On July 18th, the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, declassified documents that she claimed revealed that former President Barack Obama and his administration officials manufactured and politicized intelligence to create the narrative of Russian interference in the 2016 campaign.
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00:00:11.260Well, on July 2nd, the CIA director, John Ratcliffe, released a report that included declassified documents
00:00:19.040that definitively proved that former CIA director John Brennan insisted on including the so-called Steele dossier.
00:00:29.020That was a fabricated report that claimed that Donald Trump had dallied with Russian prostitutes in Moscow while there on a private business trip
00:00:40.620into the official intelligence assessment presented to President Barack Obama.
00:00:48.120He actually cleverly hid this by having it in a footnote, which was in itself classified.
00:00:55.600This proves that Brennan knowingly used what was essentially a false claim to justify the entire Russian collusion hoax.
00:01:08.800He also later testified that the Steele dossier played no role in the decision to issue FISA warrants to spy on Donald Trump and his campaign.
00:01:19.720That was clearly a lie under oath, and he would repeat it again as recently as last week.
00:01:28.020Then on July 18th, the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, declassified documents that she claimed revealed
00:01:35.520that former President Barack Obama and his administration officials manufactured and politicized intelligence
00:01:42.180to create the narrative of Russian interference in the 2016 campaign.
00:01:47.500These documents include a report and emails that prove that pre-election intelligence assessments concluded that Russian was not attempting
00:01:56.760to influence the election through cyber attacks, which Gabbard argued contradicted the January 2017 intelligence community assessment.
00:02:10.040There is little question whatsoever that she subsequently revealed that there was a whistleblower within the intelligence community
00:02:20.600who was threatened that they were not to blow the whistle on this false narrative.
00:02:26.440They were promised a promotion if they remained silenced.
00:02:29.900The result of the fake news media, or I should say the reaction, has been virtually a media blackout.
00:02:37.660In other words, trying to pretend this never happened.
00:02:41.120There's also a major effort to conflate Russian interference in the overall election with Russian interference that was alleged to have been designed to assist Donald Trump.
00:02:54.840Even the argument that they interfered in the overall election is centered around the expenditure of less than $200,000 for Facebook ads,
00:03:06.160the messaging of which was completely incoherent and inconsistent.
00:03:11.040In view of the fact that $5.9 billion was spent on the election efforts of both sides,
00:03:18.660that includes the candidates, super PACs, and the parties, obviously the Russian effort utilizing some kind of bot farm where the messaging was sometimes pro-Trump,
00:03:30.420sometimes anti-Trump, sometimes pro-Clinton, sometimes anti-Clinton, was designed to say so chaos, but could not do so given the fact that it was a drop in the bucket.
00:03:42.000Some on the hard left are in denial, or the New York Times, for example, once a great journalistic outlet today,
00:03:51.680a propaganda arm of the Democrat National Committee, claims that the assertions by Gabbard and Ratcliffe are contentious.
00:04:01.140They claim that the declassified documents, including a 2020 House Intelligence Committee report,
00:04:06.900do not conclusively prove that Russian collusion narrative was a hoax, or that Obama directly orchestrated a conspiracy.
00:04:14.160These folks are whistling past the graveyard.
00:04:16.900They also, of course, point to the 2017 House Intelligence Committee report,
00:04:23.720which I can tell you is a steaming crock of BS.
00:04:27.560It is a paste-up of every false claim that is cut and paste from the Huffington Post or the Daily Beast,
00:04:45.760why is the fake news media, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, trying to pretend that there still was Russian collusion?
00:04:54.960They point to the same three falsehoods.
00:04:57.660One, we've already discussed, the so-called Russian bot farm, which had no effect on the outcome of the elections.
00:05:04.340Then there's the false claim that Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort shared polling data from the Trump campaign of Russian intelligence.
00:05:13.640The problem with that, of course, is that it's not true.
00:05:17.300On the date in question, the Trump campaign still had no proprietary polling information to share.
00:05:25.440But beyond that, the individual that Manafort shared entirely public polling data that could be found on the Internet,
00:05:32.640Konstantin Kalimnik, is not a Russian intelligence asset, but in fact was a U.S. intelligence asset.
00:05:39.800That is proven by the independent journalist, Matt Taibbi, but also proven in the redacted cables from our embassy in Kyiv.
00:05:50.580He was a trusted source for U.S. intelligence.
00:05:54.520Then, of course, there's the false claim that Roger Stone was in touch with Russian intelligence assets,
00:06:00.040that's specifically the persona of Guccifer 2.0, who I had a 28-word exchange with on Twitter direct messages.
00:06:10.400The problem with that is that that innocuous exchange, I released it myself,
00:06:16.480bears no proof of Russian collusion, WikiLeaks collaboration, or any other crime.
00:06:22.840But more importantly, it took place three weeks after WikiLeaks had already published all of the DNC and Clinton data
00:06:34.140that was so very embarrassing for their campaign.
00:06:37.760There's little question about it that they are busted, and as has now been proven, this goes all the way to the top.
00:06:44.800We have declassified emails that show that Hillary Clinton herself reviewed and approved the specific plan to smear Donald Trump
00:06:56.140to distract attention from her illegal email servers and to cast doubt that his election was legitimate.
00:07:05.040The only question is whether Attorney General Pam Bondi will do the right thing
00:07:09.700and bring criminal charges against those involved.
00:07:13.920Now, there is a question as to whether Barack Obama has presidential immunity
00:07:19.600based on the Supreme Court decision of several months ago,
00:07:25.400but David Schoen, the criminal defense attorney who represented Trump quite ably in the impeachment,
00:07:32.000argues that Obama can still be impeached, and if he were impeached, even though he's no longer president,
00:07:38.620that would require articles of impeachment to pass the House and a two-thirds vote in the Senate.
00:07:45.300Unlikely, but at least theoretically possible, that Obama could be prosecuted.
00:07:51.060But Vice President Joe Biden has no immunity for his involvement in this corrupt, seditious scheme.
00:07:58.480National Security Advisor Susan Rice has no immunity.
00:08:03.480FBI Director James Comey, who replied repeatedly about this to Congress and also lied in his representations to the president,
00:09:14.440But whether it is my alleged contact with Guccifer 2.0 or the efforts by the Russian bot farm or Paul Manafort's alleged giving polling information to a Russian intelligence asset,
00:09:28.460these are a cover story to cover the fact that they spent $30 million and had unprecedented legal power, an unlimited budget,
00:09:39.360and they found no evidence of Russian collusion to assist Donald Trump.
00:09:44.840In my own case, I feel vindicated because I was convicted in a Soviet-style show trial.
00:09:51.180You read online that I was convicted by a jury of my peers.
00:09:54.260I'm sorry, but 12 Trump-hating Democrats are not my peers.
00:09:58.560I am completely vindicated because, of course, since there was no Russian collusion, I had no motive to lie.
00:10:08.000And interestingly enough, Robert Mueller actually admitted that in his final report.
00:10:13.780The problem was that that report was redacted.
00:10:16.080The judge, in my case, refused to provide it to my criminal defense attorneys, just as she refused to provide the famous crowd strikes memo.
00:10:26.300You see, that's the other leg of the Russian collusion stool.
00:10:29.740First, there's the Steele dossier, which we've talked about ad nauseum.
00:10:33.440But also, then, there's the false claim that the Democrat National Committee was the target of an online hack by Russian intelligence.
00:10:43.720I wanted to bring Bill Binney, I think universally recognized as the leading counterterrorism IT expert, formerly of the CIA,
00:10:52.980who could have provided both forensic evidence and expert testimony to prove that there was no online hack and that the data that proved so incredibly embarrassing to Hillary Clinton that was subsequently published by WikiLeaks
00:11:07.960was downloaded to some kind of portable drive and taken out the back door.
00:11:15.020Kelsey Gabbard has emerged here as a hero of the MAGA movement.
00:11:19.440And now there can no longer be any doubt whatsoever that Barack Obama and his cohorts involved in a seditious conspiracy that was the greatest single dirty trick in American political history.
00:11:33.460It was nothing less than the abuse of power in which the full authority of the United States government and the extraordinary capability of our intelligence agencies was used to try to unseat a duly elected president.
00:11:48.160It is the crime of the century, as President Donald Trump has said, and therefore I join those calling on Attorney General Pam Bondi to charge those who are responsible.
00:12:01.580Now, whether or not any of them can actually be convicted in the District of Columbia is an open question.
00:12:08.740Every single judge in that district is a hyper-partisan Trump-hating Democrat, and they certainly don't hide it.
00:12:16.420The chances of getting a fair jury pool, that's de minimis as well.
00:12:22.500But the point here is, of course, that we cannot forget this, nor can we just pretend it did not happen.
00:12:30.300I think it is vitally important that we see arrests and prosecutions.
00:12:34.320Personally, I won't be happy until 29 heavily armed FBI agents show up in full slot gear wearing night goggles and brandishing M4 assault weapons surrounding the home of John Brennan with a Fox camera crew in tow.
00:12:57.460I look forward to his arrest on the same terms that I was arrested because my lawyers talked to the special prosecutor's office the day before.
00:13:05.260All they had to do was tell me that I was a target and that I would be charged the next day, and, of course, I would have turned myself in.
00:13:13.600But if I had done that, I would not have had a chance to display my Roger Stone did nothing wrong teacher, of which I sold about $15,000 to raise money for my legal defense.
00:14:11.780Well, Elon Musk famously had a falling out with President Donald Trump, announced that he was going to try to field his own party in the midterm elections.
00:14:23.960Because throughout the month of June, Elon Musk, who, by the way, I very much admire, I'm very grateful to Elon Musk that I got my voice back on X, which used to be called Twitter.
00:14:34.520I was banned for no reason whatsoever in 2017, subsequently banned for life on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and elsewhere.
00:14:43.840I actually didn't think I would ever be reinstated, but I filled out a form online.
00:14:48.660I sent it in, and then one day, wham, I was back.
00:14:52.260Now, at the time that they banned me, I had 980,000 followers.
00:14:56.920When I came back, I only had 25,000, but I fought my way back up to about 870,000 as of today.
00:15:04.860You can follow me, by the way, at RogerJStoneJr, RogerJStoneJR.
00:15:09.920That is, of course, the verified address.
00:15:12.640A bunch of Roger Stones there on X, but there's only one.
00:15:15.440Throughout the month of June, however, Elon Musk made $15 million worth of donations to entities connected to or supporting President Donald Trump and the Republican Party.
00:15:26.420Musk made two $5 million donations to top super PACs for House and Senate Republicans, as well as a $5 million donation to MAGA, Inc., the principal Trump super PAC.
00:15:40.560These donations come at the same time that Musk was publicly feuding with President Trump, going so far as to accuse the president briefly of being an Epstein collaborator, a charge that he later retracted.
00:15:54.740Musk has also given $45 million to his own super PAC, the America PAC, during the first six months of the year.
00:16:01.200He has not talked about the American Party, his idea for a new centrist third party, in several weeks.
00:16:07.060So does this mean that Musk has realized that his anger towards Trump was myopic and is back on the Trump train?
00:16:15.340I think we are stronger with the Trump-Musk alliance.
00:16:19.780I think it's the most significant political alliance in American political history.
00:16:25.360Republicans can most definitely not take the midterms for granted.
00:16:28.640And as Musk, who was once slated to be the George Soros of the right, a term which he largely embraced, could be a key player in that election outcome.
00:16:42.120There's no doubt that Musk can sometimes be provost and sometimes mercurial.
00:16:47.680But I do think he has the interests of the country at heart.
00:16:52.560And I would like to see him completely and totally reconcile with President Donald Trump and go back to doing what they do so well, draining the swamp.
00:17:03.060I give Elon Musk enormous credit for his doge efforts uncovered, not millions, not billions, but trillions of dollars of waste, fraud and corruption in federal spending.
00:17:15.040But I'd like to see Elon Musk and President Donald Trump working together to make sure that that that that waste, that fraud is ended and those who are corrupt are brought to justice.
00:17:26.300You're listening to The Stone Zone and we'll be right back.
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00:17:49.500Well, there's a big fight going on in Texas.
00:17:52.060Texas Governor Greg Abbott has issued an ultramatum to Texas Democrats.
00:17:57.480Abbott is threatening to remove Texas Democrats from their positions in the state legislature after they bolted out of the state in an attempt to prevent the legislature from obtaining the quorum needed to pass new congressional redistricting rules.
00:18:11.880Governor Abbott wrote, Democrats hatched a deliberate plan not to show up for work for the specific purpose of abdicating the duties of their office and thwarting the chamber's business.
00:18:22.300That amounts to an abandonment or forfeiture of elected state office.
00:18:27.380In addition to removal, Abbott said he believes Democrats may have committed felonies for soliciting funds to pay off their fines for abdicating their legislative duties.
00:18:40.820President Trump has urged Texas to adopt a redistricting proposal that would create five additional strong Republican states in the U.S. Congress.
00:18:49.660Publics are set to move that would flex their muscle and make it more difficult for Democrats to win during the upcoming midterms.
00:18:57.900That is what constituents demand from Republicans for decades is finally being realized because President Trump is at the helm.
00:19:05.860Democrats, of course, have no complaints when the census counts illegal immigrants who are not U.S. citizens and then uses those census figures for congressional redistricting, as they have done in both New York and California.
00:19:21.280Now, Texas Democrats are screaming about democracy.
00:19:24.860That's funny, the party that nominated Kamala Harris for president when she wasn't voted for by a single Democrat primary voter or a single Democrat caucus voter in a completely undemocratic process.
00:19:39.460It is amazing to heal the Texas Democrats' squeal.
00:19:44.640Only 23 percent of Democrats view their own party now in a favorable light.
00:19:49.160A new APNORC poll shows that only 23 percent of Democrats view their party in a favorable light, with 35 percent of Democrats describing their party in such terms as weak, tepid, apathetic, ineffective, and broken.
00:20:07.500In contrast, 41 percent of Republicans described their party in positive terms, while only 19 percent were critical of the GOP.
00:20:15.760A recent Wall Street Journal poll shows that the Democrat Party has sunk to a 35-year low in terms of its overall favorability.
00:20:25.800In response to these low numbers, Democrat National Committee Chair Ken Martin said,
00:20:33.920We've been the party fighting for the working class and the poor, but we are also the party that's always fought against discrimination, bigotry, harassment, and people being bullied out of the conversation.
00:20:55.460And you're the party who has no regard for the U.S. Constitution.
00:20:59.820In other words, Democrats are unable to pivot out of their embrace of crazy, woke nonsense because of their radicalized base will not allow them to do so.
00:21:10.680We need look no further than the Democrats' party nomination of the Ayatollah Mam Domini in New York City.
00:21:18.400This is a guy who openly says that the way he's going to solve the city's problems is raising taxes on white people.
00:21:48.440But that is what the Democrat Party produces today.
00:21:52.300I actually saw a poll yesterday that said that a Kamala Harris-Bernie Sanders ticket would be the strongest ticket, that it would carry 49 states, every state except for Florida.
00:22:04.840I don't know what these Democrats are smoking.
00:22:08.000It's very clear, however, that there are no more centrists in the Democrat Party.
00:22:12.560He does now the party of AOC and Jasmine Crockett and Uncle Bernie.
00:22:18.660And we asked the Ayatollah Mam Domini.
00:22:22.120The words moderate Democrat is an oxymoron.
00:22:26.080The idea that the Democrat Party of Harry Truman, who is, after all, the true father of Israel, will not stand up for Israel today, tells you how far that party has fallen.
00:22:39.120Meanwhile, President Donald Trump's special envoy, Steve Witkoff, visits Russia once again for last-minute peace talks.
00:22:47.480With President Trump's deadline for Russia looming, he is sending his special envoy, Steve Witkoff, who I saw two Saturdays ago at Trump's golf club in D.C., back to Russia to engage in another, hopefully, final round of peace talks with the Putin regime.
00:23:05.180Witkoff plans to go to Russia on Wednesday or Thursday of this week.
00:23:09.720President Trump issued a 50-day ultimatum to Putin last month, telling the Russian leader that sanctions and tariffs were on the way if he did not accept a peace deal.
00:23:20.260Trump cut that deadline to 10 days last week as part of his growing anger towards Putin for his increasingly aggressive tactics against Ukraine.
00:23:28.540Trump has given comments recently expressing more sympathy for the Ukrainians as they are shelled heavily by the Russians and steadily losing land in the brutal war effort that shows no signs of abating.
00:23:42.320The Kremlin released a statement saying that they would welcome Witkoff in Russia.
00:23:47.980They also said that Putin would finally be willing to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky following the completion of preparatory work at the expert level.
00:23:58.540Now, in diplomat speak, it's hard to know exactly what that means, but hopefully it's not just more obfuscation or Russian bluster.
00:24:07.120We should all be praying for the success of Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, an incredibly able man, one of his most laudatory voices for less U.S. interventionism and foreign policy within the Trump administration as he embarks on this important peace mission that may be our last chance to stop more U.S. involvement in the Russia-Ukraine debacle that happened because of Biden's administration and his inherent weakness.
00:24:35.060If the United States was not pushing Ukraine into NATO in violation of two different treaties we signed, the Budapest Memorandum and the Minsk Accords, there would be no war in Ukraine today.
00:24:50.300The claim by some that Vladimir Putin wants to gobble up all of Ukraine and then he's going to take Poland and then France and then Germany is patently nonsense.
00:25:06.640We agreed when the Germans, pardon me, when the Russians agreed to the unification of East and West Germany not to push Ukraine into NATO, which really is defined as not allowing U.S. supplied NATO missiles on the ground in Ukraine pointed at Russia.
00:25:27.340Why is this different than when Nikita Khrushchev in 1962 mounted Russian missiles 90 miles off our shore in Havana aimed at the United States?
00:25:38.700President John F. Kennedy did not react well to that.
00:25:42.080We were told that Kennedy faced Nikita Khrushchev down and that the Russian leader removed those missiles.
00:25:51.380We learned 50 years later that a secret deal was made in which the United States removed our NATO missiles from both Turkey and Italy, shifting the balance of power in Europe in return for an agreement with Khrushchev that included no on-site inspections.
00:26:09.380Eisenhower's last ambassador to Cuba, Earl E.T. Smith, who later served as the mayor of Palm Beach, Florida, believed to his death that the missiles were never actually removed.
00:26:24.480We pray for Envoy Wyckoff and we pray for peace.
00:26:29.960Donald Trump works every day for peace and every American, regardless of party, should be praying for his success.
00:26:36.560Meanwhile, the disgraced FBI Director Christopher Wray has now finally officially received a criminal referral to the Department of Justice for the various nefarious acts that occurred at his behest during his many years in power at the FBI.
00:26:52.660The oversight project submitted the alleged charges of obstruction, false statements, and corrupt actions in two different scandals, one, the foreign interference in elections and the anti-Catholic discrimination by the FBI.
00:27:08.380The criminal referral points to two times that Wray blatantly lied while giving testimony before Congress.
00:27:14.880He lied in September of 2020 when he said the FBI had not seen any kind of coordinated national voter fraud effort.
00:27:26.300Recent revelations from a whistleblower who has coordinated with the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, has proven the statement to be false.
00:27:35.020Wray then said in March 2021 that there was no widespread evidence of voter fraud that would have affected the outcome.
00:27:41.780But FBI Director Kash Patel revealed that many thousands of counterfeit U.S. driver's licenses were seized by Customs and Border Protection in July of 2020,
00:27:53.520with intelligence determining that this was being done with the purpose to subvert the elections.
00:27:59.500Wray insisted that that that never happened.
00:28:01.820Wray's FBI buried the report deep in the bowels of the FBI.
00:28:06.280This seems to be an open and shut case.
00:28:09.560It is time to put Christopher Wray behind bars where he belongs.
00:28:14.940Meanwhile, the Smithsonian gets rid of propaganda about the Trump impeachment.
00:28:19.820After removal of funding from National Public Radio, other institutions are now scrambling to avoid being next on the chopping block.
00:28:28.460As a result, the Smithsonian Museum, which is, of course, the U.S. government's museum of history, is removing a propaganda-written exhibit about President Trump's impeachment.
00:28:39.680The National Museum for American History announced that they will be retooling the exhibit to remove the extreme bias and make it more all about all presidential impeachments throughout time,
00:28:50.780rather than just singling about Trump.
00:28:53.660Restoring the truth and sanity to American history is the executive order that President Donald Trump issued,
00:29:02.040which put Vice President J.D. Vance in charge of denying funds to any organization with exhibits or programs
00:29:08.840that degrade shared American values, divide Americans based on race, or promote programs or ideologies inconsistent with federal law and policy.
00:29:20.060The career bureaucrats and ideological paper pushers in Washington, D.C. are scrambling because of President Trump's bold, visionary leadership.
00:29:30.020And a federally taxpayer-funded museum is not the place for propaganda.
00:29:36.640Meanwhile, Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, says that Operation Mockingbird is still very much in place.
00:29:44.380Tulsi Gabbard continues to confirm our worst fears,
00:29:47.300that the deep state and systematic corruption in Washington, D.C.,
00:29:51.520this time confirmed by deep state control over mass media outlets,
00:29:56.120similar to the CIA's infamous Operation Mockingbird program, still exists.
00:30:01.640Information Mockingbird, first revealed in the 1960s,
00:30:04.760showed that the Central Intelligence Agency was paying reporters to twist the news
00:30:11.480based on a narrative provided by the government.
00:30:14.300It was actually Carl Bernstein writing for Rolling Stone magazine that first revealed the stunning facts about Operation Mockingbird.
00:30:24.160You see, Woodward and Bernstein, probably the two most famous journalists of our day,