The Great America Show - August 26, 2024


MARXIST DEMS ARE RUNNING OUT OF SCHEMES


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John Fawcett and Roger Stone discuss the passing of Lou Dobbs and his impact on the media and politics. They also discuss the Democratic primary and the impact it has had on the way we think about the 2020 presidential election.

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00:00:00.000 Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Great America Show. It's great to have you with us. For
00:00:06.620 those of you that don't know me, my name is John Fawcett. I've worked for Lou for the
00:00:10.300 last five years in various capacities at Fox News and most recently as executive producer
00:00:14.920 on this show. I want to start out today's show by thanking the tens of millions of you
00:00:19.180 that have tuned into this podcast for the last almost three years. From the bottom of
00:00:23.240 my heart and from Lou's up in heaven smiling down, we truly appreciate it. When we started
00:00:28.280 this podcast, neither Lou, myself, or our team really knew what to expect. Lou had
00:00:32.900 just departed Fox Business after spending the last nearly 50 years in television as an
00:00:36.920 anchor. And with the legacy media dying out due to people's lack of trust, we knew Lou
00:00:41.960 needed to have a voice in the fight. A voice in the fight for this great country and not
00:00:46.300 to be held back and censored. And so the Great America Show was started. Lou could have very
00:00:51.000 easily went off into the sunset and enjoyed retirement as he so much deserved. But not
00:00:55.720 working was not in Lou's blood or his DNA. Lou's vision for this show was simple. Say
00:01:01.220 what you mean and mean what you say. Always be honest and respect the audience and follow
00:01:05.920 the simple principles, truth, justice, and the American way. When Lou passed on, I wasn't
00:01:11.920 sure I wanted to stay in this business. The idea of not working with Lou every day was
00:01:15.840 something I'd never thought about or thought I'd ever want to do. It's not an easy business
00:01:20.340 to be in, especially if you're a Republican. The Marxist Democrats in this country have turned
00:01:24.340 the whole media upside down, to spin a narrative that they want pushed. And if you dare go against
00:01:28.960 the Masters, you are public enemy number one. So when I say it's not easy, trust me, it's
00:01:33.900 not for everyone. After taking a month off to figure out my next steps, I spent days on
00:01:37.960 end asking myself, what would Lou want me to do? And I spent days reminiscing about the
00:01:42.340 great work we accomplished together. And I spent days thinking about all the work we still
00:01:46.180 have left to do. And so I came to the conclusion that it would be selfish for me not to finish
00:01:50.600 the mission Lou and I had started together. It will be tough for me knowing that I can't
00:01:55.400 pick up the phone any hour of the day to call Lou and pick his brain on something. And I
00:01:59.480 did so very often. It will also be tough for me to fill the shoes he leaves behind because
00:02:04.120 they can never be filled. But I can assure you that I will do my best and I will work with
00:02:08.680 the same honor and integrity that Lou taught me. I will hold myself to the same standard Lou
00:02:13.220 held me to each and every day and nothing less. Anybody that had the honor and pleasure
00:02:17.560 of knowing or working with Lou knows that the Dobbs standard is something that's almost
00:02:21.580 unrealistic. But that tells you what kind of person Lou was. I want to conclude with
00:02:26.560 this before we get into our first show. Lou was a brother to me, a best friend and a mentor.
00:02:31.600 He was someone who gave me everything. And now it's my time to give back to him. Lou now passes
00:02:36.500 on the torch to me as his work here is complete. And every day that I wake up and sit down in my
00:02:40.820 studio to get to work, I will look at the picture of Lou and I that sits on my desk and let him know
00:02:45.500 this is for you, brother. With that, I want to get into it. With that, I want to get into today's
00:02:51.640 show. The political climate of late has been what we'll call it weird. The DNC just wrapped up and it
00:02:57.080 was one for the books. Historic, in fact. We watched Kamala Harris become the presumptive nominee for the 1.00
00:03:02.300 Democratic Party. This is a person who has never received one vote from the American people, yet somehow
00:03:07.780 she has not only stolen the show, but she's stolen the nomination. How did we even get here? How is this
00:03:13.660 democracy? Well, it's not. This is business as usual for the Democrats. You may recall what they did in
00:03:19.500 2016 to Bernie Sanders when they stole the primary from him. And they did it again in 2020 when they
00:03:24.820 ensured Joe Biden was the candidate to go up against President Trump. It may have taken almost nine
00:03:29.760 years, but it seems some Democrats and the American people have finally had enough. One of them being
00:03:35.120 Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the latest victim of the backroom deals for the Democrats. RFK said enough was enough
00:03:41.280 and decided to make history endorsing President Trump and vowing to fight with Trump for a victory in
00:03:46.240 November. Our guest today is Roger Stone. He's a political strategist and longtime advisor to President
00:03:51.080 Trump. He's also the host of The Stone Zone. And joining us now is the great Roger Stone. Roger, it's great to
00:03:56.860 have you with us. Thanks for joining us. News of the week. RFK uniting behind President Donald J. Trump. We have
00:04:04.540 Republicans in our party, the RINOs, who can't even unite behind this man, yet we have an independent, we'll call him a
00:04:10.960 Democrat because that's what he is, uniting behind President Trump. What do you have to say?
00:04:15.920 Well, first of all, I give huge credit to Robert Kennedy Jr., who put party aside, put his own
00:04:21.460 personal ambitions aside and realized that the Harris-Waltz campaign and potential administration
00:04:31.460 would be the ruin of this country. He understands this is about war. It's about censorship. It's about
00:04:38.920 free speech. It's about the poisoning of our food. And I think this is a very selfless act. I think it
00:04:46.660 gives President Trump a big boost. I would argue that it negates any bump that Harris might have
00:04:53.560 gotten out of that relatively pitiful Democrat National Convention, which was all attacks on Donald Trump,
00:05:01.500 but no positive proposals to help America. When they do talk to you about what Kamala Harris is really
00:05:08.920 for, she rarely speaks herself. You know, it's wage and price controls. It's loans to people who could
00:05:17.600 never service a mortgage to buy a home. Last time we tried that was under Secretary of HUD Andrew Cuomo
00:05:24.100 in the Clinton administration, and it brought the entire economy down. So her politics, 0.82
00:05:31.980 her policies, they try to hide. And then, as you know, John, they act like she hasn't been vice
00:05:38.860 president for the last three years. There are all these problems in America, folks. Our border,
00:05:43.220 the prices in the grocery stores, I'm going to fix all that. Well, why doesn't she fix it 1.00
00:05:47.640 right now? So I think this is a political realignment. You're right. The fake Republicans,
00:05:57.180 the globalist country club Bush Republicans, if they want to side with Kamala Harris and
00:06:03.080 Walsh, they can do so. But this is a realignment. What you're going to get now are working class 1.00
00:06:10.280 Democrats and independents, the old style. I mean, back from the days when the Democrat Party believed in
00:06:17.140 capitalism, believed in free enterprise, believed in a strong national defense, believed in anti-communism.
00:06:23.940 I mean, Bobby Kennedy's father and his uncle were both ardent, hardcore anti-communists,
00:06:30.860 and they would be shocked by the communist influence in today's Democrat Party.
00:06:35.980 You know, the reason I asked you to come on is because I don't think there's anybody who knows
00:06:39.280 more about JFK and the whole situation behind JFK, aside from maybe his family and those who have seen
00:06:45.560 the 1% that hasn't been declassified about the CIA and you, you wrote a book on it, The Man Who
00:06:50.400 Killed Kennedy, The Case Against LBJ. And you can get that on your site, right? Stonezone.com.
00:06:56.980 It's truly remarkable. But, you know, I see some pollsters out on Twitter saying it may not move
00:07:01.500 the needle. And one, for example, is a pollster from Rasmussen. And he tweeted out and he said,
00:07:07.180 you know, it may not move the needle. Maybe 15 minutes after RFK made that announcement, he says,
00:07:13.640 I think I'm going to regret that. And I'm just going to give you one poll that I find very
00:07:18.100 interesting. The deep blue or what was the deep blue state of Virginia now looks to be in play.
00:07:23.600 A new poll out from Roanoke polling in a three-way race with RFK has Harris at 45, Trump at 42,
00:07:30.420 RFK at 6% with 3% between Trump and Harris. Now you couple that with something Glenn Yomkin did over
00:07:38.480 the last few weeks. And that was an executive order 30, which said the 2024 election must be on paper
00:07:45.700 ballots. I don't know why everyone in the nation's not doing that. But do you think now states like
00:07:51.040 Virginia, New York and New Jersey will be in play? Well, it's very important to understand polling
00:07:57.820 because not all polls are the same. And polling can be manipulated. That's what we've seen recently.
00:08:04.160 So in many cases, some of these mainstream pollsters would oversample Democrats, too many Democrats in 0.54
00:08:10.780 the sample to create this false impression that Kamala Harris was somehow surging, that support for
00:08:17.420 her was exploding. But if you look at the more respectable polls where the methodology is solid,
00:08:26.660 where they're not cooking the poll by cooking the sample or by the way they word the questions or
00:08:33.540 the order the questions are asked, I think you're going to see that Trump will get a nice increase
00:08:39.920 in his vote. Now, I think there's a process. In other words, Kennedy voters, I think, are going to
00:08:46.960 take a minute before they decide where to go. But increasingly, at the grassroots level,
00:08:53.180 talking to some of his supporters that I know, there's been a sea change in their attitude
00:08:59.400 after the attempted assassination. I think people then began to realize that our biggest single
00:09:05.140 problem is the deep state. The biggest single problem is the criminalization of our critical,
00:09:15.440 our justice system. The the the the opened, unanswered questions about this assassination,
00:09:23.040 I think, brought people a lot of focus. So I think that the polls are going to show a modest increase.
00:09:30.500 But now that if you have Robert Kennedy out campaigning for Trump, if you have Tulsi Gabbard,
00:09:36.620 who's joined the Trump entourage out campaigning for Trump, if you have a Nicole Shanahan,
00:09:43.500 who was Robert Kennedy's running mate, who I think has been a red pill through this whole process.
00:09:50.540 And I think in the beginning, she was a she was more of a liberal Democrat. But then when she saw
00:09:55.980 the brutal way that the Democrats tried to keep RFK off the ballot every place, very similar to what
00:10:03.140 they tried to do with Donald Trump. I think she has a she deserves a lot of credit here, because I think
00:10:10.360 both she and Robert Kennedy put their personal interests aside for the good of the country.
00:10:16.440 But all of those all of those surrogates, if you will, I think this becomes very, very powerful.
00:10:22.920 You know, the interesting thing you mentioned, Shanahan, which, you know, like you said, I think
00:10:26.460 coming into this, she was, you know, very, very far left. And seeing what the Justice Department and
00:10:32.700 the deep state can do, and it's the deep state on the left left now. You know, we're so used to it coming
00:10:37.020 from the right and attacking Republicans. But this was a deep state from the left, suing RFK in almost
00:10:41.640 every state to get him off the ballot. You know, I do think that that RFK and her principle, then you'll
00:10:47.900 hear from the left that they're not and they sold out and that they're for sale. And I'll tell you one
00:10:52.160 point. Apparently, right before the endorsement came, Shanahan did an interview and she was very upset with
00:10:59.240 the vaccines and Operation Warp Speed. And, you know, we all understand now, you know, that the vaccines
00:11:04.760 didn't work. You know, they were forced upon us in blue states like here in New York, where you are
00:11:11.880 in Florida, you guys were lucky enough to have Ron DeSantis. But that was one thing that they took
00:11:17.200 issue with. And they wanted President Trump to come out and say Warp Speed wasn't as successful as he
00:11:24.280 says it was, and that we now know a lot more than we knew before. So I think, you know, something like
00:11:29.600 that shows that you have some sort of principle and that you believe in something and it just wasn't
00:11:35.400 all for nothing. Well, and look, here's the most important point, which is that President Trump has
00:11:40.320 always opposed a vaccination mandate. He does not think anyone who doesn't want to take the
00:11:45.400 vaccination should be forced or required to have the vaccination to keep their job or to go out in 1.00
00:11:51.320 public. As you read the other day, he thinks that those members of the military who were fired because
00:11:57.480 of their refusal to take the vaccination should get their back pay back and if they want their jobs
00:12:02.860 back. I think that's simple justice. So I think it's a step in the right direction. This is going
00:12:10.460 to be a fight where the issues are broader than health freedom. Health freedom is a hugely important
00:12:17.420 issue. And RFK is right. They're poisoning us through our food. You know, for years, I must tell you,
00:12:25.080 I always thought there was only one mayonnaise, Hellman's mayonnaise, the real mayonnaise. That's
00:12:29.780 their slogan. I would go to a barbecue. Somebody would buy craft mayonnaise. I would bust their chops
00:12:34.700 and say, what's wrong with you? But then, John, I took a look at the ingredients and I found out
00:12:40.820 there's all kinds of HMOs and all kinds of, pardon me, GMOs and all kinds of other chemicals and
00:12:47.040 additives in there that are not natural. And then if you look a little broader, it's happening across the
00:12:52.620 board in all of our food. This is a huge issue. This and the lack of affordable housing, which is
00:12:59.120 another issue that I think RFK played a crucial role in terms of getting into this campaign. You
00:13:05.800 can't buy a house because you can't afford to buy a house and you can't find rental properties. And when
00:13:12.140 you can find them, you find in many cases they're being used to provide free housing to people who are
00:13:18.160 here illegally. So I think that he's raised a number of really crucial issues in the election.
00:13:25.040 This is, I must tell you, I've been in 13 national presidential campaigns, but this development could
00:13:32.320 never have been foreseen. And I think it completely changes the race. So to the extent the Democrats were
00:13:39.480 going to get any bump out of the show in Chicago where they pretended to be something they're not,
00:13:45.400 where they identified a few of our problems, but tried to pretend like they weren't the fault of
00:13:50.960 the current administration. I just don't, I think this is a bridge too far. The American people are
00:13:57.540 not that stupid. They know what they're paying for gas today. They know what they were paying under
00:14:02.360 Donald Trump. They know how much they can get at the grocery store for their dollar. They knew how much
00:14:07.300 more it bought under Donald Trump. And now the administration is forced to admit that their job creation
00:14:13.640 numbers, the 8,800 and 18,000 jobs they claimed had been created by Joe Biden, that was all BS as
00:14:21.340 well. They were forced to revise their numbers. And then Kamala Harris's chief economic advisor, 0.57
00:14:27.620 when told that these numbers come from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, she says she's not
00:14:32.700 familiar with who they are. Unbelievable. You know, it's interesting. It's sort of like these Democrats who
00:14:37.500 are still fooled by the BS that Kamala and I guess you can say Biden, I don't know if you can say him
00:14:42.780 anymore, but are pushing it. The people are still fooled by it. It's almost like they have Stockholm
00:14:46.440 syndrome. You'd brought up the food thing and that goes to the vaccine thing as well. I was looking
00:14:51.060 at a spray olive oil the other day in my cabinet and it said there was silicone in it. Now, why the
00:14:56.320 hell would you need silicone in a spray olive oil? Both of my grandparents lived on my mother's side 1.00
00:15:01.920 and my father's side lived to over a hundred. And, you know, this is back in the day when they were born
00:15:06.180 in 1918. They went through the Great Depression and they lived to over a hundred. I mean, you see cancer rates
00:15:11.660 now and diabetes rates now off the charts. And it's truly, you know, people don't realize what
00:15:16.260 the hell is going on. We're going to take a quick break here. When we come back, I want to go further
00:15:19.920 into that polling. When can we expect the polling to start changing? And in Donald Trump's favor,
00:15:24.840 is the honeymoon period over for Kamala Harris? We're going to get Roger's take on that. We return.
00:15:29.000 Stay with us. We're coming right back.
00:15:36.040 We're back. We're talking with the great Roger Stone. And Roger, right before we went to break,
00:15:39.440 I wanted to go further into polling, just looking over some real clear politics averages
00:15:44.140 just for a starting point. They've got Harris plus 1.5. Now I want to go down to top battleground
00:15:51.080 states where Trump is leading in all but two, and that's Michigan, Wisconsin. He's leading
00:15:55.560 according to their averages in Pennsylvania, Arizona, Nevada, North Carolina, and Georgia.
00:16:00.820 So I said we have a 1.5 point, a point and a half advantage for Kamala Harris in the real 1.00
00:16:05.580 clear politics average. But then you go down to the battleground states and you have Trump leading
00:16:09.800 by 0.1. With no toss-up states, according to their predictions, Trump wins 287 to 251. So where are
00:16:17.820 they coming up with this? The numbers just don't seem to make sense because the swing states is what
00:16:22.040 carries you over the finish line if you're President Trump or Kamala Harris. Where's the discrepancy there?
00:16:27.780 Well, first of all, timing is very important. So people need to recognize that a poll
00:16:32.980 is a snapshot in time. In other words, it's only valid for that episecond after it's been
00:16:38.680 tabulated. But with our situation as volatile as it is, things change very closely, very quickly.
00:16:46.980 So Kamala Harris got a free ride. She got the big media buildup in which we tried to pretend that she 1.00
00:16:52.840 was some tough, capable, tough-on-crime prosecutor, an absurdity, all of this. And then you're doing
00:17:03.960 the right thing, though, by looking at the real clear average. In other words, don't look at any
00:17:09.880 one poll. Look at multiple polls in the same time period and see if you can find a trend. I still think
00:17:17.040 it's going to take a little bit of time because you can never poll in the eye of a storm. You can't
00:17:23.720 poll, you know, during the time when this is all in the media. You have to let people digest it a
00:17:30.240 little while. That includes the impact of the Democrat Convention, as well as the impact now of
00:17:36.920 the Robert Kennedy endorsement. So I would say by the middle of next week, you'll get a much better
00:17:42.280 feeling for where things are. That said, this was always going to be a close, hard-fought,
00:17:49.640 very tight race, even against Joe Biden. That's because of the fake news media ability to manipulate
00:17:56.560 people, also because of the online manipulation by Google and Facebook and Instagram and so on. So
00:18:05.740 I take nothing for granted. This is still going to be a very tough, hard-fought election. But I do think
00:18:13.380 that Trump is now today, my guess is he has a modest lead. And I think he can hold the lead. And I think
00:18:22.200 by using people like Tulsi Gabbard, like Robert Kennedy, like Nicole Shanahan, as well as many others,
00:18:32.400 plus, I still believe, and I'm absolutely certain I'm right about this, J.D. Vance is going to turn
00:18:38.780 out in the end to be the right guy. His moment is going to come. I understand the left likes to
00:18:44.480 dump on him. It's elitism, really. It's snobbery. They don't like him because he came from nothing,
00:18:50.800 because he came from hardscrabble background. He earned everything he has. He's been incredibly
00:18:56.360 successful in business. He was a successful author, a successful documentary maker, a filmmaker.
00:19:04.320 But he also served his country in the U.S. Marine Corps. He's fearless. He's 100 percent
00:19:10.420 America first. He's going to turn out to be the right guy as well. So when you add that all up,
00:19:16.580 I'm still confident that the president will win a narrow but unassailable victory when it's all over.
00:19:25.220 You know, you mentioned J.D. Vance, and before I forget, you know, I wasn't a J.D. Vance guy in
00:19:29.480 the beginning. I thought there were other people who suited President Trump better just based off
00:19:33.640 the track record that J.D. Vance was sort of a never-Trumper in the beginning. You know, now that
00:19:37.940 we're essentially stuck with him, and I'm not saying it's a bad thing, I've actually grown to like the
00:19:41.480 man. But anyone listening to this who hasn't watched on Netflix, Hillbilly Elegy, I really highly
00:19:48.100 recommend it to you. The life that J.D. Vance went through, it was truly the troubles he had with his
00:19:54.160 mother, drug addiction. You know, it almost ruined his life. And it was truly sad and humbling to see
00:19:59.580 that someone who came from absolutely nothing could do so much with his life. And I mean, 1.00
00:20:05.680 he really is the American dream. And to see these Democrats at the DNC, that it's a bad thing that
00:20:11.280 he went to, and Tim Walter, whoever the hell it was, he left Nebraska, he left Ohio to go to an Ivy
00:20:17.520 League school. Well, what the hell do you want him to do? You know, was he supposed to not go to law
00:20:21.240 school? Was he supposed to go to a state school? I mean, what more do you want when you had six or
00:20:25.120 seven people on that Democrat stage who also went to Yale? I mean, the hypocrisy. But, you know,
00:20:32.240 the question I have for you is, are these Democrat voters dumb enough to buy this stuff? Here's an
00:20:38.220 example. Kamala Harris is deputy campaign manager on MSNBC the other day, telling the audience Kamala
00:20:45.360 will do interviews on her own time whenever she feels like it. You're not entitled to anything.
00:20:50.600 Who the hell does she think she is? That's a losing strategy. I think the American people want 1.00
00:20:55.700 to feel like they know the president. They certainly know Donald Trump because he's so incredibly
00:21:00.320 accessible. He talks, you know, he does interviews, he does press conferences, he answers questions.
00:21:07.820 They would like to play hide the ball here. And as they know, Kamala Harris can't answer a question 1.00
00:21:13.280 that she has no substance. She has no program. And she's not good on her feet. They've demonstrated
00:21:21.540 that. So they're now trying to hide her. They've theoretically agreed to two debates, but I'll
00:21:27.440 believe it when she shows up. And the idea that Donald Trump would be afraid to debate Kamala Harris
00:21:32.920 is laughable. He went into the CNN debate where the rules were completely rigged against him. He stuck to
00:21:39.760 the rules. And I think he came out ahead. I thought he had an excellent debate. He stayed focused. He
00:21:46.520 didn't take the bait on those few times during the debate where Joe Biden was temporarily lucid.
00:21:54.080 He tried to bait the president who ignored him and kept pounding on him over the economy,
00:22:00.020 on the open borders, on the potential of World War III. So I think they ultimately realized
00:22:08.700 that their biggest single problem is their candidate can't speak. They don't want a debate.
00:22:14.580 They'll do anything they can to dodge a debate. Why won't they do the Fox debate? Trump did the CNN
00:22:19.660 debate. Why is he afraid to do the Fox debate? Yeah. The notion that Trump is scared of anything. I
00:22:24.840 mean, Trump is literally the epitome of a man voluntarily going to the lion's den. I mean,
00:22:29.640 he puts himself in these situations. And God bless the man because he's not scared of anything.
00:22:33.800 He knew when he announced he was running for reelection in 2024, 2024, that these indictments
00:22:39.300 were going to come against him, that there was jail time that that could be had if he was found
00:22:43.120 guilty. And now he's waiting trial in September in New York where he can have jail time. He's got
00:22:47.180 the case in Georgia, which is a state case, which he can't be pardoned. He knew these repercussions
00:22:51.740 to think that he was somehow scared to go into a debate. Kamala Harris has not introduced. I mean,
00:22:58.120 anyone who watched the DNC, it was terrible. And I apologize that you wasted your time,
00:23:03.180 myself included, but there was nothing policy. Everything was Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump's the
00:23:07.820 bad. Even you have Joe Biden going out there his last time, probably his last time on a big stage,
00:23:13.400 repeating the same Charlottesville hoax that Trump is a racist. He's all for KKK. And I mean, 0.85
00:23:19.760 it was truly unbelievable. Kamala's only policy that she has told us about is no tax on tips. 0.61
00:23:26.340 What do you think about that? Yeah. Whose idea was that? I mean,
00:23:30.420 this is very interesting. In Nevada, the culinary union has always been a major piece of Senator
00:23:38.800 Harry Reid, the late minority leader, later majority leader. That's always been part of the Democrat
00:23:49.160 machine. But Trump, I think, is going around the bosses, the union bosses, directly speaking to
00:23:56.260 the individual service employees. And this has been very popular. So what does Kamala Harris do? 0.74
00:24:01.980 She basically lifts the whole thing like she just thought of it yesterday. People are not that
00:24:06.600 stupid, I don't think. You know, you've got, like we said earlier on the show, you had Robert F.
00:24:12.060 Kennedy coming over from the Democrat side, uniting with the party. Just last week, we have now Brian
00:24:17.300 Kemp, who was one of President Trump's staunchest enemies during the 2020 election. I mean,
00:24:23.380 going as far as not investigating ballot fraud, you had the whole phone call, which led to an
00:24:28.960 impeachment. I mean, the ball, the avalanche rolled on and on. Now, Kemp says he wants to unite with
00:24:34.820 Trump because we've had enough of Kamala Harris. Is it genuine? Why now?
00:24:40.100 You know, I don't know the background here, but I am encouraged. Perhaps the governor's mind
00:24:47.560 changed when he saw this attempted assassination against Donald Trump. All I'm happy about is that
00:24:53.880 he's agreed to get on board. Georgia is a crucial election. There are still outstanding lawsuits over
00:25:01.480 the integrity of that election, both state and federal law. There's an enormous amount of evidence
00:25:07.720 that has now been documented in those lawsuits, proving that there was actual fraud. But let's be
00:25:12.900 clear. Nixon did not get elected in 1968 because he whined about being stolen in the 1960 election.
00:25:20.560 We need to focus on the next election. And I'd much rather have the governor of Georgia with us
00:25:26.020 than against us. Well, I agree we have to focus on the next election, but we also have to look at the
00:25:30.200 mistakes that were made in the last election and ensure. And I think, you know, we were seeing that
00:25:34.660 across the board and mail-in ballots being one of perhaps the biggest ways the Democrats could use
00:25:40.580 or have used to steal an election. And I think some of these states now have finally started to
00:25:44.460 realize, and like I said earlier, Virginia being one. We're going to take a quick break here. When
00:25:48.400 we come back, Jerome Powell, the Fed chair, says he's looking at cutting interest rates. What a
00:25:53.940 coincidence. Just in time for the November election? We're going to take that up with Roger when we
00:25:58.040 return. Stay with us. We're coming right back.
00:25:59.640 We're back. We're talking with political strategist, the great Roger Stone. Roger,
00:26:10.080 Jerome Powell, who hasn't touched interest rates in a while now, says he's looking at cutting rates
00:26:15.380 because inflation has been, I guess, taken care of. What do you think about that? Just in time for
00:26:21.300 the election, what is he doing? He's trying to manipulate the economy to give Kamala Harris a 0.53
00:26:28.820 chance. By the way, other presidents have tried to do this to get the Fed to either ease up or to
00:26:35.200 tighten up, depending on the situation. This is just another example of them using the government
00:26:40.860 for political purposes. And that's, I think, what they want. Does anyone out there really think
00:26:47.020 that the high cost of, say, groceries is because of the greedy grocery companies and food
00:26:56.800 processing and food companies? No. The reason that prices are so high is because their costs are so
00:27:03.560 high. It's the idea of wage and price controls, which Richard Nixon tried. That was Governor John
00:27:11.820 Connolly, later Treasury Secretary John Connolly, talked President Nixon into not only taking us off
00:27:21.180 the gold standard, but also wage and price controls, probably Nixon's two greatest mistakes.
00:27:26.320 They won't work. It's an obvious political ploy. Economists that I respect tell me the economy is
00:27:33.220 still going to get substantially worse under the current Biden-Harris administration. See,
00:27:39.180 they want to pretend that Joe Biden, who's he? Who's Joe Biden? I mean, the idea that a sitting
00:27:45.260 president would not be president when they nominated Kamala Harris and the torch was passed is beyond
00:27:54.960 belief. Now, what we don't know is whether Joe left in a feat of peak himself, spoke and then left,
00:28:01.720 or he spoke after they pushed him out of prime time and he left because they wanted him gone.
00:28:08.860 But they would just like to pretend that his administration never existed and that Kamala Harris
00:28:14.360 has the solution to all the problems in the country without mentioning that all these problems have
00:28:20.160 existed for three and a half plus years and she's done nothing whatsoever about them.
00:28:25.440 Right. You know, you mentioned food costs and inflation and the price of gas and everything
00:28:29.680 that we consume on a daily basis as Americans. But one thing we didn't talk about was the stock market
00:28:34.280 and how that frames everything around the world. We saw what happened in Japan a few weeks ago
00:28:39.340 when their market crashed and what it did to our markets. A lot of people don't realize because
00:28:44.180 they're so set on this being Trump versus Biden and they don't realize that this market is teeter
00:28:48.920 totter. I mean, it's it can go either way at any point. And, you know, this this the drop of a pin,
00:28:54.480 I think, could, you know, tilt it in one direction or the other and most likely going in the wrong
00:29:00.000 direction. A lot of people don't realize that that we're one step away from a depression, a recession.
00:29:06.560 We saw how fast it happened during covid. I mean, it was over the course of, you know,
00:29:10.460 two weeks. We went from, you know, a booming economy, job markets and stock market to two weeks
00:29:16.480 later, people losing their jobs and losing their houses.
00:29:20.760 Yeah, it's it's really quite extraordinary. If you stop and think about it, you're just in a
00:29:27.200 situation in which they're kind of making it up as they go along. This we know, which is the
00:29:34.420 economic prescription that she has put together. The little little policy stuff she has previewed
00:29:41.600 is is certain to destroy the economy. I remember when they said if Trump is elected,
00:29:47.980 the stock market will crash and we'll have a depression. Right. Instead, we had the most robust
00:29:53.080 economy in our history, the greatest rate of job growth, the greatest rate of wage growth,
00:29:59.080 lowest levels of unemployment among all Americans, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, young, old,
00:30:05.780 rural or urban. They also told us if we elected Donald Trump, we'd have World War Three. Well,
00:30:12.480 who is it that's this close to World War Three? Well, I would say it's this administration that
00:30:18.100 that risks World War Three. So to the Democrats, black is white and white is black. In other words, 0.53
00:30:24.780 if they continue at the rate they're going, they have to try to completely erase Biden's presidency
00:30:33.880 and pretend that all of these problems that the country has today, well, they're all Donald
00:30:39.080 Trump's fault. Donald Trump hasn't been president for three plus years. I just don't think the American
00:30:43.520 people are that stupid. The thing and I hope I hope you're right. And I think we all pray that you're
00:30:48.580 right. But the thing that just doesn't make sense to me is President Trump has a proven track record
00:30:53.220 in 2016. He was a little bit more robust than he has been now. He's toned down the rhetoric a lot,
00:30:58.260 which, you know, I'm not really a fan of. I like the funny Donald Trump, but he's turned it down,
00:31:02.520 especially here in this election. He's tried to keep it mostly on policy. Why are there still those
00:31:08.920 people who are just the Oprah Winfrey's of the world? Why are they so set against Trump? What is it
00:31:15.820 in their head? RRFK, his wife's an actress, Cheryl Hines, on one of the greatest television shows in the
00:31:22.140 history of television, Curb Your Enthusiasm. Larry David, a huge anti-Trump guy, this man was able,
00:31:28.620 and anyone who's married, you know, I'm not married, but anyone who's married knows how hard
00:31:32.340 it is, I think, to get anything past your wife. He was able to endorse President Trump, his wife,
00:31:37.460 who's still working in Hollywood, and Trump's probably hated by about 95 percent of Hollywood,
00:31:41.400 just to throw a number out there. Why are people just so blinded by the fact of
00:31:47.220 these Democrats being the Lord and Savior? Look, I think it is elitism. So look at their convention.
00:31:55.680 Michelle Obama talks about, you know, the evil of people who want too much. My family, my parents
00:32:04.920 always were concerned about those who wanted more than their share. She's worth a hundred million
00:32:10.000 dollars. Plus, plus, plus. Or Oprah. Oprah is mega wealthy. All these people are elitists,
00:32:20.600 but... Three billion dollars. Yeah. So Bernie Sanders is my all-time favorite. Bernie Sanders
00:32:26.160 skimmed millions of dollars in media commissions from his two presidential campaigns. He's driving a
00:32:31.720 top-of-the-line Mercedes. He's got three homes. Yeah. But he insists that socialism is good for you.
00:32:38.580 It's just not good for the rest of us. You know, and then when the Republicans call it out for what
00:32:43.720 it is, we're bad. We're bad people. We're starting wars. You know, we're starting arguments over
00:32:49.280 nothing. It's not on policy. I mean, what are we supposed to do at this point? It truly is
00:32:53.740 unbelievable. Some good news out of the Supreme Court last week. The Supreme Court upholding Arizona's
00:33:00.200 law requiring a proof of citizen on a 5-4 vote. Judge Amy Coney Barrett siding with the Democrats
00:33:05.980 once again. I don't understand what's going on there. Is this enough to stop the cheating and
00:33:11.560 to prevent some cheating down in Arizona, which we know it's ripe for? It's too early for me to say.
00:33:17.860 I've got to catch up. I did see where the court agreed to hear the question raised by the Arizona
00:33:26.040 authorities. But at this point, 20-plus some states want the Supreme Court to rule on this question
00:33:32.900 about whether you have to be essentially an American citizen, a U.S. citizen and legally
00:33:40.020 eligible to vote. I don't know why the Democrats find that outrageous. They say we're against
00:33:45.600 voting rights. Well, no, people who are eligible, not legally eligible to vote should not be allowed
00:33:52.000 to vote. And why they're so afraid of having a photo ID? You need one to get on an airplane.
00:33:58.540 You need one to buy, you know, a carton of cigarettes. You need one to buy certain
00:34:05.260 pharmaceuticals. Why would you not want people to have a voter ID? No, there's nothing racist about
00:34:13.760 this. Only people who are legally eligible to vote should be allowed to vote. And having a photo ID 0.99
00:34:20.240 is not racist in any way. What are you saying? That people of color are too stupid to go get 1.00
00:34:26.400 a voter ID, a picture ID? That's absurd. It's ridiculous. It's racist is what it is.
00:34:34.520 Yep. It's a double standard. And like I said, the Republicans are just, you know, so lazy and I
00:34:40.320 think scared of what the retribution will be if they call out these people for what they are. I think
00:34:45.780 they're getting better. I want to wrap up with here the assassination attempt on President Trump.
00:34:50.680 A few Secret Service members out of the Pittsburgh field office quietly put on a paid leave after the
00:34:57.140 attempted assassination. Seems the FBI is more intent on figuring out who tried to maybe put maggots in
00:35:04.000 the food at the DNC than they are to what's going on with this lone shooter. You know, what do you
00:35:11.960 think's going on with this? Did he act alone? Congressman Waltz saying that he had multiple
00:35:17.300 overseas communications accounts. We now see video of him walking around hours before the rally
00:35:22.780 with a man who is dressed in a button down shirt, looking like someone who'd be undercover out of
00:35:28.820 the government. What do you make of the whole situation, Roger? Well, it just seems to be more
00:35:32.820 questions than answers. We've now seen a photo image of him talking on the phone, the man they say is
00:35:39.120 the assassin talking on the phone. Well, then that's an obvious question. Who is he speaking
00:35:44.060 to? That would seem to me indicate that he had some kind of confederate. We know that the Secret
00:35:49.920 Service, the Department of Homeland Security, the local police and the state police were all using
00:35:57.460 different radio networks. So they were all using different channels. They weren't speaking to each
00:36:05.500 other. You asked yourself, how could that happen? According to a congressman, let's see, from
00:36:13.160 Louisiana, who I like a lot, came out and pointed out that they had actually moved to cremate the body
00:36:22.360 of the alleged killer. I find this very, very strange. Yeah. Like you said, more questions than
00:36:28.360 answers. And that seems to be what we get out of this government, especially when it comes time to
00:36:32.680 figuring out a crime against a Republican. Roger Stone, you're a great American. You're the host
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00:37:09.620 a brilliant American. Thanks so much for joining me today. Thanks, John. Great to be with you.
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