The StoneZONE with Roger Stone - July 01, 2026


The Stone Zone ｜ 06-30-26

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birthright citizenship debate Ruben Gallego federal investigation narco-terrorism war Republicans midterms
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Donald Trump Steve Bannon Gallego Wong Kim Ark Clarence Thomas Ruben Gallego Eric Swalwell John Roberts Samuel Alito Rich Barris Tom Dodd Brett Amy Coney Barrett Ketanji Jackson Brown D. La Asporella Winston Churchill Lieutenant Wells Abraham Lincoln Jeffrey Epstein Michael Allison and 14 more
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On June 30th, 2026, the Supreme Court struck down President Trump's executive order that sought to end birthright citizenship for all children born in the United States to non-citizens. In a 6-3 ruling, Chief Justice John Roberts authored the majority opinion, and was joined by Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kega, and Amy Coney Barrett, with Justice Brett Kavanaugh concurring in the judgment but dissenting only in part.

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00:00:31.520 The Stone Zone.
00:00:33.520 Entertaining and informative.
00:00:35.680 On the Red Apple Podcast Network.
00:00:48.840 This is the Stone Zone.
00:00:51.440 Now, get in the zone.
00:00:53.360 It's the Stone Zone.
00:00:54.880 A man who's gone through hell, but he's kept going, and he's smart, and he's strong, and people love him.
00:01:02.440 Not everybody, but people love him and respect him. Roger Stone. Where's Roger Stone?
00:01:07.180 Here's Roger Stone.
00:01:11.120 Welcome into the Stone Zone, where you can get political news and analysis that you can't get anywhere else.
00:01:18.580 It was back on January 20, 2025, that President Donald Trump moved to significantly restrict birthright citizenship by signing Executive Order 14160 entitled Protecting the Means and Value of American Citizenship.
00:01:38.100 The order directed federal agencies, including the State Department, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Social Security Administration, to stop recognizing automatic U.S. citizenship for children born in the United States to mothers who were either illegally present or here on temporary visas, such as a student visa or a work visa, a tourist visa, or a visa waiver program visa.
00:02:07.480 If their farmers were not U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents, the policy was set to apply to births occurring 30 days after the executive order was signed, which would have been mid to late February of 2025.
00:02:23.440 In essence, the executive order sought to reinterpret the 14th Amendment's citizenship clause
00:02:31.660 by denying birthright citizenship to an estimated 250,000 U.S.-born children annually
00:02:39.900 based on their parents' immigration status.
00:02:43.620 Now, multiple federal courts quickly issued preliminary injunctions blocking the order nationwide.
00:02:50.820 The lower courts ruled it unconstitutional and inconsistent with both the 14th Amendment and the existing federal statute, 8 U.S.C. Section 1401.
00:03:05.020 These injunctions remained in place throughout this ongoing litigation.
00:03:09.620 But on June 30th of 2026, in a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court struck down Executive Order 14160 as signed by President Trump, firmly upholding birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment.
00:03:28.400 This shocking ruling in Trump versus Barbera rejected the Trump administration's attempt to limit automatic citizenship for children born in the United States.
00:03:40.600 Not surprisingly, Chief Justice John Roberts authored the majority opinion, and he was joined by Justices Sotomayor, Elena Kega, Amy Coney Barrett, a Trump appointee, and Kajani Jackson Brown.
00:03:57.540 with Justice Brett Kavanaugh concurring in the judgment, but dissenting only in part.
00:04:05.280 The court held that children were born in the United States to parents are unlawfully or temporarily present,
00:04:11.080 are subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, and therefore are indeed citizens at birth.
00:04:19.400 The decision reaffirms the text of the 14th Amendment's Citizen Clause that says specifically,
00:04:25.320 All persons born are nationalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States.
00:04:35.200 The decision draws heavily on the 1898 precedent, the United States v. Wong Kim Ark, which affirmed birthright citizenship for the children of Chinese immigrants.
00:04:48.600 Roberts specifically emphasized that citizenship then and now was the right to have rights to freely participate in our political community.
00:04:57.260 The framers of the 14th Amendment extended that promise to every free-born person in this land, and he said, we keep that promise today.
00:05:07.620 This was quite a blow to the Trump administration.
00:05:10.840 Dissenting, however, Justices Clarence Thomas, joined by Justice Neil Gorsuch and Samuel Alito,
00:05:17.480 argued for greater executive and congressional flexibility on immigration-related citizenship matters.
00:05:24.040 Gorsuch and Alito also wrote their own separate dissents.
00:05:27.880 This ruling, unfortunately, preserves the status quo for hundreds of thousands of children born each year in the United States
00:05:36.160 to parents who are not U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents.
00:05:42.160 Birthright citizenship remains enshrined in the 14th Amendment
00:05:46.020 based on this decision,
00:05:47.720 distincting the United States from most countries
00:05:50.420 that primarily follow the policy of just sanguinous citizenship
00:05:57.440 by blood or descent.
00:05:59.700 Narrow exceptions have long existed,
00:06:01.920 such as for children of foreign diplomats.
00:06:05.020 Now, in my opinion, the Supreme Court's decision rejecting President Trump's effort to limit birthright citizenship is more than just a simple legal defeat.
00:06:15.060 It's a clarion call for common sense Americans who have long argued that America's immigration systems become untethered from both constitutional fidelity and plain old common sense.
00:06:29.680 If conservatives respond with resignation rather than resolve, they will have misunderstood the significance of this very moment.
00:06:38.220 If they respond with legislative action, constitutional advocacy, and an unapologetic defense of American sovereignty, this ruling may ultimately become the catalyst that reshapes the debate for the next generation.
00:06:52.600 President Trump's executive order represented the most ambitious attempt in modern history
00:06:57.220 to revisit the meaning of the Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment.
00:07:02.540 Signed on the very first day of his second administration,
00:07:05.880 the order had tried to direct the federal government to deny automatic citizenship to children born in the United States
00:07:13.120 when neither parent was an American citizen or an unlawful permanent resident.
00:07:19.700 It also applied to children whose mothers were unlawfully present or whose parents were in the country on temporary visas, as I said earlier, including tourist visas, student visas, temporary workers, and so on.
00:07:32.160 The administration argued that the constitutional phrase subject to the jurisdiction thereof had been interpreted too broadly for more than a century and that the 14th Amendment was intended primarily to guarantee citizenship to the formerly enslaved after the Civil War, not to create an unlimited incentive for tourist citizenship, which is what we have today, and this torrent of unlawful immigration.
00:08:02.160 But unfortunately, the Supreme Court has now rejected that interpretation
00:08:06.300 and reaffirmed the longstanding understandings established by the 1898 decision in the United States v. Wong,
00:08:14.400 holding that every child born on American soil is constitutionally entitled to citizenship regardless of the immigration status of the parents.
00:08:23.900 As I said, the court was divided along liberal and conservative lines,
00:08:28.860 but with Amy Comey Barrett, again a Trump appointee, disappointing Trump supporters and conservatives with her decision.
00:08:39.120 Clarence Thomas, who remains the most brilliant member of the court, argued in an extensive dissent spanning nearly 90 pages,
00:08:47.360 arguing that the court's interpretation departed from the original public meaning of the citizenship clause
00:08:52.640 and gave insufficient weight to the historical understanding of jurisdiction.
00:08:56.540 But unfortunately, he and the other dissenters were in the minority.
00:09:02.300 Collectively, the dissenters contended that the majority had elevated precedence over the original constitutional meaning and intent,
00:09:10.160 and foreclosed an important constitutional debate that they deserved believed renewed examination.
00:09:16.960 For Republicans, this decision carries profound political implications for the long term,
00:09:21.820 extending far beyond the courtroom today.
00:09:24.240 It effectively places responsibility back where the Constitution often places difficult national questions in the elected branches of government.
00:09:33.560 So if the judiciary will not reinterpret the citizenship clause, then conservatives must decide whether to impose congressional legislation,
00:09:42.920 constitutional amendments, or broader immigration reforms designed to address the incentives that encourage unlawful entry into the United States.
00:09:51.340 That's why this November's midterm elections are so very important.
00:09:56.820 Without Republican majorities in the House and Senate, the idea of a legislative fix, a legislative restatement of these questions is sadly unthinkable.
00:10:08.680 No nation can long endure if its immigration laws become merely advisory.
00:10:15.240 Every sovereign state possesses not only the authority, but the obligation to determine who may enter, who may remain, and under what conditions citizenship may ultimately be acquired.
00:10:27.540 Borders are not just arbitrary lines set upon a map.
00:10:32.020 They are the visible manifestation of national sovereignty, much as the walls of your home distinguish the private sanctuary from public thoroughfare.
00:10:40.860 When those boundaries lose meaning, the very concept of citizenship begins to erode.
00:10:47.320 Reasonable people can disagree about whether birthright citizenship itself encourages unlawful immigration, but the evidence is debated.
00:10:55.900 That is not disputed. It is that organized criminal cartels exploit this weakness for border enforcement to facilitate human smuggling, narcotics trafficking, money laundering, and other transactional crimes.
00:11:09.500 Federal authorities have long repeatedly warned that terrorist organizations and hostile foreign intelligence services seek opportunities to exploit weaknesses in our immigration system, but those threats exist independently of today's constitutional ruling and remain central concerns for national security policymakers.
00:11:28.980 President Trump himself has consistently argued that America's immigration system had been manipulated by sophisticated criminal organizations that profit from porous borders while placing extraordinary burdens upon law enforcement, schools, hospitals, and yes, taxpayers.
00:11:47.100 His administration has maintained the strong border security, aggressive deportation of criminal aliens, expanded interior enforcement, and strict eligibility standards for immigration benefits, representing essential components for restoring public confidence in the rule of law.
00:12:05.080 Although today's ruling forecloses one constitutional avenue, it leaves intact many other executive and legislative tools available to future administrations.
00:12:16.520 Republicans and Trump supporters should resist the temptation today towards despair.
00:12:21.920 Sometimes it's difficult.
00:12:22.960 The American constitutional system has repeatedly witnessed controversial judicial decisions become the beginning rather than the conclusion of a political movement.
00:12:33.320 For example, the abolitionists did not surrender after the Dred Scott decision.
00:12:38.480 The civil rights movement did not cease after the incorrectly decided Plessy v. Ferguson.
00:12:44.200 So constitutional interpretations evolved through public debate, legislation where permissible, constitutional amendments where necessary, and the democratic process itself.
00:12:55.240 The border lesson here is unmistakable.
00:12:58.660 If common sense people believe that birthright citizenship should be narrowed, then they must persuade the American people rather than relying exclusively upon executive action, in this case an executive order.
00:13:11.020 They must build a historical case, a constitutional case, and a moral case capable of sustaining legislative reform by the other branch of government.
00:13:22.140 And if necessary, the extraordinary demanding process requires the amendment to the Constitution itself while America has always welcomed lawful immigration.
00:13:33.300 Indeed, generations of immigrants have enriched this country beyond measure.
00:13:38.160 My own people came here from both Italy and Hungary, so we are a nation of immigrants.
00:13:44.660 Yet, immigration without ordinary legal process ceases to be immigration in the traditional American sense and instead becomes administrative chaos.
00:13:55.580 Citizenship, my view, is the highest civic honor a Republican bestow.
00:14:00.140 It should neither be trivialized nor detached from the enduring principle of national allegiance, constitutional order, and the rule of law.
00:14:09.660 Today's ruling, which I found shocking but not totally unpredictable, represents a significant judicial setback for President Trump and for those common-sense citizens who supported his constitutional interpretation.
00:14:24.340 It is not, however, the final chapter in America's constitutional debate.
00:14:29.080 It is merely the latest chapter in a constitutional conversation that will continue whenever citizens remain determined to preserve both the generosity and the sovereignty of the American people.
00:14:42.400 On the same day that the Supreme Court issued this ruling, the news was not all bad from the Supreme Court.
00:14:48.260 They did hand a major victory to fairness in women's sports Tuesday, upholding laws in Idaho and West Virginia that keep biological males out of female athletic competition.
00:15:01.600 In a 6-3 ruling, the court overturned lower court decisions that had sided with transgender athletes challenging those state protections.
00:15:10.740 It was Justice Brett Kavanaugh writing for the majority that states may preserve women's and girls' sports for biological females only, ruling that such laws do not violate Title IX of the Constitution.
00:15:24.900 When we come back, we'll have more about these vexing Supreme Court decisions right here in the Stone Zone.
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00:17:13.860 Welcome back into the Stone Zone.
00:17:18.340 Here's a story that is not the slightest bit surprising. 0.75
00:17:21.340 Democrat U.S. Senator Ruben Gallegos of Arizona is now under federal investigation
00:17:26.860 for suspected campaign finance violations just days after the Senate Ethics Committee
00:17:32.600 dismissed a separate complaint against him.
00:17:35.160 The truth is that Ruben Gallegos makes Eric Swalwell look like Mother Teresa.
00:17:40.380 The Justice Department probe reportedly stems from a whistleblower complaint out of Southern California that focuses on whether Gallego's improperly used campaign money for his personal use.
00:17:54.200 Gallego denies all wrongdoing, says the allegations, of course, are politically motivated.
00:17:58.940 That's what the politicians always say.
00:18:00.880 But the questions are not going away.
00:18:02.440 away. Reports have scrutinized Gallego's campaign spending on items including family travel,
00:18:08.180 child care, and Super Bowl outings, including tickets connected to a joint campaign account
00:18:13.500 with none other than former Congressman Eric Swalwell himself, who was recently forced to
00:18:19.120 resign from his position after widespread allegations of impropriety. Federal rules
00:18:25.520 allow campaign money to be used for legitimate campaign-related travel and child care, but
00:18:30.700 prohibit converting donor funds to personal use. And that is the key issue. Were these expenses
00:18:37.000 truly campaign business, or did the donors help bankroll lifestyle? The Department of Justice
00:18:42.680 intends to get to the bottom of this, even if the Senate Ethics Committee wanted to punt on the
00:18:47.520 issues. Voters, in my view, are tired of Washington insiders playing by one set of rules while working
00:18:53.960 families live by another. I go all the way back to the days when Tom Dodd was censured by the U.S.
00:19:00.180 Senate, Tom Dodd of Connecticut, for using camp funds for personal use. And I predict that Senator
00:19:06.220 Gallegos has big problems coming his way. You're listening to Stone Zone. I'm Roger Stone. Don't
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00:19:52.220 Welcome back into the Stone Zone. I'm your host, Roger Stone.
00:19:58.740 For decades, the poisonous river of cocaine flowing into the United States has not respected borders, languages, or governments.
00:20:06.740 It has carried with it shattered families, violent street gangs, organized crime, corruption, and the slow corrosion of national security on both sides of the hemisphere.
00:20:17.200 America cannot win the war against narcotics unless the nations where those drugs are cultivated, refined, and exported stand shoulder to shoulder with us in a common cause.
00:20:29.280 That's why the election in Colombia of their new president represents far more than a routine transfer of political power.
00:20:36.040 It signals the emergence of a government that understands that narcotics trafficking is not merely a criminal enterprise, but an act of economic warfare, social sabotage, and terrorism directed against free societies such as those in the United States. 0.80
00:20:53.200 By declaring uncompromising war on the narco-terrorists 0.57
00:20:57.000 who have held vast regions of Colombia hostage for generations,
00:21:01.000 the new administration has extended its hand to the United States
00:21:04.560 in a partnership rooted not in ideology,
00:21:08.620 but in the mutual defense of civilization, sovereignty, and yes, the rule of law.
00:21:13.780 Now, history teaches that nations rarely perish from invasion
00:21:18.860 before they first decay from within.
00:21:21.380 Rome was not conquered in a single day. Its institutions were hollowed out, its confidence diminished, and its enemies emboldened long before the barbarians breached the gates.
00:21:33.360 The same lesson has echoed throughout the modern era when governments have surrendered territory, sovereignty, or political will to criminal enterprises masquerading as revolutionary moments.
00:21:46.260 Today, thank God, Colombia stands at another such historic crossroads.
00:21:52.220 The election of Abelardo de la Esparrella marks one of the most consequential political shifts in the Western Hemisphere in decades.
00:22:01.200 After years in which drug cartels, Marxist guerrillas, criminal syndicates, and narco-terrorist organizations have expanded their influence across large portions of Colombia,
00:22:12.180 The Colombian people have elected an outsider, a president, who has declared that the accommodation with the narco-terrorists has entered and a new era of confrontation has begun.
00:22:24.160 During and following his victory, de la Asporella has made unmistakably clear that his administration intends to treat narco-terrorists not as political actors worthy of endless negotiations, but by enemies of the Colombian state to be defeated.
00:22:39.760 He's pledged a sweeping security crackdown, closer cooperation with the United States, and a renewed campaign against criminal organizations who have profited from campaign production of cocaine, extortion, kidnapping, and political intimidation.
00:22:56.180 His incoming government was also signaling that Colombia will now cooperate more closely with American-led regional efforts aimed at strengthening the fight against organized crime and narcotics trafficking.
00:23:09.760 This declaration is not merely a change in rhetoric.
00:23:12.700 It represents a rejection of the dangerous illusion that peace can be purchased through endless concessions to violent criminal organizations.
00:23:22.160 Throughout history, governments that refuse weakness or confuse weakness with compassion inevitably invite greater violence.
00:23:30.280 I think it was Winston Churchill who warned Britain that choosing dishonor over resistance could ultimately produce both dishonors and war.
00:23:38.620 Colombia has lived through precisely that strategic cycle for generations.
00:23:43.080 Now, the history of Colombia is inseparable from the scourge of narco-terrorism.
00:23:47.920 Pablo Escobar transferred the Medellin cartel into the headquarters of one of the largest criminal enterprises the world has ever known.
00:23:55.920 His cartel assassinated judges, murdered journalists, bombed civilian airliners, bribed politicians, and openly challenged the authority of the Colombian government.
00:24:06.800 Escobar understood an enduring truth about organized crime.
00:24:11.680 Criminal enterprises flourish when governments hesitate to use lawful force against them.
00:24:17.920 Although Escobar himself was eventually eliminated, his empire did not immediately disappear.
00:24:24.100 It fragmented into new cartels, new trafficking networks,
00:24:28.340 and increasingly sophisticated alliances with Marxist guerrilla organizations such as FARC and the ELN.
00:24:34.860 Drug trafficking became the financial engine, I should say, powering insurgency, terrorism, kidnapping, illegal mining, human trafficking, and corruption across enormous swaths of that country.
00:24:50.480 Even after the celebrated peace agreements of the last decade, numerous dissident factions and criminal organizations continue to expand their operations, while coca cultivation and cocaine production actually reached historic highs.
00:25:06.560 Armed groups now compete for territory, intimidate entire communities, and exploit illegal economies that generate billions of dollars annually.
00:25:15.260 The consequences extend far beyond Colombia's borders.
00:25:19.840 Cocaine flooding into North America fuels addiction, organized crime, money laundering, human misery, and violence today through the United States.
00:25:30.000 Every kilogram that leaves Colombia finances additional weapon purchases, corrupts more public officials, recruits more young criminals, and strengthens transnational criminal organizations operating across this hemisphere.
00:25:43.900 The poison that begins in the jungles and the laboratories of South America too often end up in American emergency rooms, our county morgues, devastated neighborhoods, and grieving homes where parents wonder how their children were swallowed by an invisible empire of narcotics and death.
00:26:03.220 President Donald Trump has long argued that the drug cartels should no longer be viewed as ordinary criminal enterprises,
00:26:10.320 but now should be defined as terrorist organizations that threaten our national sovereignty.
00:26:15.920 That philosophy appears increasingly to be influenced by governments through Latin America.
00:26:22.160 Ecuador has intensified its military operations against the cartel organizations.
00:26:26.920 El Salvador, of course, has demonstrated that aggressive law enforcement can dramatically reduce organized criminal violence.
00:26:35.100 Argentina has embraced stronger national security policies.
00:26:39.420 And now Colombia appears poised to join the growing coalition dedicated to restoring state authority over territories long ago surrendered to criminal control.
00:26:50.080 Now, critics will undoubtedly warn that such policies are too aggressive.
00:26:54.500 They'll invoke concerns about civil liberties or political polarization and executive authority.
00:27:02.100 Those concerns deserve thoughtful consideration in every constitutional republic.
00:27:07.160 Yet history also teaches that liberty cannot survive
00:27:10.900 where criminal organizations become more powerful than legitimate government.
00:27:15.800 Citizens cannot enjoy constitutional freedoms
00:27:18.460 while living under the constant threat of assassination, extortion, kidnapping,
00:27:23.840 and narcotics fueled violence.
00:27:26.520 I think it was one of my heroes, Abraham Lincoln,
00:27:29.120 who understood that preserving constitutional government
00:27:31.960 sometimes requires extraordinary resolve
00:27:34.420 against forces determined to destroy it.
00:27:37.400 And, of course, my old boss, Ronald Reagan,
00:27:39.700 recognized that communist movements
00:27:41.500 financed by narcotics trafficking
00:27:43.740 represented not merely a criminal enterprise,
00:27:46.720 but strategic threats to democratic civilization
00:27:49.520 throughout the Western Hemisphere.
00:27:51.240 Their warnings now remain strikingly relevant today, as narco-terrorist networks operate less like street gangs and more like hostile shadow governments with their own armies, treasuries, intelligence networks, propaganda machines, and, sadly, political patrons.
00:28:09.560 Colombia's new president, I was one of the first to spot him,
00:28:12.660 first one to urge the president to endorse him,
00:28:16.920 in my view, inherits an enormous challenge.
00:28:21.300 Powerful cartels possess vast financial resources,
00:28:25.000 heavily armed militias, sophisticated intelligence networks,
00:28:28.260 and decades of experience corrupting public institutions.
00:28:32.400 So let's be clear, they will not simply disappear
00:28:35.320 because a new administration takes office.
00:28:37.560 Success will require sustained political courage, professional military leadership,
00:28:42.560 honest law enforcement, judicial integrity, international cooperation,
00:28:47.560 and unwavering public support.
00:28:49.560 But we've seen in El Salvador, under Nayib Bukele, that it can be done with will.
00:28:56.560 For the United States, this moment should be welcomed and strengthened in every way possible.
00:29:02.560 possible. A Columbia prepared to cooperate with Washington DC in reducing
00:29:07.360 narcotics trafficking and defeating narco-terrorism is not merely a regional
00:29:12.160 ally, it's a strategic partner in the defense of our own cities, our own
00:29:17.620 borders, our own families, and our national security. America should
00:29:22.240 encourage this new seriousness, share intelligence where appropriate,
00:29:25.840 coordinate interdiction efforts, and make clear that the days of treating
00:29:30.500 narco-trafficking as a remote form and problem are over. The cartel pipeline is not some distant
00:29:36.980 inconvenience. It's a hemispheric war. Now, whether D. La Asporella ultimately succeeds
00:29:42.920 remains to be seen. Campaign promises are always easier than actual governing. Yet one truth is
00:29:50.020 already unmistakable. Colombia has declared that narco-terrorism is no longer a political
00:29:56.060 inconvenience to be managed through endless negotiations. It's an existential threat to
00:30:01.160 national sovereignty that must be confronted directly. That declaration, not only to Colombia,
00:30:07.280 but to every nation struggling against these transnational criminal organizations that poison 1.00
00:30:12.280 our communities, undermine our democratic institutions, corrupt governments, and finance 0.53
00:30:17.140 violence across international borders must be confronted. The battle against narco-terrorism 0.98
00:30:22.820 is not simply Colombia's fight,
00:30:24.760 it is the fight of every free nation
00:30:26.260 that refuses to surrender civilization
00:30:28.380 to organized criminal enterprises.
00:30:30.640 It is not coincidental
00:30:32.080 that the end of USAID funding
00:30:35.600 for all of these NGOs south of our borders
00:30:39.860 have coincided with the election
00:30:41.900 of more conservative populist governments
00:30:43.900 in Chile, in Argentina, in Honduras, in Colombia.
00:30:50.100 These are very positive developments
00:30:52.520 unforeseeable just months ago.
00:30:56.500 So I see a direct correlation between the cutoff of U.S. dollars
00:31:00.640 that were being surreptitiously used to fund leftist campaigns
00:31:05.060 across Central and South America
00:31:07.560 and the end of the abuses at USAID,
00:31:11.800 first brought to the public consciousness by Elon Musk.
00:31:15.760 In the meantime, a new national poll shows that America voters
00:31:19.160 support President Trump's peace deal to end the Iranian war
00:31:22.120 and the numbers suggest voters are rewarding him for rejecting the neocon calls for another prolonged conflict.
00:31:29.900 Despite recent fraying of the agreement, according to the big data poll yesterday,
00:31:35.680 62% of likely voters support the Memorandum of Understanding signed early this month between the United States and Iran
00:31:42.120 and support is particularly among Trump voters at the 77% range.
00:31:47.680 But even half of Kamala Harris' voters back this deal.
00:31:51.180 The agreement includes 14 points aimed at ending military operations on both sides, including reopening the Strait of Hormuz, easing some financial restrictions on Iran, and creating a 60-day path towards a final deal on Iran's nuclear program.
00:32:07.180 Poll also shows President Trump's approval rating improving. Among likely voters, up to 44.4% now say they somewhat or strongly approve his performance, which is up from 40.7% in May.
00:32:22.660 Big poll director Rich Barris, a guy I have a lot of respect for,
00:32:26.440 said that voters consistently prefer a focus on domestic issues rather than foreign policy,
00:32:31.520 which is not to say that foreign adversaries don't need to be confronted,
00:32:35.280 but that the culture of nonstop war has left the public understandably with a bad taste in their mouths.
00:32:41.060 Barris noted that the political picture now looks better for Trump and Republicans
00:32:46.200 as long as peace is not sabotaged by the military-industrial complex.
00:32:52.140 President Trump has demonstrated strength, and he's crushed Iran's nuclear capability 0.63
00:32:56.040 and sent regime leaders to meet Allah. 0.65
00:32:59.480 Now voters want secure borders, lower costs, safer streets, and leaders focused on American interests.
00:33:06.860 With Trump intent upon keeping the peace with Iran as long as possible,
00:33:10.400 while refocusing Washington on problems at home,
00:33:13.620 Republicans may have an unbeatable message heading into November's midterms.
00:33:18.480 It is not something to be sniffed at.
00:33:21.140 That said, as I commented here in the Stone Zone yesterday,
00:33:25.260 the peace agreement seems to be frayed, but at the same time holding.
00:33:29.240 You've seen the resultant cut in oil prices.
00:33:34.340 That has not yet manifested itself in the downward spiral of gasoline prices,
00:33:39.300 which is one of the absolute necessities for the next midterm elections.
00:33:44.560 We will also have to see an improvement in food prices. 0.96
00:33:47.880 But I'm not one of those panikins who is ready to throw in the towel and say that the midterms are lost. 0.94
00:33:53.460 No, not at all.
00:33:55.040 I think both because of the Supreme Court decisions regarding congressional redistricting,
00:33:59.440 the enormous financial advantage the Republicans have over Democrats,
00:34:03.980 and the fact that the Democrats, candidly, have no platform.
00:34:08.460 They have no rationale for why they should be returned to power.
00:34:13.620 It all manifests itself in their hatred of Donald Trump.
00:34:17.580 So I'm going out on a limb here, right in the Stone Zone, to say I think the Republicans will increase their margin in the House and they will continue to hold the Senate.
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00:35:37.800 As I said, Chinese fraudster Guo Wenge, also known as Miles Guo, was sentenced Monday to 30 years in federal prison for bilking investors out of nearly $1 billion, many of them anti-communist supporters who believed that they were funding a crusade against Beijing and the Chinese Communist Party.
00:36:02.980 Guo, once a wealthy Chinese real estate insider, reinvented himself in America as a dissident hero, while at the same time living in a $68 million Manhattan penthouse in the Sherry, Netherland, while selling followers on media shares, club memberships, a sham cryptocurrency, and also on a gold scam.
00:36:26.320 Prosecutors say he used the money to bankroll mansions, a New Jersey estate, a $4.4 million
00:36:34.140 Bugatti, a palatial yacht, and other accoutrements of wealth.
00:36:39.980 But the bigger unanswered question is why Stephen K. Bannon, Kuo's powerful political
00:36:46.380 ally who was an unindicted co-conspirator in this case, faced no apparent accountability
00:36:52.640 in the case at all.
00:36:54.400 Bannon reportedly had a $1 million consultant contract with Guo
00:36:58.140 and stood beside him during the 2020 launch of the so-called new federal state of China.
00:37:04.640 In fact, Steve Bannon was arrested aboard Guo's yacht the same year in a separate fraud case.
00:37:10.000 So this begs the question, why did Guo get a 30-year sentence while Steve Bannon walked away untouched?
00:37:16.840 Bannon has also never been held culpable for his association with the pedophile Jeffrey Epstein,
00:37:22.480 which is revealed in 1,900 emails released by the U.S. Justice Department.
00:37:31.360 So, once again, Bannon seems to be able to wiggle out of repercussions,
00:37:36.060 including the build-the-wall scale,
00:37:38.440 where he billed patrons out of millions of dollars
00:37:40.700 after providing false testimony against me in my trial.
00:37:45.520 No one should be above the law.
00:37:47.120 If Bannon was merely a paid consultant,
00:37:49.680 prosecutors would have a field deal with him.
00:37:51.400 But it appears that Bannon's wheeling and dealing with the deep state is what really kept him out of prison.
00:37:56.680 This man is a classic Judas Goat, leading conservative and MAGA patriots astray.
00:38:01.900 I will never trust this guy, and he is destined to always be on my international worst dress list for all time.
00:38:11.220 Meanwhile, President Donald Trump has announced the biggest deregulation in U.S. history.
00:38:15.140 He issued a massive executive memorandum aimed at delivering what his administration calls the largest deregulatory action in American history, taking direct aim at costly environmental rules that have driven up vehicle prices and restricted America's ability to repair their own cars, trucks, and equipment.
00:38:33.900 This order directs the Environmental Protection Agency to expand the freedom to fix protections by clarifying within 30 days what vehicle owners may lawfully do when repairing emission systems on their own vehicles.
00:38:50.360 It also tells the EPA to consider deprioritizing civil reinforcement against Americans who make good faith efforts to restore vehicles to their original configuration.
00:39:02.060 At the center of this order is a direct challenge to California's outsized control over aftermarket auto parts.
00:39:10.820 This memorandum argues that the California Air Resources Board has become a costly,
00:39:16.200 backlogged bottleneck that proves taking more money in a year and effectively allowing one state to dictate national repair options to the country.
00:39:25.040 The order by Trump also instructs the EPA to encourage alternative testing and certification pathways for aftermarket parts that comply with the Clean Air Act, while protecting manufacturers' intellectual property and cracking down on cheap foreign knockoffs.
00:39:44.660 So for those who have common sense, this is a major win for consumers, farmers, mechanics, small businesses, and American manufacturers.
00:39:53.880 Let me put it another way. President Donald Trump is making our cars and trucks great again.
00:40:01.020 Thanks for joining us today on The Stone Zone. I'm Roger Stone. Until tomorrow,
00:40:05.280 God bless you and Godspeed.
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