Posted on 05/19/2018 6:56:25 PM PDT by EdnaMode
Longtime Trump confidant Roger Stone pledged to have someone lined up to challenge Vice President Mike Pence should he run for president in 2020.
During an interview Friday with Big League Politics, a right-wing news website, Stone suggested that President Trump may not ultimately run for re-election if his first term is adequately successful and denounced the possibility of a 2020 ticket with Pence and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley.
"I guarantee you I will have a candidate challenge Mike Pence," said while speaking on the "Howley Reports" show.
Stone derided Pence as a "establishment Republican quisling" who is under the control of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, House Speaker Paul Ryan, and the Koch brothers.
Asked what he thinks about Haley, Stone grimaced and alleged that she "loves war" that isn't in the interest of the U.S.
On the prospect of a Pence-Haley ticket, Stone exclaimed, "Bring it on!"
The New York Times recently reported that Trump has been alarmed by the rising diplomatic star of Haley and even grown suspicious of her political ambitions. “Republicans close to the White House whisper about the prospect of an alliance between Ms. Haley and Vice President Mike Pence,” the Times reported in April, pointing to a possible run as a ticket in 2020.
Though Trump has already begun campaigning for re-election -- he has already chosen a 2020 slogan: "Keep America Great!" -- Stone cast doubt on it being a sure thing.
"I don't think that it is a foregone conclusion that the president will definitely run," Stone said. "If at the end of the next three years the economy is very strong, he has built the wall, sealed our borders, he's reformed our immigration policies, he has redone these trade agreements so that they are beneficial to the United States, that he has got a peace agreement in Korea -- I could see him saying, 'You know what? I don't need this anymore. I made America great again. I have kept my promises to the American people. I'm heading off to the golf course.'"
Q. What’s the difference between conservatives and cannibals?
A. Cannibals don’t eat their own.
I thought President Trump already stated his intention to run for re-election?
If Trump bails it would be a sign such as in the Bible when God turned away his face (rejected helping) the Hebrews. Not forever but long enough to cause horrible loss and pain.
Dear God, Please don’t take away Trump after You gave him to us. Amen.
You had better be right. We’re depending on that.
Can’t this guy just shut up?
No wonder President Trump distanced himself from Stone.
Sheesh, it’s like Rock Hudson told Liberace - with friends like him, who needs enemas?
Because second terms are troublesome and wasteful. Already, after the 2nd term begins, the horserace begins and the polls come out. If there's one thing Mexico and the Confederacy had right, it was that the President only serves a single six-year term.
I’d give this speculation about as much credibility as that espoused by his ex-wife Ivana, who has recently urged him not to run for reelection and take it easy (play golf).
President Trump continually asserts how he will appear at given events for another six years.
Moreover, he has trademarked his 2020 theme of “Keep America Great.”
There is still plenty of his MAGA agenda to be accomplished, especially on immigration (Building The Wall) and of course, DRAINING THE SWAMP!!!
Pence/Haley would be a disaster for US.
Both of them are Cheap Labor Express stooges.
Amen and Amen.
Roger Stone is a dilettante and a libertine. His mi d is confused by all the dope he smokes. He is a master at puffery, lying if you prefer, and not much else
you have predicted 200 of the last 3 actual disasters.
“If at the end of the next three years the economy is very strong, he has built the wall, sealed our borders, he’s reformed our immigration policies, he has redone these trade agreements so that they are beneficial to the United States, that he has got a peace agreement in Korea — I could see him saying, ‘You know what? I don’t need this anymore. I made America great again. I have kept my promises to the American people. I’m heading off to the golf course.’”
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If he got all that done, I’d buy him a new set of clubs.
roger stone is a whack job. why anyone listens to him is beyond me.
You may like the USA being turned into North Mexico, but I do not.
Yeah, the New York Times is a paragon of virtuous truth.
Roger has never been close to Trump. It is as with all of his stories full of his puffery
The MSM would eat Pence alive.
I don’t think there is another Trump coming down the pike.
So, I guess we will all go back to the way it was
before Trump.
That is a depressing thought.
They'd get about 40% of the vote and less EVs than Hillary.
Stone’s got a weird tongue tick.
...like Barty Crouch Jr. in Harry Potter.
It’s creepy.
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