00:01:53.180You are now jumping headfirst into the Stone Zone.
00:01:57.780Well, former U.S. Special Counsel Jack Smith, the progenitor of the second greatest dirty trick and abuse of power in American history,
00:02:07.860the so-called Arctic Frost investigation, which was nothing less than an effort to destroy Donald Trump's chances of returning to the White House,
00:02:16.700appeared before the U.S. Senate today as part of the ongoing investigation
00:02:21.140into the largest abuse of power, probably other than the Mueller investigation,
00:02:26.680which took place during his investigations into President Donald Trump
00:02:30.940under former President Joe Biden and former Attorney General Merrick Garland.
00:02:36.840Smith, you'll recall, led the charge in the phony witch hunt against President Trump
00:02:42.100heading into the 2024 election, overseeing an illegal and abhorrent raid on the president's
00:02:48.560home at Mar-a-Lago, his palatial estate in Palm Beach, which doubles as a private club,
00:02:54.640over so-called classified documents in the president's possession. Documents which I
00:02:59.980point on under the Presidential Records Act, President Donald Trump had every lawful right
00:03:05.380to possess. What is it that Jack Smith and his confederates were so desperate to get their hands
00:03:11.200on. Was it proof that the Mueller investigation was in fact a complete and total hoax? That was
00:03:18.380essentially proven by the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, who interestingly
00:03:23.620enough was seen visiting the White House this week. I wonder what that was all about. As you
00:03:29.840know, Tulsi Gabbard has stepped aside because her husband came down with a very, very rare form of
00:03:35.560cancer that was extraordinarily debilitating, and she chose to put family first. As soon as she
00:03:41.160returns to public service, well, the happier I will be. Jack Smith's raid of Mar-a-Lago consists of
00:03:47.940the lawless and unspeakable acts of government overreach and intimidation. It turns out the FBI
00:03:54.200officials who raided the place tried to tell Jack Smith first that they didn't think there was
00:03:59.600sufficient probable cause for the raid, but they were ordered by the Justice Department
00:04:05.560go ahead anyway. They went through the closets and the draws of First Lady Melania Trump,
00:04:11.300as well as going and tearing apart the bedroom of first son, Barron Trump. I understand this level
00:04:17.080of violation. The FBI went through my wife's underwear draws when they raided my home back in
00:04:24.6202019. Smith ignored the fact that then President Joe Biden's illegal disclosure to classified
00:04:31.160documents to his ghost authors while serving as vice president, a position which, by the way,
00:04:36.980does not grant him the disclosure authority nor the right to retain those documents. That can only
00:04:43.140be done by a president. Joe Biden actually had classified documents from his time as a U.S.
00:04:49.300senator and vice president and disclosed them at that time in violation of the law. But of course,
00:04:55.700Biden was not prosecuted. President Donald Trump was. Therefore, the the charging of Donald Trump,
00:05:03.780by definition, was illegal. It was a complete and totally fabricated charge heading into a
00:05:09.580presidential election. I believe more importantly, it was part of a cover up. In other words,
00:05:14.460I think Jack Smith was desperate to get the documented proof about the origins of the
00:05:20.120Mueller investigation, which was in itself, as I say, a witch hunt. In his opening statement to
00:05:26.220the U.S. Senate, Smith laughingly told senators that he has no partisan loyalties. We revealed
00:05:31.940right here in the Stone Zone years ago that Smith's wives had donated to President Joe Biden
00:05:36.540prior to his appointment as special counsel. If political donations aren't a sign of partisanship,
00:05:41.940what is? He was also a longtime friend of the single most corrupt, sadistic, and evil0.98
00:05:48.920federal prosecutor in U.S. history, Andrew Weissman. They worked together in New York.
00:05:54.960Now, I would say Jack Smith was a hyper-partisan. Without any question, he was a foot soldier for
00:06:01.220the deep state. His wife, by the way, also donated to the radical congresswoman and member of the
00:06:06.960squad, Rashida Tlaib, who also happens to be one of the worst dressed members of Congress.
00:06:12.820When you look for my international worst dressed list, which I publish every New Year's Day,0.86
00:06:17.360as I have for the last 16 years, you can look for Rashida Tlaib.1.00
00:13:01.500and Project Cranberry, that's the Mar-a-Lago documents case.
00:13:05.240They described the actions as a serious violation of established investigative procedures and an unconstitutional intrusion into the duties of elected officials.
00:13:16.280Jack Smith's criminal investigation of President Trump was a runaway train that had no brakes, according to Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa.
00:13:24.600Biden's DOJ and the FBI investigators apparently ignored their own routine investigative protocols to obtain and review work-related messages from me, so that would be Senator Grassley, and dozens of his Republican and Democrat colleagues.
00:13:39.800Smith's team ran roughshod over the U.S. Constitution.
00:13:43.700That was what Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa said.
00:13:46.440Grassley, who was chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said he intends to bring Smith before the Senate Judiciary Committee again for accountability and to answer for the unconstitutional intrusion into the affairs of various elected members of Congress.
00:14:01.200This is yet another grotesque example of the Biden administration's weaponization of the Justice Department.
00:14:07.840Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin said Jack Smith's team acted with impunity.
00:14:12.240No one should be shocked by Jack Smith's recklessness and his blatant abuse of power.
00:14:20.140Attorney General Todd Blanche has said that many of the documents that were being thrown out by Biden's DOJ's officer
00:14:26.300prior to Trump taking office involving Jack Smith have now been recovered.
00:14:31.200Blanche says the Justice Department has discovered a room filled with important documents tied to former special counsel Jack Smith's investigation into President Donald Trump that were evidently thought to have been destroyed or hidden prior to Trump becoming president again.
00:14:45.260Speaking on a podcast, Blanche said that the room was technically not secret, but the DOJ personnel seemed to be completely unaware of it.
00:14:53.480If you're just tuning in, I'm Roger Stone. You're listening to The Stone Zone. We'll be right back with more of the illicit tale about Jack Smith and the second greatest political dirty trick in American history.
00:15:04.880This is The Stone Zone with Roger Stone.
00:15:08.480He likes politics and he's a professional at the highest level. Roger Stone.
00:15:23.480The Stone Zone. Entertaining and informative.
00:15:59.700I have just broken the news that Attorney General Todd Blanche says that many of the documents that were obtained by Special Counsel Jack Smith
00:16:11.860and his illegal and unconstitutional efforts to take down President Donald Trump and prevent him from returning to the White House
00:16:19.440that were thought to have been destroyed or lost have been recovered and found. Blanche says there
00:16:25.840was a special room at the Justice Department filled with important documents tied to the
00:16:31.440Smith investigation into President Trump. Blanche did say in a podcast interview that the DOJ
00:16:38.500personnel were unaware of the existence of this special room. He said the materials were found
00:16:43.640in burn bags, which normally are used to destroy sensitive documents. This is the second time this
00:16:49.660has happened. FBI Director Kash Patel said that when he took office, he found a special room
00:16:56.420with burn bags full of documents having to do with the Russian collusion hoax. Blanche said
00:17:03.160the location of the bags raised serious questions. Why were these documents not burned? That's one
00:17:08.980question. He also floated a theory that an honorable agent may have placed them someplace
00:17:13.180unusual to preserve the records rather than to let them be destroyed to cover up Jack Smith's
00:17:19.380trail of illegal activities. Discovery, of course, follows, as I said, comments from FBI Director
00:17:25.160Kash Patel and former Deputy Director David Bongino about sensitive Trump-Russia probe documents
00:17:32.040They were also found in burn bags in a special room at the FBI.
00:17:38.520Bongino described roughly one 100-page document connected to Crossfire Hurricane as a motherlode,
00:17:46.280saying it changed his understanding of the entire Russian collusion probe.
00:17:51.640Crossfire Hurricane was the FBI investigation into the alleged Trump-Russia collusion was based on a pack of lies
00:17:59.100and designed to facilitate a coup against President Donald Trump
00:18:03.280that frankly hampered his presidency through his entire first term
00:18:07.200and put me and my family through living hell.
00:18:11.960Jack Smith and his thugs were ultimately unsuccessful, thank God,
00:18:15.400in their attempts to destroy President Donald Trump.
00:18:17.840You can even make the argument that their baseless and lawless attacks against the president
00:18:22.360even backfired and may have aided him in making his pitch to the American people
00:18:28.180and effectuating the single greatest comeback in American political history.
00:18:36.880The swamp is real and attacks anybody and everything that endangers its power.
00:18:42.280Donald Trump has taken on the swamp like no president before him.
00:18:45.940And for that, he was prosecuted like no other president before him.
00:18:50.080And for that, he was prosecuted by Jack Smith.
00:18:52.880If there is justice in this case, Smith and his team and those who place themselves into power will be charged for their rampant abuses of the Constitution of the United States, the perversion of our law enforcement agencies for political purposes, and ultimately for their betrayal of the American people.
00:19:11.320Their attempt to rob the American people of a free, honest, and fair election back in 2024 should echo throughout this country as a warning to Americans everywhere.
00:19:22.880He's President Trump today, but it could be you or a future president tomorrow.
00:19:28.480Thanks for joining us today on The Stone Zone.
00:19:30.740When we get back, we'll bring you more on the latest of the breaking politics and the inside skin and what's really going on in Washington, D.C.
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00:19:52.880this is the stone zone with roger stone roger stone who's a very very one of the smartest
00:20:02.740political minds rogerson was persecuted people forget he's actually a brilliant brilliant
00:20:07.500political analyst now get him his own it's the stone zone here's roger stone you know democrats
00:20:15.440really hate the second amendment they hate the right to keep and bear arms enshrined in our
00:20:22.100U.S. Constitution. Now U.S. Congressman Kevin Mullen, Democrat, of course, of California,
00:20:29.300has introduced legislation to close what he calls a dangerous gap by redefining BB and pellet guns
00:20:36.460as firearms. If this redefinition is adopted, it requires that BB guns and those who buy them
00:20:43.600undergo the same background checks that other prospective buyers of an AR-15 or a 9mm pistol
00:20:49.860or other serious firearms are subjected to now.
00:20:53.880Daisy BB Guns used an ex-post to comment on the proposed legislation,
00:20:58.600writing, this bill would include guns like the Daisy 880.
00:21:03.420Their goal is to eventually include all air guns.
00:21:06.400If passed, it will treat air guns producing high velocity as firearms.
00:21:11.040The bill was introduced to the House of Representatives.
00:21:14.820It would add all air guns that provide 800 or more feet per second velocity
00:21:19.440in 1.77 caliber and all pellets over a .25 caliber. In a Friday release, Mullen's office
00:21:27.820described the current lack of background checks for a simple BB gun as a loophole, adding Garrett
00:21:35.420Edwards, who was a constituent of Congressman Mullen, struggled with mental health during the
00:21:40.800pandemic and was prohibited from possessing a firearm by law. Yet, sadly, when his condition
00:21:46.880worsened, Garrett legally produced a lethal air gun online and used it to take his own life.
00:21:53.720To prevent similar tragedies, Garrett's law, which is what Mullen has called his proposal,
00:21:59.820would close this dangerous gap in federal law by designating high-powered lethal air guns as
00:22:06.860firearms. The aforementioned press release contains a quote from a gun control advocacy group,
00:22:12.660Giffords. They poured $800,000, almost a million dollars, into trying to defeat Congresswoman
00:22:19.800Anna Polina Luna, one of the most outstanding conservative leaders in the U.S. Congress.
00:22:26.060They put out a statement praising this California Congressman Mullins' bill, saying,
00:22:32.380we're glad to see that Congressman Mullins introduced this legislation to create basic
00:22:36.900guardrails from those previously unregulated weapons, and we urged Congress to swiftly pass it.
00:22:43.460The anti-Second Amendment group March for Our Lives, of course, quickly endorsed the bill
00:22:47.920as well. This is what it's like in Gavin Newsom's California. Your power cycle's on and off.
00:22:54.160You never know if the water's going to come out of the faucet. That's because if your house doesn't
00:22:58.400get burned down in a wildfire because Newsom's government refuses to perform basic forest
00:23:03.640management, and they turned off the water because it was endangering a particularly small fish,
00:23:09.520which is why half of Los Angeles burned to the ground and still hasn't been rebuilt. If Democrats
00:23:15.780do take power again in 2026, you can best believe they'll do everything and anything within their
00:23:21.220power to strip Americans of all of your Second Amendment rights, deploying gun confiscation
00:23:27.080measures, and arresting those who refuse to comply. Even as we speak, Governor Kathy Hochul
00:23:33.100has a proposal that says if you do legally own a firearm, you have to keep it within a safe within
00:23:39.780your home for it to be legal. But how would the government know whether the gun that you legally
00:23:45.780own is kept in a safe unless they come and check on it? Here's a question for Kathy Hochul. We'll
00:23:52.240wait for her answer. Americans have a God-given right to bear arms, in my view, as put forth by
00:23:58.520our founding fathers and enshrined with our Bill of Rights. The right to bear arms is not granted
00:24:03.820by government, but by God, just like the other nine amendments enshrined in the Bill of Rights.
00:24:09.000They cannot be altered by law of man. Any law which infringes upon the rights of Americans to
00:24:15.520bear arms when challenged in a constitutionally based court of law actually stands no chance.
00:24:21.820It is only through the perversion of the judiciary with radical activist judges who view it as their
00:24:27.640duty to unlawfully legislate from the bench that gun control remains in effect in many of our
00:24:32.800largest cities. Baltimore, Chicago, St. Louis, these are cities plagued by gun violence
00:24:39.220in the faces of illegal restrictions on law-abiding gun owners of those respective cities. So in other
00:24:45.360words, if these cities have the most restrictive gun control laws in the country, why has that not
00:24:53.040stopped the rise in crime, particularly gun-related crimes, in those cities. It essentially proves
00:25:02.000that gun control measures do not work. If guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns. Those
00:25:08.500who stand against America's core values, particularly those in our Bill of Rights,
00:25:12.480have no place in our Congress and certainly not in our government. Meanwhile, President Donald
00:25:18.360Trump on Monday announced plans to build the largest steel plant in the U.S. history in the
00:25:24.440state of Iowa. Leadership from the India-based SR Group, which owns Mesabi Metallics, joined
00:25:31.820President Trump in the Oval Office, along with a number of Iowa officials, for the official
00:25:36.600announcement. Today, we're thrilled to announce that Mesabi Metallics will be building the largest
00:25:42.300steel plant in American history in the great state of Iowa. It's the largest plant, or one of the
00:25:47.980largest plants in the world, but it's certainly the largest plant in America by far, President
00:25:52.900Trump said. Trump said that once operational, the plant will source iron ore from a Minnesota mine
00:25:59.600and produce a whopping 10 million tons of steel annually. But it's the first new iron ore mine
00:26:07.460in the United States in more than 50 years with the highest quality of ore being used.
00:26:12.080So, in other words, this steel will be mined, melted, and made right here in the United States, which at this point is extraordinarily unusual.
00:26:21.720The project is expected to create up to 6,000 new construction jobs, nearly 2,000 manufacturing and mining jobs, and add another $95 billion to the U.S. economy, which is the number one economy in the world by far, the president pointed out.
00:26:38.480Trump touted his steel tariff policy and highlighted manufacturing job loss
00:26:43.040under former President Joe Biden in the White House Oval Office appearance.
00:26:48.180Under Sleepy Joe, steel production declined significantly,
00:26:52.000along with nearly 200,000 manufacturing jobs that were lost in the year before I took office, the president said.
00:26:58.600He said that steel has come roaring back to life after he imposed a 50% Section 232 tariff on steel from other countries
00:27:07.580He also put a 25% tariff on steel and upped it to 50% in late June of 2025.
00:27:15.320Everyone's building their plans here or there because they don't want to pay tariffs.
00:27:19.400It's really not that complicated, the president said.
00:27:22.080A lot of people say they don't understand it, but they do.
00:27:24.980They just don't like to give us credit.
00:27:28.600He has enormous accomplishments for which he does not get credit.
00:27:31.880Because of the tariffs, the president said, were taking in hundreds of billions of dollars of profits.
00:27:36.780It's one of the reasons I can offer, if Republicans win the House and the Senate, $5,000 to every adult, and we will have the money to do it, the president added.
00:27:46.680Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick echoed the president's sentiment on tariffs.
00:27:51.000You have these 232 tariffs, the steel tariffs, at work.
00:27:55.320Without those tariffs, this mine wouldn't have gotten built, and the steel plant does not get built at all.
00:28:54.860Actress Gina Gershon is also expected to attend.
00:28:58.860See, that's how these Hollywood starlets, actors, and others in the entertainment industry burnish their credentials by campaigning for Democrats and trashing Donald Trump.
00:29:10.780The event comes as Tallarico promotes his campaign as a people-powered movement to take back Texas,
00:29:16.880despite the fact that he's received the vast majority of his campaign contributions from outside the state of Texas.
00:29:23.540According to figures reported by the Texas Tribune in July, more than 55% of Tau Rico's contributions came from out-of-state donors, while approximately 44% came from Texas.
00:29:34.820By comparison, Republican Senate candidate and Attorney General Ken Paxton received 82% of his contributions from Texans and just 18% from outside the Lone Star State.
00:29:47.420The New York Fundraiser's host committee includes Charles Alaimo, a Democrat megadonor and the managing director at Group One Trading, Sadomar Kurnabek, a former managing director at an investment firm, D.E. Shaw & Company, and current board members of the Inclusive Abundance, as well as Charles Myers, former chairman of Signum Global Advisors,
00:30:16.100and a former top advisor to Hillary Clinton.
00:30:19.800Other participants include Jane Rosenthal,
00:30:22.680co-founder of the Tribeca Film Festival,
00:30:25.420who has lived in a $40 million condominium
00:32:05.560I can't really say that in a family radio show
00:32:08.000He also produced a 33-minute documentary about the American flag, denigrating it with filmmaker Bruce Cohen.
00:32:16.520See, this is who James Tallarico fundraisers with.
00:32:19.580It's become a symbol of aggression, the American flag, like we're coming for you during Trump's era, Bittar told Forbes while promoting his film.
00:33:30.760That was supposed to be at Lindelof's Brentwood home.
00:33:34.200Tickets ranged from $1,000 to $27,000, with fundraising proceeds expected to be split evenly between both candidates.
00:33:44.000Earlier in the summer, the Lindelhoffs attended a separate fundraiser hosted by media executive Peter Chernin and his wife Megan for Tallarico and three other candidates.
00:33:54.360Tallarico's campaign is also fundraised for Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, the billionaire heir to the Hyatt Hotel fortune.
00:34:02.680I say these names simply to point out that the Democrat Party is now the party of the wealthy Wall Street and entertainment elite.
00:34:11.740It used to be thought that the Republicans were the party of the wealthy, the party of the country club, but under Donald Trump everything is juxtaposed.
00:34:18.800Now the Republican Party is the party of working people and the middle class families, while the Democrat Party is the party of the elite ultra rich.
00:34:29.400When we come back, we're going to talk about the banning and censorship, once again, of Trump supporters and Republicans online.
00:34:40.420Their spam filtering, I think, has obstructed over $117 million in fundraising for Trump and the Republicans.
00:34:47.680They're back to their old tricks, Google and Microsoft, very specifically.
00:34:52.180You're not going to miss this report, so stay with us right here in the Stone Zone.
00:34:56.580This is The Stone Zone with Roger Stone.
00:35:00.860He likes politics and he's a professional at the highest level.
00:35:26.580this is the stone zone with roger stone roger stone who's a very very one of the smartest
00:35:39.260political minds roger stone was persecuted people forget he's actually a brilliant brilliant
00:35:44.020political analyst now get him his own it's the stone zone here's roger stone
00:35:50.640Welcome back into the Stone Zone. A newly published study estimates that Republican fundraisers lost $117 million last year after email providers, chiefly Google, Microsoft and Yahoo, inappropriately flagged Republican fundraising messages as spam while allowing Democrat fundraising emails through to the email box for those that they were intended to.
00:36:14.600The New York Post reports that the study, authored by Dr. Cameron Ellis of the University of Iowa and Dr. Lars Powell of the University of Alabama, uses itemized Federal Election Commission donation records to separate first-time donors from repeat donors across the Republican platform, WinRed, and its Democrat counterpart, ActBlue, then tracked how donations moved between two stretches of spam filtering last year.
00:36:41.440The first stretch ran from June 30, 2025, when the Republican consulting firm Targeted Victory told Google that when read,
00:36:49.640funging emails were landing in spam through September 2025, when Google dropped a spam blacklist called CERABLE that the researchers say had been improperly flagging the messages.
00:37:02.700During that window, spam filtering caught first-time wind-run donations by more than 75% across Gmail, Outlook, and Yahoo.
00:37:12.300The second stretch, affecting only Outlook, ran from February through April that same year and saw first-time wind-run donations drop a whopping 83%.
00:37:21.700Together, the two periods cost Republicans 1,400 and 2,126 expected first-time donations, which the researchers converted by calculation to be about $117 million using FEC data.
00:37:39.700data. See, the point is that when a Republican fundraising outfit sends you an email, thanks to
00:37:46.600Google or Microsoft, it ends up in your spam filter, doesn't go to your email box. Yet when
00:37:52.160a Democrat organization such as ActBlue sends you a solicitation, it went right to your email.
00:37:58.660This is just another way that the big companies in Silicon Valley cheat. It's a huge number.
00:38:33.280only because private-paired testing evidence leaked into public reporting.
00:38:38.720That's how it ended up in the New York Post.
00:38:41.540Powell, who wrote the study, was up front about the limits of studying a system companies keep so opaque.
00:38:47.180Can't read their minds, he said, but pointed to other evidence, pinning down the cause.
00:38:52.320Inbox placement data and paired email tests showed that when the filtering happened
00:38:57.860and supported that WinRite links were those that were the trigger,
00:39:01.840Email placement for the Republicans, the researchers found, were normalized once Google stopped using their CERBO program on September 15th.
00:39:11.240Just for scale, the Republican National Committee, the Republican Congressional Committee, and the Republican Senate Committee fundraising totaled $375 million combined in 2025.
00:39:22.860Gmail, just for comparison, has more than 3 billion monthly users.
00:39:27.780Google pushed back hard on the report.
00:39:31.180The spokesperson said the study relies on deeply flawed methodology that fundamentally misunderstands how Gmail works right.
00:39:39.980And called $170 million a theoretical estimate rather than a real-world number.
00:39:46.120Our spam protections apply equally to everyone regardless of political affiliation, and we encourage bulk senders to follow the best practices to reach inboxes, the spokesman said.
00:39:56.560adding that people are in full control of their inboxes