00:03:35.260of President Trump's new White House ballroom
00:03:37.820and the military complex beneath it to continue while the underlying legal battle proceeds.
00:03:44.420Now, the court has not ruled that every part of the project is necessarily lawful.
00:03:49.520It ruled that the National Trust for Historic Preservation is likely to lack Article 3 standing to bring the case.
00:03:58.760Frankly, this is a very good sign that the project will ultimately be successful.
00:04:03.680This entire battle has fit the pattern of lawfare that my friend President Donald Trump has had to endure from his leftist opponents from the very beginning of his first term.
00:04:13.560Every time President Trump acts, an outside group inevitably races into court.
00:04:19.340A lower court judge intervenes, usually an activist liberal judge, and then the Supreme Court ultimately has to decide whether the challenges even belong in the courthouse.
00:04:30.740This time, the majority said mere offense, disagreement, or distaste is not a concrete constitutional injury.
00:04:40.700The shameful Chief Justice John Roberts joined the three liberals in the dissent, accepting the absurd argument that a preservationist who regularly walks past the White House could suffer a particularized aesthetic injury from the transformation of the site.
00:04:58.220But that's actually, strangely enough, their argument against it.
00:05:02.180They're clearly dealing for any justification to obstruct the president's agenda, to build a safer and, I think, much wiser facility inside the White House grounds.
00:05:15.000It's not coincidental that two American presidents were targeted for assassination while visiting the Washington Hilton Hotel.
00:05:24.100It's a perfect example of why the ballroom is needed.
00:05:27.380President Trump says, of course, that the privately funded project is under budget, ahead of schedule,
00:05:33.440and it will cost taxpayers nothing whatsoever with completion planned for 2028.
00:05:38.960So I say with the recent attempts on the lives of President Trump,
00:05:42.560it's become more crucial than ever for the ballroom to be constructed
00:05:45.800as the secure venue would ensure the safety of the president and his guests
00:05:50.820from deranged, emboldened leftists on their hunt for blood.
00:05:54.940Courts were never supposed to be automatic veto points from every pressure group offended by presidential action.
00:06:02.320Litigation has become one of the left's favorite substitutes for winning political arguments or elections.
00:06:08.280But in this case, it appears that their lawfare efforts have failed.
00:06:12.340The Supreme Court did not bless every detail of the ballroom, I want to stress that,
00:06:16.700but it refused to let a questionable standing theory freeze construction.
00:06:21.320And that removes a barrier preventing that construction.
00:06:24.060So now we are one step closer to President Trump achieving a major victory for what will be part of his enduring legacy with the construction of the presidential ballroom.
00:06:35.560President Trump has also stated unequivocally that there is no reason to use a nuclear weapon against Iran.
00:06:43.340My friend, a former Trump supporter turned Trump hater, Tucker Carlson, says that a senior official told him that nuclear options were being discussed.
00:06:53.640This is, he's, one guy said, who told another guy, who told another guy, who told another guy.
00:08:29.940It began because contingently plans became assumptions,
00:08:33.280assumptions transformed into momentum,
00:08:35.140and suddenly nobody remembered what the original objective was.1.00
00:08:39.840This is exactly why Iraq and Afghanistan were such monumental disasters.
00:08:45.720President Trump's advantage has always been his willingness to disregard the entrenched foreign policy bureaucracy when his advice makes no sense.
00:08:55.120Straits is useful because it can prevent war.
00:08:58.160Power is valuable because you don't always have to use it, you just have to show that you have it.
00:09:03.060President Trump knows we must prepare for everything, fear nothing, and never let the bureaucracy choose America's path.
00:09:10.340This is exactly what the doctrine he's following with Iran and every other country is hostile towards the United States interests.
00:09:19.120OZUN gives you a better way to play in Canada.
00:13:47.460Tallarico's campaign now says he's a proud capitalist and supports all of the above energy strategy that peruse of oil and gas jobs while expanding other sources of energy.
00:13:57.880Hmm, that's not what we were saying a few years ago.
00:13:59.880Tallarico is attempting to distance himself from his own history of left-ing radicalism now that he attempts to pull the wool over the eyes of Texas voters.
00:14:08.660But they're not likely to be convinced in my view. Texas did not become an economic powerhouse by treating free enterprise as a social pathology. And Texas oil and gas did not become a cassette tape. It's more important than ever that America is on the hunt for cheap energy in the age of tech and AI. It remains crucial as a source of employment, exports, tech revenues, and the American energy policy and will for generations to come.
00:14:37.700So the deeper issue is the progressive habit of redefining economic disagreements as systems of oppression, and then offering more government power as the cure.
00:14:49.820Tallarico may prefer different terminology today, but he will not be able to hide from his past anti-Christian, pro-transgender remarks.
00:14:59.020He's about as far left as AOC, Mamdami, Bernie Sanders, and the rest of the socialist clown car that now effectively defines the Democrat Party on a national level.
00:15:13.600Will the Republicans step up and support financially the campaign of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton?
00:15:20.120Paxton was an outsider who won the Republican nomination over incumbent John Cornyn, who was not a Trump supporter, with a last minute but powerful endorsement by President Donald Trump.
00:15:31.880The idea that Texas could turn blue and elect a far leftist to the U.S. Senate is kind of hard to swallow.
00:15:39.920But money is the mother's milk of politics and Ken Paxton is underfunded.
00:15:45.160You have to wonder whether President Donald Trump is now going to dip into that.
00:15:48.780$400 million war chest he has at the Make America Great, Inc. Pack to help finance Ken Paxton and finally put Texas in the Republican column in the upcoming U.S. Senate race.
00:16:03.260I'm Roger Stone. You're listening to Stone Zone. Of course, we're talking politics. Don't go away because we'll be right back.
00:16:10.620The Stone Zone, entertaining and informative on the Red Apple Podcast Network.
00:16:16.140Welcome back into the Stone Zone. Like most Americans, I'm watching the case of Lindsay
00:16:24.460Clancy extraordinarily carefully. There are three dead children in the tragic Lindsay Clancy case.
00:16:31.260The facts should remain at the center of every conversation about it. Cora was five,
00:16:37.100Dawson was three, Callan was eight months old. Lindsay Clancy does not deny that she strangled
00:16:43.000all three of them in their Massachusetts home. She's admitted to committing the act repeatedly.
00:16:48.980The question before the jury is whether she was legally responsible when she did it. Her lawyers
00:16:54.280are arguing that she was suffering from postpartum psychosis and heard a voice ordering her to kill0.98
00:17:00.440the children and herself. I understand that a view of her internet searches indicate that this was a
00:17:07.340premeditated crime as she researched the best way to off her own children. Prosecutors say the
00:17:14.620evidence points instead to planning. Clancy waited until her husband left, had calculated his travel
00:17:20.680time, and acted during that window when she knew she would be alone with the children. On Tuesday,
00:17:27.060after four days of deliberations, the jury told Judge William Sullivan that it could not reach
00:17:32.480unanimous verdict. Sullivan sent the jury back out to keep trying. What's unsettling outside the
00:17:38.920courtroom is this tendency driven by social media propaganda to turn a horrifying criminal case
00:17:45.300into an emotional identification campaign in which the adult defendant gradually becomes
00:17:51.160the principal victim and the murdered children recede into the background. Compassion for
00:17:57.380severe mental illness is of course legitimate but postpartum psychosis is real and the insanity
00:18:03.420defense is just because the law recognizes that some people can be so profoundly impaired that
00:18:09.280ordinary criminal responsibility does not apply but compassion compassion cannot become moral
00:18:15.820amnesia we should be especially suspicious when therapeutic language becomes a solvent that
00:18:21.500dissolves agency, responsibility, and ultimately the humanity of the victims. The cultural
00:18:28.160personality is developing around Lindsay Clancy as the end game of the feminist culture that has1.00
00:18:34.500made murdering innocents in the womb into something positive and good. Three children0.76
00:18:39.940lost their lives here. Let's not lose sight of that. Thanks for joining us in the Stone Zone.
00:18:44.800I'm Roger Stone. Don't go away because we'll be right back with more politics.
00:18:51.500this is the stone zone now get in the zone it's the stone zone a man who's gone through hell
00:19:07.220but he's kept going and he's smart and he's strong and people love him not everybody but
00:19:13.460people love him and respect him roger stone where's roger stone here's roger stone
00:19:18.900welcome back in the stone zone it's so great to be back from vacation i think it was ben franklin
00:19:25.480who said that no man needs a vacation so much as the man who just returned from one and that is
00:19:30.920certainly the truth packing unpacking repacking and so on i was fortunate enough to stay with
00:19:37.820friends although i think it was also ben franklin who said that after three days house guests and
00:19:43.020fish begin to smell. So I'm grateful for the host who hosted us in an incredible mountain
00:19:50.620villa, my wife and I, in the mountains of Eze, France, right outside of Monaco. Monaco
00:19:59.140is an incredible city, by the way, the cleanest city. The police in Monaco will actually give
00:20:04.720a person a ticket if they are not well dressed. So it is not a place where I think Steve Bannon
00:20:09.860should go. In any event, President Donald Trump and Senator Shifty Adam Schiff are now actually
00:20:16.320agreeing on economic policy. And somewhere in Washington, a lobbyist just checked the temperature
00:20:22.660in hell. President Trump says that Congress should enact a federal film production tax incentive to
00:20:28.920bring movie and television jobs back to the United States. And Adam Schiff, one of President Trump's
00:20:35.080most relentlessly vicious political adversaries, says he strongly agrees. Fox News reported that
00:20:42.020American entertainment employment has fallen by roughly 49,000 jobs since 2022, as productions
00:20:49.860have migrated towards countries and states offering lower costs and better incentives.
00:20:55.680Schiff has spent months promoting a federal credit model partly on state programs, arguing that
00:21:01.120overseas subsidies are draining American film and entertainment production.
00:21:06.420President Trump, it turns out, is making essentially the same reshoring argument.
00:21:10.520If other countries are using economic incentives to steal an American industry,
00:21:15.200well then Washington should give producers a reason to film here instead.
00:21:20.000So in a rare and unexpected case of bipartisan unity,
00:21:23.840the political knives are down and both Trump and Schiff are looking at the same balance sheet.
00:21:29.040But should we immediately ask the next question, bring jobs back to where?
00:21:34.640A federal incentive does not have to become a bailout for the Hollywood establishment.
00:21:39.460Georgia and other states already demonstrated that movie production can flourish outside of Hollywood, California.
00:21:45.920So a properly structured national credit would reward filming anywhere in the United States
00:21:51.060and allow states to compete over taxes, regulation, workforce, and costs.
00:21:56.740That would mean that, for example, American camera operators or electricians, carpenters, caterers, small businesses can benefit without writing a blank check to preserve California's traditional entertainment monopoly.
00:22:11.480Hollywood spent generations pushing left-wing values while exporting productions whenever another jurisdiction offered a better deal.
00:22:20.520So nobody owes the old studio system sentimental protection.
00:22:25.100The economic objective is American production.
00:22:29.000Schiff may want to save Hollywood, but President Trump's proposal is concerned about saving American jobs, not just the jobs of Hollywood.
00:22:36.900We can reassure the industry and encourage competition without providing a bailout to Hollywood's cultural sewer.
00:22:45.140Meanwhile, a good friend of mine, former Trump attorney Alina Haba,
00:22:49.040disclosed that FBI agents actually showed up at her New Jersey home
00:22:54.280when she was subpoenaed as a lawyer during Jack Smith's overreaching investigation.
00:23:00.680Alina Haba appeared before a federal grand jury
00:23:03.500investigating the Mar-a-Lago documents matter back in 2023,
00:23:09.080alongside other Trump lawyers who were questioned about their involvement with the former president.
00:23:13.680To me, this is an obvious violation of the Sixth Amendment. Any America is entitled to confidentiality and a confidential relationship with their attorney, but not in the District of Columbia.
00:23:25.920And then there is the Arctic Frost investigation. Senate District Committee records released by Chairman Chuck Grassley say that Jack Smith's election investigation issued 197 subpoenas seeking information connected to more than 400 Republicans, individuals, and organizations, including communications, financial records, and information involving members of Congress.
00:23:50.920This is not someone knocking on one lawyer's door.
00:23:53.380This is an investigative apparatus operating on an enormous scale,
00:23:57.680and Alina Haber is right to raise awareness about the FBI attempting to strong-arm her.0.82
00:24:03.760Prosecutors, of course, can compel testimony when privilege does not apply,
00:24:07.320but grand juries possess broad authority.
00:24:10.340Those are facts, but those powers become especially sensitive
00:24:13.100when investigation reaches lawyers, political organizations,
00:24:17.020Congressional Communications and the Opposition Party's institutional network.
00:24:22.260Senator Chuck Grassley notes that Arctic Frost became a political fishing expedition
00:24:27.420while Special Counsel Jack Smith has maintained that his team followed lawful investigative procedures.
00:24:36.120The weaponization question is ultimately bigger than Jack Smith or Donald Trump for that matter.
00:24:40.920Americans have to know that prosecutors cannot use the immense power of the federal government
00:24:45.900as a political weapon regardless of who controls Washington.
00:24:50.220By now, I think it's abundantly clear that Jack Smith
00:24:53.660and many others like Robert Mueller exceeded their lawful authority.
00:24:58.560The plethora of evidence shows that there was a coordinated conspiracy
00:25:02.180of bureaucrats working to oust President Trump from office
00:25:05.840and ruined his chances to run for re-election in 2024.
00:25:10.660This is not news to anyone who's been listening to The Stone Zone,
00:25:14.300But now that the truth is laid bare for all in the public to see, it's time to see whether anyone will be held accountable.
00:25:22.620The Russian collusion hoax, the two impeachments, Arctic Frost, the raid on Marlago, these are among the greatest dirty tricks in American political history.
00:25:33.220It's certainly the greatest single abuse of power.
00:25:38.340But the question yet remains whether anyone will be indicted, whether anyone will be charged, whether anyone will stand trial.
00:25:46.780I'm still praying for a just result, but, well, we shall see.
00:25:51.700The jurisdiction does lie in South Florida.
00:25:54.060That's the good news because it means you might actually get an objective judge and jury and a grand jury that would vote to indict.
00:26:01.240but we are waiting patiently for justice.
00:26:06.780Meanwhile, House Republicans are finally putting some basic questions on the table
00:29:55.260So Smithfield is a Chinese company.0.60
00:29:57.940This so clearly is a ChaiCom operation masquerading as an American company.0.74
00:30:04.160Smithfield also reports owning approximately 8,700 acres of U.S. prime farm and ranch land.0.51
00:30:11.940These lobby filings prove that Republicans do not have a problem with China conquering our farmlands as long as the price is right.
00:30:19.420You cannot, if you're not a Canadian citizen, you cannot buy land in Canada.
00:30:25.560Why does America not have such a land, a law?
00:30:28.640Why are Chinese communists not prohibited from buying land, ranch land, farmland, or harbors, airports, toll roads, other facilities in the United States?0.67
00:30:41.700A company overwhelmingly owned by a Hong Kong-based conglomerate hired these well-connected Republican lobbyists to work an issue Republicans described as a national security threat.0.90
00:30:53.560So it's no wonder when the public does not take Republican rhetoric seriously when it comes to national security when they behave in this manner.
00:31:03.460If you go look at the report by the U.S. Agriculture Department, it tells you falsely that Chinese communists only control less than 368 acres of land, 368,000 acres of land in the United States.
00:31:19.880They have that many acres in Oklahoma alone.
00:31:22.760Now, the Trump Justice Department has drawn a clear line showing that they are rejecting the Republican hypocrisy that has defined the party in the past.
00:31:31.560The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Farm Security Action Plan treats foreign adversary control of American agricultural land as a potential national security threat and calls for tighter disclosure, stronger penalties, and closer coordination with the Committee on Foreign Investment of the United States.
00:31:51.980Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins has avowed that foreign adversaries will not control America's land, laboratory, or livelihoods.
00:32:00.700The problem, of course, is Washington's revolving door.
00:32:03.720You see, someone leaves Capitol Hill on a Friday, they come back on Monday carrying a corporate client and a considerably larger expense account.
00:32:12.740Conservatives can't denounce the swamp when Democrats cash the checks and suddenly become philosophical when Republicans do it.
00:32:20.440A Republican policy, as an America first policy, cannot survive on an America last lobbying policy.
00:32:27.960If a foreign adversary threatens national security, as the CCP does, well, an American family cannot be treated as just another influence account.
00:32:37.900We need serious lobbying reform in Congress to put this type of revolving door of these malign influence peddlers out of commission for good.0.86
00:32:46.460But above all, we clearly need a law that prohibits the communist Chinese, and this is very important, or those who are fronting for them from buying up important land, farmland, ranch land, any real estate in the United States.0.92
00:33:04.020Governor Ron DeSantis has signed a law that prohibits the Chinese communists from buying land in Florida, but when you read the small print, it only applies to land that is next to a national security facility.0.95
00:33:16.460Unfortunately, national security facilities not to find any place else in the law.0.92
00:33:21.760So we need a federal law that prohibits the Chinese communists from buying up America.0.97
00:34:24.080Have you heard about the Richmond Catholic memo?
00:34:27.440Because if you haven't, it should make every American uncomfortable.
00:34:30.960You see, federal law enforcement shamefully treated traditional Catholic religious beliefs as a marker of extremism.
00:34:37.620The Justice Department, under Joe Biden's latest review, says that FBI personnel investigated traditional Catholics and actually monitored a priest's travel and communications, relied partly on controversial ideological material, and ultimately found no evidence connecting those targets to any criminal activity or violent extremism.
00:34:58.800This is not a small bureaucratic mistake.
00:35:01.680You see, the feds were listening to disgraced groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center and acted on their biased propaganda other than real evidence.
00:35:11.280The FBI has enormous surveillance power and investigative authority.
00:35:15.620This power has been abused to ruin reputations and lives.
00:35:18.860We saw this power frequently abused in the Russiagate affair, the January 6th probe, the cases against the Trump electors, and the border operations to destroy Donald Trump and keep him from running again in 2024.
00:35:33.420Now, an earlier Inspector General Review said it found no evidence that religious bias motivated the memo's creation.
00:35:42.060This is another example of the bureaucracy protecting itself
00:35:45.020regardless of the damage that was done to its victims.
00:35:49.160It does not erase the larger problem identified by the newer review.
00:35:55.300How did this process get as far as it did before no one said this is wrong?
00:36:00.000Why were there not men and women of honor within the bureaucracy
00:36:05.200Essentially, they were spying on people because of their religious beliefs.
00:36:10.640Trump administration has made reversing ideological weaponization a central theme through executive action, investigations, a task force examining anti-Christian bias, and policies strengthening religious liberty and pro-life priorities.
00:36:32.500The philosophical divide could hardly be clearer.
00:36:35.760Far-left extremists view traditional Christianity as a political force that must be monitored and contained.
00:36:43.700They have no respect for the First Amendment of the Constitution, and they abuse their power to undermine freedom over religion.
00:36:51.000Federal government should not be investigating crimes or creeds.0.91
00:36:55.860They should be watching criminals, not church pews.
00:36:58.840Those individuals responsible for the Richmond memo should be run out of government for what they did to innocent believers in Jesus Christ.
00:37:07.760We saw throughout 2020 how the left rigs elections, but you do not need somebody stuffing ballot boxes into a box or ballots into a box at three in the morning to unethically influence the results.
00:37:20.100The sophisticated game happens much earlier by recruiting a candidate with a confusing name, funneling money through a committee with an innocent-sounding title, helping the weakest candidate in the other party's primary, facing an independent who happens to split your opponent's vote, exploding disclosure deadlines, manufacturing fake polls, fabricating headlines, and building a facade of momentum.
00:37:45.080That's modern political battlefield, and that's how it plays out right now in 2026.
00:37:49.500So, for example, in Alaska, Republicans point out to a second Dan Sullivan, who was recruited to run as an independent in order to confuse voters and to skew results for Democrats in the upcoming U.S. Senate election.
00:38:06.100So, in other words, there is Dan Sullivan, the Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate.
00:38:10.500And then there's this mysterious Dan Sullivan, who filed as an independent.
00:38:15.240Pretty clever. Sounds like a dirty trick to me.
00:38:18.660Democrat-aligned money is now reportedly backing independents in these red-line-leaning states.