The StoneZONE with Roger Stone - The Stone Zone ｜ 01-29-26

00:00:00.000 Looking for financial insights you can trust?

00:00:02.780 How do you protect yourself as an investor? What's the strategy?

00:00:05.560 I think it's really simple. I think you just want to be diversified in your portfolio.

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00:00:13.600 Well, I think that's the problem right now is a lot of people that are close to retirement,

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00:00:37.740 Well, I'm going to tell you the truth. Today, I'm in a kind of a jaunty mood and I'm wearing a bow tie.

00:00:45.880 Inflation is down. Gas prices are down. Mortgage rates are the lowest they have been in decades.

00:00:54.260 America has taken in billions of dollars through the president's tariff negotiations.

00:01:01.400 And we've passed the largest tax cut in American history or extended it, actually.

00:01:06.860 We have passed extraordinary regulatory cuts.

00:01:11.920 I'm also confident once Jerome Too Late Powell is no longer the head of the Federal Reserve,

00:01:21.200 we'll get a non-political Federal Reserve and we'll get a deeper cut in interest rates.

00:01:27.380 Jerome Powell, yet again, according to the Wall Street Journal, ignoring intense pressure from the Trump administration,

00:01:34.840 refuses yet again a deeper cut in interest rates that would really spur the housing market.

00:01:40.700 But the truth is that it's Powell is the one who's acting politically.

00:01:44.880 In other words, the Federal Reserve Board is supposed to take into consideration the inflation rate

00:01:51.700 and the unemployment rate in the country as the markers as to whether they should cut rates.

00:01:57.720 And inflation and unemployment today are lower than they were when Jerome Powell issued a deep interest rate cut

00:02:07.660 to try to re-elect Joe Biden.

00:02:09.760 Of course, it didn't work.

00:02:10.800 Biden subsequently ran out of the race.

00:02:13.400 But I saw I'm optimistic that we'll get a rate cut and that there'll be a booming economy by the time 2026 rolls around.

00:02:22.580 The economy is already improving dramatically, but it will only get better, which is a great backdrop.

00:02:29.080 But so on days like this, I wear a bow tie.

00:02:32.520 Now, there's a number of rules about wearing a bow tie.

00:02:35.060 It's interesting that studies that were done by Reader's Digest back in the 50s showed an analysis of television viewers.

00:02:43.220 People have less tendency to believe a person wearing a bow tie.

00:02:48.760 So it has kind of a Kearney Barker quality to it.

00:02:52.660 But New York's New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, one of the great intellectuals, a man who served in the Nixon administration,

00:03:01.060 was really the architect of of Nixon's urban policy to rebuild the cities.

00:03:07.720 He also famously wrote that the civil rights movement would benefit from a period of benign neglect.

00:03:15.860 And he was part of the team that helped under Nixon, along with Attorney General John Mitchell and then Secretary, I believe, of Commerce, George Shultz,

00:03:27.440 later would become Secretary of State under Ronald Reagan, that America's public schools were desegregated.

00:03:34.800 Moynihan then returned to New York.

00:03:38.860 He was imported, actually, ambassador to India.

00:03:42.400 And he was known for his personal style.

00:03:44.540 Earlier in his career, he had run for the New York City Council presidency and been defeated.

00:03:49.140 Then he hooked up with Nixon.

00:03:50.740 But he returned to Harvard and he returned to New York and won a U.S. Senate seat.

00:03:56.560 He moved more sharply to the left later and didn't want to talk too much about his experience in the Nixon administration.

00:04:02.560 But he was a he was a big thinker.

00:04:05.880 The the Grand Central Station, the old post office becoming the new train station for New York, the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Station is, of course, one of his better ideas.

00:04:20.000 He was a big thinker, but he did a great video.

00:04:23.340 You can probably still find on YouTube of how to tie a bow tie, because it's amazing how many gentlemen don't know how to actually tie a bow tie.

00:04:31.700 And there's two things you don't want to do.

00:04:34.140 You never under any circumstances do you want to wear a clip on bow tie.

00:04:38.280 And then and then secondarily, of course, if you there are the type of that have a kind of a strap and a snap, those are acceptable, but not laudable.

00:04:51.200 But you really want to tie your own bow tie.

00:04:53.380 And it's exactly the same as tying your shoe.

00:04:56.280 So and there's one other good thing about it, and that is you literally never can get soup on your bow tie.

00:05:04.460 So I wear them from time to time when I'm in a good mood.

00:05:08.800 And one thing that improved my mood is the fact that the FBI carried out a raid, a stunning raid and a search of the Fulton County, Georgia election warehouse,

00:05:19.440 seizing an extraordinary number of 2020 election materials, a move that shows that the Trump administration is quite serious on combating election fraud.

00:05:29.940 Now, I've seen voices on the left say that there was no probable cause.

00:05:34.680 And this has all been investigated before.

00:05:36.980 And it's a canard.

00:05:38.800 All of that is false.

00:05:41.020 It's interesting that Fulton County election authorities only weeks ago in a sworn statement before a hearing of the Georgia State Election Board,

00:05:54.360 a Fulton County attorney by the name of Ann Brunbaugh acknowledged on behalf of the county that they did not dispute the fact that more than 130 tabulator tapes,

00:06:05.800 as approximately 350 early in-person voters lacked the required signatures from poll managers and witnesses.

00:06:13.420 This is a violation of state law relating to certification tapes printed from ballot scanners,

00:06:19.680 which must be signed in order to be verified and therefore counted.

00:06:23.800 They've tried to downplay this as a clerical or an administrative order, but it certainly leads to substantial evidence that there are problems both with the paper ballots,

00:06:41.620 but I think there's also potentially problems in Georgia with the electronic voting machines.

00:06:49.540 Now, of course, critics point to President Donald Trump's famous conversation with Secretary of State Raffensperger.

00:06:56.500 There are at least seven other state and Trump lawyers on the line.

00:07:00.900 And if you read the entire transcript rather than just the line, Trump makes the case,

00:07:07.660 since he has theoretically lost the state by 11,000 votes,

00:07:11.620 that they have already inadvertently or advertently counted 300,000 illegal votes.

00:07:18.740 And if you deduct those, Trump wins.

00:07:21.280 So he doesn't tell them to go manufacture votes.

00:07:24.060 He tells them what the margin is.

00:07:26.260 That has been widely, of course, distorted in the reporting.

00:07:31.680 But what's more important to understand is the Fulton County received a subpoena from the Department of Justice two times.

00:07:42.840 They were first asked in October of 2020.

00:07:47.240 Then again, two weeks ago, the FBI delivered a third letter demanding this material.

00:07:52.700 And the Fulton County Board of Elections just ignored those federal requests.

00:07:57.280 State Board of Elections have been trying four years to get the records, including issuing subpoenas for the ballots and other records.

00:08:05.020 All of those efforts have failed until today.

00:08:09.460 Julie Adams, who's one of the Republicans on the Fulton County Board, says she applauds Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Cash Patel.

00:08:17.660 But this is encouraging because also on the ground was Tulsi Gabbard, who is the Director of National Intelligence.

00:08:25.640 Now, President Trump has charged Tulsi Gabbard with examining all aspects of election integrity, including the reliability and the manipulability and the security of electronic voting machines, which is the other part of this.

00:08:46.100 Now, as I reported here in the Stone Zone, Gabbard has been somewhat retarded in her efforts by some in the government, principally, I think, at the Central Intelligence Agency, who don't really want to examine the technology, which I believe has ultimately been used to manipulate foreign elections. 0.96

00:09:08.860 It's very notable that the Director of National Intelligence was on the ground.

00:09:14.060 It's important to recognize how close this election in Georgia was.

00:09:18.660 Georgia was decided by fewer than 12,000 ballots, and Fulton County has allowed, has certified that more than 300,000 votes were illegal.

00:09:27.860 She was spotted at the scene along with the FBI agents.

00:09:30.660 Now, Gabbard has made, rooting out election fraud and bringing justice to the fraudsters a cornerstone of her operation at DNI.

00:09:38.060 Democratic officials in Fulton County immediately expressed alarm, claiming they did not know why the ballots would be taken, even though they had been asked for them twice by subpoena and feigning ignorance.

00:09:48.780 But I don't think this will shield them from the justice they so richly deserve.

00:09:52.580 This search follows a Justice Department lawsuit seeking Fulton County election records from local officials who they have repeatedly once again refused to comply from with subpoenas from Georgia's state election board.

00:10:05.540 So for years, Americans have told to stop asking questions, move along, nothing to see here.

00:10:10.100 Those days, I think, have come to an end.

00:10:12.780 I believe that there is also very substantial evidence of manipulability by both the Chinese and the Venezuelans. 0.66

00:10:27.600 It is reported that in a series of emails between the company Smartmatic, based in Venezuela, to Sequoia voting system employees based in the U.S.,

00:10:38.380 it provided instructions for the installation of the remote access server that allows the manipulation of the totals.

00:10:47.200 That is very serious evidence put forward by Patrick Byrne, formerly the chief executive officer of of a number of very important Wall Street companies.

00:11:01.940 And then you have the other question, which is more concerning to me, and that is pertains to a voting system known as Connick, which is a Michigan based company.

00:11:11.620 But but but had a contract for the Los Angeles County Connick's software called Police Chief was used to scheduling and manning poll workers and others.

00:11:20.880 In 2022, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office accused Connick's CEO, a Chinese by the name of Eugene Yu, of violating the county contract by storing sensitive poll worker data and other voter data on servers in China and allowing Chinese contractors to access it.

00:11:40.100 Rather than arrest Mr. Yu immediately, the my friends over to the vote were briefly jailed over this question.

00:11:52.360 Connick's software did not directly handle voter tabulation, according to a search I did and the prosecutor stated that had no impact on the election.

00:12:02.700 But I think this requires much closer scrutiny.

00:12:06.260 The charges were later dropped against the whistleblowers and Connick paid a five million dollar fine.

00:12:14.880 So I do think you have serious evidence of both Venezuelan and Chinese interference in election.

00:12:20.300 But Donald Trump himself has said it loud and clear.

00:12:23.880 We've got them.

00:12:24.780 He has said we have the evidence both on paper ballots and it comes to the machines.

00:12:29.520 And now we will see, despite the efforts by the Central Intelligence Agency, what I think is to do, try to suppress the electronic voting machine.

00:12:38.620 Part of this, we will now see the deep flaws in Georgia's election.

00:12:44.040 And to me, that is very good news.

00:12:46.360 Indeed, proving Tulsi Gabbard proving that there's more than one way to skin a cat.

00:12:54.040 I'm Roger Stone.

00:12:55.280 You're listening to The Stone Zone and we'll be right back.

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00:13:04.400 The one question, Bob, everyone's asking is, are we in an artificial intelligence bubble?

00:13:10.060 You've been through boom and busts.

00:13:12.020 What do you think?

00:13:12.840 No hype, no myths.

00:13:15.020 Just what actually matters to your money.

00:13:17.460 Does feel very similar to what we experienced in the 90s.

00:13:20.900 Where are we, though?

00:13:21.580 Are we in 1995, 1997, 1999?

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00:14:07.920 I can't tell you how much I appreciate those warm words from Vice President J.D. Vance.

00:14:12.980 I saw the Vice President yesterday in Naples, Florida.

00:14:16.000 Had a brief conversation with him.

00:14:18.280 He gave a terrific talk to about 22 donors in a private event.

00:14:25.140 And he's very realistic about 2026.

00:14:27.460 The Republican Party has recognized that there are Republican voters and then there are Trump voters,

00:14:32.380 those voters who turn out in presidential years.

00:14:35.380 And they are very much still for Donald Trump, but they don't turn out in off-year elections.

00:14:41.380 That is one of the great challenges that faces Republicans in 2026.

00:14:46.300 And, of course, those are the very voters who want to see accountability and justice in the Russian collusion hoax,

00:14:52.840 the greatest single dirty trick in American politics,

00:14:55.700 the abuse of power in which Barack Obama and Joe Biden,

00:14:59.940 and particularly John Brennan, the CIA director,

00:15:03.320 James Comey, the FBI director,

00:15:05.720 Susan Rice, the National Security Advisor,

00:15:07.500 Robbie Mook, I love that name,

00:15:10.580 Hillary Clinton,

00:15:11.740 John Podesta,

00:15:13.440 Andrew Weissman,

00:15:15.840 Andrew Bacabe,

00:15:18.520 and, of course, Robert Mueller himself,

00:15:21.440 all perpetrated one of the greatest hoaxes in American history on the American people.

00:15:27.600 They want to see justice and accountability there.

00:15:29.360 No, not revenge and retaliation.

00:15:31.280 The people broke laws and the Constitution in their manic effort to destroy Donald Trump.

00:15:37.500 And his second bid for the presidency,

00:15:39.020 then they ought to be held accountable.

00:15:41.200 And, of course, Arctic Frost is the frosting on the cake, if you will.

00:15:44.920 And an extra constitutional effort by Jack Smith to invent crimes against Donald Trump.

00:15:51.320 Oh, you formed an alternative elector slate in a disputed election.

00:15:55.180 Again, not illegal.

00:15:56.860 Or that the president was responsible for violence on January 6th,

00:16:01.440 after they, of course, deleted the public comments,

00:16:04.480 where he called for his supporters to march peacefully and patriotically to the Capitol.

00:16:10.500 So those are two of the cornerstones of mobilizing those Trump voters.

00:16:16.600 If we do not keep faith with those voters,

00:16:19.900 I think it is less likely that they turn out.

00:16:24.020 And then, secondarily, a very shrewd understanding by the vice president,

00:16:28.320 the fact that elections are largely settled by domestic issues.

00:16:32.540 The cost of groceries, the cost of gasoline,

00:16:35.480 the cost and availability of housing,

00:16:37.900 which is coming on strong as a growing issue for the American people,

00:16:43.620 the availability of jobs, unemployment remains low,

00:16:47.360 the inflation rate, which remains low.

00:16:49.660 So the fundamentals are all there.

00:16:51.340 And the vice president very much understands what has to be done

00:16:54.280 between now and the midterm elections.

00:16:58.720 He was very, very impressive in his clear understanding.

00:17:04.020 Now, under the kind of the old rules,

00:17:07.140 the party in power always loses seats in both houses in an off-year election.

00:17:11.120 But I would argue we never had a businessman as president before.

00:17:15.320 Nobody has ever, only one person has been elected president,

00:17:18.600 lost re-election in a disputed re-election,

00:17:20.980 and come back to win the House, a White House.

00:17:23.000 That was Grover Cleveland.

00:17:24.060 Other than that, Donald Trump was the only other individual.

00:17:26.580 So the point is that the old rules don't necessarily hold,

00:17:30.360 and they certainly don't hold when it comes to Donald Trump.

00:17:32.460 Trump's endorsement in the Republican Party is lethal.

00:17:36.860 I mean, it's extraordinarily effective.

00:17:39.220 Reagan was very popular, but even his endorsement did not carry this kind of punch.

00:17:44.220 And all of the polls, even those that purport that the president's overall approval

00:17:49.380 or job approval rating has dipped a bit,

00:17:52.120 they fail to look at the fact that when you look at the Trump base,

00:17:55.340 both the Republican base, but more precisely the Trump base,

00:17:57.980 they approve at high levels with his efforts to remove dangerous illegal criminals from the country.

00:18:04.380 They're happy with his trade and tax policies.

00:18:07.760 They're happy with his limited use of power in Venezuela and in Iran

00:18:12.700 without committing us to boots on the ground in a long, endless foreign war.

00:18:16.640 So I think Trump is on track,

00:18:19.780 and that the golden age that he promised us,

00:18:22.600 an age of peace, prosperity, security, and justice.

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00:18:32.000 Bitcoin is sort of inevitable at this point.

00:18:34.520 I think it would come down to precious metals.

00:18:37.100 I hope we don't go cashless.

00:18:39.200 I would say land is a safe investment.

00:18:41.760 Technology, companies.

00:18:42.920 Solar energy.

00:18:43.920 Robotic pollinators might be a thing. 1.00

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00:19:29.980 All eyes remain focused, of course, on Minnesota.

00:19:34.520 But those who say that Donald Trump is somehow folded

00:19:37.920 or that he is capitulated or that he blinked

00:19:41.380 must not have read the list of demands he gave Tim Walsh.

00:19:45.840 That he and the governor have a dialogue is a good thing.

00:19:49.460 And I note that the Minnesota State Police today, for the first time,

00:19:52.500 are out there protecting ICE and Border Patrol agents

00:19:55.560 who are doing their jobs.

00:19:57.260 On the other hand, I do think that there is a recalibration.

00:19:59.520 The ICE agents are more experienced, have more training.

00:20:04.920 They have greater depth in law enforcement,

00:20:07.460 where some of the Border Patrol agents have lesser training.

00:20:12.820 And I think that that has created some very bad optics.

00:20:16.800 On the other hand, in Minnesota,

00:20:20.640 those who have been detained for deportation,

00:20:23.660 80% of them, 78%, 78 in a fraction, are criminals.

00:20:28.520 They have a criminal record either in their country of origin

00:20:32.760 or here in the United States.

00:20:34.260 Some of them are facing criminal charges here.

00:20:38.080 So this idea that Donald Trump's Gestapo

00:20:41.420 is just snatching U.S. citizens and kidnapping children 0.96

00:20:45.360 is a false narrative.

00:20:47.280 But at the same time, the resistance is not some indigenous

00:20:50.700 spontaneous groundswell.

00:20:54.240 Now, the signal chats that have been uncovered

00:20:57.480 showing the precision operation to impede federal law enforcement officers

00:21:02.560 in the performance of their duties

00:21:03.920 is, to me, a conspiracy to insurrection.

00:21:07.320 The fact that you have tracking of federal agents

00:21:12.220 reporting their license plate number,

00:21:14.480 reporting that information to cadres of thugs

00:21:17.520 who then show up for the arrest.

00:21:19.940 On the other hand, sources tell me that in the case of Alex Priddy,

00:21:23.860 it was supposed to be the policy that in any arrest,

00:21:27.520 there'd be three ICE agents and three Border Patrol agents.

00:21:30.800 But based on my research,

00:21:32.560 the crew that got into the scrape

00:21:38.400 in which the far-left activist Alex Priddy

00:21:41.100 was ultimately shot and killed in a hostile confrontation,

00:21:44.680 I think most of those agents were Border Patrol agents.

00:21:47.960 I think this is why the president fired this official Bovino.

00:21:53.340 It's why he also sent Tom Homan,

00:21:56.200 who has a relationship with both the governor and the mayor,

00:22:00.280 not a good one.

00:22:01.580 I think there's greater flexibility, I'm told, by the governor.

00:22:04.480 The mayor is more hard-line.

00:22:06.080 He has two-word answers for any attempt to have dialogue

00:22:09.620 with the Trump administration.

00:22:11.120 But as far as the event with Alex Priddy,

00:22:15.920 I'm reminded of the Japanese movie Rashomon.

00:22:20.000 I mean, speaking yesterday to Mark Caputo of Axios,

00:22:24.740 who's a very precise and, I think, balanced reporter,

00:22:27.020 one of the few that comes to the craft of journalism without a bias.

00:22:31.700 There aren't many of them.

00:22:32.840 They're a handful.

00:22:34.320 He has looked at the video over and over again

00:22:36.520 and says that Priddy, who was armed when he tried to interfere

00:22:40.620 with an ongoing arrest, did not unholster his gun.

00:22:44.480 On the other hand, I've seen the video that Alex Jones

00:22:47.540 and many others put up,

00:22:48.680 and I clearly see him reaching for his gun.

00:22:52.140 But that narrative got disturbed enormously

00:22:55.920 when newly released videos showed

00:22:57.800 that Priddy was in a hostile confrontation

00:23:00.120 with federal agents 11 days before

00:23:02.520 he was fatally shot by the Border Patrol in Minneapolis.

00:23:05.520 That footage, which was independently obtained

00:23:09.100 and confirmed as authentic by family members,

00:23:12.800 showed Priddy yelling at immigration officers,

00:23:14.960 spitting, flipping the middle finger,

00:23:17.920 kicking the rear of a federal agent's SUV,

00:23:20.440 even breaking a taillight

00:23:21.780 before officers tackled him to the ground.

00:23:24.240 So this flies in the face of the fake news narrative

00:23:27.080 that Alex Priddy was just a peaceful protester

00:23:29.520 who meant no harm to anyone,

00:23:31.260 anyone who brings a loaded gun

00:23:33.340 and two additional rounds of ammunition

00:23:36.760 to the site of the arrest of an illegal

00:23:43.300 is sadly looking for trouble.

00:23:46.020 Priddy did have a concealed carry permit

00:23:48.020 in the state of Minnesota,

00:23:48.820 but under state law,

00:23:51.060 he was supposed to be requiring ID,

00:23:53.560 and he had no ID on him,

00:23:55.560 which shows a certain premeditation, I'm afraid.

00:23:57.760 He was killed by federal agents on January 24th

00:24:00.700 during that immigration enforcement operation

00:24:02.860 in downtown Minneapolis

00:24:03.820 while resisting and carrying a firearm.

00:24:06.480 Now, the left seeks to make him the next George Floyd.

00:24:09.200 They're trying to make him an angel,

00:24:11.060 but this new video doesn't really fit that narrative.

00:24:14.940 This comes amidst the backdrop

00:24:16.120 of continued leftist resistance

00:24:18.340 against Operation Metro Surge,

00:24:20.500 which is the Trump-backed effort

00:24:21.800 to enforce federal immigration laws

00:24:24.240 in cities where local authorities

00:24:25.580 have resisted cooperation.

00:24:26.880 So, in other words, put it another way,

00:24:29.380 why do we see no reports of problems

00:24:31.600 like we see in Minnesota and Texas

00:24:33.260 or in Florida or in other red states

00:24:36.780 where state and local law enforcement

00:24:39.840 cooperate with ICE and the Border Patrol

00:24:42.560 as they carry out their duties?

00:24:44.680 Overall, nationally,

00:24:45.840 70% of those who have been detained

00:24:48.120 have criminal histories.

00:24:51.500 So, the narrative that we are describing

00:24:54.880 anybody who is dark-complected

00:24:56.680 and trying to arrest them, of course,

00:24:58.300 is entirely and completely false.

00:25:01.060 But that is, of course,

00:25:01.940 the narrative of the far left.

00:25:03.540 We've seen this script before.

00:25:04.820 The fake news sets the narrative

00:25:06.620 of a communist or a street thug 0.93

00:25:08.460 or a drug abuser

00:25:09.320 as an innocent victim.

00:25:11.440 They die or are killed

00:25:12.520 during an encounter with law enforcement,

00:25:14.400 and then the public is ginned up

00:25:15.760 into a frenzy

00:25:16.480 before all of the facts

00:25:17.600 can really be known.

00:25:18.480 The truth of the matter is

00:25:20.220 this fellow Alex Priddy

00:25:21.560 was a foot soldier

00:25:22.540 for the rise of modern-day Bolshevism.

00:25:25.660 He was in that signal chat

00:25:27.420 mobilizing people to interfere

00:25:29.820 with the legitimate duties

00:25:32.520 of federal officers.

00:25:34.260 These Marxist forces are operating,

00:25:36.680 as James O'Keefe has demonstrated to us,

00:25:38.900 with a military position.

00:25:41.000 James O'Keefe attested

00:25:42.580 from his embedding

00:25:43.680 they're well-funded,

00:25:44.840 they're well-trained,

00:25:45.920 they're backed by institutional power,

00:25:47.520 and they're extremely dangerous,

00:25:49.420 and they're very, very well-coordinated.

00:25:51.020 I find it troubling

00:25:52.200 that the lieutenant governor

00:25:53.420 of Minnesota

00:25:54.380 and Governor Tampon Tim Walsh's

00:25:58.260 chief political operative

00:25:59.600 and campaign manager

00:26:00.700 seem to be the administrator

00:26:02.560 of at least one,

00:26:03.900 if not two,

00:26:04.520 of these signal groups

00:26:06.220 which are now

00:26:06.880 under federal investigation,

00:26:08.780 according to FBI Director

00:26:09.900 Kash Patel.

00:26:12.380 So I think the president

00:26:13.860 is moving to calibrate,

00:26:15.320 but for those who say

00:26:16.280 that he has thrown in the towel,

00:26:18.920 well, they have not seen,

00:26:20.380 quite obviously,

00:26:21.080 the conditions

00:26:21.700 President Trump gave the governor.

00:26:23.600 He demanded immediate cooperation

00:26:25.480 from state and local police.

00:26:27.340 He demanded that all illegals 1.00

00:26:30.000 currently held in Minnesota

00:26:32.040 or local jails

00:26:34.580 be turned over immediately to ICE.

00:26:37.040 He demanded that any new illegal

00:26:39.980 arrested on a new charge

00:26:41.640 be remanded immediately to ICE.

00:26:44.520 And he demanded

00:26:45.980 that when the lives

00:26:48.280 of ICE agents

00:26:49.400 are imperiled

00:26:50.520 because of thuggery,

00:26:52.440 organized thuggery,

00:26:53.560 that local police

00:26:54.580 act in concert with ICE,

00:26:56.460 not stand by idly

00:26:57.980 and see people killed.

00:27:00.860 This whole movement

00:27:03.160 to kind of recast

00:27:05.440 what is happening

00:27:06.160 in Minnesota

00:27:07.260 is a very, very dangerous game.

00:27:10.720 the president

00:27:11.540 has laid out

00:27:12.720 his requirements,

00:27:16.100 but whether

00:27:16.700 Tim Walsh

00:27:17.680 or more precisely

00:27:18.480 the governor,

00:27:19.360 Jacob Frye,

00:27:20.480 will comply with them

00:27:21.200 I think is highly unlikely.

00:27:22.880 And the president,

00:27:23.460 of course,

00:27:24.460 continues to have

00:27:25.440 the nuclear option,

00:27:29.300 which, of course,

00:27:29.760 is the Insurrection Act

00:27:31.220 of 1807.

00:27:32.500 That means that

00:27:33.080 instead of dealing

00:27:33.840 with ICE agents

00:27:35.340 or the Border Patrol,

00:27:37.000 this insurrection

00:27:38.120 would now be faced

00:27:39.040 by our military,

00:27:40.140 the people who pulled off

00:27:41.200 the stunning arrest

00:27:42.200 in Minnesota.

00:27:43.060 They don't make errors.

00:27:44.560 That was a precision

00:27:45.900 military operation.

00:27:47.640 Meanwhile,

00:27:48.140 protesters gathered

00:27:49.200 Tuesday afternoon

00:27:50.080 outside Governor Walsh's office

00:27:51.800 at the state capitol,

00:27:53.160 chanting anti-law enforcement

00:27:55.120 slogans just hours

00:27:56.280 before Walsh met

00:27:58.440 with the Trump border czar,

00:27:59.960 Tom Homan,

00:28:00.980 and spoke directly

00:28:01.880 on the phone

00:28:02.360 with the president.

00:28:03.040 The crowd shouted phrases

00:28:04.080 like justice delayed,

00:28:05.420 justice denied,

00:28:06.700 held signs demanding

00:28:07.960 justice for Alex Priti.

00:28:09.440 You see,

00:28:09.640 they're trying to dress

00:28:11.500 this communist foot soldier

00:28:12.960 who was shot dead

00:28:14.020 while violently

00:28:14.780 and while armed,

00:28:16.760 resisting law enforcement

00:28:17.800 in the streets,

00:28:18.780 along with openly

00:28:19.640 displaying vulgar

00:28:20.880 and obscene anti-ICE messaging

00:28:23.700 outside the governor's office.

00:28:25.120 This is, of course,

00:28:25.700 a familiar site.

00:28:27.240 Democrats run cities

00:28:29.240 where radical activists

00:28:30.780 increasingly target

00:28:31.760 law enforcement

00:28:32.400 for simply doing their jobs

00:28:34.140 and create as much

00:28:35.600 political pressure

00:28:36.420 as possible

00:28:37.040 on elected officials

00:28:38.020 to keep them paralyzed

00:28:39.440 and in a constant state of fear.

00:28:41.640 As Minneapolis

00:28:42.160 has kind of descended

00:28:44.080 into this lawless wasteland,

00:28:46.800 Walsh has continued

00:28:47.620 to frame federal officers

00:28:49.060 as the problem.

00:28:49.940 After meeting with Holman,

00:28:51.160 Walsh's office released

00:28:51.960 a statement calling

00:28:52.640 for impartial investigations,

00:28:54.900 a reduction of the number

00:28:56.100 of federal agents,

00:28:57.060 and an end to what described

00:28:58.160 as a campaign

00:28:59.360 of retribution

00:29:00.160 against Minnesota.

00:29:01.240 In other words,

00:29:02.280 Walsh is asking Washington

00:29:03.760 to pull back enforcement

00:29:05.080 while activists continue

00:29:06.720 to openly harass

00:29:08.080 and threat ICE agents.

00:29:09.220 The only person

00:29:09.760 who need to be investigated

00:29:10.800 are the protesters themselves,

00:29:13.300 and particularly who is funding

00:29:15.100 the sophisticated training

00:29:16.540 that is allowing them

00:29:17.360 to dominate the streets

00:29:18.380 with such military precision.

00:29:21.020 As you know,

00:29:21.840 Stephen Miller,

00:29:22.620 who is a deputy chief of staff

00:29:24.020 of the president

00:29:24.640 and charged with the deportation

00:29:28.280 of these illegals,

00:29:29.280 and Vice President J.D. Vance,

00:29:32.160 as well as Secretary of the Treasury,

00:29:33.760 Scott Besson,

00:29:35.160 have all vowed

00:29:36.080 to examine the funding

00:29:37.820 that was flowing

00:29:39.320 to a number of these

00:29:40.320 non-profit organizations

00:29:42.600 and other left-wing organizations,

00:29:45.080 largely through USAID,

00:29:48.520 which became basically

00:29:50.080 a slush fund

00:29:51.320 for the radical left.

00:29:53.160 USAID,

00:29:54.500 formed by executive order

00:29:56.060 by John F. Kennedy,

00:29:57.300 originally set up

00:29:58.060 to fight communism

00:29:59.720 in this hemisphere

00:30:00.820 by supporting Caribbean,

00:30:03.000 Central,

00:30:03.720 and South American governments

00:30:05.040 fighting the communists,

00:30:06.380 morphed into a massive slush fund,

00:30:09.220 and our tax dollars

00:30:10.780 are being used

00:30:12.020 to fund

00:30:12.740 this so-called

00:30:15.280 orange revolution.

00:30:17.380 So now is the time

00:30:18.480 to stand strong,

00:30:19.840 to waver,

00:30:20.820 we'll show political pressure

00:30:21.820 and street protests

00:30:22.640 can intimidate law enforcement,

00:30:24.480 and we can border security.

00:30:26.180 Donald Trump has kept

00:30:27.180 his commitment

00:30:28.060 to close our southern border

00:30:29.580 with no new laws.

00:30:31.300 Remember,

00:30:31.620 Joe Biden constantly told us,

00:30:33.100 well,

00:30:33.220 he would love to do something

00:30:34.400 about this massive invasion

00:30:36.440 going on

00:30:36.980 on our southern border

00:30:37.840 where experts tell me

00:30:39.560 as many as 30 million illegals

00:30:42.600 may have entered the country.

00:30:44.160 We only know that 312 of them 0.90

00:30:45.880 are terrorists. 0.78

00:30:46.880 My guess is that number

00:30:47.860 is much, much larger.

00:30:48.800 The truth is,

00:30:49.500 we don't know who they are,

00:30:50.640 we don't know where they are,

00:30:52.460 and we don't know

00:30:53.880 how many weapons

00:30:54.680 they brought in with them,

00:30:56.200 not to mention drugs

00:30:57.840 and other illegal contraband.

00:31:02.960 So it is really important here

00:31:05.200 to recognize that

00:31:06.520 while the optics of this

00:31:08.200 are not good,

00:31:09.920 they are a necessity,

00:31:11.920 and they're one of the keys

00:31:12.960 to the 2026 election.

00:31:14.340 The rumors that the president

00:31:15.940 is pulling back

00:31:17.060 is fake news designed

00:31:18.660 to demoralize Trump supporters,

00:31:20.720 in my opinion.

00:31:21.140 As I mentioned before,

00:31:22.900 Tom Holman met with the governor

00:31:24.280 and the mayor,

00:31:25.560 but he went there

00:31:26.620 to lay down the law

00:31:27.680 and make it clear

00:31:28.260 that their actions

00:31:29.020 to embolden ICE processors

00:31:30.800 won't be tolerated.

00:31:32.120 I know Tom Holman.

00:31:33.180 He is a very tough guy.

00:31:35.440 Now, he describes his meetings

00:31:36.780 with Tim Pontim

00:31:38.260 and the radical leftist Mayor Fry.

00:31:42.300 Every other word out of his mouth

00:31:44.440 is the F-bomb, 0.95

00:31:46.340 and let us hope that is the case.

00:31:49.280 As I said,

00:31:49.780 I was encouraged by the fact

00:31:50.800 for the first time,

00:31:52.220 the Minnesota State Police

00:31:53.600 were backing up ICE,

00:31:56.220 which is a good sign,

00:31:57.220 but the president

00:31:58.060 has not given an inch.

00:32:00.680 His message is clear

00:32:01.700 that elected officials

00:32:03.040 in Minnesota

00:32:03.540 must support law enforcement,

00:32:05.700 they must help us

00:32:06.400 remove criminal offenders,

00:32:07.520 and they must help us

00:32:08.440 restore public safety.

00:32:09.980 Holman did say

00:32:10.880 in a statement

00:32:11.400 that the president

00:32:12.660 has been clear,

00:32:13.340 American citizens

00:32:14.020 must be safe

00:32:14.880 and secure

00:32:15.860 for law-abiding residents,

00:32:17.160 and there will be.

00:32:18.060 that message

00:32:19.640 was predictably met

00:32:20.760 with resistance

00:32:21.360 from the Democrats.

00:32:22.100 Mayor Fry used the meeting

00:32:23.240 to demand an end

00:32:24.420 to Operation Metro Surge.

00:32:26.420 The federal enforcement

00:32:27.220 effort launched in December

00:32:29.660 and reiterated

00:32:30.320 that Minneapolis

00:32:30.800 will not enforce

00:32:32.240 federal immigration laws,

00:32:33.660 so he's doubled down

00:32:34.760 on the sanctuary city policies

00:32:37.300 that have drawn

00:32:37.940 sharp criticism.

00:32:38.820 Governor Walz accused

00:32:40.260 federal authorities

00:32:40.940 of starting the fire.

00:32:42.000 That's not true.

00:32:42.960 And of course,

00:32:43.420 both of them

00:32:44.280 are desperate

00:32:45.640 to distract

00:32:46.640 from the burgeoning

00:32:49.100 financial scandal

00:32:50.580 in Minnesota

00:32:51.280 in the Somali community,

00:32:53.140 where we now know

00:32:54.480 that hundreds of millions

00:32:56.020 of our tax dollars

00:32:57.100 were ripped off

00:32:57.860 through phony NGOs,

00:33:00.340 phony charities,

00:33:01.720 phony daycare centers,

00:33:03.560 phony COVID programs,

00:33:06.540 phony transportation programs,

00:33:08.900 that money not going

00:33:10.540 to help children

00:33:11.800 or daycare,

00:33:13.200 but going into the pockets

00:33:14.380 of local politicians

00:33:15.420 and some of that money

00:33:16.360 making its way back

00:33:17.760 to Al-Shabaab,

00:33:19.720 the radical leftist insurgency

00:33:23.400 in Somalia,

00:33:24.740 the ISIS alliance insurgency.

00:33:26.680 Those are our tax dollars.

00:33:29.000 So Governor Walz

00:33:30.160 is under federal investigation

00:33:31.440 in that matter.

00:33:32.980 The question is,

00:33:33.700 what did he know

00:33:34.320 and when did the governor

00:33:35.560 know it?

00:33:36.460 So it is why

00:33:37.700 he's not running re-election,

00:33:39.080 but at the end of the day,

00:33:40.640 I don't think

00:33:41.620 that he can give in

00:33:44.620 to the president's demands.

00:33:47.220 As I say,

00:33:48.240 the president has

00:33:49.240 the nuclear option here,

00:33:50.720 which nobody wants him

00:33:51.720 to see him do,

00:33:52.640 which is to move

00:33:54.100 the military.

00:33:55.620 There was no lack

00:33:58.220 of enforcement today

00:33:59.320 and crews were out

00:34:00.340 making arrests as before.

00:34:02.080 We will see

00:34:04.100 how Tim Walz

00:34:05.420 plays this out,

00:34:06.620 but at the end of the day,

00:34:08.100 those who think

00:34:08.980 that Trump has blinked

00:34:10.220 are not paying attention

00:34:11.420 to what's happening

00:34:13.000 on the ground.

00:34:13.680 I'm Roger Stone,

00:34:14.840 listening to The Stone Zone,

00:34:16.080 and we'll be right back

00:34:17.120 with more hot political news.

00:34:19.280 The Stone Zone,

00:34:24.920 entertaining and informative

00:34:26.720 on the Red Apple Podcast Network.

00:34:30.140 Well, here we go again.

00:34:32.180 The U.S. Senate

00:34:32.820 has failed to advance

00:34:34.120 a funding package

00:34:35.240 that would prevent

00:34:36.540 a government shutdown

00:34:37.660 that is actually set

00:34:38.680 to begin tomorrow.

00:34:39.840 And of course,

00:34:40.280 Democrats are unsurprisingly

00:34:42.200 once again to blame.

00:34:43.580 In a 55-45 procedural vote,

00:34:46.400 Senate Democrats

00:34:47.100 blocked the advancement

00:34:48.740 of a six-bill funding package

00:34:50.480 because it included financing

00:34:52.200 for the Department

00:34:53.520 of Homeland Security,

00:34:54.680 the very agency tasked

00:34:55.980 with enforcing

00:34:57.140 America's border

00:34:58.040 immigration law.

00:34:58.960 The measure required

00:34:59.660 60 votes to proceed,

00:35:01.220 but fell well short

00:35:02.360 after Democrats

00:35:03.080 voted nearly

00:35:03.880 in lockstep against it.

00:35:05.760 Democrats made clear

00:35:06.900 their objection

00:35:07.560 was the D.A. State's funding,

00:35:09.500 so they wanted to do away

00:35:10.940 with all of the

00:35:11.860 immigration enforcement funding

00:35:13.680 at a time when

00:35:14.380 illegal border crossings,

00:35:16.060 cartel activity,

00:35:17.100 and migrant crime

00:35:17.920 continues to overwhelm

00:35:19.220 communities nationwide

00:35:20.680 as the Trump administration

00:35:22.140 makes great,

00:35:23.620 great progress.

00:35:25.060 The Democrats' refusal

00:35:26.400 to advance the bill

00:35:27.380 underscores their willingness

00:35:28.340 to hold the government hostage

00:35:29.560 to enact their far leftist

00:35:31.620 extremist agenda.

00:35:33.240 Additionally,

00:35:33.820 a handful of fiscally

00:35:34.820 conservative Republicans

00:35:35.780 voted no,

00:35:36.480 citing wasteful spending

00:35:37.980 and pork buried

00:35:38.920 in the bill.

00:35:39.940 Among those

00:35:40.780 were Senators Rand Paul,

00:35:42.980 Ron Johnson,

00:35:43.960 Mike Lee,

00:35:44.600 Rick Scott,

00:35:45.200 Tommy Tuberville,

00:35:46.540 and actually Moody.

00:35:48.600 Senate Majority Thune

00:35:49.640 voted against the bill

00:35:50.660 as well,

00:35:51.180 but that was a procedural

00:35:52.200 move that by voting

00:35:54.140 against the bill,

00:35:54.980 it allows him to bring

00:35:56.020 the bill back up.

00:35:57.720 So that was a good sign.

00:35:59.680 But even John Fetterman,

00:36:01.560 who is a Democrat

00:36:03.020 of Pennsylvania,

00:36:04.160 but a man that seems,

00:36:05.620 while not of great

00:36:06.300 sartorial taste

00:36:07.540 of good public judgment,

00:36:09.780 has publicly argued

00:36:10.660 for keeping the government

00:36:11.720 open and unexpectedly voted

00:36:13.280 against advancing

00:36:15.440 Schumer's move

00:36:16.780 to shut the government down.

00:36:18.600 Senator Mike Lee

00:36:19.360 highlighted the absurdity

00:36:20.820 of the spending priorities,

00:36:22.240 pointing out that

00:36:23.000 taxpayer dollars,

00:36:24.360 earmarked for projects

00:36:25.240 like elevator renovations

00:36:26.660 at New York's

00:36:27.780 Montapolitan Opera,

00:36:29.900 an institution with

00:36:30.880 $500 million in the bank,

00:36:33.060 while Democrats are refusing

00:36:34.780 to fund border enforcement,

00:36:36.180 is rather absurd.

00:36:38.060 Another shutdown

00:36:38.800 could be imminent

00:36:40.100 as dysfunctional government

00:36:41.440 in Washington, D.C.

00:36:42.740 proves itself to be

00:36:43.760 an impediment

00:36:44.300 for President Trump's

00:36:45.240 MAGA golden age.

00:36:47.000 I think this is one

00:36:47.680 of the principal reasons

00:36:48.500 the president elected

00:36:49.420 to open up a dialogue

00:36:52.140 with the governor

00:36:54.720 and the mayor.

00:36:56.380 But it is abundantly clear

00:36:58.800 that Chuck Schumer

00:37:00.160 is driven by the radical,

00:37:01.860 progressive left wing

00:37:03.220 of his party.

00:37:04.480 He is sweating

00:37:05.460 a potential primary

00:37:06.720 from a congresswoman

00:37:08.720 AOC of the Bronx,

00:37:11.260 who somehow went

00:37:12.080 from being a bartender

00:37:13.240 to being worth millions

00:37:14.560 and millions

00:37:15.220 and millions of dollars.

00:37:18.200 So it really remains

00:37:19.860 to be seen

00:37:20.420 whether the government

00:37:21.100 will shut down.

00:37:22.060 They're playing chicken

00:37:23.320 with a guy with ice water

00:37:24.680 in his veins.

00:37:25.540 Meanwhile,

00:37:25.920 President Donald Trump

00:37:26.860 has announced finally

00:37:28.460 the Department of Justice

00:37:29.560 is fully investigating

00:37:30.740 Representative Ilhan Omar

00:37:32.280 of Minnesota,

00:37:33.500 reigniting longstanding

00:37:34.820 questions about

00:37:35.560 the congressman's finances

00:37:36.960 or political conduct.

00:37:38.140 and how she got

00:37:39.520 into the United States.

00:37:41.520 It has been demonstrated

00:37:42.600 repeatedly that

00:37:43.640 Ilhan Omar

00:37:45.720 was deeply involved

00:37:47.780 in a fraud,

00:37:48.480 married her own brother

00:37:49.780 in a ruse

00:37:51.220 to get admitted

00:37:52.020 to the country.

00:37:52.900 That is a naturalization fraud.

00:37:54.920 I believe she could

00:37:56.200 quite legally be deported.

00:37:58.380 But also she is deeply involved

00:38:01.660 in this federal

00:38:03.340 massive welfare fraud.

00:38:05.180 Again, Omar

00:38:06.440 and her now husband,

00:38:08.900 who is not a Somalian,

00:38:11.760 go from being worth

00:38:13.520 $420 when she enters Congress

00:38:15.840 to being worth

00:38:16.460 close to $12 million today.

00:38:19.360 So how is that possible?

00:38:21.740 Trump said

00:38:22.180 the Department of Justice

00:38:23.100 and Congress

00:38:23.780 are examining the entire matter

00:38:25.420 and they promised

00:38:26.000 accountability.

00:38:27.340 An inquiry into

00:38:28.460 Omar's campaign findings

00:38:29.880 as interactions

00:38:30.760 with foreign nationals

00:38:31.860 had been opened

00:38:32.920 under Biden,

00:38:33.940 but it stalled

00:38:34.880 very quietly.

00:38:36.460 So greater focus

00:38:37.760 on Ilhan Omar.

00:38:38.800 Meanwhile,

00:38:39.160 she appears to have

00:38:39.940 staged some kind of

00:38:41.340 faux assassination event

00:38:42.960 in which a man

00:38:43.980 sprayed her 0.97

00:38:45.060 with some liquid.

00:38:46.080 But the whole thing

00:38:46.620 looks very staged

00:38:47.440 and phony to me.

00:38:49.060 And then I wonder

00:38:49.580 what that liquid could be.

00:38:50.980 I guess it could be,

00:38:51.960 I don't know,

00:38:52.680 ham juice.

00:38:53.800 Anyway,

00:38:54.320 I'm Roger Stone.

00:38:55.360 You're listening to

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00:38:56.680 Until tomorrow,

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00:39:46.300 What do you think?

00:39:47.160 No hype,

00:39:48.080 no myths.

00:39:48.840 Just what actually matters

00:39:50.640 to your money.

00:39:51.780 It does feel

00:39:52.420 very similar

00:39:53.300 to what we experienced

00:39:54.520 in the 90s.

00:39:55.200 Where are we though?

00:39:55.900 Are we in 1995,

00:39:57.300 1997,

00:39:58.500 1999?

00:39:59.600 Listen to the

00:40:00.200 Payne Points of Wealth

00:40:01.360 on the Red Apple Podcast Network.

The StoneZONE with Roger Stone - January 31, 2026

The Stone Zone ｜ 01-29-26

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