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00:00:00.000The Stone Zone, with legendary Republican strategist and political icon and pundit Roger Stone.
00:00:11.900Stone has served as a senior campaign aide to three Republican presidents.
00:00:16.220He is a New York Times bestselling author and a longtime friend and advisor of President Donald Trump.
00:00:21.900As an outspoken libertarian, Stone has appeared on thousands of broadcasts,
00:00:25.820spoken at countless venues, and lectured before the prestigious Oxford Political Union and the Cambridge Union Society.
00:00:32.820Due to his four-plus decades in the political and cultural arena, Stone has become a pop culture icon.
00:00:38.200And now, here's your host, Roger Stone.
00:00:45.800Welcome, I'm Roger Stone, and yes, you are back in the Stone Zone.
00:00:50.880What less than 10 days can change in American politics is really quite extraordinary.
00:00:58.420There's an old saying that in politics, a day is a lifetime.
00:01:03.180Today, what we see is complete fratricide in the Democrat Party.
00:01:07.640Those who were fully aware of Joe Biden's infirmity and actively acted to hide it and make excuses for it are now viciously calling for his head.
00:01:22.080My sources tell me that Hunter Biden has emerged both as his father's chief political advisor
00:01:28.780and the gatekeeper and the gatekeeper in terms of who can actually get in to see Joe, besides members of the Biden family.
00:01:36.940Dr. Jill is quite obviously intent on holding on to power, and one has to assume that the other members of the Biden family,
00:01:48.000who have now been documented as taking millions of dollars from Russia, Ukraine, Romania, China, Syria, Mexico, and so on,
00:02:03.820well, they'd like to avoid prosecution and incarceration.
00:02:07.780So the internal pressure on Joe Biden to stay in the race from his family and those directly around him has to be enormous.
00:02:17.340On the other hand, there's growing panic, as Chuck Schumer, the Senate Majority Leader,
00:02:24.860and Hakeem Jeffries, the House Minority Leader, are beginning to look at polling that shows that states and districts
00:02:34.820that were heretofore thought to be safe now appear to be competitive.
00:02:40.320In other words, there is a fear that Joe Biden could take the entire Democratic ticket down
00:02:47.300and deliver control of both houses to the Republicans.
00:02:52.320Add to that that the very biggest bundlers in the Democratic Party, Democrat Party, pardon me,
00:03:00.280including a fellow named Kramer out of New York, who is the biggest bundler and Democrat fundraiser in New York,
00:05:48.980Thank you, Roger, and being here on the Stone Zone has surely helped,
00:05:53.580and our audience here coming over to Slingshot and reading the articles, sharing them around.
00:05:59.160It's a tremendous effort, and I think it's because we're breaking things down truthfully, Roger.
00:06:04.480We're also not just focused on politics.
00:06:07.860We have a lot of people that come to Slingshot News that are there for sports or entertainment news or other things as well.
00:06:13.720So, Stone Zone, a big part of it, but yes, we're doing really well, and it's an honor to be back here in the Stone Zone after our little Fourth of July break here.
00:06:24.820This morning's media controls a reiteration of the fact that President Donald Trump is down to three individuals as his potential vice president.
00:06:35.880One of them is Florida Senator Marco Rubio, one of them is former North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum, and one of them is J.D. Vance, the new senator from Ohio.
00:06:52.040I met Doug Burgum at the Collier County Republican Lincoln-Reagan Day Dinner, where we both spoke.
00:06:59.960Mark Robinson, the lieutenant governor of North Carolina, was also there.
00:07:05.900He's the Republican nominee for governor of North Carolina, very impressive, very charismatic.
00:07:13.080But I also, candidly, was very impressed with Doug Burgum.
00:07:17.360I was impressed by the speech he gave, in which he gave full-throated support for President Donald Trump.
00:07:26.000Unfortunately, however, the more I dig, the more I'm beginning to wonder whether Doug Burgum is who we think he is.
00:07:35.600Joining us now is Shane Trejo, a political reporter with Big League Politics, who has, I think, a very important piece written on this exact subject.
00:07:46.480Troy, welcome back into the Stone Zone.
00:07:51.540Troy, this piece that you wrote is really groundbreaking.
00:07:57.380We don't have much of a conception of what exactly Doug Burgum did as governor.
00:08:03.600But the thing I find most disturbing is you say in your piece that Burgum allowed Chinese nationals to purchase, I believe it was 40,000 acres, very close to the North Forks military base in North Dakota,
00:08:25.520where some of our most sensitive and powerful weapons are stored and from which they are deployed.
00:08:31.520How does Donald Trump campaign against the power of China, campaign against specifically China buying up our farmland, our ranch land,
00:08:44.340systematically buying up land close to military facilities in our country, when his own running mate seems to have done exactly that?
00:08:52.840It doesn't quite add up from everything that I've seen.
00:08:58.500You know, Burgum is putting himself out there as if he's an America First Patriot.
00:09:02.780He's being promoted by Fox News incessantly.
00:09:06.560They're constantly talking about how great of a guy he is.
00:09:11.020He's allowed to go on there, spew the right talking points.
00:09:14.160And, you know, the Fox News people will gush all over him about how he's the next George.
00:09:20.260You look so much like George Washington.
00:10:22.060Corporations coming and swallowing up farm rules were, oh, the rules were waived.
00:10:27.900And unfortunately, Bill Gates was able to swallow up that land.
00:10:31.920And the corporations, you know, the laws preventing the corporations, Burgum's attorney general looked the other way and just dragged their feet and had no interest in enforcing the law.
00:10:43.660So Bill Gates got that special privilege, and that's the way Burgum operates.
00:10:49.500He's going to support the corporate elite.
00:10:51.760And if he's in there as vice president under Trump, it's not a guy he can trust.
00:10:57.040It's going to be another Mike Pence-style situation.
00:10:59.260Shane, first of all, I apologize for calling you Troy.
00:11:06.400Again, if you're just tuning in, Shane Trejo with Big League Politics joining us now to talk about his groundbreaking piece regarding Governor Doug Burgum.
00:11:17.160One of the other disturbing things here was not only the fact that it appears to me that Bill Gates actually made Burgum a very wealthy man.
00:11:27.260In other words, when he purchased Burgum's company, it was for close to $2 billion.
00:11:33.540So his wealth appears to come from Bill Gates.
00:11:50.980Yes, so Burgum, as a governor, has stood up for the so-called rights of transgender athletes to compete in sporting events outside of their birth gender.
00:12:04.700So he vetoed legislation that would have made it so that no transgender women born a man could participate in female sporting events.
00:12:22.080And then, you know, that's bad enough.
00:12:24.180But then he also, a year, a couple years later, vetoed legislation that would have banned the use of transgender pronouns by public school officials.
00:12:35.040So he has allowed the sort of the transgender insanity to fester within North Dakota schools.
00:12:43.320And he said, this is a really insulting quote,
00:12:46.480The teaching profession is challenging enough without the heavy hand of state government forcing teachers to take on the role of pronoun police.
00:12:54.640So totally, you know, basically spitting in conservative spaces.
00:12:58.620He also vetoed school choice legislation and then invited Biden Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm into his state to promote global warming propaganda, says that North Dakota is going to get down to carbon net zero policies.
00:13:16.160And, of course, he talks about that's going to be done through the free market, and that's why Republicans should support it.
00:13:25.200So he's out there championing this leftist propaganda and then acting like, oh, it's a Republican thing to do.
00:13:32.360So in terms of his record, it's very bad.
00:13:35.800And that's really unfortunate that he's being pushed so hard right now.
00:13:40.560He's being put out there, obviously, you know, to get Trump's attention and talk a good game to try to get get on as vice president.
00:13:52.060He's being put out there as a way to subvert the MAGA agenda.
00:13:56.100And when you appear into his record, it's pretty obvious that's the case.
00:14:00.160Troy, do you have a question for our guest, Shane Trejo of Big League Politics?
00:14:05.520Absolutely, Shane, I love your piece on on this particularly, especially the Bill Gates angle.
00:14:12.300And my question to you specifically with Burgum is, why do you think that there's so many in the conservative world?
00:14:18.380You know, I see people who are usually very light on their feet, you know, people who really understand what's going on, who have been kind of fooled by Doug Burgum.
00:14:24.980And when I did a cursory search on Burgum early on, when he was mentioned as a person that they were considering, it was pretty alarming.
00:14:32.520You know, you see, you see things like big pharma, you think you see things like Bill Gates, you pointed out.
00:14:37.860And my question is, why has he been able to fool so many people and the conservative movement?
00:14:43.460Do you think that there are donor interests who are promoting Burgum as kind of a Trojan horse here?
00:14:52.180But my guess is that there's a lot of, you know, influencers on social media who might be getting a paycheck or two to talk about how great Burgum is.
00:15:00.720I've seen pictures of, look at him in a cowboy hat.
00:15:48.240From what I've seen, the groundswell of people on the grassroots, they want Ben Carson or J.D. Vance as the vice president of the people who've kind of been floated out there as potential vice presidential candidates.
00:16:01.700So it's everything that's being done to promote Burgum is astroturf.
00:16:05.340And I'd be leery of any influencer, supposed MAGA influencer, who's getting on the Burgum train right now.
00:16:12.540I note that Burgum also vetoed school choice legislation.
00:16:18.240Promoted by conservatives in North Dakota.
00:16:21.580Look, either one of the two candidates you just mentioned would be greatly preferable.
00:16:27.300I could be enthusiastic about Dr. Ben Carson.
00:16:30.380I could be enthusiastic about J.D. Vance.
00:16:35.440Well, neither one of them is a neocon.
00:16:37.240I think it is vitally important for the future of the America First movement, also for the safety of a president, Donald Trump, that we select someone who shares his vision, someone who the radical left and the globalists are just as afraid of as they are Donald Trump.
00:17:00.560That is not based on what I've seen, Doug Burgum.
00:17:05.460Yet the conservative media has really not touched upon his record.
00:17:10.540All they focused on is the more recent pro-Trump things that he said.
00:17:15.680Now, when I've seen him on the networks defending Trump, he's been quite good.
00:17:21.320But then Mike Pence was good, too, right up until the moment that he wasn't.
00:17:27.180I'm afraid that while I will support whoever the president designates, and I want to make that clear, I think that there's an important dynamic here when you watch what's going on with the Democrats.
00:17:39.860The president has hinted that he may name his running mate as soon as tomorrow at a massive rally at Doral, Florida.
00:17:50.960Part of me thinks this is just Donald Trump with another massive tease.
00:17:59.500And, of course, legally, he doesn't have to name his running mate right up until the moment of the Republican National Convention, which opens in terms of full session next week.
00:18:17.660I guess we'll see whether others in the alternative and conservative media catch on and start writing about Doug Burgum's real record.
00:18:30.000Well, and, Roger, I wanted to ask you kind of just electorally, as far as Burgum goes, do you think that there's any support that's gained if he is the eventual nominee?
00:18:40.960I mean, it would seem to me of J.D. Vance, you know, you may – we've talked about Ohio here on this date, and I think you have even said that you view Ohio as kind of solidly red.
00:18:51.480I'm not sure that J.D. Vance helps you a lot.
00:18:53.680I'm not sure that Ben Carson helps you a ton electorally.
00:18:57.300And I'm interested to hear your thoughts.
00:18:59.000Is Doug Burgum really getting Trump any votes?
00:19:02.140And if he's not, which candidate of all the speculated candidates do you think gives Trump the biggest boost in 2024?
00:19:09.040Well, first of all, let me say there are two schools of thought on this.
00:19:15.500Former President Richard Nixon once told me directly, in selecting a running mate, don't look for someone who can help you.
00:19:23.740Just find someone who doesn't hurt you.
00:19:27.300Kind of ironic in the fact that I think Nixon in 1960 and in 1968 ended up picking running mates that did not help him.
00:19:36.560And a case could be made that they hurt him.
00:19:39.480So the do-no-harm school, don't look for somebody who gets you some new votes.
00:19:47.340Just get someone who won't be a distraction, who will have your back, who you can count on not to contradict you when you're on one end of the country and they are on the other.
00:20:00.060Dr. Ben Carson would certainly meet that criteria.
00:20:12.700I don't think he gets you any particular voter group that you don't already have, but he is dependable.
00:20:21.220J.D. Vance, I think, is an exciting idea because it brings youth to the ticket and potentially some outreach to millennials.
00:20:28.900He has a distinguished service record in the military, which I think is vitally important.
00:20:35.640I do wonder whether two years in the U.S. Senate, really less than two years, is enough to persuade the American people that you have the experience and the temperament and the judgment to be vice president and therefore potentially president.
00:20:52.680On the other hand, Richard Nixon was very young.
00:20:56.900When Dwight Eisenhower picked him, he had had only four years in the House, two years in the Senate, plus, of course, his service in the U.S. Navy.
00:21:06.200So, given the fact that Donald Trump is 77, although a vigorous and sharp 77, unlike Joe Biden, J.D. Vance, I think, could bring more to the ticket than some of the other names being mentioned.
00:21:24.040I like Marco Rubio on a personal level.
00:21:28.200Marco Rubio, as a Florida constituent, has been very good to my family, helped my wife get into a program at NIH when she had cancer.
00:21:39.200I'm happy to say she's now three years cancer free.
00:21:41.920But, candidly, my politics are not his politics, and his politics are really not President Trump's politics.
00:21:49.920They are in this hemisphere where Rubio has been great, hard line on the communists in Venezuela, the communists in Cuba.
00:21:58.820Yet, I wonder whether he would be in favor of sending more money to Ukraine, for example, which, of course, he has voted for.
00:22:08.180Again, I'm not endorsing any candidate, and I'll support whoever the president chooses in his wisdom, but I think this is getting more and more interesting.
00:22:19.460Shane, how can people follow your great work?
00:23:04.540I think it's important that President Trump and his advisors give some thought to that.
00:23:10.060Thank you so much for joining us today in the Stone Zone.
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00:27:01.240I saw Jamie Raskin saying yesterday the difference between Biden and Trump is that Trump and his family enriched themselves in the presidency while the Biden family made nothing.
00:27:27.920Just to get an understanding, Roger, of how sleazy Jamie Raskin really is, I went back and I pulled up a video of Marjorie Taylor Greene.
00:27:35.220Now, keep in mind, Roger, these are Biden corruption hearings.
00:27:37.780We're trying to figure out just how much President Joe Biden earned from the business deals made by Hunter Biden and others, where we've had Devin Archer, Hunter Biden's business partner, come forward and say, our business model was that Joe Biden was vice president.
00:27:57.000That's Devin Archer, Hunter Biden's business partner.
00:27:59.940And so while we're going through these hearings, it's obviously very important that we bring up the information in the Hunter Biden laptop, including the illegal acts that Hunter Biden committed on his, you know, in the images of the laptop.
00:28:13.760So let's just play this real quick to give people at home an idea of the kind of sleazebag that Jamie Raskin really is.
00:28:21.000Marjorie Taylor Greene shows the laptop images, which, by the way, you remember, Roger, 51 intelligence agents came out and said that it was Russian disinformation in the laptop, even though now it's being used in court in the house.
00:28:33.900So Marjorie Taylor Greene holds up the picture from the laptop and Jamie Raskin immediately freaks out, yelling at her, put that away.
00:28:42.960We're not showing that in this hearing.
00:29:09.460On July 26th, I sent you a letter about the last time this happened when the gentlelady introduced before this committee, without any notice to anyone, nude photos, pornographic images that were completely irrelevant to the purpose of the hearing itself.
00:29:29.060And my question to you is, are members allowed to simply put up sensationalistic, voyeuristic, pornographic images if they're not relevant to the actual object of the legislative proceeding?
00:29:43.500I want a parliamentary ruling on that.
00:29:46.420Mr. Raskin, that's probably part of the questioning for Mr. Biden violations of the man act.
00:30:22.000As you know, Marco Polo, 501c3, which you can go to at marcopolousa.org, has identified 140 business crimes, 191 sex crimes, and 128 drug crimes, including violations of the Federal, of the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
00:30:45.680So, what Jamie Raskin really objects to is the truth being shown.
00:30:52.140Yes, this is a congressional investigation into the actions of Hunter Biden.
00:30:57.800God bless Marjorie Taylor Greene for having the courage to show the people the truth.
00:31:03.940It's the same Jamie Raskin who said yesterday, as I said, that the Trump family enriched themselves while Biden's family made nothing.
00:31:15.900According to the subpoenaed bank records of the House Oversight Committee, Hunter, Jim, Sarah, Haley, Biden, plus his grandchildren, plus Joe himself, hauled in over $18 million in foreign sources since Biden was vice president, including almost $4 million from Ukraine,
00:31:39.780$7.28 million from China, $3.5 million from Russia, $1.4 million from Romania, $1.04 million from Panama, $1.17 million from Kazakhstan, Mexico, and Syria.
00:32:00.980Jamie Raskin goes on to say that Joe Biden is healing the nation.
00:32:05.840Joe Biden can't even heal the Democrat Party so much for Mr. Raskin.
00:32:13.620Well, Roger, in that vein of really the most odious members of Congress, we have Adam Schiff, a clip of Adam Schiff this weekend, kind of preparing.
00:32:24.660I want to get your thoughts on what he's really talking about here, because it seems to me that he's kind of attacking Biden, but he's trying to be nice about it.
00:32:31.520And this occurred on NBC's Meet the Press.
00:32:33.960So let's roll Adam Schiff on Meet the Press, appearing to throw Joe Biden under the bus, I think, here.
00:32:39.960But the performance on the debate stage, I think, rightfully raised questions among the American people about whether the president has the vigor to defeat Donald Trump.
00:32:54.160Given Joe Biden's incredible record, given Donald Trump's terrible record, he should be mopping the floor with Donald Trump.
00:33:04.120Joe Biden is running against a criminal.
00:33:06.600It should not be even close, and there's only one reason it is close, and that's the president's age.
00:33:11.560And what I would say, Kristen, what I would advise the president is seek out the opinions of people you trust.
00:33:21.060He's obviously talked to his family about this, and that's important.
00:33:25.100But he should seek out people with some distance and objectivity.
00:33:28.700He should seek out pollsters who are not his own pollsters.
00:33:32.480He should take a moment to make the best informed judgment.
00:33:36.820And if the judgment is run, then run hard and beat that SOB.
00:33:39.520It is very clear that he is hedging his bets.
00:33:46.260I think this is what you see going on in the Democrat Party.
00:33:49.580Again, other than Hunter and Jill and other members of the Biden family, it's hard to identify a constituency within that party that wants Joe to ride this through.
00:34:01.940No one believes that he can get through the balance of a campaign without another incident of some kind.
00:34:10.500From a strictly political point of view, of course, politically, I'd prefer to run against Joe Biden.
00:34:37.560She is just as complicit in the fact that we have no peace negotiations going on in Ukraine between the Ukrainians and the Russians.
00:34:47.720She is just as complicit in the decision to unfreeze over $100 billion in assets and give them to Iran so that Iran can restart their nuclear weapons development program, so that Iran can fund terrorism through Hamas and Hezbollah, and most importantly, so Iran can attack our ally Israel.
00:35:11.360Kamala Harris is guilty of all those things.
00:35:15.860And then, additionally, there's the hypocrisy of her own past.
00:35:21.720This is a woman who joked about smoking marijuana while listening to Biggie and Tupac when they weren't even recording yet when she was in college.
00:35:32.420But more precisely, she locked up over 1,500 people for the crime of possession and use of marijuana as a district attorney in Oakland County, which I think is racist in all honesty.
00:35:48.200She also, as we know, extended the prison term of certain state prisoners so they could essentially provide free labor for construction projects done by the state of California.
00:36:10.440He's actually a very good friend of mine.
00:36:13.100We have one thing in common, and it's not politics.
00:36:16.720Willie Brown is one of the best-dressed men in America.
00:36:20.220Willie Brown has been on my Stone Zone international well-dressed list, best-dressed list for several years.
00:36:29.680And he's very clearly responsible for Kamala Harris's political rise.
00:36:36.840But I urge you to look carefully at what he says.
00:36:40.140He says that she's a shrewd, tactical politician.
00:36:43.840She's much, much smarter than you think she is.
00:36:46.620And according to Willie, she's going to be president.
00:36:49.780I would take those words as a word of caution.
00:36:53.460Well, and, Roger, you worked, we got your quote for a Slingshot News article that I'm happy to report is over a million views just in the last few days here.
00:37:04.880And we have the headline, now we can put it up.
00:37:06.760Roger Stone reveals Kamala Harris will be choosing this Democrat as her running mate.
00:37:11.240So in the event that Kamala Harris is chosen here as the eventual successor to President Joe Biden, Roger, you revealed in a tweet in Slingshot News that she's weighing, choosing Josh Shapiro as her running mate.
00:37:25.680Now, I wanted to ask you about this specifically to this point, because Shapiro is a very pro-Israel politician.
00:37:33.760He's been very anti-pro-Palestine protester.
00:37:39.160In fact, he's been, you know, kind of really attacking these hardcore leftist protesters that have been protesting Biden and Harris and at these universities across the country.
00:37:51.520Do you think that it's a wrong move for Kamala Harris to pick somebody like a Shapiro?
00:37:57.880Do you think that she would benefit from choosing somebody that appeals to the more radical, we call them the Palestinian faction of the Democrat Party at this point?
00:38:06.840Do you think that it's necessary for the Democrats to bring that in to a national ticket and to embrace those people?
00:38:13.540Well, first of all, let me clear the air on my prediction about Michelle Obama, because I think it's still important.
00:38:20.340The more chaotic things get in the Democrat Party, the worse things they look, the greater the chances that she may yet be drafted.
00:38:29.420So I have not abandoned the second part of my two-part prediction.
00:38:34.100Part one was that Joe Biden would not run for re-election.
00:38:38.340Part two was that an open convention, a runaway open convention, would select the most popular Democrat in the country and probably potentially the strongest candidate against Donald Trump, and that would be Michelle Obama.
00:38:53.280So, no, I haven't abandoned that prediction.
00:38:59.260It's conceivable I will be right about the first half of my prediction, that Joe Biden will not be the nominee, but wrong about the second part, in which case, yes, Kamala Harris would then therefore move to the presidential nomination.
00:39:15.680That would allow her to select a vice presidential running mate.
00:39:19.860I have argued that the logical candidate for that, and my Democrat sources tell me this is being discussed, is Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro.
00:41:10.840You know, Troy, my wife and I, back when I had money, prior to the Mueller witch hunt virtually destroying me and my family, we used to rent a house in Venice Beach or in Santa Monica for a month every summer, go to the beach, kind of enjoy the culture in Southern California.
00:41:32.680I wouldn't even consider doing that today.
00:41:35.880How do you take a state that has a near-perfect climate year-round only to essentially destroy it, where it is rife with crime and drugs and homelessness and people, let's face it, defecating in the streets?
00:41:54.600So you don't have that with a Shapiro.
00:42:13.440I don't pretend to understand the Democrat nominating process nearly as well as I do the Republican process.
00:42:20.940But I do think if the president is wise, and he is, he will not name his vice presidential running mate until we have some clarification of who the Democrat nominee will be.
00:42:34.740I had Senator Robert Torricelli, the former Democrat U.S. Senator from New Jersey, on my 77 WABC radio show this weekend.
00:42:45.040We're going to post that audio on X shortly.
00:44:00.960Not any selected group of individuals, no matter how well-intentioned.
00:44:04.940The voters, and the voters alone, decide the nominee of the Democratic Party.
00:44:09.240How can we stand for democracy in our nation if we ignore it in our own party?
00:44:13.600I cannot do that, and I will not do that.
00:44:16.280Down below it goes, more importantly, we have an economic vision to run on that soundly run-on that soundly beats Trump and the MAGA Republicans.
00:44:26.000They are siding with the wealthy and the big corporations, and we are siding with the working people of America.
00:44:31.020It wasn't an isolated moment for Trump to stand at Mar-a-Lago and tell the oil industry that they should give him $1 billion and he will do whatever they want.
00:44:40.680The letter continues, and at the bottom here at the last page, it says,
00:45:14.160So, Roger, really interested to get your reaction to that letter that was sent to every congressional Democrat today.
00:45:23.440An emphatic statement by President Biden, I think.
00:45:26.860Well, here's the point that is, of course, missing.
00:45:29.540He won an election by successfully hiding his infirmity.
00:45:35.560He used COVID-19 to spend most of his time in the basement.
00:45:40.500The American people saw very little of the real Joe Biden.
00:45:45.480Despite everything he says, the idea of another debate, and by the way, Trump and Biden have already agreed to a September 10th debate with ABC.
00:45:56.320You notice you see no discussion of that whatsoever.
00:45:58.860I don't know any Democrat who wouldn't be holding his breath if Joe Biden underwent another debate.
00:46:05.700His excuses in this tour, starting with George Stephanopoulos, have been pathetic.
00:46:15.540He actually said that one of the things that distracted him during the debate was the fact that Donald Trump kept shouting at him after they shut Trump's microphone off.
00:46:28.100Go back and look at a video of the entire debate that never happened one time.
00:46:34.320Donald Trump did not speak, seek to speak over him, not even once.
00:46:38.800So this guy can't stop lying when telling the truth would be a lot easier or when his lie is so easily checked.
00:46:48.220I have said he's an enormously stubborn person.
00:46:52.700He's always been stubborn, even before he had the onset of a senile dementia.
00:46:58.500And he's got Jill and Hunter, Hunter who's looking at some long-term prison and hoping, therefore, I would think, for a pardon of propping him up.
00:47:10.000It's going to be very hard to get him out of there, yet they may find themselves saddled with a candidate whose performance during the campaign just gets progressively worse and worse.
00:47:23.220The Democrats are between a rock and a proverbial hard place, and this is by no means decided.
00:47:30.060A very high-level Democrat I spoke to this morning, when I asked him, does Biden survive, he said, ruefully, 50-50, 50-50.
00:47:44.440And on the tail of this breaking news of this letter, we actually have some clips of Biden appearing on Morning Joe this morning, kind of echoing the statements.
00:47:53.140People were really criticizing this appearance, saying that the president sounded senile.
00:51:33.720The one thing the Democrats have been united about, even when they admit that Joe Biden's debate performance was abysmal.
00:51:40.720And by the way, more than half of them were not surprised because they knew that he was in this condition, is this constant barrage that Trump is a liar.
00:51:51.260Trump is going to put reporters in front of firing squads.
00:51:55.620Trump has endorsed all the precepts of the of Project 2025, which is not Agenda 47, his official campaign policy manifesto.
00:52:09.540Now, they continue to do two things at once.
00:52:13.560They fight among themselves about whether Joe Biden is around the bend.
00:52:18.240After all, he met with the Democrat governors.
00:52:20.460He said his health was perfect, except for his brain.
00:52:26.960And then they go right back to the attack, accusing Donald Trump of everything they're doing.
00:52:33.800Amazing clip this weekend of Kamala Harris actually saying if Donald Trump is elected, he will weaponize the Justice Department against his political opponents.
00:52:47.840How can anybody have less self-awareness?
00:52:51.920Unless, of course, she's fully aware of what she's doing.
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