In breaking news, New York AG Letitia James has been indicted by a grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia on charges including mortgage fraud, bank fraud, and lying to a financial institution. In the meantime, President Donald Trump has returned the United States to commemorating Christopher Columbus s arrival in America as a federal holiday.
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00:00:37.640Welcome. You are now entering the Stone Zone.
00:00:41.900Well, in breaking news, New York Attorney General Letitia James has been indicted by a grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia
00:00:51.720on charges including mortgage fraud, bank fraud, and lying to a financial institution.
00:01:00.000I point out that all of these charges are more serious than the charges that James fabricated against President Donald Trump in the state of New York.
00:01:10.520And this indictment, despite the very best effort of career prosecutors, read that as Democrats, who only yesterday leaked a story which said that career prosecutor and department head Elizabeth Yussi's own internal investigation determined that there was no probable cause to charge James.
00:01:36.480That leak in itself turns out to be a crime
00:01:40.320In other words, leaking the results of an ongoing investigation is a violation of 28 CFR 50.2
00:01:51.520Unauthorized Disclosure of Pending Investigations based on the Department of Justice manual
00:01:57.620If you read into this, it's actually a little worse than it sounds
00:02:01.260You assume, perhaps wrongly, that this story that was leaked to NBC and the UK Daily Mail only yesterday to try to stop the criminal indictment of Letitia James didn't actually come from this woman, you see, but was leaked by two other DOJ employees.
00:02:23.640The important thing to remember here is that obviously a grand jury of Letitia James' peers disagreed with the career Democrats, and this is another big win for Lindsey Halligan, the interim U.S. attorney put in place by President Donald Trump, when they learned that the previous U.S. attorney, who was supposedly investigating James Comey as well as Letitia James,
00:02:51.580failed to disclose his stunning conflict of interest that his father-in-law, Eric Siebert,
00:02:58.620the U.S. attorney's father-in-law, his wife's father, was the godfather to James Comey's daughter.
00:03:06.400That means he should have recused himself from the Comey case, but instead of doing so,
00:03:11.420he had prosecutors file a 51-page report advising against the charges of James Comey.
00:03:19.580The president fired him, and the grand jury heard the evidence presented to them by Lindsey Halligan, and that's how James Comey was charged.
00:03:34.140This is, of course, based originally on a referral from federal housing regulator Bill Pulte.
00:03:41.640All of the records involved in the investigation are a matter of public record, meaning there were no proprietary government records used in this investigation.
00:03:53.920Anyone with a laptop can see how and why Letitia James broke the law.1.00
00:04:24.060That woke and politically correct title replaced the holiday dedicated to the famous Italian explorer.
00:04:32.960The first recorded celebration of Columbus's voyage to the United States actually came in 1792, so this is the 300th anniversary.
00:04:43.100There were then events in New York and Baltimore.
00:04:45.700This issue is very important to Italian-Americans across the country.
00:04:51.600It became a federal holiday originally in 1937 under Franklin Roosevelt,
00:04:57.460largely due to heavy lobbying by the Italian-American groups
00:05:01.500and the Knights of Columbus, a very famous Catholic fraternal organization.
00:05:07.080It was initially observed as a holiday on October 12th each year.
00:05:10.780The holiday gained traction as a way to celebrate Italian-American pride and culture
00:05:14.960and Columbus's role in connecting the old and new worlds.
00:05:21.160Of course, the 1968 Uniform Holidays Act changed the date effective 1971 to create a consistent three-day holiday weekend for federal employees.
00:05:35.500Over time, however, the holiday has faced criticism from woke lunatics who accused Columbus of colonization, violence, and exploitation of indigenous peoples.
00:05:46.080And then, of course, it was replaced with Indigenous Peoples Day.
00:05:51.480We're going back to calling it exactly what it is, Columbus Day.
00:05:55.640It will remain a federal holiday, but the observance is different across the country.
00:06:01.160Federal office is closed, but many states like California and Hawaii, largely woke states, have opted for alternative commemorations.
00:06:12.860That would be the Indigenous Peoples Day.
00:06:17.460So President Donald Trump made the announcement today.
00:08:25.620Nixon actually came very close to putting the first Italian-American president in office because the finalists for vice president on Richard Nixon's 1968 ticket were Spiro T. Ted Agnew, a Greek who was, of course, the governor of Maryland, and John Volpe, an Italian-American who was the Republican governor of Massachusetts.
00:08:53.840Nixon came very close to taking Volpe if that had happened, and Watergate transpired exactly as it went down, which we now know, of course, was not the version presented to us by the Washington Post, but a takedown.
00:09:09.040According to classified documents, the CIA was well aware of the Watergate break-in plans, and they infiltrated the burglar team, and the rest, of course, is history.
00:09:20.980Ultimately, Nixon went down not for approving or knowing about the Watergate break-in, but for allegedly trying to cover it up.
00:09:29.320But had that happened, of course, John Volpe would have become your first Italian-American president.
00:09:34.760We still have not had an Italian-American president, but Italian-American voters voted for the Trump Vance ticket in overwhelming numbers,
00:09:42.980numbers, an important part of the realignment in which Republicans have now joined common
00:09:49.780sense Democrats, independents, libertarians, free thinkers, anyone who isn't for endless
00:09:56.520foreign war, anyone who supports free speech, anyone who wants to make America healthy again.
00:10:03.380The move by President Trump to reassert that Columbus Day would continue to be observed
00:10:09.860as a federal holiday, was hailed by the Italian American Civil Rights League,
00:10:15.660the nonprofit organization that fights to preserve Italian American history and culture.
00:12:51.140In response, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has invited President Trump to give a historic address to Israel's parliament, the Knesset.
00:13:01.240The Islamic terror group Hamas even commended President Trump on his efforts to bring about a final end to the war.
00:13:08.960President Trump is obviously one of the greatest diplomatic negotiators in the history of the country.
00:13:14.180He has really moved our country away from the neoconservative belligerence and antagonism towards America first pragmatism and understanding.
00:13:24.540President Trump has negotiated peace deals between India and Pakistan, Armenia and Azerbaijan, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda.
00:13:36.380That was a particularly long and bloody conflict.
00:13:39.380He brought an end to the war between Israel and Iran with a ceasefire.
00:13:44.180He established economic normalization between Serbia and Kosovo.
00:13:48.740And, of course, he signed the historic Abraham Accords, bringing Israel closer to their Arab neighbors in his first term.
00:13:57.420This is all in addition to this peace deal announced yesterday.
00:14:02.020It is absolutely clear to me now that the global elitists on the Nobel Peace Prize Committee should give Donald Trump the Nobel Peace Prize.
00:14:38.980You're listening to The Stone Zone, where I thank God that you tune in for incisive political analysis and coverage gleaned from my 50 years in the American political vineyards.
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00:15:04.820So to counter the woke display from the National Football League, Turning Point USA is introducing their own alternative all-American halftime show for the Super Bowl that will honor America rather than denigrating our country.
00:15:21.080The TPUSA, this is the organization of the martyred Charlie Kirk, my good friend who was brutally assassinated only weeks ago, will be centered around faith, family, and freedom.
00:15:33.020And they will announce details about performers in the coming days
00:15:37.780This of course comes after the NFL announced that Bad Bunny would be their halftime act for the Super Bowl0.88
00:15:45.080Now Bad Bunny is a ghettoized Latino act popular in the slums of the third world1.00
00:15:51.420I believe Bad Bunny is a man who performs in women's clothes
00:15:56.980I'm not very familiar with the performer or the genre
00:16:01.440other than to say it certainly doesn't seem very family-oriented or traditional.
00:16:08.180They're neglecting their core American audience, football fans.
00:16:12.760These are supporters who made football great and made it extraordinarily profitable.
00:16:17.700They seem to be trying to appeal to international markets as they host games around the country.
00:16:24.500It's not incidental that Bad Bunny is also a notorious Trump hater who regularly appears in public, as I said, wearing dresses.
00:16:32.800He can be seen in a recent edition of Saturday Night Live telling Americans they need to learn Spanish in preparation for understanding and appreciating his halftime show.0.92
00:16:46.200I mean, this talentless minstrel is a symbol for the replacement of Americans straight out of the cultural sewer.0.79
00:16:52.860The latest false idol propped up for the degradation and degeneration of our American society.0.73
00:17:00.840What the National Football League really needs to do is to fulfill the agreement, the settlement that they signed with their veteran players.0.51
00:17:11.820A number of their veteran players, who are, by the way, overwhelmingly African-Americans, reached a settlement with the National Football League decades ago to deal with their brain injuries and other resulting injuries from playing the sport in its early days when the equipment was not nearly as good.
00:17:33.380But unfortunately, in that settlement, the millions of dollars, I think it was $236 million was the agreed to amount.
00:17:40.860Most of that money has gone to lawyers and conservators, and very little of that money has flowed down to the average veteran NFL player.
00:17:53.120Many of them actually Hall of Famers who became impoverished and were wracked with health issues and enormous legal bills that they could not pay.
00:18:03.580So not only should the NFL, in my opinion, Roger Goodell, son of New York U.S. Senator Charles Goodell, who was defeated by Jim Buckley in the 1970 U.S. Senate race.
00:18:17.900The Democrat in that race was Richard Ottinger, a Democrat from Westchester County.
00:18:24.640In a historic upset, Roger Goodell, the current National Football League head, is former Senator Goodell's son.
00:18:35.420Then you do right by their veteran players.
00:18:37.720I'm Roger Stone. This is Stone Zone, and we'll be right back.
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00:19:00.840I, of course, have predicted consistently that New York Attorney General Letitia James would be charged.
00:19:07.080I did that because I followed whitecollarfraud.com and I read all of the attendant documents and it became very clear to me based on the great work of Sam Antar, the fraud investigator, and the actual documents which you can link to that she had violated the law.
00:19:40.460I mean, in these shutdowns, when the funding agreement runs out, the government provides for essential services.
00:19:49.920So Social Security checks, for example, continue to go out.
00:19:53.920But this fight is not difficult to understand.
00:19:57.820The Republicans put forward what's called a continuing resolution, which is a temporary agreement in which both parties agree to continue to fund the government at current levels of spending.
00:20:10.100Not that we don't need to cut federal spending, because we do.
00:20:14.480The Democrats refused to agree to that, wanting to add $1.4 billion in new spending,
00:20:20.880the focal point of which, even though they deny it, was in fact free health care for illegal immigrants.
00:20:29.080Chuck Schumer, and this is the Schumer shutdown, is either delusional or knows something that I don't
00:20:36.360because he's celebrating the government shutdown, claiming that it gets better every day for Democrats in Congress.
00:20:43.720Chuck Schumer said, every day gets better for us.
00:20:45.960It's because we've thought about this long in advance,
00:20:48.360and we knew that health care would be the focal point on September 30th,
00:23:22.200Donald Trump, I believe, is now serious about trying to implement a number of the Doge findings by Elon Musk,
00:23:31.700where Musk uncovered not millions, not billions, but trillions of dollars of waste, fraud, and corruption.
00:23:40.500And the most shocking thing, of course, that Elon Musk discovered was that millions and millions of dollars
00:23:48.600were being funneled through USAID and was going out the back door to these enormous NGO,
00:23:55.800No, these non-government, non-profit organizations where that money was being weaponized for political games to to finance those trying to tear down America.
00:24:08.500And in some cases, even those who are advocating mayhem, violence and death.
00:24:15.760So USAID will seek to be USAID was actually never passed by the Congress.
00:24:21.940Interestingly enough, the USAID was first founded by President John F. Kennedy.
00:24:30.360It was founded through executive order and morphed from its original, I think, noble purpose of being a bulk work against communism in this hemisphere, Central and South America, to being an ATM machine for the radical left.
00:24:50.120So the fact that President Trump and Stephen Miller and Russ Vogt are working to shut down USAID is a great, great benefit.
00:25:01.400The White House has just discovered more than $100 million in taxpayer funds going into the illegal Antifa network.
00:25:10.600The White House discovered these funds funneled through various nonprofit groups into the coffers of Antifa and announced these findings yesterday.
00:25:19.380They were presented to President Donald Trump during a recent press conference.
00:25:24.380Some of these nonprofits include the Arabella Network, the Tides Network, and the Ford Foundation.
00:25:31.480The administration is referring to these groups collectively as Riot, Inc.
00:25:36.280The director of research at the Government Accountability Institute, Seamus Brunner, said,
00:25:41.640We have identified dozens of radical left organizations, not just the decentralized Antifa organizations, but dozens of radical organizations have received more than $100 million from U.S. taxpayers.
00:26:00.280The recommendations to defeat left-wing terrorism, what we see going on today in Portland, in Seattle, in Chicago, in Washington, D.C.,
00:26:09.860And if the left continues their intransience and their resistance to Donald Trump's efforts to fulfill the mandate that he was given in the last election, I predict we'll explain to other cities.
00:26:24.560They include additional investigations now into these left networks.
00:26:29.220They also include an end of government funding.
00:26:33.720There'll be new rules on financial disclosures.
00:26:35.220disclosures, there'll be a greater effort to review the non-profit status of these groups,
00:26:40.560and there's going to be a strengthening of anti-fraud and anti-violence laws.
00:26:45.940These recommendations, in my opinion, don't even go far enough. It's time to start charging and
00:26:50.860arresting those individuals behind the terror network. This has nothing to do with free speech.
00:26:55.800This has everything to do with those who are fomenting actual violence. These organizations
00:27:01.860need to be declared as what they are, enemy combatants subject to indefinite detention under
00:27:08.360the National Defense Authorization Act and then ship them to Gitmo. This is a war and this left
00:27:15.100wing domestic enemy is more dangerous to America than ISIS could ever have been. President Donald
00:27:21.540Trump, with help from Stephen Miller, is going to deconstruct this dangerous cabal that is
00:27:28.640financing violence against the American people.
00:27:31.660Meanwhile, there is a controversy over the policy of the Trump administration,
00:27:37.200which has, in their ongoing fight against Marxism in this hemisphere,
00:27:45.200bombed narco-trafficking boats connected to Venezuela.
00:27:51.580I want to commend Secretary of State Marco Rubio for his hard line against Maduro in Venezuela, against the regime in Venezuela, against the regime in Cuba, and also an awareness of the growing regime in Honduras.
00:28:12.000and a new poll shows that 71% of Americans,
00:28:42.000Chuck Schumer has moved in the Senate with others, including Richard Blumenthal, the Vietnam War hero who lied about his service in that conflict, to limit the president's ability to destroy these drug vehicles.
00:28:58.100It's very clear that nation states like Venezuela, like Cuba, like Honduras, they give lip service to drug trafficking detection.0.66
00:29:13.560But the truth is, these are narco-Marxist states.0.70
00:29:18.460And President Donald Trump and the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, know that.
00:29:22.880So while the Democrats and others scream about civil liberties and executive power, President Trump is once and again delivering with his hardline anti-drug policies, which clearly, according to this poll, are supported by a broad majority of the public.
00:29:40.120The Trump administration had ordered the destruction of at least four boats
00:29:46.080Allegedly operated by South American cartels since early September
00:29:50.940With over 20 drug traffickers being killed in those explosions
00:29:55.300The Trump administration declared South American drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations
00:30:01.020And told Congress last week that the U.S. is now in a non-international armed conflict
00:30:08.380with these drug terrorists. The administration is particularly concerned with the violent
00:30:14.000Venezuelan gang, Tren de Agua, and their connections to the nation's communist dictator,
00:30:21.340Nicolas Maduro. Maduro notoriously colludes with China to ship cocaine and fentanyl and other
00:30:28.160dangerous drugs through Latin America up across the U.S. southern border. The Biden administration,
00:30:34.000of course, turned a blind eye to this, actually supporting countries that were aligned with
00:30:38.540Maduro in the region. Those days have come to a screeching halt. President Trump is putting
00:30:43.640down the drug smuggling operations that have resulted in the deaths of millions of Americans.
00:30:49.660He is committed to ending the scourge of fentanyl because we have a fentanyl epidemic in this
00:30:55.560country. Drug dealers now know that their free pass is over. And if they continue to peddle
00:31:00.500narcotics to the United States with President Trump in charge, there will be grave consequences.
00:31:05.840I commend President Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the Director of National Intelligence,
00:31:12.720Tulsi Gabbard, in their hardline support for the removal of Maduro in this hemisphere,0.92
00:31:20.280and their recognition that Maduro is, in fact, a narco-terrorist and a dangerous Marxist thug.0.95
00:32:52.000If you're just tuning in, the breaking news today is a decision by the grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia
00:32:59.040to indict New York Attorney General Letitia James for mortgage fraud, bank fraud,
00:33:07.060and making misrepresentations to a financial institution.
00:33:12.060I predicted that this indictment would come.
00:33:15.000Many at NBC and others tried to discredit this investigation, but the facts are absolutely clear.
00:33:22.980If you or I did what Letitia James did, we too would be charged.
00:33:26.840People don't realize this, but thousands of people are charged and convicted of mortgaging fraud every single year.
00:33:34.700The regulators at the Federal Housing Finance Administration regularly find irregularities and refer them to the U.S. Justice Department for prosecution.
00:33:47.160The only reason you know about this is because Letitia James is famous.
00:33:52.000But her lawyer, Abby Lowell, claiming that this was a simple typographical error, clerical error.
00:33:58.980Obviously, the grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia thought otherwise.
00:34:06.060Meanwhile, Senator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama, a legendary football coach before he was elected to the U.S. Senate, is now leading an effort to ban Sharia law nationwide.
00:34:18.800Sharia law is, of course, the Islamic custom that circumvents the U.S. Constitution
00:34:24.460and involves Muslims resolving disputes and enforcing mandates1.00
00:34:29.200based upon their backward and barbaric teachings in the Koran0.91
00:34:34.620that don't respect the U.S. Constitution or U.S. law.0.93
00:34:39.220You won't hear from Democrats how radical Islamic terrorists
00:34:42.500are currently carrying out the mass genocide of Christians in Nigeria.
00:34:47.340In fact, just this year alone, more than 7,000 Nigerian Christians have been slaughtered based on their faith alone.
00:34:56.720You can't turn on the TV without hearing about Israel's so-called mass genocide of Palestinians every day.
00:35:02.760Yet when it comes to the 62,000 Christians being slaughtered by radical Muslims, it's pretty much complete radio silence.
00:35:12.680This extreme ideology is straight from the pits of hell, and it has no place in American society, according to Senator Tuberville of Alabama.0.51
00:35:22.380Sharia law has, of course, been documented.
00:35:24.380It's taking place in Muslim enclaves such as Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Dearborn, Michigan.0.92
00:35:29.980In Europe, it is even worse, where Muslim rapists in the U.K. now go free because the local authorities are too scared of being called racist to prosecute them.0.95
00:35:40.060In fact, what will get you arrested in England today is criticizing Muslims.0.99
00:35:44.800That's a more serious crime than rape, and that is a sad fact.
00:35:53.600Banning Sharia law here in the United States by an act of Congress signed into law by the president would be a great start.1.00
00:36:01.220But the total shutdown of immigration from the third world must accompany that ban,1.00
00:36:06.320because if the demographic shifts continue, we will be lorded over by the likes of Zoran Mamdami forevermore.0.97
00:36:15.100It is the demographic changes in the city of New York where the percentage of the Catholic and Protestant vote
00:36:24.560and the percentage of white voters has diminished over time.
00:36:29.060As the city became more ethically diverse, it has opened the door to a Marxist progressive ideology as well as a jihadist ideology that was able to dominate the recent Democrat primary for mayor of New York City.
00:36:48.440Mamdami continues to pass as the agent for hope and change,
00:36:53.840with voters not really focusing on the end result of the various radical policies that he puts forward.
00:37:02.260When he says incarcerating criminals has no value other than making the victims feel good,
00:37:10.740that kind of tells you where he's coming from.
00:37:12.380This is a mayor who, no matter what he tells you now as he tries to backpedal from the radical message he used to win the primary, will defund the police, will continue this trend towards doing away with cash bail, and ultimately the streets of New York City will be even less safe than they are today.
00:37:35.700I think the crime statistics that have been supplied by the Adams administration have been badly tampered with to give a false impression that crime is dropping.
00:37:46.380Ask anybody who lives in New York City, they'll tell you that is not the case.
00:37:51.000This upcoming race for mayor is the focus of national attention because if New York City elects a Marxist mayor from the radical progressive wing of that party, as exemplified by Bernie Sanders, AOC, Jasmine Crockett, and other radicals, New York, by the time we elect another president, will be a flaming wreck.
00:38:17.460between their economic policies, increasing the tax burden on working people,
00:38:23.160making it impossible to do business in the city, and these soft-on-crime policies,
00:38:29.500it will be a showplace nationwide so voters can see the results of electing a Marxist mayor.
00:38:37.580I feel sorry for my many friends in New York City because they will bear the brunt of this,0.94
00:38:42.780But I can tell you that real estate values and prices are going up sharply in South Florida as hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers are already planning their exit in the event that there is a Mamdami administration dedicated to this foreign ideology.0.94
00:39:05.100How ironic that years after the attack on 9-11, that the once great New York Democrat Party nominates a candidate for mayor who embraces that hateful ideology.0.89
00:39:17.780This is The Stone Zone with me, Roger Stone.