Trump has been consistent in his opposition to Iran's nuclear program, but what will he actually do about it? Will he be willing to use American power to get them to give up their nuclear weapons program? Is it possible that he will decide to attack Iran, and if so, will he be prepared to do so?
00:03:17.000I trust Donald Trump with this decision and I will support his decision regardless of whether he decides
00:03:24.080that it is America's interest to use our power or not.
00:03:28.000Whether Israel could go it alone from a technological point of view is a legitimate question.
00:03:34.260I believe that their nuclear weapons development facility is situated in such a way that the capabilities of the Israelis may be insufficient,
00:03:45.780that it may take one of the 30,000-pound bunker-busting bombs to destroy it,
00:03:51.800although Colonel Douglas McGregor on this show only days ago questioned whether even that technology would work.
00:04:00.980So I will stick with Donald Trump on this and I will support whatever he decides,
00:04:06.860but I do not think that he will commit us to a long, drawn-out, endless war.
00:04:14.240You may remember yesterday we reported that the FBI turned over to Congress evidence that they knew at the FBI
00:04:25.400that 20,000 fake driver's licenses had been shipped to the United States from China prior to the 2020 election,
00:04:35.620but it seems like the previous leadership at the FBI, Christopher Wray and company, swept that under the carpet.
00:04:44.280Wray testified to Congress that he knew of no attempted foreign interference in our 2020 presidential election.
00:04:53.900That turns out to be completely and totally false.
00:04:59.120Now we have a new report that tells us that the current administration, the U.S. Justice Department,
00:05:07.820has ordered the Colorado Secretary of State, Jenna Griswold, to hand over all records related to the 2024 federal elections.
00:05:17.100In a letter to Secretary of State Griswold, the Attorney General wrote,
00:05:21.400The Department of Justice specifically said all statutes, regulations, written guidance, internal policies,
00:05:41.380and database user manuals that set out the procedures Colorado has put in place to retain, must be retained and sent to the Justice Department.
00:05:52.680Colorado Secretary of State, Jenna Griswold, responded to the order in a statement saying,
00:05:57.380saying, typically, Donald Trump has weaponized his Department of Justice targeting his perceived enemies
00:06:03.880and meddling in state cases to try and free those who supported his big election lie.
00:06:10.780Griswold said, I will not follow the law, pardon me, I will always follow the law and protect our democracy
00:06:16.460and won't be intimidated by this baseless inquiry.
00:06:20.320Madam Secretary of State, just hand over the evidence.
00:06:23.840If you're right, you'll be proven right.
00:06:27.380In March of last year, the Supreme Court of the United States unanimously reversed Secretary of State Griswold's illegal decision
00:06:34.800to remove President Donald Trump from the state's primary ballot.
00:06:39.060And in that act, of course, Griswold's bias and her anti-Trump stance is completely and totally revealed.
00:06:48.360Griswold again came under scrutiny after passwords to the state's voting systems were posted to her office's website,
00:06:56.380immediately prior to the 2024 presidential election.
00:07:00.580Yet it was Tina Peters, who is no stranger to those who spent any time in the Stone Zone,
00:07:07.640the 69-year-old former Mesa County clerk that was prosecuted by the state of Colorado and sentenced to a nine-year sentence for, quote,
00:07:18.240allowing unauthorized access to voting machines.
00:07:21.860Recently, President Donald Trump said that Peters is an innocent political prisoner and urged the Department of Justice to secure her release.
00:07:31.180Unfortunately, however, Peters, who has appeared on this show, is charged and convicted and incarcerated on state charges in the Department of Justice,
00:07:42.660nor the federal courts have the authority to either pardon her or to order her release.
00:07:49.160Because Griswold, in my opinion, has a lot to answer for, and she needs to turn over her records to the federal investigators immediately.
00:07:57.980We're going to continue to follow the story right here in the Stone Zone.
00:08:02.840Meanwhile, Donald Trump celebrates his personal project of raising two White House flagpoles.
00:08:08.500President Trump was excited about the White House raising these two flagpoles earlier today.
00:08:13.400It is my great honor to announce that I'll be putting up two beautiful flagpoles on both sides of the White House, north and south lawns,
00:08:22.720President Trump said on a posting on Two Social.
00:08:25.440It is a gift from me of something which was always missing from this magnificent place.
00:08:31.620Now, there's a certain irony here, because those who will remember that after he bought the palatial Mar-a-Lago property in Palm Beach,
00:08:40.840the president erected a huge flagpole and put up an American flag that exceeded the size of flags allowed by the county in their local regulations.
00:08:55.860They ordered Trump to take the flag down.
00:08:58.880Trump refused to take the flag down, so they fined him.
00:09:06.180He continued to pay the fine until he ultimately prevailed in court in which he argued that the flag was protected by his First Amendment rights
00:09:18.380and there was no good public purpose for limiting the size of it.
00:09:23.240As you approach Mar-a-Lago from any direction, you can still see that magnificently large,
00:09:30.440some would say huge, Trumpian-American flag today.
00:09:36.060The two-flagg poles construction began at 7.30 this morning.
00:09:42.060The flags were raised at about 11 o'clock.
00:09:46.380The president described them, the flagpoles that is, as tall, tapered, rust-proof,
00:09:52.740with the rope inside the pole and of the highest quality.
00:09:57.780Hopefully, they will proudly stand on both sides of the White House for many years to come.
00:10:04.040Now, these two flagpoles on the North Lawn and one on the South Lawn cost Trump about $50,000 each to complete,
00:10:12.140all of it paid for out of his own pocket as a gift to the American people.
00:10:17.920Only if you're in construction is this exciting, Trump said this morning.
00:10:22.860Speaking of the construction of the poles, you see you have to get it perfectly straight,
00:10:26.460and once it's perfect, they pour in the sand, and it can be there for 100 years.
00:10:32.860Trump has taken interest in talking to the construction crews doing innovation this morning.
00:19:31.000And just so people understand that level of money, we're talking about $65 billion, Roger, being the total amount that the U.S. actually issues in foreign aid,
00:19:41.560meaning that the amount of money that is sent out of this country each year in remittances more than triples the amount of foreign aid that the government hands out each year.
00:19:50.980So we're not talking about a small figure.
00:19:53.640And this is money that's being sent outside of the United States at a 0% tax rate.
00:20:00.040Really unbelievable, Roger, that we don't tax this money being sent out at all.
00:20:05.560Now, you mentioned $150 billion, $300 billion.
00:20:09.500There's about $150 billion in remittances or money sent outside the country that we can track,
00:20:15.980that the IRS is supposedly, although we're told the tracking is very poor and that these transfers are really rarely audited by the IRS,
00:20:25.340we're told that $150 billion of it is accounted for and that at least 100% of that total is remitted each year without being tracked.
00:20:35.060So $150 billion of this, Roger, is completely untracked.
00:20:37.820The $150 billion is totaling $300 billion, leaving our shores with zero to show for the American people.
00:20:44.780I see that many countries, including Mexico, create actually a significant amount of their own GDP through these monies transferred from the United States.
00:20:54.960What percentage of Mexico's gross domestic product is purely through these remittances from the United States?
00:21:01.680Well, Roger, a large percentage of the remittances that are sent from the United States end up in Mexico to the tune in 2023 of $63 to $67 billion.
00:21:14.240That's 4% to 5% of their entire GDP there.
00:21:19.160And you'll be interested to find, Roger, you go to many third world countries, whether it's Jamaica or other countries around the world,
00:21:27.860you'll find that large percentage of their economies are made up of people in the United States sending money back, again, at 0% tax.
00:21:36.660Considering that half of it is completely unaccounted for, Roger, you can see why people like the Mexican president are stepping up and saying it would be immoral to tax remittances
00:21:46.860because these countries are really making bank off of the people of the United States and our economy in an under-the-table foreign aid program.
00:22:03.240Now, are there plans to tax remittances in the upcoming Big Beautiful Bill?
00:22:09.380Well, Roger, there were plans to tax remittances pushed by the Trump administration in what I think was a fantastic move, a smart move.
00:22:18.780But I think the figure was far too low.
00:22:21.120The Trump administration in the original version of the Big Beautiful Bill argued that there should be a 5% tax on remittances.
00:22:30.640Now, I'm told that the GOP Senate has objected to this, and they have instead suggested a 3.5%, and that's the current figure that sits in the Big Beautiful Bill.
00:22:40.620But there is speculation, Roger, that it will be eliminated completely and that we will have a 0% tax on remittances stayed by rhino congressmen and people in the Senate that really don't stand for their own voters.
00:22:56.060You know, this is a betrayal of these senators, and I think, Roger, we have to highlight many of them are very wealthy individuals.
00:23:02.580$10 to $20 billion of the total $300 billion, Roger, ended up in tax havens like Switzerland and the Cayman Islands, places where wealthy individuals have been able to send out unlimited amounts of money at 0% tax.
00:23:18.500I think that's playing a role here in why these people don't want to tax remittances.
00:23:24.640So this is not just immigrants in this country, say, working as a domestic or a gardener, sending money to their relatives back in their country of origin.
00:23:34.960This is actually being used to move large amounts of money to avoid taxation.
00:23:41.740And I think that when we look at the – you have to ask, why would people within the Senate, within the House, within, say, even the White House, why would they want to lessen the amount of taxation?
00:23:55.680We researched this for our piece, Roger.
00:23:57.360The average American pays 33% of their annual earnings in taxes.
00:24:02.580So can you explain to me why, when we're talking about taxes on money that's sent out of our economy, this is money that's earned here in American jobs and then taken and sent directly out of our economy to the benefit of other countries, and we're not saying that that's immoral or that's wrong.
00:24:19.900We're saying it's wrong that we don't tax it at all.
00:24:23.000And I think it's only fair that we should tax these kind of remittances exactly like how we tax the American people.
00:24:29.880And there's arguments who say, oh, well, it's a double tax.
00:24:33.000Well, I just told you that half of it is unaccounted for, $150 billion worth.
00:24:38.940And not only that, but there's no IRS auditing of this.
00:24:41.480We talked about this with several people, and the audits on remittances are at best poor.
00:24:47.900I think we need to double down on monitoring the money that's being sent out, because who knows?
00:24:52.760It could be even higher than $300 billion.
00:24:54.660And we need to get serious about taxing and taxing highly, because it's my theory, Roger, that I don't think you would really have to have mass deportations if you ended the incentive for these people to come here, take money from our economy, and send it back home.
00:25:11.080If you end that, I think you really end the incentive for immigration on whole without having to do a single thing other than change your policy.
00:25:17.560You certainly would remove some of the incentive.
00:25:20.680Look, I think there's a huge amount of disinformation regarding the Big Beautiful Bill.
00:25:25.620The most important thing for people to understand is that if the bill is not passed, the result will be a 68% across-the-board federal income tax increase on all Americans.
00:25:37.480No, not just the wealthy, but on all Americans.
00:25:40.320The Trump tax cuts of his first term, which are being extended in the Big Beautiful Bill beginning in January, are the largest tax cuts in American history.
00:25:51.580And leftists like Robert Reich, who was the secretary, I think he was the secretary of commerce in the Clinton administration.
00:26:03.680They continue to falsely insist that our deficits and our inflation is caused by tax reduction.
00:26:12.060Yet the lesson of history is the exact opposite.
00:26:14.720Every president, whether it is Donald Trump in his first term, whether it is Ronald Reagan, whether it was John F. Kennedy, who did an across-the-board federal income tax cut, experienced a spike in federal revenues caused by the increase in economic activity.
00:26:32.800Obviously, our inflation and our $37 trillion deficit is caused by spending too much, not by taxing working Americans too little.
00:26:45.980It is one of the great fallacies continued to be pushed by the far left.
00:26:51.100Now, when you add to it the fact that the Big Beautiful Bill also does away with the tax on tips, which is a piece of policy genius thought up by Donald Trump himself after talking to a group of cocktail waitresses in Las Vegas when he was campaigning in the silver state.
00:27:08.920It also does away with the tax on Social Security, provides a tax credit for those who buy a car or a truck that was made in America.
00:27:21.420There's much good in the Big Beautiful Bill.
00:27:24.900There's a few things in there I don't like.
00:27:26.760I don't like this portion that says that the states cannot regulate artificial intelligence for 10 years.
00:27:34.080I'd like to see that disappear in the Senate version of the bill or in conference if it passes both houses.
00:27:42.420I think AI is extraordinarily dangerous.
00:27:45.620You can go on True Social right now or X or even Instagram, Facebook, you'll see really incredible videos of me saying things that I never actually said.
00:27:59.220You can see videos of Joe Biden and Barack Obama and Donald Trump saying things that they never actually said.
00:28:07.680And without sophisticated AI detection software to the average person, they would actually believe what they see.
00:28:18.160So I think there does need to be some regulation of artificial intelligence.
00:28:25.100Well, Roger, artificial intelligence is quickly becoming the issue of our time.
00:28:29.140And the issue is going to be that we're going to have a lot of jobs here that are going to be eliminated simply because they're going to be automated by AI.
00:28:38.280And I think we have to make the decision as a society, do we prefer the comfort, the human experience over the advancement of, say, technology that we think might be detrimental to our success?
00:28:51.180We have to be able to adapt these technologies to work for humankind and not against it.
00:28:57.920I think that has a lot to do with the people in control of it.
00:29:01.260People in big tech, Roger, they took your voice away.
00:29:03.940They've taken a lot of people's voices away.
00:29:05.700And I just don't happen to believe that a lot of them are suddenly good guys because they contributed to a certain political campaign or another.
00:29:13.740I think that these people are malicious in a lot of ways.
00:29:16.520And there has to be interference from the government as far as artificial intelligence is concerned because the technology is so dangerous and poises such a threat to our way of life.
00:29:27.600It couldn't destroy the United States if not handled correctly.
00:30:05.340Every single day, somebody on X or on True Social points out to me yet another Roger Stone who pops up on those sites, who designs their page to look exactly like mine.
00:30:45.980He showed me the messages between himself and somebody posing as Roger Stone on Facebook.
00:30:52.800And I told him, look, you're out of luck, my friend.
00:30:55.100I didn't sell you anything and I don't owe you anything.
00:30:58.140When my lawyers contact Facebook or Meta, when they contact even X or Instagram, they're very slow to respond.
00:31:07.320And then even when they do order the offenders to take down the faux Roger Stones, they pop up three days later with a slightly different iteration on my name.
00:31:18.400So instead of being Roger J. Stone Jr., which is what I am on X, I'm now suddenly Roger J.J. Stone Jr., to give you an example.
00:31:27.120So always be aware, look for the validated profile if you're following me on social media.
00:31:35.540I think social media is a great thing, but it cannot substitute for real life.
00:31:42.260It cannot substitute for spending time outdoors, spending time with your family, reading a book.
00:33:47.280We're talking to Troy Smith, a media entrepreneur.
00:33:50.780He is the editor and publisher of Slingshot News.
00:33:55.560And we just talked about his stunning report that indicates that almost $300 billion is shipped out of the country by immigrants living here to other countries, to individuals and institutions in other countries.
00:34:11.860Yet, there's no benefit to the American people.
00:34:36.220We appreciate your breaking it here in the Stone Zone.
00:34:40.740So the real question, we've only got about two and a half minutes, but the real question on the table, of course, is what will President Trump decide?
00:34:48.220I've already said that I will support his decision regardless of what it is.
00:36:41.760So I think from the United States perspective, in order for I and millions of other Americans to be supportive of some kind of support for Israel,
00:36:51.100I think we need to see the Israelis take legitimate action to end their allegiance with the Chinese,
00:36:57.300the people funding the missiles flying into their country.
00:37:00.260And that would be a much more serious argument that I think a lot more people would listen to.
00:37:04.140Yeah, I still don't believe some of the more draconian voices like Steve Bannon and others who say that it will be the end of the Trump presidency,
00:37:49.420He has information that neither you nor I have, Troy, or the American people.
00:37:55.120I was encouraged to hear that he was going to do a televised address.
00:37:58.740But now I see that they have not scheduled a specific time for that.
00:38:03.820But when he does, when he makes his decision, I have every confidence that he will go before the American people and explain exactly why we are doing what we're doing.
00:38:14.440He said 15 times during the campaign and multiple times since he was elected president that Iran cannot be and will not be allowed to have a nuclear bomb.
00:38:26.420Donald Trump is a man who believes, says what he means and means what he says.
00:38:30.960Thanks for joining us today in the Stone Zone.
00:38:33.780Until tomorrow, God bless you and Godspeed.