Roger Stone has served as a senior campaign aide to three Republican presidents. He 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, Roger Stone has become a pop culture icon. And now, here s your host Roger Stone on The Stone Zone with Roger Stone: A tumultuous weekend where I was inundated with patriots contacting me to say, Well, well, what comes next? After a tumultuous weekend, I m not an attorney, but I have consulted with a number of attorneys. And they tell me that the president can ask for an expedited appeal of this unjust sentence or this unjust verdict in New York. And if the New York State court system denies his request for an appeal, that would give him leave to go directly to the Supreme Court on the basis of a due process violation. We re going to be monitoring this very closely, and I ve been consulting with a small group of attorneys who I do respect, by the way. My good friend Lou Marin of the Florida Republican Assembly joins us to talk politics and more. And then later in the show, I bring on my co-host Troy Smith of Slingshot News to talk about the Inauguration of President Bukele in El Salvador, which I was invited to attend, but was unable to attend. And then we finish up the show with a special report on what was a good weekend for America First leaders in El Paso, El Salvador. And much more! - The Stonezone. - Roger Stone -The Stone Zone Join us in The StoneZONE. Roger Stone - . . . , Troy Smith - , and the Stone Zone Podcast & much more... The Stonez Zone. . , and much more coming up on the show in the next episode of The Stone ZONE on Monday, November 6th, 2020. The next episode will be out soon, coming soon! -Tune in for a special segment on the inaugural of President Joe Rogan and his new book, "Inaugural Inaugural Ceremonies." at 7 PM Eastern Standard Time! by , November 6, 2020
00:03:01.820And I hope it was a good and relaxing weekend for you.
00:03:04.360I can't describe it that way, but it was a good weekend in any event.
00:03:11.540Before we go to our guest, Lou Marin, great American patriot, what is the latest report on how much the Trump campaign has raised since the announcement of this unjust verdict?
00:03:25.860Well, Roger, we had several appearances yesterday from both RNC co-chair Lara Trump and Eric Trump across several different media outlets.
00:03:36.340And they are reporting that there has been over $200 million raised total since Trump was found guilty just last week.
00:03:44.380And $70 million of that, Roger, is through small donor donations.
00:03:51.280This has been, as we predicted on the Stone Zone on Friday, several hundred million dollars in fundraising because of this guilty verdict.
00:03:59.660Wanted to get your thoughts because, I mean, as far as campaign fundraising in a short amount of time, I'm not sure that we've ever seen anything quite like this.
00:04:11.780First of all, it's important to recognize that Donald Trump has never been the toast of Wall Street,
00:04:17.280has never been able to raise a lot of money from billionaires and millionaires, some when he was an incumbent.
00:04:25.520But even then, the establishment figures are not Trump donors.
00:04:29.840Donald Trump's political movement is fueled with hundreds of thousands of small donations, small and medium-sized donations, from average Americans.
00:04:41.560So we have never seen anything like this.
00:04:44.520As you know, Troy, there were stories in the media about how Trump was running behind in fundraising and how Biden and the Democrats were easily outpacing him, which, by the way, for an incumbent is pretty common.
00:05:38.760He is a grassroots political organizing expert, activist, a community organizer, travels all over the country teaching we, the people, what we need to do to take our country back.
00:05:53.300He is a highly decorated former United States Navy chief and a veteran of the Gulf War.
00:06:00.460He is also, by the way, a world-class magician, but we'll get into that another time.
00:06:07.980He serves today with the Florida Republican Assembly as executive vice president, and he is the National Federation of Republican Assembly's training officer.
00:06:22.000He's a Christian, he's a conservative, he's a constitutionalist, he's an American patriot, and he's a very good friend of mine.
00:06:30.580I want to welcome Typhoon Lou to the Stone Zone.
00:06:36.380It's an honor to be here and to be back in the Stone Zone, and thank you for that wonderful introduction.
00:06:42.180Lou, most people don't realize it, but the Republican Assemblies have a long tradition in American politics.
00:06:49.240The California Republican Assembly was seminal in the election of Ronald Reagan as governor, and, of course, had he never been governor, he would never have been president.
00:07:00.000So you have a long and storied tradition.
00:07:03.560The Republican Assemblies are not some voluntary organization that just popped up yesterday.
00:07:08.940You've been with us for decades and been really the fundamental base of the conservative movement within the Republican Party.
00:07:19.500No, we're not establishment Republicans.
00:07:25.620But every event I've ever spoken for, for the Florida Republican Assembly, the grassroots energy, the commitment, the dedication, well, in all honesty, it outstrips the regular Republican organization everywhere I go.
00:07:43.480So tell us a little bit about the California, pardon me, about the Republican Assembly, specifically the Florida Republican Assemblies, and the extraordinary efforts that you guys are making to clean the voter lists in the interest of having a free, fair, honest, and transparent election.
00:08:04.600A lot of folks don't realize here the assembly started back in the 1930s.
00:08:08.600Back in 30, 32, 33 was an idea, and they made it come to fruition here in the 1934, 35, they actually incorporated themselves, and they were so successful in California that in 1996, they went national for the National Federated Republican Assemblies.
00:08:26.720And so 1996, they've been expanding, we're currently in 31 states and Puerto Rico, and in 1998, we were established here in Florida, actually in Palm Beach County, of all places, which I just learned here myself here, but we've been here actually in Florida for 26 years.
00:08:45.460President Ronald Reagan always called us the conscience of the Republican Party, and I'm proud to say that, too, because at the end of the day, we're more about truth and do what is right and putting God back in our country, back at one county, one state at a time, all the way to Washington, D.C.
00:09:02.020Now, Lou, very recently, I believe I read about a controversy in which the Republican State Party chairman here in Florida, the chairman of the Republican Party of Florida, that's the formal name, contacted you in an effort to tell you you couldn't use the word Republican in the title of your organization, and that you couldn't use an elephant in your logo.
00:09:31.020First of all, why do Republicans always form the firing squad in a circle?
00:09:37.980Why isn't Chairman Powers out fighting Democrats instead of fighting his fellow Republicans?
00:09:47.680Well, you know, we received a letter, a cease and desist letter, saying that we're no longer allowed to use the word Republican, also an elephant.
00:09:56.260And I about fell to my chair, and I thought, this has got to be a joke, an early April fool's joke or something.
00:10:01.840And so we actually reached out to the legal counsel of the RPOF and got him on the phone with a conference call and asked a question.
00:10:51.480So I said, where do you get off saying we can't do this?
00:10:55.320And he cited some kind of law they wrote back in 2021 or 2011, I should say.
00:11:00.960I said, well, that's like 12 years after our existence here.
00:11:03.660So as far as we're concerned, we're grandfathered in.
00:11:07.380But for some reason, when you read the law they cite, we were kind of surprised because if you – I think somebody took that to court, they'd probably win that also.
00:11:16.080Because it really does violate our First Amendment as an organization.
00:11:26.220Hopefully the folks at the Republican Party of Florida will drop this matter and move on to the much more serious matter of cleaning Florida's voter lists.
00:11:36.700Now, Lou, I know you were engaged with Chris Jersky.
00:11:40.760We have an extremely high regard for him here at the Stone Zone.
00:11:44.380He's been a guest on the show several times.
00:11:47.580He has put together some excellent software programs for detecting bad addresses on the voter list.
00:11:55.820Really an innovative guy, great guy, a true patriot.
00:12:00.280And I know this has been a major focus of yours in Florida to ensure we have a free election.
00:13:51.200Georgia took a little bit longer because their system's – let's say it's not a very complex system that really should not be using because it's too vulnerable.
00:14:01.020Well, I guess, Lou, the real question is – and by the way, Chris Jersky is with the People's Audit.
00:14:10.140You want to check that out and support them.
00:14:14.380I think the guy's a genius if you want to know the truth.
00:14:16.640But the real question is, you go through this extraordinary effort – let's take Florida, for example – and you go through all 15 million voter records.
00:14:28.920You find 1 million certifiable bad addresses, undeliverable addresses.
00:14:34.280Now, as you point out, you go to the 67 counties in the state, and 62 of them operate as they should and remove these nonexistent people from – addresses that are undeliverable from the rolls.
00:14:49.860But what happens in those five counties – by the way, big, big counties run by Democrats – where they refuse to remove these folks?
00:15:00.800Well, normally what we do is we reach out to them and let them know that, hey, this needs to be addressed, and our activists in that county will identify it.
00:15:10.580If they don't do that, then we'll actually go to Mr. Cord Bird and say, hey, you need to look at this stuff here, as well as the governor, because it's important they understand that dirty rolls put out dirty elections, and we need to make sure we're transparent.
00:15:24.040Again, we're really not about the left or the right on this issue.
00:15:26.660It's all about doing what's right and being transparent so everybody gets a fair shot out of the gate in an election.
00:15:32.440Troy, do you have a question for Typhoon Lou?
00:15:40.960It's great to speak with you here, and I just wanted to ask you about what's coming up in the 2024 election, because we do have some ballot initiatives in the state of Florida, which I think we've discussed here.
00:15:51.180And I think most people would say that these are things pertaining to abortion and marijuana that are going to be drivers of Democrats coming out to the polls in 2024.
00:16:00.400What's your outlook in this upcoming election, and how can we be certain that it's going to be a legitimate contest and that we're going to have legitimate vote totals?
00:16:10.860I mean, it sounds like, from what you're telling to me, that some of the largest counties in Florida, we don't really have any assurances that they're going to be accurate totals.
00:16:18.300Well, I think the big thing that's really good is that we're able to go through the voter rolls and identify the bad addresses.
00:16:26.900Well, our approach here is to be proactive, not reactive.
00:16:31.800And because we have the actual data showing that these are bad addresses, and these bad addresses represent an extra ballot.
00:16:38.860Another footnote, too, I should say also that when you identify these bad addresses, do you realize how many millions of dollars in postage we waste?
00:19:40.180I see really no benefit here of, for example, taking a million-dollar machine and put it in one precinct that only has 2,000, 3,000 people that you and I can count it up manually in about an hour.
00:19:52.500To me, it's just a waste of time, waste of money.
00:19:55.460But to me, if you want to restore the voter confidence in this voting system, in our voting—how we vote, you need to really get back to basics.
00:20:05.020Paper ballots, watermarked, invisible ink on them with a serialization, as far as I'm concerned.
00:20:10.900One day, holiday, get in, get out, be done with it, and get back to business in your daily lives.
00:20:27.620He provides extraordinary leadership, and I'm proud to call him a friend.
00:20:32.340And, Lou, you have a standing invitation to come back here in the Stone Zone anytime you think it's important and you need to put out one of your legendary calls to action.
00:20:44.040Lou Marin, thank you for joining us today in the Stone Zone.
00:20:53.460Folks, do you remember a couple months ago when AT&T's cell phone service went down completely?
00:21:01.000Millions, including me, were stranded, unable to contact loved ones, business associates, or even call for emergency services.
00:21:10.580That's because the cell phone tower networks are extraordinarily vulnerable, vulnerable to terrorists, vulnerable to hackers, and, of course, vulnerable to natural disasters like hurricanes and so on.
00:21:26.500That's why I went out and I got the Iridium 9555 phone.
00:21:32.960But more importantly, I got the Iridium satellite phone service.
00:21:37.700That way I know that I will always have cell phone contact 100% of the time any place on the face of the Earth.
00:25:38.020I just got word that our guest has joined us.
00:25:41.960Herbert Escheman is a great friend of the show.
00:25:45.600He is a political activist in El Salvador, often visits South Florida, where we're always glad to see him.
00:25:55.020He is one of the earliest proponents of the president of El Salvador, President Bukele, who took a country that was one of the most dangerous spots on the face of the earth, whose economy was in the toilet, and has rebuilt it into one of the safest places in the world where the economy is thriving.
00:26:20.020So, for those who say it cannot be done, well, President Bukele has done it and is doing it.
00:26:27.900Joining us now, our good friend, Herbert Escheman.
00:27:18.900You know, it all boils down to being able to fight off globalism successfully.
00:27:23.800And the way of doing that is by putting your people first, by putting your nation first and their interests.
00:27:29.880You allow for the growth of your country.
00:27:32.500And by doing so, you make a lot of enemies along the way.
00:27:36.800But these enemies will be defeated one by one, because we have God on our side.
00:27:43.300And we are working closely with the Salvadorian people to ensure that their interests are what's first in line and not the interests of foreign entities that want to promote globalist agendas in every country in the world.
00:28:00.520It is amazing to hear the globalists whine constantly about Bukele.
00:28:09.220Bukele has brought order to his country.
00:28:56.060Now that the gang problem is almost 100 percent resolved and the people can live free and good lives, the next goal of the Bukele administration is to focus on the economy and bringing in positive foreign investment that's going to create new jobs and bring our country back to what it should be.
00:29:16.580President Nayib Bukele is creating the El Salvador that El Salvadorans deserve because for a very long time they didn't have any opportunity to have good jobs, good education, a normal and free life.
00:29:30.100Now, thanks to President Bukele, those basic human rights have been restored.
00:29:34.640However, at the beginning, we had a lot of international accusations claiming to be concerned about human rights, but they were not concerned about the human rights of the hardworking, honest Salvadoran citizens.
00:29:47.220They were concerned about the human rights of the criminal, murderous gang members that were being jailed.
00:29:53.900Right now, thank God, most of MS-13 and Barrio 18, which were the two dominating gangs in El Salvador, have been locked up and they're not going to see the light of day anytime soon.
00:30:07.300So I think we've got some video from this weekend's festivities.
00:30:12.620Really breaks my heart that it could not be there.
00:30:16.720To say, I can't say that, I'm talking with many of the foreign delegates and many diplomats, I've had the pleasure of telling myself that they come with interest to learn from our country.
00:30:29.360And a very important factor is that the effective policy of security policies of President Nayib Bukele made something that very few governments and very few countries managed to obtain,
00:30:41.780que es la unión social porque como te mencionaba anteriormente esto ya no se trata de ideologÃas que
00:30:47.600derecha izquierda centro esto ahora es un común acuerdo del pueblo todos agarrados de la mano
00:30:53.900como compatriotas salvadoreños para sacar a la nación adelante y eso es lo que hemos visto porque