In this episode of the Red Apple Podcast Network's newest show, "The Stone Zone," host Alex Blumberg talks about the new details about an FBI operation called Arctic Frost that spied on 800 people just because of who they were and their political beliefs.
00:01:01.420This was basically a contrivance of John Dean, who was trying to flip from being a perp to being a faux whistleblower.
00:01:08.860There's no evidence that Nixon used the IRS or any other government agency against private citizens.
00:01:15.640But you don't see the same level of outrage over the fact that it has now been fully revealed that the Biden administration's Justice Department had an operation called Arctic Frost in which 800 people, at least, were targeted just because of who they were.
00:01:33.420Not what they did, but who they were and their political beliefs.
00:01:36.640Yes, not surprisingly, yours truly was on their hit list, which was released today.
00:01:42.800Oh, I'm proud to be the company in New York City, Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Congressman Scott Perry, General Michael Flynn, the current White House personnel director, Dan Scavino, as well as U.S. pardon attorney Ed Martin.
00:01:56.420But this list also includes media organizations, alternative media organizations.
00:02:02.240It includes the Republican Association of Attorney Generals, as if this was some kind of subversive group.
00:02:08.980And this is, as we're now told, this was specifically contained to go to FBI field office across the country, and that's where they were going to begin these surveillances.
00:02:21.860So this was a giant spy ring on American citizens, and they would look for anything.
00:02:28.020Now, this comes in addition to the phone records that were seized from Arctic Frost that showed that U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham, not my favorite Republican, Senator Bill Haggerty, a great senator, Senator Josh Hawley, another great senator, Dan Sullivan, who I like, Tommy Tuberville, Coach Tuberville, a real principal conservative and conscious of the Senate, Ron Johnson,
00:02:56.240who I think is also great, who I think is also great, Cynthia Loomis, Marsha Blackburn, and I'm unfamiliar with Senator Mike Kelly.
00:03:03.380But all of these U.S. senators were being surveilled, an elected official.
00:03:08.160This is a violation of the Separations Act, where the executive branch cannot have the executive, pardon me, the legislative branch cannot have the executive branch spying on them.
00:03:19.020This very quickly morphed into an unconstitutional dragnet, which gave the Deep State, the Justice Department under Merrick Garland and our intelligence agencies, a roadmap using the War on Terror Authority, essentially, to systematically violate the Fourth Amendment by prime Republican groups, conservatives, and other individuals.
00:03:49.360And Jack Smith's coordination between his special counsel's office with state prosecutors in New York, both Alvin Bragg and Letitia James, his coordination of the actions against Trump in Georgia with Fonnie Willis, his coordinations for the actions in Arizona and Nevada,
00:04:11.540and all coordinated from one attorney general and the Biden administration.
00:04:18.300This is a game changer, if you ask me, because it demonstrates that no Republican is safe for their overreach.
00:04:26.380These are people who right now are whining at the fact that Donald Trump and his administration want to prosecute New York Attorney General Letitia James for mortgage fraud and bank fraud, and perhaps more.
00:04:39.360The fact that they wanted to hold Adam Schiff, who's claimed that he has two principal legal residences, and he's gotten tax advantages, a lower mortgage rate, and a lower insurance rate because of that falsehood.
00:04:53.760It's even, I think, a legitimate question whether if he's a full-time legal resident of Maryland, he's even eligible to be a member of Congress from California.
00:05:01.420But no one in the California government is going to bring that action.
00:05:05.440And the fact that Trump wants to hold the people who orchestrated the greatest single dirty trick in American history, the greatest single abuse of power in which they weaponized the Justice Department and the intelligence agencies utilizing what they completely knew was fraudulent evidence.
00:05:29.440The Steele dossier and the false claim that Russian intelligence had conducted an online hack of the Democrat National Committee, for which there is still no evidence whatsoever.
00:05:44.140And the Democrats never let the FBI inspect their servers.
00:05:49.480They relied entirely on a third-party IT firm called CrowdStrike.
00:05:54.440The judge refused to give the CrowdStrike report on this alleged hack to my defense attorneys in my trial.
00:06:01.660But ultimately, Sean Henry, the head honcho at CrowdStrike, was forced to admit before the House Intelligence Committee that his report included no proof whatsoever of a Russian hack of the DNC.
00:06:15.360So the question is whether any of these people are going to be held accountable.
00:06:20.080It's not about revenge and retaliation.
00:06:24.540It's about accountability and justice.
00:06:27.160Arctic Frost is the smoking gun, in my view, that demonstrates how the Democrats and the deep states are knolling at war with the Constitution and the American people.
00:06:36.480The Biden administration appointment with Jack Smith to begin with.
00:06:39.840And the record that we now see of overreach is unprecedented.
00:06:43.580This is a stretch beyond anything I've ever seen because it was extra constitutional, it was extra legal, not to mention the numerous ethical violations.
00:06:56.600The House wants Jack Smith to come and testify and explain himself, and he says he will only do so if he's given full immunity.
00:07:08.320He just has to come and answer questions.
00:07:10.560So unfortunately, their efforts to put Donald Trump behind bars is the only way they were ever going to stop him and stop his miraculous political comeback.
00:07:36.840And look, when he said he was going to insist on more advantageous tariff deals with our trading partners, the people on Wall Street said the stock market will crash.
00:07:48.900Unemployment will skyrocket out of control.
00:07:54.320And none of those things have happened.
00:07:56.060And for the first month, first time in 15 years, last June, we actually had a surplus in this country, meaning we brought in more money than we paid out.
00:08:07.840And you see new respect for America around the world.
00:08:10.800Plus, Donald Trump has gone on a peace mission, solving eight, nine international wars or disputes between, say, India and Pakistan.
00:08:23.060We've been through the list so many times.
00:08:24.640And I still believe that he will before this is before we get to the midterms.
00:08:31.120Hopefully, I'd love to see it tomorrow and the war between Russia and Ukraine.
00:08:36.300But the NATO nations claim that this is about Vladimir Putin's desire to gobble up Ukraine.
00:11:00.340She should turn around and give it to President Donald J. Trump because I believe he has earned it.
00:11:05.800Meanwhile, in an interesting story, New York City mayoral candidate, Democrat Zoran the Ayatollah Mamdami,
00:11:14.600has received a criminal referral to the Department of Justice for alleged campaign finance violations.
00:11:20.760A watchdog group, the Coolidge-Reagan Foundation, filed a referral because of Mamdami's apparent habit of receiving illegal donations from foreigners.
00:11:29.780A review from Fox News discovered that Mamdami received $13,000 in contributions for 170 donors living outside of the United States.
00:11:39.800Now, what we don't know is whether he took those donations and submitted them into New York City's 8-to-1 campaign finance matching program.
00:12:14.000And then he submitted those donation records for the 8-to-1 match.
00:12:18.980So it has to be examined to see whether Mamdami here has done the exact same thing.
00:12:23.560And the Coolidge Regulatory Foundation said these are not isolated incidents or clerical errors.
00:12:30.520This was a sustained pattern of foreign money flowing into a New York City mayoral race, which is a clear violation of both federal law and New York City campaign finance rules.
00:12:39.360Mamdami's campaign was on notice for months that it was accepting illegal foreign congregations.
00:14:53.820Well, America First Legal, that's the organization founded by Stephen Miller, who left to join the president's White House staff as deputy chief of staff,
00:15:03.060where he's doing an outstanding job on a number of domestic issues.
00:15:06.900They launched an investigation into the city of Portland, only to find the extent of the collusion going on between local law enforcement and Antifa domestic terrorists
00:15:17.640and other left-wing extremist groups involved in the subversive, coordinated, violent protests and attacks on ICE officers.
00:15:25.340They announced in a press release that they were requesting records to uncover how the city of Portland enabled lawlessness by assisting anti-ICE groups in acquiring office space.
00:15:39.280The city of Portland, which previously uncovered information showing the city of Portland's explicit use of race as a central component of the city's policing practices to achieve equitable outcomes.
00:15:55.140In Chicago, you've seen a situation in Chicago, the man who would be president, and Brandon Johnson, the mayor of Chicago, who last time looked at a 6% approval rating,
00:16:10.880basically have ordered the Chicago police not to come to the rescue of ICE agents who are under violent attack and potentially their deaths being attacked by these violent mobs.
00:16:24.380Lawyers I've talked to tell me that Pritzker and Johnson may yet be personably liable should any of those ICE officers be killed or injured.
00:16:33.640That will give you some idea of the extent to which these radical left Democrats will go to try to corral the progressive left.
00:16:42.340When Donald Trump moved the National Guard into D.C., every single person I know in D.C., black and white, was happy and relieved that their kids could now play in the front yard without fear that some gangbanger would shoot them in the head.
00:17:07.600He goes on TV and he just lies about that.
00:17:09.940When he's confronted by Brett Baier, who has his statistics up on the screen, he just says, no, no, that's incorrect.
00:17:16.820So it is abundantly clear that they will not stand in the way of these violent thugs who I think are on the brink of rebellion around the country because they tried to essentially destroy Trump with lawfare.
00:17:34.180Then they tried to kill him and he won anyway, and he is pursuing to keep his promises in the election that is making them apoplectic.
00:18:01.060And so a breaking story, the director of national counterterrorism, a decorated combat veteran, Joe Kent, is looking into the FBI's investigation of the assassination of my friend, Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA.
00:18:18.880The FBI has said the assassination was committed by a lone nut, Tyler Robinson, essentially an open and shut case.
00:18:26.660Kent wants to double check this evidently with his own inquiry being specifically about whether any foreign or domestic terror groups were tied to the murder.
00:18:36.060Now, I think Kent is correct for giving this case a closer examination.
00:18:41.820It is interesting to me that the FBI has opened and closed their case so quickly.
00:18:46.900Seen this before, J. Edgar Hoover took exactly seven days to conclude that Lee Harvey Oswald, a lone nut, had shot JFK three times from the back.
00:19:04.060As we now know, thanks to the hard work of many in the JFK researcher community and those who challenged the narrative of the Warren Commission, but particularly to the dogged work of Congresswoman Anna Polina Luna, who heads the subcommittee of oversight looking into the Kennedy assassination.
00:19:24.320It is interesting to me that there's a bunch of bizarre abnormalities that lead me to doubt the FBI's official story.
00:19:36.520The FBI conspicuously fails to lock down the airspace, providing the Provo Airport after the assassination, allowing a getaway to take place.
00:19:45.260Although examination of that aircraft seems to be benign.
00:19:48.580Yet George Zinn, a leftist provocateur in the audience, causes a diversion, insisting that he's a shooter, he's detained, but that eats up time, giving the rooftop shooter cover to perform the successful getaway, if their narrative that he was shot from a rooftop is correct.
00:20:07.360Days later, Zinn was arrested and hit with possession of media depicting child abuse.
00:20:12.860The killer also reportedly took apart the rifle used to kill Kirk on the roof, then reassembled it, then dropped it in the woods to make a daring getaway, only to confess to his parents, and then change back into the clothes he was seen in publicly so he could be more easily identified.
00:20:42.760People who know far more about firearms, and so a doctor I had on, who was one of the country's foremost experts on gunshot wounds, all concluded that given the caliber of the bullet and the alleged trajectory of the shot, there should have been an exit wound.
00:20:56.500And then we're told that Charlie's bone was so strong and his torso was so tight that there was no exit wound.
00:21:55.780I love Elon Musk because when he bought Twitter and turned it back into X, a friend of mine told me, just go fill out a form and maybe they'll give you your page back.
00:22:05.440I had almost a million followers on Twitter when I broke the community rule of being for Donald Trump.
00:22:11.460And I broke the community rule of questioning the legitimacy of the Mueller investigation.
00:23:37.160They said that they banned me because my posts were inauthentic.
00:23:42.180And then it turned out that I found online that they claimed I was dead and that I died last November, which, of course, I'm obviously not dead.
00:23:50.060So that was their excuse for shutting me down.
00:23:53.980Couldn't possibly be the real Roger Stone.
00:24:00.960Anyway, Elon Musk has now, it turns out, cost his company about a million dollars in electric vehicle sales because of his public advocacy for President Donald Trump,
00:24:30.180And there's no question that there needs to be a series of rescission packages to do away with huge swaths of that spending.
00:24:39.000There's also Elon who helped uncover the abuses at USAID.
00:24:44.280USAID was actually not even ever formed by the Congress.
00:24:48.700It was formed by executive order by President John F. Kennedy.
00:24:53.160It was originally a vehicle to fund Latin and Central American countries who were fighting communism.
00:25:01.020It had a legitimate purpose, but it spun out of control to become the funding mechanism for all of these radical nonprofit organizations that were deeply involved in American politics,
00:25:14.260including the efforts to take Donald Trump down, the January 6th fraud, the last two elections, the impeachment nonsense.
00:25:24.780So we were essentially being attacked with our own tax dollars.
00:25:29.440The National Bureau of Economic Research estimates that Tesla sales under Elon Musk would have been 67 to 83 percent higher,
00:25:37.420meaning up to 1.26 million more electric vehicles over the period between October 2022 and April 2025.
00:25:46.220So this is roughly from the time when Musk acquired Twitter and turned it into X and when he released all of the documentation that proved that our intelligence agencies
00:25:58.200and others in the federal government were working hand in glove with executives at Twitter to ban and cancel you if you didn't agree with their dogma.
00:26:09.200If you questioned the outcome of the 2020 election or if you questioned the Russian collusion hoax
00:26:15.380or if you questioned whether Hunter Biden's laptop was really Russian disinformation
00:26:20.640or if you questioned the safety and effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccination, you were marked for extinction.
00:26:27.320That was an act of bravery that Musk not only bought X and bought Twitter and made it into something much better, X,
00:26:36.380but that he released all that information because he essentially put a target on his back.
00:26:41.340At least nine federal investigations by the Biden administration pop up against Elon Musk who did nothing wrong.
00:26:48.280So Musk bought X despite the fact that it was probably didn't look like a very good economic bet in the beginning.
00:27:01.800It just shows you what very few corporate capitalists are willing to do.
00:27:09.760Now, we know that Musk and the president had their kind of public flame out where they both said awful things about each other in haste,
00:27:18.320but Elon Musk has since apologized for that and the president has said warm things about Elon.
00:27:24.320Elon talked about forming a new party, a new reform party, but I think that he spent some money on polling
00:27:32.340and the polling showed that only would have split the conservative votes and let the progressive far left take control of America again.
00:27:38.820That's not something that Elon Musk as a patriot would do.
00:27:44.000So none of this, all of his hard work, spending his own money, setting up his own super PAC,
00:27:52.080campaigning aggressively for Trump in key states, none of that should be ignored when you talk about Elon Musk and his impact on humanity.
00:28:01.440I think his advocacy for Trump's reelection in 2024 and support for global free speech came at a tremendous personal and professional cost to him.
00:28:10.960I think he's done an incredible job in his service to humanity, and he deserves to be applauded for that work.
00:28:19.840Hopefully he's very, very involved in the 2026 midterms.
00:28:23.360He's already made a good decision in not trying to form a new party.
00:28:27.800He should, as Barry Goldwater said at the 1960 Republican Convention, conservatives, this is our traditional home.
00:29:24.780And I think that even were that to happen, which I predict that nobody's going to drop out after Mayor Adams, Mayor Adams endorsed Andrew Cuomo, which got no bump in the polls for Andrew Cuomo.
00:29:37.980But then Mayor Adams was running at about 11% when he dropped out of the race.
00:29:46.060Cuomo's idea, he the other day says, the truth is, there's a quiet civil war going on in the Democratic Party right now.
00:29:51.880You have an extreme left, radical left, Bernie Sanders, AOC, Mamdami, is just the banner carrier for that movement versus mainstream moderate Democrats.
00:30:00.260Andrew, you're dreaming those mainstream moderate Democrats don't exist anymore.
00:30:04.700That party that you are the leader of is over.
00:30:09.100Your party is now run by AOC and Jasmine Crockett and that tired old windbag Bernie Sanders.
00:30:15.740And you lost the Democrat primary where you spent heavily by a hefty margin.
00:30:24.180So you have nurtured the left wing of the Democrat Party.
00:30:27.980You're the guy who said as governor that if you believe in the right to bear arms or you don't support abortion, you need to leave New York State.
00:30:38.140And now you want Republicans or conservatives or Trump supporters to vote for you?
00:30:42.660I just don't think that that's going to happen.
00:30:49.280But if you watch that last debate, I think the only thing I saw was Andrew Cuomo demonstrated his superior knowledge of government.
00:30:58.440Mamdami demonstrated his superior knowledge of politics, meaning he I called him Mamdaji because he was all over the place dodging bullets.
00:31:06.760But he managed to dodge most of them, trying to disassociate himself with his previous or real positions.
00:31:13.740And I think Curtis Sliwa demonstrated his superior knowledge of New York and the problems facing it.
00:31:19.660It was it was actually much, much, much better debate than the first debate.
00:31:24.280At the same time, I still think that this race is probably over.
00:31:29.940It's amazing the national attention and coverage the race is getting, by the way.
00:31:34.680When I talk to people in other states, they all want to talk about what's going on right there in the Big Apple.
00:31:41.520People who don't understand the politics and the demographic changes in New York City.
00:31:47.760I just find it very hard that the city is about to elect a mayor who shares the ideology of those who attack the World Trade Center just a few years ago.
00:32:17.760And we're back for our final segment in The Zone.
00:32:21.920You know, I used to like Cracker Barrel.
00:32:23.600I mean, it was a good place to go for breakfast.
00:32:25.340The basics, you know, some some fried eggs or scrambled eggs, some bacon, some sausage, some good toast.
00:32:32.360And I could not believe that they virtually destroyed themselves.
00:32:36.960This once beloved brand were pilloried nationwide for embracing wokeness that they have yet to recover from.
00:32:43.900The woke CEO, a woman named Julie Fels Massino, decided to remove the mascot in their logo, who was a white man in overalls, replacing this familiar country logo with some kind of bland, generic, corporatized, AI-created nothingness.
00:33:05.700The decor of the restaurants was removed.
00:33:08.280So you lost that country store feel that was the whole point.
00:33:13.860As a result, there was immense public anger.
00:33:17.540They quickly attempted to reverse course.
00:33:19.960But evidently, the markets are not buying it.
00:33:23.440Cracker Barrel is down in the stock market, 32% throughout the year.
00:33:29.820And the investors are calling for the CEO's ouster in order to restore faith in the company and the brand.
00:33:37.940There's been reportedly an 8% drop in visits to the Cracker Barrel restaurants following their woke mistake.
00:33:45.540I think it's going to take some time to rebuild Cracker Barrel to what it once was, which was to be a clean, comfortable place for a great breakfast, which is the only thing I used it for.
00:33:56.920And that was when I was visiting friends in Jacksonville.
00:34:00.380I think they have to begin by implementing accountability.
00:34:03.840The CEO should be removed from her post.
00:34:10.560I mean, they turned Cracker Barrel into a late-night comedy punchline, an example of woke corporate malfeasance.
00:34:18.960And the whole thing got attacked nationwide.
00:34:22.540So no one's going to trust her with their investor dollars.
00:34:26.880I think she should be held responsible and they had to try to remake themselves.
00:34:31.080Meanwhile, we learned that because of Chuck Schumer's shutdown, the Democrats insisting that the government stay closed until Donald Trump and the Republicans agree to add $1.5 trillion to the budget, where the Republicans are saying, let's just continue the government at the current levels of funding and not increase spending for everything.
00:34:51.060But that has now endangered essentially the food stamp program, the federal food stamp program, which is called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
00:35:03.340See how much better that sounds than food stamp.
00:35:06.180But it will cause a pause in benefits for 42 million Americans.
00:35:13.720The total spending on food stamps under the SNAP program totaled about $106 billion over the previous 12-month period ending in September.
00:36:25.100It's because the Democrats are insisting on $1.5 trillion more, most of it, or a good portion of it, for health care for people who are here in the country illegally.
00:36:39.240All right, we're going to leave it there.