Roger Stone explains why Donald Trump is the greatest comeback politician of all time, and why he won the 2016 Republican presidential nomination by becoming the first sitting president to do so. He also explains why he thinks the White House has changed the decor in the Oval Office.
00:01:18.180Tonight, it is that Jeremy Brown, a retired U.S. Army Special Forces Master Sergeant who was given a full, free, and unconditional pardon by President Donald Trump in regard to the events of January 6th,
00:01:33.760but had nonetheless been held in federal custody, moved to 15 different prisons, mostly at 5 a.m. in the morning.
00:01:43.240A technique that the Bureau of Prisons calls diesel therapy, even though he received a pardon weeks ago, has now finally been released.
00:01:54.460The feds were exploiting a technicality as they were taking out on Brown the fact that he had been approached by the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI and recruited to be an informant on January 6th.
00:02:11.020He refused to do so, but he recorded both of those attempts to recruit him.
00:02:28.000He never destroyed any public property.
00:02:30.860Nonetheless, the Bureau of Prisons and federal marshals stubbornly refused to release him because a search of his Florida home, which had been ordered by a D.C., not a Florida magistrate,
00:02:46.180turned up what we believe was planted evidence that was allegedly classified.
00:02:54.660This was a computer disk, which, strangely enough, did not have Jeremy Brown's fingerprints on it,
00:03:01.280also didn't have any of the dog hairs that were throughout his apartment, Jeremy Brown being a dog lover.
00:03:08.780But the fact that they had this second Florida-based offense was used to keep him in prison.
00:03:17.340Now, finally, thanks to a clear declaration by the Trump Justice Department that the raid on Jeremy Brown's home was indeed connected to January 6th, he is a free man.
00:03:33.500I have raised this question here on the Red Apple Audio Network for several weeks.
00:03:38.620Thank you to President Donald Trump and to Attorney General Pam Bondi for finally freeing Jeremy Brown.
00:03:47.720I noticed today, while watching President Donald Trump in the White House, that there's been some rearrangements of the decor.
00:03:57.580When Joe Biden was president, he had portraits of Franklin Roosevelt, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and Benjamin Franklin.
00:04:12.360Those busts were of Dr. Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, the civil rights activist,
00:04:18.860Cesar Chavez, the California-based union organizer, Senator Robert F. Kennedy Sr. of New York, and former President Harry Truman.
00:04:33.840Well, President Donald Trump has rearranged the decor.
00:04:39.140His portraits include George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin, but then two of his favorites,
00:04:47.480Andrew Jackson, the populist president that Trump is most often compared to, and of course, the great Ronald Reagan.
00:04:56.300Now, when it came to the presidential busts, he continues to display the same bust of Dr. Martin Luther King,
00:05:04.800but he's added to that Winston Churchill and Abraham Lincoln.
00:05:10.420Very interesting, indeed, the change of decor.
00:05:15.100It was nine years ago, on February 26, 2016, that then-candidate Donald Trump participated in a Republican primary debate in Houston, Texas, hosted by CNN.
00:05:27.580This debate came just days before the critical Super Tuesday primary,
00:05:32.060and Trump famously clashed with then-rivals Marco Rubio, now his Secretary of State, and Senator Ted Cruz,
00:05:41.320now one of President Trump's staunchest supporters in the Senate.
00:05:45.480It was Trump's performance that night that solidified his front-runner status in the Republican race heading into Super Tuesday.
00:05:53.540It was a pivotal moment that helped propel him towards securing the Republican nomination and being an improbable and unlikely winner of the 2016 presidential contest.
00:06:08.080It is amazing how time has flied, and Donald Trump has now scored the greatest single comeback in American political history.
00:06:17.180Now, I don't say that lightly, because Richard Nixon made a miraculous comeback, having been very narrowly defeated in 1960,
00:06:28.360having then made a disastrous campaign for governor of California in 1962,
00:06:33.760but the assassination of John Kennedy, the assassination of Senator Robert Kennedy,
00:06:38.860the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King,
00:06:41.840and the deep divisions over the Vietnam War parted the seas in such a way that Richard Nixon made a miraculous comeback,
00:06:51.000winning the presidency in a three-way race in 1968,
00:06:55.120with Senator Hubert Humphrey running to his left and George Wallace running as independent to his right.
00:07:02.020I say Trump's comeback is an even greater feat,
00:07:05.520because unlike Nixon at that time, he was facing not just a re-election campaign,
00:07:11.840but also a tsunami of lawfare, which they tried to bankrupt him.
00:07:18.280They tried to keep him off the ballot in all 50 states.
00:07:22.500They charged him in New York with crimes that they could never actually delineate,
00:07:28.700crimes that he was ultimately sentenced for and is now appealing.
00:07:32.940So I think Trump has scored the greatest comeback in my lifetime.
00:07:38.760Having visited the Oval Office under four presidents,
00:07:42.580I noticed that change in the decor and wanted to bring it to your attention today.
00:07:48.000The big story, of course, is that the FBI is now investigating former FBI Director James Comey,
00:07:54.900who ran an off-the-books honeypot operation targeting the 2016 Trump campaign.
00:08:01.160Now, let me stress that this is far before the kickoff of Operation Crossfire Hurricane.
00:08:12.400That was the illicit, illegal, and baseless investigation that they used to try to topple a duly elected president
00:08:21.800that later morphed into the Russian collusion hoax.
00:08:25.460That is, of course, the greatest single dirty trick in American political history.
00:08:30.980Nothing less than the full use of the authority of the U.S. government
00:08:35.480and the extraordinary capability of our intelligence agencies
00:08:39.600to use two pieces of phony evidence, the so-called Steele dossier,
00:08:46.140and then the false claim later that the Democrat National Committee
00:08:51.000had been the target of an online hack by Russian intelligence.
00:08:55.120That is a claim for which no evidence has ever been presented
00:08:59.540other than the claim by CIA Director John Brennan.
00:09:05.580According now to the news today, a whistleblower came forward
00:09:10.780and two female FBI undercover agents had infiltrated, at Comey's direction,
00:09:17.620President Trump's 2016 campaign at the highest levels
00:09:21.160and were directed to act as, quote-unquote, honeypots
00:09:25.160while traveling with Mr. Trump, Candidate Trump, and his campaign staff.
00:09:29.380It was the Washington Times that first broke that story,
00:09:32.940and Washington Times reporter Carrie Pickett, who broke the story,
00:30:28.580It was Carrie Pickett who first reported a off-the-books honeypot operation in which FBI Director James Comey sent two female operatives into Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign to infiltrate it.
00:30:46.580And the announcement yesterday under the new FBI Director, Kash Patel, and Deputy Director Dan Bongino that they have opened an inquiry into this matter.
00:30:58.380Before we went to break, Carrie Pickett was making an excellent point that there are still loyalists to the Comey regime within the FBI structure.
00:31:08.680Carrie, why don't we pick it up there?
00:31:11.260Well, while many people are happy, as far as Republicans are concerned, as far as conservatives are concerned, that Kash Patel is the director, that Dan Bongino is now the deputy director,
00:31:25.880there are still so many within the senior executive service.
00:31:31.340That's like the top brass among the FBI.
00:31:35.120Those are like the leaders there, who are James Comey loyalists, who are Andrew McCabe loyalists.
00:32:22.200And there are concerns that Kash Patel could be walking into a buzzsaw.
00:32:27.540So, you know, people are wondering what exactly is going to happen.
00:32:31.740And I'd like to point out, even before Kash Patel became FBI director and all that brouhaha was happening with Emil Boeve over at the Justice Department.
00:32:46.880Oh, you know, they're going to fire all these FBI agents for being involved with January 6th and so on and so forth.
00:33:09.260Look, speaking as someone who had 29 heavily armed FBI agents store in my home at six o'clock in the morning, brandishing fully automatic M4 assault weapons when they could simply have contacted my attorney and told them that I was going to be charged.
00:33:26.960And I could have turned myself in for the first time, nonviolent alleged crime of lying under oath in my voluntary testimony before the House Intelligence Committee, despite the fact that no misstatement I made covered up any underlying crime.
00:33:43.920In other words, I had no motive to lie.
00:33:48.040But that shock and awe technique, you'll remember, Kerry, we had CNN just coincidentally, she just happened to be 25 feet from my front door when the FBI arrived in 17 armored vehicles, a helicopter and two amphibious units.
00:34:06.380This cost the taxpayers, by the way, I was able to learn $1.1 million, a made for television CNN moment.
00:34:16.360It's interesting to me that even on that day, as FBI agents stormed my home and were in my home for the next 13 hours, agents would discreetly look at me.
00:34:30.720Others would kind of shrug their shoulders when their supervisors weren't looking.
00:34:35.080So I believe that there are some good people in the FBI, but the operation was being run out of Washington.
00:34:42.420And it is my wife still has terrible PTSD over this moment.
00:34:48.520And of course, it has it has changed me from being viewed strictly as a hardboiled political operative to actually being a sympathetic figure among some Americans.
00:35:00.580I think it backfired very badly because, well, I was able to actually raise money for my legal defense.
00:35:08.040Had they quietly just arrested me, most Americans wouldn't have even known about it.
00:35:13.180The investigation, as you report, or scheme, as it's referred to, was eventually closed because a major newspaper obtained a photograph of one of the undercover operatives and was about to publish it.
00:35:26.560But then the FBI press office told that outlet that the photograph was an FBI informant who would be killed if the photograph was publicly released.
00:35:37.340Was this lie a routine disinformation technique used by the FBI?
00:35:45.120This happens all the time, all the time.
00:35:47.760And very often, the FBI will end up doing this, and there's very little that a publication can do, unfortunately, because what can the publication do?
00:36:07.160I mean, I mean, in all fairness to that publication, they don't have any information that can say otherwise, you see, and I mean, because the FBI wasn't going to say, oh, yeah, by the way, apparently this is an operation that we're using to go into the Trump campaign and find out information.
00:36:33.880But now the Senate Judiciary Committee has the full disclosures, and we'll see what they do with it.
00:36:43.140Do you think in what is, I think, the greatest single dirty trick in American political history, the illicit use of the authority of the American government to take down a duly elected president, do you think anybody will really finally, at the end of the day, be held responsible?
00:36:59.580You know, Roger, that's really hard to say.
00:37:06.120You and I and others before us have so often heard lawmakers and officials say, you know, accountability, accountability, and then we get disappointed.
00:37:20.140Hopefully, that won't be the case here.
00:37:44.580I just realized that I have passed an important landmark, my Twitter page, which I was banned from in 2017 and then very gratefully reinstated by Elon Musk, now has 800,000 followers.
00:38:04.600It's interesting because at the time I was banned, I had about 980,000 people following me, and then when I just kind of filled out the forms to be reinstated, never really believing that that would happen, because I'm still banned for life on Facebook and Instagram, when I was reinstated, I had 25,000 followers.
00:38:24.200Now, I don't know how many of my original followers were bots, but I am most grateful to have my voice back on X.
00:38:36.520Also must say, I love the idea of cleaning up waste, fraud, and corruption, and those who are screaming the most about it, well, they impress me as people who have something to hide.
00:38:47.980Thank you for joining us today in the Stone Zone.