The StoneZONE with Roger Stone


The Stone Zone | 09-17-25


Episode Stats

Misogynist Sentences

9

Hate Speech Sentences

2


Summary

Hunter E. Stone is a former federal prosecutor who served as a federal prosecutor in the late 1980s, early 1990s, and early 2000s. He served as the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigations from 1987-1993, and served as Special Agent in Charge of the Joint Improving Relationships with the Russian Intelligence Service (JIR) from 1993-1993. He was appointed by Vice President Joe Biden and served in the Biden administration, which included a number of high-profile indictments of conservative political opponents. He is now serving a life sentence in prison.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 The Stone Zone on the Red Apple Podcast Network.
00:00:05.440 You are now entering the Stone Zone.
00:00:09.580 Remember when it was alleged that President Richard Nixon had an enemies list,
00:00:15.560 which was largely fabrication by John Dean.
00:00:19.200 But nonetheless, the Democrats and their handmaidens in the mainstream media went completely crazy.
00:00:26.480 Well, now we've learned that the Biden administration had such a hit list.
00:00:32.400 But I suggest to you that the Democrats and their friends in the mainstream media will largely be silent.
00:00:39.420 The weaponization of government against political opponents has now reached an apex so grotesque,
00:00:45.840 so tyrannical and so nakedly partisan that even the casual observer cannot miss it.
00:00:51.660 You see, the FBI launched Project Arctic Frost in April of 2022,
00:00:58.580 but they dressed it up as an inquiry into the events surrounding the 2020 election.
00:01:04.160 But what it became was a dragnet ensnaring nearly 100 Republican groups and individuals,
00:01:11.620 conservatives and, yes, Trump supporters.
00:01:13.980 It included the Republican National Committee, the Republican Attorney General's Association,
00:01:20.400 Charlie Kirk's organization, Turning Point USA, Charlie Kirk himself, Mayor Rudy Giuliani,
00:01:28.020 Sidney Powell, and, yes, yours truly.
00:01:31.540 Not to mention countless others who suddenly pulled into the vortex of suspicion,
00:01:36.080 not because of evidence of crime or they did anything wrong, but because of our political views.
00:01:41.560 The project was codenamed Arctic Frost.
00:01:45.320 It's not merely an investigation.
00:01:47.460 It's a sledgehammer that was wielded against those hiding the crimes of the Biden crime family
00:01:53.580 and the demonic democratic regime with their deep state allies to bludgeon conservatives into submission.
00:02:02.100 Make no mistake about it.
00:02:03.720 This is not about justice.
00:02:05.780 It was retribution.
00:02:07.440 It was revenge.
00:02:09.040 It was reprisal.
00:02:09.560 It was retaliation.
00:02:11.900 See, this is how the left operates.
00:02:14.700 They took their playbook straight from Saul Alinsky, the famous communist operative,
00:02:20.520 and they manufacture investigations, stretch the law like taffy,
00:02:25.260 and unleash federal prosecutors as political hitmen.
00:02:29.340 The result is not merely reputational destruction, but financial and personal annihilation.
00:02:36.580 They know that defending oneself against an endless barrage of subpoenas, proper sessions, civil proceedings,
00:02:44.900 depositions, document requests, and trials bleeds the target dry.
00:02:50.640 You see, even if you ultimately prevail, you're left bankrupted, humiliated, tortured, and, well, exhausted.
00:02:58.260 And I guess that's the point.
00:02:59.660 The left mockingly calls this justice.
00:03:04.000 I and their other victims call exactly what it is, lawfare.
00:03:08.320 This is the same lawfare that was used against me when fabricated charges and perjured testimony were assembled like Lincoln logs,
00:03:16.500 building a case designed to ruin my life.
00:03:18.700 I survived only by the grace of God, the support of patriots across America,
00:03:24.400 and ultimately the justified pardon by President Donald Trump,
00:03:28.600 who knew who I was, and he knew I was innocent the entire time.
00:03:33.480 But make no mistake, millions of dollars in legal bills, years of harassment,
00:03:38.920 and the permanent smear on my name are scars that still remain.
00:03:43.360 The New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and all the rest,
00:03:48.740 they've all failed to report that Special Counsel Robert Mueller's final, unredacted report,
00:03:55.160 which was only released because of the order of a federal judge,
00:03:58.960 grudgingly admitted that Mueller had found no evidence of Russian collusion,
00:04:04.220 WikiLeaks collaboration, or any other crime on my part.
00:04:08.780 In fact, Mueller admitted that the barriers to prosecuting me for any such crimes were,
00:04:14.440 quote, factual, unquote.
00:04:17.080 Arctic frost is just the newest and most sinister extension of this political persecution.
00:04:23.180 Its very name is telling, a frost, meant to chill, to freeze,
00:04:28.900 to intimidate any American who dares question the regime,
00:04:33.600 organize politically, or exercise their free speech rights.
00:04:37.500 They don't need to win convictions, they just need to destroy your life.
00:04:42.080 They just need to send a message, cross us, and we will bankrupt you.
00:04:46.840 We will destroy you.
00:04:48.200 It's lawfare.
00:04:49.460 This is not democracy.
00:04:51.240 It's tyrannical government festooned in business suits.
00:04:54.960 The Biden Justice Department, propped up by Comey loyalists still infesting the FBI today,
00:05:00.540 and their useful idiots in the media,
00:05:02.620 are running an operation more suited to East Germany's Stasi than the United States.
00:05:08.960 This, and all their lawfare offenses will fail.
00:05:12.120 The American people are waking up, finally.
00:05:14.920 Unfortunately, the brutal political assassination of Charlie Kirk has only sped up this process.
00:05:21.400 They're beginning to see the double standard, the selective prosecution, the fabricated charges.
00:05:26.520 The American people now see that while Hunter Biden commits firearms-related crimes,
00:05:32.640 sells access to the Oval Office like they were candy bars,
00:05:35.900 and receives a preemptive pardon,
00:05:37.860 the Republicans are dragged through the fires of hell for paperwork errors or political free speech.
00:05:43.820 They see the scales of justice tip like a carnival game.
00:05:47.880 Therefore, I must wonder,
00:05:49.500 why would Hunter Biden need a preemptive pardon?
00:05:53.160 Ask yourself the same.
00:05:54.400 If the Biden crime family was never involved in anything deleterious,
00:05:59.100 then why the need for a pardon at all, for each and every one of them,
00:06:03.080 and preemptively at that?
00:06:05.440 So, just as we survive the lies of the Russian collusion hoax,
00:06:10.080 we will also survive Operation Arctic Frost.
00:06:13.760 We will expose it for what it is, a political vendetta,
00:06:17.360 masquerading as an investigation.
00:06:19.640 When the reckoning comes, and it will.
00:06:22.360 History books will show that this era of weaponized lawfare
00:06:26.440 was the death rattle of a corrupt establishment
00:06:29.340 that feared the people more than it loved the truth.
00:06:33.140 Thank you for joining us today in the Stone Zone here on the Red Apple Audio Networks.
00:06:38.320 The scandal of Charles McGonigal is something that is of great interest to me,
00:06:43.360 because you see, it's no mere footnote in history.
00:06:46.540 It is still a festering, malignant sore on the face of American justice.
00:06:52.820 Charles McGonigal is no mere footnote in history.
00:06:56.240 It is the most brazen example of the FBI's arrogance,
00:07:00.620 corruption, and crimes against the American people.
00:07:04.960 You see, McGonigal was a high-level FBI official who was charged with accepting bribes
00:07:10.540 when he should have been charged with both espionage and treason.
00:07:14.800 And no mistake about it, this sordid peril of betrayal and deception is very, very far from over.
00:07:22.960 You see, Charles McGonigal was once the exalted head or crowned head
00:07:27.760 of the counterintelligence kingdom at the FBI's all-powerful New York field office.
00:07:33.580 But he wasn't simply dabbling with Russia and Albania.
00:07:38.060 The officer of the Inspector General of the FBI has now confirmed that many of us have always long suspected.
00:07:45.920 His tentacles extended into China as well as none other than the not-so-casual association with the Biden crime family.
00:07:55.320 China, the very adversary waging an unrelenting war on America's economy,
00:08:00.560 our health, our sovereignty, and our future, he was in bed with them.
00:08:05.360 Where else did McGonigal's treachery reach?
00:08:07.780 Who else within the upper echelons of American law enforcement and intelligence service was in league with him,
00:08:14.120 profiteering on America's vulnerabilities,
00:08:16.680 feeding at the trough of betrayal like barnyard pigs?
00:08:20.500 And yet, what punishment did this so-called rogue FBI operative receive for his colossal catalog of sins?
00:08:28.620 A laughable 78 months in federal prison.
00:08:32.940 78 months.
00:08:34.840 For a man who consorted with foreign agents, betrayed this nation,
00:08:39.340 compromised national security, and spat in the face of the very sacred oath he swore to uphold.
00:08:46.220 In fact, McGonigal's sentence has been now efficiently shortened twice.
00:08:50.960 No espionage charges, no treason charges, no asset forfeiture, no tax fraud charges,
00:08:58.900 no further investigative work to uncover McGonigal's involvement in any other illicit financial activities.
00:09:05.580 None.
00:09:06.740 That alone is extraordinary.
00:09:08.760 In virtually every corruption and foreign agent case, the government seizes all ill-gotten gains.
00:09:15.420 But here, McGonigal's prosecution was tidied up with the help of the Biden Justice Department
00:09:20.900 and swept away with surgical neatness as though to erase the evidence trail.
00:09:26.320 And where is the U.S. Treasury Department?
00:09:29.580 Why no action from the Office of Foreign Assets Control to enforce economic sanctions?
00:09:35.500 Why no action from the Financial Crimes Enhancement Network, or FINCEN?
00:09:40.160 Why no sanctions into this matter from the IRS's criminal division into the crimes against our nation,
00:09:47.220 which Charles McGonigal reasonably conspired to violate?
00:09:51.860 Violating United States economic sanctions is not some small technical infraction.
00:09:57.820 It is a crime of the highest order.
00:10:00.180 It undermines the very foundation of American foreign policy and national security.
00:10:05.860 Yet there have been no meaningful investigations into tax fraud,
00:10:10.320 no forensic accounting of his offshore dealings,
00:10:13.420 no scrutiny of money laundering through crypto or shell corporations.
00:10:17.520 Instead, what we have is silence.
00:10:20.140 Silence from the media and silence from the government.
00:10:23.380 Why?
00:10:24.340 Well, because the Biden Justice Department desperately wanted you to believe
00:10:28.080 that Charles McGonigal was just one rotten apple, one bad man, one isolated disgrace.
00:10:34.520 Nothing systemic, nothing to see here.
00:10:37.520 In truth, McGonigal was the senior counterintelligence czar,
00:10:41.460 a member of the carnivorous cabal created by FBI Director James Comey.
00:10:47.900 McGonigal in his day was a major Washington and New York power broker.
00:10:52.200 He was the gatekeeper to America's most sensitive secrets.
00:10:56.160 McGonigal could not possibly have acted alone.
00:10:59.080 He was part of a network.
00:11:00.740 He was a select one of a few in the Comey group.
00:11:03.560 The same shadowy clique of corrupt officials and deep state assassins
00:11:08.480 who concocted the phony Russian collusion hoax,
00:11:12.580 the largest single dirty trick in American political history.
00:11:16.380 That was a witch hunt that ensnared me personally,
00:11:19.760 reading to my false arrest and politically motivated conviction.
00:11:24.500 McGonigal was arrested quietly with little fanfare,
00:11:27.640 with no more than 11 people at the top tier of the New York City law enforcement
00:11:31.780 and Justice Department officials in the know.
00:11:35.120 By contrast, my false arrest was for much less serious allegations.
00:11:40.240 Allegations that were proven to be untrue by the full and unredacted Mueller report.
00:11:46.140 It was brought to you on live TV by the FBI and their sponsors, CNN.
00:11:50.360 Twenty-nine heavily armed FBI agents in full slot gear and brandishing fully automatic M4 assault weapons
00:11:58.820 stored my home at six o'clock in the morning
00:12:00.740 to arrest me for the alleged crime of lying under oath to Congress
00:12:04.860 regarding Russian collusion that we now know definitively never actually happened.
00:12:11.140 McGonigal, on the other hand, was allowed to quietly surrender.
00:12:14.540 This incurious media dutifully played its part with McGonigal's scandal,
00:12:20.680 treating this as a two- or three-day story and moving right along.
00:12:25.180 No inquisitiveness, no digging, no appetite to pull the loose thread
00:12:29.160 that would unravel the tapestry of corruption deep inside the FBI and the DOJ.
00:12:35.300 Instead, the media served as a propaganda arm for the Biden administration,
00:12:39.940 repeating the lie that McGonigal was an outlier, not the norm.
00:12:43.840 The scandal came and went in a flash.
00:12:46.860 They chose silence because exposing McGonigal would fully expose them, too.
00:12:51.600 I can tell you there's no doubt in my mind, nor the minds of many others,
00:12:55.780 that Charles McGonigal's crimes against our country were a solo operation
00:12:59.740 with only one participant in the Bureau.
00:13:02.120 That is an absurdity.
00:13:03.920 You're listening to The Stone Zone.
00:13:05.560 I'm Roger Stone, and we'll be right back.
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00:13:51.280 Welcome back.
00:13:52.620 You are re-entering The Stone Zone.
00:13:56.080 President Donald Trump announced in a truth social post that he's initiating
00:13:59.880 a $15 billion defamation lawsuit against The New York Times,
00:14:05.260 calling it one of the worst and most degenerate newspapers in the history of our country.
00:14:10.440 In The Post, President Trump said,
00:14:12.140 I view it as the single largest illegal campaign contribution ever.
00:14:16.260 Their endorsement of Kamala Harris was actually put
00:14:18.620 dead center on the front page of The New York Times,
00:14:21.660 something heretofore unheard of.
00:14:23.660 The Times has engaged in a decades-long method of lying about your favorite president,
00:14:29.420 that would be Donald Trump, his family, his business,
00:14:32.660 the America First movement, MAGA, and our nation as a whole.
00:14:37.380 President Trump also cited recent lawsuits against ABC News and CBS News,
00:14:42.720 which is forcing their parent companies to capitulate and change their policies.
00:14:47.480 It's clear that the fake news is scared of President Trump, and they should be.
00:14:51.100 They were caught lying and manipulating elections, and it's time to pay the piper.
00:14:56.400 Hopefully, President Trump's lawsuit causes The New York Times to go out of business.
00:15:00.360 Humanity, in my opinion, would be much better off for it.
00:15:04.720 Meanwhile, the Georgia Supreme Court has declined to review a ruling from a lower court
00:15:09.820 that finally banned Fulton County Attorney Fannie Willis from participating
00:15:15.620 in a prosecution of President Trump and his eight co-defendants.
00:15:20.020 Willis was booted from the case after it was shown that she had an illicit affair
00:15:24.840 with Nathan Wade, who was a personal injury attorney,
00:15:29.120 who she then made a special prosecutor.
00:15:32.040 She hired him in the Trump case.
00:15:34.820 Willis whined about the Georgia Supreme Court decision afterwards, saying,
00:15:38.200 No Georgia court has ever disqualified a district attorney for mere appearance of impropriety
00:15:44.100 without the existence of an actual conflict of interest.
00:15:47.400 And no Georgia court has ever reversed a trial court's order declining to disqualify
00:15:53.280 a prosecutor based solely on an appearance of impropriety.
00:15:57.140 This low IQ DEI diversity hire is truly delusional.
00:16:04.420 This is the first time in Fannie's entitled life that where there's been anything handed to her
00:16:09.300 that is not because of merit, but because of the color of her skin that she's been held accountable.
00:16:14.960 This is privilege that you and I could never dream of possessing, by the way.
00:16:18.960 But with Willis out of the picture, the frivolous case can finally be dismissed,
00:16:23.880 similar to the cases of the pro-Trump electors in Michigan, which was dismissed in court last week.
00:16:29.500 It's time to end all of these lawfare charges that were clearly designed to intimidate President Trump
00:16:35.360 and his supporters and interfere with the election results.
00:16:39.780 Meanwhile, an ABC News reporter said that he found the murderer Tyler Robinson,
00:16:46.720 the man accused of killing Charlie Kirks, alleged notes with his transgendered lover to be touching
00:16:54.080 following their release by federal authorities.
00:16:58.160 ABC's Matt Gutman said that Robinson's text messages were very touching in a way,
00:17:03.160 and I think that many of us did not expect that, a very intimate portrait into their relationship
00:17:07.900 between the suspect's roommate and himself, with him reportedly calling his roommate,
00:17:13.140 who was transitioning, my love.
00:17:15.320 You can't make this stuff up.
00:17:17.200 I want to protect you, my love, Gutman said to the alleged murderer.
00:17:21.980 I'm Roger Stone.
00:17:23.200 You're listening to The Stone Zone right here on the Red Apple Audio Networks.
00:17:27.520 Don't go away, because we'll be right back with more hot political news.
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00:17:47.200 President Donald Trump has come out and said that he supports Antifa being formally classified as a terrorist organization.
00:17:54.700 President Trump told reporters he could classify Antifa as a terrorist group 100% if he had the support from people like his attorney general, Pam Bondi.
00:18:05.300 President Trump also said there are some other groups who are pretty radical and that they got away with murder.
00:18:11.580 One of those groups President Trump's referring to may be the armed queers of Salt Lake City,
00:18:18.300 who are now reportedly under investigation over alleged ties to the brutal political assassination of my friend Charlie Kirk.
00:18:27.900 President Trump has also said that his administration is looking at hitting the Soros network with RICO charges.
00:18:34.000 That would be George Soros, the Hungarian billionaire, and his son Alex.
00:18:40.300 This would be a great start, but it must encompass much more than just the Soros network.
00:18:47.020 There are thousands of subversive groups that make up the backbone of this leftist network.
00:18:53.020 They control the National Democrat Party.
00:18:56.260 They have listened and understand that the core of the Democrat Party is supporters of violence and terrorism against Christians.
00:19:05.200 All of these subversive left-wing groups must be rooted out, and most importantly, their financial support from our tax dollars must be ended.
00:19:16.480 Because it is absolutely clear that USAID has been funding these political activities against the American people.
00:19:27.300 That's right, your tax dollars and mine are funding this propaganda war against President Donald Trump and anyone who agrees with him.
00:19:36.780 President Trump must do to his enemies what the President Biden and his folks tried to do to his supporters.
00:19:44.040 He has the mandate.
00:19:45.600 Let them rue the day they decided to expand and abuse federal power.
00:19:50.520 The time has come, in my opinion, for a great, great reckoning.
00:19:54.580 Meanwhile, George Zinn, the 71-year-old provocator who sprung into action and falsely claimed he shot Charlie Kirk last week, has now been hit with charges relating to child abuse.
00:20:10.460 He's also charged with endangering justice and with possession of child pornography.
00:20:16.140 Zinn ended up at the scene of the assassination of Charlie Kirk last week, where, after the shooting, he immediately caused a diversion that allowed the shooter to get away.
00:20:28.760 Zinn claims that he had no foreknowledge of what was going to take place, and he did it instinctively because he wanted the killer to make a clean getaway because he felt that Kirk deserved to be brutally murdered.
00:20:42.020 That's a likely story.
00:20:43.140 As we know, the feds have regularly used pedophiles and child abusers as their assets.
00:20:50.760 Think about, for example, Jeffrey Epstein, because they're easy to control.
00:20:56.380 So perhaps Mr. Zinn falls into that category.
00:20:59.560 If his charges of holding child abuse content, in other words, kiddie porn, on his cell phone disappear, or if he slapped on the wrist, this will be a dead giveaway that Zinn was the Ray Epps of the Charlie Kirk assassination.
00:21:16.460 Meanwhile, Attorney General Pam Bondi has declared a war on hate speech.
00:21:22.920 Following the assassination of Charlie Kirk, Attorney General Pam Bondi is going to war against hate speech, telling anyone, regardless of where they are on the political spectrum, that they will be targeted if they say things the government deems hateful.
00:21:38.160 Now, I personally find this to be a slippery slope because, well, I'm a free speech absolutist.
00:21:46.360 In fact, I believe the First Amendment particularly protects speech which is repugnant, that is disgraceful, that is disgusting.
00:21:56.160 That's not the same thing as shouting fire in a crowded theater.
00:22:02.600 Clearly, when people are making threats of violence, I think that goes beyond the bounds of free speech.
00:22:09.600 But straight opinion, no matter how disgusting you or I may find it, must be legal, must be protected.
00:22:18.140 I don't necessarily agree with the Attorney General, who says there's free speech and then there's hate speech.
00:22:23.440 And there's no place, especially now, especially after what happened to Charlie in our society.
00:22:29.080 She says that they will target and go after you if you are targeting anyone with hate speech.
00:22:34.780 Once again, this is well-intentioned, but it is a very fine line.
00:22:40.500 What she says flies in the face of what defenders of the Constitution support, including what Charlie himself said.
00:22:47.720 In an ex-post last year, Charlie said, hate speech does not legally exist in America.
00:22:55.500 There's ugly speech, there's gross speech, there's evil speech, but all of it is protected by the First Amendment.
00:23:03.460 We must keep America free.
00:23:05.940 Attorney General Bondi would be wise to listen to Charlie Kirk's wise words.
00:23:10.920 Drop this hate speech crackdown and focus on using powers given to the federal government for the war on terror and target and eliminate radical leftist terrorists like Antifa and Black Lives Matter,
00:23:25.820 who financed the assault on the American people in 2020, destroying millions of dollars of both public and private property, injuring thousands and killing hundreds.
00:23:38.920 That's a better use of federal power.
00:23:42.640 When the deputy White House chief of staff, Stephen Miller, joined Vice President J.D. Vance, hosting Charlie Kirk's show days ago,
00:23:54.220 they rightfully said that they would target these terrorist networks that are financing violence and mayhem and yes, death against the American people.
00:24:04.400 To me, that is the correct response of government.
00:24:07.660 So a judge dropped terrorism charges against alleged murderer Luigi Mangione, resulting in cheers of glee from female Democrats who become infatuated with the man accused of gunning down a health care CEO in cold blood in the streets of New York City only last year.
00:24:27.380 Despite Mangione's screeds about politics and his hatred of the health care system and authorities claiming that Mangione wrote delay, deny and depose a reference to unethical practices used by insurers to deny health care to individuals on the bullet casings used in the murder,
00:24:48.420 It was determined by a federal judge that there was no political motive behind the killings of UnitedHealthcare CEO, Brian Thompson.
00:24:58.680 So now Mangione will face only second-degree murder charges.
00:25:04.300 Mangione's gaggle of Democrat admirers could not be happier.
00:25:07.840 Anywhere you go today on social media, there are countless liberal women who express their desire to get with Mangione.
00:25:16.040 Those women will never have children, find the patriarchy oppressive, find Christianity abhorrent, but they will happily hook up with a violent terrorist killer.
00:25:28.660 You can't make this stuff up.
00:25:30.460 Meanwhile, President Donald Trump says he believes that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is going to have to make a deal for the war with Russia to end.
00:25:41.080 President Trump has bemoaned the fact that Zelensky and President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, hate each other,
00:25:49.260 and it looks like I have to sit in the room with them because they can't sit in a room together alone.
00:25:55.220 President Trump is clearly sick of hand-holding everyone through this entire peace process, and he wants the war to end.
00:26:03.780 In order to bring Putin to the table, President Trump is pressuring countries in the European Union to stop buying Russian oil.
00:26:13.160 He's threatened to bribe a massive tariff on Russia if the nations in the EU will join them.
00:26:19.160 Thus far, the EU has been unwilling to act.
00:26:22.400 You see, they want the war to continue.
00:26:25.080 At the same time, they want to buy oil from Russia.
00:26:28.480 Everyone hopes that America will fit the bill for the globalist project in Ukraine.
00:26:33.340 We're not going to foot the bill any further.
00:26:36.560 President Trump is showing them otherwise.
00:26:39.040 He might have to cut Ukraine off completely, which would mean no more money for the play after Zelensky from U.S. aid and weapons in order for this conflict to end.
00:26:49.740 Zelensky better make a deal fast before President Trump's generosity and his patience were completely thin.
00:26:59.320 Meanwhile, we learned that FBI Director Cash Patel and Senator Chuck Grassley exposed the secret FBI program that targeted conservative groups like Turning Point USA.
00:27:12.180 This was revealed during a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting on Tuesday.
00:27:18.040 Senator Grassley brought up whistleblower testimony that exposed former FBI agent Timmy Tebowl's launch of Arctic Frost, which was used by FBI Special Counsel Jack Smith, to target pro-Trump electors who refused to rubber stamp election fraud in the 2020 election.
00:27:38.100 As I said earlier, Senator Grassley said that in total, 92 Republican targets, including Republican groups and Republican-linked individuals, were placed under investigation under the investigation Arctic Frost.
00:27:53.900 Arctic Frost wasn't just a case to politically investigate Trump.
00:27:58.740 It was the vehicle by which partisan FBI agents and Department of Justice prosecutors could achieve their partisan ends and improperly investigate and destroy the entire Republican political apparatus.
00:28:14.500 One of the groups targeted by Arctic Frost was supposed to be Turning Point USA.
00:28:19.780 Similar to Martin Luther King Jr., Charlie Kirk was apparently under surveillance by federal authorities for years before he was assassinated.
00:28:30.840 All of those responsible for Arctic Frost deserve the same fate as the co-conspirators behind the Russiagate frame job, a lifetime behind bars.
00:28:43.380 From time to time, I talk about matters of style here on the Stone Zone, particularly men's style.
00:28:51.940 Well, every well-dressed gentleman must have an all-cotton, Oxford cloth button-down shirt.
00:28:58.220 This is a shirt that was originally offered by Brooks Brothers, but today I think J Press offers the best version.
00:29:04.940 Kamakura, a Japanese purveyor, also has a superior version, but their customer service is not all that dependable.
00:29:14.080 The shirt's button-down collar was originally called a polo collar, as the button-down feature was designed so that the collar would remain in place instead of flapping up on your face during a vigorous game of polo.
00:29:27.520 This classic, an import originally from England, was actually first sighted in 1897 on the polo fields of Long Island, New York.
00:29:38.040 F. Scott Fitzgerald, Bobby Kennedy Sr., George H.W. Bush, and Andy Warhol, the artists, all sported the style on occasion.
00:29:47.500 Fiat industrialist and notorious playboy Gianni Agnelli famously wore his wristwatch on the outside of the right cuff of his.
00:29:59.200 You see, the roll of the collar is crucial.
00:30:02.620 Lower budget makers never get the collar roll or the length of the collar points exactly right.
00:30:09.060 J Press, more recently, has mastered this.
00:30:12.660 Eskewing the permanent press non-iron model is crucial.
00:30:16.480 The longer you own this all-cotton shirt, the more times you wash it, the softer and more comfortable it will become.
00:30:24.300 Considered an informal dress shirt, it's acceptable with a blazer, a sports jacket, or a single-breasted suit, usually paired with a regimental striped tie, a knit tie, or a saucy-looking bow tie.
00:30:37.500 Never wear a button-down collar shirt with a double-breasted suit, by the way.
00:30:41.660 The more formal double-breasted suit looks best with a more formal spread or long-point collar.
00:30:48.060 Now, the famous dancer, actor, movie star, Fred Astaire broke this rule, but then you're not Fred Astaire.
00:30:55.920 An Oxford cloth button-down shirt with an unfashioned collar, rolled-up sleeves and jeans, makes for a comfortable, casual look.
00:31:04.000 The shirt traditionally comes in white, light blue, pink, blue and white stripes, and pink and white stripes.
00:31:11.300 It also comes in yellow, but yellow is a tricky color for most men, depending on their complexion and their coloring.
00:31:18.740 Yellow looks good with a brown suit, but then a brown suit never actually looks good.
00:31:23.860 Speaking of the white button-down Oxford cloth shirt, there's one other thing a true gentleman cannot live without,
00:31:29.900 and that is the black silk-knotted square-bottom tie.
00:31:33.880 It's literally indispensable.
00:31:36.340 No true gentleman would be without one.
00:31:39.080 They can be twisted, old, knotted, and will perform for decades, if not forever.
00:31:43.840 Such a tie has saved my life on numerous occasions.
00:31:47.200 For example, you're wearing jeans and a blazer.
00:31:49.820 It's Friday, but you're called into a meeting with the boss.
00:31:53.020 Voila!
00:31:53.440 The black knit dress tie dresses up your outfit, moving you from Friday slob to the Euro look.
00:32:01.180 By the way, you can't pull this off if you're stupid enough to be wearing a t-shirt in the office.
00:32:05.840 Or, you're dashing across the airport to catch that last fright from LaGuardia to Miami.
00:32:12.300 The latch on your suitcase breaks open, threaten to pull your finery and your toiletries all over the ground.
00:32:17.980 You whip off your indestructible black knit tie, latch the case closed, and you make your flight.
00:32:25.420 Or, you're driving your Alfa Romeo Spyder or other similar cool sports car through the Swiss Alps when you run out of petrol.
00:32:34.060 A passerby in a Citroën van offers you a tow, but lacks a line.
00:32:38.720 Off comes the tie, which you latch bumper to bumper.
00:32:41.820 Problem solved.
00:32:43.220 Or, you're in an Italian joint in the Bronx.
00:32:47.280 A guido makes a slur against your mother.
00:32:50.080 You come up behind him, slip off your black knit tie, and you garret him, Luca Brazzi style.
00:32:56.580 In the rough and tumble world of politics, media, and life, the black silk knitted tie is indeed indispensable.
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00:33:20.300 Welcome back into the Stone Zone.
00:33:22.940 I'm Roger Stone.
00:33:25.060 New York State Attorney General Letitia James, long claiming to be a public champion of tenants' rights,
00:33:31.880 has herself been in violation of New York City's rent stabilization laws for more than two decades.
00:33:38.300 Since purchasing a four-story apartment building at 296 Lafayette Avenue in Brooklyn in 2001,
00:33:47.160 by the way, that's a matter of public record,
00:33:49.680 James has failed to register the property with the New York State Division of Housing
00:33:53.620 and Community Renewal as required for rent-stabilized buildings.
00:33:58.380 By failing to register, she denied her tenants the protections of rent stabilization while collecting rents above the legally regulated amount for 24 years.
00:34:10.260 New York's housing code is based on its Rent Stabilization Law of 1969,
00:34:16.480 was designed to shield tenants from large rent increases, unlawful deregulation, and eviction notices.
00:34:25.240 It sets yearly allowable rent increases, typically at around 3% a year.
00:34:31.040 The law applies to qualifying buildings who requires landlords to register with the DHCR
00:34:38.900 and file annual reports on tenants' rents and lease terms.
00:34:45.000 The New York Department of Buildings, or the DOB,
00:34:48.480 issues certificates of occupancy to establish the legal number of units and properties.
00:34:54.280 That designation is the one and only controlling legal authority for unit count.
00:35:00.960 The three most recent certificates of occupancy for the property owned by Letitia James
00:35:07.360 are authorized as a seven-family unit with the building originally designated as a Class A multiple dwelling.
00:35:17.860 That was in 1961.
00:35:19.100 1981, two decades later, the legal unit count was reduced to four apartments,
00:35:25.600 reflecting on unauthorized combining of units.
00:35:29.460 Then in 2001, the certificate of occupancy is updated.
00:35:33.660 The building now reflects a five-family dwelling, which remains its designation today.
00:35:41.180 The Rent Stabilization Act of 1969 said that any building constructed before January 1, 1974,
00:35:47.980 with six or more apartments is subject to rent stabilization laws.
00:35:53.740 The critical point for Letitia James is that according to the 1961 Certificate of Occupancy,
00:36:00.840 the last one before the passage of the Rent Stabilization Law in 1969,
00:36:05.920 her building in the Bronx had seven units.
00:36:08.580 This means that when the law took effect in 1969,
00:36:12.260 James' building was permanently entered into rent stabilization.
00:36:15.600 Once a building is subject to rent stabilization, that status runs with the building forever.
00:36:22.420 Later reductions down to four units or back up to five units can never be legally used to strip the building
00:36:29.020 of its original rent stabilization regulatory status.
00:36:34.180 Letitia James continues to say that no one is above the law, but evidently that's not true,
00:36:40.380 because when it comes to the rent stabilization laws of New York City,
00:36:45.480 Letitia James continues to be above the law.
00:36:49.400 When will she be brought to justice?
00:36:51.680 Thanks for tuning in today on The Stone Zone.
00:36:54.280 I'm Roger Stone.
00:36:55.800 God bless you and Godspeed.
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