On this Christmas 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.
00:09:49.800And it is, it is great to see these images.
00:09:52.820I think that, that the quality of the food cannot be understated.
00:09:58.240The perfection of the entire experience cannot be understated.
00:10:02.260The president is fanatical about the quality of the food.
00:10:07.180And it is, it is just very top notch in every way.
00:10:12.800I have a firm policy where I am invited there as a guest because I, of course, am not a member,
00:10:17.840by the way, membership, which was once, I think, $50,000, has now climbed to close, has now climbed to over a million dollars.
00:10:27.180I think that price may be negotiable for some friends of the president, but some people have paid as much as $2 million to become a member of this club,
00:10:35.560which has obviously a limited number of members.
00:10:38.680And there's a long, long waiting list.
00:13:09.120You can download all of the laptop or you can get the printed version.
00:13:14.060It's appropriately blurred in the parts that are pornographic.
00:13:17.100But what you see there are 154 crimes, mostly the crime of bribery, but also crimes of treason in which the Biden crime family syndicate took in millions and millions of dollars.
00:13:30.660And some of it, yes, went to the big guy, Joe Biden.
00:13:34.980And so the idea that he's complaining that that that that some people get away with everything is really extraordinary.
00:13:43.080You're listening to Roger Stone on this Christmas day right here on the Red Apple Audio Networks.
00:15:43.280I mean, the food was extraordinary, although I barely got to nibble on it.
00:15:48.360It's instructive, I think, to look at how the presidents have treated Christmas in the White House.
00:15:54.660On the holiest of days, this is the holiest of day.
00:15:57.140It's interesting that in the earliest days of the Republic, Christmas was not the major public holiday that we know today.
00:16:06.440Presidents like Washington and John Adams treated it really as a quiet religious observance,
00:16:12.560often marked by church attendance, private family meals, handwritten correspondence,
00:16:18.080but no tradition of gift giving and so on.
00:16:21.780The president himself was deliberately restrained in those days.
00:16:25.160So there were no decorations, like no public celebrations and no political theater.
00:16:31.100That began to change in the 19th century.
00:16:33.240Christmas naturally evolved into the national holiday.
00:16:36.460America developed into a preeminent world power.
00:16:40.060Presidents, or let's face it, politicians, increasingly used it symbolically as an example of civic virtue and family life.
00:16:49.880So Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln kept modest Christmases because they were both affected by war.
00:16:58.560But Lincoln, who was governing during the Civil War, continued the tradition of charity.
00:17:03.520I mean, donating to wounded soldiers and orphans while reminding Americans that peace and goodwill were not luxuries during the Christmas months.
00:17:12.880The modern White House really took place in the late 1800s.
00:17:18.820Benjamin Harris was actually the first president to install a Christmas tree.
00:17:23.140He used to call him Benny, I'm told, in 1889, setting a precedent that endures today.
00:17:30.100If you've looked at some of our middle presidents, like Benjamin Harris and others, it's amazing.
00:17:38.980A lot of these guys, it kind of looks like ZZ Topp, Rutherford B. Hayes, James Garfield.
00:17:45.460These guys are all long beards, but those were among some of our greatest, if less heralded presidents.
00:17:54.140By the 20th century, Christmas had become more of a family celebration, symbolic moment of national unity.
00:18:02.640That symbolism was used very extensively by Franklin Roosevelt, who gave a Christmas radio address every year, which for a sitting president was a very big deal.
00:18:17.980Radio addresses by Roosevelt emphasized sacrifice, faith, endurance, messages meant for the factory workers and soldiers overseas.
00:18:29.000So Christmas helps boy spirits during the war.
00:18:33.140Anyway, we're back in just a moment on this Christmas day, so don't go away.
00:18:39.480Boarding for flight 246 to Toronto is delayed 50 minutes.
00:19:21.900If you've read any of my books, The Man Who Killed Kennedy, The Case Against LBJ, or The Bush Crime Family,
00:19:32.960The Clintons' War on Women, the book in which I am, I think, the second author in the country to fully expose Jeffrey Epstein,
00:19:41.880and his closeness to Bill Clinton, as well as the bounds of his relationship with Donald Trump, and, of course, there is the making of the president in 2016.
00:19:54.800The judge threatened to throw me in jail when I published a book entitled The Myth of Russian Collusion, claiming that it would violate a gag order,
00:20:07.320even though the publication date was prior to the imposition of that unconstitutional gag order.
00:20:15.600See, that's the worst thing about being lynched by the federal government.
00:20:22.580You're not allowed to prove your innocence, although under the law, they're supposed to prove your guilt.
00:20:27.080You're not required to prove your innocence, but you're really required to do so.
00:20:31.020But they won't allow you to introduce any of the evidence that would do so.
00:20:35.000So, in my case, it was based on the false premise that the Russians, through their intelligence, had hacked to the DNC,
00:20:43.740were subject to an online hack, and that information had somehow made its way to WikiLeaks through me or with my knowledge,
00:20:54.760which is, of course, not true, because I could have proved with forensic evidence and expert testimony that there was no online hack.
00:21:04.220The FBI admitted they never examined the devices.
00:21:07.660So, one of the two pillars of the Russian collusion that the Russians hacked the DNC is a complete fabrication.
00:21:14.480And the head of the company who made that assessment, Fusion GPS, actually testified,
00:21:24.520pardon me, CrowdStrike, wrong company, CrowdStrike, who, Sean Henry, who happened to be a former deputy of special counsel Robert Mueller,
00:21:34.600testified that he had no such proof that the Russians had hacked the DNC.
00:21:39.140But I was allowed to show that in court.
00:21:42.480His history, the fake news media just kind of makes the narrative.
00:21:47.960I've been studying the career of the much vilified Senator Joseph R. McCarthy.
00:21:54.960McCarthy has been typecast in history as a villain, and his critics insist that he was a reckless, drunk demagogue,
00:22:06.400and that he destroyed innocent people for which he actually would be censured by the U.S. Senate.
00:22:14.200That's because Joe McCarthy went after communism as the international menace, which had indeed infiltrated our government.
00:22:25.580And in truth, everything McCarthy exposed, including communists like Bella Dodd and Owen Lattimore and others, were indeed Russian agents.
00:22:38.520If you have any questions about the fact that McCarthy actually ferreted it out and exposed communist corruption in our government,
00:22:45.060there's a book called Blacklisted by History by M. Stanchion Evans.
00:22:49.580Ann Coulter once called this the greatest book written since the Bible.
00:22:54.400And it tells in painstaking detail how tail gunner Joe, an ex-Marine, actually exposed the communist corruption that today thoroughly infects our federal government,
00:23:10.640academia, entertainment, academia, entertainment, and business, with the Chinese communists buying influence at the highest levels of U.S. government and all of those institutions.
00:23:28.020McCarthy himself is kind of an interesting character.
00:23:31.440He 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.
00:23:47.260La 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.
00:23:57.040They dominated the Republican Party, later became progressive, but McCarthy really, just by his dog driving county to county and campaigning as a country judge,
00:24:12.840and without really mentioning the communist menace yet, won the U.S. Senate seat, and beating La Follette in Wisconsin was an extraordinary feat.
00:24:23.320Now, Joe McCarthy, whose name is now tied to McCarthyism, hasn't been vilified as one of the great villains of all times,
00:24:35.200but he actually once employed both Roy Cohn, later the notorious lawyer and power broker, as well as Robert F. Kennedy Sr.
00:24:46.280Interestingly enough, Joe McCarthy, as a bachelor, actually briefly dated Patricia Kennedy, the sister to President John F. Kennedy and Robert Kennedy,
00:24:59.160who later married the actor Peter Lawford.
00:25:03.120Joseph R. Joseph R. McCarthy, pardon me, Joseph P. Kennedy, John Kennedy's father, who's a partner with Frank,
00:25:17.000a partner with the mob, really, with Frank Costello, controlling all of bootlegging and illegal liquor from New York all the way up to the Canadian border.
00:25:28.540Joe Kennedy, also a flamboyant former SEC chairman, bought a Hollywood studio, made millions of dollars on Wall Street.
00:25:39.900Joe Kennedy was a strong anti-communist, a close friend and supporter of J. Edgar Hoover's, really the man who pushed John F. Kennedy into the presidency,
00:25:49.480but he was a major donor to Senator McCarthy.
00:25:54.000When Joe McCarthy died, Robert and Ethel Kennedy were actually the lone Democrats at Joe McCarthy's funeral.
00:26:04.400Roy Cohn, of course, was the son of a Tammany judge who'd used his father's political connections to become a federal prosecutor.
00:26:12.380Cohn famously prosecuted the Rosenberg case.
00:26:17.700He has a very famous line in front of the judge when the judge asks him if there's any doubt about the request for the death penalty.
00:26:27.280And Cohn said, Your Honor, if I could flip the switch myself, I would.
00:26:33.940He joined McCarthy as counsel to his subcommittee.
00:26:37.680Cohn was actually a genius in many ways.
00:27:31.120President Eisenhower, who McCarthy had supported in 1952, turned decisively against him.
00:27:37.500And the media of its day, led by Edward R. Murrow, a very powerful radio voice and all of the other major columnists, turned on McCarthy with a vengeance, distorting his claims, depicting him as a bully, a drunkard, a homosexual, and a villain.
00:27:59.780But that's not the true story of Senator Joe McCarthy.
00:28:06.120Tail 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.
00:28:15.600Communism was not just some foreign abstraction, but it was a domestic infestation.
00:28:21.820As 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.
00:28:36.500Now, Hiss ultimately would be convicted of perjury for lying about being a communist spy.
00:28:43.900And 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,
00:29:03.140that divided up Europe and gave control of half and much of Europe to Russian communism, put them behind the Iron Curtain, was a huge story that catapulted Nixon into national prominence.
00:29:19.840It's interesting that years later, when the Soviet Russian government fell and all of the KGB records were finally revealed, we found that, in fact, Alger Hiss actually was a Russian spy.
00:29:37.800And Alger Hiss had been passed documents by a fellow communist at the time, Whitaker Chambers.
00:29:45.860Whitaker Chambers was an editor at the time.
00:29:50.540He was a hard-drinking and intellectual and very religious man who had been a communist, become disillusioned, had become a conservative.
00:30:01.380But he had testified that Hiss passed him microfilm documents to pass to their Russian handlers.
00:30:11.420Alger Hiss denied that, denied knowing Chambers, later conceded that he may have known Chambers under a different name.
00:30:22.200But ultimately, the typewriter that Hiss had used to send things to Chambers and the exact match proved that Chambers was telling the truth.
00:30:32.640Anyway, the Russian records would later tell us that Alger Hiss was a spy.
00:30:40.000So Nixon was absolutely right about that.
00:30:45.220It is amazing how they have vilified McCarthy.
00:30:51.340He fought in the hearing rooms, the committee chambers, media arenas, where reputations were easily weaponized and truth was treated as heresy.
00:30:59.540He did it during the post-war moment when Stalin had already enslaved Eastern Europe, Mao had butchered China, and American secrets were already bleeding into Soviet hands.
00:31:11.060The Rosenberg case, of course, is a personal example.
00:31:14.620McCarthy understood that civilization would collapse not only by invasion, but by internal corrosion.
00:31:20.520This is what McCarthy turned out to be absolutely right about.
00:31:23.720You recognize America could be strangled slowly through bureaucratic capture, cultural degradation, and moral disarmament.
00:31:31.980Or as they said in Pogo, we have met the enemy and they is us.
00:31:36.640The communist infiltration in our government ended up with our using USAID to actually fund every crazy cockamamie left-wing color revolution, pro-impeachment, anti-free enterprise, pro-censorship initiative, unimaginable, including many that were strictly and totally political.
00:32:03.260So they were using our own tax dollars against Donald Trump and anyone who agreed with him, meanwhile undermining us and helping give more and more power to the Chinese.
00:32:18.240Unless one wakes up to the great danger of China, one does not understand the peril that America faces.
00:32:24.940Russia, Russia, I'm no fan of the Russians.
00:32:28.240I have relatives mowed down by Russian tanks in Budapest in 1956, and they are authoritarians.
00:32:37.240But we share with them a problem with radical Islam.
00:32:42.120They are a Christian-based nation, and the churches are open, although somewhat controlled.
00:32:47.960And at the same time, China is moving into a vacuum around the world.
00:32:54.540China has brought up near control of rare earth minerals that are needed to make things like chips and batteries and other key elements.
00:33:03.460President Trump has an initiative to very quickly get Americans mining, control of mining of these rare earth minerals.
00:33:12.400They have also given huge dollars to academic institutions.
00:33:16.480They 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.
00:33:30.540Of course, he won't be prosecuted for that because he's part of that one percent that Hunter Biden was whining about, who get away with everything.
00:33:42.540Thanks for joining us on this Christmas Day show.
00:33:46.200The 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.
00:33:58.380And after talking with Dr. Kissinger, he made the decision to devastatingly blow the attack North Vietnam on Christmas Day to try to bring them around.
00:34:12.720Thanks for joining us today in the Stone Zone.
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00:34:33.600I 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.
00:35:45.500So I believe that he is or was an asset.
00:35:51.600U.S. Attorney Janine Pirro said that their head 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.
00:36:12.540Beckstrom, tragically shot with her own service weapon.
00:36:18.300Both the other officer, both of these fine Americans from West Virginia, has survived, for which we really are quite grateful.
00:36:32.360The U.S. Attorney says that they are going to seek the death penalty.
00:36:38.160Lackawal was wounded, entered the United States in 2021, which is just months, actually, after Joe Biden botched the Afghan withdrawal, leaving, I think, 31, 39, 31, I think it is, service people to die.
00:36:56.880And additionally, leaving not hundreds of millions, but billions of dollars of sophisticated military equipment behind.
00:37:05.160Equipment immediately transferred to the communist Chinese, who technologically knocked it off.