WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.000 --> 00:00:05.440 The Stone Zone, entertaining and informative on the Red Apple 2 00:00:05.599 --> 00:00:09.119 podcast network. Now give him a zone. 3 00:00:09.480 --> 00:00:11.080 It's the Stone Zone. 4 00:00:11.480 --> 00:00:14.039 Here's Roger Stone. 5 00:00:15.480 --> 00:00:19.719 You are now entering the Stone Zone. Well, I see 6 00:00:19.760 --> 00:00:22.879 that Hunter Biden is back in the news. It was 7 00:00:22.920 --> 00:00:26.559 only about two years ago that I surprisingly received a 8 00:00:26.679 --> 00:00:33.119 letter from Hunter Biden's lawyer instructing me to preserve all emails, communications, 9 00:00:33.640 --> 00:00:38.240 documents or records regarding Hunter Biden's laptop, which was really 10 00:00:38.320 --> 00:00:41.439 quite simple to do because I had none. See, Hunter 11 00:00:41.479 --> 00:00:47.960 Biden invented this convoluted conspiracy that involved me, Mayor Rudy Giuliani, 12 00:00:48.399 --> 00:00:54.479 my personal attorney Tyler Nixon, and Hunter's former psychiatrist Keith 13 00:00:54.640 --> 00:00:59.880 Albow in a bizarre claim that we had somehow fat 14 00:01:00.000 --> 00:01:02.920 fabricated his laptop. Let me be as clear as I 15 00:01:03.159 --> 00:01:06.560 possibly can be. Anything I know about Hunter Biden's laptop 16 00:01:06.799 --> 00:01:09.560 I read in the pages of The New York Post 17 00:01:09.959 --> 00:01:13.000 in a series of stories by Miranda Devine. So the 18 00:01:13.079 --> 00:01:16.680 idea that I either possessed or knew about Hunter Biden's 19 00:01:16.760 --> 00:01:21.280 laptop part of the publication of those stories is categorically false. 20 00:01:21.480 --> 00:01:25.680 Now Hunter Biden is tempting yet another reinvention fresh from 21 00:01:25.799 --> 00:01:30.439 securing a one point seven punitive damages judgment against my friend, 22 00:01:31.120 --> 00:01:35.719 former Overstocked CEO Patrick Byrne, who lost that case by 23 00:01:35.760 --> 00:01:40.680 default after failing to appear for trial, a judgment that 24 00:01:40.760 --> 00:01:43.239 is going to be appealed. As I understand it, the 25 00:01:43.319 --> 00:01:49.159 former first son has launched a coordinated publicity campaign, podcasts, 26 00:01:49.359 --> 00:01:54.719 frequent posts on x, a new substack, live appearances, and 27 00:01:54.879 --> 00:01:59.640 an upcoming documentary financed by his Hollywood sugar daddy Kevin 28 00:01:59.719 --> 00:02:03.040 Moore US who financed most of the assault on me 29 00:02:03.319 --> 00:02:07.640 and Mayor Rudy Giuliani among others. Now as Miranda Divine 30 00:02:07.719 --> 00:02:10.639 has a New York post. This is not an organic 31 00:02:10.800 --> 00:02:16.599 redemption story. It is a deliberate effort to rehabilitate Underbide's image, 32 00:02:16.840 --> 00:02:21.439 monetize his notoriety, and recast the history of the laptop 33 00:02:21.520 --> 00:02:26.879 that exposed his conduct financial dealings and his sale of 34 00:02:26.919 --> 00:02:30.599 his proximity to his father's political power by trace himself 35 00:02:30.639 --> 00:02:34.800 as a misunderstood addict whose every failure should be used 36 00:02:35.319 --> 00:02:38.960 as a product of his use of crack cocaine. Now 37 00:02:38.960 --> 00:02:42.120 as a deal and destructive, but it does not explain 38 00:02:42.199 --> 00:02:49.439 away years of foreign business arrangements, complex corporate structures, unpaid taxes, 39 00:02:49.960 --> 00:02:54.599 suspicious financial transfers, or repeated invocation of the Biden name 40 00:02:54.800 --> 00:02:59.240 while seeking money and influence. Addiction may explain chaos, but 41 00:02:59.319 --> 00:03:04.400 it does not erase evidence. The laptop documented Hunter's dealings 42 00:03:04.400 --> 00:03:11.039 in China, Ukraine, Russia, Romania and elsewhere. It contained emailsges, photographs, 43 00:03:11.319 --> 00:03:16.000 some of them loot, financial records, and recordings that directly 44 00:03:16.039 --> 00:03:19.599 caught Joe Biden's repeated claims that he knew nothing about 45 00:03:19.599 --> 00:03:23.960 his son's businesses, references to the Big Guy, proposed equity splits, 46 00:03:24.400 --> 00:03:29.120 meetings with former associates, and Hunter's own complaints about paying 47 00:03:29.159 --> 00:03:31.919 his fossors, raising serial on how much of the media 48 00:03:32.280 --> 00:03:36.439 refused to examine this stuff honestly. Instead of addressing those questions, 49 00:03:36.840 --> 00:03:40.520 Hunter and his sugar daddy Kevin Morris have advanced an 50 00:03:40.520 --> 00:03:47.680 increasingly elaborate narrative involving Rudy Giuliani, Russian operatives, manipulated databases, 51 00:03:48.120 --> 00:03:54.599 fabricated recordings, Hunter's former psychiatrist Keith Ablow, myself, and my 52 00:03:54.680 --> 00:03:58.280 personal attorney, Tyler Nixon. It's an attempt to recast those 53 00:03:58.280 --> 00:04:02.840 who exposed the material as participants in a conspiracy against him. 54 00:04:03.000 --> 00:04:05.280 I've made it very clear, or say it yet again. 55 00:04:05.840 --> 00:04:09.120 I never possessed nor saw the contents of Hunter Biden's 56 00:04:09.159 --> 00:04:11.680 laptop until I read about it in the New York Post. 57 00:04:11.840 --> 00:04:14.319 His claim that I was somehow involved with the exposure 58 00:04:14.319 --> 00:04:18.639 of his laptop are the delusions of a crackhead. Origins 59 00:04:18.680 --> 00:04:21.920 of the laptop is not a mystery. A man identifying 60 00:04:22.000 --> 00:04:26.360 himself as Hunter Biden brought three damaged MacBook Pro computers 61 00:04:26.360 --> 00:04:31.040 to John Paul mcaaac's repair shop in Wilmington, Delaware, in 62 00:04:31.079 --> 00:04:34.639 April of twenty nineteen. Hunter Biden's signature appears on the 63 00:04:34.680 --> 00:04:38.079 repair authorization. He never paid the bill, and he also 64 00:04:38.160 --> 00:04:42.199 never came to retrieve his devices. Mac ISAAC, seeing the 65 00:04:42.279 --> 00:04:46.439 contents of the devices, provided the original computer to the FBI, 66 00:04:46.920 --> 00:04:51.120 which seized it under federal subpoena in twenty nineteen. Federal 67 00:04:51.199 --> 00:04:55.959 prosecutors later introduced material from the laptop during Hunter Biden's 68 00:04:55.959 --> 00:05:00.000 gun trial. An FBI agent testified the device was authentic 69 00:05:00.399 --> 00:05:04.160 through a serial number, and that investigators found no evidence 70 00:05:05.079 --> 00:05:09.079 or tampering or file insertion. The laptop was not just 71 00:05:09.120 --> 00:05:13.920 a media story, It became actual courts Independent analysis of 72 00:05:14.040 --> 00:05:17.920 Verify large portions of the data. Some emails were confirmed 73 00:05:17.959 --> 00:05:23.480 through cryptographic signatures, others through receipts and contemporaneous records. Hunter 74 00:05:23.600 --> 00:05:28.000 is gradually retreated from his blanket denials, acknowledging that much 75 00:05:28.000 --> 00:05:33.560 of the material is genuine, while still suggesting that unspecified 76 00:05:33.600 --> 00:05:37.120 portions may have been altered. This is a familiar but 77 00:05:37.279 --> 00:05:42.199 false pattern. Deny everything until denials become impossible, then concede 78 00:05:42.240 --> 00:05:45.680 selectively while casting doubt on the remainder. When the New 79 00:05:45.759 --> 00:05:48.839 York Posts first reported the laptop in October twenty twenty, 80 00:05:49.240 --> 00:05:53.319 the Biden campaign did not disprove the contents. Instead, fifty 81 00:05:53.360 --> 00:05:57.160 one former intelligence officers issued a letter claim the story 82 00:05:57.240 --> 00:06:02.639 had the quote classic year marks of disinformation, despite offering 83 00:06:02.720 --> 00:06:06.240 no evidence whatsoever that that was true. That claim provided 84 00:06:06.399 --> 00:06:10.680 justification for social media companies and major news outlets to 85 00:06:10.800 --> 00:06:16.160 suppress During the closing weeks of the twenty twenty presidential campaign. 86 00:06:16.399 --> 00:06:21.040 Twitter actually blocked the New York Posts reporting, Facebook limited 87 00:06:21.120 --> 00:06:25.800 the distribution of its reporting. Major news organizations treated authenticated 88 00:06:25.839 --> 00:06:30.360 material as suspect while amplifying the unproven Russian narrative. Only 89 00:06:30.439 --> 00:06:34.519 after the election did many acknowledge the authenticity of the material. 90 00:06:34.959 --> 00:06:39.319 That they had previously dismissed. One poll actually showed that 91 00:06:39.399 --> 00:06:42.480 seventeen percent of voters say they would have voted differently 92 00:06:42.879 --> 00:06:45.480 if they had known that Hunter Biden's laptop was real. 93 00:06:45.800 --> 00:06:49.360 Hunter now argues the laptop proves only drug use and addiction. 94 00:06:50.040 --> 00:06:55.199 That claim is also false. The DICE detailed record of income, spending, 95 00:06:55.639 --> 00:07:03.240 foreign relationships, tax issues, firearms purchases, and business negotiations. It 96 00:07:03.319 --> 00:07:07.639 helped establish conduct that later resulted in multiple fessions. In 97 00:07:07.759 --> 00:07:11.519 June of twenty twenty four, a federal jury convicted Hunter 98 00:07:11.600 --> 00:07:14.959 Biden of three felonies related to the purchase and possession 99 00:07:14.959 --> 00:07:17.959 of a Colt revolver. The jury found helied on federal 100 00:07:18.040 --> 00:07:23.560 forms about drug use, made false statements requiring for required 101 00:07:23.680 --> 00:07:27.199 for arms purchase records, and possessed a firearm or not 102 00:07:28.199 --> 00:07:32.879 while unlawfully using controlled substances. These were not political accusations. 103 00:07:32.920 --> 00:07:36.120 These are criminal convictions reached tremanously by a jury. Three 104 00:07:36.160 --> 00:07:39.959 months later, Hunter Biden pled guilty to three felony tax 105 00:07:40.000 --> 00:07:44.000 offenses and six misdemeanors. Federal prosecutors alleged failed to pay 106 00:07:44.000 --> 00:07:47.439 at least one point four million dollars in taxes evaded 107 00:07:47.480 --> 00:07:51.079 assessments and filed forced returns over a four year period 108 00:07:51.560 --> 00:07:57.079 while spending heavily on drugs, escorts, luxury travel cars, clothing, 109 00:07:57.199 --> 00:08:01.519 five star hotel resorts, and other personal senses. He wasn't 110 00:08:01.560 --> 00:08:05.079 a destitute addict. He received millions of dollars from foreign 111 00:08:05.079 --> 00:08:09.360 business arrangements while ignoring tax obligations. In fact, the IRS 112 00:08:09.439 --> 00:08:14.399 let fifteen million dollars of unreported income lapse so they 113 00:08:14.399 --> 00:08:17.079 could not charge him. In my case, by the way, 114 00:08:17.120 --> 00:08:19.600 I had paid all of my pass new taxes with 115 00:08:19.759 --> 00:08:23.160 interest and penalty to the penny, and I got no 116 00:08:23.279 --> 00:08:27.360 break whatsoever from the IRS. So claims you see online 117 00:08:27.399 --> 00:08:31.639 that hunter Biden was a prosecuted to Stone and his 118 00:08:31.680 --> 00:08:34.200 wife were allowed to skip out on past two taxes. 119 00:08:34.440 --> 00:08:39.120 That's simply false, and addiction may explain some of his behavior, 120 00:08:39.159 --> 00:08:43.000 but it does not excludes deliberate tax violations or false filings. 121 00:08:43.519 --> 00:08:46.840 The laptop was central to this record, contained financial data 122 00:08:46.919 --> 00:08:50.799 and communications from the same period covered by the tax case, 123 00:08:51.120 --> 00:08:54.960 helping establish timelines and corroborate evidence later used in a 124 00:08:55.000 --> 00:08:58.759 federal court. Public also has legitimate questions about why foreign 125 00:08:58.840 --> 00:09:03.279 companies connected figures paid large sums to hunter Biden He 126 00:09:03.360 --> 00:09:07.399 had no background in Ukrainian energy policy. When he joined 127 00:09:07.399 --> 00:09:11.240 the board of Barisma, he lacked the experience typically required 128 00:09:11.279 --> 00:09:15.799 for sex compensation. His primary asset was his last name, Biden. 129 00:09:16.279 --> 00:09:18.679 Joe Biden was Vice President of United States, and Hunter 130 00:09:19.159 --> 00:09:23.480 monetized proximity to him Baris Munter while its owner faced 131 00:09:23.519 --> 00:09:27.279 scrutiny in Ukraine, and while US policy towards that country 132 00:09:27.360 --> 00:09:31.279 was under the Vice President's direct influence. Hunter has never 133 00:09:31.320 --> 00:09:34.600 provided a convincing explanation of why his role was necessary 134 00:09:35.039 --> 00:09:39.200 beyond that of access and for purposes of bribery. A 135 00:09:39.279 --> 00:09:42.799 similar pattern emerging in China. Hunter traveled with his father 136 00:09:42.919 --> 00:09:47.440 to Beijing aboard Air Force twenty thirteen, introduced him to 137 00:09:47.480 --> 00:09:51.080 a Chinese business associate. His firm later secured a stake 138 00:09:51.159 --> 00:09:55.320 in a Chinese investment entity. He also purchased part of 139 00:09:55.360 --> 00:09:59.360 a Chinese energy company company linked directly to the Chinese 140 00:09:59.360 --> 00:10:04.480 Communist One email reference dividing equity in a Chinese cluting 141 00:10:04.960 --> 00:10:10.000 quote ten held by Age for the Big Guy close Quote. 142 00:10:10.480 --> 00:10:14.960 Business partner Tony Bubbolinski has identified the Big Guy as 143 00:10:15.080 --> 00:10:19.120 Joe Biden. Whether or not the deal was completed, it was. 144 00:10:19.519 --> 00:10:22.519 The language reflects how has discuss the Vice president's role. 145 00:10:22.559 --> 00:10:27.799 In fact, Hunter Biden has not dispersed his own way 146 00:10:27.879 --> 00:10:31.039 with his interest in that Chinese energy company. He's merely 147 00:10:31.080 --> 00:10:34.879 transferred to one of his cronies. Hunter also sent a 148 00:10:34.879 --> 00:10:38.039 message to a Chinese associate saying he was with his 149 00:10:38.200 --> 00:10:42.960 father and demanding payment. Shortly afterwards, millions of dollars moved 150 00:10:43.000 --> 00:10:47.080 into accounts tied to Hunter Biden's network. He now claims 151 00:10:47.080 --> 00:10:50.200 his reference to his father was meaningless, while that explanation 152 00:10:50.799 --> 00:10:55.440 strains credibility. Congressional investigators traced more than twenty four million 153 00:10:55.480 --> 00:10:59.879 dollars from foreign sources to the Biden family members and associates. 154 00:11:00.320 --> 00:11:04.440 The money moved through multiple entities before reaching individuals connected 155 00:11:04.440 --> 00:11:07.120 to the Biden family. While not every one of those 156 00:11:07.440 --> 00:11:11.679 criminal structure warranted serious scrutiny, Banks filed more than one 157 00:11:11.759 --> 00:11:16.360 hundred and fifty suspicious activity reports or stars involving Hunter 158 00:11:16.440 --> 00:11:19.759 Biden and the related accounts. These reports are not proof 159 00:11:19.799 --> 00:11:23.279 of wrongdoing, but they are indicators that financial activity may 160 00:11:23.320 --> 00:11:28.320 require investigation. A politically connected family recent transfers should not 161 00:11:28.360 --> 00:11:33.000 be shield from scrutiny. Joe Biden repeatedly denied discussing business 162 00:11:33.000 --> 00:11:36.440 with his son during the twenty twenty campaign. That claim 163 00:11:36.480 --> 00:11:40.919 was undermined by testimony and records showing calls, meetings, and 164 00:11:41.240 --> 00:11:45.440 shared appearances with foreign associates. Devin Archer, another one of 165 00:11:45.759 --> 00:11:48.759 Hunter Biden's partners, testified that Joe Biden was placed on 166 00:11:48.799 --> 00:11:53.559 the speaker phone during various business meetings. Hunter arranged dinners 167 00:11:53.559 --> 00:11:57.080 where his father met his foreign partners. Joe Biden's president 168 00:11:57.200 --> 00:12:01.120 self was not the product of being sold, sessnot policy 169 00:12:01.279 --> 00:12:04.639 was the commodity here. The defense offered by the Bidens 170 00:12:04.639 --> 00:12:08.240 relied on a narrow definition of corruption that no specific 171 00:12:08.279 --> 00:12:13.240 policy change directly exchange for payment. Influence operations rarely work 172 00:12:13.360 --> 00:12:16.960 that way, of course. They depend on access, expectation, and 173 00:12:17.039 --> 00:12:22.159 implied leverage rather than explicit contracts. Hunter and his uncle 174 00:12:22.240 --> 00:12:25.919 Jim Biden were part of a broader financial network. Money 175 00:12:25.960 --> 00:12:30.039 moved through associates and entities before reaching family members. Joe 176 00:12:30.039 --> 00:12:33.960 Biden received payments labeled as loan repayments from his brother 177 00:12:34.399 --> 00:12:39.840 after business related transactions. These arrangements demand scrutiny rather than dismissal. 178 00:12:40.440 --> 00:12:43.600 A House impeachment inquiry concluded that Joe Biden engaged in 179 00:12:43.679 --> 00:12:48.000 conduct involving influence petting that benefited his family on not 180 00:12:48.080 --> 00:12:51.759 a criminal conviction. The findings were based on records, testimony, 181 00:12:51.960 --> 00:12:54.440 financial data view. If you want to get a copy 182 00:12:54.480 --> 00:12:58.080 of Hunter Biden's actual laptop, you can go to Marco 183 00:12:58.240 --> 00:13:03.240 Polo dot org. That's Marco Polo dot org. I'm Roger Stone. 184 00:13:03.279 --> 00:13:05.600 You're listening to the Stone Zone. I think we just 185 00:13:05.799 --> 00:13:10.159 demolished Hunter Biden's phony narrative regarding his laptop and me, 186 00:13:10.600 --> 00:13:12.159 and we'll be right back. 187 00:13:12.799 --> 00:13:17.240 The Stone Zone entertaining and informative on the Red Apple 188 00:13:17.399 --> 00:13:18.559 podcast networks. 189 00:13:19.679 --> 00:13:23.200 He's kept going, and he's smart, and he's strong, and 190 00:13:23.279 --> 00:13:26.200 people love him. Not everybody, but people love him and 191 00:13:26.240 --> 00:13:28.679 respect him. Rogers Stone, when's Roes. 192 00:13:29.200 --> 00:13:34.039 Here's Rogerstone. 193 00:13:34.600 --> 00:13:38.120 You are now back in the Stone Zone. While the 194 00:13:38.240 --> 00:13:41.559 Dallas Fort Worth International Airport is moving ahead with planes 195 00:13:41.600 --> 00:13:48.440 to install Islamic ritual foot washing stations inside terminal D restrooms, 196 00:13:48.480 --> 00:13:53.240 sparking a sharp debate among Texans over all religious accommodations 197 00:13:53.279 --> 00:13:57.919 in public spaces. The project, filed with texts regulators on 198 00:13:58.039 --> 00:14:02.440 July thirty, first calls one so called WODO station in 199 00:14:02.480 --> 00:14:07.320 both the men's and women's restrooms. The privately funded project 200 00:14:07.399 --> 00:14:10.519 is expected to cost roughly three hundred thousand dollars and 201 00:14:10.840 --> 00:14:12.639 can be completed by the end of the year. 202 00:14:13.240 --> 00:14:13.480 Now. 203 00:14:13.639 --> 00:14:17.679 Wudoo is an Islamic cleansing ritual performed before prayer, and 204 00:14:17.799 --> 00:14:20.840 the low level basins are designed to allow Muslim travelers 205 00:14:20.919 --> 00:14:25.360 to wash their feet without ordinary sinks. I've actually sometimes 206 00:14:25.399 --> 00:14:29.279 seen that in the bathrooms and airports. I find it disturbing. 207 00:14:29.840 --> 00:14:33.440 While this may seem innocuous to some, what this represents 208 00:14:33.559 --> 00:14:37.519 is the Islamification of our society. My opinion, we should 209 00:14:37.559 --> 00:14:41.320 not our airports to accommodate the customs of any particular religion. 210 00:14:42.080 --> 00:14:44.759 Think what it would be like if Catholics advocated putting 211 00:14:45.159 --> 00:14:48.159 is for holy water in the airports. There would be 212 00:14:48.200 --> 00:14:51.960 a public uproar. The concern here is parcisely striking in Texas, 213 00:14:51.960 --> 00:14:56.480 whose voters have repeatedly rejected progressive efforts to reshape public 214 00:14:56.559 --> 00:15:01.600 institutions around identity, politics, and special They've attempted to make 215 00:15:01.720 --> 00:15:05.639 Muslim only communities that operate under de facto Sharia law. 216 00:15:05.799 --> 00:15:08.600 This has caused Attorney General Ken Paxton to initiate a 217 00:15:08.679 --> 00:15:14.080 crackdown against this mission creep of radical Islam. Religious freedom 218 00:15:14.080 --> 00:15:17.320 means Americans should be free to worship without government interference. 219 00:15:17.919 --> 00:15:22.320 It should not mean public institutions gradually reorganize themselves around 220 00:15:22.320 --> 00:15:26.799 the customs of different cultural groups. This is how multiculturalism 221 00:15:26.879 --> 00:15:32.279 destroys societies, little by little. The Dallas Fort work controversies 222 00:15:32.279 --> 00:15:36.120 therefore about more than simple bathroom fixtures. It's a test 223 00:15:36.159 --> 00:15:39.600 to whether America remains America or becomes a different and 224 00:15:39.759 --> 00:15:45.080 much worse country. Meanwhile, the newly released intelligence records are 225 00:15:45.080 --> 00:15:48.840 shown that the FBI and other federal agencies profiled more 226 00:15:48.919 --> 00:15:53.279 high profile Republicans and Trump supporters than once believed. According 227 00:15:53.320 --> 00:15:56.759 to doction by the White House Government Transparency Task Force, 228 00:15:57.279 --> 00:16:02.840 a secret counterintellition knows that Round River was conducted by 229 00:16:02.840 --> 00:16:07.799 the FBI in order to discredit Hunter Biden's laptop and 230 00:16:07.879 --> 00:16:11.919 to shut down any discussion of its contents among those 231 00:16:12.000 --> 00:16:15.279 who were targeted in this operation or Secretary of State 232 00:16:15.360 --> 00:16:19.840 Mike Pompeo, former Attorney General Bill Barr, Congress Jim Jordan, 233 00:16:20.159 --> 00:16:24.759 the late Lindsay Graham, Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Fox News, and 234 00:16:24.960 --> 00:16:29.960 other conservative outlets, all of whom were determined as co 235 00:16:30.200 --> 00:16:36.919 Russian disinformation. Meanwhile, Democrats, including Barack Obama Hillary Clinton, George Soros, 236 00:16:36.960 --> 00:16:39.840 and members of the Biden family were classified as tart. 237 00:16:39.840 --> 00:16:42.159 It is clear that the FBI and the deep State 238 00:16:42.200 --> 00:16:45.679 were weaponized and ready to destroy the lives of prominent 239 00:16:45.799 --> 00:16:49.960 supporters of Donald Trump during this era. FBI Director Cash 240 00:16:49.960 --> 00:16:53.240 Battel says the bureau is now investigating whether information from 241 00:16:53.240 --> 00:16:57.240 that operation was used to underminor influence investigations involved in 242 00:16:57.279 --> 00:17:00.799 the Biden family. Pattel has also determm into the Foreign 243 00:17:00.879 --> 00:17:04.359 Intelligence Task Force that was responsible for this overreach and 244 00:17:04.480 --> 00:17:08.480 shut it down. Government agency's charge of protecting Americans should 245 00:17:08.519 --> 00:17:13.079 never become ideological political forces working to mind political opponents 246 00:17:13.240 --> 00:17:17.799 based on biased propaganda narratives. I'm Roger Stone. You're listening 247 00:17:17.839 --> 00:17:20.599 to the Stone Zone, and we'll be right back. 248 00:17:21.519 --> 00:17:26.000 The Stone Zone entertaining and informative on the Red Apple 249 00:17:26.119 --> 00:17:27.200 podcast network. 250 00:17:28.079 --> 00:17:31.799 A man who's gone through hell, but he's kept going, 251 00:17:31.880 --> 00:17:35.039 and he's smart, and he's strong, and people love him. 252 00:17:35.079 --> 00:17:38.480 Not everybody, but people love him and respect him. Roger Stone. 253 00:17:38.519 --> 00:17:39.319 Where's Roches. 254 00:17:39.880 --> 00:17:44.720 Here's Roger Stone. 255 00:17:45.559 --> 00:17:50.359 We are now re entering the Stone Zone. The Democrats 256 00:17:50.400 --> 00:17:56.200 are escalating their pressure campaign against Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison, 257 00:17:56.839 --> 00:18:01.799 as is control of Warner Brothers Discovery with it CNN 258 00:18:02.000 --> 00:18:05.960 House Judiciary Committee ranking Democrat Jamie Raskin one of the 259 00:18:05.960 --> 00:18:09.720 most odious figures in Washington. He announced the press conference 260 00:18:09.839 --> 00:18:13.480 saying that the January sixth committee would produce suitable proof 261 00:18:13.519 --> 00:18:17.319 that I was involved in some untourd activity on January sixth, 262 00:18:17.480 --> 00:18:21.759 when they produced nothing of the kind. But Raskin, one 263 00:18:21.799 --> 00:18:24.519 of the most disgraceful anti Trump lawmakers in all of 264 00:18:24.640 --> 00:18:27.759 Washington d C, has demanded that Ellison sit for a 265 00:18:27.759 --> 00:18:31.680 transcribed interview, accusing him of colluding with President Trump to 266 00:18:31.759 --> 00:18:37.359 undermine media independence and suppressed descent. This is almost laughable. 267 00:18:37.839 --> 00:18:41.079 Raskin has also raised alarms about whether As News and 268 00:18:41.160 --> 00:18:45.680 the possibility that changes there and that CNN could move 269 00:18:45.720 --> 00:18:49.359 away from its long standing far left editorial posture under 270 00:18:49.400 --> 00:18:52.680 the new ownership. As I've said many times, I don't 271 00:18:52.680 --> 00:18:55.240 get my news from CNN for the same reason I 272 00:18:55.279 --> 00:18:58.000 don't drink out of the toilet. But in other words, 273 00:18:58.119 --> 00:19:02.200 Raskin wants to protect the hold of liberal propaganda that 274 00:19:02.279 --> 00:19:05.279 attacks his enemies and attempted to abuse his power to 275 00:19:05.319 --> 00:19:07.599 stop a new owner who may take it in a 276 00:19:07.759 --> 00:19:13.640 new direction. The hypocrisy here is stunning. Democrats spent years 277 00:19:13.680 --> 00:19:18.759 defending supposedly independent, legacy media outlets, while those same institutions 278 00:19:19.160 --> 00:19:24.319 routinely spouted leftist propaganda, amplified anti Trump narratives, including the 279 00:19:24.400 --> 00:19:29.000 Russian collusion hoax, divided the country needlessly, and treated any 280 00:19:29.079 --> 00:19:32.400 viewpoint other than their rision. Now that a new only 281 00:19:32.559 --> 00:19:37.160 could bring greater ideological balance, or simply demand more straight 282 00:19:37.279 --> 00:19:41.799 down the middle journalism, democratic politicians like Raskin are suddenly 283 00:19:41.799 --> 00:19:47.200 involving and invoking government power and congressional scrutiny. Ellison has 284 00:19:47.200 --> 00:19:50.640 publicly said he doesn't want newsrooms bending to his political 285 00:19:50.720 --> 00:19:54.839 views and that organizations like CNN and CBS should serve 286 00:19:54.880 --> 00:20:00.000 audiences across the political spectrum. Yet Democrats appear deeply concerned 287 00:20:00.079 --> 00:20:04.960 about what happens existing culture changes. If politicians are comfortable 288 00:20:04.960 --> 00:20:07.839 with the media organization when it consistently tilts in their 289 00:20:07.880 --> 00:20:12.920 ideological direction, but threatned investigations when ownership might challenge that too, 290 00:20:13.480 --> 00:20:16.599 this is not a good faith debate about media independence. 291 00:20:17.359 --> 00:20:21.319 These are liberal Democrat officials abusing their authority to protect 292 00:20:21.319 --> 00:20:25.880 their political machine. CNN does not need government protection diversity, 293 00:20:26.200 --> 00:20:29.960 it needs credibility. Or eventually go bankrupt. Its audiences are 294 00:20:29.960 --> 00:20:33.640 already down sharply, Ellison is coming in to save CNA 295 00:20:33.680 --> 00:20:37.519 and like he's saving CBS News, but Democrats would rather 296 00:20:37.599 --> 00:20:43.440 CNN go away completely than present a fair and balanced perspective. Meanwhile, 297 00:20:43.599 --> 00:20:47.759 Vice President JD. Vance is a Justice Department to investigate 298 00:20:47.839 --> 00:20:53.799 whether hospitals and doctors committed fraud while providing gender transition 299 00:20:53.920 --> 00:20:58.000 treatments to minors. The move follows a new Department of 300 00:20:58.000 --> 00:21:02.359 Health and Human Services report alleging that some providers may 301 00:21:02.400 --> 00:21:06.480 have used inaccurate medical billing codes or diagnosed to secure 302 00:21:06.599 --> 00:21:12.200 insurance reimbursements for hormones, puberty blockers, and surgeries otherwise might 303 00:21:12.240 --> 00:21:15.200 not have been covered or paid for by the taxpayers. 304 00:21:15.359 --> 00:21:19.319 HHS says that evidence could provide and ray attential civil 305 00:21:19.440 --> 00:21:24.400 or criminal liability, although the allegations have not yet been adjudicated. 306 00:21:25.039 --> 00:21:28.240 Vans referred to the findings to Attorney General Todd Blanche, 307 00:21:28.640 --> 00:21:32.480 asking the Department of Justice to define whether providers violated 308 00:21:32.559 --> 00:21:37.799 federal fraud, conspiracy, food and drug or false claim ect statutates. 309 00:21:38.720 --> 00:21:43.119 The Vice President argued that intentional miscoding designed to obtain 310 00:21:43.240 --> 00:21:48.640 medicaid or private insurance payments should carry serious consequences. This 311 00:21:48.759 --> 00:21:51.279 is exactly the kind of accountability he has been missing 312 00:21:51.319 --> 00:21:55.559 from the pediatric gender medicine debate from the highest levels 313 00:21:55.559 --> 00:21:59.599 of our government. Parents deserve to know what doctors are 314 00:21:59.640 --> 00:22:05.359 putting children's welfare ahead of leftist, woke ideology, institutional pressure, 315 00:22:05.519 --> 00:22:10.960 or financial incentives. Taxpayers deserve assurance that Medicaid dollars are 316 00:22:11.000 --> 00:22:15.880 not being obtained through misleading diagnosis or fraudulent billing practices. 317 00:22:16.680 --> 00:22:19.599 Trump administrations make it clear that intends to reverse the 318 00:22:19.599 --> 00:22:24.680 federal government's previous promotion of medical gender transition for minors. 319 00:22:25.160 --> 00:22:30.240 The new HHS report notes that political, ideological, and financial 320 00:22:30.240 --> 00:22:34.799 pressures help drive the rapid expansion of these treatments, which is, 321 00:22:35.039 --> 00:22:39.079 if anything, is a drastic understatement if these hospitals nor 322 00:22:39.079 --> 00:22:43.720 only manipulated billing rules while performing irreversible procedures on children. 323 00:22:44.240 --> 00:22:48.440 While taxpayers have a right to demand accountability, medicine should 324 00:22:48.440 --> 00:22:52.920 not be should be about healing children, not naming for 325 00:22:52.960 --> 00:22:56.359 the life in the name of some cult. As I 326 00:22:56.400 --> 00:23:00.279 said yesterday, White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt will her 327 00:23:00.279 --> 00:23:05.519 spot at the end of August, closing a remarkable chapter 328 00:23:05.640 --> 00:23:08.680 and what she became one of President Trump's most effective 329 00:23:08.680 --> 00:23:13.519 defenders against an overwhelmingly hostile press corps dedicated to tearing 330 00:23:13.559 --> 00:23:17.079 down the administration at every turn. Now, in my fifty 331 00:23:17.160 --> 00:23:22.400 year career in American politics, I've known five presidential press secretaries. 332 00:23:22.880 --> 00:23:26.680 Some were good, a few were great, but Caroline Levitt 333 00:23:26.680 --> 00:23:30.160 may be the greatest. President Trump himself announced Wednesday that 334 00:23:30.240 --> 00:23:33.039 Levitt is leaving stepping away to spend more time with 335 00:23:33.119 --> 00:23:36.799 her two young children after recently returning from maternity leave. 336 00:23:37.559 --> 00:23:40.519 Levitt will remain one of Trump's outside advisors and an 337 00:23:40.599 --> 00:23:46.119 influential Republican voice heading into the midterm elections. President Trump 338 00:23:46.200 --> 00:23:48.599 himself praiseder is one of the best press secretaries in 339 00:23:48.599 --> 00:23:52.640 White House history. Praised it's extremely well. Levitt deserves to 340 00:23:52.640 --> 00:23:56.440 be appreciated for a job exceptionally well done with grace 341 00:23:56.559 --> 00:24:00.400 and dignity under fire. She first came to my attention, 342 00:24:00.480 --> 00:24:04.599 which she waged a valiant campaign for Congress in her 343 00:24:04.920 --> 00:24:08.720 native and she is among the standouts in the Trump administration. 344 00:24:09.240 --> 00:24:12.440 Day after day, Levitt walked into a briefing room filled 345 00:24:12.480 --> 00:24:16.640 with reporters itching to harm President Trump's agenda or otherwise 346 00:24:16.680 --> 00:24:19.799 smear him. She never played by the old Washington rules. 347 00:24:20.119 --> 00:24:23.680 Never allowed herself to become flustered. She pushed back, forcefully, 348 00:24:24.240 --> 00:24:29.680 challenged semisies, defended the administration's policies, and reminded Americas that 349 00:24:29.720 --> 00:24:33.119 the America that the establishment media's version of events is 350 00:24:33.359 --> 00:24:37.599 well usually false. That toughness mattered to me. It made 351 00:24:37.599 --> 00:24:41.359 a difference and helped President Trump achieve his successes. For decades, 352 00:24:41.400 --> 00:24:45.160 republic officials too often treated hostile media coverage as something 353 00:24:45.200 --> 00:24:49.359 they simply had to endure. Caroline Levitt showed America that 354 00:24:49.400 --> 00:24:53.079 the press can and should be challenged when it's reporting 355 00:24:53.160 --> 00:24:57.799 or assumptions are false or contemptible. Levitt ultimately concluded she 356 00:24:57.799 --> 00:25:01.200 could not give both the demand a role of a 357 00:25:01.319 --> 00:25:04.480 press secretary and her young family the attention that both 358 00:25:04.519 --> 00:25:07.920 deserved at just twenty eight years old. This clearly is 359 00:25:07.960 --> 00:25:10.440 not the end of her political story. In fact, in 360 00:25:10.480 --> 00:25:15.559 my opinion, it is only the beginning. Meanwhile, a former 361 00:25:15.599 --> 00:25:18.880 top official at the Southern Property Law Center has been 362 00:25:19.000 --> 00:25:23.000 arrested as federal prosecutors widened a fraud and money laundering 363 00:25:23.039 --> 00:25:26.920 case that is finally cracking down against the sinister far 364 00:25:27.079 --> 00:25:32.200 left scam organization. One Heidi Bairich, who once headed the 365 00:25:32.200 --> 00:25:37.440 Southern Property Law Center's Intelligence project, bass charges including conspiracy 366 00:25:37.480 --> 00:25:40.960 to commit wire fraud, conspiracy to make false statements to 367 00:25:41.000 --> 00:25:45.519 a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to conceal money laundering. 368 00:25:46.240 --> 00:25:50.880 Prosecutors allege that the Southern Property Law Center secretly funneled 369 00:25:50.920 --> 00:25:55.359 donor money through fictitious entities to paid informants and baited 370 00:25:55.480 --> 00:25:59.799 into extremist groups including the klu Kluck's Klan, the Aryan Nation, 371 00:26:00.440 --> 00:26:04.039 and the National Alliance. Reminds me of what one veteran 372 00:26:04.160 --> 00:26:06.920 FBI agent once told me. He said, if he went 373 00:26:06.960 --> 00:26:09.079 to a Ku Klux Klan member and there were ten 374 00:26:09.119 --> 00:26:12.839 people there, nine of them would be Federal informants. According 375 00:26:12.880 --> 00:26:16.119 to the indictment, some informants were not merely observing extrements, 376 00:26:16.240 --> 00:26:21.240 but were allegedly helping promote or organize racist activity while 377 00:26:21.279 --> 00:26:24.400 receiving the money from the Southern Poverty Law Center. So, 378 00:26:24.440 --> 00:26:27.440 in other words, the Center was creating the problem that 379 00:26:27.480 --> 00:26:30.279 they could then go out and fundraise off of. They 380 00:26:30.279 --> 00:26:35.200 were essentially fomenting the threat that fearmongered about in order 381 00:26:35.200 --> 00:26:39.559 to bleed money out of their gullible small dollar leftist flock. 382 00:26:40.240 --> 00:26:43.599 Prosecutors say more than three million dollars in donated funds 383 00:26:43.960 --> 00:26:47.680 went to at least eight informants between twenty fourteen and 384 00:26:47.720 --> 00:26:51.079 twenty twenty three. Bay Rich has also been accused of 385 00:26:51.279 --> 00:26:54.839 sharing a bank account with one informant who allegedly received 386 00:26:54.880 --> 00:26:58.440 Southern Property Loss Center funds while in filtrading a neo 387 00:26:58.519 --> 00:27:02.759 Nazi organization. Southern Popy Law Center has pleaded not guilty 388 00:27:03.079 --> 00:27:07.640 and argues the government's mixed characterizing legitimate intelligence gathering work. 389 00:27:08.319 --> 00:27:10.680 But frankly, that rationale is not going to fly with 390 00:27:10.720 --> 00:27:14.759 the Trump administration. Finally, there is a glaring spotlight on 391 00:27:14.799 --> 00:27:20.640 an organization's spent years judging others and fomenting extremism while 392 00:27:20.759 --> 00:27:24.640 engaged in treacherous double dealing. Remember how they profiled Charlie 393 00:27:24.720 --> 00:27:27.519 Kirk in Turning Point USA as a eight group in 394 00:27:27.559 --> 00:27:31.200 the lead up to assassination. Now they're finally reaping what 395 00:27:31.359 --> 00:27:34.799 they have sown. Doubt that ICE is prepared to give 396 00:27:34.799 --> 00:27:38.599 officers a new tool designed to stop violent suspects without 397 00:27:38.799 --> 00:27:42.720 immediately resorting to deadly force. This is good news. According 398 00:27:42.799 --> 00:27:45.440 to a Department of Homeland Security, ICE plans to spend 399 00:27:45.519 --> 00:27:49.279 up to twenty million dollars on specialized gloves capable of 400 00:27:49.319 --> 00:27:53.759 delivering electric shock through direct skin contact. These devices, called 401 00:27:53.799 --> 00:27:59.319