The StoneZONE with Roger Stone - June 10, 2026


The Stone Zone ｜ 06-09-26

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Donald Trump Lindsey Graham Joe Biden Karen Bass Ilhan Omar Brian Fair Thurman Raymond Spencer Pratt Keith Ellison Todd Blanche Charlie Kirk Nancy Mace Tom Homan Tim Walsh Mondami Antifa Flash Meta J. Strom Thurmond and 27 more
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Sen. Lindsey Graham and Pastor Mark Lynch are locked in a close primary battle for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate seat in South Carolina. Will he prevail? Will he be able to hold on to his seat?

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00:01:36.600 this is the stone zone with roger stone people love him and respect him roger stone
00:01:54.060 now get in the zone it's the stone zone here's roger stone
00:01:59.880 You are now diving into the deep end of the Stone Zone.
00:02:07.080 And if you're a political junkie like me, you're focused on South Carolina today,
00:02:11.860 where there are two big nationally followed primaries.
00:02:16.760 The most important one, of course, is where Senator Lindsey Graham faces off against Pastor Mark Lynch for the U.S. Senate seat.
00:02:26.120 The other one is a race in which fiery pro-Trump Congresswoman Nancy Mace faces Trump-endorsed South Carolina Lieutenant Governor Pamela Ebbett and longtime South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson.
00:02:43.160 The thing to remember about South Carolina is that their Republican primary is what is known as an open primary, meaning one does not have to be a registered Republican to vote in that particular election.
00:02:57.420 One can be a Republican, a Democrat, or neither one, someone of no party at all, and that affords an enormous advantage to Lindsey Graham.
00:03:08.680 Many of my Trump-supporting friends would like to see Lindsey Graham be defeated tonight.
00:03:13.600 That wouldn't upset me either, although I think because of a very large crossover vote, there's not much competition for the Democrat nomination,
00:03:23.240 the state being overwhelmingly now a Republican bastion, the odds are still with Lindsey Graham.
00:03:30.920 I saw the senator in Washington, D.C., in the Four Seasons Hotel about, I don't know, three weeks ago.
00:03:37.780 Candidly, he was so drunk he could barely stand up.
00:03:41.880 I do recall once at Mar-a-Lago, I guess it was last summer, when I went to an outdoor reception by the swimming pool,
00:03:50.540 and my wife was with me and there was Lindsey Graham holding forth with his back to the pool,
00:03:57.520 maybe just maybe two feet away from the pool. I guess I got a rather devilish grin on my face.
00:04:05.440 My wife looked at me and said, don't even think about it. I knew, of course, that if I
00:04:11.840 tossed the senator into the pool, the Secret Service would probably not only throw me out
00:04:17.800 immediately, but ban me from Mar-a-Lago for life, which probably wouldn't have been worth it. But I
00:04:24.760 must admit, the idea did cross my mind. It's interesting because South Carolina's open
00:04:31.160 primary has a long tradition. See, in 1964, Democrat Senator J. Strom Thurmond, who had also
00:04:40.620 served as governor of South Carolina, in the middle of his six-year term, decided to switch
00:04:47.080 parties in order to support Barry Goldwater as the Republican nominee for president. Now,
00:04:54.880 the Senator Thurman could have just finished out the balance of his six-year term, the second
00:05:00.800 three years of his term, with the R designation after his name. But Thurman, who was a man of
00:05:09.040 deep principle, insisted that it would be unfair to the voters of South Carolina for him to have
00:05:15.160 been elected as a Democrat and then serve as a Republican. So he insisted on resigning his
00:05:21.440 Senate seat, creating a vacancy, and then running in the Republican primary for the Republican
00:05:28.520 nomination for a new election to win the seat. Of course, tens of thousands of conservative
00:05:35.460 Democrats, something that doesn't exist anymore, crossed over into the then fairly anemic and small
00:05:42.500 South Carolina Republican Party primary to nominate Thurman, who was then reelected to the U.S. Senate.
00:05:51.020 So the open primary has a long tradition in South Carolina.
00:05:55.860 I'll be glued to the TV tonight to see how this particular race comes out.
00:06:01.360 President Trump has endorsed Pamela Evitt, the current lieutenant governor, as has the current governor of South Carolina.
00:06:11.000 and those are probably strong indicators.
00:06:15.240 Nancy Mace is a fiery candidate, but the odds are against her. 0.99
00:06:19.040 On the other hand, she is a fighter.
00:06:21.680 We'll be watching these races very carefully.
00:06:24.800 President Donald Trump made history Monday night,
00:06:27.320 becoming the first sitting president ever to attend an NBA Finals game.
00:06:32.960 President Trump appeared at Madison Square Garden for Game 3
00:06:35.860 between the New York Knicks and the San Antonio Spurs,
00:06:38.860 A major sports moment, as the Knicks have not been in this position for 27 years.
00:06:45.480 That made it even bigger by the presence of the Commander-in-Chief.
00:06:49.880 The president, long familiar to New York sports fans and once a regular courtside presence at Knicks games,
00:06:56.960 was met with a mix of cheers and boos as he arrived.
00:07:00.420 It is, after all, Manhattan.
00:07:02.220 Inside the arena, some fans booed when he was shown on the Jumbotron during the National Anthem,
00:07:07.460 but the moment was later answered by chants of USA from the many New York patriots in attendance in the audience.
00:07:14.700 NBA Commissioner Adam Silver noted before tip-off that Trump has long been a fixture at Madison Square Garden,
00:07:22.620 saying he used to have courtside seats and was there all the time.
00:07:26.480 Outside the arena, of course, left-wing protesters tried to turn the night political,
00:07:31.520 carrying anti-Trump songs and signs and shouting vulgar chants.
00:07:36.140 But inside, the night belonged to basketball, patriotism, and a president who once again showed no fear as he walked into potentially hostile territory.
00:07:46.740 Security was heightened for the event, with the Knicks organization warning fans ahead of time about strict screening procedures and a no-bag policy.
00:07:56.200 As for the game, there would be no Knicks coronation in New York. 0.90
00:07:59.600 The Spurs beat the Knicks 115-111, handing New York its first loss after an incredible 13 straight playoff wins.
00:08:08.880 Perhaps that was some karma for the rude Knicks fans who had the audacity to boo their president.
00:08:14.500 But the Knicks will have a chance to make a commanding 3-1 series lead during the next game at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday.
00:08:22.940 Meanwhile, President Donald Trump has spoken out about the California electric robbery.
00:08:29.180 California's slow-motion vote counting is reminding Americans of the disaster of the stolen 2020 presidential election,
00:08:38.080 and President Trump is rightfully once again up in arms.
00:08:43.500 In Los Angeles, Republican Spencer Pratt, who had been leading progressive councilwoman Nithya Raman in the race for the final runoff spot against Mayor Karen Bass,
00:08:55.160 throughout the night. He took off to an early strong position. In fact, Raymond even conceded
00:09:01.720 on election night. Then, days after the polls closed, as waves of late-counted mail ballots
00:09:09.120 rolled in from somewhere, Raymond suddenly surged past him by amassing a percentage of support that
00:09:16.480 previously seemed unpredictable. Mathematicians tell me it is actually statistically impossible.
00:09:22.680 By Monday evening, with 93% of the vote counted, Raymond, the radical left city council member, stood at 28.6% compared to Pratt's 25.8, a swing large enough to erase Pratt's advantage, leaving roughly 22,000 votes between them.
00:09:42.320 Democrat election officials want the public to accept that this is normal
00:09:46.960 But to Trump supporters, this pattern looks painfully familiar
00:09:51.780 Republican leads on election nights
00:09:53.880 Followed by days or even weeks of mail ballot shenanigans
00:09:57.500 And counting that move in one direction
00:10:00.060 The chances of almost 80 plus percent of the late mail ballots
00:10:05.080 Being for the radical left city councilwoman are statistically impossible
00:10:10.200 But we're expected to believe it anyway.
00:10:13.160 California's defenders point to signature checks, chain of custody rules, and equipment testing.
00:10:18.840 All red herrings designed to prevent further scrutiny and investigation into how elections in the Golden State are really run.
00:10:27.080 The state does not have mandated voter ID.
00:10:29.940 In fact, voter ID is specifically illegal.
00:10:33.640 The rolls are notoriously dirty.
00:10:35.420 and why ballot harvesting is rampant, it has been thoroughly documented.
00:10:41.500 This creates a perfect storm, allowing for fraud.
00:10:45.020 Perhaps going head-to-head with Karen Bass, the current mayor,
00:10:49.100 would have been a disaster for the political establishment,
00:10:51.900 so they couldn't let that happen.
00:10:53.700 Bass, by the way, says that her two political heroes are Mao Zedong and Fidel Castro,
00:10:58.860 to give you some idea where she stands on the political spectrum.
00:11:03.260 Voters simply cannot trust a system that takes weeks to count ballots 0.54
00:11:06.960 and repritively replaces these late bracing results that overwhelmingly benefit Democrats or leftists.
00:11:13.900 President Trump's objection is not an attack on democracy.
00:11:17.180 He's attempting to prevent attacks on democracy from the rigors.
00:11:21.160 A massive federal investigation is needed into these fraudulent results.
00:11:25.220 I hope Attorney General-designate Todd Blanche will conduct such an investigation.
00:11:33.220 The media and Kristen Welker of NBC are still reeling from her disastrous clash with President Donald Trump.
00:11:41.560 This is the moment nobody wants to talk about.
00:11:44.260 After nine years of rallies, press conferences, and tape sit-downs,
00:11:48.680 the press is now boxed into three choices every time Donald Trump sits across from them.
00:11:53.780 And every one of those choices is potentially a nightmare for them.
00:11:57.960 Option one, keep pressing for evidence.
00:12:00.500 Trump says, all I have to do is look, I listen to people.
00:12:04.320 The anchor then demands court-level sourcing.
00:12:07.140 Trump calls them crooked and walks off.
00:12:09.520 Clip goes vile with Trump as the decisive one and the anchor as the mean-spirited aggressor.
00:12:15.800 Network spent a travel budget to Wisconsin for a segment that in this case ended in 90 sections.
00:12:22.380 Option two, accept for the frame and move on.
00:12:25.520 Don't challenge the California election claims.
00:12:27.720 Don't push back on five days and no winner.
00:12:30.500 Let dirty elections stand without a follow-up.
00:12:33.600 Audience sees the network validating the narrative.
00:12:36.460 Every future anchor gets the same treatment because it worked.
00:12:40.360 Or option three, don't take the interview.
00:12:43.460 Refuse to sit down entirely.
00:12:45.720 Trump holds rallies.
00:12:47.200 Posts on Truth Social sets the agenda anyway.
00:12:51.380 Networks lose access, loses the clip, loses the audience.
00:12:55.520 We traveled all the way to Wisconsin becomes impossible to say.
00:12:58.860 The story becomes, media too afraid to interview the president.
00:13:03.220 So let that one sink in.
00:13:05.000 There is no option four.
00:13:06.520 There is no clean exit.
00:13:08.000 There is no we are right to ask the questions, and he answered it.
00:13:12.240 The media is showing a president who got a little bit angry in the rain
00:13:15.780 and walked off from a barn roof interview in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin.
00:13:20.420 They're not showing you that every path forward for the press leads to the same outcome.
00:13:24.900 Trump controls the frame, the clip, and the story.
00:13:28.860 In this particular exchange, Welker yet again insisted that there is absolutely, positively no evidence of election fraud in the 2020 election, which is, of course, on the face of it, absurd at this point.
00:13:43.940 There's enough time in this program to go through all of the evidence of fraud.
00:13:48.720 But just the statistical anomalies of, once again, in three states at 3 o'clock in the morning,
00:13:55.560 300,000 paper ballots, in Michigan at least, and in Pennsylvania, had never been folded in half
00:14:01.900 and therefore never really mailed, showing up at the same time pulling Joe Biden ahead.
00:14:08.200 Just one of the many examples.
00:14:10.080 The other outrageous claim is that there's no evidence that January 6th was a setup, and specifically no evidence that police officers from the Capitol Hill Police Office or the FBI actually motioned individual protesters into the Capitol.
00:14:26.640 But anybody can go online to virtually any of the on-site social media platforms and find videos that show exactly that.
00:14:38.680 The big lie continues, the media will never give up, repeating over and over what has been thoroughly and completely disproved.
00:14:47.860 Meanwhile, liberals are up in arms after a new State Department data has shown that every refugee admitted to the United States last month was a white South African.
00:14:56.700 In May, all 599 refugees accepted into the country came from South Africa after during hardships from the black supremacist government lording over their once great country.
00:15:09.600 Since October 1st of 2025, the U.S. has admitted 6,668 refugees, with 6,665 of them identified as white South Africans and just three from Afghanistan.
00:15:22.780 Trump administration made clear this policy
00:15:25.560 Primarily at Afrikaners
00:15:27.240 And other victims of unjust discrimination
00:15:29.680 And violence in their homelands
00:15:31.980 President Trump previously lowered
00:15:34.020 The annual refugee cap to 7,500
00:15:37.420 A sharp break from the Biden-era limit
00:15:40.320 Of 125,000 overall
00:15:42.860 Left is already attacking the policy as racist
00:15:46.440 Anything they don't like is racist
00:15:48.940 But conservatives should say plainly
00:15:51.040 the media often refuses to admit. South African farmers and Africana families have faced
00:15:56.540 serious threats include farm attacks, political hostility, outrageous violence, and growing
00:16:02.420 concerns over property rights and safety, including murder. America cannot take in the world, but
00:16:09.280 refugee policy should be based on real persecution, national interest, and careful vetting, not
00:16:15.840 globalist guilt politics. For years, Democrats opened the doors to massive refugee admissions
00:16:21.760 while dismissing Christians, farmers, Western-aligned communities facing violence or
00:16:26.860 discrimination abroad. I'm Roger Stone. You're listening to The Stone Zone on the Red Apple
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00:20:12.240 The Trump administration is escalating its crackdown on immigration fraud,
00:20:16.460 announcing Monday that it is seeking to revoke the citizenship of 17 naturalized U.S. citizens
00:20:23.000 accused of lying, hiding criminal conduct, or otherwise abusing the path to American citizenship.
00:20:29.400 Justice Department officials say this is the largest ever effort by the federal government
00:20:33.380 to use its denaturalization powers.
00:20:36.700 Those powers are not new.
00:20:38.860 Federal law has long allowed the government to ask courts to strip citizenship from foreign-born individuals 0.95
00:20:44.400 who obtained it through fraud or concealment, like Ilhan Omar, who should be asked exactly that.
00:20:51.540 What is new is that President Trump is actually using the law as it should be used.
00:20:56.260 The latest cases include individuals accused or convicted of serious crimes,
00:21:00.760 including child sex offenses, fraud schemes, false identification, money laundering, and immigration fraud.
00:21:09.040 In the next 24 hours, I will launch a major report on the question of Ilhan Omar and whether she did, as I assert and document very carefully, marry her own brother in an effort to enter the United States illegally.
00:21:24.220 Nowhere does it say that a member of Congress is immune from federal law.
00:21:29.220 So keep an eye out for that.
00:21:30.820 We're going to be following that issue very closely.
00:21:33.140 These new federal complaints argue that concealing criminal activity when applying for citizenship, while others allegedly failed to meet the basic requirements of good moral character, shows that they will throw you out of the country.
00:21:45.820 Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said the Justice Department will have a zero tolerance now for abuse of the naturalization process, warning that criminal aliens have lied about past crimes, including drug dealing, sexual predation, and fraud will be tossed from the country.
00:22:01.980 My question is a simple one. What about Congresswoman Ilhan Omar? If anybody should be tossed from the country, it is her. For some reason, those who have exposed her have been exposed to the worst kind of weaponization by the Biden administration. I will be exposing all that in the next 12 weeks.
00:22:31.980 this is the stone zone with roger stone roger stone who's a very very one of the smartest
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00:22:55.040 Welcome back into the Stone Zone.
00:22:59.240 Leading the news, Iran has shot down a U.S. Black Hawk helicopter over the Strait of Hormuz,
00:23:06.340 and President Donald Trump says they will pay.
00:23:09.460 Last night, over the Strait of Hormuz, a waterway under which almost 20% of the world's energy must flow,
00:23:16.420 the most important 21 miles of water on planet Earth, the Ayatollahs regime made a decision.
00:23:22.660 They looked up at an American AH-64 Apache helicopter, two American soldiers inside patrolling international waters near the coast of Oman, and they pulled the trigger.
00:23:35.140 At 7.33 p.m. Eastern Time on June 8th, that Apache, pardon me, I correct myself, I earlier said I was a Blackhawk, was an Apache, that Apache helicopter went down into the dark waters of the Gulf. 0.55
00:23:47.180 And for two agonizing orders, two American aviators floated in hostile seas while the world's most dangerous regime watched.
00:23:55.500 Thank God and thank the finest military on the face of Earth.
00:23:59.760 Those two pilots are alive tonight, safe and uninjured.
00:24:04.240 And here is the part history will remember.
00:24:06.880 They were pulled out of the water by an unmanned American drone boat.
00:24:11.420 A 24-foot Corsair vessel operated by the Navy's Task Force 59.
00:24:17.960 This is the first sea drone rescue in the history of warfare.
00:24:22.540 While Tehran was playing with fire, American innovation here was saving American lives.
00:24:28.720 Let that contrast sink in for a moment.
00:24:31.420 So here's what we know.
00:24:33.000 The U.S. Army, A-864 Apache attack was brought down over the Strait of Hormuz.
00:24:37.800 U.S. Central Command initially called it an incident under investigation.
00:24:43.040 Then President Trump, briefed by the military, confirmed it himself on his true social media platform.
00:24:50.760 The Iranians shot it down, he said.
00:24:53.180 The U.S. official says the investigation determined that Iranians' drone struck the helicopter,
00:24:58.440 although Washington has not yet declared where the strike was intentional.
00:25:02.540 I think we can figure that one out.
00:25:04.520 This happened again off the coast of Oman.
00:25:07.060 the choke point through which actually about a fifth of the world's oil must flow,
00:25:11.620 and the watered array that Iran has effectively strangled since the war began in late February.
00:25:17.320 There were, as I say, two U.S. Army aviators, both rescued roughly two hours after going down. 0.94
00:25:23.140 Both, I'm happy to say now, perfectly safe.
00:25:26.120 The Apache they flew is no ordinary aircraft.
00:25:29.180 These helicopters are the tip of the spear when it comes to enforcing America's blockade on Iranian crude oil.
00:25:36.300 the economic chokehold designed to drag Tehran to the negotiating table.
00:25:41.740 The timing here is very key.
00:25:43.940 Timing, my friends, is never an accident in geopolitics.
00:25:47.720 The shootdown came one day after Israel and Iran exchanged direct fire for the first time since April 8th
00:25:55.020 and the declared ceasefire.
00:25:57.380 And mere hours before President Trump leaving the NBA Finals game in New York,
00:26:02.240 told reporters of the United States and Iran were in the final stages of what would be a very, very good deal.
00:26:09.560 A deal to end Iran's nuclear ambitions, a deal to reopen the strait,
00:26:14.500 a deal, he said, that could be signed in two or three days. 0.53
00:26:18.980 And what was Tehran's answer? 0.92
00:26:20.880 A drone into an American helicopter in an attempt to kill two Americans. 0.61
00:26:26.700 Iran's response? 0.66
00:26:27.640 No claim of responsibility, no apology. Instead, Foreign Minister Abbas Argarachi took to X with a threat dressed up as advice, saying foreign forces near Iranian territory face constant risk from accidents and crossfire, that the best way to reduce the risk is for America to leave the region, and that while Iran prefers the language of democracy, it speaks other languages as well.
00:26:56.820 That's not only a threat, it's an insult.
00:26:59.360 That, ladies and gentlemen, is not diplomacy.
00:27:01.880 That is like a mob boss telling you it would be a shame if something happened to your helicopter.
00:27:07.720 Make no mistake about what this was.
00:27:09.840 This was not an accident.
00:27:11.200 This was yet another test. 0.97
00:27:12.840 The mullahs have read the old playbook, provoke, deny, negotiate, bleed America with a thousand small cuts, and bet that Washington blinks.
00:27:22.380 They ran that play on weak administrations like Joe Biden's for 40 years, and unfortunately it worked. 0.90
00:27:29.180 But here's what the regime apparently forgot.
00:27:31.700 Donald Trump's red line has been public for months.
00:27:34.460 He has told his own aides he would consider restarting a full war if Iran kills American service members.
00:27:40.840 Nobody, thank God, died last night.
00:27:43.020 But as one analyst put it, that was not for a lack of effort on Tehran's part.
00:27:48.380 So why pull the trigger?
00:27:50.280 Three possibilities.
00:27:51.620 and they may all be true at once.
00:27:53.880 One, Iran wants to test whether Trump's red line is real. 0.60
00:27:58.800 Two, Iran wants to humiliate him,
00:28:01.540 forcing him to absorb an attack before signing this peace deal.
00:28:05.780 Or three, the hardliners in Tehran simply want the war to continue.
00:28:10.680 Whatever their motive, they have made a catastrophic miscalculation
00:28:14.020 about the man in the Oval Office.
00:28:16.960 President's words on True Social were unmistakable.
00:28:19.640 He confirmed the Iranians shot down one of our highly sophisticated Apache helicopters patrolling the strait.
00:28:27.020 He confirmed both pilots were safe and uninjured, and then came the sentence that should keep Tehran awake at night.
00:28:33.680 Nevertheless, the United States must, of necessity, respond to this attack.
00:28:39.720 Must, of necessity, respond.
00:28:43.080 Fox News, reporting from the White House, suggests the president is inclined to order something big.
00:28:47.920 So what are the scenarios? Let's watch this closely. Potential scenario one, the calibrated
00:28:54.340 strike. America hits a high-value Iranian military target, the kind of precision punishment we saw 0.75
00:29:00.260 earlier this month on Quelm Island, sends the message and returns to the table. The deal 0.83
00:29:06.400 survives. The strait reopens. Peace through strength executed to perfection. Scenario two,
00:29:13.900 escalation. Iran responds to the response. Missiles fly to American bases as they did in 0.78
00:29:20.860 Kuwait. The April ceasefire already hanged by a thread after the Israel-Iran exchange of yesterday
00:29:27.220 collapses entirely. The war that has already shaken the global economy, spiked energy prices,
00:29:33.280 and driven up the cost of food on your table comes roaring back at full strength. And then
00:29:38.600 there's scenario three. Unlikely. Tehran folds. The regime, staring down a blockade that is
00:29:44.960 strangling its oil revenue, and a president who does not bluff signs the deal. The nuclear program
00:29:51.700 ends. The state reopens immediately upon signing as the president demands, and this shoot down
00:29:57.480 becomes a mere footnote. The regime's last desperate act of defiance before capitulation.
00:30:03.500 I still believe the president holds the cards. The blockade is choking Tehran's treasury. The deal is sitting on the table.
00:30:11.520 Iran can sign it or Iran can find out what American resolve actually looks like.
00:30:17.020 This is not an abstraction, my friends. This is your gas prices, your grocery bill.
00:30:22.020 The 100-day war has already made the basics more expensive for every working family in America.
00:30:27.420 The fastest way to end it is not through weakness. It's through strength.
00:30:32.500 It is a president willing to say what he means and do what he says.
00:30:37.140 Two American pilots came home safe last night, plucked from the sea by a robot boat that didn't exist as a rescue tool until America built it.
00:30:46.240 The question now is whether the regime in Tehran is smart enough to come to the table or arrogant enough to learn the hard way.
00:30:53.520 Stay tuned. This is far from over.
00:30:56.580 Now, I know Donald Trump. I've known him for 50 years.
00:31:00.340 He is not a man to cross. He is anxious to end this war, but to do so on equitable terms, but never underestimate his strength and his resolve.
00:31:11.320 We'll be following this story very closely.
00:31:14.160 Meanwhile, the high-tech firm Meta is making a major bet on American workers.
00:31:20.740 And this time, it's not about another university pipeline or another diversity seminar.
00:31:26.200 It's about skilled trades.
00:31:28.100 On Monday, Meta announced America's Workforce Academy, calling it the largest private sector commitment to the skilled trades with a job guarantee in American history.
00:31:39.360 The program is set to launch in 2026 at pilot locations in Louisiana, Ohio, Indiana, and Texas, backed by an initial $115 million first-year investment.
00:31:51.640 The Academy will be free for participants who will be paid while they learn.
00:31:55.900 Graduates will earn nationally recognized credentials through the National Center for Construction Education and Research, along with an American workforce certificate designed to move them across employers and industries.
00:32:08.940 Reminds me of when I was growing up, my parents told me that I should be a plumber or an electrician or a wallboard man.
00:32:16.660 Those guys made good money, my dad said.
00:32:19.480 Instead, I chose politics.
00:32:21.520 I always confused my parents until the day I introduced my father to Ronald Reagan in Norwalk, Connecticut at a rally.
00:32:28.300 And then he understood why I had taken my life in a different direction.
00:32:32.860 Here, more importantly, Metta says every graduate will be guaranteed a job.
00:32:36.620 This is the kind of workforce development that common sense Americans have long called for.
00:32:42.240 Practical training, no college debt, real credentials, and a direct path to gainful employment.
00:32:48.100 Mike Rowe, a longtime advocate for the trades, praised the program, saying workers will be paid to learn, face zero cost, earn fast certification, and have a guaranteed job waiting when they get out.
00:33:02.140 The announcement comes as meta restructures around artificial intelligence after laying off about 10% of its global workforce and moving thousands of remaining employees into AI-related initiatives.
00:33:17.120 Now, AI may eliminate some white-collar jobs, but it will also require electricians, fiber installers, building and construction workers, and technicians.
00:33:27.460 So, Meta's move makes business sense and should be sustainable.
00:33:31.980 Still, we should not just trust big tech.
00:33:34.220 The only reason that Meta is making these moves is because President Trump and his MAGA agenda have pressured them to do so.
00:33:41.060 We must keep the pressure on and ensure that Meta and all the other tech giants fulfill their commitments to America.
00:33:48.400 Meanwhile, another liberal activist federal judge has stepped in to block President Trump's immigration agenda,
00:33:54.800 this time striking down his $100,000 fee on H-1B visa petitions,
00:34:01.240 a policy designed to protect American workers and stop corporations from using foreign labor as a cheap substitute.
00:34:09.100 U.S. District Judge Leo Sorokin ruled on June 8th that the fee was unlawful, claiming it amounted to a tax that Congress had not authorized.
00:34:20.240 He also said the Trump administration violated the Administrative Procedure Act by putting the policy in place without a public comment period.
00:34:28.100 The result is another incomprehensible decision from the federal bench, a judge acknowledging the president has brought authority to restrict the entry of non-citizens while still blocking one of the tools Trump chooses to enforce that very authority.
00:34:42.500 President Trump announced the fees as part of his effort to reform the H-1B system, which has long been criticized as a pipeline for replacing American professionals with foreign workers who work for cheaper and displace our native workforce.
00:34:59.040 The fee would have forced companies to think twice before reaching overseas instead of hiring qualified Americans here at home.
00:35:07.020 It's common sense, but Massachusetts and 19 other Democrat-led states sued, and now one judge has wiped out the policy nationwide.
00:35:17.040 Big tech firms and other chronic exploiters of the H-1B visas are no doubt very happy at this news, but this is becoming, sadly, a familiar pattern.
00:35:27.960 Voters elect Trump to secure the border, restore immigration sanity,
00:35:32.120 and put American workers first.
00:35:33.860 Then activist judges turn around, spit on the will of the people.
00:35:37.540 Well, this fight is not over.
00:35:39.240 An appeal is currently pending, but the fact that we have to put on these demeaning
00:35:43.200 song and dance routines in front of these power drunk, robed judges is an outrage.
00:35:49.000 Andrew Jackson would not have taken this.
00:35:51.100 In my opinion, neither should President Donald Trump.
00:35:54.860 Meanwhile, the Trump administration pledges to put ICE agents in the streets of New York City.
00:35:59.280 The Trump administration is preparing to send a major surge of ICE officers into New York City
00:36:04.440 after Governor Kathy Hochul signed a sweeping anti-ICE package that critics say protects illegal immigrants
00:36:11.120 and makes the city less safe.
00:36:14.120 Boarder czar Tom Homan told Fox and Friends on Monday,
00:36:17.500 the New Yorkers are about to see more ICE agents than you have ever seen in New York City.
00:36:23.060 Holman said he had just reviewed the operational plans and made clear the deployment is coming.
00:36:28.420 His message of common sense is simple.
00:36:31.100 If New York blocks safe immigration arrests around county jails, federal agents will have to go into neighborhoods instead.
00:36:37.740 This is the public safety point Democrats keep ignoring.
00:36:41.240 When ICE can work with sheriffs and arrest criminal illegal aliens inside secure facilities, one officer can make the arrests safely.
00:36:49.100 But when sanctuary politicians interfere, ICE has to send in entire teams into communities to find people who do not want to be found.
00:36:58.680 The governor calls it a protection from federal overreach, but in actuality, it is destroying public safety for the purposes of scoring partisan political points.
00:37:07.860 Homan has warned New York that this would happen. Now he says he's keeping that promise.
00:37:12.080 The Trump administration's position is clear. Illegal immigrants who break the law will not get special protection just because New York Democrats want a political fight with Washington.
00:37:22.200 The Trump administration will not blink and will not allow lawlessness to reign supreme in the Big Apple.
00:37:28.740 I'm Roger Stone. You're listening to The Stone Zone, and we'll be right back.
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00:38:33.080 A Republican-led House Oversight Committee report is exposing Minnesota Democrats
00:38:38.020 for allowing one of the largest welfare fraud scandals in American history
00:38:42.460 out of cowardly fear of being seen as racist.
00:38:46.700 The report says fraud concerns in Minnesota's social service programs
00:38:50.640 reached senior officials in Governor Tim Walsh's office,
00:38:54.520 as well as that of Attorney General Keith Ellison,
00:38:56.780 as early as 2019 and 2020.
00:39:00.020 But instead of aggressive action to enforce the law,
00:39:02.900 the committee says state leaders delayed, avoided, or softened their response
00:39:07.060 while taxpayer money kept flowing and the American people continued to be built.
00:39:12.080 At the center of the report is the Feeding Our Future scandal,
00:39:16.080 where more than 110 people have been charged so far and over 60 have been convicted or pleaded guilty
00:39:21.980 in a scheme that siphoned off money meant to feed children.
00:39:26.320 According to the committee, officials had authorities to spend questionable payments,
00:39:30.640 but they failed to act decisively at all.
00:39:33.240 The report found that fears of being accused of racism played the major role.
00:39:38.420 One Minnesota education official reporter said she had been warned not to do anything that could be seen as targeting diverse communities, even while fraud concerns were mounting.
00:39:48.580 Somalis had been deified by liberals who kept letting them into their communities, alleviating their original sin of white guilt. 0.98
00:39:56.280 Instead, they were invited parasites to eat them from within. 0.79
00:39:59.760 The report also says Ellison, a radical Muslim himself, who's an open supporter of Antifa, domestic terrorism, met with individuals tied to the Feeding Our Future in 2021, and the campaign donations later came from affiliates to him, now connected to these very criminal proceedings.
00:40:18.760 proceedings. House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer called it a stunning failure, saying
00:40:25.920 that the Walsh administration failed the taxpayers. Democrats got high on their own supply. They said
00:40:32.960 that multiculturalism was the future and that diversity was our strength. But now we're seeing
00:40:39.820 the fruits of this new system, and they are foul indeed. It's time to send the illegal foreigners 1.00
00:40:45.380 back to where they belong, either out of the country or to jail, and put their crooked enterprises 1.00
00:40:50.740 out of commission. Meanwhile, we spoke yesterday extensively about the Southern Poverty Law Center.
00:40:57.460 They are, yet again today, under fire on Capitol Hill after their interim CEO, Brian Fair, refused
00:41:04.180 to back down from the group's decision to label Turning Point USA as a hate group. During a House
00:41:11.020 Judiciary Committee hearing, Republican
00:41:13.020 Congressman Daryl Issa pressed
00:41:15.140 Mr. Fair directly asking whether
00:41:16.960 the Southern Poverty Law Center
00:41:18.900 would recant its attacks on figures like
00:41:20.960 Dr. Alveda King
00:41:22.640 and the late Charlie Kirk.
00:41:25.380 Fair would not give a yes.
00:41:26.880 Instead, he said the Southern Poverty Law
00:41:28.980 Center would continue to expose
00:41:30.520 hate and extremism, even though we now
00:41:33.060 know they were subsidizing
00:41:34.980 organizations like the Ku Klux
00:41:37.240 Klan and other white extremist
00:41:39.340 groups. You see, if there is no right extremism, then there's no ability for them to raise money
00:41:44.520 to fight right-wing extremism. So they created right-wing extremism by funding informants and
00:41:51.700 funding extremist organizations. This is what is known as a scam. Turning Point USA was added to
00:41:59.680 the Southern Poverty Law Center's hate map in 2025 with the organization accusing TPSO-UASA,
00:42:07.020 That's Charlie Kirk's group of promoting fear and defending what it called white-dominated male supremacist Christian order.
00:42:14.980 I ended up on the Southern Poverty Law Center list several times simply because, well, I'm a conservative Republican.
00:42:22.760 Republicans also pressed Mr. Fair yesterday on why the Southern Poverty Law Center targets Christian and conservative groups
00:42:29.280 by refusing to list violent left-wing movements such as Antifa.
00:42:34.120 Fair argued that Antifa is an ideology, not a group, an often debunked talking point used by apologists for left-wing terrorism.
00:42:43.200 We saw what happened in the Antifa riots at the end of Donald Trump's term.
00:42:48.440 Who paid for the bricks? Who paid for the flatbed trucks? Who paid for the buses?
00:42:53.960 Who paid for the lawyers who immediately bailed radicals out of jail after they were arrested?
00:42:58.960 No, Antifa is an organization, and it's a terrorist organization at that.
00:43:04.700 I'm Roger Stone. Thank you for joining us today in The Stone Zone.
00:43:07.760 Until tomorrow, God bless you and Godspeed.
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