The StoneZONE with Roger Stone - October 07, 2026


Obama’s Fourth Term on the Midterm Trail

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00:01:09.640 now get in the zone it's the stone zone here's roger stone
00:01:15.680 welcome into the stone zone well the classified records now show that fbi agents at the behest
00:01:27.220 of the disgraced Special Prosecutor Jack Smith, actually mapped the travel of Donald, Melania,
00:01:34.340 and Barron Trump while planning the illicit and illegal August 2022 raid at Mar-a-Lago,
00:01:41.420 time for when the former president was not at home. The same file collected call metadata tied
00:01:48.860 to my longtime friend Susie Wiles, who was then managing President Trump's comeback campaign,
00:01:55.340 would later be named as the first woman chief of staff in White House history.
00:02:01.260 The timing and contacts involved defense lawyers, campaign advisors, and journalists.
00:02:07.960 This is really extraordinary.
00:02:09.800 These highly invasive actions are just the latest in a long line of abuses
00:02:13.860 conducted by Special Prosecutor Jack Smith and his henchmen
00:02:18.240 as they went full Stasi in their zeal to pin any crime possible on Donald Trump
00:02:24.580 to keep him from once again obtaining the presidency. You know, the seriousness of this 0.65
00:02:29.540 overreach really cannot be understated. The government investigating a former president
00:02:34.880 who was the incumbent party's principal rivalry was also logging the movements of his wife and
00:02:40.820 his son and the call records of the woman who was running his presidential campaign. Why is it that
00:02:47.560 those who were so upset about Watergate, which was alleged at the time to be an effort to spy on the
00:02:53.820 Democrat National Committee by the Republicans seemed to have no problems with these alleged
00:03:00.120 crimes. We now know in retrospect that the bugs that were placed in the Democrat National Committee
00:03:06.080 by the Watergate burglars never actually functioned and declassified documents as well as unsealed
00:03:12.820 documents demonstrate to us that the CIA knew about the Watergate break-in in advance, that at least
00:03:19.580 two of the eight Watergate burglars were still actively on the payroll of the CIA, reporting to
00:03:26.820 their CIA handlers, and that the Watergate special prosecutors were well aware of the CIA's
00:03:35.120 involvement in the entire scheme. But of course, Watergate goes down because of the magnification
00:03:41.540 of the main street media as the greatest constitutional crime of all time, yet no one
00:03:48.360 is even barely lifting an eyebrow about the outrageous reactions of Jack Smith, the special
00:03:55.360 counsel, whose Arctic Frost investigation now goes down in history as the single greatest abuse of
00:04:02.780 power, perhaps the second greatest dirty trick in American political history. Ordinary tools in the
00:04:09.680 setting of a former president require a predicate that a prosecutor can read aloud, a probable
00:04:17.480 cause, a reason that justifies the surveillance. But all of this was conducted under the shroud
00:04:23.940 of secrecy. They hoped they would just get away with it. Well, they thought incorrectly.
00:04:28.780 Only yesterday we learned through declassified documents that the then Attorney General Joe
00:04:34.280 Biden, Merrick Garland, who previously said under oath that he had not consulted the White House
00:04:40.360 about the raid on the home of a former president, in fact cleared everything with Joe Biden.
00:04:47.480 The evidence continues to pile up against Jack Smith and other deep state conspirators who committed what I think was seditious conspiracy and treason against the president of the United States.
00:04:59.560 The only question remains, when will they be prosecuted and locked up for violating their oaths to the U.S. Constitution?
00:05:07.280 Meanwhile, President Donald Trump signed an executive order at the midterm rally in Grand Island, Nebraska yesterday to address the rising diesel prices.
00:05:17.480 the order clears the path for the temporary use of red dye diesel for highway use and defers the
00:05:24.680 applicable federal excise tax. This action expands on state efforts I enacted by executive order just
00:05:31.480 a few weeks ago. Governor Jim Palin said this will greatly assist farmers who are dealing with
00:05:36.880 extraordinarily high diesel prices impacting everything they do from field operations to
00:05:42.000 transportation of their product and their livestock. Dan Asborne, an independent candidate
00:05:47.360 for the U.S. Senate in Nebraska, released a statement supporting the president's decision
00:05:51.140 to expand access to red-dyed diesel, calling it an important step to help Nebraskans farmers.
00:05:57.880 Trump's speech in Nebraska was part of a 30-day rally schedule, a grueling and punishing schedule
00:06:03.880 the president has taken on heading into the contested 2026 midterm elections. President
00:06:09.880 has already appeared in Oklahoma, Alabama, and now Nebraska. Now, it's important to note that
00:06:15.600 these locations are very strategically chosen. For example, by appearing in Durant, Oklahoma,
00:06:22.040 the president's entire rally coverage spills over into the Dallas, Texas market, where it has
00:06:29.280 provided a substantial boost to Attorney General Ken Paxton, who is locked into a tight U.S. Senate
00:06:36.160 race with James Talafrico, a vegan, a radical extremist, now trying to reinvent his political
00:06:45.180 past. The president's appearance in Alabama, which is certainly a red state, spills out over
00:06:52.020 North Florida and the Florida panhandle, providing a boost for Byron Donnells, the Republican
00:06:57.940 candidate for governor. And now the president has appeared in Nebraska with a media spillover
00:07:04.240 into Iowa. President's move makes red dye diesel available for truckers is surely going to help
00:07:09.800 rising diesel costs and more put more money in the pockets of America's truckers. Meanwhile
00:07:17.480 the White House on Monday barred Politico from accessing Air Force One to cover the president's
00:07:23.660 rally in Nebraska following a prior ban on CNN. In a note CBS producer Josh Gross wrote to the
00:07:31.780 White House press pool on Monday. CBS continues representing TV networks in the White House
00:07:36.560 out-of-town travel pool. Political was scheduled to be part of the print pool on the plane. It was
00:07:43.800 blocked from flying on Air Force One by the administration. The White House was unable to
00:07:48.600 find a replacement. The Washington Post is the secondary print pooler and you will see updates
00:07:53.980 from them. As there was no primary print pooler, it has been agreed that TV pool notes will be
00:07:59.660 shared simultaneously with the White House Correspondents Association. Neither news
00:08:05.800 organization claimed to be replacing Politico. The Washington Post correspondent, Catherine
00:08:10.960 Doyle, who I do not know, also wrote in a pull report, the White House has blocked today's print
00:08:16.620 pooler Politico from traveling on Air Force One. Since it is unable to find a replacement, there
00:08:21.920 will be no primary print pooler on this trip, and I will be sending reports as the secondary pooler.
00:08:28.480 You see, these media organizations act as if this is somehow a violation of their free speech or their First Amendment rights, when in fact, whether it's CNN or whether it's MSNBC, now calling itself MSNOW, because nobody believed them under their old name, or Politico, they're free to report everything or anything they want.
00:08:52.580 Nobody is limiting their ability to publish or post whatever they wish.
00:08:58.100 But the idea that they're somehow entitled to a taxpayer subsidized office space within the White House or to a taxpayer subsidized seat on Air Force One, it has no basis in law or the Constitution.
00:09:14.540 It's a privilege. It's not a right.
00:09:16.820 According to CNN, in a show of solidarity, other outlets in the White House media pool rotation uniformly declined to take Politico's seat and print pool duties, which includes sending notes with updates on the president's movements to the rest of the media.
00:09:32.700 All this shows you is that they're all in it together, folks.
00:09:36.540 This comes after Trump blocked CNN from accessing Air Force One several times since attempting to ban CNN, MSNOW, and Politico from accessing the White House.
00:09:46.580 President Donald Trump, according to Supreme Court rulings dating back nearly 100 years, has every right to exclude certain media outlets from direct White House access.
00:09:55.940 There is no legal question as to whether he has the right to ban these outlets or not.
00:10:00.280 Those, like former President Barack Obama, that want to frame this networking, reworking of the White House press corps as censorship or violation of free speech are being disingenuous, to say the very least.
00:10:13.260 Democrat politicians and their cohorts in the mainstream media have overseen the destruction of this country for decades.
00:10:20.660 As the politicians took our jobs, our values, and our country away from us, the media ran cover for
00:10:26.400 them, only awakening from their self-induced coma to spew vicious and totally false stories to attack
00:10:32.300 President Donald Trump and his attempts to end their control over our country and make America
00:10:37.700 great again. U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly granted a temporary restraining order reinstating
00:10:44.280 the access to the White House grounds after the three leftist outlets were sued. In the ongoing
00:10:49.200 lawsuit, the outlets are now asking the same judge for a preliminary injunction to extend
00:10:54.340 their access to the White House until the case is ultimately resolved, as well as seeking
00:10:59.140 restoration to their seats with the president on Air Force One. But Kelly's temporary restraining
00:11:05.300 order is set to expire if he does not grant an injunction or an extension of the temporary
00:11:10.240 restraining order during a hearing, which comes up this Thursday. The Trump administration is
00:11:15.920 to quickly appeal Kelly's ruling if he hands the outlets a temporary win. Meanwhile, new polling
00:11:22.280 data shows that Republicans have an increasing glimmer of hope that they can win during the
00:11:28.380 midterms. Rasmussen's generic ballot taken September 24th through 27th and the 27th through 30
00:11:36.020 among 1,794 likely voters, has Democrats at 47 and Republicans at 44. An earlier Harvard-Harris
00:11:47.160 poll had both parties in absolute parity at 50 percent apiece when you excluded those who were
00:11:54.120 undecided. The Democrat lead in the Rasmussen poll was eight points in early September.
00:11:59.020 It's now three down, down five from the week before.
00:12:03.560 Other polls show Republicans lead among white voters, 48-44, and among Hispanic voters, notably 50-42, which is a 13-point swing towards the Republicans among Hispanics from the prior Rasmussen poll.
00:12:18.380 Activo, which I'm not familiar with, polling September 22nd through October 2nd, which by the way is an extraordinarily long period for a poll, has Latinos at 52% Republican and 48% Democrat. Independents in the Rasmussen sample still lean Democratic by a margin of 42 to 33.
00:12:39.200 A three-point generic deficit shows that rumors of the Republican Party's demise have been greatly exaggerated.
00:12:45.240 The MAGA base shows up, and Republicans win. It's that simple.
00:12:48.740 Now, if less informed or lower propensity voters don't show up, Democrats could still eke out a win.
00:12:56.940 But the idea that this was going to be some kind of blowout bloodbath for the Democrats does not seem to be bearing fruit based on all this polling.
00:13:06.780 I actually believe that part of this is a ruse.
00:13:09.680 In other words, the way to discourage Republicans is constantly publicizing polls that show that their situations are hopeless.
00:13:16.960 But that, based on the data and my 50 years' experience of reading polling data,
00:13:23.420 making sure that the sample is of the proper size to be scientifically valid,
00:13:28.340 making sure that the wording of the questions is indeed unbiased and completely neutral,
00:13:33.720 and making sure that the order of the questions is proper
00:13:37.600 and doesn't, I would say, lead to some predetermined or desired outcome.
00:13:45.120 Those are the only polls that I respect.
00:13:46.920 Those are the polls that I read.
00:13:48.680 Those are the polls that I report to you on here in the Stone Zone.
00:13:52.420 The final stretch favors the sides that threatens a narrowing gap,
00:13:56.980 and direction is important.
00:13:58.980 What's important here is that Republicans have, in the last three weeks,
00:14:02.280 steadily, slowly, but inexorably gained. 0.98
00:14:05.860 And therefore, I think that those who are panicans,
00:14:09.120 those who are predicting a blowout loss by the Republicans,
00:14:12.560 don't know how to read the data.
00:14:14.500 I'm Roger Stone.
00:14:15.560 We're talking about polls in the 2026 election.
00:14:18.720 Whatever you do, don't go away,
00:14:19.960 because we'll be right back.
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00:14:48.280 but he's kept going and he's smart and he's strong and people love him not everybody but
00:14:54.620 people love him and respect him roger stone where's roger stone here's roger stone
00:15:00.180 Welcome back into the Stone Zone. Former President Barack Obama will now campaign alongside Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed in Detroit later this month, lending his support to the progressive nominee after a bruising Democrat primary exposed divisions within their party.
00:15:19.520 I was among those few in the media who predicted the win of the radical progressive Islamist
00:15:27.520 Abdul El-Sayed over the conventional Democrat congresswoman he defeated. Obama will appear with
00:15:34.220 El-Sayed now in an October 24th rally that also features other top Democrat candidates in Michigan
00:15:39.540 including Jocelyn Benson, the party's nominee for governor. She was previously Secretary of State
00:15:45.720 deeply involved, in my opinion, in the heist of Michigan in the 2020 election, where there's
00:15:51.440 significant irregularities in Detroit that have never been explained. Obama's getting significantly
00:15:57.020 more involved in the midterm elections. I believe this is a direct reaction to the fact that
00:16:01.900 Republicans have rolled out their not-so-secret weapon, Donald Trump now pledging to hit 32
00:16:08.760 campaign stops between now and election day, every one of them very strategically chosen,
00:16:14.880 because they impact either U.S. Senate races or key close House races.
00:16:21.160 It is also reported that Obama will be doing additional campaign stops
00:16:24.340 and is expected to cut advertisements, commercials for numerous Democratic candidates
00:16:29.460 in the closing weeks of the campaign.
00:16:32.560 This Detroit event is notable in its show of support for El Sayyad. 0.55
00:16:37.120 She actually defeated the moderate Congresswoman Haley Stevens in an August primary
00:16:41.700 and has since worked to consolidate Democrat support in his race against former FBI agent and former Republican Congressman Mike Rogers.
00:16:49.820 This open seat is expected to be among a handful of seats that will decide which party controls the majority next year.
00:16:56.640 Obama taped two dozen ads last week for Democrat candidates for governor and the Senate will be released in the coming days and weeks,
00:17:03.280 in addition to more campaign stops soon to be announced.
00:17:06.420 He appeared earlier this week in a campaign ad with Iowa U.S. Senate candidate Josh Turek, and he campaigned in Texas with Senate candidates James Tallarico, and the candidate for governor, one Gina Hinojosa, I believe it is.
00:17:21.660 This year, he will headline a Washington fundraiser supporting Democrat Senate candidates.
00:17:26.780 President Donald Trump has announced that he plans to also head to Michigan in the coming weeks as part of his efforts to rally Republicans going into the midterms.
00:17:33.960 So Barack Obama's move to jump into the midterms tells you everything you need to know about who truly controls the Democrat Party.
00:17:40.600 How much influence did Barack Obama have over Joe Biden and his White House during his four years in office?
00:17:45.560 You see, I believe that Barack Obama was really running the show, that Joe Biden was essentially a front man, too ill or too out of it or just too old to really understand what was going on around him.
00:17:56.400 We know that his signature was affixed with an auto pen to numerous pardons for hardened criminals, murderers, rapists, drug traffickers, and others, presumably without his knowledge.
00:18:09.540 So I would argue that Barack Obama didn't get one, didn't get two, but actually got three terms in the White House.
00:18:16.420 And now, because of Trump's increasing effectiveness on the stump, they have brought Obama in to try to save the day and to take one of the two houses of Congress.
00:18:28.120 We shall see how this plays out.
00:18:30.220 We will never really know the full extent of Obama's influence over the Biden administration.
00:18:34.720 Perhaps it's something that should be investigated by the Justice Department.
00:18:37.860 I'm Roger Stone. You're listening to The Stone Zone.
00:18:39.740 Don't go away because we'll be right back.
00:18:41.900 The Stone Zone. Entertaining and informative.
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00:18:59.820 This is the Stone Zone.
00:19:02.280 Now, get in the zone.
00:19:04.200 It's the Stone Zone.
00:19:06.200 A man who's gone through hell,
00:19:08.180 but he's kept going,
00:19:10.120 and he's smart, and he's strong,
00:19:12.020 and people love him.
00:19:13.280 Not everybody, but people love him and respect him.
00:19:15.640 Roger Stone. Where's Roger Stone?
00:19:18.040 Here's Roger Stone.
00:19:20.600 You are diving once again head first into the Stone Zone.
00:19:25.900 Well, Attorney General Todd Blanche released an explosive report on Monday
00:19:29.660 exposing former Attorney General Merrick Garland's weaponization against parents of school children.
00:19:36.860 The title itself, she said, to chill down your spine.
00:19:39.640 This is something straight out of the Marxist handbook.
00:19:42.380 Attorney General Todd Blanche wrote on the social media platform X, five years ago, Attorney General Merrick Garland issued an infamous memorandum at the urging of the National School Boards Association and the White House directing the FBI and U.S. attorneys to consider looking for a federal hook to prosecute parents exercising their right to free speech.
00:20:04.920 In other words, parents who show up at school board meetings to express their concerns about the curriculum being taught to their children were now being called and classified as domestic terrorists and leaving themselves open to not only investigation, but potential arrest.
00:20:22.920 Today, Todd Blanche released the report to expose the weaponization of government against parents in public schools,
00:20:30.040 which detailed that weaponization by the department against these parents for attempting, as I said,
00:20:35.360 the National Security Division involved in ignoring repeated warnings from employees that the leadership's actions could be unconstitutional.
00:20:44.120 Along with the report, Todd Blanche says he released hundreds of exhibits in an email that make official and verify what many Americans had already guessed.
00:20:52.340 that the garland department of justice worked hand in hand with white house officials and the
00:20:58.580 national school board association to chill free speech and the parental rights while they
00:21:03.760 threatened to prosecute parents and label them as domestic terrorists the report is 273 pages long
00:21:11.360 includes 250 pages of exhibits and emails that confirmed that attorney general merrick garland
00:21:17.320 was working with the Biden White House to chill free speech and parental rights.
00:21:23.260 In January 2025, I believe it was, President Donald Trump issued Executive Order 14147,
00:21:30.480 ending the weaponization of the federal government, which established the policy of the United States
00:21:34.800 to identify and take appropriate action to correct past misconduct by the federal government
00:21:40.420 related to the weaponization of law enforcement and, and this is significant, the intelligence community.
00:21:47.320 The report reveals that the National School Board Association reached out to the Biden regime to create talking points to push back against critics of transgendered policy, as well as critical race theory.
00:22:00.800 In other words, if you spoke out against either one of these policies, the use of taxpayer dollars to change the gender of children without any notification of their parents or so-called critical race theory,
00:22:14.760 you would be labeled as a domestic terrorist and subject to investigation and arrest.
00:22:23.220 The National School Boards Associations admitted that it was coordinating with the Department of Education.
00:22:27.980 That was back in July of 2021 to provide talking points and to push back on critics regarding critical race theory,
00:22:35.480 also called CRT, and transgender policies that are creating hostile situations for school board members.
00:22:43.680 On September 29, 2021, the National School Board Association sent a letter to President Biden
00:22:50.140 describing these parents as participating in domestic terrorism.
00:22:54.300 You can't make this stuff up.
00:22:55.740 They requested the federal government arrest, prosecute, and incarcerate these parents.
00:23:01.480 I have a strong impression, of course, that the White House asked for that letter, that this was a fugazi.
00:23:07.640 Within weeks, and amid substantial public backlash,
00:23:10.940 the National Recruit Board Association's board directors apologized for the letter
00:23:14.640 and acknowledged that there was no justification for some of the language including in it.
00:23:19.680 Here's another example, to me, of how the Biden administration
00:23:22.940 targeted any American who dared challenge their agenda in any way.
00:23:28.060 In the Democrat-controlled America, you see you're not allowed to have the thoughts or ideas
00:23:31.700 that contradict the ideas of those who are in power.
00:23:34.740 If you do speak out against them, well, then the full force of the United States federal government can and will be used against you to silence you, and in some cases, as I have experienced firsthand, to try to destroy me.
00:23:46.800 Trust me, folks, I know this all too well.
00:23:49.360 It wasn't even eight years ago that 29 heavily armed FBI agents crashed through my front door, arresting me for the crime of challenging Democrats in Washington, D.C., and standing up for my friend of 40 years, President Donald Trump.
00:24:02.600 As we know from the finally long redacted but ultimately released report of special counsel Robert Mueller, the special counsel found no evidence of Russian collusion, WikiLeaks collaboration, or any other crime on my part.
00:24:20.120 I was charged with a process crime of lying under oath about Russian collusion that we now know definitively never actually took place in order to pressure me to testify falsely against my friend of 50 years, Donald Trump.
00:24:37.720 This same kind of nonsense, this same kind of lawfare, is what awaits the country if Democrats were to win the 2026 midterm elections.
00:24:45.980 Free speech will become a thing of the past, and those who challenge Democrat insanity, like the most radical gender and racial theories, will be silenced, destroyed, investigated, and if they have their way, ultimately thrown in prison.
00:25:00.880 There is no freedom in a Democrat America, that I can tell you.
00:25:05.140 Meanwhile, the Supreme Court cleared the Trump administration to end the temporary protected status for roughly 300,000 Venezuelans as lawsuits continue.
00:25:15.980 This is not a final ruling on every claim, but it does not put 300,000 people on a plane back to Venezuela this week.
00:25:24.000 But it is an important measure because it removes the injunction that kept a status the Congress calls temporary from operating essentially as permanent residence.
00:25:35.040 Temporary status lets nationals of a designated country will already here remain in work when return is impractical.
00:25:43.980 The administration's argument is that repeated extensions have turned a statuette into a green card
00:25:49.740 and that the statute was never meant to issue permanent status.
00:25:54.100 Venezuela has been liberated by the Trump administration,
00:25:57.080 so now it's time for these migrants to be sent back home. 0.98
00:26:00.660 The automatic extension has effectively been revoked for those people. 0.99
00:26:04.760 The compassion of Americans, which is unprecedented in the history of the world, only goes so far. 0.87
00:26:09.940 At a certain point, it becomes obvious that our graciousness is being taken advantage of, and that's what the immigration system has done.
00:26:17.700 This designation will no longer be used to justify what I view as an invasion.
00:26:23.300 The language will no longer be twisted and contorted by liberal activists, judges, and attorneys, the court deciding in favor of common sense in this case.
00:26:31.620 The move will still require a proceeding, but designation does not.
00:26:36.960 Meanwhile, the Pentagon will execute terrorist Nidal Hassan by firing squad,
00:26:42.280 the first American military execution in more than 60 years.
00:26:47.180 Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, technically the Secretary of War, recommended it,
00:26:53.480 and President Trump approved that decision.
00:26:56.660 Army policy puts the extension no sooner than 60 days after that approval and within 150 days.
00:27:03.720 Time and place are not yet set.
00:27:06.260 Hassan, an Army psychiatrist, as you may recall, opened fire on November 5, 2009
00:27:12.760 at the soldiers' readiness processing center in Fort Hood,
00:27:16.880 killing 13, 12 soldiers and one civilian, and wounding another 32 people.
00:27:23.140 A court-martial in 2013 convicted him of 13 counts of premeditated murder
00:27:29.160 and 32 counts of attempted murder and sentenced him then to death.
00:27:34.320 He's been at a military detention center in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, since he's one of four soldiers on Army's death row.
00:27:41.880 There was no excuse for Hassan to be waiting in custody for 13 years after he was sentenced by a military court.
00:27:48.520 It's very clear that he was found legally guilty. This was an open and shut case.
00:27:53.500 This was not a case where there was any ambiguity or any other doubt. 0.98
00:27:58.400 Hassan was an evil, murdering lowlife who targeted our nation's heroes because he was a terrorist. 0.54
00:28:03.640 Hassan was part of a sleeper cell who deliberately embedded himself in the army to cause damage to our nation's heroes.
00:28:10.720 The Trump administration is finally forcing the system to work as it should.
00:28:15.360 This is justice for the families of Hassan's victims, and they have long deserved this justice.
00:28:22.320 Meanwhile, on MSNBC's The Last Word, Senator Cory Booker said that if Democrats win majorities in midterm elections,
00:28:29.160 Democrats will be a real check on President Donald Trump's appointment partner.
00:28:33.640 power. Booker said we should have a fair system where you serve an 18-year term
00:28:37.960 where once we elect a president we know they got two spots on there. He's referring I believe to
00:28:44.760 the appointments to the U.S. Supreme Court. Supreme Court appointments are for life that is the
00:28:51.820 current law. It's very clear that Senator Cory Booker would like to change that. He said and I
00:28:58.700 quote, enough of this. We need term limits on the Supreme Court, clear rules of the road. Every
00:29:03.960 president gets to appoint two and be done with it. This is a terrible idea. Host Lawrence O'Donnell,
00:29:10.360 who is rarely sober, said if the Democrats do control the Senate and a Supreme Court justice
00:29:15.800 position opens up, will the Democrats confirm a Trump nominee? Senator Booker said if we control
00:29:21.760 the Senate, we have advise and consent rules, the constitutional responsibility. I, for one,
00:29:26.880 will not vote for any Trump nominee that is so ideologically away from the norm, who does not
00:29:31.980 respect traditions, does not respect the law. And trust me, we've seen people being forced down us
00:29:37.840 because we have control right now. So you have unqualified justices, radical justices, the kind
00:29:43.540 of people he's been filling the bench with as unacceptable. So when we get back in power,
00:29:48.080 there'll be a real check on the president's appointment power. This is really extraordinary
00:29:51.820 Because by tradition, Republican senators have always voted to confirm the Supreme Court nominees of Democrat presidents, even when their ideology or their philosophy differed from the Republicans.
00:30:05.740 Supposedly, the only grounds on which you're supposed to withhold advice and consent, confirmation in the U.S. Senate, is some ethical grounds.
00:30:14.140 But now you can see Cory Booker putting an ideological litmus test on these appointments.
00:30:21.120 It's funny because as the mayor of Newark, Cory Booker embezzled $600,000 from the city's Watershed Water Authority, laundering the money through his law firm.
00:30:30.600 Booker claims to know nothing about the transfer, but the authority minutes, which I tracked down, showed that as an ex-officio member of the Water Authority Board, he voted to pay his firm the funds.
00:30:43.940 It's funny because when he was confronted about the payment to his own law firm, he couldn't keep his story straight.
00:30:49.880 First, Senator Booker said that it was a buyout by his partners.
00:30:54.540 Then he said it was deferred compensation from the law firm.
00:30:59.320 And lastly, he said that it was for law firm work that he had done for the authority,
00:31:05.600 which, of course, would be a conflict of interest based solely on the fact that he was an ex-official member of the board as well as the mayor of Newark.
00:31:14.280 The Newark Watershed Conservation and Development scandal involved widespread corruption at the nonprofit, managing the city of Newark's watershed during Cory Booker's entire term as mayor from 2006 to 2013.
00:31:28.640 Executive Director Linda Watkins-Brack here pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 8.5 years in prison for accepting nearly $1 million in bribes and kickbacks from contractors via various no-bid deals and inflated payments.
00:31:44.280 Others, including contractors and a former Newark police officer, were also convicted in the scheme involving embezzlement and bogus contracts.
00:31:53.260 Booker's former campaign treasurer and his law partner, Elnardo Webster, helped recommend board members.
00:31:59.260 The board then retained his firm ultimately for more than $1 million in legal fees.
00:32:04.640 A New York State Comptroller's report criticized the reckless spending and the minimal oversight.
00:32:09.340 Booker, of course, was the ex-official chairman of the board, but attended zero meetings,
00:32:14.200 except for the one meeting in which he voted to send $600,000 to his own firm.
00:32:20.340 The agency later entered bankruptcy and, of course, ultimately was dissolved.
00:32:24.920 If Cory Booker was a Republican, he would have gone to jail with the staffers who were convicted for processing the permit to Booker's firm.
00:32:31.980 I wrote a book about this called Spartacus back in when Cory Booker ran for president.
00:32:37.380 the book didn't do very well i think that's due to the fact that cory booker didn't do very well
00:32:43.220 but i can tell you that i'm going to bring the book back and republish it if cory booker decides
00:32:50.020 as i believe he will to run for president that's what this is all about uh the field of presidential
00:32:57.480 candidates seems to be expanding this week with ted cruz making it absolutely clear with an out
00:33:03.320 of the blue attack on jd vance who he accused of bomb throwing uh ted cruz never got over the fact
00:33:11.300 that when he ran for president in 2016 i proved that his father reverend rafael angel cruz was
00:33:19.380 indisputably part of lee harvey oswald's crew in new orleans in 1963 when oswald was arrested with
00:33:26.920 a group of other men for handing out pro castro leaflets causing a scuffle which was to meant to
00:33:33.300 brand Lee Harvey Oswald as a far-left communist. That does not mean that Ted Cruz's father was
00:33:40.480 involved in the murder of JFK. That's not what I'm saying. But what I am saying is that his father
00:33:45.320 most likely worked for the CIA as part of a small group of anti-Castro Cubans, in this case posing
00:33:51.880 as pro-Castro Cubans, to try to sheep dip Lee Harvey Oswald, who later on was fingered as the
00:33:59.000 Patsy in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The truth is, when it comes to Ted Cruz, who I
00:34:07.280 call Fat Dracula, because he reminds me exactly of Grandpa Munster, Al Lewis, the legendary comic,
00:34:14.020 they're like dead ringers, but he sounds to me like Mr. Haney from Grain Acres. Any way you slice
00:34:20.140 it, Ted Cruz is never going to be president. I'm Roger Stone. You're listening to Stone Zone,
00:34:24.880 And we'll be right back.
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00:34:46.920 Now, get him a zone.
00:34:48.840 It's the Stone Zone.
00:34:50.400 A man who's gone through hell, but he's kept going and he's smart and he's strong and people love him.
00:34:57.940 Not everybody, but people love him and respect him. Roger Stone. Where's Roger Stone?
00:35:02.680 Here's Roger Stone.
00:35:05.480 Welcome back into the Stone Zone.
00:35:08.340 A Cornell student known publicly only as Jane Doe is dominating the headlines in social media feeds.
00:35:14.780 the woman, only 20 at the time, sued seven men in Manhattan on September 16th, alleging they drugged
00:35:21.900 and forced sex on her at a fraternity house on October 19th and 20th of 2024, when she says she
00:35:29.000 was too intoxicated to consent. But her sworn statement reads very differently than the
00:35:34.220 allegations made in the civil suit. At the time, Jane Doe walked a mile, had plans, rated herself
00:35:41.400 as a 5 out of 10 later 6 out of 10 when it came to intoxication she said she agreed to sex with
00:35:47.760 two men because she was attracted and curious then a third man joined and she let him join
00:35:52.960 because it was his room asked if it was a foursome she said hell no but she admitted to taking
00:35:58.400 voluntary the street drug ketamine which she was offered she said interstatement why not the whole
00:36:04.780 thing got raunchier from there but remained completely and totally consensual. At 5 45 she
00:36:11.560 said she was tired and both men promptly stopped. According to all traditional definitions this was
00:36:16.660 not sexual assault. Now however Governor Kathy Hochul has named the low IQ fraudster Attorney
00:36:23.520 General Letitia James as a special prosecutor. The problem with that of course is that prior to
00:36:29.060 appointment as special prosecutor in this case Letitia James posted on her Facebook page that
00:36:35.220 this was a horrific crime and already declared the guilt of the men she hasn't even yet yet
00:36:40.700 investigated. These young men are about to be crucified. If Lindsay Clancy's case taught us
00:36:46.660 the same thing the public story is put out first to manipulate the ignorant and the spiteful on
00:36:51.780 social media and then the evidence released later after the court of public opinion has already been
00:36:56.780 swayed. The local Tompkins County District Attorney investigated this and he found no crimes. He
00:37:02.820 determined that everything that happened was both legal and consensual, that the woman was not forced
00:37:07.600 to take drugs, and that she was in control of her own faculties. The investigation took place.
00:37:14.040 The so-called Cornell 7 was cleared by the local district attorney. But you see, it's an election
00:37:19.640 year and both Letitia James and Governor Kathy Hochul are on the ballot. So I think they view
00:37:25.540 this case incredibly politically, and they think that it will be a plus for them. The mob is coming
00:37:32.220 for their scalps of the so-called men, but they're not concerned about the facts at all. The Me Too
00:37:37.220 hysteria has returned with a vengeance, but at least one of these young men is countersuing, 0.63
00:37:42.500 claiming that he himself was raped by the woman. Can't make this stuff up. These young men may have 0.91
00:37:48.220 engaged in immoral and disgusting behavior, but they don't deserve to be targeted by this
00:37:52.480 miscarriage of justice. Keep them and their families in your prayers and hope that justice
00:37:57.140 is determined in the entire matter. Meanwhile, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
00:38:03.620 pay about 20.8 million people of the original Medicare Part B. We'll get a one-time $90
00:38:13.020 rebate in October, most of it all by direct deposit sometime around October 8th. The money,
00:38:19.880 about $2 billion, is being refunded by the Trump administration from the Medicare Improvement Fund
00:38:25.700 that the Congress created. Eligibility means living in the United States, not on Medicaid
00:38:31.040 premium help, and not paying the higher income IRMAA surcharge. Medicare Advantage enrollers
00:38:38.660 are out. The state of 2026, Part B premium is about $202.90, so the check covers less than half
00:38:47.180 of one month. Well, I say every little bit helps. And any time the taxpayers, particularly those on
00:38:52.920 fixed incomes, can receive some relief on the money they paid in the system, they should be
00:38:57.740 applauding. $90 in your pocket, just in time for a midterm election, sounds pretty good to me.
00:39:04.300 Thanks for joining us today in the Stone Zone. I'm Roger Stone. Until tomorrow, God bless you and Godspeed.
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