Former Special Counsel Jack Smith faced blistering scrutiny on Capitol Hill this week, as Republicans exposed the gross extra constitutional abuse of power aimed squarely at President Donald Trump and his family. The House Judiciary Committee opened the hearings by revisiting the FBI's unprecedented 2020 raid on Trump s Mar-A-Largo home, an operation that, according to testimony from FBI officials, ignored standard protocol.
00:00:40.980Well, former special counsel Jack Smith faced what I would call blistering scrutiny on Capitol Hill this week
00:00:49.860as Republicans exposed the gross extra constitutional abuse of power aimed squarely at President Donald Trump and his family.
00:01:00.000Not 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.
00:01:16.700He was asked point blank by a reporter, aren't you worried about a rematch with Donald Trump?
00:01:24.900And he kind of smirked and said, no, we're not going to let him run.
00:01:30.000There you have it. Joe Biden and his Justice Department launched Operation Arctic Frost. This makes Watergate look like small potatoes.
00:01:42.300This 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.
00:02:07.060House 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.
00:02:26.700In 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.
00:02:41.940This 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.
00:02:57.180In my case, very much like Trump's case, they came in with overwhelming force.
00:03:04.160They 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.
00:03:17.480Chairman Jordan revealed that they also searched First Son Barron Trump's bedroom,
00:03:26.040along with First Lady Milana Trump's personal belongings,
00:03:30.060despite, again, the internal FBI recommendations to notify Trump's legal team beforehand,
00:03:39.420Those recommendations were reportedly rejected by Biden's hyper-politicized Department of Justice.
00:03:45.940Jordan 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.
00:04:01.400Jack Smith had worked decades ago with Andrew Weissman in Brooklyn, equally corrupt.
00:04:08.900There are still pending allegations against Jack Smith taking bribes in his role at The Hague that the Justice Department has never adjudicated.
00:04:21.300But 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.
00:04:39.800Jordan's testimony made it abundantly clear at this hearing that law enforcement under Smith's direction was weaponized against a political opponent.
00:04:47.400Smith's testimony actually only continued to make the case.
00:04:52.520So when asked about President Trump's 2025 pardons of January 6th defendants,
00:04:58.340Smith abandoned any prosecutorial or legal restraint,
00:05:02.200openly speculating that those pardoned would commit future crimes.
00:05:07.920The comments right there demonstrate Smith's deep partisan underpinnings
00:05:11.800and a lack of objectivity on the question of President Trump and his supporters.
00:05:16.640and it was Jack Smith and his cohorts who came up with a completely baseless claim
00:05:23.040that during an election dispute, when a state election returns are disputed,
00:05:29.460and that dispute is headed to the courts, that the forming of an alternative slate
00:05:35.460for the Electoral College by a certain deadline is not a crime.
00:05:40.980But Rudy Giuliani and a number of others still remain charged in Arizona and in Nevada for participating in an alternative elector slate.
00:05:54.520Internal 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.
00:06:09.120So 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.
00:06:20.820That'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.
00:06:31.040they were not heard by the courts. The courts managed to not hear those cases in every case
00:06:38.160based on some technicality. And then you have Attorney General Bill Barr. This is the same
00:06:44.300Bill Barr who, in an interview with Wolf Blitzer on CNN, said that mail-in ballots are an open
00:06:52.680invitation for widespread fraud. Yet when the U.S. attorney in Philadelphia told Attorney General
00:06:59.700Bill Barr that he discovered hard evidence of voter fraud and election fraud in the Keystone
00:07:08.640State. He was told by Bill Barr to bury it and to do nothing. The highlight perhaps of today's
00:07:17.960hearing was when Congressman Troy Nels was talking about January 6th and correctly
00:07:25.140lay responsibility for the events that day on the Capitol Hill police and the Capitol Hill police
00:07:32.480leadership, which allegedly failed to share intelligence, warning of the coming unrest.
00:07:39.660President Trump, watching from abroad, called the hearing the unraveling of the Democrats' scam,
00:07:45.600accusing Trump of destroying lives under the guise of justice. But Michael Fanon, this is the
00:07:52.400crisis actor playing the role of a Capitol Hill police officer, openly today dropped the F-bomb
00:08:01.320yelling F-U at the Texas member of Congress and flipping him off. He had to be physically
00:08:10.060removed from the hearings. This entire thing boils down to a simple question, and that is
00:08:17.700whether we are going to see accountability and justice
00:08:21.520or whether there are two different sets of rules,
00:08:25.540one for Republicans and one for Democrats.
00:08:28.300So when Peter Navarro, the president's trade advisor,
00:08:47.700Now, 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.
00:09:06.320So will they be charged? Will they be arrested? Will they be incarcerated like an average citizen or their special rules for elites?
00:09:15.880By the way, I was subpoenaed to come up here before the January 6th Committee, as was General Flynn.
00:09:23.880And we both chose to assert our Fifth Amendment rights, not to answer questions.
00:09:28.800By the way, that does not mean that you did anything wrong.
00:09:31.900It does not mean you were guilty of a crime.
00:09:33.860It does not mean you have anything to hide.
00:09:35.600What 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.
00:09:47.960So during my trial, I was asked, did you ever get an email from Steve Bannon?
00:09:52.820And I could remember. I said, I don't recall.
00:09:55.360And they said, ah, you lied. You see, on this date, you got an email from Bannon.
00:09:59.660I said, but that's a link to a story on the front page of that day's Washington Post.
00:10:09.740How could it prove anything whatsoever?
00:10:12.580So 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.
00:10:28.580And 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.
00:10:40.420So I guess we're about to see. Is there one? Is there one standard of justice or is there two?
00:10:46.740The Clintons have a lot to answer for.
00:10:50.200There is some precedent. President Harry Truman refused to testify for House Republicans in the late 50s.
00:10:58.580I'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.
00:11:10.800Cannot be another Trey Gowdy-esque exercise in political theater.
00:11:15.880Jack Smith violated the Constitution and the law by spying on U.S. senators, spying on private citizens in violation of their Fourth Amendment rights.
00:11:26.680uh the illegal surveillance alone is problematic but then inventing this whole fake electors case
00:11:35.600is yet another example i do remember re melber particularly unsavory character who's on msnbc
00:11:44.960demanding that i should be charged with crimes in georgia in connection with the fake elector
00:11:50.420slate, which I really know nothing about. Having not been to Georgia after the election, I couldn't
00:11:56.980tell you who was on the slate. But I do know in 1877, there were multiple alternative elector
00:12:03.900slates filed by Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and others. I also know in 1960, the Electoral
00:12:13.340College slate pledged to Vice President Richard Nixon was declared the winner on election night
00:12:18.340in Hawaii, but John Kennedy's campaign very wisely formed an alternative slate of electors
00:12:23.740because once the absentee ballots were counted, Jack Kennedy carried Hawaii, not Richard Nixon.
00:12:31.660So the idea that forming an alternative slate, whether it's in Nevada or Georgia or Arizona,
00:12:39.560is a crime, is a crock, to be quite clear. There's no question that after the Russian0.99
00:12:47.580collusion hoax, the Jack Smith investigation, in which it's clear he was charged with Joe Biden
00:12:54.300and Merrick Garland making sure that Donald Trump could not run again. And he was coordinating with
00:12:59.660Alvin Bragg and coordinating with Letitia James, the Manhattan District Attorney, the New York
00:13:05.540County District Attorney, and the New York State Attorney General, as well as coordinating with
00:13:10.480Fannie Wills in Georgia. She later to be disgraced and the cases there against Trump's supporters
00:13:18.460dismissed. So there's a lot that has to happen here before we have full justice and accountability.
00:13:26.300The lunatics over the New York Times keep saying Trump is on a revenge tour. This is about
00:13:32.240retaliation. No, it's about holding those who broke the law and violated the constitutions
00:13:38.900in their manic effort to destroy Donald Trump accountable.
00:13:54.580You already stormed my home at six o'clock in the morning.1.00
00:13:57.660You already scared the daylights out of my wife.0.85
00:14:01.400You've already terrorized and impoverished my family.0.99
00:14:04.920So don't tell me about who did what to whom.
00:14:08.900When 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?
00:14:20.620Because 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.
00:14:33.440Folks, they will try to destroy Donald Trump again if they get the opportunity.
00:15:30.480On Thursday, Attorney General Pam Bonney announced the arrest of Twin Cities activist
00:15:35.240Nakima Levy Armstrong for her alleged role in organizing the coordinated disruption of the
00:15:42.860Christian worship service at City's Church in St. Paul. According to Attorney General Bondi,
00:15:48.880Armstrong was taken to custody by the FBI at her direction after investigators determined that
00:15:54.320Armstrong played the key role in planning Sunday's protest, where activists stormed the church
00:16:01.220during Mass, chanted slogans, confronted clergy mid-service. I will remind you this is one day
00:16:08.760after a Black Lives Matter spokeswoman called for the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul to burn
00:16:17.400her words. Let's burn it all down. Another organizer, Chantelle Louisa Allen, who's actually0.78
00:16:26.180a sitting member of the St. Paul School Board and a leader of the Black Lives Matter Twin Cities
00:16:31.860was also arrested, along with a far-left agitator named William Kelly, who did a viral TikTok post
00:16:40.080goading Attorney General Bondi to come get him. So she did. An indictment has also been filed
00:16:47.620against a fake journalist, Don Lemon, with a Democrat magistrate currently blocking those
00:16:55.100charges. I'm not sure how a federal magistrate blocks charges authorized by the Department
00:17:03.380of Justice, but Don Lemon, if he was interviewing people prior to their invasion of the church and
00:17:13.400knew they were invading the church and didn't report that to anybody, then that makes him
00:17:17.900an accessory. And as much as his career needs the boost, I do think that he too should be
00:17:26.880charged. I mean, if they say a lemon is a sour fruit. Bondi says, listen loud and clear,
00:17:35.520we will not tolerate attacks on places of worship. The protest targeted the city's church because
00:17:41.760as one of its pastors, also serves as an acting ICE field office director for Minnesota.
00:17:49.220Video footage shows demonstrators shouting inside the sanctuary and actually interrupting
00:17:54.680and completely disrupting the worship, which is a clear escalation from protest to intimidation.
00:18:02.700The event was organized by the Racial Justice Network, led by Armstrong.
00:18:07.440By the way, the names of these groups are always devised so they actually promote the exact opposite of what the name says.
00:18:18.620The incident sparked national outrage, as you would have expected, with President Trump calling the disruption horrible and directing the Justice Department to investigate.
00:18:27.580FBI 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.
00:18:39.400Interestingly 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.
00:19:05.040So for years, radical activists have been involved in to harass churches, to silence Christians, and hide behind political causes without consequences.
00:19:14.280This week's arrests, I think, I hope, I pray, send a long overdue message.
00:19:22.200The First Amendment protects religious freedom, not mob rule.
00:19:27.040Under President Trump's leadership, the rule of law is going to be restored,
00:19:30.440and America's houses of worship, whether it's a church or a synagogue or a mosque,
00:19:38.000will be protected from leftist threat.
00:19:42.060Meanwhile, President Trump has announced that he is very serious about the Greenland deal,
00:19:50.320and we're going to talk about that when we come back right here in the Stone Zone.
00:20:00.440Stone Zone, entertaining and informative on the Red Apple Podcast Network.
00:20:06.860President 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.
00:20:20.860move that demonstrates how President Trump's bold, aggressive America first approach to national
00:20:26.620security and global leadership actually yields dividends. I mean, think about this just for a
00:20:34.460moment. The idea of a European power still having a colony in our hemisphere is a pretty outdated
00:20:45.180idea. It's very clear that Denmark cannot afford to defend Greenland. The Danish cannot
00:20:54.600guarantee the security of Greenland. The Danish cannot even provide a better quality of life
00:21:03.800for those who live in Greenland. And the Greenland strategically is vitally important
00:21:10.320to the United States, given the huge uptick in both Chinese and Russian submarine activity
00:21:20.120in our hemisphere, particularly in the North.
00:21:25.020Following what must have been very productive meetings with the NATO General Secretary,
00:21:30.240Mark Rutt, President Trump revealed that negotiations are now underway
00:21:33.860to secure U.S. strategic interests in Greenland,
00:21:38.200calling the territory a core national security priority.
00:27:20.420I can tell you he is quite serious about gaining control over Greenland.
00:27:26.600Meanwhile, 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.
00:27:47.540Thank God that President Trump has both the standing and the resources to fight this fight.
00:27:53.880I 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.
00:28:22.100That's when your bank, your personal bank, say one that you've been doing business with for 20 plus years,
00:28:29.020suddenly comes to you and says, we can no longer service you as a bank.
00:28:37.900And it has happened to many, many, many of Trump supporters.
00:28:43.620Unfortunately for JPMorgan Chase, it happened to Donald Trump himself.
00:28:49.000And he refuses to take that sitting down.
00:28:52.240So 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.
00:29:14.100They took this action against the president without warning, recourse, justification.
00:29:19.860They gave him no opportunity to appeal.
00:29:23.460Trump's attorney, Alejandro Brito, argues that the move violates the bank's own code of conduct,
00:29:30.180which pledges integrity, fairness, and ethical behavior.
00:29:34.180According to the complaint, the turning point came on February 19, 2021,
00:29:38.540when J.P. Morgan informed Trump and his affiliated companies
00:29:42.400that their accounts would be closed just two months later.
00:29:49.080No violations were cited, no remedies were offered,
00:30:02.300Trump's legal team claims J.P. Morgan acted not out of regulatory necessity
00:30:06.620but out of woke ideological motivation, seeking to distance itself from Trump and his conservative views in a moment
00:30:14.140when corporate America was aggressively virtue-signaling loyalty to the political left.
00:30:19.880The lawsuit warns that this conduct reflects a dangerous and growing trend of powerful financial institutions
00:30:27.800cutting Americans off from basic banking services based on solely political considerations.
00:30:33.480Even 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.
00:30:56.280In other words, J.P. Morgan Chase could not point to anything Donald Trump or his companies had done wrong in their banking.
00:31:04.640J.P. Morgan denies the allegations, claiming it does not close accounts for political reasons, but we know otherwise.
00:31:12.960Why then did they close Trump's accounts? Perhaps they could answer that question.
00:31:16.660Trump's lawsuit accuses the bank of trade libel, deceptive trade practices, and breaching the basic standards of good faith.
00:31:26.280Trump is demanding a jury trial, smart, setting up a major legal showdown.
00:31:32.040It also shows that President Trump is not afraid to go toe-to-toe with influential,
00:31:36.820and in this case, very powerful banking institutions,
00:31:40.020something that no other president in our time has ever dared to do.
00:31:44.520This is why we elected him, I think, to make sure that the wealthy and the powerful
00:31:48.220are held to account when they refuse to put America first when they violate the law or the Constitution.
00:31:56.280Frankly, kiss that Federal Reserve chairman post you were angling for.
00:33:37.520What was somehow false, we now know every word of it was true.
00:33:41.860That decision has to be overturned, or frankly, that judge should be examined in terms of their qualifications to sit on the bench.
00:33:51.140I thought at the time that Trump's filing the civil lawsuit was a very smart thing to do,
00:33:56.060even though I thought that there was a slim chance that he would prevail in court,
00:34:00.900depending on whether he got a fair-minded judge or whether he got a Clinton-Obama-Biden-appointed hack.
00:34:07.520But I thought it was important to memorialize, just for the record, what happened in Russian collusion and the act that every individual played.
00:34:17.380Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Susan Rice, James Comey, John Brennan, James Clapper, Andrew McCabe, Andrew Weissman, and the rest.
00:34:26.840Now go back and look at that civil lawsuit.
00:34:29.180It is all proven by the declassified documents released by Tulsi Gabbard.
00:34:34.440Clearly, that $1 million fine for President Trump and for his lawyer, Alina Abba, should be zeroed out and that decision should be reversed.
00:34:47.100I'm Roger Stone. You're listening to The Stone Zone.
00:34:50.300Wherever you do, don't go away because we'll be right back.
00:34:56.800The Stone Zone, entertaining and informative on the Red Apple Podcast Network.
00:35:02.920Former National Security Advisor John Bolton, you remember him, he's the guy with the walrus mustache.
00:35:11.340He had served under President George W. Bush, major cheerleader for the war on Iraq,
00:35:17.560which turned out to be a complete fraud that cost thousands of Americans the lives
00:35:22.640and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis their lives.
00:35:26.100He has now resurfaced on CNN this week to once again attack President Trump's newly announced Board of Peace.
00:35:33.260The Board of Peace is essentially the transitional organization that will attempt to bring peace to Gaza.
00:35:42.120and the comets of Bolton offer the familiar blend of alarmism, elitism, and sour grapes
00:35:51.260that come from the mustachioed warmongers commentary in recent years.
00:35:57.560John Bolton never met a war he didn't like.
00:36:00.820At one point, he wanted to start a war with the North Koreans
00:36:03.980because they had shot down an unmanned drone.
00:36:07.920When President Trump asked him how many people were killed, he said, well, none.
00:36:11.740So 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?
00:36:18.500Yeah, that's about the size of it, said John Bolton.
00:36:22.600Appearing on The Source with Caitlin Collins, she smirked me at Fox before that at the Daily Caller.0.99
00:36:30.820Bolton derided the initiative as an embarrassment to the United States,
00:36:35.700scoffing at President Trump's willingness to engage leaders outside of Washington's preferred cabal.
00:36:43.620He specifically mocked the inclusion of one of the men I admire the most,
00:36:48.880the president of Hungary, Viktor Orban, who was elected in a Democrat election,
00:36:54.960and he's a stout opponent of globalism and an acute critic of George Soros.
00:37:00.960In fact, there's an arrest warrant out for George Soros in Hungary.
00:37:08.140He cannot return to his native Hungary lest he be arrested.
00:37:14.120Bolton even suggested that President Trump's effort to negotiate ceasefires
00:37:17.920or to de-escalate global conflicts is all based on vanity rather than strategy.
00:37:24.940Well, the president is very proud of the fact that in eight different hotspots around the world,
00:37:30.960For example, the long and particularly bloody war between Congo and Rwanda, President Trump was able to negotiate peace.
00:37:39.620But Bolton's criticisms say, to me, a lot more about his motivations than Donald Trump's foreign policy.
00:37:47.080Bolton 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.
00:38:00.680John Bolton and people like him think that peace is never an objective
00:38:04.420and that war drums must always be beating.
00:38:06.820Kind of reminds me of Lindsey Graham.0.97
00:38:09.060That guy starts foaming at the mouth when he thinks about war.
00:38:12.620Of course, he himself will not be sent to serve.
00:38:15.640His claims that Trump is not focusing on real threats.
00:38:19.040His, I speak here, Bolton, is coming from the architect of the failed intervention0.52
00:38:26.640that destabilized entire regions and drained America of its blood and treasure during the Iraq War.
00:38:33.900The American people have rejected that worldview, in my opinion.
00:38:37.160The people elected Donald Trump to break away from the foreign policy establishment that John Bolton represents.
00:38:43.680It is one that thrives on fear, escalation, and endless taxpayer-funded, endless war.
00:38:53.660Bolton's outrage over Trump seeking dialogue, even with supposedly controversial leaders, reflects a deeper frustration.
00:39:02.060People like Bolton and the elites no longer set the agenda.
00:39:06.100The era of neocon dictating policy from think tanks and cable news studios is over.
00:39:13.100While John Bolton sneers from CNN, President Trump is pursuing results-oriented approaches focused on de-escalating and putting America's interests first.
00:39:24.920Calling peace embarrassing may well play in his elite cocktail parties that John Bolton attends,
00:39:32.200but it is wildly out of step with the American people who are tired of endless war and applaud this president's role as peacemaker.