April 3, 2023 - The StoneZONE - Roger Stone
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| So, it's almost hard to believe that the Republican Party's leading presidential candidate, as of tonight, by 30 points, could be told by a judge that he will go to jail if he dares to defend himself in his own criminal case. | |
| Could that actually happen? | |
| Well, it happened to Roger Stone, and nobody seemed to care. | |
| We did. | |
| No one else did. | |
| Roger Stone is a longtime Republican strategist, worked for Richard Nixon through the rest, up to and including Trump. | |
| ...runs StoneZone.com, joins us tonight to assess this. | |
| Roger Stone, thanks so much for coming on. | |
| You're the first person we thought of, because this happened to you, and I remember people saying, well, Roger Stone's a troublemaker, it's okay if he's not allowed to defend himself, and CNN can attack him, but he can't fight back. | |
| Maybe this will awaken people to how immoral this is. | |
| Look, I think the idea that they might gag Donald Trump is really a testimony to his effectiveness as a counterpuncher. | |
| He's used social media and his interviews to very effectively question the falsity of these charges, question the political motivations and funding of District Attorney Alvin Bragg, and to question the bias of this judge. | |
| But more importantly, not only do I think the gag order would be unconstitutional, Nowhere does it say you lose your free speech rights if you're charged with a crime, but more importantly, it's election interference. | |
| He is a legal candidate for the 2024 Republican nomination. | |
| He's leading by closer to 40 points in the polls, and this is a very clear effort to try to break his momentum. | |
| You can see in the polls, and in the money that he is raising, That the stronger they hit him, the harder they hit him, the more his support grows. | |
| So I think canceling him now, gagging him now, is a reaction to the way he has rebounded and actually benefited from what is a naked, partisan attack against him. | |
| But to use the legal system to effect an attack like that is just beyond the pale in the beginning of the end. | |
| I remember when Judge Amy Berman Jackson, who's completely out of control, did this to you, and the pretext was, well, if you talk in your own defense in public, you could influence the jury. | |
| But she didn't gag CNN, which spent a year attacking you every day, or MSNBC, or the New York Times. | |
| Like, this doesn't even make sense as a legal order. | |
| Well, not only that, but she kept the gag order in my case in place after I was already convicted, after there was already a verdict. | |
| I would have gone to jail under a gag order if President Trump hadn't seen the unjustness and ridiculousness of the charges against me. | |
| By the way, there was never any evidence of Russian collusion, WikiLeaks collaboration, any other crime, as Robert Mueller admitted in his final long redacted report. | |
| And those who say, well, the gag order would just be narrow. | |
| It would only relate to these charges. | |
| These charges are politically motivated. | |
| This is part of the campaign against Donald Trump. | |
| Yeah. | |
| But if you can't speak in your own defense in public and only your critics have the freedom of speech, I mean, at that point, darkness has descended. | |
| Roger Stone, thank you. |
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