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00:00:49.820 This is The Stone Zone with Roger Stone.

00:00:53.600 People love him and respect him. Roger Stone.

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00:01:03.620 Welcome into the Stone Zone, the hottest political radio show in America today.

00:01:10.220 While Democrat hopes of winning the House of Representatives and flipping the seat of upstate Congresswoman Elise Stefanik

00:01:17.500 were dealt a serious blow last Friday when Republican State Assemblyman Robert Smullen

00:01:23.500 bowed to President Trump's wishes and dropped his plan to run on the conservative line

00:01:29.120 after being soundly defeated in the Republican primary by Anthony Constantino,

00:01:35.300 the chief executive of Sticker Mule, a multi-million dollar online printing company.

00:01:41.980 Although Constantino was opposed by all 12 of the Republican county chairs, the New York State Republican Committee, and I believe every member of the Republican House congressional delegation, with the exception of Elise Stefanik, who issued a late endorsement of Constantino,

00:02:02.360 He won his primary by 20 points, racking up the largest number of votes in the history of that congressional district by a congressional district of either party.

00:02:15.660 This is significant because New York State is one of the few countries, I believe at this point, it's the only country, pardon me, the only state in the country where one's name can appear on multiple state ballots, but you win the cumulative vote.

00:02:32.360 So this is a major victory, not only for Anthony Constantino, also a major victory for House Speaker Mike Johnson, who endorsed Constantino after the Republican primary.

00:02:46.800 The state conservative party chair says that they'll likely leave their line blank.

00:02:52.820 But it's also interesting that Constantino petitioned his way on the ballot as the candidate of the taxpayers party.

00:03:00.860 So even had he lost the primary, which, of course, he didn't, he would have remained on the ballot anyway.

00:03:08.900 This is going to be not as close a race as some have thought.

00:03:13.440 Democrats have nominated a local farmer, Blake Gebenden.

00:03:19.080 I think I said that right, who will now try to move to the center, pretend to be a moderate in the Republican leaning district.

00:03:26.460 Mr. Constantino has self-funded his own campaign, meaning he doesn't accept campaign contributions from lobbyists or big pharma, big agriculture, or any special interest, big defense contractors.

00:03:45.120 And he had what I thought was one of the greatest political slogans of all time.

00:03:50.580 Anthony Constantino, nobody's man but yours.

00:03:54.940 This is not going to be the close race that Democrats have been hoping for with a three-way split.

00:04:00.280 In fact, the last time Democrats won this district was when the Republican Party and the Conservative Party endorsed two different candidates.

00:04:08.840 That's not going to happen now through the actions of President Donald Trump.

00:04:13.880 Meanwhile, President Trump marked the official launch of Trump accounts on Monday,

00:04:19.160 hosting the heads of the New York State Stock Exchange and NASDAQ in the Oval Office

00:04:23.400 and symbolically ringing the opening bell, but doing it from the White House.

00:04:29.000 The new child investment accounts went live on the 4th of July as part of the One Big Beautiful Bill,

00:04:35.280 which passed earlier last year.

00:04:37.920 Under this program, every eligible U.S. citizen born between January 1st, 2025 and December 31st, 2028

00:04:47.140 will receive a Trump account which is seeded with a one-time $1,000 federal deposit from the government.

00:04:56.100 Parents will be able to contribute up to $5,000 per year with up to $2,500 coming from an employer tax-free.

00:05:04.440 Children under 18 who were born before 2025 can also open accounts,

00:05:10.440 although they will not receive the federal seed money.

00:05:13.160 The White House Council on Economic Advisors projects that a child whose family contributes the annual maximum could have more than $300,000 on end by age 18 and roughly $1 million by age 28, depending, of course, on market returns.

00:05:31.160 returns. Dell Technologies founder Michael Dell also joined the event and announced a private

00:05:38.040 sector contribution, saying that they would put $6.25 billion into the account to provide $250

00:05:45.060 for each of the 25 million eligible children who were born between 2016 and 2024. Trump called the

00:05:54.640 accounts a miracle, and he encouraged parents to sign up. Trump accounts are teaching children to

00:06:01.580 invest, help families build wealth, and tying the next generation directly to America's economic

00:06:08.680 success through opportunity, savings, and capitalism. Donald Trump will be known for this,

00:06:15.720 just as Franklin Roosevelt was known for social security. This is the way to fight back against

00:06:21.440 the culture of dependency that previous administrations have fostered, in my opinion,

00:06:25.700 the Trump administration's restoring the American dream through wise programs that will help build

00:06:30.860 intergenerational wealth so that somebody will no longer need a welfare state and the massive

00:06:36.280 bureaucracy that accompanies it. In the meantime, a shocking new report released by the Department

00:06:42.600 of Homeland Security Inspector General confirms that many Americans already feared the Secret

00:06:49.200 Service missed repeated chances to stop the July 13, 2024 assassination attempt against President

00:06:56.600 Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania. This shocking 64-page report says the agency missed

00:07:03.520 multiple opportunities to detect, prevent, and disrupt the attack on Thomas Crooks, who climbed

00:07:09.300 on the roof of the American Glass Research Complex roughly 155 years from the stage.

00:07:15.880 I personally am not even certain that Thomas Matthew Crooks is the shooter.

00:07:20.480 I find it curious that his body was almost immediately cremated, that his social media left no footprint whatsoever.

00:07:29.920 At the time, the FBI told us that they were unable to break into his encrypted phone.

00:07:34.880 There are also reports that he had some kind of remote device on him.

00:07:39.780 Immediately after the shooting, I got a tip from a Pennsylvania state police contact of mine

00:07:48.020 who told me that rather than Thomas Matthew Crooks, that the shooter was a man named Maxwell Yerick.

00:07:54.700 Mr. Yerick seems to have disappeared from sight.

00:07:56.960 I think this warrants more investigation.

00:08:00.960 It is suspicious to me that we now learn that there was no communications room set up

00:08:06.880 by the three federal agencies charged with protecting Donald Trump,

00:08:11.780 then candidate Trump, former President Trump.

00:08:14.320 That means that the state, local, and federal police were all on different radio frequencies

00:08:23.140 and therefore could not communicate with each other.

00:08:26.660 So there were multiple reports just from common citizens of a man on a roof,

00:08:32.320 Man with a rangefinder up to 90 minutes before the shooting, yet for some strange reasons, the Secret Service took no action.

00:08:42.220 According to investigators, this was referred to a Secret Service supervisor who was handed the task in turn to a counter drone operator who worked for the Secret Service.

00:08:54.300 According to the report, that operator searched online for the location, was still searching when Crooks actually opened fire.

00:09:01.880 Two minutes later, Crooks fired two eight rounds, grazing President Trump's ear, killing one rally-goer, fire predator Corey Compentori, and injuring others before being shot by a counter-terrorist.

00:09:17.620 My question remains, if the counter-terrorist had the shooter, let's assume it was Mr. Crooks for the sake of this discussion, in his sights, why did he wait for him to get off eight rounds before killing him?

00:09:31.140 The report also found that there were 102 radio transmissions about crooks, which never reached the Secret Service personnel because, as I said, no joint communications room had been established with local agencies.

00:09:44.900 Warnings included reports of a man with a rangefinder, a man on the roof, and finally a man with a long gun for up to 90 minutes prior to the shooting.

00:09:55.120 This is not a lack of warning.

00:09:56.660 This was a catastrophic failure to act.

00:09:59.080 The American people deserve accountability, because protecting a president, especially one facing unprecedented political hostility, cannot be treated after an afterthought.

00:10:09.220 I'm afraid this is going to end up really being like Lee Harvey Oswald and President John F. Kennedy.

00:10:15.060 I'm afraid decades from now, there will still be uncertainty about who really shot the president.

00:10:21.300 The good news is we thank God that he was unkilled.

00:10:26.460 Meanwhile, President Donald Trump and the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

00:10:30.480 are expected to meet in the upcoming days following what appears to be

00:10:34.260 an important clarification of the U.S.-Israeli relationship.

00:10:38.820 Trump told Axios the two leaders should meet after the returns

00:10:42.400 from the annual NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey.

00:10:46.960 The comment came after Netanyahu called to congratulate President Trump

00:10:50.600 on America's 250 Independence Day celebration.

00:10:54.900 and what a celebration it was.

00:10:57.680 The commander-in-chief also made it clear

00:10:59.520 who is setting the terms from this meeting.

00:11:01.920 Of the conversation, President Trump said,

00:11:04.440 we get along very good.

00:11:06.000 He knows who the boss is.

00:11:07.860 That is such vintage Donald Trump.

00:11:10.460 In recent weeks, U.S.-Israeli relationships

00:11:12.880 have reported been a bit strained

00:11:14.460 over the Trump administration's push

00:11:16.380 for a U.S.-Iran memorandum of understanding

00:11:19.100 to end that war,

00:11:20.700 a U.S.-mediated ceasefire in Lebanon,

00:11:23.680 Kudos to Secretary of State Marco Rubio for that incredible accomplishment

00:11:29.840 And concerns inside Israel that premature diplomacy could leave Iran's nuclear threat unresolved

00:11:36.200 This has caused some to question whether the tail was welling the dog in this situation

00:11:40.340 But now President Trump is putting those rumors to rest

00:11:43.960 Meanwhile, some Israeli leaders have argued that military pressure should continue until real change occurs in Tehran

00:11:52.020 But President Trump has learned from the foreign policy mistakes of the past

00:11:55.620 He will not commit us to endless foreign war with boots on the ground

00:11:59.340 He will not get mired in another endless war

00:12:02.100 Where it will be waged at the expense of the American people

00:12:05.140 Israeli security is incredibly important 0.89

00:12:07.880 I agree with that, but American interests must always come first

00:12:10.900 Net News office said the Prime Minister praised the United States

00:12:14.640 As a guarantor of global freedom

00:12:17.040 And said Israel deeply values the close relationship between the two countries

00:12:21.780 during their conversation.

00:12:23.980 The two leaders agreed to meet soon in the United States

00:12:26.640 as soon as President Trump is never going to outsource American policy

00:12:30.600 to any foreign leader, and Israel must realize that.

00:12:35.280 He's reminding allies and adversaries alike

00:12:37.840 that America first means that we lead, our allies respect us,

00:12:41.220 and peace comes through strength, not weakness, chaos, or blind loyalty.

00:12:47.600 Meanwhile, a new White House report released on Independence Day

00:12:51.660 is taking direct aim at the Smithsonian Institution,

00:12:55.400 accusing the National Museum of American History of being captured by a radical left-wing ideology.

00:13:00.740 It was only weeks ago that the Smithsonian and the National Museum of American History

00:13:06.480 incorrectly reported that President Richard Nixon had been impeached,

00:13:11.980 when in fact he resigned ahead of impeachment.

00:13:14.780 Further effort to destroy his public image, as if they haven't done enough damage to it already.

00:13:20.600 The report, titled Saving America Story, argues the museum has moved away from honoring America's founding, its achievements, and its national heritage, and instead now promotes a narrative designed to devalue the country and demoralize our citizens.

00:13:38.480 According to the White House, the museum has become a vehicle for intersectional critical theory, an ideology the report describes as rooted in Marxism and focused on portraying American history through overlapping systems of oppression.

00:13:55.220 The report says this approach fails to give young Americans access to the inspiring and unifying parts of the nation's story.

00:14:03.740 They literally no longer teach history in the public schools.

00:14:08.140 My own granddaughter came home to tell me that Abraham Lincoln was a racist, which, of course, he wasn't.

00:14:14.480 President Trump has made restoring patriotic history a major priority.

00:14:18.160 In March, he signed an executive order called Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History, warning that revisionist, anti-American narratives that cast America's founding principles as racist, sexist, oppressive, or irredeemably flawed should be rejected.

00:14:36.360 The Independence Day report claims that the National Reviews of American History, paid for with your tax dollars, has minimized the founders, problematized the American 20th anniversary, removed American history from its mission statement, and promoted activist messages on race, immigration, and gender.

00:14:58.040 Smithsonian has long influenced school curriculum and public understanding of the American story.

00:15:03.380 The fact that they are acting essentially as a subsidiary of the recently busted Southern Poverty Law Center,

00:15:09.440 where they were actually going out and paying white supremacists in order to create a problem that they could then raise money to solve, should tell people a lot.

00:15:18.600 The president wants to make America patriotic again, and he's reportedly very, very angry about these efforts to rewrite America's history.

00:15:29.460 Taxpayer-funded institutions like the Smithsonian and like the Museum of American History should tell the truth about America's past and our historic story.

00:15:41.280 They should never teach children to despise their country. 0.61

00:15:44.780 That only happens in countries that are seized from within.

00:15:48.080 Instead, they should tell the full truth about America and the fact that we are the greatest nation on Earth, despite the fact that we are not perfect.

00:15:57.820 You're listening to The Stone Zone. I'm Roger Stone, and we'll be right back.

00:16:02.360 This is The Stone Zone with Roger Stone.

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00:16:59.680 So I hope you and your family had a joyous and celebratory 250th anniversary of the United States.

00:17:10.000 I love a good hot dog.

00:17:11.780 I admit the only time I ever had them really was at ball games.

00:17:14.800 And when I went out to the grocery store, I got some dogs, I got some rolls, I got some of the brown mustard.

00:17:22.040 I forgot the sauerkraut.

00:17:24.120 My wife sent me back to the grocery store to get the sauerkraut.

00:17:27.140 And I like the kind of hot dog, you know, that kind of snaps when you bite it.

00:17:31.180 And I get them about once a year, but we definitely had them yesterday,

00:17:34.620 along with some of the most incredible fireworks that we've ever seen.

00:17:38.520 If you saw the fireworks display on the mall, I think it was the greatest in American history.

00:17:43.000 Many on the left tried to denigrate President Trump over ramping up the celebration of our 250th anniversary, but I had a great time.

00:17:51.740 I hope your family did as well.

00:17:53.800 It is a reminder, I can tell you firsthand, when your freedom is threatened, and they tried to frame me in the Russian collusion hoax,

00:18:01.260 I was looking at seven to nine years in prison for a crime I did not commit.

00:18:06.280 You really get an appreciation of freedom and what it's worth.

00:18:10.320 That's what I celebrated yesterday with my family.

00:18:13.980 That and the fact that God answered my prayers, and I survived this extraordinary injustice.

00:18:20.280 That plus, well, two or three really, really good dogs.

00:18:25.000 I'm no Joey Chestnut.

00:18:26.640 I didn't like the guy who won the hot dog eating contest, but I did put quite a bit away yesterday.

00:18:32.860 Listen to The Stone Zone.

00:18:34.060 I'm Roger Stone.

00:18:35.000 And when we come back, a terrifying poll shows that almost half the American people don't know what the July 4th holiday was really about.

00:18:43.000 We'll be right back to tell you all about it right here in the Stone Zone.

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00:19:25.420 Welcome back into the Stone Zone.

00:19:28.380 While the rest of us were celebrating the 4th of July and America's independence,

00:19:32.580 A terrifying poll conducted by the Cato Institute in conjunction with Morning Consult showed that 46% of Americans do not really know what the 250th celebration of America's independence actually commemorated.

00:19:47.220 To me, this is shocking.

00:19:48.880 Among January Z, the number rises to 61%.

00:19:52.360 Imagine that.

00:19:53.280 61% couldn't tell you what the 4th of July was about.

00:19:56.560 Just over half of all respondents correctly identified the anniversary as marking the adoption of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, while only about one-third of Gen Z got it right.

00:20:10.220 These results are a warning sign of something I spoke about earlier in the show, and that is that our public schools no longer teach American history, and when they do, they teach a stilted, biased, politically correct, woke version of it.

00:20:24.640 These results are the warning sign of the decades of these weakened civilized education and the cultural left's efforts to teach young Americans to view their country with hatred.

00:20:34.860 Instead of learning about the founding era patriots and the sacrifices they made for our liberty, they're leaning on drivel like gender bending, DEI, and Marxist critical theory and other crazy heresies upon our nation.

00:20:49.480 This is wholly unacceptable and puts the future of America in grave peril.

00:20:53.700 The good news is that most Americans still hold patriotic views.

00:20:58.780 In this same poll, 76% had a favorable view of the founding country.

00:21:06.020 86% said they were grateful to be Americans, and 79% said they were proud to be Americans.

00:21:12.520 A strong majority also still believe America is in the land of opportunity,

00:21:16.820 and their concern about the country shows that they believe the American dream is still available to them.

00:21:23.700 But at the same time, the poll shows concerns about America's direction.

00:21:28.160 57% believe America has moved away from its founding principles,

00:21:31.780 with 22% saying it moved far away from its founding principles.

00:21:36.720 Americans still love their country and we want to be a united people,

00:21:40.080 but unless we understand and teach about our founding

00:21:42.400 and recognize the importance of liberty,

00:21:45.040 we're going to lose our nation and our freedom long, long before.

00:21:49.280 MAGA is about fomenting the patriotic revival needed

00:21:52.740 to ensure America gets another 250 years.

00:21:57.400 Hollywood is helping undermine that idea every single day.

00:22:00.860 It is once again inserting itself into American politics,

00:22:04.360 this time using the nation's 250th anniversary

00:22:07.840 to push their familiar anti-Trump message.

00:22:11.640 A nearly 10-minute video released for America's semi-quincentennial

00:22:15.960 featured liberal celebrities including Mark Ruffalo, Ted Danson, Judd Aptow,

00:22:21.400 and others reading from Timothy Snyder's book, On Tyranny, 20 Lessons from the 20th Century.

00:22:28.580 Video frames the current political moment as a battle against tyranny.

00:22:33.380 That's ironic, Kim, coming from the people who advocated censorship of those on the Internet

00:22:38.720 who did not agree with them.

00:22:41.360 It also directly encourages Americans to oppose President Donald Trump.

00:22:45.940 Timothy Snyder, who wrote the book after President Trump's 2016 victory,

00:22:51.400 said the upcoming midterm elections represent a turning point for the Republic.

00:22:56.320 Celebrities in the video read lessons such as, do not obey in advance, beware the one-party state,

00:23:02.780 well, I certainly agree with that, clearly aimed at warning voters against President Trump and his supporters.

00:23:08.480 This is a distorted sense of where we are today.

00:23:12.740 So those who violated the Constitution and broke the law in their manic effort to destroy Donald Trump,

00:23:19.160 to put him in jail, to keep him off the ballot, to bankrupt him.

00:23:23.240 When any move is made by government to hold them responsible,

00:23:28.080 they scream that it is revenge, that it is retaliation.

00:23:32.120 Mark Ruffalo told Variety that he joined this particular left-wing project

00:23:36.400 because he believes America is living through what he called a very bad and corrupt time.

00:23:41.820 Ruffalo says he wants the country to move away from government.

00:23:44.980 It serves the wealthy and the powerful and instead focus on young people.

00:23:48.520 This is the typical drivel you'd expect to hear from out-of-touch, effete Hollywood liberal elitists.

00:23:55.760 This video is just another example of why wealthy Hollywood elites who live in gated communities and travel with security guards strongly favor gun control for the rest of us,

00:24:06.840 lecturing everyday Americans while pretending that they're defending democracy.

00:24:11.240 The only democracy they defend is their version of it.

00:24:15.140 That's one in which we are censored, we are prosecuted, we are targeted, and the criminal justice system is weaponized against us. 0.96

00:24:25.000 It was this sort of performative displays that annoyed the American public and caused them to rally around President Trump for cutting these losers down to size.

00:24:32.720 It's why he was able to make the greatest single comeback in American political history at a time when the country should be celebrating 250 years of independence, freedom, and constitutional government.

00:24:44.400 Hollywood's message is not one of you knew your gratitude,

00:24:46.840 it is one of resistance, fear, and partisan politics.

00:24:51.700 Meanwhile, a member of Castro's ruling family is now signaling a willingness

00:24:55.880 to talk directly with President Donald Trump,

00:24:59.300 a sign that the administration's pressure campaign may actually be rattling Havana's communist elite.

00:25:04.980 Raul Guillermo Rodriguez Castro, the grandson of former Cuban President Raul Castro,

00:25:11.000 told USA Today in an exclusive interview

00:25:13.980 he's prepared to serve if the Cuban revolution needs him.

00:25:17.600 Now, he holds no formal government post

00:25:20.240 and rarely appears in public,

00:25:22.040 but the Castro name still carries enormous weight

00:25:24.700 inside Cuba's closed communist power structure.

00:25:28.200 Rodriguez Castro said he's never been

00:25:30.080 personally interested in politics,

00:25:31.300 but made it clear he would not have been

00:25:33.180 in the principles of Cuba's 1959 revolution

00:25:36.260 or the island's sovereignty.

00:25:38.700 Still, he also said he could negotiate with anyone

00:25:40.860 undesignated by the United States, including Trump.

00:25:43.900 Well, if he thinks he's going to get around Secretary of State Marco Rubio,

00:25:47.280 I think he's got another thing coming.

00:25:48.520 That statement comes as the Trump administration intensifies economic pressure on Havana.

00:25:54.440 Cuba's economy remains deeply weakened after decades of communist mismanagement

00:25:59.620 and its tourism sector, as you might expect, in steep decline.

00:26:04.620 The Cuban people lack fuel.

00:26:07.400 They lack rubber tires. 1.00

00:26:09.360 They lack car parts.

00:26:10.400 They lack medicine. They lack bandages.

00:26:14.560 They lack all of the necessities of everyday life, because that's what socialism gets you.

00:26:20.540 Cuban government data shows the island drew just 360,000 tourists in the first years of 2026.

00:26:27.160 That's down 58 percent from a year earlier.

00:26:30.060 The president's doctrine of strength is working against putting Cuba in a position where they must negotiate or pay the consequences.

00:26:37.400 While Democrats have often favored appeasement with communist regimes,

00:26:41.160 President Trump's approach is built on leverage, pressure, and American power.

00:26:45.700 If Havana is now looking for a back channel to Washington, it's not because communism is succeeding.

00:26:50.120 It's because the regime is running out of options and President Trump is forcing the conversation on America's terms.

00:26:57.920 My wife and her family, being from Cuba, we are intensely interested in these events.

00:27:03.420 I have no doubt that Secretary of State Marco Rubio, himself a Cuban-American, is acutely aware of the situation, and I expect them to continue the pressure on the regime.

00:27:18.200 Meanwhile, a new House Judiciary Committee report is raising serious alarms about South Korea's left-leaning government and its treatment of American companies, especially the U.S.-owned e-commerce giant, Copang.

00:27:31.320 Kupang, often called the Amazon of Korea, was recently hit with a roughly $410 million privacy fine, the largest in South Korea's history, after a data breach involving a former Chinese national employee occurred.

00:27:47.300 According to the committee report, that former employee improperly accessed customer data and later hid a laptop containing stolen information in a river in China.

00:27:57.500 The report says that South Korea's National Intelligence Service pressured the company, Kopang, to retrieve the device, allegedly leading to a covert recovery mission on Chinese territory.

00:28:10.540 But when the company, Kopang's interim CEO, Harold Rogers, testified that Korean officials instructed the company to recover the data, South Korean officials denied it and called for perjury charges.

00:28:22.960 Republican argument makers law that this is part of a broader pattern.

00:28:27.040 South Korea's current left-wing government is using digital regulations and competition policy to target American businesses while drifting closer and closer to communist China.

00:28:36.320 The South Korean embassy denies discrimination, saying its government provides a fair business environment and that Kupang deceived due process in this entire matter.

00:28:47.460 But Hupang, the company's stock, has plunged as a result of this incredible arbitrary fine, hurting American investors, pension funds, and everyday retirement savers.

00:28:58.880 A separate economic model warrants hostile Korean regulators that could cost U.S. states hundreds of billions of dollars over the next decade. 0.59

00:29:07.880 Allies must treat American companies fairly, and Washington should not ignore the economic attacks wrapped in foreign policy. 0.53

00:29:15.120 When it comes to the race for global hegemony, there can only be one dominant power.

00:29:20.460 You're either with the United States or you are against us, as South Korea is apparently about to learn.

00:29:26.860 I suspect they will pay a high penalty for this in terms of high tariffs and sanctions until they get their act together.

00:29:33.980 Meanwhile, the Trump Justice Department is drawing a firm line in defense against American sovereignty,

00:29:39.320 formally warning the International Criminal Court that it has no authority over U.S. citizens.

00:29:47.040 In a June 29th letter to the International Criminal Court President, Judge Tomoko Arcane,

00:29:54.640 Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche declared that the United States will not cooperate

00:29:59.220 with the International Criminal Court investigation, proceedings, summons, or arrest warrants involving Americans.

00:30:07.320 Blanche made it clear that because the United States never ratified the Rome Statute,

00:30:11.700 the treaty that treated the ICC, the court in The Hague,

00:30:17.360 has no jurisdiction over U.S. persons anywhere in the world.

00:30:21.380 Acting Attorney General Blanche accused the Hague-based court of acting

00:30:24.640 in an increasingly lawless and illegitimate manner,

00:30:28.160 citing selective enforcement and concerns about the court's credibility,

00:30:32.680 impartiality, and political bias.

00:30:34.980 The warning comes amid rising tensions over the international criminal court's actions involving Israel and other nations that have not consented to the court's authority.

00:30:46.160 The Justice Department also pointed to the American Service Members Protection Act of 2002, which rejects the international criminal court jurisdiction over American troops, officials, and civilians.

00:31:00.200 That law bars U.S. cooperation with the court and authorizes the President of the United States to use all necessary means to secure the release of any American detained under an international criminal court warrant.

00:31:15.560 Blanche also citing President Trump's 2025 executive order sanctioning the ICC's chief prosecutor after actions against Israeli officials.

00:31:24.700 This is what they mean when they talk about the New World Order, some international court that has jurisdiction over American citizens, clearly rejected by the Trump administration.

00:31:36.480 To me, this seems like a long overdue message.

00:31:39.300 American citizens are not accountable to some foreign tribunal in The Hague.

00:31:44.220 Organizations like the International Criminal Court have tipped away at American sovereignty for far too long.

00:31:49.720 And thank God the Trump administration is putting them in their place.

00:31:54.700 A new working paper from the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas is putting hard numbers behind the Biden era border crisis helped to drive housing costs up even today.

00:32:06.400 The study examined the unprecedented wave of illegal immigration between 2021 and 2024, using immigration court records and government data to measure its effect on local labor and housing markets.

00:32:20.360 The findings are really significant.

00:32:22.180 Researchers found that illegal immigration increased employment, taking jobs away from native-born workers in doing so, while also sharply increasing the demand for housing in markets that were already strained.

00:32:34.940 According to this new paper, a 1% increase in unauthorized workers relative to a local labor force was associated with about a 2.2% increase in home prices and a 1.4% increase in rents.

00:32:49.940 rents. Researchers found little evidence that new home construction expanded enough to absorb this

00:32:56.680 additional demand, but of course that new construction would create concerns related

00:33:01.100 to infrastructure and crowded communities as well as overdevelopment, straining the very fabric of

00:33:06.520 our country. The economists estimate that the unauthorized immigrant worker flows accounted

00:33:11.900 for roughly 30 percent of employment growth, 30 percent of home price growth, and 20 percent of

00:33:19.660 rent growth in the average metro area started between March 2021 and March 2024. They burdened

00:33:28.640 schools, hospital, public services, and now, according to this research, housing affordability.

00:33:34.580 But with the number of those illegally crossing our southern border dropping to virtually zero,

00:33:39.740 These statistics are in the rearview mirror as Donald Trump has closed our border, making us safer and moving towards greater affordability.

00:33:50.000 Americans struggling to buy a home or pay rent deserve leaders who put America's citizens first, secure the border, restore order after years of reckless immigration policy that has harmed our country in multiple, countless ways.

00:34:03.240 This new shocking report proves it.

00:34:05.400 This is why I thank the God every single day that Donald Trump is our president.

00:34:10.220 I'm Roger Stone. You're listening to The Stone Zone.

00:34:12.400 We've got more politics for you on the other side, so please, whatever you do.

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00:35:45.800 California Democrat Congressman Ro Khanna is openly backing what he calls a billionaire's wealth tax.

00:35:52.220 But the fine print tells a very different story.

00:35:55.160 In a new Substack essay entitled, Why I Support a Billionaire's Wealth Tax, the far-left lawmaker quickly makes it clear that his proposal would not really stop billionaires.

00:36:04.760 He, for example, supports Elizabeth Warren's ultramillionary tax act, which would impose a yearly 2% federal tax on wealth above $50 million.

00:36:15.140 Speaking of that, how is it that Elizabeth Warren, on a Senate salary of $174,000, is now worth $12 million?

00:36:23.080 bucks. Could it be insider trading? Hmm, I wonder. This is not simply a tax on billionaires as put 0.99

00:36:29.880 forward by the California congressman. This is a permanent federal claim on private wealth,

00:36:35.500 including assets that may not produce cash income. Once Washington normalizes taxing wealth itself,

00:36:41.360 the threshold will eventually move lower over time, especially as inflation rises, paper value

00:36:47.220 for homes, farms, businesses, and retirement assets will all be taxed. The California

00:36:52.720 Congressman Rojana wants the tax to reach irrevocable trusts, with the bill going to

00:36:57.480 the original grantor. The proposal would dramatically expand the IRS power, including

00:37:02.500 annual audits for at least 30% of those subject to this tax and federal valuation of private

00:37:08.240 businesses, land, art, and other two-price assets. I wonder how they would evaluate my

00:37:14.640 Nixon-Button collection. It also includes a 40% exit tax on wealth above $50 million for those

00:37:20.840 who elect to leave, a so-called expatriation tax. This is exactly the danger of class warfare

00:37:27.860 politics. Democrats sell these schemes as taxes on the ultra-rich, but the real principle is your

00:37:34.100 property ultimately belongs to the government. That's the underlying philosophy, whether it's

00:37:38.380 cash income or whether it's something of value. Today it's a $50 million, but tomorrow it could

00:37:43.860 be your small business, your farm, your store, or your 401k. They want to get their hands on all of

00:37:50.300 it because ultimately, you see, they want the government, not private business or individuals,

00:37:54.080 to have all the power. This is anathema to the founding of our country and our ancestors who

00:37:59.500 wrote the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution to prevent this type of situation from coming to

00:38:04.900 fruition. As often is written, the Second Amendment was written to protect the first, perhaps also

00:38:10.900 the fourth. In the meantime, socialism continues to take a stronger hold in the Democrat Party,

00:38:17.840 according to a new economist, YouGov poll, shows the far left Democrat Party has really taken

00:38:23.200 control. The poll asked Americans whether they would ever vote for a socialist candidate

00:38:27.340 who identified as a socialist. And among Democrats, 45, among all voters, 45 said yes,

00:38:33.640 29% said no, 26% said they were unsure.

00:38:38.640 But it is among Democrats that we see the shocking numbers.

00:38:42.240 62% said they would vote for a socialist, while only 11% said they would not.

00:38:48.040 Among self-described liberals, support actually climbed to 73%.

00:38:53.220 Even 64% of 2024 Kamala Harris voters said they would back a socialist candidate.

00:38:59.280 By contrast, 85% of Republicans and 95% of Trump voters rejected the idea of voting for a socialist.

00:39:07.340 The survey also found Democrats, this is shocking, more likely to choose socialism over capitalism,

00:39:14.040 saying 34% claiming socialism as a superior and fairer system, with only 22% choosing capitalism.

00:39:23.280 Proves what I've said many times here in the Stowe Zone.

00:39:25.600 The old Democratic Party of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, President Harry Truman, a party that believed in God, capitalism, free enterprise, a strong national defense, and was stoutly anti-communist.

00:39:40.340 That Democrat Party no longer exists.

00:39:43.460 Today they are the party of AOC, Rashida Tlaib, Bernie Sanders, that pompous old windbag, and Zoran Mamdami. 0.61

00:39:53.500 This stage sets the stage for a classic confrontation this November between Donald Trump's vision for America and what the Democratic Party offers us, which is socialism-ni-Marxism.

00:40:06.740 I'm Roger Stone. Thanks for joining us today in The Stone Zone. Until tomorrow, God bless you and Godspeed.

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