The StoneZONE - Roger Stone - The Stone Zone | 08-26-25
Aired: 2025-08-27
Duration: 40:08


=== FBI Raid on Bolton's Documents (06:19) ===

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[00:01:12]  It's amazing to see Democrats and liberals continuing to whine about the FBI raid on former National Security Advisor John Bolton's home and office last Friday.
[00:01:25]  It is very clear that the FBI under Kash Patel had probable cause to believe that John Bolton was in possession of certain classified documents that he had no right to obtain or possess.
[00:01:41]  These are the same people who tried to prosecute Donald Trump for holding on to classified documents, which under the Presidential Documents Act, he had full authorization and legal entitlement to.
[00:01:56]  This past week, we saw this raid.
[00:01:59]  It's just deserts, as far as I'm concerned, for one of the most heinous warmongers and most insidious subversives inside the first Trump administration.
[00:02:07]  John Bolton, served as National Security Advisor in 2018, played a key role in convincing President Trump to reverse his September 17th, 2018 order to declassify documents related to the FBI's crossfire hurricane investigation, including materials involving FBI informant Steph Halper.
[00:02:30]  Now, I actually know Steph Halper back from the Reagan-Bush days, was in a floating poker game with him.
[00:02:37]  He was a good poker player, but he was an even more dangerous FBI and CIA informant.
[00:02:45]  He was paid a half million dollars to set up Donald Trump in the entire phony Russian collusion hoax.
[00:02:53]  Four days after President Trump first ordered the declassification of the crossfire hurricane documents on September 21st, 2018, Trump was pushed into backing off full declassification after input from the Department of Justice, the FBI, and certain foreign allies raised concerns about potential damage to our national security, exposure of our intelligence sources and methods,
[00:03:20]  and our ongoing relationships with some of our international allies and partners.
[00:03:25]  Bolton advised President Trump of these risks and coordinated the cover-up.
[00:03:30]  Then after the Mar-lago raid, where it is widely believed that President Trump had, within his legal rights, obtained copies and held on to copies of the evidence that would prove that the Russian collusion claims were a fraud.
[00:03:47]  Bolton repeatedly talked about the sensitive sources that were in the documents that President Trump had.
[00:03:53]  The documents now released to the public, thanks to Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, were the crossfire hurricane documents.
[00:04:03]  The sensitive source they were covering up for was Stefan Hauper, the CIA and FBI operator who ran by the code name Mitch.
[00:04:11]  Halper was actually the architect of the Hillary plan, the Crossfire Hurricane's OMRI informant, who falsely claims to have witnessed the whole Trump-Russia collusion.
[00:04:25]  We know from a document declassified by Tulsi Gabbard that Hillary Rotten Clinton herself approved the plan specifically to distract attention from her use of an illegal email server and also to sow seeds of doubt about the legitimacy of Trump's presidency.
[00:04:44]  So, in other words, Bolton was covering up for Obama, Clinton, Brennan, Comey, and the entire cabal.
[00:04:52]  Because if those documents had been released, they would have showed that the entire Trump-Russian collusion narrow was all based on paid-for, dirty operative Steph Halper's testimonies, and their entitled House of Cards would have collapsed.
[00:05:06]  When former Congressman Devin Nunes, who was chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, uncovered the operation and determined that CIA and FBI operative Steph Halper was the architect of the Russian collusion hoax, he was actually threatened with criminal prosecution if he tried to investigate further.
[00:05:24]  President Trump tried to declassify and release the records, but he got pushed back from Rod Rosenstein, the acting attorney general, Gina Haspel, the CIA director, Christopher Wray, the FBI director, John Bolton, then his National Security Advisor, and the British government.
[00:05:43]  They all claimed that sources' lives and allied operations would be endangered.
[00:05:48]  It was bunk.
[00:05:50]  In fact, the only ones endangered were the Deep State.
[00:05:53]  Well, Trump tried to release these documents once again in 2021.
[00:05:57]  His home in Palm Beach, Mar-Lago, was raided.
[00:06:01]  Enough of your crocodile tears.
[00:06:04]  It is now absolutely clear, based on the declassification of documents by Tulsi Gabbard, that there was a seditious conspiracy to engage in treason and to undo the legitimate results of the 2016 election.

=== Cashless Bail's Dangerous Consequences (04:19) ===

[00:06:20]  But because this seditious conspiracy, which began in 2016, continued into 2017, continued into the 2020 election, where Tulsi Gabbard has said she is examining evidence regarding the integrity of the computerized voting machines.
[00:06:39]  This is a case that is ripe for prosecution.
[00:06:45]  But it means that trials of those ultimately charged would not necessarily happen in the District of Columbia, where, frankly, no Trump supporter, Republican, conservative, or free thinker can get a free trial, and where no Democrat or veteran of the Biden or Obama administrations will ever be convicted.
[00:07:07]  Stay tuned as we will follow this story as it develops.
[00:07:12]  Meanwhile, the New York City mayoral frontrunner, Zoran the Ayatolli Mamdani, is proposing to end all misdemeanor crimes in the city of New York, a move that could empower criminals on a scale never before seen in any Democrat-running, decaying hellscape.
[00:07:29]  Mamdami is a leading organizer of the Democratic Socialists of America, and the language in their platform makes it clear that one of their main goals is to uproot the rule of law.
[00:07:41]  Their Democrat Socialist America platform states, for all of the working class to achieve collective liberation, we must constrain, diminish, and abolish the carceral forces of the state from prisons and the police themselves to their manifestations in all forms throughout society.
[00:08:00]  In other words, they want to defend and shut down the New York City Police Department.
[00:08:04]  Mandami himself says that, quote, violence is a social construct, close quote.
[00:08:10]  No, what he means is violence is a crime, but he doesn't see it that way.
[00:08:16]  Misdemeanor offenses that Miam Dami wants to repeal for the books would include third-degree assault, forcible touching, driving while intoxicated, third-degree drug possession, menacing, sexual misconduct, third-degree identity theft, second-degree sexual abuse, and petite larceny.
[00:08:34]  Miam Dami is playing down these radical beliefs on the campaign trail, but that's only a ruse.
[00:08:40]  Mamdami knows he has to say whatever it takes to get into office where he will then have carte blanche to turn New York City's political structure upside down, which has been his life's goal as an avowed Marxist.
[00:08:53]  May God have mercy on the people of New York City and may the city serve as an example to the rest of the country of what is to come if the Democrat Party is not crushed in the midterms and beyond.
[00:09:08]  President Trump, in the meantime, has signed an executive order that will bring an end to the insane policies of cashless bail for criminals in Washington, D.C.
[00:09:18]  It will also start the process of endling cashless bail nationwide, including in New York City and the city of Chicago, where crime, despite the fact that they cooked the statistics, is actually skyrocketing.
[00:09:31]  Under the guise of criminal justice reform, states and localities have been ending mandatory cash bail for violent criminals.
[00:09:40]  As a result, criminals have been let out of jail but are free to skip their trial dates before going on to commit more crimes against innocent, unsuspecting Americans.
[00:09:50]  Cashless bail has been pushed under the guise of social justice and is another one of the Black Lives Matter schemes that effectively defunds the police.
[00:10:00]  The White House said in a statement, cashless bail policies allow dangerous individuals to immediately return to the streets and further endanger law-abiding, hardworking Americans because they know our laws will not be enforced.
[00:10:15]  This executive order fulfills President Trump's campaign to crack down on the left-wing jurisdictions that refuse to prosecute dangerous criminals and to set violent felonies loose on cashless bail.
[00:10:28]  The executive order is expected to be followed by legislation introduced by my friend, Congresswoman Elise Stefanik of New York, that would eliminate cashless bail nationwide.

=== Cracker Barrel's Fall? (07:39) ===

[00:10:39]  Meanwhile, we see the disastrous rebrand of Cracker Barrel.
[00:10:44]  It has become viral news on social media as the masses express disdain towards corporate changes that have stripped the cluttered hokey charm from the highway adjacent restaurant chain and replaced it with a soulless postmodern DREC logo, throwing out 47 years of history, flushing it down the toilet in one fell swoop.
[00:11:08]  Cracker Barrel has embarked on a $700 million rebranding effort to create a lighter, brighter, and more evolved experience.
[00:11:18]  They seek to be relevant in the cultural conversation of the day, taking the emphasis off of providing crispy fried chicken and savory country gravy, an excellent meatloaf, to their patriots, and instead putting that effort behind sponsoring LGBT pride parades and other organizations promoting a woke agenda.
[00:11:39]  There may be more to it than all of this.
[00:11:41]  The silly logo is fun to pick at, but there's a darker side to it, in my opinion.
[00:11:46]  Here's a few key facts to think about.
[00:11:48]  Cracker Barrel averages a 1.6% profit, which is substantially less than the industry standard for casual dining, which achieves a 3% to 5% profit margin.
[00:12:01]  Cracker Barrel owns three acre plots of land on 468 interstate exits all over the country.
[00:12:08]  Making obviously bad choices to alienate the customer base will drive down the stock price for Cracker Barrel and make it affordable for a corporation to buy back.
[00:12:18]  65% of the Cracker Barrel Corporation is currently owned by private equity firms.
[00:12:24]  Is this the time that Blackstone or BlackRock steps in and snaps up all of that real estate?
[00:12:30]  Meanwhile, Stake and Shake has undergone a resurgence doing just the opposite.
[00:12:34]  They've started to use beef tallow to cut their fries like McDonald's used to do in their heyday.
[00:12:42]  Frankly, McDonald's French fries today taste like plastic.
[00:12:45]  They have no flavor.
[00:12:46]  RFK has been a champion of returning to using beef tallow to cook their fries.
[00:12:52]  The folks at Stake and Shake have also begun phasing out all seed oils from their foods.
[00:12:57]  They've started to accept Bitcoin as payment for their menu.
[00:13:01]  It's a forward-thinking move that will pay dividends, I think, well into the future.
[00:13:06]  Their stock price and profits have surged as a result of these healthy changes.
[00:13:11]  Steak and Shake definitely understood that embracing MAGA values, that the public would respond positively, putting them on the map for millions of consumers who may have otherwise ignored the chain.
[00:13:23]  Let this be a lesson to everyone on Wall Street.
[00:13:26]  Go woke, go broke.
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[00:13:33]  Meanwhile, in the news, Ingrid Lewis Martin, former senior advisor and chief of staff to New York City Mayor Eric Adams, has been charged with running a bribery empire throughout the city while serving under Mayor Adams.
[00:13:47]  Lewis Martin is being accused of taking $75,000 in cash, luxury perks, food and drink, and even getting an active role next to Forrest Whitaker.
[00:13:58]  Lewis Martin and her co-conspirators allegedly exploited the city's $7 billion in contracts related to the migrant crisis, manipulated street redesign projects, secured home renovations, and meddled in building permits, collecting bribe money every step of the way to hook up their cronies.
[00:14:17]  This comes one day after Winnie Greco, another Adams advisor, no relationship to former New York police officer Sal Greco, handed a potato chip bag full of money to a reporter in an apparent attempt to buy them off of this story.
[00:14:33]  It's instances like this that make it clear why Zoray Mamdami is the overwhelming favorite to win the New York City mayor's race.
[00:14:40]  It's not because the people in New York City are Marxists or socialists or that they're jihadists.
[00:14:44]  It's that people are sick of the corrupt machine politicians like Adams and former New York governor Andrew Cuomo.
[00:14:51]  Mamdami, without being too specific, is offering them hope and change.
[00:14:55]  And unfortunately, many New Yorkers are not focusing on the implications of the actual policies that Mamdami proposes.
[00:15:03]  We'll be talking more about this race as we go along, but one thing is clear.
[00:15:07]  I'll go on the record is saying this right now.
[00:15:10]  No matter what happens, Mayor Eric Adams will run fourth in this contest.
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[00:16:12]  I am, of course, a veteran of 13 national presidential campaigns.
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[00:16:26]  Does your child play the game Roblox?
[00:16:29]  The online online interactive game seems innocent and innocuous, but now has evidently become a haven for child rapists with the game's programmers apparently content to look the other way as innocent children are being preyed upon.
[00:16:42]  The state of Louisiana is suing Roblox for unfair trade practices, citing their neglect in protecting children on the platform.
[00:16:51]  Louisiana's Attorney General Liz Murrell said, due to Roblox's lack of safety protocols, it endangers the safety of the children of Louisiana.
[00:17:02]  Roblox is overrun with harmful content and child predators because it prioritizes user growth, revenue, and profits over child safety.
[00:17:12]  Every parent should be aware of the clear and present danger poised to their children by Roblox so they can prevent the unthinkable from ever happening in their own home.
[00:17:22]  Now, nightmarish stories about child grooming on Roblox have emerged, including a derelict mother contacting her birth child in foster care on the Roblox platform and encouraging her daughter to murder her foster parents and her infant sister.
[00:17:37]  You can't make this stuff up.
[00:17:39]  A 13-year-old girl was groomed by a predator on the platform, receiving explicit images from the pervert, and then was subjected to a rape attempt when they met in person.
[00:17:50]  Another child was sent pornography by a predator on the platform and later actually attempted suicide.
[00:17:56]  There are hundreds, if not thousands of more of these types of instances occurring on Roblox.
[00:18:02]  All the more reason to keep the cell phones and computer devices out of the hands of your children and grandchildren or to monitor their use extensively.
[00:18:12]  These are dangerous instruments and they cannot be abused.
[00:18:16]  You're tuned into the Stone Zone with me, Roger Stone.

=== Ghislaine Maxwell's Testimony (15:17) ===

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[00:18:51]  Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell has given sworn testimony stating that she never saw President Trump engage in any wrongdoing during her many years as Epstein's co-conspirator, confident, and pimp.
[00:19:05]  This is not news to me.
[00:19:07]  I explored and researched the Epstein case very extensively for my 2015 book, The Clinton's War on Women.
[00:19:15]  The longest chapter in the book, Chapter 7, is entitled Orgy Island.
[00:19:20]  What people don't know is that Epstein's butler, Alberto Rodriguez, who was then dying of cancer, sold Epstein's telephone book to a New York journalist.
[00:19:33]  But that doesn't mean that everyone in his book is guilty of any illegal or inappropriate behavior, but the butler did circle the names of those he claimed were involved in child sex trafficking or were material witnesses to child sex trafficking.
[00:19:51]  Maxwell stated that she felt Trump and Epstein were friendly, like people in social settings, but she did not think they were close friends.
[00:19:59]  She also did not ever recall Trump being at Epstein's house in New York.
[00:20:04]  That is consistent with my research and my reporting.
[00:20:07]  She also stated that she never saw the president in any time of massage setting, and she never witnessed the president in any inappropriate meeting in any way.
[00:20:16]  Now, we know that Donald Trump never visited Epstein's Island.
[00:20:20]  We know that Donald Trump never visited Epstein's branch in New Mexico.
[00:20:25]  We know that Donald Trump never visited Epstein's Paris apartment.
[00:20:31]  We know that he was at Epstein's home in Palm Beach on one occasion, according to the sworn testimony of Virginia Roberts Juffray, one of Epstein's victims who refused a large cash settlement in order to continue her lawsuit against Epstein.
[00:20:49]  We're told only months ago that she committed suicide, having interviewed her for six hours in two three-hour sessions and read all of her sworn testimony.
[00:21:00]  Frankly, I doubt that.
[00:21:02]  But according to her sworn testimony, the one and only time she saw Donald Trump at Epstein's home was for a fundraiser for a social nonprofit, a charitable nonprofit in Palm Beach, and that Trump acted as a perfect gentleman.
[00:21:20]  Now, Maxwell also says in a separate statement that former President Bill Clinton never visited the island.
[00:21:28]  Unfortunately, the FAA passenger manifest, which I use extensively in my book, The Clinton's War on Women, shows that Bill Clinton visited the island at least four times, but was on Epstein's airplane at least 26 times.
[00:21:46]  We also know from the sworn testimony of Virginia Roberts Juffray that she identified Bill Clinton as being on the island, therefore, quote-unquote parties, on at least three occasions.
[00:22:00]  So the testimony of Maxwell does corroborate victims' attorneys and other people close to the situation, who, like me, have said throughout the years that there is no evidence whatsoever of inappropriate behavior by President Donald Trump.
[00:22:15]  It also further proves that Donald Trump is innocent, had nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein's pedophile network.
[00:22:21]  In fact, we know definitively that Trump cut Epstein off in 2005.
[00:22:28]  That is prior to Epstein ever being exposed and charged as a sex criminal in the state of Florida.
[00:22:37]  Now, in that instance, after various reports, Chief Michael Ryder of the Palm Beach Police Department conducted a six-month undercover investigation of Jeffrey Epstein and handed the state's attorney in Palm Beach a case involving 33 underage children,
[00:22:58]  women, girls at that point, and an ancillary case of statutory rape involving at least 21 underage girls.
[00:23:07]  The police chief was shocked when the state's attorney turned around after his own investigation and charged Jeffrey Epstein with one count of solicitation.
[00:23:20]  Only after complaints from the police chief did they bump that up to one count of solicitation of a minor.
[00:23:28]  still a serious crime, but not nearly as serious as the crime of child sex trafficking.
[00:23:35]  Asked after he had served 15 months of an 18-month sentence, which he was allowed to serve in the air-conditioned Palm Beach County jail, as opposed to a Florida state penitentiary like every other convicted sex criminal in the Sunshine State, Epstein said his crime was no different than, quote, stealing a bagel.
[00:23:59]  The Democrats and the deep state are continued to perpetuate the Epstein hoax on Trump, trying to get the focus also real child sex predators, who I believe are still at large.
[00:24:12]  It's time, once again, to release all the grand jury testimony and relevant information held by the government with information about Epstein's operation that are currently being withheld from the public.
[00:24:23]  But unfortunately, judges in New York and Florida, all Democrats, I might add, all appointees of either Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, or Joe Biden, have refused to release any of that grand jury testimony, despite the fact that the target of the grand jury testimony, Jeffrey Epstein, is deceased.
[00:24:44]  Lawyers tell me that one is deceased, they no longer have rights.
[00:24:48]  There is no reason not to release this material.
[00:24:51]  It would clear the air.
[00:24:52]  I pointed out that it was the Trump administration in 2019 that charged Jeffrey Epstein with one count of child sex trafficking and an additional count of conspiracy to engage in child sex trafficking.
[00:25:08]  We need a full level of transparency.
[00:25:10]  I think that's what's necessary to make America great again and to make treason and child sex trafficking punishable again.
[00:25:20]  Once again, I agree with those who are calling for full disclosure.
[00:25:24]  It's comical to see people like Senator Richard Durbin, Dick Durbin of Illinois, jumping up and down screaming about full disclosure when he sponsored legislation to block the information from the American public previous to the recent scandal.
[00:25:41]  So I believe that Maxwell in this case is telling the truth about Donald Trump because it is consistent with my own research.
[00:25:50]  Meanwhile, President Trump has mobilized the National Guard across 19 states.
[00:25:54]  The Trump administration will be sending 1,700 National Guard troops across 19 states to stabilize the country, fight crime in decaying cities, and also assist with immigration enforcement.
[00:26:10]  There will be, I think, a deployment in the city of Chicago relatively soon.
[00:26:18]  These National Guard troops will be deployed from August until mid-December to clean up the streets.
[00:26:24]  An official with the National Guard said the following to reporters.
[00:26:28]  The in-and-out processing may include personal data collection, fingerprinting, DNN swabbing, and photographing of personnel in ICE custody.
[00:26:39]  After President Trump's stunning success in cleaning up Washington, D.C., he will be implementing law and order in other cities.
[00:26:48]  This is what he said he would do during the campaign, and now he's doing it.
[00:26:52]  The president has said that Chicago, New York City would be the next logical targets after D.C.
[00:26:58]  Now, there are some legal anomalies.
[00:27:02]  The president has the authority to nationalize the police department, the Metropolitan Police Department in D.C., where he does not have the legal authority to nationalize the police departments in New York City or in the city of Chicago.
[00:27:16]  But he does have the authority to mobilize the National Guard any place that he determines is a national emergency.
[00:27:25]  The city went through, a city of D.C., went through a week without murder, something that is unprecedented during a D.C. summer.
[00:27:33]  Carjackings are down 83%.
[00:27:35]  Robberies are down nearly 50%.
[00:27:37]  And car theft is down 21%.
[00:27:41]  Overall violent crime in the District of Columbia is actually down 22%.
[00:27:46]  Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker and Mayor Brandon Johnson are freaking out about the idea of President Trump sending the National Guard to Chicago.
[00:27:56]  They claim crime is going down, but frankly, that's a lie.
[00:27:59]  The facts show that 90% of Chicago's violent offenders are free, walking the streets, not having to worry about cash bail in most instances.
[00:28:08]  Once a violent criminal is released without cash bail, of course, there's very little possibility that they will show up again for trial.
[00:28:16]  There are 1,600 vacancies in the police force as nobody wants the thankless task in Chicago where they will be under attack and scrutiny by Democrat politicians.
[00:28:27]  Over 225,000 high-priority 9-11 calls in the windy city went unanswered in 2023 due to a lack of Chicago police resources.
[00:28:39]  Over 50,000 illegal immigrants have arrived in Chicago over the past three years as well, putting additional strain on the already fraying system.
[00:28:50]  This is, by anyone's definition, a state of emergency, and most Democrat-run cities like Baltimore and Philadelphia are no better.
[00:28:58]  The reason why the Guard is needed in their cities is because their defund the police mindset has allowed criminals to seize power.
[00:29:06]  This will no longer be allowed in Trump's America.
[00:29:10]  I predict to you that he will mobilize the National Guard to bring order in Chicago.
[00:29:17]  Mayor Brandon Johnson, who in a bizarre rant somehow blamed former President Richard Nixon for the current rate of crime in the city of Chicago.
[00:29:28]  That one's a mystery to me.
[00:29:30]  Richard Nixon, the president who desegregated the public schools, the Richard Nixon who tripled the amount of federal funding for civil rights law enforcement, the Richard Nixon who gave us affirmative action, a policy that many of my conservative friends object to.
[00:29:50]  The Richard Nixon who was instrumental in the passage of the 1958 Civil Rights Act over the opposition of Lyndon Baines Johnson, the Senate Majority Leader, and working hand in glove with Dr. Martin Luther King.
[00:30:05]  So I'm not really sure what Brandon Johnson means when he says it's all Richard Nixon's fault.
[00:30:10]  Richard Nixon's been dead for almost 40 years, I think a little bit longer.
[00:30:14]  But Johnson has made it very clear yesterday that he is counting on the people of Chicago to rise up and resist the National Guard.
[00:30:25]  That, of course, would be a crime.
[00:30:27]  Brandon Johnson is in and out of the hospital with stress-related panic attacks, according to public reports.
[00:30:35]  He's not up to the job of being mayor, and he has no ability to keep order.
[00:30:41]  Mayor Richard J. Daly, not Richie Daly, but Mayor Richard Dick Daly, once known for running a tight ship, Chicago was once known as the city that works.
[00:30:54]  If he saw what was happening to his beloved Chicago today, he would be rolling in his grave.
[00:31:00]  Donald Trump means business.
[00:31:01]  When he said that he would restore law and order, he meant it.
[00:31:05]  He's done it in the District of Columbia.
[00:31:07]  He will do it in Chicago over the objections of J.B. Pritzker.
[00:31:13]  Governor Pritzker, who frankly I said yesterday, guy's so fat, he has his own zip code.
[00:31:19]  I mean, when he graduated from high school, his picture was on page 41, 42, and 43 of his yearbook.
[00:31:25]  Last time he came to New York City, they wanted to make him his own borough.
[00:31:29]  Enough of the fat jokes.
[00:31:30]  The truth is, he's running for president, but he continues to be mired in single digits.
[00:31:36]  And in a recent poll, his percentage of vote among African Americans was actually zero.
[00:31:43]  I don't really understand the concept of running for president when you failed as governor.
[00:31:49]  This is the same conundrum that Gavin Newsom has.
[00:31:53]  He wants to run for president, I guess, on the slogan that he'll do for America what he did for California.
[00:32:00]  In his case, that would mean out-of-control taxes, Zoring crimes, epic homelessness, and environmental disaster, including the fact that they couldn't manage the recent fires in Los Angeles because they had turned off the water to spare the lives of an increasingly environmentally endangered fish.
[00:32:23]  Yes, that is the woke policy of Gavin Newsom, the man who has great hair, but other than that, has no qualification whatsoever to be president and no issue to run on.
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=== Slight Shifts In NYC Mayor Race (05:35) ===

[00:33:36]  A new Kaplan and Associates rolling average overnight poll shows slight differences in the upcoming race for mayor of New York City.
[00:33:50]  In the new head-to-head, Democrat Zoran Mamdami, who I refer to as the Ayatollah, has moved to 39% of the vote.
[00:34:00]  Former Governor Andrew Cuomo dropped from 22 to 20% of the vote.
[00:34:06]  Republican Curtis Sliwa up from 16 to 19% of the vote.
[00:34:13]  And Eric Adams dropped from 14 previously to 11, no doubt in the wake of bad news regarding the indictment of his former chief of staff.
[00:34:25]  This race is very tight.
[00:34:27]  That's about an 11% undecided.
[00:34:31]  But if you look into the internals, you will see the problem, which is that for the first time now, Eric Adams' net unfavorable rating among voters has broken 70%.
[00:34:43]  It's now at 71%.
[00:34:46]  This is why he has no option for further ballot growth.
[00:34:51]  Andrew Cuomo's unfavorable remains consistent at 58% net unfavorable.
[00:35:00]  Mamdami's unfavorable rating remains at 41, exactly where it was in the last Kaplan overnight.
[00:35:09]  And frankly, his competitors are going to have to drive that number much higher to have any chance of stopping him.
[00:35:16]  While Curtis Sliwa, the Republican nominee, held steady with an unfavorable rating of 43, which I think comes from a 20-plus year on radio talking about controversial subjects.
[00:35:30]  So those who say that one of these candidates should drop out, I think, are dreaming.
[00:35:35]  I think none of them will drop out.
[00:35:38]  But it is conceivable at this current trajectory that even if all of them did drop out, it is important to recognize that not all of their votes would redistribute to an anti-MAMDAMI candidate.
[00:35:53]  In fact, based on the Kaplan overnight poll, if former Democrat Governor Andrew Cuomo withdrew from the race, almost one quarter of his votes go to the Democrat Mamdami.
[00:36:09]  That's because many of his votes are coming from Democrats.
[00:36:14]  So I think this race is essentially over, barring some new cataclysmic event.
[00:36:22]  I don't see anyone dropping out of the race.
[00:36:26]  And I think that being the Democrat nominee is an enormous leg up in an overwhelmingly Democrat city.
[00:36:35]  I also see, as I said earlier, that Mamdami is soft-pedaling the impact of his agenda.
[00:36:42]  He doesn't want to be seen as anti-police, but he's also not shy about the fact that he wants to do away with misdemeanor crime, which to me is shocking.
[00:36:54]  Just to be clear, if he was to actually implement those policies, third-degree assault, forcible touching, driving while intoxicated, third-degree drug possession, menacing, sexual misconduct, third-degree identity theft, second-degree sexual abuse, and petite larceny would no longer be chargeable crimes.
[00:37:19]  His radical beliefs on the campaign are being soft-pedaled, but it's only a ruse.
[00:37:24]  Until the voters for New York wake up to the fact that these policies will set New York City on fire, that there will be a max exodus of taxpayers, businesses, both large and small, will flee the city, and crime will be rampant.
[00:37:42]  The only good news is not for the people who live in New York City, unfortunately, but for the people across the country who will be able to see firsthand what happens when you choose Marxist policies.
[00:37:55]  That is a small, small concession for the people of New York City who will have to suffer under these horrific ideas.
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