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00:01:44.580 Do you remember Mike Lindell, the MyPillow guy?

00:01:49.520 Mike Lindell had an impressive story of being a recovered drug addict who turned his life to Christ that I still choose to believe.

00:01:58.620 But Mike Lindell pumped $3 million into building a social media platform that was supposed to compete with Twitter back before Elon Musk owned Twitter, when it was still a site of censorship and cancellation.

00:02:15.000 He put $3 million into this new social media platform.

00:02:19.440 He collected hundreds of thousands of names of new signups.

00:02:24.440 And on the day that it went live, of course, it crashed.

00:02:28.760 The guys who charged him $3 million told him it had been hacked by the Chinese, but my sources tell me otherwise.

00:02:36.080 Then he went on an election integrity crusade.

00:02:39.380 He had a huge election integrity conference where he promised the world that he would produce definitive evidence that the 2020 election was stolen, paid some former intelligence agents almost $2 million, but even Steve Bannon, his buddy, criticized Mike for not being able to produce the goods.

00:03:00.060 Well, now Mike Lindell, whose pillow empire went bankrupt, is running for governor of Minnesota, an office that, quite candidly, I think he is the one Republican who probably cannot win based on polling.

00:03:13.640 But what I find interesting is that his position on immigration, when he announced his candidacy in December of 2025, he said he favored strict enforcement, focusing on opposing sanctuary policies, supported border security and ICE cooperation to remove criminal illegals.

00:03:31.660 He would protect resources for citizens and legal residents.

00:03:35.460 If you're here illegally, he said, now is the time to leave or you will be sent back.

00:03:40.780 Then-President Trump endorsed him about a week ago.

00:03:43.960 Now, suddenly, Mike Lindell has a new position.

00:03:47.520 Now he's saying that he favors a one-time six-month registration window, a moratorium for any non-criminal illegal to stay in Minnesota, conditioning on expiring work visas.

00:04:02.880 You have to be fingerprinted and background checked.

00:04:06.040 This is a political flip-flop I would never have expected from Mike Lindell.

00:04:12.020 But then, Mike Lindell has disappointed me before when we learned that Steve Bannon was the subject of 1,900 emails exchanged with Jeffrey Epstein,

00:04:22.780 who had been working closely with Epstein to rehabilitate his public image.

00:04:27.920 Well, Mike Lindell continued to associate with Bannon.

00:04:31.400 So I guess I should not be surprised.

00:04:33.540 Anyway, the House Judiciary Chairman, Jim Jordan, has now referred Special Counsel Jack Smith. Jack Smith is the special counsel who ran the raid on Mar-a-Lago and essentially was the key man in the tsunami of lawfare in which they tried to destroy Donald Trump.

00:04:52.460 They tried to break him financially. They tried to keep him off the ballot. They tried to put him in jail. But now Smith himself has been referred to the Justice Department for criminal prosecution.

00:05:06.540 I used to think the Russian collusion hoax was the greatest single dirty trick in American history, the greatest single abuse of power in which the full authority of the United States government was utilized for strictly political purposes, utilizing, in this case, two pieces of totally fabricated evidence, the so-called Steele dossier.

00:05:29.180 That was a report which falsely alleged that Donald Trump, while visiting Moscow, was a private businessman that dallied with Russian prostitutes and was paid for by Hillary Clinton and was a complete fraud.

00:05:43.400 And also the still false claim that the Democrat National Committee was hacked by Russian intelligence and that those emails were spirited over to WikiLeaks was the underlying claim of the charges against me.

00:06:00.300 There's no proof of that whatsoever.

00:06:02.020 However, in fact, I wanted to introduce expert testimony and forensic evidence which would have proved definitively that the Democrat National Committee was never hacked by the Russians or anyone else for that matter.

00:06:17.920 In any event, we now have evidence that in a letter that Chairman Jim Jordan wrote to the acting attorney, General Todd Blanche, that Smith made knowingly false statements under oath before Congress in his December 2025 congressional dispositions.

00:06:36.380 Smith was grilled about the Biden-era Arctic Frost operation that unconstitutionally subpoenaed the phone records from more than a dozen Republican members of Congress, complete with gag orders so that the targets wouldn't even know that the deep state was watching them.

00:06:52.840 When asked whether he or members of his prosecution team ever accessed the content of those privileged text messages, Smith claimed they had not.

00:07:02.880 But the new DOJ documents prove that claim is false.

00:07:07.220 This wasn't a paperwork error.

00:07:08.740 This was a calculated effort by a Biden-appointed special counsel to spy on elected Republicans and associates of the president, including yours truly, to then stonewall Congress and to cover his tracks.

00:07:20.800 Now, they charged me with making false statements to Congress, but although I did make misstatements, none of them were material. In other words, I had no motive to lie. I made errors, but there was no Russian collusion to lie about. There was nothing to cover up.

00:07:37.020 That was definitively proved when a federal judge ordered that Robert Mueller's final report, long redacted and hidden from my lawyers during trial by the judge and the American public, but released on November 3rd of 2020, proved definitively that they had found no evidence of Russian collusion, WikiLeaks collaboration, or any other crime on my part.

00:08:01.440 Any misstatement I made was inadvertent and immaterial.

00:08:05.400 Not so in the case of Smith.

00:08:08.040 Smith's team just didn't just dig into January 6th.

00:08:10.740 The infamous Fed surrection on January 6th served as a dastardly honeypot to ensnare Trump-supporting election integrity activists.

00:08:20.240 Then they went after the private communications of the people's elected representatives.

00:08:24.740 That is, by the way, the very definition of lawfare.

00:08:27.440 using the justice system as a political weapon against the opposition.

00:08:32.540 These details prove that the weaponization of the DOJ under Biden

00:08:37.200 was an assault on the Constitution itself.

00:08:40.300 When a prosecutor lies under oath to Congress about spying on lawmakers,

00:08:44.160 he isn't just committing perjury, he's undermining the separation of powers,

00:08:49.080 the very foundation of self-government.

00:08:51.420 In other words, one branch of government should not be allowed to spy on another branch,

00:08:55.860 particularly the elected branch of government. In any other era, targeting the political opposition

00:09:01.620 with secret surveillance and then lying about it under oath would be treated as a betrayal of the

00:09:06.000 highest order. So I believe the appropriate charge here is treason and that Jack Smith has abused

00:09:13.600 his authority in what was now, I think, the greatest single abuse of power in American history.

00:09:21.560 Will anybody be held accountable? Well, that remains to be seen. Jim Jordan sends a lot of

00:09:28.960 letters. Republicans are very good at sending hot letters. I remember when 29 FBI agents stormed my

00:09:36.200 home at six o'clock in the morning to arrest me for the first time nonviolent crime of allegedly

00:09:42.000 lying to Congress. The late Lindsey Graham got huge headlines by firing off a letter to the FBI 0.71

00:09:48.420 director demanding to know who had approved this raid on my home. The FBI never answered the letter,

00:09:55.820 but the late Senator Graham got his headline. Republicans seem to be very good at launching

00:10:00.940 letters, strongly worded letters. They don't seem to be too good at keeping people, holding people

00:10:07.140 responsible. Recently, our company softball team lost the big game by one run. Then Dale tried to

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00:11:53.740 Meanwhile, the Democrats already eyeing the 2028 presidential field and the early numbers are

00:11:59.220 not good for the chances of ending MAGA and retaking the country. A brand new poll

00:12:04.440 From the University of New Hampshire shows that radical New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, better known as AOC, is actually leading the Democrat primary with 22 percent, with former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg behind her, I say that lightly, at 21. 0.77

00:12:24.280 Meanwhile, former Vice President Kamala Harris comes in at a pathetic 5% 0.90

00:12:29.540 When you consider that she spent literally billions of dollars running for president in the last cycle 0.92

00:12:34.800 That's really extraordinary

00:12:36.260 The party's two top prospects seem to be AOC, the self-described Democratic Socialist

00:12:42.520 Who once declared capitalism irredeemable

00:12:45.400 Compared ICE detention centers to concentration camps

00:12:48.820 And said America is governed by fascists

00:12:51.560 And Pete Buttigieg, the LGBT stalwart who claims racism is physically built into some of our highways, he said that as transportation secretary, floated gender equity crash test dummies, and on national television refused to draw a clear line against late-term abortions that I think you could call infanticide.

00:13:12.920 These are not mainstream leaders. This is the far left's dream ticket, which will alienate swing voters, I think, in crucial battleground states who still believe in borders, energy independence, and plain old common sense.

00:13:26.240 While Democrats chase these socialist fantasies and take identity politics to its extremes, I think Republicans are consolidating around serious contenders like Vice President J.D. Vance, who leads the Republican side in that same New Hampshire poll with 36% of the vote, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who runs strong at 28.

00:13:48.680 After years of open borders, inflation, and cultural chaos, it is a time for the American people to show they have no tolerance for the radical left and their toxic, unpopular, self-destructive policies.

00:14:03.680 policies. If AOC and Buttigieg are the best the Democrats can offer in 2028, I would say their

00:14:09.880 prospects look bleak and dealed. But the old Democratic Party, the Democratic Party of John

00:14:15.100 F. Kennedy, the Democratic Party of Harry Truman, the party that believed in capitalism, a free

00:14:19.960 enterprise, a strong national defense, an anti-communist Democrat Party, a party that

00:14:26.100 believed in God, that party literally no longer exists. And the takeover of the Democrat Party

00:14:33.480 by the radical socialists is complete.

00:14:38.480 This is the other point, I guess, here,

00:14:40.960 is that AOC may opt not to run for president. 0.99

00:14:43.520 She may run for the United States Senate 0.97

00:14:44.980 in the Empire State, in which case,

00:14:47.920 well, I think Chuck Schumer would be toast

00:14:50.420 in the Democrat primary.

00:14:51.940 I'm Roger Stone.

00:14:52.820 You're listening to The Stone Zone.

00:14:53.880 We'll be right back with more on the other side.

00:15:03.480 work. Welcome back into the Stone Zone. You know, everyone who is my age knows exactly where they

00:15:11.840 were and what they were doing when they heard that President John F. Kennedy had been shot and

00:15:16.700 killed in the streets of Dallas on November 22nd, 1963. I would go on to write a New York Times

00:15:24.360 bestselling book about it. Right now I'm working on a book about the attempted assassination on

00:15:30.300 President Ronald Reagan, because, well, if you file a freedom of information request with the

00:15:36.840 federal government, everything you get back is completely and totally redacted, telling you

00:15:42.140 nothing whatsoever about John Hinckley Jr. and the attempted assassination on Ronald Reagan. I've

00:15:49.000 learned much about that, and I'm going to release the book shortly. The United States Secret Service

00:15:55.020 is warning that the threat environment surrounding President Trump and other protected officials is

00:16:01.040 the worst that the agency has ever experienced. Officials say that roughly 10,000 threat cases

00:16:07.280 have already been logged in 2026. That's a 40 percent increase from the same period last year.

00:16:14.480 This is why I have added the safety of President Donald Trump to my rosary every night. There have

00:16:20.900 been not one, not two, but I count actually four attempts on the president's life. I'm still not

00:16:27.700 satisfied with the official explanation that Thomas Matthew Crooks acted alone in Butler,

00:16:35.240 Pennsylvania. But I do recall that same feeling in the pit of my stomach that I felt when Kennedy

00:16:40.940 was shot, when they tried to kill Reagan and when they attempted to kill Donald Trump.

00:16:46.800 Now, there have now been multiple violent episodes of protected sites.

00:16:52.540 Instigators have also acknowledged many serious security failures during the Butler, Pennsylvania rally.

00:16:58.840 One attendee, Corey Compintori, a firefighter was killed and others were wounded.

00:17:03.600 What really aggravates me when I go online is when some people say, well, this was all staged, staged by Trump, or some people say staged by Roger Stone.

00:17:14.800 That's particularly offensive.

00:17:15.600 offensive. A man was killed. That is indisputable. How it is that the state, local, and federal

00:17:24.240 law enforcement were all on different radio frequencies and could not communicate with

00:17:30.620 each other, how they missed more than 100 individual reports of a man on the roof with

00:17:36.600 a rifle and a range fighter is a little hard to understand. Also, their failure to conduct a drone

00:17:43.600 surveillance. The local police actually offered to do it for the

00:17:47.680 Secret Service. The Secret Service declined, but then the Secret Service

00:17:51.560 couldn't figure out how to get the drone technology that they had

00:17:55.800 licensed to work. There was actually a Secret Service agent on the

00:17:59.760 800 number with the manufacturer of the drone

00:18:03.180 technology trying to figure out how to get it to work. I think

00:18:07.780 America has to confront this political climate that helped produce this danger.

00:18:11.500 For years, a Trump derangement media culture has portrayed one man and tens of millions of his supporters like me as fascists or extremists, white supremacists or existential threats to democracy.

00:18:27.080 When public figures are relentlessly demonized in this kind of apocalyptic language, unstable people can interpret political hatred as a license for violence.

00:18:41.500 This doesn't excuse any attacker, in my view.

00:18:43.960 Responsibility, of course, belongs to the criminal.

00:18:46.240 But responsible journalism requires recognizing that messaging shapes the national atmosphere.

00:18:51.840 The press should stop treating inflammatory rhetoric as if it was harmless when it targets President Trump, Republicans, or anyone in our political society.

00:19:02.340 Political disagreement is legitimate, but dehumanizing is not.

00:19:06.820 The Secret Service must receive the manpower, technology, counter-drone authority, and institutional reforms needed to protect our national leaders, regardless of party.

00:19:16.820 And that includes building the secure White House ballroom.

00:19:20.840 It's not incidental that there have now been two attempts on presidents at the Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C.

00:19:28.500 The fake news, I'm afraid, is beyond redemption. They must be disposed of completely in terms of their monolithic ability to set the stage for the national dialogue. But in the meantime, the threats against our president are really real. They are in a record, and therefore I urge you to join me in praying for our president, our vice president, all of our leaders, regardless of party.

00:19:53.480 I'm Roger Stone.

00:19:54.300 You're listening to The Stone Zone.

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00:20:36.640 The U.S. House of Representatives has narrowly passed a $1.15 trillion defense policy bill,

00:20:44.820 but they attached the Save America Act to a package that funds the military, nuclear security, and a 3.6% pay raise for our military.

00:20:55.940 They attached the SAVE Act, that is the simple provision that requires that one be a citizen of the United States and have a photo ID before you're allowed to vote in a federal election.

00:21:08.480 Polls show that some 87% of the American people support this simple provision, which has now passed the House, attached to the defense appropriations, but is yet to pass the Senate.

00:21:20.540 The final vote in the House was 216 to 212, and from a common-sense perspective, there's a lot there to support.

00:21:28.200 America must rebuild our military readiness, invest in modern weapons, and ensure that our troops are properly compensated.

00:21:36.480 The bill also includes a welcome provision that actually imposes a modest funding penalty if the Pentagon again fails an audit.

00:21:45.300 After eight consecutive failed audits, taxpayers deserve accountability, and the military-industrial complex must not be given a free pass when it comes to our tax dollars.

00:21:57.820 The Save America Act finally addresses the concern that only American citizens, as I say, should vote in U.S. elections, requiring proof of citizenship and phone identification is just common sense,

00:22:09.040 provided lawmakers establish practical procedures for citizens who lack passports or easy access to birth records.

00:22:17.320 The idea that this is somehow racist just kind of defies common sense.

00:22:23.480 Now the responsibility ultimately relies on the U.S. Senate.

00:22:27.480 The Senate should preserve the strongest part of this important military bill.

00:22:32.160 I mean, the military readiness, the troop pay increase, but also the election integrity portions of it as well.

00:22:39.040 If Senate removes the Safe America Act provisions from the defense bill while rubber stamping massive spending, that would be a trail of the president and his principals, and it could be a disaster for Republican chances in these upcoming midterm elections.

00:22:54.540 Strong defense and secure elections are both essential.

00:22:57.840 I think these issues go hand in hand.

00:23:00.120 The Senate can't drop the ball on this, or the consequences could very well be dire.

00:23:04.740 But we're held up by something called the filibuster rule.

00:23:07.640 That means that in the Senate, you don't need 51 votes to pass a piece of legislation.

00:23:14.020 I think there are 50 votes today for the Save America Act, and Vice President J.D. Vance could then cast a tie-breaking vote, and it would become law.

00:23:23.900 But under the filibuster rule, and this is important, this is not a law, this is a Senate rule, essentially a custom or a tradition,

00:23:32.420 It requires 60 votes to bring the Save America Act to the floor.

00:23:39.240 Now, sadly, the Senate Majority Leader, John Thune of Nebraska, steadfastly refused to break the filibuster rule and bring this to a floor, which I think could cost the Republicans extraordinarily this November.

00:23:55.280 It's time to pass the Save America Act and stop the politics.

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00:25:29.760 Meanwhile, the Trump administration is reaching a historic achievement in terms of defending public safety

00:25:36.040 The homicide rate across all major U.S. cities actually fell 18% in the first half of 2026

00:25:44.520 And may be heading towards a historic low

00:25:47.380 A new Council on Criminal Justice report examined 13 criminal categories in 36 cities.

00:25:54.700 Nine declined.

00:25:56.360 Homicides were down in most cities studied, while carjacking dropped an extraordinary 47%.

00:26:02.220 Comparing that with the first half of 2019, homicides were actually down 31%.

00:26:07.820 The results are irrefutable, and they're a political triumph for President Trump's law and order agenda.

00:26:13.760 His administration has actually restored the basic principle that the government's first duty is to protect innocent citizens, not making excuses for criminals, not undermining the police, not allowing chaos to become normal.

00:26:29.500 After years of far-left prosecutors, anti-police rhetoric, open-border disorders, and soft-on-crime insanity, America seems to be moving back towards the rule of law as the public is sick of coddling criminals.

00:26:43.760 Federal support for law enforcement, aggressive action against violent gangs, stronger border security, and renewed respect for police all send the unmistakable message that criminals, not law-abiding families, should fear the justice system.

00:26:59.080 I think our leaders must continue supporting officers, prosecuting repeat offenders, securing the border, and rejecting radical policies that put the far-left ideology above public safety.

00:27:10.120 The direction America is moving is clear. The Trump administration is fulfilling its promise and allowing American families to once again live in peace. While we're at it, we should bring back cash bail, cashless bail, as is done in New York State. It's a humongous mistake.

00:27:28.340 Meanwhile, Trump Accounts, a new federal investment program for children, which officially launched on July 4th, has already drawn significant participation.

00:27:38.000 The Secretary of the Treasury, Scott Besson, announced that more than 7 million accounts have been opened for children under 18, with roughly $1.5 billion invested so far.

00:27:51.360 So about 1.7 million children qualify for the program's one-time $1,000 federal contribution

00:27:59.620 In other words, seed money put in by the government under Donald Trump

00:28:03.740 Will be available for children born between January 1st, 2025 and December 31st, 2028

00:28:10.720 The accounts function like traditional IRAs

00:28:14.940 Investments grow tax-deferred, where withdrawals generally cannot begin until the child turns 18

00:28:21.080 Parents, guardians, relatives, employers, governments, and qualified non-profits may also contribute, although contribution limits and tax treatment may vary.

00:28:32.900 Families, friends, employer contributions generally cannot exceed $5,000 annually per account.

00:28:40.920 Employer contributions are capped at $2,500 per employee.

00:28:45.460 Government and non-profit contributions don't count towards the limit.

00:28:48.620 Funds are invested in low-cost, diversified American stock market funds.

00:28:54.260 The default option tracks the S&P 500 with additional index fund choices expected.

00:29:01.160 At age 18, the accounts convert into traditional IRAs.

00:29:06.120 Early withdrawals may face taxes and penalties, though, except exceptions exist for higher education,

00:29:12.180 buying a first home, adoption, medical emergencies, and certain other medical costs.

00:29:18.620 Trump accounts are giving children a valuable financial head start, particularly when families and employers contribute consistently.

00:29:27.540 Now is the time for young families, I think, to take advantage of this revolutionary plan that will build wealth for the next generation

00:29:34.580 and end the culture of dependency that fuels the continuous growth of big government.

00:29:40.580 This is a perfect example of the creativity of the Trump administration.

00:29:45.300 It will be in Trump's legacy the way Social Security is in the legacy of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

00:29:54.720 Meanwhile, a major FDA fight is going over experimental peptide treatments and showing how the Fed bureaucracy is striking back against Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy's Make America Healthy Agenda.

00:30:11.920 An FDA advisory committee is reviewing whether specialized pharmacies should again be allowed to produce seven pepcide injections that were banned three years ago over safety concerns.

00:30:26.640 Secretary Kennedy has argued that the restrictions push patients into a dangerous gray market that regulated compounding with proper safeguards could offer a safer path and greater healing and health.

00:30:39.120 Agency scientists oppose broader access, saying the peptides lack sufficient human data on safety and effectiveness. No final decision has currently been made.

00:30:49.640 I can tell you firsthand the black market in peptides is extraordinary.

00:30:54.780 I know because my inbox is constantly bombarded with clinics seeking to sell me peptides that I cannot get legally.

00:31:05.180 I know people who have used peptides in their healing process.

00:31:09.740 I have not chosen to do so, but that black market very much exists.

00:31:14.720 The controversy here exposes a deeper battle over who controls American medicine. 0.90

00:31:20.960 Secretary Kennedy has promised a challenge in FDA culture, long criticized for favoring entrenched pharmaceutical interests at Big Pharma, limiting patient choice and treating innovation outside the traditional approval system as a threat.

00:31:34.980 Unelected, faceless bureaucrats are clinging to what's left of their closed system

00:31:41.500 That protects corporate gatekeepers to the detriment of patients

00:31:45.260 The sensible path is neither reckless free-for-all nor automatic deference to the bureaucracy

00:31:52.180 It's a transparent science, strict disclosures, adverse event reporting, and carefully controlled access

00:32:00.180 People should be allowed to choose.

00:32:01.700 The FDA should not make the best unbiased information available to the masses.

00:32:07.520 They should not be restricting treatments to protect Big Pharma's bloated profit margins.

00:32:13.300 Kennedy must continue to push back against the FDA because their decisions jeopardize health freedom.

00:32:19.180 My wife is a cancer survivor.

00:32:21.660 and in all honesty, I doubt that she would now be five years cancer-free

00:32:26.780 without alternative treatments for cancer.

00:32:30.860 President Donald Trump and the Right to Try Act has been a pioneer in this entire area

00:32:36.780 and I think more and freer access to alternative medicine should be allowed.

00:32:44.540 Meanwhile, New Jersey's non-citizen voter registration scandal is going more serious

00:32:49.560 As a software company blamed by the governor disputes the state's account, Governor Mikey Sherrill says that a vendor error caused more than 6,600 people who identify themselves as non-citizens to be placed on voter rolls between June of 2023 and June of 2024.

00:33:08.400 Fewer than 400 of them supposedly cast ballots, but vendor I.D. Mia says its role was merely to transmit motor vehicle commission data to the State Division of Elections, which remains responsible for reviewing eligibility and approving registration.

00:33:27.740 That disagreement raises an obvious question.

00:33:30.400 Who's actually checking the voter rolls?

00:33:32.120 The state now says it will remove the registrations, replace the software, and conduct an independent investigation.

00:33:38.400 But federal officials have also demanded detailed records, while the Department of Homeland Security says that a broader review identified thousands of additional registrations potentially matching federal non-citizen records.

00:33:52.480 Those larger figures remain under investigation and should be verified carefully, but the central fact is already alarming.

00:34:01.080 People who answered that they are not citizens still entered the voter registration system, and some of them evidently, apparently, voted.

00:34:07.580 Election integrity cannot depend on bureaucrats, vendors, and agencies blaming one another after illegal ballots are cast.

00:34:16.040 States need documentation of the proof of citizenship, I think reliable database checks, transparent audits, and clear accountability.

00:34:25.140 Every American should want lawful voters protected and unlawful registrations prevented.

00:34:31.040 That's not voter suppression.

00:34:33.140 It's basic self-government.

00:34:34.780 New Jersey's failure strengthens the case for the Save America Act and nationwide safeguards

00:34:40.440 ensuring that only American citizens choose American leaders.

00:34:44.020 Last weekend, I had Chris Jersky from the People's Audit in the Stone Zone,

00:34:48.600 and he made a very good case, which is the databases of those who are deceased are readily available in all 50 states.

00:34:56.780 Merely checking them against the voter rolls would determine for you who was no longer with us.

00:35:04.600 There is one simple way to keep the voter rolls clean.

00:35:08.520 Compare the list of those who have passed away, who are deceased, against those who are registered to vote.

00:35:13.780 Seems like common sense to me.

00:35:16.560 But until we have cleaner voter rolls, then you have the opening for phony mail-in ballots and other abuses.

00:35:25.140 Anyway, I'm Roger Stone. You're listening to The Stone Zone.

00:35:27.620 Don't go away, because we'll be right back.

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00:35:37.900 Back into the Stone Zone

00:35:40.720 Chicago's political leadership, led by the far-left socialist Mayor Brandon Johnson

00:35:46.680 Is moving towards a dangerous new confrontation with federal immigration law

00:35:51.640 Now, if Mayor Brandon Johnson's IQ was one point lower, I think you'd have to water him like a plant

00:35:57.080 Last time I looked, he had an approval rating at 6%.

00:36:01.460 But the Chicago City Council has now approved a November referendum

00:36:05.240 asking Chicago whether they should seek compensation from Washington

00:36:09.500 for the supposed economic harm caused by last year's federal immigration crackdown.

00:36:15.080 Johnson has also spoken of providing reparations to residents

00:36:19.840 affected by ICE enforcement, effectively subsidizing criminal activity.

00:36:24.540 That policy would turn the rule of law upside down.

00:36:29.020 Operation Midway Blitz reportedly resulted in more than 800 arrests, including illegal immigrants with serious criminal histories.

00:36:36.340 But instead of supporting federal officers tasked with enforcing laws passed by Congress, Chicago officials want taxpayers to compensate those who violated the law.

00:36:48.200 The national implications are enormous.

00:36:51.760 If sanctuary cities can demand payment whenever federal authorities arrest illegal immigrants, every law enforcement operation becomes a potential financial liability.

00:37:03.160 Local politicians would gain a powerful incentive to obstruct Washington, encourage noncompliance, and portray routine law enforcement as actionable injury.

00:37:15.400 That's not an insurrection against the Constitution is what that would be.

00:37:21.760 No city has a right to create its own immigration system, shield people from federal law, and then try to bill American taxpayers when the government intervenes.

00:37:31.220 Citizenship, borders, and deportation policy are national responsibilities.

00:37:37.520 Congress and the courts must make clear that federal immigration law applies equally, whether in Chicago, Texas, Florida, or any other jurisdiction.

00:37:47.180 Rewarding resistance to law would invite chaos far beyond immigration.

00:37:51.760 A nation cannot survive when obedience to law is optional and criminality comes with a government check.

00:38:01.800 Meanwhile, Congress is considering tougher restrictions on lawmakers pursuing sexual relationships with Capitol Hill staffers

00:38:09.240 after another wave of misconduct allegations exposed the grotesque moral decay of Washington's elite political class.

00:38:17.420 A new House proposal would prohibit representatives from having sexual relationships with any congressional employee unless the Ethics Committee determines there is no conflict of interest.

00:38:29.000 Existing rules already bar members from dating their own staff or committee employees, but the proposed standard would cover staff across Congress.

00:38:37.500 This change is absolutely necessary. Even supposedly consensual relationships between powerful lawmakers and junior employees carry an obvious imbalance of authority. Members of Congress control access. They can influence careers, shape reputations, and operate inside a culture notorious for protecting insiders.

00:38:58.560 We already know that there is a fund from which millions of dollars have been paid out against claims of sexual abuse and harassment, but to date, the American people are not furnished with the names of the members of Congress of both parties who have transgressed and had to have taxpayers cover their tracks.

00:39:19.560 What Washington elites describe as private behavior can quickly become coercion, favoritism, retaliation, or institutional corruption.

00:39:29.300 Recent scandals involving lawmakers from both parties have intensified demands for these stronger rules and meaningful accountability.

00:39:37.920 Congress should not require another ruined career, shattered family, taxpayer-funded settlements that hide the names of the guilty, or personal tragedy before taking an action.

00:39:53.060 American people send representatives to Washington to defend the Constitution and serve their constituency, not to treat public offices as a private dating pool.

00:40:02.100 Congress should prohibit these relationships, strengthen independent investigations, disclose misconduct settlements and release the names of those who have broken the law and strip tax mayors funded pensions from officials convicted of serious sexual crimes.

00:40:18.920 The political class constantly lectures ordinary Americans about morality and workplace conduct.

00:40:25.200 It should finally live under the standards at least as strict as those they oppose on everyone else.

00:40:30.820 Power without repercussions for lewd or foul behavior produces corruption,

00:40:35.340 and we certainly have plenty of that bubbling up inside the Washington swamp.

00:40:40.900 Meanwhile, the artificial intelligence race is a struggle of whether America or communist China

00:40:45.700 will control the technological infrastructure of the 21st century.

00:40:49.620 China understands that dominance comes through widespread adoption.

00:40:53.240 Chinese companies are releasing powerful open-source models

00:40:57.180 that developers, manufacturers, researchers, and entrepreneurs

00:41:00.460 can download, modify, and operate independently.

00:41:03.860 America must win this fight for open AI.

00:41:07.380 Thanks for joining us today.

00:41:08.640 I'm Roger Stone.

00:41:09.620 You've been listening to The Stone Zone.

00:41:11.100 Until tomorrow, God bless you and Godspeed.

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The StoneZONE with Roger Stone - July 24, 2026

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