The Stone Zone is the place where you go to find out what's going on in the world of politics and the world around you. In this episode of the Red Apple Podcast Network's Stone Zone, host Alex Blumberg is joined by former White House Strategist Steve Bannon to discuss his relationship with Roger Stone and his role as a key witness for Robert Mueller's Russia investigation.
00:14:05.880And we're back in the Stone Zone here on the Red Apple Audio Networks.
00:14:10.380Last Friday, Attorney General Pam Bondi named Ed Martin, Deputy Attorney General, as the special prosecutor to investigate mortgage fraud allegations regarding both Senator Adam Schiff and New York Attorney General Letitia James.
00:14:28.600James is being accused of falsely listing her Norfolk, Virginia-based home as her primary legal residence in order to unlawfully receive a lower mortgage rate and a lower insurance rate.
00:14:44.040Now, it's obviously a problem because under the New York state law and constitution, if a Virginia residence is her principal legal residence, she would be ineligible to be New York Attorney General.
00:14:58.780In those documents, she also said that her daughter would make it her principal residence.
00:15:04.740But actually, thanks to the investigative journalism of Sam Antar and Joel Gilbert, both of whom visited the Norfolk-based home, neither Letitia James nor her daughter are living there, as required by law under the mortgage.
00:15:23.640She also, in another occasion, in order to qualify for a certain lower interest federal mortgage for investment properties, claimed that an apartment complex that she owned, which was required to have under five units, specifically four units, had four units.
00:15:44.320The problem is that, once again, it had five units.
00:15:47.540These are crimes for which other people have been prosecuted and found guilty.
00:15:55.140Adam Schiff allegedly pulled a similar scheme.
00:15:57.960He claimed that his condo in Burbank, California, and his home in Potomac, Maryland, were both his primary legal residence.
00:16:08.920Therefore, he got a tax break in both states, and he got lower mortgage rates and lower insurance rates.
00:16:16.760It's interesting to note that former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara put out a statement defending Adam Schiff, denying the charges, saying that they had been debunked.
00:16:30.240And saying that this was somehow payback for the fact that Senator Adam Schiff had opposed special counsel Ed Martin's appointment as U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia.
00:16:44.720It's ironic that Preet Bharara is going to have the time to represent Adam Schiff because my sources tell me that former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara is among those who will be brought in front of a grand jury shortly to discuss their own role in the Russian collusion hoax.
00:17:02.240It has been accurately reported that Attorney General Pam Bondi has already appointed a prosecutor and a grand jury has been impaneled to begin hearing the evidence based on the disclosures by the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard,
00:17:22.580that have completely exposed Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, National Security Advisor Susan Rice, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper,
00:17:36.260Attorney General, Acting Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller, Hillary Clinton, Don Podesta, and many others.
00:17:49.600My friends, I think justice is coming.
00:17:53.000Clearly, it is coming for Letitia James.
00:18:26.220Back during the 2016 campaign for president, Donald Trump said that the legalization of marrow was a state's rights issue and that each state should make its own decision.
00:18:39.580He made it clear that he himself did not support the use of marijuana, but as a conservative, he thought it should be up to the states.
00:18:48.160At this point, 38 states have legalized some form of cannabis, usually for medicinal use.
00:18:56.780Yet federally, it remains a Schedule I drug.
00:19:01.160That's on the same level with heroin and cocaine and far more dangerous substances.
00:19:07.800Last week, President Trump said he's considering changing the federal classification of cannabis from a Schedule I to Schedule III.
00:19:23.080I think we should treat marijuana, I think we should treat marijuana, cannabis, the same way we treat hemp, which President Trump legalized in the Farm Bill during his first term.
00:19:34.960With many, many states now having marijuana legal as medicine, they still have, because of federal law, businesses who sell marijuana have problems with banks.
00:19:50.520Banking services are unavailable under federal law for those who are in perfectly legal state businesses.
00:19:59.400The basis of my support is very simple.
00:20:03.520When my own father was dying of cancer, he had no appetite, and he was in horrific pain.
00:20:11.500I recognized that the Oxycontin they were giving him was really just making him much sicker.
00:20:17.380Also, he was beginning an addiction to that drug, which destroyed his digestive system.
00:20:25.600He was literally down to about 125 pounds.
00:20:29.960That was the point at which my sisters and I decided that we would try to get him to smoke some marijuana in the interests of his suffering.
00:20:41.540And he almost immediately increased his appetite, put on weight, and he dealt much more easily with this horrific pain from his cancer.
00:20:53.000It was at that point that I became a supporter of legalization.
00:20:57.320I actually think deregulation makes more sense, but this is a step in the right direction.
00:21:03.960If President Trump makes this decision, he will likely characterize marijuana now as a Schedule III drug.
00:21:11.020This would be a massive victory for President Trump and for the American people.
00:21:16.400Marijuana legalization is overwhelmingly popular with the public, who recognizes that alcohol, which we sell and regulate and tax,
00:21:25.900is far more dangerous and far more deleterious to health than cannabis.
00:21:32.100The medicinal properties of cannabis can no longer be denied, but the Schedule I classification has stopped the funding for a lot of the additional exploratory scientific study that I think is necessary that could unlock other medicinal and health benefits of what is a natural substance.
00:21:58.380The notion that marijuana should be classified with heroin as a class one or Schedule I drug, frankly, is preposterous.
00:22:08.480The federal war on drugs has been a failure by every metric.
00:22:12.640It was Joe Biden who wrote the 1994 crime bill.
00:22:17.020That was the bill that mandated the harsh mandatory penalties for the first-time nonviolent crime of possession of small amounts of drugs for personal use.
00:22:30.940Yes, it's true the war on drugs was launched by President Richard Nixon, but that war on drug was focused on drug traffickers, drug smugglers, and drug kingpins.
00:22:42.200It was Joe Biden as the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee who wrote the 1994 crime bill, and it was Bill Clinton who signed it into law.
00:22:53.580I think at this juncture, hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of poor people and disproportionately African Americans have been incarcerated because of the 1994 crime bill.
00:23:05.620It's time to wind down this modern-day drug prohibition.
00:23:09.860It has been a failure in the 1920s when they tried it with alcohol, just as much as it is a failure when it comes to cannabis one century later.
00:23:19.120This decision should be a no-brainer for the president, and it will win over, I think, many independent voters and younger voters, libertarian voters, in next year's crucial midterm elections.
00:23:31.880So I hope the president follows through on this pledge.
00:23:35.960I say first we reschedule, then we de-schedule.
00:23:40.400I've actually gone out and put a trademark on the name Roger Stone.
00:23:47.780Meanwhile, the so-called safe injection sites in New York City, those are locations where drug addicts are free to shoot up heroin, have predictably backfired and are causing rampant degenerate behavior in public, according to a report in the New York Post.
00:24:04.620The injection center, called On Point New York City, has resulted in dope-fueled junkies having depraved public sects stoned out of their minds as pedestrians pass by.
00:24:19.920There are two of these locations open in New York City, and they have been open since 2021.
00:24:26.040They've received a stunning $16.4 million in taxpayer funding from the city's Department of Health to operate.
00:24:36.540Now, President Trump has signed an executive order targeting these types of centers that enable addicts to pursue their drug addiction.
00:24:44.280He signed the Ending Crime and Disorder on America's Streets bill late last month.
00:24:51.400This executive order makes sure that no federal discretionary grants are used to fund these sites for junkies.
00:25:01.040President Trump also blocked a so-called safe injection center from operating in Pennsylvania during his first administration, a move that was affirmed as legal by multiple courts.
00:25:13.560And then when challenged in the U.S. Supreme Court, well, Donald Trump won.
00:25:18.480So there is no right to have these injection sites.
00:25:23.240They have been a disaster for New York City, and I commend the president.
00:35:12.0801913, the Federal Income Tax Act passed.
00:35:14.800And, of course, federal income taxes have increased since that time, astronomically.
00:35:21.200President Trump has openly mused about the possibility of doing away with the federal income tax system.
00:35:27.880And even late last week was hinting about it on Truth Social.
00:35:33.360Tariffs are now bringing in amazing revenues, and they should be used to fund the national government.
00:35:38.880The income tax was never meant to be mandatory and permanent to begin with.
00:35:42.780So perhaps it is time to go back to the Constitution, sound money, and repeal the 1913 Federal Income Tax Act.
00:35:52.720We found out shockingly on Friday that former Attorney General Bill Barr actually colluded with Georgia prosecutor Fannie Willis on Donald Trump's RICO case.
00:36:04.520Recent disclosures from Project Veritas showed that Attorney General Bill Barr colluded with corrupt Fulton County District Attorney Fannie Willis on a RICO case that included Mayor Rudy Giuliani and a number of other Trump allies.
00:36:22.340This was journalist and whistleblower Patricia Lallis who came forward to expose how Attorney General Bill Barr plotted this RICO charge against Trump because he believed it would be almost impossible for Trump to defend.
00:36:38.360After becoming acquainted with Barr through her work as an assistant to media personality Armstrong Williams, Lallis became privy to all this information.
00:36:50.000She kept copious notes, and she reported it to the FBI.
00:36:54.420No surprise that the FBI did nothing whatsoever.
00:36:57.740So we now know that Bill Barr, who had been a CIA attorney prior to his service in the second and first Bush administrations, ultimately became Donald Trump's Attorney General, was involved in a conspiracy to try to remove the President of the United States and to charge him in Georgia.
00:37:23.180You won't find this kind of news any place other than right here in the Stone Dome.
00:37:52.380Thank you for joining us in today's show, and until tomorrow, God bless you and God bless you.
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