After a brief hiatus, we re back 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. As an outspoken libertarian, Stone has appeared on thousands of broadcasts, spoken at countless venues, and lectured before the prestigious Oxford Political Union and the Cambridge Union Society. Due to his four+ decades in the political and cultural arena, Stone s become a pop culture icon. And now, here s your host, Roger Stone with his co-host, Troy Smith, editor-in-chief of Slingshot News, and co-founder of Conservative Dad s Ultra Right Beer, Seth Weathers, joins the show to talk about the new Bud Light ad campaign and why it s a terrible idea. And, of course, there s a special guest on this week s episode of The Stone Zone, the man himself, Seth Warshaw! who happens to be a beer lover, and an avid Bud Light drinker, too. Enjoy, and rest easy, and Happy Memorial Day, everyone! - Roger and Troy . - . . . . , , , . . , . , and . ) and , as always, The Stonezone. , the Stonezone ! ... Thank you so much for listening and supporting the show, and thanks for being a friend of the show! - Roger & Troy & Seth The StoneZone Thanks to our sponsor, , for making this podcast possible. - Your support is so appreciated, and we can't thank you enough, so much so much, so we can keep on giving you all the love, support, support you, and support you with our efforts, and all the support you're giving us the chance to support us in this podcast, we appreciate you, we're going to keep on supporting us, we'll keep on coming back, we love you! - Thank you, you're amazing, we really appreciate it, we can t doin' you. - The Stone zone. - Your continued support, Thank you! , Troy and Seth - Thank You, Troy & SWEARING YOU. - Thankyou, SONGS, ROGER, RICKY, RYAN
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00:20:26.500But I expect that both sides rested late last week.
00:20:31.600We will have closing arguments from each side.
00:20:36.380The president, I think, was surprised to learn that in any criminal trial in the United States, the way this works is the government gets to make its case against you.
00:20:47.820During that, your lawyers get to cross-examine their witnesses.
00:21:10.820When I went through the Mueller Soviet-style show trial, in which they framed me, despite the fact that, much like Donald Trump, there was no underlying crime, I was shocked to learn that the government gets two chances to try to convict you, but you only get one chance to try to defend yourself.
00:22:00.400It's now, strangely enough, he says, all of the jurors do not need to agree unanimously on one predicate crime as long as some jurors agree with some predicate crime, which could be a tax fraud crime or a federal election commission crime and so on, that the president can be convicted.
00:22:29.780It seems extraordinarily unfair to me, and I think it's going to seem unfair to the American people.
00:22:36.760Well, Roger, my question to you would be, you know, we're heading into the final moments here of this trial, and the Democrats are really—I mean, I've never seen the public pressure campaign like we're seeing against Supreme Court Justice Alito right now.
00:22:53.100You highlighted this over the weekend.
00:22:55.000It's why I wanted to ask you about it on your Twitter.
00:22:57.300It's kind of interesting that the same people that are saying that Justice Alito must recuse himself because of some kind of flag controversy that seems to be completely contrived, that they're the same people that don't believe that Merchant should recuse himself.
00:23:10.820Just his complications, we can call them, with the daughter advising most of the Democrats on Capitol Hill would seem to kind of destroy this case on its face, wouldn't it?
00:23:22.660I think it's even worse than that, Troy.
00:23:25.940So basically what they're saying is that because Judge Alito, the U.S. Supreme Court's wife, flew an upside-down American flag at their beach home in a local dispute with neighbors that evidently had nothing to do with politics, that he should now be forced to recuse himself from all matters pertaining to January 6th or Donald Trump.
00:24:47.040Well, and so my question to you, Roger, is we heard news this weekend that President Joe Biden is actually going to be holding some kind of public press conference after the final verdict is issued in this hush money case.
00:24:59.740I wanted to get your reaction on that.
00:25:01.460Do you think that that's an indication that they know what's going to happen or that anything could happen here?
00:25:06.920I mean, what do you think that says about this situation?
00:25:08.880Well, the first thing it obviously says is this case is entirely political.
00:25:16.000You also wonder why Biden would be scheduling such a press conference or such a public statement if he didn't know if the results were going to be from the trial.
00:25:28.720Well, if Trump is acquitted, which I think is unlikely, but anything is possible, or if there is a hung jury, which is more likely, although substantially less likely, considering these very strange rulings regarding the lack of unanimity regarding one specific underlying predicate charge,
00:25:51.840how could the president know what's going to happen, will he just cancel his victory lap if the president is not convicted?
00:26:04.020Well, that's what it looks like to me.
00:26:05.600It looks like it's kind of highlighting the coordination.
00:26:08.380I've said it on the show many times, and you've said it as well.
00:26:11.100You know, there's coordination here between the Biden administration and not only, you know, Bragg and others in Manhattan, but also in Georgia as well.
00:26:20.780And I think across the board, you know, there needs to be an investigation into the coordination between the Biden administration and all of these groups that are pursuing legal action against President Trump, wherever they may be.
00:26:33.600Because I think the line between the Biden administration and these cases across the country, whether they come directly from the Justice Department or not, there are ties that link them basically to every single case.
00:26:47.020Besides the documents case, which, you know, the public pressure campaign on Alito, I wanted to mention that before we really get out of the woods on that, Roger.
00:26:55.520You know, I wanted to ask you, because you've seen this a long time, I've never seen right now the way that Supreme Court justices like Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito
00:27:05.340are subject to a public pressure campaign the way that they are right now and Alito, it's such a contrived thing.
00:27:13.160It's almost, you know, like you said, it's just ridiculous that they would even try to attack him over such a ridiculous thing or try to make that link.
00:27:22.180Even there's no there's no link there. There's no basis for a connection, even in the first place.
00:27:29.060But I've never seen. And I think this started with Joe Biden, really, at the State of the Union, where he was publicly, which he's not supposed to do, acknowledging the Supreme Court and kind of disparaging them in front of Congress.
00:27:42.040Do you think Biden and the Democrats have entered a new era of really no rules or no holds barred when it comes to the Supreme Court?
00:27:49.680They seem to be shattering all the rules.
00:27:52.320You know, it used to be considered that our entire judiciary system was supposed to be nonpolitical.
00:28:00.740If Joe Biden were reelected and they won control of the Senate, I've no question that they would try to do what Franklin Roosevelt tried to do, stack the Supreme Court with three more liberals.
00:28:11.500So, yeah, unfortunately, everything is now political, including this pressure campaign, which I don't think is going to be successful to get Clarence Thomas or or Justice Alito to step down.
00:28:28.460In the case of Thomas, their entire argument is that Thomas's wife has political opinions and therefore he shouldn't be on the court, which is, of course, ridiculous.
00:28:38.880By the way, Ruth Bader Ginsburg viciously attacked Donald Trump while he was running for president.
00:28:45.860And there was no cry to remove her from the court.
00:29:08.120We posted, and I'm happy to report we had over a million views just on the day of Trump's speech on Saturday because we were putting out the clips on this.
00:29:17.380And I thought it was one of the most bold things I've ever seen.
00:29:20.580I mean, Trump kind of storms into the Libertarian Convention.
00:29:25.260He tells them flat out, look, you can either support me or you can keep getting your 3% to 4%.
00:29:30.220And he goes through the laundry list of the different reasons why the Libertarians should support him and why his platform aligns with the Libertarians more than a lot of the people that were trying to seek the nomination.
00:29:43.540Now, eventually, he did not seek nomination for the Libertarian Party, but he was kind of trying to get support from their voters and their supporters that were there.
00:29:52.340So we have a clip that we want to run where he's boldly talking about the Libertarians and their 3% to 4%.
00:29:59.040I want to get your opinion on that coming out of the video, Roger, because I know for a while you were a Libertarian and a member of the Libertarian Party.
00:30:06.400So let's roll that clip and get Roger's thoughts on the back end.
00:34:12.580Donald Trump did not need this nomination.
00:34:15.320But given the far-left progressivism of the candidate they did nominate,
00:34:21.000they, I think, have just determined that they're going to be irrelevant.
00:34:27.600This probably was the best possible outcome for Donald Trump because there is no one who is going to vote for Trump who is now going to vote for Chase Oliver.
00:34:38.520There may be people who are going to vote for Joe Biden who will vote for Chase Oliver,
00:34:43.040but there is virtually no one who would have voted for Donald Trump voting for this fellow, Chase Oliver.
00:34:48.900I was in the Libertarian Party for a couple of years.
00:34:53.720When the Republican Party nominated Mitt Romney, that was so egregious to me that I left the party of Lincoln to join the party of the Libertarians.
00:35:05.960I worked, I'm proud to say it, on Governor Gary Johnson's campaign.
00:35:10.440This was in 2012, not 2016, for that nomination.
00:35:14.740He was a very accomplished and libertarian-oriented governor in New Mexico.
00:35:20.500He was the best candidate they've ever nominated.
00:35:23.820It's interesting how CNN and the rest of the mainstream media really would give him no coverage whatsoever in 2012.
00:35:32.260Then when the party re-nominated him in 2016, and the folks at CNN thought, well, maybe he's going to take votes from Donald Trump.
00:35:41.920Now, suddenly, they gave him and his running mate their own town hall.
00:35:49.640They interviewed he and former Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld, who was his running mate, extensively.
00:35:56.160So it's funny how you had a media blackout in 2012, but then you had a huge publicity and media access for the candidates in 2016 when the executives thought that it might hurt Donald Trump.
00:36:13.660Well, and the idea that RFK would go into this convention, Roger, and I think it speaks to, we've talked about this before on the show, the lack of experience surrounding his campaign.
00:36:24.480They're not doing things that are traditionally politically savvy, and I think it's a huge mistake and a blemish on their record that they failed to get this nomination.
00:36:33.680It would have been huge for RFK's momentum heading into the election.
00:36:37.540All right, we've got to go to a quick commercial break, and we'll be right back in the Stone Zone.
00:36:42.300About 30 years ago, I had the opportunity to go into the Amazon rainforest and study their medicinal treasures, and the one that really captured my imagination was cat's claw.
00:37:00.060After all the discussions and interviews with the locals, I went back to the lab, and I found that it was the most potent inhibitor of a switch called NF-kappa-B.
00:37:13.200NF-kappa-B is normally dormant, and with oxidative stress, it migrates to the nucleus, and it regulates thousands of genes involved in inflammation, turning some on, turning some off.
00:37:25.880And if you suppress NF-kappa-B, keep it inactive, which is what cat's claw does, then you're able to temper down all of that stress on the body.
00:37:36.760So cat's claw, I've been using it ever since, so the scientist actually takes his own medicine.
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00:39:00.680Troy, it was about a week ago that Robert De Niro was on The View, and he said that Trump supporters are violent and dangerous, and then he threatened to punch Donald Trump in the face.
00:39:12.620Speaking of no self-awareness, now I understand that he is melted down again.
00:39:52.080But we have footage here of his anti-Trump rant.
00:39:55.380Now, keep in mind, folks, you can hear this in the background.
00:39:57.320He's being booed by Trump supporters as he's trying to make this speech.
00:40:01.680And it's kind of ironic because De Niro, who makes himself out to be Mr. New York, you know, because of his movie characters, I guess, is booed in New York.
00:40:11.780While Trump was celebrated with one of the largest rallies in the history of the Bronx.
00:40:15.980So let's roll the clip of crazy, demented Robert De Niro in New York City today being showered with booze.
00:41:15.440I can't even figure out what he was doing there.
00:41:17.140Well, we have another clip, too, I want to roll to where he's talking more about Donald Trump and he's basically giving an endorsement to Joe Biden.
00:41:24.560I mean, that's what this comes across as, Roger.
00:41:26.180It's kind of like a campaign speech for Joe Biden.
00:41:28.020I think maybe we should look into the finances or Mr. De Niro, figure out if he's getting any of that Merchan money or Biden money.
00:41:34.840But let's roll the clip of De Niro essentially endorsing Joe Biden in the speech.
00:41:39.900And that's why I've joined the Biden-Harris campaign, because the only way to preserve our freedoms and hold on to our humanity is to vote for Joe Biden for president.
00:42:36.760So most of his hallmark achievements as an actor came before I was even born.
00:42:41.200And since I've been alive, you can't there are no good movies that involve Robert De Niro.
00:42:46.900Everything he makes is basically an embarrassing failure.
00:42:50.440And you're seeing a guy who I think maybe and you probably see this a lot with people that are kind of clinging to fame or whatever.
00:42:59.260You know, the Robert De Niro's of the world, they're almost using this Trump thing as, oh, maybe this will be my next career in resurgence.
00:43:07.260Or maybe it's just that they watch MSNBC all day and they actually believe the lies that they hear.
00:43:12.460It's sad to see what this stuff does to people, Roger, overall.
00:43:16.440We have on the flip side of that, we have a statement from President Donald Trump this morning outside of his trial as the closing arguments are delivered.
00:45:25.080The case against Trump should end in a very strong not guilty, not guilty, I don't know these people, but they're great legal scholars.
00:45:36.140Greg Jarrett, every defendant, has the fundamental right to be informed of the nature of the cause of the accusation against him, but Bragg never abided by that constitutional guarantee.
00:45:48.400Even worse, Mershon let him get away with it.
00:45:52.220He let Bragg get away with it, a trial that Bragg didn't want to put.
00:45:56.360And he should have done it seven years ago if they were going to do it.
00:45:58.900They should have brought this case seven years ago, not in the middle of my presidential election.
00:46:02.660We're leading by a lot, Biden, by a lot.
00:46:06.580They brought it right in the middle of the election.
00:46:08.340Hopefully it doesn't work out for them.
00:46:12.440Troy, we're going to go to a quick commercial break and we're going to come up and wrap it up.
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00:50:58.780We have some breaking news in the documents case.
00:51:04.800Wanted to get your thoughts on that because, as anybody who's been paying attention knows, Andrew Weissman, all these people have been just attacking Judge Cannon in Florida
00:51:14.860and really doing everything they can to mount a public pressure campaign.
00:51:18.700It was followed up by this request by Jack Smith to place a gag order on President Trump.
00:51:57.600Yet, the government is trying to charge Donald Trump for retaining documents, which they say is under a national security, a national espionage law.
00:52:12.840There's no evidence that Donald Trump shared any presidential, top secret, or classified documents with any foreign power.
00:52:21.060Joe Biden, on the other hand, without any question, did illegally retain documents when he was a U.S. senator and when he was vice president
00:52:30.340because the Presidential Records Act, pardon me, the Presidential Documents Act does not empower vice presidents.
00:52:38.600It's another classic example of the two-tier justice system.
00:52:43.860Now, the judge has refused to gag Trump.
00:52:48.680In this case, Smith's argument, which I read, was that Trump was endangering law enforcement by criticizing them, yet he doesn't name any of the people.
00:53:00.600Trump's lawyers actually came back very strong on this.
00:53:07.100And, well, I imagine Andrew Weissman is having a hissy fit right now.
00:53:11.620The other weird argument here, of course, is that it's unfair for Trump to stand trial in front of a judge that was appointed by Donald Trump.
00:53:22.720Yet the Russian collusion hoax was born in Barack Obama's office.
00:53:39.700Once again, the two-tiered justice system writ large.
00:53:44.160Well, and Roger, in your own case, you combated these gag orders as well, these unconstitutional gag orders.
00:53:50.760And it went as far as with you to extend to your supporters.
00:53:54.460So for you, having been subject to gag orders that I believe are unconstitutional, I think most lawyers would agree, to see this struck down has to be kind of special for you.
00:54:05.820I wish I had seen it struck down in my case.
00:54:08.720In my case, we went to the D.C. Court of Appeals arguing exactly that, that the gag order was unconstitutional.
00:54:16.020Nowhere does it say in the law that if you're charged with a crime, you forfeit your free speech rights.
00:54:21.920In fact, they're more important than ever.
00:54:23.480In fact, the gag orders that are contemplated are supposed to protect not the government, not the prosecutors, but to protect the accused.
00:54:33.940In my case, the D.C. Court of Appeals sat on my writ of mandamus for eight long months while I suffered incredible damage at the hands of MSNBC and CNN and the rest of the fake news jackals.
00:54:51.160I was glad to see the judge rule this way.
00:54:54.780You will not get such a ruling if the D.C. case goes to court.
00:55:00.080But it's very important to recognize that there is a pending motion in the Florida case, in the documents case, in which Trump's lawyers have questioned the legitimacy of Jack Smith's appointment.
00:55:14.940Former Attorney General Ed Meese, who served in the Reagan administration, was one of Ronald Reagan's closest and oldest advisors, and two very prominent college law professors, who are not Trump supporters, have filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court saying that because Smith's appointment was never confirmed by the United States Senate, it is illegal.
00:55:40.280And, of course, if the court were to find that, then all of these indictments would be voided.
00:55:47.820So if Judge Cannon rules that that is the case, the government will, of course, appeal that to the U.S. Supreme Court, and we may finally get this adjudicated.
00:55:58.180It's interesting to me that during the hearings on immunity and Trump's appeal to the Supreme Court based on the principle that he has immunity as a former president, Judge Clarence Thomas specifically asked Trump's lawyers whether they would be raising this issue in D.C.
00:56:58.940And I had the great honor of joining you on your W.A.B.C. show this weekend to discuss what's going on in Iran.
00:57:06.380And specifically, Roger, I wanted to bring this up because it kind of ties my appearance and what we talked about on W.A.B.C.
00:57:13.160We have a video. Now, for those who don't realize this, President Joe Biden months ago announced that his administration would be building a humanitarian pier in Gaza.
00:57:23.760The administration has been pressured by members of Congress over this.
00:57:29.360They've they've they've they've said, well, you're technically you have boots on the ground over there because not only are they building the pier, but they've also reportedly been firing into Gaza at people who are trying to hurt them while they're building this this pier.
00:57:42.280Or at least that's what they're saying, Roger. And we got footage over the weekend that we need to show here of that pier floating out into the sea.
00:57:50.640And there's actually reports that it's sinking. It basically is completely useless.
00:57:54.840And not only that, Roger, it's cost hundreds of millions of dollars, at least three hundred million dollars.
00:58:00.480So let's roll the clip of the Biden administration, three hundred million dollar pier drifting off into the sea in Gaza.
00:58:24.840Yeah. Well, we're almost we're almost out of time here.
00:58:39.780Let's just sum that one up. Those are your tax dollars at work.
00:58:43.740Why Joe Biden continues to fund both sides of the conflict in the Middle East, why he has unfrozen more than one hundred billion dollars in assets for the Iranians is really beyond belief.
00:58:58.940Unfortunately, Troy, we're out of time, but we'll be back tomorrow right here on the Stone Zone with more of what you love, because we are the place for politics.
00:59:08.520Until tomorrow, I'm Roger Stone. He's Troy Smith. This is the Stone Zone. God bless you and Godspeed.
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