The StoneZONE with Roger Stone


The Stone Zone ｜ 09-23-25


Episode Stats

Misogynist Sentences

9

Hate Speech Sentences

2


Summary

Ryan Ralph has been convicted of trying to assassinate President Donald Trump in West Palm Beach, Florida. The question is, where did he get the gun? And why was he able to get it? Is he a spy for the Deep State?


Transcript

00:00:00.400 The Stone Zone, entertaining and informative on the Red Apple Podcast Network.
00:00:07.600 Welcome to the Stone Zone.
00:00:10.280 Well, today we belatedly celebrate the birthday of J. William Middendorf.
00:00:16.520 Bill Middendorf was 101 years old yesterday.
00:00:21.100 He served as Secretary of the Navy, but more importantly to me,
00:00:25.320 he was the treasurer of Barry Goldwater's 1964 presidential campaign.
00:00:30.580 He served as the finance chairman of the Republican National Committee for Richard Dixon's 1968 presidential campaign.
00:00:39.620 He served his country as the ambassador to the Netherlands under President Richard Dixon.
00:00:46.400 Then he served as the ambassador to the Organization of American States,
00:00:51.200 later serving as ambassador to the European community under President Ronald Reagan.
00:00:57.480 Why do I raise this?
00:00:58.560 Well, first of all, he wrote a terrific book called The Glorious Defeat about how Barry Goldwater's campaign for president
00:01:05.740 laid the seeds for a conservative revival in this country, including the election of both Ronald Reagan and Donald J. Trump.
00:01:13.720 But when I was 16 years old at the Miami Beach Republican National Convention,
00:01:19.300 it was Bill Middendorf who got a gallery pass for this Nixon fanatic at 16 years old.
00:01:27.240 Bill Middendorf still going strong, celebrated as an excellent Secretary of the Navy.
00:01:34.580 I'm sorry that I missed his birthday yesterday, but made up for it today.
00:01:40.160 In the meantime, breaking news, the man who has now been convicted of trying to assassinate President Donald Trump
00:01:48.720 in West Palm Beach in the golf course, tried to stab himself in the neck with a pen immediately after the guilty verdict was read in court.
00:01:58.080 Now, most people don't realize this trial was even going on.
00:02:02.120 It's extraordinary how little media coverage this trial, which was taking place in Fort Pierce, Florida,
00:02:08.980 which is the judicial district in which West Palm Beach is located, was going on.
00:02:15.020 After a two-week trial, Florida jurors reached a verdict in the federal case against Ryan Ralph.
00:02:20.540 He was found guilty on all five federal charges, including attempting to assassinate a major presidential candidate.
00:02:28.500 They made that a federal crime in 1968 after Robert Kennedy Sr. was assassinated,
00:02:35.420 assaulting a federal officer and other gun charges.
00:02:38.740 It's still amazing to me that he is the only one charged in this crime.
00:02:42.660 They tell us that Ralph was indigent, that he was behind in both his alimony payments and his rental payments in his home in Hawaii,
00:02:53.380 yet he managed to somehow fly to North Carolina, drive from North Carolina to Florida.
00:03:00.100 And my question is an obvious one.
00:03:02.120 Where did he get the gun, particularly a gun where the serial numbers were filed off the barrel?
00:03:09.600 Pardon me if I think this is very much like the Kennedy assassination, where we haven't been told the whole truth.
00:03:17.820 It's obvious to me that Ralph, who is pictured in Ukraine, as well as being pictured in various European capitals,
00:03:25.800 who had set up a website to recruit militias, to recruit soldiers of fortune for the struggle in Ukraine,
00:03:36.820 appears to me to be some kind of intelligence asset.
00:03:40.420 But the government rushed this trial very quickly.
00:03:44.620 Most people don't even know that it happened.
00:03:46.780 I'm glad that he was convicted, but I still remain extraordinarily suspicious.
00:03:52.340 Just as I continue to be somewhat suspicious about the brutal political assassination of my good friend, Charlie Kirk,
00:04:00.760 I took this one personally because Charlie Kirk had reached out to me after I was targeted by the deep state,
00:04:09.320 after I was charged with lying to Congress about Russian collusion that never actually happened.
00:04:17.540 I think most people realized that I actually did nothing wrong.
00:04:20.780 I was charged in order to try to pressure me to submit false testimony against President Donald Trump.
00:04:27.980 In other words, Robert Mueller and his deep state thugs, empowered by the Obama cabal, as we now know,
00:04:36.420 ran through $30 million and with unlimited manpower, unlimited funding, and unlimited legal authority,
00:04:44.020 could find no evidence of Russian collusion with Donald Trump's 2016 campaign.
00:04:49.400 So they decided to invent it, to fabricate it, just like they fabricated the Steele dossier,
00:04:55.720 just like they fabricated the claim that the Democrat National Committee had been the target of a Russian intelligence hack,
00:05:03.460 both falsehoods, as we now know.
00:05:06.420 So it is not surprising to me that I didn't know Charlie Kirk
00:05:14.000 until he reached out to me after that stunning made-for-CNN arrest,
00:05:19.660 told me that he knew I was innocent, knew there was no Russian collusion.
00:05:23.860 He became both a public and a private advocate for the clemency that ultimately would spare me nine years in jail.
00:05:32.220 Kind of ironic that the head of counterintelligence for the FBI,
00:05:36.680 a guy named Charles McGonigal, ends up, according to an inspector general's report just days ago,
00:05:44.900 giving top military secrets to the Chinese,
00:05:48.800 should have been charged with both espionage and treason,
00:05:53.780 in the end only gets charged with taking bribes,
00:05:56.760 and gets ended up being sentenced to two years in jail,
00:06:00.400 when they tried to sentence me to nine years in jail
00:06:03.960 for allegedly lying about Russian collusion that never really happened.
00:06:09.320 Talk about a two-tiered justice system.
00:06:12.140 So I continue to have questions about the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
00:06:18.740 Largely, this reminds me very much of the Kennedy assassination.
00:06:22.760 I have limited myself to talking to doctors who are experts in bullet wounds,
00:06:29.160 specifically, I've been talking to Dr. Paul Maurer,
00:06:33.480 who's actually been in the stone zone, will be back in the stone zone,
00:06:37.080 hopefully this week,
00:06:38.100 who tells us that a round of this size,
00:06:44.080 which we are told was a .30-06 bullet,
00:06:50.600 should have left a rather substantial exit wound and a blood splatter.
00:06:56.500 We saw no such thing.
00:06:58.660 Now, he does say that depositing kinetic energy
00:07:02.560 and making all of the classic large tissue stretch cavities,
00:07:06.940 there still should have been a large exit wound.
00:07:10.680 Others argue that it may have to do with the actual size of the bullet,
00:07:17.440 but this is something we'll be exploring more.
00:07:20.820 There are other theories, as I think most of you know,
00:07:23.120 others pointing out a trapdoor under where Charlie Kirk was speaking,
00:07:28.020 some arguing that perhaps the microphone that he was wearing was actually an explosive device,
00:07:35.000 not out of the question,
00:07:36.480 in that we saw beepers that were weaponized as exposing devices.
00:07:41.700 But I'm not prepared to jump to any conclusions other than to say
00:07:45.600 they told us that John F. Kennedy was shot three times from the back,
00:07:51.040 and we now know that that was a falsehood.
00:07:54.320 We know, according to the documentary up online by Paramount,
00:08:00.160 what the Parkland doctors saw,
00:08:02.240 that John F. Kennedy was shot from both the front and the back,
00:08:05.820 and that multiple doctors witnessed wounds in the late president,
00:08:10.580 consistent with his being shot from the front and the back.
00:08:13.800 We also know that Robert F. Kennedy,
00:08:17.280 they told us the assassin there was one Sirhan Sirhan,
00:08:20.960 a Palestinian radical,
00:08:22.760 when in fact Sirhan Sirhan was always in front of Senator Robert Kennedy,
00:08:27.160 yet Thomas Noguchi,
00:08:28.900 the world-famous pathologist who was the Los Angeles medical examiner,
00:08:33.680 says in his autopsy
00:08:34.920 that Robert Kennedy was shot from the rear
00:08:38.820 at point-blank range in the left rear of his skull.
00:08:43.800 That's with the gun barrel right up against his head.
00:08:47.540 Consequently, it's not possible for Sirhan Sirhan to be the murderer.
00:08:52.440 And then you take the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan,
00:08:57.240 John Hinckley Jr.,
00:08:58.920 always in front of Reagan,
00:09:00.900 crouching, shooting from an upward trajectory.
00:09:03.780 There is some discrepancy between how many bullets were fired.
00:09:07.840 Going to the federal documents that I got through a Freedom of Information Act request
00:09:12.820 was not at all illuminating.
00:09:15.040 Ninety percent of the information is redacted.
00:09:18.300 But reading various other books on the subject
00:09:21.260 and looking and doing research online,
00:09:23.880 some people say Hinckley got off six shots,
00:09:27.040 others say eight,
00:09:28.680 others, still others say four.
00:09:30.940 But here's what we do know.
00:09:32.400 Ronald Reagan was shot from above and behind
00:09:34.820 where Hinckley was in front of him and crouching.
00:09:37.920 Would have been shooting from an upward trajectory.
00:09:40.320 So pardon me if I don't want to rush to judgment
00:09:43.180 on the question of my good friend Charlie Kirk.
00:09:46.260 I don't think it is disrespectful to his memory
00:09:48.760 to ask these questions
00:09:50.460 until we ultimately, hopefully, learn the truth.
00:09:55.060 Meanwhile, I think this is fitting and appropriate.
00:09:58.400 President Donald Trump has signed an executive order
00:10:00.900 that officially designates Antifa
00:10:03.220 as a domestic terror organization,
00:10:06.020 correctly characterizing Antifa
00:10:08.180 as a militaristic, anarchistic enterprise
00:10:12.000 that is out to overthrow the U.S. government
00:10:15.060 through violent means.
00:10:16.620 It notes that Antifa members
00:10:18.060 have orchestrated campaigns of violence
00:10:20.340 and mayhem across America,
00:10:21.960 which includes riots,
00:10:23.880 attacks on law enforcement officers,
00:10:25.660 armed standoff and harassment of political figures.
00:10:29.760 They also recruit and radicalize young Americans
00:10:32.220 as they hide the source of their funding
00:10:34.740 and the identities of their members.
00:10:37.640 The president's new executive order
00:10:39.140 calls for federal departments and agencies
00:10:40.960 to investigate, disrupt and dismantle
00:10:43.620 any and all illegal operations
00:10:46.160 pertaining to Antifa.
00:10:48.480 This has been a long time coming.
00:10:50.400 I've been an advocate for it
00:10:51.700 and here in the Stone Zone for some time.
00:10:53.920 Antifa has always claimed
00:10:55.240 that they were a decentralized group
00:10:56.780 with no real leadership.
00:10:58.300 Even FBI Director Christopher Wray,
00:11:00.980 perhaps the worst FBI director in history,
00:11:03.780 repeated this propaganda
00:11:04.900 when he was questioned under oath by Congress
00:11:06.920 about the Bureau's lack of focus on Antifa.
00:11:11.160 That, of course, is completely absurd.
00:11:13.420 Antifa is a trained, tightly coordinated group
00:11:16.400 with money coming in from wealthy benefactors.
00:11:19.480 Perhaps it is the Soros Network
00:11:21.300 or perhaps it is some other wealthy radical leftists,
00:11:24.760 but the good news is we will soon find out
00:11:27.660 and they will be held accountable.
00:11:29.540 President Trump is not messing around
00:11:31.100 with this crackdown on Antifa.
00:11:33.980 This, rather than cancel culture
00:11:36.460 and the wholesale cancellation and censorship
00:11:39.860 of those who hold different political views
00:11:43.200 than Donald Trump,
00:11:44.320 is the correct response.
00:11:45.980 I know that some on the right
00:11:47.920 have favored doing to them
00:11:49.840 what they did to us
00:11:51.500 as someone who was himself censored
00:11:55.540 by X, then known as Twitter,
00:11:59.740 Facebook, Instagram, YouTube,
00:12:02.760 virtually canceled.
00:12:05.400 I obviously am tempted
00:12:08.320 to now want to treat those
00:12:10.160 who abused me the same way,
00:12:12.720 but Charlie Kirk himself put it best
00:12:15.540 when he said,
00:12:16.160 there is no such thing as hate speech.
00:12:19.500 That's why I find it kind of humorous
00:12:21.560 when Hakeem Jeffries
00:12:23.540 and Congressman Ted Lieu
00:12:26.060 and Chuck Schumer,
00:12:28.300 Chris Murphy, the senator from Connecticut,
00:12:30.240 Zoran Mamdani, Tom Hanks,
00:12:34.000 Meryl Streep, Robert De Niro,
00:12:36.640 Ben Affleck, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ben Stiller,
00:12:40.060 they all objected to Jimmy Kimmel being suspended,
00:12:43.860 saying it was outrageous.
00:12:44.860 I don't remember any of those people being upset
00:12:46.760 when I was censored.
00:12:49.460 So it is hypocrisy writ large,
00:12:52.800 but we're used to that on the American left.
00:12:56.020 It's interesting to me that now
00:12:57.540 with Disney reversing course
00:13:00.060 and saying that they will put Jimmy Kimmel
00:13:02.180 back on the air,
00:13:03.520 the Sinclair Group,
00:13:04.540 a media organization
00:13:05.440 which owns 38 ABC stations
00:13:08.140 in the United States,
00:13:09.040 has announced that they will be refusing
00:13:10.840 to air Jimmy Kimmel Live
00:13:12.460 after ABC announced
00:13:13.940 that they had lifted the suspension
00:13:15.260 after five days.
00:13:16.880 Sinclair said in an announcement
00:13:18.700 beginning Tuesday,
00:13:20.100 Sinclair will be preempting Jimmy Kimmel Live
00:13:22.260 across our ABC affiliate stations
00:13:24.580 and replacing it with news programming.
00:13:27.160 Discussions with ABC are ongoing
00:13:28.860 as to how we evaluate
00:13:31.000 the Stowe's potential return.
00:13:33.020 See, that's what I'm for,
00:13:34.540 freedom of choice.
00:13:36.080 I wasn't crazy about Jimmy Kimmel.
00:13:38.840 I thought that he was kind of a dirt bag.
00:13:41.860 I do think he crossed the line.
00:13:43.720 This is Roger Stone.
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00:14:12.140 Entertaining and informative
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00:14:16.360 And we're back in the zone.
00:14:19.360 President Donald Trump has offended
00:14:21.060 some who claim to be
00:14:22.440 the science community,
00:14:23.780 in other words,
00:14:24.680 medical professionals
00:14:25.820 who rely on Big Pharma
00:14:27.140 for their paychecks
00:14:28.120 by announcing that there are,
00:14:30.160 now based on a Harvard study
00:14:31.960 and other studies,
00:14:33.560 a very definite link
00:14:34.540 between Tylenol and vaccinations
00:14:36.480 to the development of autism.
00:14:39.100 The president held a press conference
00:14:40.260 where he urged pregnant women
00:14:41.980 not to take Tylenol
00:14:43.360 and to hold off on the vaccinations.
00:14:45.420 President Trump said,
00:14:46.940 I want to say it like it is,
00:14:48.100 don't take Tylenol,
00:14:49.020 don't take it.
00:14:49.600 He said,
00:14:49.880 other things that we recommend,
00:14:51.140 for example,
00:14:52.060 I do anyway,
00:14:53.000 is but don't let them
00:14:53.840 pump your baby up
00:14:54.740 with the largest pile of stuff
00:14:55.980 you've ever seen in your life.
00:14:58.060 I think what the president's
00:14:59.220 referring to now,
00:15:00.160 this was not true
00:15:00.880 when I was vaccinated,
00:15:02.060 but a newborn infant
00:15:03.760 can get as many as 28,
00:15:05.780 perhaps in some cases
00:15:06.720 as many as 32 vaccinations
00:15:08.360 at the same time.
00:15:10.160 I'm not convinced
00:15:11.060 all of these are necessary.
00:15:12.460 By the way,
00:15:13.040 I'm for health freedom,
00:15:14.940 health choice.
00:15:15.700 If you choose to take
00:15:16.880 any vaccination,
00:15:18.480 that's really up to you.
00:15:20.060 I personally don't think
00:15:21.580 that taking a vaccination
00:15:22.720 that has not been
00:15:24.040 through clinical trials
00:15:25.320 and where the manufacturer
00:15:27.640 of the vaccination
00:15:28.680 has no legal liability,
00:15:31.040 if you have an adverse reaction,
00:15:33.300 it's not a good idea.
00:15:34.760 But once again,
00:15:36.220 I think it's up to you.
00:15:37.420 You see, as a conservative,
00:15:40.600 as someone who believes
00:15:42.160 in health freedom,
00:15:43.240 it ought to be up to you.
00:15:44.020 What I really don't like
00:15:45.060 is when the government
00:15:46.280 mandates that something be done.
00:15:49.060 President Trump
00:15:49.760 has taken straight aim
00:15:51.100 at the vaccination regime
00:15:52.380 and Big Pharma's
00:15:53.540 not very happy as a result.
00:15:55.420 The link between Tylenol
00:15:56.800 and autism
00:15:57.420 is just the beginning
00:15:58.420 of the revelations
00:15:59.300 that are going to come out
00:16:00.200 during the Trump administration
00:16:01.660 with the extremely able
00:16:03.640 Robert F. Kennedy Jr.,
00:16:05.340 good friend of mine,
00:16:06.360 at the helm of HHS.
00:16:08.160 The medical establishment
00:16:09.080 is no longer being protected
00:16:10.540 by the federal government.
00:16:12.100 This is the first major step
00:16:13.620 towards America
00:16:14.460 becoming healthy again.
00:16:18.040 Meanwhile,
00:16:19.220 Secret Service agents
00:16:20.300 unfoiled a plot
00:16:21.420 to hack a New York
00:16:23.040 cell phone system.
00:16:24.840 This is really scary.
00:16:26.380 U.S. Secret Service agents
00:16:27.480 dismantled a network
00:16:28.960 of electronic devices
00:16:30.240 planted across New York City
00:16:32.080 that could have been used
00:16:33.040 to disable the entire
00:16:34.640 cell phone network
00:16:35.760 throughout the city.
00:16:36.760 The Secret Service
00:16:38.060 also claimed
00:16:39.720 this system was being used
00:16:40.940 to send assassination threats
00:16:42.500 against major U.S. officials
00:16:44.740 and other criminal activities.
00:16:47.380 The head of the Secret Service
00:16:48.520 New York field officer,
00:16:49.640 Matt McCool,
00:16:50.820 has that for a name,
00:16:52.100 those devices said,
00:16:53.360 those devices allow
00:16:54.220 anonymous encrypted communications
00:16:55.820 between potential threat actors
00:16:58.060 and criminal enterprises,
00:16:59.800 enabling criminal organizations
00:17:00.760 organizations to operate undetected.
00:17:04.380 Thank goodness
00:17:05.220 the Secret Service stepped in.
00:17:06.920 This is the newly reformed
00:17:08.700 Secret Service
00:17:09.280 under President Donald Trump.
00:17:11.760 Don't go away
00:17:12.840 because we're going to turn
00:17:14.020 our focus to the Garden State
00:17:15.780 of New Jersey,
00:17:16.720 which could be on the cusp
00:17:18.500 of electing the first
00:17:20.020 Republican governor
00:17:20.940 in decades.
00:17:22.360 Mike Crispy,
00:17:23.680 who is head of
00:17:24.880 the America First Republicans,
00:17:26.180 also a very popular
00:17:27.900 Rumble
00:17:28.760 and Real America's Voice
00:17:31.080 host,
00:17:31.840 talk show host,
00:17:32.580 is going to join us
00:17:33.260 to break down the situation
00:17:34.760 in the Garden State.
00:17:36.800 You're listening to
00:17:37.520 The Stone Zone
00:17:38.160 here on the Red Apple
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00:17:49.820 Welcome back
00:17:50.600 to The Stone Zone.
00:17:51.820 Our focus now
00:17:52.640 is on the Garden State
00:17:53.800 of New Jersey.
00:17:54.600 New Jersey is a state
00:17:56.100 that I know quite a bit about.
00:17:58.080 That's because in 1978,
00:18:00.120 I first worked
00:18:01.620 on the campaign
00:18:02.320 of Jeffrey Bell.
00:18:04.000 He was a Reagan staff member,
00:18:06.960 actually an economic advisor,
00:18:08.640 who challenged incumbent
00:18:10.220 U.S. Senator Clifford Case,
00:18:12.440 perhaps the most liberal Republican
00:18:14.220 in the U.S. Senate,
00:18:15.620 for a renomination,
00:18:17.440 defeated Case in an upset
00:18:19.380 only to himself
00:18:21.100 be then defeated
00:18:21.900 by basketball star
00:18:23.780 Bill Bradley.
00:18:25.380 Then in 1980,
00:18:26.920 I was assigned
00:18:27.660 New Jersey
00:18:28.440 in the Republican contest
00:18:30.440 for president.
00:18:31.800 The Republican establishment,
00:18:33.600 headed by
00:18:34.500 Christy Todd Whitman's
00:18:36.760 father and mother,
00:18:38.420 were all lined up
00:18:39.460 for George H.W. Bush.
00:18:42.760 Unfortunately for them,
00:18:44.160 the Republican primary voters
00:18:45.540 of New Jersey
00:18:46.120 had a very different idea,
00:18:48.180 and Reagan skunked Bush
00:18:50.820 in the New Jersey primary,
00:18:52.640 taking every single delegate
00:18:55.140 in the New Jersey
00:18:56.320 Republican primary.
00:18:57.460 Then in 19,
00:18:58.620 well, it was during
00:18:59.240 the 1980 campaign
00:19:00.400 that I met a former
00:19:02.160 New Jersey Assembly speaker
00:19:03.740 named Tom Kane,
00:19:05.420 Thomas H. Kane Sr.
00:19:07.620 Tom Kane had been
00:19:09.400 Speaker of the Assembly,
00:19:10.600 had run for governor
00:19:12.260 in 1977,
00:19:13.260 but had run
00:19:14.800 as a moderate Republican.
00:19:17.220 Moderate Republicans
00:19:18.040 don't usually do
00:19:19.120 very well in primaries.
00:19:21.480 He was defeated
00:19:22.080 by State Senator
00:19:23.620 Ray Bateman,
00:19:24.960 who should have won
00:19:26.260 a slam-dunk victory
00:19:27.560 against unpopular
00:19:29.340 incumbent
00:19:29.920 Brimden Byrne,
00:19:31.240 but who ran
00:19:31.780 a horrific campaign,
00:19:33.480 only going on
00:19:34.320 to be defeated.
00:19:35.720 I met Tom Kane
00:19:36.840 during the Reagan campaign,
00:19:39.080 became quite impressed
00:19:40.060 with him.
00:19:40.980 Other advisors
00:19:42.060 told him
00:19:42.760 that he should
00:19:43.600 change his speaking style.
00:19:45.420 He had kind of a
00:19:46.440 waspy,
00:19:47.160 almost Massachusetts accent,
00:19:48.780 having been
00:19:50.000 in boarding schools
00:19:52.180 and had an
00:19:53.300 Ivy League education.
00:19:54.540 He was the son
00:19:55.840 of Robert W. Kane,
00:19:57.820 who was a congressman
00:19:58.840 from North Jersey.
00:20:00.340 A man, Richard Dixon,
00:20:01.720 once described to me
00:20:02.740 as tough as nails.
00:20:05.000 Robert W. Kane
00:20:05.920 had run for the Senate
00:20:06.760 himself in 1958
00:20:08.440 against Harrison Williams.
00:20:10.540 Democrat,
00:20:11.220 who, like many
00:20:12.100 New Jersey Democrats,
00:20:13.280 would later go to prison
00:20:14.480 for corruption.
00:20:16.400 It was in 1981
00:20:18.160 that Tom Kane
00:20:19.300 won a nine-way primary
00:20:21.260 for the Republican
00:20:22.320 nomination for governor,
00:20:23.820 but most people
00:20:24.620 shrugged their shoulders
00:20:25.460 and said it didn't matter.
00:20:26.960 He was going to lose
00:20:27.980 to Congressman Jim Florio.
00:20:30.160 Florio had challenged
00:20:31.340 Brendan Byrne
00:20:32.020 for renomination
00:20:32.860 in the previous
00:20:34.060 gubernatorial case,
00:20:35.140 and then Tom Kane
00:20:36.660 won that 1981 election
00:20:38.400 by 1,209 votes
00:20:41.280 out of more than
00:20:42.440 2.2 million cast.
00:20:45.140 I handled President
00:20:46.480 Reagan's re-election
00:20:47.640 of the campaign
00:20:48.300 in 1984.
00:20:50.300 So I know the turf
00:20:51.440 very well,
00:20:52.520 but the state
00:20:53.080 has changed demographically
00:20:54.880 quite a bit since then.
00:20:56.700 I now think it is
00:20:58.000 trending back our way.
00:20:59.620 The man who joins me now,
00:21:00.640 Mike Crispy,
00:21:01.920 who was a delegate
00:21:04.060 to the last
00:21:05.360 Republican National Convention,
00:21:06.900 was one of the lead-off
00:21:08.180 speakers at President Trump's
00:21:10.140 incredible, historic
00:21:12.780 Wildwood, New Jersey rally,
00:21:15.300 attended by over
00:21:16.160 100,000 people.
00:21:18.000 And Mike heads
00:21:18.920 the America First
00:21:19.760 Republicans of New Jersey,
00:21:21.140 a volunteer organization
00:21:22.940 that stepped into the void
00:21:24.920 when the Trump campaign
00:21:26.680 was not able to target
00:21:28.500 New Jersey,
00:21:29.340 given its political history.
00:21:31.420 I still support
00:21:32.300 that decision,
00:21:33.160 but it was Mike
00:21:34.200 and his compatriots
00:21:35.440 at the America First
00:21:36.940 Republicans of New Jersey
00:21:38.060 that organized
00:21:39.440 and raised the money
00:21:40.900 for an ad hoc campaign
00:21:42.700 which brought Republicans
00:21:45.580 light years ahead
00:21:47.340 where the president
00:21:47.980 had done four years earlier
00:21:49.720 with an extraordinarily
00:21:50.540 strong showing.
00:21:52.640 Mike Crispy is also
00:21:53.800 president of the
00:21:54.760 Italian-American
00:21:55.440 Civil Rights League,
00:21:56.820 one of the most notable
00:21:57.920 Italian-American non-profit
00:21:59.300 organizations in the country.
00:22:01.320 He ran for Congress
00:22:02.380 previously.
00:22:03.280 Many believe he will
00:22:04.080 run for Congress again.
00:22:06.180 He also has a great show
00:22:07.800 like Last Call
00:22:08.740 with Mike Crispy
00:22:09.520 on Real America's Voice
00:22:11.020 as well as his daily show
00:22:12.740 Mike Crispy Unafraid
00:22:14.260 which is a podcast
00:22:16.100 that you can see
00:22:17.100 with the Salem Podcast Network
00:22:18.580 and you can catch it
00:22:19.760 on Rumble.
00:22:20.600 Mike Crispy,
00:22:21.260 thanks for joining us here
00:22:22.500 in the Stone Zone.
00:22:24.560 Roger,
00:22:25.000 it's a great honor
00:22:25.900 to be back with you
00:22:26.680 as always, sir.
00:22:27.940 So, I saw this debate
00:22:30.160 the other night
00:22:31.100 and I thought
00:22:32.220 Jack Cittarelli
00:22:33.460 took Mickey Sherrill
00:22:34.520 to the cleaners.
00:22:35.860 I thought it was,
00:22:37.200 first of all,
00:22:37.660 because, you know,
00:22:38.580 we love pugilistic politics
00:22:40.740 in the sense that
00:22:41.780 we like a sharp campaign
00:22:44.160 and if you're a Republican
00:22:46.580 in New Jersey,
00:22:47.420 you've got to go on the attack
00:22:48.880 on the issues.
00:22:50.220 But Cittarelli
00:22:51.220 had this exchange
00:22:53.260 with Mickey Sherrill,
00:22:55.420 the Virginia-born
00:22:56.660 congresswoman
00:22:57.860 who somehow managed
00:22:59.480 to wrench
00:23:00.500 the Democratic nomination
00:23:01.840 away from the machine.
00:23:04.160 Let's listen to that.
00:23:05.640 It doesn't matter
00:23:06.300 because I'm going to make sure
00:23:07.560 that he doesn't get
00:23:09.920 to serve again
00:23:10.740 when I win for governor
00:23:12.040 in November
00:23:12.640 of this year.
00:23:16.440 There's another big difference
00:23:17.760 between her public service
00:23:19.000 and my public service.
00:23:20.140 It actually cost me money
00:23:21.400 the time I put in
00:23:22.300 and took away from my company.
00:23:23.740 In the seven years
00:23:24.480 that she's been in Congress,
00:23:25.820 she's tripled her net worth.
00:23:27.380 There's another big difference
00:23:28.400 between the two of us.
00:23:29.780 Okay?
00:23:30.280 She broke the law.
00:23:31.700 She had to pay fines
00:23:32.700 for violating federal law
00:23:34.160 on stock trades
00:23:35.120 and stock reporting
00:23:35.980 and the New York Times reports
00:23:37.600 that while you're sitting
00:23:38.820 on the House Armed Services Committee,
00:23:40.720 you were trading defense stocks.
00:23:42.880 Mike, that was incredible.
00:23:45.480 It was at that moment
00:23:46.520 that I realized
00:23:47.520 that Republicans
00:23:49.020 are on the move here
00:23:50.480 and this race
00:23:51.600 is looking more
00:23:52.400 and more winnable to me.
00:23:53.600 What do you think?
00:23:55.340 Well, I was there
00:23:56.340 at the debate, Roger,
00:23:57.580 and it was really unbelievable
00:23:59.460 how much Mikey Schell
00:24:00.860 resembles Kamala Harris.
00:24:02.900 I mean, not only do they
00:24:04.200 dress the same,
00:24:05.360 but they both kind of
00:24:06.260 talk the same.
00:24:07.520 Mikey Schell repeats
00:24:08.440 her talking points
00:24:09.440 from her television commercials,
00:24:11.380 and there's not much else.
00:24:12.980 I mean, when it comes to
00:24:13.880 running for the governor
00:24:14.820 of a state,
00:24:15.880 you really got to know
00:24:16.720 the state issues.
00:24:17.920 You know, Mikey Schell
00:24:18.700 has been in Congress
00:24:19.920 for two terms,
00:24:22.160 and prior to that,
00:24:23.240 she was in the state of Virginia,
00:24:24.720 born and raised,
00:24:25.940 and doesn't really understand
00:24:28.020 New Jersey issues.
00:24:29.220 So anytime there were
00:24:30.500 specific questions,
00:24:31.600 Mikey Schell would punt away,
00:24:33.420 talk about MAGA,
00:24:35.160 talk about Trump,
00:24:36.800 talk about Jack Cittarelli
00:24:38.100 doing whatever Trump wants,
00:24:39.980 and there was absolutely
00:24:41.140 no substance.
00:24:42.720 Jack Cittarelli,
00:24:43.380 on the other hand, Roger,
00:24:44.280 was extremely poignant
00:24:46.540 and particular
00:24:47.380 and specific
00:24:48.180 about things he would do,
00:24:50.340 solutions for the working class
00:24:52.020 folks in New Jersey.
00:24:53.320 Whenever somebody
00:24:54.120 asked him a question,
00:24:55.560 he had an answer
00:24:56.320 that was direct
00:24:57.420 and specific,
00:24:58.820 and Cheryl,
00:24:59.480 no matter how many chances
00:25:00.580 the moderators gave her
00:25:01.740 in the follow-ups,
00:25:02.860 she stuck to these platitudes
00:25:04.480 and these ad hominem attacks
00:25:06.560 on Cittarelli.
00:25:07.920 I think voters left that
00:25:09.240 debate saying,
00:25:10.800 one person knows about New Jersey
00:25:12.200 inside and out,
00:25:13.380 born and raised,
00:25:14.460 been there his whole life,
00:25:15.700 and the other one
00:25:16.400 is trying to use this perch
00:25:17.660 as a stepping stone,
00:25:19.440 maybe to run for president
00:25:20.540 one day,
00:25:21.180 Mikey Scherr,
00:25:22.240 it was a night and day
00:25:23.460 contrast, Roger.
00:25:24.780 You know,
00:25:25.260 maybe it's just because
00:25:26.240 I'm old,
00:25:26.940 but this reminded me
00:25:27.760 very much of the debate
00:25:28.820 between Congressman Jim Florio
00:25:31.080 and later Governor Tom Kane.
00:25:34.140 Kane had been in the
00:25:34.920 state assembly,
00:25:35.580 understood the state issue,
00:25:36.680 particularly the property tax issue,
00:25:38.080 whereas Florio was
00:25:40.700 a federal legislator.
00:25:42.040 He tried to coast
00:25:43.120 and run against Ronald Reagan.
00:25:45.180 Didn't work very well then.
00:25:46.840 Don't think it'll work
00:25:47.720 very well now.
00:25:49.260 I do think that Cittarelli
00:25:51.200 really hit on a completely
00:25:52.940 non-ideological issue.
00:25:55.320 It doesn't matter
00:25:55.740 whether you're a Republican
00:25:56.600 or a Democrat.
00:25:57.920 It doesn't matter
00:25:58.500 whether you're a liberal
00:25:59.260 or a conservative
00:26:00.160 or whether you're just
00:26:01.540 a non-political taxpayer.
00:26:04.020 I think voters are offended
00:26:05.980 by members of Congress
00:26:08.000 who serve on these
00:26:09.400 sensitive committees,
00:26:10.640 have access
00:26:11.560 to national security information,
00:26:14.260 and they go
00:26:15.240 and they work the stock market.
00:26:16.900 They do what is,
00:26:17.820 in essence,
00:26:18.640 insider trading.
00:26:19.560 In this case,
00:26:20.480 Mikey Sherrill
00:26:21.320 increased her net worth
00:26:23.180 by seven times
00:26:24.580 while sitting in the House.
00:26:26.240 I think voters
00:26:27.240 really find that
00:26:28.320 extraordinarily offensive.
00:26:31.660 100%.
00:26:32.140 I mean,
00:26:32.780 any time she was asked
00:26:34.000 about it,
00:26:34.580 she would pivot away from it
00:26:36.540 and could not have an answer.
00:26:37.760 Mikey Sherrill made,
00:26:38.960 I believe it was
00:26:39.760 $7 million
00:26:40.580 while trading defense stocks
00:26:43.420 while sitting on committees
00:26:44.640 in Congress
00:26:45.360 that had to do
00:26:46.620 with the defense.
00:26:47.560 So,
00:26:47.960 Mikey Sherrill
00:26:48.680 has enriched herself
00:26:49.900 and that any time
00:26:51.220 there were topics
00:26:52.120 about what she would do
00:26:53.640 specifically,
00:26:54.400 you can tell
00:26:55.040 that she wouldn't answer
00:26:56.500 any specific questions
00:26:57.660 because she doesn't want
00:26:58.900 to offend the people
00:26:59.680 who bankroll her campaign,
00:27:00.920 particularly in the topic
00:27:02.000 of schools.
00:27:02.540 Jack Cittarelli
00:27:03.760 had a big moment
00:27:04.520 that really got the crowd
00:27:05.800 going when he said
00:27:06.980 that Mikey Sherrill
00:27:07.640 was owned by the NJEA,
00:27:09.760 that's the New Jersey
00:27:10.680 Education Association,
00:27:12.600 which is a very powerful lobby
00:27:14.240 that owns the Democrat nominee
00:27:16.260 in modern-day New Jersey politics,
00:27:18.140 and that has a lot to do
00:27:19.720 with school choice,
00:27:20.920 and Mikey Sherrill
00:27:21.720 stands strongly against school choice.
00:27:23.660 She wants to continue
00:27:24.940 to fund a system
00:27:25.820 that's broken
00:27:26.420 beyond repair,
00:27:28.320 which is the number one
00:27:29.860 driving force
00:27:30.720 behind property taxes
00:27:32.420 being so astronomically
00:27:34.080 high in the state.
00:27:35.440 Property taxes
00:27:36.360 fund the schools.
00:27:37.840 The schools
00:27:38.520 get their funding quotas
00:27:40.660 from the NJEA,
00:27:42.500 and the NJEA
00:27:43.980 owns the Democrat candidate
00:27:45.740 to continue
00:27:46.560 this status quo.
00:27:48.860 So,
00:27:49.280 Jack Cittarelli
00:27:49.820 had a big moment there
00:27:50.880 where he called that out
00:27:51.980 and took Mikey Sherrill
00:27:53.400 to the mat,
00:27:54.240 not only on her corruption
00:27:55.540 when it comes to
00:27:56.460 how she was making
00:27:57.520 millions of dollars
00:27:58.360 in the stock market,
00:27:59.460 while Jack,
00:28:00.360 an independent business owner,
00:28:01.960 had lost money
00:28:03.000 every year
00:28:03.780 that he served
00:28:04.920 because he ran
00:28:05.580 his own businesses,
00:28:06.740 took steps away from that
00:28:08.420 to run for the assembly,
00:28:09.940 to run for council,
00:28:10.780 and stuff like that.
00:28:12.020 Sherrill made millions,
00:28:13.080 and now
00:28:13.640 she 100% shills
00:28:15.500 for the corrupt
00:28:16.580 NJEA lobby
00:28:17.920 that is the direct,
00:28:20.520 specific group
00:28:22.020 that is causing
00:28:23.020 our property taxes
00:28:24.020 and thus overall expenses
00:28:25.220 to be so high
00:28:26.420 in the state,
00:28:26.940 and have our education
00:28:28.760 in New Jersey
00:28:30.340 go from nationally
00:28:31.640 ranked 2
00:28:32.360 to nationally
00:28:33.380 ranked 12th.
00:28:34.720 That has been
00:28:35.280 over the last
00:28:35.900 eight years
00:28:36.540 under Democrat
00:28:37.740 rule in the state.
00:28:38.940 New Jersey
00:28:39.420 public schools
00:28:40.060 have gone from
00:28:40.540 2 to 12
00:28:41.180 and our property taxes
00:28:42.480 keep going up.
00:28:43.600 Roger,
00:28:44.000 it's not sustainable.
00:28:45.200 Sherrill had no answers.
00:28:46.680 Cittarelli was highly
00:28:47.340 specific on his solutions
00:28:48.600 to these problems.
00:28:50.140 Yeah,
00:28:50.600 I want to be very specific
00:28:51.640 here because I want
00:28:52.260 to be factual.
00:28:53.040 What Jack Cittarelli
00:28:54.120 said was actually accurate.
00:28:55.260 He said that in the seven years
00:28:57.300 that she's been in Congress
00:28:58.560 that Mikey Sherrill
00:29:01.380 tripled her net worth.
00:29:03.260 So while she was sitting
00:29:04.140 on the House Armed Services
00:29:05.420 Committee,
00:29:06.340 she was trading defense stocks.
00:29:08.080 That's a violation of the law.
00:29:09.920 She in fact had to pay fines
00:29:11.360 for violating federal law
00:29:12.900 on stock trading
00:29:14.000 and stock reporting.
00:29:15.700 She actually,
00:29:17.300 because of over 300 trades,
00:29:19.800 that resulted in a
00:29:21.000 $7 million profit.
00:29:22.620 So she tripled her net worth.
00:29:25.440 I was incorrect
00:29:25.960 when I said
00:29:26.500 she increased it sevenfold,
00:29:28.360 but she made
00:29:29.260 $7 million in profit.
00:29:31.620 Her net worth now stands
00:29:32.860 at an estimated $10 million.
00:29:34.780 She bought and sold shares
00:29:36.100 of several defense contractors
00:29:37.660 while sitting as a member
00:29:38.960 of the House Armed Services Committee.
00:29:40.920 She was fined
00:29:42.180 and had to disclose
00:29:44.820 up to $350,000
00:29:46.700 in stock trades
00:29:47.780 in violation of federal law.
00:29:49.840 People who want to check
00:29:50.680 these facts out for themselves
00:29:51.820 can go to
00:29:52.980 MikeyMadeMillions.com
00:29:55.280 Mikey, M-I-K-I-E
00:29:57.260 MikeyMadeMillions.com
00:29:59.220 It's all documented there.
00:30:01.280 I want to get that
00:30:01.840 precisely right
00:30:02.920 because if I don't,
00:30:03.840 you know,
00:30:04.340 some Democrat will complain
00:30:05.860 that we weren't
00:30:06.880 being factual here.
00:30:08.740 It's clear to me
00:30:10.300 that this race is in play.
00:30:12.820 I was very excited
00:30:13.760 when we had Cliff Maloney,
00:30:16.100 who was the architect
00:30:17.200 of Donald Trump's
00:30:18.260 come-from-behind victory
00:30:19.780 in Pennsylvania
00:30:20.600 in the last presidential campaign
00:30:22.080 and he announced
00:30:23.140 that he's teaming up
00:30:24.460 with you
00:30:25.420 and the good folks
00:30:27.400 at America First,
00:30:28.260 Republicans in New Jersey
00:30:29.420 to engage in the same kind
00:30:32.020 of door-to-door
00:30:33.380 shoe-leather campaigning
00:30:35.320 to identify
00:30:37.200 and turn out
00:30:38.700 Cittarelli voters
00:30:40.640 in the upcoming election.
00:30:41.740 This is very exciting.
00:30:43.500 Tell us what you have
00:30:44.520 planned here, Mike.
00:30:45.400 Well, Roger,
00:30:47.700 Cliff Maloney,
00:30:48.420 obviously,
00:30:49.120 has been just a really great
00:30:51.060 grassroots organizer
00:30:52.320 for many, many years,
00:30:53.680 a great friend,
00:30:55.500 and now he's, you know,
00:30:56.620 coming from Pennsylvania
00:30:57.620 to New Jersey.
00:30:59.560 We also have
00:31:00.400 Scott Pressler,
00:31:01.800 Early Vote Action,
00:31:03.620 and all of these groups,
00:31:05.240 I got to tell you,
00:31:06.120 that are coming into the state
00:31:07.400 have a track record
00:31:09.220 of experience,
00:31:09.900 and they're all doing
00:31:10.960 something different
00:31:12.500 to contribute
00:31:13.180 to the greater good
00:31:14.020 for Cittarelli.
00:31:14.780 So, America First,
00:31:15.580 Republicans in New Jersey,
00:31:16.920 we focus on, you know,
00:31:18.880 grassroots turnout
00:31:20.140 of the Trump voter,
00:31:22.320 the low-propensity
00:31:23.280 Trump voter
00:31:24.000 who doesn't get out
00:31:25.640 to the polls
00:31:26.800 except for
00:31:27.740 in presidential elections.
00:31:28.940 That's what we're focusing on
00:31:30.100 and kind of rallying
00:31:31.840 enthusiastic Trump supporters
00:31:33.280 to volunteer
00:31:34.520 to get the word out
00:31:36.960 for Jack Cittarelli
00:31:39.260 for the Trump voter.
00:31:40.640 Cliff Maloney
00:31:41.240 is doing an amazing job
00:31:42.560 of hitting doors
00:31:43.580 and meeting voters
00:31:45.020 where they are
00:31:45.720 at their house,
00:31:46.920 and then you have
00:31:47.520 Early Vote Action
00:31:48.440 where I have a lot of friends
00:31:49.260 over there, too.
00:31:50.580 They're encouraging
00:31:51.500 voter registration.
00:31:54.080 So, you know,
00:31:54.540 Cliff Maloney's been in the game
00:31:55.700 for a long time.
00:31:56.700 I know he's become
00:31:58.120 the master of door knocking
00:32:00.640 because I've seen him do it
00:32:02.220 in so many different campaigns
00:32:03.460 now for over a decade.
00:32:04.680 We've been friends.
00:32:05.740 So, with him doing that,
00:32:07.340 with people getting
00:32:08.180 new voter registrations
00:32:09.460 out there,
00:32:10.000 I see that happening
00:32:10.820 all over the place,
00:32:11.940 and with engaging
00:32:12.840 these low-propensity
00:32:13.820 Trump voters,
00:32:15.280 you're really giving
00:32:16.880 the New Jersey,
00:32:18.500 you know,
00:32:19.080 electoral situation
00:32:20.500 its best chance
00:32:21.860 in probably the last decade
00:32:23.620 because we have
00:32:24.580 all hands on deck,
00:32:26.060 everybody doing
00:32:27.200 their part,
00:32:28.760 you know,
00:32:29.680 around Jack's campaign
00:32:31.140 to help drive the message
00:32:32.920 and drive the turnout.
00:32:34.300 And obviously, Roger,
00:32:35.600 you know,
00:32:35.880 Jack himself
00:32:36.740 has become
00:32:38.260 a really good candidate,
00:32:39.420 strong candidate,
00:32:40.640 aligning with
00:32:42.100 President Trump
00:32:42.980 this time around.
00:32:44.700 They're, you know,
00:32:45.160 both joint
00:32:46.380 and in coordination
00:32:47.160 on some of the most
00:32:48.220 key important issues
00:32:49.320 such as law and order
00:32:50.740 and curbing and stopping
00:32:52.020 the illegal immigration
00:32:53.960 and invasion occurring,
00:32:55.500 particularly in New Jersey
00:32:56.800 and all the crime there.
00:32:57.960 So, I feel really good
00:32:59.460 about everything
00:33:00.040 that's coming together.
00:33:00.980 and obviously,
00:33:02.720 the folks out there,
00:33:04.680 the voters,
00:33:05.320 they know how high
00:33:06.000 the stakes are,
00:33:07.120 especially with what
00:33:07.820 we've witnessed
00:33:08.340 in our country, Roger,
00:33:09.800 over the last two weeks.
00:33:11.680 Everything that's been going on,
00:33:13.520 the enthusiasm on the ground
00:33:14.820 has been amazing
00:33:15.520 and everybody wants to pitch
00:33:17.140 in every way they can.
00:33:18.380 Really excited about the team
00:33:19.520 that we have here
00:33:20.280 around Jack Cittarelli.
00:33:21.920 All right, folks,
00:33:22.560 if you're just tuning in,
00:33:23.500 we're talking to Mike Crispy,
00:33:25.560 who is the head
00:33:27.000 of the America First Republicans
00:33:28.860 in New Jersey.
00:33:29.720 You're in the Stone Zone.
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00:33:49.400 And we're back in the Stone Zone.
00:33:51.280 We're talking to Mike Crispy,
00:33:53.100 who is, of course,
00:33:53.800 the host of Last Call
00:33:55.520 with Mike Crispy
00:33:56.380 on Real America's Voice TV,
00:33:58.160 as well as Mike Crispy Unafraid.
00:34:00.540 Create a syndicated podcast
00:34:02.460 with the Salem Podcast Network
00:34:03.960 that you can catch on rumble.com.
00:34:07.100 Mike Crispy's broadcasts
00:34:08.460 are among the most popular
00:34:09.840 in conservative circles.
00:34:11.580 He's really making a mark
00:34:12.680 for himself.
00:34:14.040 Mike, I think the day
00:34:16.180 will come yet again
00:34:17.180 when you run for public office.
00:34:18.540 I'm not sure that 2026 is the year,
00:34:22.860 but I have no doubt whatsoever
00:34:24.580 that you will answer the call again.
00:34:27.160 I do want to ask you,
00:34:28.700 given the tremendous progress
00:34:30.240 we're making in the Garden State,
00:34:32.220 what do you make
00:34:32.940 of the New York City mayor's race
00:34:34.880 and the fact
00:34:36.380 that New York City
00:34:37.980 appears to be on the cusp
00:34:39.560 of electing a mayor
00:34:41.280 who embraces the ideology
00:34:43.860 of those who attacked
00:34:46.280 the World Trade Center
00:34:47.360 on 9-11?
00:34:49.280 Well, Roger,
00:34:50.300 I watched last night
00:34:51.760 on MSNBC
00:34:52.780 Kamala Harris,
00:34:54.360 as she's doing her book tour,
00:34:56.000 give a tepid endorsement
00:34:57.560 of Zoran Mandabi,
00:34:59.420 and I said to myself,
00:35:01.040 if Kamala Harris
00:35:02.260 can't even really
00:35:03.460 outwardly endorse
00:35:04.580 Zoran Mandabi,
00:35:06.320 how bad
00:35:07.240 is the state of affairs?
00:35:09.140 I'll bet you're on
00:35:10.360 something completely different.
00:35:12.640 I have many friends
00:35:14.020 in finance
00:35:15.040 and who own
00:35:15.900 all sorts of types
00:35:16.880 of businesses
00:35:17.340 in New York City.
00:35:18.880 It's where I am
00:35:19.480 originally born and raised,
00:35:21.380 and they are
00:35:22.580 highly fearful
00:35:23.840 that they won't be able
00:35:25.880 to operate
00:35:26.820 their businesses,
00:35:28.180 that they won't be able
00:35:29.320 to charge rent
00:35:30.720 or be able to,
00:35:31.420 you know,
00:35:31.720 be landlords,
00:35:32.560 small landlords anymore,
00:35:33.540 or that they're even
00:35:35.500 going to be able
00:35:36.080 to have a sense
00:35:37.840 of safety
00:35:38.800 as they walk
00:35:39.700 the streets at night
00:35:40.640 because Zoran
00:35:41.880 does not believe
00:35:42.700 in jail.
00:35:43.820 He doesn't believe
00:35:44.360 in jail,
00:35:45.020 and he doesn't believe
00:35:46.220 in normal law
00:35:47.660 and order
00:35:48.040 and police presence.
00:35:49.500 So it is really
00:35:50.900 an unbelievable phenomenon
00:35:52.680 of what we're witnessing
00:35:54.440 in New York City.
00:35:55.760 I hope and pray,
00:35:56.840 Roger,
00:35:57.160 I saw you endorsed
00:35:57.860 Curtis Sliwa.
00:35:58.920 I hope and pray
00:36:00.100 that New York
00:36:01.180 can make the right decision
00:36:02.900 and get on the right track
00:36:04.380 here because Zoran's ideology
00:36:06.940 and everything
00:36:07.640 that he believes in
00:36:08.740 is the antithesis
00:36:10.200 of what has made
00:36:11.880 New York City
00:36:12.700 the greatest city
00:36:14.060 in the world.
00:36:15.480 And it is everything
00:36:16.420 that you invoked,
00:36:17.780 the World Trade Center,
00:36:18.640 9-11,
00:36:19.460 is everything
00:36:20.040 that we have
00:36:20.740 fought against
00:36:21.980 as a city
00:36:22.800 since that horrific day
00:36:25.140 that we'll live
00:36:25.660 in infamy
00:36:26.120 when people
00:36:27.520 of a radical,
00:36:28.580 hateful ideology
00:36:29.560 attacked our
00:36:31.320 precious World Trade Center
00:36:33.600 in the financial district
00:36:35.120 and attacked our city
00:36:36.320 and our country.
00:36:36.840 So the fact
00:36:37.840 that we are
00:36:38.380 where we're at
00:36:39.660 right now
00:36:40.180 is most troubling
00:36:41.700 to me,
00:36:42.220 Roger,
00:36:42.900 and I just really
00:36:44.100 hope and pray
00:36:44.660 every night
00:36:45.220 that New York City
00:36:46.420 rejects Zoran
00:36:48.340 at the ballot box.
00:36:49.820 It looks like
00:36:50.420 he's having
00:36:50.800 a hard time
00:36:51.460 winning the support
00:36:52.900 of black voters.
00:36:53.800 I was reading
00:36:54.200 this morning
00:36:54.600 that he's attempting
00:36:56.240 right now
00:36:56.720 scrambling
00:36:57.240 to talk to black voters
00:36:59.160 in the black churches
00:37:00.180 because they believe
00:37:01.480 he's going to be
00:37:02.000 pro-gentrification
00:37:02.980 or something like that.
00:37:03.800 So I don't know
00:37:05.480 if that will stop him
00:37:07.520 but right now
00:37:08.500 it's looking
00:37:09.020 pretty bleak
00:37:09.860 if we have
00:37:12.160 even Zoran
00:37:12.740 getting this far
00:37:13.560 in the election,
00:37:14.200 Roger.
00:37:14.780 So I hope
00:37:15.240 that the voters
00:37:15.740 reject him.
00:37:16.720 It'll be a really sad day
00:37:17.820 if he gets through.
00:37:18.980 I hope Curtis
00:37:19.560 can prevail
00:37:20.200 and beat him.
00:37:21.540 Mike,
00:37:21.900 I want to thank you
00:37:22.380 for joining us today
00:37:23.360 in the Stone Zone
00:37:24.100 and to all of our listeners
00:37:26.380 out there
00:37:26.900 who join us
00:37:27.940 every day
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00:37:29.100 until tomorrow.
00:37:30.340 God bless you
00:37:31.100 and Godspeed.
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