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00:00:40.980 Well, former special counsel Jack Smith faced what I would call blistering scrutiny on Capitol Hill this week

00:00:49.860 as Republicans exposed the gross extra constitutional abuse of power aimed squarely at President Donald Trump and his family.

00:01:00.000 Not everyone will remember this, but while Joe Biden was still president, but there was growing evidence of his infirmities and the fact that he didn't seem to know where he was or what he was doing on any given day.

00:01:16.700 He was asked point blank by a reporter, aren't you worried about a rematch with Donald Trump?

00:01:24.900 And he kind of smirked and said, no, we're not going to let him run.

00:01:30.000 There you have it. Joe Biden and his Justice Department launched Operation Arctic Frost. This makes Watergate look like small potatoes.

00:01:42.300 This is the use of the full authority of the judicial section of government, plus our intelligence agencies, to basically remove, or in this case, block a candidate for president for strictly political reasons, highly illegal and unconstitutional.

00:02:07.060 House Judiciary Committee Jim Jordan opened the hearings by revisiting the FBI's unprecedented 2020 raid on Trump's Mar-a-Lago home, an operation that, according to testimony from FBI officials themselves today, ignored standard protocol.

00:02:26.700 In other words, FBI officials both in the Washington and the Miami offices, because the three southern counties of Florida are under the jurisdiction of the FBI office in Miami, all recommended against it.

00:02:41.940 This sounds familiar. Some of those same people thought that raiding my home at six o'clock in the morning to arrest me for the first time nonviolent crime of allegedly lying under oath to Congress was a little excessive.

00:02:57.180 In my case, very much like Trump's case, they came in with overwhelming force.

00:03:04.160 They did have a shoot-to-kill order, interestingly enough, and they rummaged through Melania Trump's underwear draw just as they rummaged through my wife's draw.

00:03:17.480 Chairman Jordan revealed that they also searched First Son Barron Trump's bedroom,

00:03:26.040 along with First Lady Milana Trump's personal belongings,

00:03:30.060 despite, again, the internal FBI recommendations to notify Trump's legal team beforehand,

00:03:36.420 which, of course, they had not done.

00:03:39.420 Those recommendations were reportedly rejected by Biden's hyper-politicized Department of Justice.

00:03:45.940 Jordan further noted that just three years after Trump announced his 2024 presidential comeback bid, Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Jack Smith, bringing him back from The Hague as a special counsel.

00:04:01.400 Jack Smith had worked decades ago with Andrew Weissman in Brooklyn, equally corrupt.

00:04:08.900 There are still pending allegations against Jack Smith taking bribes in his role at The Hague that the Justice Department has never adjudicated.

00:04:21.300 But it's not lost on me that Jack's, that Attorney General Merrick Garland almost immediately then staffed his team at the DOJ with people directly tied to the controversial raid on Trump's home.

00:04:39.800 Jordan's testimony made it abundantly clear at this hearing that law enforcement under Smith's direction was weaponized against a political opponent.

00:04:47.400 Smith's testimony actually only continued to make the case.

00:04:52.520 So when asked about President Trump's 2025 pardons of January 6th defendants,

00:04:58.340 Smith abandoned any prosecutorial or legal restraint,

00:05:02.200 openly speculating that those pardoned would commit future crimes.

00:05:07.920 The comments right there demonstrate Smith's deep partisan underpinnings

00:05:11.800 and a lack of objectivity on the question of President Trump and his supporters.

00:05:16.640 and it was Jack Smith and his cohorts who came up with a completely baseless claim

00:05:23.040 that during an election dispute, when a state election returns are disputed,

00:05:29.460 and that dispute is headed to the courts, that the forming of an alternative slate

00:05:35.460 for the Electoral College by a certain deadline is not a crime.

00:05:40.980 But Rudy Giuliani and a number of others still remain charged in Arizona and in Nevada for participating in an alternative elector slate.

00:05:54.520 Internal elector slates to the Electoral College are formed to preserve your rights in the event that you are successful in court in overturning the election based on evidence and a trial.

00:06:09.120 So for those out there, you find them all the time that will say, well, Trump's completely full of BS when he says the election was stolen because all of the legal challenges he brought were defeated.

00:06:20.820 That's not true. In fact, none of the legal challenges brought by Mayor Giuliani and other attorneys on behalf of Donald Trump, they weren't rejected by the courts.

00:06:31.040 they were not heard by the courts. The courts managed to not hear those cases in every case

00:06:38.160 based on some technicality. And then you have Attorney General Bill Barr. This is the same

00:06:44.300 Bill Barr who, in an interview with Wolf Blitzer on CNN, said that mail-in ballots are an open

00:06:52.680 invitation for widespread fraud. Yet when the U.S. attorney in Philadelphia told Attorney General

00:06:59.700 Bill Barr that he discovered hard evidence of voter fraud and election fraud in the Keystone

00:07:08.640 State. He was told by Bill Barr to bury it and to do nothing. The highlight perhaps of today's

00:07:17.960 hearing was when Congressman Troy Nels was talking about January 6th and correctly

00:07:25.140 lay responsibility for the events that day on the Capitol Hill police and the Capitol Hill police

00:07:32.480 leadership, which allegedly failed to share intelligence, warning of the coming unrest.

00:07:39.660 President Trump, watching from abroad, called the hearing the unraveling of the Democrats' scam,

00:07:45.600 accusing Trump of destroying lives under the guise of justice. But Michael Fanon, this is the

00:07:52.400 crisis actor playing the role of a Capitol Hill police officer, openly today dropped the F-bomb

00:08:01.320 yelling F-U at the Texas member of Congress and flipping him off. He had to be physically

00:08:10.060 removed from the hearings. This entire thing boils down to a simple question, and that is

00:08:17.700 whether we are going to see accountability and justice

00:08:21.520 or whether there are two different sets of rules,

00:08:25.540 one for Republicans and one for Democrats.

00:08:28.300 So when Peter Navarro, the president's trade advisor,

00:08:33.840 member of the White House staff,

00:08:35.540 gets a subpoena from the January 6th committee

00:08:37.940 and he refuses to appear and answer questions,

00:08:41.800 he was arrested humiliatingly in public.

00:08:44.940 He was tried and he was jailed.

00:08:47.700 Now, Bill and Hillary Clinton have been sent a subpoena to answer questions about their relationship with Epstein and Epstein's financial relationship with the Clinton Foundation and the Clinton Global Initiative, as well as their many trips to his island, and they refuse to testify.

00:09:06.320 So will they be charged? Will they be arrested? Will they be incarcerated like an average citizen or their special rules for elites?

00:09:15.880 By the way, I was subpoenaed to come up here before the January 6th Committee, as was General Flynn.

00:09:23.880 And we both chose to assert our Fifth Amendment rights, not to answer questions.

00:09:28.800 By the way, that does not mean that you did anything wrong.

00:09:31.900 It does not mean you were guilty of a crime.

00:09:33.860 It does not mean you have anything to hide.

00:09:35.600 What it does mean is you're smart enough to know that the House Democrats will take what you say under oath and they will twist it into a process crime.

00:09:47.960 So during my trial, I was asked, did you ever get an email from Steve Bannon?

00:09:52.820 And I could remember. I said, I don't recall.

00:09:55.360 And they said, ah, you lied. You see, on this date, you got an email from Bannon.

00:09:59.660 I said, but that's a link to a story on the front page of that day's Washington Post.

00:10:05.820 How could that email be material?

00:10:08.660 How could it be relevant?

00:10:09.740 How could it prove anything whatsoever?

00:10:12.580 So there's a little question that in my case, Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell basically were shared all of my emails by the Mueller prosecutors so they could put together this gotcha list of questions.

00:10:28.580 And although I readily admit I did make mistakes in my testimony, none of them were willful and none of them were material, meaning they covered no underlying crime.

00:10:40.420 So I guess we're about to see. Is there one? Is there one standard of justice or is there two?

00:10:46.740 The Clintons have a lot to answer for.

00:10:50.200 There is some precedent. President Harry Truman refused to testify for House Republicans in the late 50s.

00:10:58.580 I'm trying to research how that worked out, but these hearings that we are seeing right now, I think are desperately needed, but they must be followed up in prosecutions.

00:11:10.800 Cannot be another Trey Gowdy-esque exercise in political theater.

00:11:15.880 Jack Smith violated the Constitution and the law by spying on U.S. senators, spying on private citizens in violation of their Fourth Amendment rights.

00:11:26.680 uh the illegal surveillance alone is problematic but then inventing this whole fake electors case

00:11:35.600 is yet another example i do remember re melber particularly unsavory character who's on msnbc

00:11:44.960 demanding that i should be charged with crimes in georgia in connection with the fake elector

00:11:50.420 slate, which I really know nothing about. Having not been to Georgia after the election, I couldn't

00:11:56.980 tell you who was on the slate. But I do know in 1877, there were multiple alternative elector

00:12:03.900 slates filed by Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and others. I also know in 1960, the Electoral

00:12:13.340 College slate pledged to Vice President Richard Nixon was declared the winner on election night

00:12:18.340 in Hawaii, but John Kennedy's campaign very wisely formed an alternative slate of electors

00:12:23.740 because once the absentee ballots were counted, Jack Kennedy carried Hawaii, not Richard Nixon.

00:12:31.660 So the idea that forming an alternative slate, whether it's in Nevada or Georgia or Arizona,

00:12:39.560 is a crime, is a crock, to be quite clear. There's no question that after the Russian 0.99

00:12:47.580 collusion hoax, the Jack Smith investigation, in which it's clear he was charged with Joe Biden

00:12:54.300 and Merrick Garland making sure that Donald Trump could not run again. And he was coordinating with

00:12:59.660 Alvin Bragg and coordinating with Letitia James, the Manhattan District Attorney, the New York

00:13:05.540 County District Attorney, and the New York State Attorney General, as well as coordinating with

00:13:10.480 Fannie Wills in Georgia. She later to be disgraced and the cases there against Trump's supporters

00:13:18.460 dismissed. So there's a lot that has to happen here before we have full justice and accountability.

00:13:26.300 The lunatics over the New York Times keep saying Trump is on a revenge tour. This is about

00:13:32.240 retaliation. No, it's about holding those who broke the law and violated the constitutions

00:13:38.900 in their manic effort to destroy Donald Trump accountable.

00:13:43.120 They broke the law.

00:13:44.000 Why should they not be prosecuted?

00:13:46.140 And those Republicans who say,

00:13:47.720 oh, if we're mean to them now,

00:13:50.240 if and when they ever get back in power,

00:13:52.040 they'll be really mean to us, please.

00:13:54.580 You already stormed my home at six o'clock in the morning. 1.00

00:13:57.660 You already scared the daylights out of my wife. 0.85

00:14:01.400 You've already terrorized and impoverished my family. 0.99

00:14:04.920 So don't tell me about who did what to whom.

00:14:08.900 When I see a punk like Hakeem Jeffries threatening that we're going to indict everyone we're getting in power, let's take a close look at Hakeem, shall we?

00:14:20.620 Because I think these members of Congress who are now threatening that if they are held accountable that they will somewhere downstream get even, this is, to me, an outrageous.

00:14:33.440 Folks, they will try to destroy Donald Trump again if they get the opportunity.

00:14:37.540 How do we know this?

00:14:38.380 because they tried to destroy him once before.

00:14:40.920 I'm Roger Stone, and we'll be right back.

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00:14:54.740 Welcome back into The Stone Zone.

00:14:58.760 I have to say that in my 50 years in American politics,

00:15:02.640 I haven't seen anything nearly as chilling and as shocking

00:15:06.500 as the video of this Black Lives Matter attack on a Christian worship service

00:15:14.440 at the city's church in St. Paul, Minnesota.

00:15:18.480 I honestly cannot believe that this happened in America.

00:15:23.980 But there's strong evidence today that the Biden-era double standard on law and order

00:15:29.600 is officially over.

00:15:30.480 On Thursday, Attorney General Pam Bonney announced the arrest of Twin Cities activist

00:15:35.240 Nakima Levy Armstrong for her alleged role in organizing the coordinated disruption of the

00:15:42.860 Christian worship service at City's Church in St. Paul. According to Attorney General Bondi,

00:15:48.880 Armstrong was taken to custody by the FBI at her direction after investigators determined that

00:15:54.320 Armstrong played the key role in planning Sunday's protest, where activists stormed the church

00:16:01.220 during Mass, chanted slogans, confronted clergy mid-service. I will remind you this is one day

00:16:08.760 after a Black Lives Matter spokeswoman called for the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul to burn

00:16:17.400 her words. Let's burn it all down. Another organizer, Chantelle Louisa Allen, who's actually 0.78

00:16:26.180 a sitting member of the St. Paul School Board and a leader of the Black Lives Matter Twin Cities

00:16:31.860 was also arrested, along with a far-left agitator named William Kelly, who did a viral TikTok post

00:16:40.080 goading Attorney General Bondi to come get him. So she did. An indictment has also been filed

00:16:47.620 against a fake journalist, Don Lemon, with a Democrat magistrate currently blocking those

00:16:55.100 charges. I'm not sure how a federal magistrate blocks charges authorized by the Department

00:17:03.380 of Justice, but Don Lemon, if he was interviewing people prior to their invasion of the church and

00:17:13.400 knew they were invading the church and didn't report that to anybody, then that makes him

00:17:17.900 an accessory. And as much as his career needs the boost, I do think that he too should be

00:17:26.880 charged. I mean, if they say a lemon is a sour fruit. Bondi says, listen loud and clear,

00:17:35.520 we will not tolerate attacks on places of worship. The protest targeted the city's church because

00:17:41.760 as one of its pastors, also serves as an acting ICE field office director for Minnesota.

00:17:49.220 Video footage shows demonstrators shouting inside the sanctuary and actually interrupting

00:17:54.680 and completely disrupting the worship, which is a clear escalation from protest to intimidation.

00:18:02.700 The event was organized by the Racial Justice Network, led by Armstrong.

00:18:07.440 By the way, the names of these groups are always devised so they actually promote the exact opposite of what the name says.

00:18:18.620 The incident sparked national outrage, as you would have expected, with President Trump calling the disruption horrible and directing the Justice Department to investigate.

00:18:27.580 FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed that both Armstrong and Allen had been charged under the Federal Face Act, which prohibits obstruction and intimidation of houses of worship.

00:18:39.400 Interestingly enough, this is the exact same law that Democrat and Biden Attorney General Merrick Garland used to harass, arrest, and prosecute Christians who went into houses of worship to pray outside the church against abortion.

00:19:05.040 So for years, radical activists have been involved in to harass churches, to silence Christians, and hide behind political causes without consequences.

00:19:14.280 This week's arrests, I think, I hope, I pray, send a long overdue message.

00:19:22.200 The First Amendment protects religious freedom, not mob rule.

00:19:27.040 Under President Trump's leadership, the rule of law is going to be restored,

00:19:30.440 and America's houses of worship, whether it's a church or a synagogue or a mosque,

00:19:38.000 will be protected from leftist threat.

00:19:42.060 Meanwhile, President Trump has announced that he is very serious about the Greenland deal,

00:19:50.320 and we're going to talk about that when we come back right here in the Stone Zone.

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00:20:06.860 President Donald Trump, very serious about Greenland, announced yesterday that the United States has reached a framework for a future deal involving Greenland and the broader Arctic region.

00:20:20.860 move that demonstrates how President Trump's bold, aggressive America first approach to national

00:20:26.620 security and global leadership actually yields dividends. I mean, think about this just for a

00:20:34.460 moment. The idea of a European power still having a colony in our hemisphere is a pretty outdated

00:20:45.180 idea. It's very clear that Denmark cannot afford to defend Greenland. The Danish cannot

00:20:54.600 guarantee the security of Greenland. The Danish cannot even provide a better quality of life

00:21:03.800 for those who live in Greenland. And the Greenland strategically is vitally important

00:21:10.320 to the United States, given the huge uptick in both Chinese and Russian submarine activity

00:21:20.120 in our hemisphere, particularly in the North.

00:21:25.020 Following what must have been very productive meetings with the NATO General Secretary,

00:21:30.240 Mark Rutt, President Trump revealed that negotiations are now underway

00:21:33.860 to secure U.S. strategic interests in Greenland,

00:21:38.200 calling the territory a core national security priority.

00:21:42.980 As a result of this breakthrough,

00:21:44.860 President Trump suspended tariffs

00:21:46.600 that were set to take effect February 1st

00:21:49.980 in a show of good faith

00:21:51.420 that will hopefully lead to more fruitful negotiations.

00:21:54.520 Personally, I favor a vote of the people of Greenland.

00:21:59.620 Let's have a national referendum

00:22:01.780 and see whether they prefer independence over their current colonial status as a bastard stepchild for Denmark.

00:22:13.620 Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, which was a treat 0.95

00:22:18.540 because Donald Trump went right into the belly of the beast

00:22:22.400 and essentially told the global elitists that their vision for one world government

00:22:31.340 and the new world order was DOA under Donald Trump's new Put America First agenda.

00:22:41.700 Speaking at the forum, President Trump made the stakes clear.

00:22:44.660 Greenland, he said, sits in a critical position between the United States, Russia, and China,

00:22:50.480 yet remains dangerously under-defended.

00:22:54.260 President Trump argued the only states on the United States has the capability

00:22:57.860 and the resolve to secure the Arctic in an era of growing geopolitical instability.

00:23:04.300 President Trump also reminded the world that Democrats and globalist elites

00:23:09.340 would like to forget this small part of history.

00:23:12.360 During World War II, Denmark was unable to defend Greenland after it fell to Nazi Germany.

00:23:18.660 The United States stepped in, built bases, defended the island,

00:23:21.800 and prevented enemy powers from gaining a foothold in the Western Hemisphere.

00:23:27.500 They handed Greenland back to the Danes after the war.

00:23:32.420 It's also important to note that Presidents Harry S. Truman and President Dwight Eisenhower

00:23:37.920 both expressed interest in taking control of Greenland during their presidency.

00:23:44.600 So this is not a partisan issue. This is an American issue.

00:23:49.120 Today, President Trump says Denmark has once again failed to meet its defense commitments,

00:23:53.680 spending a fraction of what it promised to spend to protect the territory

00:23:58.660 while emphasizing that force is not on the table.

00:24:02.560 In other words, President Trump isn't just going to invade and take control of Greenland,

00:24:08.560 although it's conceivable based on the polls I've seen that the people of Greenland might actually like that.

00:24:15.400 President Trump made it clear that he is very serious, however, about negotiations.

00:24:18.560 negotiations. Vice President J.D. Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Special Envoy Steve

00:24:25.160 Wyckoff will lead talks directly under President Trump's directions. President Trump's art of the

00:24:32.580 deal negotiating tactics seem to be paying off. America will receive greater control over Greenland

00:24:38.240 in a deal, I predict, that works out for all parties. Could Greenland ultimately become our 0.66

00:24:44.340 51st state? Well, it's entirely possible, but I think that there are a couple of Canadian provinces

00:24:51.800 that are ahead of them. You see, under Canada's constitution, any province, which is like a state

00:24:58.060 for our context, has the ability by a simple vote of the people to withdraw from the Canadian

00:25:06.140 Federation and become independent. Saskatchewan and Alberta, both provinces in the West,

00:25:18.740 Saskatchewan is both smaller and richer than Alberta. Richer when I speak of rare earth

00:25:26.020 minerals such as potash, gas, and oil is extraordinarily conservative. Alberta quite

00:25:34.320 conservative. These are the two most productive provinces in Canada, by the way. And the voters

00:25:41.100 there are really kind of getting tired of paying for their fellow Canadians in the East who don't

00:25:47.320 produce much, other than the fact that now public drug use is particularly, is specifically legal

00:25:56.300 in Canada. And if you visit any of their major cities, you will soon learn that most of the

00:26:01.720 people you encounter seem to be stoned. The government there, the central government,

00:26:07.700 has moved very aggressively to try to build a record, a log of every firearm in the country

00:26:15.260 and who owns it and where exactly it is. Now, why would they be doing that? Why would a strong

00:26:23.500 central government want to have that information? Unless, of course, someday they intend to choose,

00:26:29.280 to seize those guns so there is an active movement in Saskatchewan where I understand

00:26:36.360 they will collect the signatures to put the question on the ballot as to whether they should

00:26:40.980 become independent from Canada there's also a fledging movement to do the same thing in Alberta

00:26:47.180 so they would have to obviously win that vote the the the Canadian federal government as it were

00:26:57.560 would have to allow their exit as prescribed by law.

00:27:01.660 And then they could conceivably apply for membership in the United States,

00:27:06.240 which has several levels of approval,

00:27:09.980 including approval by a majority of the states,

00:27:13.400 not entirely out of the country.

00:27:16.960 So watch the Greenland situation very serious.

00:27:19.520 I've talked to the president.

00:27:20.420 I can tell you he is quite serious about gaining control over Greenland.

00:27:26.600 Meanwhile, President Trump has launched a sweeping $5 billion lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase and its longtime CEO, Jamie Dimon, accusing the banking giant of politically motivated debanking in a case that puts weaponization of corporate power in the national spotlight.

00:27:47.540 Thank God that President Trump has both the standing and the resources to fight this fight.

00:27:53.880 I know literally hundreds, if not thousands, of patriots, Trump supporters, who, because they chose to express their conservative or pro-Trump views on social media or in the public square, were not only censored by Facebook and Instagram and the old Twitter and TikTok snapshot, but also completely debagged.

00:28:22.100 That's when your bank, your personal bank, say one that you've been doing business with for 20 plus years,

00:28:29.020 suddenly comes to you and says, we can no longer service you as a bank.

00:28:33.380 We are closing your accounts.

00:28:35.480 No, we can't tell you why.

00:28:37.900 And it has happened to many, many, many of Trump supporters.

00:28:43.620 Unfortunately for JPMorgan Chase, it happened to Donald Trump himself.

00:28:49.000 And he refuses to take that sitting down.

00:28:52.240 So on Thursday, he filed in Florida State Court a multi-million dollar lawsuit alleging that J.P. Morgan abruptly terminated multiple Trump-related accounts in early 2021 after literally decades of doing business and running hundreds of millions of dollars through those banks in various transactions.

00:29:14.100 They took this action against the president without warning, recourse, justification.

00:29:19.860 They gave him no opportunity to appeal.

00:29:23.460 Trump's attorney, Alejandro Brito, argues that the move violates the bank's own code of conduct,

00:29:30.180 which pledges integrity, fairness, and ethical behavior.

00:29:34.180 According to the complaint, the turning point came on February 19, 2021,

00:29:38.540 when J.P. Morgan informed Trump and his affiliated companies

00:29:42.400 that their accounts would be closed just two months later.

00:29:49.080 No violations were cited, no remedies were offered,

00:29:52.520 no appeal process was pointed out.

00:29:54.900 The decision, the law firm claims, that Trump's control was final

00:29:59.060 and indeed political.

00:30:02.300 Trump's legal team claims J.P. Morgan acted not out of regulatory necessity

00:30:06.620 but out of woke ideological motivation, seeking to distance itself from Trump and his conservative views in a moment

00:30:14.140 when corporate America was aggressively virtue-signaling loyalty to the political left.

00:30:19.880 The lawsuit warns that this conduct reflects a dangerous and growing trend of powerful financial institutions

00:30:27.800 cutting Americans off from basic banking services based on solely political considerations.

00:30:33.480 Even more troubling, the suit alleges that J.P. Morgan and Jamie Dimon placed Trump and his family and his businesses on a secret banking blacklist accessible to federally regulated institutions, effectively moving to freeze them out of the financial system entirely, despite full compliance with banking rules.

00:30:56.280 In other words, J.P. Morgan Chase could not point to anything Donald Trump or his companies had done wrong in their banking.

00:31:04.640 J.P. Morgan denies the allegations, claiming it does not close accounts for political reasons, but we know otherwise.

00:31:12.960 Why then did they close Trump's accounts? Perhaps they could answer that question.

00:31:16.660 Trump's lawsuit accuses the bank of trade libel, deceptive trade practices, and breaching the basic standards of good faith.

00:31:26.280 Trump is demanding a jury trial, smart, setting up a major legal showdown.

00:31:32.040 It also shows that President Trump is not afraid to go toe-to-toe with influential,

00:31:36.820 and in this case, very powerful banking institutions,

00:31:40.020 something that no other president in our time has ever dared to do.

00:31:44.520 This is why we elected him, I think, to make sure that the wealthy and the powerful

00:31:48.220 are held to account when they refuse to put America first when they violate the law or the Constitution.

00:31:56.280 Frankly, kiss that Federal Reserve chairman post you were angling for.

00:32:01.120 Goodbye, Jamie Dimon.

00:32:02.640 Don't think you're going to be getting it.

00:32:07.360 It is amazing that, and people won't remember this,

00:32:12.300 but President Donald Trump filed a civil suit that outlined the entire Russian collusion hoax in Miami.

00:32:19.860 And it went to an Obama, pardon me, a Clinton-appointed judge named McCormick.

00:32:27.160 And McCormick not only dismissed the case, but he tried to, or he fined President Trump and his lawyer Alina Haba $1 million apiece.

00:32:39.320 Here's the problem.

00:32:40.340 the classified documents released by Tulsi Gabbard prove that every single claim in that

00:32:49.760 civil lawsuit filed in Florida that outlined the Russian collusion hoax was accurate. So I say it's

00:32:55.920 time for Judge McCormick to retire from the bench and if he refuses to retire from the bench

00:33:01.040 since his ruling is now proven to be false and the president evidently has no appeal of this

00:33:07.980 $1 million fine, well then the Senate

00:33:10.140 frankly, the House, I should

00:33:12.060 say, should introduce

00:33:13.900 articles of impeachment against Judge

00:33:15.960 McCormick. I've checked the

00:33:18.040 Constitution very carefully.

00:33:20.020 I can't find the section that

00:33:21.900 shows that the judicial branch is more

00:33:23.860 powerful or has more authority

00:33:25.680 than the legislative branch. It

00:33:27.760 doesn't. So, in this

00:33:29.980 particular case, the judges

00:33:32.060 claim that

00:33:33.580 Trump's civil suit regarding

00:33:35.640 Russian collusion was fanciful.

00:33:37.520 What was somehow false, we now know every word of it was true.

00:33:41.860 That decision has to be overturned, or frankly, that judge should be examined in terms of their qualifications to sit on the bench.

00:33:51.140 I thought at the time that Trump's filing the civil lawsuit was a very smart thing to do,

00:33:56.060 even though I thought that there was a slim chance that he would prevail in court,

00:34:00.900 depending on whether he got a fair-minded judge or whether he got a Clinton-Obama-Biden-appointed hack.

00:34:07.520 But I thought it was important to memorialize, just for the record, what happened in Russian collusion and the act that every individual played.

00:34:17.380 Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Susan Rice, James Comey, John Brennan, James Clapper, Andrew McCabe, Andrew Weissman, and the rest.

00:34:26.840 Now go back and look at that civil lawsuit.

00:34:29.180 It is all proven by the declassified documents released by Tulsi Gabbard.

00:34:34.440 Clearly, that $1 million fine for President Trump and for his lawyer, Alina Abba, should be zeroed out and that decision should be reversed.

00:34:47.100 I'm Roger Stone. You're listening to The Stone Zone.

00:34:50.300 Wherever you do, don't go away because we'll be right back.

00:34:56.800 The Stone Zone, entertaining and informative on the Red Apple Podcast Network.

00:35:02.920 Former National Security Advisor John Bolton, you remember him, he's the guy with the walrus mustache.

00:35:11.340 He had served under President George W. Bush, major cheerleader for the war on Iraq,

00:35:17.560 which turned out to be a complete fraud that cost thousands of Americans the lives

00:35:22.640 and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis their lives.

00:35:26.100 He has now resurfaced on CNN this week to once again attack President Trump's newly announced Board of Peace.

00:35:33.260 The Board of Peace is essentially the transitional organization that will attempt to bring peace to Gaza.

00:35:42.120 and the comets of Bolton offer the familiar blend of alarmism, elitism, and sour grapes

00:35:51.260 that come from the mustachioed warmongers commentary in recent years.

00:35:57.560 John Bolton never met a war he didn't like.

00:36:00.820 At one point, he wanted to start a war with the North Koreans

00:36:03.980 because they had shot down an unmanned drone.

00:36:07.920 When President Trump asked him how many people were killed, he said, well, none.

00:36:11.740 So Trump says, you want me to launch a nuclear attack on North Vietnam because they shot down a drone in which no one was killed?

00:36:18.500 Yeah, that's about the size of it, said John Bolton.

00:36:22.600 Appearing on The Source with Caitlin Collins, she smirked me at Fox before that at the Daily Caller. 0.99

00:36:28.780 Talk about a switch hitter.

00:36:30.820 Bolton derided the initiative as an embarrassment to the United States,

00:36:35.700 scoffing at President Trump's willingness to engage leaders outside of Washington's preferred cabal.

00:36:43.620 He specifically mocked the inclusion of one of the men I admire the most,

00:36:48.880 the president of Hungary, Viktor Orban, who was elected in a Democrat election,

00:36:54.960 and he's a stout opponent of globalism and an acute critic of George Soros.

00:37:00.960 In fact, there's an arrest warrant out for George Soros in Hungary.

00:37:08.140 He cannot return to his native Hungary lest he be arrested.

00:37:14.120 Bolton even suggested that President Trump's effort to negotiate ceasefires

00:37:17.920 or to de-escalate global conflicts is all based on vanity rather than strategy.

00:37:24.940 Well, the president is very proud of the fact that in eight different hotspots around the world,

00:37:30.960 For example, the long and particularly bloody war between Congo and Rwanda, President Trump was able to negotiate peace.

00:37:39.620 But Bolton's criticisms say, to me, a lot more about his motivations than Donald Trump's foreign policy.

00:37:47.080 Bolton has long championed the endless confrontation, regime change, permanent war footing, particularly in Ukraine and the Middle East, while dismissing any effort at diplomacy to get to peace as a weakness.

00:38:00.680 John Bolton and people like him think that peace is never an objective

00:38:04.420 and that war drums must always be beating.

00:38:06.820 Kind of reminds me of Lindsey Graham. 0.97

00:38:09.060 That guy starts foaming at the mouth when he thinks about war.

00:38:11.680 He loves it so much.

00:38:12.620 Of course, he himself will not be sent to serve.

00:38:15.640 His claims that Trump is not focusing on real threats.

00:38:19.040 His, I speak here, Bolton, is coming from the architect of the failed intervention 0.52

00:38:26.640 that destabilized entire regions and drained America of its blood and treasure during the Iraq War.

00:38:33.900 The American people have rejected that worldview, in my opinion.

00:38:37.160 The people elected Donald Trump to break away from the foreign policy establishment that John Bolton represents.

00:38:43.680 It is one that thrives on fear, escalation, and endless taxpayer-funded, endless war.

00:38:53.660 Bolton's outrage over Trump seeking dialogue, even with supposedly controversial leaders, reflects a deeper frustration.

00:39:02.060 People like Bolton and the elites no longer set the agenda.

00:39:06.100 The era of neocon dictating policy from think tanks and cable news studios is over.

00:39:13.100 While John Bolton sneers from CNN, President Trump is pursuing results-oriented approaches focused on de-escalating and putting America's interests first.

00:39:24.920 Calling peace embarrassing may well play in his elite cocktail parties that John Bolton attends,

00:39:32.200 but it is wildly out of step with the American people who are tired of endless war and applaud this president's role as peacemaker.

00:39:41.000 I'm Roger Stone

00:39:42.540 You've been listening to The Stone Zone

00:39:44.260 Until tomorrow

00:39:45.140 God bless you and Godspeed

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