On this day in 1972, President Richard Nixon ordered the intense bombing and mining of Haiphong Harbor, as well as other targets in Vietnam, in order to force the North Vietnamese to the table. So this is the day historically, on which we join you.
00:01:16.080Her decor for both of the White House and for Mar-a-Lago is really extraordinary, as is her incredible personal style, the way she dresses, that she has never been on the cover of Vogue is a politically correct outrage.
00:01:35.340Of course, Michelle Obama on the cover of all of the major women's magazines, whereas Melania, who is both chic, highly intelligent, very kind, speaks seven languages, very wise and a key advisor and helpmate to her husband, has been shunned by the mainstream media.
00:01:59.480But still, she is elegant, and she is active, and she speaks her mind.0.63
00:02:04.780She's done an amazing job on the decor for Christmas.
00:02:08.520But the president is really in a special place when he is at Mar-a-Lago.
00:02:13.120For those who have never been there or will never be there, it is really a mystical place.
00:02:20.420It was originally the home of Meriwether Post.
00:02:24.720Marjorie Mellweather Post was, of course, the businesswoman in socialite who owned the Post serial fortune.
00:02:33.580And it was built between 1924 and 1927.
00:02:38.040At the time of her death, it was essentially deeded to the U.S. government.
00:02:46.360It's an opulent Spanish-style 30s mansion.
00:02:50.580When I was working for Donald Trump in the 90s, I guess it was that he purchased it, we were flying one weekend from New York. I was living in New York at the time, flying to Florida for the weekend.
00:03:07.720And I joined him on his plane flying out of Teterboro to Florida.
00:03:13.160And he said to me, I'm going to look at this property.
00:03:27.060So we walked through the property, which at that point, Mar-a-Lago had been boarded up for over 15 years.
00:03:34.320It had been examined by Richard Nixon, who actually there's a record that Nixon flew there with his best friend, B.B. Rebozo from Key Biscayne, to examine it.
00:03:45.680The government opened up for a walkthrough.
00:03:48.600It was elegant, but even then, Nixon thought it was much too opulent to fit his everyman image.
00:04:15.420Now, initially, the president, then the real estate developer offered the Post family and the government $15 million, which was rejected.
00:04:26.980Then Trump very wisely purchased land between the club and the oceanfront from a man named Jack C. Massey, the former owner of Kentucky Fried Children for two millions, announcing that he intended to build a home that would block Mar-a-Lago's view of the beach.
00:04:45.280This threat caused competing interests in Mar-a-Lago to decline.
00:04:49.660Trump ultimately purchased a property then for $7 million, stealing it, illegally in 1985.
00:04:58.860Some have put the sources at slightly higher.
00:05:02.820But today, it's abundantly clear that he bought a property for between $7 and $10 million that had an assessed value in the bankruptcy of $20 million with the interior furnishings alone being purchased at $8 million, being appraised at $8 million.
00:05:24.660So it was indeed a steal. This was the opulent home where Merriweather Post and her famous actress daughter, Dina Merrill, the famous Dina Merrill, she had a children's room there that had a pink hand-painted tile with little bunnies and so on.
00:05:43.420it's an upstairs bedroom. So the president has left it intact. It is incredible. But
00:05:50.900Meriwether Post would have these weekends in which she would have 20 or 30 couples. So upstairs0.99
00:05:57.160there's an upper deck of private rooms, which is what ultimately lent this to being a club.
00:06:03.600The president had it as his principal residence until the 1990s, and it is really quite extraordinary.
00:06:15.560But it was then and only then he decided to make it a club, which was very alarming to the Palm Beach residents
00:06:22.420because the Bath and Tennis Club and the other more venerable traditional clubs in old Palm Beach
00:06:32.540I really did not look kindly on people who were black or Hispanic or Jewish or Catholic.
00:06:40.340And Trump's club, he made clear, would be open to all.
00:06:43.680He ultimately won the rights to turn part of the state into a private club.
00:06:50.120And the club now functions while he is there as president, which is an extraordinary thing.
00:06:56.520The president has his own apartment, which is heavily guarded by the Secret Service.
00:07:01.940I was always concerned when I visited him during his first presidency and when I visited him in Mar-a-Lago during the beginning of this presidency that the Secret Service protection seemed very lax.
00:07:18.980You have to go through a gauntlet where they have to do a background check on you before you're given a QR code.
00:07:26.200You have to check in. They go through your car looking with mirrors at the bottom. They go through the trunk and under the hood. They check the vehicles for weapons and so on. So it's much, much tighter. It's, of course, tighter on those nights that the president is there.
00:07:47.300Now, it's like a medieval court in the sense that the president eats out on this round terrace, and therefore tables closest to his table are covered.
00:07:57.900His table is surrounded by velvet ropes, and there are four to six secret service agents surrounding his table so that the poor man can eat.
00:08:07.580Otherwise, he would have an endless stream of people asking for selfies or one to prove themselves to be assistant secretary of the Navy or.
00:08:18.740And, of course, many of these people are the president's friends and larger donors.
00:08:24.520But it's interesting to see the way people jockey to catch his eye, to try to anticipate his route when he comes from his private residence out to dinner.
00:08:35.840There is always a standing ovation when he comes.
00:08:53.200It's also a place, of course, where a lot of business gets done.
00:08:56.360The president entertains there on the weekends.
00:09:00.240and it is there that the reception for his marriage to Melania was held.
00:09:11.640The actual church was the Bethesda-by-the-Sea church in Palm Beach.
00:09:19.820It's actually the church at which Trump and the beautiful Melania Knauss got married.
00:09:25.440My wife and I were guests at that wedding.
00:09:28.280It was a beautiful, beautiful wedding. It was then the ceremony, which was attended by Bill and Hillary Clinton, among others.
00:09:38.800Chris Matthews and his wife sat next to my wife and I in our row at church. Go figure.
00:09:45.880But the president loves Mar-a-Lago. He's relaxed there. And it is great to see these images.
00:09:53.540I think that the quality of the food cannot be understated.
00:09:58.980The perfection of the entire experience cannot be understated.
00:10:03.000The president is fanatical about the quality of the food, and it is just very top-notch in every way.
00:10:13.660I have a firm policy where I am invited there as a guest because I, of course, am not a member.
00:10:18.580By the way, membership, which was once, I think, $50,000 has now climbed to close, has now climbed to over a million dollars.
00:10:27.900I think that price may be negotiable for some friends of the president, but some people have paid as much as two million to become a member of this club, which has obviously a limited number of members.
00:10:40.200And there's a long, long waiting list.
00:10:53.300I was I guess my blood boiled a little bit over the holidays when I watched Hunter Biden on the Sean Ryan show complaining about how the one percent get away with everything.
00:11:06.400He's the one who failed to to report millions of dollars of income for he and his family.
00:11:14.440And the U.S. attorney in Delaware, aware of the fact that he had this unreported income, let those tax charges expire, as opposed to my case in which I simply ran out of money.
00:11:28.780But I reported every penny of my taxes and I reported every all of my assets.
00:11:35.600The Biden Justice Department sued me in a civil action, but the press release didn't live up to their indictment and there was no evidence of tax evasion.
00:11:45.580My wife and I simply ran out of cash and we will be paying them with interest in penalties probably for the rest of our lives.
00:11:52.640But we had paid them irregularly for seven years without missing a payment until they bankrupted me.
00:11:58.040And then they sued me over my inability to pay.
00:12:01.460makes for little sense, quite different than Hunter Biden, who skipped out on millions and
00:12:07.200millions of income that he never declared. And again, the government let those charges expire
00:12:15.320knowingly. So it was outrageous for him to be complaining about the 1% who get away with0.58
00:12:21.100everything. The 1% is Joe Biden and his brother, Jim, and his son, Hunter, who we could call the
00:12:28.600facilitator. Once again, Hunter Biden says in his interview with Sean Ryan, who's a very popular
00:12:34.280podcast, that the laptop has been manipulated or is somehow not real. All of that is false.
00:12:41.560The laptop results, as reported by the New York Post, story broken by Miranda Devine,
00:12:47.960well covered in Breitbart News. The New York Post got banned before the election off of
00:12:53.720twitter over that story which was that is itself is outrageous all of that has been documented by
00:13:01.260the marco polo uh non-profit organization you can go to marco polo.org marco polo.org
00:13:09.300you can download all of the laptop or you can get the printed version it's appropriately blurred in
00:13:16.260the parts that are pornographic but what you see there are 154 crimes mostly the crime of bribery
00:13:23.520but also crimes of treason in which the Biden crime family syndicate took in millions and
00:13:30.420millions of dollars. And some of it, yes, went to the big guy, Joe Biden. So the idea that he's
00:13:38.340complaining that some people get away with everything is really extraordinary. You're
00:13:44.160listening to Roger Stone on this Christmas day right here on the Red Apple Audio Networks. And
00:13:50.500We've got more on the other side, so don't go away.
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00:14:08.120So I went to the White House Christmas Party last Monday night, and it was an extraordinary experience.
00:14:15.320The president, of course, spoke briefly, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy was there, Attorney General Pam Bondi was there, Republican strategist and pollster Tony Fabrizio was there.
00:14:34.660It was the FBI director, Cash Patel, was there, the CIA director, John Ratcliffe, was there.
00:14:43.420It was a great, great crowd. Laura Loomer was there, to the surprise of some, and it was very, very elegant. The Marine String Quartet played. The food was extraordinary.
00:14:59.140They had this tenderloin that would just blow your mind, but incredible smoked salmon, pork belly, which was very interesting.
00:15:13.860I mean, the food was extraordinary, although I barely got to nibble on it.
00:15:19.040It's instructive, I think, to look at how the presidents have treated Christmas in the White House.
00:15:24.680On the holiest of days, this is the holiest of day, it's interesting that in the earliest days of the republic, Christmas was not the major public holiday that we know today.
00:15:37.040Presidents like Washington and John Adams treated it really as a quiet religious observance, often marked by church attendance, private family meals, handwritten correspondence, but no tradition of gift giving and so on.
00:15:52.320The president himself was deliberately restrained in those days,
00:15:55.840and so there were no decorations, like no public celebrations and no political theater.
00:16:01.700That began to change in the 19th century.
00:16:03.820Christmas naturally evolved into the national holiday.
00:16:07.060America developed into a preeminent world power.
00:16:10.660Presidents, or let's face it, politicians, increasingly used it symbolically
00:16:17.100as an example of civic virtue and family life.
00:16:20.460So Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln kept modest criticism because they were both affected by a war.
00:16:29.140But Lincoln, who was governing during the Civil War, continued the tradition of charity.
00:16:34.100I mean, donating to wounded soldiers and orphans while reminding Americans that peace and goodwill were not luxuries during the Christmas months.
00:16:44.620The modern White House really took place in the late 1800s.
00:16:48.4601800s. Benjamin Harris was actually the first president to install
00:16:52.920a Christmas tree. He used to call him Benny, I'm told, in
00:16:56.6401889, setting a precedent that endures today.
00:17:01.580If you've looked at some of our middle presidents
00:19:27.560You're not required to prove your innocence, but you're really required to do so.
00:19:31.520But they won't allow you to introduce any evidence that would do so.
00:19:35.480So in my case, it was based on the false premise that the Russians, through their intelligence, had hacked to the DNC.
00:19:44.140They were subject to an online hack, and that information had somehow made its way to WikiLeaks through me or with my knowledge,
00:19:55.240which is, of course, not true because I could have proved with forensic evidence and expert testimony that there was no online hack.
00:20:04.740The FBI admitted they never examined the devices.
00:20:08.320So one of the two pillars of the Russian collusion that the Russians hacked, the DNC, is a complete fabrication.
00:20:14.980The head of the company who made that assessment, Fusion GPS, actually testified, probably CrowdStrike, wrong company, CrowdStrike, who Sean Henry, who happened to be a former deputy of special counsel Robert Mueller, testified that he had no such proof that the Russians had hacked the DNC.
00:20:39.560But I was allowed to show that in court.
00:20:43.800History, the fake news media just kind of makes the narrative.
00:20:48.460I've been studying the career of the much vilified Senator Joseph R. McCarthy.
00:20:55.460McCarthy has been typecast in history as a villain.
00:21:01.460And his critics insist that he was a reckless, drunk demagogue.
00:21:06.900and that he destroyed innocent people for which he actually would be censured by the U.S. Senate.
00:21:14.700That's because Joe McCarthy went after communism as the international menace,
00:21:22.040which had indeed infiltrated our government.
00:21:26.480And in truth, everything McCarthy exposed, including communists like Bella Dodd and Owen Lattimore and others,
00:22:28.040McCarthy himself is kind of an interesting character
00:22:31.940He was a country judge, a Marine veteran who was indeed a tail gunner, who challenged Robert M. La Follette Jr. in a U.S. Senate primary.
00:22:47.740La Follette was a sitting U.S. senator and incumbent, and he was the son of Robert M. La Follette Sr., who had also been a U.S. senator.
00:22:57.540They dominated the Republican Party, later became progressives, but McCarthy really, just by his dogged driving county to county and campaigning as a country judge and without really mentioning the communist menace yet, won the U.S. Senate seat and beating a Lafayette in Wisconsin was an extraordinary feat.
00:23:23.820Now, Joe McCarthy, whose name is now tied to McCarthyism, hasn't been vilified as one of the great villains of all times, but he actually once employed both Roy Cohn, later the notorious lawyer and power broker, as well as Robert F. Kennedy Sr.
00:23:46.780Interestingly enough, Joe McCarthy, as a bachelor, actually briefly dated Patricia Kennedy, the sister to President John F. Kennedy and Robert Kennedy, who later married the actor Peter Wofford.
00:24:03.600joseph r joseph r mccarski uh pardon me joseph p kennedy john kennedy's father
00:24:13.460who's a partner with frank uh uh partner with the mob really with frank costello uh controlling all
00:24:22.820of bootlegging and illegal liquor liquor from new york all the way up to the canadian border
00:24:29.060also a flamboyant former SEC chairman, bought a Hollywood studio, made millions of dollars on
00:24:38.360Wall Street. Joe Kennedy was a strong anti-communist, a close friend and supporter
00:24:44.800of J. Edgar Hoover's, really the man who pushed John F. Kennedy into the presidency,
00:24:50.620but he was a major donor to Senator McCarthy. When Joe McCarthy died, Robert and Ethel Kennedy
00:24:58.280were actually the lone Democrats at Joe McCarthy's funeral.
00:25:04.900Roy Cohn, of course, was the son of a Tammany judge
00:25:08.540who'd used his father's political connections to become a federal prosecutor.
00:25:14.280Cohn famously prosecuted the Rosenberg case.
00:25:18.220He has a very famous line in front of the judge
00:25:20.720when the judge asks him if there's any doubt about the request for the death penalty.
00:25:27.520And Cohn said, Your Honor, if I could flip the switch myself, I would.
00:25:34.280He joined McCarthy as counsel to a subcommittee.
00:25:38.720Cohn was actually a genius in many ways.
00:25:46.600He had very close relationships among the reporters and columnists who shaped the public narrative about what was happening in Washington.
00:25:56.580And Cohn was very adept at leaking information to Bill McCarthy's image and the public profile of their fight against communism.
00:26:09.160McCarthy was was was given to pretty heavy drinking.
00:26:17.040And in the end, of course, they tried to accuse him of being a drunk.
00:26:20.780But the problem was McCarthy struck too close to home, made the fatal mistake of taking on the U.S. Army, and that would end his downfall.
00:26:31.520President Eisenhower, who McCarthy had supported in 1952, turned decisively against him.
00:26:39.100And the media of its day, led by Edward R. Murrow, a very powerful radio voice, and all of the other major columnists,0.96
00:26:50.140turned on McCarthy with a vengeance, distorting his claims, depicting him as a bully, a drunkard, a homosexual, and a villain.0.96
00:27:00.280But that's not the true story of Senator Joe McCarthy.0.94
00:27:06.760Tail gunner Joe rose to prominence in the 1950s actually because he dared to state a truth that the American establishment in the day found intolerable.
00:27:16.100Communism was not just some foreign abstraction, but it was a domestic infestation.
00:27:22.320As a driving member of the House Un-American Activities Committee, quite separately from McCarthy, Congressman Richard M. Nixon proved that Alger Hiss had been a communist spy.
00:27:37.000Now, Hiss ultimately would be convicted of perjury for lying about being a communist spy, and the liberals insisted for years that Nixon, who used the Hiss case to spring into national prominence, because a communist spy who'd been at the highest levels had been at Roosevelt's sleeve at Yalta, had been at the highest levels of the State Department that divided up Europe and gave control.
00:28:07.000of half and much of Europe to Russian communism, put them behind the Iron Curtain, was a huge
00:28:16.520story that catapulted Nixon into national prominence.
00:28:20.640It's interesting that years later, when the Soviet Russian government fell and all of
00:28:29.580the KGB records were finally revealed, we found that, in fact, Alger Hiss actually was
00:28:36.180a Russian spy. And actually, and Alger Hiss had been passed documents by a fellow communist at
00:28:44.360the time, Whitaker Chambers. Whitaker Chambers was an editor at Time. He was a hard-drinking and
00:28:52.860intellectual and very religious man who had been a communist, become disillusioned,
00:29:00.100had become a conservative, but he had testified that Hiss passed him microfilm documents to pass
00:29:09.720to their Russian handlers. Alger Hiss denied that, denied knowing Chambers, later conceded that he
00:29:19.400may have known Chambers under a different name. But ultimately, the typewriter that Hiss had used
00:29:26.280to send things to chambers and the exact match proved that chambers was telling the truth anyway
00:29:33.460the russian records would later tell us uh that that uh that alger his was a spy so nixon was
00:29:42.400absolutely right about that uh it is amazing how they have vilified uh mccarthy uh he fought in
00:29:52.640the hearing rooms, the committee chambers, media arenas, where reputations were easily weaponized
00:29:58.480and truth was treated as heresy. He did it during the post-war moment when Stalin had already0.76
00:30:04.540enslaved Eastern Europe, Mao had butchered China, and American secrets were already bleeding into0.58
00:30:10.000Soviet hands. The Rosenberg case, of course, is a personal example. McCarthy understood this0.58
00:30:16.260civilization would collapse not only by invasion, but by internal corrosion. This is what McCarthy
00:30:21.780turned out to be absolutely right about you recognize america could be strangled slowly0.81
00:30:27.460through bureaucratic capture cultural degradation and moral disarmament or as they said in pogo we
00:30:34.460have met the enemy and they is us the communist infiltration in our government ended up with our
00:30:42.340using usaid to actually fund every crazy cockamamie left-wing color revolution pro-impeachment
00:31:11.620meanwhile undermining us and helping give more and more power to the Chinese.0.90
00:31:18.740Unless one wakes up to the great danger of China, one does not understand the peril that America faces.0.94
00:31:26.140Russia, I'm no fan of the Russians.0.80
00:31:28.520I have relatives mowed down by Russian tanks in Budapest in 1956, and they are authoritarians.1.00
00:31:37.700But we share with them a problem with radical Islam.0.99
00:31:41.900They are a Christian-based nation, and the churches are open, although somewhat controlled.0.92
00:31:49.300And at the same time, China is moving into a vacuum around the world.
00:31:55.240China has brought up near control of rare earth minerals that need to make things like chips and batteries and other key elements.
00:32:03.480President Trump has an initiative to very quickly get Americans mining, control of mining of these rare earth minerals.
00:32:12.860They have also given huge dollars to academic institutions.
00:32:16.960They paid Joe Biden, the former vice president, almost one million dollars to endow a chair for classes that he never taught so that he just was essentially putting Chinese money into his pocket.
00:32:30.720Of course, he won't be prosecuted for that because he's he's part of that one percent that Hunter Biden was whining about who get away with everything.
00:32:41.660Anyway, I'm Roger Stone. Thanks for joining us on this Christmas Day show.
00:32:46.580On the day, Richard Nixon bombed Hanoi very famously, said that he left the Oval Office and went over to his corner office in the old executive office building.0.71
00:32:59.120And after talking with Dr. Kissinger, made the decision to devastatingly blow the attack North Vietnam on Christmas Day to try to bring them around.0.79
00:33:13.220Thanks for joining us today in the Stone Zone.0.79
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00:33:34.100I continue to examine the case of Rahmanullah Lakawal, the Afghan national who is now charged with fatally shooting two National Guard members near the White House last month.
00:33:49.380Only one of the two died, thankfully. The second life was saved. A move that will now set this monster up to deceive the death penalty.
00:34:04.100Fulfilling a pledge made by Attorney General Pam Bondi.0.94
00:34:07.520But what surprises me is, black and white, 29, got into the country and had only one year to apply for asylum.
00:34:20.240And this is when Joe Biden left in 2022, I believe it was.
00:34:26.560Yet he waited two years, three years, past the time he was supposed to receive asylum to get asylum status.
00:34:36.660But then you learn that he worked with and for the CIA in the country, in Afghanistan.
00:34:46.980So I believe that he is or was an asset.
00:34:51.540U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro said that their hit office sees the gravity of the crime, noting that that the woman who was murdered, Sarah Beckstrom, 20, was therefore allowed prosecutors to consider capital punishment.
00:35:12.400and Beckstrom tragically shot with her own service weapon.
00:35:19.300Both the other officer, both of these fine Americans from West Virginia,
00:35:25.900has survived, for which we really are quite grateful.
00:35:32.660The U.S. Attorney says that they are going to seek the death penalty.
00:36:07.400to the communist chinese who technologically knocked it off and one of the stupidest things1.00
00:36:13.760ever at a minimum as trump has pointed out our military should have destroyed it on their way0.98
00:36:18.560out to stop it from falling in enemy hands if we couldn't get all of this very sophisticated
00:36:25.260military equipment out of the country it is very interesting that he has porously moved
00:36:35.620into this country. But thousands of others were let through the floodgates at the same time.
00:36:41.820We were told by the administration that these people were scrupulously screened. But if that
00:36:50.640were true, then he would never have been able to get in three years after the deadline. So I think
00:36:59.720it is abundantly clear uh that that there's more to the story uh and this this looks to me like a
00:37:10.080terrorist act now i keep reading that they're searching for his motive yeah it is also reported
00:37:15.680in the same reports that he held ali akbar in which case his motive i think is abundantly clear
00:37:24.780But I'd like to be certain that he was, in fact, a fanatic operating on his own and not an asset, given his background and the strange circumstances into which he got into the country.
00:37:39.820They call this a conspiracy theorist because we're trying to look at the facts of all of these complicated cases.
00:37:46.600And we just don't believe what the mainstream media tells us in any of these high level publicly prominent cases.