The StoneZONE with Roger Stone


The Stone Zone | 03-26-25


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Sen. Mark Warner and Rep. Ted Lieu demand that the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, be fired over the leaked information about a planned attack on Iran, but CIA Director John Radcliffe says no classified information was transferred. Meanwhile, President Trump orders the FBI to declassify all documents related to the Crossfire Hurricane investigation.

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00:00:00.000 The Democrats are on full attack mode today with Senator Mark Warner of Virginia and Congressman Ted Lieu of California
00:00:08.940 demanding that the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, be fired over the signal chat that somehow leaked to Atlantic Magazine.
00:00:18.960 I don't recall either one of them being terribly upset when we learned that Hillary Clinton had actually used an illegal server
00:00:26.940 and had transmitted classified information, neither one of them calling for her resignation.
00:00:33.680 It turns out that CIA Director John Radcliffe told Congress under oath that the signal chat text published by the Atlantic
00:00:41.900 and revealing the so-called attack plans, which outlined the attack coming against the Yemeni-Hoti rebels,
00:00:51.280 proved that he did not transfer classified information.
00:00:54.880 And Radcliffe also pointed out that the signal chat was an appropriate and legal means of communication.
00:01:03.820 Let's listen to John Radcliffe.
00:01:05.360 One of the things that I was briefed on very early, Senator, was by the CIA records management folks
00:01:12.200 about the use of signal as a permissible work use.
00:01:16.720 It is.
00:01:17.700 That is a practice that preceded the current administration to the Biden administration.
00:01:22.160 Director Radcliffe, I've got a series of questions.
00:01:24.180 I, I, you know, do you, if you're making the statement, if you're making the statement, the signal is a secure channel.
00:01:31.140 No.
00:01:31.900 Can I, can I answer that?
00:01:33.560 It is.
00:01:33.820 I've got a series of more.
00:01:34.840 Decryption, so to finish, it is permissible to use to communicate and coordinate for work purposes,
00:01:42.060 provided, provided, Senator, that any decisions that are made are also recorded through formal channels.
00:01:49.380 So those were procedures that were implemented.
00:01:53.900 My staff implemented those processes, followed those processes, complied with those processes,
00:02:00.260 and, and, and finally, just please.
00:02:03.180 So one of the.
00:02:05.240 So you get the gist of it there.
00:02:07.660 Beyond that, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard testified under oath during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing Tuesday
00:02:14.000 that there was no classified material in the messages.
00:02:18.420 So once again, there's a shift of focus from the mission.
00:02:23.400 The point here is that Donald Trump made a command decision that he was going to attack those who have for two, almost three years, been attacking us.
00:02:32.280 So the Democrats evidently are fine with sea lanes being shut, with American destroyers being under fire,
00:02:38.920 with Iran supplying missiles to the Houthis.
00:02:41.760 This mission was a military success, and those who are calling for resignations by Hegseth or Walsh, I think, are just playing politics.
00:02:54.320 Let's listen to Mike Walsh defend himself.
00:02:57.000 I take responsibility.
00:02:58.280 I built the, I built the group.
00:03:00.040 Okay.
00:03:00.260 So that's, but look, that's the part that we have to figure out.
00:03:04.580 And that's the part that we, embarrassing, yes, but Pete and I are veterans.
00:03:09.680 We know these operations.
00:03:11.760 He has been an excellent Secretary of Defense, and this was an operation that, I mean, it amazes me.
00:03:18.920 I guess the Democrats were fine to leave all the sea lanes shut down, were fine to have destroyers fired on dozens of times by this terrorist group, 0.60
00:03:27.560 and fine to have Iran keep supplying them missiles.
00:03:30.480 That was okay.
00:03:31.340 The president takes decisive action.
00:03:33.460 And now we're seeing some real success in taking down their air defenses, opening the sea lanes, taking out their leadership.
00:03:39.280 We don't want to talk about that.
00:03:40.840 We don't want to talk about this.
00:03:41.740 Now, the.
00:03:43.540 This is Democrats playing politics, folks.
00:03:46.280 I think you can see it.
00:03:47.820 The point, of course, is that the mission was successful.
00:03:50.940 Meanwhile, President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday directing the FBI to immediately declassify all of the files concerning the crossfire hurricane investigation.
00:04:03.240 For those unfamiliar with that name, what we're talking about is the origins of the Russian collusion hoax.
00:04:09.840 Now, interestingly, President Trump ordered the declassification of these documents at the end of his first term.
00:04:16.500 They were actually given to two different journalists, the late Lou Dobbs and also John Solomon of Just the Do's.
00:04:24.740 But then the National Security Agency asked for the documents back and they never returned them,
00:04:31.240 which means that even though the president gave an order for declassification, deep state bureaucrats defied that order.
00:04:39.280 And we've never seen the actual origins of the most colossal abuse of power in American political history.
00:04:48.460 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,
00:05:01.700 utilizing two pieces of, quote unquote, evidence that the government knew was false.
00:05:08.620 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,
00:05:22.020 disguised in the Federal Election Commission reports as legal research.
00:05:27.400 Her campaign was actually fined for that.
00:05:30.060 Or the false claim that the Democrat National Committee had been the target of an online Russian intelligence hack, which is also false.
00:05:42.040 There's no evidence to support that claim.
00:05:45.080 When I was framed by the Democrats in the Russian collusion hoax,
00:05:50.240 I wanted to bring in expert testimony from Bill Binney, who was the leading CIA counterintelligence IT guy,
00:05:59.400 and forensic evidence that proved beyond a shadow of doubt that there was no online hack of the Democrat National Committee,
00:06:08.100 not by Russian intelligence or by anyone else for that matter.
00:06:11.780 I could have proven, looking at the download times of the material that was purloined,
00:06:19.160 that it was loaded to some kind of a portable device and most likely taken out of the back door.
00:06:25.400 But the judge, in my case, would not allow either that witness nor that evidence to be submitted at trial.
00:06:34.340 Now, finally, perhaps we will get to the bottom of a lot of which, of course, we really already know.
00:06:40.960 After signing the order, Trump said that the media can review previously withheld files pertaining to the investigation,
00:06:47.060 although I share the president's skepticism that many journalists will actually do so.
00:06:54.420 They're not going to bother because they don't like what they're going to see, Trump said.
00:06:58.120 Well, I totally agree.
00:06:59.820 But it was, in fact, total weaponization.
00:07:02.360 It is a disgrace.
00:07:03.580 It should have never happened in this country, as the president said.
00:07:06.420 But now we'll finally be able to see it all ourselves.
00:07:10.380 All of it will be declassified.
00:07:12.020 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.
00:07:21.540 It was back on July 31st, 2016, the FBI opened an investigation into Donald Trump, then a presidential candidate,
00:07:29.840 and members of his campaign claiming that we were colluding or coordinating with Russia to influence the 2016 election.
00:07:38.780 The important thing to understand was there was no probable cause to justify this investigation, no evidence whatsoever.
00:07:47.740 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
00:07:58.540 on a purported proposal from one of Hillary Clinton's campaign foreign policy advisors to, quote,
00:08:05.000 vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by the Russian Security Service.
00:08:11.900 Clinton, of course, was, you'll remember, the Democrat nominee for president that year.
00:08:15.640 By January of 2017, then-FBI Director James Comey had notified Trump of a dossier known as the Steele dossier
00:08:24.640 that contained salacious and unverified allegations about Trump's purported coordination with the Russian government,
00:08:32.020 a key document that was used as the rationale to open the investigation.
00:08:37.660 The problem was the dossier was authored by Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence officer,
00:08:44.920 and was commissioned by Fusion GPS.
00:08:48.900 Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign actually paid Fusion GPS during the 2016 election cycle.
00:08:56.840 It is beyond belief that we still don't have the answers to how and why this all happened.
00:09:05.340 Now, finally, perhaps, we will find out.
00:09:07.940 John Durham, who was the special counsel charged with getting to the bottom of this,
00:09:14.300 took five long years to reach the conclusions that we, many of which we already knew,
00:09:20.500 that this was plotted out in the Oval Office in a meeting run by Barack Obama,
00:09:25.580 that Susan Rice and Samantha Powers, the then-UN Ambassador James Comey,
00:09:33.840 the FBI Director John Brennan, the CIA Director, they were all in on it.
00:09:38.500 Will anybody ever be held responsible?
00:09:42.200 Meanwhile, good news for those who were concerned about the integrity of our elections.
00:09:46.460 On Tuesday, President Trump signed a sweeping executive order
00:09:50.580 aimed at trying to make sure that we have free, fair, and honest elections in this country.
00:09:56.260 His order will cut federal funding for states that refuse to take steps to secure their elections,
00:10:01.740 tasks the Department of Homeland Security with ensuring that illegal immigrants are not allowed to vote,
00:10:08.060 and adds a citizenship question on the federal voting form for the first time ever.
00:10:14.260 However, this order, called the Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections,
00:10:20.220 requires voters to submit official proof of U.S. citizenship,
00:10:24.680 such as a passport or a birth certificate, before they're allowed to register to vote.
00:10:30.300 Federal agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security,
00:10:33.500 will be required to share data to help state officials identify non-citizens on voter rolls.
00:10:40.300 Prior to Trump's order, that was illegal.
00:10:42.540 Additionally, all mailed ballots are now required to be received by Election Day and counted.
00:10:50.460 The Attorney General is tasked by the order with taking appropriate action against states
00:10:55.180 that count ballots that are received after Election Day and federal elections.
00:11:01.040 The order also tasks the Justice Department with vigorously pursuing election crimes,
00:11:06.640 particularly in states that are out of compliance with this new federal law
00:11:10.240 on election security and calls for the prosecution of foreign interference in U.S. elections,
00:11:16.700 an order which would apply against actions like those taken by the British spy, Christopher Steele,
00:11:22.200 who I just spoke about.
00:11:23.620 Remember him?
00:11:24.300 He's the guy who produced the fake hoax document against President Donald Trump.
00:11:30.600 This is, I think, a common-sense idea.
00:11:34.040 How about an election, all paper ballots, all on one day?
00:11:39.500 I think mail-in ballots, as Attorney General Bill Barr said before he was against him,
00:11:44.960 he was for them, he said they were an open invitation for election fraud.
00:11:51.280 To claim that there is no evidence of irregularities, anomalies, in the 2020 election is just not so.
00:12:02.180 It is high time that we move to paper ballots.
00:12:05.500 If the French can count 38 million paper ballots on one day, and they do, 0.95
00:12:11.860 well, then we should be able to do it here in this country.
00:12:14.700 Only recently, the courts in New York knocked down state law that allowed non-citizens, 0.77
00:12:22.260 illegals essentially, those here illegally, to vote in local elections.
00:12:28.960 That is a step in the right direction.
00:12:31.980 Meanwhile, a judge finally ruled that Columbia's student protester can't be detained by the feds
00:12:39.140 as the Trump administration seeks to deport her.
00:12:42.260 It's time for the U.S. Supreme Court to step in and rein in these rogue judges
00:12:47.940 who are exceeding their authority to thwart the will of the American people
00:12:53.220 in the last presidential election.
00:12:55.680 I'm Roger Stone. You're tuned into The Stone Zone.
00:12:58.120 Whatever you do, don't touch that dial.
00:13:00.480 We'll be right back with the ex-influencer, Kat Turb, to talk about all of this and more.
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00:13:37.660 One of the leading and most entertaining and, I think, influential and educational voices
00:13:43.820 is an influencer who goes by the handle Cat Turb.
00:13:47.960 Now, until recently, we didn't even know what this patriot looked like.
00:13:51.300 Now I know what he looks like.
00:13:52.840 He wears a great cowboy hat.
00:13:54.820 What I really love him about it is he's a lover of animals.
00:13:57.460 Like my wife and I, he has taken a number of adopted dogs.
00:14:02.380 He is a lover of all animals.
00:14:06.180 And he's been quite open about it.
00:14:09.960 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.
00:14:17.180 Kat Turb, we've got just a few minutes before we can really get into it with you.
00:14:19.820 But welcome into the Stone Zone.
00:14:22.720 Hey, Mr. Stone.
00:14:23.640 How are you doing?
00:14:25.040 We need some truth-telling today, brother.
00:14:27.280 And this is what I like about it.
00:14:28.540 Let's do it.
00:14:29.040 Yeah, it's what we like about it.
00:14:31.800 I'm going to ask you, since we only got about three minutes before we take a break
00:14:34.900 and then we come back, how do you think President Trump is doing?
00:14:37.700 Is he meeting your expectations?
00:14:40.920 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,
00:14:48.280 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.
00:14:54.720 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.
00:15:01.920 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.
00:15:10.260 It makes both of us sound old.
00:15:12.620 He's always been like this.
00:15:13.900 He's always been indefatigable.
00:15:15.520 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,
00:15:38.840 his perseverance, his strength, his courage, and his energy.
00:15:44.300 He leaves much, much younger men.
00:15:47.100 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, but he's leaving them in the dust.
00:15:54.340 He's like turning around an ocean liner.
00:15:56.760 This country was headed over the cliff.
00:15:59.860 It was headed over the waterfall, and turning it around is a massive job.
00:16:05.500 He's announced important changes in the election law.
00:16:08.400 He's also going to help us get to the bottom of Crossfire Hurricane, the so-called Russian collusion hoax.
00:16:15.700 And meanwhile, the Democrats are trying to go to town on this leaked signal exchange,
00:16:21.640 which I don't think really proved anything other than that this administration thinks about doing the right thing before they do it.
00:16:28.500 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.
00:16:38.140 What I like about Cat Turd is he always tells you the truth.
00:16:41.200 It's got a country twang to it, but he's a straight shooter.
00:16:45.080 You're in the stone zone.
00:16:46.460 Whatever you do, don't touch that dial, because we'll be right back.
00:16:52.300 Cat Turd, I think I read that you had been swatted.
00:16:55.220 Tell folks what that is and why it's so God-dangerous.
00:17:00.100 Yeah, well, it's attempted murder is what it is.
00:17:04.220 So this is the fourth time I've been swatted.
00:17:07.180 I'm a veteran of it now.
00:17:09.280 But what they do is they just – somebody calls, and in my case, they said – if I can remember this one right, there's been so many –
00:17:18.920 that I had killed my son and my wife, which, you know, I'm not married.
00:17:22.800 I don't have a son.
00:17:23.560 And then I was going to kill the cops when they got there.
00:17:27.140 So what it does is they try to create a panic, and they – you know, and this was 2 a.m. in the morning, by the way.
00:17:34.380 And they try to get either, 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.
00:17:44.920 And then the cops, of course, are on high alert.
00:17:47.200 What they try to do is just get you murdered.
00:17:49.180 And it should be charges like that, too.
00:17:51.800 It should be charged, attempted murder.
00:17:54.280 Lucky for me, I live in a small town.
00:17:57.200 Of course, the first time, which was a few years ago, every cop in the county came pretty much to my property.
00:18:05.140 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, you're getting swatted again.
00:18:19.260 So – 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.
00:18:25.480 Yeah, I have a long list of my friends this has happened to.
00:18:29.220 I'm not going to say their names because it just endangers – just, I think, energizes some miscreants to go out and phone in new swatting on some of them.
00:18:39.100 It's extraordinarily dangerous.
00:18:40.800 But it's not surprising when you have members of Congress like Jasmine Crockett escorting people to violence, basically urging people to attack the Tesla charging stations, Tesla dealerships, individual Tesla owners and drivers.
00:18:58.440 This is all the Democrat Party seems to have left.
00:19:01.820 I mean, I also saw her assault reporter actually saw the video last night.
00:19:06.760 I guess she's had some kind of immunity because she's a member of Congress.
00:19:10.460 But this entire coordinated attack on Tesla, it's disgusting.
00:19:16.560 It's un-American. 0.82
00:19:18.420 I really hope that Kash Patel and Dan Bondi, the attorney general, can get to the bottom of it.
00:19:26.040 Yeah, and, you know, they just got Dan Bongino in there.
00:19:29.740 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.
00:19:38.480 And then 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.
00:19:48.780 And so, I mean, the difference was night and day.
00:19:52.000 I mean, somebody was immediately on it investigating it.
00:19:54.720 So, let me ask you this.
00:19:57.720 You see the Democrats have their panties in a twist about the whole signal story.
00:20:02.940 Yeah.
00:20:03.220 In which there was debate among the top advisors, the secretary of defense, the head of the CIA, the national security advisor, the director of national intelligence,
00:20:16.240 debate before carrying out the president's directive to attack the terrorist Houthis, who have been attacking American interests now for two and a half years without any response from us.
00:20:30.260 I think this is just the old legacy media running a test to see whether they still have the power to get scalps like they did during Trump's first term.
00:20:40.600 What do you make of it?
00:20:41.300 Exactly what it is.
00:20:42.620 They're trying to pull, you know, this off and see if they can get everybody mad and uproar.
00:20:47.440 And the Republicans, they've got to quit playing that game.
00:20:49.980 You know, they have the gavel in the Senate. 0.76
00:20:52.700 They have the gavel in the House.
00:20:53.880 They don't have to have any of these hearings.
00:20:55.560 They don't have to do any of this s**t.
00:20:57.100 They should have just put out a statement that it should have been real simple.
00:21:01.280 It should have been the operation was a success.
00:21:04.840 Nothing classified was leaked.
00:21:06.340 The Atlantic is a famous for being liars and fake news.
00:21:11.160 And that's all we need to talk about it.
00:21:12.760 And that's what the Republicans are going to have to start doing.
00:21:15.340 Don't play into the game.
00:21:17.100 Yeah, this reporter Goldberg was the one who specifically wrote the false story that Donald Trump had referred in a foreign cemetery to veterans who had given their life in the service of their country to as suckers and losers.
00:21:32.140 Yeah, the same guy.
00:21:33.480 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, he got canned by Donald Trump for insubordination and incompetence.
00:21:46.300 He's the same guy that remembered suddenly days before the election that Donald Trump had allegedly said that he wished more of his generals had been like Hitler.
00:21:54.760 For some reason, that memory on his part was repressed for four years.
00:21:58.660 He suddenly remembered it just days before the last general election.
00:22:01.820 This guy had an epiphany.
00:22:03.940 Yeah, it's almost laughable.
00:22:07.280 And they've changed it in the last 12 hours from top secret to secret to classified.
00:22:14.260 And the day was, oh, it was sensitive.
00:22:16.420 You know, they just keep downgrading it.
00:22:18.900 Yeah, it's just it's raw politics.
00:22:20.960 I think people can see this.
00:22:23.240 What do you say about these activist federal judges who seem to be countermanding the decisions made in the last presidential election, whether it is saying that the president cannot deport terrorists and dangerous criminals or whether it is 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 men from playing in women's sports.
00:22:50.960 Transgendered people from being in our military, 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 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.
00:23:37.780 What do you think?
00:23:38.300 You're never going to get them removed.
00:23:40.620 The thing about impeachment is if you can get the if you can get Republicans to do it, but they won't do it because they never stick together.
00:23:46.240 At least you can have a trial run through the mud a little bit.
00:23:49.360 But the truth is, at some point, Trump and them is going to have to make a decision.
00:23:55.140 Either the whole four years is done.
00:23:57.700 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.
00:24:03.840 And they're just going to have to do it.
00:24:05.020 And I'm sorry, that's what I mean, look at look at Joe Biden.
00:24:09.400 He he didn't defy a little district somewhere.
00:24:12.560 And, you know, over there in Delaware, he defied the Supreme Court with the ruling of paying back the student loans.
00:24:20.940 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.
00:24:29.820 And we're not going to do anything.
00:24:31.120 We're not going to do anything else about it.
00:24:33.140 I mean, you got you know, they got that guy and three blue hair law clerks behind him.
00:24:38.800 And there's really nothing they can do about it.
00:24:40.420 Yeah, I had former Congressman Matt Gaetz on the show the other day.
00:24:46.380 He he's an attorney.
00:24:47.600 I'm not.
00:24:48.040 But he takes the same position, which is the president should only obey the ruling of a three judge appeals panel.
00:24:55.160 And that in every one of these cases, the judges has the judge has usurped his executive authority in violation of the Constitution.
00:25:04.500 On the other hand, they're used to having their way.
00:25:07.800 They have had their way for so long.
00:25:11.460 I agree with you.
00:25:12.980 I think Speaker Johnson, who I like, by the way, and I think has a near impossible job.
00:25:18.700 He's got a very, shall we say, diverse caucus.
00:25:22.000 So half his members are what we call rhinos.
00:25:25.120 Those are Republicans in name only.
00:25:27.560 They're only interested in getting a paycheck, getting reelected.
00:25:31.080 And and that's kind of it.
00:25:34.380 They don't want to rock the boat.
00:25:35.880 They don't want to do anything controversial.
00:25:38.580 They have no real interest in making government smaller, less intrusive there.
00:25:43.100 They give lip service to the America First agenda.
00:25:46.420 They have to support President Donald Trump, same way they had to support President Ronald Reagan, because they are so popular back in their districts.
00:25:54.080 In fact, in most cases, they're more popular than the member of Congress.
00:25:58.060 But they really don't have any belly for the fight.
00:26:00.960 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.
00:26:17.580 And poor Mike Johnson's got to get, you know, a majority for anything he wants to do.
00:26:23.240 It's a it's like herding cats.
00:26:24.960 It's got to be extraordinarily difficult.
00:26:27.000 Yeah.
00:26:28.320 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 and of course, you know, that we have the I call them the moral principles crowd.
00:26:39.080 They just don't like Trump.
00:26:40.960 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.
00:26:48.820 Well, I'm going to be honest with you.
00:26:50.940 We have three upcoming special elections now.
00:26:54.140 They're in districts that are, you know, went heavily for Donald Trump in the last election.
00:26:59.440 They're in districts that are nominally Republican districts.
00:27:03.220 But I have seen some early polling that shows that the left Democrats are energized because they're angry that the deep state is being taken down and exposed.
00:27:14.600 And Republicans are we're kind of fat and happy because Trump is doing such a great job.
00:27:19.100 And he's doing essentially all the things he said he would do in the election that I think turnout is going to be skewed.
00:27:26.400 So I'm highly confident we win Matt Gaetz's seat, Jimmy Petronis, who is the state CFO.
00:27:33.740 He was the only who called me just 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 when I got swatted again.
00:27:41.360 He is a very good guy.
00:27:42.820 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.
00:27:46.900 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.
00:27:56.420 I think it is a race.
00:27:58.180 I think we will win it.
00:27:59.260 Yeah.
00:27:59.700 But district six.
00:28:01.120 I wouldn't be surprised if the president and the vice president, maybe Don Trump Jr.
00:28:05.620 and others need to get in there and campaign.
00:28:07.940 They do because they're outspending.
00:28:09.820 By the way, they're outspending.
00:28:11.680 They're outspending almost 100 to one down there.
00:28:14.980 Well, and then there's and then there's, of course, the district of Elise Stefanik, New York 21.
00:28:21.740 Now, that seat is not technically vacant because she's not yet resigned. 0.59
00:28:25.320 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.
00:28:34.980 She's going to be a great U.N. ambassador. 1.00
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.
00:28:52.400 And he thinks we should ferret out waste, fraud and corruption.
00:28:55.780 In other words, he's running as a de facto Republican.
00:28:59.560 But he has two million dollars 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.
00:29:11.300 They're looking at State Senator Dan Steck, who refused to endorse Trump in 2016 and 2024, and who also voted in the State Senate for that very clever change in law, which extended the statute of limitations by many decades to allow E.
00:29:31.520 Jean Carroll to file this phony sexual assault legal case against Donald Trump, where she won an $80 million judgment from a Manhattan jury. 1.00
00:29:44.060 Amazing to me, because she claimed on the day she was assaulted, she was wearing a particular dress.
00:29:49.300 And it was proven that that dress, a designer dress, had not yet even been designed and sold.
00:29:54.280 The same woman who told CNN that she found the whole idea of rape sexy, I believe was what she said. 0.97
00:30:06.040 Yeah, Anderson Cooper, she said rape was sexy, and he went, cut, just go to commercial. 1.00
00:30:12.220 And then she started hitting on him, he's gay.
00:30:14.520 But the guy who voted to change the law to allow that prosecution, Dan Steck, 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.
00:30:38.960 Here's my thinking, Katur.
00:30:40.500 Tell me what you think.
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?
00:30:47.420 Or maybe they should be the other way around.
00:30:49.320 But they're so dumb, they're so dumb, they'd probably pick that.
00:30:55.040 And I don't even know why Tampon Tim's out there.
00:30:57.700 By the way, I'm the one that came up with that name.
00:30:59.660 I was about to ask you about that.
00:31:02.180 Yeah, so the way Tampon Tim, the name came out was, I was actually in a doctor's office in a waiting room.
00:31:09.900 And I started getting a bunch of messages.
00:31:11.660 I was looking down at my Twitter account, and Dan Bongino on his podcast had said, did a call out to me.
00:31:18.900 He said, hey, Katur, you've got to come up with a name for Tim.
00:31:22.360 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.
00:31:30.820 But come up with a name for it.
00:31:32.180 And so I just like posted Tampon Tim and boy, did that stick.
00:31:35.240 Yeah, it really, really did stick.
00:31:38.260 I saw him yesterday.
00:31:40.180 First, he was cheering that the Tesla stock was headed down.
00:31:43.200 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.
00:31:58.020 If you're just tuning in, folks, we're talking to Kat 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.
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00:32:11.700 Don't go away.
00:32:12.820 We'll be right back.
00:32:13.840 I want to ask Kat Turd about Disney's new movie, Snow White, why it's losing money, and a bunch of other political topics.
00:32:22.540 Whatever you do, don't touch that dial.
00:32:28.020 Kat Turd, as I said in the beginning, one of the things I love about you is your love for the critters, the four-legged kind.
00:32:36.160 How many dogs do you have on your property today?
00:32:42.260 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, according to them.
00:32:49.540 Sometimes I find them, and I keep them.
00:32:52.660 Sometimes I try to find them new homes.
00:32:54.640 It's just according to how the situation is.
00:32:57.760 I recently had one of my old cats died about a month ago.
00:33:03.140 She was almost 16, but, you know, that happens when they get older.
00:33:08.880 It's rough.
00:33:10.320 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.
00:33:19.100 My wife found him on the side of the road.
00:33:20.860 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 It had to be amputated.
00:33:33.220 But I must tell you, Oscar got around pretty darn good on three legs.
00:33:38.060 He was amazing.
00:33:39.080 I could throw the Frisbee, and he would run after it.
00:33:42.340 He was not young when we got him.
00:33:43.760 I mean, 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.
00:33:59.200 Yeah, it's hard.
00:34:01.160 All mine, every cat I got left came out of the woods.
00:34:06.500 I found one in Louisiana on a job years ago, and then the dogs I just found on the side of the road,
00:34:12.320 starving to death, are abandoned.
00:34:15.440 I've never been to a pet shelter and grabbed one.
00:34:17.800 They just all kind of come to me.
00:34:19.200 I had 13 recently.
00:34:20.620 I've had two die in the last year that were old.
00:34:23.220 My old dog, Smiles, who was, I don't even know how, the doctor said, you know,
00:34:30.760 he thought he was anywhere from 12 to 13.
00:34:32.520 He was old when I found him, and he lived with me six years.
00:34:35.360 So he almost made 20.
00:34:37.600 He was old.
00:34:40.360 This is breaking news.
00:34:42.220 I see the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, no surprise there,
00:34:45.260 blocks the Trump administration from deporting violent gang members via the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.
00:34:53.220 This is the same D.C. Court of Appeals who essentially sat on my appeal of a gag order
00:35:00.460 in which I was not allowed to defend myself in any medium at all, radio, television, online,
00:35:07.400 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 horrific damage
00:35:18.780 from the Washington Post and CNN, lying, repeatedly calling me a traitor to my country,
00:35:23.820 saying that I was a Russian intelligence asset, that I had colluded with others,
00:35:29.080 that I had received stolen documents and passed them on to the Trump campaign.
00:35:32.900 100% false.
00:35:34.520 No evidence of any of that presented by the government.
00:35:38.020 But then the day before my trial, the same appeals court that says Trump can't deport dangerous terrorists
00:35:47.300 ruled that my motion wasn't ripe for a decision because I had not first asked the judge
00:35:53.480 who placed the gag order on me to remove it.
00:35:58.640 That's the state of justice in the District of Columbia.
00:36:02.140 All right.
00:36:02.440 I'm afraid we have to leave it there.
00:36:03.740 I want to thank my guest, Cat Turd, for joining me today in The Stone Zone.
00:36:07.380 We've tried to give you the stone-cold truth.
00:36:10.320 I thank you again, my friend, for being with us.
00:36:12.540 Thanks, Roger.
00:36:13.120 I appreciate it.
00:36:13.860 All right, folks, you've been listening to The Stone Zone.
00:36:16.160 Until we meet again, well, yes, God bless you and Godspeed.
00:36:21.260 And, yeah, God bless America.