The StoneZONE with Roger Stone - September 27, 2025


The Stone Zone ｜ 09-26-25

Topics
Comey indictment and accountability deep state Russiagate scandal fbi investigations & conflicts digital ID mandate Katie Hopkins AI abuse National Guard recruitment & tariffs
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Roger Stone Troy Smith Jake Novak
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Donald Trump James Comey Zoran Mamdani John Brennan Joe Biden Christopher Wray Robert Mueller Eric Siebert Hillary Clinton Katie Hopkins Chuck Schumer Orwellian Barack Hussein Obattam Osama Bin Laden Lindsay Halligan Andrew Weissman Merrick Garland Rod Rosenstein Stephen Miller James Clapper and 24 more
The Stone Zone ｜ 09-25-25 The Stone Zone ｜ 09-29-25

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Former FBI Director James Comey has finally been charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice, lying to Congress, and lying to the American people. This is just the beginning of the long list of disgraced ex-officials who have been charged in the so-called "Russia-gate" scandal.

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00:00:00.200 The Stone Zone. Entertaining and informative on the Red Apple Podcast Network.
00:00:07.500 You are now entering the Stone Zone.
00:00:11.900 Well, the day has finally come when James Comey, the sanctimonious former FBI director, must finally answer for his treachery.
00:00:21.640 His indictment is not vengeance. It's not revenge.
00:00:25.720 It's not any of those things.
00:00:29.020 Despite what the whining talking heads at MSNBC and CNN continue to drone on and on about,
00:00:37.320 it's about the restoration of law and order after years of weaponized double standards,
00:00:42.780 malicious prosecutions, and selective enforcement by the carnivorous Comey cabal
00:00:48.540 that has long devoured innocent men to protect their own corrupt empire.
00:00:54.020 I know firsthand what it means to be on the receiving end of their wrath.
00:00:59.740 When I was falsely accused, a paramilitary-style raid descended on my home at 6 o'clock in the morning.
00:01:07.520 Heavily armed FBI agents, 29 of them in fact, wearing full SWAT gear and night goggles,
00:01:16.280 swarmed my home, but conveniently, of course, they tipped off CNN, who had a camera crew 25 feet from my front door.
00:01:26.660 They treated me as if I was El Chapo.
00:01:29.960 In fact, the truth is, they sent more FBI agents to arrest me than they sent to get Osama bin Laden.
00:01:37.660 And yet, James Comey, the ringleader of the FBI's abusive power,
00:01:43.580 the man who supervised the circus that ruined lives, has been allowed to stroll into court on his own terms.
00:01:50.480 Why didn't the FBI raid his home at 6 o'clock this morning?
00:01:55.540 Ironically, by the way, both James Comey and I were hit with the exact same charges.
00:02:01.120 So why weren't we arrested in the same manner?
00:02:04.840 But in his case, no sirens, no rifles, no handcuffs.
00:02:09.800 He has granted dignity that I was denied. 0.94
00:02:13.580 The hypocrisy is grotesque.
00:02:16.120 But unlike my ordeal, which was a theater of lies, this moment is the dawning of accountability.
00:02:23.200 So make no mistake, this is only the opening salvo.
00:02:27.000 When Comey is forced under oath to reveal his communications, when his clandestine meetings are laid bare,
00:02:34.160 when the protective shields of secrecy are stripped away, it'll be open season on the entire cabal.
00:02:40.560 John Brennan, General James Clapper, Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, Andrew Weissman,
00:02:48.680 the most corrupt federal prosecutor in U.S. history,
00:02:51.900 Rod Rosenstein, Robert Mueller himself,
00:02:57.180 even Vice President Joe Biden,
00:02:59.260 and perhaps, if there is a God in heaven, Barack Hussein Obattam.
00:03:03.660 The entire cabal behind the greatest single hoax in American political history,
00:03:10.720 the most egregious dirty trick,
00:03:13.440 the largest single abuse of power in political or governmental history,
00:03:19.120 the so-called Russian collusion hoax, as Donald Trump correctly called it from the beginning.
00:03:26.180 This is nothing less than an abuse of power,
00:03:29.360 in which they actually used the full authority of the United States government
00:03:32.580 and the incredible capabilities of our intelligence agencies,
00:03:37.560 utilizing two pieces of evidence they knew from the beginning were completely fabricated,
00:03:43.900 the so-called Steele dossier.
00:03:46.260 That's the fake report that claimed that Donald Trump had dallied with Russian prostitutes in Moscow
00:03:53.680 while visiting there as a private businessman.
00:03:56.280 They knew it was a fabrication.
00:03:58.200 They knew that Hillary Clinton's campaign paid for it. 0.84
00:04:00.800 She later paid a substantial fine to the Federal Elections Commission
00:04:04.260 for disguising the payments for that phony report as legal fees.
00:04:10.060 And then there's the fake claim that the Democrat National Committee had been the target of an online hack.
00:04:18.540 They relied not on the FBI, who admitted in my trial that they had never inspected the computer servers
00:04:25.500 of the Democrat National Committee, but on a third-party IT company called CrowdStrikes.
00:04:31.860 But at my trial, the judge specifically refused to let my defense attorneys see the famous CrowdStrikes report.
00:04:40.340 That's because, as we learned later, when Sean Henry, the chief executive officer of CrowdStrikes,
00:04:47.820 who just happened to be a former deputy of Robert Mueller's at the FBI,
00:04:51.820 testified under oath that his report included no proof whatsoever
00:04:55.760 that the Democrat National Committee had been the target of an attack online by the Russians or anyone else.
00:05:04.040 So this whole sordid cast of conspirators, all of whom believe themselves to be untouchable,
00:05:09.360 all of whom believe themselves to be above the law,
00:05:12.320 the time of reckoning is coming for all of them.
00:05:14.760 And with it, the tide has turned.
00:05:16.900 The days of the deep state's impunity, I believe, are numbered.
00:05:20.740 The people have waited too long for justice.
00:05:22.580 But now it is finally here.
00:05:25.760 Yesterday, however, the New York Times propaganda machine is yet again covering up for CIA Director John Brennan,
00:05:33.380 claiming ridiculously that Brennan cannot be prosecuted
00:05:37.140 because Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard
00:05:40.900 cashiered 37 deep state apparatchiks from the national security apparatus.
00:05:48.580 They argue that federal prosecutors are having a, quote, hard time, close quote,
00:05:53.900 putting together a case against Brennan because Gabbard yanked away the national security clearances for some of these deep state crooks,
00:06:02.440 many of whom were actually involved in the Russiagate scandal.
00:06:05.880 If the New York Times wanted to tell you the truth,
00:06:08.460 they write that the holding or not holding of a security clearance has no impact whatsoever on conversations the DOJ is having regarding this ongoing investigation.
00:06:19.120 The clearance only gives you the ability to see new material.
00:06:22.460 It doesn't require you forget what you've already seen or allow or prevent you from talking or being questioned by anyone in the government under oath about what you know.
00:06:32.500 That's based on a recipient's clearance and need to know, not what you hold clearance for.
00:06:37.420 So if the DOJ has legal right to ask about what the interviewers know, the interviewers' clearance status is completely irrelevant.
00:06:45.740 This is the same approach that was used with the Afghan War Commission,
00:06:49.860 where they wanted to interview personnel who had security clearances revoked.
00:06:54.000 A new clearance did not need to be issued.
00:06:56.480 The New York Times, in this case, is running cover for the deep state with this absurdly false and deliberately misleading article.
00:07:03.740 But since I spent almost 35 years in the corroded rectum of the two-party system,
00:07:12.260 and I'm well acquainted in the ways of the D.C. swamp,
00:07:15.500 I can tell you that this New York Times story was planted.
00:07:19.840 This is a willful effort to try to undermine Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence.
00:07:26.040 Why?
00:07:26.840 Because she's uncovering, uncovering, and declassifying the deep secrets of the deep state.
00:07:33.020 The truth is, Director Gabbard's office handed over a trove of documents
00:07:37.260 and more than sufficient evidence for prosecutors to build a case against CIA Director John Brennan
00:07:44.060 and others who colluded to frame President Trump as a Russian agent.
00:07:49.420 This comes down to federal prosecutors wanting to protect their own.
00:07:53.380 President Trump needs to find out who those individuals are and fire them on the spot
00:07:57.260 for their unwillingness to do what is necessary to drain the swamp.
00:08:01.300 And then, of course, John Brennan himself must be charged.
00:08:04.860 Now, they rushed the charges against James Comey in the Eastern District of Virginia
00:08:10.820 because the charge of lying under oath to Congress and thus obstructing an investigation
00:08:17.860 were set by statute of limits to run out on September 30th.
00:08:23.380 So, Eric Siebert, the federal prosecutor in the Eastern District of Virginia,
00:08:29.940 slow-walked this entire investigation, hoping to take it beyond the September 30th date.
00:08:38.820 Amazingly, what Eric Siebert did not disclose was that he had a stunning conflict of interest.
00:08:45.380 This is a story that I broke on the Stone Zone only yesterday.
00:08:48.720 Eric Siebert's father-in-law, that is to say his wife's father,
00:08:55.340 is the godfather of James Comey's daughter.
00:09:00.300 Yes, you heard that right.
00:09:01.860 So, he should have recused himself from day one.
00:09:04.580 Instead, he handed over a 51-page memo outlining why James Comey should not be prosecuted.
00:09:12.740 This is why President Donald Trump fired him.
00:09:15.880 This is why he should have been fired.
00:09:17.780 Into this breach stepped a woman named Lindsay Halligan. 1.00
00:09:22.200 She is a tough-as-nails attorney from Fort Lauderdale, Florida,
00:09:26.180 member of the White House staff, extraordinarily capable attorney.
00:09:30.900 Now, the media has sought to disparage her because she's never been a prosecutor.
00:09:35.040 To me, that means she's just not corrupted by this entire system.
00:09:39.040 They actually predicted that she couldn't get a grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia 0.92
00:09:43.900 to issue an indictment against James Comey.
00:09:47.940 But that announcement came last night.
00:09:51.320 Once again, I am a little disappointed.
00:09:53.160 I would have liked it much more if 29 heavily armed FBI agents had sworn Comey's home at 6 o'clock this morning.
00:10:00.380 But, nonetheless, it appears to me that justice will finally be done in this matter.
00:10:07.620 Thank God.
00:10:08.860 All right.
00:10:09.480 We now learned, once again, that it seems that Christopher Wray, the CIA director,
00:10:15.660 pardon me, the FBI director after James Comey, also lied to Congress under oath.
00:10:20.840 See, it turns out that the FBI has now confirmed that they had 274 plainclothes officers embedded within the crowd
00:10:29.900 during the January 6, 2021 press test that turned into a riot in and around the U.S. Capitol,
00:10:36.500 confirming the suspicions of so-called conspiracy theorists like me,
00:10:41.280 who believe that that event was more of a fed-surrection than an insurrection.
00:10:45.460 The newly released documents show how there was an internal revolt by the FBI over the Bureau's improper rule on January 6,
00:10:53.620 with many complaints being waged that former FBI director Christopher Wray and before him James Comey
00:10:59.440 had turned the FBI into a partisan tool, a Gestapo for the Democrats,
00:11:04.820 that was abusing its power to promote a woke agenda. 0.56
00:11:08.360 Who can forget when the FBI arrested parents who simply went to school board meetings to protest
00:11:15.720 the woke curriculum agenda being forced on their children?
00:11:21.180 Attorney General Merrick Garland denied that that was the case,
00:11:24.620 but subsequently FBI documents surfaced that proved that was indeed the policy of the FBI.
00:11:31.400 In other cases, those who support the right to life were targeted for arrest outside of abortion clinics,
00:11:37.580 or they were committing the crime of praying.
00:11:41.920 So the FBI has been corrupt for some time,
00:11:44.820 and I'm afraid that there are still corrupt agents embedded within that agency,
00:11:49.680 though I have a high regard for Kash Patel.
00:11:52.120 He has his hands full in terms of cleaning house.
00:11:55.040 It's interesting that one agent recently wrote,
00:11:58.560 currently the U.S. Attorney's Office is dictating what it is that gets investigated.
00:12:02.700 This is a dangerous precedent that can barely get them to prosecute investigations
00:12:07.720 that clearly met the thresholds for needed federal prosecutions.
00:12:11.580 However, their willingness to conduct a search warrant on someone's life for a misdemeanor seems ridiculous.
00:12:16.980 It is also unreasonable for the FBI to conduct investigations involving misdemeanor violations at a federal level.
00:12:23.120 It's simply not our role.
00:12:25.480 See, the FBI was under control under the Biden regime
00:12:28.000 and worked to undermine President Trump throughout his entire first term.
00:12:31.760 It's time for all Democrat hacks to be removed from the FBI and all federal bureaucracies.
00:12:37.540 And once removed, it's time for them to be prosecuted over their criminal actions,
00:12:41.500 which apparently included embedding agents among the January 6th protesters to stir up mayhem.
00:12:47.540 And now I believe Christopher Wray must be held accountable the same way his predecessor, James Comey, has been.
00:12:54.300 He clearly lied to Congress, specifically saying that he didn't believe that there were any Plains Coast agents,
00:12:59.860 and then later denied that he knew the number of them, when in fact he knew that both were true.
00:13:05.860 It is a time for reckoning, and that reckoning is coming.
00:13:09.040 You see heads exploding on the left.
00:13:11.340 The talking heads at MSNBC and CNN are apoplectic.
00:13:15.420 They keep saying that this is weaponization of the criminal justice system,
00:13:19.860 that Trump is out for revenge and retribution,
00:13:22.000 when in fact all Trump is doing is rebalancing the scales of justice
00:13:26.180 so those who very blatantly, very openly broke the law are held to account
00:13:31.520 and are prosecuted for their crimes.
00:13:35.460 I have prayed for this day to come, and now it is here.
00:13:38.600 The indictment of James Comey is, as Robert Mueller said about my indictment, righteous.
00:13:45.180 I'm Roger Stone.
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00:14:16.500 I so appreciate the kind words of Vice President J.D. Vance in that clip,
00:14:22.480 and you're back in The Stone Zone.
00:14:25.160 Well, President Trump has now signed an executive order yesterday
00:14:28.080 ordering his entire administration to work on the effort
00:14:31.340 of dismantling left-wing domestic terror groups.
00:14:34.720 The order is focused on finding the funding of these groups,
00:14:37.820 stopping them from committing violence, and shutting them down completely.
00:14:40.860 Let's listen to the president.
00:14:42.160 Professional anarchists and agitators, and they get hired by wealthy people,
00:14:47.000 some of whom I know, I guess.
00:14:48.620 You know, I probably know them.
00:14:50.420 And you wouldn't know it.
00:14:51.660 At dinner with them, everything's nice. 0.99
00:14:53.300 And then you find out that they funded millions of dollars to these lunatics. 0.95
00:14:58.500 Steve, could you say a couple of words?
00:14:59.880 Yes, this is a very historic and significant day.
00:15:03.400 This is the first time in American history that there is an all-government effort
00:15:07.760 to dismantle left-wing terrorism, to dismantle Antifa,
00:15:12.540 to dismantle the organizations that have been carrying out these acts of political violence and terrorism.
00:15:17.260 What we have seen, if you look at whether it be going back to the riots
00:15:20.800 that started with Black Lives Matter and all the way through to the Antifa riots,
00:15:24.860 the attacks on ICE officers, the doxing campaigns, and now the political assassinations,
00:15:29.520 these are not lone, isolated events.
00:15:31.820 This is part of an organized campaign of radical left terrorism.
00:15:35.380 It is structured.
00:15:36.400 It is sophisticated.
00:15:37.440 It is well-funded.
00:15:38.420 It is well-planned.
00:15:39.860 There is really no parallel like this to anything else in the country right now.
00:15:44.360 There is an entire system of feeder organizations that provide money, resources, weapons.
00:15:51.200 And when they're attacking ICE officers, they're attacking federal buildings,
00:15:54.940 or they're isolating public officials for harassment, doxing, intimidation,
00:15:59.080 and ultimately attempted assassination, it is all carefully planned, executed, and thought through.
00:16:03.820 It is terrorism on our soil.
00:16:06.000 Because of this executive order, Cash and PAM are going to have the tools they need,
00:16:10.100 working with Scott, to take these organizations apart piece by piece.
00:16:13.740 And the central hub of that effort is going to be the Joint Terrorism Task Force, or JTTF,
00:16:18.640 which sits inside the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
00:16:21.260 But for those at home who are worried about terrorism in this country,
00:16:24.080 they need to understand, because of President Trump's strength, because of his vision,
00:16:27.740 because of his leadership, we are now going to use the entire force of the federal government
00:16:32.300 to uproot these organizations, root and branch.
00:16:34.800 And again, that's only possible because of President Trump and his leadership.
00:16:38.680 That was, of course, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller,
00:16:42.520 who is coordinating these efforts.
00:16:44.900 The president is completely serious.
00:16:47.320 It's unfortunate that it took the brutal political assassination of my good friend Charlie Kirk
00:16:53.440 to bring this moment.
00:16:55.380 But this is the proper response, not cancel culture,
00:16:58.620 not wholesale censorship of those who disagree with us politically.
00:17:03.260 That's what the left did to us.
00:17:05.340 But something far more important and far more fundamental to saving this country,
00:17:09.100 which is to say, defunding those who plan and orchestrate mayhem, violence and death.
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00:18:06.440 In the meantime, the United Kingdom is taking another step towards becoming an Orwellian police state,
00:18:12.460 with Prime Minister Keir Starmer making the announcement during Global Progress Action Summit in London.
00:18:19.040 He says that the digital ID mandate will be in place by the end of the current parliamentary session.
00:18:26.960 Let's listen to the leader of the United Kingdom.
00:18:29.520 Today, I am announcing this government will make a new free-of-charge digital ID
00:18:36.000 mandatory for the right to work by the end of this parliament.
00:18:41.460 Let me spell that out.
00:18:43.160 You will not be able to work in the United Kingdom if you do not have digital ID.
00:18:49.640 It's as simple as that.
00:18:52.540 This is Orwellian.
00:18:54.460 It is terrifying.
00:18:56.180 And, of course, we see the same thing here.
00:18:57.900 Here, we call it real ID.
00:19:00.840 For those who don't know, you currently cannot board an airplane without a real ID or a passport.
00:19:08.000 Very soon, the passport will no longer be acceptable.
00:19:11.440 And every American citizen who wants to fly will have to have a real ID.
00:19:16.840 I think this is Big Brother.
00:19:18.720 I don't like the idea of the government having a database that includes information on every American.
00:19:25.700 But we see this happening right now in the United Kingdom.
00:19:29.120 The regime there, of course, claims it will help crack down on illegal immigration.
00:19:34.100 But that's a ruse.
00:19:35.560 Britain is a nation that has allowed a flood of Muslims into their country, 1.00
00:19:39.680 letting them sexually violate their women, 0.99
00:19:42.100 and then cracking down on critics who voice their displeasure over the status quo on social media. 0.97
00:19:47.720 What is it about this that they must catalog all of their citizens?
00:19:54.100 This is the beginning of a Chinese-style social credit system where people will not be able to access basic services or goods
00:20:01.900 unless they are, quote-unquote, good citizens.
00:20:05.100 In other words, subservient to the state.
00:20:08.160 This is why many of us stand opposed to real ID mandates here in the United States.
00:20:13.000 No matter how well-intentioned it may be, steps towards mandatory digital ID only further destroy our privacy rights
00:20:21.840 and take us further down the road to technocracy.
00:20:25.540 Britain should rebel against this system.
00:20:27.420 Americans should never, ever tolerate anything like this.
00:20:32.220 In the meantime, my good friend Katie Hopkins, who's both a, I would say, a comedian, also a social commentator,
00:20:40.600 has now been interviewed by the police in the UK about a comedy show that she puts on once a week.
00:20:48.260 This is absolutely Orwellian.
00:20:50.400 This is Big Brother writ large.
00:20:53.580 I've told Katie Hopkins that if she wants to seek refuge, if she wants to go into exile,
00:20:58.380 well, right here in South Florida where I live, is a great place for her to do so. 0.57
00:21:02.920 After all, it worked for Napoleon, at least for a little while.
00:21:06.940 In the meantime, a study conducted by the Stanford Social Media Lab and its behavioral research firm, BetterUp,
00:21:14.780 has determined that the use of AI is actually resulting in lower productivity
00:21:19.200 as workers use AI to produce substandard output that looks passable but ultimately contains nothing of true substance.
00:21:27.160 They use the term work slop to describe AI produces output that ultimately will need to be redone because it has no value.
00:21:35.720 As someone who has to write a daily substack as well as writing pieces for my website at StoneZone,
00:21:42.640 I understand when something has been done by AI.
00:21:46.160 I try to do all the work myself.
00:21:48.840 I do use AI for research but only for research purposes.
00:21:52.460 When you use AI to actually fulfill your voice, well, I consider it cheating and I understand why they call it work slop.
00:22:02.320 It can take up to two hours of work slop to be corrected and reinterpreted.
00:22:06.280 Putting a drain on workers' productivity as it needs to correct the many errors of AI to be effective.
00:22:11.800 As corporate America has become more driven by AI, it will therefore produce worse and worse products, services, and articles.
00:22:19.720 It's been estimated by Goldman Sachs that AI technology could force 6-7% of workers out of their jobs entirely once AI is fully adopted in a widespread manner.
00:22:30.740 This is, of course, a low-ball estimate.
00:22:32.660 AI is dangerous, folks, particularly when people can make audios and videos of you saying things you never actually said.
00:22:42.640 There really is nothing more shocking than going online and seeing audios or listening to videos of you, I put quotes around that, saying things you never said.
00:22:53.040 Let me tell you how widespread this abuse is.
00:22:55.280 The January 6th committee actually showed audios and videos that were very definitely AI-generated.
00:23:02.140 In fact, I used two different AI detection software programs to prove that January 6th falsified their audios and videos of me, putting words in my mouth.
00:23:12.940 But I can't prove it now because, well, the Democrats who dominated that committee destroyed all the records when they lost the majority.
00:23:20.360 We need a new January 6th committee, but we should not accept the appointment of Democrats like Eric Swalwell or Jamie Raskin or others who were actively involved in that criminal hoax on the American people.
00:23:36.500 Meanwhile, enlistments in the U.S. National Guard are zoring as the Department of War, previously known as the Department of Defense, has already shot well past its recruiting goals for fiscal year 2025.
00:23:49.400 This is a complete reversal from the last year of Joe Biden's presidency.
00:23:55.240 Since the Department of War has now announced that since November 2024, the War Department has achieved its strongest recruiting performance in 30 years, with fiscal year-to-date accessions as the end of August reaching 106 percent of active duty targets.
00:24:13.840 The Army National Guard and the Air National Guard have combined to list almost 50,000 new members this fiscal year as of this month, bringing total National Guard's end strength to over 433,000, surpassing each component's goals and marking one of the most successful recruiting years in a decade.
00:24:35.620 You see, young Americans are regaining their patriotism and their pride of country, and once again, they want to serve the nation.
00:24:42.800 This has to do with the leadership of one Donald J. Trump.
00:24:46.660 Whereas in previous administrations, joining the National Guard may have meant fighting a war in the Middle East based on deceptions and perhaps coming home in a body bag for the military-industrial complex.
00:24:58.840 Now it means going to the border and defending against an invasion of illegal immigrants or helping secure citizens being seized by left-wing thugs.
00:25:08.000 In other words, the National Guard is finally back to serving national priorities under the Trump administration, and the young people of America are getting this message.
00:25:17.340 The patriotic awakening we're seeing happening is a result of President Trump's MAGA agenda taking hold and completely and totally changing our culture.
00:25:27.460 Meanwhile, President Donald Trump has announced a new round of tariffs, stating that he intends to oppose a 25 percent tariff on all heavy trucks made outside the United States.
00:25:37.140 He will also be imposing a 50 percent tariff on bathroom vanities, kitchen cabinets, and related products, as well as a 30 percent tariff on upholstered furniture.
00:25:48.360 And perhaps the most important of his new tariff announcements, he stated that all pharmaceutical products will receive a 100 percent tariff unless the company is manufacturing its products right here in the United States.
00:26:01.460 This one move has the potential to end China's stranglehold on the production of our medicine.
00:26:08.100 These tariffs are set to go into place on October 1st.
00:26:11.520 I always wondered who, in the Bush administration or the Clinton administration or the Obama administration or the Biden administration, thought it was a good idea to have all our most important medicines, all of our most important pharmaceutical products produced completely and totally in communist China.
00:26:30.840 Is profit so driving these decisions that we put the national security at risk?
00:26:37.540 Donald Trump is moving quickly to reverse this horrific decision by prior presidents.
00:26:43.120 Even as President Trump receives massive pressure from financial interests to stop the tariffs, he remains steadfast in his American first trade policies because they're working.
00:26:53.040 Just this past month, June, was the first time in 15 years that the United States actually had a surplus.
00:27:01.040 That means that we took in more money than the government paid out.
00:27:05.100 This is unknown in the prior administrations.
00:27:08.520 It's been a long 15 years since this was the case.
00:27:11.600 These tariff policies, what the president has called free trade, at least as it was sold to the American people, has been an abject failure.
00:27:21.840 It essentially hollowed out middle America while allowing corporate interests to reap all the awards.
00:27:27.820 Under what I call Trumponomics, corporations can still make money, but they have to serve the people of America while doing so.
00:27:35.460 These tariff policies may have their ups and downs in terms of the day-to-day economy.
00:27:40.080 But in the long term, they're putting America back on the trajectory towards prosperity and self-sufficiency, like it was for the first 200 years of our existence, before the neoliberals and the so-called free marketeers took over.
00:27:56.060 It's not that we are against free trade, but we want free and fair trade.
00:28:01.660 For too long, our trading partners had arrangements with the United States that benefited them, but did not benefit us.
00:28:09.320 Donald Trump's been talking about this since, well, a speech he made in Portsmouth, New Hampshire in 1988, when I first convinced him that he ought to seriously explore running for president.
00:28:20.540 This was the first time he dipped his toe in the water.
00:28:23.400 The time was not right, but the themes of that speech before the Portsmouth, New Hampshire Chamber of Commerce were very, very similar to what he says today.
00:28:33.480 In fact, in that speech, he called for our NATO partners to pay their fair share for their defense in Europe.
00:28:41.220 He insisted that we were sending social workers while our trading partners were sending their best and brightest business minds to negotiate our tariff agreements.
00:28:53.680 This, by the way, was pre-NAFTA and pre-GAT, but Donald Trump correctly said we were being taken to the cleaners.
00:29:01.620 He called for reinvigorating our national defense, which had been allowed to atrophy in the years before he spoke in Portsmouth.
00:29:09.580 He talked about the concept of peace through strength returning as the underlying principle of our foreign policy.
00:29:17.620 In other words, not going around the world looking for foreign wars to get us into where our inherent national interests were never actually clear.
00:29:27.840 He called for an end to the erosion of our civil liberties, an end to the massive spending and waste of government.
00:29:35.480 We've seen that exposed by Elon Musk and his Doge operation, which uncovered not millions, not billions, but trillions of dollars of waste, fraud and corruption in federal spending.
00:29:50.080 Waste, fraud and corruption that will be dealt with in a number of rescission motions by this administration.
00:29:55.600 It is an entirely new day in America, but Donald Trump saw it as early as 1988.
00:30:03.500 He talked about it again in 2000 when the billionaire Ross Perot and his then friend Jesse Ventura, the former professional wrestler who had been elected governor of Minnesota,
00:30:15.880 both urged him to consider a race for president as the Reform Party candidate.
00:30:20.660 The president likes to remind everybody he did not run.
00:30:24.580 He looked at it, but he did not run in that year.
00:30:28.340 But the Reform Party primaries in California and in Michigan, which took place almost a month after Trump announced that he would not be a candidate,
00:30:38.140 had both record turnouts and Donald Trump won both of them.
00:30:42.140 No, I was among the first in the country that saw that Donald Trump had the capacity to be not just a great candidate for president,
00:30:50.480 but to be a truly great president himself.
00:30:53.000 And I turned out to be exactly right.
00:30:55.600 And now we have a second American revolution, a complete turning around of the ship of state.
00:31:01.180 I know that there are those who are Trump supporters who may be impatient that everything isn't happening at once.
00:31:08.400 But this president is putting in long hours and he is entirely focused on making America great again.
00:31:15.900 I actually believe that having the 2020 election stolen from us, as I believe it was, was a blessing in disguise.
00:31:23.540 What you have today is a battle hardened, tested, much wiser Donald Trump.
00:31:31.060 You see this in the priorities of his presidency.
00:31:34.240 Not only is he going to make our economy great again, but we're going to enter a golden age of peace, prosperity, law and order and justice.
00:31:43.160 It's just around the corner.
00:31:44.780 I'm Roger Stone.
00:31:45.720 You're listening to The Stone Zone and we'll be right back.
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00:32:02.520 You know, just every time I think the New York City mayoral candidate Zoran Mamdami cannot get more ridiculous, he completely discredits me.
00:32:13.500 Now he wants to double down on the city's disastrous amnesty and sanctuary city policies.
00:32:18.580 Devoting $100 million in legal aid to illegal aliens.
00:32:23.600 Let's listen to Mamdami himself.
00:32:26.000 Our campaign is one that stands by the actual enforcement of the law as it is here in New York City with sanctuary city policies that have kept us safe.
00:32:34.240 I would also commit to increasing the staffing of our law department by 200 to bring us back to pre-COVID levels.
00:32:40.840 And to ensure that when we look at this city, we are using every tool at our disposal to keep New Yorkers together, to keep families together.
00:32:49.920 400,000 of our residents are right now in urgent risk of deportation.
00:32:54.380 The city knows that when it provides legal assistance to those same New Yorkers, their chances of going home increase 11-fold.
00:33:00.920 And yet it has only assisted fewer than 200 of those New Yorkers.
00:33:04.360 That's why also a cornerstone of our campaign is a commitment to increase funding for those very legal defense services by more than $100 million.
00:33:11.560 So that we can ensure we're taking every step we can to keep New Yorkers safe, to keep New Yorkers together, and to show the world that they are welcome in the city.
00:33:19.960 Does he actually believe that he can convince New Yorkers that the onslaught and invasion of illegal immigrants has made New York City safer and a better place to live? 1.00
00:33:32.000 This is the same candidate for mayor who said only days ago that incarcerating violent criminals serve no purpose other than making their victims feel good.
00:33:43.000 This is the same candidate for mayor who would defund our police, who would do away with cash bail entirely,
00:33:51.000 and who admits that he would pay for all of his giveaway, everything for free programs by raising taxes on, he said it, I didn't, white people.
00:34:00.960 This is the most radical candidate for mayor in New York City history.
00:34:05.460 New York City is on the cusp of electing a mayor who embraces the ideology of those who attacked America on 9-11.
00:34:14.660 You can't make this stuff up.
00:34:16.220 See, now Mamdami wants to use lawfare to keep illegal immigrants from being deported.
00:34:21.880 So therefore, you heard him in his own words.
00:34:23.840 He wants New York City to become a destination spot for illegals. 0.96
00:34:27.980 He's not mincing words. 0.89
00:34:29.180 New York City's voters have little more than a month to come to their senses and ensure that this lunatic does not become their next mayor. 0.57
00:34:37.100 Mamdami's brand of socialism will set New York City back decades and cause so much damage that the city may never actually recover. 0.91
00:34:45.040 This could be a wake-up call for the entire country, but it needs to reject socialism and destitution as socialism grows more popular nationwide.
00:34:56.460 On the other hand, I think Mamdami benefits from this fake positioning as an outsider.
00:35:03.840 In many ways, he's actually like Trump.
00:35:06.080 He pretends to be a political outsider fighting the entrenched dark money and special interests.
00:35:11.720 But the fraud investigator, Sam Antar, has famously completely exposed that entire hoax.
00:35:19.600 If you think that Mamdami is riding a crest of popular support, that his movement to become mayor is people-funded and generated, then you need to take a closer look.
00:35:30.880 Mamdami, who is himself wealthy, has a campaign funded by millionaires and billionaires who are bundling hundreds of thousands of dollars and benefiting from New York City's campaign finance matching funds.
00:35:46.600 This is an epic structure of nonprofit organizations, much of it Soros money, funding this faux populist.
00:35:56.120 This is the most dangerous candidate for mayor in New York City history, but he is now trying to dial back and act more moderate.
00:36:03.360 For those who say you don't have to worry about his mayoral status because the governor, Kathy Hochul, has the real financial and legal power over New York City and she won't dial him back.
00:36:16.740 That, of course, is entirely wrong.
00:36:18.740 No, she is so afraid of the radical progressive wing of the Democrat Party, which stands on the cusp of getting rid of Chuck Schumer, because Schumer is considered too moderate for them, that she will kowtow and do anything to curry favor with Mamdami and his radical supporters.
00:36:37.680 No, I'm issuing a warning.
00:36:40.020 If Mamdami is elected mayor, New York City will be a flaming wreck by the end of his term.
00:36:45.900 This could be good for national Republicans who can point to what happens when you elect socialists or jihadis to public office, but it will not be good for New Yorkers.
00:36:56.940 And that is my prediction.
00:36:58.700 Thank you for joining us today in the Stone Zone.
00:37:00.880 I'm Roger Stone.
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