A case that should disturb every parent in New York, if not across the country. Mark Fishman, a Bronx father of four, has been sentenced to 45 days in jail after a ruling in Westchester County, New York Supreme Court and after a contentious trial hearing. He lives with a traumatic brain injury, a tinnitus-related hearing impairment, cognitive occipital neuralgia, and post-concussion memory loss from multiple car accidents.
00:00:33.880But first, I want to talk to you about a case that should disturb every parent in New York, if not across the country.
00:00:43.040Mark Fishman, a Bronx father of four, has been sentenced to 45 days in jail following a ruling in Westchester County, New York Supreme Court.
00:00:53.000And after a contentious trial hearing.
00:00:56.620Now, Mark Fishman is a gentleman who lives with traumatic brain injury, tinnitus-related hearing impairment, cognitive occipital neuralgia, and post-concussion memory loss from multiple car accidents.
00:01:11.080Mark Fishman says that the Westchester County courts, the Westchester County, New York District Attorney, and New York State Attorney General Letitia James are treating him unfairly.
00:01:23.960His sentencing comes nearly a decade after an incident in which police arrested Mr. Fishman during a court-ordered, bi-monthly supervised visitation with his children on December 15, 2018.
00:01:37.220A visit fully prepaid and supported by a 22-page visitation order granting him access to his autistic son from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
00:01:49.840A court-approved supervisor and disability aide were both present, and the supervisor had confirmed the visitation in writing earlier that very day.
00:01:59.700Now, in withheld police video and audio, which was only obtained by Mr. Fishman through his federal lawsuit against those who are oppressing him, the now terminated arresting officer in this case, one Lane Schlesinger, is heard telling Mr. Fishman's disability aide that Mr. Fishman had no intent to commit any crime.
00:02:23.320Nonetheless, Mark Fishman was arrested at 11.35 a.m. during his prepaid Super 5 visit with his son on allegations tied to an unserved order of protection.
00:02:36.820Neither the jury nor his defense team was ever shown the exculpatory evidence.
00:02:42.100Then, on July 16, 2020, after years of legal battles, a federal appeals court ordered the transcription as an ADA accommodation in his case, yet Judge David Zuckerman has refused to grant a retrial despite knowing that Mr. Fishman could not fully participate in his own defense.
00:03:03.860Joining us now is the father in question, Mark Fishman.
00:03:08.000I know that you have to likely submit to incarceration here very shortly.
00:03:14.060I'm glad that you could join us to tell this horrific story to our audience here in the Stone Zone.
00:03:22.780Thank you for having me, and thank you for giving the time to talk about a subject which is taboo, disability discrimination.
00:03:30.700I'm not accommodating, you know, those who have disabilities, especially invisible disabilities, you know, like hearing impairment from tinnitus or brain injury from a traumatic car accident, you know, or PTSD or other mental impairments.
00:03:48.100You know, society marginalizes us, labels us, belittles us.
00:03:51.580And, unfortunately, many judges have no empathy, no patience, don't accommodate us.
00:03:57.460And, you know, we're forced to go to federal court and spend years on litigation just to try to get the American with Disabilities Act and Rehabilitation Act enforced to protect many of us.
00:04:07.380I saw you on the Sal Greco show on Rumble.
00:04:14.300You were terrific, and it really moved me to talk about your case here on the show and also to post information on my various social media platforms.
00:04:29.480But why has your alleged misdemeanor over a child custody visitation turned into a seven-plus-year legal battle, which has to have cost you a fortune?
00:04:41.460Well, Roger, you know, when David faces Goliath, you know, Goliath, which is the New York court system, and the Westchester judges have enormous resources.
00:04:51.020To answer your question and try to be as brief as possible, you know, after I was convicted in a trial of attempting to violate an order of protection I never received,
00:05:01.700and actually violating an order of protection I never received for not going on a property,
00:05:06.280I went to return to court for the DA to argue that my kids should have a lifetime order of protection.
00:05:12.340I wasn't charged or prosecuted with violating any of my kids, my four kids, Joanna, Jonah, and this guy.
00:05:22.740Yet the DA, you know, tried, not once, not twice, but over nine appearances, Roger, the next year and a half, to just say,
00:05:31.780okay, we've got to get orders of protection.
00:19:40.080I was told the sound was completely off in the auditorium where the speech was made and that world leaders, unless they used their interpreter's earpieces,
00:19:49.880couldn't actually hear anything the President said.
00:19:52.260The first person the President saw at the conclusion of the speech was the First Lady, who was sitting right next to him.
00:20:05.320This was a triple sabotage at the United Nations.
00:20:08.880They really should be ashamed of themselves.
00:20:10.900But more importantly, I think those in charge of the security and safety of our President need to do a much, much better job.
00:20:18.700I think this could have been a potential disaster with the President suspended there on the escalator ever since Butler, Pennsylvania, ever since West Palm Beach.
00:20:30.980I have feared for the life of our President, particularly since he's making these enormous changes in American policy, bringing America back,
00:20:39.840insisting on fairer trade deals with our trade partners, mounting the greatest deportation of dangerous illegal immigrants in U.S. history,
00:20:50.360working day and night for a cut in the interest rates so more people can buy homes, buy cars, pay off their credit card debt, pay off their student loans.
00:21:00.100This is a President who's standing up for the American people, but he's also on the cusp of justice against those in the deep state who tried to destroy his presidency, tried to send him to jail.
00:21:13.700So I think it is a very dangerous time in America.
00:21:16.980The brutal political assassination of my good friend Charlie Kirk proves that.
00:21:21.560I'm calling on the Secret Service to do a much, much better job.
00:21:43.080I was just wondering, because you always throw in Tulsi Gabbard, and I know she's great, and you said that she's going to be our first woman president.
00:22:19.440She was against the police state, the surveillance of Americans without warrants, in all honesty.
00:22:26.820She was against the mass-based censorship of free speech.
00:22:30.660She woke up one day, and she realized that the Democrat Party, the old Democrat Party of John F. Kennedy and Harry Truman, no longer represented her viewpoint.
00:22:44.340They're no longer pro-free enterprise.
00:22:46.920They no longer believe in a strong national defense.
00:22:49.640They cheer on the abuses of the FBI against the American people, where parents were locked up for simply showing up in a school board meeting and expressing concern about the curriculum being forced on their children.
00:23:04.620So I think that Tulsi Gabbard is a person of enormous integrity.
00:23:09.280She is a great believer in the U.S. Constitution.
00:23:12.040Let's remember that we only know definitively that the entire Russian collusion narrative that we now are certain of, we know this only because she had the courage to follow the president's direction,
00:23:27.900to declassify all of the documents that prove that there was a criminal cabal, that this was born in a meeting in the Oval Office with Barack Obama presiding.
00:23:58.260National Director of Intelligence General James Clapper was there.
00:24:02.980Only because of the courage and the precision of Tulsi Gabbard do we now know that there was, in fact, a cabal and the Russian collusion narrative is a total hoax.
00:24:15.000And now Tulsi Gabbard has turned her focus at the president's direction on the integrity of our elections and whether we can trust these electronic voting machines and exactly what happened in 2020 and therefore what's likely to happen in 2026.
00:25:44.580First of all, I agree with your underlying premise of your question.
00:25:48.120The Democrat Party has been taken over by a radical Marxist clique.
00:25:53.500But the truth is, globalism, let's be honest, infects both parties.
00:25:58.960Until Donald Trump came along to challenge them, the globalists, the internationalists, through organizations like the Council on Foreign Relations,
00:26:07.900the Trilateral Commission, the World Economic Forum, had successfully infiltrated all of our institutions, meaning our government, including the intelligence agencies,
00:26:21.720including the Pentagon and our military, including the national security apparatus, but also academia, our colleges, our public schools, as well as, of course, the think tanks.
00:26:32.900And then there's their funding for the defense contractors.
00:26:36.780So, it takes enormous courage to stand up to these vested interests.
00:26:42.460And when you do stand up to them, like Donald Trump did, like General Michael Flynn did, like I did, they try to crush you.
00:26:55.980I worked for Ronald Reagan in two campaigns, his 1980 campaign, where I handled New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut, and his 1984 re-election, where I handled those states, plus Ohio, Pennsylvania, and a group of New England states.
00:27:11.960And in 1988, James Baker, who was managing the campaign of George H.W. Bush, the sitting vice president, asked me to join that campaign.
00:27:23.940I would have made a lot of money, would have probably avoided a lot of controversy in my life, but I declined, because George H.W. Bush was a globalist who did not reflect my views.
00:27:33.900So, I supported Jack Kemp for president in 1988, and unfortunately, he was not nominated.
00:27:41.520So, I think you have to stand on principle.
00:27:45.040All the men you talked about, Joe McCarthy, who's been proven right.
00:27:49.020By the way, for those who want to continue to insist that McCarthy smeared all these innocent people, there's a great book called Blacklisted by History by M. Stanton Evans.
00:28:02.240It proves to you, without any doubt, that Senator Joe McCarthy, who's been very much reviled as a drunkard, as a dangerous lunatic, who smeared people, that entire narrative is just as phony as the Russian collusion narrative.
00:28:17.240And therefore, I think, in retrospect, we realize that much of what McCarthy said was exactly right.
00:28:26.680Our government has been infiltrated by communists, has been infiltrated by Marxists, which explains some of these wacky government positions they've taken.
00:29:01.760Remember, they charged me, specifically, with lying under oath to Congress in my voluntary testimony before the House Intelligence Committee.
00:29:14.660Now, first of all, who would—remember, I wasn't responding to a subpoena, so I showed up voluntarily.
00:29:20.820Therefore, that's kind of proof that I had nothing to hide.
00:29:23.560And any misstatement that I did make was immaterial.
00:29:28.820In other words, there was no Russian collusion to cover up.
00:29:32.980There was no WikiLeaks collaboration between the Trump campaign or between me and the Trump campaign and WikiLeaks to cover up.
00:29:41.960So the entire question was a setup, and it is outrageous when he was asked.
00:29:51.940James Comey specifically said that he had never directed anyone to leak negative information tying Donald Trump to Russian collusion,
00:30:04.800which completely was contradicted by the sworn testimony of the FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe.
00:30:11.080He was very closely questioned by Senator Ted Cruz about this, and he lied.
00:30:16.000That's a material lie, and it's illegal, and it's perjury.
00:30:22.160He also had no memory of being told that the Clinton campaign had cooked up the entire Russian collusion hoax
00:30:32.400and that the FBI would soon be sexually pushing that line.
00:30:40.360Now, as some people may know, Eric Siebert, the U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia,
00:30:49.900who had the authority to prosecute these crimes, was slow walking them.
00:30:55.360My sources tell me that he prepared a 51-page memo that outlined why Comey should not be prosecuted.
00:31:04.140Fortunately, he was fired by Donald Trump.
00:31:07.540He was replaced by a very sharp attorney, who I happen to know, Lindsay Halligan, very capable, very sharp, very able.
00:31:16.360And she has until September 30th to charge James Comey.
00:31:20.400Now, there's a bunch of stories in the media today that that indictment is coming.
00:31:25.360I hope that report is accurate, but we will see.
00:31:30.240Either we have a two-tier justice system in which liberal Democrats and those associated with the deep state can break the law with impunity and not be held accountable,
00:31:40.220or we have a one-tier justice system in which everyone is treated fairly and equally.
00:31:45.520I can tell you, in my own case, I was framed, General Mike Flynn was framed, they tried to frame Donald Trump, it failed.
00:34:15.280Interestingly enough, in their debate in New Jersey, Jack Cittarelli and Mikey Sherrill,
00:34:20.980you know, Cittarelli, I think, really scored in the debate by raising this very question about the curriculum being forced on the public schools in New Jersey.
00:34:30.820And, of course, the Democrat Party is completely controlled there by the teachers' union, as it is in New York City.
00:34:37.380I was on the radio with Curtis the other morning, and somebody asked me how I felt about his red beret.
00:34:44.920I said, well, I'm not going to be the one to ask him to stop wearing it, but I'll say this.
00:34:48.860If he wins, I'll start wearing a red beret.