Trump weighs in on the scandal surrounding New York AG Letitia James and her investigation of Donald Trump, Jr. and his finances. Meanwhile, taxpayers could be on the hook for attorney general Pam Bondi s massive legal bill from the probe.
00:02:05.960To put that in context, essentially, the head of the Federal Home Finance Administration,
00:02:15.700after reviewing the many mortgages and financial disclosures of New York Attorney General Letitia James,
00:02:22.580made a criminal referral to Trump Attorney General Pam Bondi.
00:02:29.160What Pam Bondi does with that remains to be seen.0.99
00:02:31.780But the president weighed in on the scandal during an Oval Office appearance only minutes after the Attorney General told reporters that she would not discuss anything pending or not within her office
00:02:43.160when she was asked about the April 14th referral against Attorney General James from the head of the Federal Home Finance Agency, Bill Pulte.
00:02:52.940The president made his comments, as you saw, jumping into the fray.
00:02:59.320Now, a spokesperson for Attorney General James, who was denied all wrongdoing, said the Attorney General will not respond to personal attacks.
00:03:08.640The criminal referral against James cites multiple instances in which James falsified bank documents and property records
00:03:16.520to acquire government-backed assistance and loans and more favorable loan terms.
00:03:22.960These include falsifying resident status for a Norfolk, Virginia-based home in order to secure a lower mortgage rate
00:03:31.640and misrepresenting property descriptions to meet stringent requirements for government-backed loans and government assistance.
00:03:38.280The president says she's a very bad person.
00:03:42.540I would remind you that it was Attorney General James who said no person is above the law,
00:03:47.960and she specifically charged Trump with inflating the value of his assets in order to secure commercial loans.
00:03:57.400It appears, based on the documentation provided by Antar, that James has done the exact same thing,
00:04:05.920receiving mortgages far in excess of the appraised value of her properties, among other infractions.
00:04:14.340Meanwhile, taxpayers could actually be on the hook for the legal bills that the New York Attorney General racks up
00:04:21.220during this Justice Department probe into her alleged fraudulent real estate dealings.0.98
00:04:26.160According to the New York Post, the New York operations budget bill has been amended to include specific language
00:04:34.180that would allow certain state officials to tap into a $10 million fund to cover any reasonable attorney's fees
00:04:41.820and expenses incurred as part of a Trump administration-led probe tied to their state-based employment.
00:11:30.120And Attorney General Bondi has pledged full transparency of the Epstein files.
00:11:36.560According to Alex Jones, one of the major stories journalist James O'Keefe is about to break concerns Bondi's handling of the Epstein files.
00:11:46.480This story has been teased by both Jones and O'Keefe online.
00:11:51.520One of the two big stories he's breaking is about someone in the Trump administration covering up for Epstein, said Jones.
00:11:58.600And then he put out a video yesterday showing a video of Pam Bondi.
00:12:05.380I told the crew over the weekend that it's Pam Bondi.
00:12:08.720I don't agree with that based on Bondi's statement today.
00:12:12.980Pam Bondi, the Attorney General and FBI Director Cash Patel, also announced today the rescue of 115 children from the hands of child sex predators.
00:13:18.860But today's statement by Pam Bondi seems to cut against those claims.
00:13:24.560I guess we just have to wait and see what O'Keefe, formerly with Project Veritas, releases.
00:13:30.640But it has certainly gotten an enormous amount of hype.
00:13:34.400Meanwhile, on the international front, a senior Hamas official has said that the armed terrorist group is not interested in further talks regarding a Gaza ceasefire or a hostage-release deal while Israel continues what he calls its starvation war.
00:13:53.520Israel has cut off all humanitarian aid from entering Gaza nine weeks ago and later resumed its military offensive, saying it was putting pressure on Hamas to release hostages.
00:14:05.920But Bassam Naim of Hamas said there was, quote, no point in any negotiations as long as the blockade remained in place.
00:14:14.720His comments came after Israel's security cabinet approved an expanded offensive, which could see the forced displacement of Gaza's 2.1 million people and an occupation of all the Palestinian territory indefinitely.
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00:16:25.620If you were tuned in yesterday, you know that we predicted that North Carolina's Republican Senator Tom Tillis would ultimately come down opposing the appointment of the acting U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, Ed Martin.
00:16:41.060And, indeed, we were right about that.
00:16:44.300Tillis specifically objects to Martin's dismissal of a number of the January 6th cases and personnel changes he made in the D.C. Department.
00:16:58.220Sources told The Stone Zone that Tillis actually has told third parties that Ashley Babbitt, the unarmed Air Force veteran who was shot and killed without warning, unarmed and menacing no one, actually deserved it.
00:17:16.240Tillis is making himself a target for political retribution within the Republican Party, and diverse voices in MAGA world are calling for a 2026 challenge to Tillis.
00:17:31.040Martin is assured, if he is not confirmed to be the U.S. attorney for D.C., to be appointed to yet another position within the Trump Justice Department.
00:17:43.560Interestingly enough, Tillis said he was not opposed to Martin.
00:17:47.820He was just opposed to Martin being the U.S. attorney for D.C. because of his position regarding January 6th.
00:17:56.500The problem here, of course, is that if this vacancy continues beyond the 20th of the month, then left-wing Democrat Judge Jeb Boesberg gets to name the prosecutor.
00:18:09.500This, of course, would be a nightmare.
00:18:11.480Boesberg is the judge who has exceeded his constitutional authority by ruling that Donald Trump does not have, through his administration, the authority to deport illegals and gang members who are in the country and pose a danger.
00:18:30.060Many, many, many allies of the president have urged the president to suspend habeas corpus, that portion of the Constitution that was suspended by Franklin Roosevelt, suspended by Abraham Lincoln, suspended by Ulysses S. Grant in time of national emergency.
00:18:48.100Argument, of course, is that we are in a national emergency.
00:18:52.22020 million illegals let into the country, including a disproportionate number of military-age men, an enormous amount of weaponry, and, of course, the violent gangbangers and gang members.0.55
00:19:06.760Well, to me, that would constitute a national emergency.
00:19:10.920You can imagine the left will go insane, but as long as federal judges exceed their authority and try to thwart the will of the American people in the last election,
00:19:22.120I think the president has a constitutional duty to protect the safety of the American people.
00:19:28.760When we return, we'll be joined by Colonel John Mills.
00:19:33.380He is a national security professional with service in the Cold War, the Peace Dividend, the War on Terror, the War in Chaos.
00:19:40.920He's the former director of cybersecurity, policy, strategy, and international affairs for the U.S. Department of Defense.
00:19:49.100He's now a senior fellow at the Center for Security Policy.
00:20:48.760We're back in the Stone Zone, and now I'm joined by one of my favorite guests, Colonel John Mills.
00:20:54.640Colonel Mills is a national security professional with service in five eras in American history, the Cold War, the Peace Dividend, the War on Terror, and the World in Chaos, and now, of course, the Great Power Showdown.
00:21:08.520And he has been active in the fight to save our republic.
00:21:12.740He's a former director of cybersecurity, policy, strategy, and international affairs at the Department of Defense.
00:21:20.200And today, Colonel Mills is a senior fellow at the Center for Security Policy, and he writes a lively page on Substack.
00:21:29.340Colonel Mills, welcome back into The Stone Zone.
00:24:22.120And, again, they give these briefings that blow the socks off of these members of Congress,
00:24:28.620and they cave and fold and say, oh, yeah, this is – oh, yeah.
00:24:32.260It's intoxicating when they are exposed to the powers of what can be done.
00:24:37.160But all magic comes with a price, and just because we can do it doesn't mean we should.
00:24:42.700Yeah, look, I admit that I was not always a supporter of Congresswoman Ann and of Polina Luna.
00:24:48.100In fact, I was a critic, but I'm also a big enough man to admit that I was entirely wrong.
00:24:53.880She has turned out to be a MAGA firebrand.0.92
00:24:56.500I think she's done an excellent job at trying to figure out what the government is holding back regarding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert Kennedy, and Dr. Martin Luther King.
00:25:09.740We talked extensively on this show about the fact that the disclosures from the National Archives have been limited to the JFK assassination records collection,
00:25:23.440but that there's substantial information, for example, still at the Department of State, the Department of Defense, the IRS, the Army Intelligence, and other places.
00:25:34.620Again, she today is right on the money.
00:25:40.840It's not incidental that Judge Jeb Bosberg, the same judge who said Donald Trump does not have the constitutional authority to deport violent illegals who are in this country,
00:25:55.900is the same judge who oversaw the FISA court's warrants that were used to spy on Donald Trump's presidential campaign.
00:29:07.300What was the cover-up just exposed on?
00:29:10.000But it's willful on what is going on here with the FBI and their dismissive, dismissals of motives that are very important.
00:29:23.200I find the attempted assassination in West Palm Beach even more troubling, hard for me to believe that the suspect, Ryan Routh, who they tell us is indigent, they tell us he's behind in his rent payments, behind in his alimony, lives in Hawaii.
00:29:48.180How does he afford to fly to the United States?
00:29:51.480How does he afford to fly to all these European capitals?
00:29:56.200How does he afford to fly to Ukraine, where we've seen video footage of him?
00:30:02.480How does he obtain a gun when he's in Florida?
00:30:05.820How does he hide for some 18 hours outside Trump's West Palm Beach golf club undetected?
00:30:14.000It just seems highly unlikely that the intelligence agencies have no knowledge of Mr. Routh and his background.
00:31:47.160It seems to me that the the intelligence agencies and law enforcement tell us that they cannot get into the encrypted information in the cell phone of Thomas Matthew Crooks.
00:32:00.480That's the man that they say shot at President Trump and killed Corey Comparatori, the brave firefighter who died shielding his wife and daughter that day.
00:32:13.080It really aggravates me to see people on social media claim that nobody was shot that day, that the whole thing was a psyop.
00:32:21.640It particularly aggravates me when people said that I somehow arranged it, which shows that they're truly mentally ill.
00:32:28.320But it's interesting that Apple has refused to turn over the contents of Crooks phone, saying it would be a violation of his privacy.
00:32:37.340Yet Apple was more than happy to turn over the contents of my phone to Robert Mueller and his thugs without even getting a subpoena.
00:32:46.420Talk about the so-called double standard.
00:32:51.080And then, as I said earlier, hosing down the roof of the building that Crooks allegedly shot from before testing for DNA reminds me when they hosed out the back of the limousine in which John F. Kennedy was shot within an hour of that murder.
00:33:10.820I mean, the fact that this is a cover-up is, I think, extraordinarily easy to see.
00:33:19.820What I wonder is whether President Trump himself or his FBI director have demanded answers from the Secret Service because the public story really defies credibility.
00:33:32.820That Crooks acted alone seems unlikely to me.
00:33:35.660We've seen video footage of him and still photos of him talking on the telephone.
00:33:53.800Yet those in law enforcement take no action.
00:33:56.800And then it's pretty clear that the government's counter sharpshooter has Crooks or whoever was shooting from the roof in their sights.
00:34:07.360But instead of shooting and killing him, which is what the protocol would require in the case of a of a presidential candidate who's a protectee of the Secret Service,
00:34:17.380they wait until he gets off eight shots before he's killed.
00:34:26.620It was the San Bernardino shooting from years ago where Apple, the public story is Apple would not help.
00:34:34.420I tend to believe I have a different view of it.
00:34:37.640But there's also now there is a lawsuit from the San Bernardino case where the FBI was able to get support to unlock the phone of the San Bernardino shooter from years ago.
00:39:45.280The absolute destructive, corrosive, cancerous nature of DEI and CRT cannot be understated in its horrible effect in reducing combat effectiveness of the Department of Defense.