The Stone Zone | 07-28-25
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Summary
The U.S. Treasury Department reported its first June budget surplus since 2015. Meanwhile, Letitia James, the New York attorney general, is facing criminal charges for allegedly funneling $9.6 billion of illegal payments made by the Standard Chartered Bank of New York to terrorists.
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The Stone Zone, on the Red Apple Podcast Network.
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You are now entering The Stone Zone, here with breaking news.
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In a bombshell announcement, Treasury Secretary Scott Besson disclosed that the U.S. has achieved its first June budget surplus since 2015,
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amassing a massive tariff income of $27 billion last month.
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I think he's created a lot of leverage because he's created an A-B situation.
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He is able to go to the trading partners and say, look, I am happy to take in this tariff income if you don't want to negotiate.
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This is a high rate, but the U.S. is taking in massive amounts of tariff income.
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We had the first June budget surplus since 2015 last month.
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So President Trump is creating this leverage by saying, if you don't want to negotiate with me,
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I've sent you a letter with a high rate, have it at the high rate, or come and negotiate in better fashion.
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Because I'll tell you, what was fascinating for me, and this was President Trump at his best,
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at his best, was the Indonesians came with what I thought was a very good offer out of the blocks.
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What did they tell us, that Donald Trump's pursuing this tariff war to try to get a better trading deal out of our partners
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would result in rampant inflation and economic disaster, when in fact inflation remains low,
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the dollar remains strong, and unemployment remains incredibly low.
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The Trump economic plan of cutting taxes, cutting regulation, and negotiating better trading agreements with our trade partners
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is bringing America unprecedented prosperity, exactly as he told us it would.
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She, of course, is the New York Attorney General.
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There are at least $9.6 billion of illegal payments made by the Standard Chartered Bank of New York
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to Iranian and Hezbollah entities who are sanctioned by the United States,
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all on the watch of New York Attorney General Letitia James.
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Her negligence or complicity should be considered and put her into the crosshairs of prosecution by federal officials.
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James' office was alerted that this money was being illegally funneled to terrorists as early as 2024.
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But instead of cracking down, James' office was intensely focused on inventing lawfare cases against President Donald Trump.
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The Federal Reserve was also too focused on extravagant $2.5 billion renovations
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to their palatial Washington headquarters to stop these massive billion-dollar transfers as well as Attorney General James.
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What we need now are criminal charges against Letitia James and her underlings in the New York Attorney General's office.
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James cannot be allowed to use ignorance or incompetence as an excuse.
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She allowed the illegal bank transfers to terrorists to happen on her watch.
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She deserves to be treated as an accomplice and forced to endure a grueling case in the court of public opinion
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as well as in a federal courtroom for her misdeeds.
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We already have documented her 22-year crime spree of mortgage fraud,
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mortgage fraud that you or I would go to prison for,
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but Federal Housing and Finance Administrator Bill Pulte has sent a letter of referral to the U.S. Justice Department
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documenting her multiple-decade mortgage fraud.
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Remains to be seen whether we have a two-tiered justice system or whether,
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as Tish James was frequently quoted as saying, no one is above the law.
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Meanwhile, President Trump has reached a deal with the European Union to avoid the trade war that his critics predicted.
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He made the announcement at the Trump Turnberry Resort in western Scotland
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alongside European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
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As part of the deal, the United States is going to set a baseline tariff of 15% on European goods, including automobiles.
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Steel and aluminum tariffs are going to remain at 50% with the EU buying $750 billion worth of energy products
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from the United States, with an additional $600 billion being invested into the U.S. by the EU as well.
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The bottom line is that the European Union flinched.
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They did not have the courage to stare Trump down on trade.
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Trump was willing to use the competitive advantage of the United States in a way that will help the American people.
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The free trade libertarians have egg on their faces.
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Trump's use of the tariff to improve America's economy is unparalleled.
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Until 1913, the United States government was completely and totally funded by tariff income.
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It wasn't until then that we had a federal income tax.
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President Trump has mused about the possibility of repealing the Federal Income Tax Act
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and returning to a government completely funded by tariff income.
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Meanwhile, President Trump has called for former Vice President Kamala Harris
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to be prosecuted over alleged money laundering that happened throughout her campaign.
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In a true social post, President Trump cited the $11 million reportedly given to Beyonce
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and another $3 million reportedly given to Oprah as part of the most wasteful
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and mismanaged presidential campaign in American history.
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Celebrities like Beyonce, Bono, and Megan Thee Stallion were used to pack arenas
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during Kamala Harris' rallies in order to create the false impression
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that she had a grassroots groundswell of support.
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This gaslighting attempt was not very effective, and when celebrities did not perform,
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the crowd turned on the events, and they backfired badly.
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The Republican-led House, Senate, and Trump's Justice Department need to look into this matter.
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Every avenue should be exhausted to prosecute Democrats if they, in fact, broke the law.
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It's interesting to me, I know Lee Greenwood, the country and western superstar,
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who performed at a number of Trump rallies and functions.
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He was never paid a dime because he never asked for a dime.
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Yes, the expenses for this great American troubadour were paid, as would any entertainer,
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but those who stepped forward for Donald Trump did not require multi-million dollar fees.
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Meanwhile, we have learned in a horrifying example of our Orwellian reality
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that it was recently made absolutely clear that dozens of organ donors had their organs stolen from them
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before they were dead through the overly bureaucratic and centrally controlled hospital system.
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Health and Human Services, under Robert F. Kennedy Jr.,
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has announced that they are reforming the nation's organ transplant system
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after finding that up to 73 people had their organs robbed from them,
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even though they showed neurological signs incompatible with donation.
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our findings show that hospitals allowed the organ procurement process to begin
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when patients showed signs of life, and this is horrifying.
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The organ procurement organizations that coordinate access to transplants will be held accountable.
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The entire system must be fixed to ensure that every potential organ donor's life is treated
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I heard from my daughter, who is an emergency room nurse,
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that this is one of the greatest scams of all time.
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Be careful you know all the facts before you check that organ donor box
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Otherwise, they may try to take your organs while you're still alive.
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Meanwhile, President Donald Trump has announced that he is supporting Florida Senator Joe Gruters,
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who helmed Trump's campaigns here in Florida to be the new head of the Republican National Committee.
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That's because the current national chairman, Michael Watley, who has served with distinction,
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will be leaving to seek the U.S. Senate seat in North Carolina.
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That's the U.S. Senate seat that President Donald Trump drove Tom Tillis, the rhino who tanked
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the nomination of U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Eagle Ed Martin by refusing to allow that nomination
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Rather than face the wrath of the North Carolina voters, Tillis has announced his retirement,
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I think Joe Gruters is an excellent choice for this position.
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He will be a strong successor to continue to build the momentum that the Republican Party has built under President Donald Trump.
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Under Trump, the Republican Party is no longer the party of big business,
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no longer the party of the millionaires and the billionaires.
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It has become the party of working class Americans.
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And I know Joe Gruters to be a good man who did a great job both in the Florida State Senate
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and the Florida Republican Party chairmanship that he filled.
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Gruters won my respect for his unwillingness to bow to the corruption of Ron DeSantis.
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Ron DeSantis has done a Trump impression in his attempt to build his own public stature.
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But the recent scandal in which DeSantis and his wife were caught red-handed
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basically appropriating $10 million in Medicare funds,
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those are funds that were earmarked for the poor, the elderly, and the disabled,
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but they diverted them from Medicare and put them into a dark money political account
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where they used the money to fight for their political causes.
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DeSantis has been critical of President Trump's choice of Joe Gruters
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I think this is just vindictiveness by the Florida governor,
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but I don't think he will have any say in the matter.
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gets to name the head of the Republican national chairmanship,
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and Joe Gruters is an excellent, excellent choice.
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Meanwhile, the FBI and DOJ shut down a massive child's born network on the dark web.
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They had found that 1,220,000 people were using a dark website.
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The FBI director, Cash Patel, is doing an extraordinary job
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and those who are engaging in child pornography online,
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and they've been ably assisted by Attorney General Pam Bondi in this regard.
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Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew Gagliotti said
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these offenders thought they could act without consequences, but they were wrong.
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Thanks to the relentless determination of our prosecutors and law enforcement partners,
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we've exposed these perpetrators, we've eliminated their websites,
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and we are bringing to justice on behalf of countless victims.
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The Trump administration is putting child predators on notice.
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The resources of the FBI and the Department of Justice
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are no longer being used to frame Trump as a Russian agent.
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Those resources are now being used to protect the innocent.
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Donald Trump is driving our country to that golden age,
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an age of unprecedented peace, prosperity, security, and justice,
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Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard,
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proving definitively that in the final days of the Obama administration,
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plotted to hamper the incoming Trump administration
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after Donald Trump's earth-shaking 2016 victory.
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President Obama directed his deep state apparatchiks
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to prepare a new report on Russian interference.
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would state that Putin interfered in the US elections
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showing that Putin wanted to aid the Trump campaign.
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was minuscule, and its messaging was incoherent.
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But you can add the name of another deep state official
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that demonstrated how former CIA Director John Brennan
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from Senator Warner's Senate Intelligence Committee report,
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how you can protect your Social Security payments,
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my boss at the Public Service Research Council,
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Jim Martin elected the first Republican U.S. senator
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and the upset victory of Congressman Ed Gurney.
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fighting to protect our Social Security benefits.
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because according to the Social Security trustees,