Roger Stone is dealing with a family matter, so today's show is without host Troy Smith, who is filling in for Roger, who could not be with us because of a family issue. However, there's a lot of Biden footage to dig into, including a look at Biden's meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, and why he seems to be more interested in strengthening U.S. ties with Japan than he does with the rest of the world. Plus, a look into why some members of Biden's inner circle seem to have no idea what they're doing and why they do it the way they do what they do. The Stone Zone is a show hosted by Republican strategist and political icon and pundit Roger Stone. Stone has served as a senior campaign aide to three Republican presidents, and 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 events, and lectured before the prestigious Oxford Political Union and the Cambridge Union Society. He is a regular contributor to countless publications, and has lectured at universities across the country. Roger Stone has been described as a pop culture icon and has become a pop-culture icon in the political and cultural arena. Roger Stone is a prolific writer, and a well-known conservative commentator. He has written for publications such as The Daily Wire, The Weekly Standard, and Playboy, and The Daily Caller. and has been featured on countless radio shows, including the New York Magazine, and other publications. His latest book is out now in paperback. . He is out in the new paperback edition of his new book, The White House Correspondent s Notebook, which will be out soon, out in paperback edition, out soon. The Dark Side of the White House Journalist and in the paperback edition in the Fall issue of The New York Sun, which is out soon on Amazon, and much more! available in hardcover and hardcover in paperback, also out in hardback and hardback, and on cassette tape. in paperback coming soon, too! on the Kindle, also on the Apple App Store, and also on VHS, and paperback, and the Audible, too at your local VHS and other rental service, on your local bookshop, so you won't want to miss it!
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00:01:15.460And that's why I tell you, folks, you don't want to go anywhere today because we have a lot of Biden footage to dig into.
00:01:21.540Our producers actually were burning the midnight oil to get these things downloaded so that we could show you today
00:01:27.220because there's so much Biden content from yesterday with his meeting with the Japanese Prime Minister, Kushida.
00:01:34.000And I think it's important to point out, folks, this whole meeting centers around the fact that U.S. Steel has been purchased by a Japanese firm,
00:01:42.500and it's now going to be under Japanese control.
00:01:45.460Now, different members of the Democratic Party as well as the Republican Party have spoken out against the Japanese purchase of U.S. Steel.
00:01:52.300And yet these meetings, that seems to be lost.
00:01:55.540And the focus instead is on U.S. investment in the Pacific.
00:01:59.080The Japanese, for generations now, have benefited from the U.S. basically staying in the Pacific forever.
00:02:08.980We've been in the Pacific since my great-grandfather fought in World War II.
00:02:13.260They've been there my entire life, my father's entire life, my grandfather's entire life.
00:02:18.900The entirety of my bloodline going back three generations and seeing the United States in the Pacific.
00:02:26.040And really, beyond World War II, we don't have any monumental victories in the region.
00:02:32.760And I think that has to do with the fact that we have one foot in and one foot out.
00:02:36.720I don't think that there's any reason that the United States should have resources in Germany still from World War II,
00:02:43.260that the United States should have resources in Japan still.
00:02:46.360I was shocked to learn that Japan has really almost the majority of U.S. troops stationed around the world.
00:02:53.740And you can look at this, folks. It's tens of thousands of U.S. troops that are stationed in Japan still to this day that have been there since the end of World War II.
00:03:03.340And they tell us that that war ended, and it doesn't seem that it has.
00:03:06.280But anyway, folks, U.S. steel is the main focus of this meeting, and yet that's kind of lost.
00:03:12.340And it's an excuse for Biden to prop himself up and to say, yes, I am strengthening military ties in the Pacific with the Japanese so that we can confront Chinese aggression,
00:03:25.540when really he's bending over backwards for Japan, who's already carving us up economically by taking away our steel industry.
00:03:34.080And he's giving them additional military support while not requiring them really to do anything.
00:03:40.020And we lose our steel industry. We end up spending more on military.
00:03:44.280And ultimately, the losers are our country and our people.
00:03:49.300And that's, you know, it just speaks to the failures of the Biden administration.
00:03:53.880But anyway, we have some footage yesterday from Biden.
00:03:56.940They started off the day by kind of sashaying around the White House lawn.
00:04:01.020Biden looked kind of lost. He had to be directed all over the lawn.
00:04:05.660And it's like, you know, this is the president of the United States.
00:04:07.780First of all, do we think he can negotiate to keep U.S. steel here?
00:04:11.060I mean, do you think he could negotiate anything?
00:04:13.300He doesn't even seem to be able to to walk in a straight line without being assisted by some kind of guard or handler.
00:04:19.600So let's roll the first few clips of Biden out on the White House lawn with the Japanese prime minister yesterday.
00:04:41.060You know, folks, the idea that we have a president of the United States that can't walk from point A to point B without messing up
00:05:06.660and then having his handlers kind of deny this throughout the press and members of the Democratic Party shamelessly defending Biden and saying that he has no cognitive issues.
00:05:16.200I mean, you saw it there, folks. He's being guarded and guided by a hand in front of him.
00:05:20.840He has to literally be guided across the lawn to walk in line with people.
00:05:24.800And I think the most dystopian aspect of this entire situation we have with Biden's frailty and declining health is the fact that the mainstream media is now focused on what they call the Trump cognitive decline.
00:05:41.040And they're actually encouraging President Trump to take a cognitive test, to which he said, yes, I will take a cognitive test as long as Biden takes one as well.
00:05:53.280Why does Biden and in the case of the her report, you know, you want to talk about a free pass?
00:05:59.220The the her investigation, without a doubt, showed that President Joe Biden withheld classified documents of which he had no right to do in his home illegally.
00:06:10.080And they said they would have actually gone after him for this if he wasn't a well-meaning old man with a poor memory.
00:06:18.640And I would say, OK, if this guy can't be prosecuted, then how can he be president?
00:06:24.660If he's so frail mentally that the DOJ observes him committing criminal acts that endanger national security and then say, well, you know, he's just too old.
00:08:18.420They have naval ships that are cracking at the hull.
00:08:22.040They can't even put together a Navy boat.
00:08:25.240And they want to talk about dominating the world.
00:08:28.260Not only that, but with their new BRICS organization, where they're going into all these countries around the world, there's some serious problems.
00:08:37.640Because they're promising to build roads, bridges, and hospitals.
00:08:40.540Yet, if you look at the mainland China, they can't build roads, bridges, and hospitals.
00:08:44.100So the countries like Afghanistan and these other nations, besides the world ties that open to them with a Chinese alliance, they're realizing that the infrastructure promised by the Chinese, the false promises made by them, they're not fulfilled.
00:09:00.680And I think there's a similar situation with the bureaucratic policies of the United States.
00:09:09.460We've gone into all these countries, and you can't really point to one in which things have improved for the people of the country that we, you know, started conducting military operations in.
00:09:20.720And if you don't improve the nations in which you do business, your credibility gets shot.
00:09:28.920Now, the United States has a long track record of good credibility by the fact that we saved the world not once but twice in the last century.
00:09:36.920So that credibility is strong, but it's weakening.
00:09:42.240And I think the goal, honestly, of the entire Biden administration, which, trust me, I think has legitimate ties to the CCP, I think the payments from the CCP to the Biden administration, or the fact that Hunter Biden was making all these business deals with Rosemont Seneca, his business, and these Chinese firms that had ties to high-level Chinese intelligence and high-level CCP officials.
00:10:09.180I think it's very clear the tie between the Biden administration and the CCP, and I think there's also a tie in my mind between the weakening of America's position on the world stage and the fact that China owns President Joe Biden and his son.
00:10:25.960And as China asserts itself on the world stage, it's not getting the resounding round of applause that I think they believed it would be.
00:10:37.140Because, believe me, they thought that this Silk and Road Initiative was going to be – or the Belt and Road Initiative, I'm sorry, the new Silk Road was going to be their new hallmark, and they lauded this thing.
00:10:49.920And truthfully, it is a brilliant tactic if you know how to build infrastructure, if you know about construction.
00:10:58.580So when they go to these countries and they build bridges that collapse and kill people, or they build hospitals where things are just a catastrophe and the people go in and they die, or they come out with horrible ailments because the care is so poor, they don't exactly come out saying, I love China.
00:11:13.420And that's where we're going to pick up when we come back on the other side of this break with the opportunity that the U.S. has going into possibly a new Trump presidency to reassert the United States on the world stage and to weaken China, the one country that's really putting a challenge to the United States right now.
00:11:32.100Again, I am your host for the day, Troy Smith. Roger couldn't be with us, and we will go to a short commercial break now. We'll be back in just a few minutes.
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00:15:17.320So let's talk about the opportunity that President Trump has to reassert America's presence on the world stage if he should win the 2024 election.
00:15:27.320America has fallen by the wayside in the world, and the dollar is teetering on the edge of oblivion.
00:15:33.320The only thing that's saving the United States dollar right now from not getting obliterated is the fact that the people that are in control of the levers of power across the world are looking at the situation and they're saying, China, I'm not sure I trust this.
00:16:10.320The only thing that is keeping the dollar safe as of right now is the fact that the Chinese can't be trusted and people around the world know that.
00:16:19.320So as we move forward here into the situation where Trump could possibly be reelected, there's some doubt on the world stage.
00:16:28.320And to be honest with you, I think a lot of concern comes from Russia.
00:16:33.320And you have to realize, even though Biden pushed them together, Russia and China have always hated each other.
00:16:40.320And they're always looking for a reason to back out.
00:16:43.320And I'm not I don't think it's it's truthful to say that Donald Trump was an ally or treated Vladimir Putin any better than any of these other presidents.
00:16:55.320I think, honestly, if you look at just the actions of the president, Trump blocked the Nord Stream pipeline.
00:17:02.320Trump was tough on Russia when it came to the economic policies, much tougher than Joe Biden.
00:17:09.320And yet he gets painted as pro Putin stooge.
00:17:11.320My point is the Russians don't love Donald Trump, but they respect him.
00:17:16.320But they respect him. They don't respect Joe Biden.
00:17:19.320The Chinese don't love Donald Trump, but they respect him.
00:17:23.320It's why they put so much money into the election to try to get him out of office.
00:17:27.320And I think Trump's position in this new White House, if he is to get elected, is to go to these countries that have accepted China.
00:17:37.320And we have to offer a strong alternative.
00:17:40.320We have to offer not not handouts, not hands, because that's not what the Chinese are doing, really.
00:17:48.320The Chinese offer false infrastructure that is of no integrity structurally.
00:17:56.320It just has no integrity. I mean, the buildings fall down, the bridges collapse.
00:18:02.320They they they provide that in exchange for power.
00:18:05.320And I think the United States, our model should be energy exports.
00:18:10.320We should be going to all of these nations, especially the growing nations in Africa, especially the growing nations in Latin America, in South America and in all these places around the world that are growing.
00:18:23.320We need to be using the God given resources beneath our feet, whether that be oil, whether that be coal, whether it be natural gas, which Biden has banned the export of liquefied natural gas.
00:18:33.320We need to use those exports to go into these countries and not build them infrastructure, not use money from the taxpayers to kind of entice them to be our friend, but to provide them energy and to assist them in building the energy infrastructure that they need to advance their countries.
00:18:50.320That, my friends, is how you win the trust of the world. That, my friends, is how you beat China, not with flair, not with solid, just straight up manufacturing production, but with smart politicking.
00:19:05.320You can go into these countries and you can actually make this work.
00:19:09.320You can actually provide energy to these countries.
00:19:12.320You can put money in the conference of the American government.
00:19:15.320You can do it and simultaneously end China's influence, because while China is offering fake buildings, collapsing infrastructure and destroyed countries that become hollow shells in themselves, basically colonies of the Chinese.
00:19:30.320We will be offering pure strength, pure energy that will allow these countries to advance and to take care of their own, building self-sufficient nations, not colonies, as China is attempting to do.
00:19:43.320Because as these nations will figure it out, China's Belt and Road Initiative is nothing more than the new British colonization program where they're going into other countries and buying off all the assets, robbing the country blind to support the mainland.
00:21:08.320And that's why these nations will be so eager to stop this.
00:21:11.320And it's why President Biden has banned liquefied natural gas exports in the United States.
00:21:18.320He doesn't want the United States to be able to counter China's world domination because he knows, as a puppet of the Chinese, that the Chinese can't withstand competition.
00:21:29.320That's why they have to play dirty political tricks in the United States to get people like Joe Biden elected president so that they can kind of disarm their competition and go in as the only nation with any representative.
00:21:42.320They've done the same thing with Russia, trying to get Russia on their side because they know that Russia is their main competition.
00:21:48.320Anyway, we have more footage yesterday from Biden's appearance with the Japanese prime minister.
00:21:55.320There's a short clip. It's Biden coughing and basically shuffling away from his remarks on stage with the prime minister yesterday.
00:22:04.320This is just great. We have to roll this.
00:22:06.320Mr. President, this concludes the ceremony.