The Stone Zone | 07-30-25
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Trumponomics is working for America. Gross domestic product grew by 3% during the second quarter, surprising all the so-called experts who predicted that Trump's tariffs would negatively impact economic growth. Meanwhile, the FBI Director has stated that he found crucial Russiagate documents locked in a secret room at agency headquarters in burn bags ready to be destroyed.
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Well, the gross domestic product grew at 3% in the second quarter,
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which proves definitively that Trumponomics is working for America.
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Gross domestic product grew by 3% during the second quarter,
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surprising all the so-called experts who believe that Trump's tariffs would negatively impact economic growth.
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All of this is being done without the assistance of the Federal Reserve,
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which should, by all reasonable measures, lower interest rates.
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The unemployment and inflation rates today are either at the same level or lower than they were
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the last four times that the Federal Reserve cut rates.
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So one wonders what Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell is waiting for,
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unless, of course, he's trying to sabotage the economy.
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He's keeping the rates artificially high, stifling economic growth.
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I guess Powell thinks he's punishing Trump because Trump is making better tariff deals for America.
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Trump, of course, has caused for Federal Reserve Chair Powell to be removed.
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And also, it's a fact that Chairman Powell was being criminally investigated for his $2.5 billion in renovations
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to the already palatial Federal Reserve building in Washington, D.C.
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That's about a 70% cost overrun from the original budget, even by swamp standards.
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Both the Federal Housing and, pardon me, the Federal Housing Administrator, Bill Pulte, and Donald Trump,
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both builders, both spent their lifetime in construction,
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have questioned how one could even spend $2.5 billion in a renovation.
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What must be understood is that the economy is succeeding not in spite of these tariffs,
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President Trump's America First approach, where the nation actually uses its power to help the people,
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This will bring back American industry and reverse decades of damage caused by so-called free trade policies
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that helped boost corporate profits, but ultimately did so at the expense of the American people.
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Folks, we are entering the golden age, an unprecedented age of peace, prosperity, security, justice, and law and order.
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Meanwhile, the FBI Director, Kash Patel, has stated that he found crucial Russiagate documents
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locked in a secret room at agency headquarters in burn bags ready to be destroyed.
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Anyway, these documents reportedly contained the classified annex to former Special Counsel John Durham's report.
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He prepared a report based on the intelligence he gathered.
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Durham looked into the FBI's behavior regarding Trump and Russia, but he missed a great deal.
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For example, Durham addressed the question of the phony Steele dossier.
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That's the controversial report paid for and fabricated by Hillary Clinton's campaign
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that claimed that Donald Trump had cavorted with prostitutes in Russia while visiting that country as a private citizen.
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But Durham never addressed the question of whether the computer servers at the Democratic National Committee
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had indeed been hacked by Russian intelligence, as many in the media and the Democrats claimed.
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Since that question was central to my own case, my own faux prosecution,
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when I went to a Soviet-style show trial in Washington, D.C.,
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I can tell you definitively that the government has no forensic evidence that would prove that the DNC was hacked by the Russians.
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In fact, the actual forensic evidence is just the opposite.
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The download times on the servers indicate that the material that was later published by WikiLeaks
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was downloaded to some kind of portable drive and taken out the back door.
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But you're not allowed to say the name Seth Rich.
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It's of critical importance that these documents that Patel found be released to the American people, if you ask me.
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It is in the public interest for these documents to be seen.
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There's already enough evidence to know that people like Barack Hussein Obama, James Comey, John Brennan, James Clapper
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are criminals who belong behind bars for their Russiagate treachery.
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They must be made into examples so that no rogue bureaucrat ever decides to undo a presidential election in America's future.
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Bill and Hillary Clinton, who had far more experience in presidential politics than the novice Donald Trump,
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So they had to claim falsely that Trump had had an assist from Russian assets and intelligence.
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Meanwhile, Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas, a Republican, he's, I would call him verbally flamboyant,
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is proposing to reduce President Trump's oversight over the intelligence community.
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Very specifically, the disclosures by the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, made within the last week,
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would not have been possible if the law were the way Senator Cotton wants it to be written.
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While Gabbard is dedicated to a meaningful and intentional reforms,
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which reduces the actual size of the office by as much as a quarter,
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terminating one in four employees, Cotton's proposed legislation not only guts the office to a number
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which wouldn't possibly be able to oversee the CIA, the FBI, the NSA, and other entities,
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which were, of course, weaponized and managed from afar by the Obama administration.
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How on earth can 650 people coordinate and provide oversight for the sprawling 150,000 members
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of the intelligence community under 18 different agencies?
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Under Senator Cotton's bill, the FBI would receive new powers,
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and they would get the authority to declassify documents that is currently rests
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in the hands of the director of national intelligence.
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Given the track record of the FBI in the entire Russiagate matter,
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where they used the Steele dossier as the rationale for opening crossfire hurricane,
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I don't trust the FBI to decide what pieces of national intelligence we should see.
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The very purpose of the office of the director of national intelligence is to coordinate intelligence
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across the various agencies and departments giving any president oversight and clean, balanced memos.
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President Trump and Director Gabbard have effectively used this agency to rein in some of these deep state thugs
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and uncover past crimes, including, of course, the most recently revealed coup by President Barack Obama
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against the duly elected president, Donald J. Trump.
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Then, of course, there was the case that upended my life,
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and then not to mention the case against General Michael Flynn.
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In my case, I was convicted of lying under oath to Congress about Russian collusion.
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But we now know that there was no Russian collusion.
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how is it possible to lie about something that actually never happened?
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Without the Tulsi Gabbard-run office of the director of national intelligence,
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there is no hope, no prospect for reform of America's intelligence apparatus.
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Even as we speak, the CIA still got caught holding back key documents from Congresswoman Anna Polina Luna
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in her probe into the murder of President John F. Kennedy.
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The FBI and the CIA both have denied key documents to Luna, who I think has done an incredible job.
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Well, just days ago, the CIA finally turned over the George Joannides files
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after six decades of claiming and insisting that they weren't tracking Lee Harvey Oswald.
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They never heard of the guy. They didn't know what he was doing.
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Well, it turns out that they were, in fact, for the 43 months prior to the assassination,
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reading his mail, tracking his movements, and, in fact, they were handling him.
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They're the ones who placed him in New Orleans and set up the street demonstration
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The purpose of this, of course, was to establish in people's minds
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that Lee Harvey Oswald was supposedly a communist.
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I think that the quick study of the 50-page bill that Senator Tom Cotton,
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a Republican of Arkansas, put forward, we see that it cripples the director's ability
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to continue investigating Obama, Clapper, Brennan, Susan Rice, Andrew McCabe, Rod Rosenstein.
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It really would stop the investigation in its tracks,
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but also by shifting the authority for declassification
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from the office of the director of national intelligence over to the FBI.
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It also grows the FBI, who would, because of this transfer,
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These are materials that were used to catch Obama and Susan Rice in the act,
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but, of course, they would no longer be in the hands of Tulsi Gabbard.
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Generally speaking, Senator Cotton's bill demotes staff,
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cleverly allowing other agency staffs to outrank ODNI employees
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when they are searching for materials needed by the president or Director Gabbard.
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he removes deputies and reclassifies them as assistants.
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He takes away the word principles and changes directors to heads,
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thus making those people ineligible to see the classified documents.
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He also takes away various authorities and responsibilities
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over biothreats, over narcotics, over terrorism,
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Worst yet, in order to bait conservatives and the MAGA base,
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he adds a small section on ending DEI from hiring practices,
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something Director Gabbard has already done from day one.
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Senator Tom Cotton, even though he's a Republican,
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is empowering the same unelected career deep state stooges
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The president needs it strong, but a foreign-minded director
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and he has some semblance of oversight over the intelligence community.
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I have said publicly that I hope to work with my good friend,
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to recruit a Republican to challenge Tom Cotton
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In other words, you have to pay $50,000 to the state
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But I am committed to help a candidate challenge Tom Cotton
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Republicans have a narrow, narrow margin in the House.
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and put Republicans in a much stronger position
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is escaping a mistake made by one Richard M. Nixon,
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who in an effort to keep his presidential prospects alive
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was talked into running for governor of California
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who of course was the 1944 and 1948 candidate for president.
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like mental retardation, education, water rights, and so on.
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He had always had foreign policy and defense issues
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Nixon started with a large lead in the governor's race,
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but just days before that November 1962 election,
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and the people, of course, rallied behind President John F. Kennedy,
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who then very quickly made a campaign stop in California
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whose son, Jerry Brown, would also later be governor.
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looks that Harris is actually preserving her ability
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would have imposed on Harris for a consideration.
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which is pretty standard for politicians today,
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If I were running for office in 2026 as a Democrat,