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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.
Well, now it's time for the Biden Watch.
Whether Joe Biden is able to hang on as the Democrat candidate for president, Or whether he can hang on as president at all is still very much an open question.
Frankly, the president's media outlet interviews have done little to assage the American people and Democrat leaders that he's up to the rigors of a tough four-month campaign.
I learned a few things just in the last couple of days from my sources in the Democrat Party.
Yes, I do have a few.
First and foremost, he has an immediate financial problem.
The major financial angels in the Democrat Party, left-wing money, what they call bundlers, those who not only put forward their own money, but other large donors' money, pull it together, have his money largely cut off.
There are still increasingly
I would say intense nervousness by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Hakeem Jeffries because their prospective campaign committees are bringing back polling that shows that congressional districts and indeed states that were heretofore thought to be impregnable, safe, are now very much in play.
Yesterday afternoon, the President's pollsters, he has four of them, met with the President to tell him that based on their most recent research, that he has an 85% probability of being defeated.
To put a cherry on the top, they told him that he was now six and a half points down in pivotal Pennsylvania.
It is kind of heartwarming to watch those who were fully and completely aware of Joe's infirmity now pretending they had no idea and insisting on his candidacy.
The real problem seems to me here to be several fold.
First of all, as we've said on the program this week, Hunter Biden has emerged as the president's chief gatekeeper and his chief political strategist.
Now, Hunter Biden is a man with a very substantial conflict of interest, because if Joe Biden is no longer president, well, then Hunter Biden cannot get a presidential pardon.
So at a minimum, whether Joe runs or he doesn't run, I think the chances of the Family allowing him to leave office, elevating Kamala Harris to the presidency, still fairly remote.
The other question we have to ask ourselves is whether Barack Obama, who should not be read by his immediate posting on X, supportive of Joe Biden in the wake of the disastrous debate, should not be read as how he really feels.
My sources tell me that he is maneuvering furiously behind the scenes to try to persuade Joe Biden to throw in the towel on his re-election.
I've also said on this show and elsewhere that I believe that Obama holds the whip hand when it comes to removal under the 25th Amendment.
Again, this is a little more complicated than I thought at first blush.
To remove the President would require a majority of the Cabinet, plus the support of the sitting Vice President.
If, however, Biden refuses to go, he has a right to appeal that to both Houses of Congress, where it would require a two-thirds vote to remove him.
So perhaps the 26th Amendment threat, the private threat by Barack Obama, Would not work.
Joe is nothing if not extraordinarily stubborn, at least when he has lucid moments, and is very clear to anyone who can watch that he's pretty dug in.
On the other hand, a doctor who was in a public event I went to last night pointed out to me that Biden was clutching a pencil during his entire interview Uh, with George Stephanopoulos.
Uh, the doctor said that that is, uh, one of the signs, uh, of Parkinson's, uh, holding on to an object like that.
So, uh, now the president, uh, and his, uh, incredibly incompetent, uh, press spokesman, Miss, uh, Miss KJ, uh, they seem to have completely gotten themselves tangled up in the question of whether he has or has not consulted Now, the politics of it.
I guess if I'm a Trump supporter, which of course I most clearly am, I would like to run against Joe Biden.
He's the known commodity.
which I think will do very little to shed light on this situation.
Now, the politics of it.
I guess if I'm a Trump supporter, which, of course, I most clearly am, I would like to run against Joe Biden.
He's the known commodity.
Kamala Harris would bring him nothing.
The dynamics would remain generally the same.
Does anybody out there listening to this show believe that there's a chance that Joe Biden could get through the rigors of a four-month campaign without another public embarrassment, without another meltdown, without once again beginning to mumble or fall down or leave the stage the wrong way or wander off in the middle of a public proceeding?
I, for one, do not.
From a strictly political point of view, therefore, sure, I'd prefer to run against Joe Biden.
On the other hand, Colonel Douglas MacGregor, whom I have enormous respect, was on my 77 WABC radio show this past Sunday.
He makes an urgent point That having Joe Biden with his current mental disability with his finger on the nuclear trigger means that Joe Biden should leave immediately and that that is what is in the best interests of the country.
While Colonel McGregor may be correct, I think Joe Biden is putting the interests of Joe Biden and the Biden crime family over the interests of the United States.
Okay, those are my thoughts.
Joining me now, Troy Smith, the executive editor of one of the most dynamic and fastest-growing alternative media outlets in the United States, Slingshot.News, and he now joins us in The Zone.
Roger, that was a great soliloquy there.
Really appreciate it.
I think people are going to be taking that and putting that everywhere because you made so many great points.
The most important point that you made is that the Democrats have been covering up this fact for years now, and now they want to pivot.
So in preparation for this, I actually grabbed a video that I want to play for you, get your reaction on, of Democrats for years denying Biden's claims.
These are top Democrats in Congress and other places.
Let's check out that video.
President Biden is absolutely fit.
He has knowledge of the issues.
He has strategic thinking about legislating all in the head.
I have spoken with the president.
He is fully coherent.
He is on top of detail.
He's sharp.
He's fit.
He's always answering questions.
I think that Joe Biden's mental acuity is very, very on.
He's one of the smartest, sharpest people I've met in D.C.
There's no doubt in my mind that the president is mentally fit for office.
Joe Biden rightly says that he has grown very wise in his many decades in public office.
As it stands today, you believe that President Biden is clear, candid, and convincing.
100%.
Joe Biden needs to be allowed to be Joe Biden.
He is energizing.
He cares about issues.
He's Joe Biden.
And Joe Biden, there's nobody better than Joe Biden.
We see Joe Biden up close.
We know how attuned he is to the issues, how informed he is.
And I debate with him about legislation, not debate, but discuss it with him.
He's right there.
I strongly support President Biden.
He has an incredible track record.
Clearly, this president is fit to serve.
Joe Biden has vision, he has knowledge, he has a strategic thinker.
This is a very sharp president.
And nobody is better equipped to do that than Joe Biden.
He has the experience, he has the wisdom, he has the demeanor.
I was in Israel on October 7th, as you know, and President Biden was nice enough to call me.
And I can tell you, this was the day before that interview, I can tell you he was sharper than anyone I've spoken to.
It always seemed very clear to me that he had the energy and the ability.
Is he capable of being a president?
Absolutely.
I think he's actually really good.
I think his staff overprotects him.
I think put him out there in a press conference.
Who cares if someone makes a gaffe?
What I find interesting is the issue is more around ageism and ableism and not what this president, President Biden, has done.
I think he has every ability and every confidence to continue to be Commander-in-Chief.
I think the more he's out there, the better.
President Biden has proven himself to have a strong memory.
You don't do that unless you're mentally competent and capable, and he certainly is.
Yeah, I mean, you can always tell when Dan Goldman or Eric Swalwell are lying.
Their lips are moving.
There it is.
You see, the very folks who've been covering for him are now beginning to panic.
That panic is palpable.
Remember what I said at the top, that Biden's own pollsters told him yesterday that he has an 85% probability of defeat under the current circumstances.
It's just an opinion, Troy.
I don't think he's going to throw in the towel.
I think the family pressure, they have to be concerned about being prosecuted.
That has to be the primary thing in their mind.
I'll tell you what isn't the primary thing in their mind, and that's what's good for the country.
The other part of this that's kind of interesting is the way they continue to insist that he has all of these enormously great accomplishments as president.
Oh, he expanded NATO.
Really?
In violation of the two trials, the treaties that we signed agreeing not to do that?
And, bringing us to the brink of Ukraine-Russia war, anybody who tells you that Ukraine is in a militarily viable position today is lying.
I actually think Putin has shown enormous restraint.
Personally, I just want the killing to stop, but this administration doesn't even have any negotiations going on, no peace talks, but they see that as an accomplishment.
How about our Open Borders?
Is that one of his other great signature accomplishments?
The 15 million new jobs, those are not 15 million new full-time jobs.
Those numbers are jiggered.
This guy's got a lot of accomplishments, all right, but unfortunately, almost none of them are positive.
Well, and Roger, you know, you made a point there about Pennsylvania, and I find it incredibly interesting that the pollsters are telling Biden now that he really is down at least six points in the state, and I have a clip that I wanted to run for you and get your opinion on the Senate race that's going down there, because we have Dave McCormick that's going to be going up against Pennsylvania Democrat Senator Bob Casey, and obviously with Casey and Fetterman, the Democrats have both senators there, and it's kind of looking
Like, as we get closer to the election, Bob Casey's kind of realizing that Joe Biden is going to tank his Senate election effort in Pennsylvania, as you kind of talked about there in the open.
So I wanted to play this clip.
This is Bob Casey kind of really walking the line while talking to Fox News on his support for President Biden.
And he says he's only going to focus on his race.
I want you to kind of politically translate this for us, if you will.
Let's run that Bob Casey clip.
about this.
Let's move on and focus on November.
But it doesn't seem like your Senate colleagues want to stop talking about this.
In fact, they want to start the conversation.
Well, I'm not going to give advice to any of the people that they talk about.
I've got a race to run in a very competitive state in a tough election, so I'm going to focus on my race.
So what we just saw there was Senator Bob Casey, a son of former Governor Bob Casey, sometimes called the three-time loss from Holy Cross, since he ran so many times before he first got elected to office.
She's not a good person.
Senator Bob Casey is not the sharpest tool in the shed, but what you just saw there was him distancing himself from Joe Biden.
Anytime you see somebody who is down ballot, Existing themselves from the top of the ticket, you know you have a very serious problem.
That, by the way, should be a competitive race.
I really like Dave McCormick.
I preferred Dave McCormick over Dr. Oz for the nomination two years ago.
I think if we had nominated Dave McCormick then, we might have that seat today, although Fetterman is such a freaky phenomena, his election is kind of hard to explain.
I think McCormick's going to beat Bob Casey.
Pennsylvania, I noticed yesterday, the great Cliff Maloney, who's doing an amazing voter registration operation in the state, demonstrates that the margin of Democrats over Republicans has been cut in half.
It's now down to about 400,000 and change.
It was just under a million when these guys started their program.
So Pennsylvania is looking better and better to me.
I do still have reservations about the mail-in ballots, mail-in ballots given to the Philadelphia machine.
That's kind of like asking the Boston Strangler to massage your neck.
I mean, they are experts at voter manipulation.
I would advise the Pennsylvania Republicans and their lawyers to begin fighting now to ensure the legal chain of custody of those ballots.
Anyway, let's go on.
Well, and Roger, I wanted to play a clip specifically, and for all those that haven't seen it, and I think most people here probably have, we had 2.1 million views so far on a post in which we described your tweet and your source, where you say that Kamala Harris is actually considering choosing Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro.
And I found it interesting that Pennsylvania has become this focal point since we've released that article.
And I think it's mainly because the Democrats are looking at Pennsylvania.
They're saying, wow, without Pennsylvania, really, they struggle to have a path, really, I think, to 270.
And so the focus is going on that.
But I think one of the parts that really people didn't focus on that was also included in that article is that you said that Nancy Pelosi's comments, where she's come out and she's basically said that there's a legitimate question as to whether Biden is fit to really serve and beat Donald Trump in 2024.
This has come up now over and over again.
And Nancy Pelosi seems to be leading, almost leading the charge on cable news against President Biden.
But it's kind of like a soft takeover.
We have a clip that's Pelosi before the debate.
And she's raising questions about President Trump.
She's deflecting, as you saw in the clip earlier, she's defending President Biden.
Then we're going to play a clip directly after that of what happened after the debate and get Roger's thoughts on what Pelosi's vote of confidence or vote of no confidence means for President Joe Biden heading into 2024.
This is an opportunity for Joe Biden to go out there and show he has the stamina and the rest.
And by the way, while the press, and for some reason they don't, there are healthcare professionals who think that Trump has dementia, that his connection, his thoughts do not go together.
And while he may be saying we're enablers, we see Joe Biden up close.
We know how attuned he is to the issues, how informed he is.
I debate with him about legislation, not debate, but discuss it with him.
He's right there.
So in any case, it was a bad night.
Sugarcoat that.
It was a bad night.
It was a great presidency.
So we have all these things that he was masterful in helping to orchestrate, to write and to pass.
So he has a vision.
He has knowledge.
He has judgment.
He has a strategic thinking and the rest.
He has a bad night.
Now, again, I think it's a legitimate question to say, is this an episode or is this a condition?
That secondary comment, according to my Democrat sources, did extreme damage to Joe Biden.
That was seen by many in the party as a tell, as a shift, and I therefore think it is important.
To go back to your other question, here's the issue.
If, let's say, that Joe Biden elects to resign as president, which I think is highly unlikely, Now, putting aside the question of whether he runs or not, let's just say that he, for one reason or other, has to leave the presidency, either because he decides to or because of matters of ill health or, God forbid, that he dies in his sleep.
We don't wish that on him.
Then, of course, automatically, Kamala Harris becomes president.
By the way, there is no swearing in.
That was staged by Lyndon Baines Johnson.
Upon the death of John Kennedy, there is no swearing in necessary.
The transfer of power to the vice president to become president is automatic.
Well, the problem then, of course, is that the new president, Kamala Harris, would be entitled to appoint a vice president subject to confirmation by both houses of the legislature, not just would be entitled to appoint a vice president subject to confirmation by As you have with judgeships, but by both houses of the legislature.
Therefore, the Republicans could conceivably stop the country from having a sitting vice president.
That would put Mike Johnson next in line to be president of the United States for the duration of the Kamala presidency.
The other issue, however, is that if Kamala Harris, who is a legal resident of California, wanted Gavin Newsom to...
Well, he's also a legal resident of California.
And under the 12th Amendment of the U.S.
Constitution, Article 2, you cannot, as you know, cast electoral votes for two candidates from the same state.
Now, it is permissible, meaning they could run.
There's no prohibition of the party nominating two people who are legal residents of the same state or president and vice president.
But they would forfeit the votes of the electoral college if they were to carry that state.
That's why I believe, and my sources tell me, that Kamala Harris would probably look to Governor Shapiro, Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, mainly because it alters the map.
If Trump is indeed up by six or seven in Pennsylvania, perhaps that gets Pennsylvania back in play For the Democrats.
The other possibility, as you pointed out, is Wes Moore, the candidate from Maryland.
Then that would mean two people of color on the ticket.
I think that may not be politically viable.
The other thing that people don't recognize who haven't studied polling and demographics, it is a mistake To assume monolithic thinking and attitudes among all dark-skinned voters.
There's a substantial difference in the political attitudes of African Americans than there are from Americans who came from the Caribbean.
So all of those nations, Bahamas, Jamaica, and so on, Jamaican Americans, Bahamian Americans, Costa Rican Americans, They have very different attitudes and political views than African Americans.
Kamala Harris is not African American.
I believe that she's of mixed Jamaican and Bahamian heritage.
It's not quite the same.
Nonetheless, the optics of it, I think, are limited.
And then, of course, you've always got Hillary Clinton.
She's always available.
But I think we all know that if Kamala Harris became president and she made Hillary Clinton her vice president, well, Kamala would need a food taster.
To say the least, Roger, you know, we would have another Clinton side, I think, if that was the case.
And, you know, you make a lot of great points there as far as the structure.
I hadn't actually thought about Gavin Newsom and the constitutional problems with him actually being the Vice President.
That's a very good point.
And I think, you know, there's a lot of speculation right now, Roger.
I think there's a lot of Democrats who are coming around to the idea of Kamala Harris.
While there are people, I think, within the party that definitely want to get rid of Kamala Harris, I'm seeing more support for her as time goes on.
And people, as you pointed out, you know, with your sources, she consolidated her position I think quicker than you or I or anybody thought that she would.
And you said something yesterday that's kind of I've been thinking about this more and more, Willie Brown's warning about Kamala Harris, about how she's this shrewd political person, and it's true.
I think the public perception of Kamala Harris is false.
And the public perception is that she's this ditzy idiot.
And look, she does a great job of playing that part, if you watch her on whatever show.
She did an interview with Drew Barrymore.
It was one of the strangest things I've ever seen.
There's a lot of things about her that make people dismiss her, but I almost think That's maybe to her benefit because she is not thought of as this shrewd political person that has been able to become Vice President of the United States.
I mean, she's one, I'll add, very weak heartbeat away from being the President of the United States.
And when you look at how she's got there, it takes It takes a lot of personal strength and endurance and the idea that she's been able to get through all of this.
I wouldn't count her out.
I think that, and I'm interested to hear your thoughts because we've talked a lot about, oh, well, this person, as far, you said you'd want to run against Joe Biden, which I think, you know, most Republicans probably agree with that.
But what are your opinions on the you know, the national popularity of Kamala Harris?
Because when she went through the Democratic primary, Roger, I think she struggled to get about 3% of the vote.
She doesn't seem to be extremely popular, but I guess circumstance maybe could make her more popular.
What do you think about that?
Well, I think it's important to have kind of a historical review of what transpired here.
The Obamas who were leaving, but pardon me, who were dominant in their party, wanted to nominate a candidate who could beat Bernie Sanders.
They had to cheat Bernie Sanders in 2016 in order to beat him.
Remember, by the way, Bernie wasn't even a member of the party.
He left the Socialist Party to become a Democrat in order to run for president.
They still had to cheat to beat him, running against the Democrat Secretary of State, who is a former First Lady.
I'm one of those who believes that that was the motive for Seth Rich to remove sensitive files from the DNC, because he was, in his heart, a Sanders supporter.
Put that question aside.
First, the Obamas tried to prop up Cory Booker.
That did not work.
Then they tried to prop up Kamala Harris.
That did not work.
She actually made a fool of herself.
Then they tried, improbably, to prop up Pete Buttigieg.
That did not work.
I think it is only at that juncture that Barack Obama decided that, well, Joe is a known commodity, He's completely controllable because everything we're now learning about him and his foreign exploits, I suspect Barack Obama already knew.
So they viewed Joe as the safest candidate.
It's ironic that he was saved in the South Carolina primary, because remember, he lost Iowa, he lost New Hampshire.
He was on a downward trajectory.
His campaign bounced back on South Carolina, largely because veteran Congressman James Clyburn delivered, to the extent one can deliver, but Clyburn's organization delivered a large black vote for him.
Truly ironic in view of the fact that Joe Biden is a racist and he has no civil rights record.
Actually, what he has is a record of opposing civil rights.
Joe Biden is the author of the 1994 Crime Bill.
That is the bill that put in place the harsh mandatory penalties for the first time nonviolent crime of possession of small amounts of drugs.
And as I said, you have these harsh mandatory penalties where a judge is not allowed to take any other factor in consideration.
That one law has done more damage to African American people and poor people than perhaps anything in the last hundred years.
So Joe Biden also, as you know, ran in 1972 for the United States Senate, 29 years old, as an outspoken opponent of the integration of the Wilmington school districts.
He said, and I quote, if the Wilmington schools are desegregated, they will be a jungle.
I don't want my daughter going to school in a jungle.
If that isn't the dog whistle, I don't know what is.
Joe Biden now seems, in his time of peril, to be depending heavily on the black constituencies within the Democratic Party.
Clyburn, who's up there on age, Says he's riding with Biden.
I saw that clip.
But I think that Donald Trump, in a general election, has an enormous opportunity with Black voters.
The key is not his mugshot.
The key is not the fact that, yes, there are some Blacks who will feel that Trump has now been subjected to the same unfairness of the criminal justice system that they have.
But the real keys to African-American votes It's economic opportunity.
We had the lowest level of unemployment among African Americans during Donald Trump's presidency.
I believe that appealing to them on economic issues and also stressing Trump's accomplishments in the area of criminal justice reform.
He is, as you know, responsible for the First Step Act and the Second Chance Act.
This is the first meaningful criminal justice reform designed to address those problems in the 1994 crime bill that has passed the Congress into law.
And as you know, Troy, a number of the members of the House Black Caucus Congressional Black Caucus, pardon me, voted against those reforms, not because they opposed the substance of them, but simply because they were proposed and pushed by President Donald Trump, which proves they never cared about criminal justice reform for their constituents at all.
Well, and as far as, uh, you know, the, the, uh, we, we, we can call it the insanity surrounding former president Trump.
You know, I, I, I am constantly reminded, Roger, you circulate this clip all the time, George Stephanopoulos being put in his place, uh, by president Trump.
And I thought, uh, that moment where he tells him, you know, George, there's a lot of things I'd like to take back.
Like you, for instance, you know, you, you would love to have not given to the Clinton foundation.
He takes him apart.
And it's weird for me to see this monolithic media that was all about hating Trump.
And they still hate Trump, obviously.
But you're seeing them kind of split now.
And you're seeing them, really half of them attacking Biden, half of them attacking the people who are attacking Biden, saying that, oh, there needs to be stability.
And it's really unbelievable to see these members of the media, who have told us for years, you know, George Stephanopoulos was a Democrat operative, have told us for years that, oh, no, we're just, we're just unbiased journalists.
You know, we really just, we're trying to report the facts.
And the truth is, they're operatives.
And the more they talk about this scrum in the Democratic Party, the more they're being unmasked as pure operatives.
And Stephanopoulos, specifically, there is a video that's been leaked now by TMZ of him after his interview with President Joe Biden trashing Biden.
I tweeted out before the interview between Stephanopoulos and Joe, I said, watch out, Joe, because Clinton George, he's going to be coming for you.
And he didn't really do a tough interview.
But afterwards, it looks like he threw the president entirely under the bus.
Let's roll that clip.
clip get Roger's thoughts.
Hey, Susan.
Hey, how you doing?
Good.
What do you think?
I should step down.
You talk to him more than anybody else have lately.
And you can be honest.
You don't think he can start four more years?
All right.
That's an answer.
It's not clear to me, Troy, who the second person is in that video.
Do we know?
No, I don't know who the second person was.
But TMZ is circulating that.
It's being put everywhere, talking about George Stephanopoulos.
I'll have to get the second name for you.
I mean, the larger question you speak to is a very good one.
How does someone leave the employ of Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden, where, by the way, George's principal job was threatening the women who were threatening to come forward to talk about being sexually assaulted by Bill Clinton.
Also, he was the duty officer trying to shut down the very legitimate story regarding Bill Clinton's illegitimate black son, Danny Williams.
All of that covered in my book, The Clinton's War on Women.
You can get that at stonezone.com in the shop.
So, can you imagine a situation in which anyone who was a Republican, anyone other than, say, Ron Romney, would be hired as an anchor at one of the three major networks after having been involved in Republican politics?
Tim Russert, who was a friend of mine, was the brilliant host of Meet the Press.
He had been the press secretary for Governor Mario Cuomo and had been the chief political operative for Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
I suspect if you voted for, if you worked for Barry Goldwater and say former House Minority Leader John Rhodes from Arizona, you wouldn't be hired at NBC.
It is amazing how the Democrats have this revolving door.
Ken Bote, one of the key factors, key actors in the nomination of George McGovern, active in the anti-war movement.
Great guy, by the way.
But he goes seamlessly from Democrat politics to being a correspondence, I believe, also with NBC.
So you never see a time Where anybody goes from being a Republican operative or political figure to being hired to comment on politics at the great networks, which is why I have to say, why does anyone take little George Stephanopoulos seriously?
Well, I just, you know, I think the only thing, Roger, is, you know, I mean, I grew up after Bill Clinton.
I mean, Bill Clinton was in office for the first year of my existence here, but I don't remember him being president.
And as a child, you know, I remember watching Good Morning America bringing on George Stephanopoulos, and I had no idea the guy was a Clinton operative.
I mean, it was just, you know, and that's the thing.
You have this whole group of people who weren't around for that.
And especially, you know, I know it now because I'm involved in the media and I cover things.
But if I wasn't in this, I still wouldn't know.
And I think it's just it speaks to the people that are in control of these networks.
They want a certain narrative.
And one of the ways that they craft this narrative, Rogers, they only cover negative things as it pertains to Republicans.
They've done it for years, but it's especially egregious with President Trump.
I watched yesterday.
He had a rally in Doral, Miami, which I think was fantastic.
And we have some photos from that that we can put up in B-roll.
Just people will check out what was going on there.
We also have some clips that we're going to play.
But you see, there wasn't a lot of coverage for this at all.
People didn't really talk about it.
And I'm interested to hear your thoughts after we play a couple clips here so we can just fill in people what the President was talking about.
Because the mainstream media, the people like George Stephanopoulos, they refuse to cover the President's actual words and instead throw out two to three second out of context clips in order to craft a narrative that's politically beneficial to the people who oversaw their transfer from Democrat politics to the media.
So let's roll those clips of President Trump in Miami yesterday.
On day one, I will sign a new executive order to cut federal funding for any school pushing critical race theory, transgender insanity, and other inappropriate racial, sexual, or political content onto the lives of our children.
And I will not give one penny to any school that has a vaccine mandate or a mask mandate.
And I will keep men out of women's sports.
Can you imagine?
Can you imagine even having to say that?
Before I even arrive at the Oval Office, shortly after we, we, all of us together, win the presidency, I will have the horrible war between Russia and Ukraine settled, and I will prevent our nation And we will prevent the whole world from entering World War III because that's where we are.
We're very close to World War III, and Biden doesn't have a clue.
We should have never allowed, if you think about it, Russia, Ukraine would have never happened.
October 7th, the attack on Israel would have never happened.
Inflation would have never happened.
Think of our country if the election wasn't rigged.
Think of it.
Think where we'd be if they didn't rig that election.
So we're not going to let it happen again because our country won't exist.
I believe it would be the last election we've ever had if anything happened.
I really believe it.
We're not gonna let that happen.
You gotta get out and vote.
The radical left Democrats have spent this entire election posing as defenders of democracy.
You ever hear Biden?
He's a threat to democracy.
He doesn't even know what the hell the term is.
Trump is a threat to democracy.
This guy.
Low IQ.
He's a low IQ individual.
But they're lying in the entire world of Joe Biden's condition.
I mean, you see his condition.
You see them frantically trying to overturn the results of 50 state primaries and install a new candidate at the behest of their very rich donors.
Do you know that we took in record numbers over the last four weeks, and most of it was taken in with small donors, $61 on average, $61.
And those people vote.
But the Democrats, I think their funding is stopping because I think they're rich donors.
They have a lot of rich donors.
We have some, but we don't really focus on it.
We focus on the small donor.
To me, one thing, every small donor votes.
The rich donors, they're in Monte Carlo during the election.
How's the election going?
Joe Biden is a threat to democracy.
He's really, he is a major threat to democracy.
And Democrats are the ones who really want to destroy Democracy and our country.
I had members of my family and staff went to the event in Doral.
They told me it was absolutely incredible.
You saw the president perspiring.
That's because you had this enormous crowd stand in the hot sun waiting for the president for, in many cases, as long as five hours.
Let's see anybody stand in the sun for Joe Biden in five hours.
Troy, let me do a quick commercial break here, if I may.
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All right, Troy, let's keep going down the political road here.
What else you got for us?
Well, Roger, there was something really disturbing yesterday.
I kind of wanted to ask your opinion on this because as an American and as somebody who loves this country, I was disgusted by what I saw.
We have a civilian award.
Now, I looked this up.
It is specifically a civilian award called the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Now, this medal is given to the highest level civilians in the country, people like Roger Staubach, people like Rush Limbaugh, People who have had a profound impact on American culture.
And we saw yesterday that President Joe Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to the NATO Secretary General, Stoltenberg.
And I really question, you know, if he can actually even give this award to somebody who is not a citizen of the United States.
More importantly, somebody who is stoking the flames of World War.
Pushing NATO further and further closer to Russia, actually wanting to get Ukraine to join NATO formally, which would all but basically push the entire world into another world conflict.
So, I want to roll the clip of Stoltenberg getting this Presidential Medal of Freedom from a confused Joe Biden yesterday and get your thoughts.
I think this is a tremendous insult to the people of this country, Roger.
Yeah, I saw the clip in which, I don't know, it appeared to me that Joe Biden either made a joke or claimed that he was sleeping with Stoltenberg's wife.
Seemed to be quite a gaffe, very embarrassing.
We should do some legal research on this, Troy.
It'd be interesting to see Whether the president can give that medal of honor to a non-US citizen.
Of course, Barack Obama gave it to Oprah Winfrey, gave it to a number of other leftists.
Ronald Reagan gave out a number of notable ones.
That would be worth our research.
The larger problem in NATO, I think, is very clear.
We signed two treaties agreeing not to push Ukraine into NATO.
The Budapest Accords, pardon me, the Budapest Memorandum signed by Secretary of State James A. Baker III under George Bush, in which we specifically said we would not move one inch east towards Russia in the NATO alliance.
And then we reaffirmed that commitment in the Minsk Accords.
To me, that means that we're violating international law if we do indeed push Ukraine into NATO.
And the problem with that in turn is, of course, that is, I really think, based on everything I've read, Vladimir Putin's line in the sand.
He's made it very clear to him, first of all, that's What this law, what this world, what this war is really about.
Even Joe Biden said in the beginning, in one of those things where he blurts out the truth like many Alzheimer patients do, that he was willing to give up the Dombas, that he was willing to give Putin land for peace.
Now, of course, if Donald Trump becomes president and he negotiates a settlement that includes that, well, the first person complaining will be Joe Biden and the Democrats, if Joe Biden survives that long.
Well, and Roger, I think it's important for people to point out, President Trump took Stoltenberg to task over Germany specifically and Germany's energy relationship with Russia.
And I actually went back and pulled a clip.
And you'll find this funny, too.
In the back of this clip, you actually see John Kirby, Trump's former chief of staff, who, of course, put out the fake suckers and losers hoax, who has lied about President Trump over and over again.
And as Trump confirmed, this is Trump confronting Stoltenberg over the Russian energy that's pouring into Germany, while Germany is taking billions of dollars from the United States to defend them from Russia.
So I want to play this clip, but I want you to take special notice of John Kelly squirming around in the back of this clip.
He really looks like he's coming out of his skin.
And this is what we need back in the White House.
This is what we need to bring the world back to order where we're not going to be on the brink of World War III.
Let's roll that clip and get Roger's thoughts.
The Press: What's about the meeting with President Putin that later on -- President Trump: Well, I have to say, I think it's very sad when Germany makes a massive oil and gas deal with Russia, where you're supposed to be guarding against Russia, and Germany goes out and pays billions and billions of dollars a year to Russia.
So we're protecting Germany, we're protecting France, we're protecting all of these countries.
And then numerous of the countries go out and make a pipeline deal with Russia, where they're paying billions of dollars into the coffers of Russia.
So, we're supposed to protect you against Russia, but they're paying billions of dollars to Russia, and I think that's very inappropriate.
And the former Chancellor of Germany is the head of the pipeline company that's supplying the gas.
Ultimately, Germany will have almost 70% of their country Controlled by Russia with natural gas.
So you tell me, is that appropriate?
I mean, I've been complaining about this from the time I got in.
It should have never been allowed to have happened.
But Germany is totally controlled by Russia because they were getting from 60 to 70 percent of their energy from Russia and a new pipeline.
And you tell me if that's appropriate because I think it's not.
And I think it's a very bad thing for NATO, and I don't think it should have happened.
And I think we have to talk to Germany about it.
On top of that, Germany is just paying a little bit over 1 percent, whereas the United States, in actual numbers, is paying 4.2 percent of a much larger GDP.
So I think that's inappropriate also.
You know, we're protecting Germany, we're protecting France, we're protecting everybody, and yet we're paying a lot of money to protect.
Now, this has been going on for decades.
This has been brought up by other presidents, but other presidents never did anything about it because I don't think they understood it or they just didn't want to get involved.
But I have to bring it up because I think it's very unfair to our country.
It's very unfair to our taxpayers.
And I think that these countries have to step it up, not over a 10-year period.
They have to step it up immediately.
Germany is a rich country.
They talk about they're going to increase it a tiny bit.
By 2030.
Well, they could increase it immediately tomorrow and have no problem.
I don't think it's fair to the United States.
So, we're going to have to do something because we're not going to put up with it.
We can't put up with it and it's inappropriate.
So, we have to talk about the billions and billions of dollars that's being paid to the country that we're supposed to be protecting you against.
You know, everybody's talking about it all over the world.
They'll say, well, wait a minute, we're supposed to be protecting you from Russia, but why are you paying billions of dollars to Russia for energy?
Why are countries in NATO, namely Germany, having a large percentage of their energy needs paid, you know, to Russia and taken care of by Russia?
Now, if you look at it, Germany is a captive of Russia because they supply.
They got rid of their coal plants.
They got rid of their nuclear.
They're getting so much of the oil and gas from Russia.
I think it's something that NATO has to look at.
I think it's very inappropriate.
You and I agree that it's inappropriate.
I don't know what you can do about it now, but it certainly doesn't seem to make sense that they pay billions of dollars to Russia and now we have to defend them against Russia.
You know, NATO is an alliance of 29 nations and there are sometimes differences and different views.
There is a Donald Trump I know and love, and he's like a dog with a bone.
He just won't let it go.
And you're right, it was interesting to see John Kelly at the end of the table squirming.
Here's why I saw this under other presidents.
The bureaucrats before the meeting in their briefing, they say, Mr. President, please don't say X. Whatever you do, don't say X. That'll upset everybody.
Please don't say X. Let us work that out.
No, Donald Trump, he went there specifically to tell them two things.
One, first of all, you deadbeats need to pay up because we're tired of carrying you.
Donald Trump became president, every one of the member nations in NATO was far behind in their dues.
We were the only country that was up to date.
Just that demand brought tens of million dollars into the NATO alliance, so people can pay their fair share for their own defense.
Then secondarily, he's absolutely right.
Germany is giving the Russians money to build their war machine.
At the same time, we are supposed to be paying for Germany's defense against the Russians.
Never made any sense.
This isn't wise, let's face it.
Perhaps the greatest president of my lifetime.
Amazing clip.
I appreciate your pulling that up.
All right, folks, I'm afraid we're at the end of the show.
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