Steve K. Bannon files an emergency appeal with the D.C. Court of Appeals seeking bail while he is appealing his sentence for contempt of a grand jury subpoena. The former White House Strategist and adviser to President Donald J. Trump has invoked executive privilege in response to a subpoena from Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office. In this episode of The Stone Zone, host Roger Stone and co-host Troy Smith discuss the latest developments in the case and the implications for the future of the case, including the possibility that the Supreme Court will have to weigh in on the matter. The Stonezone is a production of Gimlet Media and Slingshot News. Roger Stone served as a senior campaign aide to three Republican presidents. He is a New York Times bestselling author, and a longtime friend and advisor of President Donald Trump. As an outspoken libertarian, Stone has appeared on thousands of broadcasts, spoken at countless venues, and lectured before the prestigious Oxford Political Union and the Cambridge Union Society, and has lectured at Oxford and Cambridge University. Roger Stone is a regular contributor to conservative media outlets and has been described as a "pop culture icon." He is also a frequent guest on Fox News and conservative talk shows. and the host of the conservative radio show "The Weekly Standard" and hosts a regular podcast on conservative talk radio show on SiriusXM Radio. His latest book, "The Stone Zone" is out now. "Stone Zone: A Guide to the White House." is available in paperback and hardcover, and is available for purchase on Amazon Prime and Vimeo worldwide. If you're looking for a copy of the book, you can't get enough of Roger Stone's latest novel, "Stone's newest novel, The Stone Guide? Click here to find out more about him and his newest novel "The White House Correspondent's Notebook: "The Most Powerful Man in America's Most Influential Man in the Making of a President's Life: The White House's Guide to Trump's Secret Service Officer." and more! here's a link to the book and paperback edition of Stone's new novel, out now on Amazon's newest edition, "Trump's Most Powerful People's Guide: The Most Powerful Person in the Middle East and His Most Powerful Place in the Most Powerful Places in the U.S. Is It Allowed to Read It All? out now, out soon, out in paperback, out on Nov. 9th, July 20th, 2019.
00:01:14.340So, some major developments overnight.
00:01:19.040Steve Bannon has filed an emergency appeal with the D.C. Court of Appeals seeking bail while he is appealing his sentence.
00:01:30.340Now, Steve Bannon is a victim, just as George Papadopoulos was a victim, just as General Flynn was a victim, just as Paul Manafort was a victim, just as I was a victim, and just as President Donald Trump was a victim.
00:01:48.780There are, in fact, serious constitutional issues regarding executive privilege.
00:01:56.400And the truth is that Steve Bannon declined to testify based on the advice of his sentence regarding, specifically, the president's asserting of executive privilege in his case.
00:02:11.560Here's a clip of his now-former lawyer, David Schoen, making an extraordinarily articulate argument as to why Steve Bannon should not be incarcerated during this time of appeal.
00:02:45.100Yeah, so, as you know, the judge today issued a surrender date of July 1st in order to let us appeal to a higher court, meaning the full Court of Appeals in D.C. and or the United States Supreme Court.
00:02:59.460As I said in the courtroom, this is an issue that legal scholars have said from day one is a case that has to go before the United States Supreme Court.
00:03:06.200The Licavoli case from 1961, as this judge found earlier in this case, cannot be reconciled with either the traditional notion of willfulness in the criminal law or the modern definition.
00:03:18.120There have been a number of cases just in the last few years that have fleshed this out and made clear that in this country, we don't send anyone to prison if they believed that they were doing something that complied with the law.
00:03:30.380In other words, what Justice Alito and Justice Thomas said in 2019, where Congress wants to require proof that a criminal defendant knew his conduct was illegal, it specifies that the violation must be willful.
00:03:43.580In the context of this statute, a misdemeanor, contempt of Congress, different from every single other statute in our jurisprudence, the court found that willful in 1961, the court found that willful, willfully make the fault, just means did you get a subpoena and did you comply with it?
00:04:00.020That's not what willful means as a matter of law in the criminal context.
00:04:04.100And here, the case is complicated because former President Trump invoked executive privilege and reaffirmed that before the trial started, that he had invoked executive privilege.
00:04:13.160This case raises a dynamic separation of powers issue.
00:04:17.080We know from years and decades of case law that the president and a former president has the authority to invoke executive privilege.
00:04:24.700It's his prerogative, his or her prerogative, one day maybe her prerogative, but it's his prerogative to invoke, and it's presumptively valid when invoked.
00:04:33.980It's not for Congress to determine whether it was an appropriate invocation or otherwise, and Congress cannot be the arbiter of how to respond to that.
00:04:44.760Courts have spoken clearly about this.
00:04:46.260The judge's decision today cannot be reconciled with his earlier comments in the case that Liccavoli was wrongly decided.
00:04:53.620And what he said today was he acknowledged and the government had argued that this panel, in Mr. Bannon's case, didn't have the authority to overrule Liccavoli.
00:05:02.200So how on earth can you find that there's no longer a substantial question when they never even considered the modern jurisprudence?
00:05:08.980The decision has it wrong factually in many, many ways.
00:05:12.080It's a horrible decision that overlooks facts in the record, but beyond all that, the fundamental principle of law here that's got to be vitiated in the United States Supreme Court is that willfully in the criminal conduct context means that you knew you did something wrong.
00:05:24.900The unequivocal evidence in this case, without any dispute, is that Mr. Bannon never got the subpoena.
00:05:29.540His lawyer got the subpoena, and his lawyer told him an executive privilege has been invoked.
00:05:33.980President Trump confirmed that, and his lawyer told him that when an executive privilege has been invoked, you may not, as a matter of law, comply with this subpoena.
00:05:45.260He said, if the committee works out privilege with Mr. Trump, Bannon will comply fully.
00:05:49.460If the committee goes to a judge and a judge says either privilege doesn't apply or it doesn't extend this broadly, Mr. Bannon will comply fully.
00:05:56.520The committee only went criminal for their publicity reasons and for their political agenda, and you can see that from every statement they made.
00:06:02.940And I'm going to say one more thing about this, because this is another issue.
00:06:06.200The committee, the January 6th committee, was composed and engaged in conduct that violated the House rules without any question.
00:06:14.340There was never any ranking minority member, which was an essential part, as were other parts, of the resolution creating it.
00:06:19.820My hope is that Blagg, the bilateral advisory group in Congress, will be convened by the speaker, and he will declare that once and for all that the January 6th committee violated the House rules and that their conduct and their actions and subpoenas issued by them were not lawful subpoenas.
00:06:53.960I've got great lawyers, and we're going to go all the way to the Supreme Court if we have to, but I want to say something specifically about the Justice Department.
00:07:00.020Merrick Garland, Lisa Monaco, the entire Justice Department, they're not going to shut up Trump.
00:07:12.940I think a brilliant outline of why the ruling to send Steve Bannon to jail is simply illegal and wrong.
00:07:22.940But then, Troy, you broke shocking news last night.
00:07:27.360David Schoen, the brilliant lawyer you just saw there, no longer represents Steve Bannon.
00:07:34.720We learned yesterday that a new lawyer, someone named Trent McCotter, filed the emergency motion with the D.C. Court of Appeals,
00:07:46.440saying essentially that the government wants to silence Steve Bannon in the months before the election and that he should be allowed to remain at liberty because of his advisory role to the former president in that period.
00:08:07.080I'm not familiar with any formal advisory role, but having gone before the same D.C. Court of Appeals and having them sit on the gag order placed on me, which was unconstitutional,
00:08:22.260while I suffered damage from CNN and MSNBC and the New York Times and the Washington Post, false accusations that I was a Russian traitor, which, of course, I could not respond to.
00:08:37.620And then rather than make a decision, they sent it back to the trial court judge, saying that I had to first ask the judge who placed the gag order on me to remove it, which, of course, she never would have done.
00:08:53.100So I pray that Mr. Bannon is successful, but my political instincts tell me that he will not be.
00:09:02.060Well, Roger, this, I would, you know, just reviewing things, David Schoen is one of the most impressive lawyers that I've ever seen in action.
00:09:10.720I think his work on the Trump impeachment was masterful, and I think it's a big mistake for Bannon to, or basically for these two to part ways.
00:09:19.820And I think it speaks to the level of persecution that's going on in this court, Roger.
00:09:25.380You know, you just heard a very coherent argument from David Schoen that is totally based in law, totally based in constitutionality, totally based in truth.
00:09:34.040And yet there was no success in this case.
00:09:36.940And I think it speaks to the idea that this is not your typical, this is not your mom and dad's or your grandparents' courtroom.
00:09:44.560This is a different kind of courtroom, and they don't care about legality.
00:09:49.540They don't care about having, you know, precedent or having a basis to persecute the political enemies of the state.
00:09:57.800And, you know, it's just a, it's an interesting situation.
00:10:00.500But I think for Steve Bannon, getting rid of David Schoen, who I believe is one of the most talented attorneys in the country, I think it's a mistake.
00:10:08.560But also you look at it, Roger, and you say, well, you have the best guy, he gives the best argument, and you don't get anything out of it.
00:10:14.820It's kind of a can't win situation, a situation that you yourself have been through.
00:10:18.960So you understand just about better than anybody.
00:10:23.260Schoen told me in an interview that he spent 20 hours on his brief to the judge five minutes into his presentation.
00:10:32.740The judge essentially cut him off and then handed a 94-page written opinion, which remanded Bannon to prison, clearly never even taking into consideration any of Schoen's arguments, and inconsistent with everything the judge had said on the record in the case up until that point.
00:11:07.120We're very pleased to have Sheriff Richard Mack, who is the president of the Constitutional, let me get this exactly right, the Constitutional Sheriff and Peace Officers Association.
00:11:18.900Sheriff Mack is here to discuss what solutions that citizens have available that are both peaceful and legal to establish order and justice in our nation.
00:11:31.960Sheriff Mack, welcome to the Stone Zone.
00:11:36.360It's a privilege to be with you again, Roger.
00:11:39.060We've met a few times as we've been touring the country, and thank you so much for having me.
00:12:16.000But I was the first sheriff to launch a major lawsuit against the federal government, and literally, I sued the Clintons and beat them at the U.S. Supreme Court.
00:12:25.300And the real miracle with that is I lived to tell about it.
00:12:28.960So I lost my race in 1996, and in 1997, about eight, nine months later, I won the case at the U.S. Supreme Court.
00:12:43.800And luckily and miraculously, the blessings from heaven is that six other sheriffs joined me in this lawsuit.
00:12:53.100And ultimately, that guaranteed us a trip to the Supreme Court.
00:12:57.980So Sheriff Prince from Montana and I were at the Supreme Court in 1996.
00:13:14.080I started my police career up in Utah.
00:13:17.300And so I decided, after I lost my third election in Arizona, that I would move back to Utah and win with this Supreme Court victory on my hip.
00:13:29.100But I thought that one of the most conservative counties in America, Utah County, would love to have me as their sheriff.
00:19:42.100All of this very clearly to silence me.
00:19:45.660But they failed because, well, the good Lord delivered me.
00:19:50.200So, Troy, let's go to the larger mission here, because I'm a great believer in the sheriffs.
00:19:56.460How can the sheriffs across this country and the other peace officers help us get equal protection under the law and law and order?
00:20:06.280Well, you know, that's the $10,000 question.
00:20:11.060And I've been working on that for the past 20, 25 years.
00:20:15.020I formed the CSPOA, Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association.
00:20:20.100And every citizen can join that organization.
00:20:23.060And we have the CSPOA posse, which is for Americans.
00:20:26.380And listen, every one of you Americans across this country, if you think we're going to restore our Constitution and the American Republic without you involved, no, it's never going to happen.
00:21:00.100For instance, there's been sheriffs that have stood up to the federal government all across this country.
00:21:05.540When I was sheriff, when I was already suing the Clinton administration, the Army Corps of Engineers and EPA came into our county and warned our county supervisors, our county commissioners, that they could not repair a bridge after a flood until they had all conducted their environmental impact studies.
00:21:27.560This bridge had been there for decades.
00:21:29.500And it had just washed out a little bit, and there was a little bit of a problem that could take a day, day and a half to fix.
00:21:46.660It belongs to Arizona and the people of Arizona.
00:21:49.420And so after a while, it took 10 months, and the federal government still hadn't done their studies and all their red tape.
00:21:59.500So finally, the county commissioners were getting so much heat from the farmers and ranchers that needed that road open, that bridge open, that they finally just succumbed to the pressure politically from our citizens.
00:22:10.400And they voted unanimously, all three of them, to fix the bridge.
00:22:15.380Well, then the Army Corps of Engineers and EPA threatened to arrest our county commissioners.
00:22:23.360And see, I'm not involved in fixing bridges.
00:22:27.040But once the EPA and Army Corps of Engineers threatened to arrest our county commissioners, then I got involved.
00:22:33.480And I didn't even like these guys this much.
00:22:36.320And I couldn't believe that they actually have the courage to do this because they didn't support me when I was suing the Clinton administration at all.
00:22:43.720And they're just, you know, they just try to go along to get along.
00:22:46.280But I was proud of them for taking this stand.
00:22:49.320And so I told them, I brought the Army Corps of Engineers and EPA into my office.
00:22:54.040And they also threatened to charge us $35,000 a day.
00:23:01.040And they're going to charge $35,000 a day for every day that they're in violation, plus arrest them, and plus arrest the maintenance workers.
00:23:12.780So I called them in and I said, listen, I don't know if you guys know this, but I'm already suing the Clinton administration.
00:24:05.060And I could give you numerous incidences.
00:24:07.220Sheriff Brad Rogers in Eckhart County did it.
00:24:09.220Sheriff Clark, David A. Clark Jr., did it in Milwaukee, standing against local officials and the governor and the mayor and the chief of police of Milwaukee when he told every citizen to be armed, to be trained, and to be ready.
00:24:26.260And we had Sheriff Nick Finch do it in Liberty County, Florida.
00:24:32.240And there were sheriffs who've done it in Utah and in Idaho and Texas.
00:24:36.940And all we need now is to get hundreds, if not thousands, of sheriffs to unite in that holy cause to prevent the federal government's oppression and their abuse and their tyranny.
00:24:50.460And this is what we've got to do within the next three months.
00:24:55.020And we're trying to raise money to have this national convention so that we can get going on these sheriffs, making sure that we're having safe and secure and integrous elections this year.
00:25:07.340And also that we erect the barriers, as Madison said, against the encroachments of the national authority.
00:25:15.020Well, it's more than encroachments now, Mr. Madison.
00:25:18.060It's downright tyranny and abuse and criminality.
00:25:21.980Troy, do you have a question for Sheriff Mack?
00:25:28.620We went through just the 2019 or the 2020 COVID pandemic, and I think that demonstrated to people how powerful the sheriff is and how important it is to their everyday life.
00:25:38.140Can you describe the process that took place for constitutional sheriffs during COVID-19?
00:25:43.720I mean, these sheriffs were actually able to protect people from mandates and lockdowns, weren't they?
00:26:09.440This is the most powerful 10th Amendment decision, state, sovereignty, and local autonomy decision in the history of America.
00:26:17.940Folks, go to CSPOA.org, become a member of our posse, and start passing these around to local politicians so that they know what the Supreme Court said,
00:26:28.380written by one of the best Supreme Court justices ever in American history, Justice Antonin Scalia.
00:27:35.440Because, quote, the different governments will control each other.
00:27:42.320Those different governments are in the cities and the counties and the states who have the obligation to put up the stop sign to the federal government and its bureaucrats who think that they are the judge of their own authority.
00:27:57.560Well, the ultimate judge of their authority is your county sheriff.
00:28:02.260And he says he can tell them beyond these bounds, you shall not enter.
00:28:07.920And so the main thing that we want to get the sheriffs to do this year is unitedly sign a declaration to the federal and state bureaucrats who are mostly federal and tell them, do not come in my county unless you check with me.
00:28:22.160And Mar-a-Lago should have been stopped by local sheriff.
00:28:27.340Governor DeSantis should have not said, well, I'll pardon Trump.
00:28:30.540No, he should have said, I'm not going to allow this kind of political criminality to happen in my state.
00:28:37.240And the sheriff should have done the same thing.
00:28:39.280And they should have done the same thing for you, Roger, and for many of the other victims that have been criminalized by our wonderful two-tier system of justice in Washington, D.C.
00:28:55.280It is so corrupt there that I can't believe it.
00:28:58.820And not only that, if God doesn't strike Washington, D.C. down, he owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology.
00:29:06.920And so to make sure that your question is answered, the sheriffs of this country during COVID stood against the mandates.
00:29:16.740They stood against some of their own governors.
00:29:18.740Sheriff Mark Lamb out in Arizona stood against his friend, a Republican governor.
00:31:20.960We have to have the courage, and we must emulate the founders in preserving our Constitution, just like we already promised to do in solemn oath when we took our jobs.
00:31:55.880All right, folks, a quick message for you.
00:32:01.460Do you remember several months ago when the AT&T cell phone system went down?
00:32:07.140I certainly do, because, well, I was one of those affected.
00:32:11.660Millions of people were unable to get through a cell phone call to reach loved ones or business associates or even for emergency services.
00:32:22.020That's because the cellular tower system is extraordinarily vulnerable, vulnerable to hackers, vulnerable to terrorists, vulnerable to adverse weather conditions such as hurricanes.
00:32:39.020What if, as Colonel John Mills said on this show a week ago, terrorists were to close down the entire electrical power grid?
00:32:50.720Entirely possible, he says, based on his experience and knowledge.
00:32:55.860Well, not only would you have no Internet, no cell phones, no air conditioning, no heat, no refrigeration for your food, how will you communicate in that instance?
00:33:10.740The answer is the Iridium 9555 phone and the Iridium cellular, pardon me, satellite system.
00:33:23.120You see, the Iridium 9555 phone uses a proprietary satellite system to deliver crisp, clear, encrypted, both phone service and text service.
00:33:38.440Your phone will literally work any place in America, any place in the world, that you can see the sky.
00:33:47.280That's why the U.S. government, including the U.S. Senate and the military, rely on this style of satellite phones and this kind of satellite system.
00:33:57.520You actually get the Iridium 9555 phone for absolutely free when you sign up for a 24-month service package that gives you access to the satellite.
00:34:19.300We actually have some plans that are a little less expensive.
00:34:23.160We also have a plan for your entire family.
00:34:25.940They can be on your satellite feed, and you can get up to three free phones.
00:34:32.780So for peace of mind, to never, no matter what happens, be out of touch, to always have completely protected, entirely encrypted phone calls and text messages, which cannot be monitored, cannot be eavesdropped on, cannot be hacked.
00:34:51.980And, by the way, there's no danger of big tech, taking your information and selling it.
00:35:50.100But what else happened overnight that we need to know about?
00:35:52.880Well, Roger, just very quickly, I wanted to point out that Apple overnight became the most valuable, once again, tech company in the world after they announced that they had implemented or they're going to implement OpenAI into their devices at an OS level.
00:36:08.680So what that means is for all of you people out there with Apple phones, computers, iPads, everything you do now will be subject to a net, basically, of OpenAI.
00:36:19.080And I realized we didn't really touch on this yesterday, Roger.
00:37:44.320But this will end up being one of the biggest stories of this year and maybe of the last decade because we are dangerously teetering into a space where there will be no security.
00:37:56.140There will be no ability for people to have any kind of security.
00:38:01.580This is basically an open book that Apple is bringing into the tech world.
00:38:06.380It's a massive problem and it needs to be talked about more.
00:38:09.000I believe we're the only really ones in the political world that are talking about this right now.
00:38:13.280And it needs to be echoed throughout because this is a massive, massive security concern.
00:38:18.800I know we cut you short yesterday when you were trying to explain this.
00:38:22.380I'm glad we had the opportunity to do it.
00:38:25.940I've been watching it on X, but I confess until this moment, I really didn't understand the issues involved.
00:38:37.380Yesterday seemed to be a bad day for Nancy Pelosi as videotape actually surfaced, I believe, shot by her own daughter's film crew, in which she admitted that she had not provided the National Guard on January 6th as she should have.
00:38:55.540But Kash Patel particularly has proven with documentation that there was an offer by President Trump to Mayor Bowser of D.C.
00:39:07.260and to Speaker Pelosi to provide the National Guard protection for the Capitol, and it was denied.
00:39:15.040Pelosi has lied about this now for almost three, a little more than three years.
00:39:36.140You're going to ask me in the middle of the thing when they've already breached the inaugural stuff that should we call the Capitol Police?
00:40:11.060I mean, it seems to me, since the Democrats intend to run on January 6th, and they just refuse to accept any narrative, particularly some of the excellent work done over at Revolver.News, for example, the heroic efforts of Tucker Carlson, many others, to expose what really happened that day.
00:40:35.400The FBI director can't answer how many FBI undercover agents were in the crowd.
00:40:56.700They manipulated at least two videos of me that were pasted together to give a false impression.
00:41:05.400Cassidy Hutchinson, their star witness, perjured herself multiple times, said specifically that President Donald Trump instructed his chief of staff, Mark Meadows, to call Roger Stone and General Flynn on the afternoon or evening of the 5th to, as Liz Cheney helpfully interposed, quote, find out what was going to happen on January 6th.
00:41:37.400I have never communicated at all with Mark Meadows, not by email, not by text, not by phone, not in person, other than the fact that I met him once in a green room at Fox when he was a congressman.
00:42:03.220Then Cassidy Hutchinson went on to say that she had dissuaded Meadows from attending a meeting at a war room at the Willard Hotel.
00:42:15.720Well, as three different sources have confirmed for The Willard Hotel, if there was a war room in the Willard Hotel, I was unaware of it, and I was never in it.
00:42:29.160But according to Hutchinson, Meadows called Stone and Flynn to get a debrief on the meeting in the war room, a meeting that neither one of us attended or had any knowledge of.
00:42:45.500She has sought to amend her remarks, which is normally done with punctuation and grammar and so on, but usually not a change of substance.
00:42:57.400Cassidy Hutchinson conducted serious crimes in the made-for-television hearings of the January 6th committee, who, despite what they say, destroyed all their records in the aftermath, so we cannot see how they manipulated information with this political drama.
00:43:18.780Well, and Roger, it's important to point out, who was doing the film?
00:43:22.100Do you know who was doing the filming of Nancy Pelosi on that day?
00:43:38.080I mean, we have people, Roger, who have been in solitary confinement, who have been starved, beaten, put through the worst political persecution we've ever seen in the United States over this and over the January 6th committee hearings.
00:43:52.220And additionally, what else does Nancy Pelosi's daughter have in terms of footage that would highlight this play, this ploy, the obvious lies that took place surrounding January 6th?
00:44:04.080You know, we're sitting in a situation where Peter Navarro is in prison.
00:44:07.280They're trying to send Steve Bannon to prison over subpoenas from this January 6th committee.
00:44:12.580Meanwhile, we have footage being leaked from the daughter of Nancy Pelosi admitting that she's the one that felt responsible for January 6th.
00:44:20.140She's the one that takes responsibility for what happened on that day.
00:44:24.540So we need to see subpoenas on Nancy Pelosi's daughter.
00:44:28.220And the fact that we haven't already seen that, the fact that that was not even raised as a question, that they just allowed Nancy Pelosi to basically cherry pick the damning parts of the footage to show, speaks to the kangaroo court nature, I think, of this committee, Roger.
00:44:44.520And we know they didn't have a ranking member of a different party.
00:44:48.220You know, they didn't they didn't even set the thing up right in the first place.
00:44:50.860But now we know that there's damning footage because we just saw it of Nancy Pelosi making stunning admissions during January 6th.
00:44:59.040I said we need to see all the footage.
00:45:00.880We need to see every single piece of this footage.
00:45:03.480And we need to get to the bottom of exactly what happened on that day.
00:45:06.760Maybe Nancy Pelosi's daughter has some footage that can give us insight into, I don't know, FBI involvement in the day, intelligence agencies involvement in the day.
00:45:17.640Perhaps the fact that she knowingly and willingly denied 10,000 National Guard troops who were put put on the table by President Donald Trump, who realized that there would be millions of people there.
00:45:30.760Roger, there's so much to this that's revealed by the idea that we have footage out there of Pelosi that just has not been seen.
00:45:38.400And we need to get to the bottom of that, especially with people currently serving prison sentences for what happened.
00:45:45.440Now, I want to get your reaction, Roger, because Pelosi, of course, went into a full blown cover up mode just after this.
00:45:52.820She appeared on MSNBC denying that that clip is real.
00:45:57.520And I think really panic setting because you realize, look, the daughter filmed this.
00:46:02.800The daughter obviously has a lot more footage of Pelosi that's pretty damning.
00:46:06.880What else does she have and how can we get access to it?
00:46:09.480Let's roll that clip and get Roger's reaction on the other side.
00:46:12.940Why do you think this is stirred up and a brouhaha on the right and in some corners of the media today?
00:46:20.120Well, because of the the fact is that the president of the United States, the former president and his toadies do not want to face the facts.
00:46:32.900They're trying to do revisionist history on January 6th.
00:46:37.120But we cannot let us be dragged into their, again, false impression of what happened that day.
00:47:11.820Well, the real disappointment is in Speaker Mike Johnson for not appointing a committee to investigate the January 6th committee investigation.
00:47:20.900That's the only way we would get to the bottom of this.
00:47:23.500If Nancy Pelosi's daughter still has footage, my guess is it has been destroyed by now.
00:49:14.660They have successfully jailed Peter Navarro.
00:49:18.080Who is it who is putting their political opponents in prison?
00:49:21.440Why, it's Joe Biden and his weaponized justice system.
00:49:25.880No, the coordinated Trump is on a revenge tour.
00:49:31.020No, what Trump wants is equal protection under the law.
00:49:36.360If John Brennan, for example, is charged and convicted of treason, and I believe a number of his actions during the Russian collusion hoax were treasonous,
00:49:46.520and lawyers tell me that there is no statute of limitations on treason, then he should be charged and he should go to trial.
00:50:30.600And yesterday, we broke the news here on The Stone Zone that Hunter Biden had been found guilty in his gun trial,
00:50:35.700and we wrote an extensive piece about this.
00:50:38.220Yesterday, I mentioned that there have been several precedents set across the country relating to drug users and gun ownership.
00:50:46.620In that article that we published, the Slingshot News, people can go check that out.
00:50:50.120We talked extensively about that, and there are links even to some of the cases across the country.
00:50:54.780But right after that, Roger, we actually said it on the show, so a prediction came true.
00:51:01.160Joe Biden held a speech at 1.30, just hours after the Hunter Biden verdict,
00:51:07.120where he announced a kind of new gun control initiative where he's going to be trying to ban assault weapons.
00:51:13.380I'd say they can't even really define assault weapons, so it doesn't really scare me the way that I think it's intended for them to scare the American people.
00:51:25.960But let's roll a couple clips from Biden's speech.
00:51:29.220Really tough time he had up there at the podium.
00:51:32.680And additionally, he made his threat once again to the American people, Roger, that they're going to need F-15s to take on the government.
00:51:39.660So you have a guy that's stealing elections, you have a guy that won the most fraudulent election of all time,
00:51:45.800now behind the podium telling the American people, if you want to take me on, you better have F-15s.
00:51:51.880And they have the balls to call Trump a tyrant with that going on.
00:51:55.140Let's roll those two clips from Biden yesterday.
00:51:57.500Who in God's name needs a magazine which can hold 200 shows?
00:54:00.140Let's cover one final thing, and that is, of course, Hunter Biden's guilty verdict yesterday.
00:54:06.280Where is his indictment for lobbying without registering?
00:54:09.900If you read Paul Manafort's incredible book, he did almost two years of hard time for allegedly representing Ukraine and not registering as a foreign agent.
00:54:22.340Hunter and his members of his family took millions and millions of dollars from China, from Russia, from Ukraine, from Romania, from Kazakhstan.
00:55:00.260And the U.S. attorney in Delaware let the statute of limitations on that expire.
00:55:05.660So, as a federal judge said, when Hunter Biden's lawyers tried to point to my case saying that Hunter was being treated differently than I was, the judge said correctly, the cases are like apples and oranges.
00:55:21.540So, if you're on Twitter today and you want to raise this, don't bother.
00:55:28.080If I got a break, the IRS would agree to some reduction in interest and penalty.
00:55:33.380Because of the $2 million I owe them, all of it from 2006, only one quarter of that is past due taxes.
00:55:42.580Three quarters of it is interest and penalties.
00:55:45.220No, I will be forced to pay probably until the day I die.
00:55:51.420The idea that I evaded taxes is false and defamatory.
00:55:56.040The government has settled this case because they could find no evidence of those assertions.
00:56:01.980But where I agree with those who say this gun charge is meant to distract us.
00:56:09.060Where are the more serious charges against Hunter Biden?
00:56:13.540A great piece by Paul Sperry in the New York Post about the millions of dollars that were transferred to members of the Biden family, appearingly to Joe Biden himself.
00:56:25.420More than sufficient grounds for impeachment, in my opinion.
00:56:29.900So, I don't know what will happen in Hunter's Texas tax trial.
00:58:10.600And, you know, the idea that we have Hunter Biden that's done all these things.
00:58:14.160And keep in mind, you know, they say, oh, Roger Stone, you can't talk about this.
00:58:18.200There's a organization that the Bidens are very well aware of because we just saw it was Haley Biden cursing out Garrett Ziegler of Marco Polo USA.
00:58:29.380But they actually provide, I mean, I have a copy, millions of people, I mean, thousands of people have copies of the Hunter Biden laptop report.
00:58:39.020And that information, I think this has to do really with the TikTok ban as well, Roger, because on TikTok and other social media platforms, the Hunter Biden laptop information has become widespread.
00:58:49.440So the idea that they would sit there and tell anybody in this country, oh, you can't talk about this.
00:58:54.880It's kind of like them saying, oh, Roger Stone, you knew about WikiLeaks, but you communicated with somebody weeks after the actual report had been released and had been talked about in basically every mainstream news outlet.
00:59:39.580I think they may be backordered, but you can still get your copy to download online or get the printed edition by going to Marco Polo USA dot org.