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00:00:37.580 You are now entering the Stone Zone. Well, with House Republicans holding a very narrow

00:00:44.360 six-seat margin in the lower house, 219 Republicans to 213 Democrats, all eyes were on the special

00:00:54.540 election in Tennessee's seventh congressional district yesterday, and we can now report that

00:01:00.100 Republican candidate Matt Van Epps has won that special election, defeating Democrat State

00:01:06.260 Representative Afton Benn in what was a closer than expected race. Media outlets projected the

00:01:13.200 race fairly early after totals from Nashville were offset by results from Republican-leaning

00:01:19.260 counties across the district. Van Epps had been emphatically endorsed by President Donald Trump

00:01:25.280 in the final days of that campaign, calling Van Epps one of the best candidates we've ever had,

00:01:31.080 and his opponent, a progressive Democrat, Ben, a woman who hates Christianity, will take away

00:01:38.000 your guns, wants open borders, transgender for everybody, men and women's sports, and openly

00:01:45.140 disdains country music, which, let's face it, outside of Nashville is very dangerous for any

00:01:51.300 candidate. The contest drew national attention as Democrats hopes to steal a seat in a district that

00:01:57.740 overwhelmingly voted for President Trump in 2024. Van Epps previously served as commissioner of the

00:02:05.980 Tennessee Department of General Services and ran on a strongly pro-Trump platform focused on

00:02:11.560 economic development, manufacturing, and what he described as a pro-business growth platform,

00:02:18.340 including support for cryptocurrency and development of artificial intelligence. Ben,

00:02:24.240 a self-described peed-off social worker, campaigned on healthcare access, opposition to immigration

00:02:31.920 enforcement policies, and community advocacy, setting herself up to be the AOC of the South. 0.78

00:02:40.140 Some commentators are perturbed by the narrow margin, but they should remember Stone's rule.

00:02:45.900 A win is a win.

00:02:47.680 We should be happy we won the seat and use this momentum to build strong results in the midterm elections.

00:02:53.800 There is no time here for blackpilling, as the young people call it.

00:02:57.260 We have to redouble our efforts to make sure as many America first pro-Trump candidates on the ballot next time in the midterm elections.

00:03:05.060 And then the way we assure victory is by targeting rhinos for elimination in the primaries and putting candidates on the ballot next year who strongly support the Trump agenda.

00:03:17.020 That's actually what brings voters out.

00:03:20.120 Meanwhile, the House Judiciary Committee chairman, Jim Jordan, has sent a subpoena to former special counsel Jack Smith for a closed door deposition scheduled for December 17th.

00:03:32.020 This move shows that Congress may finally be getting serious about investigating the mishandling of the criminal probes that targeted President Donald Trump, the tsunami of lawfare against him as he attempted to return to the White House.

00:03:48.180 Congressman Jordan demands that Smith release the key information he has about the illicit and extra-constitutional probes

00:03:56.100 As the committee finds out all the ways that federal law enforcement was used improperly and illegally and unconstitutionally

00:04:03.820 Against President Trump and top Republicans

00:04:06.640 The Arctic Cross target list included senators, congressmen, Trump family members, and, well, yours truly

00:04:14.700 Smith was the mastermind of the dubious prosecution of Trump over the efforts of Trump and his supporters to combat voter fraud after the 2020 election, the classified documents case brought against President Trump after leaving office that resulted in the shameful raid at his home in Palm Beach, Mar-a-Lago,

00:04:35.620 and the secretive Arctic Frost operation, which resulted in Republican lawmakers,

00:04:41.320 conservative organizations and individuals, Trump allies and friends,

00:04:45.560 and even some conservative media outlets being subject to illicit surveillance

00:04:49.980 in direct violation of the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

00:04:55.140 In addition to testimony, Jordan's subpoena demands that Jack Smith's internal records,

00:05:00.280 including communications and documents from his time as special counsel, be produced.

00:05:04.720 The Justice Department has authorized Smith to testify without restrictions tied to executive privilege, setting the stage for what will be, hopefully, a major reckoning against the lawfare campaign meant to destroy Donald Trump and his supporters.

00:05:19.260 The news is tightening figuratively, perhaps literally around the neck of Smith.

00:05:23.800 All of his fellow deep state co-conspirators should be losing sleep over what is to come

00:05:29.160 as their overreaching and arrogance is coming back to bite them big time with Donald Trump back in the White House.

00:05:36.580 Meanwhile, the Trump administration unveiled a proposal Wednesday to roll back Biden area fuel economy standards,

00:05:44.660 a move that will lower vehicle prices and, I believe, expand consumer choice. The plan,

00:05:51.040 announced by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, will reset requirements for

00:05:56.740 models years 2022 through 2031, targeting an average of 34.5 miles per gallon by 2031 instead

00:06:07.140 of the 50.4 miles per gallon level finalized under the Biden administration. These revised

00:06:14.360 standards better reflect current market realities and prevent regulatory targets from forcing cars

00:06:20.600 out of reach for the average person. Under the proposal, fuel economy increases would slow to

00:06:26.900 between a quarter and half percent per year, sharply replacing the rises that were put in

00:06:33.480 place during Joe Biden's time in office. Officials estimate the change could cut

00:06:38.120 upfront vehicle prices by about $900 per car. The plan also eliminates credit trading among

00:06:46.680 automakers, which started, which begins in 2028, a system that disproportionately benefits

00:06:53.200 electric-only manufacturers and their credit-selling schemes to hide their lack of viability

00:06:59.180 in the U.S. marketplace. President Donald Trump is promoting this plan alongside leaders from the

00:07:04.860 major U.S. automakers who say rigid mandates were pushing the industry towards plant closures and

00:07:11.200 layoffs across the country. Executives from Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis have praised the

00:07:18.660 shift as a balance between efficiency and affordability. Ford's Jim Farley said it allows

00:07:25.640 progress on emissions without sacrificing consumer choice, while General Motors' Mary Barra warned

00:07:32.260 that prior rules would have made it virtually impossible to keep factories running. The Trump

00:07:37.940 administration is laser-focused on keeping cars affordable, protecting jobs, and letting innovation

00:07:44.240 instead of government mandates drive the market forward. To me, this is the sort of meat and

00:07:50.040 potatoes American populism that put the Republican Party on a winning trajectory in the last election,

00:07:56.140 and now we need to see more of it. 1.00

00:07:59.380 Meanwhile, crooked Hillary Clinton is weighing in 1.00

00:08:02.180 on the future of Democrat politics 0.99

00:08:03.960 and her prognosis is, well, not very good.

00:08:07.180 The two-time failed presidential candidate

00:08:09.140 is evidently dismayed by the rise of AOC,

00:08:13.100 Zoran Mamdami, and other radicals

00:08:15.280 who are now clearly dominating the party,

00:08:17.940 particularly among younger people.

00:08:19.540 And they're spreading an unabashedly anti-Israel message

00:08:22.860 while they do it.

00:08:23.680 Hillary Clinton lashed out at the misinformation being spread on social media platforms like TikTok, which was used for years as a tool of the Chinese Communist Party, and has been radicalizing young people against the Jewish state.

00:08:38.500 Hillary Clinton said,

00:08:39.860 Smart, well-educated young people from our own country, from around the world,

00:08:43.440 where are they getting their information?

00:08:45.420 They are getting their information from social media, particularly TikTok.

00:08:49.020 That is where they're learning about what happened on October 7th,

00:08:52.220 what happened in the days, weeks, and months to follow.

00:08:55.340 And that's a serious problem.

00:08:57.540 It's a serious problem for democracy, said Hillary,

00:09:00.280 whether it's Israel or the United States,

00:09:02.340 and it's a serious problem for our young people.

00:09:05.420 It's not just the usual suspects. 0.99

00:09:06.860 It's a lot of young Jewish Americans who don't know the history and don't understand. 0.99

00:09:11.920 A lot of the challenge is with the younger people.

00:09:14.080 More than 50% of young people in America, according to Hillary, get their news from social media.

00:09:19.360 So just pause for just a second.

00:09:21.780 They're seeing short-form videos, some of which are totally made up,

00:09:25.700 some of them not at all representing what they claim to be showing,

00:09:28.600 and that's where they get their information.

00:09:30.680 It's very rare that I agree with Hillary Clinton on anything.

00:09:33.660 After all, I wrote the book, The Clintons, War on Women,

00:09:36.860 which is the definitive rundown on the epic crimes of Bill and Hillary Clinton,

00:09:42.480 the penicillin-resistant syphilis of the American politics, is what I called them.

00:09:48.960 In this case, though, Hillary Clinton may actually have a point. 0.95

00:09:52.180 The problem is that establishment politicians like Hillary Clinton created this monster by spreading this woke nonsense for years. 0.91

00:09:59.540 They fed the alt-left thinking that these radicals could serve as their shock troops against Republicans.

00:10:05.440 And it worked for a while until President Trump came down that golden escalator and provided and proved himself to be impervious to the leftist attacks.

00:10:15.580 Now, after a major electoral victory, the monster is turning against mainstream Democrats like Hillary.

00:10:21.420 That's why I continue to say that the old Democrat Party, the Democrat Party of John F. Kennedy and Harry Truman,

00:10:28.260 a party that believed in capitalism, free enterprise, a strong national defense, and, well, God, exists no longer.

00:10:37.960 Really, Hillary Clinton has nobody blamed but herself.

00:10:40.460 Now the battle between the future of the country is between the America First forces and the hardcore anti-Israel left.

00:10:50.120 I believe that the Republicans and Donald Trump and those who stand for America First must win,

00:10:55.080 or our country and our civilization will meet the same fate as Russia in the 20th century after the Bolsheviks took control.

00:11:03.860 Meanwhile, the Trump administration announced Tuesday that it has suspended processing of immigration applications from 19 countries,

00:11:11.540 citing national security and public safety concerns.

00:11:15.000 The order halts green cards, asylum claims, and U.S. citizenship applications for affected nationals.

00:11:21.000 The policy affects applicants from Afghanistan, Somalia, Miramar, Chad, the Republican of Congo,

00:11:29.980 Ecuadorian Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Sudan, Yemen, Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone,

00:11:40.060 Togo, Turkmenistan, and of course Venezuela. This move follows last year's shooting near the White

00:11:46.500 House where an Afghan national was accused of killing one National Guard soldier and

00:11:52.700 critically wounding a second. Administration officials say the pause allows for a comprehensive

00:11:58.700 re-review of cases to strengthen vetting and prevent these kind of security threats. I say

00:12:04.960 it's about time. Officials say the step follows a partial ban that was enacted back in June

00:12:10.740 and reflects concerns about screening failures.

00:12:14.440 Border Policy Chief Tom Homan, a good friend of mine,

00:12:17.540 called the Afghan screening process the biggest national security failure in our history.

00:12:22.680 Tom Homan usually calls it straight. 1.00

00:12:25.140 There is no more room in America for the refuse of the third world countries, 1.00

00:12:29.360 not to mention many of these countries harbor grudges against us 1.00

00:12:32.640 because of foreign policies pushed by the CIA that most Americans don't even know about.

00:12:38.360 So we're opening the door for supposedly humanitarian purposes to different people who hate us and want to wage war against us.

00:12:47.380 This comes to an abrupt end with the Trump administration.

00:12:50.840 Our country is full and we're putting Americans first for a change. 1.00

00:12:54.320 It is time, in my view, to close our borders for people from these various countries. 1.00

00:12:59.100 Meanwhile, the Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Fry 0.98

00:13:02.780 Criticized President Donald Trump on Tuesday

00:13:04.820 Following Trump's candid comments

00:13:06.880 Accusing members of Minnesota's Somali community

00:13:10.120 Of involvement in large-scale fraud

00:13:12.180 It was revealed last week

00:13:14.700 That under the nose

00:13:16.520 And with the full knowledge of Governor Tim Walz

00:13:18.720 $250 million was stolen from American taxpayers

00:13:23.180 And was actually routed to terrorists in Somalia

00:13:27.520 Yet the mayor of Minneapolis, Frye, says that Trump is wrong to criticize Somalis,

00:13:32.400 and we want them here.

00:13:34.180 Somali people have been an extraordinary benefit.

00:13:36.460 I'll say it again.

00:13:37.400 Somali people have been a benefit to our city for longer than I've been in our city,

00:13:41.620 said the mayor.

00:13:42.680 They've started businesses and created jobs.

00:13:45.600 They've added to the cultural fabric of what Minneapolis is.

00:13:48.720 They're welcoming when I first came to Minneapolis.

00:13:51.440 The bottom line of this is very, very simple, folks.

00:13:54.520 They need those votes.

00:13:56.020 there are, even as we speak, thousands of Somalians who are not U.S. citizens, but who are voting in

00:14:02.380 the Minnesota elections, and therein lies the problem. If you criticize this, of course, you're

00:14:08.440 called all kinds of names, xenophobic, racist, and so on, but I believe that it's a time for only

00:14:15.420 those who are actually legally eligible to vote in the United States, meaning U.S. citizens,

00:14:21.360 could you be allowed to do so.

00:14:23.660 I'm Roger Stone.

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00:14:26.020 Please keep listening because we'll be right back.

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00:14:36.700 Welcome back into The Stone Zone.

00:14:39.400 The White House released a video Tuesday

00:14:41.540 featuring military veterans

00:14:43.200 criticizing the so-called seditious six.

00:14:46.440 Those were elected Democrats who are military veterans

00:14:50.160 who made a video calling for members of our current military to refuse to comply with, quote, illegal orders from President Donald Trump.

00:14:59.180 In response to the Seditious Six, veterans appeared in the White House video arguing that their message has to do with military discipline and the chain of command.

00:15:09.000 The administration said their remarks threatened the principle of civilian control of our armed services.

00:15:13.860 Now, I find it quite curious that Senator Slotkin from Michigan, who seems to be leading this particular charge, predicted only two weeks ago that it was only a matter of weeks before some National Guardsman was shot and killed.

00:15:29.180 And, of course, two weeks later, exactly that happened.

00:15:32.360 The other thing that's disturbing to me is that among these congresswomen is the congresswoman from New Hampshire, Congresswoman Goodlander.

00:15:39.500 She just happens to be the wife of Jake Sullivan.

00:15:42.660 Jake Sullivan was Joe Biden's national security advisor.

00:15:46.260 Before that, he was Hillary Clinton's national security advisor, and he was one of the architects of the Russian collusion hoax.

00:15:53.040 Very specifically, it was Jake Sullivan who approved the false claim that Alpha Bank, a Russia bank, had a computer terminal inside the Trump organization headquarters on Fifth Avenue in New York.

00:16:07.520 That, of course, turned out to be completely false.

00:16:10.040 So I agree with Alex Jones, but even Jesse Waters now sees that there's something much larger and darker afoot here.

00:16:19.640 I believe that those who refuse to accept the results of the last presidential election are planning some mass-based false flag or insurgency because they know they can't win an election.

00:16:31.680 I agree with one of those veterans who was at the White House, the director of Moms for America, who said the White House has made it very clear that orders that come from the commander in chief and the secretary of war have been upheld as lawful.

00:16:44.340 Suggesting otherwise is designed to create confusion and weaken our national security.

00:16:49.860 For those senators and members of Congress to come forward, use their status as veterans to claim in some way that they're allowed to stand in the way of the normal chain of command.

00:16:59.160 Well, that's treason.

00:17:01.300 Jesse Jane Duff, who served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy at the U.S. Department of Labor's Veterans Employment and Training Service, said,

00:17:09.500 It's not ironic, though, that these are all Democrats that defy and despise the President of the United States, and they would love to see some form of uprising in this country to go against the President.

00:17:21.440 So this blatant act of insubordination from the so-called Sadistic Six with the armed forces is clearly, in my view, a criminal act.

00:17:29.540 And Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona is now facing the potential of a court-martial as a result.

00:17:35.580 The White House is correct to keep pushing this and not just letting it slide.

00:17:40.360 This is a battle for the soul of our nation's military and for our country.

00:17:44.540 We're going to need a strong military to bring terrorists, foreign and domestic, to justice.

00:17:50.020 The Democrats want the military to stand down.

00:17:52.160 It comes time to put the deep straight king prince and their allies, the Antifa thugs, into shackles.

00:17:57.760 And that cannot happen if we want to make America great again. 0.64

00:18:02.140 Thanks for tuning in. I'm Roger Stone.

00:18:04.080 You're listening to The Stone Zone here on the Red Apple Audio Networks.

00:18:08.600 We'll be right back with more hot politics.

00:18:10.780 So whatever you do, please keep listening.

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00:18:22.660 Welcome back to The Stone Zone.

00:18:24.640 Last week, President Donald Trump made an announcement that rocked the foundations of both American and Honduran politics

00:18:32.480 when he said he was going to issue a pardon for the country's former president, Juan Orlando Hernandez.

00:18:40.080 True to his word, Hernandez was released from custody yesterday, and he's now a free man after serving a little over one year in prison.

00:18:48.640 To be very clear, last Friday morning I forwarded a four-page letter from the former president of Honduras, Hernandez, to President Donald Trump, but contrary to some in the mainstream media, such as Esquire and others, as well as various internet trolls, I was compensated nothing whatsoever for my advocacy for a pardon for the former Honduran president,

00:19:15.380 And I simply forwarded a compelling letter from Hernandez to the president because a review of the facts in the case led me to the clear conclusion that the charges against Hernandez were both politically motivated and false.

00:19:31.260 Hernandez was charged and prosecuted, utilizing the same tactics of lawfare in which President Trump himself was charged by special counsel Jack Smith.

00:19:40.100 In other words, in short, Juan Orlando Hernandez was framed.

00:19:44.960 President Trump's clemency for the former Honduran president is therefore an act of both justice and mercy.

00:19:52.140 In fact, President Hernandez's letter was sent to me by investigative journalist, Shane Trejo,

00:19:57.920 as I disclosed on my radio show on Sunday, where I hosted the former Honduran first lady,

00:20:04.100 Ana Garcia de Hernandez, and their two daughters, Ana Daniel and Isabella Hernandez, after the

00:20:11.840 pardon was announced. The pardon came days before the national election, where the ruling left-wing

00:20:18.460 Libra party hoped to remain in control. Libra is, of course, in league with the regimes in both Cuba

00:20:26.440 and Venezuela. Immediately after Hernandez was termed out of office in 2022, the Labor Party

00:20:33.820 President, Xiomar Castro, wife of former President Mel Zelaya, worked with the Biden-Harris Department

00:20:41.320 of Justice to extradite Hernandez over completely fabricated charges of drug trafficking. But

00:20:48.340 examining the facts of the case show that there was nothing more than a politically motivated hit

00:20:53.940 by the Biden-Harris administration, in which their witch hunt against Donald Trump and his

00:20:58.700 allies, both foreign and domestic, continue. Actually, throughout Hernandez's tenure as

00:21:04.940 Honduran president, he worked very closely with the United States on drug interdictions and

00:21:10.380 received President Trump's praise for his work in doing so. Hernandez even signed the extradition

00:21:16.960 treaty that allowed for criminals who were involved in drug trafficking to be sent to the United

00:21:21.440 States have prosecuted a landmark agreement in cracking down against the scourge of illegal

00:21:27.020 drugs. In fact, President Trump said at the time, President Hernandez is working in the United States

00:21:32.020 very closely. You know what's going on on our southern border, and we're winning after years

00:21:36.940 and years of losing. We're stopping drugs at a level that has never happened. President Trump

00:21:41.200 said that back on December of 2019. But unbeknownst to Trump, agents of the deep state were plotting

00:21:48.540 a case against his ally in stopping the drug trade, using testimony from convicted criminals

00:21:55.220 who Hernandez had extradited to the United States and fabricating a case against Hernandez,

00:22:01.240 casting he himself as a drug trafficker. During Hernandez's trial, a law enforcement official

00:22:07.320 gave completely false testimony, claiming that cocaine trafficking to the United States

00:22:12.500 from Honduras had increased during Hernandez's administration, when in fact cocaine trafficking

00:22:18.780 in the United States had sharply decreased. But the judge, of course, rejected Hernandez's request

00:22:24.680 for a retrial on that basis. Hernandez's case was largely based on conjecture and the testimony of

00:22:31.100 murderous convicted cartel leaders who had an axe to grind against Hernandez and who were

00:22:36.800 highly incentivized to produce testimony, damning the man who sent them to prison to begin with,

00:22:42.500 because of the deals that they were working with the DEA.

00:22:46.340 Two of these cartel kingpins were Carlos Negro Lobo and Divas Leonel Rivera Meridiaga.

00:22:54.600 Now, Lobos was extradited to the United States in 2014 as part of Hernandez's widespread crackdown against the narco trafficking in Honduras.

00:23:04.900 U.S. attorneys and DEA officials both called Lobo one of the biggest cocaine transporters in the international drug trade.

00:23:12.500 At the time of his arrest, with evidence showing that Lobos had actually smuggled more than 450 kilograms of cocaine into the United States.

00:23:22.120 The U.S. attorneys commended the effort of Hernandez at the time to put Lobo behind bars, but that all changed when the anti-Trump political agenda of the Biden-Harris administration took hold.

00:23:34.820 Lobo, who had been sentenced to 20 years in prison,

00:23:38.160 actually only served 10 years after he engaged in secret negotiations

00:23:41.620 with the U.S. Attorney's Office at the same time that Hernandez was under indictment.

00:23:46.920 It was an obvious conflict of interest existing,

00:23:50.040 with Lobo highly motivated and therefore incentivized to provide any testimony

00:23:54.580 the prosecutors wanted to harm the very man who put him behind bars,

00:23:59.840 as well as the sharp reduction in his sentence.

00:24:02.700 And following his release, Lobo, who had been pictured living it up in Miami Beach, drinking a cold cerveza and carousing with a lady friend after essentially gotten away with murder from help from the Biden Justice Department.

00:24:16.520 Then another cartel leader who testified against President Hernandez, Mara Diaga, who was convicted a drug lord who pled guilty to sanctioning 78 murders while leading a billion dollar drug trafficking syndicate.

00:24:30.560 Among the most powerful Central American drug dealers, the so-called Cachinos gang, Mara Diaga artfully played over-eager DEA agents like a fiddle to ensure preferential treatment following his indictment, despite his undilienable kingpin status.

00:24:47.600 So Juan Orlando Hernandez's increased enforcement measures against drug cartels

00:24:53.380 Mara Diaga saw the handwriting on the wall as his assets were being seized

00:24:58.040 And as his Caracherino gang was under public investigation by the United States

00:25:04.040 Mara Diaga got ahead of the issue, turning himself in 0.82

00:25:07.260 And then worked with the feds to throw the leader who had cornered him 1.00

00:25:11.740 Cracking down on the cartels under the bus only to protect himself

00:25:16.540 Mara Diaga recorded an interview with drug traffickers

00:25:19.520 who alleged to have paid $250,000 in drug money to Hernandez,

00:25:25.140 but the money ultimately could never be tracked

00:25:27.200 and the allegations were never substantiated

00:25:29.580 with serious evidence during the court proceedings.

00:25:32.080 It was merely testimony from a convicted drug dealer.

00:25:36.300 It is recognized that the murder rate dropped

00:25:38.440 and corrupt police officers removed from the force

00:25:41.020 during the time Hernandez was in office,

00:25:43.360 not indicators that he was some kind of hidden drug lord.

00:25:47.160 But those factors, of course, were not taken into consideration during his trial.

00:25:51.480 None of this, of course, has been reported in the New York Times or the Washington Post or the Wall Street Journal.

00:25:56.880 They try to say that there's some hypocrisy between the fact that President Donald Trump is trying to remove Maduro,

00:26:03.560 a known Marxist anarcho-drug trafficker in Venezuela, at the same time who was granting clemency to Hernandez.

00:26:10.740 But the difference is obviously clear.

00:26:12.460 Hernandez was framed. He's innocent. Juan Orlando Hernandez did nothing wrong.

00:26:19.100 Of all the Honduran drug criminals involved in engineering the imprisonment of Hernandez,

00:26:23.820 it's particularly difficult to find any public information whatsoever about Maradiaga's sentencing.

00:26:29.820 That's because his indictment was sealed on April 14, 2016,

00:26:34.260 noting that Maradiaga pled guilty of multiple felonies that called for life sentences in prison.

00:26:40.040 Still, the plea agreement approved by the infamous Southern District of New York noted that the feds will take steps to ensure his safety and that of his family and loved ones

00:26:50.160 which may include application to the witness security program

00:26:53.820 whereby the defendant, his family and the loved ones, if approved, could be relocated under a new identity

00:27:00.800 We have to assume that that is precisely what has happened

00:27:03.900 Mara Diago's plea agreement was approved by Obama's appointed Southern District of New York

00:27:09.240 attorney, U.S. attorney, Preet Bharara, a rabid partisan who was fired by President Trump in

00:27:15.940 2017. I have revealed right here in the Stone Zone that the attempts to procure additional

00:27:22.280 details on Mara Diago's case and his whereabouts filing a Freedom of Information Act request with

00:27:27.740 the Department of Justice will only result in more questions than answers. To the extent that

00:27:34.200 non-public responsive records exist without consent, proof of death, or other overriding

00:27:39.820 public interest, disclosure of law enforcement records concerning an individual could reasonably

00:27:44.800 expected to constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy. That's what the Department

00:27:50.460 of Justice wrote to me when I provided or inquired to obtain these records.

00:27:57.620 Following an appeal that cited the newsworthiness of the case,

00:28:01.480 details regarding this drug lord,

00:28:03.640 the Department of Justice has continued to stonewall me once more,

00:28:07.120 this time under the pretense of not being sure

00:28:09.480 which federal agency could possess the information.

00:28:12.660 It's basically the bureaucratic runaround.

00:28:15.240 Based on the information you have provided,

00:28:17.560 I cannot determine the nature of the records you're seeking

00:28:20.080 and therefore cannot recommend a federal entity

00:28:22.680 to which you should submit your request,

00:28:24.700 the Department of Justice wrote to one of my researchers.

00:28:28.840 It's Mr. Hernandez who signed into law all of those rules and laws

00:28:32.900 that put these drug dealers out of business.

00:28:35.340 Putting murderers and drug dealers on the witness stand who have cut deals

00:28:38.800 and have them point the finger at former President Hernandez

00:28:42.300 is not proof of anything beyond a reasonable doubt.

00:28:45.720 That was an actual quote from Hernandez's defense attorney, Renato Stabile.

00:28:49.840 During the Biden-Harris administration campaign of retribution against President Trump and his allies, including, well, yours truly, they zeroed in on Hernandez and curried favor with his opposition, the far-left Libra Party.

00:29:04.500 Now, the Libra Party was led by Xiomar Castro, part of the infamous Zelaya family, with deep ties to the Venezuelan Marxist narco-drug trafficker, Nicolas Maduro.

00:29:16.800 These ties did not seem to phase the Biden administration as they saw the opportunity to neutralize a prominent conservative Trump ally in the Central American Honduras.

00:29:29.820 The Department of Justice filed their indictment on January 27th, just one day after Hernandez left office and as Vice President Kamala Harris traveled to Honduras to visit and attend Xiomar Castro's inauguration to demonstrate that the Biden-Harris administration's personal stamp of approval was on the communists who had seized power over Honduras.

00:29:52.820 Harris was Xiomar Castro's first meeting as a world leader shortly after her swearing-in ceremony.

00:29:59.820 Vice President Harris called Xiomara Castro's victory historic as Honduras' first female president and stated that she would work with the communists to increase economic opportunities, combat corruption, and deepen the partnership between the U.S. and Honduras.

00:30:15.580 When the potential conflict of interest came up as the Biden-Harris administration was embracing the new leftist Honduran president while attempting to imprison her predecessor, former Attorney General Merrick Garland defended the decision.

00:30:29.980 The new administration of Honduras wants our help, Garland said. There's no conflict between our doing this kind of work and having good relations in Latin America.

00:30:38.740 Despite the immense ineptitude, corruption and belligerence of the Xiomar Castro regime in Honduras, soon the Biden-Harris administration created distance from the colossal disaster that they themselves had helped unfold in Honduras.

00:30:54.120 A hidden camera video showed two of the witnesses against Hernandez, Lobo and Mara Diaga, the same two drug kingpins who received leniency after testifying falsely against Hernandez, actually negotiating a drug bribe to fund the left-wing Libra Party operations.

00:31:15.740 This was a video with Carlos Zelaya, the former Secretary of Congress, who just happens to be the brother of former Honduras President Mel Zelaya.

00:31:26.040 That would be Xiomar Castro, the former president.

00:31:29.620 In one video, Carlos Zelaya was caught speaking about drug money had been received by his brother Mel.

00:31:35.520 They referenced an alleged $500,000 that Mel Zelaya received in bribe money from the cartels.

00:31:42.040 The traffickers agreed to put together $650,000 for Zelaya to ensure his compliance.

00:31:48.820 Carlos Zelaya said half must go to the commander, meaning that we assume his brother Mel,

00:31:54.840 with the rest of the drug money going into the coffers of the far-left Libra Party that would seize control of Honduras.

00:32:01.640 They also discussed drug cartels providing vehicular transport for Libra Party functions.

00:32:07.640 Once again, Carlos Zelaya was forced to resign in disgrace as the Secretary of Congress as a result of this scandal, and his son, José Manuel Zelaya, was forced to resign as Minister of Defense of Honduras.

00:32:21.240 At the same time, President Castro announced that she would be canceling the very extradition treaty with the United States that Hernandez had signed into law that allowed them to extradite drug traffickers to the United States.

00:32:35.580 If you look closely at the conviction of Juan Orlando Hernandez, the former president of Honduras, the whole thing stinks.

00:32:45.640 What's amazing, however, is that the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Reuters,

00:32:51.460 none of these so-called media outlets are interested in this real story.

00:32:56.600 Castro's officials were seen fraternizing with leaders of the narco trade, but all of that is ignored.

00:33:02.960 This is the real story of why President Trump reviewed the facts of this case and decided to pardon former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez.

00:33:14.060 I'm Roger Stone. This is the Stone Cold Truth, and I'll be right back.

00:33:19.840 The Stone Zone, entertaining and informative on the Red Apple Podcast Network.

00:33:26.080 Welcome back to the Stone Zone. 0.98

00:33:28.040 Hypocrites in the mainstream media want to say that President Donald Trump is somehow acting hypocritically 0.98

00:33:34.360 because at the very same time he's trying to remove the Marxist narco-drug trafficker Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela, 0.97

00:33:41.780 he decided to give clemency to former Honduran President Juan Hernandez.

00:33:47.800 This, of course, is outrageous, the difference being quite clear.

00:33:51.860 Juan Orlando Hernandez was framed.

00:33:54.540 We know that officials from the previous government of Xiomar Castro have been seen publicly fraternizing with leaders of the narco trade in Latin America and flouting it in the face of U.S. officials.

00:34:07.260 Only last year, Defense Minister Jose Manuel Zelaya held a meeting with Maduro himself and indicted Venezuelan drug dealer Vladimir Padrino,

00:34:17.500 drawing the ire of the former U.S. ambassador to the Honduras, Laura Dugo,

00:34:22.240 who said she was surprised that the Honduran Castro regime was meeting openly with drug traffickers.

00:34:28.560 The Biden administration has been hoodwinked.

00:34:30.780 Honduran Foreign Minister Enrique Reina derided the interference and interventionism of the United States

00:34:37.580 in response to this publicly outrageous display.

00:34:42.420 I took particular interest in the case of former President Juan Orlando Hernandez

00:34:47.980 because of how the situation mirrored my own when I was framed in a D.C. courtroom

00:34:53.880 and subjected to a Soviet-style show trial,

00:34:56.900 Despite the fact that the final report of Robert Mueller, the special counsel, once we fought in court to get it unsealed, proved that they'd found no effort, no Russian collusion, WikiLeaks collaboration or any other crime on my part.

00:35:14.060 So I understand what the witch hunt is like.

00:35:18.340 Hundreds of DEA thugs working in concert with Xiomara Castro's police swarmed the home of former President Hernandez and ushered him out in humiliating public display, ripping him from his family.

00:35:29.440 Does this sound familiar?

00:35:30.920 They raided my home at 6 o'clock in the morning

00:35:34.320 A show force in which 29 heavily armed FBI agents in full SWAT gear

00:35:39.560 And brandishing fully automatic M4 assault weapons

00:35:43.020 Stormed my home when they simply could have called my lawyer

00:35:47.040 And told me to turn myself in

00:35:49.180 But if they had done that, of course they wouldn't have had the show for CNN

00:35:53.660 You see, CNN just happened to have a camera crew 25 feet from my front door

00:35:59.240 They actually got an award from the White House Correspondents Association for their incisive investigative reporting that led them to my doorstep.

00:36:08.420 In fact, at 6.11 in the morning, I was arrested.

00:36:13.820 But at 6.22, a producer at CNN sent a copy by text of my sealed indictment to one of my lawyers.

00:36:22.080 And although that indictment had no time stamps or court markings on it, if you looked at the meta data tags, you saw the initials of the Mueller prosecutor who wrote it and therefore the Mueller prosecutor who leaked it in violation of the law.

00:36:38.420 That man, the most corrupt prosecutor in U.S. history, Andrew Weissman.

00:36:43.800 So you can see why I was sympathetic regarding the framing of President Juan Orlando Hernandez

00:36:50.060 and why I was happy to hand over his eloquent letter to President Trump.

00:36:55.420 It's amazing to me that I've written and said all of this extensively,

00:36:59.360 but no one in the mainstream media wants to cover the facts regarding this illicit trial

00:37:04.900 that took place in the Southern District of New York.

00:37:08.420 Now you have it. It's all here, right here on the Stone Zone, and I've laid it out, chapter and verse.

00:37:15.780 The most outrageous thing are the claims by internet trones, and some even in the media who say that Stone must have been paid millions of dollars for his advocacy for a pardon for Juan Orlando Hernandez.

00:37:28.440 The truth is, I was paid not a penny. He did nothing wrong, and therefore I was happy to step up in the interests of both justice and mercy.

00:37:37.860 Now you have the inside story, but here's the silver lining.

00:37:42.060 In last Sunday's election, the Nationalist Party candidate, pro-U.S. and anti-drug trafficking Tito Asfura, clearly came in first, getting the most votes.

00:37:53.360 It remains to be seen whether that will be certified by the current government, as there is an ongoing effort, we've seen this before, to recount.

00:38:01.980 But I believe that the forces of good will triumph, and therefore, I sleep well at night knowing that I recommended a pardon for a man who was completely innocent, and I may have helped to elect a pro-U.S. anti-drug trafficking regime in neighboring Honduras.

00:38:19.020 Until tomorrow, God bless you and Godspeed, and thank you for joining us right here in The Stone Zone.

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The StoneZONE with Roger Stone - December 04, 2025

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