Roger Stone joins host Troy Smith to discuss the passing of Lou Dobbs and the implications for the 2020 Democratic primary race. Stone also discusses the sudden passing of Fox News host Lou DobBS and the impact it will have on the media landscape and the future of the conservative media landscape. Also, Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk have come out publicly in support of former President Donald Trump, and Mark Zuckerberg has now called President Trump "Trump Badass." Finally, Stone discusses the possibility of Michelle Obama being inserted into the Democratic primary in 2024, and whether or not it would be a good idea. The Stone Zone is produced by Troy Smith and is brought to you by StoneZONE Media. Roger Stone served as a senior campaign aide to three Republican presidents, and is a New York Times bestselling author and a longtime friend and advisor of President Trump. As an outspoken libertarian, Stone has appeared on thousands of broadcasts, spoken at countless events, and lectured before the prestigious Oxford Political Union and the Cambridge Union Society, and has lectured at Oxford and Cambridge University. He is a regular contributor to conservative media outlets, and a frequent guest on conservative outlets such as Fox News and the Weekly Standard, and he is a frequent contributor to publications such as The Daily Caller, The Hill, and The Weekly Standard. Stone has been described as a "pop culture icon." in the popular phrase, "The Stone Zone." and "America's Most Influential Person." in a new book written by David Axelrod. and an "influencer, "Roger Stone." on his new book, "Stone Zone". on the latest edition of his new memoir, "Strategy and strategy and strategy book, "The Art of the Stone Zone . . . The Stonezine and much more! to be discussed in this week's edition of The Daily Mail's new paperback edition of the book, The StoneZine. The Stonezone is out on the cover of The Hill s newest issue of the new issue of The Spectator. Subscribe to The Stonecast on Apple Podcasts on The Hill's newest issue on the new edition of Hustler. to learn more about the latest in the new Stonezone's newest podcast, "How to be a rock star in 2020? Subscribe on social media and more! Subscribe on the social meds and let us know what you're listening to the show on the road?
00:00:00.000The Stone Zone, with legendary Republican strategist and political icon and pundit, Roger Stone.
00:00:13.620Stone has served as a senior campaign aide to three Republican presidents.
00:00:17.240He is a New York Times bestselling author and a longtime friend and advisor of President Donald Trump.
00:00:23.420As an outspoken libertarian, Stone has appeared on thousands of broadcasts, spoken at countless venues,
00:00:28.740and lectured before the prestigious Oxford Political Union and the Cambridge Union Society.
00:00:34.340Due to his four-plus decades in the political and cultural arena, Stone has become a pop culture icon.
00:00:39.680And now, here's your host, Roger Stone.
00:00:45.820Ladies and gentlemen, my name is Troy Smith, your regular co-host here on The Stone Zone.
00:00:50.140I want to welcome you to the show today.
00:00:52.020Unfortunately, Roger could not be with us, but do not go anywhere because we have an electric show today.
00:00:57.920So much to cover from President Trump's historic RNC speech last night that simply has set the world of politics ablaze today with the Democrats in total disarray.
00:01:09.480We're going to get to that, but I want to start the show with some somber news, some news that made me, and I know it made Roger, very sad.
00:01:17.360And that is the passing of the legendary Fox News host, Lou Dobbs.
00:01:22.180We have a picture of Lou we can put up here, folks.
00:01:24.940Lou Dobbs was, without a doubt, one of the most inspirational individuals that I've ever watched.
00:01:31.640I remember as a young man, 15, 16 years old, I would routinely tune in every single night to Lou Dobbs.
00:01:39.580And I think Lou Dobbs will be remembered as the precursor to Alex Jones, the precursor to Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity and so many others.
00:01:49.220Lou Dobbs truly, and I mean this, really paved the way for all of us in the broadcasting industry when you look at how he was able to present himself, the professionalism that he exuded, and the patriotism that ran through his blood.
00:02:04.760Lou Dobbs is one of the great broadcasters of our time.
00:02:07.920It's a tragedy that we lost him so suddenly at just 78 years old.
00:02:12.340May he rest in peace, and our prayers are with the Dobbs family during this difficult and tragic time.
00:02:19.340Very sad, and the announcement was put out by former President Donald Trump yesterday.
00:02:24.560Didn't get the coverage, I think, that Lou Dobbs deserved because of the context of when it was released during this Republican convention.
00:02:32.940That really has been the talk of the entire media landscape, ladies and gentlemen.
00:02:38.500I mean, whether it's the liberal networks, whether it is what you see on places like Fox that pretend to be conservative.
00:02:45.160I think everybody is truly impressed by what they saw at this Republican convention.
00:02:51.520They've made things, you know, it's been a little interesting to see some of the people that have been trashing the Trump convention.
00:02:57.920But I want to start with a video, folks, that is just incredibly interesting, considering where we are in the 2024 election cycle.
00:03:06.720Those who have dove into the corruption that occurred in the 2020 election know that the CTCL and Mark Zuckerberg had a lot to do with what happened by the fact that they paid off millions of individuals through these election boards,
00:03:24.560where they pumped in hundreds of millions of millions of dollars for COVID relief that was really used to bolster mail-in ballot efforts and efforts by Democrats to increase the vote count for Biden any way that they could.
00:03:38.740So Zuckerberg's role in the 2020 election, do not kid yourself, folks, he was one of the main players when it comes to what exactly occurred with Biden walking away with the White House and therefore damning our country to four years of absolute failure.
00:03:54.240And I found it incredibly interesting, and I'm wondering if this is a diversion, I'm going to be investigating this completely over the weekend, that Mark Zuckerberg has come out now and almost seems to be supporting former President Donald Trump.
00:04:08.100And that's right, after Elon Musk announced that he would be endorsing former President Trump after this assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania,
00:04:16.020and he's going to be pledging $45 million a month to PAC supporting the former President, Mark Zuckerberg has now called Trump badass, saying that what happened with the photo and the shooting in Butler was really badass.
00:04:31.740Now, he didn't endorse Donald Trump, but he did state that he will not be endorsing President Joe Biden,
00:04:37.800which I think leads in to what exactly is going to happen with the Democrat ticket.
00:04:44.780It's people like Mark Zuckerberg that are attempting to force Biden out by withholding millions upon millions of dollars.
00:04:51.980It's a process that was first revealed to you here on The Stone Zone.
00:04:55.960Roger Stone has been talking about the possibility of Michelle Obama being inserted into the Democrat ticket,
00:05:02.540and more importantly, that Biden would not be the Democrat nominee in 2024 for several years.
00:05:08.680That's what you get when you tune into The Stone Zone, folks.
00:07:34.860But additionally, folks, we have reports from the New York Times.
00:07:37.340We have this headline we could put up.
00:07:39.440Expectations rising among Democrats that Biden will reconsider running in 2024.
00:07:45.220The president has not changed his mind as of now.
00:07:47.800But the New York Times is reporting that multiple people close to him say that the Democrat defection is becoming more and more of a problem.
00:07:56.640And it's even taken the top Democrat leaders in the House, whether that be Adam Schiff, who's looking to move to the Senate,
00:08:04.520or Jamie Raskin, who is one of the top dogs and will probably be the ultimate successor to Steny Hoyer,
00:08:12.000who is another guy who is at the top of the Democrat ranks.
00:08:15.500And Nancy Pelosi has also signaled that she is throwing Biden overboard.
00:09:32.920But let's roll Chris Coons repeatedly not denying that Biden will actually exit the race.
00:09:38.380And you see this prediction by Roger Stone, this fomenting anger towards Biden manifesting in the idea that people like Chris Coons, who have been right by Biden's side all along, have denied any claim that he is declining in any way.
00:09:55.160You have people like Eric Swalwell who say, oh, you know, Biden puts us all to shame with his energy.
00:10:01.740These people have been lying about this for years now.
00:10:05.020I mean, it was evident Biden had problems before he ever even got to the White House.
00:10:09.220So let's roll Chris Coons jumping ship, it appears, from President Joe Biden's failing, imploding Democrat ticket heading into this election cycle.
00:10:21.180Has he 100 percent ruled out the possibility of leaving the race during the course of all of your conversations with him?
00:10:29.560In my conversations with the president, he's been asking for input.
00:10:35.820He's been asking from all of us who talk to him regularly for advice, for counsel, for input on the polls, on the opinion of our colleagues.
00:10:43.760But he has communicated to every Democrat in writing that he intends to continue this campaign.
00:11:16.480He expressed the prayers and the concern for a rapid recovery from him and his wife, Jill.
00:11:21.420And he has called for our country to come together.
00:11:25.680Since he first got involved in the race for the presidency in 2020, he's been urging our country to tone down the rhetoric and to bring our nation together.
00:11:34.560That's what he said in his inaugural address.
00:11:36.700That's how he has led as an effective bipartisan president who has gotten more done than any president in my lifetime.
00:11:42.680And that's the kind of actions he's taken in recent days to reach out and to show that he is determined to lead our country forward in a way that respects the best of us and the most optimistic aspects of us as a nation, rather than further dividing our country.
00:12:00.220Is he even considering leaving the race?
00:12:05.800Well, if I haven't spoken to him in the last few days, I shouldn't speak to that without direct knowledge.
00:12:11.200But I will tell you, like every Democrat, he's very concerned by what we're hearing from Milwaukee, where an inexperienced anti-abortion zealot has just been placed one heartbeat away from a 78-year-old,
00:12:24.540who has no new answers for America's challenges on that convention stage in Milwaukee.
00:12:32.380Chris Coons, J.D. Vance represents the America First wing of the party, a part of the party, especially in the Senate, that has not been given really anything.
00:12:42.120They have not advanced any America First policies because they are immediately stomped by people like Chris Coons' friends in the Senate Democrat caucus,
00:12:53.480who hate this country, who have gutted this country, and work routinely with people like Senator Langford and Senator Mitch McConnell and Senator Lindsey Graham to destroy this country.
00:13:34.620They have more illegal immigrants piling into the country than ever before.
00:13:40.740They can't run on that, certainly, even though they try.
00:13:43.840They can't run on the idea that they've completely divided the entire country.
00:13:48.100They can't run on the idea that they tried to force you to get a vaccine that didn't work because that blew up in their face.
00:13:53.680They can't run on the fact that they told everybody that didn't get the vaccine, millions upon millions of Americans, that they were going to die and that they were the enemy of this country.
00:14:05.000They can't run on the new restrictions or the new taxes or the new regulations that they pump out every day.
00:14:10.580They can't run on the lawlessness in our major cities like Chicago and St. Louis and Baltimore or any number of other cities.
00:14:19.100They can't run on the strength of California because California is a laughingstock.
00:14:24.240And it's a laughingstock because it's controlled by Democrats.
00:14:27.880They can't run on the safety and the cleanliness of New York City because it's a dumpster fire, because it's run by Democrats.
00:14:37.720Everywhere in this country that you look and you see Democrat control, you see destruction, despair, and annihilation of freedom and the people who live there.
00:14:49.380The people who live in Democrat cities are not happy about the government in those cities.
00:14:55.720They're voting for a continuation of the programs that have existed in the past because that is all they know.
00:15:03.980That is all they've ever known for generations now since Lyndon Baines Johnson and the Democrat Party passed the Civil Rights Act and told everybody, Lyndon Johnson famously in meetings, said,
00:15:17.520I'm going to have those N-words voting Democrat for the next 100 years.
00:15:23.420So ever since Lyndon Johnson did that and passed this great society where we have welfare, where we have Democrat control in the cities,
00:15:31.940the racist Democrat Party has been the slave master of the American blacks.
00:15:40.960Before the Republicans went to war for ending slavery, the Democrats also were the slave masters before the Civil War.
00:15:51.220They've been the slave masters all along.
00:15:53.780The only thing that's changed is now they tell them you're free when we all know they're not.
00:16:00.100And when you destroy cities, you destroy states, you destroy parts of the country in the name of liberalism, you don't have anything to run on in your election.
00:16:10.280So their last-ditch effort hope, folks, is to put somebody like Gavin Newsom or Gretchen Whitmer up there hoping that you'll forget the devastation that occurs every single time a Democrat gets into power anywhere in the entire country.
00:16:26.900A prime example of this, folks, is the insanity of Joy Reid and MSNBC.
00:16:39.480And even she was kind of shocked by what was being said by Joy Reid, who actually tried to say that President Biden contracting COVID, which who knows if he even really has COVID.
00:16:51.060It seems like a convenient excuse to me to get him out of the line.
00:16:55.620Like, oh, he's got to self-isolate for two weeks.
00:16:58.080That's very convenient heading into the convention, isn't it?
00:17:00.840But Joy Reid actually compared Biden having COVID to Trump getting shot in the head.
00:17:07.580And even Jen Psaki, the queen of propaganda, she's sitting there going, what the hell is going on?
00:17:15.880Let's roll the clip of Joy Reid doing her election coverage, talking to Jen Psaki about the fact that Biden's COVID is the same as Trump getting shot.
00:17:26.000This is how sick and twisted these people are.
00:17:28.360Here's the question that I have on that.
00:17:32.600Donald Trump is an elderly man who, for whatever reason, was given nine seconds to take a iconic photo op during an active shooter situation.
00:17:43.880But his survival of that and bouncing right back and going right to his convention is being conveyed in the media world as a sign of strength.
00:17:53.440This current president of the United States is 81 years old and has COVID.
00:17:59.520Should he be fine in a couple of days?
00:18:02.260Doesn't that convey exactly the same thing?
00:18:04.340That he's strong enough, older than Trump, to have gotten something that used to really be fatal to people his age.
00:18:12.160So if he does fine out of it and comes back and is able to do rallies, isn't that exactly the same?
00:18:49.400But if you look on the flip side of it, ladies and gentlemen, and you look at what's going on in the Democrat Party, Joy Reid has actually openly claimed that there was never any bullets fired at Donald Trump and that this whole thing was staged.
00:19:03.580It's real conspiracy nuts coming out of the Democrat Party now that they have been rocked with facing the reality of their rhetoric.
00:19:13.300When they told people that Donald Trump was Hitler, when they told people that Donald Trump was a threat to democracy, when Gavin Newsom ran his advertisements telling people that Donald Trump would have them tracked down if they tried to get an abortion in another state, this is what they created.
00:19:29.020That gunman represents their hate, and they hate being faced with the fact that their rhetoric has created this monster of false hate towards one man, Donald J. Trump, who I believe may go down as one of the greatest Americans who has ever lived.
00:19:46.820So let's play Joy Reid claiming that the shooting was staged, starting another Democrat conspiracy theory, because they're losing electorally.
00:19:56.740When they can't beat you on reality, they go into the world of fantasy.
00:20:02.320We still don't know for sure whether Donald Trump was hit by a bullet, whether he was hit by glass fragments, whether he was hit by shrapnel.
00:20:14.240We actually have no details from his physician, even though this man is still a Secret Service protected, you know, and presidential candidate.
00:20:32.460One person, unfortunately, was killed at the rally.
00:20:35.160We don't know where they were sitting or standing relative to him.
00:20:38.140We don't know why, for nine full seconds, Donald Trump was allowed to stand back up during an active shooting, an active shooter situation, even though they, at that point, had said the shooter was down.
00:20:57.640How would they have known, how would they have known if there were more shooters or not?
00:21:02.540Nobody knew that there could have been five shooters for all they knew.
00:21:06.720Yet they allowed him to stand up in the middle of that, you know, crisis and pose for a photo.
00:21:15.200And fist pump the air so he could get the iconic photo.
00:21:20.980And then they allowed him to stand up again outside of the SUV instead of just shoving him into the SUV.
00:22:57.240And she mentions, you know, you see the hatred there.
00:23:00.520No, Donald Trump didn't pose for a photograph.
00:23:03.500He actually was encouraging the crowd who was worried that their guy that they had just come to a field in Pennsylvania to support had been murdered by one of your disciples, Joy Reid.
00:23:14.680Because this guy, this guy that does the shooting, he's not some middle class, you know, guy.
00:23:36.340He was encouraging the crowd who had just seen a near assassination attempt.
00:23:41.700And why are they not pursuing his medical records?
00:23:44.060Well, because, Joy Reid, he's a former president of the United States who was just nearly assassinated.
00:23:50.100And though you might not pay him the respect he deserves, the American people sure do.
00:23:54.580And I've been happy to see that some of the news outlets, not all of them, but some in the wake of this assassination attempt, have kind of paid a little bit more respect to Trump than he deserves.
00:24:06.800Because before this, it was, oh, he's Hitler, he's Hitler, he's Hitler.
00:24:10.380They say it over and over again on every single newscast.
00:24:14.880And they would do it even in ABC and things.
00:24:25.300And I think as the Democrat Party falls apart more and more and more like an accordion just coming undone, there's going to be more and more of the innards of this party exposed.
00:24:36.880And what you will see are the deep, dark conspiracies of the left, the same people who said throughout George Bush's presidency, and I'm no fan of George Bush, but what I'm saying is if you look at the left's rhetoric from that time, it was lizard people and underground worlds and secret Area 51.
00:24:56.240They were as involved in conspiracy as any QAnon person has ever been, but they get a pass for it.
00:25:02.980And when they do it on a mainstream network, nobody says anything.
00:25:06.120We're not going to let that happen here at the Stone Zone.
00:25:08.480We're going to cover this stuff and we're going to show people this is exactly what they're doing.
00:25:13.500Do you think that that BS should be on a real network, on a cable network where people can view that?
00:25:24.540We don't have to go that far to look at MSNBC and say Morning Joe had to be taken off of the air the day after the assassination because Joe Scarborough planned to go on air and basically celebrate the fact that Trump nearly got assassinated.
00:25:39.700Joe Scarborough is a sick, deranged individual, and I think he has more in common with that killer that tried to assassinate Trump than he does with anybody in the media.
00:25:51.680Because Joe Scarborough, you may want to look into it, has had an intern turn up dead.
00:25:57.040And maybe somebody should investigate that.
00:25:59.180In fact, I think we should take a look at that maybe in the next Trump administration.
00:26:04.100Speaking of this assassination attempt, ladies and gentlemen, there was a surreal moment where the director of Secret Service actually showed up to the Republican convention last night.
00:26:14.940I could not believe my eyes, what I was seeing, but this woman actually showed up to the convention and expected not to be confronted.
00:26:23.020Luckily, we had some great U.S. senators, I have to give these guys 100% credit, Marshall Blackburn and others, chasing down the director of Secret Service and confronting her over the lapse in security that almost led to the death of the leading candidate for president in the United States.
00:26:39.960Let's roll that clip and commend these senators for this tremendous job.
00:26:45.720We need a full investigation into what happened.
00:26:47.960We're all in the queue trying to answer questions and they couldn't run out of questions that hadn't.
00:27:07.460Every one of us had questions that we wanted to ask.
00:27:11.420We thought we did get plenty of the responses that were necessary from you.
00:27:15.600Very disappointing in your leadership.
00:27:17.780We have called, I have called for your resignation.
00:27:20.400And I want to know that John and I will start answering our questions right now about the death threat to Mr. Trump and allowing him to go on stage in Pennsylvania at a time when he'd already been alerted that there was somebody with a spotter.
00:27:35.220All these situations already identified an hour before, and you let him go on stage without the knowledge of him, the team on the ground, and you will put him within less than a week of his life.
00:27:49.860So resignation for full explanation to us right now.
00:27:52.940We are trying to get our questions back, and he never was running the bomb if they noticed him.
00:28:05.080You mean an hour out, you've got a suspicious person, and at 5.61, according to the timeline of your deputy, you've identified a potential threat.
00:28:17.020And then if God is being true, you told, or someone told, that the sniper, that he was there, but can you give us an explanation?
00:28:31.460Why would anyone allow a president to go on stage when you know that you've got a potential threat and you've got snipers that are trapped?
00:28:43.360Why do I don't think that they've got a place at a door?
00:30:44.300You owe answers to the president, to the House, to the president, the past president, and you owe answers to the president.
00:30:52.140The president should have this good protection for crying out loud.
00:30:56.140Well, there you have it, folks, subpoena immediately, subpoena everybody involved in the House of Representatives, and do what you can in the Senate.
00:31:15.860And if any Democrat objects, you tell them, well, folks, you can reject this all you want.
00:31:21.960But just know that you are going to be faced with an opponent who will highlight the fact that you were complicit in an assassination attempt against the former president of the United States.
00:31:31.740You want to play hardball? You want to try to assassinate our guy?
00:31:35.140Well, we're going to play hardball back.
00:31:36.680And any Democrat that doesn't want this investigated, primary them next time, beat them in the general election.
00:31:43.380They're complicit in an assassination attempt, and they all, every single one of them, needs to be held accountable.
00:31:49.820If the Democrats don't take themselves out before that with their own ridiculous rhetoric, well, then maybe we'll have a fight here in November.
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00:34:16.480Again, Roger Stone couldn't be with us today, unfortunately.
00:34:36.180And Rod Blagojevich, every time I hear him speak, I say I know exactly why Obama targeted him because I believe that those two really were in competition.
00:34:46.160For the future of the Democrat Party, and Rod is somebody who I believe in wholeheartedly.
00:34:52.780He's a smart guy who knows politics better than just about anybody.
00:34:56.540And the idea that he was targeted like he was kind of speaks to the criminality of the Democrat Party and where they have been for a long time, folks.
00:35:06.320If you disagree with the Democrats, they'll straight up lock you up.
00:35:09.840And I think that has kept a lot of people on the sidelines.
00:35:13.080But after this assassination attempt, folks, we're seeing a different world.
00:35:17.400We're seeing a world where people, celebrities that usually would have shied away from Trump are now accepting him.
00:35:23.160And he's becoming more mainstream than ever before, which is why his speech, which we're going to play some clips of here in the second half, was so fantastic last night.
00:35:32.720He highlighted the assassination attempt.
00:35:34.940He laid out the basic principles of his policy that will appeal to all Americans, no matter race, color, or creed.
00:35:43.040It was the least, and Trump is not a divisive person, but I say it was the most unifying speech I've ever seen the man deliver.
00:35:49.880Was so proud watching that speech to have supported this gentleman since 2015.
00:35:55.400One of the highlights last night was fantastic, was Hulk Hogan, the WWE wrestling legend.
00:36:03.380He appeared last night and actually tore his shirt open at the convention, revealing a Trump Vance shirt.
00:36:09.840One of the most epic things I think anybody out there has seen in a long time.
00:36:13.660Want to roll that clip of Hulk Hogan, the legendary Hulk Hogan, endorsing Trump last night at the RNC convention.
00:38:04.780Powerful words from Hulk Hogan, who I'm sure Trump just loved to see up there.
00:38:09.660That was a fantastic addition to the lineup, highlighting the move away from elitism.
00:38:14.900And one of the things, you know, folks, I don't want to brag, but when I was six years old,
00:38:20.040my parents took me to my first concert, which was maybe not age-appropriate at the time, looking back on it.
00:38:25.100But they took me to a Kid Rock Leonard Skinner concert, and I'm proud to report that Run DMC, Run, Reverend Run of Run DMC, was also there.
00:38:34.420So we got to see It's Tricky walk this way.
00:39:09.700And particularly some of the rap rock stuff.
00:39:12.980And I know some of it doesn't age 100% well.
00:39:16.400But it's beloved by the working men and women of this country.
00:39:19.500And I remember as a six-year-old boy watching this crowd at the Kid Rock concert and being like, oh, you know, this is really an amazing thing.
00:39:27.680And then now, the last time I saw him was 2022.
00:39:30.780And seeing that crowd mature into a more Trump-loving, America-loving crowd has been really unbelievable to me.
00:39:39.140And it speaks to the far-reaching nature.
00:39:42.160You know, I sat and I watched those concerts in 2012 when Mitt Romney was there.
00:39:46.680Kid Rock very strongly endorsed Mitt Romney as one of the nicest men he'd ever met.
00:39:51.860And he played Born Free, I remember, at the convention.
00:39:57.720And there was not people at the Kid Rock concert celebrating Mitt Romney.
00:40:02.720There was, but now with Trump, we do see that.
00:40:05.840And it speaks to me to the cultural crossover.
00:40:08.500And Kid Rock performed last night at the RNC.
00:40:11.220So for me, being somebody who has kind of inserted himself into the political media here and been doing this on my own since 2020, actually.
00:40:21.460So to see Kid Rock make his way to the RNC stage, performing really unchained in front of these people, to me, signaled really the end of Republican elitism, the end of the high-donor country club Republicans.
00:40:36.340And a statement to these people, who some of which were not happy with the performance as they panned around the arena, that your time is over.
00:40:44.520You and Mitt Romney and John McCain and George Bush, your time is done.
00:41:01.600This is the party of the working-class Americans.
00:41:04.020And we don't care what the elites say.
00:41:06.700In fact, our vision as working-class Americans for this country is far better and brighter and more beautiful than anything that the elites, who tend to hate this country and hate the people in it, could ever dream up.
00:41:19.440So I pulled this clip so we could all enjoy this again.
00:41:23.000Kid Rock performing yesterday at the Republican National Convention.
00:41:27.480Never thought I'd say that, but so happy to see this.
00:44:18.840An electric performance from Kid Rock.
00:44:20.940So happy to see that at the Republican convention.
00:44:23.720Well, we wanted to run some clips here of the Trump speech, and we're just going to do, I think, a few of those selectively.
00:44:31.740But I really wanted to run this because it's important.
00:44:35.940You have Whoopi Goldberg and so many others in the media that are looking at this RNC, as we saw Joy Reid earlier.
00:44:41.960And they're extremely angry about the fact that Donald Trump has survived this assassination attempt, that the assassin's bullet did not end Donald Trump's life.
00:44:55.800And it's evident, if you watch them, the way they communicate about this, they're very angry.
00:44:59.740And Whoopi Goldberg actually stooped so low that she attacked President Trump's 17-year-old granddaughter, Kai Trump, for her excellent speech.
00:45:09.600I just want to say that Kai Trump did an excellent job, was so impressed with her.
00:45:13.580And I thought the idea of bringing out Trump's granddaughter to speak was such a smart move because so many people view Trump as this purely political individual, and that's how it's viewed.
00:45:27.820He's a real man, and that's why he's respected.
00:45:31.460Like I said, Kai Trump did such an excellent job at her speech, talking about, you know, personalizing her speech, talking about her life with her grandfather, and, you know, that interaction.
00:45:44.480It was even an interesting dynamic to kind of imagine because, you know, you realize, wow, there are kids who go to school and say, yeah, my grandfather, and they're talking about President Donald Trump.
00:45:54.980An amazing historical speech by Kai Trump.
00:45:58.360But I want to roll Whoopi Goldberg attacking this lovely young woman on The View just yesterday.
00:46:05.780I mean, just disgusting, attacking a minor granddaughter for talking at the RNC.
00:46:10.860Whoopi Goldberg is a disgrace, a pure disgrace.
00:46:14.940For me, I have a lot of faith in the American people, and I don't know very many men who want to be talked to the way that this man has been talking to men in his audience.
00:46:26.800I don't know any women, and I know his grandchild was up on the thing, and they're trying to humanize him and change your idea about who this guy is.
00:46:34.780A real sick woman who has dehumanized Donald Trump, and it's people like Whoopi Goldberg's language, where she refuses to say Trump's name, where she attacks him as Hitler, where she attacks him as an authoritarian.
00:46:58.540And the BS that's pushed on The View, that's exactly the kind of rhetoric that led to this assassination attempt.
00:47:05.200It's the same exact false, unhinged rhetoric that has plunged our country into these trying times and really put us on the brink of total annihilation.
00:47:17.440And while President Trump stands here today, I think it's important to point out Corey Comparator, who passed away, unfortunately, shortly after the rally, after being struck by a bullet while shielding his family from the fire.
00:47:33.860And President Trump, you know, it was very, it was an emotional moment for, I think, Trump supporters everywhere, brought out a mannequin type situation with the fire helmet and fire jacket of this hero, Corey Comparator.
00:47:49.000And I wanted to play a small clip of that because in this moment, you see that President Trump, you know, I wouldn't be surprised if there isn't going to be some kind of statue or some kind of foundation set up in this gentleman's name, because you can tell the adoration, the love that President Trump had for this supporter and how deeply he feels.
00:48:12.460Like he said, there's been $6 million raised since his death, thank God for his family, but it just, it can't come close to replacing this wonderful American husband and father.
00:48:23.500So let's play that clip, a very emotional from the RNC convention last night.
00:48:42.460I ask that we observe a moment of silence in honor of our friend, Corey.
00:49:13.240You know, the idea that anybody would take their family to something like a MAGA rally and it would be turned into a tragedy like this is, it's just, it's, it's indicative of the level of hatred that the Democrats have been espousing since Donald Trump first came down the escalator.
00:49:28.860It's a culmination of their rhetoric, and it is just, it's, it's a horrific thing for our country.
00:49:34.120I wanted to play another thing, this was Roger Stone, he tweeted out, and he told me personally that this was the best quote of the night.
00:49:42.040So I want to play this, that Trump states that he stands before this convention in this arena last night only by the grace of God.
00:49:54.320You know, thank you, Jesus, for not taking President Trump's life in Butler because, you know, the aftermath of that for this country would have been catastrophic to say the least.
00:50:05.740So let's roll that clip of President Trump praising God last night for being the reason he's standing on the stage.
00:50:39.420And I'll tell you, I stand before you in this arena only by the grace of Almighty God.
00:50:59.580There you have it, folks, and it's true.
00:51:02.040We thank God every day for everything, you know.
00:51:04.540I thank God every day for being on this show.
00:51:07.160For all of our viewers out there, I'm praying for you always, and I'm praying for our country because this is a terrible time for the United States of America.
00:51:16.560And as we get closer and closer to this election, it's becoming more apparent how heavy these situations are, how heavy things really are.
00:51:27.500I can't say enough for the strength of President Trump.
00:51:30.420I can't say enough for the strength of his supporters.
00:51:35.200I can't say enough about the people of this movement because without you, this country would be a very dark place.
00:51:43.860You know, we were told that if Donald Trump were elected, the stock market would crash.
00:51:48.980We were told that the world would enter new wars and that everything would be turned on its head.
00:51:54.560And we did see that, but not because of Donald Trump, because of the people who opposed him.
00:51:59.560They put in a COVID lockdown to steal the election, to steal your freedoms, and to basically trample the American economy that had seen such a resurgence under President Trump.
00:52:12.720And since that day, we've seen more and more people, when Trump comes down the escalator since that day, we've seen more and more people slowly but surely awaken to what we are seeing.
00:52:25.060And what we are seeing is a small flicker of light in an otherwise extinguished flame.
00:52:33.400In other words, America has thrived off of the sugar rush of the greatest generation for decades and decades now, not renewing itself in freedom, not renewing itself in liberty, not renewing itself in our basic principles and values.
00:52:52.520And because of that, we've seen ourselves stray further and further from the country that we once loved, that we once knew.
00:52:59.080And now we are left with something that we don't recognize, but there is hope.
00:53:04.940There is hope, ladies and gentlemen, because you exist and I exist and Roger Stone exists.
00:53:11.540And through this Make America Great Again movement, we have seen the American liberty espoused by our founding fathers, espoused by Abraham Lincoln, espoused by the great Americans of our history, George Patton and others.
00:53:28.960And if we as Americans come together as one, not in the name of politics, not in the name of any political establishment, but in the name of our God-given rights as Americans, we will win.
00:53:46.120And with the grace of God, we will make a better world, not just for us, but for our children and their children's children and their children after that.
00:53:54.680With our collective effort, folks, there is nothing that America can't accomplish.
00:54:00.780And it's not because of some economic stat or education stat or some size of military that America is the greatest country that has ever existed.