00:01:42.320this is the stone zone with roger stone people love him and respect him roger stone
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00:02:08.940Well, the political world seems to be roiled by the information that Barbara Bush, that would be the granddaughter of President George W. Bush, the great-granddaughter of George H.W. Bush, has given a $2,500 contribution to James Talafrico, the radical leftist pro-Islamic socialist who's running for the U.S. Senate in Texas against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
00:02:38.940In one way, it's not surprising, Ken Paxton ignominiously defeated George P. Bush, that would be Barbara Bush's brother, in the race for attorney general just two short years ago.
00:02:52.700But anybody who believes that the Bush family are Republicans or conservatives don't really understand the history of the Bush family.
00:03:00.940I outline this in my books, The Bush Crime Family. You can find it at my site, The Stone Zone.
00:03:07.740But Prescott Bush, who was the family patriarch, a partner at Brown Brothers Harriman, the famous banking concern, also a two-term senator from Connecticut, essentially armed Adolf Hitler's Third Reich war machine through his Union Bank.
00:03:31.080That union bank was seized in 1947, probably 45, by the Roosevelt administration.0.54
00:03:41.520Of course, the Bushes were always major financiers of eugenics, later known as Planned Parenthood,0.56
00:03:50.900major advocates for abortion, and in this case, abortion for those that they viewed as parts of the inferior class.0.69
00:03:59.920George H.W. Bush, of course, the only person on the face of the planet who said for 30 years that he couldn't remember where he was when John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
00:04:10.480When we know exactly where he was, he was in Dallas, having flown into Dallas the night before, having given a speech in Tyler, Texas on November 22nd, 1963, then immediately called upon hearing about the shooting and murder of JFK, called the FBI field office in Houston.
00:04:36.220Essentially, I believe, to establish an alibi to say, well, I'm here in Tyler, Texas.
00:04:43.820And he reported on a young Republican back in Harris County, that's Houston, who George Bush said may or may not have made threats against the president.
00:04:54.660To me, he was just establishing an alibi.
00:04:57.660interestingly enough he told the FBI agent he spoke to that he was flying back to Houston that
00:05:05.080night which he did not do he actually stayed once again overnight in Dallas returning used to
00:05:11.660Houston only the next day then of course there's the Bush's role in the Iraq war to me this is0.59
00:05:18.460the greatest sin of the Bush crime family. Under George W. Bush, and I think under the tutelage of
00:05:28.160Dick Cheney, George W. Bush lied us into an unnecessary war in Iraq, a war in which
00:05:35.140tens of thousands of Americans died, but hundreds of thousands of Iraqis died,
00:05:42.220based completely on two total and complete lies.
00:05:46.000One, the idea that Saddam Hussein, then the ruler that we had inserted in Iraq, had weapons of mass destruction.
00:05:56.280They actually forced Colin Powell, then the National Security Advisor, to destroy his public credibility
00:06:02.460by having him testify before the U.M. that Saddam Hussein had yellow cake uranium,
00:06:09.240a necessary and reached ingredient for nuclear weapons, which, of course, they did not have.
00:06:16.340Dick Cheney also promulgated the falsehood that Iraq had somehow been involved in the attacks on America on 9-11.0.52
00:06:24.900So the fact that the Bushes are now betraying the party that bestowed the presidency on two of them really should not be surprising.
00:06:35.240As far as that Texas Senate race, I still see Ken Paxton, the attorney general who came out of the primary with the endorsement of President Donald Trump, despite the opposition of the outgoing Senator John Cornyn, who the Republican Party spent $600,000 trying to save, and the opposition of Karl Rove, who hasn't won an election in a very long time.
00:07:00.160I still believe that Ken Paxton will, in the end, emerge successful over James Tallarico, the left-wing Democrat who, frankly, is far, far, too far to the left of the Texas electorate.
00:07:15.080We here at the Stone Zone will be watching that race very closely.
00:07:18.800If you're just tuning in, you're listening to the Stone Zone.1.00
00:07:22.140It was only yesterday that I published a long diatribe in which I expressed my view that0.99
00:07:28.280after watching it very closely, I believe it is time for the United States
00:07:32.420to cut off Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and to end our financing of the Ukrainian war effort.
00:07:40.540First of all, there is the question of whether that money is going to the war effort.
00:07:45.080how much of it is going up Zelensky's nose, and how much of it is going into the pockets of both
00:07:50.360American and Ukrainian politicians. Once again, as a matter of history, as to who the aggressor
00:07:58.540is here, when East and West Germany were reunified with the approval of the Russians,
00:08:04.720the United States signed two treaties, the Budapest Memorandum and the Minsk Accords,
00:08:10.700in which we very specifically agreed not to push Ukraine into NATO,
00:08:15.940which is to say not to mount NATO missiles on the ground aimed at Russia.
00:08:22.660Why this is different than the situation in the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962
00:08:27.740when the Russians mounted offensive missiles on that island gulag 90 miles from our shore.
00:08:36.480President John F. Kennedy objected, just as you would expect. Now, suddenly, the Ukrainian0.88
00:08:45.400president, Volodymyr Zelensky, is changing course yet again. First, he broke an energy ceasefire,
00:08:52.220which President Trump had negotiated between the Russians and the Ukrainians in an effort to get
00:08:58.840Russia to release more diesel fuel to global markets, including the United States, which
00:09:04.580would have brought down the cost of diesel fuel for American farmers and families,
00:09:10.800but now he's changed course, claiming he would accept a peace deal that freezes the front lines
00:09:16.660where they stand, calling a ceasefire or a freeze and stop the realistic way to end the war.
00:09:23.200He insisted any agreement must include security guarantees from the United States and his
00:09:27.620European partners so that Russian forces do not simply resume the offensive later. In other words,
00:09:33.360what he just did. But he rejected ceding the Donbass, that is a portion of Ukraine where most
00:09:41.800people speak Russian and where two public plebiscites have showed 90 percent in favor of
00:09:48.160regaining Russia, and maintained that Russia is not winning on the battlefield, which
00:09:53.600is delusional nonsense based on all of the military experts that I respect. President
00:10:01.060Trump has made it clear that he's tired of Zelensky's theatrics and his constantly shifting
00:10:05.560demands. Whether this latest statement is genuine or yet another gambit, well, I guess that remains
00:10:11.640an open question. Zelensky cannot be fully trusted, that's clear. Still, the fact that he's publicly
00:10:17.640moving towards a freeze along current lines showed that sustained American pressure is finally, at
00:10:23.200last, producing some results. Meanwhile, President Trump is delivering concrete outcomes for the
00:10:29.000people through his direct engagement with Vladimir Putin. Now, for those who want to
00:10:34.020immediately go from this broadcast and say, well, Roger Stone is a Russophile or a Russian
00:10:40.060intelligence asset. Look, I had members of my direct family mowed down by Russian tanks in
00:10:45.540Budapest in 1956. I recognize that the Russians are no different than the Ukrainians. Neither one0.92
00:10:52.180of them have real elections. No party but the president's party is allowed. Journalists are
00:10:58.620regularly harassed and arrested. In Ukraine, the largest church in the country is outlawed.
00:11:07.020Zelensky regularly arrests reporters, journalists, closes down radio stations and newspapers. So
00:11:14.100please, please don't tell me that this is about democracy. The president, however, had a stunning
00:11:22.560announcement today, Russia released 74-year-old American citizen Stephen Hubbard. He is a retired
00:11:29.920Michigan teacher who's been held since 2022 on mercenary charges after President Trump
00:11:35.880personally requested his freedom. No prisoner swap was required. Envoy Steve Witkoff
00:11:42.220was in St. Petersburg when the release was announced. Hubbard is now on his way home.
00:11:48.720These are the tangible returns of a policy that prioritizes American interests over endless foreign commitments and theatrical diplomacy.
00:11:58.480Zelensky, if he wants to keep his head, would be wise to play ball and make a deal.
00:12:02.760The sooner the killing stops, the better.
00:12:05.880But let's be clear, Zelensky is not winning this war.
00:12:09.720He's conscripting 16-year-olds and sending them to the front where they're essentially cannon fodder.
00:12:16.360It's time, as the president has said repeatedly, to end the killing.
00:12:21.580Meanwhile, President Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance launched a fraud whistleblower program with rewards up to $30,000.
00:12:30.560Nick Shirley received $100,000 off the bat.
00:12:34.480President Trump and Vice President Vance announced this $25 million fraud whistleblower incentive program,
00:12:39.880under which individuals who supply tips lead to fraud convictions or significant federal
00:12:46.300enforcement actions can receive payments of up to $30,000. The Justice Department will administer
00:12:53.280the awards. During the Oval Office event, Trump presented a $10,000 check to the conservative
00:12:59.860independent journalist Nick Shirley for his reporting on suspected child care fraud by
00:13:05.060third world Somalis in Minnesota. One operator featured in the videos had previously pleaded1.00
00:13:11.340guilty to federal fraud charges. Vance correctly described Shirley's work as more consequential
00:13:17.500than many of the so-called mainstream journalists, demonstrating the power of the independent media
00:13:24.020to make positive change, stopping corruption. This new program creates a direct financial
00:13:30.100incentive for private citizens to document misuse of public funds. If you know of or can document
00:13:37.220the theft of public funds, by all means, I urge you to apply immediately for these rewards by
00:13:44.640submitting all of your documentation. Shirley's videos prompted site visits by state officials
00:13:50.540and Homeland Security agents and contributed to the closure of at least one facility that had
00:13:57.080receive substantial child care assistant program payments. The $10,000 award is a one-time
00:14:03.120recognition of that reporting. The voter program is intended to generate additional tips on an
00:14:09.000ongoing basis. Now the flood goats are incentivized to open wide. President Trump is showing the world
00:14:15.200exactly how to drain the swamp. Meanwhile, State Department spokesman Tommy Piggott
00:14:22.200announced that the administration had revoked more than 300,000 visas since January 2025.
00:14:30.020The total exceeds the department's previously disclosed figure of more than 250,000 as of
00:14:35.860late September. Officials said that the revocations involved criminal activity,
00:14:42.340immigration violations, fraud, and national security concerns. More than 4,000 of the
00:14:49.320Revocations are connected to individuals accused of participating in or facilitating what they call birth tourism.
00:14:57.200Traveled by foreign nationals for the purpose of giving birth in the United States so that the child obtains U.S. citizenship and U.S. benefits.
00:15:07.500I'm Roger Stone. You're listening to Stone Zone.0.97
00:15:09.600Don't go away because we'll have more breaking political news for you on the other side.
00:15:14.800The Stone Zone. Entertaining and informative.
00:16:30.940before substantive nuclear talks can begin again.
00:16:34.740Iranian sources said the regime is determined
00:16:36.760not to hand President Trump a political victory.
00:16:39.860If the Iranians think they will make President Trump blink,0.98
00:16:42.180well, then they just don't understand Donald Trump.0.96
00:16:45.260Meanwhile, Secretary of the Treasury Scott Besson really has the economic squeeze on the regime where they have not been able to unload any of their oil into the national markets.
00:16:59.680Their calculation rests on the assumption that American voters will punish the administration for an unresolved conflict and elevated energy prices.
00:17:07.920That premise is unlikely to hold, in my view. Voters have already priced in the costs of the war that began in February.
00:17:15.260Further delays does not create a new political opening so much as it confirms Tehran's preference for attrition over settlement.
00:17:23.440They're essentially proving President Trump to be correct with their anti-American belligerence.
00:17:29.920Any agreement that arrives after the election will still require the same concessions on the nuclear program that Washington has demanded from the very outset.
00:17:38.980So all Iran is doing here is prolonging their own agony. And I don't think their gambit is likely to have a major impact on the midterms. As far as the midterms are concerned, I'm not a panicking.
00:17:52.660I still believe that the American electorate is extraordinarily volatile and that many of these races, Senate races, House races, which I'm studying on a daily basis, are slowly but inexorably moving towards the Republicans.
00:18:11.100The issue here is not Republicans or independents voting for the Democrats. The issue is Republicans or independents who were previously pro-Trump staying home or not voting.
00:18:22.660That will be the key. And President Trump has, as you know, engaged on a 32-stop tour to try to move those low-propensity voters to voting, which appears to be working based on some of the sophisticated polling information that I have been studying.
00:18:41.980Meanwhile, Border Czar Tom Homan stated that the ICE operation is preparing to expand worksite enforcement operations targeting businesses that knowingly hire illegal aliens.
00:18:53.860A new operational plan drafted by Homeland Security Investigations has cleared an initial stage and is headed to Homeland Security Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen for review.
00:19:05.740Holman said the administration needs to send a message to the whole world
00:19:09.000that it is illegal to knowingly hire illegal aliens.
00:19:14.240The effort will include prosecuting individuals who use fraudulent identification documents.
00:19:20.200And Holman himself says the strongest internal advocate for this shift
00:27:48.760to mock President Trump's midterm campaign efforts.
00:27:52.080He joked that it is a 14 days until the election
00:27:55.220in 15 days until Trump claims it was raked, claimed Trump's approval rating had hit a record
00:28:01.080low that Stafford called fun-sized, and said the president was running out of ideas. Mr. Fallon
00:28:08.100might look at his own ratings in that regard. Fallon referenced an offer of $5,000, then mocked
00:28:14.340President Trump's multi-state campaign swing by labeling the stops denial, anger, bargaining,
00:28:20.800depression, desperation, really desperate, and really, really desperate. I remember when late
00:28:27.740night TV with Johnny Carson and Jay Leno used to actually be funny. That is unfortunately no longer
00:28:34.100the case. Jimmy Fallon, who is a moderate talent, also ridiculed Trump's mention of a cognitive test
00:28:41.740includes identifying a giraffe. In other words, Fallon has gone full Jimmy Kimmel. He's playing
00:28:47.580to an audience of entertainment industrial elitists in Hollywood, but, well, not the
00:28:52.760American people. This can be seen once again in his ratings. Fallon was once relatively apolitical
00:28:59.020and even friendly towards the president. He actually hosted him on a show in the lead up
00:29:03.280to the 2016 election, but that version of the host has disappeared. He has now climbed fully
00:29:09.080onto the Trump derangement syndrome bandwagon. He may be leading it, trading whatever residual
00:29:15.140independence he once possessed for acceptance among Hollywood's far-left political culture.
00:29:21.460It's a shameful dissent, in my opinion. Late-night comedy has long since abandoned broad entertainment
00:29:27.660in fate of partisan virtue signaling. Fallon has chosen to surrender his remaining dignity
00:29:35.540for this self-advancement. He has sold his soul, in my view. His show will be the next to be
00:29:42.060canceled as late-night TV is replaced by far more popular independent and dynamic alternatives like
00:29:48.140podcasting. Meanwhile, unfortunately, Alberta voters rejected the independence process by a
00:29:55.160three-to-one margin. Separatists note one-quarter support. Much to my surprise, voters in Alberta,
00:30:01.720Canada have rejected a proposal to begin the process towards a possible independence referendum.
00:30:07.640Approximately 75% of Albertan voters supported remaining as a part of Canada,
00:30:13.200while 25% pursued pursuing a separation process, according to unofficial figures from Elections Alberta.
00:30:22.580Under the Canadian Constitution, any province, which is like a state,
00:30:27.260can vote by a simple majority to become independent from the state of Canada.
00:30:31.840Then, theoretically, states, or in this case provinces like Alberta or Saskatchewan, could apply to become states and parts of the United States, which would require ratification by a majority of the American states.
00:30:47.480The ballot here asks whether to authorize a future vote on independence rather than whether to leave immediately. Not exactly the same question. Prime Minister Mark Carney called the outcome a clear endorsement of national unity. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said the result showed support for a stronger Alberta inside a united Canada.
00:31:08.860It's not coincidental, by the way, that Alberta and Saskatchewan are the two wealthiest and most prosperous provinces, and they are carrying the welfare state of most of the rest of the country.
00:31:24.360Separatist organizers observed that one quarter of the vote demonstrates persistent dissatisfaction with Canada's national policy on energy, equalization, regulatory authority, and particularly, by the way, gun control.
00:31:38.600Alberta holds large oil reserves, has long maintained a long-running dispute with Ottawa over resource development and fiscal transfers.
00:31:47.180The organizers who advanced the current question have indicated they will continue building support rather than treat this result as final.
00:31:55.680Continued federal measures that raise costs for the energy sector or constrain provincial revenue can be expected to enlarge that minority.
00:32:04.460it's interesting because you've had separatist movements on the left in Quebec which have
00:32:10.280continued to gain strength over time the 25 percent in Alberta is certainly something that
00:32:16.640can be built upon to create a freer better and eventually fully independent province would be
00:32:22.680my fond wish that Alberta and also Saskatchewan would ultimately win their independence and then
00:32:30.160apply to become part of the United States. If that happened geographically, from what is now
00:32:35.220the Canadian border all the way to Alaska, all of that could be part of the United States of America.
00:32:42.040That is the result that I pray for. Meanwhile, hedge fund billionaires Steve and Sue Mandel
00:32:48.800committed at least $20 million to groups seeking more moderate Democrat candidates. I think that
00:32:55.500they are, well, I think they are whistling in the wind here. Steve and Sue Mandel, he's a hedge fund
00:33:06.560couple based in Greenwich, Connecticut, have committed at least $20 million to a network of
00:33:11.820organizations aimed at elevating Democratic candidates who they believe represent a broader
00:33:16.880swath of Americans than what the far-left commies of the DSA are promoting. The effort includes the
00:33:24.380Majority Democrats, which focuses on candidate recruitment, rather late for that, the Bench,
00:33:29.880which identifies rising talent, and the Searchlight Institute, which develops certain policy proposals.
00:33:37.440The couple works closely with former Obama aide Seth London. Additional funding has come from
00:33:42.860Michael Bloomberg and James Murdoch. Their fundamental problem, of course, lies at the
00:33:47.700grassroots of the Democratic Party. Finding a moderate Democrat, finding a white Catholic0.87
00:33:52.980democrat in today's democrat primary voter cohort is extraordinarily difficult the groups are say
00:34:01.760they're oriented towards the 2028 presidential cycle and they want to head off any socialist
00:34:07.220option from gaining traction unfortunately for these wealthy people that ship has already sailed
00:34:13.400the democratic party has already been hard hijacked by the most extremist marxist clique0.70
00:34:19.540The Democratic establishment was happy to fan the flames when they felt it hurt President Trump.0.90
00:34:24.340They fed the hysteria of Russiagate despite knowing it was a pack of lies out of rank partisanship.
00:34:30.180But they did so shamelessly without thinking of the consequences.
00:34:36.980The moderate Democrat is now an endangered species and it will take MAGA conservatives on the right rising to the occasion to clean up the mess that they have made.
00:34:46.540I'm Roger Stone. Thanks for joining us today.
00:34:48.980in the stone zone the stone zone entertaining and informative on the red apple podcast network
00:34:57.140this is the stone zone now get him his own it's the stone zone a man who's gone through hell
00:35:16.320But he's kept going, and he's smart, and he's strong, and people love him.
00:35:21.700Not everybody, but people love him and respect him.
00:37:54.580The establishment and its neocon allies
00:37:57.060have never accepted the America first shift.
00:38:00.380In fact, they've done everything to undermine it
00:38:02.540Now they're hoping Republicans will lose in the midterms so they can re-exert control.
00:38:08.100The fight for the party's direction will intensify regardless of who wins in November.
00:38:14.560But we have no choice but to crush every rhino and to run them out of the party forever.0.96
00:38:19.480I'm talking about people like John Cornyn or Tom Tillis, Republicans in name only.0.90
00:38:26.660Now they're out there undermining our candidates in the most important election in our lifetime.
00:38:32.540But the idea that the fundamentals that allowed an outsider like Donald Trump to be nominated are going to disappear overnight is entirely and completely unrealistic.
00:38:44.760The Republican Party is a conservative populist party now.
00:38:48.740We're not going to go back to being the party of Silicon Valley or the party of Hollywood or the party of Wall Street.