The StoneZONE with Roger Stone

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00:00:07.640 Welcome. You're about to dive into the deep end of The Stone Zone where we cover American politics.

00:00:14.980 You can get our incisive analysis based on 50 years in the arena.

00:00:20.520 This just in, former FBI Director James Comey, confirms that he will challenge the legality of Donald Trump's appointment of Lindsey Halligan as the U.S. attorney.

00:00:33.140 Now, you have to remember the background on this. Eric Siebert was appointed U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.

00:00:41.760 This is where the investigation into FBI Director Comey was situated.

00:00:46.760 Siebert was the interim U.S. attorney, but when it was learned, it was actually revealed right here in The Stone Zone,

00:00:56.440 that Eric Siebert had a meaningful conflict of interest, that Siebert's father-in-law, that is to say his wife's father,

00:01:05.080 was James Comey's daughter's grandfather, has also represented Comey as an attorney.

00:01:14.300 This is a material conflict of interest.

00:01:16.860 President Trump also learned that Eric Siebert was quietly preparing a 51-page memo arguing against the prosecution of James Comey,

00:01:27.740 who very clearly lied under oath before Congress, actually the exact same thing they charged me with.

00:01:35.720 So, once Siebert was exposed and fired by the President, that undoubtedly made the office vacant again.

00:01:44.000 And even under a conservative reading of the law, the Attorney General's 120-day appointment power was immediately reset.

00:01:53.840 That meant that Pam Bondi could appoint Lindsey Halligan as the interim U.S. attorney. 0.99

00:01:59.840 So, in sum, even under a conservative interpretation of Section 546, the law in question,

00:02:07.640 Siebert's appointment by the Eastern District of Virginia judges reset when Attorney General's 120-day appointment power expired.

00:02:19.280 And when Siebert was then fired, the office began vacant, which allowed the Attorney General, Pam Bondi,

00:02:24.300 to appoint a new interim U.S. attorney for 120 days.

00:02:28.780 That is Lindsey Halligan.

00:02:29.980 So, this stratagem by James Comey will not work.

00:02:35.020 Halligan will not be turned out.

00:02:38.040 And the indictment against him remains very serious.

00:02:42.980 She also, as you know, at this point, indicted Letitia James for mortgage fraud. 0.98

00:02:49.580 James has complained that mortgage fraud is rarely prosecuted.

00:02:55.480 Others have argued that she's not guilty.

00:02:58.140 She's very clearly guilty, as we've demonstrated here in the Stone Zone,

00:03:02.540 when we had Sam Antar from whitecollarfraud.com outlining the various documents,

00:03:08.260 which are right there in black and white.

00:03:10.300 It turns out that Letitia James herself has prosecuted New Yorkers for the exact same act of mortgage fraud

00:03:16.720 that she now argues is not prosecutable.

00:03:20.600 And then yesterday, shockingly, we learned that the home in Norfolk, Virginia,

00:03:25.420 the home that she lied to get a mortgage for,

00:03:28.780 and specifically in the mortgage documents, she says the home will be occupied by herself and her niece,

00:03:34.740 is occupied by her niece, Nikika Thompson, who turns out to be a fugitive from justice 0.88

00:03:42.320 who's wanted on multiple criminal warrants in the state of North Carolina.

00:03:47.520 So the head law enforcement officer for the state of New York is actually harboring a fugitive

00:03:53.640 in a property that she owns in Norfolk, Virginia.

00:03:56.980 You cannot make this stuff up.

00:03:59.680 Meanwhile, Barack Hussein Obama has reappeared for the final appearance on the left-wing comedian Mark Marone's podcast.

00:04:11.000 He had another other than the former president, Barack Obama,

00:04:14.960 the former White House resident who's contributed more to racial division

00:04:19.200 than perhaps anyone in the history of our country.

00:04:22.160 Obama went on a tone-deaf bromide about the need for decency and civility in politics

00:04:28.680 and how Americans are too caught up on materialism.

00:04:33.320 Let's listen to the former president.

00:04:34.760 The point is that we have blown through, just in the last six months,

00:04:40.840 a whole range of, not simply assumptions, but rules and laws and practices

00:04:50.000 that were put in place to ensure that nobody's above the law

00:05:02.620 and that we don't use the federal government to simply reward our friends and punish our enemies.

00:05:12.340 And the same thing's obviously happening in the Justice Department.

00:05:14.660 So people are right to be concerned.

00:05:18.580 The interesting thing, and what I've been trying to do when I've been speaking about this publicly,

00:05:26.420 is just to remind folks, you know, just as was true during the McCarthy era

00:05:32.380 and has been true throughout our history,

00:05:35.340 what's required in these situations is a few folks standing up and giving courage to other folks

00:05:45.140 and then more people stand up and kind of go like,

00:05:47.440 yeah, no, that's not who we are.

00:05:49.620 That's not our idea of America.

00:05:54.020 We don't want masked, you know, folks with rifles and machine guns patrolling our streets.

00:06:08.120 This actually blows my mind for a couple things. 1.00

00:06:10.680 First of all, this guy does really think we are stupid. 0.99

00:06:13.380 Under the eight years of Barack Obama and the second four years he got to be president 0.99

00:06:18.740 when Joe Biden was the technical president, but we all think we know that Barack Obama was pulling the strings.

00:06:25.340 They engaged in the greatest weaponization of the criminal justice system

00:06:29.440 to go after Donald Trump and his supporters in American history.

00:06:34.660 They engaged in something that was no less than the greatest single dirty trick in American political history

00:06:41.240 in which they used the full authority of the United States government

00:06:44.900 and the incredible capabilities of our intelligence agencies to basically frame Donald Trump

00:06:51.120 for Russian interference and assistance to his election.

00:06:56.000 That was fraudulent.

00:06:57.240 There was never any basis for that.

00:06:59.260 They utilized two pieces of fabricated evidence, the famous Steele dossier.

00:07:05.360 That was actually paid for by Hillary Clinton,

00:07:08.180 and she paid a fine, actually, to the Federal Election Commission

00:07:14.040 for hiding that payment, masking it as legal fees.

00:07:18.260 And then the false claim that the Democrat National Committee

00:07:22.380 had been the target of an online hack by Russian intelligence.

00:07:30.240 There was no truth to that either.

00:07:33.360 But they used both of those canards as the rationale to spy on Donald Trump's campaign.

00:07:41.320 They got FISA warrants in order to do so under false pretenses.

00:07:46.660 They then continued to weaponize that by the setup of the Mueller witch hunt.

00:07:55.840 It was really amazing.

00:07:56.880 I watched an interview with Jack Smith, the now discredited former special counsel,

00:08:02.660 and Andrew Weissman, perhaps the most corrupt prosecutor in U.S. history,

00:08:09.480 talking extensively about how neither one of their probes was politically motivated.

00:08:17.720 I mean, Jack Smith actually made questioning the outcome of an election,

00:08:23.800 which every American has a First Amendment right to do, a crime.

00:08:28.880 He actually spied on eight individual Republican U.S. senators in this twisted manhunt.

00:08:37.860 He also convinced a judge in D.C. to order one of Donald Trump's own lawyers to testify against him

00:08:47.260 and to turn over all of his work documents.

00:08:49.500 That lawyer's name was Evan Corcoran.

00:08:51.520 That is a blatant violation of the Sixth Amendment would never have held up in court.

00:08:56.620 Judge Beryl Howell of D.C. ordered this on her way to retirement. 1.00

00:09:02.620 So the people who ran the greatest weaponized criminal justice system in history to go after their political enemies

00:09:11.120 are now whining because they're being held accountable for their own crimes.

00:09:17.220 Obama is preaching to us about materialism.

00:09:22.040 Barack Obama, who increased his net worth exponentially as president,

00:09:25.920 he has a massive mansion in Martha's Vineyard.

00:09:29.060 He's obviously not too worried about climate change.

00:09:31.820 He has a beach house.

00:09:33.020 This is the same venue where his personal chef mysteriously died, drowning in a few inches of water.

00:09:40.540 None of that has been explained.

00:09:42.840 Notice how quickly that dropped out of the news.

00:09:45.600 So he has his mansions.

00:09:47.060 He has millions of dollars.

00:09:48.600 He's flown around throughout the world, wined and dined and worshipped like a golden calf.

00:09:54.060 But he has an audacity to lecture the American people about being too materialistic.

00:10:00.180 These people are struggling to put food on their plates every day due to the economic policies enacted by Obama and then by Biden.

00:10:09.260 These are the exact problems that President Trump is working at breakneck speed to reverse.

00:10:15.540 So in terms of civility, Obama notoriously attacked white Americans saying that we were bitter clingers

00:10:22.500 because we believed in Christ and the Bible and we support the Second Amendment.

00:10:27.120 This devious Marxist often used surrogates to espouse rhetoric fueling his divisive agenda

00:10:34.400 so he could carry on his polite facade while breaking up and destroying the country 0.96

00:10:40.560 to effectuate the dreams of his alcoholic, deadbeat, Kenyan griftist Marxist of a father. 0.95

00:10:47.940 What pains Obama now is his growing irrelevance,

00:10:51.560 appearing on a podcast that is being shuttered, essentially due to lack of interest,

00:10:55.620 as President Trump rises as the seminal figure of what was once believed to be Obama's era.

00:11:03.060 Then you look at the new podcast by his wife, Michelle Obama,

00:11:06.600 which, based on the number of people downloaded, appears to me to be a gigantic flopperoo.

00:11:13.540 Now Obama has criminal investigations to look forward to over his role in fomenting the Russia gate conspiracy.

00:11:20.140 Truly, nobody deserves a more embarrassing perp walk or to be fitted in an orange jumpsuit

00:11:26.400 more than the usurper Barack Obama himself.

00:11:31.320 You're listening to Roger Stone, and this is the Stone Zone.

00:11:34.520 If you're just tuning in, a new study from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expressions

00:11:39.480 shows that the percentage of young people identifying as transgender is decreasing rapidly

00:11:45.140 as this fad appears to be wearing off.

00:11:49.000 In the survey of over 50,000 undergraduate students,

00:11:53.320 the findings showed that only about 3.6 of young adults considered themselves non-binary or transgender.

00:12:02.540 That's a decline from 5.2 percent of the vote just a few years ago.

00:12:09.160 It is also interesting that it's a 6.8 percent drop just from last year.

00:12:18.840 This is really quite extraordinary.

00:12:21.800 The report author Eric Kaufman said the fall of trans and queer seems similar to the fadings of fashion or trend.

00:12:29.700 It happened largely independently of shifts in political beliefs and social media use,

00:12:34.700 although there seems to be improved mental health playing a role here.

00:12:39.160 As Generation Z increasingly adopts conservative ideals, more traditional ideals, 0.81

00:12:46.000 they're apparently growing out of adopting transgenderism,

00:12:49.440 as there is no more social clout that comes along with this depraved lifestyle choice. 0.67

00:12:55.020 However, thousands of children have already been drugged with puberty blockers 0.98

00:12:58.500 and had their genitals mutilated in service to this weird transgender cult. 1.00

00:13:03.300 So many lives have been destroyed needlessly. 0.99

00:13:07.760 It is truly tragic.

00:13:10.140 The groomers responsible for this should be brought to justice so nothing like it can ever happen again.

00:13:16.960 Why the leadership of the Democratic Party seems to be held captive by 0.8 percent of the public

00:13:23.480 that considers itself transgendered.

00:13:25.400 Well, that's a political question I just can't answer.

00:13:28.620 I'm Roger Stone.

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00:14:32.160 I really appreciate those kind words from Vice President J.D. Vance.

00:14:38.180 Well, ABC's late night host Jimmy Kimmel's ratings have returned to the toilet

00:14:43.040 after he squandered a post-suspension bounce

00:14:46.300 that temporarily rejuvenated interest in the show,

00:14:49.480 which is really actually flailing.

00:14:51.000 Last Wednesday, the Nielsen ratings showed that Kimmel received

00:14:55.200 only about 1.7 million viewers down from an already dismal 1.77.

00:15:02.580 He averaged throughout the second quarter, 2025.

00:15:05.680 In comparison, Fox News' late night alternative, Gutfeld,

00:15:09.840 averaged about 3.2 million viewers throughout the same period,

00:15:15.000 making Gutfeld the new king of late night television.

00:15:18.120 And he gets those numbers on cable TV while being broadcast into far,

00:15:22.480 far fewer homes than Kimmel,

00:15:24.480 who was broadcast both on cable and on broadcast TV,

00:15:29.260 which shows you what a great triumph that is for Gutfeld.

00:15:33.580 Recently, Stephen Colbert was canceled by CBS,

00:15:36.860 as his show was reportedly losing $50 million per year,

00:15:40.820 while he was being viewed by a mere 2.4 million people per night.

00:15:45.340 So, in other words, Colbert, who got canceled,

00:15:48.780 was getting over twice the number of people that Kimmel is getting today.

00:15:53.260 So it begs the question,

00:15:54.560 how much is ABC losing on Kimmel

00:15:56.920 with even more woeful ratings than Colbert?

00:16:01.040 The answer has to be in the tens of millions, actually. 0.99

00:16:04.680 ABC was very stupid for not using the controversy 0.99

00:16:07.900 over Kimmel's reprehensible comments 1.00

00:16:10.520 about my friend Charlie Kirk being murdered

00:16:12.400 to take him off the airways permanently.

00:16:15.480 You see, Disney caved in to left-wing pressure

00:16:18.300 and boycotts that would have faded, frankly, within a week.

00:16:22.060 Now they will lose far more money being stuck with Kimmel

00:16:24.820 for the near future,

00:16:26.160 as canceling him again will just reignite all the vitriol

00:16:29.420 from the American left,

00:16:31.040 who will claim that Kimmel is being censored

00:16:33.200 when he gets the inevitable acts.

00:16:36.020 Disney just can't let it sink in.

00:16:38.220 When you go woke,

00:16:39.700 you surely go broke.

00:16:41.600 Russ Vogt predicted that there will be

00:16:46.660 over 10,000 federal jobs

00:16:49.140 will be ended on a permanent basis

00:16:51.240 during the current government shutdown.

00:16:55.240 Russ Vogt,

00:16:56.480 the director of the Office of Management and Budget,

00:16:58.620 a very good friend of mine,

00:16:59.960 said we want to be very aggressive

00:17:01.500 where we can be in shuttering the bureaucracy,

00:17:03.900 not just the funding.

00:17:05.280 We now have an opportunity to do that,

00:17:07.000 and that's where we're going to be looking for our opportunities.

00:17:09.540 So how about that?

00:17:10.560 Republicans who always talk about smaller,

00:17:12.880 more efficient government,

00:17:14.940 talk about cutting spending,

00:17:17.320 will actually do so

00:17:18.980 by the greatest president of my lifetime,

00:17:21.580 President Donald Trump.

00:17:23.140 This shutdown is the Schumer shutdown, folks.

00:17:26.480 Chuck Schumer, the Democrats,

00:17:28.000 demanding over a billion dollars in new spending

00:17:30.300 to keep the government running,

00:17:31.780 while the Republicans are united

00:17:33.320 to keep the government running

00:17:34.540 at the current funding levels.

00:17:36.800 And that's before we begin the cutting.

00:17:39.960 I'm Roger Stone.

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00:18:04.180 You know, I don't know about you,

00:18:06.800 but I love a good steak

00:18:08.380 or a very high-quality hamburger.

00:18:10.560 But very, very soon,

00:18:12.260 they could actually be hard to find

00:18:14.160 and extremely expensive,

00:18:16.040 even if you can find one.

00:18:17.260 That's right here in America,

00:18:19.080 the land of planted beef

00:18:20.280 may soon become nearly inaccessible.

00:18:23.820 In fall of 2025,

00:18:25.660 Americans face a beef shortage

00:18:27.700 not seen since before 1951,

00:18:31.000 when cattle numbers reached 82.8 million head,

00:18:35.940 compared to just 28.2 million head this year.

00:18:39.880 This decline has driven prices skyward,

00:18:42.640 turning what was once a dietary staple

00:18:45.380 into a luxury.

00:18:47.900 So, ground beef, for example,

00:18:49.880 was once about $3.50 per pound,

00:18:52.440 now exceeds $6 in many areas,

00:18:55.140 with steaks and roasts

00:18:56.700 posting double-digit price increases,

00:18:59.700 according to the latest

00:19:00.660 U.S. Department of Agriculture data.

00:19:03.240 I've really been looking at this

00:19:04.660 because, well, I love a good steak.

00:19:07.440 I like it Pittsburgh-style,

00:19:09.100 you know, kind of charred on the outside,

00:19:10.900 but virtually raw or rare on the inside.

00:19:14.240 It's hard to get exactly right,

00:19:16.780 but a combination of restrictive

00:19:18.520 environmental regulations,

00:19:20.140 escalating production costs,

00:19:22.260 elevated livestock feed prices,

00:19:24.920 and a New World screw worm outbreak in Mexico,

00:19:29.020 where flesh-eating larvae

00:19:31.120 threatened livestock,

00:19:32.560 has actually badly disrupted

00:19:34.240 our current U.S. beef supply chains.

00:19:37.620 Consumers are turning to cheaper cuts,

00:19:40.240 raising concerns about how America's beef industry

00:19:42.800 reached this crisis,

00:19:44.300 and what steps can be done

00:19:45.540 to restore affordability,

00:19:47.760 as well as abundance.

00:19:49.980 The roots of the beef shortage

00:19:51.620 trace back to a series of bad policy decisions,

00:19:54.980 economic pressures, and global events.

00:19:57.160 You see, back in 2015,

00:19:59.660 the Clean Water Rule,

00:20:01.220 passed under Barack Obama,

00:20:03.500 and later expanded under Joe Biden,

00:20:06.460 tightened regulation on the waters

00:20:08.560 of the United States,

00:20:10.140 restricting access to grazing lands for ranchers,

00:20:13.960 climate-smart initiatives

00:20:15.620 from the Inflation Reduction Act,

00:20:18.220 which, of course,

00:20:19.100 did nothing to reduce inflation.

00:20:21.480 You ever notice how they named these bills

00:20:23.560 to be the exact opposite

00:20:25.000 of what they actually do?

00:20:26.960 This imposed these costly compliance measures,

00:20:30.420 such as methane reduction programs

00:20:32.560 on an already strained beef industry

00:20:35.400 here in the United States.

00:20:36.360 So, these regulations

00:20:37.780 are prioritizing environmental goals

00:20:40.200 over food security,

00:20:42.120 essentially handcuffed ranchers,

00:20:44.640 forcing some to sell off cattle

00:20:46.320 rather than navigate

00:20:47.940 the new financial burden

00:20:49.780 of these strict regulations.

00:20:52.220 Concurrently,

00:20:53.880 the Biden-Harris administration

00:20:55.700 rolled out targeted financial programs,

00:20:58.480 including up to $4 billion

00:21:00.420 in loan forgiveness

00:21:01.700 for socially disadvantaged farmers.

00:21:05.380 Those are farmers

00:21:06.560 who were Black, Hispanic,

00:21:08.800 Native American, Asian,

00:21:10.100 or Pacific Islanders

00:21:11.480 through the 2021

00:21:13.260 America Rescue Plan Act,

00:21:16.380 which, of course,

00:21:16.860 did nothing to rescue America.

00:21:19.400 Under Section 1005

00:21:21.700 of the America Rescue Plan of 2021,

00:21:24.800 the U.S. Department of Agriculture

00:21:26.060 was authorized to provide

00:21:28.100 up to 120% forgiveness

00:21:30.200 on eligible outstanding loan balances.

00:21:33.140 That's our tax money, by the way.

00:21:35.900 So, aimed at addressing

00:21:37.220 historical U.S. Department

00:21:39.300 of Agriculture discrimination,

00:21:42.480 the program faced legal challenges

00:21:44.320 partially blocked by

00:21:45.600 for violating equal protection principles,

00:21:48.300 but while these efforts

00:21:49.120 sought to promote equity

00:21:50.340 and drought resilience,

00:21:51.840 what they really did

00:21:52.640 was to put even greater pressure

00:21:55.060 on our domestic beef production.

00:21:59.280 Domestic and global economic factors

00:22:01.380 have added to the crisis.

00:22:02.900 Feed prices for soybeans and corn

00:22:04.820 have risen by 20% to 25% since 2021

00:22:08.340 due to global supply chain disruptions.

00:22:11.620 This has exacerbated costs

00:22:13.020 for U.S. rangers, disruptions,

00:22:14.700 and the war in Ukraine,

00:22:16.200 of course, starting in 2022,

00:22:17.980 spiked costs an additional 30%.

00:22:20.480 At the same time,

00:22:22.220 fuel and labor costs

00:22:23.700 were amplified by inflation,

00:22:25.780 reaching a high of 8% in 2022.

00:22:29.760 These have also strained

00:22:31.360 our agricultural operations.

00:22:33.740 Now, add on top of all that,

00:22:35.460 high interest rates on loans

00:22:36.860 have limited reinvestment

00:22:38.640 in the herds,

00:22:39.800 all the while labor shortages

00:22:41.540 in pandemic areas.

00:22:43.080 Spending and reduced farm productivity

00:22:45.540 increased operational costs.

00:22:47.740 This has threatened the sustainability

00:22:49.080 of small and mid-sized farms

00:22:51.540 and ranches.

00:22:52.960 This resulted in a plummeting

00:22:55.100 U.S. cattle inventory

00:22:56.680 down to 28.2 million head in 2025,

00:23:00.400 with a 10% drop just from 2019 alone.

00:23:04.120 So beef production is projected

00:23:07.300 to fall, let me look to see,

00:23:08.940 26.4 billion pounds in 2021.

00:23:12.220 That's a 2% decline from last year,

00:23:15.380 while overall food prices

00:23:16.960 have risen over 3.4% this year,

00:23:21.260 cooling from an 11% peak in 2022.

00:23:25.480 The beef industry, of course,

00:23:26.740 isn't alone in its struggles.

00:23:28.920 Many other commodities

00:23:29.820 have seen similar upheaval

00:23:31.760 from coffee prices,

00:23:33.460 which are up 54%

00:23:34.980 due to Brazilian droughts.

00:23:37.820 Chocolate has risen 20%

00:23:40.180 in costs due to West African

00:23:41.900 crop failures,

00:23:43.040 and egg prices have fluctuated

00:23:44.840 wildly due to the avian flu.

00:23:48.040 The real issue persists

00:23:49.280 as a unique case,

00:23:50.520 driven by America's 0.56

00:23:51.500 high consumption of 57 pounds

00:23:53.840 per person last year,

00:23:55.560 surpassed only by chicken.

00:23:58.440 You're going to need to watch

00:23:59.740 this issue, folks,

00:24:00.940 because the beef supply

00:24:02.080 is very definitely,

00:24:03.920 I think, in danger.

00:24:07.060 We'll see how the U.S.

00:24:08.620 Department of Agriculture

00:24:09.520 deals with this,

00:24:11.020 but more beef.

00:24:12.800 That's the answer.

00:24:14.080 Meanwhile,

00:24:14.620 Chinese Communist Party leader

00:24:16.100 Xi Jinping believes

00:24:17.180 that the United States

00:24:17.980 will blink first

00:24:18.940 in a prolonged trade war

00:24:20.880 with China,

00:24:21.660 according to Chinese insiders

00:24:23.060 who spoke to

00:24:24.140 the Wall Street Journal

00:24:24.980 this week.

00:24:26.060 China believes 0.74

00:24:27.000 if they can participate

00:24:28.520 in meltdown

00:24:30.760 in the U.S. markets

00:24:31.540 that they can get

00:24:32.260 President Trump

00:24:32.900 to lose his resolve.

00:24:34.740 This week,

00:24:36.040 China sanctioned U.S. units

00:24:37.820 of Hinawa-osha,

00:24:40.460 a South Korean shipping company.

00:24:42.400 Last week,

00:24:42.840 they restricted the export

00:24:43.980 of rare earth elements,

00:24:46.120 which resulted in

00:24:47.260 President Trump

00:24:47.920 threatening a 100% tariff

00:24:50.560 on China

00:24:51.200 unless the Chinese communists

00:24:53.840 backed off.

00:24:55.020 The Chinese economy

00:24:56.080 itself is heading dire straits.

00:24:59.120 Their housing market

00:25:00.200 is collapsing.

00:25:01.560 Deaths are skyrocketing.

00:25:03.080 Consumer confidence

00:25:04.000 is in the toilet

00:25:05.640 in China.

00:25:07.940 Xi may not care

00:25:08.880 about this,

00:25:09.480 but ultimately,

00:25:10.540 enough public anger

00:25:11.680 will force

00:25:12.240 the Communist

00:25:12.800 Politburo to respond.

00:25:14.900 Ultimately,

00:25:15.660 the market economy

00:25:16.520 in the U.S.,

00:25:17.580 while not a full free market

00:25:19.640 by any stretch

00:25:20.320 of the imagination,

00:25:20.860 is far more dynamic

00:25:22.580 than the planned economy

00:25:23.660 of China

00:25:24.180 that was bolstered

00:25:25.640 by a corrupt U.S.

00:25:26.680 political class

00:25:27.460 and allowed them

00:25:28.080 to parasitically

00:25:29.520 feed off

00:25:30.280 the economic might

00:25:31.720 for decades

00:25:32.640 without mounting

00:25:33.760 any resistance.

00:25:35.120 Those days have come

00:25:36.160 to a screeching end.

00:25:37.760 China has to stand 1.00

00:25:38.600 on their own two feet

00:25:39.600 and they believe

00:25:40.120 they can stare down

00:25:40.980 Donald Trump.

00:25:42.520 They have another thing

00:25:43.660 coming because

00:25:44.840 he is an iron man.

00:25:46.580 He will not blink

00:25:47.760 in this fight.

00:25:49.460 And the Chinese 0.97

00:25:50.700 would be wise

00:25:51.900 to realize that

00:25:52.920 and to work out

00:25:54.200 reasonable terms

00:25:55.800 for trade.

00:25:57.220 Meanwhile,

00:25:57.980 the New York Times

00:25:58.840 has done a glowing

00:25:59.920 profile on domestic

00:26:01.380 terrorists

00:26:01.960 who are targeting

00:26:03.320 ICE enforcement agents.

00:26:05.580 The New York Times,

00:26:07.200 once a great newspaper,

00:26:08.360 today essentially

00:26:09.100 a propaganda front

00:26:11.280 for the radical left,

00:26:13.000 released a revolting

00:26:14.460 profile painting

00:26:15.960 domestic terrorists

00:26:17.200 and their sympathizers

00:26:18.300 in Chicago

00:26:18.900 as heroes

00:26:20.180 for impeding

00:26:21.560 immigration enforcement

00:26:22.720 by ICE officers.

00:26:24.540 They interviewed

00:26:25.300 community organizers

00:26:26.420 who are attempting

00:26:27.160 to prevent ICE

00:26:28.140 from enforcing the law,

00:26:29.880 such as city council

00:26:31.160 member Andre Vasquez,

00:26:33.120 who serves as chairman

00:26:34.420 of Chicago's

00:26:35.340 Committee on Immigrant

00:26:37.160 and Refugee Rights.

00:26:38.740 Vasquez told the New York Times,

00:26:40.540 Chicago's been doing

00:26:41.480 just fine

00:26:42.140 and then these guys

00:26:43.520 showed up.

00:26:44.220 There's a big concern

00:26:45.060 about what these

00:26:45.760 unidentified masked men

00:26:47.500 are doing in this city

00:26:48.340 without accountability.

00:26:50.740 Chicagoans are just 0.98

00:26:51.720 trying to live their life.

00:26:52.820 We're not going to tolerate

00:26:54.040 unconstitutional authoritarianism.

00:26:56.880 Well, the removal

00:26:58.100 of dangerous illegal criminals

00:27:02.020 who are in the country illegally 0.99

00:27:03.840 is not unconstitutional.

00:27:06.380 The American people voted for it.

00:27:07.880 Therefore, it's also not authoritarian.

00:27:10.840 Outside of this one man's fantasy world,

00:27:14.420 Chicago has not been doing just fine.

00:27:17.240 There are more horrific murders

00:27:18.920 every week.

00:27:20.060 There are violent crime rates

00:27:21.580 on par with the poorest

00:27:22.820 third-rate nations 0.99

00:27:24.140 throughout the world.

00:27:25.800 There is a criminal justice system

00:27:27.460 that does not report those crimes

00:27:29.080 or gives a slap on the wrist

00:27:31.240 to violent criminals

00:27:32.100 who come through the system.

00:27:33.680 Innocent people are forced

00:27:34.760 to live in fear in Chicago

00:27:36.140 and they're regularly victimized

00:27:38.380 while Democrat city officials

00:27:39.840 like Mayor Brandon Johnson

00:27:42.000 cheer it on with militant rhetoric

00:27:44.640 about starting a civil war.

00:27:47.400 The New York Times,

00:27:48.500 its owners,

00:27:49.260 and its reporters

00:27:49.820 should be charged

00:27:50.660 as accessories.

00:27:51.580 to left-wing domestic terrorism

00:27:53.480 for producing

00:27:54.200 their own propaganda.

00:27:57.460 Meanwhile,

00:27:58.480 the U.S. Department of Homeland Security

00:28:00.520 has announced

00:28:01.140 that they've received

00:28:02.560 quote,

00:28:03.340 credible intelligence,

00:28:04.400 close quote,

00:28:05.360 that Mexican drug cartels

00:28:07.020 are placing bounties

00:28:08.260 on the heads

00:28:09.060 of U.S. law enforcement officers

00:28:11.400 and officials.

00:28:12.740 The Department of Homeland Security

00:28:14.660 said in a statement,

00:28:15.760 these criminal networks

00:28:16.860 have issued explicit instructions

00:28:19.140 to U.S.-based sympathetics,

00:28:21.460 including street gangs in Chicago,

00:28:23.760 to monitor, harass,

00:28:25.660 and assassinate federal agents.

00:28:27.800 They believe that the bounties

00:28:30.160 are set for up to $50,000

00:28:32.140 for high-profile targets,

00:28:34.240 including border czar Tom Holman himself.

00:28:38.140 Holman recently stated

00:28:39.360 that the death threats against him

00:28:40.880 have increased exponentially,

00:28:42.960 aided and egged on

00:28:44.360 by Democrat rhetoric

00:28:45.500 that increasingly encourages

00:28:46.780 such violence.

00:28:48.180 My friend Holman said,

00:28:50.560 I make sacrifices every day.

00:28:52.300 I got more death threats

00:28:53.360 than anybody.

00:28:54.540 I have a security team around me,

00:28:56.040 but guess what?

00:28:56.680 My kids don't.

00:28:57.520 My wife doesn't. 0.97

00:28:58.360 I mean,

00:28:59.080 I haven't lived with my wife in months

00:29:00.520 because I don't want her

00:29:01.740 to be here right now

00:29:02.760 with all of the threats.

00:29:04.760 Imagine that.

00:29:05.900 A man who is doing his duty

00:29:07.340 to his country

00:29:08.200 cannot live with his family

00:29:10.240 for fear that they

00:29:11.240 might be threatened and harmed.

00:29:13.780 It's really quite extraordinary.

00:29:15.460 The Trump administration

00:29:16.320 is making immense sacrifices

00:29:18.600 to save the country right now,

00:29:20.460 and there are foreign

00:29:21.740 and domestic enemies

00:29:23.180 who are doing everything

00:29:24.080 in their power to stop them.

00:29:26.100 They will not hesitate

00:29:27.300 to commit murders

00:29:28.280 to stop immigration enforcement.

00:29:30.060 That's becoming clear.

00:29:31.560 They want desperately

00:29:32.480 to stop the Trump administration's

00:29:34.140 investigation into

00:29:35.200 left-wing domestic terror networks

00:29:37.640 in particular.

00:29:39.160 This is where Vice President J.D. Vance,

00:29:41.760 at the direction of the president,

00:29:43.140 working closely with Stephen Miller

00:29:45.020 and the head of the FBI,

00:29:46.320 Kash Patel,

00:29:46.960 to cut off U.S. taxpayer dollars

00:29:50.040 that are flowing

00:29:51.020 to actual terrorist groups,

00:29:53.520 they call them NGOs,

00:29:55.780 that are advocating mayhem

00:29:58.040 and arranging for violence

00:30:00.200 and, yes, death. 0.92

00:30:01.480 The cartels and the Democrats

00:30:03.580 work hand-in-hand

00:30:05.220 with these non-profit organizations,

00:30:08.560 many of them funded by George Soros,

00:30:11.160 on their efforts

00:30:11.720 to destroy this country.

00:30:13.400 Still, hundreds of thousands

00:30:14.800 of Americans are applying

00:30:16.160 to join and go to work for ICE

00:30:18.920 and get on the front lines

00:30:20.100 in the battle to save this country.

00:30:22.820 To me, this is inspirational.

00:30:26.200 There is a patriotic revival

00:30:27.860 that's going on in this country

00:30:29.420 and you can see it every day.

00:30:31.360 Except for the days

00:30:32.500 of the founding era revolutionaries,

00:30:33.780 this is the most consequential time

00:30:37.060 to be in America

00:30:37.960 and we must do everything on our part

00:30:40.020 to make sure our country is renewed

00:30:41.520 and the MAGA agenda is successful.

00:30:45.240 We owe it to our children

00:30:46.620 and our grandchildren

00:30:47.560 to stand up and fight right now.

00:30:50.420 I really feel, personally,

00:30:53.140 that my life was spared

00:30:54.380 for a greater purpose.

00:30:56.100 They very definitely intended for me

00:30:58.100 to die in some federal prison in Georgia

00:31:01.760 where I was told by prison officials

00:31:05.220 there were no cases of COVID

00:31:07.280 where I was sentenced to go

00:31:09.380 for six to nine months

00:31:10.640 at age 68

00:31:13.540 with a lifelong history of asthma.

00:31:16.180 It is only through my faith

00:31:18.360 and my redemption in the cross

00:31:20.560 and my belief

00:31:22.780 that God would spare me

00:31:24.860 and protect me from my persecutors

00:31:26.820 that I'm with you today.

00:31:29.500 So I really believe,

00:31:31.760 like Donald Trump's life was saved

00:31:33.520 in Butler,

00:31:34.000 I believe my life was saved

00:31:35.300 for some greater purpose.

00:31:36.920 But here's the thing.

00:31:38.160 God doesn't tell you

00:31:39.280 his plan all at once.

00:31:41.240 He tells you his plan

00:31:42.440 when he's ready for you to know it.

00:31:44.420 The famous Christian evangelist,

00:31:47.320 Kim Clement,

00:31:48.280 said that the nation would be saved

00:31:50.960 and the giant would be taken down

00:31:52.500 by a simple stone.

00:31:54.760 Remember that name, he said.

00:31:57.520 Now, I don't claim to be a saint,

00:31:59.260 that's for sure,

00:32:00.180 or to be anything other than a soldier

00:32:03.360 in the army of God.

00:32:05.060 But when it comes to doing my part

00:32:06.520 to save this country,

00:32:08.120 count me in.

00:32:09.500 Listening to The Stone Zone,

00:32:10.760 I'm Roger Stone.

00:32:11.760 Don't touch that dial

00:32:12.800 because we'll be right back.

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00:32:24.520 Welcome back to The Stone Zone.

00:32:26.440 I appreciate those kind words

00:32:27.860 from Vice President J.D. Vance.

00:32:30.760 Well, yesterday,

00:32:32.320 the UK Daily Mail reported

00:32:34.180 that the North Carolina Department

00:32:36.100 of Adult Corrections

00:32:37.160 is actively searching

00:32:38.300 for Nakia Monique Thompson,

00:32:41.640 who is the fugitive niece

00:32:43.900 of New York Attorney General

00:32:45.580 Letitia James.

00:32:48.180 It is actually true 0.54

00:32:50.840 that this story was originally

00:32:52.260 reported by Joel Gilbert

00:32:54.240 for the Gateway Pundit

00:32:56.860 well over a month ago.

00:32:59.160 Thompson,

00:33:00.080 who is living

00:33:01.140 in the home

00:33:02.600 in Norfolk, Virginia,

00:33:03.960 that Letitia James

00:33:06.040 lied in order to secure

00:33:07.920 a mortgage for,

00:33:10.400 is wanted on

00:33:12.120 multiple criminal charges.

00:33:15.680 It is amazing, therefore,

00:33:17.720 to me,

00:33:18.120 that the leading

00:33:21.260 law enforcement officer

00:33:23.300 for the state of New York

00:33:24.200 is harboring

00:33:25.440 a criminal.

00:33:27.900 The actual

00:33:30.380 convictions

00:33:32.380 are for

00:33:33.900 contributing

00:33:34.480 to the delinquency

00:33:35.420 of a minor,

00:33:36.060 abuse of a child,

00:33:37.440 possession of

00:33:38.120 burglary tools,

00:33:39.560 third-degree larceny,

00:33:41.080 assault and battery,

00:33:42.780 trespassing,

00:33:43.860 shoplifting,

00:33:45.080 resisting arrest,

00:33:46.580 disorderly conduct,

00:33:47.980 and possession

00:33:48.540 of marijuana,

00:33:49.800 driving with a

00:33:50.420 suspended license,

00:33:51.420 and even malicious

00:33:52.580 conduct while she

00:33:53.900 was incarcerated.

00:33:55.960 So,

00:33:56.300 this woman's 0.73

00:33:57.420 persistent criminal

00:33:58.140 activity underscores

00:33:59.140 the seriousness

00:33:59.800 of James' role

00:34:01.520 in providing

00:34:02.280 Thompson with a

00:34:03.540 hideout,

00:34:04.440 which is what

00:34:05.060 she actually did

00:34:05.860 when she's on the

00:34:06.600 run from

00:34:07.140 North Carolina

00:34:08.280 authorities.

00:34:10.160 How close are

00:34:11.200 Attorney General

00:34:12.440 Letitia James

00:34:13.520 and her niece

00:34:14.800 Nakia Monique

00:34:17.160 Thompson?

00:34:18.300 Well,

00:34:18.700 on Thompson's

00:34:19.420 LinkedIn page,

00:34:20.320 she writes that

00:34:20.880 she's been working

00:34:21.580 with Ms. James

00:34:22.660 for years,

00:34:24.020 from council member

00:34:25.100 to public advocate,

00:34:26.300 to Attorney General.

00:34:28.800 She even listed

00:34:29.620 her employment

00:34:30.460 with the elect

00:34:31.700 Letitia James

00:34:32.580 for Attorney General

00:34:34.200 campaign during

00:34:35.340 the 2018 campaign,

00:34:36.660 and worked with

00:34:37.840 the Brooklyn Board

00:34:38.760 of Elections

00:34:39.360 between 2013

00:34:40.860 and 2016.

00:34:42.080 So,

00:34:43.200 it begs the question,

00:34:44.360 what payroll

00:34:45.040 is Nakia Monique

00:34:47.700 Thompson on now

00:34:49.400 as she

00:34:50.660 hole out in the

00:34:51.980 Norfolk home

00:34:53.080 that Letitia James

00:34:55.080 very definitely

00:34:56.160 lied in order to

00:34:57.900 get a mortgage for?

00:34:59.480 This was not some

00:35:00.780 fill-in-the-blank

00:35:01.700 where they checked

00:35:02.240 the wrong box.

00:35:03.340 This was a drafted

00:35:04.560 document that

00:35:05.600 the Attorney General

00:35:06.880 signed in 12

00:35:08.100 different places,

00:35:09.720 all witnessed

00:35:11.220 by another lawyer

00:35:12.300 in the New York

00:35:12.840 Attorney General's

00:35:13.860 office.

00:35:15.040 And she

00:35:15.700 specifically said,

00:35:17.340 in order to

00:35:18.000 secure the mortgage,

00:35:20.020 that she and her

00:35:21.240 niece would 0.54

00:35:22.120 inhabit

00:35:22.700 this location.

00:35:25.000 And of course,

00:35:25.540 if this was her

00:35:26.380 principal residence,

00:35:27.780 which she claimed

00:35:29.020 in that document,

00:35:30.540 she would be

00:35:31.720 uneligible,

00:35:32.960 ineligible,

00:35:33.800 to be the

00:35:34.300 Attorney General

00:35:35.000 for the state

00:35:36.380 of New York.

00:35:38.100 Now,

00:35:38.600 of course,

00:35:39.100 she and her 0.76

00:35:39.520 lawyers try to

00:35:40.140 say it's all

00:35:40.800 a typographical

00:35:41.660 error,

00:35:42.100 just a simple

00:35:42.660 clerical mistake.

00:35:44.080 No,

00:35:44.280 it's actually

00:35:44.740 a 43-year

00:35:46.640 crime spree.

00:35:47.900 In securing

00:35:48.560 her first mortgage,

00:35:49.560 she claimed that

00:35:50.080 her father was

00:35:50.760 her husband

00:35:51.280 in order to

00:35:52.140 use his

00:35:52.640 balance sheet

00:35:53.400 to secure

00:35:54.340 the mortgage.

00:35:55.440 She would

00:35:55.980 ultimately

00:35:56.800 have an

00:35:57.720 additional mortgage

00:35:58.640 on this

00:35:59.200 Norfolk property

00:35:59.920 we're talking

00:36:00.420 about that

00:36:01.420 isn't even

00:36:02.580 reflected in

00:36:03.540 her state

00:36:03.940 disclosure form.

00:36:04.960 So,

00:36:05.500 she has

00:36:06.060 between $250,000

00:36:07.380 and $400,000

00:36:08.420 worth of

00:36:09.040 mortgages

00:36:09.520 on a property

00:36:10.840 that appraises

00:36:11.580 for between

00:36:12.220 $100,000

00:36:12.740 and $150,000.

00:36:15.440 How is that

00:36:15.960 possible?

00:36:17.660 Not in any

00:36:18.820 current lending

00:36:20.000 scenario would

00:36:21.260 such a thing

00:36:21.820 be approvable

00:36:22.440 unless,

00:36:23.140 of course,

00:36:23.600 you lied

00:36:24.300 and you

00:36:24.760 concealed one

00:36:25.880 of those

00:36:26.360 mortgages.

00:36:27.340 Letitia James

00:36:28.280 is busted.

00:36:29.520 Her prosecution

00:36:30.140 is going to

00:36:30.860 go forward.

00:36:31.860 I'm going to

00:36:32.180 go out of

00:36:32.560 limb here

00:36:32.920 and predict

00:36:33.320 that she's

00:36:33.660 going to

00:36:34.080 be convicted.

00:36:35.240 I say that

00:36:35.740 only based on

00:36:36.560 the fact that

00:36:37.080 I've reviewed

00:36:38.080 all of the

00:36:38.720 evidence,

00:36:39.100 which you

00:36:39.400 can do

00:36:39.660 yourself by

00:36:40.280 going to

00:36:40.860 whitecollarfraud.com.

00:36:43.720 But the

00:36:44.800 idea that

00:36:45.360 this is

00:36:45.960 weaponization

00:36:47.600 and that

00:36:48.160 Letitia James

00:36:48.900 has done

00:36:49.260 nothing wrong,

00:36:50.520 this is a

00:36:51.160 far, far

00:36:51.700 more serious

00:36:52.400 crime than

00:36:53.500 the one she

00:36:53.980 prosecuted

00:36:54.580 Donald Trump

00:36:55.180 for.

00:36:55.480 Remember,

00:36:55.780 she claimed

00:36:56.160 that he

00:36:56.560 inflated the

00:36:57.960 value of his

00:36:58.780 assets in

00:36:59.400 order to

00:36:59.760 secure real

00:37:00.400 estate loans

00:37:01.120 that he

00:37:01.800 paid back

00:37:02.480 in full

00:37:03.240 and on

00:37:03.780 time,

00:37:04.620 getting $40

00:37:05.300 million in

00:37:06.120 interest from

00:37:07.400 his lenders,

00:37:08.440 none of whom

00:37:08.920 were allowed to

00:37:09.540 testify at his

00:37:10.380 trial,

00:37:10.680 because had

00:37:11.640 they justified,

00:37:12.480 they would

00:37:12.740 have all

00:37:13.040 said they

00:37:13.880 would lend

00:37:14.300 him the

00:37:14.740 money again

00:37:15.560 tomorrow.

00:37:40.680 See you next

00:37:45.240 time for a

00:37:45.980 new episode so

00:37:47.040 you never have

00:37:47.900 to wonder.

00:37:48.580 What the heck

00:37:49.300 is going on 0.58

00:37:50.100 here?

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