Former NYPD Detective Sal Greco joins me to talk about his experience attending a special Catholic prayer for President Trump at Mar-A-Largo, and why he thinks New York City is going to hell in a handbasket. We also discuss the scandal that broke out in the New York Police Department that resulted in the termination of a 14-year NYPD detective named Salvatore Greco, who served the people of New York with an unblemished record of 14 years of service, sometimes assigned to some of the most dangerous precincts in the city, often pulling the so-called "night shift" in the NYPD's most dangerous precinct. We also talk about the scandal surrounding Mayor Eric Adams, who was fired from the NYPD after an investigation into his alleged involvement in a corruption scandal involving a fellow officer. And we talk about why he's suing the city for $25 million, which could be a good name in a lawsuit against the NYPD. The Stone Zone with Roger Stone is a show about politics, culture, and pop culture. Roger Stone has 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 Donald Trump. As an outspoken libertarian, Stone has appeared on thousands of broadcasts, spoken at thousands of public events, and lectured before the prestigious Oxford Political Union and the Cambridge Union Society Society, and has lectured at countless venues, including Harvard and Oxford University. He is a pop culture icon and has been described as a "pop culture icon." Roger Stone and now, here's your host, Roger Stone, on the show on The Stonezone with his show on the newest show on HBO's Hard Knocks The FiveThirtyEight. and on the Tonight Show with John Oliver's The Late Night Show with Seth Meyers on his new show on C-SPAN's "Keeping Up With John McCain on HBO s The Nightly News with John McCain on CBS Radio's "Good Morning America and his new book, The Good Fight on The Fivethirty on NBC's "The FiveThirty One. on his newest podcast, Good Morning and much more! in the new season of The Sixthirty Yard. with John Rell on this week's "New York Times Radio's John Rapper, John Rocha on the Four Corners and "The Six Million Dollar Man.
00:03:16.440I want to get right into the politics.
00:03:19.480Let me bring in our next guest, former New York City police officer Sal Greco, served the people of New York with an unblemished record of 14 years' service,
00:03:35.640sometimes being assigned to some of the most dangerous precincts in the city, often pulling the midnight shift, the so-called graveyard shift.
00:03:47.280He's a proud son of Staten Island with many awards for his service as a police officer.
00:03:56.320But shortly after January 6th, because he was in Washington, D.C., with me on the 5th and the 6th,
00:04:06.340and despite the fact that neither one of us went to the Capitol, nor is there any evidence whatsoever that we knew about,
00:04:16.160that we knew about how condoned or played any role whatsoever in any illegal activity, Salvatore Greco was terminated from his position as a New York City police officer.
00:04:29.940He was terminated after a long administrative trial in which the corruption of the investigation into him was exposed,
00:04:44.060but also in which it became absolutely clear that he was not being treated the same as every other police officer.
00:04:52.720Yes, there is a regulation that says that a New York City police officer cannot associate with people who in the past or who in the future may be potentially involved in criminal activity.
00:05:10.420Well, unfortunately, Mayor Eric Adams himself would certainly meet that criteria.
00:05:16.480He brags in his biographical book that he had provided bodyguard services for both Mike Tyson, a convicted felon,
00:05:30.460and the Reverend Louis Farrakhan, yet another convicted felon.
00:05:36.320But when Eric Adams was brought up on these administrative charges, they docked his vacation days in punishment.
00:05:46.480Compare that, for example, to Sal Greco, who lost his job that he loved, his pension, and most importantly, his good name.
00:05:57.240Without a good conduct letter from the city of New York's police department, he could not find work as a police officer in any other jurisdiction.
00:06:07.780Yet he did nothing wrong and is being held to a different standard.
00:06:12.120As you saw in those headlines, he has filed a $25 million lawsuit against New York City.
00:06:20.880That lawsuit has survived two motions by the city of New York to dismiss it.
00:06:29.940Sal, but because of this crucible, this horrific—my dog agrees what they did to Sal is outrageous.
00:06:41.200Because of this outrageous discrimination against Sal Greco, Sal has had time to dig into the activities of many, many others in the New York City Police Department,
00:07:33.320I do want to have our conversation this evening to be in context, and I think that's important.
00:07:40.580You and I were together in Washington, D.C. on January 5th and January 6th.
00:07:49.100On January 5th, I spoke at a legally permitted rally that was literally steps from our hotel.
00:08:00.360We both had rooms in which we slept in the Willard Hotel.
00:08:04.740Sal, at any time did I or you go to a so-called war room in the Willard Hotel where it is alleged that Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Steve Bannon, and others were working on the effort to delay the Electoral College vote in the U.S. Senate in an effort to have the Electoral College vote sent back to the states for reevaluation?
00:08:37.400In fact, I believe you and I were stunned when we—if you remember, Rudy Giuliani actually walked by us to go to the Ellipse, and we were in the lobby actually outside the hotel.
00:08:49.860That was the first that we ever noticed that Rudy was even in the hotel.
00:08:54.000So, uh, this constant drumbeat, also there was something about Cassidy Hutchinson, and she testified that, uh, they tried to call Roger the night of January 5th.
00:09:04.900And I could attest to this because me and Roger had gone to a barbershop, a local barbershop, and Roger's phone wasn't even working because at that time, uh, the phone was actually charging.
00:09:17.400How do I know this? Uh, his phone wasn't in use, so he had to use my phone to call into a prayer—I believe it was a prayer service—with a bunch of pastors.
00:09:28.460So, this phone call that this woman said happened actually never did because the phone didn't work.
00:09:34.940It was charging in the wall outlet in the barbershop.
00:09:38.560So, a lot of this stuff is a lot of hyperbole.
00:09:42.080It's a lot of, uh, trying to, like, I'd say frame certain people, whether it be, uh, Roger or General Mike Flynn or even myself, where they're saying, I'm guilty.
00:09:53.440Basically, I'm guilty by association because I'm there with you, Roger.
00:09:56.580And, uh, they—they—they try to carve you out like a carcature and then make you out to be something that you never were.
00:10:02.960So, a lot of these accusations are completely false, Roger.
00:10:07.740This is the absolute truth, what I'm stating here.
00:10:10.100Yeah, it is interesting to me, and this is very significant, um, it has been alleged that one of the oathkeepers who was charged for seditious conspiracy, a man named Joshua James, was, quote, in my hotel room.
00:10:24.540In fact, um, uh, I did, uh, because I could not hire professional security, since none was available, I had a voluntary group from the Oath Group Keepers who provided security for me on the 5th.
00:10:38.520Joshua James did, in fact, drop my suitcase off in my room.
00:10:43.600Uh, that's the extent to my contact with him.
00:10:50.020Uh, but more importantly, he testified under oath in your administrative trial, uh, that I had no advanced knowledge, uh, or involvement whatsoever in the activities of the Oath Keepers.
00:11:48.100Uh, Sal became a very close friend with my entire family.
00:11:52.480visited us in Florida on his own dime, uh, at Christmas, uh, and Easter.
00:11:58.820Uh, we found we had a lot of things in common, uh, but neither one of us went to the Capitol on January 6th.
00:12:06.920Neither one of us ever had any plan to go to the Capitol on January 6th.
00:12:11.920Yet, uh, after the president spoke, uh, in my hotel room, the house phone rang, uh, and it was Sal Greco who answered it.
00:12:21.960Uh, it was at that time that two secret service agents who were then in the lobby of our hotel told us that they had been instructed to escort me to the Capitol.
00:12:37.340Yes, Roger, that phone call did happen.
00:12:40.120And, uh, unfortunately, I, you know, I'm not thinking I should have jolted a name down wherever spoke.
00:12:45.360And I believe when I, when I had stated what they wanted, uh, you says, uh, you said something to the degree of absolutely not, or I'm not going there, or, you know, who, whose idea was this?
00:12:56.580And basically I said, uh, we're not doing that.
00:12:59.500And I, I put the phone down that phone call had become public, or I believe it was even recorded somewhere.
00:13:06.520If people would have seen this would have saved a lot of drama, a lot of, again, taxpayer dollars being used in some phony committee, which hunt that I myself was dragged into a cost me money.
00:13:18.880I didn't have, and Roger all to find out that basically it's a setup because what would have happened is if we would have left at that time, Roger, we would have gotten if under, under what they wanted.
00:13:31.600We would have gotten to the front of the, uh, outside the hotel into the Capitol right around the time when the, uh, events we'll call it started to happen there.
00:13:41.660So that whole thing was a setup, Roger, and it's a shame that nobody ever shed a light on the fact that they actually called to try to, uh, take you to the Capitol so that you could be set up to take the fall for, for whatever, whatever they had planned apparently that day.
00:13:59.000I never had any plan to go to the Capitol, never told anybody I would.
00:14:03.400So it's very hard to imagine who it was who assigned these Secret Service agents to escort me to the Capitol since I had no plans to go there.
00:14:13.260All right, we have to go to a quick commercial break.
00:14:16.000Uh, I wanted to get a lot of that housekeeping stuff out of the way.
00:14:19.460Then we're going to talk to, uh, Sal Greco about Mayor Eric Adams and the incredible, uh, disparity between the way some people are treated within the NYPD, uh, and the way that other people are treated.
00:21:35.400What's the status of that investigation?
00:21:38.400So, Roger, it's funny you mention this, because that investigation there that's involved in the Southern District of New York, that one with Turkey,
00:21:48.400they now also are looking at one in the Eastern District of New York, which happens to be where my case is at, actually.
00:21:55.400So you have two U.S. prosecutors, both African American, by the way.
00:22:00.400So let's get that angle that Eric likes to, you know, throw out in your face that he's being persecuted like David Dinkins, whatever that means.
00:23:04.400So that's that part of the investigation.
00:23:06.400But again, we now have the one in the Eastern District where they're clearly, you know, going into this whole Asian connection with China,
00:23:15.400Winnie Greco, this business, this businessman, billionaire businessman, and Frank Caron is centered around that also,
00:23:22.400because he was his chief of staff and head fundraiser.
00:23:25.400Now he's the head of his legal defense fund campaign, raising the money there.
00:23:31.400So if you look at this New York City police regulation, which doesn't specifically say that a police officer cannot consort or associate with a convicted felon.
00:23:44.400What it specifically says is that they cannot associate with someone who in the past or who in the future can reasonably be believed to be involved in criminal activity.
00:23:59.400Yet it wasn't so long ago that the New York City Police Department invited Cardi B, a rapper who makes songs glorifying the murder of police officers,
00:24:13.400and who has a record of her own as a gang member as a as a as a entertainment, shall we say, or a commencement speaker at the New York City Police Academy.
00:24:27.400Would not every police officer, particularly the police brass who who who came in contact with Cardi B and be in violation of the same regulation under which you were unfairly terminated?
00:24:40.400That's right, Roger. One hundred percent violation of the very rule, because remember what it said,
00:24:46.400because you cannot wrongfully unknowingly associate with someone who is reasonably believed to have engaged in or likely to have engaged in criminal activity.
00:24:54.400That's the rule. So under this definition, as broad as it may seem, Cardi B coming to the police academy and hobnobbing with everybody there who took pictures and put it on social media.
00:25:06.400By the way, the police academy is a secure facility. There's a lot of things that are there. There's documents there. There's weapons there.
00:25:13.400There's weapons there. And they're parading this person who's a known gang member around the facility.
00:25:20.400And that clearly is in violation of that that rule. And that's why the judge saw through these motion to dismiss and mooted their motion to dismiss.
00:25:30.400And that's why we're at the stage where we're at with the in discovery right now.
00:25:35.400All right. Now, you've also uncovered the fact that the current police commissioner, Ed Caban, he has his own problems in this regard.
00:25:45.400And they relate to a watering hole in the Bronx called Consafrito, where it seems to me that multiple police officers have also violated that exact same regulation, which cost you your job.
00:26:03.400But they're being held to a very different standard. Tell us about that.
00:26:09.400Sure, Roger. So with this place, this this place is coming to the light because it's not only a watering hole for cops.
00:26:16.400It's also a watering hole for politicians and criminals and felons, convicted felons.
00:26:22.400So this watering hole is actually owned by Ed Caban's brother, Richard Caban.
00:26:28.400OK, and it was operating illegally for four years. And why why do I say this?
00:26:33.400So in this place, as reported by the city and then also the Daily News, there's a huge structure.
00:26:39.400It's about 50 to 100 feet. I believe it's a wooden structure and it's it's made of wood.
00:26:45.400And they pass this off as a party room. OK, so they whenever people come in there or you have fundraisers, they have them in this this structure.
00:26:55.400The only problem is the day that they got their liquor license, which is in June of 2022, when the Department of Buildings went to Consofrido, they stated right there, they gave them a twenty five hundred dollar fine and said this place is a public safety hazard and this structure must be torn down.
00:27:13.400This structure has no certificate of occupancy. They disregarded that, Roger.
00:27:18.400They continued on. Two months later, the fire department shows up.
00:27:23.400The fire department goes in, hits them with 19 violations, one, including having no fire suppression system.
00:27:29.400Now the structure has become a fire trap. I don't like happy land in the Bronx years ago, which burnt down.
00:27:35.400And unfortunately, many people perished. Why?
00:27:37.400There are all these rules in place in these balance and checks, the checks and balances of these agencies.
00:27:42.400They also disregarded that one year later, late last year, fire department returns, but not to shut them down, Roger, to issue another summons.
00:27:52.400And it wasn't until January 6th of all days where they had another party, which, by the way, was sponsored by Internal Affairs, the same bureau that said, I'm a bad guy because I'm your friend.
00:28:06.400They had a party there where they busted children as pictures and videos of this into the structure.
00:28:12.400Finally, they were put into court, Roger. In the court, they stated that they had a stipulation they agreed on that they were going to pay the landlord back $14,000.
00:28:23.400They haven't paid rent since July of 2023. They haven't even paid the water bill.
00:28:30.400So they have to pay all this back money. Plus, they're going to be paying the rent from here to August and agreed to shut down in August and rip down the structure.
00:28:40.400But, Roger, this is what we call endangering the public. It's actually a D-class felony.
00:28:46.400So explain to me or someone, I mean, Troy, maybe you could test this. How is Leticia James, the attorney general, sitting there hanging out in this place?
00:28:56.400Which, by the way, the manager and creator on LinkedIn of this place is a guy by the name of Jimmy Rodriguez Jr.
00:29:03.400The guy's a self-admitted criminal and a mob associate. And we actually have the evidence of this.
00:29:09.400OK, so Jimmy Rodriguez is saying he's the manager, but he's owned many places before one of them, which being the old Jimmy's Cafe or we called him Jimmy's Bronx Cafe.
00:29:21.400And this place was known for shootings. There were stabbings. There were unsolved murders. There's felons.
00:29:28.400It's so bad that New York Yankees, Major League Baseball banned the New York Yankees and every team from having their players go there for two years.
00:29:37.400OK, so this is the caricature that they're saying is OK for all.
00:29:42.400He's a caricature, but all these officers are associating with Jimmy, associating with Rich Caban, who's engaged in a criminal act.
00:29:52.140So you tell me, Roger, it seems that they right now are engaged in a criminal act and all these officers that went there, which are all high ranking, starting with Eddie Caban, whose face is there.
00:30:03.360He the way he's pictured, he seems to be the owner of the place.
00:30:07.360Then we're going to have people like Mayor Eric Adams, Letitia James, the Bronx District Attorney, Carl Hastie, the head of the speaker of the of the New York Assembly.
00:30:16.360Numerous assembly, assemblymen, assemblywomen, state senators, and then all high ranking officers, Roger.
00:30:23.360So I'm talking about Deputy Commissioner of Equity, Wendy Garcia, Deputy Commissioner of Community Affairs, Mark Stewart.
00:30:34.360On Inspector Perry, the list, Roger could go on and on and on, all the high ranking people that go there.
00:30:41.360So, Roger, Troy, how can you say, Sal Greco, his continued employment in the NYPD would be detrimental to the job because of my relationship and friendship with Roger.
00:30:53.360Roger, but nobody here is being, one, investigated, two, charged for anything, three, there's criminal activity going on there.
00:31:14.980Troy, do you have another question for Sal Greco?
00:31:17.200Then we're going to get into the fact that, well, now, Mayor Adams, maybe this is the result of unintended consequences.
00:31:25.580When the state legislature extended the timeframe for the filing of sexual assault charges in order to try to set Donald Trump up in the E. Jean Carroll case,
00:31:38.480they inadvertently snagged both former Governor Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Eric Adams himself.
00:31:48.040We'll talk about that in one second, but first, Troy, your question.
00:33:27.540They're trying to perceive things differently than what it really is.
00:33:30.420So, many officers are just handcuffed because of the politics and they're involving their leadership.
00:33:35.320And also, I like to say this, Michael Kemper and also Chief of Patrol John Schell, the other token pale whiteface chief, he's the guy who sits there.
00:33:43.800They both are now taking political stances.
00:33:46.680They're actually calling out judges, putting judges' names online.
00:34:14.040So, why are they coming out making political statements and actually saying, well, you know, the NYPD does what they're supposed to do, but do the prosecutors and the legislatures?
00:34:33.420So, why is a chief of all things and not the police commissioner who's missing in action, Ed Caban, or Eric Adams coming out and saying this?
00:34:44.380The cops and the supervisors are basically who are not hanging out at Conso Frito.
00:34:48.720They're basically victimized by the leadership because you can't do anything other than follow the leadership.
00:34:54.020And that's a lot of what you see today in law enforcement around the country kind of has the same, you know, the same, we'll say the same, like, attitude, where the leadership is the one leading the rank and file straight down the tubes.
00:35:10.140We're going to go to a very quick commercial break, and then we'll be back with both Sal Greco and Troy Smith to talk about whether, well, is New York City doomed?
00:35:22.880She called me today, and she told me something, and I said, you have got to tell the audience this.
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00:35:47.560Well, I went to my hairdresser, and I had not told her about this product that I've been taking.
00:35:52.400When she was blow-drying my hair, she said, you, I just noticed when I was parting your hair and fixing it that you have a bunch of new hair growth.
00:35:59.960I've been going to this lady for probably 13 years, and she's never said that to me.
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00:36:12.940And it's growing, and you just have all these baby hairs growing in, and they're kind of curly.
00:36:17.340And so I just told her that what I was taking, and she was amazed, so.
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00:37:53.120So you could go on the Rumble channel on Rumble, you go to the Doug Sal Greco Show on Rumble, or you could go on YouTube.
00:38:00.540And on YouTube, it's also the Sal Greco Show.
00:38:03.660And actually, Roger, the next episode I'm going to have on is a friend of mine, Eric Dimm, another former lieutenant on the NYPD, that he had to retire.
00:38:12.000He was the most complained cop, all these bogus allegations they made against him.
00:38:15.680And we're actually going to break down what we just discussed with Concefrito, because, Roger, I mean, there's many allegations of straw donor cash donations and selling access to politicians.
00:38:28.460And, you know, Roger, like I said, Letitia James, who I hope Donald Trump's lawyers are listening, you cannot get her off the case or try to get her disbarred by saying it's a political persecution, even though it is.
00:38:44.440Every judge in New York will throw that out.
00:38:46.040But what you can raise, what is her relationship to, one, Jimmy Rodriguez, who is a known criminal and a mob associate?
00:38:54.100And by the way, very good friends of the Bill and Hillary Clinton, which she's pictured all over the place with.
00:38:59.140So what is her relationship with Jimmy Rodriguez and what is her business at Concefrito?
00:39:07.080Her staffer sued her chief of staff for sexual assault and a rape, and is she trying to quell that?
00:39:13.120And there's other staffers I'm hearing that same thing happened.
00:39:16.700They've had sexual assaults going on there.
00:39:19.060So I don't know what her business is and what her campaign and her staff is, but she's at Concefrito, Roger, with all this shenanigans going on with Eric Adams and company.
00:39:29.380So that's what needs to be raised, and that's what needs to be looked into.
00:39:33.160And I actually get into this on my show, and on the next episode, you'll see that.
00:39:40.760As I said, they changed New York state law very specifically to extend the time period in which someone could bring a claim for sexual assault.
00:39:51.360They did this specifically to accommodate this woman, E. Jean Carroll, who, as we know, filed charges against Donald Trump.
00:42:13.520So, Roger, the question is why are the taxpayers responsible for his, you know, behavior, we'll say his conduct, on and off duty as an NYPD police officer?
00:42:30.160Let me thank our guest, Sal Greco, a distinguished member of the New York City Police Department for 14 years who has been unfairly terminated.
00:42:41.380He's fighting that in court and will get, I think, justice ultimately in this matter.
00:42:47.140Sal, thank you for joining us in the Stone Zone.
00:42:50.620We will have you back soon to give us an update on your case.
00:42:55.180Where's the best place for people to follow you?
00:44:25.020Yesterday, there was a report from Bloomberg News that President Donald Trump was considering the appointment of former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy for the position of White House Chief of Staff.
00:44:43.940Now, I know the reporter who wrote this.
00:44:47.000I know that she's actually a good reporter.
00:44:49.960She would not write this without a source and a confirmation.
00:44:55.020However, I checked on this this morning with the Trump camp, and I can tell you, Troy, it is categorically false.
00:45:05.060There is no current consideration of making former Speaker Kevin McCarthy the White House Chief of Staff.
00:45:14.320While we're at it, it will also not be Senator Lindsey Graham.
00:45:18.360So, this is disinformation that is being sown to try to undermine President Trump in his base.
00:45:26.680But I can tell you from authoritative sources, it is simply wrong.
00:45:36.260Yesterday, Florida had its historic Florida Republican presidential primary.
00:45:43.040And the deadline had passed for Governor Ron DeSantis to remove his name from the ballot.
00:45:51.520He, of course, had withdrawn from the race after the Iowa caucuses.
00:45:56.820Also, Nikki Haley, her name was also on the ballot, despite the fact that she ended her campaign.
00:46:04.060But the results, as we'll put up on the screen here, fairly shocking.
00:46:09.540First of all, Donald Trump almost got one million votes in a very low-key primary in which, obviously, no candidates were advertising.
00:46:20.520He got 81.2 percent of the vote and almost captured a million votes.
00:46:26.140That's extraordinary, shows the intensity of his support.
00:46:30.280And he won all 125 Florida delegates to the Republican National Convention.
00:46:37.740Nikki Haley, who had also withdrawn, she got 155,463 votes.
00:46:45.120But Governor Ron DeSantis, who we're told was extremely popular in Florida, he clocked in at less than 4 percent of the vote, at only 3.7 percent of the vote, or roughly 41,234 Floridians.
00:47:03.140I really find this relatively shocking.
00:47:07.040It was only a little less than two years ago that Ron DeSantis won a record victory for re-election.
00:47:15.780There were, after that, some polls that actually very briefly showed him ahead of President Donald Trump nationally and in some of the early states.
00:47:26.880But that campaign collapsed of its own weight when Governor DeSantis began attacking the man who was completely and totally responsible for his rise in national politics.
00:47:41.660Troy, any observations about yesterday's Florida primary?
00:47:59.860And the numbers yesterday showed that, Roger.
00:48:02.780And it also shows that, you know, I think DeSantis, we talked about this on the show, I think he's kind of waiting in the grass.
00:48:08.740He's praying that Donald Trump is hit by a bus.
00:48:11.620He's praying that something happens where there's not going to be a Trump nomination here and that he can kind of hide behind Trump and step up when it's time.
00:48:19.940And I think these numbers prove, Roger, there's no loyalty to this guy.
00:48:22.500It's because he shows no loyalty to anybody.
00:48:25.080And not only that, but his second term has been a complete disaster for the state of Florida.
00:48:46.080Now, we were in election year, but those signs remained up for a while until he launched his presidential bid.
00:48:51.760And as soon as he launched his presidential bid, the signs disappeared.
00:48:55.180People stopped supporting Ron DeSantis.
00:48:57.020And the question that comes to my mind with this embarrassing humiliation, I think you'd be poised perfect here to answer here, Roger, is will Ron DeSantis ever be able to hold political office again after his term for governor expires in 2028?
00:49:12.120It would appear to me that the people have basically forgotten and totally dismissed Ron DeSantis as a option politically.
00:49:19.580I would actually argue with those who say, well, if he had just simply waited and supported Donald Trump, it all would have dropped into his lap.
00:49:29.420I actually think that the fatal flaws in his candidacy, his lack of people skills, his strange, awkward personality, the overbearing and annoying presence of his overly ambitious wife, I think all of these things would have become clear in 2028.
00:49:48.700Not to mention his flip-flopping on key issues, tariffs for China.
00:50:18.120What he intends to do between then and 2028, well, that remains to be seen.
00:50:24.620I think what you will see is that he will begin extorting the special interests who essentially funded his presidential campaign and start stockpiling money in a state political action committee,
00:50:38.120which then he will transfer that money to a federal political committee, which I believe is a violation of the law.
00:50:46.620It's never been done before, but he did it successfully because the Federal Election Commission is split three to three, three Republicans and three Democrats.
00:50:55.860They don't ever really take action against anybody for anything.
00:51:00.680Otherwise, I don't know where he will get the money if he is no longer governor and no longer able to extort the special interests.
00:51:10.360We know, for example, that Florida Power and Light and their subsidiaries, they gave him nine and a half million dollars for his various committees.
00:51:18.440And in return, we Floridians got a 22 percent increase in our electricity rates.
00:51:25.240We also know that the insurance industry gave him roughly five million dollars.
00:51:30.660In return, he signed legislation that prevents anyone whose home was destroyed in a hurricane from suing their insurance company
00:51:40.580if they're dissatisfied if they're dissatisfied with these pennies on the dollar offers that are made to replace their property or their roof and so on.
00:51:52.040Insurance rates are through the roof here in Florida.
00:52:47.720To wrap this up, Joe Biden, back when the special counsel's report said that he essentially was in mental deterioration,
00:53:00.060at the time he said, just watch me, just watch me.
00:53:03.160I think we've got a couple of quick videos here where we indeed can watch him.
00:53:07.620We have made so much progress together, but we know that there is still work to be done, which is why we are...
00:53:15.000If we drove out to the airport and put you on Air Force One, and you said you had a prescription needed filled,
00:53:21.360and it was an American company that made it, I'd say, okay, let's fly to Toronto, or to Berlin, or to London, or to Rome, or any major city in America.
00:53:32.900I'll get you that same prescription filled in those cities for 40 to 60 percent less than it'll cost you at a pharmacy here.
00:53:40.500Perhaps he was speaking of Rome, New York.