The StoneZONE with Roger Stone - March 11, 2024


FBI Whistleblower Steve Friend Blows The Whistle In The StoneZONE w⧸ Roger Stone


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55 minutes

Words per Minute

156.96863

Word Count

8,769

Sentence Count

500

Misogynist Sentences

5

Hate Speech Sentences

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Summary

Steve Friend is an FBI whistleblower, a heroic American who decided that the truth was more important than his career. He decided to become a whistleblower, and from that time on, his life has been made a living hell. In this episode of The Stone Zone with Roger Stone, Steve Friend shares his story of how he became a whistleblower and how it has impacted him and his family. He also discusses his new book, Whistleblower: How the FBI Stole My Secrets, which is out now and will be available for pre-order on Amazon Prime and Vimeo on January 6th, 2020. Roger Stone has 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 thousands of public events, and lectured before the prestigious Oxford Political Union and the Cambridge Union Society. Due to his four plus decades in the political and cultural arena, Stone is a pop culture icon and has become a pop-culture icon. And now, here s your host, Roger Stone! Roger Stone on the Stone Zone, with legendary Republican strategist and political icon and pundit Roger Stone on the latest episode of The Stonezone with legendary conservative strategist Roger Stone. on this week s episode of the Stone Zone with the legendary Roger Stone: The StoneZONE host, joins us to talk about his new memoir, . and how he got his start in politics. and what it means to him, and why he s the way he does what he does. And how he s what s important to him why he does in his day to do how he does it, and what he s doing when it matters who he s got it and why it s important not what s good, and why he doesn t do it does it what matters and how to do it better than he s not just which he s a lot, and how to be a hero, not just to do what s he s good at it, but what s good at so he s going to do with it. in this episode, and more, and more about it in the book he s really doing it with his own words.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 The Stone Zone, with legendary Republican strategist and political icon and pundit Roger Stone.
00:00:13.160 Stone has served as a senior campaign aide to three Republican presidents.
00:00:17.460 He is a New York Times bestselling author and a longtime friend and advisor of President Donald Trump.
00:00:23.120 As an outspoken libertarian, Stone has appeared on thousands of broadcasts,
00:00:27.060 spoken at countless venues, and lectured before the prestigious Oxford Political Union and the Cambridge Union Society.
00:00:34.080 Due to his four-plus decades in the political and cultural arena, Stone has become a pop culture icon.
00:00:39.420 And now, here's your host, Roger Stone.
00:00:46.580 Welcome. I'm Roger Stone, and yes, you are back in the Stone Zone.
00:00:52.380 You know, heroes don't always wear capes.
00:00:57.060 This past weekend, I had the high honor of speaking at the Collier County, Florida, Republican-Lincoln-Reagan dinner,
00:01:07.640 and I got reacquainted with Steve Friend.
00:01:11.440 Steve Friend, if you don't know, is an FBI whistleblower,
00:01:15.900 a heroic American who decided that the truth was more important than his career.
00:01:22.420 He's going to join us here shortly, but to help us talk about his situation and his terrific book,
00:01:31.400 which we're going to talk about at some length,
00:01:33.640 is my colleague Troy Smith from Slingshot.news.
00:01:39.800 Roger, as always, it's an honor to be here.
00:01:42.360 Great to have you.
00:01:43.100 So, as I said, Steve Friend gave an extraordinarily powerful speech when I saw him Saturday night,
00:01:51.460 and that motivated me to invite him here onto the Stone Zone.
00:01:55.860 So, Steve Friend joins us now.
00:02:02.640 There he is.
00:02:04.660 Thanks for having me today, Roger.
00:02:06.760 Delighted to have you back.
00:02:08.120 Many, many, many thanks.
00:02:09.860 We have a short video, which I think might be a good starting point to try to tell people who you are
00:02:16.920 and what heroic decision you made.
00:02:21.300 Let's roll that.
00:02:24.700 You may think I'm a political partisan.
00:02:27.440 You may think I'm a grifter.
00:02:29.500 You may think I'm a conspiracy theorist.
00:02:32.040 It does not matter.
00:02:33.680 I sacrificed my dream job to share this information with the American people.
00:02:37.020 I look at my responsibility as, I want to combat bullying.
00:02:41.140 If the FBI becomes the bully, that doesn't change my responsibility.
00:02:45.220 I have two children, and I tell them, no matter what, if they see a bully,
00:02:48.560 they have dad's full support, because that is what we do in our family.
00:02:52.700 I took my oath, and it meant something to me.
00:02:55.500 I really wanted to protect the Constitution, to protect my countrymen,
00:02:59.040 and I thought that I was going to be vetted as a person of integrity.
00:03:07.020 So, rather than pursue a cushy career and perhaps just climb the ladder at the FBI,
00:03:19.840 looking the other way on what he believed were to be acts by the Bureau that were improper,
00:03:26.620 if not illegal, Steve Friend decided to become a whistleblower.
00:03:30.960 And from that time, his life has been made hell.
00:03:36.820 The enormous financial and personal strain this has put on him and his family,
00:03:41.540 well, it's unspeakable.
00:03:43.400 We're honored to have him here, because, well, in the Stone Zone, we love Truth Teller.
00:03:49.340 Steve, welcome.
00:03:50.900 You made a decision, had to be one that you wrestled with.
00:03:55.400 I know it pertained to January 6th directly, but also additional issues in terms of
00:04:03.120 who the Bureau was targeting as dangers to this country.
00:04:08.460 Tell us, in your own words, what transpired, what led you to make this decision,
00:04:14.480 and how the impact has been on you and your family.
00:04:20.780 Well, thanks for that opportunity.
00:04:22.400 You know, I joined the FBI in 2014, spent my first seven and a half years investigating
00:04:27.040 violent crime on Indian reservations, so got really acquainted with the way that the FBI
00:04:32.020 is supposed to do its investigations.
00:04:34.180 When I relocated in 2021 to where I currently live in Daytona Beach, Florida, to work on
00:04:40.300 human trafficking and child pornography cases, pretty quickly after that, the executive management
00:04:47.660 in my field office reassigned me to work on domestic terrorism.
00:04:50.920 And I'd never worked in national security before, but I was told that those cases that
00:04:55.620 I was working on, child pornography, were not a priority.
00:04:58.620 They were going to be referred to local law enforcement, and I needed to focus on domestic
00:05:02.220 terrorism.
00:05:02.840 And in my office, that really meant January 6th.
00:05:06.680 And you could hear all the narratives that are going around and circulating around that
00:05:09.880 case.
00:05:10.760 I was always just, pursue the case that was in front of me, and I hadn't looked at any of
00:05:15.200 these cases.
00:05:15.640 When I took my first look at them, it was immediately apparent to me that the FBI was departing from
00:05:21.620 its rules to manage those cases, to manipulate the domestic terrorism statistics, and then
00:05:27.880 using some very aggressive tactics on potential subjects.
00:05:32.620 I mean, it could be just an anonymous allegation, and they were sending agents to the person's
00:05:37.620 house to interview them without any further information, which ordinarily that would be something
00:05:42.620 that we would just dismiss.
00:05:44.940 And they were also sending SWAT team to go arrest someone.
00:05:48.080 That was really when the rubber met the road for me, because the decision was made to send
00:05:52.740 a SWAT team to arrest a particular subject for January 6th offenses when he pledged to cooperate
00:05:58.700 with us when we'd interviewed him.
00:06:00.460 And 18 months had elapsed since that last contact.
00:06:03.740 And to me, that just had all the hallmarks of a potential Ruby Ridge type of scenario where
00:06:09.240 he has no expectation that the FBI is going to be at his door.
00:06:11.760 And I've been on a SWAT team before, and I said to my leadership that that was wholly
00:06:17.060 inappropriate and dangerous.
00:06:18.860 And they, in turn, found a way to suspend me within 30 days for, they said, having questionable
00:06:27.880 loyalty to the United States government.
00:06:29.980 And that is the message for whistleblowers.
00:06:33.040 That is the impact that so many of us are experiencing.
00:06:35.660 The FBI has the hack around the law.
00:06:37.580 The law is supposed to protect you against retaliation.
00:06:40.020 But the FBI just suspends your security clearance for a transient offense.
00:06:44.620 For me, the FBI said I looked at the employee handbook improperly, which necessitated my removal
00:06:49.040 from duty.
00:06:50.500 Now, I assume that you had no prior complaints about your service to the country, no other
00:06:56.480 complaints against you within your career?
00:06:59.160 No, I actually had a pretty exemplary career, had always received very high marks on my performance
00:07:04.820 reviews.
00:07:05.200 I actually got a financial award a few weeks before I was suspended for work that I had
00:07:10.540 been doing on child pornography.
00:07:12.020 There was a county within our area of responsibility, and they had one investigator, and he needed heart
00:07:17.360 surgery, and he was going to be unavailable to work any of the cases.
00:07:20.040 And I volunteered to work all the child pornography cases for that county in his absence and was
00:07:26.380 awarded for that, but it didn't bode well for me that your reputation does not work for
00:07:31.920 you if you commit the ultimate offense in the FBI, and that is going against the Bureau
00:07:36.520 and embarrassing the Bureau.
00:07:39.580 Now, just to be clear for our listeners and viewers, you were not actually in Washington
00:07:44.820 on January 6th.
00:07:45.960 You're posted in Florida, but essentially you're tasked with the follow-up on people who the
00:07:53.060 Bureau has determined were present on January 6th.
00:07:57.540 That's correct, and that's really where the FBI is departing from the rules that it sets
00:08:01.960 out for itself to follow, which was my concern.
00:08:04.520 January 6th happens.
00:08:05.800 It's one case with however many subjects should be appropriately investigated by the FBI.
00:08:11.000 But instead, a decision was made very shortly thereafter to open a separate case for every
00:08:16.780 single person who the FBI wanted to investigate as a potential subject.
00:08:20.060 So now we've turned one case into thousands of cases, and then the departure really happens
00:08:25.160 because there is a task force in Washington, D.C. that is doing the work investigating those
00:08:30.340 cases.
00:08:30.880 But on paper, they have allowed the different field offices, and there are 56 field offices
00:08:36.220 around the United States of America, and they have them on their books as open domestic
00:08:42.040 terrorism cases.
00:08:43.040 So if there was a subject we were investigating in Daytona, it would look like a terrorism investigation
00:08:48.540 being carried forward by the Jacksonville office, and really it was someone who trespassed
00:08:53.640 at the Capitol.
00:08:54.200 And that manipulation has allowed the FBI to receive a massively enhanced budget because
00:09:00.320 they're going to Congress and saying, we have all this huge uptick in domestic terrorism
00:09:03.780 around the country.
00:09:04.680 So we need billions of more dollars.
00:09:06.480 And then the little-known secret is the fact that senior executives in the FBI get bonuses
00:09:13.480 because there's a quota system, and they've been able to hit their domestic terrorism quota
00:09:17.140 for years on end now because of January 6th.
00:09:20.040 It's a boondoggle for them, and they're getting five-figure bonuses because of it.
00:09:25.020 Troy, you have a question for our friend Stephen Friend.
00:09:29.660 Absolutely.
00:09:30.140 I just want to say thank you for doing what you do.
00:09:32.320 I mean, this is such important stuff, and I think there's so many Americans who look
00:09:36.020 at this and say, okay, that's a perfect example of how far things have gone here in America.
00:09:40.900 My question to you, Steve, is how far is this going to go?
00:09:44.260 Because we're seeing people now arrested for January 6th who weren't even anywhere near
00:09:48.400 the Capitol.
00:09:49.040 We're seeing people arrested who were just simply walking around the protest.
00:09:51.800 What's the plan here for the FBI?
00:09:53.440 Are they literally going to go after every single person that was in attendance that day?
00:09:57.600 The only limiting factor is the statute of limitations.
00:10:03.240 So January 6th, 2026 is the date that they're up against for so many of these misdemeanor offenses.
00:10:08.400 I was told when I came forward on August 19th, 2022, that the plan was to start investigating
00:10:15.520 and charging and arresting people who never entered the four walls of the Capitol, that
00:10:20.620 they were on the lawn, and they were going to go with the narrative that that lawn was a
00:10:24.460 restricted area.
00:10:25.460 So even if you happen to just walk up on the grass as a bystander, you will be investigated.
00:10:30.680 They're going to use all the levers of power to go against you because they have to keep
00:10:35.080 this thing churning.
00:10:36.540 Every time they close out a case, every time they have someone who's sentenced for an offense,
00:10:40.660 that's one less case on the books.
00:10:42.460 The FBI needs to replace those so they can continue to justify the domestic terrorism finances
00:10:49.100 that they're getting.
00:10:50.260 Kind of an obvious question.
00:10:53.660 I was not at the Capitol on January 6th.
00:10:57.420 I know nothing about any of the activities there.
00:11:00.940 In fact, any claim that I knew in advance about condoned or participated in any way in any illegal
00:11:08.560 activity on January 6th is a total lie.
00:11:12.740 You'll see it all over social media.
00:11:14.600 It's just not true.
00:11:15.760 They try to use a lot of guilt by association, but that's a classic tactic of the left and
00:11:21.840 the fake news media.
00:11:23.660 But, Stephen, if you were on a restricted area on the lawn, but there are no signs saying
00:11:30.400 that or no officers telling you, I advised you that, how could you possibly know that?
00:11:35.660 You wouldn't have any knowledge about that, but they're going to say the strict liability
00:11:41.000 attaches to that.
00:11:41.940 It's no different than, well, I didn't know the officer.
00:11:44.460 I didn't know the speed limit where I was driving.
00:11:46.820 That's why I was speeding.
00:11:47.840 And the officer will say that the ignorance of the law is no justification for breaking
00:11:51.280 it.
00:11:51.520 And you're going to get stroked a ticket.
00:11:52.560 But instead of a couple hundred dollar fine, maybe a point in your license here, people
00:11:56.440 are going to be going to prison for that offense.
00:12:00.160 Steve, I know you have a great podcast, and we're going to tell folks before we're done
00:12:05.940 here, we're going to be sure they know how to find it.
00:12:08.200 You've also written a terrific book, and we'll get to that in a moment.
00:12:13.980 One of the things I want to ask you is, what has the impact been on your family?
00:12:19.360 I assume that as soon as you are suspended, your paycheck ends, correct?
00:12:26.440 Yes, you're put into an indefinite suspension.
00:12:30.500 You're unpaid, but you're still technically employed by the FBI.
00:12:33.580 So there are certain games that they are able to play with that.
00:12:36.220 And I can tell you, just from my own personal experience, my wife lost her job within a few
00:12:40.580 weeks of that.
00:12:41.440 And it was under, let's just say, very suspicious circumstances.
00:12:44.620 Her social media account on Facebook was taken down after she sent a private message to
00:12:49.060 a woman from Moms for Liberty telling her about our situation.
00:12:53.020 So clearly, there was some sort of monitoring going on there between the collusion, the
00:12:56.700 symbiotic relationship between the FBI and big tech.
00:13:00.660 The FBI tried to compel me to commit a crime.
00:13:05.320 They tried to put me in a room and alleged that I lied to federal agents.
00:13:09.060 But being an experienced interviewer and investigator, I was able to tiptoe through the raindrops to
00:13:13.980 avoid that.
00:13:14.560 The FBI leaked my medical information to the New York Times and told them I was under
00:13:19.860 investigation for shooting a firearm.
00:13:21.960 I had an offer to be a deputy sheriff in a local county here, and I requested my training
00:13:28.200 documents from the FBI.
00:13:29.300 And they first resisted that, but finally acquiesced, gave me some of the documents.
00:13:34.040 But when the state of Florida went to certify me as a law enforcement officer, the FBI denied
00:13:38.040 that they were legitimate.
00:13:39.280 So they've, in effect, rendered them useless.
00:13:42.020 And I put in two requests for outside employment, because when you're unpaid and definitely suspended,
00:13:46.360 you can still work with the FBI's permission.
00:13:49.100 And I put in two requests, and they told me it would take between one and three months to
00:13:54.000 make a decision.
00:13:54.660 But within 24 hours, I was rejected to both of them.
00:13:57.340 So the usurpations list grows long.
00:14:00.280 The actual effort is to starve you out, because so many people can't financially withstand
00:14:07.240 that pressure, and they are forced to resign.
00:14:09.420 And then the FBI can say, well, we're not going to take up your whistleblower concerns.
00:14:12.460 And that's all I ever asked for.
00:14:13.820 If you're a whistleblower, 5-USC-2303, you bring your concerns, a reasonable concern of
00:14:20.660 waste, fraud, abuse, or the risk of public safety forward, it's incumbent on the agency
00:14:25.240 to look at that.
00:14:26.180 You don't have to be right.
00:14:26.960 You just have to be reasonable, but it's easier for them to go after the messenger than
00:14:30.900 actually address the problem, which is what happens with so many, myself included.
00:14:35.700 So financially, there was a lot of pressure there.
00:14:38.520 When I eventually testified in front of Congress, the FBI the night before revoked my security
00:14:42.900 clearance permanently, which would preclude me from going back into federal service.
00:14:46.880 And my lawyers at that point were very confident that they were going to try to contrive
00:14:51.360 a way to charge me with a crime.
00:14:52.640 So I resigned from the FBI in 2023 and have been trying to put out the podcast and the
00:15:01.180 book.
00:15:01.600 And then I am a fellow for the Center for Renewing America right now, which has been a godsend
00:15:06.280 because there's at least some ability to bring in some income.
00:15:09.780 Yeah, Congressman Dan Goldman, who is swiftly replacing Adam Schiff as the single most odious member
00:15:20.020 of Congress.
00:15:20.760 He's a trust fund baby.
00:15:23.420 Like Schiff, you can always tell when Goldman is lying, his lips are moving.
00:15:29.200 He has smeared you and others of your colleagues who chose the truth over their careers.
00:15:36.800 And he's claimed that because you've taken assistance, largely raised by Kash Patel and
00:15:43.080 others, for your family, to feed your family, you are somehow a grifter, that you're doing
00:15:49.740 all of this for financial gain.
00:15:53.080 This is really, really offensive, but I'd like you to speak to it.
00:15:59.700 Well, Congressman Goldman is relying on people to just follow in a logical assertion.
00:16:04.640 I mean, as an FBI employee, I was tenured at that point.
00:16:07.520 I was a GS-13, multiple steps up, making in excess of six figures.
00:16:12.940 And the allegation that I would make some sort of fake whistleblower disclosure, knowing that
00:16:19.940 my career would be over in the hopes that someone who I'd never met several months later would
00:16:25.900 have a charitable organization reach out and give me $5,000 before Christmas, it just doesn't
00:16:31.320 pass muster.
00:16:32.360 I mean, it's an illogical assertion at the very best.
00:16:35.240 But he's able to take Kash Patel and say, well, he's a lieutenant of Donald Trump.
00:16:40.660 And ergo, this entire thing has been attached to Donald Trump.
00:16:44.620 And I've said from the beginning, I had a reasonable concern.
00:16:47.580 It had nothing to do with politics.
00:16:49.100 You played that video there.
00:16:50.860 No partisanship to it whatsoever.
00:16:52.900 I'm a system guy.
00:16:55.680 I'm a system idealist, I like to say.
00:16:57.860 We have system disruptors who work on big tech in Silicon Valley.
00:17:02.420 And we like to say that they're blowing up the system and they're bringing these new progressive
00:17:07.320 ideas and tools at our fingertips.
00:17:09.840 And we give them all the credit in the world.
00:17:12.080 But if you enter into service, particularly into law enforcement, you're a system idealist.
00:17:16.380 You want to follow the Constitution, follow the law and the policies and the procedures,
00:17:19.640 because the system disruptors are the criminals and you have to stand in the gap to protect
00:17:24.220 your fellow citizen from fraud and force against them.
00:17:29.060 So that was always what my prime directive was.
00:17:32.100 As an agent and as a whistleblower, if my agency is off the rails, it falls to me to
00:17:38.240 throw the flag on them, which they actually train all FBI employees on.
00:17:43.400 Troy?
00:17:44.000 Steve, we hear so much about Merrick Garland and kind of things, what he's doing to target
00:17:51.360 domestic terrorism.
00:17:52.580 Can you talk a little bit about that and how that's changed during the Biden administration?
00:17:56.300 Because they've made quite a push here to make the whole terrorism thing a little more
00:18:01.440 accessible, I'd say, so that they can apply it to more people.
00:18:04.960 Is that not true?
00:18:06.980 It absolutely is.
00:18:08.240 It's an indicator of the evolution of the national security space that we've had, especially
00:18:13.640 since September 11th.
00:18:14.960 But that evolved from going after legitimate terrorist threats to the homegrown violent
00:18:20.880 extremists that we were told about, who many of them were emotionally disturbed or just
00:18:25.420 vulnerable Muslim Americans that the FBI was able to lure into entrapment schemes.
00:18:29.800 And then they used the same tactics and evolved it further.
00:18:32.660 And during the Biden administration, particularly, they came up with a narrative of the domestic
00:18:37.260 violent extremist.
00:18:38.820 And parenthetically, there's the militia of violent extremists.
00:18:41.700 And those are people who fly a Gadsden flag, by the way.
00:18:44.320 And then connected that to racially motivated violent extremism, which they say is connected
00:18:51.320 to the Catholic Church, I guess, if you like to go to Latin mass.
00:18:54.680 And then the new evolution, as they continue to expand the dragnet to get as many people caught
00:19:00.840 up into it as possible to keep the narrative going forward, is the anti-government, anti-authority
00:19:07.000 violent extremists.
00:19:08.440 So the acronym is AGAVE.
00:19:10.480 And an AGAVE is someone who the FBI has actually published a strategic intelligence assessment
00:19:15.800 about and says that this is a person with just a perception of government overreach or
00:19:21.800 negligence or illegitimacy.
00:19:23.540 So if you take them at their word, if you think that being compelled to wear a mask to
00:19:27.920 fly or you think they might be a little bit negligent on the southern border or you have
00:19:32.000 questions about the largest mail-in ballot scheme in the history of the country, you could
00:19:37.000 now be in the crosshairs of an FBI domestic terrorism investigation because they just need
00:19:41.180 the allegation to open up the baseline assessment and then that they are off and running.
00:19:46.560 They have the full list of tools at their disposal to go after you.
00:19:50.680 And even if they can't find anything, they have their man, they will find their crime.
00:19:53.760 And if they don't have a crime, they will provoke a crime by introducing undercovers or
00:19:58.980 even just doing what they did to General Mike Flynn and asserting that you lied to them when
00:20:05.820 Peter Strzok came out of that meeting saying that General Flynn hadn't lied.
00:20:09.160 Yeah, it's really extraordinarily chilling.
00:20:13.440 All right.
00:20:13.680 You have written a great book.
00:20:15.100 It's called True Blue.
00:20:17.080 Let's put that up if we could.
00:20:18.880 I have found in my attempts to write a book regarding my own experience, while I'd hoped
00:20:25.680 that it would be cathartic, it has actually been painful, very, very difficult because
00:20:30.700 it forces you to relive some of the most horrific moments of your persecution.
00:20:36.860 What was the experience like to write your book?
00:20:39.700 And then we'll show folks where they can get it.
00:20:41.420 Yeah, well, thanks for that.
00:20:44.820 You know, I had the opportunity, a publisher reached out to me to write it, and they said
00:20:49.620 that they needed it in six weeks.
00:20:51.300 I'd never written a book before.
00:20:53.600 I had no concept of what was going on with that.
00:20:56.160 But that's where you have to have the belief in a higher power, because in 30 days, I was
00:21:00.680 able to actually collect my thoughts and reflect on my experience as a police officer and an FBI
00:21:05.880 agent before all of this recent drama.
00:21:09.740 And I did have the experience of a cathartic effect there.
00:21:13.660 It allowed me to really assemble my thoughts when it came to the whistblowing.
00:21:17.720 But you're dead on where confronting the experiences, it is very upsetting, particularly
00:21:23.240 one aspect of the book, which I think is probably the most revealing, the most transparent, is
00:21:27.880 there's a transcript in there from an almost two-hour meeting that I had with executive management
00:21:32.380 that I recorded, where they asserted that police officers were killed on January 6th, and
00:21:38.340 that I didn't have an oath to the Constitution, but instead a duty to the FBI, and I needed
00:21:43.120 to set an example for my children by just following orders.
00:21:46.500 And that was incredibly difficult to go back through and actually listen to it again, even
00:21:52.200 having experienced it firsthand.
00:21:54.280 But I was glad to get it out there, because this is the information that the American people
00:21:58.880 need to know about this agency that they give $11 to $12 billion of their taxpayer money
00:22:04.660 to every single year.
00:22:06.580 So how can people buy your book?
00:22:09.380 How can they find your book?
00:22:11.860 It's available on Amazon right now, but if you want the direct link to it, my social media
00:22:16.720 on X slash Twitter is at Real Steve Friend, and it's pinned to the top, and it will take
00:22:22.580 you directly there.
00:22:23.880 And you can get it in hardcover, you can get it into audio format as well.
00:22:27.580 And I appreciate any of the support there.
00:22:30.960 You see it right there on the screen, folks.
00:22:33.960 This is, I ripped through this on Sunday.
00:22:38.400 I got my copy, which you very graciously signed for me on Saturday.
00:22:42.820 I tore through it, and it's horrifying.
00:22:45.800 It really is horrifying.
00:22:47.760 You really are a hero, and my heart goes out to you.
00:22:51.860 Other than watching your podcast, let's talk about that.
00:22:55.540 Talk about your show.
00:22:58.540 Well, I have two programs right now.
00:23:00.120 One is actually called True Blue, very much like the title of the book, which you can find
00:23:04.140 on Patriot TV, and that is a weekday show, 3 Eastern.
00:23:08.220 Patriot.tv is the True Blue with Steve Friend, where I'm covering down on government weaponization
00:23:13.440 and whistleblowers and just trying to continue to be a town crier.
00:23:17.080 And then I also have a podcast called the American Radicals Podcast, which streams on Rumble and
00:23:23.340 audio format as well.
00:23:24.580 And I do that.
00:23:25.240 I partner with another whistleblower, Garrett O'Boyle, who testified with me.
00:23:29.120 We've become pretty close friends at this point, and we talk about the same issues, and we try
00:23:33.020 to do it from a biblical worldview perspective, unlike just the day-to-day politics that you
00:23:39.120 have on a lot of other programs.
00:23:40.620 Garrett is a very good man.
00:23:43.840 He's been on this show a couple times, and we send our best regards to him as well.
00:23:50.380 All right, Troy, last question for Steve and Friend, and you have the floor.
00:23:56.120 Thank you, Roger.
00:23:57.820 And Steve, on this last question here, I wanted to ask you, you know, we're heading into an
00:24:01.940 election here, and a lot of Americans are looking at this saying, oh, this is a lost cause.
00:24:05.980 You know, federal law enforcement has gotten so out of hand.
00:24:08.860 What would you say to President Trump going into this election on how he can actually get
00:24:13.360 to the bottom of this and fixing this so these agencies are working for the country and
00:24:16.840 not against the people who live in it?
00:24:19.820 We have to dispel with the myth that just a change in the top is necessary.
00:24:23.780 If I had my brothers, we would just shatter and scatter the agency into a million pieces
00:24:28.480 and spread it to the winds.
00:24:29.880 I don't know if there's enough political appetite for that, but there is one particular reform
00:24:33.960 that I think would go a long way, and that would be disarming agencies all across the
00:24:39.320 board, the FBI particularly, making them unarmed investigators, and then forcing them to partner
00:24:45.460 with local law enforcement, which we could deputize with federal arrest authorities so they
00:24:49.860 can bring state charges or federal charges and work with a county prosecutor or a
00:24:53.760 United States attorney's office.
00:24:55.540 And therefore, we wouldn't have an FBI SWAT team banging on your door at six o'clock in
00:24:59.040 the morning because they wouldn't have a SWAT team.
00:25:01.120 They wouldn't have the guns.
00:25:02.260 And you would have a sheriff who is a chief law enforcement executive in a particular area
00:25:06.620 be able to stand as a bulwark against a weaponized FBI and say, yes, you investigated this particular
00:25:12.460 person, but my people aren't going to affect that arrest, so we're not going to do that.
00:25:17.680 And focus on things as opposed to the FBI's quota system, where they just try to bring
00:25:21.900 the numbers up.
00:25:22.740 We do what the sheriff wants, and he's incentivized because he will lose a re-election if he doesn't
00:25:27.500 address crime.
00:25:28.080 He's incentivized to bring the crime down.
00:25:29.640 And that would be a good way to direct the FBI's vast resources and empower local police.
00:25:35.820 It's not a defund the police.
00:25:37.120 It's actually about empowering the real police who serve the communities every single day.
00:25:40.880 All right.
00:25:43.020 Thank you to our friend, Steve Friend, for joining us today on The Stone Zone.
00:25:47.580 Again, folks, you can find him on X, previously known as Twitter, as Real Steve Friend, Real
00:25:54.500 Steve Friend.
00:25:55.340 And from there, you can find the place where you can buy his terrific book, which is entitled
00:26:01.120 True Blue.
00:26:02.300 You can also get more information on his various podcasts.
00:26:06.680 Steve, thank you so much for joining us today in The Stone Zone.
00:26:09.960 I really appreciate it, Roger.
00:26:12.060 It's great to see you and look forward to seeing you again.
00:26:14.600 Great to have you here.
00:26:17.080 All right.
00:26:17.920 There was, as there always is, a lot of political developments over the weekend.
00:26:23.460 I'm fortunate to have my colleague, Troy Smith, of Slingshot.news here to begin to break
00:26:30.720 them down.
00:26:31.560 The most offensive thing I saw, and this is almost unbelievable, Congresswoman Nancy Mace
00:26:38.060 was interviewed by George Stephanopoulos of ABC.
00:26:43.340 And his first question was, what is it like to support a rapist for President of the United
00:26:52.560 States?
00:26:53.260 This, of course, was a slur against President Donald Trump.
00:26:56.840 Obviously, Mr. Stephanopoulos cannot read, because even in the totally rigged New York court system,
00:27:05.740 Donald Trump was not convicted of having raped anyone.
00:27:09.100 In fact, that assertion was specifically rejected by the court.
00:27:14.340 There was a finding that he sexually assaulted this woman, E. Jean Carroll.
00:27:18.920 The more you see of her, the more you question her entire narrative.
00:27:24.560 But the real irony here, of course, is that folks may not remember where little George
00:27:29.740 Stephanopoulos came from.
00:27:32.020 He was one of the lackeys for Bill Clinton.
00:27:36.520 Now, in my book, The Clinton's War on Women, I document the case that Bill Clinton is, in
00:27:45.060 fact, a serial sexual assaulter who has assaulted multiple women, including a rape of Juanita
00:27:57.360 Broderick, the assault of Kathy Willey.
00:28:01.120 He had to pay $800,000 to Paula Jones for those who say, oh, these are just unfounded
00:28:08.560 assertions.
00:28:10.500 The hypocrisy here is pretty thick, isn't it, Troy?
00:28:15.660 Well, you know, Roger, it's just this defense that the mainstream media plays.
00:28:19.420 And this is what they do on the mainstream channels.
00:28:22.620 They find Democrat political operatives, as you pointed out, with George Stephanopoulos, and
00:28:26.260 they portray them as middle-of-the-road news people.
00:28:29.020 And CNN got away with it for years until Trump came up with the famous phrase, fake news.
00:28:33.940 And that kind of shot through CNN, and they're done now.
00:28:36.320 Everyone looks at them, and they know exactly what they are.
00:28:38.540 We're still kind of waiting on that on some of these people, but I think the majority of
00:28:42.340 Americans look at this, Roger.
00:28:43.900 They look at Stephanopoulos.
00:28:45.040 They look at a question like that.
00:28:46.320 Who opens an interview with a question like that?
00:28:48.500 And just as an interview, we have people on this show every single day.
00:28:52.460 Do we sit here and ambush our guests or even try to drive an agenda with the guests?
00:29:00.380 The job of the interview, Roger, the interviewer, the person who's conducting the interview,
00:29:05.160 is to allow the person that they're interviewing a platform to speak and to do so openly.
00:29:11.160 And Stephanopoulos showed his cards right there with that opening question.
00:29:14.220 He was so eager to inject his own political BS into the interview that he kind of didn't
00:29:20.960 do his job.
00:29:21.680 And it's pathetic.
00:29:22.500 I think most Americans look at that as a joke.
00:29:24.660 Well, the other part of this that is particularly insensitive is the fact that Nancy Mace, the
00:29:29.540 congresswoman from South Carolina's 1st District, is herself a former rape victim, a victim of
00:29:36.940 rape.
00:29:37.580 So the insensitivity of the question is outrageous.
00:29:41.060 But the hypocrisy is even worse.
00:29:45.140 Anyone who wants to read the horrific truth about Bill Clinton should check out my book,
00:29:51.600 The Clintons' War on Women.
00:29:54.100 Bill Clinton had a particular technique that he used.
00:29:59.220 Juanita Broderick explains this in her own book.
00:30:02.740 He would bite through the upper lip of his rape victims so that they would be bleeding.
00:30:10.220 Thus covering their face, therefore unable to cover their genitals.
00:30:16.560 Yes, it's distasteful.
00:30:18.440 But multiple women told me that in the research for my book.
00:30:24.120 So not only is it memorialized in Juanita Broderick's great book, but it's also covered in my book.
00:30:32.600 Also, my book, The Clintons' War on Women, is the first book in the United States, really, to outline the truth about Jeffrey Epstein, what was going on on his island, who was on his plane.
00:30:49.660 Also, his seminal financing of the Clinton Global Initiative and the Clinton Foundation.
00:30:57.420 It's all in my book.
00:30:58.620 We're going to show you where you can get my book.
00:31:02.160 It's called The Epstein Truth Book.
00:31:04.400 That's a shortcut.
00:31:05.720 Take you right to where you can buy it at the Stone Zone.
00:31:08.320 This is the definitive expose of Bill and Hillary Clinton.
00:31:14.740 You brought to my attention the absolute collapse of the government and society in Haiti, where there are more than credible allegations that the Clintons shielded a woman who was running a child sex trafficking operation,
00:31:36.300 basically exporting orphans and other displaced children from Haiti, where are the Clintons going to get their child sex trafficking children now that Haiti has collapsed?
00:31:50.740 That's a good question, Roger.
00:31:52.100 And as far as Haiti goes, you know, we have a dumping ground here, and it's been a dumping ground for corruption for a long time.
00:31:59.840 And it's been a place that people like the Clintons have abused.
00:32:02.600 And we see the result of that now, Roger, as, you know, we had embassy employees airlifted out of Haiti over the weekend, and you really didn't see any news reporting on it at all.
00:32:14.340 And, you know, Roger, as somebody who pays attention to approval ratings and things like that, there was the pivotal moment in the entire Biden administration was August of 2021.
00:32:26.340 And that's because that was when the collapse of Afghanistan happened, and we got those iconic images of the airlifts coming out of Kabul and the airports falling.
00:32:36.580 And now we airlifted people out of Haiti in the middle of the night.
00:32:40.940 Now, Roger, you can't tell me that airlifting those people out in the middle of the night was not a PR move by the Biden administration,
00:32:49.780 because they don't want you to know that under their watch, the third world is collapsing.
00:32:55.460 And, you know, anybody who watches Alex Jones, anybody who watches this show has been hearing it since Biden got into office, since the COVID pandemic.
00:33:03.500 When the first world shuts down, as it did during COVID, the third world collapses.
00:33:08.000 And what we saw during the COVID pandemic, Roger, is a kind of greasing the wheel.
00:33:13.180 They set it up, and now all these third world countries are collapsing like Haiti.
00:33:18.480 And instead of showing the American people the truth that we had to airlift our own people out of another country that has descended into chaos under the Biden administration, they did it at night.
00:33:29.140 And as Merrick Garland has said, Roger, if you commit crimes at night, they are not going to prosecute you.
00:33:34.860 He actually said that about people who firebombed federal buildings and attempted to kill federal officers.
00:33:39.940 So the Biden administration loves to use the darkness of night to shield some of their biggest failures and the most disgusting stuff that they do.
00:33:47.100 It's just awful.
00:33:49.280 Yeah, people may not remember this, but when Haiti was hit by an extraordinarily destructive hurricane,
00:33:57.220 Bill Clinton was appointed by the U.N. essentially as the czar for their rebuilding efforts.
00:34:03.860 There was also a Clinton-Bush NGO essentially set up to benefit, theoretically, the people of Haiti.
00:34:14.660 All of that money disappeared.
00:34:16.680 Haiti got no new hospitals, new schools, new roads, no extensive medical attention to those who need it.
00:34:24.200 There was no rebuilding.
00:34:25.540 There were huge contracts let for housing development, houses that were never built.
00:34:31.800 And they did do one thing, however.
00:34:35.300 They did build a state-of-the-art port facility so that the minerals and other key exports of Haiti could be removed from the country at great profit.
00:34:49.600 The destruction of Haiti, very much the responsibility of Bill and Hillary Clinton.
00:34:56.080 And now, this is hard to believe, you have cannibal gangs running amok in the country, and the guy heading this illicit operation, this evil operation, goes by the nickname Barbecue.
00:35:12.980 There's actually videos of this guy eating human beings.
00:35:17.480 This is one of the most shocking things I have ever seen.
00:35:20.060 Oh, and Roger, maybe you can help lead in here.
00:35:24.820 How has, you know, look at Bill Clinton.
00:35:26.780 You just talked about one of the most disgusting, vile things I've ever heard in that he bites through the upper lip of his own victims and goes to Haiti and bankrupts the country and destroys it to the point where they have people running around calling themselves barbecue, eating human beings.
00:35:46.200 How have these people escaped any responsibility for the horrible things that they've done?
00:35:52.780 Well, sadly, Troy, I don't need to tell you this.
00:35:55.960 We have a two-tier justice system where they fabricate crimes against people like General Flynn, or they go back 15 years to reinvigorate crimes against Paul Manafort, crimes that 15 years previously they determined that there was not sufficient evidence to prosecute him.
00:36:15.540 And they recycle those crimes.
00:36:17.540 By the way, those crimes had nothing whatsoever to do with Donald Trump.
00:36:23.060 It is amazing to me, for example, that Paul Manafort is sentenced to hard time for his failure to file a foreign agents registration act because it is alleged that he lobbied for Ukraine.
00:36:40.540 Even though he himself never spoke to any government agencies regarding the situation in Ukraine, other than, I believe, the State Department, who he was assisting just by giving them information as to what he was learning was going on in the country.
00:36:56.940 Yet Tony Podesta, who Manafort hired to represent Ukraine, he was never prosecuted.
00:37:05.460 Or even worse, Hunter Biden, who now indisputably took millions of dollars from Russia, China, Ukraine, Romania, and other countries, clearly working on behalf of foreign governments, but never filing a foreign agent's registration with the U.S. government as required by law.
00:37:30.360 Well, still not even any discussion of charging him.
00:37:34.360 So I guess the answer is, if you are a supporter of Donald Trump or you're a Republican, they will manufacture crimes against you, as they did in my case.
00:37:46.000 But if you're a Democrat, you can pretty much get away with anything.
00:37:51.300 There really is no justice.
00:37:54.160 It's really kind of hard to wrap your head around.
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00:41:53.940 Troy, let's continue with the news.
00:41:57.480 This is shocking to me, but I saw where everybody's favorite pencil neck, Adam Schiff, who, as you know, finished the first-round primary in California, neck in pencil neck with baseball great Steve Harvey,
00:42:17.600 actually blurted out that he had surreptitiously funded Harvey's campaign because he wanted Harvey rather than one of the other progressive candidates,
00:42:30.160 either Orange County Congresswoman Katie Porter or Bay Area Congresswoman Barbara Lee to finish second because under California's strange electoral system,
00:42:45.520 which, by the way, may even be unconstitutional, the two top vote-getters, regardless of party, face off in November.
00:42:53.800 So Schiff feared face off with another progressive Democrat and, therefore, was funding Steve Harvey.
00:43:03.140 Do I have this right?
00:43:04.780 Well, absolutely, Roger, and he bragged about this.
00:43:06.860 And we have articles up here where it was covered all over California and the country where Adam Schiff was boosting the candidacy of Steve Harvey.
00:43:15.880 I mean, it was his goal to get Harvey over the finish line.
00:43:19.000 Now, it's important for people to remember, like you said, California has a primary system that is really, you know, there's nothing like it across the country,
00:43:27.380 and it's called jungle primary, and that means the two top vote-getters, regardless of whether they're two Democrats or two Republicans or whoever, are on the ballot there in the general election.
00:43:38.480 So Schiff looked at this and said, OK, California, very Democrat state.
00:43:42.920 I don't want to have to face a Democrat in the general election, so I will boost Steve Harvey.
00:43:48.100 And, Roger, it's one thing to do it, but this guy is so emboldened, he's actually bragging about it, and it's gotten to the point.
00:43:55.200 Now, you know, I did a cursory search on Garvey, Roger, and I found one donation, and the one donation I could find was to a Democrat.
00:44:03.680 So I would question, you know, how much is this Steve Garvey connection with Schiff?
00:44:09.640 You know, what is that connection really like?
00:44:11.640 Are these guys really running a rigged election here where Schiff buys off the competition and creates an opponent?
00:44:19.800 That's almost what it looks like to me, Roger, and, you know, based on the things that they've told media outlets and even talked about this in the mainstream media,
00:44:27.640 it appears that they have no fear that this will get out publicly and that Schiff's campaign feels that they're just free to rig any election they want.
00:44:35.180 It seems like a rigged election to me, does it not to you?
00:44:38.260 Well, at a minimum, it's a dirty trick.
00:44:41.040 I mean, he's admitting to a dirty trick.
00:44:43.180 I don't think Harvey is a winning participant.
00:44:47.100 I think he's a nice guy who's probably extremely naive about the rough-and-tumble nature of California politics,
00:44:55.480 and particularly the cutthroat and particularly duplices actions of Adam Schiff.
00:45:00.560 This is a man who, after all, told us definitively that he had seen more than circumstantial evidence of Russian collusion with the Trump campaign.
00:45:12.720 Now, when he's pressed to produce that evidence, he said,
00:45:16.120 well, we know definitively the Russians offered the Trump campaign assistance.
00:45:20.920 The Trump campaign accepted that assistance.
00:45:23.460 The Trump campaign used that assistance.
00:45:26.240 That is a categorical lie.
00:45:28.240 It is absolutely false.
00:45:30.600 Then the other way he justifies his multimillion-dollar witch hunt is to say that Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort gave proprietary inside baseball polling information from the Trump campaign
00:45:46.440 to a man named Konstantin Kalimnik, who, according to Schiff and others, was a Russian intelligence asset.
00:45:56.960 There's two problems with this.
00:45:59.100 First of all, Trump campaign pollster Tony Fabrizio points out that the campaign had no proprietary polling information at the time this allegedly took place.
00:46:10.280 So any information that Manafort may have given to Kalimnik was in the public domain.
00:46:15.580 You could read it in the newspaper.
00:46:17.460 And secondarily, as I believe it was Matt Taibbi proved in his extraordinary investigative journalism,
00:46:25.980 Konstantin Kalimnik, who previously worked for John McCain, is not a Russian intelligence asset.
00:46:33.060 It doesn't matter how many times Andrew Weissman and Adam Schiff insist.
00:46:37.820 Otherwise, it's just not true.
00:46:40.600 So after millions of dollars, those are their two pieces of proof.
00:46:45.100 Of course, they love to add to that Roger Stone was in touch with the persona of Guccifer 2.0,
00:46:52.000 and they were involved somehow in the transfer of data that was hacked from the Democratic National Committee.
00:47:00.460 The problem with that is obvious.
00:47:02.840 The very limited communications I had on Twitter, direct messages with the persona of Guccifer 2.0,
00:47:11.980 who at the time no one had identified as an alleged Russian asset, is innocuous.
00:47:18.740 It happened three weeks after WikiLeaks had already published all of the DNC and Clinton material.
00:47:26.760 So chronologically, it's impossible to have constituted any kind of collusion.
00:47:32.100 But then the actual content of our exchange is benign.
00:47:37.700 Now, it is true that in one of the late exchanges, this persona sent me what I guess was some kind of Democratic voting targeting material that I found entirely uninteresting, useless, and passed on to no one.
00:47:56.820 He then says, what do you think of the documents I sent you?
00:48:00.440 Ah, Time Magazine grabs that and says, oh, you see, Stone got the hacked material from the DNC.
00:48:09.340 These people are so intrinsically dishonest.
00:48:13.440 There is no Russian collusion, but yet again, they're back to recycling the same lies.
00:48:19.780 Now, what I find extraordinarily shocking is that Congressman Schiff, who is on the House Intelligence Committee—that's an oxymoron in itself—says that if Donald Trump is elected president,
00:48:36.420 the intelligence agencies are going to refuse to give him the daily intelligence briefing.
00:48:43.480 First of all, how could he know that?
00:48:45.800 He's not working for the intelligence agencies.
00:48:48.740 He has no real—he has oversight over them, but he has no authority.
00:48:53.660 But I think that would be an act of insubordination, in fact, an act of treason.
00:48:58.560 If Trump is duly elected and his election is certified, any branch of government refusing to cooperate with him or give him governmental information because they weren't happy about his election, this is shocking.
00:49:12.980 No, it is, Roger, and I always come back to a book that you recommended to me that I actually read, and it was just so eye-opening.
00:49:21.080 And it might be a small thing for most people, but there was a thing, a scandal early on in the Nixon administration talking about the Pentagon Papers.
00:49:28.700 And the Pentagon Papers were a list of declassified—I'm sorry, classified information that were published in relation to the Vietnam War.
00:49:37.820 And Nixon kind of talks about this in his memoirs.
00:49:42.000 It's called RN, Richard Nixon's memoirs, and he talks a lot about how the intelligence agencies were doing this to him.
00:49:48.680 It was a closed door, and he had to use workarounds to get information that he was requesting from his own intelligence agencies.
00:49:56.520 And he points out in the memoirs, he says, look, I don't know who these people are beholden to, but I was the president, and I couldn't get information from him when I needed it.
00:50:05.560 So that kind of highlighted to me, it's like, whoa, this has been going on for a long time.
00:50:10.360 And I'm interested to hear your thoughts on the comparison there, because it is kind of a similar thing that you're describing.
00:50:16.720 Yeah, it's really quite amazing.
00:50:18.100 The Washington Post has never even ever reported the fact that there was a Pentagon spy ring operating inside the Nixon White House, and a naval yeoman named Radford, who was reporting directly to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Admiral Moore, was actually stealing files, going through briefcases, photographing documents.
00:50:43.520 He actually rifled National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger's desk and his briefcase for documents, because the Pentagon wanted to know what Nixon's intended peace initiatives were for Vietnam, which they were opposed to.
00:50:58.960 They also wanted to know about his discussions with the Russians over the strategic arms limitation agreement that Nixon successfully negotiated.
00:51:08.100 They were opposed to that as well.
00:51:10.060 Now, the Washington Post has never reported on this.
00:51:13.920 This is, by the way, the entire backdrop to Watergate.
00:51:17.980 It's also true that upon his election, Nixon demanded of the Central Intelligence Agency all of their files on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
00:51:29.900 And the agency stoutly refused to give the commander-in-chief those documents.
00:51:36.380 Nixon, Nixon, as you know, is later found in an audio tape from the Watergate period.
00:51:44.940 This is one of the tapes they never play for some strange reason.
00:51:48.520 And he's speaking to CIA director Richard Helms, and he says to Helms directly,
00:51:55.800 you know, a lot of funny business went on over there.
00:51:59.140 I know what some of the stuff you guys have been doing.
00:52:02.640 I think he is specifically talking about the coup in Guatemala.
00:52:06.960 And then he comes right out and he says, look, I know who shot John.
00:52:11.860 Now, to their credit, Politico reported this.
00:52:15.200 This is earth-shattering stuff.
00:52:17.940 It appeared real clear politics in a great piece by James Rosen.
00:52:21.880 It also appeared in a piece by Politico.
00:52:25.200 But what this tells you is that there is, Troy, a deeply entrenched, deep state of unelected bureaucrats,
00:52:35.260 and they have undermined every president, not just Donald Trump.
00:52:40.100 They, in fact, I think were seeking to get leverage on both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
00:52:46.700 Now, Patrick Byrne, in his great book, outlines how he participated in an effort to compromise Hillary Clinton
00:52:55.380 with an enormous bribe at the behest of the FBI.
00:52:59.840 So this idea that the FBI is partisan, I actually think they are out for their own survival.
00:53:06.800 Excellent that you bring up that point.
00:53:09.960 You can find that in Nixon's memoirs.
00:53:12.140 But Patrick Byrne's new book, we need to get him on to talk about that and make a note of that.
00:53:18.860 Amazing new book, which is now available at Amazon as well.
00:53:24.880 All right, Troy, with about two minutes left, what do you see coming up this week?
00:53:31.420 Well, Roger, there's a big breaking story.
00:53:33.720 I think we're going to get into it a little deeper throughout this week,
00:53:36.600 where Google has just updated their entire search layout.
00:53:40.300 And if you go online right now and you look up Google search problems, Google search down to zero,
00:53:47.980 you'll find that many web creators are finding that when they were getting thousands of impressions
00:53:53.320 on Google search before March 8th, now they are getting zero or 15 or 16.
00:54:00.460 And Google has changed the way that they are recommending content.
00:54:05.660 Now, this might not sound like a big thing to most people,
00:54:08.920 but this will change the way that information is accessed prior to this 2024 election.
00:54:14.280 And, Roger, we had news just a couple last week that Facebook was down.
00:54:18.700 I'll tell you right now, Facebook goes down like that because they're doing updates.
00:54:22.480 Google goes down because they're doing updates.
00:54:24.540 These people are updating the systems that control the flow of information heading into the 2024 election.
00:54:29.940 I think it's important that we break that down, but it's also important that people keep their eyes out on that
00:54:36.040 and look for updates in how their information is being delivered, because this is earth-shattering stuff.
00:54:42.720 And all signs point towards a total control mechanism being put on our flow of information heading into this election.
00:54:50.160 Tells me they got some big plans.
00:54:51.960 All right, we'll get into that tomorrow on The Stone Zone.
00:54:55.260 I want to thank my co-host, Troy Smith, and thank you for joining us yet again on The Stone Zone.
00:55:01.040 Until tomorrow, God bless you and Godspeed.
00:55:04.760 A man who's gone through hell, but he's kept going and he's smart and he's strong and people love him.
00:55:13.600 Not everybody, but people love him and respect him.
00:55:15.980 Roger Stone. Where's Roger Stone?
00:55:21.960 Thank you.
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