The StoneZONE with Roger Stone


The Stone Zone ｜ 09-10-25


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A leftist assassin opened fire on Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk on the University of Utah campus. The attack was caught on video and is rapidly going viral on social media. This is the latest in a disturbing pattern of leftist violence directed at conservative activists.

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00:00:00.760 The Stone Zone, entertaining and informative on the Red Apple Podcast Network.
00:00:08.240 Welcome into the Stone Zone. Shocking news that Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, a good friend of mine,
00:00:16.460 I have appeared at virtually every one of his national conferences as a speaker,
00:00:20.640 was shot in the neck while appearing at the campus of the University of Utah.
00:00:24.240 And it was, as of this time, in critical condition as a leftist assassination named Zinn targeted the influential student leader.
00:00:34.540 We're told that the attempted assassin is in custody.
00:00:38.560 The display was caught on video, which is very rapidly going viral on social media.
00:00:44.560 It is horrific to watch.
00:00:46.980 It is as awful as this video the day before yesterday of an assailant killing a Ukrainian woman on a subway car in North Carolina.
00:01:01.020 This is very, very typical.
00:01:04.280 Currently, as of this time, Kirk is hospitalized and his current condition is unknown.
00:01:10.360 As I have said here on The Stone Zone, the leftist terrorist threat within our country dwarfs any threat that comes from Middle Eastern Islamists, 0.99
00:01:21.100 drug cartels, or others anywhere throughout the world.
00:01:26.160 I have been plagued, my family and I, with death threats, with violence, with attacks in public places now for over four years.
00:01:36.880 I can't travel, even today, without professional security.
00:01:41.940 I'm tired of the death threats, but the left gets increasingly violent.
00:01:47.600 We saw this in the two attempted assassinations of Donald Trump, about which we just do not know enough.
00:01:56.200 The left is at war with the rule of law and the Constitution.
00:01:59.460 And this heinous attack on Charlie Kirk proves they will stop at nothing to prevent America's return to greatness,
00:02:07.300 and that there are sleeper cells that are being activated nationwide with conservatives on their hit list.
00:02:15.040 Meanwhile, over at MSNBC, they essentially seem to be saying that, well, Charlie Kirk had it coming.
00:02:21.940 Listen to this.
00:02:22.600 It must then lead to hateful actions, and I think that's the environment we're in,
00:02:27.620 that people just, you can't stop with these sort of awful thoughts you have,
00:02:32.020 and then saying these awful words, and not expect awful actions to take place.
00:02:36.400 And that's the unfortunate environment we're in.
00:02:39.300 Turning Point USA has confirmed that he was shot, and there are a number of...
00:02:44.600 I mean, this is really extraordinary, where expression of your political views,
00:02:54.040 support for the U.S. Constitution, support for free enterprise, support for free speech,
00:03:00.300 they consider this as endangering yourself if you speak up for these things.
00:03:05.620 MSNBC is the bottom of the barrel.
00:03:08.300 I don't get my news from MSNBC for the same reason I don't drink out of the toilet.
00:03:13.640 And Mrs. Stone and I and everyone in our family are praying for Charlie Kirk and his family,
00:03:19.400 as millions across this nation are praying for him.
00:03:22.820 If you haven't seen this video, I almost urge you not to see it,
00:03:26.640 because it is so deeply, deeply disturbing.
00:03:29.400 If you're just tuning in, I'm Roger Stone,
00:03:31.460 and this is The Stone Zone on the Red Apple Audio Networks.
00:03:35.600 So I have long believed that Speaker Mike Johnson needed to appoint a committee
00:03:40.860 to investigate the investigators of the January 6th hoax.
00:03:46.500 I can tell you firsthand that audios and videos played during their hearings of me
00:03:54.280 were AI-created fabrications.
00:03:57.900 In fact, we now hear that after House Republicans voted last week to create a new January 6th committee,
00:04:04.740 that we'll actually get to the bottom of what occurred on January 6th,
00:04:09.460 and to look at the January 6th congressional hearings,
00:04:12.780 we learn that one of the most infamous Fed Surrection proponents, Jamie Raskin,
00:04:21.380 was as a ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee,
00:04:25.500 will be an ex-official member of this new committee.
00:04:28.460 This is wrong.
00:04:29.480 Now, Jamie Raskin said the day before the January 6th hearings
00:04:34.040 that he would produce proof that I was involved in some illegal activity on January 6th.
00:04:40.860 Let me make this abundantly clear.
00:04:43.080 There is no evidence whatsoever, no witness, no email, no encrypted message,
00:04:49.720 no video, no audio, no chat room, no phone call,
00:04:55.940 that would prove that any claim that I knew in advance about, participated in,
00:05:03.260 or condoned any illegal activity on January 6th is categorically false.
00:05:10.060 And Raskin produced nothing other than a fraudulent video.
00:05:15.740 Now, they also destroyed an extraordinary amount of information.
00:05:20.300 So, Raskin specifically fabricated and destroyed January 6th evidence
00:05:25.400 when he was leading the witch hunt during the Biden days.
00:05:30.580 He claimed that the January 6th committee hearings would prove my involvement, as I say,
00:05:34.480 to helping foment the supposed insurrection.
00:05:36.960 But then, once again, he produced nothing of the kind.
00:05:39.720 The video produced by Raskin and his Democrat co-conspirators was an AI-generated fraud
00:05:45.580 meant to dupe the public and to spur prosecution against President Trump based on this falsehood.
00:05:51.700 And the new January 6th committee does not investigate Representative Raskin himself.
00:05:56.120 They'll be doing a major disservice to the American people.
00:05:59.260 But the other Democrats appointed to this committee are equally shocking.
00:06:04.640 Eric Swalwell, just to remind you,
00:06:07.580 Eric Swalwell started penetrating a red Chinese spy who then penetrated his office.
00:06:14.740 That is not conjecture.
00:06:16.700 That is a fact.
00:06:18.020 Yet, the speaker, Nancy Pelosi, allowed Eric Swalwell to continue as a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee
00:06:25.120 and the House Intelligence Committee, where he continued to have access to classified information.
00:06:31.140 And he's paid no price for the fact that while he was accusing people like me,
00:06:36.600 and, say, General Michael Flynn, Paul Manafort, President Trump,
00:06:40.100 of colluding with the Russians, that he was colluding with a communist Chinese spy.
00:06:46.660 And as far as him having an objective view,
00:06:50.640 because he's now been appointed to this January 6th committee,
00:06:54.260 let's listen to Congressman Swalwell.
00:06:56.940 Since the Civil War, what are the three most important dates in American history?
00:07:03.300 December 6th, 1941, September 11th, and January 6th.
00:07:11.020 The last two, I didn't even have to give you the years,
00:07:15.100 because they are seared into our memories.
00:07:17.220 If January 6th was an insurrection, why was not a single person who was outside the Capitol or inside the Capitol armed?
00:07:28.860 Doesn't make much sense to me.
00:07:30.560 How many FBI informants and undercover agents were interspersed without the crowd?
00:07:36.580 Who opened those massive doors from the inside?
00:07:40.300 Why have we seen videos of police officers, Capitol police officers, motioning people to come into the Capitol?
00:07:46.820 No, January 6th, like the 2020 election, like the Russian collusion hoax, was yet another hoax.
00:07:54.120 But having a traitor like Eric Swalwell, who got caught in this relationship with a communist Chinese spy named Fang Fang,
00:08:04.060 who mysteriously died in a plane crash shortly thereafter on this committee, is a disgrace.
00:08:10.260 Also joining him on the committee is my congressman, Jared Moskowitz, and that intellectual giant, Jasmine Crockett.
00:08:20.440 In all honesty, I think that Speaker Johnson should do what Speaker Pelosi did,
00:08:25.780 deny the Democrats nominees and appoint anyone you want to the committee.
00:08:29.720 No Trump supporter was allowed to be on the January 6th committee.
00:08:33.080 Actually, no loyal Republican.
00:08:35.160 You had Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger as the two Republicans on this committee,
00:08:40.300 which was a complete violation of the House rules.
00:08:43.640 But that's because they intended to create this entirely false narrative regarding January 6th.
00:08:51.180 I think this is an outrage.
00:08:53.180 Jamie Raskin is the one who actually should be investigated,
00:08:56.380 not only for his role in the two Trump faux impeachments and the Russian collusion hoax,
00:09:02.720 but also in fabricating the entire narrative of January 6th.
00:09:07.940 Meanwhile, Ryan Routh, the man who was accused of trying to assassinate President Donald Trump,
00:09:16.200 was denied bail after a deranged letter to the judge surface arguing that he should be released.
00:09:23.040 While that's good news, what is troubling to me is that Ryan Routh,
00:09:27.920 who is the man who tried to kill then-presidential candidate Donald Trump on a Mar-a-Lago golf course,
00:09:35.840 only faces 20 years in prison after that infraction.
00:09:40.460 Routh only faces this maximum of 20 years in prison because he's only charged with two federal firearms offenses.
00:09:47.560 Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark Despoto said that additional evidence collected
00:09:52.320 after Routh's arrest, which included a handwritten letter about his intention to kill Trump,
00:09:57.200 should lead to far greater charges.
00:10:00.740 I have a number of questions.
00:10:02.660 The first one is, if Ryan Routh is, as they told us, indigent,
00:10:07.380 behind in his alimony payments, behind in his rent payments in Hawaii, where he allegedly lives,
00:10:13.120 how did he afford to fly to North Carolina, and what vehicle did he travel from North Carolina to West Palm Beach, Florida in?
00:10:25.340 How did he get his hands on a firearm?
00:10:29.680 Specifically, in this case, a firearm where the serial number had been filed off the barrel of the gun.
00:10:36.820 How is it that Ryan Routh pops up and can be seen in videos in all these European capitals,
00:10:42.940 including being seen in Maiden Square in Ukraine?
00:10:48.420 These are questions that I find extraordinarily troubling, but we seem to have no answers.
00:10:54.120 This attack on Charlie Kirk today is part of the same ongoing spasm of violence on the American left.
00:11:02.020 Routh wrote specifically, this was an assassination attempt on Donald Trump, but I failed you.
00:11:07.480 I tried my best, and I gave it all the gumption I could muster.
00:11:12.240 It is now up to you to finish the job, and I will offer $150,000 to whoever can complete the job.
00:11:20.480 Now, a grand jury should be in the works to add a charge of attempted murder,
00:11:25.920 specifically attempted murder of a presidential candidate.
00:11:28.780 There is a law against that passed in 1968 after the murder of Senator Robert F. Kennedy of New York.
00:11:39.480 This should put Routh in prison for the rest of his life.
00:11:42.720 Anything other than life imprisonment or capital punishment will be unfit for Routh,
00:11:48.820 as these leftist terrorists need to be put to justice in order to restore the rule of law in the United States of America.
00:11:57.600 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,
00:12:09.660 and it turns out the federal judge just happens to be a sorority sister of Cobb, pardon me, of Cook.
00:12:17.500 So Judge Gia Cobb and Federal Reserve Board Governor Lisa Cook are members of the same secret black women's college sorority.
00:12:30.780 To me, that is a stunning conflict of interest.
00:12:34.660 But for reasons I do not understand, when Cook sued Trump over her termination to the Federal Reserve Board in the District of Columbia,
00:12:47.120 and the case was assigned to her sorority sister, the Department of Justice did not object.
00:12:54.400 They should have moved to recuse the judge based on their personal connection, but they strangely did not do so.
00:13:03.060 Also in this black women's sorority is the intellectual giant Joy Reid, formerly of MSNBC.
00:13:13.920 So this is really extraordinary because that means that Lisa Cook will be allowed to vote in the Federal Reserve Board of Governors meeting
00:13:24.440 that is scheduled to take place the 16th and 17th of this month.
00:13:29.060 It is absolutely clear that the president does have the authority to fire Cook based on her unethical behavior.
00:13:37.760 Specifically, she engaged in mortgage fraud.
00:13:41.560 Now, three previous Federal Reserve Board governors resigned under fire when they were just under investigation.
00:13:52.000 Lisa Cook needed to go.
00:13:53.300 Trump was right to fire her.
00:13:55.320 But once again, the Washington swamp, in this case, has interfered.
00:14:00.720 I'm Roger Stone.
00:14:01.560 This is the Stone Zone.
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00:14:42.180 Welcome back to the Stone Zone.
00:14:44.240 Unfortunately, we have a sad update.
00:14:46.460 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.
00:15:01.120 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.
00:15:12.720 Mrs. Stone and I are very distraught about this.
00:15:14.780 I consider Charlie Kirk a friend.
00:15:16.480 He was a staunch advocate for my pardon when the deep state sought to destroy me.
00:15:23.660 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.
00:15:37.120 This is part of a spasm of violence.
00:15:42.040 We saw it previously in Butler, Pennsylvania.
00:15:48.200 We saw it in the—I'm sorry, this is emotionally very difficult for me.
00:15:54.680 We saw it in the—in the golf course in West Palm Beach of Florida.
00:16:02.460 The left is now resorting to violence because they could not get their way at the ballot box and because they could not steal the last election as they stole the 2020 election.
00:16:14.220 As a prominent supporter of President Trump, as a prominent conservative, I can already tell you I'm sick of the death threats.
00:16:23.420 I'm sick of the—of the—of the—of the violence.
00:16:28.200 I'm sick of this entire attitude of the left.
00:16:31.900 And then watching people on MSNBC essentially saying that, well, it's Charlie Kirk's own fault because he spoke up on behalf of the things that he believed in.
00:16:42.720 This is a very, very sad day for America indeed.
00:16:47.560 We're waiting for a statement from President Trump.
00:16:52.040 Charlie Kirk will go down in history as someone who changed the direction of the country.
00:16:58.240 Turning Point USA played a key role in President Trump's historic comeback, the greatest comeback in American political history.
00:17:07.400 It is a very sad day, and I think all Americans, certainly all supporters of President Trump and our country, join me in praying for Charlie Kirk and his family.
00:17:19.920 You're listening to The Stone Zone here on the Red Apple Audio Networks, and we'll be right back.
00:17:26.860 The Stone Zone on the Red Apple Podcast Network.
00:17:32.140 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.
00:17:51.340 I got a text message literally seconds after it happened because one of my friends was in the crowd.
00:17:57.800 They were actually in the front row.
00:18:00.060 They accurately told me that they did not see how Charlie could survive.
00:18:06.540 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, when peaceful protesters were assaulted, when we saw the overreach of the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI.
00:18:44.140 This is a continuation of that same use of violence by those on the left.
00:18:51.380 This is a very difficult time because Charlie was a very good friend of mine.
00:18:56.780 In the meantime, let's move into the news.
00:18:59.840 FDA Commissioner Marty Markay has made a statement this week that is sure to enrage big pharma-owned vaccination maximalists, saying that there is no logical reason for children to receive the hepatitis B vaccination.
00:19:15.480 Dr. Markay said,
00:19:45.480 And specifically, where vaccinations should be administered, and specifically, where vaccinations should be administered to children and those who require it at birth.
00:19:56.760 We await that decision.
00:19:59.120 We all know the real reason to bolster, to insist upon these, is because these big pharma vaccination companies are epically greedy.
00:20:08.880 The only reason that you would administer a hepatitis B vaccination for a disease that can only be gotten through either 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.
00:20:39.120 RFK has told us, and we now definitively know, that all of the federal housing officials have known for some time that autism was not, that the 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.
00:21:16.960 So the next time you see Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts questioning Robert Kennedy's bona fides when it comes to health matters, remember, she took $1,224,145 for her campaign.
00:21:36.760 Or when you see that windbag socialist Bernie Sanders, remember, he took $1,953,613 from big pharma for his campaign coffers.
00:21:52.060 Or Senator Chuck Schumer, who took $1,557,928,000 from big pharma.
00:22:01.960 This guy, Ron Wyden from Oregon.
00:22:07.340 I mean, look, I'm no matinee idol, but this guy looks like he's from outer space.
00:22:11.580 But when you see him clashing with Kennedy, $1,207,873 from big pharma.
00:22:23.560 This is going to play out in the next several weeks.
00:22:27.160 Right here in the Stone Zone, some weeks ago, we covered a leaked memo which outlined how they intended to smear and destroy Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
00:22:38.140 And it is playing out exactly the way we told you it would right here in the Stone Zone.
00:22:43.160 The fact is that whether it is banning dyes and certain other toxic contents from our food, or whether it is questioning the safety of, say, mercury in our vaccinations,
00:22:57.980 Kennedy is cutting into their profit margins.
00:23:00.280 And you have to wonder how the wealthiest country in the world has these spikes in child diseases, chronic child diseases, the spike in autism, the spike in cancers now among those in their 20s and 30s.
00:23:18.180 How can the wealthiest country in the world be the unhealthiest country in the world?
00:23:24.700 That is the question.
00:23:27.220 Watch this very carefully, folks, because there's going to be an epic effort to smear Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
00:23:33.300 I like watching him in these Senate and House hearings because he's extraordinarily combative.
00:23:39.500 He can always defend his position on the basis of studies and actual science.
00:23:44.020 Those who claim, like Dr. Anthony Fauci, saw a great video yesterday of Fauci on the subject of whether masks were appropriate during the COVID-19 vaccination pandemic.
00:23:58.780 Those who keep wrapping themselves in science, in fact, are not backed up by the science at all.
00:24:05.240 That's the sad truth.
00:24:06.580 The shocking situation in North Carolina where Irina Zerzutka, the Iranian refugee butchered to death in a Charlotte subway by a severely mentally ill and dangerous career felon, was killed due to DEI policies.
00:24:23.320 Zerzutka's killer, DeCarlos Brown, was released on the streets by a magistrate judge named Teresa Stokes, a Kamala Harris donor, who was nominated to the bench despite the fact that she had no law degree.
00:24:36.460 She wasn't even a lawyer. 0.99
00:24:38.400 Stokes was not elected, but rather appointed to the position of county clerk by Elisa, to the position by the county clerk, Elisa Chin Gary.
00:24:50.320 Stokes' profession was a DEI consultant and racial equity organizer, according to her professional LinkedIn profile.
00:24:59.620 It's very clear that her primary issue was extracting reparation payments from white people. 0.71
00:25:06.460 In other words, racial disharmony and hatred.
00:25:11.960 How did Chin Gary become a clerk with the power to nominate this judge, Carla Archie, a close ally, to former Attorney General Eric Holder, who once was named DEI Champion of the Year?
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.
00:25:38.800 This is why we're increasingly seeing the rule of law being replaced, as we saw today, the University of Utah, the rule of the jungle.
00:25:47.080 DEI hires in the justice system are not concerned with phantoms based on their own inferiority complex, not interested in enforcing the constitution and rule of law.
00:25:56.580 Meanwhile, the Republican leadership has blocked an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act that would stop the spigot of federal funding that goes into foreign countries to keep the endless war efforts going perpetually.
00:26:22.700 Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene exposed the games that the House leadership was played during the NDAA, that's the National Defense Authorization Act negotiations, refusing to let her offer crucial amendments, even letting those amendments go up for a vote. 0.85
00:26:40.480 Representative 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.
00:26:53.740 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.
00:27:08.400 The House Republican leadership is, sadly, appears to be the back pocket of the military-industrial complex.
00:27:14.580 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,
00:27:34.860 to investigate their own investigation, to investigate their own colleagues who were involved in the cover-up and destruction of evidence regarding January 6th is beyond me.
00:27:43.780 Speaker Johnson should do exactly what Speaker Pelosi should do.
00:27:48.180 Refuse the nominees of the Republican leadership and appoint your own committee.
00:27:52.920 Try to find Democrats who are centrists and not running dog lackeys for the Hakeem Jeffries wing of the party.
00:28:02.680 The problem is, the words moderate Democrat are virtually an oxymoron.
00:28:08.300 There are no moderate Democrats.
00:28:10.460 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.
00:28:24.660 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.
00:28:37.560 They line their pockets with special interest contributions in this endless game of just getting reelected.
00:28:45.120 More Americans will be put in harm's way, and America's long-term economic stability will be sacrificed.
00:28:50.380 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.
00:29:04.040 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,
00:29:17.760 particularly undisclosed paid influencer promotion on social media platforms.
00:29:24.320 You know, I have never been paid a dime by anyone to say anything on social media.
00:29:29.060 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.
00:29:41.620 Something I do not do.
00:29:44.540 People make this their entire living.
00:29:46.880 Well, if you are putting out the propaganda of big pharma,
00:29:51.080 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.,
00:30:02.180 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,
00:30:23.100 including online pharmacies, who have increasingly been promoting drugs with no mention of the side effects at all.
00:30:29.340 The United States, aside from New Zealand, is the only country on Earth that actually allows pharmaceutical companies to advertise directly to consumers.
00:30:38.860 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,
00:30:53.860 it does not seem to me like the American public is getting any healthier.
00:30:57.180 In fact, the exact inverse seems to be occurring.
00:31:01.260 HHA Secretary Robert Kennedy said that this would be a priority to ban these ads entirely before he was appointed.
00:31:08.020 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% tariffs on China and in India
00:31:20.960 in order to put maximum pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin in an attempt to end the Russian war against Ukraine,
00:31:28.840 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,
00:31:39.180 as they have talked tough but ultimately rely on the United States to write the big checks to continue to conduct the war in Ukraine
00:31:46.540 and on the United States to resolve the conflict, as many EU member states rely on Russia for their energy needs.
00:31:56.280 So our European allies seek to have it both ways.
00:32:01.140 Today's Russia-Poland drone incident, which you may have seen or heard about, only further complicates matters.
00:32:07.560 Last week, China and Russia did a revolting display on the world stage, 1.00
00:32:12.320 where they displayed unity and they announced an agreement on power of Siberia 2,
00:32:17.240 a large energy pipeline that's been previously delayed by Beijing for years.
00:32:21.620 China and Russia will be posing an increasingly greater threat to U.S. global dominance in the upcoming years, 0.68
00:32:27.860 and President Trump has to clean up the mess before that was caused by the failed Biden administration.
00:32:34.620 He will have to drag the pathetic and hypocritical bureaucrats running the EU,
00:32:38.720 kicking and screaming towards compliance to present a united front against the China-Russia alliance.
00:32:45.200 I'm Roger Stone. You're listening to The Stone Zone.
00:32:47.480 And don't go away, because we'll be right back.
00:32:51.620 The Stone Zone, on the Red Apple Podcast Network.
00:32:56.920 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,
00:33:06.400 Turning Point USA, was shot and killed today on the University of Utah campus,
00:33:11.540 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.
00:33:25.560 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,
00:33:40.560 who strives valiantly, who errs, comes up short again and again,
00:33:45.320 because there is no effort without error and shortcoming,
00:33:49.340 but who actually does strive to do the deeds, who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions,
00:33:55.180 who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement,
00:34:01.820 and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly,
00:34:07.100 so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
00:34:15.440 My friend Charlie Kirk was such a man.
00:34:19.360 He entered the arena and he changed the course of history.
00:34:22.660 He raised millions of dollars to try to educate America's young people about the virtues of capitalism, free speech, free enterprise.
00:34:31.620 He played a major, major role in President Trump's phenomenal political comeback.
00:34:39.260 And therefore, I call on all Americans, all of those who cherish freedom,
00:34:46.000 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.
00:34:58.280 This is part of the same spasm of violence President Trump has announced in a statement.
00:35:08.140 The great and even legendary Charlie Kirk is dead.
00:35:11.720 No one understood or had the heart of the young people in America better than Charlie.
00:35:16.340 He was loved and admired by all, especially by me.
00:35:19.500 Now he's no longer with us.
00:35:21.380 Melania and I send our sympathies.
00:35:23.880 They go out to his beautiful wife, Erica, and his family.
00:35:26.520 Charlie, Charlie, we love you.
00:35:28.800 Rest in peace.
00:35:30.400 The president could not have put it better.
00:35:33.420 Charlie Kirk is a man who changed the course of history.
00:35:36.340 And he will go down in history for that.
00:35:39.580 But also the crucial role that he played in the last election, which turns around the entire ship of state of this nation.
00:35:49.720 The most consequential election in our lifetime.
00:35:53.060 I dare say Charlie Kirk's PAC, his political action committee affiliated with Turning Point USA, played a crucial role in every one of these swing states.
00:36:05.840 Every swing state won in the final analysis by President Donald Trump.
00:36:10.680 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 and his leadership for America's young people.
00:36:35.740 I cannot even imagine the horrific pain of his wife and family at this moment.
00:36:41.840 But he will be remembered as a man who made an enormous difference.
00:36:48.180 Thank you for joining us today on The Stone Zone.
00:36:51.160 And thank you for listening to my remembrances of this great patriot who has left us much too soon.
00:36:58.480 Charlie Kirk, may you rest in peace.
00:37:01.720 Thank you very much for joining us today on The Stone Zone.
00:37:04.080 I'm Roger Stone.
00:37:05.440 God bless you, my friends.
00:37:06.700 And Godspeed.
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