Creator of giant 'Vote for Trump' sign in New York teases run for Congress



The man responsible for the giant "Vote for Trump" sign that recently lit up the sky in Upstate New York is now considering a run for federal office.

It's no secret that Anthony Constantino, CEO of Sticker Mule, supports President-elect Donald Trump. Not only did Constantino create a Trump-related PAC, but he also ordered a 100-foot "Vote for Trump" sign to be constructed atop a Sticker Mule facility in Amsterdam, a city of some 18,000 residents about 35 miles northwest of Albany.

'President Trump is a unity president, and I'll do whatever I can to help him make America great for everyone.'

Now that Constantino and more than 75 million other Americans have gotten their wish and Trump has won re-election, Constantino is thinking about how he can best serve his president and his country going forward. With Trump tapping New York Rep. Elise Stefanik (R) as ambassador to the United Nations, Constantino is now mulling a run for the seat Stefanik will vacate after a decade in office, should she be confirmed.

"I am strongly considering running for the NY-21 Congressional seat. Thank you!" he tweeted Monday night.

Constantino went into greater detail about the possible run on an appearance on Monday's episode of "The StoneZONE" hosted by longtime Trump ally Roger Stone.

"I want to do whatever is most impactful in the world, what's best for the country, and it seems like this might be it," Constantino said.

According to the Post Millennial, Constantino and Stefanik went to high school together, and he has long supported her work. He has also already begun gathering a team to consider the next steps in the process.

"President Trump is a unity president, and I'll do whatever I can to help him make America great for everyone. If that's in Congress, I'll fight hard to win big and continue winning after I'm elected," Constantino said in a statement to the Post Millennial.

So far, Constantino seems to have one friend in his corner. In a statement to the Post Millennial, Stone said Constantino "has what it takes."

"He built his company from the ground up, creating thousands of jobs. He stood up for President Trump in the face of certain backlash. We need smart and courageous people who aren’t career politicians like him in Washington now more than ever."

A month ago, Constantino appeared on "The Glenn Beck Program," telling Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck that Trump "did tremendous things for the country" in his first term, especially regarding free speech.

"Nobody wants to have duct tape put on their mouth. Nobody wants the right to speech taken away," Constantino said.

Free speech was just one of many reasons that Constantino, a registered Democrat, constructed the Trump sign on his building.

"I'm trying to end this epidemic of anti-Trump hate that's been bad, really, for both sides," he explained to Beck. "People got to be able to be comfortable to say they like President Trump."

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Roger Stone: CNN never covers Trump rallies live — why were they at his assassination attempt?



There are still far too many unanswered questions surrounding the near-assassination of former President Donald Trump — and Roger Stone has some new questions to add to the pile.

“Why would CNN, which never covers any of his rallies live, why were they there? Why is there a very high-paid freelance photographer shooting with super high-speed film, who ... can see the image of the bullet flying by his head? Why were they there?” Stone asks Alex Stein of “Prime Time with Alex Stein.”

“I find that extraordinarily suspicious,” he continues.

Stein is also especially suspicious of what may happen at Trump’s upcoming events and rallies.

“I think they’re going to try and take out Donald Trump again. So what is he going to do or change if he’s running his campaign knowing that he has a target from, I would say, the Deep State, maybe the Secret Service, maybe CIA, maybe FBI, who knows? But it’s obvious they don’t want him to become president again,” Stein says.

Stone doesn’t have an answer, but he does believe that Trump “might still be a target.”

“I think he’s very stoic about it,” Stone says. “He was spared through the grace of God for a reason. Jesus Christ has a purpose for Donald Trump, and the purpose is to save the country.”

“We have to continue to pray for safety,” he adds.


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Roger Stone: Democrats joining Trump DESTROYS Kamala’s momentum, signals a 'new political movement'



There’s no question in Roger Stone’s mind that former President Donald Trump has a chance of winning the 2024 election — regardless of the unprecedented hurdles he’s facing.

“You’ve got intrepid opposition of the mainstream media, the continue to cover for Kamala Harris in terms of who she really is, what her real record is, her responsibility for the policies of the last three plus years that are destroying the country,” the legendary Republican campaign adviser tells Alex Stein of “Prime Time with Alex Stein.”

However, “There’s a new political movement in the country” that he believes is “potentially a complete political realignment.”

“The endorsement of Donald Trump by Robert F. Kennedy [Jr.] is a game changer. When you add Wonder Woman, Tulsi Gabbard, who I think is an extraordinary warrior against the deep state and the war machine, what you have here is potentially like 1932, like 1968,” Stone says, recalling the election of Reagan.

“You have a real new realignment of Republicans, Libertarians, freethinkers, Independents, people who believe in capitalism, people who believe in freedom, people who are concerned about censorship, people who are concerned about war. This is a sea change. These announcements cap any upward momentum that Kamala Harris may have gotten from the convention,” he explains.

Stone adds that he is “very optimistic about the energy surrounding the Trump reform movement” and “the America first movement.”

His major concern lies in election integrity, though he’s hopeful as it’s “being worked on in a very smart and aggressive way.”

“Is Donald Trump as popular as Ronald Reagan was in your personal opinion, Roger?” Stein asks Stone, curious.

“Actually, I think he’s much more popular,” Stone says, telling Stein that Trump is the leader of “the non-elitist party of working people.”

However, Stone has a warning if Trump doesn’t come out on top this election.

“If we don’t win this election, we may not even have an election in four years. Not by our hand, but by theirs,” he says.


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Jack Smith’s Anti-Trump Deputy Excoriated For Inappropriate Behavior At DOJ

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Former Trump ally Roger Stone threatens to run against DeSantis in 2022, unless governor promises not to run for president in 2024



Roger Stone, a longtime Republican operative and former Trump campaign associate, said he will run for governor of Florida in 2022 to split the Republican vote and defeat Gov. Ron DeSantis — unless DeSantis promises he will not run for president in 2024.

Stone told WFOR-TV that he would run as a Libertarian or some other third-party candidate to siphon votes away from DeSantis and help a Democrat become governor unless DeSantis pledged to serve all four years of his second term, should he win reelection.

"I believe that Gov. DeSantis, assuming he's going to run for re-election, should pledge to the people of Florida that he will fill out all four years of a second term," Stone said on Friday. "What I don't want to see is for him to be reelected and then immediately abandon Florida to run off and run for president, particularly if he's running against Donald Trump."

DeSantis, who was first elected in 2018 and announced in October he will run for reelection, has become one of the most well-known and popular Republican governors in the nation for his anti-lockdown, anti-mandate leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic. His record as governor, relative youth at age 43, and experience in Washington D.C. as a former congressman has led many to consider him a strong contender for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, should he want it.

Speaking for himself, DeSantis said in September that speculation about 2024 is "nonsense" and that he's focused on re-election next year. Of course, politicians typically deny that they want to run for president when they're thinking about running for president.

But whatever presidential ambitions DeSantis may or may not have are largely in the shadow of former President Donald Trump's apparent ambitions to retake the White House from Joe Biden. Though he's made no official announcement, Trump has repeatedly told his supporters they're going to be "very happy" with his ultimate decision on 2024.

The "will he, won't he" speculation over Trump has frozen other prospective GOP presidential candidates, who would face the daunting task of mounting a primary challenge against the former president, who is still overwhelmingly popular with Republicans, if he runs. A Trump comeback campaign is likely to dominate resources that are necessary to run for president — namely big-money donors, grassroots volunteers, and endorsements.

Some of Trump's allies, like Stone, are already playing offense for Trump by attempting to sandbag a potential primary challenger before anyone has even started a campaign.

"I just don't think Florida should be a stepping stone to the president for any person," Stone told WFOR-TV.

He said if he runs against DeSantis, it won't be because he thinks he can win. The point isn't to win, it's to make DeSantis lose, which would severely weaken his chances of ever becoming president.

"The people who love Ron DeSantis the most are of course the people who have never met him," Stone said. "I don't think that I would have to get many votes to change the results of this race."

If Stone does run, he previewed a possible avenue of attack he'll use against DeSantis last week, when he attacked the governor for neglecting to audit the 2020 election in Florida.

"If Florida governor Ron DeSantis does not order an audit of the 2020 election to expose the fact that there are over 1 million phantom voters on the Florida voter rolls in the Sunshine state I may be forced to seek the Libertarian Party nomination for governor Florida in 2022 #ByeRon," Stone wrote on social media.

His claim about "phantom voters" appears baseless. Donald Trump defeated Joe Biden by more than 370,000 votes in Florida in 2020. Governor DeSantis' office told WFOR-TV it conducted a pre- and post-election audit of the election and did not find any significant irregularities.

In 2019, Stone was convicted of seven felony accounts including making false statements to the FBI, witness tampering, and obstruction of justice. Stone would be in prison today were it not for Trump, who commuted his sentence in July 2020.

DOJ sues Roger Stone and wife for $2M in unpaid taxes, alleging fraud



The Justice Department sued longtime Trump ally Roger Stone and his wife, Nydia, in a civil lawsuit on Friday, alleging the couple owes unpaid taxes plus interest and penalties to the tune of nearly $2 million.

The feds accuse the Stones of using fraudulent measures to dodge paying up, but Mr. Stone says the suit is "politically motivated."

What are the details?

The complaint filed in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, claims that the Stones underpaid their taxes in the years 2007 through 2011, and in 2018, and that they owe roughly $1.997 million in unpaid taxes, fines and interest.

NBC News noted that "the government also said the Stones at one point entered into an agreement to cover taxes owed through monthly installments of nearly $20,000, but stopped paying."

The suit also accuses the Stones of moving more than $1 million of their personal funds to an LLC they own, called Drake Ventures, which the DOJ says "evaded and frustrated the IRS's collection efforts."

The Stones then allegedly paid "a substantial amount of their personal expenses" from the Drake Ventures accounts, according to the feds.

The lawsuit further states:

Although they used funds held in Drake Ventures accounts to pay some of their taxes, the Stones' use of Drake Ventures to hold their funds allowed them to shield their personal income from enforced collection and fund a lavish lifestyle despite owing nearly $2 million in unpaid taxes, interest and penalties.

The suit was "commenced at the direction of the Attorney General of the United States," Merrick Garland.

Roger Stone was a target of the Mueller investigation, under which he was found guilty of lying to Congress and was sentenced to 40 months in prison. But former President Trump commuted his sentence in July 2020 before he served any prison time. Trump then pardoned Stone before he left the White House.

In reaction to the DOJ's lawsuit, Stone told the Associated Press on Friday:

"The Internal Revenue Service is well aware of the fact that my three-year battle for freedom against the corrupted Mueller investigation has left me destitute. They're well aware that I have no assets and that their lawsuit is politically motivated. It's particularly interesting that my tax attorneys were not told of this action, filed at close of business on a Friday. The American people will learn, in court, that I am on the verge of bankruptcy and that there are no assets for the government to take."

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