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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 best-selling 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!
Welcome, I'm Roger Stone, and yes, you are back in the Stone Zone.
The United States Supreme Court voted 9-0 to overrule the Supreme Court of the state of Colorado.
When they barred President Donald Trump from the ballot in that state.
Here to help me break this and other political stories down is my co-host, Troy Smith.
He is of Slingshot News.
Please, Slingshot.News, pardon me, joins us now in the Stone Zone.
Mark, historic ruling today, and right off the bat, we just want to get your opinion on this.
I want you to tell America what you're thinking immediately hearing this 9-0 ruling.
Well, it is good news for Trump and the Trump campaign.
It is, however, very, very narrowly drawn.
I mean, I read the 20-page decision very quickly, but basically the court ruled that the states do not have the authority to bar a federal candidate from the ballot.
Therefore, the states never spoke to the larger question of whether Trump had engaged in insurrection.
Very specifically, Troy, while this ruling does rule that Trump cannot be barred from the ballot, it does not speak to the question of his eligibility to be president.
Now, we would argue that since he's not been convicted of insurrection anyplace, because the 14th Amendment of the Constitution, Article 3, specifically does not regard presidents and vice presidents.
It speaks to its regulation of officers of the United States, which there's a previous Supreme Court decision holding the president and vice president are not officers.
But it does not speak to the question of his eligibility.
And indeed, Trump's lawyers didn't argue that, although I think they should have.
Here's my prediction.
While this is a great victory, and it means that the effort to bar Trump from the ballot in many states now collapses, if he is elected, which I believe he will be, they will come back and file new litigation claiming that he's ineligible to be sworn in.
This will be just one of the many efforts in the toolbox that they are now openly speaking about.
Mary McCord, the woman attorney who seems to be the Forrest Gump of the Trump derangement syndrome movement.
She was up to her hips in the Russian collusion hoax.
She surfaces in both of the phony Ukrainian impeachment attempts or both impeachment attempts, I should say.
She then surfaces hip deep in the questions about the legitimacy of the last election.
And now they're openly talking about stripping President Donald Trump, should he be elected, of his control, civilian control of the military.
Sorry.
That's so when this election is won by Donald Trump and Black Lives Matter and Antifa start burning down half the country.
They would like to withhold from Donald Trump the ability as Commander-in-Chief to secure order.
This is insidious.
We're going to be talking about that this week a lot here on The Stone Zone.
But in the short term, very good news.
Very good news indeed.
Well, Roger, and I think the most surprising part to me was that we had a 9-0 ruling.
And if you listen to the people in the mainstream media, they were kind of throwing it out there that this was being led by Trump's appointees to the Supreme Court.
The Trump justices, is what they claim, were leading this effort.
And a 9-0 ruling puts that completely to bed, Roger, does it not?
No, look, I think we all understand that Norm Eisen and his organization crew, Which is not about ethics, but about being against Donald Trump.
Fostered all of these legal efforts in the various states.
They are baseless.
Those who file them actually should be sanctioned.
There is no basis in law for their filing.
They're frivolous.
They should have been slapped down, and in many courts they were.
Take Massachusetts, for example.
Even there, the state Supreme Court said, no, the state could not bar Trump from the ballot.
Also true in Michigan, Minnesota.
These are not conservative states.
But I also think that you're half right.
Where the left has really gone crazy, accusing the Supreme Court justices of being partisans, is in agreeing to hear the immunity question, which is an entirely different issue.
What's interesting about leftists is they love the federal judiciary, they love all federal judges, as long as those judges rule the way they want them to.
But when any judge rules contrary to what they think, that judge is unqualified, that judge is political, that judge is corrupt.
No, that judge is honest.
That's their real problem.
They like judges who are really, might as well be members of the prosecution.
Those are the kind of judges they like.
The kind of judges you get in liberal enclaves like D.C.
and New York.
So just the fact that the Supreme Court decided to hear the issue of immunity, that is immediately blamed on the Trump justices for agreeing to even hear that question.
I still don't think there is, by any means, Any guarantee that the U.S.
Supreme Court is going to rule for Trump on the immunity question?
My guess is if they ruled on the basis of a law, they would.
But as we saw in the federal, the judicial decisions surrounding Nixon and executive privilege, because of the atmosphere in the country, the U.S.
Supreme Court reversed 200 years of precedent regarding executive privilege.
To rule that Richard Nixon's tapes could be released.
That's because of hysteria in the country.
I think that was wrongly decided, by the way.
So you have the same hysteria in the country today, this same Trump derangement syndrome.
I would not make any bets on what the U.S.
Supreme Court is going to do on any issue.
I'm glad they're hearing it.
On the other hand, I would hope
I think that Trump's lawyer will make a better presentation than he made to the appeals court because the question of whether Trump as president could order SEAL Team 6 to assassinate his political opponent and then have them assassinate any senator who wanted to impeach and convict him, he would not have immunity for that because it falls outside his responsibilities as president.
It's a ludicrous A hypothetical question that his lawyer answered, I think, incorrectly.
His lawyer said that his answer was a qualified yes, that he would have immunity for such an act.
No, the answer is no, he would not.
But it's an absurd question.
Well, Roger, you highlighted something in one of your first responses there, where this ruling sets up something where they could take away power from Trump.
And I think there's an effort across the country where the establishment almost seems like they know that Trump's going to win.
They almost seem like they feel that Trump is going to win, and they're setting the deck.
So just in case that happens, Maybe we could call it a Peter Strzok insurance policy.
Just in case that happens, they're going to have mechanisms available to them to squash dissent, to squash support for the president.
And that was most evident in a show that we had last week with Greg Stentrum.
I hope people go check that out.
Just a brilliant, brilliant guy.
But he was talking about Pennsylvania and Gettysburg.
And we actually saw news this weekend that we talked about a little bit Yeah, this is shocking.
there is actually a partnership going on in Pennsylvania where they're going to be coming after people who question elections and spread, quote, election misinformation.
And they're partnering here with several government agencies.
I'd like you to talk about that for a second because it seems like, like you said, a setup for the next election.
Yeah, this is shocking.
First of all, I think it's very important to establish that Greg Stenstrom and Leah Hoops in that Delaware County, Pennsylvania litigation absolutely established as an undisputable fact in court that there was corruption in the Pennsylvania election. - Thank you.
So I think this is why Governor Josh Shapiro, a dedicated leftist, This is unconstitutional.
But they need to be challenged.
partner with state and federal agencies, including Homeland Security and the Cyber Security Infrastructure Security Agency, to essentially censor any speech that is regarding the integrity and safety and honesty of elections.
This is unconstitutional, but they need to be challenged.
This is one of the most chilling things I have ever seen, which means you would deny people their First Amendment rights to question election results.
Governor Shapiro has a problem.
We have proof that your elections are corrupt.
The judge, the courts, have now recognized our evidence last week, and therefore I think his actions are unconstitutional and they need to be challenged.
On the other hand, good luck suing Homeland Security.
This is the ongoing problem.
You may remember I had Dr. Robert Steinberg on, who's an expert, pardon me, Dr. Robert Epstein on, who's an expert on Google's manipulation of information in an election year.
So, just as they seek to recycle the Russia, Russia, Russia fraud, that hoax, they will also try to reiterate that level of censorship they had in the 2020 election.
Remember Donald Trump?
He was barred from the ballot in that election.
His supporters, pardon me, barred from the internet, barred from Twitter in that election.
His supporters were barred from many social media platforms.
They're seeking to reassert their control over all public discourse so that no one can raise the question of the legitimacy of the elections.
Well, Roger, it's such a huge problem, and I think the ultimate goal here is that they want people in power to be able to silence the American people.
And that's just, like you said, it's so blatantly unconstitutional.
It's so unconstitutional that you wouldn't be able to question something.
But that's where we are with the Democrats.
Conflation is a big part of this, Roger, because they love to take two pieces that really have nothing to do with each other and conflate them so the American people that aren't paying attention to the news cycle, they get confused and they mix things up.
And I also think deception is a big part of this.
They want to make it seem like they are trying to prevent some kind of election rigging or something like that, when in reality, they're protecting themselves as we've proven that the elections are corrupt.
They're protecting themselves by squashing dissent and it's just there's nothing more anti-American and speaking things that are anti-American, Roger.
Over the weekend we had big news.
Jill Biden, First Lady Jill Biden, was in Tucson, Arizona.
And she was shouted down by a protester who came in to where she was speaking there in Tucson.
And it was a pro-Palestine protester.
Now we talked about this last week.
Joe Biden on the issue of Ukraine, on the issue of the Middle East, is plummeting.
With approval ratings in his own party.
The people of the Democrat Party look at his handling of Israel and Hamas and they're disgusted by it.
He's shed nine points of support within his own party since November.
And that's kind of flaring up every time they go into public.
So let's play the video so you can see this, Roger, of Jill Biden getting shouted down in Tucson.
Jill, when are you and the rest of your guys going to call for a ceasefire?
Your thoughts, Roger?
Troy, this is a serious schism in the Democratic Party coalition.
This is because Joe Biden seeks to have it both ways.
In other words, while his administration is ostensibly supporting Israel, it's also funneling hundreds of billions of dollars to Iran.
That money is used not only to reinvigorate their nuclear weapons We are supporting Israel who we give $1.4 billion a year.
continuing to fund both Hamas and Hezbollah, who are obviously in combat with the IDF.
So this is a foreign policy that makes no sense to me.
We are supporting Israel, who we give $1.4 billion a year.
There's some indications that Biden is seeking to restrain Netanyahu in terms of attacks on civilians that are alleged.
that are alleged, but at the same time, he is trying to have it both ways.
But at the same time, he is trying to have it both ways.
Muslim Americans, a very, very important part of the Democratic Voter Coalition, particularly in the state of Michigan.
Muslim Americans, very, very important part of the Democratic voter coalition, particularly in the state of Michigan.
In the recent Michigan Democratic primary, last time I looked, 15 percent of voters voted for non-committed.
In the recent Michigan Democratic primary, last time I looked, 15 percent of voters voted for non-committed.
In other words, there was no viable challenge to Biden, so they cast their vote for uncommitted.
That is the block of voters, I tell you, who are not going to vote for Joe Biden in the fall.
There really is no way for him to resolve this issue, in my opinion.
The president has an opportunity here, but I also think we have to be very careful in terms of looking at public attitudes towards Israel's conduct of their defense.
It's interesting when you hear voices like Judge Andrew Napolitano, Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, and others beginning to question the tactics of Israel that are not going to be able to do.
That's most interesting to me.
Well, and Roger, I wanted to note here that Jill Biden, a mainstay on your worst-dressed list, and I wanted to ask you, what is, what do you think goes through her mind when she, I mean, it's just unbelievable, isn't it, to see what this woman actually wears out in public?
Look, the entire Biden family is extraordinarily dysfunctional.
Anyone who tried to follow that hearing last night, last week, pardon me, Hunter Biden's excuse for most things was, well, I was high.
So the famous text message in which he says, I'm sitting here with my father and we're going to be very disappointed if you don't send us the money.
And then they send the money.
He's now saying, well, he was high and his father was not really there.
Who knows whether his father was really there or not?
He continues to get caught in multiple lies regarding his businesses.
He continues to get caught in multiple lies, as does Joe Biden, about what Biden knew and when he knew it.
Oh, I never met with any of my sons or my brother's business clients, but we know that he met with many of them.
So it is that whole escapade last week was not good news for Joe Biden.
Biden continues to trail Trump in the national surveys.
I still think that the hysteria In the media about Biden among Democrats still exists, but here's the key tactic, and this is crucial, Troy.
I saw Peter Baker of the New York Times yesterday saying, Trump confusing Biden and Obama.
Well, it's easy to confuse them.
One is pulling the strings for the other.
But more precisely, this is an effort to distract from the mental deterioration of Joe Biden.
How do we do that?
Well, we accused Trump of slipping mentally, even though there's no evidence that that is the case.
Watch for more and more of this.
No, actually, it wasn't Donald Trump who couldn't remember his wife's name.
We've got the video.
It was actually Joe Biden who mistook his own sister for his wife.
So these people have trouble keeping their lies straight.
What it proves, of course, is that Peter Baker of the New York Times, who is a journalist He's not really a journalist.
He's really a guy deeply infected with Trump derangement syndrome.
And they're playing the Biden campaign game, which is to throw shade on Donald Trump's age and his mental acuity when there is no issue there.
He is, I guarantee you, vital and as sharp as ever.
Two excellent events this past weekend, one in In Virginia, interestingly enough, Virginia State, Trump lost twice, lost in 2016, lost in 2020.
Now appears he is narrowly ahead there, and a victory in Virginia may actually be possible.
Very good strategic move, I think, for the Trump campaign to go to Virginia, taking the fight to a state that, frankly, they thought would be firmly in their column.
Well, Roger, and it's important to point out here that we just had a primary last night, and if you've watched the mainstream coverage, you actually probably thought that Nikki Haley won something legitimate, because I gotta tell you, Roger, I get news alerts from everybody.
I mean, every source of news you could imagine, because that's my job here, and I...
Nikki Haley winning the primary, it might as well have been the Super Bowl, because every single outlet reported on it.
They were saying, oh, Nikki Haley notches this top-notch primary victory in D.C.
She finally defeats Trump.
So I wanted to ask you your opinion, because I took a look at what we were, you know, the D.C.
primary results the last couple of elections.
In 2016, Marco Rubio carried the state, or carried the territory, with John Kasich.
Coming in second.
Obviously, neither of those guys had a chance in the 2016 election, yet they won the D.C.
primary in 2016, so it kind of highlights what Haley's victory means here.
But I wanted to get your opinion on the D.C.
primary because it's just unbelievable.
First of all, go back.
If you put that chart back up, what you will see is fewer than 5,000 people voted in the entire primary.
Now, I don't even think it hits 3,000.
So we're talking about 3,000 people in the District of Columbia.
The Republican registration in the District of Columbia is certainly in the teens.
Most of these people work on Capitol Hill or work for some lobby firm.
This is the swamp.
This was the swamp primary.
So Nikki Haley won the swamp primary.
A jurisdiction that has a very small number of delegates and a tiny, minuscule Republican Party, which is rock-ribbed, establishment swamp.
These people are lobbyists or they work on Capitol Hill.
There are no other large Republican neighborhoods, to say the least.
So, the D.C.
primary is essentially meaningless, which is why Donald Trump didn't spend any time or any money on it.
Well, he's been to D.C.
and he knows what that area is like, and he knows what those people are like, and I don't think anybody would blame him for not putting any resources in.
And I would ask Nikki Haley, you know, why does she love to put, she really loves putting her resources into useless races that she can use with the media to kind of hype up her campaign.
We saw it in Nevada.
There was, you know, a primary that awarded no delegates.
She put all of her resources into it.
DC.
A few thousand votes.
She puts resources into it.
The media picks it up.
I think as we're going forward here, Roger, it's important to highlight that, you know, the mainstream media and Nikki Haley kind of working in concert.
Anyway, we have Tulsi Gabbard.
I wanted to talk about Tulsi Gabbard a little bit here, Roger, because you keep bringing this up and it keeps getting a lot of traction across the media.
Why are you continuing to talk about Tulsi Gabbard for Vice President with so many others here?
Well, first of all, let me be very clear.
I haven't endorsed anyone for vice president.
I just like to talk politics.
There's a number of candidates that I would be satisfied with, and in the end, I'm going to support whoever Donald Trump selects.
I do think that politics is kind of like chess, meaning the person who controls the center of the board wins the game.
In all of these national polls, while President Trump is leading, it is very rare that you see him over 50%.
Which for someone who has any experience in reading polls is a crucial milestone.
So it's clear to me that in order to win, he has to hold his base and he has to win some votes outside his base.
Candidates like Ben Carson, who I like very much, I don't think, for example, get you any votes beyond the votes that you already have.
Some have proposed Tim Scott.
You know, frankly, had he not run for president and shown what a weak campaigner he was, his prospects might be better.
But I also think on the more important issues, he is a neocon who votes more like Lindsey Graham than he does the MAGA Republicans.
I also question whether at his age and with his experience, he is ready to be president.
I think, for example, that the governor of South Dakota, Kristi Noem, brings you South Dakota, a state you're going to win anyway.
Pardon me, it brings you South Dakota.
Pardon me, a state you're going to win anyway.
Also question whether she has the depth to be president.
So, yes, I admit that I'm intrigued by the Tulsi Gabbard question for several reasons.
One, she is a combat veteran in both Iraq and Kuwait, served her country with distinction.
She's currently a lieutenant colonel in the U.S.
Army Reserve.
She is pro-life.
She has radically, I think several years ago, changed her position on guns.
She's committed to opposing the war machine.
She's against more funding for Ukraine.
She's against more endless foreign wars.
So in that sense, she's a non-interventionist like Trump.
She would like to seal the border.
Now, is she ideal as a candidate?
No, but I do think that she has an appeal to women and to millennials.
We are gaining among African Americans.
We're gaining rapidly among Hispanic Americans, but the one area where we have not made any gain, when I say we meaning Trump, is among women.
It's about the same as it was in 2016 and 2020.
So yes, a lot of people on social media are kicking me in the shins on this saying no, no, no.
All I'm saying is I'm intrigued by the possibilities.
I understand she has an upcoming interview with Tucker Carlson.
I'll be very anxious to see that.
Here's a short clip of remarks I made on this to a local group.
You want somebody who's maybe run for president before.
That would be someone like Dr. Ben Carson, who I like, but it's hard for me to see how he would win you any votes you don't already have.
Or somebody else who's run for president, Tulsi Gabbard.
Now, I'm intrigued with that idea, make no bones about it.
She's a lieutenant colonel in the U.S.
Army Reserve.
She is a veteran of both Iraq and Kuwait.
She is a former Democrat, former Democrat member of Congress.
She is a strong proponent of the Second Amendment.
I interviewed her yesterday for my WABC New York radio show.
She was in a shooting range at a shooting contest.
You could hear the shooting going on behind her.
I do think that she's had the same kind of political evolution we've seen previously.
But my friends say, but she was a Democrat.
She was a liberal Democrat.
Folks, Ronald Reagan was a Democrat.
In fact, he was a very liberal Democrat.
He was a New Deal Democrat.
On the larger questions of war and peace, she has stood up to the war machine.
On the larger question of this weaponization of our criminal justice system, which they seek to destroy Donald Trump, to lock him up, to steal his wealth, she has stood up against the system.
Yet, and I think she has an appeal to millennials, to younger voters.
She's also a championship surfer.
So I would take some guff for this, but I actually think if you want somebody who's run for president before, has the qualifications, and would carry out the Trump agenda, that's personally who I would choose.
There are a number of other safer candidates.
I'm not endorsing anybody.
I'm waiting for Donald Trump to choose, and then I'm for whoever he is for.
So anyway, you can see I have amazing consistency.
I would raise only one other point, and it's a key one.
We've already seen Tulsi Gabbard take Kamala Harris to the cleaners in a presidential debate.
I would have absolute confidence on her ability to do that again.
All right, folks.
In just a minute, we have Brandon Gill, candidate for Congress in the Republican primary of Texas tomorrow.
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All right, now that we're done with that little piece of housekeeping, let us move to our guest.
There's an important Primary coming up in Texas, and Brandon Gill is a candidate for Congress in that contest.
He is running in the 26th Congressional District of Texas, and he joins us now.
Roger, thanks for having me on.
Very, very excited to have you, and I'm glad that we could get this in before the all-important vote.
Off the bat here, how do you feel about the upcoming primary election?
We're feeling really good.
I mean, I think that I'm the frontrunner, and that's why the Swamp's coming after me really, really hard.
They don't want a Trump-endorsed candidate winning in Texas 26.
They don't want somebody who has been endorsed by Senator Cruz or the Freedom Caucus, and that's why they're coming after me.
But we have had, over the past three weeks, $2 million in D.C.
Swamp Super PAC money dumped against me, all in attack ads trying to take me out.
Not trying to prop up any other candidate, not trying to knock any other candidate, just to take me out.
And for perspective, this is before we're even in a runoff.
I'm in an 11 person field right now and they picked me to knock me out.
So we've been fighting back against it hard.
I think they're coming after me because I'm the front runner and I'm the Freedom Caucus guy and I'm the Trump guy and I'm proud to be that.
I don't think the people of Texas 26 are buying the lies that they're dumping into this district.
So, we're feeling very, very strong going into Election Day tomorrow.
So, you come from a farm background.
You know what it is to work with your hands.
I admire that.
You weren't handed anything, but you have a very impressive academic background.
You attended Dartmouth College and graduated cum laude with degrees in economics and history, Not an elitist.
I love that.
You're an America First Republican.
I would have to imagine in Texas that the number one issue that people want to talk to you about is immigration, no?
That's exactly right.
I would go so far as to say that that is the only issue right now is the border.
And what the people of my district want is they want somebody who not only wants to secure the border, Not only wants to reform our asylum laws, bring back Remain in Mexico, and bring back all of the Trump-era policies, but somebody who wants to fight right alongside President Trump to go a step further and to say, we've got to deport every single illegal alien Joe Biden brought into this country.
That's something that President Trump is strong on.
His immigration policy has come out, or at least parts of it, and deportations are a key part of that.
I plan on helping President Trump every single step of the way in doing this, because we're losing our country right now.
And if we don't fight back, if we don't wake up and realize that the Democrats are intentionally flooding this country with illegal aliens so that they can create a class of people who they believe will vote Democrat perpetually, if we don't wake up and realize that the Democrats are flooding this country with illegal aliens to intentionally rip apart our social fabric To create a crisis of drugs and crime that big government can step in to solve.
If we don't wake up and realize what they're doing to this country, we're going to lose the country.
But President Trump has been a leader on illegal immigration and fighting back against what the left is doing.
And I'll be with him every step of the way, and the swamp doesn't like that.
Let's take this down another step.
What specific steps would you take to seal our border?
The first thing, Congress has the power of the purse.
What we saw in President Trump's first term is Congress didn't have his back.
They were fighting back against President Trump every single time he wanted to get something meaningful done, especially on the border.
So we've got to provide funding for the border wall.
We've got to provide funding for Border Patrol.
We've got to bring back And stand with President Trump as he brings back Remain in Mexico.
And I think that we need to codify some of these policies in a much more durable way.
And we've got to have Congress behind President Trump to do that.
We've got to have a Congress who's going to be behind him whenever he starts deporting illegal aliens, because you know, as soon as President Trump does that, the Democrats are going to throw every single thing they have at him.
And we've got to have Republicans in Congress with some backbone to stand with him.
I think you're exactly right about bringing back his remain-in-Mexico policy, getting rid of the current catch-and-release policies.
I mean, this is kind of a softball question, but your opinion on the recent Schumer-Lankford border security bill, which really should have been called the Schumer-Lankford Open Borders Bill.
It's funny to watch the Democrats pretend that passage of this bill would solve all problems at the border when, in fact, that bill essentially guaranteed up to 2 million illegals would be allowed in the country, 5,000 a day.
That's about 155,000 a month, just under 2 million a year.
Yet they dress that up and try to tell us, oh, no, that's the panacea.
And by the way, here's several billion for Israel, here's several billion more for Ukraine, here's 7 billion more from Taiwan.
I mean, the swamp really is broken, is it not?
It is.
And the bill is obviously a disgrace.
But one thing that I'll say is we're oftentimes told by either the left or by the establishment rhino squishes that if we want to get anything done, if we want to push the ball forward, In conservative policy, what we have to do is we have to go to the negotiating table and negotiate with Democrats, with the people who hate us, with our political enemies, to get anything done.
But the reality is, and I think that this is a really, really good example on the border here, you don't negotiate with people who operate in bad faith.
And that's what the Democrats are doing here.
The Democrats, the left, doesn't want secure borders.
That's obvious.
They're creating a border crisis So that they can use a weaponized government to solve it, to rig elections, essentially, by flooding the country with Democrat voters.
That's not a good faith negotiation.
That's a party who's trying to destroy this country, who's trying to rip our social fabric in two and rig elections against it.
We don't negotiate with these people like Lankford did.
We need to beat them and drive them out of political life.
And that should be how we operate against the Democrats.
So not only was that bill terrible and that negotiation or whatever you want to call it, but we shouldn't even be sitting at the table with the Democrats.
We should be trying to beat them this November and secure the border.
And if we can do that without any Democrats helping us, then we should do it.
So would it be fair to say, Brendan, that That the economy is probably the second greatest issue that folks talk to you about?
I would say so.
I think the economy, and I think that, you know, one other thing you hear about a lot is the weaponization of government.
You know, people can see what's happening to President Trump every single day.
But you're right.
The economy is big.
People are hurting really badly.
And you touched on this earlier.
There are two different classes of people in the United States right now.
There's the political class, the political elites, who are not elite because they've done anything well, not elite because they've been successful in any way.
They're elite because they're close to the federal government in Washington.
And then there's everybody else, all of us, the working class.
In the working class, the masses of American people are hurting badly right now.
Now the political elites, they're doing great.
They love big government.
They love more government spending.
They love to see Washington tearing our economy down.
But the rest of us are hurting quite badly.
And that's, you know, Texas 26 wants somebody who's going to reverse Bidenomics, who's going to fight inflation by cutting spending.
And they want somebody who's actually going to be responsible in Washington with taxpayer money.
So you're absolutely right.
That is that is something we hear every day.
People are sick of Joe Biden in the White House.
Yeah, it's very interesting the way this administration basically jiggers the numbers to try to persuade you that everything is great.
So sure, unemployment is 3.4%, if you merely deduct the 757,000 people who stopped looking for work in December.
Or you could even make it lower if you took out the 2 million people who stopped looking for work.
Over the last year, the prior year.
So, these numbers are essentially artificially manipulated.
Now you add in what they call seasonal adjustments, whatever that means.
The truth is, of the 130,000 new jobs they claim that they created last month, 900,000 of them are part-time jobs.
The number of hours worked for the average American has dropped to an all-time low of 34.4 hours a week, which means people are taking home less money.
If Bidenomics was the roaring success that Joe Biden insisted is, it would be reflected in his approval ratings.
I don't believe consumer confidence numbers that I see, just because anecdotally, I don't talk to anyone who's confident about the future of the economy.
They say, Look at the stock market.
The stock market's doing great.
Well, the stock market is driven by the seven largest tech stocks, and they are indeed doing great.
They're driving an overall market number, and although gross national product is up, gross national income has been flat since Joe Biden became president.
No increases.
So, I think this is a house of cards.
It's really a facade.
I don't see a roaring economy, and inflation is still unacceptable.
I went to a supermarket recently to buy a steak.
Well, it wasn't really a steak.
It was really three bites of a steak, but it still cost 18 bucks, and it blew my mind.
Troy, do you have a question for this distinguished candidate for Congress?
Absolutely.
We've seen reports that there are millions of dollars currently being funneled into Texas by George Soros in an attempt to flip the state blue.
Are you seeing that?
And how are you planning to combat that in the general election?
We're seeing that right in our district right now, actually.
As I mentioned earlier, there's been $2 million that's been dumped into this race entirely against me.
And remember, we're not even in a runoff yet.
This is an 11-person Republican primary field.
$2 million spent trying to knock me out, not to support any other candidate or to attack any other candidate, just to knock me out.
And what's really interesting about this is George Soros made a big deal about trying to flip Texas blue.
This was a few weeks ago.
And two days after he made those statements and set up some super PACs, some other super PACs were created.
that have been spending all of this money against me in this race.
So it's potentially Soros-linked money coming after me.
I think it's never-Trumper money coming after me.
In other words, this is the D.C. swamp that's trying to take me out.
For reference, this was probably a $1.5 million race prior to this.
It's now about a $4.5 million race.
Just to give you a sense of the scale of the kind of money that's being dumped into attack ads against me.
And they're all slanderous lies.
But these people are on TV.
They're in the mail.
They're in text messages.
They're everywhere.
But the people of Texas 26 can see through this stuff.
I'll tell you some of the attacks against me.
They're saying that I'm I'm against law enforcement.
And what's funny is they're saying that because last fall, I was the executive producer of a movie called Police State, which traces how the federal government, and in particular the FBI, has been weaponized against conservatives and Christians.
And since the beginning of my campaign, I've said that I believe we should be defunding the FBI because it's weaponized against us.
And they've taken that and warped it and lied about it and said that I want to defund the police.
Flagrant, I mean, just bald-faced lies about me that they're spreading here.
Now, again, whether this is Soros or Never Trump or money, they've got a lot of money that they're spending here, but Texas 26 can see through it.
I don't think that they're going to flip Texas blue.
We're feeling really good going into Election Day tomorrow, because people can see that whenever you're the Trump-endorsed candidate, whenever you're the Senator Cruz-endorsed candidate, whenever you're the guy who's been saying since day one That I'll be in the Freedom Caucus as soon as I get elected to Washington.
Most people realize that the Swamp is going to come after you.
Because the last thing that the Swamp wants in Washington is another representative who's going to be pro-Trump, who's going to defend Trump and help enact his agenda, and who's going to be a member of the Freedom Caucus and fight for conservative values.
What the Swamp wants is a squish, and that's not me.
So they're coming after me hard.
But we're seeing this stuff.
We're fighting against it.
And I think that we're going to win.
I mean, this race right now, it's we the people versus the establishment.
It's MAGA versus the Uniparty right now.
And that's what we're seeing come into this district.
But MAGA and we the people are going to win.
Yeah, for those who have not seen the movie Police State, it is a powerful, important film.
There is one particular scene in which the FBI raids the home, in this case of a pro-life This scene was so upsetting to my wife, given our own personal experience.
She actually had to go to the ladies room at Mar-a-Lago during the premiere when she vomited.
That's how disturbing it is to see this abuse of civil liberties and the authoritarian state that is clearly operating in America today.
We have not seen Dinesh D'Souza's amazing documentary, Police State.
We very, very highly recommend it.
To say that because you want to defund the rogue elements of the FBI who seem to have no regard for civil liberties or the law, that does not extrapolate to opposition to the local police.
Let me ask this question.
When you look at the donors to these various Independent expenditures, I guess, that are attacking you but supporting no candidate.
How curious.
Where's that money coming from?
This seems to be, you know, there seems to be some link to Soros, but it also seems to be the never Trump or Nikki Haley type money.
These are the guys who want to get anybody but Trump, anybody but Trump-aligned candidates.
And, I mean, we can see Nikki Haley's dead in the water.
The only support she's getting is directly from the swamp right now.
Nobody else outside of D.C.
wants her as the Republican nominee.
So I think that the Never Trumpers have some money to spend.
They know that their candidate's dead in the water, so they're trying to knock out Trump-aligned candidates all over the country, and I'm at the top of their list.
I think they've spent more money in my race than we've seen anywhere else.
But that's who this is coming from.
These are the establishment people.
Establishment Republicans who are just on their last breath because they know and we know that today's Republican Party is MAGA.
Donald Trump is the leader of the Republican Party.
He's the leader of the conservative movement, and there's absolutely nothing they can do to stop it.
It doesn't matter how many millions of dollars they spend in my race or anywhere else.
They're not going to change that.
Yeah, early voting has begun in Texas, if I'm not incorrect.
That's right.
Early voting was last week and this past week.
It has ended and now we've got election day tomorrow.
So March 5th, get out there, vote for Brandon Gill, fight the swamp, tell them you don't buy their lies, and let's swing back hard at them tomorrow.
All right, we're going to put up your website address, because, well, running a campaign for Congress, folks, costs money, costs a lot of money.
Brandon Gill cannot depend on any George Soros-type billionaire writing a multi-million dollar check to him.
He's got to raise money the old-fashioned way, in small and medium-sized contributions.
So folks, please, go to brandongillforcongress.com and make a contribution.
I don't exaggerate when I say this is one of the most important House races in the country.
I know Brendan Gill.
He is a fighter.
He is a true believer in the America First agenda.
He is someone who wants to make America great again.
He has the strong and enthusiastic endorsement of President Donald Trump, which in any Republican primary is probably The greatest single, not only honor, but asset that you can have.
Troy, I'm going to let you have the last question, and then Brandon, I want you to get back out on the street and keep campaigning right up until the time you win tomorrow night.
Troy?
Well, if we do go forward here and we have a situation in Texas where the border is just collapsing, what would your message be to Texans right now who are just feeling like they have no control over this situation?
They feel completely helpless.
What would you say to them?
What I would say to them is, first of all, I'm a big supporter of what Governor Abbott has done.
My only criticism of Governor Abbott sending the National Guard down to the border is that he didn't do it three years ago.
I would say that if the federal government's not going to protect us, you need to protect yourself.
You need to protect your family.
I'm a big supporter of the Second Amendment, and this is the kind of thing that the founders envisioned whenever they rolled out the Second Amendment and the Bill of Rights.
We can't always rely on the federal government to protect us.
You need to protect your family.
Arm yourself.
Have guns.
Have food at your house.
Be prepared.
Because at the end of the day, you are responsible for your family.
So my advice would be to take every precaution you can, have weapons at your house, have guns, and make sure you can protect yourself and your family.
All right.
Brandon Gill, candidate for Congress in the Republican primary tomorrow in Texas's 26th District.
Brandon, we wish you the very best for a Smashing America's first victory tomorrow night.
God bless you, and thanks for joining us in the Stone Zone.
Thanks for having me on.
All right, Troy, this is one of the most important house races in the country, and we're hopeful of victory.
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You want to wrap this up?
Absolutely, Roger.
You know, it's a historic day, I think, and it's important to remember for millions of Americans out there, the Biden presidency has been something that's been very destructive in their homes, in their lives, in their families.
The Biden presidency has led to millions of Americans in Texas and Arizona and New Mexico feeling unsafe.
The Biden presidency has led to people across this nation being unable to purchase basic things like gasoline and groceries and pay their mortgages, pay their car payments, whatever, their rent.
The Biden presidency has been absolutely destructive to the American citizen, yet the people in D.C.
do everything they can to protect the Biden presidency, and they do everything in their power to take away from Biden's top political competition, his former President Trump.
As the Biden presidency has gone on here, Roger, things have gotten worse for Americans.
And the defense of that administration and the defense of those policies by the media and those in D.C.
and in the political classes across the country has gotten more vicious.
It's gotten more blatant and empowered.
And I think that speaks to what we're dealing with here.
This is a war for the soul of this country, and it's us, or it's them.
It's the political establishment, or it's the good people of this country.
And we can either make a stand now, or we can forget our country.
And I think it's just, we're looking at a precipice here, Roger.
We're looking down into this valley, and we're seeing what could be, or we could ascend, and we could continue to build America, and empower America, and make more Americans, and have a better future.
We can either go into darkness or we can go towards the light.
And I think President Trump represents that, and it's why it's so important that we keep track of what's going on here, because it's really a historic battle for the fate of mankind.
An excellent summation from my co-host, Troy Smith.
I'm Roger Stone.
He's Troy Smith with Slingshot.News.
Thank you for tuning in to The Stone Zone.
Historic day.
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