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00:03:26.480We also don't know whether, given the irregularities, there is some possibility of Trump appealing directly to the U.S. Supreme Court on due process issues.
00:03:37.200That's very rarely accepted, but very rarely have we had a president of the United States in this circumstance.
00:03:45.240Yeah, this is a constitutional crisis.
00:04:21.640Some people had false optimism that there were people on this jury who would look at the actual legal questions.
00:04:29.380But the trial structure was so rigged, Trump was so limited in what he could say, it was true that Michael Cohen was proven to be a liar on the stand.
00:04:40.240It was true that no evidence actually tying Trump himself to these bookkeeping transactions.
00:04:47.520I still don't think the government proved an underlying crime.
00:17:18.660Trump's best tactic is to turn this around on him.
00:17:23.540He can negate this trial by denouncing it as rigged, but then he can spin immediately on to the vulnerabilities of Hunter and Joe and Jim Biden,
00:17:34.260which are actually genuine, egregious financial and tax crimes.
00:17:40.520I'm Roger Stone, and, yes, you are in the Stone Zone, the place for politics.
00:17:53.540Is America undergoing a political realignment?
00:17:58.060Will an unjust result from a jury in New York City only accelerate that realignment?
00:18:05.680There's more than anecdotal evidence that African-American voters, Hispanic voters, and even younger voters are moving into the Trump column.
00:18:16.240Joining me today to discuss this and other political matters, of course, my co-host, Troy Smith, the editor-in-chief of Slingshot.News.
00:18:27.340Roger, it's a huge day. Happy to be here, as always.
00:18:29.740It is an interesting question. Most people don't realize this, but in 1932, more African-Americans voted for Herbert Hoover than Franklin Roosevelt.
00:18:43.760In 1960, despite Nixon's mishandling of the arrest of Dr. Martin Luther King, still almost a third of African-Americans voted Republican.
00:18:55.980That's, of course, because of the role of the Republican Party in the Civil War.
00:19:04.460But because of the New Deal and Lyndon Johnson's great society, African-Americans realigned with the Democratic Party beginning in the 1950s,
00:19:17.120culminating with African-Americans being an almost monolithic Democratic vote in this country in more recent elections.
00:19:25.360It was actually Donald Trump's ability to make incremental gains in that community that allowed him to win the presidency in 2016.
00:19:36.180If you will examine the vote in places like Detroit and Milwaukee and Miami, Fort Lauderdale and other major Philadelphia, certainly,
00:19:50.840you will see a small, incremental, but still significant increase between those votes received by Mitt Romney and those votes received by Donald Trump.
00:20:02.040Now, however, I think there's even greater opportunity in that community.
00:20:07.960And to discuss that and other matters, my good friend, Bishop Leon Benjamin, joins us now.
00:20:43.260There is a complete, what I call a complete exodus off of the Democratic plantation, a total and complete exodus.
00:20:54.520And we have to be able to understand that all the atrocities that's been going on over the last 50 plus years in the African-American community,
00:21:08.740in the minority community, has not gotten any better, especially in these rundown Democratic cities run by Democratic mayors
00:21:17.440and Democratic state houses and Democratic governors.
00:25:25.720I mean, high mortgage rates, rents, people can't even own a home.
00:25:30.180Fentanyl has, you know, crossed in through the borders because of China and gone into our deepest inner city black communities where people are dying every day.
00:25:42.840I mean, this is all what MAGA Black now has, look, with the help of many patriots, thank God for our supporters and those that are supporting us.
00:25:51.720They can go to our website at magablack.org and join into the fight.
00:25:56.180But we are in major battleground states.
00:26:04.540We're in Detroit, in Michigan, and in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
00:26:09.080And we're about to open up probably a couple of other states because people are hungry for change in the black community.
00:26:17.300And no more denying, it's been an exodus for a while, Roger.
00:26:21.660Like you mentioned, Rami, from that time going forward, there's been a total determination that something needs to change.
00:26:33.420And especially between black males between ages 18 and 34, they are making the change.
00:26:39.280They are leaving the Democrat plantation, and they're making up in their minds that, hey, if they can go after Trump, put him in jail, throw the key away, what's going to happen to us?
00:26:52.800So there is total, 100% identity, come on, being able to identify with someone like Donald Trump.
00:27:20.680Mr. Benjamin, I wanted to ask you about what's going on in the cities as it pertains to illegal immigration because we see rising problems in New York and other cities where city resources are being given to non-citizens.
00:27:32.460Can you speak to this and the effect it's having on the black community nationwide?
00:28:01.480Could you imagine telling your children you can't go to school this year anymore because we're bringing illegals and turning your school into housing?
00:29:10.120And it has impacted where the welfare system is now being strangled.
00:29:16.180So what should be going to the black community when we talk about the EBT system, the EBT cards, the paying for child care, all those things are now being strangled because of illegal immigration.
00:29:31.440We've got a short video here that produced by the MAGA Black Project.
00:29:38.440For decades, the Marxist left has propagandized African-Americans in an effort to make them dependent on government and ensure their own power.
00:29:48.740In doing so, they have destroyed individuals, families and entire communities.
00:29:54.220The Democrat Party has been the primary vehicle in means of the devastating destruction and the subjugation of black and other minority communities.
00:30:04.860Since Lyndon Johnson's cynical perversion of the Civil Rights Act, black and brown Americans have had to endure pain, hopelessness and empty promises from politicians and organizations in and out of government to use them and abuse them for power and political gain.
00:30:22.360Then ignore them until the next election.
00:30:27.320In 2016, the election of Donald J. Trump brought the much-needed change.
00:30:33.300The America First policies of his administration brought real prosperity, dignity and restored hope to communities damaged and victimized by so many years of liberal policies and lies.
00:30:46.640President Trump's Make America Great Again movement gave rise to the greatest economy this republic has ever experienced.
00:30:54.760It provided those living in victimized and subjugated communities real opportunity to take full advantage of the American dream for the very first time.
00:31:05.520These policies were breaking the chains of dependence on government, giving birth to real hope and opportunity.
00:31:12.440The Biden regime's Build Back Better debacle has erased historic gains of Trump's America First MAGA agenda.
00:31:20.900Increasing levels of crime, unemployment, rising prices, moral decay and the overreaching efforts to remove our individual God-given rights has devastated once hopeful individuals, families and whole communities.
00:31:36.900For generations, Democrats have followed the Marxist playbook by driving wedges of division and hatred among Americans of all stripes.
00:31:46.980What the Marxists in Washington and those around the country fail to understand is that those living in minority communities are not stupid.
00:31:56.700They don't want to see themselves as victims or wars of the Marxist master state or to be controlled by lying politicians, race hustlers and all powerful bureaucrats.
00:32:10.400The white liberal differs from the white conservative only in one way.
00:32:15.080The liberal is more deceitful, more hypocritical through tricks or tokenism.
00:32:20.240Look how much African-American communities have suffered under democratic control.
00:32:28.900America must reject the bigotry of Hillary Clinton, who sees communities of color only as votes, not as human beings worthy of a better future.
00:32:41.240Trump's MAGA policies provided a taste of true independence, dignity, hope, prosperity and freedom to those who had only dreamed of these things.
00:32:53.060For the first time, Americans who had all their lives felt trapped in a cycle of poverty, persecution and exclusion were able to taste the sweetness of America's promise.
00:33:06.060Now, years after President Donald Trump's removal from the White House and the enactment of the present regime's policies, the whole nation is suffering, especially black and brown communities.
00:33:18.940Many in these communities are waking up to the reality of the situation our nation is facing.
00:33:24.920They are witnessing the absolute persecution of Donald Trump, the one man who kept his word to work on their behalf.
00:33:32.720They recognize the unfair hate-filled treatment he is receiving, and they recognize it for what it is.
00:34:25.720A very powerful video by my friend Leon Benjamin that I think laid it out very nicely.
00:34:33.800In addition to the economic empowerment issues, I think the criminal justice reform record of Donald Trump is something that was not utilized as extensively as it should have been in the 2020 campaign and really does need to be utilized in this campaign.
00:34:51.340It is Joe Biden, who, as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is the author of the 1994 crime bill.
00:35:00.500This shifted the focus of the war on drugs away from drug kingpins and drug traffickers and drug cartels and drug dealers to the end user.
00:35:13.000In other words, it was Biden, in a law signed by Bill Clinton, that for the first time mandated the harsh mandatory penalties for the first time nonviolent crime of possession of small amounts of drugs.
00:35:31.160Now, people with this problem belong in drug treatment programs.
00:36:10.780Leon, do you think that that issue, criminal justice reform, should be an important element of Donald Trump's appeal in the black community?
00:36:22.340I mean, after all of this lawfare, we really got to gut the whole judicial, the whole legal system.
00:36:32.000And so what the First Step Act did was cause the community to align themselves again with the prisons, with the BOP, the Bureau of Prisons and all of the other jails and so forth,
00:36:45.440where now we can work from the inside out, and that's what has to happen.
00:36:49.900So it's not just drain the swamp, it's drain the legal system, too.
00:36:54.760And President Donald Trump will be the right person to go in and reinitiate again the First Step Act,
00:37:01.240which was very, very, very beneficial to the black community.
00:37:06.580And everybody else, there were people, as you know, Roger Stone, were getting let out that they thought they'd never see the light of day.
00:37:14.220And so we are back in that position again.
00:37:18.700And I think right now that should be at one of the things at the top of the ticket when it comes to criminal justice reform.
00:37:25.780So you are right spot on in saying that.
00:37:28.120It has always been ironic to me that in the case of both the First Step Act and the Second Chance Act,
00:37:36.320the only two major pieces of criminal justice reform in decades,
00:37:41.780that so many members of the House Black Caucus, who have been calling for these exact reforms for years,
00:37:49.120voted against it simply because it was put forward and pushed by President Donald Trump.
00:37:54.500So they did this to the detriment of the people that they allegedly represent.
00:38:00.480Troy, do you have a final question for our guest, Leon Benjamin?
00:38:55.180So I'm not trying to say everybody's broke.
00:38:57.340But the majority of the people in the minority community are not going to be trying to buy an electric vehicle.
00:39:03.740So all these things, if he gets in office, you might as well just kiss the black community bye-bye
00:39:11.240and allow the fall in detriment of the whole entire society.
00:39:15.860Because there was a wise man that said, if you put your foot on one man, come on.
00:39:21.100If you keep one man down, you're keeping everybody else down.
00:39:25.060And that's exactly what the Democrat Party has been doing for years.
00:39:28.820And their plight against the black community now, I believe, is backfiring.
00:39:33.880So we're about to see a tremendous upset here in 2024 because the black community are finally awakening to the plots, plans, tricks, and wows of the Democrat Party.
00:39:49.660It is past time, due time, and it is our time.
00:49:22.300Those people from the Bronx, the people at the Wildwood rally, those people from Wildwood.
00:49:26.960I was at the only other previous Wildwood rally as well.
00:49:30.000And, yeah, so I guess my answer is that's absurd.
00:49:32.940Yeah, there's a lot of more than anecdotal evidence that would indicate that New Jersey really is in play.
00:49:41.200Even if President Trump decides to compete there, it, of course, would force the Democrats to shift resources to a state that heretofore they thought was safely in the bank.
00:51:42.700Please go to Joe's website and make a generous contribution to his campaign.
00:51:48.740Here's the one thing I know about Joe Belenorme.
00:51:52.100If he is elected to Congress, he will stand in the House with members like Anna Polina Luna and Matt Gaetz and Paul Gosar and Elise Stefanik and others as staunch supporters of President Donald Trump.
00:52:12.380So if you are looking to send a rhino to Congress, if you're looking to send someone who will vote more with the Democrats than the Republicans, don't vote for Jersey Joe.
00:52:24.760But if you're looking for a patriot and a guy who really understands America first, who's been in this movement from the very beginning, well, Joe Belenorme is your guy.
00:52:37.460Troy, you have another question for the next congressman from the 11th District.
00:53:03.360Well, so for corruption like Bob Menendez is accused of, you know, this is not even the first time.
00:53:11.000And the details of his case spell out like a movie, you know, like gold bars and, you know, cash and envelopes and researching how much gold bars cost on the internet.
00:53:23.040I bring a message of restore integrity because that's something our government is seriously lacking.
00:53:31.480So we need to restore our integrity in our justice system.
00:53:35.780What we witnessed happened to Roger Stone, what we witnessed happening to Donald Trump right now.
00:53:40.640And right-leaning conservative groups are being targeted.
00:53:45.500So that's something we need major reforms in our justice system and FBI.
00:53:49.940We need to restore integrity in, I know you brought up Menendez, but the theme plays out through every facet of our government.
00:53:58.340We need to restore integrity in our border.
00:54:00.640You know, we need to restore integrity with spending in our country.
00:54:39.680The border, if you secure the border, like Donald Trump had done and would have completed if they didn't, you know, other things happen, it's helped so many other problems.
00:57:26.020I want to ask folks again, please go to votejerseyjoe.com, votejerseyjoe.com and send a generous contribution for this America First Warrior.
00:57:39.380Joe, thank you so much for joining us today in the Stone Zone.
00:58:04.380If you live in New Jersey, if you happen to live in the 11th District, Joe Belknome is your man.
00:58:10.320Folks, if you're interested in history and you've always really wondered who actually killed President John F. Kennedy, let me recommend to you my New York Times bestselling book, The Man Who Killed Kennedy, The Case Against LBJ.
00:58:27.080This book is a New York Times bestseller in which I put forward the thesis that there was indeed a conspiracy, I hate that word, between Lyndon Baines Johnson, the Central Intelligence Agency, organized crime, Big Texas Oil, the banking interests, the Secret Service, and many others.
00:58:53.580I lay out the motive, means, and opportunity for Lyndon Johnson to kill his predecessor on the streets of Dallas.
00:59:05.280I use eyewitness evidence, fingerprint evidence, and deep Texas politics to make my case.
00:59:26.920This is the paperback version, which you want because it has three additional chapters that I wrote after the hardcover was first published.
00:59:36.980It is a spellbinder in which I think I pull it all together.
00:59:41.600So those who say the CIA killed JFK, they're not wrong.
00:59:46.200Those who say it was the mob, they're not wrong either.
00:59:49.900Those who say it was others in the government, they're involved too.
00:59:56.220But I lay it all out here in extensive detail.