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00:00:51.840 Welcome into the Stone Zone.

00:00:56.420 Well, for you political junkies out there, here's a big story.

00:01:01.060 President Donald Trump has now officially endorsed Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton

00:01:05.620 for the U.S. Senate in the Lone Star State, calling him an American first patriot,

00:01:11.860 a loyal MAGA warrior, and a proven winner.

00:01:14.960 In a truth social post, President Trump praised Paxton as someone who has stood with him

00:01:19.840 and the MAGA movement through difficult political battles.

00:01:23.400 He said Paxton has been tested at the highest levels and knows how to win.

00:01:28.400 Trump contrasted Paxton with the incumbent Republican U.S. Senator John Cornyn,

00:01:33.560 calling Cornyn a good man, but saying he wasn't supportive when times were tough

00:01:38.140 and was late to back President Trump during his historic comeback

00:01:43.340 for both the Republican nomination and the White House.

00:01:46.600 In truth, Cornyn has been among those senators with the lowest level of support for this president.

00:01:54.660 Now, two of the very best political operatives and minds in America, Chris LaCivita and Tony Fabrizio,

00:02:02.820 men I have enormous respect for, both working for Senator Cornyn.

00:02:07.640 But putting all personalities aside, this endorsement by the president of Ken Paxton,

00:02:14.160 the crusading attorney general, really should cinch the runoff, which comes up here very shortly.

00:02:22.500 Texas has a system in which it has two rounds of primaries, the two top votes getters,

00:02:27.520 if neither one of them gets 50 percent in the first round face off, and that face off is imminent.

00:02:34.240 The president highlighted Paxton's support for eliminating the filibuster and also advancing

00:02:40.120 the Save America Act. That's the legislation that requires that one simply be a United States

00:02:46.660 citizen and have photographic proof of it, a photo ID, in order to vote in the United States.

00:02:54.280 President Trump warned that if Democrats regain power, they will eliminate the filibuster

00:02:59.760 themselves, and Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico will become states, as well as they're trying,

00:03:05.960 as FDR did, to pack the Supreme Court with radical left-wing justices. He said Paxson

00:03:12.520 would fight to cut taxes and regulations, unleash American energy dominance, defend Texas oil and

00:03:18.480 gas industries, support farmers and ranchers, promote school choice, secure the border,

00:03:24.680 stop migrant crime, protect elections, and support veterans, as well as defending the Second

00:03:30.340 Amendment. I can't overstate how powerful President Donald Trump's endorsement is within 0.95

00:03:36.020 the Republican primary. I voted, worked for Ronald Reagan in three separate presidential campaigns,

00:03:42.420 and although Reagan was extraordinarily popular, his endorsement never packed the kind of political

00:03:48.840 punch that Donald Trump's endorsement does. Trump has a 95% win rate in Republican primaries,

00:03:56.540 And in this particular case, I believe Paxson may have been nominally ahead in what was going to be a very close race.

00:04:04.160 This, I think, allows Paxson to win in a runaway election, runaway runoff.

00:04:10.040 President Trump also praised Paxson for the enduring unfair attacks and continuing to fight.

00:04:16.400 He, too, has been the target of a phony impeachment in Texas, which was completely fabricated by the Bush wing of the Republican Party.

00:04:25.740 This should be the final death blow to Cornyn, one of the most despicable rhinos in the entire 0.82

00:04:30.620 Senate. He will soon be retired after the political establishment spent over $100 million

00:04:36.920 in trying to prop him up. That is the National Republican Senatorial Committee's incumbent fund.

00:04:44.600 That money could have gone to getting America first Republicans elected in this year's general

00:04:50.600 election in other states. Instead, it sadly has been squandered by the RINOs, and that should not 0.97

00:04:56.340 be forgiven or, in my opinion, forgotten. In the end, Ken Paxton will come out on top with the 1.00

00:05:02.000 endorsement of Donald Trump, and when he's elected, he will be perhaps the greatest MAGA fighter in the

00:05:07.640 U.S. Senate. In more good news, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche says the Justice Department

00:05:13.220 is making great progress investigating the origins of the Russian collusion hoax, calling it a matter

00:05:19.700 that did great damage to the country and to President Trump's first term.

00:05:24.660 And he says it will not be swept under the rug during his watch.

00:05:28.240 Appearing on Fox News' Sunday morning futures program,

00:05:31.840 Blanche told Maria Bartiromo that there's no dispute

00:05:34.800 that the Russian hoax was a complete and utter fraud.

00:05:38.920 Actually, the documents declassified by the Director of National Intelligence,

00:05:43.200 Tulsi Gabbard, over 350 days ago, indisputably proved that, yet there are still those on social

00:05:52.420 media who continue to insist that Russia interfered in our 2016 election, a claim for which there is

00:06:02.340 no proof whatsoever. Blanche went on to say the real question is why officials in the outgoing

00:06:08.860 Obama administration, including James Comey, pushed it anyway, knowing that all of the evidence was

00:06:14.140 fabricated or false. Blanche confirmed that the Southern District of Florida has an open criminal

00:06:19.780 investigation involving hundreds of subpoenas and hundreds of witnesses. He said investigators

00:06:25.760 are examining whether the efforts to target Trump was one continuing conspiracy, stretching from

00:06:31.440 2015 or 2016 through later actions, potentially including Mar-a-Lago. That is the operating

00:06:38.920 legal theory that gets this case to the Southern District of Florida. In other words,

00:06:44.480 although the conspiracy may have begun in the Oval Office in a meeting led by Barack Obama

00:06:50.260 himself in which the so-called Clinton plan to blame the outcome of the 2016 election on Russia,

00:06:56.920 Russia. Russia, and then morphs into the Russian collusion hoax. They manifest itself in two

00:07:04.380 phony impeachments. Once again, the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, has

00:07:09.900 declassified the documents that prove definitively that the two cute little Vindman brothers in their

00:07:15.500 little uniforms were lying, and that they were working with a quote-unquote whistleblower who

00:07:21.380 was being coached by Congressman, now Senator Adam Schiff. The whole thing was a fraud. The

00:07:28.540 documents that prove that have now been declassified for the entire American public

00:07:32.420 to see. That conspiracy continues into the theft of the 2020 election. Only yesterday,

00:07:39.940 Acting Attorney Daniel Blanche confirmed that that too was under investigation.

00:07:44.140 And then, of course, there is the phony documents case. This is when they raided Mar-a-Lago.

00:07:50.660 Until you've had the FBI go through your wife's underwear drawer, as I have, as Donald Trump has,

00:07:57.040 you really can't understand the feeling of invasion, the feeling that your home has been invaded.

00:08:06.040 It's an extraordinary feeling, but we now realize that what they were looking for was the proof of their crimes.

00:08:12.980 Their fear was that Donald Trump had, quite legally under the Presidential Records Act,

00:08:18.900 had kept proof of their massive crime and that's what they wanted to get back. That's what the

00:08:25.580 entire documents case was really about. By the way, just one more time, under the Presidential

00:08:30.760 Documents Act, the President of the United States is allowed to possess or declassify any document

00:08:37.500 at will simply by holding it in his hand. So the idea that Trump had somehow illegally or

00:08:44.500 improperly held on to federal documents is a farce in itself. But at that point, the Biden

00:08:50.820 administration's Arctic Frost operation was in high gear. This was an extra constitutional

00:08:57.260 operation in which American citizens, like yours truly, and many others who support the president,

00:09:03.320 including senators, congressmen, other party leaders, other journalists, were literally spied

00:09:10.160 on their emails being monitored, their cell phones being monitored, their text messages being

00:09:16.000 monitored. It's interesting, in the interview that I saw, Bartiromo, who I think is one of the

00:09:21.800 greatest journalists out there, pressed Acting Attorney General Blanche on why accountability

00:09:26.400 has taken so long and whether the statute of limitations have expired. Blanche said that

00:09:31.320 prosecutors are uncovering incredibly troubling things, but emphasize that the Department of

00:09:36.980 justice will not run charges before the investigation is complete. This is the

00:09:42.000 accountability fight that has been in the making for years. The Russia hoax crippled the first

00:09:46.960 term of President Trump, it poisoned the public trust, it empowered the deep state, and it gave

00:09:53.360 the corporate media years of fake scandal to exploit. Now the question is whether the people

00:09:59.060 who have built, pushed, and projected that operation will finally face consequences.

00:10:05.220 Blanche says the Justice Department is focused, moving carefully and preparing to reveal what it finds when the time is right.

00:10:12.600 This is of the utmost importance.

00:10:14.840 Let me stress, however, that a seditious conspiracy, which is what I think could place here, has no statute of limitations.

00:10:21.900 In other words, it can be prosecuted at any time.

00:10:25.380 That's why I think the acting attorney general, Todd Blunt, is wisely putting into place the evidence to prove that this was one ongoing seditious conspiracy. 0.66

00:10:35.620 One could even argue that it continues up until this day with John Brennan, the epically corrupt Islamic convert who was the CIA director and one of the major orchestrators of the Russian collusion hoax. 0.53

00:10:49.420 Only days ago on MSNOW, they had to change their name because their credibility was so low, insisting that there were many professionals still in the intelligence agencies who were resisting this effort to hold people accountable. 0.64

00:11:06.160 This guy never quits.

00:11:07.840 Blanche says the Justice Department is focused, moving carefully and prepared to reveal what it finds when the time is right.

00:11:13.940 This is of the utmost importance.

00:11:15.620 We cannot let this fall by the wayside.

00:11:17.460 It's time for Comey, Brennan, Clapper, Rosenstein, McCabe, and the entire deep state cabal, including Barack Obama and Joe Biden himself, to do perp walks.

00:11:30.980 This is not about retaliation and revenge.

00:11:35.180 It is about accountability and justice.

00:11:39.340 In the meantime, Iran has sent a new 14-point peace proposal to the United States through Pakistani mediators.

00:11:46.860 but Tehran is still stubbornly refusing to cede its nuclear threat.

00:11:52.320 Iranian state-linked media says the regime is demanding U.S. reparations

00:11:56.500 for damage from Operation Epic Fury, the lifting of all sanctions,

00:12:02.240 and the unfreezing of Iranian assets seized over terrorism-related activity.

00:12:07.600 Reports also say that Tehran wants Israel to halt operations in Lebanon,

00:12:12.120 wants U.S. forces to leave areas near Iran,

00:12:14.760 and wants America to end its blockade of Iranian shipments near the Straits of Hormuz.

00:12:20.940 What Iran apparently is not offering is assurances that it will end its nuclear program.

00:12:26.000 Iranian officials continue to describe uranium enrichment as a national right

00:12:29.960 and dismiss U.S. concerns about nuclear weapons. 0.92

00:12:33.240 President Trump has already rejected an earlier Iranian offer as garbage

00:12:37.960 and has made it clear his red line that there will be no deal 0.69

00:12:42.800 unless Iran can never obtain nuclear weapons.

00:12:46.200 Pardon me.

00:12:47.280 President Trump has said he's prepared to resume strikes against Iran,

00:12:50.720 but paused after Gulf leaders asked for more time to pursue a deal.

00:12:55.200 He ordered U.S. forces to remain ready for a full-scale assault on a moment's notice

00:12:59.300 if Iran refuses an acceptable agreement.

00:13:03.840 Iran is not wise to continue to test this president's patience.

00:13:07.260 He has shown that he is deadly serious by first taking out the supreme leader

00:13:11.300 and much of the Iranian regime, including 40 of his key henchmen. 0.95

00:13:16.340 The Iranians, in my opinion, are delusional to expect cash, sanctions relief, 0.79

00:13:20.900 and strategic concessions while keeping their nuclear leverage. 0.98

00:13:24.740 They're showing their arrogance, and it will come back to bite them, in my opinion. 0.78

00:13:28.600 The time is running out, and if the Iranian regime does not realize 0.86

00:13:31.600 that President Trump is the one holding the cards, 0.97

00:13:34.520 they will be completely obliterated before long.

00:13:37.660 I'm Roger Stone.

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00:15:03.080 This is the Stone Zone with Roger Stone.

00:15:06.720 Roger Stone, who's a very, very, one of the smartest political minds.

00:15:10.780 Roger Stone was persecuted.

00:15:12.000 People forget he's actually a brilliant, brilliant political analyst.

00:15:15.060 Now, get him a zone.

00:15:16.900 It's the Stone Zone.

00:15:18.940 Here's Roger Stone.

00:15:22.360 I can't tell you how much I appreciate those warm words from Vice President J.D. Vance,

00:15:28.580 a man for whom I have enormous respect and who I think great, great things are yet to come.

00:15:33.920 Vice President J.D. Vance now says the Justice Department is looking into Representative Ilhan Omar over long-running allegations of immigration fraud.

00:15:44.340 During a Tuesday press briefing, the Daily Caller reporter Reagan Reese asked Vice President Vance whether he expects an indictment against Omar.

00:15:53.500 Vance responded that claims surrounding Omar's marriage history appear fishy, but emphasized that everyone's entitled to equal justice under the law.

00:16:01.620 He said the administration is investigating, reviewing the facts, and will prosecute if officials believe a crime occurred.

00:16:09.560 Vance added that the matter is something the Justice Department is indeed carefully examining.

00:16:13.860 The comments come about a month after Vance made stronger remarks on Benny Johnson's podcast,

00:16:19.340 accusing Omar of committing immigration fraud and tying her to an alleged fraud within parts of the Somali community.

00:16:27.000 Omar has repeatedly denied allegations that she married her own brother

00:16:30.900 in order to illegally gain U.S. citizenship despite all signs pointing this being the case.

00:16:36.660 After Vance's earlier comments, she dismisses the claims as a, quote,

00:16:40.460 ridiculous lie and accused Republicans of trying to distract from other issues.

00:16:46.160 Omar may think that she's going to get some DEI passed to be above the law, 0.68

00:16:51.080 which may have been the case when Joe Biden was in office,

00:16:53.720 but is no longer the case in Donald Trump's America,

00:16:57.740 a sitting member of Congress should not receive special protection

00:17:00.800 because she's a Democrat or a minority

00:17:03.620 or receives protection from their handmaidens in the mainstream media.

00:17:08.960 The Justice Department should not show any leniency towards Omar.

00:17:12.760 She should be held to the same standard as anyone else.

00:17:16.060 It has also come out in recent weeks that Omar may have had knowledge

00:17:19.480 about the extent of Somali fraud going on in Minnesota 0.64

00:17:23.120 and actually helped to facilitate it. 1.00

00:17:26.220 Now, this woman is a menace. 1.00

00:17:28.600 It was a huge mistake to let her in America in the first place. 1.00

00:17:31.440 It appears she came here illegally, and now that must be rectified. 1.00

00:17:35.840 Omar and her family and her entire community should be sent back to where they belong. 0.97

00:17:40.880 That is the law. 0.99

00:17:42.400 Yesterday, we revealed how she was well aware of the fraud going on in a meals program in Minnesota.

00:17:50.240 What you see in Minnesota, this kind of social welfare fraud, is just the tip of the iceberg.

00:17:57.360 Before it's all over, you will see that similar programs and similar fraud have taken place in Ohio, Washington State, California, New York, as well as Michigan and other states.

00:18:10.200 For those who don't think this will be an issue in the 2026 election, I think you should guess again.

00:18:16.260 And it's particularly interesting to note that among those who traveled to China with President Trump was Elon Musk.

00:18:25.500 Elon Musk was an extraordinarily beneficial force in the 2024 election.

00:18:30.920 I expect him to be an extraordinarily important force in the 2026 elections as well.

00:18:39.360 He and President Trump have clearly had a rapprochement.

00:18:41.920 And the spending issue, the waste, fraud, and corruption issues, they motivate Elon Musk to open his wallet.

00:18:52.300 I'm Roger Stone, you're listening to Stone Zone, and we'll be right back.

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00:19:44.580 And you're diving headfirst right back into the deep end of the Stone Zone, where we bring you the political news five days a week.

00:19:53.020 Well, President Donald Trump is demanding a Justice Department investigation after Maryland election officials admitted a massive mail-in ballot failure affecting hundreds of thousands of voters.

00:20:04.220 Why do outlets like the New York Times and the Washington Post, the Associated Press, CNN, MSNBC and the others keep insisting that voter fraud in America is literally non-existent when there's so much evidence to the contrary?

00:20:19.060 The Maryland State Board of Elections says a vendor error caused some voters to receive primary ballots listing the wrong party's candidates.

00:20:28.680 Because officials cannot determine exactly which voters received which ballots, the state is reissuing mail-in ballots to roughly 400,000 voters who requested them before May 14th.

00:20:41.280 The original ballots remain in circulation, though election officials are telling voters to destroy the first ballot and use the replacement.

00:20:48.540 What a mess. President Trump blasted the situation onto social, warning that the Maryland sent out hundreds of thousands of flawed ballots and is now sending replacement ballots, while no one knows fully what will happen with the first batch.

00:21:03.140 He said he'll ask the Attorney General and the Department of Justice to launch an immediate investigation.

00:21:08.060 The Maryland Freedom Caucus, that's a small group of conservatives in the Maryland legislature, a very small group, I might add, is also demanding action, calling for a federal audit of the state's voter rolls and warning that double ballots in circulation threaten the basic principle of one person, one vote.

00:21:27.820 State officials say the mistake may affect only a small number of voters, but they're reissuing ballots out of caution.

00:21:35.260 She'd come as no surprise that they want to minimize their error and stop the Trump administration from digging deeper.

00:21:40.900 They most particularly don't want anyone to examine their voter list to see whether, in fact, it's clean

00:21:46.020 and whether the people on the voting list are actually alive, actually residents of Maryland, and are actually U.S. citizens.

00:21:53.820 That's the last thing they want.

00:21:55.580 This is yet another example of why mass mail-in voting should be banned.

00:21:59.620 When ballots are mailed incorrectly, duplicated, and left floating around,

00:22:04.080 That's exactly what opens the door to fraud.

00:22:07.180 And Democrats are shameless when it comes exploiting these types of loopholes.

00:22:10.400 It's funny that Attorney General Bill Barr actually said that in an interview on CNN

00:22:17.540 before he determined that there was no fraud in the 2020 election.

00:22:23.280 Funny how they changed their tune.

00:22:25.980 When ballots are mailed incorrectly, duplicated, and left floating out there, that opens the door.

00:22:30.160 The Trump administration needs to continue pushing this matter until the scourge of mail-in voting can be eradicated in Maryland and across the country.

00:22:38.800 The president's right. Election day is exactly what it says. Election day. The election should take place on one day.

00:22:45.880 You should not be counting and new ballots found days, in some cases, weeks after the election.

00:22:52.140 And we need to return to all paper ballots.

00:22:54.220 If France, a country that uses paper ballots, can count 38 paper ballots in one day, then surely we here in the United States can do the same.

00:23:05.380 Paper ballots, no mail-in voting, absentee ballots only with a valid excuse, such as health or if you can prove that you have to be out of town or out of the country on some legitimate business purpose or you're in the service, absentee ballots would be appropriate.

00:23:22.400 Otherwise, we should return to one-day elections and paper ballots.

00:23:27.260 It's only common sense.

00:23:28.880 The only thing I would add, of course, is photo IDs.

00:23:32.160 You need a photo ID to buy a pack of cigarettes.

00:23:34.500 You need a photo ID to get on an airplane.

00:23:36.680 You need a photo ID in order to apply for welfare.

00:23:40.120 You need a photo ID for so many basic functions.

00:23:44.460 Why do they say that a requirement for a photo ID is racist?

00:23:49.760 What's racist about it?

00:23:50.920 Are you implying that people of color can't get a photo ID? That's absurd.

00:23:56.260 Meanwhile, President Donald Trump is demanding accountability after the Senate parliamentarian

00:24:01.080 blocked a Republican plan to include $1 billion for a new White House ballroom in a reconciliation package.

00:24:09.060 According to reports, President Trump has urged Senate Majority Leader John Thune

00:24:13.560 to remove Senate parliamentarian Elizabeth McDougal, McDowell, pardon me,

00:24:18.580 after she ruled the ballroom funding could not pass

00:24:21.680 under the strict rules of budget reconciliation

00:24:23.660 without meeting a 60-vote threshold.

00:24:27.740 Republicans are using reconciliation to advance key funding priorities

00:24:31.140 with a simple majority,

00:24:33.340 including money for the Border Patrol

00:24:34.940 and Immigrations and Custom Enforcement.

00:24:38.100 But McDowell says the ballroom language as written did not qualify.

00:24:43.200 Now let me point out that the Senate parliamentarian

00:24:45.300 is elected by no one.

00:24:47.940 She is hand-chosen by John Thune.

00:24:50.140 John Thune, of course, is a longtime associate of Karl Rove and is anything but a MAGA Republican.

00:24:58.120 Unsurprisingly, therefore, Thune says he will not fire the parliamentarian,

00:25:02.200 arguing that both parties often get frustrated with the rulings during reconciliation battles.

00:25:06.640 So, as usual, Thune is content with the status quo.

00:25:10.620 Republican lawmakers are now working to rewrite the security-related language

00:25:14.160 so it can survive parliamentarian review and remain in the bill.

00:25:18.320 If anything, the attempted assassination at the White House Correspondents' Dinner

00:25:22.620 only weeks ago demonstrates the need for the ballroom

00:25:26.460 within the secure premises of the White House.

00:25:30.440 But this fight is bigger than the ballroom. 0.74

00:25:32.360 It's about whether elected, unelected bureaucrats 0.98

00:25:34.800 can derail the agenda that voters elected for. 0.97

00:25:38.960 Republicans need to deliver.

00:25:40.680 Democrats never hesitate to use every tool available when they hold power.

00:25:44.160 I'm a perfect example of that.

00:25:46.660 But when Trump pushes for his priorities, suddenly Washington's ruling forces become sacred.

00:25:52.260 After what happened during last week's, two weeks ago, I guess it was, the White House Correspondents Dinner,

00:25:57.180 where a terrorist attempts to take out the entire Trump cabinet, the White House ballroom can no longer wait.

00:26:04.080 It's now a fundamental matter of national security.

00:26:07.260 Get rid of this parliamentarian now and fund the ballroom.

00:26:10.700 If I were the Senate Republicans, I would also dump John Thune.

00:26:14.160 It's very clear to me that he lacks the will to pass the Save America Act.

00:26:18.700 Now, the Save America Act is really not complicated.

00:26:22.120 It would merely be a requirement that one be a U.S. citizen and have proof of it to be eligible to vote in a federal election.

00:26:31.580 Seems rather simple, doesn't it?

00:26:33.060 Well, it has 50 votes and therefore with Vice President J.D. Vance to break a tie, it has 51.

00:26:39.560 But John Thune, who is the Senate Majority Leader, will not let it advance to a vote.

00:26:44.160 because it violates the traditional filibuster rule. Under the filibuster rule, 60 senators must

00:26:51.220 favor bringing anything to a vote. If we had a 60-vote majority, that'd be one thing, but we

00:26:57.440 don't. If we don't get rid of the filibuster, the Democrats very surely will. And when they do,

00:27:03.000 you can look at them to pack the Supreme Court, as well as making D.C. a state, probably Puerto

00:27:09.500 Rico as well. So I think that the parliamentarian needs to go, but so does Senate Majority Leader

00:27:16.980 John Thune. Meanwhile, President Trump is expanding his TrumpRx.gov, adding more than 600 affordable

00:27:24.800 generic drugs to the website and nearly multiplying its offerings sevenfold. Speaking at the White

00:27:31.180 House on Monday, President Trump said the move will help tens of millions of Americans find

00:27:36.000 lower prescription prices. He emphasized that generic drugs often contain the same active

00:27:41.260 ingredients, same dosage, and same effectiveness as brand name drugs, but cost only a fraction of

00:27:47.420 the price. President Trump said that generics listed through trumprx.gov may be even cheaper

00:27:56.180 than what patients pay out of pocket through insurance. The expanded site will include a

00:28:01.400 new interactive map allowing Americans to actually compare prescription prices at local

00:28:07.260 pharmacies. U.S. Chief Design Officer Joe Jebbia demonstrated the feature during the announcement

00:28:14.580 with Health and Human Security and Human Service Secretary Robert F. Kennedy praising the president

00:28:20.240 saying that past presidents promised to lower drug prices but only President Trump

00:28:24.700 has actually delivered. Kennedy called the effort an extraordinary accomplishment and a gift to the

00:28:30.660 American people. Cost Plus Drugs, co-founded by Mark Cuban, is partnering with the administration

00:28:37.040 to bring generic medications into TrumpRx.gov. Cuban, who backed Kamala Harris in 2024,

00:28:44.760 said cheaper drugs should not be a partisan issue because Republicans, Democrats, and

00:28:50.040 independents all want lower drug prices. While politicians have talked for decades,

00:28:55.360 President Trump is forcing the system to finally work for patients.

00:28:59.720 It's bringing people from across the aisle together

00:29:02.380 and showing that Big Pharma no longer has the iron grip on America's health system.

00:29:07.540 This is another promise kept from President Trump

00:29:10.320 and one that will likely help millions of Americans save money on drugs

00:29:14.300 that they need to alleviate their suffering and improve their lives immeasurably.

00:29:18.340 Once more, President Trump has delivered.

00:29:21.320 If you get a chance, go check it out.

00:29:23.000 It is at trumprx.gov, and it is amazing.

00:29:27.380 I compared the prices there with what I'm paying at my local drugstore, and it's not even close.

00:29:34.040 You're listening to The Stone Zone, and I'm Roger Stone.

00:29:36.340 Thanks for staying with us.

00:29:37.680 Authorities have now identified two teenage suspects accused of carrying out the deadly attack at the Islamic Center in San Diego.

00:29:44.880 police say that 17-year-old Cain Clark and 18-year-old Caleb Vazquez opened fire Monday

00:29:52.700 morning, killing three men before dying from apparent self-inflicted gunshot wounds nearby.

00:29:59.140 Among the victims was mosque security guard Amin Abdullah, who officials say played a critical

00:30:04.780 role in preventing the attack from becoming even worse. He's being remembered as a hero.

00:30:10.220 Law enforcement sources say anti-Islamic writings were found in the suspect's vehicle and one of

00:30:16.160 the firearms reportedly had hate speech written on it. Reports have also described Nazi-style

00:30:21.260 markings found with the suspects who they believed to be transgendered. This would not

00:30:27.360 be surprising considering the rash of mass shooting by transgenders who are at war with 1.00

00:30:31.700 society and God, with the frequent target of their rampages being Christian churches and schools 1.00

00:30:36.800 as well as mosques. Political violence, religious hatred, and attacks on houses of worship

00:30:43.160 are being bred by the radical left. Transgender ideology is just one part of it. The far left 0.92

00:30:49.320 demonizes President Trump and calls for attacks against him and his supporters. Then they cheer

00:30:54.440 on people like Luigi Mangione because they believe he targeted a capitalist CEO and they

00:31:00.340 espouse the kill the rich Marxist sentiment that has led to some of the most murderous government

00:31:05.640 entities in world history. So I say whether you're a Christian, a Muslim, Jewish, a Hindu, Sikh, or any

00:31:12.200 religious affiliation, or no religious affiliation at all, you need to realize that the radical left

00:31:18.000 may have you in their sights. What happened at this mosque was a terrible tragedy, but we're all

00:31:23.580 created in the image of God, and all of our lives have immense value. Unfortunately, those on the 1.00

00:31:28.640 far left don't see it that way, and many innocent people are being put at great risk as a result of

00:31:34.460 their nihilistic ideology. Meanwhile, the Republican national chairman, Joe Grutter's

00:31:39.940 good friend of mine, says Republicans are expanding their election integrity fight

00:31:43.860 nationwide with 130 lawsuits now active across 32 states, with more on the way. Grutter said

00:31:51.340 Democrats are trying to cheat every single day, forcing Republicans to respond with aggressive

00:31:56.060 litigation, field staff, and legal oversight across the country. He said the RNC is bringing

00:32:02.720 the hammer wherever is necessary to stop election abuses before ballots are cast and counted.

00:32:08.400 This effort covers major election battles, including redistricting, voter roll integrity,

00:32:13.940 mail-in voting, and the impact of mass illegal immigration. Grutus warned that Democrats allowed 0.52

00:32:19.520 millions of illegal aliens into the country and now are looking at ways to turn that chaos into

00:32:24.300 political power. The Republican National Committee has already hired election integrity staff in 17 0.99

00:32:29.500 states and plans to keep expanding its legal operation through the 2026 midterms. President

00:32:35.580 Trump has also promised to deploy an army of election lawyers to protect the vote and stop

00:32:40.560 the steal before it happens. Once again, media outlets like the New York Times and the Washington

00:32:45.780 Post and the Associated Press continue to insist that election fraud is incredibly rare in the

00:32:51.540 United States. Yet I can point you to congressional districts across the country, some in California,

00:32:56.600 some in Florida, where more people voted than are registered to vote. The answer is very simple.

00:33:02.300 It is to empower the American electorate by enacting the Save America law, which very simply

00:33:09.240 insists that one be a U.S. citizen in order to vote in a federal election and that one have a

00:33:15.020 photo ID in order to approve it. Now, I do think the Republicans have been asleep at the wheel in

00:33:20.580 past elections, but it is now clear that they've gotten the message and that election integrity

00:33:24.720 cannot be an afterthought. So I salute Chairman Joe Gruters for this new effort. The left has

00:33:30.760 spent decades manipulating rules, exploiting loopholes, weakening voter safeguards, and

00:33:35.960 weaponizing the courts. Now, Republicans are finally fighting back early everywhere and with

00:33:41.620 force. Senators who are not on board with the Save America Act should be targeted for elimination

00:33:46.340 through the primary process, exactly what happened to Dr. Bill Cassidy in Louisiana,

00:33:50.840 who is one of the first Senate incumbents to lose in American history.

00:33:56.160 And I predict what is about to happen to Senator John Cornyn in Texas.

00:34:00.680 I'm Roger Stone.

00:34:01.660 You're listening to The Stone Zone.

00:34:02.760 Don't go away, because we'll be right back.

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00:35:13.680 Roger Stone, who's a very, very, one of the smartest political minds.

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00:35:32.460 You know, I don't think most people realize it, but it is entirely possible that America could add two additional states.

00:35:40.440 Under the Canadian Constitution, any province within Canada may withdraw from their union by a simple majority vote of the people.

00:35:52.540 Two of the wealthiest, when it comes to natural resources, as well as gas and oil, rare earth minerals, two of the wealthiest provinces, Saskatchewan and Alberta, have fledging independence movements.

00:36:10.320 the courts have sought to slow this down in the case of Alberta, Saskatchewan, which if anything

00:36:16.420 is even smaller, more conservative, but every bit as wealthy, if not wealthier in terms of

00:36:22.820 natural resources than Alberta, also has a fledging independence movement. Were those two states to

00:36:29.980 become independent, they could then apply for membership in the United States. That would

00:36:35.840 require the approval of the majority of the states. But were that to be the case, then America

00:36:42.220 would extend all the way from the Canadian border to Alaska in one continuous landmass. You also

00:36:50.160 would, in my opinion, elect four more Republican U.S. senators and perhaps a dozen more Republican

00:36:57.140 congressmen. It is not outside the realm of actual legal possibility that Donald Trump or his

00:37:03.820 successor could add the next two states. And then, of course, there is the question of Greenland.

00:37:09.820 President Trump is now pushing for a strategic vote over future Chinese or Russian investments

00:37:15.800 in Greenland. Reports have indicated that U.S., Danish, and Greenlandic officials have been

00:37:21.500 holding quiet talks over a deal that would expand America's foothold on the Arctic island while

00:37:27.940 blocking Beijing and Moscow from gaining access to its mineral wealth.

00:37:33.720 Greenland is, in fact, rich in rare earth minerals, uranium, oil, and other critical minerals.

00:37:39.460 These materials are vital for missiles, radar systems, fighter jets, electric vehicles,

00:37:46.220 semiconductors, and next-generation communications.

00:37:50.320 China currently dominates the global rare earth supply chain, producing about 70% of

00:37:57.160 the world's supply and controlling roughly 90 percent of processing capacity. That gives Beijing 0.65

00:38:03.940 enormous leverage, especially if conflict erupts over Taiwan. President Trump's demand would prevent

00:38:10.800 Chinese-linked firms from brokering major infrastructure and resource deals in Greenland.

00:38:16.200 Trump administration rightly sees the island as a strategic reserve in case China weaponizes

00:38:21.980 mineral exports. The talks also include expanding America's military presence in Iceland,

00:38:28.380 potentially with new bases under an updated 1951 defense agreement with Denmark. This is exactly

00:38:35.100 what an America-first strategy looks like. President Trump understands that national

00:38:39.980 power is not just limited to troops and tariffs, it's also supply chains, minerals, energy,

00:38:45.700 bases, and denying communist China control over resources that fuel modern warfare.

00:38:51.980 Stakes over Greenland are enormous. By the way, every president, starting with Dwight Eisenhower,

00:38:57.720 have thought that Greenland should be part of the United States, and President Trump must continue

00:39:03.120 putting pressure to ensure that China and Russia don't gain ground in the Arctic in the meantime.

00:39:08.800 This must culminate in the United States ultimately taking control of Greenland, as President Trump

00:39:13.160 can offer the people a much better deal than the Danish, who can't even come close to either giving 0.86

00:39:18.800 them the resources they need or defending them. And of course, Greenland stands within a crucial

00:39:24.520 waterway should America be attacked by Russian submarines. So the president's desire for

00:39:31.580 Greenland is not just expansionism or jingoism. There's a real strategic interest in our obtaining

00:39:39.260 Greenland. And I'm hopeful that we'll add two more states out of Canada, Saskatchewan and Alberta.

00:39:45.820 They would be welcome to be the next two United States

00:39:49.520 I'm Roger Stone

00:39:51.060 You heard it here first on the Stone Zone

00:39:52.860 Thanks for joining us here on the Red Apple Audio Networks

00:39:56.060 Until tomorrow, God bless you and Godspeed

00:40:15.820 We'll be right back.

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