The StoneZONE with Roger Stone - November 11, 2024


Trump Sends Stefanik to UN, Sticker Mule CEO Anthony Constantino to Seek Her Seat?


Episode Stats

Length

56 minutes

Words per Minute

172.70062

Word Count

9,682

Sentence Count

673

Misogynist Sentences

2

Hate Speech Sentences

1


Summary

Trump picks a new White House Chief of Staff and a new U.N. ambassador, and a woman who was responsible for helping him win the 2016 election. Also, a new Supreme Court nominee for the 2020 election is being named, but who will she be? And what will she look like as a Supreme Court justice? All that and much more on today's episode of The Stone Zone with Roger Stone. Guests: Editor-in-Chief of Slingshot News, Troy Smith; Editor-In-Chief and Managing Editor of The Daily Caller, Adam Sobel; Senior Fellow at the Center for American History at the Harvard Graduate School of Political Science, Dr. John Avlon; and Senior Adviser to President Donald Trump, Roger Stone Jr. Thanks to our sponsor, AirBnb, for sponsoring the show! Thanks also to our patron, for supporting the show. If you like the show, please consider pledging a small monthly or monthly small monthly donation to The Stonezone.org. We will match the amount you give us with a new episode of the show on our next ad-targeted sponsor, and we'll get you an ad-free version of The Golden Age of Trump's newest novel, "Trump's New York Times" out next week. Thank you! Thanks again for your support, and Happy New Year, everyone! The StoneZ Zone - Roger Stone Sr. - . Roger Stone "The Stone Zone" and . . The is a new ad on the new book out now out in paperback edition of the book, "The New York Review of the White House of New York Magazine by The New York Sun. by Tom Pizzi by David Sedaris in paperback, out now on the streets, out soon! in the new issue of the new edition of The New Republic, out on Amazon Prime, coming out on November 15th, out on the 27th, 2020. The White House has a new edition is out now! and it will be out in the mail on November 6th, 2019. and will be on the week after that! by the 7th, so don't miss it! , and it's coming soon, so stay tuned for the rest of the work we'll have it on the 8th and the 9th, coming soon


Transcript

00:00:00.000 with legendary Republican strategist and political icon and pundit, Roger Stone.
00:00:06.280 Stone has served as a senior campaign aide to three Republican presidents.
00:00:10.340 He is a New York Times bestselling author and a longtime friend and advisor of President Donald Trump.
00:00:15.960 As an outspoken libertarian, Stone has appeared on thousands of broadcasts,
00:00:19.920 spoken at countless venues, and lectured before the prestigious Oxford Political Union and the Cambridge Union Society.
00:00:26.360 Due to his four-plus decades in the political and cultural arena, Stone has become a pop culture icon.
00:00:32.320 And now, here's your host, Roger Stone.
00:00:39.740 Welcome. I'm Roger Stone. And yes, you are back in the Stone Zone.
00:00:44.800 Well, welcome to the golden age of Trump.
00:00:48.940 Ladies and gentlemen, we are facing an entire era of unprecedented peace and prosperity
00:00:54.940 as President Donald Trump restores the former greatness of America for the second time.
00:01:01.120 Here to help me talk about all the developments is my co-host, the editor-in-chief of Slingshot.News, Troy Smith.
00:01:09.660 Big quick shot.
00:01:10.700 Roger, as always, an honor to be with you here in the Stone Zone.
00:01:14.020 I really appreciate you having me here to discuss this stuff because we have a lot of news to get into
00:01:20.280 as this administration is kind of unfolding.
00:01:23.020 We're seeing the players. We're seeing who's going in.
00:01:25.000 Can't wait to break that down.
00:01:26.380 And a great guest today.
00:01:27.460 Again, always an honor to have you be back in the Stone Zone.
00:01:30.520 All right. Let's start at the beginning.
00:01:32.840 President Donald Trump naming Suzy Wiles, who is his co-campaign manager, as his White House chief of staff.
00:01:41.500 Now, this is a crucial position.
00:01:44.680 I personally have known Suzy Wiles for well over 30 years.
00:01:49.240 I have seen some nonsense on the Internet about Suzy Wiles, so let's clear this up right now.
00:01:55.940 Suzy Wiles is an outsider.
00:01:58.380 She was the woman who ran the initial campaign for outsider Rick Scott when he ran for governor.
00:02:06.580 That's how she first came to the attention of Donald Trump.
00:02:09.560 She was then called in in 2016.
00:02:12.240 She was invited into the campaigns of Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush, but she chose instead to go to work for Donald Trump.
00:02:21.200 And it is Suzy Wiles, who was responsible for Trump's narrow victory in Florida in 2016.
00:02:28.500 She then went on to bail out the Republican candidate for governor, Ron DeSantis, who only won that party's nomination with the endorsement of Donald Trump.
00:02:42.340 For reasons that have never been specified, she left the DeSantis camp, and then she was asked to return to become chief of staff, first for President Donald Trump's political action committee, and then to become co-chairperson of his campaign for president.
00:03:00.260 Now, she got a lot of criticism during the campaign, most of it completely unfounded.
00:03:05.740 Let's clear some of this up right now.
00:03:08.360 Although she has worked for a public affairs firm, no, she never worked for any pharmaceutical firm, specifically never worked for Pfizer.
00:03:17.540 That is false.
00:03:18.860 It has also been written that she was a member of the World Economic Forum, or that she was one of the young leaders.
00:03:25.320 Completely and totally erroneous.
00:03:28.580 False.
00:03:29.480 Not true.
00:03:30.160 She is an enormously capable woman, and now I think it's kind of obvious.
00:03:37.500 Would Donald Trump have rolled up the Republican nomination as easily as he did without her leadership?
00:03:43.900 It was she that recruited Chris LaCivita, one of the country's leading Republican strategists, organizers, and operatives, to co-chair the Trump campaign.
00:03:55.580 And folks, can't argue with success.
00:03:58.200 Not only did they roll up the nomination easily, but as I think everybody who's watching the show now knows, Trump didn't just win.
00:04:06.140 He won in a tsunami, in a landslide.
00:04:09.680 So, I have known Susie Wiles for 30 years.
00:04:13.840 She's an enormously capable woman.
00:04:16.160 Most importantly, she completely understands her boss, Donald Trump.
00:04:21.740 She will carry out his wishes.
00:04:24.400 I think that this is an excellent, excellent choice, which I applaud.
00:04:29.760 Now, we do know that we're beginning to get some of the early appointments.
00:04:36.160 We learned yesterday that President Donald Trump has appointed Congresswoman Elise Stefanik from upstate New York to be the U.N. ambassador.
00:04:50.200 You, Elise Stefanik, has been a guest on my 77 WABC radio show.
00:04:56.700 She is a staunch supporter of President Trump, and she's had the courage to file formal complaints against both state and federal judges who have abused their power in the lawfare attempts against Donald Trump.
00:05:12.480 I think this is an excellent appointment.
00:05:15.080 I consider her a friend, a woman of great courage and great loyalty to the America First agenda of President Donald Trump.
00:05:25.120 Now, I assume she will not resign her seat in Congress until February, which is when her nomination technically would probably go to the Senate.
00:05:39.540 At that time, Governor Hochul of New York would declare a special election.
00:05:47.060 That special election, there will be no primaries under New York state law.
00:05:51.560 And what would happen is the Republican county organizations in the counties that are either fully or partially in the congressional district would essentially, each county would vote.
00:06:07.220 Each county has a weighted percentage of the overall vote.
00:06:12.400 And whoever has a majority of those counties, normally the county committee members would probably give a proxy to the county chairperson.
00:06:24.460 They would get what is called a certificate of election.
00:06:28.400 Then their name would be on the ballot for the special election.
00:06:33.120 Normally, from the time that the governor calls a special election, it's usually about 90 days.
00:06:41.260 And therefore, there'd be a special election for that seat.
00:06:44.300 Now, we don't even know today the outcome of the House elections.
00:06:51.460 It appears that the Republicans will maintain control.
00:06:54.580 But I don't think we know that for a certainty, as Democrats continue to slow roll the count in a number of districts, where, frankly, I think they're trying to steal some seats.
00:07:06.660 But either way you look at it, this is a reliably Republican district.
00:07:12.040 It's highly likely that Republicans would hold on to it.
00:07:16.660 Joining us now is a man who told me last night he is seriously considering becoming a candidate for the seat.
00:07:24.080 You've seen him here before on the Roger Stone Show on 77 a.m. radio, but also here on the Stone Zone, Anthony Constantino, the chief executive officer of StickerMule.com.
00:07:37.120 You remember him. He is the guy who put an enormous vote for Trump sign on the top of his factory in Amsterdam, New York, although Amsterdam is outside this district.
00:07:49.980 He lives in the district.
00:07:52.300 Told me last night that he is seriously considering entering this race.
00:07:57.220 Let's bring him in now.
00:07:58.780 Anthony Constantino, the chief executive officer of StickerMule.
00:08:04.440 Hey, Roger. Happy to be here.
00:08:06.060 Didn't exactly expect to be here, but very happy to be here.
00:08:11.020 Well, let's first, let's start with Elise Stefanik.
00:08:13.580 You know her.
00:08:14.440 You told me last night you actually went to high school with her.
00:08:17.340 I know you're one of her financial contributors.
00:08:19.740 You're a strong supporter of hers.
00:08:21.640 Tell us your opinion of this appointment.
00:08:24.680 It's a great decision on the part of President Trump.
00:08:27.040 And I went to high school with Elise.
00:08:29.440 But the more interesting thing is I'm a very loyal person.
00:08:32.500 And I got five or six people from the same high school that are still with me, helping me run StickerMule.
00:08:37.300 I've been very loyal to people my whole life.
00:08:39.100 And they're all fans of Elise, too.
00:08:41.260 So we're all very happy for Elise at StickerMule, not just me.
00:08:43.840 But the rest of my team at StickerMule, we've had a great relationship with her for a long time.
00:08:48.760 She's a great person, really, a great American, and it's a great appointment for her and a good decision on behalf of President Trump.
00:08:56.640 Yeah, I completely agree.
00:08:58.180 I was very pleased when I got this news.
00:09:00.920 And we're going to try to get her back on the stone zone as soon as we possibly can.
00:09:05.400 Now, I want to remind people of your own odyssey, because a couple of years ago you weren't political at all.
00:09:11.320 You were just interested in building your online Internet printing business, which has become extraordinarily successful.
00:09:18.180 But the time came when you finally decided you had to come off the bench and get in the fight to save America.
00:09:24.120 You very famously put this enormous sign on top of your factory.
00:09:29.320 Amsterdam used to be a bustling industrial city, really a jewel, until the globalist policies of Biden and before him Obama destroyed most of the commerce in upstate New York.
00:09:45.000 You have revived what was an old factory building, and your company, StickerMule, is extraordinarily successful.
00:09:53.260 But some people didn't like your sign.
00:09:56.200 Some people told you you should stay out of politics.
00:09:59.660 The local county officials, some of them said that your sign was a safety hazard because people might see it while they're driving by, which is one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard in my entire life.
00:10:13.620 So you refused to back down.
00:10:17.160 You refused to take the sign down as they demanded.
00:10:19.260 They actually, as I recall, they threatened to put you in jail if you insisted on exercising your free speech, First Amendment rights, but you stood tall.
00:10:29.120 So tell us a little bit about that controversy, and we're going to show a video to remind people about what happened at your factory.
00:10:36.720 Yeah, sure.
00:10:38.460 You know, I put this incredible, beautiful vote for Trump sign on top of my building, and we wanted to celebrate the sign by having a massive sign lighting party.
00:10:46.520 People flew in from all over the country, and my Democrat mayor went nutso, maybe is the best way to put it.
00:10:52.480 And he hit me with a very aggressive restraining order forbidding me from displaying the sign.
00:10:56.540 I thought it was a silly thing, but my lawyers didn't know, Anthony, they're going to throw you in jail right now if you violate that restraining order.
00:11:02.140 You're going to get thrown in jail.
00:11:03.640 I had to get a criminal defense attorney.
00:11:05.140 I had to hire a really talented attorney named Sal Ferlazo, who kicked their ass, basically.
00:11:11.400 But Sal Ferlazo did a great job.
00:11:13.160 He saved my butt at the last minute.
00:11:14.540 We were going to throw this massive party, and literally 20 minutes before the party went off, Sal Ferlazo called me, and he said, Anthony, you're not going to believe it.
00:11:22.080 I got the restraining order vacated at the last minute, and you can go ahead with your party.
00:11:26.120 He said, I'd like to sign up and have a great night and have fun.
00:11:29.820 And he got down to the party, and he actually got on top of – I had a Cybertruck.
00:11:34.460 I was on top of a Cybertruck talking in front of somewhere between 3,000 and 5,000 people about what just happened.
00:11:40.780 And Sal was on the truck with me taking a celebratory speech as well.
00:11:45.540 So it was a great day for Amsterdam.
00:11:48.040 It was a great day for America, a great day for free speech.
00:11:50.800 And a really interesting experience, one I never thought I'd get myself into, but a really interesting experience that got me a firsthand look at the political world, which is, you know, a tough place.
00:12:02.380 But, yeah, really got me a firsthand look at the political world.
00:12:05.500 All right.
00:12:05.980 We're having a little trouble loading that video, so we're just going to talk about it and let our folks in the control room try to catch up with us.
00:12:12.220 You were there at Madison Square Garden, which was one of the greatest political experiences of my life.
00:12:21.820 As you know, it was an extraordinarily diverse crowd.
00:12:26.480 I mean, you had all kinds of people there.
00:12:29.000 I saw that Kamala Harris referred to it as a Nazi rally, which was interesting because I saw a lot of people waving the flag of Israel and wearing yarmulkes at that rally, which is, I think, pretty rare if it were a Nazi rally.
00:12:40.920 Of course, it wasn't.
00:12:42.840 And the Democrats like to forget the entire history.
00:12:45.420 It was Madison Square Garden where Bill Clinton was nominated for president.
00:12:50.180 It was Madison Square Garden where Jimmy Carter was nominated for president.
00:12:54.360 It was Madison Square Garden in 1960 where President John F. Kennedy's famous birthday party, where Marilyn Monroe in a virtually see-through sexy dress, very breathily sang, happy birthday, Mr. President.
00:13:07.260 But no, suddenly, having a rally in Madison Square Garden, they tried to say, was something evil and something associated with Nazism and Hitler.
00:13:17.160 Now, there was an anti-war rally.
00:13:22.280 Many German-Americans did not want America to enter World War II, but that was actually at Madison Square Garden when it was at a different location.
00:13:30.200 So, tell me about your experience in Madison Square Garden.
00:13:34.440 Oh, it was an incredible day.
00:13:35.560 I met people from all different backgrounds.
00:13:37.240 But really, even though I stayed silent for so long, I understood what was happening to President Trump since the day he stepped into office due to my business background.
00:13:44.740 And sadly, I stayed quiet for too long.
00:13:47.120 I spoke up at the right time, I guess.
00:13:49.240 But, you know, I tell people all the time with my background in business, poorly performing organizations like the U.S. government do not like when new chief executives enter the organization because they know change is going to happen.
00:14:01.600 And the people that are performing poorly are going to get discovered and action is going to be taken against them.
00:14:06.780 Usually that action means they're going to get fired.
00:14:09.220 But they knew things were going to happen to them.
00:14:10.700 And so the moment Trump announced, the U.S. government really launched a rebellion against them and all these figures that are in there like Kamala Harris and Tim Walz and all these other people that make their money, taking advantage of our country, got very upset and very nervous and very scared.
00:14:28.040 So that's why they use the rhetoric that they use.
00:14:30.240 But I was there.
00:14:30.940 I made really great friends.
00:14:32.420 I made incredible friends.
00:14:33.200 I never dreamed I would have made.
00:14:34.360 But I became friends with a guy named Michael Harris, who was on the stage speaking on behalf of President Trump to see the founder of Death Row Records, big time supporter of Trump.
00:14:43.760 And he actually came to my event two days later.
00:14:46.120 I held an event called Meet a Trump Supporter in Manhattan.
00:14:48.840 I don't even know if you know this, Roger, but I did an event in Manhattan.
00:14:51.400 I rented the Flatiron Jazz Club.
00:14:53.540 I invited all the smartest liberals in Manhattan to come and talk to me.
00:14:57.780 We had about 200 people come to talk to me.
00:14:59.980 Only five of them were Democrats, but every single Democrat who came that day spoke to me and left saying, Anthony, I'm with you.
00:15:05.980 I'm voting for Trump now.
00:15:07.280 I left that place.
00:15:08.100 I got into a cab.
00:15:08.840 I was in the cab with an Ecuadorian cab driver.
00:15:11.220 I speak Spanish, so I was talking to him in Spanish.
00:15:13.220 And he said to me, Anthony, I'm with President Trump.
00:15:16.200 And he said he's going to win a massive landslide.
00:15:18.600 This guy told me he said he's going to win a massive landslide.
00:15:20.640 He said, I'm a New York City cab driver.
00:15:22.520 And he said, only the fanatics are voting for Kamala.
00:15:25.800 He said, every sensible Democrat that I talk to is with Trump.
00:15:29.260 And that's what we ended up seeing happen.
00:15:30.800 So I placed a big bet on Trump winning.
00:15:33.160 I was out there saying landslide myself.
00:15:35.680 And I'm pretty happy with the results as I got vindicated in my stance.
00:15:40.440 But I was at Madison Square Garden.
00:15:42.300 I saw the energy there.
00:15:43.160 I walked in.
00:15:43.600 I saw people from all different backgrounds.
00:15:44.840 And I said, yeah, he's got it.
00:15:46.700 It's game over.
00:15:47.340 He's going to win.
00:15:47.920 And that was the energy I saw.
00:15:49.920 I was in Manhattan doing an event.
00:15:51.840 I talked to every single person.
00:15:53.220 You know, eight years ago or six years ago, if you went to Manhattan saying you're a Trump supporter, bad things were going to happen to you.
00:15:57.800 But I held an event called Meet a Trump Supporter.
00:16:00.300 And not a single liberal came to challenge me.
00:16:03.220 All they wanted to do was understand my perspective.
00:16:04.800 And they're all left saying that they're going to vote for President Trump, including a Manhattan CEO who came and told me he liked my event so much.
00:16:13.200 He sent me a text saying, Anthony, I went to work wearing a Trump shirt today.
00:16:16.760 I'm wearing your Trump for peace shirt.
00:16:18.020 And he said, some of my liberal employees started having panic attacks.
00:16:20.960 But I talked to them and I calmed them down, too.
00:16:22.620 So I'm really happy with what I saw at Madison Square Garden.
00:16:25.380 I'm really happy with the results of this election.
00:16:27.000 And I think Trump's making great decisions, not just with Elise, but with all his appointments so far.
00:16:32.320 We're going to show that video here in a minute.
00:16:34.400 But in the meantime, I'm going to go to my co-host, Troy Smith.
00:16:38.180 Troy, you and I were talking about this earlier today, the impact of Anthony's decision to stand up for America on his business.
00:16:47.060 I think that's a great line of questioning.
00:16:49.100 Troy?
00:16:50.360 Absolutely.
00:16:50.820 Anthony, can you tell us what it's been like for you as a business owner?
00:16:53.820 You're standing up because, as you said, you've been vocally supporting the president.
00:16:57.500 Has that been good for business, bad for business?
00:16:59.380 What can you tell us?
00:17:00.400 I tell people it's like this.
00:17:02.040 Whenever you're solving a big problem, there's usually an upfront investment.
00:17:04.220 So I would say getting involved politically is not a path to grow your business.
00:17:08.280 If I cared about making money, I'd stay focused on the business.
00:17:10.460 And I would have kept my mouth shut like a lot of other people do.
00:17:13.160 Or I would have been like, you know, played both sides like a Mark Zuckerberg's doing right now.
00:17:17.940 But, you know, I didn't do that.
00:17:19.480 I wanted to solve the problem.
00:17:20.700 I called the problem anti-Trump hate.
00:17:22.760 There was a massive problem, in my view, with what I call anti-Trump hate.
00:17:26.260 People were just completely out of their minds with hatred for not only President Trump, but for his supporters.
00:17:30.860 So I really have been on the front line since about five minutes after the first assassination attempt.
00:17:36.660 Even beyond the sign, about five minutes before the first assassination attempt, I fired off an email to my 5 million customers.
00:17:42.740 And that made a massive news cycle.
00:17:44.300 But I've been working on the problem of anti-Trump hate.
00:17:46.860 There's a cost to fixing it.
00:17:48.280 But I think the problem has been fixed mostly, especially with this landslide election.
00:17:52.920 The concept of hating Trump supporters has become a rather silly, silly concept.
00:17:57.760 It doesn't really make much sense anymore now that he's had a landslide victory.
00:18:01.000 So I feel very happy with what I did.
00:18:02.540 I kind of want to declare mission accomplished in my goals of helping to unify the country.
00:18:07.840 I think we're really going to have a unified country now with the landslide election, with all the support for President Trump.
00:18:12.580 People are pushing each other out of the way to support President Trump.
00:18:15.160 Whereas when I did it, when I sent my first message saying I support him, I got, normally I get 5,000 to 10,000 emails a day.
00:18:21.460 Believe it or not, I was getting 50,000 to 100,000 emails a day with people telling me to kill myself, that they were going to kill me, that they wanted to see my company go bankrupt, that I'm going to lose all my customers.
00:18:32.440 It was completely crazy.
00:18:35.380 And now we have a situation in America where people are coming out of the woodwork to say they support President Trump.
00:18:40.580 Everyone wants to say they support President Trump now, it seems just about everybody.
00:18:43.820 Let's roll this video from the time that there was a public ceremony, I guess you would call it, built around the sign.
00:18:56.360 Let's roll it.
00:18:57.220 My name is Anthony Constantino, and I had a crazy idea to promote American manufacturing, to bring people together, and to stop all the division.
00:19:07.980 But my crazy idea turned into something bigger, a fight to protect free speech.
00:19:13.820 After I decided to build a beautiful, artistically designed and handcrafted sign, Democrat politicians went to war to stop me from showing it, trampling on our First Amendment right to free speech.
00:19:26.560 They tricked the judge with a phony narrative that a beautiful, vote for Trump sign was a public safety hazard.
00:19:34.240 My lawyers told me I'd end up in jail if I displayed the largest Trump sign in America atop my tallest factory building.
00:19:43.760 Joined by Tough as Nails UFC superstars, I went ahead with the event to display and like the sign for the first time.
00:19:50.900 Thousands came to support us.
00:19:54.240 And minutes before the event started, we won a legal battle for free speech on behalf of all Americans to display a landmark sign that's a tribute to a historic global hero who happens to be a Yankee like myself.
00:20:10.340 All right, now let's come to the point of this.
00:20:20.300 Anthony, you told me last night you're very seriously considering entering the special election to replace Elise Stefanik when she vacates the seat.
00:20:30.180 I tried to talk to you this morning, your phone.
00:20:33.280 Every time you hung up, it started, it rang again.
00:20:35.680 It was amazing.
00:20:36.840 It was almost as active as the number of people hitting me up for jobs and inaugural tickets.
00:20:42.260 But tell me what's going on.
00:20:44.340 Yeah, I'm getting lots of phone calls from people over the place asking me to get involved.
00:20:48.660 And first of all, I want to say this, you know, as soon as President Trump got in there eight years ago and he won,
00:20:53.240 I saw the reason why the people were so, you know, upset and frustrated about the situation I knew for myself was all of the existing political creatures that were in the government were terrified that other Trump-like figures were going to enter the government.
00:21:08.260 Trump was an inspirational figure to say, listen, you don't got to be a political person your whole life to get in.
00:21:13.420 You've got to be a person with a brain and good intentions and you can get in and do things.
00:21:17.260 And that was the message that was sent when he won.
00:21:19.000 And the government that's filled with political creatures, in my view, they went into crisis mode.
00:21:24.420 But him coming back and winning this time, really, I think it's going to be a pivotal moment in American history.
00:21:29.200 And it's going to inspire more people with similar backgrounds to himself that they can get involved to and they can do the right thing.
00:21:35.980 So based on all the reaction to what's happening right now with Elise entering the administration and people calling me like crazy, I'm strongly considering doing the same thing.
00:21:44.420 I think I want to do whatever is most impactful in the world.
00:21:47.800 I like doing things that are interesting and impactful.
00:21:49.960 That's why I got involved in building my company to 1,200 people and doing all sorts of interesting things there.
00:21:55.040 But I want to do what's most impactful for the world, what's best for the country.
00:21:59.540 And it seems like this might be it, but I'm putting together a team to help me make the decision.
00:22:05.060 And we'll figure that out in the next few days.
00:22:07.020 But I want to do whatever is most impactful for the country, most impactful in general.
00:22:11.340 And I'm going to be going over to Mar-a-Lago tomorrow night.
00:22:13.780 I got dinner booked and hopefully I'll get a chance to run into President Trump and get his perspective.
00:22:17.520 But I want to do what's right for the country to the best of my ability.
00:22:20.860 I want to do what I can.
00:22:23.180 Well, let me say this.
00:22:24.680 The problem with politics is that there are too many politicians in it.
00:22:29.020 The people you asked me last night, would it hurt you that you didn't come from politics?
00:22:34.740 You have no political experience.
00:22:36.520 And I said, well, look, before he was governor, Ronald Reagan was an actor.
00:22:40.440 He was in the entertainment business.
00:22:42.080 He was a great governor.
00:22:43.080 He was a great president.
00:22:43.920 Before he was president, Donald Trump was a businessman, probably the best known business
00:22:48.520 person on the face of the globe.
00:22:50.940 So actually, I would argue that your lack of political experience is not a negative.
00:22:56.540 It's actually a plus.
00:22:58.460 This is actually, and I'll let Troy address this, this is actually what the founding fathers
00:23:02.960 envisioned.
00:23:04.140 They didn't envision 24-7, 365-day-a-year members of Congress.
00:23:10.760 The guys who were in Congress were blacksmiths, they were lawyers, they were doctors, they
00:23:16.680 were fishers, they had occupations.
00:23:20.680 It was originally thought to be a part-time job to help steer the nation.
00:23:25.360 So I would encourage you to make the race, not because you have a great political resume,
00:23:31.780 but precisely because you don't, because you don't come from politics.
00:23:35.220 You're not compromised.
00:23:37.020 Nobody can own you.
00:23:38.400 You also told me you're prepared to finance your own campaign because you don't want to
00:23:43.720 be beholden to the lobbyists and the special interests and everybody who tries to buy, quite
00:23:50.240 successfully, sadly, politicians.
00:23:53.080 Troy, talk for a minute, if you would, about what our founding fathers foresaw here, the
00:23:58.520 way this is supposed to work.
00:24:00.560 Well, you know, Roger, it's very clear.
00:24:01.920 We see politicians out there with their $10,000 cufflinks and their $25,000 suits, and they
00:24:08.520 tell us that we're supposed to go to them for jobs.
00:24:11.760 We're supposed to believe in them for jobs.
00:24:13.720 That's not what the founding fathers actually envisioned.
00:24:16.140 They didn't want to give people jobs.
00:24:17.720 They wanted to give people careers.
00:24:19.240 And Anthony, your story of creating a company, not only to build your own family and to help
00:24:26.760 your own family, but now that you employ people and the fact that you bought up almost all
00:24:31.460 the manufacturing in that town to revive it, and that speaks to the American dream.
00:24:35.180 It speaks to what the founders envisioned for this country.
00:24:38.620 When we were in World War II or World War I, when we had our backs against the wall, Anthony,
00:24:43.420 it was people like you with means, people, producers that this country and the world leaned
00:24:48.800 on to save this country.
00:24:50.640 So when we look at Washington, D.C., Anthony, I just want to ask you real quickly, you know,
00:24:54.760 we see a lot of people, like I said, with the $10,000 cufflinks, the $25,000 suits.
00:24:59.600 We need more people like you who are regular people, business-minded people who actually
00:25:04.840 are, you know, expected to perform in life.
00:25:08.020 There's actually expectations on you, and you come through time and time again.
00:25:11.820 You don't get that being a politician in D.C., do you?
00:25:14.980 You have experience that, as Roger points out, is a net positive to you.
00:25:19.340 You're somebody who comes from outside of politics, so you've actually had to work for
00:25:22.680 a living, unlike a lot of these people who I assume are going to be jumping in this race.
00:25:27.340 Can you speak just real quickly about what it means to you as a business owner to be somebody
00:25:32.260 who's going to be representing people in a world of people that really look down on the
00:25:37.540 population there in Washington, D.C.?
00:25:40.340 Sure.
00:25:41.360 Similar to President Trump, I'm sort of a man of the people.
00:25:43.980 I operate in manufacturing, which is why I think I see the world differently than a lot
00:25:47.780 of other tech guys.
00:25:48.500 I'm a tech guy, but I'm also a manufacturing guy, so I have a very strong connection to
00:25:52.840 the people via that.
00:25:54.640 And I've also seen firsthand, I got very quickly into politics, only been around for a little
00:25:58.260 while, but, you know, sadly, there's a lack of talent in the political world.
00:26:01.420 So I think right now we have a pivotal moment in American history, President Trump winning
00:26:05.460 a landslide election as a businessman, as a person with no political experience prior
00:26:09.740 to his first term.
00:26:10.460 He had no political experience, and he got in there and he crushed it.
00:26:13.160 Now he crushed it again in an even bigger way.
00:26:15.340 I think it's a pivotal moment in American history where he's going to inspire more people
00:26:19.340 with similar backgrounds to get in.
00:26:21.060 And I think I really have to strongly consider the same thing because I think I can play a
00:26:24.680 role in doing the same.
00:26:25.560 I think if I get in there and I win and do great things, you're going to see a movement
00:26:29.440 in this country where more people like President Trump, like myself, that are talented people,
00:26:35.820 hopefully with good brains, I think I have a decent one, but more talented people that are
00:26:40.700 non-political creatures may want to get in and do what's right for this country and bring us back
00:26:45.960 to greatness.
00:26:47.700 I think this is a very exciting story.
00:26:50.280 We're breaking it right here on The Stone Zone.
00:26:52.860 Anthony Constantino, CEO of StickerMule.com, seriously considering jumping into a special election
00:26:59.740 that is expected to be called early next year because of President Donald Trump's, I think,
00:27:06.280 terrific decision to appoint Congresswoman Elise Stefanik to be the U.S. ambassador to the
00:27:13.880 U.N.
00:27:14.660 I would expect that the U.N. ambassador position will be elevated to cabinet status.
00:27:21.300 That doesn't happen automatically, but it has happened traditionally.
00:27:24.900 Anthony, a businessman, a business person, I was shocked last night you told me you don't just
00:27:31.960 employ people in upstate New York, you employ people around the world.
00:27:35.900 We were talking about our common Italian heritage.
00:27:39.920 You told me you actually have people work for you in Italy.
00:27:42.600 Is that right?
00:27:43.840 Yeah, I got a 100-person operation in Italy.
00:27:46.000 I got people in 39 countries, and through the journey of running an international company,
00:27:50.360 I actually picked up two additional languages, so I'm almost completely fluent in Spanish.
00:27:54.360 I'm going to do a Spanish-language interview after this today, and I'm pretty, I'm decent
00:27:59.540 at Italian, too.
00:28:00.280 I'm a little rusty.
00:28:00.920 It's been a little while since I've been over there, but I'm decent at Italian, too.
00:28:04.260 So, yeah, I got people all over the world, which gives me a great perspective to understand
00:28:07.900 how the world works, not just in New York State, but really throughout the country.
00:28:12.060 I got people throughout the United States of America that work for me.
00:28:14.560 We're located in South Carolina, also Colorado, but I got, yeah, I got people all over the
00:28:20.580 world, and so I got strong connections to different countries and a lot of experience in that regard.
00:28:26.340 And real quick, I want to say, you know, if I do get involved and I do run, like, I think
00:28:30.300 it's, you know, I run my business by finding the biggest problems that are in my organization
00:28:34.340 and fixing them, and right now the biggest problem in New York State, in my view, is the
00:28:37.860 people are leaving.
00:28:38.760 We've lost close to a million people due to Democrat corruption or incompetence, whatever
00:28:44.360 you want to call it.
00:28:45.140 But maybe it's just incompetence, maybe it's corruption, but we've lost, I believe, a million
00:28:49.260 people over the last two years.
00:28:50.540 People have been fleeing New York State to go to other states, and if I get in there and
00:28:54.320 I win my number one thing I'm going to work on, nobody will be better than me at bringing
00:28:58.320 people back to New York State, which is what, in my view, New York State needs more than anything.
00:29:05.480 All right, there you have it, folks.
00:29:07.100 Breaking news right here on the Stone Zone.
00:29:09.200 International businessman, upstate resident and entrepreneur, Anthony is going to, Constantino
00:29:19.420 is going to, is seriously considering jumping into the special election that will be held
00:29:24.320 early next year to fill the seat of Elise Stefanik, the congresswoman appointed by President Donald
00:29:31.280 Trump to be U.S. ambassador to U.N.
00:29:34.640 Anthony, we want to wish you the very best of luck.
00:29:37.000 I know this process is going to take a couple of weeks to unfold, but I'm very excited about
00:29:43.080 just the possibility that you're going to run because, well, I think congressmen needs
00:29:47.580 more, more businessmen and women, more people who didn't come through the world of politics.
00:29:53.280 Folks, go to stickermule.com because, well, when Anthony came out for Donald Trump, a lot
00:29:59.160 of people used to go there for his products, stop going because they're liberals.
00:30:04.260 So, if you're a conservative, I urge you to go to stickermule.com.
00:30:09.340 Anthony, before you leave, tell people what they'll find when they go to stickermule.com.
00:30:14.340 And, you know, we're the hottest printing company on the internet.
00:30:16.700 So, we got everything from stickers to t-shirts, but I'm not in this.
00:30:19.660 I haven't gotten involved in trying to sell my company or do anything like that.
00:30:23.020 And we got customers.
00:30:23.780 One of the reasons I got involved is my customers are from all sides of the aisle.
00:30:26.960 And I said, we're never going to fix this problem of what I call the anti-Trump hate,
00:30:29.620 political hate, if people who can't talk to both sides don't speak up.
00:30:33.380 So, in addition to working hard to bring energy and excitement back to New York State
00:30:37.760 so people come back to New York State and live there again, I really want to work hard
00:30:41.800 on helping Democrats enjoy a Trump presidency.
00:30:45.460 I don't want my Democrat customers, I don't want Democrat people suffering.
00:30:49.520 I think they suffer for false reasons.
00:30:52.020 They've been fed a lot of misinformation.
00:30:53.980 They have a lot of beliefs that are based in hoaxes and things of that nature.
00:30:57.640 And so, I want to bring energy back to New York.
00:31:00.320 I want to bring unity to America.
00:31:01.760 I want to help Democrats enjoy the Trump presidency just as much as I want to help Republicans enjoy it.
00:31:07.160 I think we've got a great situation right now.
00:31:09.420 Trump's a unity president.
00:31:10.580 He's got a lot of influential Democrats at his side, too, like Elon and RFK and Tulsi.
00:31:15.780 They're former Democrats, whatever you want to call them.
00:31:17.760 But we're in a great opportunity to unify America.
00:31:19.900 And I want to take lead helping to educate Democrats that a lot of their anxiety about Trump
00:31:24.540 is based in hoaxes.
00:31:25.600 And if that's the case, they should let the anxiety go.
00:31:28.280 They should let the hate go and join the party and have fun.
00:31:31.260 We can all have fun together.
00:31:32.920 All right.
00:31:33.740 There you go, folks.
00:31:35.000 Anthony Constantinos, chief executive officer of StickerMule.com.
00:31:39.120 Breaking news here on the Stone Zone.
00:31:41.660 Seriously considering a race for Congress in the 21st District of New York,
00:31:46.640 currently represented by Congresswoman Elise Stefanik.
00:31:50.780 Anthony, I want to thank you so much for joining us today in the Stone Zone.
00:31:54.360 Thank you, Roger.
00:31:55.960 Always a pleasure and honor.
00:31:58.000 All right, Troy.
00:31:59.500 We have got some other breaking news over the weekend.
00:32:02.720 This pleased me particularly.
00:32:04.840 Last Friday, I posted a piece on Substack urging the president not to appoint former Secretary
00:32:13.800 of State and former Central Intelligence Agency head Mike Pompeo to a cabinet position.
00:32:23.940 It was widely reported that Pompeo was seeking to become the Secretary of Defense.
00:32:30.560 Now, first of all, President Trump told me personally that it was CIA Director Mike Pompeo who persuaded him not to release all of the classified documents pertaining to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
00:32:47.600 The Congress had passed a law which set a deadline in early 2017 in which all those documents were scheduled for release subject only to their being blocked by the president of the United States.
00:33:02.960 And I made the case to President Trump as to why I thought it was time to release those documents.
00:33:08.880 In the end, he released about 80 percent of the material.
00:33:13.480 But then he told me, he also told my good friend Judge Andrew Napolitano, that Mike Pompeo, then CIA Director, persuaded him that releasing those documents would reveal the CIA's sources and methods.
00:33:30.280 Well, that makes no sense, because their sources are all dead.
00:33:35.380 And if they're involved in covering up government involvement in the murder of President John F. Kennedy, which I believe, based on my own book, The Man Who Killed Kennedy, The Case Against LBJ, is precisely what is there, then the American people have a right to know that.
00:33:52.600 But President Trump, I should point out, has now pledged that now that he is president, he said this during the campaign, that once he becomes president, he will declassify all of those documents.
00:34:04.280 In fact, he said that he would appoint Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to head a commission to examine all of the attempted assassination, I should say, all the assassination attempts on American presidents, starting with John F. Kennedy, also would look into the assassination of Robert Kennedy's father, Robert F. Kennedy Sr., who was gunned down while running for president.
00:34:30.340 This would also include the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan, as well as the attempted assassinations of Donald Trump himself.
00:34:41.260 I applaud that decision, if that commission should come to pass.
00:34:46.000 But I also remember that it was Mike Pompeo who defended Jack Smith's so-called documents case, insisting that Smith was right, despite the Presidential Records Act, which clearly states that the president of the United States has the right to do anything he wants with his documents.
00:35:11.000 Interestingly enough, Judge Amy Berman Jackson, who was the judge in my case, the judge in Paul Manafort's case, she ruled that Bill Clinton, as a former president, could do anything he wanted with his documents, his classified documents, including keeping them in his sock drawer in Chappaqua.
00:35:30.000 Here, let's take a look at Mike Pompeo, talking about this on Fox.
00:35:38.560 ...what Donald Trump is facing, and is it right to charge him?
00:35:43.800 Brian, good morning. Great to be with you.
00:35:45.960 Two things, I think, are both true at this point.
00:35:48.920 First, if the allegations are true, and there's lots of indications that they are,
00:35:52.540 President Trump had classified documents where he shouldn't have had them, and then when given the opportunity to return them, he chose not to do that for whatever reason.
00:36:00.300 That's just, Brian, you talked about me having classified documents.
00:36:03.140 I handled thousands and thousands of them over my time in Congress and then as a CIA director and secretary of state.
00:36:09.100 I suppose we can all make mistakes and get them to the wrong place, but when somebody identifies that, you've got to turn them in.
00:36:13.640 And so that's just, that's inconsistent with protecting America's soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines.
00:36:18.080 And if the allegations are true, some of these were pretty serious, important documents.
00:36:22.320 So that's wrong.
00:36:25.660 Incredible.
00:36:26.700 And then there's this video, which is even more disturbing.
00:36:30.300 This is Mike Pompeo.
00:36:31.480 I believe he's speaking at Yale.
00:36:33.180 Let's take a look at it.
00:36:35.000 I was a cadet.
00:36:36.040 What's the first, what's the cadet motto at West Point?
00:36:38.700 You will not lie, cheat, or steal, or tolerate those who do.
00:36:41.860 I was the CIA director.
00:36:43.700 We lied, we cheated, we steal, stole.
00:36:45.420 It was like, we had entire, we had entire training courses.
00:36:53.500 As I wrote in my piece on Substack, which you can also see at StoneZone.com, Mike Pompeo is a neocon.
00:37:01.600 He is one of the major cogenitors of the war in Afghanistan, as well as the war in Ukraine.
00:37:10.860 Then, on Saturday, after I published my piece, President Donald Trump put up the following post at True Social and also on X.
00:37:22.600 The president said, I will not be inviting former Ambassador Nikki Haley or Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to join the Trump administration, which is currently in formation.
00:37:33.120 I very much enjoyed and appreciated working with them previously, and would like to thank them for their service to our country.
00:37:40.540 Make America great again.
00:37:42.880 To me, this is a great victory for those who believe in the America first anti-war, pro-peace agenda of President Donald Trump.
00:37:53.280 I'm proud of the piece that I wrote, and I hope it played some small role in the president's decision here to do the right thing when it comes to the neocon war hawk, Mike Pompeo.
00:38:05.580 Final note, Mike Pompeo told President Trump that he would not run for president if President Trump decided to run again.
00:38:14.400 Yet, we know for a fact that he had a shadow campaign in the works.
00:38:19.400 He was hoping that President Trump would be taken down by the outrageous lawfare against him, and I think he would have even challenged a weakened Trump.
00:38:30.680 But you saw how easily President Trump vanquished Ron DeSantis and the other neocon mentioned in my piece, Nikki Haley, and Pompeo backed away.
00:38:42.240 Now, Pompeo showed up in the final weeks of the campaign at one rally speaking for President Trump.
00:38:49.260 But that does not atone for his record that we've laid out here for you today.
00:38:55.440 All right, Troy, any comments?
00:38:58.160 And if not, let's move into the news.
00:39:00.440 Well, I'll say, Roger, it's very good to see that some of the more nefarious members of the last Trump administration are having the door slammed in their face as they're trying to reenter.
00:39:10.380 And I think it's kind of interesting, you know, we have Pompeo on tape saying that Trump should, I mean, basically saying it's okay for Jack Smith to send FBI agents to Mar-a-Lago to raid Barron Trump's bedroom.
00:39:22.280 I mean, that's what they did.
00:39:23.140 They rooted through Melania Trump's closet, and they rooted through Barron Trump's bedroom.
00:39:28.500 That's what these people did at gunpoint.
00:39:30.600 And he's on TV saying that's okay.
00:39:32.980 This is a sick guy.
00:39:33.960 Glad he's not going to be in the next administration.
00:39:35.700 But, you know, I think it's important, Roger, these people are not going to be in the administration, but people who will be in the administration, people like Robert F. Kennedy Jr., we assume will have some sort of position.
00:39:47.660 People like Tulsi Gabbard, we assume will have some sort of position.
00:39:51.020 And these are former Democrats, as our guest just pointed out earlier.
00:39:55.000 You know, this is a new coalition.
00:39:56.640 This is a political realignment that we've been talking about on the Stone Zone for at least almost a year now.
00:40:02.540 So I was watching the news this weekend, Roger, and all of a sudden, it's almost like all these people were watching the Stone Zone.
00:40:11.080 Even Meet the Press is now talking about the great American political realignment.
00:40:16.020 I want to play this clip from Meet the Press of them talking about what Roger and I have been talking about here for a year.
00:40:21.820 And again, his thoughts on the fact that we kind of stated this from the beginning, and now it seems everybody else is catching up.
00:40:27.900 Let's roll that.
00:40:28.440 President-elect Donald Trump is now returning to the White House after an historic political realignment.
00:40:36.240 Mr. Trump swept all seven battleground states after NBC News projected overnight that he won Arizona.
00:40:43.460 He also tore down the Democratic blue wall and is poised to become the first Republican in two decades to win the national popular vote.
00:40:52.200 President-elect Trump charged with plotting to overturn the last election, now establishing himself as a transformational political force, reshaping American politics in his own image.
00:41:04.200 We made history for a reason tonight, and the reason is going to be just that.
00:41:09.520 We overcame obstacles that nobody thought possible.
00:41:13.420 I think that we just witnessed the greatest political comeback in the history of the United States of America.
00:41:18.820 This decisive victory should shake the Democrat establishment to its core.
00:41:26.060 This is a new dawn of Republican leadership.
00:41:29.640 With President Trump and J.D. Vance in the White House, we are going to advance an agenda that is an American agenda.
00:41:37.060 We're going to have the most aggressive first hundred days agenda that anybody's seen in a modern era.
00:41:41.580 Now, those victories powered by populist frustration with exit polls showing three quarters of voters feel dissatisfied or angry about the way things are going in the country.
00:41:52.340 Nearly half of voters saying they strongly disapprove of President Biden.
00:41:56.440 The share who say they've gotten worse off under the current administration, the highest ever in exit polls that have asked the question, surpassing the Great Recession.
00:42:04.960 It's amazing that Democrats have finally caught on the finger pointing in that party seems extraordinary.
00:42:13.660 I read reports this weekend that Kamala Harris has called both Barack and Michelle Obama, but they're not returning her calls.
00:42:23.100 Really extraordinary.
00:42:25.040 You could go to MSNBC if you want to suck up some liberal tears.
00:42:30.060 It's all about misogyny and toxic masculinity.
00:42:36.080 No, it's about the fact that your policies have failed.
00:42:39.760 Your policies have brought us record inflation, record gasoline prices, record food prices, record increase in crime, a drug epidemic based on your open borders policy.
00:42:55.420 The hardcore left doesn't want to demonstrate this has nothing to do with misogyny or the fact that Trump performed slightly better with men than he did with women.
00:43:09.840 It has to do that their policies have completely failed and voters' memories are keen enough that they remember how much better they had it just four years ago under President Donald Trump.
00:43:21.800 So this is the greatest single comeback in American political history.
00:43:28.400 The previous record holder for that title would be one, Richard M. Nixon.
00:43:33.520 Election night, I thought to myself, well, you know what?
00:43:36.140 Somewhere Nixon is looking down from heaven, smiling broadly.
00:43:40.580 This is not just a victory for our country.
00:43:44.740 It's also a personal victory for Donald Trump.
00:43:48.120 As you know, I had declined for two and a half years to go on with with Piers Morgan, who kept inviting me on.
00:43:58.280 I didn't like the way that he tried to sandbag Donald Trump in an interview with him that I saw.
00:44:03.420 And I kept declining their invitation.
00:44:05.960 I ultimately decided to go back on.
00:44:08.100 Glad that I did.
00:44:09.320 We had a perfectly civil discussion.
00:44:11.540 He did bring up an old tweet, which I called him a dirtbag.
00:44:15.900 But I said, well, it's a new day.
00:44:17.900 It's a new day in America.
00:44:19.440 We'll put that behind us.
00:44:21.240 It was what I called a two martini tweet.
00:44:24.320 And here's what I said, though.
00:44:25.840 And this is the most important part.
00:44:27.780 This victory is a testimony to the persistence and the resilience and the courage and the stamina of Donald J. Trump, because the man is a lion.
00:44:39.220 There is no other way to put it.
00:44:41.200 Troy?
00:44:42.180 Well, and Roger, the idea that he has reshaped the Republican Party is setting in.
00:44:47.440 And people are starting to understand that, no, this is a different game.
00:44:51.420 And as you know, you really you go back, Roger, and you look politically, you look at what Ronald Reagan was able to accomplish.
00:44:58.900 You know, 2016, Roger, I think when you look at what happened after 2016 and the attacks on Trump and the fact that they were basically able to undermine him, they really had written him off as if he was going to go away and he's never going to be back.
00:45:14.080 And I remember the news report, Trump leaves the White House for the final time in his life.
00:45:17.940 You know, they really wanted to hammer that he'll never be back.
00:45:20.660 And now that he is back and he's not only back, but he's reformed the entire voting base of the Republican Party.
00:45:29.260 I'm really interested in your thoughts of where we're going to see this go, because we just since Grover Cleveland, we've never had a president win such a resounding victory.
00:45:40.440 And he doesn't he doesn't even have to run for reelection.
00:45:44.200 So do you think that his governing, the way he governs, is it going to be reflective of of the people he's brought on to his team?
00:45:52.400 Or are we going to see a pivot to a more conservative policy here?
00:45:56.660 How's he placed? Because he's in a really interesting position that we haven't really seen in a long time.
00:46:01.660 Somebody coming fresh into the office that doesn't have to run for reelection.
00:46:05.100 It's a totally different ballgame now.
00:46:07.880 Absolutely.
00:46:08.320 I think he's free from the normal political pressures.
00:46:11.420 I think you already see this in some of his other appointments.
00:46:14.280 And we talked about the appointment of Susie Wiles as his chief of staff.
00:46:18.420 A very good appointment, in my opinion.
00:46:21.000 We talked about the appointment of Lee Stefanik as U.N. ambassador.
00:46:26.500 Also another excellent appointment.
00:46:29.380 But the other appointment that actually, strangely enough, was announced late last night.
00:46:34.600 Tom Homan, who had been the head of ICE during the Trump administration, now appointed a border czar in charge of beginning the process of deportation of the millions of illegals who came here, beginning, I think, quite practically with those who have criminal records.
00:46:54.420 Yes, it is entirely doable.
00:46:56.420 President Dwight Eisenhower departed 1.3 million illegals during his presidency.
00:47:03.060 So it can be done.
00:47:04.680 In my opinion, Tom Homan is the man to do it.
00:47:07.800 He's got a lot of experience.
00:47:09.520 He's a tough son of a gun.
00:47:11.200 But again, Donald Trump keeping his promises.
00:47:14.520 He said this was his highest priority.
00:47:16.240 And in the appointment of Homan, which I think is an excellent appointment, he has the right man for the job.
00:47:23.780 The other good appointment that I'm very happy about is former New York Congressman Lee Zeldin, who ran an incredibly strong campaign for governor of New York state.
00:47:34.680 That is fighting your way uphill, folks.
00:47:37.660 That is about one of the bluest states in the country, ran a great race, underfunded, running against Kathy Hochul, who's drowning in special interest campaign money, now going to head the Environmental Protection Agency.
00:47:53.300 Another excellent appointment by President Donald Trump.
00:47:57.040 We are waiting with bated breath for the president's decision regarding Secretary of State, which many people believe will be announced here in the very near future, Secretary of Defense.
00:48:11.900 We now know Mike Pompeo out of the running in that particular race and other key roles.
00:48:19.620 But I don't expect to see the kind of neocon encroachment that we saw in 2016.
00:48:29.440 2016, 2017, Donald Trump was a somewhat different person.
00:48:35.100 He had never been in politics.
00:48:36.740 By his own admission, he didn't really know completely how Washington worked.
00:48:41.700 And therefore, he thought, well, there's the Democrats and there's the Republicans.
00:48:45.620 And the Republicans overwhelmingly nominated me and elected me, so they're all on my team.
00:48:51.580 He never realized that many of the Republicans wanted to get rid of him from the moment he came down that golden escalator.
00:48:59.380 I think that he has since learned through the Russian collusion hoax.
00:49:04.640 And when Kamala Harris tells you that, you know, in a demure voice that, oh, we're just going to go to the peaceful transfer of power.
00:49:14.660 Sorry, I wish I believed that.
00:49:16.100 That's what Barack Obama said in 2016, the end of 2016.
00:49:19.900 Well, we know now, based on the report of Special Counsel John Durham, that Obama and Biden and CIA Director John Brennan and FBI Director James Comey and National Security Advisor Susan Rice and others were already involved in a criminal conspiracy.
00:49:38.720 Using what they knew was fabricated evidence, the so-called steel dossier, which had been fabricated and paid for by Hillary Clinton, which claimed falsely that President Trump had cavorted with Russian prostitutes when visiting Moscow on a business trip, completely false.
00:49:57.680 And the equally false narrative that the Russians hacked the Democrat National Committee and somehow that information ended up in the hands of the Trump campaign.
00:50:08.740 The government has never produced any evidence to prove that claim.
00:50:12.640 And when I tried to call expert witnesses and provide forensic evidence that would have absolutely proved that there never was any online hack of the DNC by the Russians or anyone else, well, the judge in my case denied us the opportunity to prove that.
00:50:30.740 But the FBI did, you'll recall, admit that they had never inspected the computer servers at the DNC.
00:50:40.420 So relying entirely on the CrowdStrikes report, the judge wouldn't allow us to have that report, but it was later declassified.
00:50:48.720 And the testimony of the testimony of the head of CrowdStrikes for the House Intelligence Committee indicated that there was never any proof of that other piece of the whole Russian collusion hope.
00:51:03.020 So I don't know what the deep state is up to, but I do know this.
00:51:08.180 I pray for the safety of Donald Trump every single day.
00:51:12.140 Two things are indisputable.
00:51:13.900 There have been two attempts to assassinate him, at least two that we know of.
00:51:18.340 And we don't get any answers out of the FBI.
00:51:21.300 We don't get any answers out of the current administration.
00:51:24.740 We're led to believe that those were two lone nuts acting alone.
00:51:29.460 They had no Confederates.
00:51:31.240 They had no prior knowledge of this plot.
00:51:36.980 I'm skeptical, to be honest with you.
00:51:38.880 So folks out there at home who are wondering, what can we do, because we want to see Donald Trump sworn in and begin the golden age of prosperity and peace for this country, the most important thing you can do, folks, is pray.
00:51:52.440 Now, when I said that I had been redeemed in the blood of the cross, that I had gone back to the church, I was mocked in Washington Monthly, saying, oh, this is some kind of an act or some kind of a head fake or a bid for sympathy by Stone.
00:52:08.520 I don't really care what these liberals think.
00:52:11.240 I only care what he thinks.
00:52:13.440 Can't fool God, folks.
00:52:15.240 God has anointed Donald Trump for this moment.
00:52:17.680 He clearly protected him in that field in Butler, Pennsylvania.
00:52:24.500 But for the grace of God, Donald Trump would not be on the cusp of being sworn in historically as our 47th president.
00:52:34.440 The only other thing I want to say, Troy, yet again, I've said it here on the show previously, and I want to point it out again.
00:52:40.720 And that is the only president who's pulled this off before was Grover Cleveland, elected as a Democrat, then defeated for re-election in a disputed election in which his supporters believed that re-election was stolen from them.
00:52:56.640 And then he staged the greatest comeback up until that time in American political history.
00:53:01.340 And Grover Cleveland, like Donald Trump, was a New Yorker.
00:53:06.620 So it is in that tradition that Trump has staged the greatest comeback we will ever see in American politics.
00:53:13.600 And if you're a supporter of his, I urge you to join me every day in praying for the safety of our president.
00:53:20.900 Troy?
00:53:21.940 Absolutely, Roger.
00:53:23.080 There is going to be more and more attacks.
00:53:25.260 And that's just something, real quick, I want to end here.
00:53:27.140 This is a pressing question.
00:53:28.300 I think everybody's thinking, how much of what we're going to see here needs to be offensive, establishing a new precedent for government, and how much of it needs to be addressing some of the grievances of the past and nefarious people who think that they have the power to destroy lives and ruin people like they did during this Biden administration?
00:53:49.980 Well, I think we've already seen the beginning of this.
00:53:51.760 The president is insisting that whoever becomes the new majority leader of the U.S. Senate agree to recess appointments.
00:53:59.760 In other words, the president gets to make an appointment, and that person can take office immediately, even before they have been confirmed by the Senate.
00:54:09.220 This didn't happen in 2017.
00:54:11.140 Instead, sometimes they took us almost three and four years to appoint a number, to, pardon me, confirm a number of the president's appointees to stop him from governing with his entire team.
00:54:22.940 So the president has already demanded that whoever is elected president of the Senate, pardon me, the majority leader of the Senate, agree to recess appointments so the Trump team can hit the ground running.
00:54:36.280 Anyway, I personally have endorsed my own home state senator, Rick Scott, to be the Senate majority leader.
00:54:44.580 I've disagreed with him on an issue here or there, but frankly, he was a very, very good governor, particularly compared to the governor we have now.
00:54:52.340 And he's been a great U.S. senator for the people of Florida.
00:54:55.940 He's exactly the man to carry out the president's agenda.
00:55:00.300 The president trusts Rick Scott.
00:55:01.920 Rick Scott trusts the president.
00:55:03.300 Rick Scott endorsed President Trump over the governor of his own home state.
00:55:08.340 He's precisely the man for the job.
00:55:10.020 In fact, tomorrow we're going to break down the race for majority leader in the U.S. Senate.
00:55:15.020 There are two rhinos running.
00:55:18.100 John Thune, one of the candidates, actually said that Donald Trump should step down during the 2016 election and be replaced by Mike Pence.
00:55:27.100 So anyway, we're out of time, folks.
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00:55:45.280 God bless you and Godspeed.
00:55:47.100 A man who's gone through hell, but he's kept going and he's smart and he's strong and people love him.
00:55:56.580 Not everybody, but people love him and respect him.
00:55:59.020 Roger Stone.
00:56:00.080 Where's Roger Stone?
00:56:01.180 I'm guy.
00:56:01.440 I'm guy.
00:56:02.480 Yeah.
00:56:03.480 Yeah.