The StoneZONE with Roger Stone - The Stone Zone ｜ 07-25-25

00:00:00.000 The Stone Zone on the Red Apple Podcast Network.

00:00:05.660 You are now at Stone's Zone, broadcasting this week from Washington, D.C., where I had meetings with President Donald Trump, Vice President J.D. Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and the Secretary of the Treasury, Scott Besant, not to mention the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard.

00:00:30.000 It's been a whirlwind week, and I've learned much to report to you right here in The Stone Zone.

00:00:37.000 Well, President Donald Trump has called the bluff of Democrats who continue to falsely claim that he is staging some kind of cover-up when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein.

00:00:49.540 The facts are indisputable.

00:00:51.980 Trump cut Epstein off in 2005 after Epstein, especially from New York, made an indecent advance on an underage girl working in the spa at Trump's palatial Mar-a-Lago Club.

00:01:08.160 This contrasts with Bill and Hillary Clinton, who actually took a $25,000 contribution from Epstein after he was indicted in Florida, but before he had bled guilty to the slap on the wrists that seems to have been arranged by the Central Intelligence Agency, even though it was a state charge.

00:01:32.340 Epstein would, of course, would go on to be one of the principal funders of the Clinton Foundation, also later known as the Clinton Global Initiative.

00:01:42.240 And Bill Clinton indisputably was on Jeffrey Epstein's plane on 26 occasions.

00:01:48.360 The New York Times yesterday failed to report in their analysis that, according to the sworn testimony of Virginia Roberts Dufresne, she witnessed Bill Clinton at a party at the famous Orgy Island, where Epstein had flown in two 17-year-old girls for the former president's enjoyment.

00:02:11.400 Donald Trump was never on Epstein's island, never unlike Steve Bannon in his home in New York, or visited him again like Bannon in his apartment in Paris.

00:02:25.120 So now the Democrats play this double game where they pretend in Congress that they want full disclosure regarding Epstein, but only last week when the Trump Justice Department moved in federal court in Florida to unseal all of the grand jury testimony regarding Epstein's charges in Florida.

00:02:48.100 It was an Obama judge, it was an Obama judge, Robin Lee Rosenberg, who rejected that effort to let the American people know what has really happened.

00:02:59.260 And now, well, one in 3.73 trillion, that's the statistical chance that hack Obama judge Paul Engelmeyer would randomly be signed all seven Epstein-related cases in the Southern District of New York.

00:03:16.520 And somehow, Engelmeyer was assigned to every single one of those cases.

00:03:23.100 And now if he decides that Ghislaine Maxwell's grand jury testimony should stay sealed, it will be yet another action by a Democrat judge to cover up the facts regarding Jeffrey Epstein.

00:03:37.420 Engelmeyer was appointed to the bench by, big surprise, Barack Obama.

00:03:42.000 And he blocked Trump's Treasury record subpoenas when the Trump Justice Department tried to get at the records regarding transfers of money by Jeffrey Epstein.

00:03:54.720 And now he's blocking the unsealing of Ghislaine Maxwell.

00:03:58.600 Well, she was Epstein's pimp trying to block her testimony, giving Attorney General Pam Bondi until July 29th to appeal where he will reject it yet again.

00:04:11.180 This isn't no coincidence.

00:04:13.720 Engelmeyer is one of the top Democrat enforcers on the bench.

00:04:17.740 The other corrupt and biased judge tied to the Epstein disclosures is Clinton judge Richard Berman.

00:04:24.020 Berman is the man who shut down the Epstein criminal case instantly after Epstein's mysterious death and publicly attacked President Trump and Mayor Rudy Giuliani in public interviews.

00:04:39.080 If that isn't a demonstration of bias, if that isn't a demonstration of bias, I don't know what is.

00:04:44.220 Judge Berman would like us to believe that Jeffrey Epstein killed himself.

00:04:48.320 But that's not what the respected former New York medical examiner and pathologist, Dr. Michael Badden, said.

00:04:56.360 Badden investigated, or I should say, conducted a thorough examination of Epstein's body.

00:05:03.660 And he said that the injuries he sustained, the three broken bones in his neck, were completely inconsistent with his being hung.

00:05:13.820 Was the bedsheet that he supposedly hung himself with tested for DNA evidence?

00:05:20.440 Why don't we know the answer?

00:05:22.600 We need the answer.

00:05:24.340 We want the truth, and it is Democrats who are keeping the truth from being told to the American people.

00:05:31.600 President Trump's now made it clear he favors full disclosure and unredaction of all federal records pertaining to Jeffrey Epstein.

00:05:42.380 Meanwhile, the deep state spooks who helped orchestrate the Russiagate scandal and lied to the American people under oath about it are beginning to realize that their time is running out.

00:05:56.000 The director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, laid out three separate tranches of evidence this week, proving beyond a shadow of doubt that there was a treasonous and perhaps even insurrectionist conspiracy

00:06:15.980 that was hatched in the Oval Office at the direction of President Barack Obama that included his vice president, hapless Joe Biden, his corrupt FBI director, James Comey,

00:06:28.840 the incredibly epically villain, former CIA director, John Brennan, and the director of national intelligence, Dr. James Clapper.

00:06:41.280 Clapper has now openly expressed his fear about being arrested.

00:06:48.180 Clapper said on CNN,

00:06:50.640 It's very disconcerting, and I take seriously, when the president of the United States excuses me of being a participant in a treasonous conspiracy. 0.96

00:06:59.600 It's ridiculous, and it's untrue. 0.85

00:07:02.180 No, sorry, General Clapper. 0.74

00:07:04.580 It is entirely true.

00:07:06.540 Clapper said he'd already hired a lawyer in anticipation of a prosecution.

00:07:12.360 I think he's very smart to do so.

00:07:14.760 Even though he lies through his teeth like he has previously on so many other times before Congress,

00:07:20.720 I think that the general knows his goose is cooked.

00:07:24.060 Just to remind you, it was General Clapper who testified under oath that we had no metadata collection system going on against the American people

00:07:35.820 until the documents released by whistleblower Edward Snowden proved that he was lying.

00:07:44.000 Of course, he paid no price for this.

00:07:47.140 In fact, after leaving his position as the national security advisor, he went to Vermont College, where he was teaching ethics.

00:07:57.440 He also got a good-paying gig at CNN, but then I don't get my news from CNN.

00:08:03.620 For some reason, I don't drink out of the toilet.

00:08:07.740 He did the crime, and now he must pay the penalty.

00:08:10.840 Outside of former CIA director and Islamic convert John Brennan, no intelligence officer is perhaps more culpable in the Russiagate scandal than General James Clapper.

00:08:24.960 He must do a perp walk sooner rather than later.

00:08:28.940 In the case of all of these criminals, whether it is John Brennan, James Comey, or James Clapper,

00:08:36.000 I live for the 6 a.m. morning when 29 heavily armed FBI agents in full SWAT gear and wearing night goggles

00:08:45.780 surround and storm their homes to arrest them at 6 o'clock in the morning.

00:08:51.720 I live for that day.

00:08:53.380 And that day, in my opinion, is most definitely coming.

00:08:58.800 In the meantime, in furtherance of this same story, the Department of Justice has announced a strike force to address the allegations of government weaponization

00:09:09.480 that have been laid bare by the director of national intelligence, Tosi Gabbard, this week.

00:09:16.460 The Justice Department today announced a strike force to address allegations of government weaponization that have come as a result of the disclosures by Gabbard.

00:09:27.960 Attorney General Pam Bondi said,

00:09:30.740 The Department of Justice is proud to work with my good friend, Director Gabbard,

00:09:34.660 and we are grateful for her partnership in delivering accountability for the American people.

00:09:40.300 We will investigate these troubling disclosures fully learned to deliver justice.

00:09:45.380 Now, the DOJ is not specific on which allegations they will be looking at.

00:09:50.900 Some argue that the Supreme Court's decision regarding presidential immunity may place former President Barack Hussein Obama beyond the reach of the law.

00:10:02.120 But Joe Biden, who was in the room and suggested that they charge my good friend, General Michael Flynn, with violation of the Logan Act,

00:10:11.080 he can be charged not only in the Russian collusion hoax, but for the hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars that he and his criminal family took when he was vice president.

00:10:25.640 The Supreme Court's ruling regarding the immunity of the executive branch does not regard vice presidents.

00:10:33.280 And as my good friend here at Ziegler over at MarcoPolo.org has proven members of the Biden family raked in millions of dollars profiteering and selling access to Vice President Joe Biden.

00:10:49.380 So I think Hunter and Joe could still face charges going forward.

00:10:55.520 It's very clear from the attorney general that she now understands that Barack Obama initiated a year-long coup against President Trump and the American people,

00:11:07.020 and she cited the criminal implications for Obama directly.

00:11:13.400 As I said last night on TV, this is the greatest single abuse of power in American political history.

00:11:21.740 It is nothing less than the full use of the authority of the United States government and the incredible capabilities of our intelligence agencies,

00:11:32.780 using completely falsified evidence to bring down a duly elected president.

00:11:38.920 Way back in 2016, Hillary Clinton's campaign attacked me by name when I raised legitimate questions about her health.

00:11:46.980 But now, documents that were declassified by Tulsi Gabbard this week show that the Russians knew that Clinton suffered from intensified psycho-emotional problems,

00:11:57.600 as well as diabetes, heart disease, COPD, deep vein thrombosis, and chronic fatigue.

00:12:05.760 To quote them exactly, they said, Donald Trump is simply parroting lies based on fabricated documents promoted by Roger Stone and his right-wing allies.

00:12:19.620 That was communications director Jennifer Palmieri.

00:12:23.660 As far as Ms. Palmieri, you're inviting to come into the Stone Zone and address this.

00:12:29.320 We now know that Hillary Clinton was, in fact, extremely ill.

00:12:33.500 This explains, of course, that weekend, August 6th and 7th, when she took off from the campaign trail.

00:12:43.860 She spent less time on the campaign trail than she spent on. 0.71

00:12:49.140 That's because of her ill health. 0.97

00:12:51.720 So I think Ms. Palmieri owes me an apology, although I don't expect one will be forthcoming. 0.99

00:12:59.640 Hillary Clinton, very sick woman. 1.00

00:13:02.440 As for that psycho-emotional distress, intensified psycho-emotional stress, 1.00

00:13:10.140 well, when you've killed that many people, you can understand how that might manifest itself.

00:13:15.660 I'm Roger Stone.

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00:14:06.420 The House Oversight Committee has subpoenaed Epstein's accomplice and pimp, Ghislaine Maxwell,

00:14:13.240 for a deposition that will take place on August 11th to see what information she can provide about the specifics of Epstein's pedophile network.

00:14:24.160 Republicans are not sure if they can trust Maxwell, who's using a recent hoopla in the news surrounding the Epstein files to put herself back in the public eye.

00:14:33.240 But that will not stop them from questioning the hurt.

00:14:37.160 Now, former Epstein attorney Alan Dershowitz said, and I quote,

00:14:42.240 she knows everything, not just about the perpetrators, but about the victims.

00:14:46.580 And she knows about the victims who became perpetrators.

00:14:50.240 Now, it is important to note that Epstein victim Virginia Roberts-Giffray, specifically in her sworn testimony,

00:15:00.220 said that she was forced to have sex with Dershowitz himself on multiple occasions.

00:15:06.200 Attorney Aragland Dershowitz has vehemently denied that and filed a lawsuit, a defamation lawsuit against Roberts.

00:15:14.040 But Roberts, we are told, committed suicide only weeks ago.

00:15:20.500 Dershowitz did say that while it was true that he had received massages from women on Epstein's island,

00:15:27.480 he insisted he always kept his underwear on. 1.00

00:15:31.200 Fuck me, Achanik. 1.00

00:15:32.600 Anyway, only time will tell if Maxwell's testimony is a turning point in actually getting transparency 0.99

00:15:39.300 and justice from the Epstein cases, or if this will just be another frustrating dead end.

00:15:45.340 Maxwell is already demanding a pardon for her testimony for Epstein's pedophile network.

00:15:52.440 Meanwhile, Hulk Hogan, an American icon, dead at age 71.

00:15:59.520 He, of course, was a professional wrestling great, and he apparently died of cardiac arrest.

00:16:06.340 He's widely considered to be the greatest pro wrestler of all time.

00:16:11.220 At least that's what my friend Sal Greco says.

00:16:13.940 Hogan was among the most noteworthy celebrities of the 1980s.

00:16:17.320 He starred in Rocky III alongside Sylvester Stallone and Mr. T

00:16:22.980 and crushing indoor attendance records at the Pontiac Silverdome at WrestleMania III in 1987.

00:16:31.220 Hogan ventured outside of his pro wrestling field to get involved in politics only in recent years.

00:16:38.780 I was there when he rocked to the Republican National Convention last year with a speech

00:16:43.640 that was among the most memorable of the entire event.

00:16:47.160 He spoke of Trump-a-mania, and the crowd went absolutely ballistic.

00:16:52.140 He continued to campaign for Trump throughout 2024, showing that his payday stage.

00:16:58.440 Recently, Hogan had been active in pushing memorabilia stores, restaurants, and a beer chain.

00:17:04.040 Those projects will live.

00:17:06.420 Rest in peace, the Hulkster.

00:17:08.820 God bless you and Godspeed.

00:17:11.100 Meanwhile, ICE has arrested hundreds of criminal illegal immigrants in Denver.

00:17:15.880 The largest deportation effort in American history goes forward.

00:17:22.000 We'll have more about that when we return to the Stone Zone.

00:17:25.240 Whatever you do, stick with us in the zone.

00:17:27.440 We've got more political news for you just around the corner.

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00:17:47.860 The entire country is following the New York City race for the mayor's office.

00:17:53.140 I've been studying the numbers extensively.

00:17:57.300 Here's a new overnight poll taken by Kaplan and Associates.

00:18:03.200 Now, the way this works is you take 100 samples a night for 10 nights,

00:18:08.540 and then every night you drop the oldest 100, you add the newest 100,

00:18:15.820 and then you recalculate.

00:18:17.660 It's called a rolling tracking poll.

00:18:20.540 The latest poll from Kaplan and Associates, 1,000 samples,

00:18:24.980 has the Ayatollah Mamdami at 39.

00:18:28.660 Andrew Cuomo, the disgraced former governor, dropping from 22 to 21.

00:18:35.440 Curtis Sliwa up from 17 to 19.

00:18:39.420 And a former mayor, Eric Adams, who was at 13, now dropping to 11.

00:18:45.900 This may be because the Trump administration has sued Eric Adams over the New York City

00:18:52.420 sanctuary policies of his administration.

00:18:55.420 The Trump administration has sued New York City and Democrat Mayor Eric Adams,

00:19:01.960 now running as an independent, for overturning city laws unlawfully

00:19:06.800 to make New York City a so-called sanctuary city for illegal foreign nationals.

00:19:14.060 The attempted reinvention of Eric Adams as an opponent of President Joe Biden's open borders policies

00:19:21.660 is, as my friend Sal Greco would say, a total fugazi.

00:19:26.700 He ran as a full-throated advocate of New York City being a sanctuary city.

00:19:32.580 He also placed these illegal immigrant shelters in some of the most stable working-class neighborhoods

00:19:40.160 in the country.

00:19:41.920 I remember very specifically when he put one such shelter that lacked any indoor plumbing

00:19:46.900 next to a Catholic girls' school out in Staten Island.

00:19:51.680 Needless to say, the local residents were not very happy.

00:19:55.820 I also think that his claims that as mayor he's brought crime down really means that the

00:20:01.420 crime statistics have been hooked in such a way.

00:20:05.680 Ask any New Yorker whether they feel safer.

00:20:08.760 In a Department of Justice press release on this civil rights lawsuit that's been filed

00:20:14.720 against New York, it says New York's sanctuary policies have allowed dangerous criminals to

00:20:20.720 roam the streets of New York and commit heinous crimes within the community.

00:20:26.720 These policies reflect an intentional effort to obstruct federal law enforcement and thus are

00:20:31.880 preempted under the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution.

00:20:37.100 This lawsuit makes it even more ridiculous that certain Republicans and a few conservatives

00:20:43.560 are saying we should rally around Eric Adams to keep the Ayatollah Zoran Mamdami out of 1.00

00:20:50.940 the New York City mayor's race office.

00:20:54.560 Pardon me.

00:20:55.340 The fact of the matter is that corrupt political regimes, whether they're Eric Adams or others,

00:21:02.340 paved the way for Mamdami.

00:21:04.040 Mamdami is only reflecting Eric Adams' embrace of illegal immigration, allowing criminals to run

00:21:11.800 wild while taking payoffs from Muslim Turks, and generally speaking, supporting the move among

00:21:19.400 New York Democrats to end cash bail.

00:21:23.080 All of this has paved the way for Mamdami to gain political ground. 0.98

00:21:27.980 Adams, in my opinion, belongs behind bars.

00:21:30.520 Adams and Republicans and conservatives should stop trying to prop him up and claim that he's

00:21:36.060 something that he isn't.

00:21:38.580 It is time for the truth.

00:21:41.520 But if you examine the polling here, the unfavorable rating of these candidates really tells you

00:21:49.460 the story.

00:21:50.200 When I look after 50 years of experience in the political arena where I've worked on over

00:21:56.540 700 campaigns, I can tell you that looking at the favorable, unfavorable rating of the candidates

00:22:06.220 tells you a lot about their viability.

00:22:09.920 In this particular case, in the Kaplan poll that I just read to you, Mamdami had a mere 41%

00:22:18.480 unfavorable rating.

00:22:20.020 Mayor Adams' favorable rating clocks in at a whopping 68%.

00:22:27.060 And interestingly, that was 48% extremely unfavorable, 20% somewhat unfavorable.

00:22:36.040 Curtis Sliwa came in at a 53% unfavorable, while Andrew Cuomo had a 57% unfavorable rating.

00:22:47.600 I don't see any of these candidates getting out of the race.

00:22:52.560 And therefore, I think that the Ayatollah Mamdami is probably about to become the mayor of New 0.92

00:23:01.100 York City.

00:23:02.120 Now, while I feel very badly for my many friends and family members who live in New York, this

00:23:09.600 is going to be a national showcase of what happens when you elect a Marxist mayor.

00:23:17.600 Watching this campaign, I see a recycle of the hope and change campaign of Barack Obama.

00:23:24.440 Sounds great on the surface.

00:23:26.860 But when you look at his actual policies, whether it is taxing white people more, he said it,

00:23:33.220 not me, whether it is ending cash bail or defunding or police.

00:23:40.540 And I question when the Ayatollah Mamdami says that violence is a social construct.

00:23:49.960 What does that mean?

00:23:51.100 Does that mean he's going to fling the doors of Rikers Island open and let anybody who's 0.98

00:23:56.720 incarcerated out?

00:23:58.100 Well, it is a legitimate concern.

00:24:01.840 Of course, higher taxes to pay for all of the free things he wants to hand out.

00:24:07.000 I think there's a high probability that New York City could be a flaming wreck by 2028,

00:24:14.380 and therefore a national showcase of what happens when voters, I think, inadvisably choose these

00:24:23.240 policies.

00:24:24.300 Disproportionate number of young people who I think are attracted by the energy of Mamdami's 0.96

00:24:32.020 campaign, which is undeniable.

00:24:34.100 But at the same time, they don't really focus on his policies.

00:24:41.720 It is incredible that he has come out of nowhere.

00:24:48.040 Very little is known about his background, his family background.

00:24:52.060 But he continues to champion the Intifada, which to me is anti-Semitic, anti-Jewish, and 0.58

00:24:59.940 frankly, quite scary.

00:25:02.060 We shall see how this progresses.

00:25:05.840 But as of today, I don't see any of these other candidates dropping out.

00:25:11.340 And I think that, in fact, New York City is likely to be that showcase of what happens

00:25:17.660 when people choose Marxism.

00:25:20.620 Meanwhile, ICE has arrested hundreds of criminal illegal migrants in Denver.

00:25:26.180 The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency announced that they had arrested an

00:25:30.820 impressive 243 criminal illegal aliens in the Denver area between July 12th and 20th, which

00:25:39.100 included Tren de Agua gang members from Venezuela, murderers, human traffickers, and child sex 0.50

00:25:47.020 predators.

00:25:47.740 The ICE Denver office field office director, Robert Guardian, great name, said many of the criminal aliens that ICE

00:25:57.460 arrested during this operation have been previously released into the Denver area, metro area, by local

00:26:04.520 county jails, and local county jails directly into the community because of Colorado's sanctuary laws that prevents

00:26:11.300 sheriffs from cooperating with ICE. 0.98

00:26:14.480 It's worth remembering that these people are the type of scum that the policies of the Democrats are protecting and keeping in the 0.99

00:26:22.760 country. 0.99

00:26:23.260 They are knowingly making the country less safe in order to hasten the demographic slide of our country, believing it to be their path to 0.99

00:26:35.200 permanent political power.

00:26:37.240 Or put simply, the entire Democrat Party is a treasonous operation, treasonous to its very core.

00:26:45.520 At the same time, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco has blocked President Donald Trump's order to end

00:26:54.080 birthright citizenship, claiming that President Trump's decision was unconstitutional.

00:26:59.520 The decision was approved by Judges Michael Hawkins and Ronald Gould, both of whom, of course, were appointed to the

00:27:07.100 bench by former President Bill Clinton.

00:27:10.660 Once again, we see a graphic example of judicial tyranny, where selected regional judges think that they can thwart the

00:27:21.620 will and the mandate of the American people in the last election.

00:27:26.480 This ruling upheld a decision from a lower court and will effectively keep the Trump administration from withholding

00:27:34.420 citizenship rights to anchor babies, who are children birthed by illegal immigrants after sneaking across our border. 0.99

00:27:43.240 This is, in my opinion, one of the most pernicious loopholes that encourages illegal immigration. 0.99

00:27:50.040 The courts continue to be an enemy of the rule of law, preventing the necessary reforms that I think we need to save America.

00:27:59.540 Perhaps the time has come for President Trump to take a Jacksonian approach to these robed lawyers on the bench.

00:28:08.760 Let's see if these judges try to enforce their rules without compliance from the Trump administration.

00:28:14.780 Over in New Jersey, there was an attempted coup in which I believe it was 17 Democrat judges after the acting U.S. attorney,

00:28:27.940 my friend Alina Abba, was unable to get the support of the two Democrat senators from New Jersey in the confirmation process.

00:28:38.580 This is a tradition, by the way, not a law, where the president appoints a U.S. attorney who does require confirmation by the U.S. Senate,

00:28:48.060 but the two sitting senators from the state, regardless of party, are required to acquiesce or support the appointment.

00:28:57.740 It's called the blue slip process.

00:28:59.580 When I saw President Trump on Monday, he correctly pointed out that not only was it not enshrined in law, but it is a Senate tradition and that Joe Biden himself violated it when he had control of the Senate.

00:29:17.520 It is an effort here made by the federal judges to not only remove Abba, whose interim appointment had expired, and replaced her with a woman named Desiree Grace.

00:29:35.960 Donald Trump has outmaneuvered them once again, firing Grace, an anti-Trumper career bureaucrat within the New York office of the, pardon me, the New Jersey office of the U.S. attorney,

00:29:52.280 and appointing Alina Abba as the first assistant U.S. attorney, putting her back in control of the office. 1.00

00:30:00.860 Alina Abba, tough as nails, stand up for the rule of law. 1.00

00:30:06.440 The judges were really doing this, of course, because Abba correctly chose to prosecute the Democrat congresswoman who physically assaulted an ICE officer outside a facility in Newark.

00:30:21.700 And really the question that everyone here in Washington is buzzing about is whether, in fact, the Attorney General, Pam Bondi, who I know quite well and like, is going to move aggressively ahead to indict those who are clearly guilty of seditious conspiracy in the Russian collusion hoax.

00:30:45.480 The problem in all of these federal agencies is that the people at the very top, the appointees by President Donald Trump, are among the very best.

00:30:56.280 But below them, we have these burrowed-in-career bureaucrats who are extraordinarily political, very partisan, and corrupt.

00:31:06.140 The president's nominee to be the U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York, Jay Clayton, former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission,

00:31:16.160 epically qualified for that position, but Chuck Schumer refuses to give him a blue slip.

00:31:22.460 What is Chuck concerned about?

00:31:24.600 What is Chuck worried about?

00:31:26.140 Is he worried that Clayton will start looking at Chuck Schumer's personal finances?

00:31:30.680 Personally, I think that's a good idea.

00:31:32.920 Chuck Schumer is a cash-and-carry politician, if you know what I mean.

00:31:39.160 But he refuses to approve the Senate confirmation of this incredibly qualified appointee by President Donald Trump.

00:31:50.160 We, of course, as Republicans, didn't play this game when Joe Biden was president.

00:31:54.680 We followed the system, and except for rare occasions, when Biden appointed somebody who was epically unqualified,

00:32:03.620 most Republican senators would sign off on the president's nominees.

00:32:09.960 That's the way it's supposed to be.

00:32:12.740 So, while we're watching this very, very closely, it is vitally important of two things.

00:32:21.760 That the attorney general, Pam Bondi, moved through her strike force to impanel grand juries and take the hard evidence of seditious treason brought to the American people by the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard,

00:32:37.800 in front of a grand jury that is impaneled for the purpose of indicting people for their crimes.

00:32:43.420 Because, as Letitia James is about to find out, he's been referred to the Justice Department for a 22-year crime spree of mortgage fraud.

00:32:54.120 No person is above the law.

00:32:56.800 I'm Rodney Stone.

00:32:57.840 This is The Stone Zone, and we'll be right back.

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00:33:18.780 Letitia James, the New York attorney general, now facing her biggest scandal yet.

00:33:24.200 This is the standard chartered bank case where a New York bank evaded sanctions against both Iran and China,

00:33:34.540 transferring illegally over $9.6 billion of illegal payments by the bank to both the Iranians

00:33:42.660 and to Hezbollah entities.

00:33:44.940 The case implicates the New York attorney general, as well as the Federal Reserve,

00:33:50.180 for ignoring billions of dollars in these illicit payments and ignoring Treasury Department sanctioned designations against the recipients.

00:33:59.240 Maximum pressure is not being enforced because of the failures of the Fed in the New York attorney general's office.

00:34:09.220 At least $9.6 billion of specifically identified illicit payments were made by the standard chartered bank from its New York branch to OFAC and known terrorist organizations.

00:34:24.220 The $9.6 billion was found in internal trade reports turned over by bank whistleblowers and represents the first batch from the standard chartered bank to buy office that cleared all of these payments through their New York branch.

00:34:39.940 They're estimated to be over $100 billion more of illegal payments that are more recent, and they came from the standard chartered bank in China,

00:34:50.620 where it has 53 mainland branches that facilitate dollar trade payments for oil and other war-making materials.

00:34:58.840 But all of these payments in violation of the sanctions put in place by the U.S. Treasury Department.

00:35:05.300 Well, there is now overwhelming evidence that New York attorney general, Letitia James, knew all about it, and she did nothing.

00:35:14.540 The payments were hidden by the standard chartered bank from required disclosure in its ongoing deferred prosecution agreement,

00:35:23.260 which is under the jurisdiction of the D.C. U.S. attorney, Janine Pirro,

00:35:29.040 as well as the Southern District of New York's new prosecutor, Jay Clayton.

00:35:34.160 Both of them were briefed on this briefly after their appointments.

00:35:39.380 Late last week, with a looming legal deadline, they filed for a 30-day extension in this case.

00:35:48.280 This is perhaps a bigger scandal than Letitia James' 22-year spree of mortgage fraud, 0.99

00:35:57.720 where she has repeatedly lied about the value of her assets, lied about her principal residence.

00:36:06.080 And in every case, her material lies allowed her to qualify for mortgages at a rate that she was not qualified for,

00:36:15.180 as well as lower insurance rates.

00:36:18.380 The director of the National Housing and Finance Administration has sent a letter of referral to the U.S. Justice Department laying out all of the documents

00:36:31.900 in which Letitia James lied about her residence and qualified for mortgages that she was not qualified for.

00:36:40.780 In one case, she has $586,000 in three mortgages on a property that has been appraised at $125,000.

00:36:51.680 Wait a minute, isn't that exactly what she accused Donald Trump falsely of,

00:36:55.580 of inflating the value of his assets to get commercial real estate loans?

00:37:00.640 Seems like no person is above the law.

00:37:03.800 Well, if Letitia James is hoping that this federal case would expire, she bet wrong. 0.98

00:37:10.940 The Trump Justice Department moved aggressively last week to keep the case alive.

00:37:16.380 And we're going to learn soon exactly what the Biden Justice Department,

00:37:21.500 the New York Attorney General Letitia James, and of course, the Federal Reserve knew.

00:37:28.660 Thanks for being with us here today in the Stone Zone until Monday.

00:37:33.840 God bless you and Godspeed.

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The StoneZONE with Roger Stone - July 25, 2025

The Stone Zone ｜ 07-25-25

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