The StoneZONE with Roger Stone - The Stone Zone ｜ 06-19-26

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00:00:11.540 This just in, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., has now done what the political class,

00:00:18.020 the bureaucratic permanent government, and the Biden damage control machine hope would never actually happen.

00:00:24.220 U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich has denied former President Joe Biden's effort to block the Department of Justice from releasing redacted audio recordings and transcripts of Joe Biden's interviews with his ghostwriter Mark Zwanitzer.

00:00:42.000 These are the very interviews that were relied upon by the special counsel Robert Herr in his investigation of Joe Biden's mishandling of classified documents.

00:00:51.980 You'll recall that the Biden Justice Department charged former President Donald Trump with mishandling federal documents when, in fact, the Presidential Documents Act allow a former president to retain and declassify any document that he wishes.

00:01:08.900 Joe Biden, who retained documents from his period as a U.S. senator and vice president, as well as during the time prior to the time of his becoming president, in violation of law, was not charged.

00:01:24.640 So this ruling today is significant.

00:01:27.440 This is not merely a procedural ruling in a random Freedom of Information Act case.

00:01:32.780 It's a major victory for transparency, accountability, and the basic principle that the American people have a right to know who was actually capable of exercising the powers of the presidency.

00:01:45.180 You'll recall that when it was learned that President Richard Nixon had taped his various conversations in the Oval Office, Nixon went to court to try to block the release of those tapes, and the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against him 9-0.

00:02:03.680 Yet Joe Biden here was making essentially the same argument, and he lost, so much for the two-tier justice system in this case.

00:02:12.260 This case, brought by the Heritage Foundation and specifically Mike Howell, who's appeared here in the Stone Zone, sought records from Special Counsel Robert Herr's investigation, including these very materials that Herr had specifically cited in his report.

00:02:29.680 Robert Herr was appointed in January of 2023 by Attorney General Merrick Garland

00:02:34.280 to investigate classified documents that were discovered at the Penn Biden Center,

00:02:39.680 as well as Joe Biden's Wilmington, Delaware residence.

00:02:43.900 Special Counsel Herr ultimately declined to prosecute Biden,

00:02:48.300 in direct contrast to the decision made by the Biden Justice Department to prosecute Donald Trump,

00:02:53.800 in part because he believed it would be difficult to convince a jury

00:02:57.120 that an elderly former president with evident memory problems had the necessary criminal intent.

00:03:03.740 So I ask you, if he wasn't cognizant enough to be held responsible for this broken violation of law,

00:03:10.580 how is he cognizant enough to be president of the United States?

00:03:15.440 In this report, Herr described Biden's recorded conversations with his ghostwriter as painfully slow,

00:03:21.340 with Biden struggling to remember events and straining to read and relay entries from his own notebooks.

00:03:28.320 That finding was explosive when it first became public

00:03:31.400 because it punctured the very carefully constructed fiction

00:03:35.500 that Biden's decline was merely some right-wing talking point,

00:03:40.020 as if we couldn't see it with our own eyes.

00:03:42.640 The American people were told for years that Biden was vigorous.

00:03:45.460 He was alert. He was engaged, sharp as a tack, as what I believe Vice President Kamala Harris said.

00:03:51.340 and fully in command. The American people were told not to believe their own eyes when he wandered,

00:03:57.680 mumbled, forgot names, appeared confused, needed constant stage management to complete the simplest

00:04:03.960 public appearances. Now the courts are moving us closer to the underlying evidence that may show

00:04:09.720 when the decline was evident and what those around him knew. Biden intervened in this freedom of

00:04:16.360 information lawsuit and sought a preliminary injunction to stop the release. His lawyers

00:04:21.540 argued privacy, grief, and process, weak arguments. They insisted these recordings

00:04:27.300 involved deeply personal conversations connected to the writing of his book,

00:04:31.940 Promise Me, Dad, A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose. Richard Nixon argued that his recordings

00:04:38.740 were deeply personal as well. The Supreme Court ruled against him. Biden's memoir about the death

00:04:44.760 of his son, Beau Biden, who was the attorney general of the state of Delaware, and his decision

00:04:51.400 not to run for president in 2016. No decent person mocks grief, obviously. No fair-minded person

00:04:58.480 denies that any father's anguish over the loss of his son is profoundly human.

00:05:03.080 But at the time, Biden accused her of raising the question of his late son, yet we now know

00:05:10.700 that from these recordings that it was the other way around. It was Joe Biden who first raised that

00:05:16.040 question. These recordings were not merely private family reminiscences. They became evidence in the

00:05:23.020 special counsel's investigation involving classified documents, prosecutorial discretion,

00:05:28.240 and the mental state of a man who later occupied the most powerful office on earth. Judge Friedrich's

00:05:34.740 opinion makes that distinction with clarity. The court found that the Department of Justice had

00:05:39.720 made substantial redactions to protect sensitive personal information, including family matters,

00:05:45.540 health issues, illness, death, and reference to non-public persons. What remained, according to

00:05:51.720 the court, largely concerned matters such as foreign policy and subjects already discussed

00:05:57.260 in public through the HER report, which has been made public, as well as congressional testimony

00:06:02.840 or Biden's own memoir. So in other words, this was not a judicial order to parade private family

00:06:09.900 grief before the public. It was a rejection of Biden's attempt to use privacy as a blanket shield

00:06:15.320 against public scrutiny of his government record and an examination of his fitness to serve as

00:06:21.080 president. The ruling is especially important because the court recognized the extraordinary

00:06:26.300 public interest that was at stake. It's the same argument that was used in the Nixon case.

00:06:30.960 Heard's investigation involved a sitting president, classified documents, a special counsel who was vilified as a Republican, that was false, who reported to the attorney general, and an attorney general who served under the very president whose conduct was being examined.

00:06:48.680 That structure alone creates an obvious need for transparency.

00:06:53.080 The public has a right to know whether Mr. Heard pulled his punches or acted properly.

00:06:57.480 The public also has a right to assess the evidence.

00:07:00.960 Robert Herr relied upon when he declined to prosecute Biden

00:07:05.300 while describing serious concerns about Biden's memory and mental faculties.

00:07:10.040 That, of course, only became apparent after Joe had been forced out of the race by Barack Obama.

00:07:16.920 The Biden team argued that the Justice Department's reversal was arbitrary, capricious, and politically motivated.

00:07:23.180 The federal judge did not buy it.

00:07:24.980 The court held that the department's decision was adequately explained and that Biden was unlikely to succeed on the merits.

00:07:31.960 The court acknowledged that once private material is released, the harm cannot be undone, but found that Biden's privacy showing could not overcome the weak merits of his legal claim.

00:07:41.820 More importantly, the court concluded that the balance of equities and the public interest favored full disclosure.

00:07:48.200 This is precisely how the Freedom of Information Act is supposed to work.

00:07:51.900 The Freedom of Investigation Act was not enacted to protect and comfort powerful men.

00:07:57.320 It was enacted to pierce the curtain of government secrecy so citizens can understand what their government has done in their name.

00:08:04.480 A republic cannot survive when official truth is manufactured by press secretaries, curated by bureaucrats, and enforced by the compliant and duplicitous mainstream media.

00:08:15.640 Records matter, evidence matters, audio matters because tone, hesitation, confusion, pace, and comprehension cannot always be captured on a cold written transcript.

00:08:28.220 That's why these tapes matter more than the Biden camp wants to admit.

00:08:32.660 A transcript cannot be sanitized by formatting, a summary cannot be massaged by lawyers, a press statement cannot be spun by consultants,

00:08:41.760 but a tape has a brutal honesty of its own.

00:08:43.920 It carries the pauses, the stumbling, the uncertainty, the strain,

00:08:47.920 and the cadence of a man in real time.

00:08:50.940 If Robert or her relied on the way Biden sounded,

00:08:53.460 then the American people are entitled to hear enough of that evidence

00:08:56.460 to judge whether the special counsel's conclusions not to prosecute Biden

00:09:00.900 were fair, accurate, and complete.

00:09:03.400 I say kudos to the Oversight Project and to my friend Mike Howell.

00:09:06.900 He deserves great credit for pursuing this fight.

00:09:10.300 When the unusual gardens of democracy were strangely uninterested in guarding anything except the Biden fake narrative.

00:09:18.040 Where was the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the others?

00:09:22.360 So it is a huge victory here for the American people.

00:09:27.240 Also one of consistency.

00:09:29.740 This is not just a conservative victory.

00:09:31.660 It's a victory for America.

00:09:32.900 The documents belong to the people because the government belongs to the people.

00:09:37.060 The presidency is not a family business, not a private trust, not a retirement-owned party elders, and not an institution to be operated behind velvet ropes by aides wielding an auto pen.

00:09:50.200 The auto pen issue now looms over this entire scandal like a dark cloud over the Potomac.

00:09:55.920 If Biden's decline was visible years before he entered the White House, then the American people must know who exercised power when he could not.

00:10:03.500 They must know who made the decisions, who signed documents, who approved policy, who controlled access, and who used the machinery of the executive branch while hiding behind the image of a president who may not have been fully capable of performing the office.

00:10:19.360 And this will become particularly relevant in view of our upcoming story.

00:10:24.500 That is that Tulsi Gabbard, the outgoing director of national intelligence, has released new documents that shed light on the actions of Dr. Anthony Fauci.

00:10:35.800 Now, this is significant because Fauci has received an auto-pen generated pardon against any crime he may have committed.

00:10:47.080 That will become extremely relevant in our upcoming story.

00:10:51.440 The defenders of Biden will say that this decision by the courts is cruel.

00:10:55.360 They will say that it was an indecent to examine the frailties of an aging man.

00:11:01.900 That argument might carry weight if Biden had been a private citizen,

00:11:05.800 but it collapses when applied to a president of the United States.

00:11:09.660 No man has the right to occupy the Oval Office while concealing incapacity from the voters.

00:11:14.860 No party has a right to install a figurehead while unelected handlers govern from the shadows.

00:11:21.960 Compassion for age and illness must be overcome and cannot be used as an excuse for deception at the highest levels of government.

00:11:29.620 I'm Roger Stone. You're tuned into the Stone Zone and we'll be right back.

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00:13:45.800 You know, yesterday at about 4 o'clock p.m., I was in the old executive office building,

00:13:51.080 which is next to the West Wing, and I ran into the outgoing Director of National Intelligence,

00:13:56.940 Tulsi Gabbard, and she told me she was pushing very hard as her final act to release and

00:14:04.940 declassify these stunning documents.

00:14:07.320 Now, newly declassified documents released by Tulsi Gabbard are showing additional light

00:14:13.340 on the actions of Dr. Anthony Fauci, the intelligence community, and how the COVID-19

00:14:19.040 pandemic was inflicted on an unsuspecting American public.

00:14:23.960 In a video statement, Gabbard accused Fauci of lying, spreading misinformation, and helping suppress evidence that the virus likely leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China.

00:14:37.140 She said Fauci's agency helped send U.S. taxpayer dollars to risky gain-of-function, these are weaponization research in Wuhan, then worked with corrupt intelligence officials to bury the lab leak theory and destroy those who challenged the official narrative.

00:14:55.460 According to Gabbard, the documents include hundreds of emails showing that intelligence assessments were often incorporated in Fauci's recommendations.

00:15:04.200 Tulsi Gabbard also alleges that Fauci lied under oath in 2024 when he denied involvement in discussions with intelligence officials about the viral research.

00:15:15.760 The release also points to whistleblowers who say they faced retaliation, career damage, and threats after raising concerns about the manipulation of intelligence surrounding COVID's origins.

00:15:29.460 won a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory report

00:15:35.020 that reportedly found the necessary conditions for an accidental release

00:15:38.960 for a lab-modified coronavirus that existed at the Wuhan lab in 2019.

00:15:44.280 This confirms what many Americans have known for years,

00:15:47.460 that during the COVID pandemic, powerful officials shut down debate,

00:15:52.800 censored dissent, and protected themselves

00:15:55.220 while the American people paid a horrific price.

00:15:59.460 Millions of people died, as well as needlessly were endangered, needlessly because of the gross incompetence and the megalomania of the modern American Mengele, Dr. Fauci.

00:16:13.920 His desire to play God turned deadly for the entire world.

00:16:18.700 Now, in my opinion, he must be charged.

00:16:20.700 That would lead immediately to a full airing of the legality and the validity of the so-called

00:16:28.480 auto pen pardons. So in this case, Dr. Anthony Fauci has gotten a preemptive

00:16:34.820 pardon from Joe Biden on his way out the door, but Joe Biden didn't sign that pardon. It was

00:16:40.980 signed by an auto pen. Did Joe Biden even know that that pardon was given, or did he authorize

00:16:46.840 Well, a court case would raise that question.

00:16:51.060 So I guess my argument here is that Fauci should be charged based on all this information put forward by Tulsi Gabbard, also by Senator Rand Paul, who has said consistently that Fauci lied in front of his committee hearing.

00:17:11.780 And we can test the validity.

00:17:13.840 In the meantime, however, Tulsi Gabbard, once again, standing tall, before she leaves the office of the Director of National Intelligence, she declassified all of the documents proving that the Russian collusion claims were a hoax, a seditious conspiracy run and directed by Barack Obama himself.

00:17:32.640 She released documents proving that the impeachment of Donald Trump was yet another fabricated fraud.

00:17:41.060 She terminated the classified security clearance for 37 officials, 37 of the 51 intelligence officials who claimed that Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian disinformation.

00:17:55.060 We now know that at least 17% of the American people said that they had known that Hunter Biden's laptop was real

00:18:02.260 They would have voted very differently than they did in 2020

00:18:05.660 So Tulsi Gabbard leaves as an American hero

00:18:09.080 She's a good friend of mine

00:18:11.480 But don't think that she's done, folks

00:18:13.460 She's not done at all

00:18:14.660 She'll be back because I believe her greatest days of public service lie ahead

00:18:19.040 Here she has done one last extraordinary act of public service

00:18:22.800 And that is exposing that Dr. Anthony Fauci is a mass murderer, a modern day Mengele, and he should be held responsible.

00:18:31.780 I'm Roger Stone. Listen to The Stone Zone. And we'll be right back.

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00:18:44.940 Well, President Donald Trump's preliminary peace agreement with Iran is drawing very strong support from American voters.

00:18:53.060 According to a new Qantas survey, Trump signed the Memorandum of Understanding after the G7 meeting in Yvonne-le-Barre, France, at the Palace of Versailles,

00:19:04.780 while the Iranian president, Massoud Perzerkian, signed remotely.

00:19:10.200 The agreement puts a 60-day ceasefire and negotiation framework into effect,

00:19:14.900 with both sides expected to work quickly towards a final deal.

00:19:19.300 Under a preliminary agreement, the United States will lift the naval blockade of Iran,

00:19:24.560 work with regional partners on reconstruction and economic development,

00:19:28.200 and begin the process of ending sanctions.

00:19:31.500 Iran, in return, has agreed to reopen the Strait of Hormuz

00:19:35.260 and reaffirm that it will not obtain or develop nuclear weapons.

00:19:39.860 Already, ship tracking data shows that vessels moving through the Strait of Hormuz

00:19:44.700 and American gas prices have fallen below $4 for the first time in months.

00:19:52.400 And the public approves of this progress.

00:19:55.900 Qantas found that 43% of Americans strongly approve of the peace agreement,

00:20:01.580 while another 13% somewhat approve, while only 13% expressed disapproval.

00:20:07.740 Trump celebrated the deal on true social, declaring that oil is flowing again.

00:20:12.700 Iran will never have a nuclear weapon.

00:20:15.840 Markets are rising, job creation is strong, and prices are swiftly dropping.

00:20:21.380 This is President Trump's patient approach, and it's paying off.

00:20:24.520 President Trump used military pressure, economic leverage, and diplomatic speed to force Tehran to the table and reopen a vital energy corridor.

00:20:34.840 This success shows that American leadership can stop wars, lower prices, and defend national security without surrendering strength.

00:20:43.940 Now, I say we must stay vigilant to make sure that other foreign interests don't sabotage this peace deal for their own aims.

00:20:51.640 Meanwhile, the Obama Presidential Center officially opened in Chicago, and the message from Michelle Obama shows how self-subborn this broad-shouldered diva truly is.

00:21:04.380 Asked by Good Morning America's Robin Roberts to describe the next chapter of their lives in one word, former President Barack Obama answered, fun.

00:21:14.500 But Michelle Obama answered, me.

00:21:17.520 Hmm, does that mean she's going to be a candidate for president?

00:21:19.920 I've long thought that was a possibility. I thought she would be in the past. In fact, I thought she would have been the candidate after they dumped Joe Biden. But I think she wasn't quite ready yet. I wouldn't rule it out.

00:21:31.060 The comment came as the long-delayed Obama Presidential Center opened its doors after years of planning, lawsuits, construction delays, and cost overruns.

00:21:41.580 First announced as early as 2015 as a major investment in Chicago's South Side, the nearly 20-acre campus includes a museum, public spaces, athletic facilities, gardens, and exhibits devoted to defying the globalist false isle.

00:21:59.060 The design kind of resembles the Death Star

00:22:03.000 It was meant to offend the senses

00:22:04.760 In a gross example of cultural Marxism 0.69

00:22:07.880 I think it succeeded

00:22:08.840 The center faced major legal challenges

00:22:11.380 Over its location in historic Jackson Park

00:22:14.300 With opponents questioning the impact on public land

00:22:17.320 Some of those claims were later dismissed in federal court

00:22:20.700 As the opening ceremony

00:22:22.380 Speakers included a land acknowledgement

00:22:24.340 Recognizing indigenous nations tied to the area

00:22:27.900 in a nauseating display of virtue signaling. 0.77

00:22:31.600 Elite progressives showed up to the opening of the center to celebrate themselves,

00:22:35.820 playing lip service to social justice drivel,

00:22:38.980 while Chicagoans still face crime, failing schools, high costs,

00:22:43.800 and broken city services in their city that is being run off the rails by Democrats.

00:22:48.500 But Michelle Obama doesn't care about the plight of the average person in Chicago. 1.00

00:22:53.800 She's focused solely on self-aggrandizement and satiating her swollen ego.

00:22:59.080 Perhaps Josh Hockett was on to something.

00:23:02.820 We also have the story, which we've covered here extensively on The Stone Zone, 1.00

00:23:06.020 about the fact that many black contractors,

00:23:09.500 those involved in the construction of the Obama Center, have been stiffed.

00:23:14.620 This is extraordinary because originally, you recall,

00:23:17.600 we were told that this was going to empower the black community,

00:23:20.140 but black contractors aren't having their bills paid, and many at this point are settling for pennies on the dollar if they can get paid at all.

00:23:29.000 Many of them struggle to stay alive. 0.97

00:23:31.940 It's really quite extraordinary, the hypocrisy that abounds regarding the entire Obama Center. 0.97

00:23:38.540 Plus, if you've seen it, the thing is hideous. It's hard to understand. 0.94

00:23:42.220 Meanwhile, the Republican National Committee and the Georgia Republican Party are taking Fulton County, Georgia,

00:23:47.360 and Gwinnett County, Georgia, to court, accusing local election officials of ignoring state law

00:23:53.540 and weakening absentee ballot safeguards. The lawsuits filed Thursday alleged that officials

00:23:59.680 in the two Democrat-heavy counties created unauthorized absentee ballot drop-off locations

00:24:05.860 and allowed voters to hand ballots directly to election workers for later transfer.

00:24:11.500 Republicans say that those procedures go way beyond what Georgia law permits under SB202,

00:24:20.180 the Election Integrity Act, signed by Governor Brian Kemp back in 2021.

00:24:25.280 The Republican National Chairman Joe Gruters, a good friend of mine,

00:24:28.040 said that Georgia election law is written by elected legislators and not by unelected county bureaucrats,

00:24:34.700 and those bureaucrats are compelled to follow the law or they should face consequences.

00:24:39.300 Gruters is absolutely right.

00:24:40.820 He warned that local boards cannot rewrite the rules by inventing new ballot collection systems

00:24:46.460 or weakening the very security protections put into place by the state legislature.

00:24:51.620 This lawsuit claims that Fulton and Gwinnett County tried to classify additional collection points as

00:24:57.760 quote-unquote ballot bags, creating an unauthorized workaround opening the door to potential vote rigging.

00:25:04.500 The Republican National Committee says that the policies restrict poll watcher access.

00:25:09.380 They allow ballots to be collected outside of authorized times, and they permit workers to accept absentee ballots in ways that the state law simply does not allow.

00:25:19.420 It sounds like the fraud blueprint that was used to fix the 2020 presidential election, in my opinion.

00:25:25.040 The Republican National Committee's move to sue Georgia's counties show that they understand the paramount importance of election integrity.

00:25:33.260 If we don't have honest and fair elections, what do we have?

00:25:36.960 Ballots must be trapped, secured, and handled according to the same rules everywhere,

00:25:42.400 not just adjusted county by county where officials dislike the law.

00:25:47.460 Republicans are demanding that the court stop these practices

00:25:50.120 and enforce compliance with Georgia election law.

00:25:53.620 Every legal vote must count, and every ballot must also be protected.

00:25:57.980 Confidence in elections depends on clear rules, equal enforcement, and accountability.

00:26:03.560 Those not following the law must not only be sued, they must be thrown behind bars as a way to create a deterrent against that exact sort of behavior

00:26:13.420 I have grave concerns about the integrity of the elections

00:26:17.100 One of the great tragedies is that Tulsi Gabbard essentially left the office of the Director of National Intelligence

00:26:24.940 before completing her investigation of the 2020 elections,

00:26:29.480 both the electronic voting machines and whether they are secure

00:26:33.820 or they have any integrity, as well as the paper ballots

00:26:37.080 that seem to pop up at 3 o'clock in the morning in three different states

00:26:41.040 all at the same time after the Republican observers had been forced from the scene.

00:26:47.420 So it is a huge concern.

00:26:50.480 I'm not yet convinced about 2020, nor am I convinced that we'll have a fair election in 2026.

00:26:58.000 Meanwhile, Washington, D.C. has chosen a Democratic Socialist as its next likely mayor,

00:27:04.500 and this result shows how extremely leftism is gaining traction in cities nationwide.

00:27:09.580 Janice Louis George defeated a more moderate Democrat by running hard on anti-Trump resistance 0.90

00:27:16.620 and promises of sweeping government actions to solve problems for city residents. 1.00

00:27:21.760 Those poor schmucks will now be led on a primrose path towards destruction. 0.98

00:27:26.080 George's victory follows similar left-wing wins in New York City, as we know, as well as Seattle, 0.98

00:27:31.820 showing how younger urban voters and public sector unions are pushing America's major cities further to the left.

00:27:39.740 Louis George built a powerful coalition of labor unions, local socialists, and progressive activists. 0.97

00:27:46.620 Her campaign focused less on public safety and more on rent, child care, and cost of living anger.

00:27:53.740 Candidate George's left-wing demagoguery connected with the public in a city frustrated after three terms of low IQ Muriel Bowser

00:28:02.320 that has been rattled by federal workforce cuts and other problems.

00:28:06.720 But campaign slogans are about to meet reality, you see.

00:28:10.780 Washington faces a major budget gap, unemployment above 6%,

00:28:15.380 showing slowing population growth, empty federal offices,

00:28:19.800 and a downtown economy that needs private investment, not socialist meddling.

00:28:24.980 Already, the new mayor, Louis George, appears to be moderating some promises,

00:28:29.540 including questions about a wealth tax and whether universal child care can happen immediately in D.C.

00:28:36.120 D.C. voters may want affordability, but higher taxes, bigger bureaucracy, and anti-business policies make everything worse and only exacerbates the existing problems.

00:28:46.340 By moving in the National Guard, Donald Trump brought crime down sharply.

00:28:50.760 Even Democrat Mayor Muriel Bowser was forced to admit it.

00:28:54.760 Most folks of common sense need to understand that when leaders fail to control costs, crime, and schools, voters can succumb to radical promises.

00:29:03.660 It's kind of like the hope and change thing.

00:29:06.840 The only path forward is by embracing populism.

00:29:09.740 Stale, weak republicanism is hated by the masses and will get streamrolled by better organized leftists.

00:29:16.260 Only through MAGA and an outsider populist agenda can reverse our national downslide.

00:29:22.900 So I say they double down what President Trump has created, and we should crush these Marxists for good in the upcoming elections.

00:29:30.760 Meanwhile, the United States Senate has passed a rare, unanimous message

00:29:36.300 that Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party must be held accountable.

00:29:40.600 On June 16th, the U.S. Senate approved a resolution condemning Xi for deceit,

00:29:47.200 undermining peace and security, and orchestrating crimes against humanity.

00:29:50.480 The measure also urges the U.S. government to use every available tool,

00:29:55.180 Including global

00:29:56.880 Magnitsky sanctions

00:29:59.300 Against Chinese Communist Party officials

00:30:01.420 Responsible for these human rights abuses

00:30:03.860 And corruption

00:30:04.600 My own Florida Senator Rick Scott

00:30:07.000 Introduced a resolution called Xi

00:30:09.280 And the Chinese Communist Party

00:30:10.980 The greatest threat to America's way of life 0.99

00:30:13.500 Prosperity

00:30:14.760 And global peace

00:30:16.520 He accused the regime of lying, cheating, stealing

00:30:19.600 Exploiting slave labor

00:30:20.880 Committing genocide 0.70

00:30:22.200 And abusing its own people

00:30:24.860 The resolution cites Beijing's role in covering up the early COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan, misleading the world about the virus and using international bodies to spread falsehoods

00:30:38.620 It also points to China's role in the fentanyl crisis, which is continuing, despite Xi's repeated promises to help stop the flow of the precursor chemicals used to make fentanyl

00:30:52.300 Senators further accused the regime of trade cheating, intellectual property theft, cyber attacks, espionage, and operating secret police activity on American soil.

00:31:05.360 The resolution, again supported by all hundred senators, also highlights decades of brutality from Tiananmen Square's massacre to the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners, forced organ harvesting allegations, and ongoing repression of dissidents.

00:31:21.480 It's worth noting that the Chinese people are not America's enemy

00:31:25.880 The communist regime that rules them, however, is

00:31:28.960 And it is a greater threat that must be confronted

00:31:31.460 America must stand for what is right 1.00

00:31:33.660 Punish authoritarian abuses 0.99

00:31:35.440 And never operate under the guise that Xi is just a normal partner

00:31:40.120 Or some kind of small-D Democrat 0.86

00:31:42.600 China can never be the preeminent world power they wish to be 0.94

00:31:46.640 That would be a death sentence for global freedom 1.00

00:31:49.460 But it is China 1.00

00:31:50.680 It is the greatest threat to American democracy. 1.00

00:31:54.100 It is China that is the greatest threat to our freedoms. 1.00

00:31:56.880 It is China that is buying up the ranch land, the farmland. 1.00

00:32:00.800 So much of our American real estate is China that is the greatest danger to this country. 0.99

00:32:06.120 And those who blame Richard Nixon, because he's the one who opened the door to China 1.00

00:32:09.440 and normalized our relations with him, don't really understand history. 1.00

00:32:12.660 You see, when Nixon opened the door to China, it was a dirt-poor, backwards, agrarian society. 0.93

00:32:17.980 It wasn't until Bill Clinton gave China most favored nation trading status that they became the economic and then therefore the military powerhouse in danger that they are now. 0.99

00:32:29.220 I'm Roger Stone, you're listening to The Stone Zone, and we'll be right back with more political news on the other side.

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00:32:44.760 The Trump Justice Department is stepping in after Major League Baseball warned three San Francisco Giants players who quietly expressed their Christian faith during the LGBT Pride Night.

00:32:58.920 Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dillon sent a letter to the Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred saying that the matter is being referred to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for further investigation.

00:33:12.560 The controversy in question began when Giant pitchers Lyndon Roop, J.T. Brubaker, and Ryan Walker wrote Genesis 9, 12-16 on their caps near the Rainbow Pride logo.

00:33:28.440 The Bible passage refers to God's covenant after the flood and the rainbow as its sign.

00:33:33.780 Major League Baseball responded by warning the players that riding on uniforms violates league rules and should not happen again.

00:33:41.500 But the Justice Department says the issue may involve religious discrimination.

00:33:46.440 The Deputy Attorney General, Harmeet Dillon, noted that Title VII requires employers to reasonably accommodate the religious beliefs of their employees.

00:33:56.100 She also pointed to an apparent double standard.

00:33:58.600 You see, the Major League Baseball has allowed players to wear political messages such as Black Lives Matter patches while warning players who added scripture to pride-themed hats.

00:34:11.740 That seems to me to be an inconsistency.

00:34:14.520 That contrast raises an obvious question.

00:34:17.520 So why is leftist pro-degeneracy political messaging celebrated while Christian expression is treated as a problem?

00:34:26.400 The EEOC has not confirmed any investigation so far, citing confidentiality rules,

00:34:31.860 but its chair said that the agency remains committed to protecting religious liberty for all workers.

00:34:38.240 Professional athletes should not be forced to become walking billboards for beliefs that violate their Christian values.

00:34:44.920 All pro-sporting leagues, with the notable exception of the UFC, have fallen into the woke trap,

00:34:50.880 even though most of their fans are actually repulsed by it.

00:34:54.300 Major League Baseball may have gone too far this time with their blatant disrespect of Christian athletes who will be watching this case very, very closely.

00:35:03.760 Meanwhile, a far-left Boston College history professor is under fire after comparing the UFC event at the White House to racist violence of the 19th century lynch mobs.

00:35:15.460 During an interview with former CNN reporter Jim Acosta, one of my favorites, Professor Heather Richardson argued that the impulse behind holding the UFC fight on the White House lawn was connected to the same impulse that drove slavery, lynching, and discrimination against Black Americans, Italian Americans, Mexican Americans, and Native Americans.

00:35:40.880 She went further, suggesting that the event reflected a belief that America is a white nation

00:35:47.500 and that anyone who challenged that view must be removed from political life.

00:35:53.500 I watched the UFC fight. I didn't see that reflected at all.

00:35:57.800 This is yet another example of elite academia projecting their own racial grievances onto everything they see.

00:36:04.940 The UFC is one of the most diverse sports in the world, featuring fighters and fans from every race, nationality, and background.

00:36:12.900 It is a showcase for all of the best fighters the world has to offer.

00:36:16.220 Richardson didn't even understand the basic fact before spouting off ignorantly. 0.83

00:36:20.860 That's because she obviously didn't watch any of the fights.

00:36:24.560 Holding a major athletic event at the White House may be unconventional, but comparing it to lynching trivializes one of the darkest chapters in American history.

00:36:34.160 Other critics, including musician Sheryl Crow, also denounced the event, calling it indecent

00:36:39.700 and accusing the Trump administration of distractions and corruption.

00:36:43.800 But there was no such criticism when Biden at Easter celebrated transgenderism on the White House law.

00:36:51.220 That was perfectly all right. 0.96

00:36:53.280 Millions of Americans saw something very different at the White House law.

00:36:56.360 A president celebrating free expression, athleticism, competition, and honoring America with the inspiring visual display of these fights.

00:37:05.620 The aesthetics of the event were breathtaking, and the left is triggered by the event because any celebration of American tradition to them is pure heresy.

00:37:15.640 We should never apologize for any of this.

00:37:18.140 Let the left be triggered if they want.

00:37:19.760 Only adds to the fun of celebrating America.

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