CPAC has invited Steve Bannon to be a featured speaker at their conference in 2020, and the reaction to the decision has been immediate and fierce. Is this a good or bad move, and what will it mean for the future of CPAC?
00:02:20.940CPAC just did something even Bannon's best friends didn't do and committed suicide.
00:02:27.540Cynthia Holt, I know this lady from New Jersey, she says that she asked,
00:02:33.000Why is CPAC giving a platform to Steve Bannon at CPAC USA 2026 despite his well-documented close personal relationship with a convicted sex offender, child sex trafficker, and child rapist Jeffrey Epstein?
00:02:49.140I first tracked the fact that after he got fired by the Trump White House in 2017, the New York Post reported seeing Steve Bannon entering Jeffrey Epstein's palatial home.
00:03:02.280At that time, I think it was and may still be the most valuable or highest valued single-family home in Manhattan.
00:03:15.120And I knew that there was some kind of dialogue.
00:03:17.780I would then read additionally in the European press that Bannon popped up at Epstein's Paris apartment.
00:03:25.560Now, from these documents released by the Department of Justice, we see that it's highly likely that Bannon also visited the island.
00:03:34.620We see Jeffrey Epstein himself instructing his staff to book a commercial flight for Bannon to the U.S. Virgin Islands, where a small plane is to pick him up.
00:03:44.760And Epstein is quoted as saying, Steve is staying with me.
00:03:50.520So I don't know how Mr. Bannon expects to explain this.
00:05:33.180He talked about waste, fraud, and corruption in government.
00:05:39.820He's proven entirely correct about that.
00:05:44.240So his consistency over time is really, to me, very surprising.
00:05:51.280I don't know whether this furor over Bannon dies down.
00:05:55.900There's a piece out today from Art Voice, which is a left-of-center publication,
00:06:02.180But it makes the case that Bannon's financier, one Miles Guo, a Chinese nationalist, pled the fifth 50 times in a criminal prosecution when asked whether the money he provided to Bannon came from the CCP or about the role of one William G, G-E, in the transfer of these funds.
00:06:25.500William G. is clearly identified on line, open sources, as a CCP party functionary.
00:06:36.280And then out of that same prosecution, where Miles Guo, who was the financier of the Bannon media empire,
00:06:46.920including evidently Real America's Voice, was prosecuted in a $1 billion fraud.
00:06:53.360A fraud that Art Voice, a piece by Frank Parlato, insists that Steve Bannon is very deeply embedded in.
00:07:01.420Now, Bannon, in the end, is an unindicted co-conspirator, but there are no charges against him, which is extraordinarily strange when you look at the size of the theft here, almost a billion dollars.
00:07:14.500But what's even more interesting is that the telephone records from the case show that Bannon talked to this William G., who, by the way, is now a fugitive from justice, 132 times.
00:07:29.720So why is Steve Bannon talking to a CCP functionary 132 times?
00:07:37.800Also, the enormous amount of money that Bannon pulled out, according to this piece at ArtVoice, I mean, in essence, Guo purchased a billion-dollar audience by paying $35 million to form the website Getter.
00:09:10.700The source says there are several such payments and that they were distinct from the $57.6
00:09:15.760million traced through the bankruptcy filings that ended up in Steve Bannon's pocket.
00:09:22.320So, according to Guo, he fled China in 2014 during an anti-corruption.
00:09:27.480He kind of styled himself as an anti-CCP dissident.
00:09:31.500But other times, he would attack Bannon for attacking the Chinese Communist Party in various videos.
00:09:37.700At one point, he says the CCP is great.
00:09:40.400They give you the tools to make your money.
00:09:42.920The man who built a billion-dollar following on anti-CCP cement was openly pro-CCP in private.
00:09:50.960Communism, he said, is better than capitalism, he told them openly one day.
00:09:56.720Capitalism makes lazy people work 40 hours a week, while communism makes you work.
00:10:02.480So the questions as to where Steve Bannon's finance is coming continue.
00:10:06.200Again, I stress that, whoa, when asked under oath if his money was CCP money, pled the fifth, which is not proof that it is, but it is certainly a reasonable question.
00:10:18.320In the meantime, we are watching Donald Trump assuring the nation that he is cognizant of the need to clean house when it comes to the regime, although I think he has used American power in a very limited and measured and lethal way.
00:10:43.200It is undeniable that the Iranian regime is still filing rockets and drones, still trying to block the Straits of Hormuz.0.65
00:10:55.040The U.S. Navy has now finally been in orders to clear a lane through the Straits of Hormuz.
00:11:02.380We know that the Iranian Navy was very badly damaged earlier, and it appears now that U.S. ships have been given authority to sink ships that would seek to impede the payment through the Straits of Hormuz.
00:11:19.180President, Party General Michael Flynn said on my Sunday show that the U.S. Navy would make a short work of this if it became necessary.
00:11:28.140But as you know, that is the choke point for 40 percent of the world's oil.
00:11:32.400And it has, of course, been responsible for this bump up in the cost of gasoline, which, of course, Democrats are celebrating about because anything they think hurts Trump, they don't care about how it hurts the nation.
00:11:52.900In fact, if anything, the way Trump has used oil as a political bargaining tool, political and economical bargaining tool, is really quite extraordinary.
00:12:03.340He is now in the catbird seat in this hemisphere because in one fell swoop he got control of Venezuela's oil, which puts a real hurting on Cuba.
00:12:12.840And also 80 percent of their output was going to China.
00:12:18.240So when they say, oh, this is all about oil. Well, yes. And the geopolitical use of it by denying cheap oil to the Chinese, by denying Iranian oil to the Chinese and the Russians, he is blowing.
00:12:33.260a massive blow against their abilities. The idea that China would even think about moving on Taiwan
00:12:42.820when they have an immediate shortage of oil shows you the brilliance of Trump's long-term
00:12:49.680foreign policy. But the way he combines military strength in a projected way,
00:12:54.900economic pressure and leverage and diplomatic openness in a three-part foreign policy.
00:13:03.500We haven't had this kind of foreign policy since Nixon played the Chinese off against
00:13:08.820the Russians in order to get a strategic arms agreement for the United States.
00:19:13.260He's going to spend $19 million in new taxpayer money on a marketing campaign designed to improve California's image nationwide,
00:19:22.380despite the state facing a projected $3 billion budget deficit and being the world's largest outdoor toilet.
00:19:32.480The homelessness issue, the open drug use issue, the tax issue, this is a public relations disaster.
00:19:45.260But worse than that, they are just missing or have now established potential that $54 billion that was supposed to be put on housing has literally disappeared.
00:20:02.220Another $30 million in COVID-related programs.
00:20:06.800It appears to be another $30 billion in other health care frauds.
00:20:14.640this money has simply disappeared and I don't know how you run for president when you have no
00:20:24.320no records run on the high tax nature of it makes economic development and job creation
00:20:31.340impossible the state so over regulates everything environmentally it is literally impossible to
00:20:38.280build anything crime is zoring housing costs are zoring taxes are sky high and it is a scandal a
00:20:47.720day in gavin newsom's california i'm kind of reminded of when michael dukakis the governor
00:20:54.760of massachusetts ran for president i guess it was against george bush today his slogan was he'll do
00:20:59.880for america what he's done for massachusetts and that's what people were afraid of and then of
00:21:07.880course you have jb pritzker now jb pritzker is rich he is incredibly rich he's so rich
00:21:14.920that he literally owns the every facet and every back alley of the democrat party in the state of
00:21:22.040illinois he finances the campaigns of all the statewide office holders he finances the campaigns
00:21:27.720of most of the state legislatures uh what we didn't tell us was that he was taking almost 20
00:21:34.440million dollars into his so-called trust fund in contracts to companies that he owned and that he
00:21:43.440had taken another 40 million in state contracts in other companies that he owned that were outside
00:21:52.900his blind trust. I never understood this concept. I mean, Dick Cheney was the head of Halliburton.
00:22:01.960He gave that job up to become vice president.
00:22:05.000He put his Halliburton stock into his quote-unquote blind trust.
00:22:11.600Suddenly his Halliburton trust became worth hundreds of millions of dollars more.
00:22:16.660How is his trust blind if he knows that it's there?
00:22:20.880It is amazing that Gavin Newsom thinks that he can bamboozle the people in the country with some slick television campaign.
00:22:32.320This is being done through the Governor's Office for Business and Economic Development,
00:22:37.140which is currently seeking a private contractor to run this national messaging campaign.
00:22:43.060The plan is a taxpayer-funded public relations effort for state and governments struggling with serious problems like high crime, housing costs, sky high taxes, a scandal a day, and an ongoing exodus of both residents and businesses.
00:23:01.920And the money that's spent on, again, it's really to puff up the public image of Gavin Newsom.
00:23:10.940You saw Kristi Noem run into problems when it turned out that the Department of Homeland Security had given a $220 million media contract on a non-bid basis to a company that had been formed just a few days before that,
00:23:31.600Transferring $183 million back to a company called The Strategy Group, which was owned by the political consultant who ran Christine Yolm's campaigns for governor.
00:23:43.960And another $20 million non-bid award.
00:23:48.340The award went to a Louisiana-based firm that certainly appears to be affiliated with Corey Lewandowski.
00:24:01.400Those ads, of course, if you saw them, had Kristi Noem riding a horse at Mount Rushmore.
00:24:10.620And some were supposed to be cutting waste, fraud, and corruption.
00:24:13.980This kind of self-important image-making, I think, was clearly designed to build some kind of political base.
00:24:23.080If you saw the real ID calls, the TV commercials, they were Kristi Noem to camera.
00:24:31.400I expect now there will be a gigantic investigation at the Department of Homeland Security
00:24:36.140because it is very clear that the secretary misspoke or perhaps she lied before the committee
00:24:43.440when she said that her paramour, a long time allowed, and fired Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski0.65
00:24:51.540He had no role in the agency's contracting, but substantial e-mail and text messages surfaced to show otherwise.
00:25:01.520It is widely known that Lewandowski functioned as her de facto chief of staff.
00:25:08.240They bought $300 million worth of aircraft for the use of the secretary, including one with a James Bond-style bedroom, I guess, so they could join the Mile High Club.
00:25:22.180President Trump evidently was not aware of this upcoming expenditure.
00:25:26.780There is a report, I think, in the UK Daily Mail today that says,
00:25:31.080Corian Ludendouski is quoted as saying, I can do whatever I want.
00:26:25.060Our problem are the gutless, feckless, weak-kneed, lily-livered, white wine-swelling, country
00:26:34.720club belonging, establishment Republicans who just don't have the belly for the fight.
00:26:41.720They want to get reelected. They want the trappings of office, but they don't want to investigate whether Joe Biden was taking bribes as vice president.
00:26:51.460And they don't want to investigate whether Dr. Joseph, Dr. Anthony Fauci was lying about taxpayer financing of the weaponization of the COVID-19 vaccine.
00:27:04.780And they don't want to know whether Bill and Hillary are lying about their relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.
00:27:29.900But the idea that Bill never visited the island, that is false, according to the sworn testimony of Virginia Roberts Giffray, one of the victims who refused to pay Epstein, to take millions from Epstein and settle her lawsuit against him, went on to sue him, testifies that she saw Bill one night at a party and that Epstein had flown in to 17-year-old sisters for Bill's amusement.
00:27:58.060She admitted she did not see any direct sexual activity between them
00:28:03.260because she said she was removed from the party by Epstein
00:28:07.620in order to service someone else at his direction.
00:28:12.440But that is one of three women who all testified that they saw Bill on the island.
00:28:18.380When Virginia Roberts-Guffray asked Jeffrey Epstein why Bill Clinton was on the island,
00:28:24.240And Epstein smirked and said, let's just say he owes me a favor.
00:28:29.840Hillary said they had no links, but in fact, Epstein provided the seed capital for the Clinton Foundation and the Clinton Global Initiative.
00:28:37.900Hillary said that Bill was only on the Epstein plane a couple times for his charity.
00:28:47.140That couple turns out to be 27, and I've never seen charity, so I don't know much about her.
00:28:52.800It is also true, of course, that Epstein was a major contributor to the New York Democrat Party, a major contributor to Hillary Clinton, and because Elaine Maxwell is an honored guest at Chelsea Clinton's wedding.
00:29:11.340So this idea that they had no links is, of course, an absurdity.
00:29:16.880The timeline here is important. Trump cuts Epstein off in 2004, late 2004.
00:29:23.840That is before he's exposed and ultimately prosecuted in the Florida sex case,
00:29:30.560in which he got a lesser charge and a shocking slap on the wrist.
00:29:36.080And, of course, the period in 2019 when the Trump administration charged Jeffrey Epstein with child sex trafficking
00:29:43.920and a second count of conspiracy to engage in child sex trafficking,
00:29:50.260charging Ghislaine Maxwell, but no one else with those same charges.
00:29:55.980That was in the Southern District of New York.
00:29:59.000Of course, Epstein was awaiting trial on those charges when he turned up dead.
00:30:31.700were not consistent with the manner in which
00:30:34.220it was described that he had been hung
00:30:37.580Today, there's a breaking story of one of the two guards suddenly having a $5,000 financial windfall just days before Epstein was killed.
00:30:48.260We're expected to believe that both guards both fell asleep.
00:30:52.900It was on a night in which the cameras just happened to not be working.
00:30:59.240Now, we know that Epstein retained famed criminal defense attorney David Schoen because under the law, no matter how heinous you may be, you're entitled to legal representation.
00:31:12.680He hired Schoen the Thursday before his death pay, I believe, agreeing to pay him a retainer of $1 million to begin the relationship and then allegedly killed himself two days later.
00:33:25.840You know, I was shocked last week when I read these new stories that a FBI whistleblower has come forward to say that the agency was monitoring a phone call between Trump campaign manager Susie Wiles and her attorney at the end of the presidential election.
00:33:45.320That would mean that they were spying on President Donald Trump's campaign for president yet again.
00:33:51.340And the same source said that they were monitoring communications, the communications of Kash Patel, who would later become an FBI director.
00:34:00.780It reminded me that in that same time frame, the FBI approached my attorney to tell me that my own emails had been compromised,
00:34:10.460particularly my email traffic with members of the Trump campaign, of which, frankly, there wasn't much because that was not my preferred method of communications.
00:34:21.040And I wondered at the time who would seek to do that.
00:34:25.820The FBI assured us that it was specifically the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.
00:34:39.300They used falsified evidence to justify it.
00:34:44.180And the idea that they were spying on Suzy Wilde, this is shocking.
00:34:48.040Shocking, and I'd like to learn more about this, because isn't that what they ran Nixon out of town for, the spying on his opponents?
00:34:57.100So, and now I wonder whether those so-called intrusions in my own email, see, they explained it wasn't the content of the email that was interested in.
00:35:06.140They were interested in using your email as an outgoing vehicle for a phishing link that if a target clicked on it would give whoever was doing this access to their entire computer.
00:35:21.580I think a number of members of Trump's campaign were targeted with these phishing links, but I know nothing about that.
00:35:29.160I do know that you should conduct your personal communications on the theory that everything you do, say, or listen to, or write will someday appear on the front page of the New York Times.
00:35:43.460It is, but that is the world we live in.
00:35:47.080It is amazing, again, just looking online, the way this Steve Bannon going to CPAC story is caught on fire.
00:35:55.980Bannon's views at the war room reportedly now down to 7,624 views in last night's show.
00:36:06.460This is a show that used to get hundreds of thousands of views.
00:36:10.760I think really the issue here is hypocrisy.
00:36:12.800Don't say on your TV show that everything should be disclosed about the Epstein records
00:36:18.080and the global elites should be exposed.
00:36:20.840And then when they are, find out that you are one of the global elites
00:36:24.280And that you are coaching Epstein on how to erase the predator's sexual image, the telling him swiftly to lie.
00:36:34.000If he's asked about the age of the girls he's pictured with, he should say they look young, but they were of age, which Epstein, which probably Bannon knows, of course, is not true.
00:36:45.880At the meantime, he is leaning on Epstein to hook him up with all of his international schemings.
00:36:55.080I mean, look, I like the president of Brazil, the former president of Bolsonaro.
00:37:03.600On the other hand, I really think Steve Bannon's tutelage of his campaign may have cost him reelections.
00:37:10.880It would not be difficult to see the level of cheating that took place in that election.
00:37:17.700It's ironic that a member of his own family is now leading in the polls over the socialist, if not Marxist, government.
00:37:27.660But in a time when Argentina and Chile and Honduras and now Venezuela and all these other countries are moving right, Bolivia, Paraguay, they're all moving right.
00:37:43.180The only country in the continent that's moving left is Brazil.
00:37:52.480We pray for the former president and for his family, but they are on the wrong side of history, and they will soon see that.
00:38:02.000Then, of course, all eyes are tied to Cuba.
00:38:04.000Everybody in my wife's family certainly focused on Cuba, President Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
00:38:11.140Clearly up to something, both on a diplomatic and perhaps a more offensive front.
00:38:18.120But now that they are being denied that cheap Venezuelan oil, it is it is a major pressure on the regime. Cuba Libre. Perhaps the regime is finally going to fall. Listening to The Stone Zone. I'm Roger Stone. Until tomorrow. God bless you and Godspeed.