00:01:52Well, the U.S. House of Representatives voted yesterday 211 to 204 to send Congressman Thomas Massey's privileged resolution, which were articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to the Judiciary Committee, effectively shelving it for the current lame duck Congress.
00:02:14Massey is the only Republican to side with Democrats against this motion.
00:02:17His eight articles allege misuse of authority related to the Iran War, operations in Latin America, and other matters.
00:02:25Reading his eight articles, I found no impeachable offense.
00:02:29Hegseth, at a rare Pentagon news conference, called the effort a political farce and a spectacle.0.87
00:02:35President Trump celebrated the outcome, labeling Massey a loser.
00:02:39Indeed, Massey was defeated in the Kentucky Republican primary for re-election.
00:02:43The move stops the process short of a full impeachment vote that ends at least this exercise
00:02:50in pointless grandstanding. Be very clear here, however, I have little doubt that when Democrats
00:02:56take control of the House in January, that they will put forward articles of impeachment against
00:03:02the Secretary of War. Once again, I see no impeachable fence by this outstanding cabinet
00:03:09officer. Congressman Massey has essentially outlived his usefulness with this sour grapes
00:03:15effort to pile on with Democrats and assist in their partisan witch hunt. He appears to be
00:03:20auditioning for a post-Congress role at MSNOW after he gets tossed from Congress in a couple
00:03:27of months. The resolution never had any realistic path to conviction in the Senate. House Republicans
00:03:32closed ranks behind Secretary Hegseth and the administration's priorities. Hegseth has served
00:03:38administration honorably and stopped the woke agenda in our military dead in its tracks.
00:03:43Hopefully, he was never getting impeached by a Republican Congress. This was just the
00:03:47final temper tantrum of a congressman who crossed Trump and paid the price for it.
00:03:52Meanwhile, Secretary of the Treasury Scott Besant, who I believe is among the president's
00:03:57very best appointees, has relocated with his family from his private residence in the D.C.
00:04:02area to a military base after Iranian threats against his life escalated beyond a quote-unquote
00:04:09advanced stage, according to reports on Tuesday. The threats come as President Trump has chosen to
00:04:15intensify the sweeping and crushing economic offensive against Iran, which has been spearheaded
00:04:20by Besson, rather than resume major military operations, placing the Treasury Secretary at
00:04:26the center of Washington's strategy to economically isolate the Islamic Republic. It was the New York
00:04:32Times first disclosed the relocation, citing three people familiar with the matter who said
00:04:37that intelligence about threats against Besant contributed to a broader U.S. assessment that
00:04:43Iranian plots targeting current and former American officials had reached more advanced stages. A
00:04:49senior administration official subsequently confirmed the move to Fox News, revealing that
00:04:54the threats against Besant had progressed beyond advanced stage and directly attributing Iran's
00:04:59targeting of the Treasury Secretary to his leadership of the administration's economic
00:05:04campaign. Threats against Secretary Besant reached more than an advanced stage, which is why he and
00:05:08his family made the move, the official said for the record. The move shows that the Treasury
00:05:13Secretary regarding Iran is working because Iran is trying to get the architect of that strategy0.77
00:05:17and kill him. Treasury Department spokesman also confirmed the relocation, declaring that Besant
00:05:23will not be deterred by the Iranian regime's threats and remains committed to carrying out
00:05:27the administration's economic offensive aimed at crippling the regime's economy.
00:05:32Since August, Besson has spearheaded Operation Economic Outcast, a sweeping campaign aimed
00:05:39at economically isolating Iran through intensified sanctions, a tough U.S. naval blockade restricting
00:05:45its oil exports, and measures targeting the international financial and commercial networks
00:05:52Beyond that, they have begun a new operation, Operation Iron Guard, that blocks off any land-based contacts with the regime.
00:06:02This offensive, both offensive, extends beyond Iran itself, threatening foreign banks, businesses, and other entities who facilitate the regime's trade with exclusion from the U.S. dollar-based financial system,
00:06:13while seeking to choke off all their oil revenues and funding for the Islamic Revenutionary Guard Corps.
00:06:19I personally believe Scott Besson is the best Treasury Secretary he's come to have since Alexander Hamilton, but when I said that previously, I got a lot of guff about Hamilton, so let me rephrase it.
00:06:30He is the best Treasury Secretary since William Simon, who served in that capacity for Richard Nixon.
00:06:36I know the Treasury Secretary personally, and I happily call him a friend.
00:06:40He is among the President's very best appointments and most effective representatives on the Cabinet, and I am praying for his safety.
00:06:47I hope that you will join me in my prayers.
00:06:50Meanwhile, House Republicans on Tuesday elected Jim Jordan as their minority leader for the next Congress.
00:06:56He defeated Steve Scalise by a reported 106 to 73 margin.
00:07:01Jordan, the Judiciary Committee chairman, will lead the conference as they need to fight the newly resurgent Democrats following the midterms.
00:07:09The Democrats intend a tsunami of investigations into all of the Trump family members, Trump himself, cabinet members, and his many appointees and staffers.
00:07:21I also expect there will be a tsunami of lawfare because in the first and second term, Donald Trump failed to prosecute people like Mark Elias and Norm Eisen and others who orchestrated the Russian collusion hoax,
00:07:37the two fraudulent impeachments, the heist of the 2020 election, the raid on Mar-a-Lago,
00:07:44the so-called documents case, the January 6th Fed surrection, and of course, Operation Arctic
00:07:51Frost, in which Trump's donors, supporters, family, and staff were actively spied on by the
00:07:57Department of Justice. Because the actors who orchestrated this tsunami of lawfare were never
00:08:04prosecuted, they will be back with a new avalanche of lawfare. You can bet on that. They even started
00:08:09a new organization. I think it's Democracy Forward. It's funny, by the way, how they always pick names
00:08:14that are the exact opposite of what they are really doing. To my surprise, Senate Republicans
00:08:20simultaneously reelected John Thune as their leader, despite efforts by some conservatives,
00:08:25including Senator Ron Johnson and Senator Rick Scott, to delay the vote for further discussion
00:08:32of the party's election losses. The Senate decision followed a 31 to 15 vote to proceed.
00:08:37Though it was conducted behind closed doors, we don't really have a vote count. I frankly think
00:08:42that Thune is a disgrace. The fact that he would not break the filibuster in order to get the
00:08:47Save America Act passed. That's a simple measure which requires that one be a U.S. citizen to vote
00:08:54in a federal election and that one have a photo ID in order to prove it. I really believe that
00:09:00measure had 51 votes, certainly 51 with the vice president breaking a tie. But Thune insisted on
00:09:06having 60 votes, a filibuster to bring it to the floor. It's really amazing to me that this
00:09:13Karl Rove client, John Thune, continues in his ineffective role as a leader. Jordan's selection
00:09:21is good news for those who want a stronger conservative leadership, who will stand up
00:09:25and fight the Democrats. But Thune's continued leadership, well, that's just pathetic.0.98
00:09:29Senate Republicans have nothing to show for their time in the majority,0.95
00:09:32and they appear determined to avoid accountability for the midtermic disaster.
00:09:36Why do these rhinos have to hide and keep the process closed,
00:09:39rejecting any pause for reflection and rush to judgment?
00:09:43What are they afraid the consequences or public would see if the votes were more transparent?
00:09:47Why don't they want to have these votes where the American people can see them?
00:10:11Bernie Sanders and his wife became multimillionaires when he skimmed the media placement fees off of his two unsuccessful presidential campaigns.
00:10:21Now, normally those would go to an agency or a company that specialized in media placement.
00:10:28But in this case, what Bernie Sanders and his wife did, taking the full 15 percent commission on all of the media they bought, while it is not illegal, it certainly is immoral if he never disclosed it to his donors that he and his wife were making money off of their campaign contributions.
00:10:46Bernie, of course, drives a top-of-the-line Mercedes.
00:10:48He owns three homes, and he travels almost exclusively by jet plane
00:10:52because, you see, it is socialism for thee, but not for me,
00:11:42Schumer maintains that he expects to win another term as leader.
00:11:44The leadership election will occur next month when Democrats formally organize their new majority.
00:11:50The socialists are flexing their muscles after the midterm.
00:11:52Sanders has long argued the party needs to move further left on economic issues,
00:11:57and new Senate members give progressives more leverage.
00:12:00Schumer's arrogance and his elitist connections may not be enough to carry him through this one.
00:12:05Years of fundraising success do not automatically translate into continued control
00:12:09when a significant faction of his caucus is unimpressed by those special interest dollars.
00:12:15The challenge, even if it fails, forces a public debate about priorities.
00:12:19Schumer's ability to hold the post will depend on whether he can still deliver the votes
00:12:22inside a conference that now includes renegade members
00:12:26who are not afraid of a messy public fight to defend their principles.
00:12:32In communities across Canada, hourly Amazon employees earn an average of over $26 an hour.
00:12:40Employees also have the opportunity to grow their skills and their paycheck by enrolling in free skills training programs for in-demand fields like software development and information technology.
00:12:56In the meantime, the incoming, prospective incoming Speaker, Hakeem Jeffries, responded to a question on whether he would support efforts to bring the DACA recipients deported under President Trump's administration back by saying anyone, whether they are a citizen, whether they were here lawfully, whether they were DACA recipients who've been treated unfairly and unjustly by this administration, should get remedial assistance.
00:14:03and to the American people over the last 20 months or so.
00:14:06Now, I do think that this is an important debate.
00:14:09Republicans and the public remain completely opposed to amnesty.
00:14:14Amnesty, to me, means conferring citizenship status
00:14:18on people who have entered the country illegally.
00:14:21That could be between 25 and 30 million people.
00:14:25On the other hand, I do think in his 60 minutes interview, the president opened the door to
00:14:30what makes common sense to me, and that is if someone is in the country illegally, but
00:14:34they have been here for, say, 15 years, they have been gainfully employed, they've been
00:14:40paying taxes, they've been paying into Social Security, they own a home, they go to church,
00:14:44they've had no problems whatsoever with the law, they've lived peaceful, productive lives,
00:14:49producing for our society, I do think there should be some temporary resident status.
00:14:56That is not citizenship. That does not confer the vote on them. To me, that is a reasonable reform.
00:15:03Now, there are some on the right, some Trump supporters who will say that that's a soft
00:15:07position or that's amnesty. That is not amnesty. Amnesty is when you grant citizenship to people
00:15:13who are here illegally, and I'm opposed to that. I still think the priority must be deporting those1.00
00:15:18who have crimes and criminal records, either here in the United States or in their country
00:15:25of origin. You're listening to The Stone Zone. I'm Roger Stone. Don't go away,
00:15:28because we'll be right back. The Stone Zone, entertaining and informative
00:15:34on the Red Apple Podcast Network. Welcome back into The Stone Zone. I'm Roger Stone,
00:15:40your host. After their midterm games, Democrats are considering aggressive proposals that
00:15:45include D.C. statehood, the Supreme Court expanding from its current base to 13,
00:15:53elimination of the Senate filibuster, the national popular vote doing away the Electoral College,
00:15:58the interstate compact, federal standards for elections, and new mechanisms to police
00:16:02online speech labeled as different information. That's known as censorship. It violates the First
00:16:08Amendment. Of course, the good news is that President Donald Trump has his veto pen at the
00:16:12ready. D.C. statehood will pass the House on a party line vote. It did in a prior Congress would
00:16:18add two reliably Democrat Senate seats. The popular vote compact currently hosts 222 electoral votes
00:16:24and needs 48 more to control a majority. Court packing and filibuster changes would move existing
00:16:30checks on majority legislation. Combined with federal election rules and content moderation
00:16:35mandates, censorship, the package would shift structural advantages from one party for the
00:16:41foreseeable future. Can they get away with it? Are Republicans up to the challenge of stopping
00:16:45them? These items on their agenda are not a secret. Democrats are bragging about what they
00:16:49intend to do. First, of course, they threaten to investigate President Trump, members of his
00:16:54family, members of his cabinet, members of his staff, all of his appointees. That will be a
00:17:00tsunami of a struggle. I would think that the president will assert executive privilege in
00:17:07many of those matters which will lead the entire matter to court. Several of these crazier ideas
00:17:12already passed the House in earlier sessions or were embedded in the Democrat Party platform.
00:17:17With majorities in both chambers now, the procedure path is shorter than it has ever been.
00:17:21Stopping this package of craziness requires sustained opposition, procedural discipline,
00:17:26and public pressure. The midterm results did not ease the underlying constitutional design.
00:17:31I, by the way, continue to believe that there is a conservative majority in the country.
00:17:35At the beginning of the election, many thought the problem was Republican turnout.
00:17:39In the end, if you look at the numbers of Republican turnout, that issue was addressed.
00:17:43But what turned out to be true was that half of those Republicans we turned out were voting against us.
00:17:48It doesn't mean they're lost to us forever.
00:17:49This was a protest vote to send the Trump administration a clear message.
00:17:53The president promised no future foreign wars, but he started a war because he thought it was necessary.
00:17:59We promised them lower food and gas prices, which they did not get.
00:18:03But anybody who thinks that this is a permanent realignment to socialism, that this is a permanent realignment to the Democrat Party, does not understand what took place in the most recent elections.
00:18:14President Trump still has his executive power, his executive order, his veto capacity, as well, of course, as the bully pulpit.
00:18:24And many of these issues will end up in the courts, which in the District of Columbia, of course, is not a good idea.
00:18:31The D.C. courts are a rubber stamp for a left-wing Congress.
00:18:35You'll never get a fair trial for any Republican, any free thinker, any Trump supporter in the District of Columbia.
00:18:42This is going to be a struggle for our republic, but I'm convinced that the Republicans can bounce back in two years by going back to principles.
00:18:50What the president has to do is what he did in his first four years, what he did in the first year of his second term,
00:18:55which is to deliver for the American people when it comes to lower gas prices, lower food prices, more affordable and findable housing.
00:19:04And I think the president has demonstrated that he knows how to do that.
00:19:07Did it in year one of his second term, did it in four years until the covid vaccination scam in his first term.
00:19:14I'm Roger Stone. We're looking forward. Not back. Don't go away because we'll be right back in the Stone Zone.
00:19:19The Stone Zone, entertaining and informative on the Red Apple Podcast Network.
00:19:30With the election of a Democrat as the next governor of Texas, outgoing Governor Greg Abbott's Operation Lone Star border policy is on the chopping block.
00:19:39and the end of this stopgap program will likely open a massive hole in border security,
00:19:45allowing a Joe Biden-style migrant flood into the Lone Star State.
00:19:50Already, new migrant caravans have launched in Mexico,0.76
00:19:53with criminal invaders gleeful insisting that the Democrat take over Congress0.88
00:19:58means the border will soon reopen and the U.S. welfare train will be back on track.
00:20:03Yet the Department of Homeland Security has insisted in a post on X
00:20:07that there's absolutely zero chance that the migrants will be allowed in the United States.
00:20:15The program started by Governor Abbott relies on the continued renewal of his emergency powers as governor.
00:20:21Incoming Democrat Governor Gina Hinoza has clearly signaled she will not follow this path
00:20:28by renewing the emergency powers that the operation is based upon.
00:20:32At least one reporter is already claiming insiders have told them that Hinoosa intends to bring Operation Lone Star to a close before July.
00:20:41In anticipation of the left-wing border drawdown, Democrat Houston Mayor John Whitmire and Austin Mayor Kirk Watson, both extremely liberal Democrats,
00:20:51have already ordered the city police departments to stop working with ICE,
00:20:56the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, on traffic stops,
00:21:00the cooperation of which were forced by Governor Abbott.
00:21:04Seems obvious to me to incoming Governor Hinoza that despite being a third-generation American
00:21:09who still calls herself Mexican-American, she will end Operation Lone Star.
00:21:15She voted against funding it when she was a representative of the State House of Representatives
00:21:19in Texas, where she represented a far left Austin district. She's also been a strong critic of the
00:21:25effort, calling it a waste of taxpayers' dollars and saying she would rather take that budget and
00:21:30spend it on community policing, whatever in the world that means. Migrant caravans are already0.98
00:21:36targeting the Texas border with the expectation that the radical left in HOSA will remove all0.68
00:21:42barriers and let them flood unhindered into the USA, just like Joe Biden did. A Texas policy
00:21:48Foundation analyst Eamon Blair told KTRH Radio that Operation Lone Star was an important adjunct
00:21:57to Trump's more strict border security stance. You had the horse patrol, you had the APD units,
00:22:05you also had the air support out there, the brush crew, and additional units. And he noted that
00:22:11money that the state spent on operations aimed at closing the massive holes in the border left
00:22:16opened by Biden and his regime were largely successful. It's true, illegal border crossings
00:22:21under Donald Trump dropped to virtually nothing. But if the operation has abruptly ended, the
00:22:26negative impact will be immediate, according to those who I have consulted. Caravans are already
00:22:31starting to come up. You can see them in Honduras and southern Mexico. Their entire goal is to
00:22:37inundate border patrol agents regardless of the funding and regardless of the manpower on our
00:22:42board. Because of this, many Texans believe it is imperative that Operation Lone Star should
00:22:48remain in place. The federal government has already signaled it will not simply step aside
00:22:52to allow the new governor to throw open our southern border. But Governor Abbott's policies
00:22:57were integral to keeping the border sealed. If the new governor shuts down this program,
00:23:02the border choke points will open right back up again, allowing cartels to resume their drug
00:23:08running, their human trafficking, to once again exploit vulnerable women and children
00:23:12and criminal rapists and murderers to easily enter the country.0.99
00:23:17Migrants will once again lavish themselves with American welfare payments, free health0.97
00:23:22care, free education, free legal services, and other freebies as Democrats return to
00:23:31In communities across Canada, hourly Amazon employees earn an average of over $26 an hour.
00:23:40Employees also have the opportunity to grow their skills and their paycheck by enrolling in free skills training programs for in-demand fields like software development and information technology.
00:24:01Meanwhile, former Trump attorney Alina Habba, now Alina Habba Mildon, was fired by Concord Partners, a Florida company tied to the family of Venezuelan banker Julio Herrera Velotini, who President Donald Trump pardoned back in January.
00:24:21The November 4th termination letter cited her failure to perform duties under a shocking four-year arrangement valued at more than $50 million.
00:24:32She retains an $8 million signing bonus and roughly $6.5 million in other payments she already received from the company.
00:24:42President Trump had previously called this deal outrageous, said he opposed her receiving the money.
00:24:48The arrangement involved a shell company connected to a pardoned foreign banker with legal troubles in the United States.
00:24:56This is the kind of public corruption that turns voters off in the midterms.
00:25:00It is absolutely true that I advocated for the pardons for six Americans who I believe were mistreated by the Biden Justice Department or the Obama Justice Department, including hero New York City police officer Michael McMahon or Governor Rod Blagojevich or Sheriff Peterson of Culpeper, Virginia, or many others.
00:25:26Yet I never accepted any compensation in return for being advocates for those six pardons.
00:25:46It's a nine-part series that documents how the former president was framed.
00:25:53But how about she be ashamed of herself for entering an arrangement that was going to look like a payoff tied to a presidential pardon?
00:25:58I don't know whether she advocated for a pardon in this case or not, but certainly $50 million is a lot of money.
00:26:06It was inevitable that the story would surface, damage the administration's credibility, and give critics ammunition against President Trump.
00:26:13Taking the money after the pardon creates the appearance of influence peddling, regardless of any private instructions to stop payment.
00:26:21It is, by the way, perfectly legal to advocate a pardon on behalf of any individual,
00:26:27and there is no public disclosure required.
00:26:30It is even legal to be paid in these matters, although I have never been paid in them.
00:26:35Taking the money after the pardon created the disappearance of influence peddling.
00:26:39The termination came too late to erase the damage, of course, which all took place before the election.
00:26:44It should go without saying that Haber should never be considered for any other position
00:26:47within the Trump administration from this point moving.
00:26:51forward. This has been an embarrassing incident. Meanwhile, Ahmed Moore, a Palestinian-American
00:26:57democratic socialist born in Gaza, announced that he will challenge Senator John Fetterman in the
00:27:032028 Pennsylvania Democrat primary. Moore, 42, has written for The Guardian, an extreme left-wing
00:27:10newspaper, and co-edited a book advocating a one-state solution, meaning he supports an end
00:27:16to the state of Israel. He criticizes U.S. aid to Israel, supports free health care,
00:27:22free child care, and free housing, and says he is running on the rule of law. Remember,
00:27:27when they tell you their slogan or the name of their organization, they're always actually
00:27:31engaged in the exact opposite of what they call themselves. So when they're called the
00:27:36Democracy Project, that means they're trying to destroy democracy. In this case, Fetterman
00:27:42has drawn left-wing anger for occasionally aligning with Republicans in support for Israel.
00:27:47So, in other words, the senator from Pennsylvania, who's been on my worst-dressed list,
00:27:53I think three years running, I publish an international best and worst-dressed list.
00:27:58Unfortunately, the senator from Pennsylvania has landed on my worst-dressed list.
00:28:02I really don't think that cargo shorts and a hoodie are appropriate for the U.S. Senate floor,
00:28:07but that's, of course, just one man's opinion.
00:28:10But I do like the fact that Fetterman has demonstrated that he's not owned by the Democrat Party, that Fetterman has on occasion voted for common sense, even when it meant voting with Republicans.
00:28:22The challenge is the first clear primary threat since Democrats regained the Senate.
00:28:26Fetterman faces a reckoning for standing for common sense against the far left mob.
00:28:31His willingness to break with progressive orthodoxy on Israel and other issues has made him a target.
00:28:37Moore's platform represents the opposite direction.
00:28:42And this will be a referendum on where Pennsylvania Democrats stand.
00:28:45Look at what happened in Michigan when Abdul El-Sayed rose to become a U.S. senator.
00:28:51Fetterman will be in for a real challenge here if he chooses to remain in the Democrat Party.
00:28:56I've seen polling that shows that were he to switch parties to become a Republican,
00:29:01he would handily win a Republican Party nomination.
00:29:03He would then be a very strong general action candidate because he would get the Republican vote, yet those common-sense, blue-collar, ethnic, mostly Catholic Democrats in Pennsylvania who still believe in common sense, I believe, would stick with Fetterman.
00:29:18If he stays in the Democrat Party, well, that means that Democratic Socialists of America are likely to claim another scalp within the Democratic Party, which may be going full communist faster than anyone could realistically, possibly, have believed.
00:29:33Meanwhile, U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Kuntz ruled that President Trump's $10 billion defamation lawsuit against BBC can move forward.
00:29:42The case centers on a panorama documentary by the British broadcasting company that spliced together remarks from Trump's January 6, 2021 speech,
00:29:52placing a line about walking to the Capitol next to a later statement to Fight Like Hell.
00:29:57In other words, it was edited to make it appear that Trump was encouraging violence, which he was not.
00:30:03The BBC has announced the edit was misleading and issued an apology, but it denies defamation liability.
00:30:10The ruling found that Trump had plausibly alleged actual madness and reputational harm from the documentary, which was released shortly before the 2024 election.
00:30:21The judge again ruled that the suit can move forward, meaning he rejected the argument by BBC.
00:30:29The British Broadcast Corporation should be forced to pay deliberately for distorting the speech
00:30:35and then air the result as, quote-unquote, journalism.
00:30:38A $10 billion judgment would be a fitting penalty for a publicly funded broadcaster
00:30:43that has spent years pushing partisan narratives and acting holier than thou as they deceive the public.
00:30:49I gave one interview on the BBC prior to being charged in the Russian collusion hoax, and I had to shut down an offensive BBC talking head who kept insisting that I was a Russian spy.
00:31:04By the way, the defamation laws in Britain are a bit more conducive to those who want to sue over defamation.
00:31:13I don't know if the president has looked into that, but even if this lawsuit in the United States were thrown out of court, which it hasn't been, they would still be liable in the UK.
00:31:25If Trump is successful, of course, this lawsuit will put the BBC out of business, and that will scare the daylights out of the rest of the fake news industry.
00:31:33When major outlets face real financial consequences for manufacturing context, well, maybe they'll think twice before the next clever edit.
00:31:43President Trump has already called the decision a huge victory, which it is.
00:31:46Discovery and a potential trial will test whether the apology was enough or whether the damage requires a much larger check.
00:31:54Lawyers for the BBC have attempted to contact me regarding any records I may have regarding January 6th.
00:32:02I have no such records. I wasn't in touch with the president on January 6th or in the weeks before or after or anyone else in the White House for that matter.
00:32:11So I have nothing to contribute to this particular trial, but I'm glad to see that a federal judge won't let it move forward.
00:32:21Two days of U.S.-mediated talks between Russia and Ukrainian officials in Abu Dhabi