The StoneZONE with Roger Stone - April 24, 2026


The Stone Zone ｜ 04-23-26

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Iranian nuclear and missile programs redistricting referendum in Virginia marijuana legalization
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Roger Stone Troy Smith Jake Novak
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Donald Trump Corey Mills Sarah Raviani Doug Burgum Todd Blanche Nancy Mace Richard Nixon Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Eric Swalwell Roger Craver Mike Johnson James Blair Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Fred Koberlein Jr. Anna Paulina Luna Robert E. Lee Abigail Spanberger Lindsay Langston Richard Malzoum Curtis Leopoldi and 23 more
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After spending a week in Washington, D.C., Roger Stone gives a detailed account of his visit to the White House and gives details of his meetings with President Donald Trump and other officials. He also talks about the recent ceasefire between Iran and the United States and talks about his trip to the National Museum of American History.

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00:00:30.000 this is the stone zone with roger stone people love him and respect him roger stone
00:00:46.960 now get in the zone it's the stone zone here's roger stone
00:00:52.980 It is so good to be back in the Stone Zone after spending almost a week in Washington, D.C.
00:01:03.100 I want to thank Jake Novak for very capably stepping in here and hosting the show,
00:01:08.320 but I've been able to call in and give minute-to-minute reports on my visits to the Oval Office
00:01:14.840 and the general tenor of things in Washington, D.C.
00:01:19.240 When I went in to see the president, I guess it was Wednesday, although I was there a couple days,
00:01:25.340 he was in the middle of a meeting with Doug Burgum, the Secretary of the Interior,
00:01:30.420 and about four or five suits from the Interior Department.
00:01:34.860 And there were on easels, there were all of these renderings of the Washington, D.C. waterfront.
00:01:41.180 and spread across the president's desk
00:01:44.920 were blueprints and other documents
00:01:49.460 and renderings pertaining to his redoing the waterfront.
00:01:54.100 I saw Donald Trump, the real estate mogul,
00:01:56.920 as opposed to Donald Trump, the president.
00:01:59.760 But he's still a visionary.
00:02:01.280 He's saying things like,
00:02:02.700 well, look, I want infinity stairs going into the water right here.
00:02:06.580 I don't want pole lighting.
00:02:07.680 I want stadium lighting.
00:02:09.120 But, Doug, I don't want anybody falling in the water, so maybe we should have a railing along here.
00:02:13.700 Now, here, over here where the restaurant is, that's in the wrong place.
00:02:17.680 The restaurant should be over here.
00:02:19.380 The amphitheater, on the other hand, should be over here.
00:02:21.380 And then I want trees.
00:02:22.360 I want lots of trees.
00:02:23.900 Doug, what kind of trees do we have?
00:02:25.840 You know, and Secretary Burgum said, well, sir, we could certainly put in cherry blossoms.
00:02:30.860 And Trump said, no, cherry blossoms look like, you know, all but two weeks a year.
00:02:36.260 I don't want cherry blossoms.
00:02:37.400 What other kind of trees can we have?
00:02:39.520 And Bergman says, well, Mr. President, you can have whatever kind of trees you want.
00:02:43.700 So I said, I want a lot of trees, and I think we need to take a lot of those statues we have
00:02:49.460 of great American heroes that are in storage, controlled by the National Archives.
00:02:54.560 We want the more Americans can see them.
00:02:58.060 And he pulled down a list of all those statues of greats, the founding fathers, and so on.
00:03:04.640 I did notice that Robert E. Lee was on the list, but he was not among those that the president chose.
00:03:10.880 I think it's a great idea.
00:03:12.280 This statuary is beautiful.
00:03:14.660 It was created by artisans through the decades, and the American people should have a chance to enjoy them.
00:03:20.140 He's redoing the entire waterfront of Washington, D.C.
00:03:24.140 And the last thing he said to Burgum before we ended that meeting and my meeting he began was,
00:03:29.840 You know, Doug, I always say you can't go, you'll never go broke investing in on-water real estate.
00:03:36.800 So it was really great to see.
00:03:39.360 The president is overwhelmingly, of course, concerned with the war,
00:03:43.100 which he's working very hard to bring to a conclusion.
00:03:47.100 He extended the ceasefire, but it's very fragile.
00:03:51.420 This is a temporary ceasefire.
00:03:53.100 Both sides are still taking military actions,
00:03:55.240 which is undermining trust in the whole process.
00:03:58.240 process. In simple terms, while fighting has slowed, the war is not over, and the ceasefire
00:04:03.980 could collapse at any moment. It is true that Trump has done very extraordinary damage to their
00:04:09.760 infrastructure and to their military, and he essentially has pulverized their navy.
00:04:17.480 Now, Iran says they're open to talks, but that's only in theory. But they claim U.S. actions like
00:04:23.820 Sanctions, threats, and naval blockade make real negotiations impossible.
00:04:29.600 The U.S. is waiting for Iran to present a unified proposal, which they still, of course, haven't done.
00:04:34.600 Bottom line, both sides say they want talks, but neither one seems to be willing to compromise first.
00:04:39.920 The major sticking points, according to those in the White House, are the key issues in Donald Trump's list.
00:04:47.500 He demands an end to Iran's nuclear and missile programs.
00:04:51.340 I hate to upset some in the Trump entourage who may think otherwise.
00:04:57.540 I'm not going to name any names, Steve Bannon.
00:04:59.980 But Donald Trump has held that position since 1988.
00:05:03.660 He said that very thing when he and I went to New Hampshire for him to address the Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Chamber of Commerce,
00:05:13.480 when he was kind of first testing the waters for a presidential bid back in those days.
00:05:18.620 He seriously contemplated a run in 2000 as well, then as the candidate of the Reform Party.
00:05:28.940 And of course, for years, the media thought he was never really ever going to run for president,
00:05:32.440 that this was just some kind of a publicity stunt or some way to burnish the Trump brand.
00:05:38.760 But in truth, I think that his timing was excellent.
00:05:42.700 In other words, I think all those times I wanted him to run, because I wanted him to run in 1988.
00:05:47.120 I wanted him to run in 2000.
00:05:49.920 I wanted him to run in 2012.
00:05:52.460 And those times were not right.
00:05:54.420 2016 was the time that, for the first time in American history, we elected someone president
00:05:59.940 who had not been a governor, a senator, a congressman, or a general.
00:06:04.540 In other words, a non-politician.
00:06:07.060 And Trump, like Reagan, although he's the president of the United States, still kind
00:06:10.660 of maintains his outsider status.
00:06:13.700 And I must tell you, the president looked extraordinarily healthy, extraordinarily vibrant
00:06:18.960 He was in a great mood, he's very funny
00:06:21.940 He can be very, very entertaining
00:06:24.860 But he is dead serious about the fact that he believes at this point
00:06:30.420 Having the Straits of Hormuz closed is actually a good thing for us 0.99
00:06:33.940 Because others, including the Iranians themselves, need to get their oil through there 0.97
00:06:39.680 The U.S. has really increased exceptionally the military pressure under the orders of the Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, including orders to attack Iranian vessels.
00:06:52.200 The Iranians have seized some ships and threatened to keep the straits closed, but it is, as you know, a huge global oil source.
00:07:00.420 Earlier peace talks that were brokered by the Pakistanis and others essentially have collapsed.
00:07:06.720 This escalation makes the deal less likely, I guess, in the short term.
00:07:10.920 The internal politics in Iran, however, are complicating things.
00:07:14.040 Hardline figures, like some of the military leadership tied to the Republican Guard,
00:07:21.000 are reportedly blocking any kind of compromise and pushing a hardline stance.
00:07:25.660 So the bottom line is we still don't have a finalized peace deal right now.
00:07:29.680 We do have a very fragile ceasefire.
00:07:34.920 But negotiations are still stalled.
00:07:37.260 I do think there's a point by which Donald Trump will not be pushed,
00:07:39.980 and I think we may well get there, but we shall see.
00:07:43.340 Of course, all eyes were on Virginia.
00:07:45.160 If you're a political junkie like me, there was a hyper-partisan redistricting measure
00:07:49.640 which was put on the ballot as a constitutional amendment in Virginia,
00:07:54.840 which very narrowly passed in a move that was likely, if it had succeeded,
00:07:59.260 to give Democrats more congressional representation in this year's midterms.
00:08:03.340 They basically wanted to take what was a 6 to 5 balance of Democrats to Republicans and turn it into a lopsided 10 to 1 Democrat advantage.
00:08:14.540 That plan very, very narrowly passed.
00:08:18.340 Now, the reason that that's interesting is that the Republicans waged virtually no effort whatsoever while Democrats worked hard, and it was extraordinarily close.
00:08:26.680 That's a good sign in what is now a reliably blue state. 0.90
00:08:32.440 What makes the whole thing particularly controversial is their governor, Abigail Spanberger. 1.00
00:08:39.000 Now, she campaigned as a moderate.
00:08:41.020 She's, of course, a former CIA officer.
00:08:44.940 And she said during the camp repeatedly during the campaign for governor last year that she had no plans to redistrict.
00:08:51.560 And then she turned around and led this movement that undermines voter confidence and really disproportionately sidelines the more rural communities of Virginia.
00:09:01.200 Even more concerning was the ballot language itself, which may have violated state law by framing the proposal as, quote, restoring fairness.
00:09:09.780 Who would vote against that? A phrase that is biased and meant to influence voters in itself.
00:09:15.480 This is why in states like Florida, the ballot language has to be approved by the Supreme Court before any such question can on the ballot to do away with that ballot wording bias.
00:09:26.220 Of course, Democrats look the other way as they work diligently to secure their power grab.
00:09:30.640 Currents maps already closely reflect the voter preferences.
00:09:34.880 It's a fairly evenly divided state.
00:09:37.660 But now, in a new development, a Virginia court stepped in to halt this deceptively worded referendum that passed last Tuesday.
00:09:46.760 That gives immense political power to the Democrats if it passes.
00:09:49.800 In a decisive ruling, Tazewell Circuit Court Judge Jack Hurtley blocked the state from certifying the results of the redistricting referendum that very narrowly passed on April 21st.
00:10:01.540 The court found that the process behind the referendum violated multiple state laws.
00:10:06.720 According to the ruling, for example, allowing certification would cause harm, particularly Republican lawmakers, by legitimizing what was an unlawful process.
00:10:15.640 The judge went further, actually.
00:10:17.840 I was shocked when he declared that all votes tied to the referendum were ineffective
00:10:22.400 and issued an injunction to stop certification of the results entirely.
00:10:27.480 So had the measure gone forward, Virginia's congressional delegation once again
00:10:30.760 would have shifted dramatically from the closely divided 6-5 ballots to this lopsided 10-1.
00:10:36.620 The Democrat Attorney General, Jay Jones, expressed his outrage, of course he did,
00:10:41.140 at the ruling announcing plans to appeal and accusing the court of overriding the will of the people.
00:10:47.020 But this ruling is about upholding the rule of law and preventing the most egregious gerrymandering effort, perhaps, in political history.
00:10:55.400 By the way, it's called gerrymandering, named after a legislator in Massachusetts whose last name was Jerry.
00:11:02.040 And the election processes must always, in my view, be lawful and transparent.
00:11:06.400 If we don't have free, fair, and honest elections, what do we have?
00:11:09.820 as this idea of manipulating to achieve a predetermined political outcome is strictly unconstitutional. 0.62
00:11:17.640 The court deserves, I think, real kudos for putting the kibosh on this whole ridiculous thing. 0.95
00:11:23.140 The legal battle will continue, shows Republicans are far from being screwed in white Virginia. 0.75
00:11:28.120 The battle to continue onward, and if the referendum is ultimately overturned,
00:11:32.940 It will show that Democrats and their devious schemes to consolidate power will simply no longer be tolerated.
00:11:40.880 When we come back, I want to talk a lot about the Southern Poverty Law Center.
00:11:45.360 We'll be right back.
00:11:49.560 Well, let's see.
00:11:50.880 You guys are getting ahead of me here.
00:11:52.600 The Department of Justice has filed these sweeping criminal charges against the Southern Poverty Law Center.
00:11:58.180 This is a group that you may sometime have gotten a fundraiser for.
00:12:01.780 It's basically a fundraising scam. 1.00
00:12:03.620 They scare all these little old ladies on the Upper East Side of New York into giving, 0.99
00:12:09.540 West Side of New York, I should say, more personally, giving contributions to fight extremism. 0.87
00:12:15.380 But it turns out that they themselves were funding the extremism that they were soliciting people to fight.
00:12:20.680 So when we come back, we're going to talk a little bit about the Southern Poverty Law Center.
00:12:25.580 It was started originally by a guy named Roger Craver, who was a direct mail fundraising genius.
00:12:31.140 The Southern Poverty Law Center thinks anybody to the right of Billy Graham is an extremist.
00:12:37.600 They publish a book in which they call me and others like me, names.
00:12:42.400 But they've now been indicted in a giant criminal indictment.
00:12:45.920 I'm giving big credit to Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche for trying to bring this leftist group to justice.
00:12:52.960 You're in the right place to get the inside story on the Southern Poverty Law Center.
00:12:56.860 You're listening to The Stone Zone, and we will be right back.
00:13:00.520 This is the Stone Zone with Roger Stone.
00:13:04.800 He likes politics and he's a professional at the highest level.
00:13:09.580 Roger Stone.
00:13:10.760 Where's Roger?
00:13:11.320 This is The Stone Zone with Roger Stone.
00:13:31.960 Roger Stone, who's a very, very, one of the smartest political minds.
00:13:36.120 Roger Stone was persecuted.
00:13:37.340 People forget he's actually a brilliant, brilliant political analyst.
00:13:40.240 Now, get in the zone. It's the Stone Zone. Here's Roger Stone.
00:13:46.920 And we're back in the Stone Zone, the most exciting and I think influential political radio talk show in America today, right here on the Red Apple Audio Network.
00:13:57.920 President Donald Trump actually heroically secured a last minute reversal from Iran that spared the lives of eight women facing execution.
00:14:05.460 In a statement, President Trump confirmed that Iran had halted the planned executions.
00:14:11.080 Four of the women will be released immediately, while the remaining four will remain to serve short one-month prison sentences.
00:14:18.560 A massive shift from what had been expected.
00:14:21.380 The women, identified by human rights advocates, were reportedly targeted for protesting against the regime.
00:14:28.020 See, as people don't see how brutal this regime is,
00:14:31.000 they killed in the streets as many as 46,000 of their own citizens who were merely protesting.
00:14:38.500 But when you don't have food, that's a big motivator. The case quickly gained international
00:14:43.860 attention, where once again President Donald Trump called on Iran to stand down, this time
00:14:49.760 through his truth social account. This instance just shows how President Trump's approach to Iran
00:14:55.200 is working towards bringing that country back to sanity. Other world leaders would attempt
00:15:01.320 appeasement, but Donald Trump's approach to making clear demands backed by pressure
00:15:05.360 has delivered immediate results. It's kind of interesting to me. It was a day before yesterday,
00:15:11.300 1994, that President Nixon, my mentor, passed away. And not since the days of Nixon and
00:15:18.580 Kissinger have we had a president who used not only focused American military power,
00:15:24.320 but also economic leverage as well as diplomacy to try to move foreign policy forward.
00:15:32.120 Trump is indeed playing 5D chess while the Chinese and the Ukrainians are playing checkers.
00:15:40.160 This administration has made it clear that it will not rush into weak agreements 0.66
00:15:44.080 and refuses to lose focus on the entire goal of stopping Iran's ability to enrich enough uranium to make nuclear bombs.
00:15:51.640 They actually bragged about this at the negotiation tables during the first Pakistan hearings.
00:16:00.300 Vice President J.D. Vance himself told me that they said that they may have enough enriched uranium
00:16:06.340 to build as many as 11 nuclear bombs,
00:16:10.980 and of course their friends in China would give them the necessary missiles to deliver them.
00:16:16.620 Simultaneously, the White House pushed back on media reports
00:16:19.160 suggesting that Iran remains stronger militarily than previously disclosed as entirely fake news,
00:16:25.880 which really just tries to downplay Iran's vulnerabilities and a ploy to hamper the
00:16:30.640 president's foreign policy. The situation with Iran remains tenuous, as I said earlier in the
00:16:35.720 show, but President Trump has now at least saved eight lives. This serves as a reminder that
00:16:41.220 decisive American leadership still makes a difference as we remain a force for good in
00:16:46.600 the world. When we come back, we're going to talk once again about the Southern Poverty Law Center
00:16:52.620 and the heroic action of Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, who has finally busted this scam.
00:17:00.260 This is a scam, where it turns out that they were actually paying for the Klansmen and the
00:17:08.600 neo-Nazi organizations that they were soliciting money to fight. Some of the FBI agents who's
00:17:15.160 retired now, once told me if you went to a Klan meeting, there was only one problem. If there
00:17:19.060 were 10 people there, nine of them would be government informants and only one would be a
00:17:23.140 real Klansman. You're listening to The Stone Zone right here on the Red Apple Audio Networks, and
00:17:28.560 we'll have more hot politics for you on the other side. Don't go away. We'll be right back.
00:17:45.160 We'll be right back.
00:18:15.160 We'll be right back.
00:18:45.160 Get him a zone. It's the Stone Zone.
00:18:48.480 A man who's gone through hell, but he's kept going, and he's smart, and he's strong, and people love him.
00:18:55.560 Not everybody, but people love him and respect him.
00:18:58.020 Roger Stone. Where's Roger Stone?
00:19:00.300 Here's Roger Stone.
00:19:05.080 Welcome back into the Stone Zone.
00:19:08.060 As I said earlier, the Department of Justice has filed sweeping criminal charges against the far-left agitators of the Southern Poverty Law Center, a group that had portrayed itself as a watchdog against extremism, but in actuality was anything but.
00:19:25.020 See, the federal indictment issued by Attorney General Todd Blanche, the acting attorney general, actually, shows the SPLC included six counts of wire fraud, four counts of bank fraud, and one count of money laundering.
00:19:38.840 The charges stem from allegations that the Southern Poverty Law Center secretly paid individuals tied to extremist groups, including white supremacists, to promote and amplify racial tensions.
00:19:51.600 Federal prosecutors say the organization spent millions of dollars on so-called field sources,
00:19:57.100 some of whom were deeply embedded into groups like the Ku Klux Klan and other neo-Nazi organizations.
00:20:02.600 In one glaring example, an individual connected to the planning of the 2017 Charlottesville rally,
00:20:10.000 where violence left one person dead, was allegedly paid hundreds of thousands of dollars over several years.
00:20:15.900 So this indictment claims that those paid sources actively promoted extremist activity, while the SPLC publicly condemned it, raising serious questions about whether the group was manufacturing threats for their own financial gain.
00:20:31.700 Perhaps most troubling officials said that the SPLC never disclosed these payments to law enforcement, despite representing themselves as trusted sources of intelligence that work to train federal officials.
00:20:45.040 This case, filed by the Trump Justice Department, will now move forward in federal court,
00:20:49.620 where the organization will have to answer for what critics have long suspected,
00:20:53.320 that it is a widely circulated hate map that they put out,
00:20:57.120 and public accusations may have been built on deeply flawed and most likely completely false information.
00:21:04.680 The threat of white supremacy in America has always been a red herring.
00:21:08.640 The real racism coming from against white people, I think,
00:21:11.620 as we saw during the Black Lives Matter programs of the 2020 era.
00:21:17.300 It's time to lock up the leadership of the Southern Poverty Law Center once and all 0.66
00:21:21.660 and throw away the keys.
00:21:23.520 As I told President Donald Trump when I met with him,
00:21:26.100 Republicans have a real problem in U.S. Congressman Corey Mills.
00:21:30.060 Corey Mills has lied to the president,
00:21:33.880 went around the White House political operation,
00:21:36.440 very ably led by James Blair, the deputy assistant to the president.
00:21:41.360 I think he recently resigned to go on the outside and run the $5 billion effort to win the 2026 elections.
00:21:48.260 But the very able James Blair, a good friend, to the White House Chief of Staff, Susie Wiles.
00:21:56.540 But Mills went around that process, calling the president directly in order to secure an endorsement for his re-election.
00:22:04.920 He specifically lied to President Trump, who asked him whether there was a restraining order in place filed by an ex-girlfriend.
00:22:14.340 Information has now come out that shows that Congressman Mills, as a matter of fact, lied to President Trump in a desperate attempt to save his own hide.
00:22:22.540 In fact, in a decision made in the 3rd District Court of Florida, an injunction for protection against violence was filed on behalf of a former Miss USA, Lindsay Langston.
00:22:34.160 which he filed against Mills. The injunction was approved by Judge Fred Koberlein Jr. and remained
00:22:41.320 in effect until January 1st of this year, preventing Mills from committing any acts of
00:22:46.020 domestic violence and stopping him from being within 500 feet of his victim. Why would he lie
00:22:51.940 to the President of the United States about this? The case centers on Mills and Langston whose
00:22:57.140 relationship, I think, lasted about a year before it started to deteriorate. That would have been
00:23:02.160 2025. In court filings, Langston accused Mills of threatening to release explicit revenge-born
00:23:09.200 material of her in an attempt to coerce her silence over alleged abuse, providing screenshots
00:23:16.280 of text messages that indicated that all that was true. Langston also accused Mills of controlling
00:23:22.320 and intimidating behavior, as well as repeated the unwanted contact after the relationship
00:23:27.280 had ended. The court found sufficient evidence that there was a credible threat or fear on
00:23:34.280 Langston's part for her safety and granted her the temporary restraining order that Mills very
00:23:39.440 specifically lied to the president about when he said it didn't exist. This is far from an isolated
00:23:45.400 example for Mills, who is a diminutive little character who poses as a tough guy. He's falsified
00:23:53.140 his military record as well. He's been dogged by a variety of depraved and reprehensible scandals
00:24:00.160 almost too bizarre to be believed. The sheer incredulousness of his offenses seems to be how
00:24:05.140 Mills hopes to survive despite a resume of skullduggery that puts him among the most loathsome
00:24:11.340 reprobates ever to serve in Congress. In the most recent publicized event caught on video
00:24:19.160 from February 2025, Iranian-American activist Sarah Raviani, another girlfriend of Mills,
00:24:26.360 called law enforcement at 4.30 in the morning in Washington, D.C. to report that she had been
00:24:31.100 assaulted. Raviani told Officer Richard Malzoum that Mills had become very abusive during an
00:24:38.780 altercation, grabbed her, shoved her, and then forced her out of his apartment. Officers saw
00:24:43.960 Raviani with bruises on her arms and marks near her face that were consistent with a physical
00:24:49.860 altercation. Raviani, crying while recounting her story, said she wanted the instances
00:24:55.920 documented so it doesn't happen to anyone else. At that point, the police officer believed there
00:25:01.740 was probable cause for arrest. While still with the police, Ms. Raviani received a phone call.
00:25:07.380 After getting on the phone, Raviani quickly began to change her story with the officers, 0.61
00:25:12.060 believing that she did so after being coerced by Mills himself.
00:25:16.620 She told officers that he wants me to say that the injuries came from a vacation
00:25:21.300 because she bruises easily. 0.98
00:25:24.280 Then Raviani claimed that both she and Corey Mills were physical during the altercation
00:25:29.400 yet stating contradictorily that she did not quite remember what happened
00:25:33.660 because she was too drunk and that the testimony she gave previously was issued under duress.
00:25:41.260 Officer Malzum was not convinced about Raviotti's story and wished to arrest Corey Mills, the congressman from Florida's 7th District, as the injuries and the initial statement met the legal criteria for arrest.
00:25:55.480 Mills was warned that he could be placed in handcuffs and that they were legally obliged to arrest him as they prepared to transport the congressman to be formally charged.
00:26:04.540 Mills expressed concern that the situation could be weaponized against him politically,
00:26:10.060 fearing that he could be held accountable for his violent, degenerate behavior.
00:26:14.580 This is when a supervising lieutenant intervened, classifying the incident as a family disturbance,
00:26:19.960 although Mills and Raviani were not even related.
00:26:24.580 The Metropolitan Police Department formally requested an arrest warrant for Mills the next day,
00:26:28.900 but the prosecutor refused to sign it and no warrant was ever issued.
00:26:32.660 Now, Cory Mills is fighting a move by Nancy Mace and Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna, one of my favorites, to expel him from the House.
00:26:43.500 If we are going to hold Eric Swalwell, the degenerate congressman, a former congressman now from California, for his behavior, then as Republicans, I think we have to be consistent.
00:26:56.320 In addition to the serial abuse behavior against women, Mills was already subject to an inquiry in the U.S. House Ethics Committee.
00:27:06.120 This is not your typical deep state witch hunt, but rather a legitimate investigation on whether Mills' unethical business endeavors are serious.
00:27:15.080 Mills is accused of improperly benefiting financially from serving in Congress,
00:27:19.320 failing to disclose key financial information and maintaining conflicts of interest tied to government contracts.
00:27:28.000 Before entering Congress, Mills had founded and led Pachem Defense,
00:27:32.280 a supplier of defense and security equipment, including such as selling rubber bullets to the Chinese Communist police
00:27:39.000 that are oppressing the people in Hong Kong.
00:27:42.080 Well, his firm has frequently done business with U.S. government agencies and foreign governments, a clear conflict of interest.
00:27:49.540 But after Mills entered Congress, reports have indicated that companies connected to him continue to receive federal contracts estimated to be worth millions of dollars.
00:27:59.340 This is rank corruption.
00:28:01.860 Members of Congress are not only out like banned from owning businesses, but it is illegal to derive direct financial benefit from federal contracts.
00:28:10.300 Pretty clear that's what Corey Mills did here.
00:28:14.380 These situations create a conflict between public duty and private gain.
00:28:19.160 Mills' activity potentially puts him in violation of 18 U.S.C. dash 431-432, as well as House rules.
00:28:28.020 Investigators are examining whether Mills divested properly or whether he's obtained secret indirect financial benefits from these contracts.
00:28:36.520 Now, the reason this is so important, of course, is that the Republicans currently have but a three-seat margin.
00:28:44.100 The 7th District of Florida is a leans Republican, but it is not a deep red district.
00:28:52.340 And if Corey Mills is the Republican candidate, the Democrats know everything I said, just said,
00:28:58.560 not to mention questions about the shady financing of his campaigns
00:29:03.480 and whether he, in fact, lied about receiving a Browns Star Medal.
00:29:09.100 Mills was swept into Congress initially based on this alleged history as some kind of war hero.
00:29:14.800 He did, in fact, serve in the U.S. Army from 1999 to 2003,
00:29:19.420 claims that he received a bronze medal,
00:29:21.460 but his fellow veterans attest that Mills' stories of his bravery
00:29:25.920 and about his service have been largely exaggerated or outlawed forklifts.
00:29:30.680 Mills claims that he helped evacuate hundreds of wounded soldiers while under enemy file.
00:29:36.100 The problem is that none of those soldiers seem to remember that story.
00:29:42.240 So this is a real problem for Mike Johnson and President Donald Trump
00:29:46.120 because many in the House will not vote to expel Mills
00:29:51.380 despite the fact that Congresswoman Nancy Mace of South Carolina
00:29:55.140 filed a motion to expel Mills.
00:29:58.540 Mills then filed a motion, which I thought was quite childish,
00:30:01.660 to expel Mace for bringing a motion to expel Mills.
00:30:07.980 The whole thing is a black eye to the Republican Party.
00:30:14.160 Going back to his military service, one soldier, Joe Height,
00:30:17.280 who was Mills, is supposedly credited with saving, frankly,
00:30:21.020 said, he didn't save my life.
00:30:23.120 He received the Bronze Star in 2021.
00:30:25.140 many years after his service, based on the unverified narrative that he put forward.
00:30:30.800 It appears to me that while Mills did serve honorably for four years,
00:30:33.820 much of his heroism was part of a stolen valor ploy concocted for the purpose of running for political office.
00:30:41.320 Look, I may be a freak. I've done some strange things in my life, but I've never beat up any women.
00:30:46.080 He most definitely has beat up at least two.
00:30:48.960 And there's ongoing questions about drug use and other issues.
00:30:53.460 This is not a seat the Republicans can afford to lose.
00:30:57.800 It kind of goes from Orlando all the way over to the city,
00:31:02.640 to over to New Smyrna Beach.
00:31:04.240 But I understand that Curtis Leopoldi, a local businessman,
00:31:09.200 who's self-sufficient, has announced that he is,
00:31:12.400 or about to announce, that he's going to run against Corey Mills
00:31:15.200 and that he's going to fund his own campaign,
00:31:18.220 meaning he won't take any special interest money.
00:31:21.980 That means Republicans won't be left in the lurch as a June filing date approaches.
00:31:29.140 I'm very concerned here that a number of the Republicans in the House will not vote to expel Mills,
00:31:35.160 even if Nancy Mace's motion comes to the floor, because there's an ongoing ethics investigation.
00:31:42.960 And Mills, even a reprobate like him, a very, very small reprobate like him, is entitled to due process.
00:31:51.340 So many will want to wait for the outcome of that ethics investigation before they make a decision.
00:31:58.180 To me, there's enough already on the public record through Merritt expelling him.
00:32:02.060 Now, they could expel him as Adam Clayton Powell Jr., the legendary Harlem congressman, was expelled from the Congress.
00:32:10.540 And then Powell ran in the special election that was created and was returned to his seat.
00:32:16.980 But there's no chance of that happening here.
00:32:19.040 If Corey Mills is expelled, that will be the end of him.
00:32:22.300 If Republican leaders do not move quickly to embrace the candidacy of someone else in that district,
00:32:28.200 we will lose this seat in a year in which every single House seat will count.
00:32:34.840 So I have publicly called on Corey Mills to step down.
00:32:39.620 Actually, what I said was, stand up, Corey Mills.
00:32:42.120 Oh, you are standing up.
00:32:43.680 The diminutive congressman from Florida needs to throw in the towel, and if not, well, then I call on Speaker Mike Johnson to call the question and expel him.
00:32:56.180 This is becoming a flashpoint for the Republican Party.
00:32:59.260 I've sent a research package on Corey Mills to every single Republican member of Congress by email.
00:33:05.440 It was a massive project. I got a lot of help from my staff on that.
00:33:09.080 And I'm going to keep talking about this until they throw him out the way we threw Eric Swalwell out.
00:33:15.080 You're listening to Roger Stone right here on The Stone Zone, and we'll be right back.
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00:34:06.460 Welcome back.
00:34:09.600 Well, the Trump administration is taking a major step forward,
00:34:13.260 expanding medical freedom by officially changing the federal classification of cannabis.
00:34:19.540 That's also known as marijuana.
00:34:21.760 Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche announced that the Justice Department
00:34:25.000 will reclassify state-licensed marijuana from a Schedule I drug,
00:34:30.300 where it currently is along substances like heroin that have no medicinal benefit,
00:34:35.560 to the far less restrictive Schedule III category.
00:34:39.780 Now, back in 2017, right after Trump was elected,
00:34:43.240 I formed, with a number of others, the United States Cannabis Coalition
00:34:47.640 to advocate for exactly this, and the president is now doing it.
00:34:52.740 You see, the war on drugs, as it was first launched by President Richard Nixon,
00:34:57.340 was focused at drug dealers and drug traffickers and drug kingpins,
00:35:02.240 Whereas the 1994 crime bill, written by crazy Joe Biden, then chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and signed into law by Bill Clinton, essentially targeted the end user.
00:35:17.240 So, in other words, you would get a harsh mandatory sentence for the first time, nonviolent crime of possessions of small amounts of drugs for personal use.
00:35:28.220 This law has fallen disproportionately on people of color.
00:35:35.060 I think it is indeed racist, and it is about time that we had reform.
00:35:40.220 Now, Donald Trump, as president, formed the First Step Act and the Second Chance Act,
00:35:45.400 the two most significant pieces of criminal justice reform since the Civil War.
00:35:51.480 But members of the Congressional Black Caucus, all of whom had actually supported this, voted against it simply because it was proposed and passed by Donald Trump.
00:36:03.700 This new decision should also help lawful marijuana businesses in states that have been legalized to have more access to banking services, which is crucial, as these businesses have now become trusted sources of revenue to fund services such as roads, fire, and police.
00:36:22.340 The change in marijuana law will allow doctors and researchers to better study marijuana's safety and effectiveness, opening the doors to more informed medical choices for patients.
00:36:33.240 I myself became a believer when my dad was dying of cancer,
00:36:37.380 and he was a pretty chubby fellow, but once his appetite was gone,
00:36:42.680 he withered down to about 145 pounds, and he was in horrific pain.
00:36:48.020 I knew that the opioids the doctors were giving him were doing more damage than good,
00:36:53.920 and I talked to my sisters.
00:36:56.220 It was then quite illegal in New York State,
00:36:58.040 but I thought he might benefit from a little weed,
00:37:00.580 and indeed his appetite came back and it also helped relieve his pain
00:37:05.560 so his dying days were somewhat more comfortable.
00:37:08.940 For years, of course, Big Pharma has suppressed any use of medicinal cannabis
00:37:13.340 because it's a competitor to their drugs
00:37:15.340 and it could hinder the massive profit margins that Big Pharma is racking up.
00:37:20.980 At the same time, President Trump is pushing forward on another interesting front,
00:37:25.520 accelerating research into promising psychotelic therapies
00:37:28.860 for conditions like PTSD and severe depression. Ibogaine is one of the principal natural
00:37:36.260 substances which has helped many find relief from depression, deep depression, and PTSD,
00:37:43.720 but actually to legally use Ibogaine in the United States would be impossible. People go to clinics
00:37:49.680 in Europe or clinics in Mexico where the famous fighter, Conor McGregor, says he beat a cocaine
00:37:58.140 addiction through the use of ibogaine. So Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on the cutting
00:38:04.640 edge here legalizing medicinal marijuana. That is, by the way, not recreational marijuana, but
00:38:12.020 medicinal marijuana for those that it most definitely can help. See, one of the games
00:38:17.340 they played here for years is they would conduct tests, but the tests would not be long enough
00:38:22.820 nor have sufficient placebos in them or participants,
00:38:27.900 and then claim, well, we can't approve it because we don't have enough research,
00:38:31.920 and we don't have enough research, which is why we can't approve it.
00:38:34.620 Donald Trump made this promise, and I think it will bring him votes at the end of the day
00:38:39.580 from younger voters, libertarians, and others.
00:38:42.780 I am one who believes in the use of cannabis for medicinal purposes.
00:38:47.640 It has helped me for medicinal purposes, just like it helped my dad.
00:38:52.100 Donald Trump moving now to reclassify marijuana again from Schedule 1 to Schedule 3.
00:38:59.280 God bless the president.
00:39:01.040 Thanks for joining us today on The Stone Zone, where we always have the inside skinny on American politics.
00:39:06.380 And we'll see you tomorrow.
00:39:07.900 Until then, God bless you and Godspeed.