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Former NYPD Officer Sal Greco on the Decline and Destruction of New York City - The StoneZONE
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And now, Lindell TV brings you 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.
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-plus decades in the political and cultural arena, Stone has become a pop culture icon.
And now, here's your host, Roger Stone.
Start spreading the news.
This is Roger Stone.
Anyone who knows that anthem knows that in his lead singing the song of Craig Sinatra.
And our show today is about New York City.
Once the greatest city on the face of the earth, but now a city seemingly in decline.
A city that is completely and totally under the woke control of Mayor Eric Adams.
If you have watched The Stone Zone recently, you know one of our major criticisms pertains to woke city bureaucrats who want to outlaw pizza ovens that are fueled by either wood or coal.
This, of course, would require the shutdown of some of the greatest pizza emporiums on the face of the planet.
New York City, other than New Haven, Connecticut, is a mecca of great pizza.
Talking about this and many other issues, shortly I will be joined by former New York City police officer Salvatore Greco.
He is a proud son of Staten Island.
He's locked in an epic battle with the New York Police Department and the city government of Eric Adams.
Because as many who have followed the Stone Zone or Officer Greco know, Sal Greco was terminated from a 14-year career as a New York City police officer, despite the fact that Sal Greco, like Roger Stone, did nothing wrong.
Evidently, Sal Greco violated an NYPD regulation that prohibits officers from consorting or being associated with individuals that may have, or may in the future have, be involved in the commission of crimes.
On that basis, because he is a friend of mine, he was terminated.
He has big, big news regarding that case coming up shortly on the Stone Zone.
In the meantime, President Donald Trump is headed to New Hampshire for another one of his signature rallies.
Now, this is the manifestation of a prediction that I made here on the Stone Zone.
Some days ago, where I said that if the deep state, if the Democrat media cabal continues their attacks on Donald Trump, he will simply go up in the polls, he will galvanize the support that he has in the polls, and he will rake in literally millions of dollars more in small and medium contributions.
I stand by that prognostication.
You saw the tumultuous reception he received in both South Carolina and Alabama this past weekend.
That which does not kill Donald Trump simply makes him stronger.
I expect to see a manifestation of that in New Hampshire tonight.
That New Hampshire rally is being widely broadcast.
Joining me now, the quintessential New Yorker, Officer Salvatore Greco steps in to the Stone Zone.
Feel great to be here, Roger.
It's a blessed day.
Blessed day.
So Sal, before you joined us, I gave a brief summary, but let me recap if I may.
Sal Greco was a 14-year veteran of New York City Police Department with an unblemished record of service to the people of New York.
Many was the time that Officer Greco was assigned the graveyard shift in some of the most dangerous precincts in the city.
He has an unblemished record and I believe holds the record for most DUI arrests for some of the period in which he served as a police officer.
In his off hours, Salvatore Greco, like every other American, had the right to support President Donald Trump.
And he befriended me, strangely enough, through Instagram when he saw the horrific plight my family and I were going through at the hands of Robert Mueller.
Because I come from a Sicilian-American background, and Sal's people are also from Sicily, we became fast friends.
He came and visited my family at Easter.
He came and visited my family at Christmas.
We became social friends.
Good friends.
Goombahs, as you might say.
But, unfortunately, the New York Police Department didn't like our friendship.
Sal Greco was there on January 5th when I addressed a legally assembled, fully permitted rally in which we both expressed our concern over the 2020 election.
By the way, every American citizen has an absolute First Amendment right to express skepticism about the 2020 election based on an extraordinary set of irregularities and anomalies in that vote count.
Now, tragically, we have seen that exercise of the First Amendment criminalized.
And in fact, upon his return to New York, Salvatore Greco learned that he was under investigation by the New York Police Department.
And was ultimately terminated for violating a little known NYPD regulation, which prohibits him from associating with individuals who may reasonably be expected to commit crimes.
I guess that would be me.
The problem with this particular regulation is it doesn't seem to be evenly applied.
Mayor Eric Adams, the swagger mayor, the mayor who I would argue is presiding over the decline and collapse of one of the greatest cities in the world, was, according to his own biography, and also according to a recent profile in the New Yorker magazine, nobody's idea of a conservative outlet,
He provided private security for both the Reverend Louis Farrakhan and also for Mike Tyson.
Both of them convicted felons.
Both of them very obvious violations of the very statuette that Sal Greco was fired for.
By the way, Eric Adams was a New York City police captain at the time of these violations.
Eric Adams, like Sal Greco, was investigated and there was an interdepartmental trial and he received a punishment of several days taken off of his vacation time.
Sal Greco, on the other hand, lost his career, lost his pension, but more importantly than either one, lost his good name.
Salvatore Greco cannot seek work as a police officer in a different jurisdiction or a different state because he does not have, essentially, a good conduct letter.
And therefore, Sal Greco is in court fighting this extraordinary injustice.
Today, there was major news regarding this lawsuit.
The city of New York had made a previous motion to dismiss, which was denied by the judge.
Then they made a subsequent motion to dismiss, which having read both of them isn't at all different than their first motion to dismiss.
But today, the judge in the case rendered a decision.
Sal, bring us up to date.
Well, thanks for your introduction, Roger.
And so the judge did make a decision.
And the decision is that the case will proceed forward.
What he did was, he partially dismissed a couple of claims, which is the Manel Claim and the New York Labor Law, and he also took the City of New York out of it, but he left the four defendants, and that's Daniel Cutter, the Lieutenant in Internal Affairs, this guy, Jeremy Ornstein, who's definitely, you know, a character in his own part, he was the sergeant that investigated me, the Deputy Commissioner of Legal Affairs in the NYPD, Ernest Hart,
And last but not least, and the most important one here, the former police commissioner, Keyshawn Sewell.
So right now, they're pending in the wind as individuals.
But of course, the city now has to decide if they're going to indemnify them or not.
But going forward, I now go into discovery.
I can ask for many things, including the records of one Eric Adams.
Uh, the records of the current police commissioner, the disciplinary matters of other officers prior to myself.
Uh, there's also issues of Mr. Ornstein is in a separate case right now, uh, with these two individuals that were, uh, I believe a sergeant lieutenant, the Nieves brothers, where he accessed sealed records in their case.
And he used Fugazi subpoenas, and he fabricated evidence, and he perjured himself.
And he's in New York Superior Court right now, which will probably be moved to the federal court.
And now, that lawyer was just notified by my lawyer, as you keep hearing the phone go off.
So there's a lot of action going on.
And Roger, just, I don't know if you remember what today was.
One year ago today, I got a knock on my door when I used to live in Staten Island.
I currently don't, I now live in Fort Lauderdale.
That knock on the door was a lieutenant that said, I'm sorry to inform you Mr. Greco, but you've been terminated.
It's also a year to the date that Mar-a-Lago was raided.
I remember because I was watching this on TV as a lieutenant knocked on my door and he took my gun and shield and I had to sign the paperwork.
So it's only prophetic that one year to the day you officially now see that my case moves forward and there's no stopping it.
This is extraordinary news.
I want to clarify this.
So, initially, Jeremy Ornstein, who seems to have a number of problems, a very celebrated incident in which he, responding to a 911 call, actually arrested two of the, broke into the wrong home, and arrested two people who had nothing to do with the 911 call.
This is a guy with a long history of misconduct.
In your case, he made an initial request for your cell phone records and your computer records, but he was denied and then he went back and submitted a new request saying that this was the epicenter of a narcotics investigation.
Were you ever tested for narcotics by anyone in the NYPD?
Absolutely not, Roger.
I have no involvement in narcotics.
And, by the way, Mr. Orenstein, when questioned on the stand at my department trial, admitted that, no, I was not involved in any narcotics, nor was there any evidence of anything, any semblance of any narcotics used by me, or that I was involved in any drug trade or drug trafficking.
It was, in other words, completely made up.
Just like he perjured himself in the previous case of the Nieves brothers.
It also appears that he illegally accessed my records, records of others involved in your case.
Will Jeremy Ornstein pay any price for his misconduct?
Well, as it stands right now, Roger, unless the city indemnifies him, he will be personally held responsible for all of this.
I would expect that the city at a certain point, I mean, I've never heard of them letting their police commissioner Be sued individually and be held accountable personally.
So I don't think they're going to go that route.
But if they do right now, he's being he will be held responsible personally.
And don't forget about his supervisor and the Commissioner of Legal Affairs because the subpoena is used, Roger.
How is this subpoena process used?
How do they access this?
What determines how they get subpoenas?
How do they access sealed records?
What else don't we know that they did in my purely political charged case?
These are things that now will come up in discovery.
Along with, as you mentioned, records of certain individuals like Mayor Eric Adams.
Yes.
So, Sal, now let me go to a larger question, which is, what's happening in the city that you grew up in, the city that you love?
I lived on the Upper East Side.
I loved New York City.
I loved it because, well, first of all, it has some of the greatest food in the world.
Everybody knows the very, very best Italian food is there.
The very best cannoli can be found at Cafe Palermo in Little Italy.
Several weeks ago on my radio show on WABC Radio, I had Baby John, the king of all cannoli.
What's happening to New York?
First of all, I have several observations.
Everything smells like marijuana.
Now, I have been, as a libertarian, a longtime proponent for the legalization and taxation of medicinal marijuana.
I believe that there are a number of studies that shows that it has a medicinal value.
It is a much greater, much lesser harm Then opioids, if we have an epidemic today, it's an opioid epidemic.
On the other hand, it is now a ubiquitous thing in New York City.
You cannot walk down the street in Manhattan without the overpowering stench of marijuana.
And I'd like to say that the city feels less safe to me.
But as I look at the CompSat reports for this week, For some reason, the government insists that crime is down in every single category.
What am I not getting here?
Well, first of all, in those numbers you just looked at, number one, the date at Mr. Eric Adams, the swagger man with no plan, you know, he states that crime was down.
Within 24 hours, he had an insurrection, quote, riot on his hands in New York City.
So, that just goes to show you, he says he's got the plan, the city has less crime.
If you also look on that, Roger, the crime is actually, for the three-year period, up.
For a 10-year period up, which means...
He's picking and cherry-picking numbers in the last 28 days or so, saying, well, crime is down in the last 28 days, but where is it trending, Eric?
It's trending upwards.
And by the way, Roger, that riot or insurrection, whatever you want to call it, what happened the other day, he states that it was bad parenting, and he might have a point to that degree, but you know what it really was, Roger?
It's a complete failure in public safety.
Eric Adams campaigned on a, I'm a cop, I am the law and order candidate and my public safety will be, this public safety of New Yorkers will be my number one issue.
Roger, what happened the other day?
I saw his chiefs and his executives running to a store while they're getting pelted with bricks and pickaxes and whatever these kids or whoever they were could get their hands on.
That seems like an out-of-control riot and a public safety issue, and it's in a city where you know that as a cop, you can be prosecuted for anything.
They prosecuted a cop who, by the way, put his hands on an EDP, an emotionally disturbed person, two years ago.
Sorry, his name is actually Salvatore, too.
But Avon Bragg actually prosecuted him for what's basically an assault with no injuries.
Nobody claimed any injuries.
So police see this and are afraid to put their hands on people, which is why you saw an out-of-control situation that occurred the other day, where about 4,000 or more people showed up to Union Square and completely took over the scene.
And you saw the police backpedaling, something that you would have never seen, not only in my time, but maybe in the time of the great Rudy Giuliani.
And it's basically, Roger, they have demasculinized the NYPD.
They don't want the masculinity that the NYPD had.
You're basically a security guard with a gun.
And if, God forbid, you are to do what is supposed to be done or what is necessary, you can end up like this poor cop, Sabato Promenzano, that's now being prosecuted for an assault in a case where the defendant that they're claiming was assaulted didn't even claim he had any injuries.
We've got some video of this riot the other day.
I saw this on Twitter.
I found it shocking.
Let's roll that, if we may.
People pushing and shoving.
Now we see police pushing back.
There comes more objects, water coolers and things being thrown at the police now.
And it looks like somebody else being taken into custody over there.
What are you doing?
Oh, my God!
Class of 2020 If you refuse to leave, you will be arrested for unlawful assembly.
This is the New York City Police Department.
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Really quite extraordinary and disturbing are Officer Greco, what act of social injustice caused this incredible riot?
What was the cause of this riot?
The cause was, it's ridiculous to say this, it's a social media or an influencer that's a gamer.
Some gamer that's 20 years old that has 20 million followers on Twitch announced a giveaway of free Playstations and Xboxes.
And within an hour, 4,000 people came to Union Square.
And like I stated right there alone, just in that statement, it's a complete failure in public safety.
Because nobody's- who's monitoring social media?
I thought the NYPD monitored social media.
I mean, Jeremy Ornstein was trying to monitor my social media, but they must have missed the social media of this character that stated they were going to have a big and large gathering in New York City.
I mean, this was out of control.
What you're not even seeing there, Roger, is they had a bus full of detainees, meaning the people that they arrested.
On this bus, it was a city bus, it was being attacked by these same people you saw on the street there.
All these rioters and insurrectionists were trying to get into the bus and pick a fight with cops.
Not only did they try to do that, they were fighting amongst themselves.
So this is what you're going to see.
It's almost like a model.
I don't know if this was a setup or that was the stage by this individual means a 20 year old kid but this could be some uh other nefarious things behind this i just worry if not only something like this happens again what could be coming to a city near you because this looks almost like the riots of 2020 on steroids all right
so the police commissioner at the time of your termination was a woman named sewell Keychat as you can see.
She is no longer the police commissioner.
She resigned and complained publicly that Eric Adams insisted on hamstringing her, essentially insisted on doing her job.
After some fumbling, the mayor appointed a man named Edward Caban, As the new police commissioner.
Now keeping in mind that you were terminated by NYPD simply because of your friendship with me, you have publicly been critical of the appointment of Mr. Caban, as well as a number of other associations by Mayor Adams.
Tell us about that.
Yeah, well, see, Roger, Ed Caban, he's been a member of the NYPD for over 30 years.
Now he's a police commissioner, and he was also the first deputy commissioner.
And I have a simple argument here, and it's very glaringly.
So, Mayor Eric Adams seems to be very comfy cozy with him, along with some other characters.
So, see, right there in this picture, Is Ed Caban standing next to Eric Adams to Eric Adams left?
All the way to the left of the screen is a guy by the name of Jimmy Rodriguez Jr.
Jimmy Rodriguez Jr.
is the owner of a place called Consofritos.
He himself had a place called Jimmy Bronx Cafe back in the day.
Well, in the late 90s, Jimmy Rodriguez Jr.
tried to run over his wife with a car and was arrested.
Later on, Jimmy Brock's Cafe, and the cafe in general, was on a podcast on YouTube, which you can see this part of it on my Twitter, was mentioned that this place was a drug den, which had cocaine buffets that were set up for celebrities and baseball players.
Now, all the way to the right of this screen, and to the left of Ed Caban, is his brother James.
James Caban was a police sergeant in the NYPD and in the late 90s he was terminated because he was arrested for basically assaulting a cab driver in his car.
He was found to be in a hung jury in that trial.
Later on he became what's known as the slumlord of the Bronx and he was charged in a case Where he did something to a tenant and he was held in jail for about 30 or 40 days.
So by definition, James Caban is a convicted criminal.
Mr. Jimmy Rodriguez over there that owns this restaurant, he's also likely or reasonably believed to have engaged in a criminal activity.
Eric Adams, who knows all of this, and is standing right there with everybody, he appointed Ed Caban as a police commissioner regardless.
There's also another article, here it is again, there's Eric Adams, And this gentleman, Jimmy Bronx Café, he's very comfy cozy with him.
And so Ed Caban lives next door to his brother, as per this article I read this weekend, to his brother in Rockland County, which is not even in the five boroughs where you're supposed to live, apparently, if you're a police commissioner, according to the NYPD patrol guide.
So, there's all kinds of mixed signals and communication when it comes to Ed Caban as your police commissioner.
Everybody was applauding this.
The first Latino as a NYPD police commissioner.
It's always the first of many things.
I see it as the first police commissioner that's associating with criminals all around them.
The very thing that you terminated me for, Eric.
So how exactly does this work?
Because you are personally pictured with these people.
You must be approving this.
So you're the arbiter of truth, Eric?
Tell me how this works.
So there's another instance.
that I think is a key to the situation regarding you.
And that is a performance, a visit by the rapper Cardi B to the New York City Police Academy, where she did girl talk, whatever that is.
The problem with that is, of course, she is a convicted criminal.
She's a known gangbanger.
And she's made songs glorifying the murder of police.
So any police officer she came in contact with...
When she visited the New York City Police Academy, would technically be in violation of the same regulation that you were terminated for violating.
And when he was questioned about this, Mayor Eric Adams said, well, her appearance at the New York Police Academy was based on a court order of community service.
That is, of course, a lie.
There is no such court order for such community service.
Eric Adams seems to have one great talent, and that is the ability to lie with a straight face.
Actually, two.
He's extraordinarily well-dressed.
He could be the best-dressed mayor since Bo James, Jimmy Walker, celebrated as a Great Sartorial Mayor, but an extraordinarily corrupt one.
He could be, Eric Adams that is, he could be more corrupt than William O'Dwyer, a mayor who was forced to resign in disgrace.
He could be more incompetent than Bill de Blasio, I never actually thought that was possible, but I think he's now presiding over the total collapse of New York.
Tell us about this Cardi B incident.
Well sure, Roger.
Actually, you have misstated the Eric Adams quote.
So what happened is the NYPD was the one that presented to the judge that they said that there was some court order.
I bizarrely claim that, you know, she came to the police academy.
Eric Adams clarified this in his press conference when he stated, oh, Cardi B was invited to the police academy.
By the way, in that picture that you're putting up in the middle there, right behind Caban on the left side, or to the right and his left, that man is Jeffrey Madry, that's the chief of department, also associated with someone who's recently believed to have engaged in, or likely to have engaged in criminal activity.
So, there's another character right there.
So, if you're stating that Cardi B was invited to the police academy, the way Eric Adams said, and he said, we don't discard people, So how does this work, Eric?
Because you're stating that Cardi B is okay, she was invited there.
Your police department stated the opposite, there was some court order that no one's ever seen or was ever presented.
And you're saying that we don't discard people, except Eric, you discarded me.
And to a degree, you also discarded Roger.
What makes you the arbiter of truth?
And this is what the judge saw, and why this is proceeding forward.
Because something had to give here, Because there's mixed signals also from the police commissioner when she stated that she had no idea about any of this or people being invited to the police academy.
So there's a breakdown in structure.
Somebody said something somewhere.
So when the police commissioner is on the stand getting deposed by my lawyer, we don't know what she could say or what's going on there.
Which, by the way, in Discovery, I also have the right To the records of the police commissioner, both in the beginning of my case and now with Cardi B. This is going to be very interesting and people should stay tuned to this case.
All right.
Officer Greco asked you to stay with us.
Stand by.
We're going to come back to you in a moment, but we're going to take a quick commercial break.
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All right, Sal, I want to shift gears here a little bit.
You have moved permanently to the state of Florida.
You're now a Florida state resident.
I know that you would be interested in continuing your career in law enforcement, but unfortunately, you're essentially ineligible because the city of New York refuses to give you a good conduct letter.
I have a feeling that before this is over you will get that good conduct letter.
But putting New York aside for a moment, people keep saying to me that Governor Ron DeSantis, whose campaign for president seems to be imploding, DeSantis is actually moving backwards, has done such an extraordinarily good job in Florida has done such an extraordinarily good job in Florida that he deserves to be president.
I'm sorry, but I have to argue with that.
Governor Ron DeSantis did a great job of putting out press releases.
He picked a very high profile fight with Disney over the fact that Disney opposed legislation that he put forward to try to affect the curriculum in the public schools.
What's interesting to me is right here in Broward County, the largest county in the state, and in the seven largest counties in the state, Which comprise almost 3.7 million school children.
The school boards are right back to pushing the critical race theory in our classrooms.
Also pushing these gender lies, this dogma on our children.
Governor DeSantis told us before the last election that he'd put an end to that.
That's not the case.
But also, more troubling, we recently learned That 15 million gallons of raw sewage were dumped off the beach in Delray, Florida.
I was unaware of this until you sent me the story.
I guess the obvious question is, where, where is Governor Ron DeSantis?
That's right, Roger.
I actually ran into somebody who worked on that.
So what happened is he had shown me a picture.
He goes, you won't believe this, Sal.
I'm like, What won't I believe?
He goes, I worked in Boyne Beach.
I guess it's one of his jobs is, you know, clear out the raw sewage.
And he says there was a raw sewage drainage leak.
In Boynton Beach, and they told everyone to not be drinking the water, and don't go in the ocean, and I go, where was the press on that?
He goes, oh, well, they wrote an article a couple of days ago, and then lo and behold, I found the article, and I sent it to you, and I showed you that, you know, who was notified about this?
I'm sure this was a local thing, and now he explained to me that the pipes were about 60 years old, I mean, this is stuff that never happened, let's say, in New York, and if it did, you would have major notifications up the chain.
Now, they may have notified anyone local, but I mean, this sounds like it's a little bit of a problem where, you know, where is the governor on this?
Was the governor ever notified about this?
Because he never stated that the governor was.
He mentioned local leaders, and he goes, I believe maybe they called Tallahassee.
He wasn't 100% sure, because as you know, Ron DeSantis is out in New Hampshire and Ohio.
I guess he wants to be governor of those states now, but he's not a governor of Florida because he's not around for any of this.
He's not around for this, this disaster.
He wasn't here for when it was the, uh, the other problem with the floods here in Broward County.
I mean, it's almost like, where's Waldo?
Where's Ron DeSantis?
It really surprised me yesterday when, under pressure from one of his major donors, Ron DeSantis said that he did not believe there was any fraud whatsoever in the 2020 election.
Chris Gleason, who's I think one of the most brilliant election analysts in the country, has documented extraordinary fraud in Florida, both in our most recent election and in the previous election.
The truth is Governor DeSantis signed a package of election law reforms in this state that actually make the system more opaque, makes it harder for average citizens to get access to voting results or to voting records or to voting lists, also makes it a crime to simply ask questions.
If you ask questions of your local board of elections, if you ask the same question more than once, perhaps because you don't get the answer the first time, that is technically now a crime.
You're not allowed to question the people who work for the taxpayers and who run our elections.
It also provides that only an election board can challenge election results.
Meaning the average citizen is no longer able to file any legal or regulatory objection to the outcome of any election, but it may not be able to do so anyway, because Governor DeSantis has made it impossible for you to obtain any evidence of voter fraud, assuming that it exists.
I think that the governor has done long-term structural damage to our election system.
Right now, When you mail out a ballot, it is return requested to the Board of Elections.
If it cannot be delivered, it's supposed to be returned to the Election Board.
But we have hard evidence that in many cases, when those envelopes are returned back to the Board of Elections, somebody is actually casting those ballots.
Someone in that chain of custody is casting those illegal ballots.
Numerous activists On the right, supporters of Governor DeSantis have attempted to get him to examine this evidence of election fraud, to re-examine his position in favor of these reforms, and he has been completely and totally unwilling to do it.
What bothers me, I guess, is that he now has come to the position of the New York Times, which is, no, there was no election fraud whatsoever.
This puts him At variance with at least 70% of the average Republican voter.
70% of Republicans in America, based on polling that I have respect for, indicate that they don't believe the last election was fair or honest.
There's another 15% who say they're not certain the election was fair or honest.
That means that Ron DeSantis is taking a position contrary to 85% of the voters.
We also, Sal, we have an electricity problem.
I saw you the other day at the Sports Cafe, and you just got your electric bill.
What did it show?
It showed a raise, basically.
So what happened is, from when I moved here, which was before Ron was elected, re-elected, till now, present day, You have at least a 10 to 20% increase in the bill.
Same usage and wattage I looked at and it was a slight difference because back then was a little higher than now.
And it was more money having lower usage.
So very clearly, My electric bill has gone up.
There's no ifs, ands, or buts about it.
And you always hear me, Roger, I'm complaining every day about it.
And I would want to know, I mean, is this guy ever going to get back here and, you know, fight for his people?
Why is there an electric problem where everyone's paying more money?
Why did our bills go up?
How did my electric bill go from what it was, $20, $30 max from my apartment, now it's $60, $70, Maybe even more than that, for almost the same amount of usage.
It's crazy what my bill became now, Roger.
I'm really angry about this.
Well, with temperatures hovering in the 90s, a disproportionate use of air conditioning, a number of citizens on fixed incomes, do you think there's any relationship between the fact that Ron DeSantis took nine and a half million dollars from Florida Power and Light and its subsidiaries and his regulators approving the largest single increase in electricity rates in Florida history.
Do you think that those might be related events?
Well, you know, if I was still a cop or if I was in an investigative unit, I would definitely look into this because there is no, it's direct correlation that one thing happened and then we see a result after it.
And if there's money or anything being transactioned here, maybe someone should look into that because How is it that he was taking money from Far to Power and Light with his lobbyists and then all of a sudden everyone's electric went off?
Because it's not just me.
I'm hearing this from everyone.
From the owners of the cafe, from the regular John that goes to the gym, from people I talk to on the street.
They're all complaining about the same thing.
Where's Ron DeSantis?
It's an excellent question.
I met a man from the Naples area, just south of there.
His home was completely and totally destroyed in the recent hurricane.
I met him at church.
I actually prayed for him and his family.
He was visiting Fort Lauderdale.
He tells an incredible tale.
The insurance adjuster for his home insurance company wrote an assurance estimate of his costs to replace his home.
Essentially, he and his wife and his kids They lost everything.
Their home was totally destroyed.
The adjuster came in and wrote an estimate of what replacement would cost.
The insurance company actually changed the adjustment, but left the adjuster's name and signature on the form, even though this is not the recommendation that the adjuster made.
And it was for an amount that was far, far less than it would cost this Florida family.
To replace their home.
And when I asked whether or not he could sue the insurance company because he said accepting it will not replace his home, he will have to move, may have to move out of state, strangely enough, he said, no, due to a law signed by Governor Ron DeSantis, you can no longer sue your home insurance company if you're dissatisfied with the offer of pennies on the dollar they make over your loss.
This comes on the heels of a member of Bikers for Trump who tell me under a law signed by Ron DeSantis, if you are riding a motorcycle, Uh, and not wearing a helmet, which is completely legal.
Or even if you are wearing a helmet, uh, there is, and you are hit by a driver.
In other words, you are not at fault.
You're hit by someone driving a car.
You have no ability whatsoever to sue the person who hit you for damages.
They are completely and totally immune from lawsuit.
Based on a bill signed into law by Governor Ron DeSantis.
This is the guy who wants to be president.
Now if you're following the news, today it was announced that Governor DeSantis fired his campaign manager and has hired a new one.
Here's a hint for the DeSantis campaign.
Your problem is not the manager.
Your problem is the candidate.
It is most definitely not his time.
But now I would argue that he is derelict in his duties.
I've been very blunt on this show and on other broadcasts.
I did a great show with the great Lou Dobbs yesterday.
You can find it on my Twitter feed.
I have posted it.
I'm going to put it up at stonezone.com a little later so you can hear it, where I talked about the various flaws in Ron DeSantis's candidacy.
First, there is his flip-flop on the war in Ukraine.
He won't tell us whether or not he's opposed or in favor of shipping billions more to the Ukrainian war effort or to those who are skimming off the top of the war effort.
He is opposed to the tariffs that President Donald Trump has pledged to put back in place When he is re-elected to the White House.
This is the first time that China has been brought to their knees.
They steal our intellectual property.
They rip us off.
They manipulate our currency.
They are threatening Taiwan with an invasion.
But Ron DeSantis thinks that tariffs are too rough on them.
Really quite extraordinary.
By my calculations, I actually believe, given my own guesstimates based on the second quarter filing of Ron DeSantis' campaign, that at the current burn rate, even with a 40% reduction in the massive staff of his presidential campaign, I think that he will be out of money by October 1st.
Now, you might say, well, he can just go out and raise more money.
The problem is that fundraising is now frozen.
His fundraising is not going well because his poll numbers are plummeting.
He's hitting some of the lowest numbers he has ever hit.
So while Donald Trump's campaign appears to be turbocharged by these new indictments, Which, by the way, was always the key to Ron DeSantis's presidential candidacy.
He thought when Donald Trump was persecuted by the deep state that his candidacy would collapse.
It's had the exact opposite effect.
When he's persecuted by the deep state, it has turbocharged his campaign, both financially and in terms of political support.
And now we see Ron DeSantis posting some of the worst numbers ever.
Their rate of spending and the poor budgeting of their campaign, their propensity for five-star hotels and for private jets.
Ronald Reagan, when he was slugging it out with Gerald Ford and his campaign ran low on money, Ronald and Nancy Reagan flew commercial to campaign events.
We actually got great publicity out of it.
But Ron DeSantis and his wife, Casey, never fly commercial anyplace.
I predicted on this show some weeks ago that, as Laura Loomer, the investigative journalist, has revealed, Governor DeSantis paid a $1 million bribe to the Florida Speaker of the House, Governor DeSantis, Days after the state legislature changed the state law that prohibits you from holding state office while pursuing federal office without first resigning your state office.
They amended that law to make an exception only for Ron DeSantis, not for anyone else.
DeSantis transferred $1 million from his own campaign funds to a PAC controlled by the Speaker of the House.
So, here's a call out to the U.S.
Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
This transaction needs to be examined.
Quid pro quo.
Pardon me.
I'm tired.
My Latin is a little rusty.
But clearly, cause and effect.
Sal, we've got about four minutes.
I'm going to give you the final word.
What are people in Florida saying about the candidacy of Ron DeSantis?
People here, like I said, they're very upset that Ron DeSantis is- it feels like he's an absentee landlord and he has abandoned, you know, his constituents, the people that put him there.
He immediately decided to run for president, which was insane because we all knew that, you know, this wasn't his time, but he decided to anyway.
And then as you see on the campaign trail, I see his wife taking up the stage more time than him.
I don't know who's really running for office there.
I just wish this guy would go back to what he was supposed to be doing.
You know, he was supposed to be the governor, not the president.
So I hope he returns back to Florida.
I hope that he goes back to being the governor and governs over a state that, you know, there's a lot of problems here.
I know everyone says Florida's great and nice and it's beautiful.
But it has its problems and we need the owner, the boss of the state, to return.
And I just wish he would, you know, hang up this failing campaign and just admit that it wasn't his time.
All right, we're about out of time.
I do want to point out that it was exactly 49 years ago today, on August 8th, 1974, that President Richard M. Nixon resigned from the presidency.
As many of you know, I have a tattoo of Richard Nixon on my back as a daily reminder that in life, when things don't go your way, when you suffer some defeats, some setbacks, that's the time to dust yourself off and get back into the game.
As Richard Nixon said, the greatness comes not when things go always good for you, but when you suffer some defeats, you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes.
Because until one has been in the deepest valley, one cannot appreciate the majesty of the highest mountaintop.
The story of Richard Nixon is a story of persistence, a story of resilience.
It's an American story.
I'm Roger Stone, my guest Sal Greco.
Thank you for joining us on The Stone Zone today.
God bless you and Godspeed.
You're watching Lindell TV.
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