The StoneZONE with Roger Stone - September 10, 2025


The Stone Zone ｜ 09-10-25

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leftist assassination attempt January 6th committee investigation drug advertising crackdown
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Roger Stone Troy Smith Jake Novak
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Trump Charlie Kirk Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Donald Trump Lisa Cook Eric Swalwell Representative Raskin Mike Johnson Ryan Ralph Jamie Raskin Ryan Ruth Marjorie Taylor Greene Jasmine Crockett Jared Moskowitz Elisa Chin Gary Irina Zaruzka Nancy Pelosi Mark Morgan Turning Point USA Theodore Roosevelt Elizabeth Warren and 24 more
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Roger Stone reacts to the shooting of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk at the University of Utah campus, and calls for a new committee to investigate what happened on January 6th, 2019, and whether or not it is connected to the so-called "January 6th Hoax."

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00:00:38.360 Welcome into the Stone Zone.
00:00:40.720 Shocking news that Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, a good friend of mine,
00:00:46.600 I have appeared at virtually every one of his national conferences as a speaker,
00:00:50.760 was shot in the neck while appearing at the campus of the University of Utah.
00:00:54.360 And it was, as of this time, in critical condition as a leftist assassination named Zinn targeted the influential student leader.
00:01:04.660 We're told that the attempted assassin is in custody.
00:01:08.680 The display was caught on video, which is very rapidly going viral on social media.
00:01:14.680 It is horrific to watch.
00:01:17.100 it is as awful as this video the day before yesterday of an assailant killing a Ukrainian
00:01:24.480 woman on a subway car in North Carolina. This is very, very typical. Currently, as of this time, 0.92
00:01:36.580 Kirk is hospitalized and his current condition is unknown. As I have said here on The Stone Zone,
00:01:43.400 the leftist terrorist threat within our country dwarfs any threat that comes from Middle Eastern
00:01:50.020 Islamists, drug cartels, or others anywhere throughout the world. I have been plagued,
00:01:58.320 my family and I, with death threats, with violence, with attacks in public places now for over four
00:02:06.480 years. I can't travel, even today, without professional security. I'm tired of the death
00:02:13.520 threats, but the left gets increasingly violent. We saw this in the two attempted assassinations
00:02:20.840 of Donald Trump, about which we just do not know enough. The left is at war with the rule of law
00:02:28.620 and the Constitution, and this heinous attack on Charlie Kirk proves they will stop at nothing
00:02:34.840 to prevent America's return to greatness and that there are sleeper cells that are being activated
00:02:41.060 nationwide with conservatives on their hit list. Meanwhile, over at MSNBC, they essentially seem
00:02:49.180 to be saying that, well, Charlie Kirk had it coming. Listen to this. Then lead to hateful
00:02:54.540 actions. And I think that's the environment we're in, that people just you can't stop with these
00:03:00.160 sort of awful thoughts you have and then saying these awful words and not expect awful actions
00:03:05.500 to take place. And that's the unfortunate environment we're in. Turning Point USA has
00:03:10.780 confirmed that he was shot. And there are a number of... I mean, this is really extraordinary
00:03:19.620 where expression of your political views, support for the U.S. Constitution, support for free
00:03:27.060 enterprise support for free speech. They consider this as endangering yourself if you speak up for
00:03:35.240 these things. MSNBC is the bottom of the barrel. I don't get my news from MSNBC for the same reason
00:03:41.520 I don't drink out of the toilet. Mrs. Stone and I and everyone in our family are praying for Charlie
00:03:47.620 Kirk and his family as millions across this nation are praying for him. If you haven't seen this
00:03:54.160 video, I almost urge you not to see it because it is so deeply, deeply disturbing. If you're just
00:03:59.860 tuning in, I'm Roger Stone, and this is The Stone Zone on the Red Apple Audio Networks. So I have
00:04:06.760 long believed that Speaker Mike Johnson needed to appoint a committee to investigate the
00:04:12.660 investigators of the January 6th hoax. I can tell you firsthand that audios and videos played during
00:04:22.760 their hearings of me were AI-created fabrications. In fact, we now hear that after House Republicans
00:04:31.560 voted last week to create a new January 6th committee that will actually get to the bottom
00:04:36.580 of what occurred on January 6th, and to look at the January 6th congressional hearings,
00:04:42.420 we learn that one of the most infamous Fed Surrection proponents, Jamie Raskin,
00:04:51.500 was as a ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, will be an ex-official member of this new committee.
00:04:58.600 This is wrong.
00:05:00.420 Jamie Raskin said the day before the January 6th hearings that he would produce proof
00:05:06.160 that I was involved in some illegal activity on January 6th.
00:05:10.920 Let me make this abundantly clear. There is no evidence whatsoever, no witness, no email, no encrypted message, no video, no audio, no chat room, no phone call that would prove that any claim that I knew in advance about, participated in, or condoned any illegal activity on January 6th is categorically false.
00:05:39.500 and Raskin produced nothing other than a fraudulent video. Now, they also destroyed
00:05:48.320 extraordinary amount of information. So Raskin specifically fabricated and destroyed January
00:05:54.800 6th evidence when he was leading the witch hunt during the Biden days. He claimed that the January
00:06:01.620 6th committee hearings would prove my involvement, as I say, to helping foment the supposed
00:06:06.020 insurrection, but then, once again, he produced nothing of the kind. The video produced by Raskin
00:06:11.520 as Democrat co-conspirators was an AI-generated fraud meant to dupe the public and to spur
00:06:17.660 prosecution against President Trump based on this fall. In the new January 6th committee does not
00:06:23.800 investigate Representative Raskin himself, they'll be doing a major disservice to the American people.
00:06:29.160 But the other Democrats appointed to this committee are equally shocking.
00:06:34.780 Eric Swalwell, just to remind you, Eric Swalwell started penetrating a red Chinese spy who then penetrated his office.
00:06:45.040 That is not conjecture. That is a fact.
00:06:47.840 Yet the speaker, Nancy Pelosi, allowed Eric Swallow to continue as a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the House Intelligence Committee, where he continued to have access to classified information.
00:07:01.240 And he's paid no price for the fact that while he was accusing people like me and, say, General Michael Flynn, Paul Manafort, President Trump, of colluding with the Russians, that he was colluding with a communist Chinese spy.
00:07:16.180 And as far as him having an objective view, because he's now been appointed to this January 6th committee, let's listen to Congressman Swalwell.
00:07:27.060 Since the Civil War, what are the three most important dates in American history?
00:07:34.940 December 1941, September 11, and January 6th.
00:07:40.180 The last two, I didn't even have to give you the years because they are seared into our memories.
00:07:49.100 If January 6th was an insurrection, why was not a single person who was outside the Capitol or the inside the Capitol armed?
00:07:58.980 Doesn't make much sense to me.
00:08:00.700 How many FBI informants and undercover agents were interspersed without the crowd?
00:08:06.440 Who opened those massive doors from the inside?
00:08:10.180 Why have we seen videos of police officers, Capitol police officers, motioning people to come into the Capitol?
00:08:17.140 No, January 6th, like the 2020 election, like the Russian collusion hoax, was yet another hoax.
00:08:24.120 But having a traitor like Eric Swalwell, who got caught in this relationship with a communist Chinese spy named Fang Fang, who mysteriously died in a plane crash shortly thereafter on this committee, is a disgrace.
00:08:40.540 Also joining him on the committee is my congressman, Jared Moskowitz, and that intellectual giant, Jasmine Crockett.
00:08:50.560 In all honesty, I think that Speaker Johnson should do what Speaker Pelosi did,
00:08:55.920 deny the Democrats nominees and appoint anyone you want to the committee.
00:08:59.840 No Trump supporter was allowed to be on the January 6th committee.
00:09:03.480 Actually, no loyal Republican.
00:09:05.280 You had Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger as the two Republicans on this committee,
00:09:10.380 which was a complete violation of the House rules.
00:09:13.500 But that's because they intended to create this entirely false narrative regarding January 6th.
00:09:21.300 I think this is an outrage.
00:09:23.300 Jamie Raskin is the one who actually should be investigated, not only for his role in the two Trump faux impeachments and the Russian collusion hoax, but also in fabricating the entire narrative of January 6th.
00:09:37.900 Meanwhile, Ryan Routh, the man who was accused of trying to assassinate President Donald Trump, was denied bail after a deranged letter to the judge surfaced arguing that he should be released.
00:09:53.160 While that's good news, what is troubling to me is that Ryan Routh, who is the man who tried to kill then-presidential candidate Donald Trump on a Mar-a-Lago golf course, only faces 20 years in prison after that infraction.
00:10:10.580 Routh only faces this maximum of 20 years in prison because he's only charged with two federal firearms offenses.
00:10:18.060 Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark Despoto said that additional evidence collected after Routh's arrest,
00:10:23.740 which included a handwritten letter about his intention to kill Trump, should lead to far greater charges.
00:10:30.840 I have a number of questions.
00:10:32.780 The first one is, if Ryan Routh is, as they told us, indigent, behind in his alimony payments,
00:10:39.660 behind in his rent payments in Hawaii, where he allegedly lives, how did he afford to fly to the United States?
00:10:47.080 How did he afford to fly to North Carolina? And what vehicle did he travel from North Carolina to West Palm Beach, Florida in?
00:10:55.600 How did he get his hands on a firearm, specifically in this case, a firearm where the serial number had been filed off the barrel of the gun?
00:11:06.920 How is it that Ryan Ralph pops up and can be seen in videos in all these European capitals, including being seen in Maiden Square in Ukraine?
00:11:18.540 These are questions that I find extraordinarily troubling, but we seem to have no answers.
00:11:24.240 This attack on Charlie Kirk today is part of the same ongoing spasm of violence on the American left.
00:11:32.140 Ralph wrote specifically, this was an assassination attempt on Donald Trump, but I failed you.
00:11:37.600 I tried my best and I gave it all the gumption I could muster.
00:11:42.360 It is now up to you to finish the job.
00:11:45.080 And I will offer $150,000 to whoever can complete the job.
00:11:50.600 Now, a grand jury should be in the works to add a charge of attempted murder,
00:11:56.040 specifically attempted murder of a presidential candidate.
00:11:58.900 There is a law against that passed in 1968 after the murder of Senator Robert F. Kennedy of New York.
00:12:09.460 This should put Ralph in prison for the rest of his life.
00:12:12.840 Anything other than life imprisonment or capital punishment will be unfit for Ralph as these leftist terrorists need to be put to justice in order to restore the rule of law in the United States of America.
00:12:28.300 Meanwhile, as I predicted right here in the Stone Zone, a federal judge has blocked the firing of Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook by President Donald Trump.
00:12:39.480 And it turns out the federal judge just happens to be a sorority sister of Cobb, pardon me, of Cook.
00:12:47.620 So Judge Gia Cobb and Federal Reserve Board Governor Lisa Cook are members of the same secret black women's college sorority.
00:13:00.740 To me, that is a stunning conflict of interest, but for reasons I do not understand, when Cook sued Trump over her termination to the Federal Reserve Board in the District of Columbia, and the case was assigned to her sorority sister, the Department of Justice did not object.
00:13:24.180 They should have moved to recuse the judge based on their personal connection, but they strangely did not do so.
00:13:33.720 Also in this black women's sorority is the intellectual giant Joy Reid, formerly of MSNBC.
00:13:43.280 So this is really extraordinary because that means that Lisa Cook will be allowed to vote in the Federal Reserve Board of Governors meeting that is scheduled to take place the 16th and 17th of this month. 0.94
00:13:59.840 It is absolutely clear that the president does have the authority to fire Cook based on her unethical behavior.
00:14:07.860 Specifically, she engaged in mortgage fraud.
00:14:11.100 Now, three previous Federal Reserve Board governors resigned under fire when they were just under investigation. 0.98
00:14:22.060 Lisa Cook needed to go. 0.91
00:14:23.580 Trump was right to fire her.
00:14:25.420 But once again, the Washington swamp, in this case, has interfered.
00:14:30.840 I'm Roger Stone.
00:14:31.680 This is The Stone Zone.
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00:14:41.100 Welcome back to the Stone Zone. Unfortunately, we have a sad update. We have just been informed that Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA, the student conservative organization, was shot and killed today on the campus of the University of Utah.
00:15:00.720 This is a very sad day indeed for the entire country, a very sad day for the MAGA movement, a very sad day for everybody who knew and loved Charlie Kirk, as I did.
00:15:12.600 Mrs. Stone and I are very distraught about this. I consider Charlie Kirk a friend.
00:15:16.960 He was a staunch advocate for my pardon when the deep state sought to destroy me.
00:15:22.600 He is a person who has changed the course of history, raising millions of dollars to educate young people about the virtues of capitalism and free enterprise and free speech.
00:15:36.800 This is part of a spasm of violence. We saw it previously in Butler, Pennsylvania. We saw it in the, I'm sorry, this is emotionally very difficult for me.
00:15:55.240 We saw it in the golf course in West Palm Beach of Florida.
00:16:02.520 The left is now resorting to violence because they could not get their way at the ballot box
00:16:08.260 and because they could not steal the last election as they stole the 2020 election.
00:16:14.680 As a prominent supporter of President Trump, as a prominent conservative,
00:16:20.080 I can already tell you I'm sick of the death threats.
00:16:23.000 I'm sick of the violence
00:16:28.000 I'm sick of this entire attitude of the left
00:16:31.900 And then watching people on MSNBC
00:16:34.120 Essentially saying that
00:16:35.660 Well, it's Charlie Kirk's own fault
00:16:37.360 Because he spoke up
00:16:39.440 On behalf of the things that he believed in
00:16:42.540 This is a very, very sad day
00:16:45.620 For America indeed
00:16:47.600 We're waiting for a statement
00:16:49.980 From President Trump
00:16:52.060 Charlie Kirk will go down in history as someone who changed the direction of the country.
00:16:58.260 Turning Point USA played a key role in President Trump's historic comeback,
00:17:04.080 the greatest comeback in American political history.
00:17:08.040 It is a very sad day.
00:17:10.660 And I think all Americans, certainly all supporters of President Trump and our country,
00:17:16.260 join me in praying for Charlie Kirk and his family.
00:17:19.480 You're listening to The Stone Zone here on the Red Apple Audio Networks, and we'll be right back.
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00:17:32.100 Welcome back to The Stone Zone.
00:17:34.240 Once again, the sad news that the founder of Turning Point USA, the country's leading student conservative organization, Charlie Kirk, was tragically shot and killed today while speaking in an open forum in the University of Utah.
00:17:50.720 I got a text message literally seconds after it happened because one of my friends was in the crowd.
00:17:57.820 They were actually in the front row.
00:18:00.060 they accurately told me that they did not see how Charlie could survive.
00:18:06.560 He was immediately rushed to the hospital, and as we learned minutes ago, he has passed.
00:18:13.140 This is part of the continuing spasm of violence that we've seen across the country.
00:18:19.380 It first manifested itself on January 6th when they used flashbangs,
00:18:27.380 When peaceful protesters were assaulted, when we saw the overreach of the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI,
00:18:44.680 this is a continuation of that same use of violence by those on the left.
00:18:51.120 This is a very difficult time because Charlie was a very good friend of mine.
00:18:57.380 In the meantime, let's move into the news.
00:18:59.860 FDA Commissioner Marty Markay has made a statement this week that is sure to enrage big pharma-owned vaccination maximalists,
00:19:09.060 saying that there is no logical reason for children to receive the hepatitis B vaccination.
00:19:16.200 Dr. Markay said, I personally don't believe that evidence is solid to say that the hepatitis B shot needs to be given at birth.
00:19:23.620 It's totally different than polio and measles and some of these other shots that are tried and true and have been around for a long time and which we do indeed recommend.
00:19:34.340 A CDC vaccination advisory panel is scheduled to convene soon where they will decide where and when vaccinations should be administered and specifically where vaccinations should be administered to children and those who require it at birth.
00:19:55.360 uh i we await that decision uh we all know the real reason to bolster to insist upon these
00:20:03.100 is because these big pharma vaccination companies are epically greedy the only reason that you
00:20:11.240 would administer a hepatitis b vaccination for a disease that can only be gotten through either
00:20:18.440 sex or intravenous drug use to an infant is because you're interested in making money
00:20:24.120 This is about bolstering the profits of greedy, unethical, and evil pharmaceutical corporations.
00:20:31.020 This has allegedly already caused spikes in the autism rates and other diseases for children to scandal, which has been covered up for decades.
00:20:39.660 RFK has told us, and we now definitively know, that all of the federal housing officials have known for some time that autism was caused by vaccinations, yet they hid this information from the American people.
00:21:04.900 Robert F. Kennedy finds himself under assault from those Democrats in the Senate who have literally taken millions of dollars from big pharma.
00:21:17.120 So the next time you see Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts questioning Robert Kennedy's bona fides when it comes to health matters,
00:21:29.400 Remember, she took $1,224,145 for her campaign.
00:21:37.000 Or when you see that windbag socialist Bernie Sanders, remember he took $1,953,613 from Big Pharma for his campaign coffers.
00:21:51.400 coffers or senator chuck schumer who took one million five hundred and fifty seven thousand
00:21:57.560 nine hundred and twenty eight thousand dollars from big pharma uh this guy uh ron wyden from
00:22:06.440 oregon i mean look i'm no matinee idol but this guy looks like he's from outer space
00:22:11.720 But when you see him clashing with Kennedy, $1,207,873 from Big Pharma.
00:22:23.500 This is going to play out in the next several weeks.
00:22:27.560 Right here in the Stone Zone, some weeks ago, we covered a leaked memo
00:22:32.100 which outlined how they intended to smear and destroy Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
00:22:38.220 And it is playing out exactly the way we told you it would, right?
00:22:41.560 here in the stone zone. The fact is that whether it is banning dyes and certain other toxic
00:22:49.460 contents from our food, or whether it is questioning the safety of, say, mercury in
00:22:56.640 our vaccinations, Kennedy is cutting into their profit margins. And you have to wonder how the
00:23:02.700 wealthiest country in the world has these spikes in child diseases, chronic child diseases,
00:23:12.220 the spike in autism, the spike in cancers now among those in their 20s and 30s. How can the
00:23:18.760 wealthiest country in the world be the unhealthiest country in the world? That is the question.
00:23:27.260 Watch this very carefully, folks, because there's going to be an epic effort to smear Robert F.
00:23:32.100 Kennedy Jr. I like watching him in these Senate and House hearings because he's extraordinarily
00:23:38.200 combative. He can always defend his position on the basis of studies and actual science. Those
00:23:44.320 who claim, like Dr. Anthony Fauci, saw a great video yesterday of Fauci on the subject of whether
00:23:51.540 masks were appropriate during the COVID-19 vaccination pandemic. Those who keep wrapping
00:24:00.240 themselves in science, in fact, are not backed up by the science at all. That's the sad truth.
00:24:07.360 The shocking situation in North Carolina, where Irina Zerzutka, the Iranian refugee butchered to
00:24:14.580 death in a Charlotte subway by a severely mentally ill and dangerous career felon, was killed due to
00:24:21.140 DEI policies. Zerzutka's killer, DeCarlos Brown, was released on the streets by a magistrate judge
00:24:28.600 named Teresa Stokes, a Kamala Harris donor,
00:24:32.480 who was nominated to the bench despite the fact that she had no law degree. 1.00
00:24:36.560 She wasn't even a lawyer. 0.99
00:24:38.240 Stokes was not elected but rather appointed to the position of county clerk 0.98
00:24:43.060 by Elisa, to the position by the county clerk, Elisa Chin-Gary.
00:24:50.200 Stokes' profession was a DEI consultant and racial equity organizer
00:24:56.640 according to her professional LinkedIn profile.
00:24:59.500 It's very clear that her primary issue
00:25:03.440 was extracting reparation payments from white people. 1.00
00:25:06.980 In other words, racial disharmony and hatred. 0.54
00:25:11.960 How did Chin Gary become a clerk 1.00
00:25:13.940 with the power to nominate this judge, Carla Archie,
00:25:17.960 a close ally to former Attorney General Eric Holder,
00:25:21.340 who once was named DEI Champion of the Year? 1.00
00:25:24.660 It was the DEI industrial complex, as I call them, that produced the conditions that resulted in the brutal murder of this poor woman.
00:25:33.360 This system that promotes based on racial quotas and not merit puts all of us in danger.
00:25:39.340 This is why we're increasingly seeing the rule of law being replaced, as we saw today at the University of Utah, the rule of the jungle.
00:25:46.580 DEI hires in the justice system are not concerned with phantoms based on their own inferiority complex, not interested in enforcing the Constitution and the rule of law.
00:25:56.940 We need to rid the entire system of this DEI cancer or many other innocent young women will be killed by violent thugs.
00:26:07.260 Meanwhile, the Republican leadership has blocked an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act
00:26:15.140 that would stop the spigot of federal funding that goes into foreign countries to keep the endless war efforts going perpetually.
00:26:23.180 Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene exposed the games that the House leadership was played during the NDAA, 0.99
00:26:30.140 that's the National Defense Authorization Act negotiations, refusing to let her offer crucial amendments, even letting those amendments go up for a vote.
00:26:41.000 Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, a good friend of mine, said they blocked my amendments to stop spending money to Ukraine, Israel, Syria, Iraq, and border security for other countries.
00:26:53.300 America is $37 trillion in debt, and we should not be sending any more of our money overseas to defend foreign countries or fund never-ending foreign wars.
00:27:05.640 Unfortunately, all of this is unsurprising.
00:27:08.600 The House Republican leadership sadly appears to be the back pocket of the military-industrial complex.
00:27:13.960 Why Speaker Johnson would allow Eric Swalwell, who was involved with a Chinese communist spy, or Jasmine Crockett, who I think is virtually brain dead, or Jared Moskowitz, my congressman, all of whom have claimed that January 6th was an insurrection, to investigate their own colleagues who were involved in the cover-up and destruction of evidence regarding January 6th is beyond me.
00:27:43.300 The Speaker Johnson should do exactly what Speaker Pelosi do. Refuse the nominees of the Republican leadership and appoint your own committee. Try to find Democrats who are centrists and not running dog lackeys for the for the Hakeem Jeffries wing of the party.
00:28:02.680 The problem is the words moderate Democrat are virtually an oxymoron.
00:28:08.320 There are no moderate Democrats.
00:28:10.480 The great divide in their party is between progressives and progressives on the take from corporate America.
00:28:17.320 There is no such thing as a conservative Democrat.
00:28:20.320 There are among the voters, but certainly are not among the Congress.
00:28:24.680 The House Republican leadership needs to stand up and grow a set.
00:28:27.780 They continue to do the bidding of the entrenched Pentagon bureaucracy and the powerful defense contractors spending billions to lobby and campaign their they line their pockets with special interest contributions in this endless game of just getting reelected.
00:28:44.680 More Americans will be put in harm's way, and America's long-term economic stability will be sacrificed as a result if the Republican Party once again fails to conserve anything except big profits for moneyed special interests.
00:28:59.400 Meanwhile, the Trump administration has announced a crackdown on drug ads.
00:29:03.900 President Trump issued a presidential memorandum this week, cracking down on pharmaceutical companies,
00:29:09.460 forcing them to disclose more side effects for their drugs in their advertisements
00:29:13.980 and calling for stricter enforcement against misleading ads,
00:29:17.780 particularly undisclosed paid influencer promotion on social media platforms.
00:29:23.860 You know, I have never been paid a dime by anyone to say anything on social media.
00:29:29.200 I know people who actually make their entire and sole living by being paid to post something on X or on True Social or on Facebook and so on.
00:29:41.880 Something I do not do.
00:29:44.480 People make this their entire living.
00:29:46.740 Well, if you are putting out the propaganda of big pharma, then under this law, you would be required to disclose that in your tweet or your post.
00:29:57.780 I think this is sound public policy, although like Robert F. Kennedy Jr., I would like to see us ban big drug advertising as we do alcohol, as we do cigarettes on television, on radio, on cable, and so on.
00:30:13.840 The FDA is sending approximately 100 enforcement action letters today and thousands of letters of warnings to those in the pharmaceutical industry, including online pharmacies, who have increasingly been promoting drugs with no mention of the side effects at all.
00:30:29.440 The United States, aside from New Zealand, is the only country on Earth that actually allows pharmaceutical companies to advertise directly to consumers.
00:30:38.720 Drug companies spent an astronomical $10.8 billion on these advertisements through 2024.
00:30:46.720 As these products are increasingly prescribed with doctors who are also receiving payouts and gifts from Big Pharma,
00:30:53.920 it does not seem to me like the American public is getting any healthier.
00:30:57.660 In fact, the exact inverse seems to be occurring.
00:31:01.240 HHA Secretary Robert Kennedy said that this would be a priority to ban these ads entirely before he was appointed.
00:31:07.400 But this Trump administration crackdown, well, in my opinion, it is a very good start.
00:31:14.620 Meanwhile, President Donald Trump is considering massive 100 percent tariffs on China and in India in order to put maximum pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin in an attempt to end the Russian war against Ukraine, with the only caveat being that the European Union must join the U.S.
00:31:32.820 So with this move, President Trump is effectively telling the EU to put up or shut up as they've talked tough but ultimately rely on the United States to write the big checks to continue to conduct the war in Ukraine and resolve on the United States to resolve the conflict as many EU member states rely on Russia for their energy needs.
00:31:56.260 So our European allies seek to have it both ways.
00:32:01.220 Today's Russia-Poland drone incident, which you may have seen or heard about, only further complicates matters. 0.63
00:32:07.560 Last week, China and Russia did a revolting display on the world stage where they displayed unity and they announced an agreement on power of Siberia 2, a large energy pipeline that's been previously delayed by Beijing for years.
00:32:21.600 China and Russia will be posing an increasingly greater threat to U.S. global dominance in the upcoming years, and President Trump has to clean up the mess that was caused by the failed Biden administration. 0.86
00:32:34.600 He will have to drag the pathetic and hypocritical bureaucrats running the EU, kicking and screaming towards compliance, to present a united front against the China-Russia alliance. 0.94
00:32:45.200 I'm Roger Stone. You're listening to The Stone Zone. And don't go away, because we'll be right back. 0.99
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00:32:56.540 Welcome back in the Stone Zone.
00:32:59.020 Once again, the sad news that Charlie Kirk, the founder of the influential student conservative organization Turning Point USA,
00:33:07.480 was shot and killed today on the University of Utah campus while giving a speech in an outdoor event attended by thousands of people.
00:33:17.860 In honor of my friend Charlie Kirk, I'm reminded of these words by President Theodore Roosevelt.
00:33:25.580 It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
00:33:33.260 The credit belongs to the man who's actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs, comes up short again and again.
00:33:45.320 because there is no effort without error and shortcoming but who actually does strive to do
00:33:51.440 the deeds who knows great enthusiasms the great devotions who spends himself in a worthy cause
00:33:57.280 who with the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst if he fails
00:34:04.100 at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid
00:34:11.680 souls who neither know victory nor defeat. My friend Charlie Kirk was such a man. He entered
00:34:20.280 the arena and he changed the course of history. He raised millions of dollars to try to educate
00:34:26.140 America's young people about the virtues of capitalism, free speech, free enterprise. He
00:34:32.340 played a major, major role in President Trump's phenomenal political comeback. And therefore,
00:34:40.080 I call on all Americans, all of those who cherish freedom, all of those who cherish our Constitution, to join me and Mrs. Stone in praying for Charlie Kirk and for his family.
00:34:53.720 This is a horrific event in American politics.
00:34:58.520 This is part of the same spasm of violence President Trump has announced in a statement.
00:35:07.880 the great and even legendary Charlie Kirk is dead. No one understood or had the heart of
00:35:13.440 the young people in America better than Charlie. He was loved and admired by all, especially by me.
00:35:19.500 Now he's no longer with us. Melania and I send our sympathies. They go out to his beautiful wife,
00:35:25.260 Erica, and his family. Charlie, we love you. Rest in peace. The president could not have put it
00:35:32.620 better. Charlie Kirk is a man who changed the course of history, and he will go down in history
00:35:38.120 for that, but also the crucial role that he played in the last election, which turns around the
00:35:46.720 entire ship of state of this nation, the most consequential election in our lifetime. I dare
00:35:54.160 say Charlie Kirk's PAC, his political action committee affiliated with Turning Point USA,
00:35:59.960 played a crucial role in every one of these swing states.
00:36:05.680 Every swing state won in the final analysis by President Donald Trump.
00:36:10.940 Also played a key role in the fact that Donald Trump is the first Republican candidate for president in modern times to carry the popular vote.
00:36:21.560 So Charlie Kirk is a man who got in the arena, a man who made the difference.
00:36:27.580 and the world is a darker place now without him
00:36:31.980 and his leadership for America's young people.
00:36:36.040 I cannot even imagine the horrific pain
00:36:39.180 of his wife and family at this moment,
00:36:42.340 but he will be remembered as a man
00:36:45.340 who made an enormous difference.
00:36:48.160 Thank you for joining us today on The Stone Zone
00:36:51.080 and thank you for listening to my remembrances
00:36:54.860 of this great patriot who has left us
00:36:57.320 much too soon.
00:36:58.480 Charlie Kirk, may you rest in peace.
00:37:01.740 Thank you very much for joining us today
00:37:03.260 on The Stone Zone.
00:37:04.080 I'm Roger Stone.
00:37:05.440 God bless you, my friends, and Godspeed.
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