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Speaker 7: Well.
Speaker 6: Elon Musk is preparing a political comeback ahead of the
Speaker 6: twenty twenty six midterm elections, and Republicans will get a
Speaker 6: major shot in the arm as a result. Axio sports
Speaker 6: that Musk is reviving his America Pack, the super pac
Speaker 6: that spent more than two hundred and sixty million dollars
Speaker 6: helping elect President Donald Trump in twenty twenty four. This time,
Speaker 6: the organization will focus on knocking on doors, reaching voters online,
Speaker 6: sending direct mail, and turning out more conservative voters who
Speaker 6: often stay home during midterm elections. Musk has not disclosed
Speaker 6: the final price tag yet, but his past spending suggests
Speaker 6: the investment could be enormous. His two hundred and sixty
Speaker 6: million dollar contribution in twenty twenty four holds the record
Speaker 6: as the largest single hard money federal political donation in history.
Speaker 6: In twenty twenty four, his political giving made the largest
Speaker 6: difference in what could have been a much closer election.
Speaker 6: That matters because control of Congress is on the line,
Speaker 6: and this will have a massive rumifications regarding President Trump's legacy.
Speaker 6: Republicans hold a massive fundrating advantage today, with the combined
Speaker 6: Republican committees having about three hundred million dollars, President Trump's
Speaker 6: MAGA Inc. Pack having about four hundred million. And of
Speaker 6: course the election is not tomorrow, but money alone does
Speaker 6: not guarantee victory. The party must overcome the usual mid
Speaker 6: term backlash, economic anxiety, and an energize Democrat opposition. A
Speaker 6: couple of days ago reported on a new poll by
Speaker 6: MacLaughlin and Associates showed an enthusiasm gap. In other words,
Speaker 6: Democrats are highly motivated to vote while Republicans are less.
Speaker 6: So that's why Elon Musk's major contribution and his political
Speaker 6: action could make a giant difference. America Back said that
Speaker 6: it knocked down more than ten million doors across swinging
Speaker 6: states in twenty twenty four. By taking responsibility for grassroots turnout,
Speaker 6: Musk's operation could free other Republican organizations to concentrate on
Speaker 6: television advertising and competitive House and Senate races. Elon Musk
Speaker 6: was famously collapsed with President Trump over federal spending and
Speaker 6: even briefly floated creating a third party, resulting in an
Speaker 6: unfortunate public outfalling. But the relationship has improved, clearly been healed,
Speaker 6: and must is returning to the Republican coalition where he
Speaker 6: rightfully belongs. Everybody, in my view, should welcome him in
Speaker 6: with open arms. Winning in November will require money, organization, technology,
Speaker 6: and millions of voters who understand that preserving the Magnet
Speaker 6: legacy means keeping Republican control of Congress. Elon Musk, I'm
Speaker 6: happy to say it will be integral through the process.
Speaker 6: The Democrats, by contrast, have a financial problem. They're actually
Speaker 6: still in debt from their last election. But what they
Speaker 6: do have going for them something called Act Blue. Act
Speaker 6: Blue is a payment processing company that seems to have
Speaker 6: I have a history of promulgating many multiple small donations
Speaker 6: from donors who either don't exist or who never really
Speaker 6: gave the contributions in question. Axe Blue is already under
Speaker 6: federal investigation for these practices. We're not talking about small
Speaker 6: amounts of money, We're talking about tens of millions of money. Now,
Speaker 6: another elderly donors come forward disputing a massive volume of
Speaker 6: Act Blue contributions made in her name, the latest in
Speaker 6: a long running pattern of disputed, high value, multiple donations.
Speaker 6: Now the same discrepancy surfaced again, this time in Michigan.
Speaker 6: Both surprise winning reported. Charlie Leduff, an old friend of mine,
Speaker 6: published a report with an on camera interview with eighty
Speaker 6: eight year old Elizabeth Waffle of Milan, Michigan. According to
Speaker 6: the FEC records, Laduff presented nearly fifteen thousand separate donations
Speaker 6: from Waffle, cotaling more than one hundred and fifty thousand dollars,
Speaker 6: all of them having been made in her name through
Speaker 6: Act Blue over the previous five years. That's roughly eight
Speaker 6: contributions per day. Waffle, the eighty eight year old woman
Speaker 6: who lives in a trailer on a dirt road after
Speaker 6: her house burned down two years ago, owns no computer
Speaker 6: and has only limited Internet access. When presented with the paperwork,
Speaker 6: she rejected the totals one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 6: She said, hell, no, I don't have that kind of money.
Speaker 6: She nowled is making some small donations, including one to
Speaker 6: Senate candidate Abdul l Sayed called the overall volume very abnormal.
Speaker 6: She said, believe there's something in there that's off. The
Speaker 6: Center Square followed with its own review of the same
Speaker 6: FEC Federal Election Commission data and obtained a response from
Speaker 6: act Blue. Its analysis found that one hundred thousand dollars
Speaker 6: contributions says through act blue under Waffel's name across several
Speaker 6: recent elections, but still thousands of individual transactions. Act Blue
Speaker 6: said they reviewed the relevant contribution data that their customer
Speaker 6: service team had already reached out to the donor. That
Speaker 6: is a standard operating procedure to take corrective action, including
Speaker 6: blocking accounts and reporting potential fraud or a non complaint
Speaker 6: donations identified, and they pointed to their tandem fundraising feature,
Speaker 6: which can turn a single form submission into multiple reported contributions.
Speaker 6: But even if that were true, well, then at some
Speaker 6: point the credit card would have been declined for some
Speaker 6: period of time, ActBlue turned off the function which if
Speaker 6: you were given by credit card, it checked your address
Speaker 6: based on the card. Then also for one period of time,
Speaker 6: you could give through PayPal, or you could give through
Speaker 6: gift cards that you purchase at the owner drug store
Speaker 6: both of those allow for massive campaign finance fraud. This
Speaker 6: is not a new story. James O'Keefe of O'Keefe Media
Speaker 6: has reported extensively on it, as have others. In other
Speaker 6: multiple documented cases, elderly Americans have appeared as prolific donors,
Speaker 6: sometimes giving thousands of contributions totaling well over one hundred
Speaker 6: thousand dollars, only later to dispute those records when confronted
Speaker 6: with them. Analysts and investigators have flagged these patterns and
Speaker 6: states including Connecticut, Florida, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, raising ongoing
Speaker 6: questions about Identify verification and the possibility of unauthorized or
Speaker 6: structured contributions. It was back in twenty twenty three the
Speaker 6: O'Keefe Media group reported on senior citizens in Maryland and
Speaker 6: elsewhere whose name appeared on one hundred and seventy thousand
Speaker 6: to two hundred and thirty thousand dollars plus and Act
Speaker 6: Blue donations. They flat we denied making. One Arizona resident
Speaker 6: in her eighties was lifted for giving more than eighteen
Speaker 6: thousand individual contributions totaling over one hundred and seventy thousand dollars.
Speaker 6: Maryland seniors interviewed on cameras said they hadn't given only
Speaker 6: small donations here and there, but not thousands of micro
Speaker 6: donations recorded in their names. In Connecticut, an analysis by
Speaker 6: Dominaq Wipini reported in twenty twenty five it identified multiple
Speaker 6: residents over seventy whose Federal Election Commission records showed extraordinary volume.
Speaker 6: One eighty eight year old retired Yale professor was lifted
Speaker 6: for seven thousand, five hundred and thirty nine individual donations
Speaker 6: totaling two hundred and thirteen thousand, one hundred and sixty
Speaker 6: three dollars. He signed a sworn affidavit disputing the record
Speaker 6: steady it did not reflect his actual donation frequency or
Speaker 6: the dollars he had given. Several others in the same
Speaker 6: group of elderly Connecticut residents signed similar affidavits. Similar high
Speaker 6: volume patterns as I say, involved elderly donors flagged in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin.
Speaker 6: The evidence leaves little doubt something is off here. Looks
Speaker 6: to me like a massive fraud. These recurring cases, documented
Speaker 6: by separate independent journalists across multiple states, continue to prompt
Speaker 6: for their investigations the House Administration, Judiciary and Oversight Committees
Speaker 6: have been examining actblues fraud controls in foreign donation safeguards
Speaker 6: for years, aided by internal documents and whistleblower accounts, including
Speaker 6: allegations of retaliation against employees who raised legitimate concerns that
Speaker 6: inquiry and testified after a platform. Leadership, including the CEO
Speaker 6: Regina Wallace Jones, involved the Fifth Amendment when questioned under
Speaker 6: note about the organization's verification practices and prior statements to Congress. Nonetheless,
Speaker 6: ActBlue continues to turn hundreds of thousands, if not millions,
Speaker 6: of donations to Democrats as they try to catch up
Speaker 6: with the Elon Musk Republican financial juggernaut. Meanwhile, Anthony Fauci's
Speaker 6: returned to Capitol Hill provide a few answers, but gave
Speaker 6: plenty of political theater and fallout Wednesday, as the former
Speaker 6: federal health official invoked the Fifth Amendment more than one
Speaker 6: hundred times rather than answer questions examining the government's COVID
Speaker 6: nineteen response. I'm going to be extremely clear, asserting one's
Speaker 6: Fifth Amendment rights is not proof of guilt, and any
Speaker 6: American has the right to do it, and it doesn't
Speaker 6: matter that, Fauci said. He refused to answer a question
Speaker 6: as to the color of the carpet or there was
Speaker 6: a file on the desk in front of him. The
Speaker 6: rule says that if you plead the Fifth Amendment, as
Speaker 6: I did in the January sixth Committee investigation, because I
Speaker 6: saw it as a stacked deck where they would use
Speaker 6: any misstatement you made and twist it into a process crime,
Speaker 6: he has the right to do it. What changes this
Speaker 6: is the fact that Fauci had been pardoned for his
Speaker 6: actions during the time about which he was being asked.
Speaker 6: He also declined based of her seemlar arms inquiries, and
Speaker 6: that reinforces an impression that his blanket silence was a
Speaker 6: strategy to avoid statements they could expose him to fresh
Speaker 6: legal jeopardy. In fact, if you plead the Fifth Amendment
Speaker 6: to one question, you must plead it to all. Trying
Speaker 6: to be fair here now, Fauci argued that Senator Ram
Speaker 6: Paul's investigation was designed to trap him into alleged perjury.
Speaker 6: Despite former President Joe Biden's sweeping twenty twenty five auto
Speaker 6: pen pardon of doctor Fauci, Paul countered that the pardon
Speaker 6: eliminated Fauci's risk of prosecution for covered conduct and therefore
Speaker 6: it undercut his amendment claim. The Kentucky Republican announced that
Speaker 6: the Homeland Security Committee will vote next week on holding
Speaker 6: fauchiin contempt. While legal debate continues over whether the testimony
Speaker 6: given after the pardon could create new exposure, President Trump
Speaker 6: himself seized on the disastrous spirits from the Oval Office,
Speaker 6: question whether Biden personally approved Fauci's pardon or whether an
Speaker 6: auto pen was used, but then disappointed many by going
Speaker 6: on to say that he and his Justice Apartment would
Speaker 6: not challenge the auto pen given pardon. President Trump also
Speaker 6: renewed his criticism of Fauci's pandemic advice, sayingie would have
Speaker 6: been forced to close the entire country had he followed it.
Speaker 6: Because President Trump adopted a more balanced stance, the livelihood
Speaker 6: of countless Americans were saved as a result. But for
Speaker 6: all of those who were victim victimized by the COVID
Speaker 6: pandemic and its senseless authoritarian response, the hearing did crystallize
Speaker 6: years of frustration. The optics of the witness, unwilling to pride,
Speaker 6: even elementary has was devastated. Fauci exercised a constitutional right,
Speaker 6: one that he'smpletely entitled to. But politically, and that's my
Speaker 6: analysis here, silence may prove louder and more damaging than
Speaker 6: anything he could have said in his defense. The walls
Speaker 6: appeared to be closing in on the COVID criminals. It's
Speaker 6: not impossible that he could still face state prosecution for
Speaker 6: a number of crimes. Meanwhile, China's involvement in Iran looks
Speaker 6: less and less likely when we come back. Trump's seize
Speaker 6: on China's official denial of its plans to arm Iran
Speaker 6: demonstrates how Benjang understands that President Trump is prepared to
Speaker 6: pose consequences, not issue mirror diplomatic complaints or strongly worded letters.
Speaker 6: I'm Roger Stone listening to the Stone Zone and we'll
Speaker 6: be right back.
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Speaker 6: Welcome back into the Stone Zone. China's official denial that
Speaker 6: it plans to arm Iran demonstrates how Beijing understands that
Speaker 6: President Donald Trump is prepared to a post consequences, not
Speaker 6: merely issue diplomatic complaints or strong letters. Reuters reported that
Speaker 6: Ron could receive four hundred Chinese made shoulder fire air
Speaker 6: defense launchers within weeks, potentially helping Tehran rebuild defenses damaged
Speaker 6: by the devastating American strikes. But Chinese former minister rejected
Speaker 6: the report as groundless, insisting that Beijing favors peace and
Speaker 6: an end to the fighting. President Trump said the alleged
Speaker 6: shipment would be surprising because Chinese President Jijing Ping had
Speaker 6: assured him that China would not enter the conflict or
Speaker 6: supply RN with weapons. Let's remember the Iranians continue to
Speaker 6: ship a massive amount of oil, about eighty percent of
Speaker 6: their production, to the Chinese. President Trump has also warned
Speaker 6: that foreign powers aiding Tehran would face severe repercussions, and
Speaker 6: the Chinese Communists are certainly aware of this. That is
Speaker 6: deterrence and peace through strength in action, the policy followed
Speaker 6: by President Donald Trump that was pioneered by Dwight Eisenhower
Speaker 6: and then by Ronald Reagan. This, of course, is in
Speaker 6: contrast of the Neocon philosophy going around the world looking
Speaker 6: for wars to get into. Were only in Iran because
Speaker 6: our intelligence determined that they were far closer to the
Speaker 6: development of nuclear weapons than we had perhaps thought. China
Speaker 6: is not restrained here by its affection for the United
Speaker 6: States or concerned for Middle East stability. Its leaders are
Speaker 6: calculating costs. Under a weak president, Jane was sure to
Speaker 6: test watching through properties, hidden shipments, and deniable intermediaries. Under
Speaker 6: President Trump, escalation carries a much higher price. The administration
Speaker 6: has demonstrated that Iranian military infrastructure can be struck repeatedly
Speaker 6: and effectively. Beijing must consider whether rescuing a battered and
Speaker 6: beleaded Iranian regime is worth risking tariffs, sanctions, confrontation, and
Speaker 6: damage to a current relationship with the Americas. China's denials
Speaker 6: should be tested against the intelligence and verified, of course,
Speaker 6: through enforcement. Communist governments are not typically trustworthy, but President
Speaker 6: Trump's willingness to act has made china intervention far less attractive,
Speaker 6: leaving Iran isolated and forcing Beijing to think trice for
Speaker 6: challenging American power. Slowly but surely, Iran is losing their
Speaker 6: position in the world as the Islamic dictatorship vaultures due
Speaker 6: to President Trump's successful military opera. The real question is
Speaker 6: will the President soon move away from solely military targets
Speaker 6: to perhaps take out farg Island or destroy the Iranians
Speaker 6: ability to produce oil at all. President has a number
Speaker 6: of military options. Those over at MSNBC eve that there
Speaker 6: are limits to American power here and these out of
Speaker 6: options really don't understand the dynamics of what's going on.
Speaker 6: I'm Roger Stone to listen to the Stone Zone when
Speaker 6: we come back, talk about the fact that New York
Speaker 6: Attorney General and teacher James has now been ranked among
Speaker 6: the worst in the country when it comes to prosecuting
Speaker 6: Medicare fraud. We'll be right back in the Stone Zone,
Speaker 6: so please don't go away.
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Speaker 6: Welcome back into the Stone Zone. According to the New
Speaker 6: York Post, new York Attorney General Letsia james office ranks
Speaker 6: among the worst in the country for criminally prosecuting medicaid fraud.
Speaker 6: According to a shocking new analysis, the Empire Center for
Speaker 6: Public Policy calculated using federal data that during James's term
Speaker 6: as attorney general from twenty nineteen to twenty twenty five,
Speaker 6: the state ranked forty ninth for criminal investigations per billion
Speaker 6: of Medicaid dollars spent. New York ranked fifty first out
Speaker 6: of all states in Washington c for indictments per billion,
Speaker 6: and fifty first for convictions, said Empire State fellow Bill Hammond,
Speaker 6: and billions of dollars could yet be at stake. The
Speaker 6: Empire State spends about one hundred and twenty four billion
Speaker 6: nine medicaid, the highest per resident among the fifty states
Speaker 6: in fiscal year twenty twenty four, seventy seven percent above
Speaker 6: the national average. According to the think tank, the federal
Speaker 6: government kicks in more than half of the bill for
Speaker 6: massive Medicaid costs, and cracking down on fraud waste abuse
Speaker 6: is a priority naturally to help reign in that spending.
Speaker 6: The independent analysis comes after the Trump administration said it
Speaker 6: would freeze sixty million dollars in federal funding for New
Speaker 6: York's Medicaid fraud Control Unit, which the Attorney general oversees,
Speaker 6: claiming weak enforcement against fraud the Trump administration by the
Speaker 6: US Department of Health and Human Services Inspector General Thomas
Speaker 6: marsh Bell accused the Attorney General of New York's unit
Speaker 6: of not securing enough criminal indictments and convictions, and said
Speaker 6: its federal funding would be suspended through at least September thirtieth.
Speaker 6: As a result of this leadership failure and poor decision making,
Speaker 6: and with billions of dollars at stake and millions of
Speaker 6: people expecting safe care for their families, the New York
Speaker 6: MFCU has been ineffective in fighting criminal cases involving medicaid
Speaker 6: fraud or abuse or neglect of Medicaid patients, Bell March
Speaker 6: or March Bell said in a June thirty letter to
Speaker 6: Attorney General James James office disputed the assertion of lax enforcement,
Speaker 6: but Bill Hammond concluded the fans were mostly correct.
Speaker 7: A rule of the.
Speaker 6: Valuable statistics, however, suggests that Bell's criticism is completely well founded.
Speaker 6: Hammond said the performance of Letisha James Attorney General's office,
Speaker 6: when adjusted for the scale of New York's one hundred
Speaker 6: and twenty four billion medicaid program, ranks among the worst
Speaker 6: in the country on a broad range of benchmarks. In fact,
Speaker 6: on the Alabama and Oregon ranked worse than New York
Speaker 6: for overall Medicaid investigations, while Hawaii came in first in
Speaker 6: the country in terms of launching such probes. Mississippi had
Speaker 6: the highest overall indictment and conviction rate, while Nevada was
Speaker 6: the top of the list for best fraud indictment and
Speaker 6: fraud conviction rate specifically, according to the Empire Center analysis. Meanwhile,
Speaker 6: New York's nine and forty two dollars per resident spending
Speaker 6: was twenty four percent higher than Kentucky, the next highest
Speaker 6: spending state, at three thousand, nine hundred and eighty nine
Speaker 6: dollars per resident, while the most populous state, California, came
Speaker 6: in fourth at three hundred nine hundred and eighty four
Speaker 6: dollars per resident. The national average, by the way, is
Speaker 6: two thousand, seven hundred and ninety one dollars per resident.
Speaker 6: More populous Texas and Florida were among the lowest spenders
Speaker 6: on Medicaid fifteen hundred and seventy nine dollars per resident
Speaker 6: and fifteen thousand and thirty six dollars per resident, respectively.
Speaker 6: The debate over Medicaid fraud enforcement has become a campaign
Speaker 6: issue as Democrat let teacher James Seek's re election to
Speaker 6: a third term this November, the Republican candidate for Attorney General,
Speaker 6: Sara Ritha Comen Ready, a former federal prosecutor, has flunked
Speaker 6: James Medicaid fraud enforcement. New Yorkers are getting ripped off
Speaker 6: every day and elite teacher James isn't doing any anything
Speaker 6: about it. The candidates said. The reality is UNTI le
Speaker 6: tis James. New Yorkers have been paying a crime tax.
Speaker 6: I'll prosecute crime and issue every New Yorker a tax refund.
Speaker 6: Came at Already said in a statement. So this is
Speaker 6: a massive issue in Anyone who thinks that medicaid fraud,
Speaker 6: whether it's in Minnesota, whether it's in New York, is
Speaker 6: not going to be an issue this November really doesn't
Speaker 6: understand American politics. Meanwhile, Senate established Republicans appear to be
Speaker 6: sabotaging the Texas general election campaign after voters rejected their
Speaker 6: incumbent Senator John Cornyn and nominated Trumpian Attorney General Ken Paxton.
Speaker 6: The Senate Leadership Fund has spent zero on Paxton despite
Speaker 6: the seat being in contention. As a woke weird Democrat,
Speaker 6: James tell Rico builds a fundering an advantage in a
Speaker 6: state that could determine control of the US Senate. That
Speaker 6: refusal looks less like prudent budgeting than a Washington revenge campaign. Meanwhile,
Speaker 6: Cornan has refused to meet with or commit himself to
Speaker 6: Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, whom Trump has appointed as
Speaker 6: his next Attorney General, raising questions as to whether Blanche
Speaker 6: will be confirmed by the US Senate. Corner's allies are
Speaker 6: spent on trying to destroy Paxton in the primary, warning
Speaker 6: that he was unelectrical. Now they're trying to make that
Speaker 6: a self fulfilling prophecy. Although a new audio tape found
Speaker 6: his opponent Tall Rico criticizing Christianity while he was praising
Speaker 6: radical Islam, Corner's allies in the Senate leadership Figer try
Speaker 6: to fulfill their own prophecy.
Speaker 7: Here.
Speaker 6: Texas Republicans gave Ken Paxton a resounding ronoff victory after
Speaker 6: President Trump came out with his full throated endorsement. The
Speaker 6: same establishment that demanded loyalty to corneim is withholding resources
Speaker 6: needed to unite the party and defeat a well funded
Speaker 6: but radical Democrat. Paxton raised roughly nine point three million
Speaker 6: dollars during the last quarter, while Tallerco the Radical Democrat,
Speaker 6: collected more than thirty million and has reportedly raised about
Speaker 6: seventy million. Overall, Republican leaders possess ample cash. The Senate
Speaker 6: Leadership Fund has committed one hundreds of millions of dollars elseware,
Speaker 6: while MAGA Inc. Controls the war chest, as I said
Speaker 6: earlier in the show, approaching about four hundred million dollars,
Speaker 6: yet Texas remains neglected. The message is that established Republicans
Speaker 6: rather risk a Senate seat than ensutheiastically support the nominee
Speaker 6: who embarrassed their establishment candidate. They also dumped tens of
Speaker 6: million dollars into the primary campaign supporting Cornin that could
Speaker 6: have otherwise went to contested seats. Paxton will likely be
Speaker 6: able to overcome these establishment obstacles, but still shows that
Speaker 6: we are not one happy United Republican Party. There is
Speaker 6: still a sinister fifth column working to undermine President Trump's agenda,
Speaker 6: and we must always be on lookout for them and
Speaker 6: never trust them. Even if we have to hold our
Speaker 6: noses to vote for a rhino now and then in
Speaker 6: a general election, we should never mistake them for our friends.
Speaker 6: This is why, for example, I am supporting Susan Collins.
Speaker 6: I would rather have a Senator in Maine who votes
Speaker 6: with US sixty five to seventy percent of the time
Speaker 6: than have a leftist progressive Democrat who votes with US
Speaker 6: zero percent of the time.
Speaker 7: But that's just me.
Speaker 6: Meanwhile, Michigan Democrats are making an effort to stop their
Speaker 6: Senate primary from becoming the biggest victory for the far
Speaker 6: less radical socialal insurgency. Congresswoman Haley Stevens, backed by Governor
Speaker 6: Gretchen Whitmer, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, and retiring Senator
Speaker 6: Gary Peters, face's former public health official, ab Duel el Sayad,
Speaker 6: a Muslim who wants to defund ice and provide Medicaid
Speaker 6: for all the August fourth primary. Elsayad has support from
Speaker 6: Bernie Sanders that will win bag Alexandria, Okazia Cortes, Elizabeth Warren,
Speaker 6: and of course, the United Auto Workers. Their recent debate
Speaker 6: exposed a party fissure between an establishment liberal and an
Speaker 6: aggressive progressive. Congresswoman Stevens has benefited more from more than
Speaker 6: sixty one million dollars in campaign and outside advertising, including
Speaker 6: roughly thirty million dollars from Apex super Pac El Sayad
Speaker 6: and allied groups were spent more than fifteen million dollars.
Speaker 6: El Sayad accused wealthy interests of trying to buy Michigan's
Speaker 6: next senator and attack Stevens over utility linked contributions as
Speaker 6: well as her support for Israel. Stevens questioned his electability
Speaker 6: and portrayed him as a celebrity candidate, using the race
Speaker 6: to a van his national ambitions. Although El Sayad rejects
Speaker 6: the socialist labor, his agenda is unabashedly extreme, but he's
Speaker 6: hoping to pull the wool over the eyes of Michigan voters,
Speaker 6: who have been known to support a populous outsider is
Speaker 6: seen with their support for one Donald J. Trump. The
Speaker 6: Stevens versus l Saya's spectacle is revealing, and it's emblematic
Speaker 6: of what's going on within the Democrat Party nationally. The
Speaker 6: Democrat establishments expending extraordinary sums in a desperate, last dish
Speaker 6: effort to prevent an even sharper lurch to the left.
Speaker 6: Whoever does win will face Trump indorse Republican and former
Speaker 6: Congressman Mike Rogers. In November, Michigan voters may decide whether
Speaker 6: Democrats remain conventionally liberal or whether they fully embrace radicalism
Speaker 6: defining their party. Meanwhile, Bernie Sanders appeared on Face the
Speaker 6: Nation this last Sunday, averally pushing back against it. Am
Speaker 6: pardon me Wall Street joeneral opinion piece published days earlier
Speaker 6: by former Chicago mayor and White House Chief of Staff
Speaker 6: Romy Emmanuel, The former Obama White House Chief of Staff,
Speaker 6: had warned that the Bernie Bros. And Democratic Socialists of
Speaker 6: America could damage the party's chances in the midterm. Emmanuel
Speaker 6: argued that the Democrats Socialists of America back nominees and
Speaker 6: bleep to districts, force moderate Democrats and competitive races to
Speaker 6: answer for unpopular positions in the name of authenticity. The
Speaker 6: DSA and others are burdening the Democrat Party of the
Speaker 6: nominees whose widely unpopular and radical positions will protect Republicans
Speaker 6: from having to pay the price for Donald Trump's corruption
Speaker 6: and economic incompetence. Rom Emanuel wrote, what was once dismissed
Speaker 6: as friends rhetoric now sits at the center of this
Speaker 6: actively growing intra party fight. You love to sit back
Speaker 6: and watch it. The former Chicago mayor and Obama confident
Speaker 6: added the candidates and swim district waste precious time differentiating
Speaker 6: themselves from the DSA agenda instead of forcing Republicans answer
Speaker 6: for their own record. E Manual link the Socialists waiting
Speaker 6: to pass efforts to defund the police, open our borders,
Speaker 6: abolish prisons, and calling those positions electoral losers if not toxic.
Speaker 6: If the Bernie bros Are serious about growing jobs and wages,
Speaker 6: they would support candidates touting substantive ways to help families
Speaker 6: cover the mortgage of the red, secure their retirement, and
Speaker 6: ensure that no one is a single medical emergency away
Speaker 6: from bankruptcy, Manual wrote. He noted that the party's generic
Speaker 6: lead has narrowed amid recent attention to the Democrats socialist
Speaker 6: led property victories, warning that it continued focus on defunding, decriminalizing,
Speaker 6: and colonizing would highlight cultural issues that alienate many working
Speaker 6: class Democrats, independents a record high forty five percent of
Speaker 6: the electorate, as well as disenchanted Republicans. On face the Nations,
Speaker 6: Sanders aggressively rejected this view, described it as they split
Speaker 6: inside the party. There's a strong division with the Democrat Party,
Speaker 6: told the host market Brennan, you have an establishmentarian like
Speaker 6: rom Emmanuel who's dependent on billionaire campaign contributors and wants
Speaker 6: to maintain the status quo. Then you have a progressive movement, which,
Speaker 6: by the way, what is getting these guys nervous? As
Speaker 6: you're winning all over the country, Suddenly ma'am dommi in
Speaker 6: New York City, it's in New Jersey, it's in Ohio,
Speaker 6: and it's in Colorado. Sanders is right. But notice that
Speaker 6: Senator Sanders, who used to criticize billionaires and millionaires, now
Speaker 6: only criticizes billionaires. That's because Bertie Sanders and his wife
Speaker 6: have become millionaires. He did that by taking the immedia
Speaker 6: placement commissions from his two extremely well funded but unsuccessful
Speaker 6: campaigns for president. That is not illegal, by the way,
Speaker 6: But did he inform his donors that he was enriching
Speaker 6: himself through their campaign contributions. Senator Sanders is driving on
Speaker 6: top of the line. Mercedes owns three homes, including two
Speaker 6: vacation homes, leading you to wonder whether his basic philosophy
Speaker 6: is socialism for thee but not for me. I find
Speaker 6: him an insufferable, pompous blowout and loudmouth. But hey, that's
Speaker 6: just me. For years He's decaded and demanded radical change
Speaker 6: while praising for del Castro as well as the San
Speaker 6: deniss and Nicaragua and aspects of Cuban society, positions consistent
Speaker 6: with the message he's carried for more than three decades.
Speaker 6: Sanders has spent his tire of life in government calling
Speaker 6: for the kind of political revolution that is now actively
Speaker 6: unfolding in front of us in real time. I'm Roger Stone,
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Speaker 6: Welcome back into the Stone Zone. First Lady Malania Trump
Speaker 6: has helped you reunite five more Ukrainian and Russian children
Speaker 6: with their family, marking the fifth successful round of meaningful
Speaker 6: humanitarian initiatives launched him in the grinding war between Moscow
Speaker 6: and Kiev. Now I've known the First Lady since about
Speaker 6: nineteen ninety nine. There's not a more refined, decent, thoughtful,
Speaker 6: cultured chikh and warm first Heady to me, it is
Speaker 6: outrageous that she has never appeared on the cover of Vogue,
Speaker 6: where Michelle Obama has appeared multiple times. The White House
Speaker 6: announced Thursday that the children have returned to their loved
Speaker 6: ones through continued coordination involved Milannia Trump's representatives of the
Speaker 6: governments of both nations. The latest reunifications bring the reported
Speaker 6: total assisted by this initiative to roughly thirty children since
Speaker 6: October twenty five. The effort stands as a rare contract
Speaker 6: concrete success in a conflict dominated by battlefield casualties, diplomatic stalemate,
Speaker 6: and bitter international incriminations. Russia's twenty twenty two invasion displaced
Speaker 6: families on a massive scale. Or international investigators have accused
Speaker 6: Moscow of unlawfully deporting and transferring Ukrainian children. Russians denies
Speaker 6: taking any children against their will. Milani Trump's work offers
Speaker 6: a distinctly conservative model of humanitarian leadership, quiet negotiations, respect
Speaker 6: for the family, and measurable results, rather than empty declarations
Speaker 6: from international national institutions. The First Lady is emphasized that
Speaker 6: children must be placed above political disputes and that compassion
Speaker 6: can cross borders even when governments remain locked in war.
Speaker 6: That approach deserves recognition at a time when elite diplomacy
Speaker 6: often produces summits, community cays, and little else. Our First
Speaker 6: Lady is focused on the most fundamental social institution, the family,
Speaker 6: and has helped restore children to parents and communities torn
Speaker 6: apart by conflict. These reunions will not end the war,
Speaker 6: but they demonstrate what principal engagement can accomplish. Peace remains distance,
Speaker 6: but for five children, however, home is truly theirs again,
Speaker 6: and we have First Lady Milania Trump to thank for it.
Speaker 6: The WNBA is facing us self inflicted controversy after the
Speaker 6: league suspended and fined Seattle Storm co owner Celeste Keaton
Speaker 6: following an alleged confrontation with two teenage fans supporting the
Speaker 6: Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham. The young girls attended Tuesday's
Speaker 6: game wearing apparel promoting women's sports and holding signs supporting
Speaker 6: Cunningham's defensive female competition. Journalist Brandy Cruz, who accompanied them,
Speaker 6: says that Keaton opposed to teenagers used profanity and called
Speaker 6: them insane. One of the two girls reported he ended
Speaker 6: up crying as a result of the deranged, woke tirade
Speaker 6: from the league co owner. The league has now barred
Speaker 6: Keaton from five Storm home games. Seattle's majority owner also apologized,
Speaker 6: saying that every fan deserves to feel welcome and treated
Speaker 6: with respect. Cunningham or the player responded by saying that
Speaker 6: people can have intense disagreements and still with decency. She
Speaker 6: defended the girls rights to stand up for their beliefs
Speaker 6: while saying everyone should be welcome at a game. This
Speaker 6: episode shows how the WNBA has become an unlikely arena
Speaker 6: for the culture war, as white, feminine, conservative women have
Speaker 6: become stars in the WNBA, the lesbianic, masculine brutes of
Speaker 6: the league. I've become jealous and have reacted with scorn.
Speaker 6: WNBA star Caitlin Clark, who has routinely been roughed up
Speaker 6: on the court, and ways to make it clear that
Speaker 6: this is indeed personal. WNBA's culture is toxic. When teenage
Speaker 6: girls are harassed games by adults, it rips off the
Speaker 6: veil and shows the dark side of leftist ideology. There's
Speaker 6: tolerance but it only extends to one consensus opinion and
Speaker 6: nothing else. Women's sports organizations must decide whether they serve
Speaker 6: female athletes and their fans or political activists enforcing woke conformity.
Speaker 6: WNBA needs to protect free expression, defend fairness for women,
Speaker 6: hold leaders accountable. The suspension is a good start, but
Speaker 6: in my opinion, they have a very, very long way
Speaker 6: to go. I announced today on social media that I
Speaker 6: would never appear on the Alex Jones Show again. This
Speaker 6: is a shame, but Jones a week ago said that
Speaker 6: Donald Trump was bringing back the military draft. That's false,
Speaker 6: and today he called for Trump's impeachment or removal under
Speaker 6: the twenty fifth Amendment. I enjoyed my days on in
Speaker 6: Full Wars during Trump's first two years. I did an
Speaker 6: hour show there, but I announced with some sadness that
Speaker 6: I can no longer put up with this. I will
Speaker 6: not appear on the Alex Jones Show. Gud So you're
Speaker 6: gonna have to hear me here on the Red Apple
Speaker 6: Audio Networks, right here in the Stone Zone. Thanks for
Speaker 6: joining us until tomorrow, God bless you and godspeed.
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