The StoneZONE - Roger Stone - The Stone Zone | 03-07-25
Aired: 2025-03-08
Duration: 40:43


=== President's Bitcoin Move (06:04) ===

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[00:00:59]  This is the Stone Zone with Roger Stone.
[00:01:14]  People love him and respect him.
[00:01:15]  Roger Stone.
[00:01:17]  Now, get in the zone.
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[00:01:21]  Here's Roger Stone.
[00:01:25]  I'm Roger Stone.
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[00:01:32]  For those who think that Donald Trump is in Vladimir Putin's pocket, well, watch this.
[00:01:38]  On True Social, President Trump wrote, Based on the fact that Russia is absolutely pounding Ukraine on the battlefield right now, I'm strongly considering large-scale banking sanctions, sanctions, and tariffs on Russia until a ceasefire and final settlement agreement on peace is reached.
[00:01:58]  To Russia and Ukraine, get to the table right now before it's too late.
[00:02:03]  Thank you.
[00:02:05]  So much for the false narrative that Donald Trump is somehow in Putin's pocket.
[00:02:10]  Two days ago, a normally sane, intelligent reporter from a newspaper whose name you would recognize called me to ask whether I thought it was true that Donald Trump had been a Russian asset since the 1980s.
[00:02:27]  They went so far as to say that Trump's flirtation with the 1988 potential presidential race, the first time he talked about running for president, had been inspired by the Russians.
[00:02:39]  Well, since that was my idea, I knew otherwise.
[00:02:43]  You wonder what has gotten into people with these insane claims, but Donald Trump recognizes it takes two to tango, meaning you need both sides for any peace negotiation.
[00:02:56]  Last night, Russians filed a salvo of 67 missiles and 194 drones in an overnight attack.
[00:03:04]  Trump announced recently that he was cutting off military aid to Ukraine, but he demonstrated that his threat to Russia is by no means giving Putin a green light to continue the war.
[00:03:15]  Donald Trump ran as a peace candidate, and he is prepared to do whatever it takes to end this war.
[00:03:23]  On this day in history, 38 years ago today, President Ronald Reagan addressed the nation from Camp Dayton.
[00:03:31]  His radio address was focused on reducing federal spending and cutting taxes.
[00:03:36]  I can only imagine what he would say if he saw what Donald Trump is moving the ball together on both of those fronts today.
[00:03:45]  President Donald Trump announced two nights ago that he was signing an executive order establishing the strategic Bitcoin Reserve in the U.S. digital asset stockpile.
[00:03:59]  I think this is very wise.
[00:04:01]  I see in this the hand of two of his very best appointees, Secretary of the Treasury Scott Besant, who is a libertarian, a outside-the-box thinker, a devotee of gold, and someone who is quite serious about the potential of doing away with the IRS and abolishing the U.S. income tax, but also his advisor, David Sachs, who comes from the cryptocurrency world.
[00:04:30]  It is estimated that the U.S. government owns about 200,000 Bitcoins.
[00:04:35]  That's what David Sachs, the crypto czar, said.
[00:04:38]  The U.S. will not sell any Bitcoin deposited into the reserve.
[00:04:43]  It will be kept as a store of value.
[00:04:46]  The reserve will be like a digital Fort Knox for the cryptocurrency, often called digital gold.
[00:04:54]  The Secretaries of Treasury and the Commerce are authorized under the order signed by Trump to develop budget-neutral strategies for acquiring additional Bitcoin.
[00:05:04]  But the U.S. digital asset stockpile will only consist of digital assets other than Bitcoin forfeited in criminal or civil procedures.
[00:05:15]  That same day, the president announced the crypto summit that took place today with cryptocurrencies from around the world and the country in attendance.
[00:05:26]  My attending this is really just, first of all, a thank you to President Trump for helping make the United States the crypto capital of the world, said Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong.
[00:05:38]  He's lived up to that campaign promise so far, and we've seen a lot of work getting done here in a very positive way.
[00:05:46]  There may be even more major crypto announcements on the horizon.
[00:05:51]  Senator Cynthia Loomis, a Republican from Wyoming and a longtime champion of Bitcoin and digital assets, said in response to the creation of the strategic Bitcoin Reserve, stay tuned for next week.

=== Damien Williams Keeps the Lid On (04:13) ===

[00:06:05]  I wonder what the senator knows that we don't know.
[00:06:09]  Meanwhile, today was the deadline for Attorney General Pam Bondi that she sat on the FBI and the Southern District of New York to turn over all records from their archives regarding Jeffrey Epstein.
[00:06:28]  Very clear if you looked at my 2015 book, The Clinton's War on Women, the longest chapter in the book, Chapter 7, entitled Orgy Island, is about the Epstein scandal.
[00:06:43]  I actually exposed more in that chapter 2015, a number of years ago, than was released last week.
[00:06:52]  But I don't fault the Attorney General.
[00:06:54]  What she saw was indeed, as she said, shocking.
[00:06:58]  It's just that she had never seen it before.
[00:07:01]  That's because the whole story got very little coverage in mainstream media.
[00:07:08]  I really think Damien Williams, the former U.S. attorney, who has been the one keeping the lid on the Epstein scandal, he certainly kept the lid on the mysterious circumstances regarding Epstein's death.
[00:07:22]  Oh, the guards at the Metropolitan Detention Center were sleeping and their cameras were just conveniently not working, not to mention the fact that Epstein's cellmate was removed from the evening.
[00:07:37]  It's interesting that the coroner and pathologist, Dr. Michael Badden, examined Epstein's body and said that the markings on his body were not consistent with suicide and self-hanging.
[00:07:55]  There'll be a lot more to this story, but the real question is, what happened to the DVDs and the hard drives that the FBI removed from the safes of Jeffrey Epstein's palatial home in Palm Beach,
[00:08:12]  his largest, the largest residence in Manhattan, his famous island near the Virgin Islands, Little St. James, and from the safe at his ranch in Arizona.
[00:08:26]  We need to know what happened to those.
[00:08:28]  Now, I don't expect those to be released.
[00:08:31]  They would be, after all, exceedingly graphic, perhaps even pornographic, plus they would expose the victims, and no one wants that.
[00:08:41]  But there'll be a lot more to this story.
[00:08:44]  I think that Damien Williams, the former U.S. attorney, he also handled the Ghislaine Maxwell case.
[00:08:51]  That's interesting because Maxwell was charged for conspiracy, but conspiracy with whom?
[00:08:57]  Why wasn't anyone else charged in that action?
[00:09:01]  This is very reminiscent, by the way, of the P. Diddy case.
[00:09:05]  Once again, Diddy charged with conspiracy, but nobody else charged.
[00:09:10]  This seems more like cover-ups than they do prosecutions to me, but Pam Bondi and Kash Patel are on the case.
[00:09:18]  Speaking of Kash Patel, he announced that he made arrests over espionage and bribery involving China.
[00:09:26]  He told the media, I can now report today that the FBI, along with our interagency partners led by Attorney General Pam Bondi, arrested two active U.S. Army soldiers and one former U.S. Army soldier for theft of government property and a bribery scheme.
[00:09:45]  These individuals have been charged with stealing America's defense intelligence capabilities and empowering adversaries like China in betrayal of our country.
[00:09:54]  They will now face judges, justice.
[00:09:58]  I'm going to say this correctly, Jian Zhao and Li Tian, Army soldiers stationed at Joint Base Lewis McCord in Washington State, and Ru Yu Juan, a former Army soldier, were arrested on Thursday after federal grand juries in Washington and Oregon indicted them both.

=== Arrested Soldiers (02:04) ===

[00:10:18]  Kash Patel, imminently qualified, contrary to the claims of Adam Schiff, to be the director of the FBI and ushering in a new era of integrity, balance,
[00:10:33]  and returning that epically famous Federal Bureau of Investigation to its roots as the premier investigative arm of the U.S. government that will be conducted without political bias and without an agenda.
[00:10:49]  The only agenda pursued by Kash Patel will be the truth.
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[00:12:21]  And I'll say this, Sinfrona Roger.

=== Trade Agreement Relief (03:31) ===

[00:12:23]  He's no baby.
[00:12:24]  And right now, he's cleaner than anybody in this place.
[00:12:28]  No, they treated him very unfairly.
[00:12:30]  Now, give him a zone.
[00:12:32]  It's the stone zone.
[00:12:34]  Here's Roger Stone.
[00:12:38]  And you're back in the stone zone on the Red Apple Audio Networks.
[00:12:44]  A media outlet called Lancaster Online, based in Pennsylvania, reports that former senior Department of Justice official and federal prosecutor David Metcalf was nominated to serve as an interim U.S. attorney for Eastern Pennsylvania.
[00:12:59]  They go on to say that Metcalf was involved in President Trump's effort to sway Roger Stone's sentencing.
[00:13:08]  The problem with that is that the New York Times reported on July 24th, 2024, in an article by Glenn Rush, that the Inspector General of the Justice Department, this, by the way, would be Biden's Justice Department, issued a report in which they said that their investigation showed that there was no effort by senior officials at the Justice Department to give Roger Stone a lightened sentence.
[00:13:37]  I call this fake news.
[00:13:39]  Donald Trump is providing relief for car manufacturers and farmers to allow for more of a transition period prior to reciprocal tariffs that will hit on April 2nd.
[00:13:50]  Trump is temporarily eliminating some tariffs until April 2nd to, as he put it, protect America.
[00:13:57]  On True Social, Trump posted that the head of the United Autoworkers of America just stated that tariffs are necessary to correct years of abuse of the United States by other countries and companies.
[00:14:10]  We have lost 90,000 factories and plants since the beginning of NAFTA.
[00:14:16]  He is 100% correct.
[00:14:19]  It's interesting Trump was a critic of NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement, which is a one-size-fits-all trade agreement, long before he was a candidate for president of the United States.
[00:14:33]  Meanwhile, Mexico is begging Trump for a compromise and stepping up their assistance fighting the war against the cartel terrorists.
[00:14:42]  Days ago, Mexico turned over 29 of the cartel leaders, some of the most vicious criminals on the planet, to the United States Justice Department for prosecution here.
[00:14:55]  Trump also said after speaking with President Claudia Scheinbaum of Mexico, I've agreed that Mexico will not be required to pay tariffs on anything that falls under the USMCA agreement.
[00:15:09]  That is the agreement that President Trump negotiated during his first term.
[00:15:14]  That agreement runs until April 2nd.
[00:15:18]  He did that as an accommodation and out of respect for President Scheinbaum.
[00:15:22]  You see, Donald Trump is a master negotiator.
[00:15:26]  He is a deal maker.
[00:15:28]  He knows when to show the carrot and, well, when to show the stick.
[00:15:33]  He points out his relationship with President Schinbaum is a good one, and they're working hard together on the border, both in terms of stopping illegal aliens from entering the United States and stopping the flow of fentanyl.
[00:15:45]  So our thanks to President Sheinbaum and President Trump in this heroic and historic cooperative effort.

=== ActBlue Donor Outreach Effort (13:51) ===

[00:15:55]  The New York Times reports that ActBlue, the Democrat fundraising platform, is in turmoil.
[00:16:01]  ActBlue is a payment processing app that is used online.
[00:16:06]  Seven top executives of ActBlue have all strangely left the company in the past three weeks, several of whom all had been there for more than a decade.
[00:16:16]  None of them will explain on the record why they left ActBlue, but here's what we do know: 19 attorney generals across the country are investigating Act Blue because they have taken in millions and millions and millions of dollars of campaign contributions to individual Democrat candidates where the donors either do not really exist or, when contacted, specifically deny that the contributions that were racked up in their name were given by them.
[00:16:45]  In fact, Act Blue turns off the function when donating by credit card, in which they match the address of the donor with the card.
[00:16:55]  Among the very largest recipients of millions of dollars given in this manner is New York Attorney General Letitia James.
[00:17:06]  There's an ongoing effort to contact James donors and ask them on their doorstep if they are familiar with the multiple contributions they gave her campaign using Act Blue.
[00:17:19]  The last remaining lawyer at ActBlue in the general counsel's office was locked out of his own email and he was put on leave after sending internal messages that we have whistleblower policies for a reason.
[00:17:31]  Two unions representing ActBlue employees openly questioning the group's stability and calling the situation alarming.
[00:17:39]  They're demanding the hire of an independent investigator.
[00:17:42]  More than $16 billion have passed through Act Blue to Democrat candidates at all levels in the last two years.
[00:17:50]  This behavior makes you wonder, what crimes is ActBlue hiding?
[00:17:55]  We already know there's no bigger offender, as I say, than Attorney General Letitia James.
[00:18:01]  We'll have more on that story as it develops, but Kamala Harris raised $310 million last July.
[00:18:08]  How much of that was laundered money from fake donors remains to be seen, but there are folks working on it.
[00:18:15]  You're tuned in to the Stone Zone here on the Red Apple Audio Networks.
[00:18:19]  And joining me next is Mike Davis.
[00:18:22]  He's the former chief counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee under Chairman Chuck Grassley.
[00:18:28]  He's also the founder and president of the Article 3 project, which supports and defends constitutionalist judges and the rule of law.
[00:18:39]  There's a lot of questions I want to ask Mike Davis, including the latest on the Epstein saga, the plight of Tina Peters, who's sent to jail for nine years for insisting on honest elections in her home state, and a lot more.
[00:18:55]  So, folks, whatever you do, don't touch that dial.
[00:18:58]  You're in the Stone Zone, and this is the place for politics.
[00:19:09]  The Stone Zone with Roger Stone.
[00:19:31]  I'm not your stepping stone.
[00:19:33]  I'm not your stepping stone.
[00:19:49]  This is the stone zone.
[00:19:51]  Now, get in the zone.
[00:19:53]  It's the stone zone.
[00:19:55]  Here's Roger Stone.
[00:19:59]  Welcome back.
[00:20:00]  You're in the Stone Zone on the Red Apple Audio Networks.
[00:20:05]  Joining me now, as I said, Mike Davis, the former chief counsel for nominations to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee under that great American, Senator Chuck Grassley.
[00:20:16]  Mike is also a founder and president of the Article III project, which defends constitutionalist judges and the rule of law.
[00:20:24]  He also leads the Internet Accountability Project and is an advocacy organization that's fighting to rein in big tech.
[00:20:32]  There has been no more articulate or stronger spokesman for election integrity and the rule of law.
[00:20:38]  Nobody has been more effective at calling out the tsunami of lawfare that was waged against Donald Trump than Mike Davis.
[00:20:46]  And we are pleased to have him with us today.
[00:20:49]  Thank you for having me.
[00:20:51]  So Mike, it has to be a new day in Washington, huh?
[00:20:55]  It is a new day because we have something that's radical going on.
[00:20:58]  We have a president of the United States who campaigned on cutting waste, fraud, and abuse.
[00:21:03]  We have the American people liking that and sending him to Washington with a broad electoral mandate, 312 electoral votes, all seven swing states, the popular vote.
[00:21:14]  And we have something shocking.
[00:21:15]  We have a politician in Washington actually doing what he promised American voters he would do.
[00:21:22]  And it helps him keep the House and win the Senate.
[00:21:26]  And he controls the executive branch.
[00:21:28]  And so the last line of resistance for the Democrats is to go to these activist judges and sabotage the presidency with these unconstitutional rulings.
[00:21:38]  And so that's what we're fighting right now at the Article III project.
[00:21:42]  Yeah, one of the biggest problems, of course, is the idea that the judicial branch is not infected in politics with politics is unfortunately completely false.
[00:21:51]  That's the way it's supposed to be.
[00:21:53]  That third branch of government is supposed to be completely unbiased and justice is supposed to be blind.
[00:21:59]  I learned firsthand in a D.C. courtroom that that is not the case.
[00:22:03]  And in some cases, you actually have federal judges who have ruled that Elon Musk and his Doge project don't have the right to have access to federal records, don't have the right to expose this taxpayer information.
[00:22:17]  But those judges have themselves taken funds from U.S. AID for the NGO, the nonprofits that they themselves run.
[00:22:25]  To me, that seems like an egregious conflict of interest, no?
[00:22:29]  It is.
[00:22:30]  And so let's talk about this.
[00:22:31]  You have President Trump who campaigned on the fact that he's going to hire Elon Musk and set up the Department of Government Efficiency and go after waste-product abuse.
[00:22:41]  He's doing that.
[00:22:42]  Elon Musk is an executive branch special government employee.
[00:22:47]  Doge is part of the executive office of the president.
[00:22:51]  It replaced Obama's digital services agency, and they're doing exactly what President Trump promised American voters he would do.
[00:23:00]  And you have, for example, a federal judge, an activist federal judge, telling the president, his White House staff, including Elon Musk, and even President Trump's Secretary of the Treasury, that they can't look at Treasury payments.
[00:23:17]  Of course they can.
[00:23:18]  President Trump is the chief executive officer.
[00:23:21]  He has the constitutional duty to take care that our laws are faithfully executed under Article 2 of our Constitution.
[00:23:30]  Part of that take care duty is to make sure we're not misspending money on waste, fraud, and abuse, to make sure that we're not, for example, funding transgender mice research or we're not, for example, sending money to Hamas. under the banner of Gaza relief that Hamas uses to kill American citizens.
[00:23:53]  And it is asinine that these federal judges don't think that the president, his staff, including the Treasury Secretary, can look at Treasury payments.
[00:24:03]  Yeah, it's absurd.
[00:24:04]  It was kind of like Andrew Weissman, the most corrupt prosecutor in U.S. history, complaining on MSNBC saying that President Trump did not have the authority to discharge, to terminate senior officials at the FBI.
[00:24:19]  Of course he does.
[00:24:20]  They work within the executive branch.
[00:24:23]  And to see people like Christopher Wray say that Kash Patel is going to destroy the previously pristine reputation of the FBI, the FBI, who called parents who went to school board meetings because they objected to the curriculum being taught to their children as domestic terrorists, people in the FBI who harassed those Catholics who chose to go to the Latin Mass, said they were domestic terrorists.
[00:24:51]  This to me is extraordinary.
[00:24:54]  This FBI is so tarnished based on its role in the Russian collusion hoax that only a Kash Patel can restore its reputation for impartiality, fairness, and professionalism.
[00:25:08]  I think this is among the president's very, very best appointees.
[00:25:12]  Mike, I have to ask you, because it's a hot topic.
[00:25:16]  We talked about it earlier in the show.
[00:25:18]  Pam Bondi, who I know well, was an excellent and strong attorney general here in the Sunshine State.
[00:25:25]  Again, I think among the president's best appointees.
[00:25:29]  But she seems to have been misled regarding the government's records regarding Jeffrey Epstein.
[00:25:38]  Yeah, Pam Bondi is doing a fantastic job as the Attorney General.
[00:25:42]  She is bold.
[00:25:43]  She is fearless.
[00:25:44]  She is letting Kash Patel clean house at the FBI.
[00:25:49]  She's cleaning house at Maine Justice, and she's delivering on President Trump's promise to American voters, which is to find and publicly release these Epstein files.
[00:26:00]  And she's had the FBI New York field office lie to the Attorney General of the United States.
[00:26:06]  They told her that they gave her 200 pages of records, and that was all they have.
[00:26:11]  Well, Pam Body found out that there were thousands of more pages of records at the FBI in New York, in the New York field office, that they had covered up.
[00:26:20]  And so she's going to get to the bottom of this, and these heads are going to roll.
[00:26:24]  And she said this very clearly.
[00:26:26]  She's going to publicly release all of these Epstein files, but she's going to make sure that the victims, these child sex victims of these powerful monsters who preyed on these young girls, Pam Body wants to make sure that these victims do not get re-victimized by disclosing their personal identifying information.
[00:26:48]  And so she's going to make sure that that's redacted and she's going to get out this information.
[00:26:52]  And we've been talking about getting out these Epstein files for years.
[00:26:57]  And Pam Body's been in office just for a few weeks and she's already delivering.
[00:27:02]  Yeah, this is, I think, yet another example of a cover-up.
[00:27:06]  We talked about this earlier in the show.
[00:27:07]  Former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District Damien Williams, a Clinton operative.
[00:27:12]  Interesting enough, the prosecutor who was in office at the time of Epstein's death also handled the Ghislaine Maxwell case where Maxwell is charged with conspiracy, but nobody else is charged.
[00:27:26]  How can you have a conspiracy that only involves one person?
[00:27:29]  And also similar to the P. Diddy case, I think it's fair to say that elites and perhaps some political figures, but most definitely elites are being shielded in these prosecutions.
[00:27:43]  And I do trust Pam Bondi to get to the bottom of the Epstein matter.
[00:27:48]  I wrote about this very extensively in my 2015 book, The Clintons War on Women.
[00:27:53]  And there's a lot more to come.
[00:27:56]  I think people will be shocked.
[00:27:58]  But Pam Bondi is relentless.
[00:28:01]  She's honest.
[00:28:02]  She has a huge amount of integrity and a lot of drive.
[00:28:05]  Those who are attacking her, I think their expectations are too high.
[00:28:09]  Give the woman a chance.
[00:28:10]  She's been on the job a short period of time.
[00:28:12]  And as you know, there's a bureaucracy here.
[00:28:15]  So she still has a lot of people working for her, technically under her in this massive department, who are loyal to the last administration and are not unbiased lying prosecutors, as they like to claim, but are politicized apparatchiks.
[00:28:30]  I want to ask you about the Tina Peters case in Colorado.
[00:28:34]  Tina Peters is among the first state election officials.
[00:28:40]  She serves the county clerk for Mesa County, Colorado.
[00:28:44]  She, for the simple act of trying to ensure that a record be kept of the vote in her county, she was charged in a criminal offense and given a nine-year prison sentence.
[00:28:57]  President Trump has announced that he is going to seek justice for Tina Peters.
[00:29:03]  What's going on in this case?
[00:29:05]  This is an outrageous abuse in Colorado.
[00:29:09]  I split my time.
[00:29:10]  I live in Colorado 80% of the time.
[00:29:12]  And Mesa County clerk and reporter Tina Peters is this 69-year-old woman.
[00:29:18]  And in a prior election, she wanted to verify the election was a legitimate election.
[00:29:24]  And she had every right to do that as the election official for the county.
[00:29:28]  And you had the Colorado Secretary of State, Jenna Griswold, along with the Colorado Democrat Attorney General, teaming up to bring bogus charges, trumped up charges against Tina Peters, essentially alleging that she hacked into the voter machines.

=== Bogus Charges Alleged (10:28) ===

[00:29:46]  And it's just not the case.
[00:29:48]  She may not have filled out the right forms or jumped through the right hoops, but she had the absolute right under Colorado law to access this voter information.
[00:29:56]  And they put her in prison.
[00:29:58]  They went to this Democrat judge and they put her in prison for nine years.
[00:30:03]  And this judge didn't make any bones about why he put her in prison for nine years.
[00:30:09]  He was actually stupid enough, this judge Matthew Barrett, a Democrat appointee, who is terribly rated by the people who appear before him.
[00:30:18]  He was actually stupid enough to say on the record that he was punishing Tina Peters because she didn't think that the election was legitimate, that she raised concerns about the election.
[00:30:32]  That is a very serious federal civil rights felony under 18 U.S.C. Section 241 and 242, conspiracy against rights.
[00:30:41]  When you punish an American for their constitutionally protected, First Amendment protected political views, that is the very definition of a criminal conspiracy against rights.
[00:30:53]  All right, we're going to be right back with more of Mike Davis and the Article III project.
[00:30:58]  Whatever you do, don't touch that dial, because you're in the Stone Zone.
[00:31:32]  With Roger Stone.
[00:31:45]  This is the Stone Zone with Roger Stone.
[00:32:01]  They went after a guy named Roger Stone, who's sitting in the office.
[00:32:05]  And I'll say this in front of Roger.
[00:32:07]  He's no baby.
[00:32:08]  And right now, he's cleaner than anybody in this place.
[00:32:11]  Now they treated him very unfairly.
[00:32:14]  Now, get in the zone.
[00:32:16]  It's the stone zone.
[00:32:18]  Here's Roger Stone.
[00:32:22]  And we're back.
[00:32:23]  We're talking to Mike Davis, former Chief Counsel for Nominations for the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee.
[00:32:29]  But more importantly, today, he's the founder and president of the Article III project.
[00:32:34]  He also heads the Internet Accountability Project.
[00:32:39]  Mike, you're doing very important work standing up for the U.S. Constitution and calling out lawfare like we saw in New York in Spades before the last election.
[00:32:49]  Tell us a little bit about the Article III project and how people can support your work.
[00:32:54]  Yeah, I started the Article III project after I left the Senate Judiciary Committee after the Cabinet confirmation because I saw the void on the right where there were not conservative outside groups who had the insider knowledge with an outsider mindset and a willingness to be bold and fearless and fight.
[00:33:12]  So I started the Article III project to help President Trump confirm the rest of his judicial nominees in those last two years.
[00:33:19]  We've been spending the last nearly four years fighting against this unprecedented Republic-ending lawfare against President Trump.
[00:33:27]  We turned lemons into lemonade, 4,500-plus media heads, constant social media opinion pieces, and we turned this lawfare against the Democrats and helped put President Trump back in the White House.
[00:33:40]  Now we're helping President Trump with his nominations, whether it's his cabinet nominations like Pete Hegseth, Tulsi Gabbert, RFK Jr., Kash Patel, all these nominees who everyone said was dead on arrival until we gave the Senate an attitude adjustment with nearly 60,000 Americans making over 250,000 phone calls, emails, social media posts.
[00:34:05]  Next, we're going to turn to his judicial nominees and make sure President Trump's picks are even more bold and fearless than the first time.
[00:34:14]  And then we're also continuing to hold big tech accountable for their abuses.
[00:34:20]  So it's a busy time.
[00:34:22]  What do you make of our current Supreme Court specifically, Justice Amy Comey-Barrett, who is a Trump appointee?
[00:34:30]  She seems to be coming down.
[00:34:31]  I was always told she was chosen because she was such a strong supporter of the right to life, which I agree with her on that.
[00:34:37]  But I'm having a hard time understanding some of her rulings and frankly, the Roberts Court overall.
[00:34:44]  Yeah, I'm having that same hard time scratching my head wondering what is going on here.
[00:34:49]  Neither the Chief Justice nor Justice Amy Coney Barrett are liberals, but they are too political in their approach.
[00:34:57]  Meaning with the Chief Justice, he thinks it's his job to protect the Supreme Court and the judiciary from political attacks.
[00:35:06]  So he does what we call chiefy decisions, where he gives the left a procedural win from time to time.
[00:35:14]  But all that does is it invites more politics and invites more attacks.
[00:35:19]  And I think with Justice Amy Cody Barrett, I think that she is a bit weak and timid in her approach.
[00:35:28]  She needs to be more bold and fearless.
[00:35:30]  She has lifetime tenure.
[00:35:32]  She has paper text.
[00:35:33]  It's her job to follow the law and not care about the politics.
[00:35:37]  Maybe the fact that Joe Biden and Merritt Garland let obstruction of justice campaigns terrorize her and her family for weeks on end, months on end may have rattled her.
[00:35:48]  I'm hoping that she gets unrattled and starts to do her job boldly and fearlessly.
[00:35:55]  I was surprised and frankly very happy that every one of the president's nominees so far made it through confirmation.
[00:36:03]  Some of them admittedly by the skin of their teeth, but a win is a win is a win.
[00:36:08]  And to me, this is the Justice League.
[00:36:11]  This is an all-star team.
[00:36:13]  It's very different than 2017 when President Trump came from the world of business to the world of politics.
[00:36:20]  And he not unreasonably thought, well, all the Republicans are for me and all the Democrats are opposed.
[00:36:25]  That was never really the case.
[00:36:27]  A lot of establishment Republicans resented his triumphant march to the nomination and the grassroots takeover of the Republican Party.
[00:36:37]  The party of the bushes, the party of Wall Street, the party of the country clubs, the party of the financial elite has become the party of working class Americans.
[00:36:50]  It's now the party of common sense.
[00:36:51]  Look how many times the president used that word in his terrific address the other night, common sense.
[00:36:57]  I think that it sums up where we are today.
[00:37:02]  I guess people don't understand the difficulty of changing a bureaucracy this enormous.
[00:37:09]  It's like turning around an ocean liner.
[00:37:12]  It takes time.
[00:37:14]  Your thoughts on that, Mike?
[00:37:15]  Yeah, President Trump, when he ran in 2016, as you remember, Roger, had never run for office.
[00:37:22]  He had never been in office.
[00:37:23]  And he'll even admit the big mistake he made was personnel.
[00:37:27]  He picked people who were not committed to him and his agenda.
[00:37:30]  He picked Washington insiders.
[00:37:32]  And he had four years in the White House where he was very successful, particularly on transforming the federal judiciary and many other successes.
[00:37:41]  But he's had four years to reflect since the election was stolen from him by the Democrats.
[00:37:49]  The Democrats ran unprecedented Republican in lawfare against him.
[00:37:53]  And President Trump has proven that he was ready to govern on day one this time.
[00:37:59]  He picked very good personnel for the White House.
[00:38:01]  He picked very good nominees for his cabinet.
[00:38:05]  And he is ready to go.
[00:38:06]  He has accomplished more in six or seven weeks than most presidents accomplish in eight years.
[00:38:13]  And he's just beginning.
[00:38:15]  He has an all-star team, an all-star White House team led by Susie Wiles.
[00:38:19]  He has an all-star cabinet, and they are going to go in there every day for the next four years and fight for real Americans in real America instead of a DC Uniparty.
[00:38:30]  And it's causing the D.C. Uniparty to have a heart attack.
[00:38:34]  All right, Mike, tell folks where they can go to help support your important work at the Article 3 project.
[00:38:40]  I really appreciate that, Roger.
[00:38:42]  It's article3project.org, article number threeproject.org.
[00:38:46]  Can follow us on social media.
[00:38:49]  You can donate.
[00:38:51]  The most important thing you can do is take action.
[00:38:54]  Action, action, action.
[00:38:55]  Like I said, we turn lemons into lemonade.
[00:38:58]  These dead on arrival nominees for the cabinet went from dead on arrival.
[00:39:03]  And three days later, after we lit up the Senate and gave them an attitude adjustment with phone calls and emails and social media posts, they went from dead on arrival to when can we start.
[00:39:12]  We're going to be with President Trump every second of every day for the next four years, and we can sure use your listeners' help.
[00:39:21]  All right, there you go.
[00:39:22]  One more time.
[00:39:22]  The article3project.org.
[00:39:25]  Is that the number three or the Roman number three?
[00:39:28]  Article number threeproject.org.
[00:39:31]  There you go.
[00:39:31]  Article3project.org.
[00:39:34]  Please help support Mark's important work.
[00:39:35]  And Mark Davis, thank you and God bless you for coming in to the Stone Zone.
[00:39:40]  Until tomorrow, folks, God bless you and Godspeed.

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