Well, as I predicted, the outsider businessman and pro-Trump, pro-U.S. attorney Abelardo D'Esperela has stormed to a first place finish in Colombia s election. Three weeks ago, nobody knew who this man was. He chose not to participate in the two traditional corrupt local political parties, stormed out of nowhere as independent, and he needed 50% to avoid a runoff. And he got to about 45%.
00:02:13.600He's in the mold of a Malay of Argentina or of a Bukele of El Salvador, and he's a part of this entire wave towards freedom in Central America.0.97
00:02:27.500We see it going on in our efforts to bring down the regime in Cuba.0.99
00:02:56.200This began really in Honduras, where they threw off a Marxist drug-dealing family government and put in Chito Asfura, who is a pro-U.S. and anti-narco candidate.
00:03:14.940Unfortunately, Colombia's outgoing left-wing Marxist trumpeting president, Gustavo Petro, well, he's not taking it so well.
00:03:23.600Well, after Sunday's first round vote, as which I said, populist firebrand and political outsider, they call him the tiger, Abelardo D'Esperela, finished first with roughly 44% of the vote, while Petro's chosen heir leftist senator, Ivan Cepeda, came in second at about 41.
00:03:45.220Asparella rose like wildfire in the polls
00:04:06.260As we've seen in other places in Central America
00:04:09.260So instead of accepting the message from the voters
00:04:12.840The current leftist president, Petro, went online declaring he could not accept a primary account, alleging that a private election contractor had added hundreds of thousands of fake votes.
00:04:25.180It sounds great, but he offered no evidence whatsoever to back his claim.
00:04:30.160And Colombia's electoral authorities and experts have pushed back on the claims of any major fraud.
00:04:37.560Senator Bernie Marino, a good friend of mine, called me from down there to tell me the latest.
00:04:41.780He was sent down a U.S. senator from Ohio, early Trump supporter, real hard charger, was sent as an election observer and said there were no abnormalities done to stack the deck in favor of Esparrera.
00:04:58.060Petro, of course, had no problem taking power when Colombia's system delivered him the presidency.
00:05:02.880There was a lot of questions about that election, but now that voters appear ready to move away from the policies of appeasement to the drug cartels, destroying the energy sector supposedly by combat global warming, suddenly the system itself is suspicious.
00:05:18.920The count is tainted, they say, and the will of the people must be questioned.
00:05:22.480Petro is a dangerous leftist, and his allies are laying the groundwork to try to delegitimize this victory that I called only days ago.
00:05:30.640They want to make it a defeat. Socialists are known to praise democracy when they win and attack it when they lose.
00:05:38.900They love it when federal judges make outrageous, tyrannical rulings for them, but the judges are corrupt and wrong if they make a decision in favor of the Trump administration.
00:05:50.800That's the America we are living in today.
00:05:53.900Petro better bite his tongue because I think President Trump's watching.
00:05:56.780And, of course, there is now a second round.
00:05:58.920With neither candidate having met 50%, we now go to a runoff.
00:06:05.460And the runoff, Trump could be very influential.
00:06:07.920As I say, the third-party candidate was not of the left.
00:06:10.660She was of the center-right, far more likely to be in line with the surgeon Abelardo Esparada.
00:11:26.460Finally, Paulus admitted the sentence was too harsh,
00:11:29.260saying the court unwrongly considered her unpopular views in speech during sentences,
00:11:36.060which is an obvious violation of the First Amendment of the Constitution.
00:11:39.560In other words, when she was allowed to speak, she defended herself
00:11:42.020because what she did was perfectly legal.
00:11:43.980That, of course, is the point Conservatives have been making for years about liberals.0.86
00:11:47.860In America, the justice system is supposed to punish crimes, not political opinions.
00:11:52.960So if a person breaks the law, the punishment should fit the offense.
00:11:56.220But when someone receives nearly a decade in the pokey, in part because the establishment dislikes what she believes and what she wants to say to others to hold that belief nationwide, well then every American citizen should be alarmed and ashamed.
00:12:11.900Polis is facing severe internal backlash from the left-wing crazies of his own party when they're not high, the Colorado Democrats formally censuring him over commutation and barring him from appearing in official Democrat events throughout the state.
00:14:04.960And it's why James Comey walked the first time.
00:14:07.200He's not going to walk the second time. I think the 89-47 case is a pretty strong case. We, of course, don't know what the internal documentation looks like. It could greatly bolster the case of acting attorney Todd Blanch, who has been very hard charging on this case. He's something we're going to have to watch very, very carefully.
00:14:28.220I appreciate you joining us today on The Stone Zone to help us celebrate the extraordinary surge at Abedalo Esperala, the conservative, outsider, pro-U.S., pro-Trump, anti-narco candidate who came out of nowhere to surge to almost 45 percent.
00:14:49.040Had he made it to 50, he would be the new president.
00:14:53.640Of course, the leftist dictator, outgoing president,
00:14:56.500is trying to throw sand in the gears and claim it wasn't an illegal election
00:15:01.020when there is no evidence to that effect.
00:15:03.600Where else could you hear this but the Stone Zone?
00:17:31.520Tying the hands of a president conducting foreign policy is unconstitutional.
00:17:35.960This decision obviously headed to a higher court, and we have a very strong reason to believe it will not survive review.
00:17:43.540But the Supreme Court has repeatedly been asked to clean up all of these left wing activists, left wing judge judicial decisions and their interference with Trump's policies, whether it was immigration reform or birthright citizenship to executive branch spending of fights.
00:18:02.040goes on to say that he doesn't have the authority to negotiate tariffs with our trading partners.
00:18:10.240This is an exceptional abuse of his executive power and it's unconstitutional.
00:18:16.760The problem is it takes months, maybe weeks, months, even years to get to a federal judge.
00:18:23.400When Trump uses presidential authority, liberal judges call it dangerous.
00:18:27.680When Democrats use government power to impose their culture ideology, the same legal class makes excuses or they look the other way.
00:18:39.120This case is not really about compassion.
00:18:41.240It's about whether or not the courts will let a Republican president run the military according to readiness, discipline, and national defense,
00:18:48.420or whether every major policy must pass first through some filter of woke identity politics.
00:18:56.040Judicial obstruction by these left-wing activist court judges are going too far.
00:19:00.660While the Supreme Court usually gets the right because President Trump's wise appointments to the bench have been decent,
00:19:06.780there's no reason why Trump should allow his agenda to be obstructed like this.
00:19:10.060It's time to follow, I think, the example of Andrew Jackson or Abraham Lincoln.
00:19:14.960Let the rogue lawyers on the bench have their little opinions and proceed forward with saving America anyway using your executive power.
00:19:23.100Meanwhile, we are going through and going to win some city politics on the other side.
00:19:28.580So Ramadami ups his propaganda budget to $5.2 million.
00:19:34.120We're going to lay it all out for you when we come back to the Stone Zone.
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00:20:09.720in america today where you can learn things you didn't know joining me now is mike howell he has
00:20:15.700been a leading voice in a government accountability project particularly as president the oversight
00:20:20.620project. He's been a leading proponent of this concept of a weaponization fund to assist those
00:20:28.660who were denied due process, those who were abused, weaponized the targets of prosecutorial
00:20:34.600misconduct, government overreach, and the other efforts to destroy President Donald Trump and,
00:20:41.020candidly, everybody who supported him. And it appears that the background here is that the
00:20:48.380The president had a pending suit with the IRS because they leaked his tax returns during the 2016 campaign.
00:20:54.960Every American is entitled to the confidentiality of their tax records, but thousands of Trump's personal and company tax records, as well as those of his children, were leaked by the IRS.
00:21:06.740It's a suit he would have won. He could have won. I think he sued for $10 billion.
00:21:10.240I think he settled for a couple billion with the understanding that the money would go into a fund that would help those who have been the targets of victimization, set up a scheme by which it would be administered.
00:21:21.220A federal judge seems to have stepped in to stop this particular plan, which I think certainly had a great purpose.
00:21:29.540Joining us now, Mike Howell, tell me what's up.
00:21:32.020Basically, the latest is a federal judge stepped in last week after 35 non-party judges sent a letter, retired judges, saying, hey, we don't like this thing, please stop it.
00:21:43.180Very unusual, very unheard of, actually.
00:21:46.500The judge agreed and then forced the Trump team to respond and gave him a deadline of a couple weeks.
00:21:51.500And so that's one kind of lane this is moving down.
00:21:54.520The real lane that I think people need to be focused on is the Senate Republicans.
00:21:58.320They are the ones who are most opposed to this fund.
00:22:02.020They are threatening to defund ICE and CBP unless President Trump abandons his plans for it.
00:22:08.620So, in other words, they would reopen the border and, you know, let ICE just go unfunded unless Trump kills this thing and, you know, does not compensate those who were harmed.
00:22:20.300It's an ultimate betrayal by the Rhino establishment.
00:22:23.200Majority Leader Thune is a chief architect of this posture.0.98
00:24:19.380Now, the million-dollar was pyrrhic, but it was important because it proved that a court of law ruled that they basically set Mike Flynn up.
00:24:27.720Two FBI agents went there to entrap him.
00:24:30.660Even those, they both, after the fact, said they didn't think he lied about anything.
00:24:34.680They were overruled by Andrew McCabe, the FBI agent.
00:24:38.220There's not even in the in the line of succession at the Justice Department.
00:24:43.200So it's a very strange thing when you say, Mike.
00:24:47.380I mean, these people and I agree with you, the January 6th victims deserve to be absolutely at the front of the line.
00:24:53.360And if I'm needing to lead this fund and the fund survives, these people will be paid in a matter of months.
00:24:58.440I mean, the speed at which you can operate in this independent funds would really shock some people.
00:25:04.080I guess I guess here is the here is the question that is, I'm not a lawyer, but basically, since this settlement has failed to serve its purpose, is there a way for Trump to revisit the case and litigate it?
00:25:17.580Because litigates is he'll win. That was the whole point of settling.
00:25:20.920I think your initial point is correct, that there could have been a cleaner way to do this.
00:25:25.540The political problem that I think President Trump was greeted with is he didn't want the money to hit his pockets at all.
00:25:30.520You can imagine what they would say, and then they'd come after him once again for this if you were to take the payment.
00:25:37.860He could have combated that by announcing the foundation in publishing the transfer of money from one bank to another with proper redactions, I suspect.
00:25:46.260It is a great tragedy because you and I both know people whose lives have been shattered.
00:25:50.800We know people, sadly, who committed suicide.
00:25:53.660We know families of people, two women who were shot in cold blood.
00:25:57.380One of them bludgeoned to death, the other one shot in cold blood.
00:26:00.520The only people who die on January 6th both died at the hands of overzealous, shall we say, Capitol Hill police.0.58
00:26:06.940Rather than be charged, those officers have been given medals and commendations, which is an absolute outrage to be beaten to death with a steel pipe, essentially, by a female officer.
00:26:18.820And then have the coroner say, oh, she died of a drug overdose.0.56
00:26:22.400Please. I speak of one of those who lost their lives.
00:26:27.360The harm is real and it's profound. And it's not just January 6th. Of course, that was the biggest example of it. But people had the full force of weaponization thrown at them for participating in all different activities, whether it's Christian protesters outside abortion clinics or parents at school boards.
00:26:46.320And to hear the Republican Senate and the rhinos refer to this thing as a slush fund is just obscene because, you know, not just a year or so ago, they would campaign with these people.
00:26:56.880They would, you know, issue statements in support of them.
00:26:59.640And now when there's a chance to help them, they're rug pulling on them and they're re-victimizing them all over again.
00:27:05.800And you know what is actually a slush fund?0.75
00:27:10.780How about virtually all the money they handed out to states like, you know, Minnesota, which has turned around and gave it to Somali warlords?
00:27:17.240The Senate operates off of actual slush funds.
00:27:19.780And here, when there's actually a chance to help real Americans, they thumb their nose at them and poke them in the eye and throw them under the bus.
00:27:28.520And to make matters worse, they threaten to open the border once again to return to the Biden years if they didn't get their way.
00:27:35.880And I don't think voters are going to forget that.
00:27:37.880at some point, the Senate needs to give people that support President Trump a reason to show up
00:27:42.880and vote for them. And here, they're just, you know, sticking them right in the eye.
00:27:46.600And I absolutely could not agree more. This is, unfortunately, again, I think the goal was a
00:27:54.760worthy one. But the president, I think, has to examine whether this can be revisited legally.
00:28:00.680He needs to continue to press the case. I think that's important. Generally speaking,
00:28:05.000I'm encouraged that Assistant Attorney General Todd Blanche now talking openly about investigating the 2020 election, looking at the safety and security and integrity of the electronic photo machines, presumably also has a seat at the table and looking at the material from the Fulton County warehouse, particularly the 300,000 ballots that were counted.
00:28:49.060And I'm certainly glad that, you know, acting AG Blanche seems to be asking them to
00:28:53.960and then also backing them up with action.
00:28:55.760I think he deserves tremendous applause for, you know, defending this fund to date.
00:29:00.540I hope he continues to. He went into the lion's den and got, you know, ripped a new one by Republican senators who, you know, obviously hate the concept of this so much because deep down they hate the MAGA movement.
00:29:12.660And so many of the victims of weaponization are part of the MAGA movement.
00:29:16.580That's why my candidacy, I've been saying I will make MAGA millionaires and because these people deserve it.
00:29:21.820Well, I will say this. The acting attorney general has also been very out front on the whole Russian collusion question, which as you now know, because it's a seditious conspiracy, sits in front of a South Florida grand jury and set of prosecutors.
00:29:38.040Todd Blanche has made changes in that team, has brought in Joe DiGenova, a veteran crime fighter, former head of the U.S. Attorney, I believe, for Manhattan, and also high up in the Justice Department to prosecute that case.
00:29:53.540And they get a jurisdiction that's not Washington, D.C., because they accurately make a case that this is a continuing conspiracy.
00:30:01.180She begins in the Oval Office with Barack Obama himself running the meeting.
00:30:05.740Joe Biden was there, helpfully suggesting that General Flynn be charged under the Logan Act.
00:30:21.980And you had John Brennan, who was probably giggling a lot because he was the major domo of this particular disaster.
00:30:29.900He's the guy who knew that the so-called Steele dossier was a fraud, paid for by Hillary Clinton.
00:30:37.180It was a fabrication, yet he carefully slid it in, not to the actual intelligence briefing, but into the footnotes of the briefing so he could then use it as a legal rationale to get spying on everybody and his brother.
00:30:51.160So these people are extraordinarily busted, and the question is, will they be prosecuted?
00:30:56.140The case against them is not a weak candidate case.
00:31:00.140They knew precisely what they're doing.
00:31:02.000They knew there was no intelligence breach at the department.
00:31:07.060They knew that there was no Russian hack of the Democrat National Committee.
00:31:11.040They had to prove any evidence whatsoever to prove that.
00:31:14.680And in fact, the empirical evidence proves the exact opposite.
00:31:18.280If you examine the speed time of the servers during which the material was purloined,
00:31:23.840that time is consistent with it being loaded to a hard disk and taken out the back door by
00:31:29.220someone that we can speculate about that but the their their whole narrative has fallen apart
00:31:35.800yet they still try to stick to it it's one thing about liberals they'll make an outrageous claim
00:31:41.200you just prove it they'll wait a couple weeks and then they'll recycle it and make the same
00:31:44.980claim again as if you've never addressed it you ever notice that oh yeah it's how you make the
00:31:49.040big lie they're the big liars and so you just repeat the lie over and over again until it0.96
00:31:53.420reaches a stage of near-religious dogma for them, that Trump is somehow a Russian stooge.0.99
00:31:59.640And that's how they try to tear this country apart.0.91
00:32:02.400I mean, they tricked a lot of people and still have many who have adopted that trick as an article of faith,
00:32:07.320and they did tremendous damage along the way.
00:32:09.780Yeah, when we come back, one of the things I want to talk to you about is the auto pen,
00:32:13.540because I'm, as a non-lawyer, I'm still convinced that the pardons that were signed by Joe Biden,
00:32:20.240many of them, if not all of them, utilizing the auto pen should not be legally binding
00:32:27.140because he didn't even know about them.
00:32:28.780He didn't authorize them other than in the most general way as he was, you know,
00:32:34.760as they were putting on his diapers and giving him his nightly medication.
00:33:28.640He proved it every single day, falling down,
00:33:30.920could not be able to find the audience,
00:33:33.480shaking hands with people who didn't exist,
00:33:35.800saying that he was in a different place than he was,
00:33:37.940trying to introduce somebody for which he just gave an obituary uh you remember some of those
00:33:43.120hits i mean it was really it was like a betty hill operation watching him campaign across the
00:33:47.940country right well he didn't even campaign across the country too much they hit him in the basement
00:33:52.060but jill biden lest us forget she's a medical doctor right we're to believe that and so i find
00:33:58.120it hard to believe she missed all the signs that everyone else in the country was so well aware of
00:34:03.840And I think the auto pen really was running the White House in the very earliest of days.
00:34:08.720I mean, we in our investigation, we've uncovered, you know, instances in which at the beginning of the administration, Joe was in the White House per the calendar.
00:34:16.540Yeah, the auto pen was still signing things.
00:34:18.680And so they started hiding it, you know, in full force during the campaign.
00:34:22.520And then when they went into the White House, they knew they would have a different type of administration, an auto pen administration.
00:34:28.340And it calls into question the, you know, serious legal question.0.76
00:34:31.720I think it's honestly beyond question, the legal validity of so many actions, including, you know, the commutations for violent criminals that, unfortunately, the Department of Justice is still treating as valid and releasing individuals.
00:34:45.160People who never expressed remorse and never applied for such for such clemency.