that lover told The Post. She then secretly flew for a week-long assignation with Menendez, the New Jersey Democratic senator, in the Dominican Republic in the spring of 2018.” You can read the full article here: https://nypost.com/2024/04/30/us-news/bob-menendezs-wife-was-declared-missing-by-her-other-lover/#

The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 3:

5:05pm- During a Wednesday press conference, Mayor Eric Adams announced that the New York Police Department (NYPD) arrested an estimated 300 protesters at Columbia University’s campus on Tuesday night. While speaking with Sean Hannity on Fox News, former President Donald Trump called on the Biden Administration to vocally condemn the anti-Israel protests taking place.

5:20pm- Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump held a campaign rally from Waukesha, Wisconsin. While speaking he proclaimed, “Joe Biden’s economic plan is to make China rich and America poor. My economic plan is to make America richer than ever before!” A clip from the rally went viral on social media after Trump hilariously discussed vegan food.

5:25pm- Luke Rosiak of The Daily Wire writes: “In the court proceedings involving whether Georgia prosecutor Fani Willis hired her boyfriend to try the president of the United States for a crime—and lied about it—one piece of sworn testimony was particularly dramatic. Her father, John Floyd III, testified to the court in February that his daughter was ‘forced’ to move after she was first elected. ‘After she was sworn in on January 1, 2021, on or about the third of February at probably 5, 5:30 a.m. in the morning,’ Floyd explained, ‘there were people outside her house cursing and yelling...Fortunately, the neighbors called the police and disbanded the group.’ But in response to a public records request by The Daily Wire, the City of South Fulton Police Department said it had no record of any of those incidents.” You can read the full story here: https://www.dailywire.com/news/police-say-they-have-no-records-to-support-claim-that-mob-of-racist-whites-surrounded-fani-willis-home

5:45pm- A social media vampire (what?) has gone viral for calling President Joe Biden “un-American” after he signed legislation that could ultimately ban TikTok.

The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 2:

4:05pm- During Wednesday’s White House briefing, Press Secretary Karine Jean Pierre refused to directly answer whether President Joe Biden has been reluctant to vociferously condemn anti-Israel protests on college campuses out of fear it could damage his standing with far-left voters in the 2024 presidential election. When pressed by Fox News’ Peter Doocy, Jean-Pierre cited Biden’s efforts to forgive student loan debt as an appeal to young, progressive voters.

4:15pm- During a Wednesday press conference, Mayor Eric Adams announced that the New York Police Department (NYPD) arrested an estimated 300 protesters at Columbia University’s campus on Tuesday night.

4:20pm- Green Party presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein was recently arrested while protesting alongside students at Washington University.

4:30pm- According to reports, including from Fox News, “protest consultant” Lisa Fithian and other outside sources assisted student protesters at Columbia University and may be at least partially to blame for how quickly things escalated.

4:45pm- During Wednesday’s Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-OH) revealed that there are “15,000 samples 'in freezers in Wuhan'” as well as “700 coronaviruses” samples that have not yet been analyzed. Rep. Morgan Griffith (R-VA) accused EcoHealth Alliance President Dr. Peter Daszak of downplaying the possibility of the COVID-19 outbreak being the result of a lab leak—despite having previously classifying “bat coronavirus spillover into humans” as being “very rare” prior to the outbreak. Meanwhile, Rep. Raul Ruiz (D-CA) revealed that Dr. Daszak had done subsidiary work in Wuhan, China. 

4:50pm- Could Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, a Florida resident, select Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) or Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) to be his Vice President? Rich explains the 12th Amendment—then yells at Matt.

The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 1:

3:05pm- Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump held a campaign rally from Waukesha, Wisconsin. While speaking he proclaimed, “Joe Biden’s economic plan is to make China rich and America poor. My economic plan is to make America richer than ever before!”

3:20pm- During Wednesday’s White House briefing, Press Secretary Karine Jean Pierre refused to directly answer whether President Joe Biden has been reluctant to vociferously condemn anti-Israel protests on college campuses out of fear it could damage his standing with far-left voters in the 2024 presidential election.  

3:40pm- A.J. Edelman—an Israeli Olympian, writer, and commentator—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss his latest piece at The Daily Wire, “They Shoved Me to the Ground at Columbia for Wearing a Kippah.” Edelman writes: “I pointed with pride to the red Kippah, Jewish skullcap, that adorned my head. It was soon forcefully ripped off by a ‘peaceful’ student who dug his nails into my scalp as he pulled it off, along with some hair. This was one of three assaults I was subjected to at Columbia University.” You can read his full article here: https://www.dailywire.com/news/they-shoved-me-to-the-ground-at-columbia-for-wearing-a-kippah