The StoneZONE with Roger Stone


The Stone Zone | 03-26-25


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Sen. Mark Warner and Rep. Ted Lieu are calling for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to be fired over a leaked classified document, but CIA Director John R. Radcliffe says there was no classified material in the messages. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump orders the FBI to declassify all documents related to the so-called "Collusion" scandal.

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00:00:30.120 The Democrats are on full attack mode today with Senator Mark Warner of Virginia
00:00:35.680 and Congressman Ted Lieu of California demanding that the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth,
00:00:42.540 be fired over the signal chat that somehow leaked to Atlantic Magazine.
00:00:49.280 I don't recall either one of them being terribly upset when we learned that Hillary Clinton
00:00:53.900 had actually used an illegal server
00:00:57.060 and had transmitted classified information,
00:01:00.240 neither one of them calling for her resignation.
00:01:03.800 Turns out that CIA Director John Radcliffe
00:01:06.760 told Congress under oath that the signal chat text
00:01:10.440 published by The Atlantic
00:01:12.000 and revealing the so-called attack plans,
00:01:15.020 which outlined the attack coming
00:01:18.160 against the Yemeni-Hoti rebels,
00:01:21.240 prove that he did not transfer classified information. Ratcliffe also pointed out that
00:01:27.700 the signal chat was an appropriate and legal means of communication. Let's listen to John Ratcliffe.
00:01:35.840 One of the things that I was briefed on very early, Senator, was by the CIA records management
00:01:41.860 folks about the use of signal as a permissible work use. It is. That is a practice that preceded
00:01:49.740 the current administration to the biden administration i've got a series of questions
00:01:54.060 i i do you if you're making this point well if you're making the statement the signal is a secure
00:01:59.660 channel no can i answer that it is i've got a decryption so it is i understand it is permissible
00:02:08.240 to use to communicate and coordinate for work purposes provided provided senator that any
00:02:15.180 decisions that are made are also recorded through formal channels. So those were procedures that
00:02:22.220 were implemented. My staff implemented those processes, followed those processes,
00:02:28.540 complied with those processes, and finally, just please. So you get the gist of it there. Beyond
00:02:37.980 that, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard testified under oath during a Senate
00:02:42.580 Intelligence Committee hearing Tuesday that there was no classified material in the messages.
00:02:48.540 So once again, there's a shift of focus from the mission. The point here is that Donald Trump made
00:02:55.800 a command decision that he was going to attack those who have for two, almost three years been
00:03:01.260 attacking us. So the Democrats evidently are fine with sea lanes being shut, with American 0.71
00:03:07.280 destroyers being under fire with Iran supplying missiles to the Houthis. This mission was a 0.51
00:03:13.540 military success. And those who are calling for resignations by Hegseth or Walsh, I think are
00:03:23.140 just playing politics. Let's listen to Mike Walsh defend himself. I take responsibility. I built the
00:03:29.040 group. But look, that's the part that we have to figure out. And that's the part that we were
00:03:36.180 Embarrassing? Yes. But Pete and I are veterans. We know these operations. He has been an excellent
00:03:43.400 secretary of defense. And this was an operation that I mean, it amazes me. I guess the Democrats
00:03:49.900 were fine to leave all the sea lanes shut down. We're fine to have destroyers fired on dozens of
00:03:56.240 times by this terrorist group and fine to have Iran keep supplying the missiles. That was OK. 0.89
00:04:01.340 The president takes decisive action, and now we're seeing some real success in taking down their air defenses, opening the sea lanes, taking out their leadership.
00:04:09.820 We don't want to talk about that.
00:04:10.960 We don't want to talk about this.
00:04:13.540 This is Democrats playing politics, folks.
00:04:16.380 I think you can see it.
00:04:17.840 The point, of course, is that the mission was successful.
00:04:21.060 Meanwhile, President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday directing the FBI to immediately declassify all of the files concerning the crossfire hurricane investigation.
00:04:33.420 For those unfamiliar with that name, what we're talking about is the origins of the Russian collusion hoax.
00:04:40.440 Now, interestingly, President Trump ordered the declassification of these documents at the end of his first term.
00:04:46.180 They were actually given to two different journalists, the late Lou Dobbs and also John Solomon of Just the Do's.
00:04:54.860 But then the National Security Agency asked for the documents back and they never returned them,
00:05:01.500 which means that even though the president gave an order for declassification, deep state bureaucrats defied that order.
00:05:09.200 And we've never seen the actual origins of the most colossal abuse of power in American political history.
00:05:18.580 This is nothing less than an abuse of power in which the full authority of the United States government and the incredible capabilities of our intelligence agencies were utilized, utilizing two pieces of, quote unquote, evidence that the government knew was false.
00:05:38.720 The so-called Steele dossier, which was actually fabricated and paid for by Hillary Clinton's campaign for president that has commissioned through the law firm Perkins Coy, disguised in the Federal Election Commission reports as legal research.
00:05:57.140 her campaign was actually fined for that, or the false claim that the Democrat National Committee
00:06:04.640 had been the target of an online Russian intelligence hack, which is also false.
00:06:12.160 There's no evidence to support that claim. When I was framed by the Democrats in the Russian
00:06:19.460 collusion hoax, I wanted to bring in expert testimony from Bill Binney, who was the leading
00:06:26.440 CIA counterintelligence IT guy and forensic evidence that proved beyond a shadow of doubt
00:06:33.200 that there was no online hack of the Democrat National Committee, not by Russian intelligence
00:06:39.580 or by anyone else for that matter.
00:06:41.740 I could have proven, looking at the download times of the material that was purloined,
00:06:49.280 that it was loaded to some kind of a portable device and most likely taken out of the back
00:06:55.100 door.
00:06:55.520 But the judge, in my case, would not allow either that witness nor that evidence to be submitted at trial.
00:07:04.460 Now, finally, perhaps we will get to the bottom of a lot of which, of course, we really already know.
00:07:11.080 After signing the order, Trump said that the media can review previously withheld files pertaining to the investigation.
00:07:17.520 Although I share the president's skepticism that many journalists will actually do so.
00:07:24.500 They're not going to bother because they don't like what they're going to see, Trump said.
00:07:28.280 Well, I totally agree.
00:07:29.940 But it was, in fact, total weaponization.
00:07:32.460 It is a disgraceful.
00:07:33.760 It should have never happened in this country, as the president said.
00:07:36.540 But now we'll finally be able to see it all ourselves.
00:07:40.500 All of it will be declassified.
00:07:42.620 They haven't posted it yet because, of course, I'm anxious to go look up those documents that pertain specifically to me and their efforts to frame me.
00:07:51.380 It was back on July 31st, 2016, the FBI opened an investigation into Donald Trump, then a presidential candidate, and members of his campaign claiming that we were colluding or coordinating with Russia to influence the 2016 election.
00:08:09.040 The important thing to understand was there was no probable cause to justify this investigation, no evidence whatsoever.
00:08:17.460 However, the opening of the investigation came just days after a July 28th meeting in which then CIA Director John Brennan briefed then President Barack Obama on a purported proposal from one of Hillary Clinton's campaign foreign policy advisors to, quote, vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by the Russian security service.
00:08:41.660 Clinton, of course, was, you'll remember, the Democrat nominee for president that year.
00:08:45.760 By January of 2017, then FBI Director James Comey had notified Trump of a dossier known as the Steele dossier that contained salacious and unverified allegations about Trump's purported coordination with the Russian government, a key document that was used as the rationale to open the investigation.
00:09:07.960 The problem was the dossier was authored by Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence officer, and was commissioned by Fusion GPS.
00:09:19.040 Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign actually paid Fusion GPS during the 2016 election cycle.
00:09:28.040 It is beyond belief that we still don't have the answers to how and why this all happened.
00:09:35.280 Now, finally, perhaps we will find out John Durham, who was the special counsel charged with getting to the bottom of this, took five long years to reach the conclusions that we many of which we already knew that this was plotted out in the Oval Office in a meeting run by Barack Obama.
00:09:55.700 that Susan Rice and Samantha Powers, the then U.N. Ambassador James Comey, the FBI Director John
00:10:05.420 Brennan, the CIA Director, they were all in on it. Will anybody ever be held responsible?
00:10:12.320 Meanwhile, good news for those who are concerned about the integrity of our elections. On Tuesday,
00:10:17.700 President Trump signed a sweeping executive order aimed at trying to make sure that we have free,
00:10:23.280 fair and honest elections in this country. His order will cut federal funding for states that
00:10:29.180 refuse to take steps to secure their elections, tasks the Department of Homeland Security with
00:10:34.360 ensuring that illegal immigrants are not allowed to vote, and adds a citizenship question on the 0.51
00:10:41.760 federal voting form for the first time ever. This order, called the Preserving and Protecting the 0.98
00:10:48.340 integrity of American elections requires voters to submit official proof of U.S. citizenship,
00:10:54.820 such as a passport or a birth certificate, before they're allowed to register to vote.
00:11:00.420 Federal agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security, will be required to share
00:11:04.940 data to help state officials identify non-citizens on voter rolls. Prior to Trump's order, that was
00:11:12.220 illegal. Additionally, all mailed ballots are now required to be received by election day and
00:11:19.540 counted. The attorney general is tasked by the order with taking appropriate action against states
00:11:25.320 that count ballots that are received after election day and federal elections. The order
00:11:32.100 also tasks the Justice Department with vigorously pursuing election crimes, particularly in states
00:11:37.780 are out of compliance with this new federal law on election security and calls for the prosecution
00:11:43.380 of foreign interference in U.S. elections, an order which would apply against actions like those taken
00:11:49.840 by the British spy Christopher Steele, who I just spoke about. Remember him? He's the guy who
00:11:55.000 produced the fake hoax document against President Donald Trump. This is, I think, a common sense
00:12:03.560 idea. How about an election? All paper ballots, all on one day. I think mail-in ballots, as Attorney
00:12:11.560 General Bill Barr said before he was against him, he was for them, he said they were an open
00:12:17.720 invitation for election fraud. To claim that there is no evidence of irregularities, anomalies
00:12:26.900 in the 2020 election is just not so.
00:12:32.300 It is high time that we move to paper ballots. 0.66
00:12:35.640 If the French can count 38 million paper ballots on one day, and they do, 0.97
00:12:41.980 well, then we should be able to do it here in this country. 0.90
00:12:44.820 Only recently, the courts in New York knocked down state law 0.98
00:12:49.460 that allowed non-citizens, illegals essentially, those here illegally,
00:12:56.900 to vote in local elections. That is a step in the right direction.
00:13:02.180 Meanwhile, a judge finally ruled that a Columbia student protester can't be detained by the feds
00:13:09.300 as the Trump administration seeks to deport her. It's time for the U.S. Supreme Court to step in
00:13:15.300 and rein in these rogue judges who are exceeding their authority to thwart the will of the American
00:13:22.880 people in the last presidential election. I'm Roger Stone. You're tuned into the Stone Zone.
00:13:28.240 Whatever you do, don't touch that dial. We'll be right back with the ex-influencer Cat Turd
00:13:34.140 to talk about all of this and more. One of the leading and most entertaining and I think
00:13:42.020 influential and educational voices is an influencer who goes by the handle Cat Turd. Now, until
00:13:48.340 recently, we didn't even know what this patriot looked like. Now I know what he looks like. He
00:13:52.540 He wears a great cowboy hat.
00:13:54.920 What I really love him about it is he's a lover of animals.
00:13:57.600 Like my wife and I, he has taken a number of adopted dogs.
00:14:02.200 He is a lover of all animals, and he's been quite open about it.
00:14:09.940 I've shut down several puppy mills here in my hometown,
00:14:13.520 and, well, we have more dogs than we can handle as well.
00:14:17.140 Catcher, we've got just a few minutes before we can really get into it with you,
00:14:19.840 but welcome into the Stone Zone.
00:14:22.540 Hey, Mr. Stone, how you doing?
00:14:25.060 We need some truth-telling today, brother, and this is what I like about it.
00:14:28.560 Let's do it.
00:14:29.040 Yeah, this is what we like about it.
00:14:31.780 I'm going to ask you, since we only got about three minutes before we take a break and we come back,
00:14:36.080 how do you think President Trump is doing?
00:14:37.700 Is he meeting your expectations?
00:14:40.900 I think he's doing fantastic.
00:14:43.060 I mean, it's amazing to me that I'm 60 and he's almost 80, and he has to do everything right.
00:14:49.940 And I just tweet about it, and I'm up 17 hours a day.
00:14:54.680 I'm so tired just from sitting around tweeting about it.
00:14:57.740 It's really amazing the energy he has and how much he can get done.
00:15:02.500 You know, I must say this, since I've known him well for, I hate it when I say this, 50 years.
00:15:08.500 When I say that, he says, stop saying that.
00:15:10.300 It makes both of us sound old.
00:15:12.560 He's always been like this.
00:15:13.880 He's always been indefatigable.
00:15:15.500 He's always had extraordinary energy.
00:15:17.200 He has never required a lot of sleep.
00:15:20.500 His mind is always working, even when he's relaxing, when he's on the golf course or when he's dining.
00:15:26.620 His mind is always running.
00:15:28.960 He's a force of nature.
00:15:30.980 He's a natural phenomena.
00:15:33.240 I think his comeback victory in the last election was a testimony to his personal stamina, his perseverance, his strength, his courage, and his energy.
00:15:44.640 He leaves much, much younger men.
00:15:46.980 And I know a number of people working for him now in the White House.
00:15:49.600 They are first rate, by the way.
00:15:51.140 But he's leaving them in the dust.
00:15:54.340 He has he's like turning around an ocean liner.
00:15:56.760 This country was headed over the cliff.
00:15:59.840 It was it was headed over the waterfall and turning it around is a massive job.
00:16:05.240 He's announced important changes in the election law.
00:16:08.800 He's also going to help us get to the bottom of Crossfire Hurricane, the so-called Russian collusion hoax.
00:16:15.260 And meanwhile, the Democrats are trying to go to town on this leaked signal exchange, which I don't think really proved anything other than that this administration thinks about doing the right thing before they do it.
00:16:28.960 Today, I'm joined by Cat Turd, who is one of my favorite voices on X, the great social media platform owned by Elon Musk.
00:16:37.840 What I like about Cat Turd is he always tells you the truth.
00:16:41.240 It's got a country twang to it, but he's a straight shooter.
00:16:45.080 You're in the stone zone.
00:16:46.480 Whatever you do, don't touch that dial because we'll be right back.
00:16:52.320 Cat Turd, I think I read that you had been swatted.
00:16:55.760 Tell folks what that is and why it's so dangerous.
00:17:00.300 Yeah, well, it's attempted murder is what it is.
00:17:04.160 So this is the fourth time I've been swatted.
00:17:06.580 I'm a veteran of it now
00:17:09.000 but what they do is
00:17:10.660 somebody calls
00:17:13.040 and in my case they said
00:17:15.040 if I can remember
00:17:16.920 this one right, there's been so many
00:17:18.400 that I had killed my son and my
00:17:20.940 wife, which I'm not married
00:17:22.740 I don't have a son 0.99
00:17:23.580 and then I was going to kill the cops when they got there 0.95
00:17:26.800 so what it does 0.88
00:17:29.180 is they try to create a panic
00:17:30.600 and this was 2am in the morning
00:17:33.140 by the way
00:17:33.780 and they try to get either
00:17:36.080 You're, you know, somebody like, what happens if you're armed and people start trying to come through your door in the middle of the night?
00:17:41.940 First thing you do is grab your, you know, your protection.
00:17:44.900 And then the cops, of course, are on high alert.
00:17:47.160 What they try to do is just get you murdered.
00:17:49.680 And it should be charges like that, too.
00:17:51.780 It should be charged, attempted murder.
00:17:54.280 Lucky for me, I live in a small town.
00:17:56.640 Of course, the first time, which was a few years ago, every cop in the county came pretty much to my property.
00:18:05.120 and, you know, with guns drawn and everything.
00:18:09.440 But since then, I've gotten to know all the local cops and all the local people.
00:18:14.160 So now, you know, for me, they just kind of call me and say,
00:18:17.720 you're getting swatted again.
00:18:19.360 But a lot of people aren't like that.
00:18:21.540 You know, they're in bigger towns, and it's a little bit worse for them.
00:18:26.480 Yeah, I have a long list of my friends this has happened to.
00:18:29.100 I'm not going to say their names because it just endangers,
00:18:31.940 just, I think, energizes some miscreants to go out and phone in new swatting on some of them.
00:18:39.080 It's extraordinarily dangerous, but it's not surprising when you have members of Congress
00:18:43.840 like Jasmine Crockett escorting people to violence, basically urging people to attack
00:18:51.280 the Tesla charging stations, Tesla dealerships, individual Tesla owners and drivers.
00:18:58.480 This is all the Democrat Party seems to have left.
00:19:01.700 I mean, I also saw her assault reporter actually saw the video last night.
00:19:06.740 I guess she says some kind of immunity because she's a member of Congress.
00:19:10.700 But this entire coordinated attack on Tesla, it's disgusting.
00:19:16.520 It's un-American.
00:19:18.420 I really hope that that Kash Patel and Dan Bondi, the attorney general, can get to the bottom of it. 0.63
00:19:26.380 Yeah. And, you know, they just got Dan Bongino in there.
00:19:29.360 But, yeah, so just, you know, so the difference between my swattings, you know, I was swatted three times during the Biden regime, and nothing ever happened.
00:19:38.620 And this time when I was swatted, I was instantly, a few days later, contacted by the FBI and given an FBI, you know, person I can call and a phone number.
00:19:48.740 And so, I mean, the difference was night and day.
00:19:52.000 I mean, somebody was immediately on it investigating it.
00:19:55.940 So let me ask you this.
00:19:57.440 You see the Democrats have their panties in a twist about the whole signal story in which there was debate among the top advisers, the secretary of defense, the head of the CIA, the national security adviser, the director of national intelligence, a debate before carrying out the president's directive to attack the terrorist Houthis,
00:20:25.200 who have been attacking American interests now for two and a half years
00:20:28.780 without any response from us.
00:20:31.440 I think this is just the old legacy media running a test
00:20:35.660 to see whether they still have the power to get scalps
00:20:38.080 like they did during Trump's first term.
00:20:40.600 What do you make of it?
00:20:41.520 Exactly what it is.
00:20:42.620 They're trying to pull this off and see if they can get everybody mad and uproar.
00:20:47.700 And the Republicans, they've got to quit playing that game.
00:20:50.100 They have the gavel in the Senate.
00:20:52.700 They have the gavel in the House.
00:20:53.820 They don't have to have any of these hearings.
00:20:55.600 They don't have to do any of this.
00:20:57.020 They should just put out a statement that it should have been real simple.
00:21:01.260 It should have been the operation was a success.
00:21:04.840 Nothing classified was leaked. 0.89
00:21:06.900 The Atlantic is a famous for being liars and fake news.
00:21:11.140 And that's all we need to talk about it.
00:21:12.720 And that's what the Republicans are going to have to start doing.
00:21:15.400 Don't play into the game.
00:21:17.100 Yeah, this reporter Goldberg was the one who specifically wrote the false story
00:21:21.620 that Donald Trump had referred in a foreign cemetery to veterans 0.99
00:21:27.120 who had given their life in the service of their country as suckers and losers. 0.99
00:21:32.400 Yeah, the same guy. 0.98
00:21:33.720 There were 14 people present when this allegedly happened.
00:21:36.880 Only one of them, General John Kelly, a guy with an axe to grind,
00:21:41.780 he got canned by Donald Trump for insubordination and incompetence.
00:21:46.320 He's the same guy that remembered suddenly days before the election
00:21:49.540 that Donald Trump had allegedly said
00:21:51.920 that he wished more of his generals had been like Hitler.
00:21:54.780 For some reason, that memory on his part
00:21:57.020 was repressed for four years.
00:21:58.720 He frankly remembered it just days
00:22:00.420 before the last general election.
00:22:02.380 This guy had an old bird.
00:22:03.920 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:22:05.100 It's almost laughable.
00:22:07.240 And they've changed it in the last 12 hours
00:22:10.420 from top secret to secret to classified.
00:22:14.020 And today it was, oh, it was sensitive.
00:22:16.420 You know, they just keep downgrading it.
00:22:18.200 Yeah, it's just it's raw politics. I think people can see this. What do you say about these activist federal judges who seem to be countermanding the decisions made in the last presidential election?
00:22:32.580 Whether it is saying that the president cannot deport terrorists and dangerous criminals, or whether it is a judge saying that he cannot ban men from playing in women's sports, or whether it's yet another federal judge saying that he cannot ban transgender people from being in our military.
00:22:53.420 Yet another judge saying that Elon Musk and his Doge operation to ferret out waste, fraud and corruption in federal spending, of which he's found not millions, not billions, but trillions, that he can't have access to Social Security records.
00:23:11.140 It seems to me that they are just countermanding the will of the American people.
00:23:16.640 And it's easy to have Republicans and Trump supporters say, oh, impeach them, impeach them.
00:23:23.300 But impeaching a federal judge is a very serious step.
00:23:26.140 It requires an indictment in the House, which is like charges, and then a full trial in the Senate and two-thirds of the Senate to remove one of these tyrannical judges.
00:23:37.020 Not easy. What do you think?
00:23:38.880 You're never going to get them removed.
00:23:40.480 The thing about impeachment is if you could get Republicans to do it, but they won't do it because they never stick together, at least you can have a trial and run them through the mud a little bit.
00:23:49.600 But the truth is, at some point, Trump and them is going to have to make a decision either.
00:23:55.480 The whole four years is done, and these little judges from these little districts, these little liberal districts are going to run the country.
00:24:03.120 He's going to run it, and they're just going to have to do it.
00:24:05.100 And I'm sorry.
00:24:06.540 I mean, look at Joe Biden.
00:24:08.900 And he he didn't defy a little district somewhere. And, you know, over there in Delaware, he defied the Supreme Court with the ruling of paying back the student loans.
00:24:21.580 But they had the right approach when they finally told the judge, I think, yesterday, Bonnie said, you know, these are top secrets and we're not answering any more of your questions and we're not going to do anything.
00:24:30.920 it. We're not going to do anything else about it. I mean, you got, you know, they got that guy
00:24:35.880 and three blue hair law clerks behind him, and there's really nothing they can do about it.
00:24:42.080 Yeah, I had former Congressman Matt Gaetz on the show the other day. He he's an attorney. I'm not,
00:24:48.380 but he takes the same position, which is the president should only obey the ruling of a
00:24:53.840 three judge appeals panel. And that in every one of these cases, the judges has the judge has
00:24:59.160 usurped his executive authority in violation of the Constitution.
00:25:04.700 On the other hand, they're used to having their way.
00:25:08.200 They have had their way for so long.
00:25:11.420 I agree with you.
00:25:12.880 I think Speaker Johnson, who I like, by the way, and I think has a near impossible job,
00:25:18.760 he's got a very, shall we say, diverse caucus. 0.99
00:25:22.280 So half his members are what we call rhinos. 0.91
00:25:25.220 Those are Republicans in name only.
00:25:27.600 They're only interested in getting a paycheck, getting reelected, and that's kind of it.
00:25:34.380 They don't want to rock the boat.
00:25:36.180 They don't want to do anything controversial.
00:25:38.560 They have no real interest in making government smaller, less intrusive.
00:25:42.480 They give lip service to the America First agenda.
00:25:46.400 They have to support President Donald Trump, the same way they had to support President Ronald Reagan,
00:25:50.920 because they are so popular back in their districts.
00:25:53.900 In fact, in most cases, they're more popular than the member of Congress, but they really don't have any belly for the fight.
00:26:01.120 And then you've got the other members, the radicals, as it were, people like Tim Burchett and Eric Burleson and Anna Polina Luna and other brawlers who understand they were sent to Washington to bring legitimate change.
00:26:17.860 And poor Mike Johnson's got to get a majority for anything he wants to do.
00:26:23.140 It's it's like herding cats. It's got to be extraordinarily difficult. Yeah, it's you know, if we had a 20 seat majority, then he could get about anything done he wanted to do.
00:26:33.600 But when you got and then of course, you know, that we have the I call them the moral principles crowd who they just don't like Trump.
00:26:40.860 And no matter what he votes on, they're going to vote no and then claim the high road.
00:26:45.620 And then truth is, they just don't like him.
00:26:48.560 Well, and I'm going to be honest with you, we have three upcoming special elections.
00:26:53.960 Now, they're in districts that are, you know, went heavily for Donald Trump in the last election.
00:26:59.460 They're in districts that are nominally Republican districts.
00:27:03.580 But I have seen some early polling that shows that left Democrats are energized because they're angry that the deep state is being taken down and exposed.
00:27:14.440 and Republicans are, we're kind of fat and happy
00:27:17.240 because Trump is doing such a great job
00:27:19.100 and he's doing essentially all the things
00:27:21.580 he said he would do in the election
00:27:22.920 that I think turnout is going to be skewed.
00:27:26.560 So I'm highly confident we win Matt Gaetz's seat,
00:27:29.580 Jimmy Petronas, who is the state CFO.
00:27:33.740 He was the only who called me
00:27:35.520 just as soon as I got swatted, by the way.
00:27:37.260 He's a good guy.
00:27:37.900 He was the first one who contacted me
00:27:40.060 when I got swatted again.
00:27:41.360 He is a very good guy.
00:27:42.700 He's a very decent human being.
00:27:44.540 He's a gentleman.
00:27:45.300 He's a fine public servant.
00:27:46.880 He's going to be a great congressman.
00:27:48.360 But I also think in that other upstate district, which is Mike Walsh district, which is leading Republican, but not as solidly Republican, I think it is a race.
00:27:58.160 I think we will win it.
00:27:59.060 Yeah, but District 6.
00:28:01.120 I wouldn't be surprised if the president and the vice president, maybe Don Trump Jr. and others need to get in there and campaign. 0.68
00:28:07.940 They do, because they're outspending.
00:28:09.760 By the way, they're outspending almost 101 down there.
00:28:15.260 Well, and then there's, of course, the district of Elise Stefanik, New York 21.
00:28:21.720 Now, that seat is not technically vacant because she has not yet resigned. 0.70
00:28:25.660 I think she's waiting for the two seats in Florida to be filled.
00:28:31.040 I think, by the way, that her appointment is among the very best appointments.
00:28:34.960 She's going to be a great U.N. ambassador.
00:28:36.560 But that district, the Democrat, who's a local farmer, whose families lived in the district for many decades, he never mentions in his advertising that he's a Democrat.
00:28:48.080 He's running on a two-part platform.
00:28:50.180 He wants to close our border, and he thinks we should ferret out waste, fraud, and corruption.
00:28:55.960 In other words, he's running as a de facto Republican.
00:28:59.760 But he has $2 million in the bank, courtesy of Hakeem Jeffries and AOC.
00:29:06.240 And Republicans don't have a primary.
00:29:09.400 The voters don't get to choose.
00:29:11.860 They're looking at State Senator Dan Steck, who refused to endorse Trump in 2016 and 2024,
00:29:20.040 and who also voted in the State Senate for that very clever change in law,
00:29:25.500 which extended the statute of limitations by many decades to allow E. Jean Carroll
00:29:32.340 to file this phony sexual assault legal case against Donald Trump, 1.00
00:29:38.560 where she won an $80 million judgment from a Manhattan jury.
00:29:44.180 Amazing to me because she claimed on the day she was assaulted
00:29:47.160 she was wearing a particular dress,
00:29:48.880 and it was proven that that dress, a designer dress,
00:29:51.820 had not yet even been designed and sold.
00:29:54.320 The same woman who told CNN that she found the whole idea of rape sexy, I believe was what she said 0.99
00:30:06.040 Anderson Cooper, she said rape was sexy and he went, cut, just go to commercial 0.99
00:30:12.080 And then she started hitting on him, he's gay 0.99
00:30:13.920 But the guy who voted to change the law to allow that prostitution, Dan Steck 0.91
00:30:20.460 Is a heavy contender for that seat
00:30:23.120 I don't know why Trump supporters would be motivated to come out and vote for him.
00:30:28.600 It remains to be seen.
00:30:30.060 Again, party leaders, not the voters, will choose the nominee.
00:30:35.020 I've been thinking about the 2028 ticket. 0.64
00:30:38.960 Here's my thinking, Katur. 0.86
00:30:40.500 Tell me what you think. 1.00
00:30:41.220 That should probably flip a coin.
00:30:42.960 How about AOC for president and Jasmine Crockett for vice president? 1.00
00:30:47.340 Or maybe they should be the other way around. 1.00
00:30:50.100 They're so dumb. 1.00
00:30:51.900 They're so dumb. 1.00
00:30:52.880 They'd probably pick that. 1.00
00:30:55.040 And I don't even know why Tampon Tim's out there.
00:30:57.720 By the way, I'm the one that came up with that name.
00:30:59.740 I was about to ask you about that.
00:31:02.120 Yeah, so the way Tampon Tim, the name came out was I was actually in a doctor's office in a waiting room,
00:31:09.800 and I started getting a bunch of messages.
00:31:11.780 I was looking down at my Twitter account, and Dan Bongino on his podcast did a call out to me.
00:31:18.840 He said, hey, Cat Turd, you've got to come up with a name for Tim.
00:31:22.260 He's like, he has tampons in the men's room, which I didn't know nothing about at the time.
00:31:26.320 He said it's, you know, tampon guy or the tampon guy or something, but come up with a name for it.
00:31:32.180 And so I just, like, posted tampon to him and boy, did that stick.
00:31:36.540 Yeah, it really did stick.
00:31:38.240 I saw him yesterday.
00:31:40.080 First, he was cheering that the Tesla stock was headed down.
00:31:43.120 And then he realized that the state pension fund in his state of Minnesota had over, I think, three and a half million dollars worth of stock was taking a beating, hurting the state employees.
00:31:58.040 If you're just tuning in, folks, we're talking to Cat Turd here in the Stone Zone on the Red Apple Audio Networks.
00:32:05.660 Here we talk politics and we tell it to you straight.
00:32:08.680 This is where you can get the stone cold truth.
00:32:11.780 Don't go away.
00:32:12.680 We'll be right back.
00:32:13.860 I want to ask Cat Turd about Disney's new movie, Snow White,
00:32:18.620 why it's losing money, and a bunch of other political topics.
00:32:22.560 Whatever you do, don't touch that dial.
00:32:28.100 Cat Turd, as I said in the beginning,
00:32:30.280 one of the things I love about you is your love for the critters,
00:32:33.680 the four-legged kind.
00:32:36.040 How many dogs do you have on your property today?
00:32:42.040 Oh, well, so right now I have five dogs and six cats, so I've got 11 pets right now.
00:32:47.760 And it fluctuates, you know, Gordon.
00:32:49.440 Sometimes I find them, and I keep them.
00:32:52.660 Sometimes I try to find them new homes.
00:32:54.620 It's just, Gordon, you know how the situation is.
00:32:57.820 I recently had one of my old cats died about a month ago.
00:33:03.120 She was almost 16, but, you know, that happens when they get older.
00:33:08.860 It's rough.
00:33:10.180 It's very hard.
00:33:11.180 They become like a member of your family.
00:33:13.320 My wife and I had a three-legged dog.
00:33:16.040 He was a Wheaton Terrier.
00:33:17.540 We named him Oscar.
00:33:19.080 My wife found him on the side of the road.
00:33:21.300 He had evidently been hit by a car.
00:33:24.320 He had one of his front left leg was badly mangled.
00:33:27.680 We took him directly to the vet.
00:33:29.100 We couldn't save his leg, unfortunately.
00:33:32.060 He had to be amputated.
00:33:33.240 But I must tell you, Oscar got around pretty darn good on three legs.
00:33:38.060 He was amazing.
00:33:38.940 I could throw the free frisbee, and he would run after it.
00:33:42.360 He was not young when we got him, and I miss him every day.
00:33:45.560 He lived a long and happy life with us.
00:33:49.140 My wife won't let me go to the local pet store on Saturdays.
00:33:52.420 They have essentially a pet adoption day where you have all these homeless pets.
00:33:57.080 I would come home with a carload full of dogs.
00:33:59.460 Yeah, it's hard.
00:34:01.160 All mine, every cat I got left came out of the woods.
00:34:05.720 i found one in louisiana on a job years ago and then the dogs i just found on the side of the
00:34:11.980 road starving to death or abandoned um i don't i've never been to a pet shelter and grabbed one
00:34:17.740 they just all kind of come to me i had 13 recently i've had two die in the last year that were old
00:34:23.240 my uh old dog uh smiles who was i don't even know how the the doctor said you know he thought he was
00:34:31.260 anywhere from 12 to 13. He was old when I found him, and he lived with me six years, so he almost
00:34:36.800 made 20. He was old. This is breaking news. I see the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, no surprise
00:34:45.000 there, blocks the Trump administration from deporting violent gang members via the Alien
00:34:50.780 Enemies Act of 1798. This is the same D.C. Court of Appeals who essentially sat on my appeal of a
00:34:59.680 gag order in which I was not allowed to defend myself in any medium at all, radio, television,
00:35:06.280 online, when I was falsely accused in the Russian collusion hoax.
00:35:10.380 And rather than rule on that, they sat on it for eight months while I was sustaining
00:35:17.700 horrific damage from the Washington Post and CNN, lying, repeatedly calling me a traitor
00:35:22.940 to my country, saying that I was a Russian intelligence asset, that I had colluded with
00:35:28.640 others that I had received stolen documents and passed them on to the Trump campaign,
00:35:32.640 100% false, no evidence of any of that presented by the government. But then the day before my
00:35:40.920 trial, the same appeals court that says Trump can't deport dangerous terrorists ruled that my
00:35:48.640 motion wasn't ripe for a decision because I had not first asked the judge who placed the gag order
00:35:55.580 on me to remove it. That's the state of justice in the District of Columbia. All right, I'm afraid
00:36:02.740 we have to leave it there. I want to thank my guest, Cat Turd, for joining me today in the
00:36:06.860 Stone Zone. We've tried to give you the stone cold truth. I thank you again, my friend, for being with
00:36:12.060 us. Thanks, Roger. I appreciate it. All right, folks, you've been listening to the Stone Zone.
00:36:16.080 Until we meet again, well, yes, God bless you and Godspeed and, yeah, God bless America.