Trump's visit to the South Bronx on Tuesday marks a departure from normal politics and a chance for President Trump to campaign in his old stomping grounds. The Bronx is one of the five boroughs of New York City and has a population of about 80% Democratic, and it s overwhelmingly African-American and Hispanic. This is a momentous day in American politics when a presidential candidate takes his campaign to the heart of opposition territory. To talk about this is someone who understands the area well: Tina Forte, the Republican and Conservative Party nominee against Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the socialist member of Congress running against him in the primary, joins us to talk about the significance of this momentous event and why it s a must-listen to hear from someone who has lived in the district for years. Join us in The Stone Zone, with legendary Republican strategist and political icon and pundit Roger Stone. Stone has served as a senior campaign aide to three Republican presidents, is a New York Times bestselling author, and a longtime friend and advisor of President Donald Trump. He is 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, and has lectured at countless venues. He has become a pop culture icon. And now, here s your host, Roger Stone! and Yes, you are back in the Stone Zone! - The Stonezone with Roger Stone, host of the legendary podcast, "The Stone Zone on his show on the newest show on HBO's HOSTAGE. and host of The Tonight Show with John McCain and Friends on the Tonight Show on CBS Radio's "Good Morning America" on October 9th, hosted by John McCain on October 31st, 2019, and on his new podcast, The FiveThirtysomething on October 30th, 2020 on the FiveThirtyEight on the Four Seasons The Fiveth and The Five Thirty-First on The Five. with John R. Kennedy on October 28th, 2019 on HBO s "The FiveThirtyOne Network. on October 29th and October 31, 2020 at the New York Post. The Four Seasons on October 4th, and October 5th at Harvard University of St. in New York, at the University of Chicago, at Harvard Law School, October 8th at The New York University, November 8th on Harvard Yard,
00:04:38.020The American dream that's now being given away to illegal immigrants in this district.
00:04:43.420And for Donald Trump to come here shows a very, very strong statement across this whole election, coming to a very blue area.
00:04:52.420A blue area, I feel, could swing red because of the momentum we have, because of the failure of Joe Biden and the rest of the left that are in office right now, destroying our country from within.
00:05:08.140If you look at the polling, Donald Trump is making historic inroads in urban areas where Republicans traditionally have not fared well.
00:05:18.700I think it is a manifestation of the failure of Joe Biden's policies, particularly in the area of affordable housing, particularly in the area of job opportunities.
00:05:32.160Americans are seeing these opportunities, these housing possibilities going to illegals.
00:06:15.300Everywhere I go, and this is from whether it's outside the courthouse, whether it's in the South Bronx, whether it's in Queens, you see Black Lives MAGA.
00:07:59.780My friend Sal Greco is a distinguished former New York police officer, 14 years service to the people of New York, has done an in-depth analysis.
00:08:09.000He actually believes that they're still manipulating the numbers despite their soft-on-crime policies.
00:08:17.940The New York state system of putting violent criminals right back out on the street within hours of their being arraigned and released was obviously responsible recently for the death of a New York City police officer who was shot and killed by a man who had 21 prior arrests.
00:08:37.680But the New York system could not keep this guy in jail.
00:08:40.820Well, I think President Trump's going to the officer's wake was extraordinarily symbolic.
00:10:46.580Plus, of course, I'd like to see yet another Italian-American in Congress.
00:10:51.380If you're just tuning in, folks, we're talking to Tina Forte.
00:10:54.520She's running for Congress against AOC, the socialist communist bartender who represents the Bronx, although from what I hear, she's rarely there now.
00:11:05.680She's really become more of a Washington swamp creature.
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00:12:07.420Folks going into retirement on a fixed income with all the cost of inflation going up.
00:12:11.880So we are losing donors who want to keep supporting us, but due to the cost of living, they can't.
00:12:19.640So we not only need to add donors, we need to make up for the donors we're losing who now find themselves retiring on a fixed income or already retired,
00:12:30.800but on a fixed income with the cost of inflation going up.
00:14:08.900If you're just tuning in, I'm Roger Stone.
00:14:11.160And yes, you are back in the Stone Zone.
00:14:14.020I'm here with my co-host, Troy Smith, the editor-in-chief of Slingshot.news.
00:14:19.280And we're interviewing Tina Forte, the Republican and Conservative Party nominee for Congress against AOC, the socialist bartender from the Bronx.
00:14:31.800Tina will be with the president today at this incredible rally.
00:14:39.340But I think you're going to see this across the country, Tina.
00:14:41.760I think you're going to see Trump going into Chicago, Trump going into Detroit, Trump going into Milwaukee, Trump going into Miami.
00:14:51.140This is, I think, supported by the polling that shows that the president is making deep inroads into more traditional Democratic voting groups.
00:15:03.580I want to get back to your campaign because, well, running for Congress is extraordinarily expensive.
00:16:44.440We pulled this clip of AOC last night kind of trashing Trump's appearance in the Bronx today and let you respond here to your opponent here in the general election.
00:16:55.260What do you think about a big Donald Trump rally in the Bronx?
00:16:58.360I mean, I think, as you mentioned earlier, this guy is stuck in court.
00:17:05.420And let's be very clear about the fact that he is stuck in court over hush money payments in order to quiet the story about him having sex with Stormy Daniels in the lead-up to the election.
00:17:23.200And I think that because he is stuck on so many charges around fraud and these payments, he is stuck in a pretty tight radius of where he can go.
00:17:35.820New York City is blue, New York City is blue, Brooklyn is blue, Queens is blue, the Bronx is blue, and he's got nowhere to go.
00:17:44.700And so he's decided to come to the South Bronx.
00:17:49.420And, you know, bussing people in in order to get those donations so that he can funnel them to his legal fees is kind of his business right now.
00:17:58.300Okay, AOC, my reaction is, you're not broke.
00:20:34.880Tina, my question would be, one of the biggest blunders I've seen AOC make was when she attacked Amazon for wanting to bring jobs to her district.
00:20:42.980I wanted to ask you, what's the thoughts on the ground about this?
00:20:46.740And is it something that you would try to revive if you were elected to Congress to bring more jobs to your district?
00:21:42.580The last president, as I said earlier, to take the last Republican candidate for president to take his campaign into the South Bronx was Ronald Reagan.
00:23:11.000We will not come back to court in Manhattan until after the Memorial Day weekend in an event that will potentially roil the presidential campaign one way or another.
00:23:26.880Talking to various lawyers, very few of the lawyers that I have talked to, looking at the political composition of the pool from which the jury was selected.
00:23:39.020Very few of them think, despite the fact that no case whatsoever was proved against Trump, very few people I know, lawyers that is, think that he will be acquitted.
00:23:50.300But many think there's a high probability that the jury cannot reach a verdict, that one or two or maybe more jurors refuse to find him guilty since the government has produced no case against him.
00:24:09.060In which case, this could be the only trial that he faces in the tsunami of lawfare against him between now and the election.
00:24:18.820So I urge everybody out there watching the show, please pray for our president.
00:24:55.960But I pray for the president's safety.
00:24:58.960And in this case, I pray for one sane, reasonable juror who can look at the facts and the law and realize that this is a frame job.
00:25:11.000Well, and Roger, what I would add is I think what needs to be a takeaway, you know, we're all kind of the jury here.
00:25:17.000And I know we're not legitimately the jury, but we're all watching this case.
00:25:20.280And the case that the government has put together, these witnesses, these people that they've put up on the stand, I don't see how anybody could come out of this saying, OK, well, Trump's definitely guilty unless they have some kind of, you know, it's a mainstream media figure that has some kind of a political objective they're trying to reach.
00:25:39.120But I think we need to look at this case and say, wow, you know, this is the level of the case that the government put together and any kind of respect that people have for the justice system, for, you know, these institutions that have been around for so long.
00:25:54.420I think that's all going out the window.
00:25:56.320And I think that this case will have the reverse effect that they want it to have and that people are not going to look at Trump differently.
00:26:02.900They're going to look at the government and say, wow, this is the level of convicted liar who admits to stealing over $50,000 in Michael Cohen is one of their key witnesses, along with Stormy Daniels, who believes that she communicates with ghosts and is a medium in a psychic way.
00:26:19.980I mean, this is it's one of the most laughable cases I've ever seen.
00:26:24.560And I would add to it, I think this is going to, you know, across the country, anybody who had a little bit of shred of faith left in the justice system.
00:26:32.120That seems to me it's going to be out the window with this case.
00:26:35.580Well, it is a state prosecution, but I don't think it's lost on people that the number three prosecutor at the U.S. Department of Justice suddenly decided that he wanted a job with a county district attorney in Manhattan and move there to take the lead in this case.
00:26:53.320That tells you everything you need to know.
00:26:55.960Trump is right when he says this is Biden's case.
00:26:58.960This is this is the case Biden is bringing against him.
00:27:02.120We know factually that not only was a special counsel, Jack Smith has met extensively with those in the Biden White House, but Bonnie Wills, the prosecutor in Georgia, Nathan Wade, who was a prosecutor there, traveled to the White House and to the Biden Justice Department.
00:27:20.900So did Alvin Bragg, the attorney general, Alvin Bragg, the New York County Manhattan district attorney, all of them going to the White House.
00:27:34.920Sounds to me like a racketeering conspiracy for election interference.
00:27:40.200Anyway, let's go to your let's go to your daily report on the political scene.
00:29:08.140First of all, I think that is valuable because it cuts against the narrative pushed by some on the left that there are deep cleavages in the Republican Party.
00:29:17.320And that a substantial number of Republicans aren't going to vote for Trump.
00:29:22.360There's a small group of never-Trumpers in the Republican Party, more than made up for by blue-collar ethnic Catholic Democrats who voted for Obama but voted for Trump in 2016.
00:29:36.980May have strayed in some cases in 2020.
00:29:39.500Now they realize what a gigantic mistake they've made.
00:30:11.200Look, what this tells me is Nikki Haley would like to have a political future in a party that is thoroughly and completely and overwhelmingly dominated by Donald J. Trump.
00:30:23.280And this probably ends any possibility of her having a cabinet in a future Biden administration.
00:30:31.680I would rather have her support than not have it.
00:30:34.540But no, folks, she's not going to be vice president.
00:30:38.560We are going to go to a quick commercial break here.
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00:33:06.220It's a historic day as President Donald Trump takes his campaign to the South Bronx.
00:33:13.040The last presidential candidate from the Republican Party to do that, as I said earlier, was Ronald Reagan, who won.
00:33:21.080By the way, I see people online saying, well, how much did that help the Bronx?
00:33:24.980Actually, there was a period of revitalization in the Bronx during the Reagan presidency.
00:33:30.900All of that would later disintegrate under future Democratic administrations.
00:33:36.220But between enterprise zones and the deep tax cuts, which caused a job boom, things did actually get better and safer in the South Bronx during the Reagan presidency.
00:33:51.960Things went downhill under his Democratic successors.
00:34:00.160We got some big news today in the U.S. Senate that I want to get your opinion on because, you know, this is really interesting news, I think.
00:34:10.040Rick Scott has formally announced that he will be launching a bid to become the next Senate GOP leader, trying to oust Mitch McConnell, who will be retiring from the Senate.
00:34:20.340And we actually have a clip of Rick Scott officially entering the race, talking about some of the failures of the Republican Senate under Mitch McConnell.
00:34:28.940When we come back from that video, I want to get your thoughts on Rick Scott's bid to replace Mitch McConnell.
00:34:34.040Conservative voters want us to stand for something.
00:36:08.360I would like to see him replace Mitch McConnell, who really seems to be in bed with the Democrats on every major issue, particularly the issue of spending, which is fueling the inflation that is, you know, destroying the buying power of the dollar.
00:36:32.920Well, and it's just important to point out that Rick Scott was also one of the only members of the Senate to travel to New York City and defend President Donald Trump.
00:36:41.300And he was one of the earliest to do so.
00:36:42.880Let's play the clip of Rick Scott outside of the New York City courthouse just a few days ago.
00:36:47.460Now, let's look at who involved, who's involved in doing this.
00:36:51.320The lead prosecutor was the number three person that Biden, the Biden Justice Department.
00:36:57.360The judge's daughter is a political operative and raises money for Democrats.
00:37:03.460You've got the lead prosecutor's wife is a significant donor to Democrats and I think to Biden.
00:37:12.320So this is just a bunch of Democrats saying, we want to make sure that Donald Trump can't talk.
00:38:30.540Well, Roger, I'm really interested to get your thoughts on this because we did see that RFK Jr., very early on in his campaign, when he announced that he would be an independent candidate, started accepting donations in crypto.
00:38:46.420But as we know, RFK Jr. is not a nominee for a major party.
00:38:50.720So just a few days ago, President Donald Trump became the first nominee for a major party in a presidential campaign to accept cryptocurrency donations.
00:39:00.600And the response to this, I want to get your thoughts on just the fact that they're accepting cryptocurrency donations, Roger.
00:39:06.780And then I also would like to get your thoughts on Elizabeth Warren, who immediately went on CNBC and called for them to ban cryptocurrency because it's being used to fund terrorists across the world.
00:39:18.980Let's roll Elizabeth Warren and get Roger's thoughts on the back end.
00:40:12.720I urge people to do their own due diligence in this area, particularly regarding MAGA meme coin, which is, you know, I've partnered with them.
00:41:07.000If you look and by the way, she's not alone.
00:41:10.440And we have actually a screenshot of a headline that shows that there's Democrats across the country now who are lining up trying to regulate crypto because Donald Trump is accepting donations and cryptocurrency, Roger.
00:41:24.320You know, you've been you've experienced so much in politics.
00:41:27.500I want to I want to ask you, have you ever seen the knee jerk reaction that Trump gets from the left is really it's got to be unique, even historically?
00:41:37.000Well, no place was this more evident than when Donald Trump actually got his criminal justice reform.
00:41:43.020So in both the the the the first step act and the second chance act, Donald Trump and his administration began to to fix some of the inequities in the criminal justice system, most of which flowed from the 1994 crime bill, which has been used to disproportionately incarcerate poor people and black people.
00:42:06.260For the first time, for the first time, nonviolent crime of possession of very small amounts of drugs for personal use.
00:42:12.600Now, I don't approve of drug abuse, but I think these people need to be in drug treatment programs, not incarcerated.
00:42:20.100When Donald Trump finally moved historical legislation to fix some of these inequities, many members of the House Black Caucus voted against these reforms, reforms that they had been pushing for years just because Donald Trump proposed them.
00:42:38.700So they voted against the interests of their own constituents, they voted against their own previous position just because Donald Trump was successful in promoting criminal justice reform.
00:42:51.520Both of those historic acts are things that I think he needs to be talking about things he needs to be talking about in the South Bronx, for example.
00:43:02.820No, the the the the the the level of hysteria, the level of hysteria, the level of apoplexy about Donald Trump, it's it's it's it's almost supernatural.
00:43:16.180It's just weird. I mean, look, there's a bunch of liberal Democrats that I don't like, but I'm not obsessed with them the way they seem to be obsessed with Trump.
00:43:26.320It really is Trump derangement syndrome. And nobody has a worse case than Nancy Pelosi.
00:43:34.640Well, and I would say competing with her, Roger, is, of course, our favorite redhead over on MSNBC, Jen Psaki, who we had news of yesterday.
00:43:44.100I wanted to break this here on The Stone Zone because it's quite I would say it's it's almost poetically perfect because Jen Psaki, the former White House press secretary, is facing a subpoena for dodging comments.
00:43:56.320Congress after profiting off of her book in which she kind of lies incredibly like a ton.
00:44:03.140She lies a lot about the Biden Afghanistan withdrawal and and about the fact that President Joe Biden was checking his watch during the dignified transfer.
00:44:12.760Now, Roger, she's already had to reprint the book because of Gold Star families coming out and criticizing her for lying about the whole checking the watch thing.
00:44:20.860And now she's actually being subpoenaed by Congress because she she's lying about the Afghanistan withdrawal of which she was a member of the government.
00:44:30.680So she's profiting off of the death of 13 U.S. service members and hundreds of Afghanistan civilians.
00:44:37.660So what are your thoughts on this, Roger?
00:44:56.680I appeared where I was supposed to appear.
00:44:58.720Yes, I asserted my Fifth Amendment rights, not because I had anything to hide,
00:45:02.920not because that I had any issues regarding the substance, but I've seen how the Congress twists your words into some kind of process crime.
00:45:14.660So I asserted my Fifth Amendment rights.
00:45:17.260But Bannon now facing prison over that matter.
00:46:50.240Watching, and we'll probably pull this for tomorrow, watching Merrick Garland try to explain why one subpoena is legitimate, but another subpoena is not legitimate.