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00:00:41.760 Well, every single seat in the U.S. House of Representatives will count in the 2026 elections.

00:00:48.080 And strangely, New York, a now reliably blue state, could supply some and produce pickups.

00:00:56.640 Many think that there are two House seats on Long Island that Republicans only recently had who could, if Bruce Blakeman runs as well there as he ran in his reelection, could lead them to victory.

00:01:11.160 And, of course, everybody's looking yet again at the upstate seat of Elise Stefanik.

00:01:18.840 Meanwhile, President Donald Trump issued an important endorsement for Senator Peter Oberacker in the 19th District, taking on an incumbent with his full weight.

00:01:30.880 I think that's a potential pickup where Republicans actually are competitive.

00:01:35.940 Of course, in New York 21, this is the same seat that many thought would be in an August special election of last year. 0.51

00:01:44.460 When President Trump appointed Elise Stefanik, an excellent choice, to be U.N. ambassador, she didn't resign the House seat because our Republican margin in the House was so thin.

00:01:57.480 So she remained a House member.

00:02:00.280 It became very clear, however, that since it was a special election, there was no Republican primary.

00:02:06.700 And a handful of Republican bosses, most of whom had little experience actually electing people, would select the nominee.

00:02:15.440 At that point, Anthony Constantino had become kind of a local fable.

00:02:21.760 He was the guy who put the vote for Trump sign on top of his very successful factory for the company that he helms, Sticker Mule.

00:02:32.300 This is a rags to riches Horatio Alger story.

00:02:35.960 He was born in the district. He is a boxer. He's Italian, and he comes from nothing.

00:02:44.440 He's built a multimillion-dollar online printing business, and he's funded his own campaign.

00:02:52.480 So far, he has deposited $7.2 million, I believe it is, maybe $7.25 million into his own campaign account.

00:03:03.680 Constantino says that he wants to be free of the strings of special interest money.

00:03:12.580 Specifically, he said he won't take money from big pharma.

00:03:16.520 He won't take money from the big insurance companies.

00:03:19.380 He won't take money from the attorneys.

00:03:21.640 He won't take money from the utilities.

00:03:25.140 He doesn't want to take money from the banks.

00:03:27.140 He wants to be completely free of that special influence that comes with campaign contributions, so he's self-funding his campaign.

00:03:37.360 He's clashed very recently with an assemblyman named Robert Smullen.

00:03:42.760 Smullen, in kind of a wild attack, claimed that Constantino, who built this online company, Stickermule, which is, by the way, the largest employer in this upstate district.

00:03:55.640 Sticker Mule itself is in Amsterdam, but Anthony grew up in the neighboring town that's in this district, grew up there.

00:04:05.700 He built that into one of the largest online success stories, and he employs dozens and dozens of people.

00:04:13.660 And now he's gone on television.

00:04:16.100 It was very interesting last time preparing to prove to the party bosses he did a very heavy schedule of cable, television, radio, preparing what we thought would be a tough fight.

00:04:30.000 Polling showed that he would have crushed a Republican primary, but the real danger was an August general election in that atmosphere, that hate Trump atmosphere, where Republican voters, the polling showed, were not motivated.

00:04:43.280 Unfortunately, some Republicans at that time, perhaps even today, think all of our problems are solved because Donald J. Trump's in the White House and Democrats were highly motivated to turn out.

00:04:54.640 We've seen these fluke accidents in upstate summer special elections before where Republicans have lost reliably Republican seats because their people turn out and ours don't in the heat of the summer.

00:05:07.840 So this is a real race to watch. It's interesting because Smolin claimed that Constantino clearly has some business acumen, had unpaid tax liens in three states, Kansas, Ohio and Wyoming, claiming that that that that Constantino was a tax scuff law.

00:05:28.660 His lawyer very quickly made public the record that showed that these liens had been settled years ago.

00:05:34.840 But more precisely, it turns out that Anthony Constantino, who is a very young man,

00:05:43.080 held the record for the second largest refund check from the IRS for overpayment of his federal taxes.

00:05:50.040 The only person who has gotten a larger refund happens to be Donald J. Trump.

00:05:56.880 So he has a huge advantage here in this race. He's self-funded. Now we go into the all-important petition period. Now, petitioning in New York State is a trap. It is a very arcane and very complicated legal process in which you can legally select, collect signatures to put someone on the ballot, either in an intra-party contest or a general election contest.

00:06:25.880 the contest is, say, an independent. And you have to collect signatures, and those signatures have

00:06:31.380 to be witnessed by someone who is a registered voter, or is a justice of the peace, or is a

00:06:40.580 notary public, and has filed the appropriate documents about that with the state election

00:06:46.020 board. But there are lawyers, most of them Democrats, who specialize in finding some

00:06:51.560 imperfection in your petition. Any minor imperfection, the Missy Avacama, the machine

00:07:00.580 knows how to knock you off the ballot. And they give you a finite period of time to collect these.

00:07:07.920 Now, the number is really minimal. I think by law, one needs, in this case, 15,000 signatures

00:07:13.860 to get on the ballot for the Republican primary in what is going to be an open seat. And Constantino

00:07:20.920 asked to have an army of volunteers out there and perhaps even some more experienced and paid

00:07:28.740 petitioners to ensure that the machine that first tried to get Mark Molinaro, a former

00:07:35.700 congressman, not a bad fellow, former Dutchess County executive, served one term in the House,

00:07:42.500 unfortunately lost that seat. But some party leaders in both Albany and Washington may have

00:07:50.040 and try to entice him into the race against Constantino, who is a feisty fellow who is

00:07:57.220 very outspoken about the fact that, for example, Joe Biden appropriated the money for the

00:08:04.460 installation of the Strategic Defense Initiative Machinery and Technology at Fort Drum here in

00:08:10.560 New York, the perfect place for it. Right now, we paid the money, but we are naked. We are not

00:08:16.480 shielded, even though this was funded years ago. He's been a great proponent for that. So,

00:08:23.340 of course, a Trump loyalist is a race you really want to watch. The other race people are starting 1.00

00:08:29.780 to watch, I think, prematurely is the race for 2028. There's no question the Republican Party

00:08:34.880 has a very deep base. We have a very effective vice president. He's hitting popularity levels

00:08:43.100 within his own base that are unseen in the history of polling.

00:08:47.880 I mean, I know the left likes to say, oh, there's deep divisions in the MAGA movement.

00:08:53.960 There may be some, there may be some, some chatter, but Trump remains extraordinarily

00:08:59.460 strong.

00:09:00.280 I mean, he's strong as a, my old friend Robert Coker at U.S. 0.97

00:09:03.720 Younger used to say, strong as a, as a box of mullet, and it is absolutely true. 0.98

00:09:10.420 So the handing of the baton, if and when that happens, is going to be very impactful. 0.99

00:09:16.660 President Trump was asked if he could make a choice between J.D. Vance and his hard-charging Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, and he praised both men.

00:09:26.540 Now, Marco Rubio's story is an amazing one.

00:09:29.580 Here's a senator who, as a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, signed their Fugazi report insisting there was Russian collusion, which he should not have done.

00:09:39.800 He's also the man who I think, with or without his authorization, the Steele dossier was first concocted by Fusion GPS.

00:09:48.780 See, those guys, the guys who made up the Steele dossier and sold it to Hillary for millions and they tried to disguise it as legal fees,

00:09:57.060 and they sold it first, I believe, in a Paul Singer-funded gambit to help Marco Rubio.

00:10:05.740 Now, what Rubio knew and when he knew it is hard to say.

00:10:10.520 Rubio was always a neocon Trump Republican, pardon me, a Bush Republican.

00:10:18.100 And the Bush people felt some control over him because they had helped him overcome sitting

00:10:25.160 Governor Charlie Crist.

00:10:26.800 Charlie Crist, an interesting chameleon, a guy who has held office as both a Republican

00:10:32.460 and a Democrat, but run for federal office as a Republican, an independent, and a Democrat.

00:10:39.120 A man who once called himself a Reagan Republican, today who says he's an Obama Democrat.

00:10:44.240 A man who was once a staunch supporter of the Second Amendment and fire rights arms,

00:10:49.920 who now believes we need deep gun control.

00:10:54.000 A man who was once pro-life, who is now pro-choice, but he remains kind of a charming rogester

00:11:00.460 and a great politician in terms of remembering your name and your wife's name and his his candidacy

00:11:07.860 crashed and burned. Rubio very wisely kind of grabbed the Tea Party wave that year. So many

00:11:14.860 perceive him as more conservative than he is. But where he has really been wise after his own run

00:11:21.560 for president, where he and Trump had very sharp words, is he used his opposition to communism in

00:11:29.340 this hemisphere and his stout opposition to Cuba and activities in Honduras and, of course,

00:11:36.080 Venezuela and elsewhere in the Caribbean to repair his personal relationship with President Trump.

00:11:43.980 When he was serving the Senate, they did a lot of legislative things together 0.79

00:11:47.220 to fight the Marxists and the narco traffickers in this hemisphere. 0.92

00:11:52.740 And he's done an extraordinarily good job as a secretary of state, but he's implementing the policies of Donald Trump, not necessarily the policies of Marco Rubio.

00:12:05.820 For that, I give him full credit.

00:12:08.400 He's a different man than he was, or perhaps he's seen by proof that endless war

00:12:15.380 and the politics of regime change that the Bushes and the globalists cling to

00:12:22.020 just in the end won't work.

00:12:25.420 I don't think he's running for president, though.

00:12:27.240 I had a conversation, private conversation, but he said the same thing privately.

00:12:30.620 He has no plans to run for president.

00:12:31.920 And I believe he says publicly that he's committed to J.D. Vance, who he believes will be the nominee.

00:12:37.580 So it's hard to backpedal from that.

00:12:40.540 But President Trump's got the idea.

00:12:42.960 You see, he says, well, what we need is a J.D. Vance-Marco ticket.

00:12:47.780 Now, there's a very interesting idea.

00:12:50.120 I believe Marco, if he was called on by the party and the president to run, would do so.

00:12:54.540 But remember, he went from the state legislature to – he went from college to state legislature.

00:13:01.920 from the state legislature to the speakership, from the speakership to the U.S. Senate.

00:13:07.360 And he has made no honest money.

00:13:10.340 And being in public office, he's very limited, obviously, in what he can pay and what he can do.

00:13:15.180 He has kids in private schools.

00:13:17.200 So in the end, I don't think he runs.

00:13:18.960 But we'll talk about the jockey for 2028 when we come right back here in The Stone Zone.

00:13:24.760 the stone zone entertaining and informative on the red apple podcast network

00:13:34.560 and we're back in the stone zone uh there's a lot of candidates talking about 2028 though it's not

00:13:42.100 just uh all talk about jd vance and secretary of state marco rubio ted cruz uh who was kind of

00:13:50.580 the last man standing is clearly slithering about trying to put together some kind of

00:13:56.240 insurgent candidacy. Governor Ron DeSantis and his wife just got an extraordinary break. The

00:14:01.580 Justice Department announced that they would not proceed against them for illegally taking

00:14:06.800 $10 million from federal Medicare funds and funneling it to their dark money political

00:14:12.260 committee to fund campaign activities against two ballot initiatives that the DeSantis's opposed.

00:14:19.780 cleared with them was the attorney general, who was then the governor's chief of staff.

00:14:26.420 This is shocking to me because this money was earmarked for the poor, the elderly and the

00:14:32.680 handicapped. And it's a very clear diversion of federal funds. They came in a form of a fine

00:14:41.220 to Medicare. But it's a huge break that it won't be prosecuted for DeSantis because

00:14:48.020 it did, I think, because it got so much cover in state legislative hearings. And I saw all of the

00:14:56.340 documents were published online there. The DeSantis' Hope Project seemed to have been used

00:15:04.080 illegally for political purposes and done so with our tax dollars. And then, of course, there's

00:15:09.580 Stinky Steve Bannon. He's the Epstein collaborator and unrepentant fraudster. This is a guy who 0.95

00:15:16.680 pled guilty to embezzling $15 million from the Build the Wall non-profit. That's little old

00:15:24.680 ladies who send $75 to Build the Wall, who pleads guilty in liberal New York, but then unlike his 0.98

00:15:31.240 two co-conspirators who get long prison sentences, he serves no jail time. Donald Trump will be in 0.81

00:15:40.780 no hurry to relinquish the only ring in a one ring circus. And whether he endorses a candidate,

00:15:50.400 I think he probably endorses a candidate, but he will do so late. He is known to have a high

00:15:56.360 regard for both as vice president. And of course, Tulsi Gabbard has to be considered in any equation.

00:16:03.480 When we come back, I'm going to talk about Tulsi Gabbard and the issue of election integrity,

00:16:08.800 because the president has indeed charged her with getting to the bottom of both the paper ballots

00:16:14.660 and the machines. I did an interview with Eric Metaxa, and I'll tell you the truth, I think I

00:16:20.420 misspoke or I should have communicated a little better. So I'm going to clarify my shocking

00:16:26.980 remarks with remarks that are still shocking when we come back in the stone zone. I do think that 0.65

00:16:34.420 there needs to be a fair re-examination of both the mail-in ballots and all the shenanigans that

00:16:40.200 went on around that. The raid on the Fulton County Elections Board warehouse is appropriate

00:16:47.420 because the DOJ asked for the material twice and the FBI asked for it a third time and the

00:16:53.300 local government thumbed their nose at the federal government. It doesn't really work that way.

00:16:58.220 Now, what did they find in those records? They're now, I'm told, in the custody of the FBI. And those who are experts in election integrity are working hand in hand with experienced FBI agents to examine all of that material. So I think that that's going to be very, very revealing.

00:17:20.460 We'll be back to talk about all of it right here in the Stone Zone.

00:17:24.200 Thank you for joining us.

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00:17:40.680 This is Roger Stone, and you have jumped right back into the Stone Zone.

00:17:44.740 You know, if the Democrats have a front runner for 2028, I think on paper, at least, it's clearly Gavin Newsom.

00:17:54.300 Now, Gavin Newsom, as a sitting governor, can extort tens of millions of dollars in campaign contributions from all of the special interests in the state of California.

00:18:05.100 And he himself is a Getty.

00:18:07.100 He is a fabulous personal wealth so he can finance his own campaign as Arnold Schwarzenegger did, for example.

00:18:17.700 His problem, of course, is back home.

00:18:19.980 I mean, between taxes and rise in crime and epic corruption, homelessness, drug addiction, just destroying the state under his soft on crime, pro-criminal policies.

00:18:37.940 I'm not sure what he could run of.

00:18:40.180 But now a massive fraud scandal tied to California's homeless spending is raising even more serious questions about oversight, political favoritism and the stewardship of billions of taxpayer dollars under both Gavin Newsom and the Los Angeles Democrats.

00:18:58.460 Federal prosecutors have charged a man named Cody Holmes, the former CFO of Los Angeles-based Shangri-La Industries, with mail fraud after he allegedly embezzled more than $2 million intended for homeless housing.

00:19:13.960 Authorities say the money is funded a lavish lifestyle that included a $46,000 Beverly Hills mansion, private jet travel, luxury vehicles, designer handbags, and VIP passes to the, yes, the Coachella Music Festival.

00:19:33.160 The scandal deepens as records show that company executives donated billions to Newsom and, of course, the local Democrat machine, Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters, Zoe Lofgren, Diane Feinstein, and the likes.

00:19:54.140 Prosecutors allege in this case that Holmes fabricated bank statements and falsely claimed that the firm controlled $160 million in assets when investigators found only $24,000 in cash on hand.

00:20:09.420 So despite the explosive allegations, Newsom's office has not indicated whether it will return the campaign donations connected to the developer, nor has it classified whether the governor still stands by his past complete full-throated endorsement of this company.

00:20:28.420 Meanwhile, some tractors report millions in unpaid bills.

00:20:32.380 Some of these are small business owners on the edge saying they're pleased for help from state and local officials have been completely unanswered.

00:20:40.340 This is a this is a burgeoning future scandal for a man who wants to be president.

00:20:45.640 Lou Barnett, who is a longtime Republican operative and activist and a good friend of mine.

00:20:52.420 And he told me months ago that this scandal around Newsom will just get larger and larger.

00:20:59.940 We're just talking about millions missing in one particular area, housing.

00:21:04.840 But there's evidence of even greater fraud.

00:21:07.820 And therefore, you don't know how Newsom can run with a straight face, given his impact.

00:21:14.660 But as he showed in his debates with Ron DeSantis, he's a very cagey guy.

00:21:19.320 He's got great hair.

00:21:21.300 He knows how to kind of float like a butterfly, sting like a bee in these debates.

00:21:26.600 He has no problem lying.

00:21:29.220 He dodged a bullet when Kamala Harris, I think he did not dodge a bullet when Kamala Harris said she would not run for governor.

00:21:40.920 I think that he was hoping she would run for governor and therefore not run for president again.

00:21:49.160 I think she's making quiet noises about running for president again. 0.91

00:21:52.800 Now, you may think that's crazy, given her, shall we say, uneven performance and all of that giggling.

00:22:01.300 And what appears to me in a number of videos to be under some kind of controlled substance of a presidential campaign that borrowed billions of dollars.

00:22:12.360 And that is something I've never seen before.

00:22:13.960 Go to all these big pop names that are incredibly popular and pay them tens of millions of dollars to appear at public events to draw a crowd.

00:22:24.380 Why? Because nobody would come to an event for Kamala Harris that was open to the public. 0.72

00:22:31.940 That's the dirty little secret. I've actually never seen that.

00:22:34.660 So if Lionel Hampton played an event for Richard Nixon in Manhattan, which he once famously did, no one is paying Lionel.

00:22:44.220 Lionel is donating his services.

00:22:48.640 That's the way it has.

00:22:49.960 It has always worked.

00:22:52.460 So there's no there's no idea here about why this was structured in this way.

00:22:58.920 I don't know that AOC herself does not run, only because she and her now white political consultant husband, who's in the campaign business, who ran her campaign in the past, I think she realizes that she can raise millions and millions of low and middle dollar contributions,

00:23:27.200 both legally and through ActBlue. ActBlue is the famous, notorious Democrat payment processing app,

00:23:37.000 for which I believe there's an enormous amount of evidence they have laundered millions of dollars.

00:23:41.900 It's called Smurfing, where ActBlue turns off the address confirmation requirement for credit card purchases

00:23:50.740 and people using bank cards they buy at drugstores or short-term credit cards purchase online.

00:24:01.120 I think that's what's going on there.

00:24:05.180 They've always been extraordinarily strong.

00:24:08.840 In any event, the major institutions are starting to reverse positions on gender surgery.

00:24:14.320 This comes, of course, in the wake of Donald Trump keeping his commitment

00:24:18.120 and doing everything possible under federal law and executive authority to ban men playing in

00:24:24.240 women's sports. The craziest idea I've ever heard. Now, two of the country's most powerful

00:24:29.580 medical organizations are signaling a major shift in the debate over so-called gender-affirming

00:24:35.800 care for minors. Gender-affirming care. See, this is the lexicon of the Alinsky left. Always give it

00:24:42.400 some soft description that is not really what it is. Medical session has endorsed delaying

00:24:49.360 genital mutilation surgeries now for transgenders until adulthood coming one day after the American

00:24:55.200 Society of Plastic Surgeons recommended postponing breast, genital, and facial surgeries until at

00:25:01.160 least age 19. I think this is very positive. I don't think a kid can decide who they are at 14

00:25:06.860 or 13. I think their parents, in many cases, maybe for politically correct reasons, are deciding for

00:25:13.000 them. These are very solid movements, I think, to bring sanity back to our policy. Now, the

00:25:18.340 recommendations are not binding, but it's a clear sign that the medical establishment's beginning to

00:25:23.700 reconsider barbaric practices that advance because of ideology rather than legitimate medicine.

00:25:30.500 I'm not opposed to civil rights laws that protect gay and lesbian people, but that's not what this

00:25:36.440 is about, not in the slightest. This shift is particularly notable given that the AMA

00:25:42.520 strengthened its support for gender-related care as recently as 2023. Now the organization seems

00:25:49.040 to be drawing a line around permanent surgical interventions that leave victims scarred,

00:25:54.220 physically destroyed, and the suicide rate among whom is just unacceptably high. Policy changes

00:26:01.360 follow a landmark malpractice very recently there in New York. I read about this where a jury

00:26:06.280 awarded two million dollars to a young woman who underwent top surgery meaning her breasts were

00:26:11.500 carved off by surgeons at the age of 16 jurors found clinicians failed to adequately disclose

00:26:16.860 the risks alternatives and long-term impacts the patient later detransitioned and testified she

00:26:23.240 felt disfigured for life establishing a precedent that doctors now can actually face serious

00:26:28.780 liability when minors are put under the knife by their parents in some depraved fashion for years

00:26:35.520 medical experts and advocacy groups warned that long-term data on identities was still developing,

00:26:42.540 may not be equipped to make permanent decisions regarding their gender. Now, with major institutions

00:26:47.980 finally reconsidering their approach and the courts holding providers accountable, the country is

00:26:53.300 witnessing a long overdue course correction. But it's not enough. The modern-day Mengele's

00:26:59.060 who have subjected children to procedures must be charged for crimes against humanity. It's 1.00

00:27:04.980 about children what what people uh who are 18 and over who are can make their own legal decisions

00:27:11.400 may do so but there is this is a very tiny percentage of our country i don't know why

00:27:17.380 we continue to gentrify it uh i of course am half italian half hungarian as most people know

00:27:24.080 i'm italian from the waist down but i'm proud of my hungarian heritage and my grandmother was a

00:27:30.200 Kardos. She later remarried and she was a mezzo. And I'm a big, big fan of Hungarian Prime Minister

00:27:38.080 Viktor Orban, the head of Hungary's April 21 national election, praising the longtime ally

00:27:45.080 as a truly strong and powerful leader, highlighting what he called unprecedented cooperation between

00:27:50.180 nations. He recognized that Orban has banned George Soros and his dirty money from their

00:27:56.380 country in an effort to overturn his government. The left continues to say that he's a dictator,

00:28:03.220 but he's elected in fair democratic elections and he's not a globalist. He does not allow

00:28:10.580 mass open borders integration in Hungary. It's one of the reasons why the country is so safe. 0.97

00:28:17.620 So this is great because I think it signals continued alignment between the

00:28:22.000 Two governments, Trump previously endorsed Orban in 2022, said he's honored to do so again.

00:28:28.800 Hungary heads into what analysts describe his most competitive election there.

00:28:34.340 And Soros will pour millions into the country.

00:28:37.720 Soros cannot enter Hungary or he will be arrested as a warrant out for him.

00:28:42.480 Also true, I believe, of his son.

00:28:44.180 So Trump's endorsement really comes at a very key time where the nations are aligning.

00:28:52.800 Trump is making important alliances, like, for example, Javier Millet.

00:28:58.140 Millet will be in Palm Beach next week.

00:29:01.920 I'll be with him again.

00:29:03.220 He's a good friend.

00:29:04.140 I met him back when he was just kind of a, shall we say, an eccentric economist.

00:29:10.180 and he was a congressman first, that's when I first saw his enormous talent

00:29:17.220 and his deep commitment to libertarian principles

00:29:20.220 and particularly cutting waste and cutting taxes

00:29:25.160 and he understood that communism and socialism do not work

00:29:29.860 they cannot work for the people that only raw capitalism

00:29:34.020 free enterprise can lift the Hungarian people

00:29:38.520 Hungary, of course, first occupied by the Nazis in a quite brutal fashion, then occupied by the Russians after the jaded deal at Yalta.

00:29:53.520 Franklin Roosevelt allowed Joseph Stalin and communist Russia to control all of Eastern Europe, which is one of his greatest single mistakes. 0.62

00:30:04.540 This created what is known as the Iron Curtain. That's what Winston Churchill denounced it as at the time that it was set up.

00:30:14.300 And they have they have obviously moved now to a full democracy.

00:30:18.940 The Hungarian left is very vicious and Soros has deep roots in the state.

00:30:24.980 But the government of Orban has been strong.

00:30:30.760 This new endorsement comes as part of Hungary joins the whole movement to protect persecuted Christians and other religious minorities around the world.

00:30:41.460 This is a growing issue.

00:30:43.880 You saw the Congo recently saying that they would do so, for example.

00:30:50.920 and the president is drawing a hard line against it in his remarks at the Rare Earth Minerals

00:31:01.820 Conference. Donald Trump has realized that the Chinese have been trying to corner the market on

00:31:06.960 about 80 percent of the things we need to make, not just cell phones and car parts, but to make

00:31:13.060 fighter jets and tanks and airplanes. And we are playing catch-up ball, but the president gets it.

00:31:22.280 He's being very aggressive. The government's making some investments in companies, but they're

00:31:27.160 also helping deals coming together. Now J.D. Vance says the country's going to build a stockpile,

00:31:32.820 a stockpile, national stockpile of these rare earth elements to protect our future.

00:31:37.720 said that in a great speech a couple days ago.

00:31:41.540 This is someplace where we have been asleep. 1.00

00:31:44.000 The Chinese in Africa, in Central America, in South America, even in Asia

00:31:50.140 have really cornered the market on these vital rare earth minerals.

00:31:55.060 It's about national security.

00:31:56.900 I'm Roger Stone.

00:31:57.940 We'll be right back with more.

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00:32:10.900 Back in the stone zone.

00:32:13.660 Well, the spotlight is once again on Congresswoman Ilhan Omar.

00:32:19.640 She's now been caught in yet another scam.

00:32:22.440 The questions are mounting about her finances from the beginning.

00:32:26.140 She came to public office literally, I think, $450 in the bank.

00:32:31.880 And today she is worth tens of millions.

00:32:35.300 And she is, of course, very closely tied to this Somali social spending scandal that is unfolding in Minnesota.

00:32:46.240 This is one of the great grifts of all time where the Somali community used these federal programs for child daycare centers, senior citizen transportation centers, and other COVID-related programs where nobody actually provided any service.

00:33:04.860 Some of this money actually made its way back to al-Shabaab, the ISIS offshoot that is still unfortunately active in Somalia.

00:33:16.560 So this is a and this burgeoning scandal just continues to grow.

00:33:21.380 In this particular case, the investigation surrounds a winery that is co-owned by her husband.

00:33:28.180 He is a non-Somalian named Timothy Minette, seems to also be her political guru.

00:33:34.860 According to Angela Rose, a journalist, a visit to the listed Santa Rosa, California, address revealed serious inconsistencies suggest the business may exist largely on paper rather than in reality, which, of course, would be against the law.

00:33:50.700 Now, the revenue reports jumped from roughly $15,000 in 2024, as much as $5 million in 2025, despite any little evidence of any actual wine production allegedly existing.

00:34:07.280 These are public documents.

00:34:08.440 Even more troubling, Rose said no business license could be found for the operation at the listed address while neighboring wineries were all properly registered.

00:34:19.060 The owner reportedly confirmed that more than 40 wineries operate from this location.

00:34:26.140 The neighbors in all of the adjoining buildings say they've never seen any business activities at these closed warehouses.

00:34:35.500 This is kind of the way the grift is working.

00:34:40.520 I saw a great report with a citizen journalist who visited 26 of these Somali-backed social service sites, and he did it over three days, a three-day weekend.

00:34:53.660 He went morning, noon, and night in a rotation, and at no time did he see any children or any people, never mind any Somalians.

00:35:03.640 the real question here of course is what governor tim waltz know and when did he know it

00:35:10.840 that is the sort of damocles that i think the trump justice department can hold over his head

00:35:17.120 if he knew this fraud was going on and he didn't identify it to federal officials

00:35:23.160 he would be seriously legally vulnerable uh so so there there is that question

00:35:30.420 i'm not sure whether we see charges uh in this case but it seems very very likely to me the

00:35:41.520 democrats of course anytime donald trump wants to hold somebody uh liable for violating the law

00:35:47.420 or the constitution and their manic illegal driven zeal to destroy him they say oh it's

00:35:54.140 revenge and retaliation. No, it is justice and accountability. Thanks for listening to The Stone

00:36:03.060 Zone. We're getting into some of the in-depth politics now in Washington. It's going to be

00:36:09.300 interesting to look at this presidential race. I don't think that there's any dent in Donald

00:36:16.120 Trump's strength. And those who underwrite the 2026 election misunderstand that as the events

00:36:22.520 in Butler, Pennsylvania, or the events after the nuclear strikes in Iran prove that the

00:36:33.000 president has great strength going into the 2026 election.

00:36:36.380 Fundamental backdrop is there.

00:36:38.580 The Big Beautiful Bill gave you the deepest tax cuts in American history.

00:36:42.160 They will continue.

00:36:43.400 Regulatory cuts doing away the tax on tips.

00:36:46.720 and 88% of Social Security recipients who now pay taxes

00:36:52.260 will no longer pay taxes on your Social Security checks.

00:36:55.560 So Trump is delivering, and 2026 is a battle yet to come.

00:37:00.540 Thanks for joining us today in The Stone Zone.

00:37:02.420 Until we meet again, God bless you and Godspeed.

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