Ryan Nicol
Longtime Donald Trump ally Roger Stone was his usual self in remarks to Trump Club 45 PBC Monday night, spouting several attention-grabbing comments to the audience of Trump die-hards.
Stone dropped several eyebrow-raising one-liners (mostly in jest) during his speech at the Palm Beach Kennel Club, one of which concerned a prominent Florida contest.
“You have a U.S. Senate race between Gov. Rick Scott and Bill Nelson,” Stone started. “Bill Nelson died three years ago. Somebody forgot to tell him about it.”
As for Stone’s famous tattoo of Richard Nixon on his back: “I’m the only guy you know that has a dick on the front and the back.”
In addition to punchlines, Stone offered the Trump-loving crowd plenty of red meat.
First, there was media bashing: “I don’t get my news from CNN for the same reason I don’t eat out of the toilet.”
Next, about The New York Times, Stone harped on the fact that the paper’s top shareholder is Carlos Slim, the Mexican billionaire who made hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations to the Clintons.
“Why would we believe a single word that is printed in The New York Times?” Stone charged.
He then moved into the realm of the conspiratorial. On the recent anonymous op-ed printed by the Times, Stone argued it was all a fabrication.
“Folks, I can tell you right now who wrote that editorial. No one. It’s a fraud. It’s a MacGuffin. It’s a con job on the American people.”
He once again called into question whether Russia even hacked the Democratic National Committee during the 2016 election.
“There’s more forensic evidence that would indicate that the DNC was never hacked at all by anyone.”
Stone also touched upon the recent abuse allegations lobbied against Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Brett Kavanaugh. Stone framed the “dastardly accusations” as a “smear” against Kavanaugh, shredding the media for even reporting on them given the lack of a corroborating witness.
Stone, rumored to be a potential target of the Robert Mueller investigation, further elaborated on his current legal situation.
While describing claims of any sort of collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign utter “bullshit,” Stone maintained: “I will never roll on Donald Trump. Michael Cohen, I am not.”
Toward the end of his remarks, Stone injected a minutes-long pitch for his legal defense fund.
“Everything you can send will be a godsend. This threatens to bankrupt my family. They have systematically attempted to ruin my business.”
Stone saved some of his most fiery comments for Republicans 2018 midterms strategy. He parroted the notion that the real wrongdoing of the 2016 election was the Barack Obama administration’s investigation into Russian collusion, rather than any potential collusion itself.
Midterm voters need reminding of that fact, Stone said, calling for some high-profile arrests.
“We need to expose the constitutional abuses, far worse than Watergate, of the administration of Barack Obama. And we have to demand the prosecution of Bill and Hillary Clinton.”
Of course, that elicited chants of “lock her up” from the audience, with one member suggesting Hillary be sent “to Guantánamo.”
With a closing shot, Stone clarified there’s no love lost between him and the Clintons.
“Bill and Hillary Clinton are the penicillin-resistant syphilis of the American body politic.”
