[cheering and applause] the part that tweeted its nice to know some people still have guts. At the time, it was speculated that he would be indicted by the special counsel. Sure enough, a few months later he was quietly arrested. You are laughing. Yes you know, you remember, very fake news cnn was quietly tipped off about a made for the movies dawn grade involving over 40 Law Enforcement with many of them in full Tactical Gear and automatic weapons. All of this show of force to arrest a nonviolent individual who does not even own a gun. Roger, why was it so overthetop . Oh, you probably cannot answer that question, right . They treated you as if you were a drug kingpin or a mass murderer. In any other case, of any similarity, a phone call wouldve been made to your attorney and arrangements would have been made for you to turn yourself involuntarily. Even when they arrested that creepy porn star guy, you know, that attorney there, they discreetly put trenchcoat on them aside. They treated him really the way that roger stone shouldve been treated as well. But robert and his merry band of 17 conflict did democrat donors who made up his team orchestrated a vicious overthetop vindictive raid on roger stone to make it seemed like his arrest was a big deal in their investigation in search of a crime which they never found. We all know it was really an attempt at intimidating and innocent person. I probably should put a disclaimer so judge whats her face does not think you are using me to violate your gag order, roger. I solemnly swear, i researched everything on my computer today by using google in my office. Now, one of the things i learned about google is it was just release the information today that google has also been recently subpoenaed for the timing of when roger stone uploaded youtube videos. Regarding wikileaks. , listen. If you guys dont mind, roger, if you if you dont mind, i want to help Robert Mueller out a little bit. Dear mr. Mueller. It is time for you to just recognize that roger stone, a political operative for over 40 years is damn good at what he does. And being good at what he does allows him, like anybody else in any other industry to evaluate current information and from that information he can make educated guesses based upon that 40 plus year of experience in that field as to what might come next. As you can imagine, it is very expensive to fight the unlimited purpose of the american government. I encourage each of you to support roger by making a donation to us defense fund, his website is stone defense. Com. He will have books and merchandise available. 1245. Give a warm welcome to a damn good political operative roger stone. [cheering and applause] [applause] thank you. Take you so much, joe. With me tonight is my wife who is my rock. My soulmate and without her i could not possibly go through the travails ahead. [cheering and applause] my name is not [laughter] i am delighted to see the way the club has grown tremendously since last time i was with you. [cheering and applause] the things goes to you. Not the republican party, but the indigenous Grassroots Movement led by donald trump to pull off the most improbable to make America Great again. I want to thank joe biden. I want to thank you for having me here tonight. It is an enormous pleasure and honor for me and a great opportunity to say what i came to say today. I think you have seen the results of electing a nonestablishment resident. I recognized as early as 1988 that donald trump had the size and courage and the independence and the audacity to be a Great American president. I wanted him to run in 2000. I wanted him to run in 2012. I now recognize that the timing was not right on any of those occasions. 2016 was that that unique time in American History where he was the right man in the right place at the right time to save this country from the path of destruction that we were on. [cheering and applause] the twoparty, the elites are both republican and Democratic Party. Leaving the legacy of our inherent National Interest not being completed. The erosion of our Civil Liberties where was being collected on every american monitoring your emails, your phone calls, your, your text messages. Leaving our neighborhoods and streets unsafe. Cheating the people that were waiting in line to come here legally and rewarded the people that came here illegally. [applause] a stagnant economy with an anemic comeback under president obama in which children had to move back in with their parents to live in the basement or live in the guestroom because there were no jobs. Now the Dynamic Results that we have today. Over 6 million new jobs created by john j trump donald j trump. 650,000 new manufacturing jobs. Those are the jobs that president obama told us were never coming back. You have a magic wand, he asked, mr. Trump know, cutting taxes and cutting stimulates growth and created 650 manufacturing jobs. We see a constant struggle by our president to seal our southern border. I dont get my news from cnn. The same reason i dont eat out of the toilet. [cheering and applause] over 1 million illegals this month. Working to seal our border into help reform our immigration policies for the people that want to come here with the promise of america can do so legally. This is a signature battle. The opinion me of the trump presidency. Fighting to seal our border. God bless you, mr. President. [cheering and applause] remember the ironic deal . How about the hundreds of millions of dollars they did not tell is about that was being delivered and pallets of cash to bribe iranian politicians. A lousy deal for america. By President Donald Trump who says no longer the United States being the path for the world. [applause] i look at the Democratic Candidates for president. [laughter] when i see the iowa poll, which is a respective pole recognizing that its very difficult determining who will vote in the caucuses into their credit i think their methodology was very solid. Former Vice President joe biden first with 24 . Senator Bernie Sanders second was 17 and no other candidate cracking double digits. I would notice that mayor bill dimaggio was at zero. [laughter] [cheering and applause] and congressman was also at zero. [applause] let me be clear. Twentyfour is not strong. 24 of the vote is a mark of weakness, not a mark of strength Richard Nixon after two terms and white eisenhower. Or even one term under jimmy carter. A sitting Vice President should be stronger than joe biden. Joe biden seems to have no selfawareness whatsoever. He does not seem to understand that he comes across as a pompous loudmouth with nothing to say. Which is good because he has so much botox, he can barely talk on a serious note, Vice President biden is personally responsible because he pinned the legislation that turbocharged racist expensive war on drugs. It is because of Vice President biden that record numbers from young africanamericans have been incarcerated for the first time nonviolent crime for small amounts of drugs. A bill by which that bill and hillary said black people needed to be brought to heel. That would be President Donald Trump. [cheering and applause] this is a comparison that i would relish. I dont think joe biden can string together a coherent sentence. [laughter] i dont know that the democratic field is complete. Given the volatility of our politics, any of those candidates have some prospect of giving inherent weakness of the two. Perhaps three front runners. Those being Vice President biden Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren hill would correctly be called pocahontas. It is absolutely true that the socialist wing of the Democratic Party is on the upswing. That is why senator sanders cannot be underestimated. He has the advantage of running once before. The advantage of having a readymade organization in every state. Dont count senator sanders out. I dont care who the democratic candidate is. I think President Donald Trump is extraordinarily well positioned for reelection. [cheering and applause] there are three storm clouds on the horizon. First and foremost is over competence. Everyone in this room. The overconfidence of Trump Supporters across the nation. Make no mistake about it. This will be a difficult and hardfought race. Because of an attack on the president by a Mainstream Media that will give him no credit for his great accomplishments, but will net pick him on every major item. The way that it is done. He wants to be a king. Please. The next major storm cloud is the issue of internet censorship 2016 was the year in which the Mainstream Media and to a lesser degree, fox, lost their monopoly on the political discourse in america. A rise through the vibrant media based in the internet for donald trump people to win. The greatest counterpunch or in American History. I sat in the u. S. House Judiciary Committee meeting when i heard that the charges of conservative censorship by google and others where rightwing conspiracy theory. To the contrary, we have seen the leaked memos, we have seen the leaked videos. We experience firsthand platforming of conservative voices. Libertarian voices. Republican voices. In fact, all nonliberal voices. Millions of supporters of this president have been d platform. They are taking away the president s megaphone. We cannot let coverage of the 2020 campaign revert back to the old fake news media. [cheering and applause] donald trump is a man of enormous courage. Enormous fortitude and enormous stamina. Making America Great again. I am excited he chose our home state of florida to relaunch his campaign. [applause] let me address today a terrible way my own personal situation. I had no advance notice of his introduction. No input in it. He did not speak at my direction in order of the court. Discussing the specifics of my case. I will not do so tonight. Here is what i can tell you. I applied not guilty and i will be dedicated on every single count. [cheering and applause] i have vowed a vigorous Legal Defense. The cost of doing so is astronomical. Excess of 2 million. I would gladly put up the 2 million myself, but the relentless attacks over two years has rendered me close. I have lost my home, i have have lost my savings, i have lost most of my insurance. I do everything i can to raise the money to finance my Legal Defense. Despite the legal and financial pressure, i will not fold. I will not change my place. I will fight for vindication. [cheering and applause] thank you. [applause] [cheering and applause] i am convinced of the challenges now, those of you who watch me being taken into custody thanks to cnn know that when i was arrested i was wearing a roger stone did nothing wrong tshirt. These tshirts will end up in the smithsonian institute. In the back, you can purchase a roger stone did nothing wrong tshirt. You can also purchase a hat with the same slogan knowing the sales go to help my wife and i in our struggle to each. Paying for medical care. Yes. We need your help. There is also a gentleman who has a square, if you want to use your credit card and you want to give the stone defense fund. Com for jalen martin. A welldressed africanamerican gentleman. He can help you in processing a contribution. God will bless you for it. 40,000 american now contributed to my Legal Defense funds. [applause] i want to tell you about this. This is a roger stone. [laughter] it is a stone, the prototype taken from my neighbors driveway. Of course, that that was replace we sell it as a paperweight. And, in all all honesty, selling very many of them. Until Rolling Stones in the Huffington Post and the observer and other leftwing fake news outlet made fun of me. Now i cannot signing up with them. [cheering and applause] you can also get your roger stone in the back. Kind of like the art of four. It does not matter. Tech or fashion or entertainment this is a lesson in life. Not really a political book. That does not stop facebook from rejecting all of my ads that i propose because they have inappropriate content. Some of you have probably heard that i have a tattoo of Richard Nixon on my back. It is true. Its about the size of a grapefruit. Right between my shoulder blades which means im the only person you know [laughter] thats about as risque as i get. I apologize. And, for me, the tattoo is not a political speech. Its a in life, when you get knocked down, when you suffer defeat, when you are disappointed and rejected, when you reach for something and strive again and again and you are ready to give up, that is the time to get up and dust yourself off and get back in the game. [applause] it is a sign of persistence. Not finish when he is defeated. I will never quit. [cheering and applause] appreciate the majesty of the highest mountain. It is not how many times you get knocked down, its how many times you get up. [cheering and applause] i thank you for your hospitality tonight. I think the millions of people who are praying for me and my family. If i did not mention it, you can go to stone defense fund. Com to help us out. As 40,000 americans have done. I am very, very pleased to be with you. I will be in the back of the room to pose for pictures, sign books and thank you each personally. Thank you and god bless you. [cheering and applause] thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you so very much. Book tv afterwards. Our weekly Author Interview program that includes bestselling nonfiction books and guest interviews. Jim acosta offered a firsthand account of reporting on the trump administration. Coming up, Michael Malis malis will discuss the far right movement and its origins. This weekend, former cia intelligence provides an inside look at the agency and her were tracking terrorists. I think some of the biggest, especially for members of the publics questions. Regardless if if it is an anonymous statement, ask for declassified reports as much as possible so we can understand the reasoning and the detail behind it. I also think during that time period is when perfecting the soundbite to change the narrative really was a huge role in the decision for the iraq war and galvanizing back kind of support for it. 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