The StoneZONE with Roger Stone

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00:00:11.660 Well, as the whole world now knows, in the early morning of January 3rd,

00:00:15.960 President Donald Trump ordered a military operation into the nation of Venezuela.

00:00:21.120 With impressive precision, U.S. forces were able to bomb important military targets

00:00:26.220 and to capture and arrest dictator Nicolas Maduro while he was sleeping, quite literally,

00:00:32.920 and remove him from power, Maduro was taken into custody

00:00:36.280 and flown to New York City to be processed on various criminal charges.

00:00:41.360 Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth confirmed on CBS Evening News

00:00:45.480 that the strikes were narrowly tailored and executed with support from the Department of Justice,

00:00:51.060 describing the mission as a law enforcement exercise backed by military force

00:00:56.880 rather than a regime-change war similar to the failures of the George W. Bush era.

00:01:04.280 Hegseth emphasized that the operations avoided the large-scale troop deployments

00:01:08.600 that defined the neoconservative nation-building wars of the 2000s

00:01:13.020 while efficiently securing U.S. interests.

00:01:15.760 We saw the exact same approach from President Donald Trump in Iran

00:01:20.700 where many were urging him to launch a full-scale invasion with troops on the ground

00:01:27.140 and ultimately mass casualties.

00:01:30.040 Instead, he projected American power in a very controlled and limited way

00:01:35.620 to achieve his objectives and the objectives of the United States.

00:01:41.580 Hegseth is right when he said that what happened in Venezuela is the opposite of Iraq. 0.96

00:01:47.460 We spent decades and purchased in blood and got nothing economically in return in the Iraq War.

00:01:54.820 President Trump flipped the script.

00:01:57.040 Strategic action that secures resources, ends criminal activity, and doesn't cost American lives.

00:02:03.900 Secretary of State Marco Rubio, a good friend of mine,

00:02:07.380 played a central role in shaping and executing the entire operation.

00:02:11.580 Rubio has made the Western Hemisphere the core focus of the Trump administration's

00:02:17.360 newly unveiled national security strategy,

00:02:20.900 explicitly prioritizing the Americas over post-Cold War Atlantic frameworks.

00:02:26.340 During a press conference Saturday, Rubio described Maduro as a fugitive

00:02:31.000 who wanted to play tough guy, and now he's facing the consequences.

00:02:36.080 He warned that other authoritarian regimes in the region, particularly Cuba,

00:02:40.500 that should be concerned following the resounding success of the mission in Venezuela.

00:02:47.280 President Trump's critics, of course, immediately accused him of hypocrisy

00:02:51.000 because Maduro was essentially taken into custody and is charged with narco trafficking

00:02:56.980 in the same time period in which President Trump issued a full and unconditional pardon

00:03:02.680 for the former president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández.

00:03:08.140 But the cases are not even remotely similar.

00:03:10.560 Here's why.

00:03:11.720 Hernandez is innocent.

00:03:13.920 If you will examine his trial, what you will learn is that President Juan Orlando Hernández

00:03:19.960 was the first president in Honduran history to sign an extradition treaty with the United States.

00:03:26.280 That actually required a change in the Honduran constitution.

00:03:31.860 And Orlando Hernández successfully extradited two major narco traffickers,

00:03:39.900 both of whom had a long history of murder.

00:03:42.080 When Biden became president, he essentially took testimony against those two narco traffickers

00:03:50.200 and mass murderers, gave them their freedom, let them out of jail in return for their false testimony

00:03:57.100 against Hernández.

00:03:59.100 Go read the trial record.

00:04:01.640 There's no evidence of financial transfers.

00:04:04.280 There's no evidence of bank records.

00:04:06.500 There's no evidence of cocaine shipments.

00:04:10.600 All you have is the testimony of two drug dealers with an axe to grind.

00:04:16.960 It's disgraceful.

00:04:18.200 President Trump did the right thing.

00:04:20.540 President Trump framed the removal of Maduro as a victory for America's economic hegemony,

00:04:26.240 pointing to Venezuela's estimated 300 billion barrels of oil reserves, the largest in the world.

00:04:33.460 Now, Trump's critics today, again, keep saying this isn't about democracy.

00:04:37.900 This isn't about drug trafficking.

00:04:39.640 This is about oil.

00:04:41.300 Well, they're partially right.

00:04:43.360 If the United States can prevent Venezuelan oil from going to China and Russia,

00:04:48.940 which is exactly what the president has done, that is a major win for the United States.

00:04:55.120 Removing Maduro, a puppet of Beijing, and the Chinese from office will also make it more difficult for China 1.00

00:05:02.480 to harvest the country's natural resources in their quest for global dominance.

00:05:07.900 Another crucial aspect of Maduro's arrest will be the effect of narco trafficking, as we said.

00:05:14.080 Maduro is one of the most notorious drug traffickers in Latin America who operated a network through nations like Honduras and Guatemala

00:05:21.320 to funnel drugs to the U.S. southern border.

00:05:24.320 A bogus narrative being circulated by the fake news media and echoed by Thomas Massey of Kentucky

00:05:32.200 is that President Trump is a hypocrite because he removed Maduro while subsequently pardoning Honduras President Hernandez.

00:05:40.840 We address that.

00:05:41.920 It's a fraud.

00:05:43.360 President Trump, during a press conference last week, noted that Hernandez was persecuted very unfairly by Biden.

00:05:50.040 He also said that Hernandez was treated like the Biden administration treated a man named Trump.

00:05:55.940 President Trump also noted that his historic pardon for Hernandez allowed the national party, the pro-U.S. party,

00:06:05.860 the anti-drug trafficking party in Honduras to triumph in the election just three days later.

00:06:13.680 So President Trump acknowledged that U.S. forces had operated inside Venezuela during this secret mission

00:06:19.580 and did not rule out a limited on-the-ground presence tied to energy and security objectives.

00:06:24.940 He said, we're not afraid of boots on the ground.

00:06:27.920 We're going to make sure that the country is run properly.

00:06:31.880 The balancing act between having enough military personnel in Venezuela to manage the aftermath of Maduro's ouster

00:06:38.520 and making sure that it does not become an Afghanistan or an Iraq-style quagmire is no small feat.

00:06:46.020 And it must be navigated by the Trump administration in the months to come.

00:06:49.280 But this could be helped through the Department of Justice cooperation with the former head of their military intelligence,

00:06:57.220 Hugo Carvajal, who has been languishing in a New York prison but knows where all the bodies are buried.

00:07:07.860 Although the situation is far from settled, the immediate triumph of the Venezuelan operation

00:07:12.500 should restore faith in President Trump's rebuilding of our armed services, if nothing else.

00:07:17.380 Just four years ago, the military is running out of Afghanistan with their tails between their legs,

00:07:23.780 surrendering that country to the Taliban and losing literally billions of dollars of extremely sophisticated military equipment,

00:07:32.920 as well as the lives of at least 13 American service members.

00:07:38.300 And at the same time, of course, transgenders were being let into the military.

00:07:43.620 Recruits were being taught critical race theory heresies to hate the nation they were supposed to be defending.

00:07:50.000 Diversity quotas took precedence over having an elite and lethal fighting force.

00:07:55.200 Those days are over.

00:07:56.160 Under Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump, America has returned to having a lean, mean, lethal fight to keep the peace

00:08:04.960 and to protect America's interests abroad.

00:08:09.620 Now it's clear in the rearview mirror an afterthought in President Trump's America.

00:08:14.680 Even those who are critics of the Venezuelan intervention, such as the libertarian commentator Dave Smith,

00:08:21.820 have had to admit that the impressive, precision nature of the effort to remove Maduro was extraordinary.

00:08:29.900 Hakeem Jeffries, the leader of Democrats in the House, complained that the Trump administration

00:08:35.880 had not given either he nor Chuck Schumer any heads up on the impending arrest of Maduro.

00:08:43.200 First of all, Trump had no legal requirement to do so.

00:08:46.600 We both understand, we all understand, that either Schumer or Jeffries would merely have contacted Maduro

00:08:55.020 to tip him off as to what was to come.

00:08:57.900 The president was wise to keep what they call OPSEC, Operation Secrecy, in this entire mission.

00:09:05.580 The ouster of Maduro will make a more stable political sphere in Latin America

00:09:09.520 and further signals the zeitgeist shift within Latin American politics.

00:09:14.660 You see it today happening in places like Honduras, Chile, Ecuador, and Argentina.

00:09:20.720 Elections there have resulted in colossal victories for more conservative,

00:09:25.260 pro-SUS candidates and parties fighting against socialism and corruption.

00:09:30.280 The momentum is firmly on the side of America's efforts to embrace capitalism, free markets, and the rule of law.

00:09:40.760 President Trump's operation against Maduro has poured gas on this righteous fire engulfing our southern neighbors,

00:09:46.840 and we should all be as jubilant as we can about these developments as Latinos who hit the streets over the weekend celebrate.

00:09:54.080 What's particularly amusing is to see left-wingers, liberals, protesting the invasion, or I should say the operation in Venezuela,

00:10:05.100 saying that they're standing up for the Venezuelan people.

00:10:08.540 Yet anyone who watches media will see the Venezuelan people on the streets of Caracas celebrating the fall of a brutal, brutal dictator.

00:10:18.200 So, I see exactly the same people who are trying to say, well, this is like Iraq, this is like Afghanistan.

00:10:27.600 No, not at all.

00:10:28.740 It's very, very different.

00:10:30.800 Oh, by the way, all those Democrats who complain about Iraq and Afghanistan,

00:10:34.440 if you go back and look on the record, they all supported those incursions.

00:10:40.120 It was Libertarian Republicans who were skeptical.

00:10:42.780 Yesterday on my show, Senator Bob Torricelli, former member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee,

00:10:49.740 admitted that his support for the second Persian Gulf War was a vote that he greatly felt was improper and he apologized for.

00:11:02.280 And then I had to point out, too, well, you were lied to, Senator.

00:11:05.800 You were told that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.

00:11:09.800 You were told and lied to by Vice President Dick Cheney.

00:11:13.800 You were lied to by Colin Powell, who was then the national security advisor,

00:11:19.060 who said that the Iraqis had yellow cake uranium with which to make new nuclear devices.

00:11:28.720 And then the biggest lie of all,

00:11:30.540 they told us that Iraq had participated in the attack on America on 9-11.

00:11:38.040 Completely and totally false.

00:11:41.000 As Venezuela's longtime strongman, Nicolas Maduro and his wife were hauled to New York to a federal courthouse

00:11:47.640 to face narco-terrorism and gun-wraining charges,

00:11:50.540 the new regime in Caracas has suddenly seen the light.

00:11:54.360 Maduro's vice president and now the self-declared interim leader, Delcy Rodriguez,

00:12:00.080 rushed to offer an olive branch to Washington, signaling her willingness to, quote-unquote,

00:12:06.760 cooperate with the United States after years of socialist belligerence.

00:12:12.340 The message came hours after Maduro's overnight capture by U.S. special forces,

00:12:17.540 an operation that shows, once again, how America's military is back to being an effective force

00:12:22.860 that must be reckoned with around the world.

00:12:25.300 Rodriguez spoke of a, quote,

00:12:28.180 balanced and respectful relationship and proposed a so-called cooperation agenda with the United States.

00:12:35.280 In other words, they're capitulating because they don't want to be the next to get the Maduro treatment.

00:12:42.780 This is exactly how you cow a communist dictatorship.

00:12:46.720 One thing I can tell you right now,

00:12:48.840 that is, there's great nervousness in Havana.

00:12:52.380 There's great nervousness in Honduras.

00:12:55.200 There's great nervousness in Mexico,

00:12:58.680 every place where socialism is lorded over the people.

00:13:03.980 With U.S. naval assets off of Venezuela's coast

00:13:06.480 and Washington clearly prepared to escalate,

00:13:09.700 the Venezuelan regime's tough talk evaporated the moment potential consequences became tangible.

00:13:16.380 One thing I know about Donald Trump,

00:13:19.100 he is a man who does what he says he will do.

00:13:22.340 He's proven that he's not a politician,

00:13:24.760 but more precisely, the leader of a political movement.

00:13:29.280 And these guys, well, they fooled around and they found out the hard way.

00:13:34.740 I'm Roger Stone.

00:13:35.600 You're listening to The Stone Zone.

00:13:37.220 The Iranian regime may be on the brink of collapse.

00:13:40.540 We're going to talk about that when we get back and what should happen in that country.

00:13:44.160 Whatever you do, don't touch that dial and keep listening because we'll be right back.

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00:14:02.760 The successful removal of Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela

00:14:06.700 has put the hostile Iranian regime on notice.

00:14:10.380 Nationwide protests against the Islamic dictator-shaped Iran have entered a second week,

00:14:16.380 driven largely by economic collapse, a plunge in currency, and soaring prices.

00:14:21.560 The quality of life has become untenable in Iran. 1.00

00:14:26.200 Demonstrations have spread to 26 of Iran's 31 provinces,

00:14:30.220 with roughly 1,000 arrests reported.

00:14:32.660 Clashes with police have left at least 12 people dead,

00:14:35.400 including members of the security forces.

00:14:37.820 This new challenge is hitting Iran's aging Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,

00:14:43.400 at his weakest following President Trump's bombing of the Iranian nuclear facilities only last year,

00:14:50.000 which demonstrated how weak and defenseless the regime really is

00:14:53.780 and when their tough talk is actually confronted.

00:14:57.580 Iran is a vast country of more than 90 million people,

00:15:01.160 and unrest has been uneven and sporadic.

00:15:03.320 It takes enormous courage to stand up against this brutal dictatorship.

00:15:08.060 They have had no problems whatsoever murdering those in the democratic resistance,

00:15:14.240 sometimes mass executions done in public for the purpose of telling the Iranian people

00:15:21.220 what will happen if they rise up against their own government.

00:15:25.040 As usual, President Trump has not minced words.

00:15:27.700 Speaking aboard Air Force One,

00:15:29.120 he warned Iran that they would be hit very hard if protesters were killed,

00:15:34.040 hinting at possible military consequences

00:15:36.700 if Iran does indeed begin killing or persecuting those who are protesting.

00:15:42.900 After watching Nicolas Maduro be swiftly removed and hauled before U.S. courts,

00:15:47.860 Tehran's leaders are clearly taking note.

00:15:50.020 Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly urged Washington to confront Iran's ballistic missile program again,

00:15:57.080 where the Iranian officials accused the U.S. and Israel of meddling,

00:16:00.860 although notably this time with softer language,

00:16:04.200 now that they understand that President Trump is for real when it comes to bombing them if necessary.

00:16:09.400 So even if Tehran wanted to turn over a new leaf,

00:16:13.300 well, it may be too late for that.

00:16:15.360 Iran has been too belligerent in supporting terrorism for much too long.

00:16:19.520 The time has come for the Aitola to take a perp walk similar to Maduro.

00:16:24.580 It does not mean that President Trump should launch again an Iraq war-style invasion of Iran.

00:16:31.860 It's not what we propose.

00:16:33.260 Look at his limited projection of American power in Venezuela,

00:16:37.980 previously in Iran,

00:16:39.600 and you have what is in essence the Trump doctrine.

00:16:45.160 You've heard of the Monroe Doctrine?

00:16:47.520 In this hemisphere, I think we should call it the Don-Roe Doctrine.

00:16:51.960 We will not tolerate communist dictatorships and narco-drug trafficking in our hemisphere.

00:16:58.160 I'm Roger Stone.

00:16:59.040 You're listening to The Stone Zone here on the Red Apple Audio Networks,

00:17:02.820 and we'll be right back.

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00:17:13.920 Welcome back into The Stone Zone, where we mainline politics.

00:17:21.880 Minnesota Governor Tampon Tim Walsh announced on Monday that he's dropping out of the 2026 race

00:17:28.680 and will not seek re-election.

00:17:30.700 And I think he's just getting out of dodge while his administration faces mounting scrutiny

00:17:34.980 over massive fraud scandals that are rocking the state.

00:17:38.280 Waltz claimed that he can no longer, quote, give a political campaign his all

00:17:43.720 after what he calls an extraordinarily difficult year,

00:17:47.500 insisting his focus must be on protecting Minnesotas from criminals who prey on our generosity.

00:17:54.980 My question is a simple one.

00:17:56.860 What did Tim Waltz know and when did he know it?

00:17:59.460 The scale of the thievery of federal funds, funds earmarked for daycare,

00:18:05.960 funds earmarked for transportation of the elderly,

00:18:09.080 funds earmarked for other COVID-19 programs, is breathtaking.

00:18:14.220 This is going to be not a scandal limited to the state of Minnesota,

00:18:19.040 not a scandal limited to the Somalian community,

00:18:22.700 although it is interested that 89% of Somalians living in the United States today are on welfare.

00:18:28.380 That's a hard, cold fact.

00:18:31.560 Waltz, of course, is spouting nonsense about his inability to focus on a political campaign.

00:18:40.040 The truth is he enabled these fraudsters every step of the way.

00:18:43.860 The widespread fraud tied in Minnesota's Medicaid waiver programs

00:18:47.240 and the COVID area relief funds all have happened

00:18:50.360 because Waltz refused to hold the Somalis accountable,

00:18:54.400 painting them as if they were model citizens just because of their skin color

00:18:57.920 and refused to investigate them over fears of supposed racism.

00:19:03.020 According to federal officials, since 2018,

00:19:05.880 as much as half of the $18 billion paid through Minnesota's Medicaid waiver system

00:19:12.720 may be fraudulent,

00:19:14.440 and the number increasingly seems to get larger every single day.

00:19:18.300 Republican state legislators believe that Waltz should resign now

00:19:22.060 and potentially face criminal charges for his role in the scandal.

00:19:26.660 Waltz, who took office in 2019 and then, of course,

00:19:29.760 was improbably selected as Kamala Harris's vice presidential running mate, 0.98

00:19:35.120 where his effeminate hand gestures and his multiple lies about his military service,

00:19:40.920 about his athletic record, set off alarm bells,

00:19:44.900 has harmed the state tremendously through his inept governance.

00:19:49.900 Kelly Loeffler, who's the head of the Small Business Administration,

00:19:52.560 announced the suspension of nearly 7,000 Minnesota borrowers

00:19:57.820 and suspected fraud involved in roughly $400 million in PPP and EIDL loans.

00:20:05.000 The Small Business Administration has also halted more than $5.5 million

00:20:10.440 in annual federal support to the state,

00:20:13.240 with federal investors circling and funding frozen.

00:20:17.300 Waltz's exit is the collapse of another would-be Democrat icon.

00:20:21.540 Get him on the short bus out of St. Paul as soon as possible.

00:20:26.620 Audits stretching now back more than a decade

00:20:28.740 show that Minnesota's Child Care Assistance Program

00:20:31.120 has been riddled with weak oversight, poor record-keeping,

00:20:34.780 and chronic inability to detect fraud,

00:20:37.600 failures now exploding into a national scandal.

00:20:40.800 The issue returned to the spotlight after an independent journalist,

00:20:45.720 not the New York Times, not the Washington Post, not CNN or MSNBC,

00:20:51.400 but an independent journalist who posts his findings on social media

00:20:56.580 released undercover footage showing that multiple daycare centers

00:21:00.740 many tied to Somali-run networks,

00:21:04.160 appearing empty or inactive despite their continued receiving of public funds.

00:21:09.860 The expose triggered federal and state reviews

00:21:12.480 and confirmed what orders have warned for years.

00:21:15.520 According to reporting by CBS News,

00:21:18.280 a May audit from the Federal Office of Inspector General

00:21:21.260 examined 200 child care assistance payments

00:21:24.680 and found repeated violations of attendance and payment requirements.

00:21:30.000 auditors concluded Minnesota likely made errors in at least 11% of payments

00:21:35.860 to more than 11,000 children,

00:21:38.660 an astonishing failure rate in a taxpayer-funded program.

00:21:42.060 That audit bluntly warned that Minnesota's limited oversight of attendance records

00:21:46.600 created a system ripe for fraud, waste, and abuse.

00:21:50.560 While the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under Robert Kennedy has since pledged tighter monitoring,

00:21:57.420 state officials themselves admit enforcement gaps remain.

00:22:01.520 In January of 2025, Tiki Brown, head of the Children, Youth, and Families Department,

00:22:08.780 conceded that the state lacked full authority and capacity to investigate attendance fraud.

00:22:14.160 That admission echoes earlier findings by the Office of Legislative Auditor,

00:22:19.020 which documented millions of dollars in proven fraud between 2013 and 2018.

00:22:25.120 So independent journalist Nick Shirley, a man in his late 20s reporting,

00:22:30.020 demonstrates the problem in a way that was unignorable, if there is such a word.

00:22:35.820 Now the state will have to take notice and do something about it rather than make excuses for their inaction

00:22:40.940 because of the public anger that's built up.

00:22:43.800 But my friends, I assure you, before it's over, this scandal will spill over into Michigan,

00:22:49.580 into Ohio, into Oregon, into Washington State, into California, and yes, indeed, into New York.

00:22:57.340 So those who are in such a hurry to claim that Republicans will lose the 2026 election,

00:23:03.280 they'll lose control of the House, demonstrate once again that they don't understand

00:23:07.820 that in American politics, a week can be a lifetime.

00:23:13.320 And we don't know what the atmosphere will be when we have another federal election, but we do know this.

00:23:19.760 This financial scandal is just going to get bigger and deeper,

00:23:23.280 and the people are going to be very angry when they see where their tax dollars have been squandered and stolen.

00:23:30.900 Meanwhile, the Pentagon is escalating its response to what it calls serious misconduct by Senator Mark Kelly,

00:23:37.560 announcing a formal censure and a full review of his military retirement status

00:23:42.740 over statements in a video encouraging the military to buck orders and disregard the chain of command.

00:23:50.200 Secretary of War Pete Hegseth confirmed that Kelly,

00:23:53.280 a retired Navy captain still drawing a military pension,

00:23:57.200 will receive an official censure letter and face a review of his retirement rank and pay.

00:24:03.380 Geraldo Rivera took to social media to say that this was petty.

00:24:07.220 No, I'll tell you what's petty.

00:24:08.700 Petty is, more serious than petty,

00:24:11.900 petty is urging our men and women in uniforms to disregard the orders of the commander-in-chief.

00:24:17.500 It's called sedition, Geraldo.

00:24:20.480 The review, ordered to be completed within 45 days by Navy Secretary John Phelan,

00:24:26.580 could result in a downgrade of Kelly's rank and reduction in benefits.

00:24:31.180 Hegseth says Kelly crossed a red line by releasing a video urging troops to refuse what he called,

00:24:37.400 quote-unquote,

00:24:37.920 illegal orders.

00:24:38.920 Clearly, trying to conjole active military service personnel to disregard the orders of the commander-in-chief.

00:24:47.560 Kelly, of course, could not identify any illegal orders at that time.

00:24:52.460 Secretary of War,

00:24:54.080 Hegseth says,

00:24:54.780 And six weeks ago, Senator Mark Kelly and five other members of Congress,

00:24:58.700 all of whom were either retired military and in some cases had tight connections to the Central Intelligence Agency,

00:25:06.840 released a reckless and seditious video that clearly intended to undermine good order and military discipline.

00:25:13.500 As a retired Navy captain who's still receiving a military pension,

00:25:18.540 Captain Kelly knows he's accountable for military justice,

00:25:21.640 and the Department of War and the American people expect justice.

00:25:25.860 I pointed out, I guess it was earlier this year, or earlier last year, pardon me,

00:25:33.040 that Senator Mark Kelly had been partners with a Chinese communist company

00:25:39.320 that made surveillance balloons.

00:25:43.660 I suggested that that was a treasonous activity

00:25:46.560 and that he should be charged

00:25:48.660 and that he should be tried.

00:25:51.020 I noted at the time

00:25:52.740 that the penalty under federal law for treason is capital punishment.

00:25:58.020 The media, of course, skipped all over, right over the trial part.

00:26:02.180 They say, oh, Roger Soane says that Senator Mark Kelly should be executed

00:26:06.620 because of his involvement with the Chinese company.

00:26:10.460 No, we are still under the rule of law.

00:26:14.020 They left that little part about the trial out.

00:26:16.860 I do believe it should be court-martialed, along with the others who appear in the video,

00:26:21.140 for undermining our national security for cheap partisan purposes.

00:26:25.960 And I find it very disturbing that Senator Slotnick, his colleague from Michigan,

00:26:31.560 predicted two weeks before a U.S. Army National Guardsman,

00:26:38.060 actually a woman, was shot and killed in the streets of D.C.,

00:26:41.840 that that was going to happen.

00:26:43.880 It was very eerie that she would foresee that.

00:26:48.120 I think that this is a seditious operation,

00:26:51.520 the beginning of what could be a color revolution,

00:26:54.240 an attempt to remove Donald Trump from office through the same kind of shenanigans we saw in the Russian collusion hoax,

00:27:03.700 two phony impeachments, the January 6th operation,

00:27:08.300 the so-called documents investigation,

00:27:11.020 all of which, of course, has now been exposed as extra constitutional.

00:27:16.780 Just days after the inauguration of socialist Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson,

00:27:23.660 the city's taken another hard turn towards lawlessness,

00:27:27.040 as Wilson attempts to outdo our new New York City Mayor Zoran Mamdami

00:27:32.920 as the most belligerently leftist demagogue in any mayor's office in the country.

00:27:38.720 And an internal email from the Seattle Police Department reveals officers are now being instructed

00:27:43.260 not to enforce laws that make open drug use illegal,

00:27:48.900 instead referring all cases to a diversion program that has already been tried and failed.

00:27:55.140 The directive, first obtained by We Heart Seattle,

00:27:59.780 orders officers to route drug consumption incidents to LEAPDA,

00:28:04.920 the so-called Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion Program.

00:28:08.480 This move effectively decriminalizes public drug use

00:28:12.320 and invites further chaos amid an already deadly overdose crisis happening in the state.

00:28:19.440 We Heart Seattle founder Andrea Suarez didn't mince words,

00:28:23.720 warning that dealers know how to carry just enough drugs to avoid consequences

00:28:28.200 and that addicts will now be coddled

00:28:30.140 and have their destructive habits essentially subsidized by the state.

00:28:34.680 Suarez said that Seattle will essentially be a sanctuary city

00:28:38.860 for open-air illicit drug use.

00:28:41.020 Police officers are also furious.

00:28:43.420 Mike Solon, head of the Seattle Police Officers Guild, which is their union,

00:28:48.520 called the policy horrifically dangerous,

00:28:51.180 blasting what he described as suicidal empathy

00:28:54.280 that prioritizes ideology over public safety.

00:28:58.900 Solon warned the policy will only accelerate death,

00:29:02.560 decay, and more crime on Seattle streets.

00:29:05.180 Seattle tried this after the Washington Supreme Court's Blake decision

00:29:09.180 disrupted law enforcement statewide in 2023,

00:29:12.160 and overdose deaths and crimes surged so badly in the state

00:29:17.080 that lawmakers were forced to reverse course.

00:29:19.720 Despite that hard lesson,

00:29:21.720 Seattle's new leadership is doubling down

00:29:23.780 because they will enforce crazy socialist woke nonsense

00:29:27.560 no matter how disastrous the results are.

00:29:30.860 Speaking of violence,

00:29:33.840 a man has been arrested after vandalizing the Cincinnati home of Vice President J.D. Vance,

00:29:40.280 marking the latest example of leftist political terrorism aimed at conservative leaders.

00:29:45.340 The United States Secret Service confirmed that a suspect smashed multiple windows

00:29:50.400 at Vance's residence overnight using a hammer

00:29:53.180 and also damaged a Secret Service vehicle parked in the driveway.

00:29:57.220 Authorities stressed that the home was unoccupied at the time

00:30:01.460 and the Vice President and his family, thank God,

00:30:04.480 were safely in Washington, D.C. during the attack.

00:30:08.200 The suspect, 26-year-old William D. Four,

00:30:12.720 yet another transsexual who I believe also went by the name of Julia,

00:30:18.240 was taken into custody shortly after midnight,

00:30:20.740 now faces multiple charges,

00:30:22.380 including criminal damaging, vandalism, trespass,

00:30:27.240 and obstructing official business.

00:30:29.260 His first court appearance is scheduled for Tuesday,

00:30:32.220 that's tomorrow,

00:30:33.660 with potential federal charges coming next.

00:30:37.060 Vice President Vance responded calmly,

00:30:39.180 thanking law enforcement for their swift action,

00:30:41.540 while urging the media to respect his family's privacy,

00:30:44.860 particularly the privacy of his children.

00:30:47.660 He described the incident as the work of a crazy person,

00:30:50.880 attempting to break in by hammering the windows.

00:30:53.680 This follows a troubling pattern of political harassment targeting Vance.

00:30:57.460 Last year, left-wing protesters confronted him

00:31:00.520 while he was out with his young daughter,

00:31:02.320 prompting widespread outrage among many Americans.

00:31:06.100 Don't expect too much fanfare from the fake news media

00:31:08.740 in this instance either.

00:31:10.420 When violence or intimidation is directed at the party in power,

00:31:14.800 it is too often minimized or excused,

00:31:17.020 attacking the home of a sitting Vice President,

00:31:19.400 regardless of party and regardless of motive,

00:31:22.200 is not protest, it's terrorism,

00:31:25.040 and it must be treated as such.

00:31:27.260 The alleged perpetrator is part of the Antifa network of domestic terrorism,

00:31:32.080 and they are more dangerous to the fabric of our republic

00:31:34.880 than ISIS could ever hope to be.

00:31:37.200 It's time for a crackdown against Antifa,

00:31:39.740 so these leftist punk thug losers know

00:31:43.140 that there will be serious consequences

00:31:45.460 if they attack our elected officials,

00:31:48.760 regardless of party.

00:31:50.740 I'm Roger Stone.

00:31:51.720 You're listening to The Stone Zone right here

00:31:53.140 in the Red Apple Audio Networks.

00:31:55.600 And whatever you do,

00:31:56.780 don't touch that dial or stop listening,

00:31:58.900 because we'll be right back.

00:32:00.820 I so appreciate those kind and warm words

00:32:16.040 from Vice President J.D. Vance,

00:32:18.680 and I thank God that he and his family

00:32:21.800 were not in Cincinnati

00:32:23.040 when his home was vandalized by some Antifa thug.

00:32:28.280 Well, President Donald Trump is refusing to back down

00:32:31.380 after being called a racist

00:32:33.260 for exposing the problems with Somali immigrants in America.

00:32:37.280 President Trump shared a chart on his Truth Social post

00:32:41.480 highlighting welfare dependency rates

00:32:43.660 among immigrant households in the United States.

00:32:46.380 The chart, entitled

00:32:47.500 Immigrant Welfare Recipient Rates by Country of Origin,

00:32:50.920 showed that roughly 72% of Somali-born households

00:32:55.300 in the United States

00:32:56.180 received some form of public assistance,

00:32:58.760 one of the highest rates of any groups in the United States.

00:33:01.820 Other countries and regions

00:33:03.260 with welfare participation exceeding 50%

00:33:06.760 include Bhutan, Yemen, Afghanistan, Iraq,

00:33:12.000 and several nations across Africa,

00:33:13.880 the Middle East and the Caribbean.

00:33:15.920 As concerns mount,

00:33:17.920 amidst the stunning rate of fraud

00:33:19.660 among Somalis in Minnesota,

00:33:21.800 federal authorities are warning

00:33:23.280 of serious consequences tied to ongoing fraud investigations

00:33:27.440 as the immense crackdown

00:33:29.120 is prepared for rollout by the Trump administration.

00:33:32.800 FBI Director Kash Patel

00:33:34.960 confirmed that Somali-Americans

00:33:36.640 found to be operating fraudulent businesses

00:33:39.840 to exploit governmental grants and subsidies

00:33:42.520 will face denaturalization and deportation.

00:33:46.920 Patel described the cases uncovered so far

00:33:49.340 as only the tip of a very large iceberg.

00:33:52.240 The FBI has already surged personnel into Minnesota

00:33:56.240 where investigators dismantled

00:33:58.220 a $250 million fraud scheme

00:34:01.320 linked to the nonprofit

00:34:02.900 Feeding Our Future operation.

00:34:06.580 The operation involved sham vendors,

00:34:09.840 shell companies,

00:34:10.980 and money laundering tied to federal food aid

00:34:13.540 meant for children during the COVID-19 pandemic.

00:34:16.600 To date, the case has produced 78 indictments

00:34:19.600 and 57 convictions,

00:34:22.780 most of them involving third-world immigrants from Somalia.

00:34:27.140 The findings underscore the urgent need

00:34:29.100 for strict immigration vetting,

00:34:31.220 tougher law enforcement,

00:34:32.600 and an end to these policies

00:34:34.420 that reward dependency.

00:34:36.540 This may be our last chance to end this madness

00:34:39.720 with President Donald Trump being elected

00:34:41.340 on an America First mandate

00:34:43.420 to deport dangerous illegal criminals and fraudsters,

00:34:46.820 as well as initiating the DOGE cuts

00:34:50.520 to eliminate waste, fraud, and corruption.

00:34:54.140 A special shout-out to my good friend Scott Evans,

00:34:57.260 the legendary Dilbert cartoonist and author,

00:35:00.940 and an extremely astute political commentator.

00:35:04.320 Scott delivered a deeply personal

00:35:05.940 and inspirational announcement this week

00:35:08.400 revealing that he has converted to Christianity

00:35:11.120 as he faces the final stages

00:35:13.000 of a terminal cancer diagnosis.

00:35:16.220 Adams, long known for his skepticism

00:35:18.460 towards religion and faith,

00:35:20.360 said the decision came after years of conversations

00:35:23.080 with Christian friends who urged him not to wait.

00:35:26.600 He expressed respect for believers

00:35:28.400 who openly share their faith,

00:35:29.920 arguing that genuine belief

00:35:31.880 requires the courage to evangelize.

00:35:35.240 Adams said that he planned to convert

00:35:37.220 because of his estimation,

00:35:39.240 if there's nothing beyond this life,

00:35:41.060 nothing is lost.

00:35:42.440 But because of the Christian understanding

00:35:44.280 of eternity is true,

00:35:45.400 everything is to be gained.

00:35:47.140 Adams' altar disclosed grim medical news.

00:35:51.160 Doctors have told him

00:35:52.020 there's no expectation of a recovery,

00:35:54.720 no chance of regaining feeling in his legs,

00:35:57.200 and that additional complications,

00:35:59.100 including heart failure,

00:36:00.900 are now beginning to affect his breathing.

00:36:04.560 While he says he's not currently in pain,

00:36:07.640 Adams warned his many friends and followers

00:36:10.140 to prepare for rapid changes in the weeks ahead.

00:36:13.500 Despite his condition,

00:36:15.340 Scott Adams says he intends to keep working

00:36:17.540 and speaking publicly as long as possible,

00:36:20.800 noting that engaging with ideas and current events

00:36:23.560 helps keep him focused

00:36:24.600 during an otherwise overwhelming,

00:36:26.800 difficult personal time.

00:36:28.920 He's been here in the Stone Zone.

00:36:31.280 He's a good friend.

00:36:32.460 He's a shrewd analysis of the political scene.

00:36:35.480 I say to you,

00:36:36.820 God bless our friend,

00:36:38.240 Scott Adams,

00:36:39.360 and Godspeed.

00:36:40.540 I thank you for joining us today

00:36:42.520 in the Stone Zone

00:36:43.280 on the Red Apple Audio Networks,

00:36:45.200 and until tomorrow,

00:36:46.580 God bless you,

00:36:48.000 and Godspeed.

00:36:48.800 Thanks for listening to the Stone Zone

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