Roger Stone joins Ken Matthews to discuss how far off the rails things are going behind the scenes in the Trump administration and what s going on with the White House. He also talks about the mid-term elections and why we should be worried about them.
00:01:33.240He hasn't been in office this third term quite a year.
00:01:37.220But I think we need to discuss how far off the rails things are going behind the scenes and in the administration.
00:01:47.940And I'm trying to figure out, is it a group of people that are trying to move Trump in a different direction?
00:01:54.420Is it just publicity or is Trump actually moving in a different direction and he really doesn't have to respond to us anymore because he doesn't need the votes?
00:02:12.820Now, I know with some people that's probably sacrilege, but I don't I don't worship Trump.
00:02:44.920We were talking about this whole concept of the lesser of two evils, which I hate.
00:02:48.520I hate that whole concept because that's how the country ended up with a thirty seven trillion dollar debt.
00:02:56.480And now we're changing the immigration policy and we have some other issues that I think we need to discuss because we just kind of had our butt handed to us in this last election.
00:03:44.220I've been in the media for a long time.
00:03:46.240And most media, just like most news, most network news channels, are just designed to get you to think a certain way.
00:03:57.940So when someone comes out and starts asking questions or just saying things you may not have heard on Fox and Friends or wherever, some people just freak out.
00:04:09.580But we better step back a minute and look at what just happened in the last election, because if we stay on this current trajectory, we are going to get our collective butts handed to us in the midterms.
00:04:26.120And we may never come back from that, because President Trump, just like in 2015, 2016, he had a window.
00:04:35.420And for all intents and purposes, I think what he accomplished in his first term, considering that the Republicans were against him, the Democrats were against him, the media was against him.
00:04:55.620You see, just like you, I, as a voter and an American citizen and someone that does research, we all have opinions.
00:05:05.900I know the opinion we're supposed to have.
00:05:08.540I watch the different news shows and I read the different trash newspapers just to see if I'm missing anything in my show prep or pile of preparation.
00:05:17.940But the reality is, to be a critical thinker, you're going to have to listen to different people, because we will not get out of this if we let the Republicans pull us into it.
00:05:32.360And if you recall, it was the Republicans that put us over the line, right, for Obamacare.
00:05:39.800It was the Republicans in Pennsylvania that put us over the line for mail-in ballots.
00:05:46.220It was the Republicans that, in numerous states, wanted background checks.
00:05:52.260And most recently, it was a Republican that said, maybe we ought to register guns.
00:05:57.540So while we're all doing the victory dance, which should have ended 11 months ago, because it was a great victory, it was an exciting time, we need to wake up.
00:06:11.880Because we have a Muslim commie in New York City.
00:06:14.780And look at the moron that got elected in Virginia after he threatened to kill people.
00:06:22.460You know what this tells you, or at least it tells me.
00:06:26.460It tells me that the voters are so fed up that they're willing to switch to anything.
00:06:38.320That's not where you want to be as a political party.
00:06:43.400The Republicans and the Democrats have a problem.
00:06:46.540We're going to talk about that in a minute.
00:06:49.420The biggest problem they have is with young voters.
00:06:58.700The Republicans do what they always do.
00:07:00.640They still bring in some 400-year-old consultants and some people that used to work on the campaign for so-and-so.
00:07:08.100Those people should not be near Trump.
00:07:11.600Because they're rhinos, they're sellouts, and they're what most politicians are, opportunistic people that get into politics because that is the fast track to wealth if you can't make it in the private sector.
00:08:50.320And again, I don't want to dwell on the New York mayor's race, but it's such a good example because nothing unfolded the way it could have or should have.
00:08:58.660And you really saw how politics works.
00:09:03.540You had 63% of the Jewish population in New York City vote for Cuomo.
00:09:09.68033% of the Jewish population vote for the Islamist communist.
00:09:16.94033% of the Jewish population voted for Mom Donnie.
00:09:26.880Because the largest Jewish population on earth after Israel is New York City.
00:09:36.300And I have to ask myself, how in the heck, what was going on, who did what and why, that a third of the Jewish population of New York would elect a communist, an Islamist, and an independently wealthy trust fund baby,
00:10:02.520whose mom, from what I understand, pays his rent.
00:10:10.160So, I don't mind diving deep into some of these topics, but I'm getting tired of some of the analysis by some of the old school crusty people that are in some of these newspapers and on some of these network television shows.
00:10:28.680And they're missing, to me, one of the biggest characteristics of this race, the fact that a third of the Jewish population voted for Mom Donnie.
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00:14:13.060My name is Ken Matthews, and always a pleasure to be on the Red Apple Audio Network's guest hosting for Where They Need Me from Time to Time.
00:14:21.360And Roger Stone tonight, the Stone Zone.
00:15:01.820Every time Trump pushes what I believe are the right policies, California rears up and pushes back.
00:15:11.580It's back and forth and back and forth.
00:15:13.900And meanwhile, okay, we're still in Ukraine.
00:15:17.320And I think one of the most under-discussed things is how the MAGA people and how the young people feel about the Trump administration's involvement in Israel and Gaza.
00:15:32.980So as long as we keep ignoring Ukraine, which we should have been out of, we shouldn't have even been in there in 2014, but we should have been out of Ukraine.
00:15:43.560We should not have the investment or boots on the ground, which we do now in Israel.
00:15:51.200We should not be off the coast of Venezuela.
00:16:32.220And President Trump just was working on a deal with China.
00:16:36.380And something that just happened with China was they agreed, at least this is what some of the media says, that they agreed to crack down on fentanyl.
00:16:44.400And you do know that China runs the whole global fentanyl thing.
00:16:50.800Whether stuff comes out of the Middle East or whether it comes out of Mexico, China's got its finger on it.
00:16:56.140In fact, China was flying to Mexico and training the cooks in Mexico for the cartels.
00:17:05.220So they can get fentanyl and they could expand their market because everybody on Earth knows, at least until a year ago, the easiest borders to cross was into America.
00:17:21.140And that's the greatest market in the world.
00:17:23.380It's the greatest legal market and it's the greatest illegal market.
00:17:27.740Because just like human trafficking, our government is not doing enough to stop the demand.
00:17:36.120So everybody knows if you can get your product, whether it's illegal or not or legal, America is still the greatest market.
00:18:28.640My name is Ken Matthews in for Roger Stone tonight in the Stone Zone.
00:18:31.240Always a pleasure to be invited back on the Red Apple Audio Networks.
00:18:35.340You can follow me all over social media, but my website is kenmatthewsmedia.com.
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00:18:50.460We're taking grades on Donald Trump's administration.
00:18:54.200Not so much Trump, but the whole thing, you know.
00:18:57.760I've been frustrated by Bondi and Cash Patel.
00:19:01.220And, you know, it's interesting because as I observe Dan Bongino, I think he is really trapped on what to do.
00:19:10.740That's just me observing him as an older man.
00:19:14.360Looking at him, I'm thinking, there's a guy who bounced into this job like, we are gonna kick some butt!
00:20:22.640And then every time someone who's young and goes against the grain tries to get into the fold,
00:20:28.660whether it's Democrat or Republican, everybody pulls together and crushes them.
00:20:34.160It's kind of like how Republicans and Democrats are pulling together to make sure that America never finds out all the truth about Epstein.
00:20:45.900Now, the people in Washington, the people at these large media outlets and independently wealthy people in media,
00:20:55.680of which there are plenty, they probably don't care about that.
00:20:58.940But I can tell you, as someone who's just a middle-class dude who's lived around the country a little bit
00:21:05.280and actually still shops at Kmart, and sometimes I actually enjoy it, I'll admit it.
00:21:12.060Yes, the other day I needed something, and I got it there.
00:21:53.780It looks like the media and neocons and conservatives work around the clock to get me afraid of Putin every day.
00:22:01.420And if I question that, if I question it as an adult who's been around long enough to read more history books than probably most dingbats in the newsrooms have.
00:22:13.000When I question it and say, do we really need to be worried this much about Putin right now?
00:22:19.120Aren't you more concerned about this or this or this?
00:22:21.320Then they say, what are you, a communist?
00:25:08.240Why don't we put American students first?
00:25:10.440Now, see, that puts you into that uncomfortable position where you have to say, well, where are we going to find Americans as smart as the Chinese?
00:25:19.900See, I don't necessarily agree with that.
00:25:22.060I think that you can train a lot of people up to do a lot of great things.
00:25:28.340Certain people like to train certain people more than other people.
00:25:31.980But what if we took the foreign national student population from this point on and just kind of froze it for a minute until we got the American student population caught up?
00:25:47.500That does not seem America first to me.
00:25:50.780I thought Trump would have said no more student visas from the following countries until and then put a date on it, just like there should be no more immigration into this country, period, until we balance our budget.
00:26:08.980If we balance our budget, we get out of debt.
00:27:06.720Well, I'm doing great, and you're bringing up a lot of great things that we have to keep on top of.
00:27:14.360of, like, the Chinese students and many things, but I think that I look at it in the big picture, for instance, that we've had our first surplus.
00:27:31.360September 2025, we had $198 billion surplus.
00:29:17.080Well, wait until the tax cuts come in, the tax cuts and the refunds that people are going to get in the beginning of the year from the big, beautiful bill.
00:29:26.840You know, we have to just like, he walked into the decimation that's been going on between, you know, Obama and Biden and all the corruption.
00:30:51.960I think they prostitute themselves out.
00:30:54.220And just like any other surveys, they're designed to get you to buy a car or vote a certain way or eat a certain cereal or buy a certain beer.
00:31:02.120But I just ask people, and people are saying, when are we going to get the truth about Epstein?
00:31:08.280When are we going to get out of foreign wars all together?
00:31:19.500These are questions that people ask me and that we try to figure out.
00:31:23.600And the big one, if you really want to know the big one, among young Republicans, some of the smartest young Republicans I have ever met were in TPUSA.
00:31:36.640I never spoke at their event, but I shared a stage with a couple of them years ago, and they were much more successful than I.
00:31:47.120They are wondering why the Charlie Kirk cover-up.
00:31:52.500Why is it that the fact that there are young people out there, not only on and offline, but in general, questioning Charlie Kirk's assassination
00:32:01.680and the best that Kash Patel could do or the best that our administration can do is say, you guys need to shut up and concentrate on something else.
00:32:12.340Well, you know, you've been saying to us, shut up and concentrate on something else since they blew Kennedy's head off in the car.
00:32:30.560The people that are going to change the party, the people that are going to change the direction of this country are the same age as the men.
00:32:38.420Everybody talks about the founding fathers.
00:34:10.520And what we're getting out of the Republican Party now, it sounds like rhino Mitt Romney Chris Christie talking points, which kind of get me sick to my stomach.
00:34:18.880But anyway, I'm in for Roger Stone tonight.
00:34:21.460My name's Ken Matthews and the number is 800-848-9222.
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00:36:56.200And I don't know if you're like this, but don't you get kind of – I know it's almost childish when you see something or you supported something long before anybody else did.
00:37:12.840But, you know, being one of the first people on the Trump train and meeting Trump then, and I remember they said Pennsylvania was never going to – they'd never vote.
00:37:52.960And, sure, there were a lot of radicals, and they were protesting, and they were disagreeing.
00:37:57.060But there were a lot of conservatives that were debating and successfully winning.
00:38:02.800It was a very exciting time historically and politically.
00:38:08.200And I think what happened is during COVID and during Corn Pops reign, Joe Biden, who is another – see, this is another thing that I think especially rhino Republicans or lifetime Republicans don't really take seriously.
00:38:24.980And that's how much those of us that supported Trump wanted to see the Bidens brought to justice, the fact that Hunter walked and James walked and Frank walked and Joe walked and Carol started to get investigated and then she didn't.
00:38:42.740And, you know, we see this stuff and we start saying, wait a minute, are these folks no different than anybody else?
00:38:50.280They're just going to throw us one or two bones, which are great.
00:38:53.680I mean, there are some good things about the economy.
00:38:57.400But at the end of the day, if you want to be American first, you don't hand out work visas or student visas like candy.