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.
00:01:04.280Currently, as of this time, Kirk is hospitalized and his current condition is unknown.
00:01:10.360As I have said here on The Stone Zone, the leftist terrorist threat within our country dwarfs any threat that comes from Middle Eastern Islamists,
00:01:21.100drug cartels, or others anywhere throughout the world.
00:01:26.160I have been plagued, my family and I, with death threats, with violence, with attacks in public places now for over four years.
00:01:36.880I can't travel, even today, without professional security.
00:01:41.940I'm tired of the death threats, but the left gets increasingly violent.
00:01:47.600We saw this in the two attempted assassinations of Donald Trump, about which we just do not know enough.
00:01:56.200The left is at war with the rule of law and the Constitution.
00:01:59.460And this heinous attack on Charlie Kirk proves they will stop at nothing to prevent America's return to greatness,
00:02:07.300and that there are sleeper cells that are being activated nationwide with conservatives on their hit list.
00:02:15.040Meanwhile, over at MSNBC, they essentially seem to be saying that, well, Charlie Kirk had it coming.
00:10:02.660The first one is, if Ryan Routh is, as they told us, indigent,
00:10:07.380behind in his alimony payments, behind in his rent payments in Hawaii, where he allegedly lives,
00:10:13.120how did he afford to fly to North Carolina, and what vehicle did he travel from North Carolina to West Palm Beach, Florida in?
00:10:25.340How did he get his hands on a firearm?
00:10:29.680Specifically, in this case, a firearm where the serial number had been filed off the barrel of the gun.
00:10:36.820How is it that Ryan Routh pops up and can be seen in videos in all these European capitals,
00:10:42.940including being seen in Maiden Square in Ukraine?
00:10:48.420These are questions that I find extraordinarily troubling, but we seem to have no answers.
00:10:54.120This attack on Charlie Kirk today is part of the same ongoing spasm of violence on the American left.
00:11:02.020Routh wrote specifically, this was an assassination attempt on Donald Trump, but I failed you.
00:11:07.480I tried my best, and I gave it all the gumption I could muster.
00:11:12.240It is now up to you to finish the job, and I will offer $150,000 to whoever can complete the job.
00:11:20.480Now, a grand jury should be in the works to add a charge of attempted murder,
00:11:25.920specifically attempted murder of a presidential candidate.
00:11:28.780There is a law against that passed in 1968 after the murder of Senator Robert F. Kennedy of New York.
00:11:39.480This should put Routh in prison for the rest of his life.
00:11:42.720Anything other than life imprisonment or capital punishment will be unfit for Routh,
00:11:48.820as these leftist terrorists need to be put to justice in order to restore the rule of law in the United States of America.
00:11:57.600Meanwhile, 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,
00:12:09.660and it turns out the federal judge just happens to be a sorority sister of Cobb, pardon me, of Cook.
00:12:17.500So Judge Gia Cobb and Federal Reserve Board Governor Lisa Cook are members of the same secret black women's college sorority.
00:12:30.780To me, that is a stunning conflict of interest.
00:12:34.660But for reasons I do not understand, when Cook sued Trump over her termination to the Federal Reserve Board in the District of Columbia,
00:12:47.120and the case was assigned to her sorority sister, the Department of Justice did not object.
00:12:54.400They should have moved to recuse the judge based on their personal connection, but they strangely did not do so.
00:13:03.060Also in this black women's sorority is the intellectual giant Joy Reid, formerly of MSNBC.
00:13:13.920So this is really extraordinary because that means that Lisa Cook will be allowed to vote in the Federal Reserve Board of Governors meeting
00:13:24.440that is scheduled to take place the 16th and 17th of this month.
00:13:29.060It is absolutely clear that the president does have the authority to fire Cook based on her unethical behavior.
00:13:37.760Specifically, she engaged in mortgage fraud.
00:13:41.560Now, three previous Federal Reserve Board governors resigned under fire when they were just under investigation.
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00:14:46.460We 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.
00:15:01.120This 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.
00:15:12.720Mrs. Stone and I are very distraught about this.
00:15:16.480He was a staunch advocate for my pardon when the deep state sought to destroy me.
00:15:23.660He 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.
00:15:42.040We saw it previously in Butler, Pennsylvania.
00:15:48.200We saw it in the—I'm sorry, this is emotionally very difficult for me.
00:15:54.680We saw it in the—in the golf course in West Palm Beach of Florida.
00:16:02.460The 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.
00:16:14.220As a prominent supporter of President Trump, as a prominent conservative, I can already tell you I'm sick of the death threats.
00:16:23.420I'm sick of the—of the—of the—of the violence.
00:16:28.200I'm sick of this entire attitude of the left.
00:16:31.900And 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.
00:16:42.720This is a very, very sad day for America indeed.
00:16:47.560We're waiting for a statement from President Trump.
00:16:52.040Charlie Kirk will go down in history as someone who changed the direction of the country.
00:16:58.240Turning Point USA played a key role in President Trump's historic comeback, the greatest comeback in American political history.
00:17:07.400It 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.
00:17:19.920You're listening to The Stone Zone here on the Red Apple Audio Networks, and we'll be right back.
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00:17:34.240Once 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.
00:17:51.340I got a text message literally seconds after it happened because one of my friends was in the crowd.
00:18:00.060They accurately told me that they did not see how Charlie could survive.
00:18:06.540He was immediately rushed to the hospital, and as we learned minutes ago, he has passed.
00:18:13.140This is part of the continuing spasm of violence that we've seen across the country.
00:18:19.380It 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.
00:18:44.140This is a continuation of that same use of violence by those on the left.
00:18:51.380This is a very difficult time because Charlie was a very good friend of mine.
00:18:56.780In the meantime, let's move into the news.
00:18:59.840FDA 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.
00:19:45.480And specifically, where vaccinations should be administered, and specifically, where vaccinations should be administered to children and those who require it at birth.
00:19:59.120We all know the real reason to bolster, to insist upon these, is because these big pharma vaccination companies are epically greedy.
00:20:08.880The 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.
00:20:24.120This is about bolstering the profits of greedy, unethical, and evil pharmaceutical corporations.
00:20:31.020This has allegedly already caused spikes in the autism rates and other diseases for children to scandal, which has been covered up for decades.
00:20:39.120RFK 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.
00:21:04.900Robert F. Kennedy finds himself under assault from those Democrats in the Senate who have literally taken millions of dollars from big pharma.
00:21:16.960So 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.
00:21:36.760Or when you see that windbag socialist Bernie Sanders, remember, he took $1,953,613 from big pharma for his campaign coffers.
00:21:52.060Or Senator Chuck Schumer, who took $1,557,928,000 from big pharma.
00:22:07.340I mean, look, I'm no matinee idol, but this guy looks like he's from outer space.
00:22:11.580But when you see him clashing with Kennedy, $1,207,873 from big pharma.
00:22:23.560This is going to play out in the next several weeks.
00:22:27.160Right 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.
00:22:38.140And it is playing out exactly the way we told you it would right here in the Stone Zone.
00:22:43.160The 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,
00:22:57.980Kennedy is cutting into their profit margins.
00:23:00.280And 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.
00:23:18.180How can the wealthiest country in the world be the unhealthiest country in the world?
00:23:27.220Watch this very carefully, folks, because there's going to be an epic effort to smear Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
00:23:33.300I like watching him in these Senate and House hearings because he's extraordinarily combative.
00:23:39.500He can always defend his position on the basis of studies and actual science.
00:23:44.020Those 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.
00:23:58.780Those who keep wrapping themselves in science, in fact, are not backed up by the science at all.
00:24:06.580The 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.
00:24:23.320Zerzutka'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.
00:24:38.400Stokes was not elected, but rather appointed to the position of county clerk by Elisa, to the position by the county clerk, Elisa Chin Gary.
00:24:50.320Stokes' profession was a DEI consultant and racial equity organizer, according to her professional LinkedIn profile.
00:24:59.620It's very clear that her primary issue was extracting reparation payments from white people.
00:25:06.460In other words, racial disharmony and hatred.
00:25:11.960How 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?
00:25:24.660It was the DEI industrial complex, as I call them, that produced the conditions that resulted in the brutal murder of this poor woman.
00:25:33.360This system that promotes based on racial quotas and not merit puts all of us in danger.
00:25:38.800This 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.
00:25:47.080DEI 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.
00:25:56.580Meanwhile, 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.
00:26:22.700Representative 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.
00:26:40.480Representative 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.
00:26:53.740America 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.
00:27:05.640Unfortunately, all of this is unsurprising.
00:27:08.400The House Republican leadership is, sadly, appears to be the back pocket of the military-industrial complex.
00:27:14.580Why 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,
00:27:34.860to 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.
00:27:43.780Speaker Johnson should do exactly what Speaker Pelosi should do.
00:27:48.180Refuse the nominees of the Republican leadership and appoint your own committee.
00:27:52.920Try to find Democrats who are centrists and not running dog lackeys for the Hakeem Jeffries wing of the party.
00:28:02.680The problem is, the words moderate Democrat are virtually an oxymoron.
00:28:10.460The great divide in their party is between progressives and progressives on the take from corporate America.
00:28:17.320There is no such thing as a conservative Democrat.
00:28:20.320There are among the voters, but certainly are not among the Congress.
00:28:24.660The House Republican leadership needs to stand up and grow a set.
00:28:27.780They continue to do the bidding of the entrenched Pentagon bureaucracy and the powerful defense contractors spending billions to lobby and campaign.
00:28:37.560They line their pockets with special interest contributions in this endless game of just getting reelected.
00:28:45.120More Americans will be put in harm's way, and America's long-term economic stability will be sacrificed.
00:28:50.380As a result, if the Republican Party once again fails to conserve anything except big profits for moneyed special interests.
00:28:59.400Meanwhile, the Trump administration has announced a crackdown on drug ads.
00:29:04.040President Trump issued a presidential memorandum this week cracking down on pharmaceutical companies,
00:29:09.460forcing them to disclose more side effects for their drugs in their advertisements,
00:29:13.980and calling for stricter enforcement against misleading ads,
00:29:17.760particularly undisclosed paid influencer promotion on social media platforms.
00:29:24.320You know, I have never been paid a dime by anyone to say anything on social media.
00:29:29.060I 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.
00:29:46.880Well, if you are putting out the propaganda of big pharma,
00:29:51.080then under this law, you would be required to disclose that in your tweet or your post.
00:29:57.780I think this is sound public policy, although, like Robert F. Kennedy Jr.,
00:30:02.180I 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.
00:30:13.840The FDA is sending approximately 100 enforcement action letters today and thousands of letters of warnings to those in the pharmaceutical industry,
00:30:23.100including online pharmacies, who have increasingly been promoting drugs with no mention of the side effects at all.
00:30:29.340The United States, aside from New Zealand, is the only country on Earth that actually allows pharmaceutical companies to advertise directly to consumers.
00:30:38.860Drug companies spent an astronomical $10.8 billion on these advertisements through 2024.
00:30:46.720As these products are increasingly prescribed with doctors who are also receiving payouts and gifts from big pharma,
00:30:53.860it does not seem to me like the American public is getting any healthier.
00:30:57.180In fact, the exact inverse seems to be occurring.
00:31:01.260HHA Secretary Robert Kennedy said that this would be a priority to ban these ads entirely before he was appointed.
00:31:08.020But this Trump administration crackdown, well, in my opinion, it is a very good start.
00:31:14.620Meanwhile, President Donald Trump is considering massive 100% tariffs on China and in India
00:31:20.960in order to put maximum pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin in an attempt to end the Russian war against Ukraine,
00:31:28.840with the only caveat being that the European Union must join the U.S.
00:31:32.820So with this move, President Trump is effectively telling the EU to put up or shut up,
00:31:39.180as they have talked tough but ultimately rely on the United States to write the big checks to continue to conduct the war in Ukraine
00:31:46.540and on the United States to resolve the conflict, as many EU member states rely on Russia for their energy needs.
00:31:56.280So our European allies seek to have it both ways.
00:32:01.140Today's Russia-Poland drone incident, which you may have seen or heard about, only further complicates matters.
00:32:07.560Last week, China and Russia did a revolting display on the world stage,
00:32:12.320where they displayed unity and they announced an agreement on power of Siberia 2,
00:32:17.240a large energy pipeline that's been previously delayed by Beijing for years.
00:32:21.620China and Russia will be posing an increasingly greater threat to U.S. global dominance in the upcoming years,
00:32:27.860and President Trump has to clean up the mess before that was caused by the failed Biden administration.
00:32:34.620He will have to drag the pathetic and hypocritical bureaucrats running the EU,
00:32:38.720kicking and screaming towards compliance to present a united front against the China-Russia alliance.
00:32:45.200I'm Roger Stone. You're listening to The Stone Zone.
00:32:47.480And don't go away, because we'll be right back.
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00:32:59.020Once again, the sad news that Charlie Kirk, the founder of the influential student conservative organization,
00:33:06.400Turning Point USA, was shot and killed today on the University of Utah campus,
00:33:11.540while giving a speech in an outdoor event attended by thousands of people.
00:33:17.860In honor of my friend Charlie Kirk, I'm reminded of these words by President Theodore Roosevelt.
00:33:25.560It 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.
00:33:33.260The credit belongs to the man who's actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood,
00:33:40.560who strives valiantly, who errs, comes up short again and again,
00:33:45.320because there is no effort without error and shortcoming,
00:33:49.340but who actually does strive to do the deeds, who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions,
00:33:55.180who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement,
00:34:01.820and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly,
00:34:07.100so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
00:34:15.440My friend Charlie Kirk was such a man.
00:34:19.360He entered the arena and he changed the course of history.
00:34:22.660He raised millions of dollars to try to educate America's young people about the virtues of capitalism, free speech, free enterprise.
00:34:31.620He played a major, major role in President Trump's phenomenal political comeback.
00:34:39.260And therefore, I call on all Americans, all of those who cherish freedom,
00:34:46.000all of those who cherish our Constitution to join me and Mrs. Stone in praying for Charlie Kirk and for his family.
00:34:53.720This is a horrific event in American politics.
00:34:58.280This is part of the same spasm of violence President Trump has announced in a statement.
00:35:08.140The great and even legendary Charlie Kirk is dead.
00:35:11.720No one understood or had the heart of the young people in America better than Charlie.
00:35:16.340He was loved and admired by all, especially by me.
00:35:30.400The president could not have put it better.
00:35:33.420Charlie Kirk is a man who changed the course of history.
00:35:36.340And he will go down in history for that.
00:35:39.580But also the crucial role that he played in the last election, which turns around the entire ship of state of this nation.
00:35:49.720The most consequential election in our lifetime.
00:35:53.060I 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.
00:36:05.840Every swing state won in the final analysis by President Donald Trump.
00:36:10.680Also 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.
00:36:21.560So Charlie Kirk is a man who got in the arena, a man who made the difference.
00:36:27.580And the world is a darker place now without him and his leadership for America's young people.
00:36:35.740I cannot even imagine the horrific pain of his wife and family at this moment.
00:36:41.840But he will be remembered as a man who made an enormous difference.
00:36:48.180Thank you for joining us today on The Stone Zone.
00:36:51.160And thank you for listening to my remembrances of this great patriot who has left us much too soon.