Roger Stone delivers an impassioned plea for clemency in the case of former President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who was convicted in the United States of drug trafficking and conspiracy to commit racketeering, a charge that he vehemently denies.
00:01:10.740First of all, I want to start by thanking the literally thousands of people who sent their best wishes for the 33-year anniversary of my marriage.
00:01:24.240To Nidia Betran de Espinosa Stone, a fiery Cuban-American who has been my life's partner, who stood with me through both thick and thin,
00:01:37.420who encouraged me when I was discouraged, particularly during the witch hunt that was waged against me,
00:01:45.400in which I was pressured, unbelievably, to offer false testimony against President Donald Trump.
00:01:51.640And when I refused to do so, I was framed with process crimes, while the judge withheld from me, my wife, and my defense attorney's exculpatory evidence
00:02:02.980that proved that I was not involved in Russian collusion, WikiLeaks collaboration, or any other crime for that matter.
00:02:10.180That's what Robert Mueller conceded in his final report, long redacted and hidden from me and my lawyers,
00:02:16.700but ultimately released based on the orders of a federal judge.
00:02:20.960Through all of that, my wife was my rock.
00:02:23.660She is an extraordinarily strong and kind woman, and I want to thank many who sent their best wishes.
00:03:54.480If anyone will examine the case against Juan Orlando Hernandez that was waged immediately after his presidency,
00:04:03.880you will see that he was framed using the exact same kind of tactics that were used against President Trump in New York and by Jack Smith.
00:04:13.120I mean, examine this case, and you will see that Juan Orlando Hernandez, who signed the extradition treaty with the United States when Trump was president,
00:04:25.120and who cracked down on the narco-traffickers, was convicted essentially solely on the testimony of three convicted drug traffickers,
00:04:34.200all of whom had long prison sentences, all of whom had been prosecuted by under the administration of Juan Hernandez in return for get-out-of-jail-free cards.
00:04:47.760So this was a politically motivated prosecution designed to clear the way for what the Biden administration preferred,
00:04:57.940a more, shall we say, progressive regime.
00:05:00.720And it put in place the government of Xiomara Castro, who is aligned with Venezuela and Cuba as not only in terms of narco-trafficking,
00:05:15.880but also oppressing the people of Honduras.
00:05:19.460So, yes, after studying this case extensively, I did pass a compelling letter from the former President of Honduras to President Trump,
00:16:45.560I think Dana White is an entrepreneurial genius, and it may soon be coming to the White House.
00:16:52.160President Trump has said that there will be UFC events at the White House in 2026 as part of America's 250th anniversary celebration.
00:17:02.120He announced that with UFC CEO Dana White and says that White is constructing a special arena that will seat roughly 6,000 fans on the historic White House grounds.
00:17:12.640This is going to be very, very interesting to watch.
00:17:16.600I certainly want to be invited to that, but beyond that, I want to see who is going to compete.
00:17:24.300You have to be very careful while watching bare knuckle boxing.
00:17:27.160You didn't get any blood splashed on you if you were sitting ringside.
00:20:14.100I was glad to see that a truly ruthless faction inside the horse show world think that Biden's mistakes at USDA have left the gate open and they're ready to bolt through it.
00:20:28.720What they believe is confusion in Washington and misinterpretations of recent rulings means they can slip back into the shadows and continue to to conduct incredibly cruel practices against horses that they practiced for half a century.
00:20:43.900For more than 50 years, some in the horse racing industry have predicted this one brutal formula.
00:20:52.080Chemical burns, chains, pressure shoes, stacks, weights, agony engineered to force the grotesque high step high stepping big lick movement that wins ribbons, prestige and big money, but which tortures poor animals, particularly specifically horses.
00:21:09.340A torture kit masquerading as a tradition, if you ask me.
00:21:12.580Now, Congress outlawed all of this barbarism way back on December 9th, 1970, when President Donald Trump signed the Horse Protection Act into law.
00:22:15.800If you're a horse fan, you know what I'm talking about.
00:22:18.800Half a century has now passed, and this cruelty continues.
00:22:23.540The only thing that's changed is the sophistication of the cover-up of it and the aggressiveness of the political machining protecting it.
00:22:30.880Darker, slicker, more deeply embedded in influence and insider games,
00:22:35.180those in the show horse and racehorse industry continue these cruel practices.
00:22:41.240And now the same faction is attempting to twist the present moment into a false narrative that they're finally free to do all these things again.
00:22:50.480But the truth of it, any veterinarian who has seen a horse's raw, blistered pasterns knows.
00:22:56.600Every former trainer who escaped the racket knows it.
00:22:59.260Even members of Congress who pretend to otherwise know it.
00:23:01.840The USDA tried to break this cycle in 2024 when it issued a long overdue update to the House Protection Act regulation.
00:23:10.980Predictably, Biden's team botched that rollout.
00:23:14.400But the core reform was a serious, the first serious update, actually, in decades.
00:23:19.720It ended industry self-policing and created a federally overseen cadre of independent inspectors.
00:23:25.660That rule also included bans on stacked shoes and leg chains long tied to sores for the horses, oozing sores.
00:23:35.140The industry responded with more lawsuits in Texas.
00:23:38.180Texas, a federal judge, struck down the device bans on procedural grounds,
00:23:43.080but not because USDA lacked the authority and not because it is illegal,
00:23:48.480but because the wrong administrative process was used.
00:24:24.880Meanwhile, guys who are always attacking me on social media, the Vindman brothers, you may remember them.
00:24:31.320They were front and center in the Russian, pardon me, the Ukrainian collusion hoax,
00:24:35.620when one of them reported an overheard phone conversation that would have been classified as the basis for an effort to impeach Donald Trump.
00:24:46.160In fact, what we now know, based on declassified CIA documents, is that that impeachment was actually offensive and defensive.
00:24:54.580What they really wanted to hide was the fact that Joe Biden had tried to hold up the Ukrainians for a billion dollars in aid,
00:25:04.100getting them to fire the prosecutor who's investigating his son, Hunter Biden, in the Burisma scandal.
00:25:14.560But these two identical brothers, one of them is now in the Congress.
00:25:20.620They, I think, are guilty of seditious conspiracy at a minimum.
00:25:28.200Alexander Vindman and you have Getty Vindman, identical twins born in the Soviet Ukraine in 1975,
00:25:34.340arrived in this country as toddlers and grew in two of the most self-impressed bureaucrats to ever contaminate the White House National Security Council.
00:25:45.120They were glorified staffers with inflated egos, and they lied to create a national emergency.
00:25:54.340The Ukraine hoax refers to belief now widely held that the first impeachment, President Trump in 2019, was not a pursuit of justice,
00:26:01.700but, as I say, a political intervention crafted by bureaucratic malcontents.
00:26:06.440Adam Schiff lied repeatedly about whether the so-called whistleblower who had approached him had been coached to come forward or whether he had met with them.
00:26:16.800We now know, in retrospect, that he did.
00:26:19.840We also know, based on a report by the Inspector General of the Department of Justice,
00:26:27.200that Senator Adam Schiff and his sidekick, Eric Swalwell, who's just been busted for mortgage fraud, at least publicly,
00:26:37.720repeatedly leaked classified documents in order to frame Donald Trump to put him in a negative light.
00:26:45.580That is, of course, against the law, but neither one of them has been prosecuted.
00:26:51.440The Vindman brothers are no different.
00:26:54.280I think that they essentially fabricated their claims.
00:26:59.300The Senate ultimately acquitted the president because the allegations by these twin brothers were essentially incoherent.
00:27:08.760But they now are part and parcel of the new seditious six operation in which former CIA operatives or those tied to them
00:27:22.360have stepped forward to urge our men and women in uniform, those in our armed services,
00:27:29.220to ignore orders by the command in chief if such orders are illegal or unconstitutional.
00:27:35.180Yet they have been unable to identify any such orders.
00:27:39.980This is led by Senator Slotkin of Michigan.
00:27:42.780Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona has the support of the Vindman brother who's in the Congress.
00:27:48.400I find it troubling that Slotkin is a former CIA operative who worked for John Brennan.
00:27:55.540And then only two weeks before a National Guardsman was shot and killed in Washington, D.C.,