Roger Stone rallies listeners on Independence Day, invoking Washington’s revolution to warn freedom is "one generation from extinction," then pushes for Trump’s Mount Rushmore addition via Congresswoman Anna Polina Luna’s bill. He praises the "Big Beautiful Bill"—tax cuts, ICE funding, and missile defense—while criticizing its lack of AI regulation after deepfake attacks on him. Polls show Democratic pride in America plummeted 50 points since 2014, blaming "Trump Derangement Syndrome," then skewers NYC mayoral candidate Zorhan Mamdani’s "Marxist" policies and Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker’s $22B deficit. Stone and guest Mark Vargas link Chicago’s crime surge to weak leadership, then advocate for Trump’s "Pardon Fridays" to fix a "broken and racist" justice system, targeting figures like Letitia James amid her FBI probe. Closing with Kate Smith’s anthem, he ties patriotism to rural healthcare and his Pain Points of Wealth podcast. [Automatically generated summary]
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You are entering the Stone Zone for our special 4th of July Independence Day show.
What would any 4th of July celebration be without some patriotic music?
So I have chosen one of my favorites.
Here is James Cagdy, who I actually met in 1979 because he was a good friend of my then boss, Ronald Reagan, singing Yankee Doodle Dandy.
I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy.
Yankee Doodle do or die.
A real live nephew of my Uncle Sam.
I'm on the 4th of July.
I've got a Yankee Doodle sweetheart.
She's my Yankee Doodle joy.
Yankee Doodle came to London just to ride the ponies.
I am the Yankee Doodle boy.
He's a Yankee Doodle Dandy.
A Yankee Doodle Jew.
A real life everyone is Uncle Sam.
He's a Yankee Doodle Joy.
Yankee Doodle danger London just to ride the pony.
He is the Yankee Doodle boy.
General George Washington's Ride00:15:18
If you are an American and that does not stir your heart, well then something is wrong with you.
250 years ago, General George Washington rode out before the Continental Army in Cambridge, Massachusetts and drew his sword.
That moment marked the beginning of his command and the full weight of the American Revolution.
Washington did not seek glory.
He declined a salary.
He did not fight for power.
He fought for the principle that men should never bow to kings when they were created to live free under God.
And today, exactly 250 years later, I ask you, do you still feel the weight of that sword?
Do you?
You see, Washington understood the cost of liberty.
He had seen war, experienced crushing defeats, and lived under the boot of tyranny.
And yet, he never backed down from facing hardship, no matter the obstacles.
George Washington possessed an indomitable will from which our liberty was forged.
He lifted his blade not in pride, but in obedience to truth.
Washington believed America could exist not as a monarchy, not as an empire, but as a republic.
This was a notion that was considered absurd, impractical, unprecedented, a shot in the dark.
It would be nothing short of a miracle if it succeeded.
And we're living inside that very miracle today.
But most Americans don't pause long enough to truly reflect on the sacrifices our ancestors made.
We forget how radical of a concept this nation is.
We forget that our rights don't come from elected officials or political parties or politicians.
They come from God, and no one has the authority to take them away.
Our Constitution is not outdated.
It is unmatched.
No other country in all human history has been built on the framework we inherited.
We're not just lucky to be here.
We were chosen.
We are blessed.
But here is the sad truth.
What we are handed, we are now at risk of losing.
We've allowed compromise.
We've tolerated corruption.
We've stopped teaching our children to revere this nation and the truth behind its genesis.
We have grown numb, divided, distracted.
But I'm not here today to shame anyone.
I'm here to issue the clarion call because the spirit of 1776, the same courage that lived in Washington when he drew that sword, I believe still lives in the hearts and minds of the American people.
It lives in the veteran who stands at attention to honor those who have fallen.
It stands in the mother who teaches her children to stand and recite the Pledge of Allegiance with pride.
It stands in the citizen who still believes America's best days are ahead, if we choose to fight and pursue the right path.
The sword is in our hands now.
So the question is, will you lift it?
Will you?
Not in violence, but in boldness.
Not in hatred, but in hope.
Will we defend liberty?
Will we protect truth?
Will we restore what has been lost?
This 250th year of America is not just a celebration.
It's a reckoning.
And it's a reminder that freedom is never more, as Ronald Reagan said, never more than one generation away from extinction.
So I say this to everyone listening.
Pick up that sword.
Remember who you are.
Remember, our Creator put us in the greatest nation the world has ever known.
And from whom much is given, much is expected.
Let us make the next 250 years worthy of the sacrifice that gave us the first.
May God bless you, and may God bless the United States of America on this July 4th.
It is in that spirit that a member of Congress has petitioned Secretary of the Interior Doug Bergham to add President Donald Trump's visage to Mount Rushmore and to add President Donald Trump to the other presidents who are on the mountainside at Mount Rushmore Memorial Park.
Representative Andy Ogles of Tennessee issued a letter to Interior Secretary Doug Bergham yesterday arguing that the addition of President Donald Trump to Mount Rushmore would be appropriate given the size and scope of recent achievements under President Donald Trump.
Representative Ogles believes that the addition of President Trump would elevate the dignity and relevance of the site, thus increasing both its grandeur and its visitor traffic.
Congressman Ogles has encouraged Interior Secretary Bergham's office to start a feasibility assessment to get this important project underway.
I would also point out that Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna of Florida has already sponsored legislation, which by law, if passed by both houses and signed by the President, would require the Interior Department, who I believe would need the approval of the Blackfolk Indian Tribe, to add President Donald Trump to the memorial at Mount Rushmore.
You can sign a petition if you agree with us by going to oneemoreforushmore.com.
That's one moreforrushmore.com.
Yes, it's absolutely free.
We're not seeking to buy or sell your data.
We are seeking to form a groundswell to support the notion of adding President Donald Trump to Mount Rushmore.
This petition allows you to demand that Congress pass the legislation sponsored by Congresswoman Anna Polina Luna that would put President Trump on Mount Rushmore.
It's an idea whose time has come, can no longer be laughed off.
Now, there are certain people, let's call them liberals, who say that the framework of the current memorial is fragile and that adding Donald Trump would actually endanger the visage of the presidents that are already there.
That's what's known in politics as a lie.
I have talked to engineers and other experts who say that the technology today, the design and construction technology today, is so superior to when Mount Rushmore was originally built that President Donald Trump's image could easily be added to the existing structure without endangering those presidents who are already there.
The 45th and 47th president is indisputably a figure of massive historical importance, and his meteoric rise through politics has changed the entire trajectory of our nation.
He belongs up there next to the greats.
We will continue to provide updates on the progress of this notable congressional effort.
And once again, we ask you to go to oneemoreforushmore.com to make your voice heard.
Meanwhile, President Donald Trump is wasting no time.
He will sign his Big Beautiful bill into law.
He'll be doing so today during an ornate ceremony taking place at the White House that will begin at 4 p.m. this afternoon.
I cannot understate the massive importance of this incredible, hard-fought victory in both the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House.
Is the Big Beautiful Bill perfect?
No.
But it provides the greatest single tax cut in American history.
It is really an extension of the tax cuts put in place by President Donald Trump in his first term.
It ends the tax on tips.
It eliminates taxes for 88% of those currently on Social Security.
It funds the Department of Homeland Security and additional ICE agents to continue the deportation of dangerous criminals who are only in the country because President Joe Biden chose a policy of open borders while telling us he didn't.
It also provides funding for the Golden Dome, the Strategic Defense Initiative, which would build a shield for America from incoming ICBM missiles, whether they be from our adversaries in Russia or our adversaries in China or any other nation such as India, Pakistan, who have nuclear weapons or those who may be on the cusp of having them.
It is a vitally important initiative and it's included in the big beautiful bill.
Not in the big beautiful bill was the 10-year moratorium on states being allowed to regulate artificial intelligence.
This is also a massive victory.
Speaking as someone who has been a victim of artificial intelligence, you can go on right now online and find dozens of videos of Roger Stone saying things, well, that I never actually said.
And these kind of fake ID fight videos really need to be outlawed or at a minimum need to be regulated.
President Trump wrote on the passage of the Big Beautiful Bill, Together we will celebrate our nation's independence and the beginning of the new golden age.
The people of America, the United States, will be richer, safer, and prouder than ever before.
Together, we can do things that were not even imagined possible less than one year ago.
We will keep working and we will keep winning.
So congratulations go to America.
Many news outlets had to admit that President Trump has been on quite a streak lately, from his precision strike on the Iranian nuclear facilities to the U.S.
Supreme Court finally clearing away the judicial tyranny in which cherry-picked left-wing judges and forums tried to issue orders that regarded the entire nation to stop the deportation of dangerous illegal criminals back to the countries from which they came,
to a ruling that said, yes, the president does have the authority to negotiate tariff agreements with our trading Partners.
Donald Trump is on an incredible role, and America is the beneficiary.
I cannot think of a greater present for the United States of America on the 4th of July than the passage of the big beautiful bill.
I'm Roger Stone.
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Joining us shortly will be Mark Vargas.
He is the editor of the Illinois Review, one of the most influential news outlets in his native state of Illinois.
But I noticed in latest data published that Democrats have become extraordinarily anti-American.
A new poll shows that only 36% of Democrats in America say they're proud to be an American.
This is quite a shift of how Democrats used to be in the not-too-distant past.
It was just 10 years ago.
The percentage of Democrats who are proud to be Americans has withered from that time where it was 80% to 36% today, a drop in nearly 50 points.
This comes as the racial hatred industry has taken over the Main Street Democrat Party.
In the eyes of many Democrats, America has gone from a country that, despite its faults, embodied the values of freedom and equality for all to a country that was built with racism in its DNA and needs to be uprooted and reimagined for justice to be possible.
Trump Derangement Syndrome, TDS, has a lot to do with this anti-American attitude of Democrats.
Democrat attitudes about America shifted sharply downward almost immediately after Trump was elected president in 2016.
The support for their country apparently depends on who is in the White House, and if they do not get their way, they turn against their nation like a scorned lover.
Whereas Republican attitudes in favor of their country remain steadfast through the past 24 years, at least 84% of Republicans said they were proud to be an American, with the numbers reaching 92% today, even higher than it was in 2001, immediately after the September 11 attacks.
It's clear which political party has the best interests of America in mind, and it's filled with patriots who love their country for the right reasons.
And it is most certainly not the party that has nominated Sharia-loving Marxists like Zorhan Mamdani for serious positions of authority.
Pritzker's Challenges00:14:40
In the meantime, Miam Dami's campaign finance information overwent a radical change over at the city board of elections.
We proved right here in the Stone Zone that almost all of his money came from one bundler who produced $1.6 million, a fellow named McFarland, and zero contributions came from small donors through the donate button on his website.
And then, whammo, overnight, those statistics change.
We'll be right back with Mark Vargas from the Illinois Review.
So whatever you do, please don't touch that dial.
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Joining me now is Mark Vargas, who is not only the editor of the Illinois Review, but has his own record of public service, serving as a civilian in a number of foreign assignments to work for his country.
I want to ask you, before we get into the real topic I invited you to talk about, J.B. Pritzker, the hefty Illinois governor with a waistline that makes Chris Christie look smelt.
I want to ask you for a moment about the rise of Zorian Miamdami, who was recently exposed as a race hustler who actually misappropriated his racial identity in a pathetic attempt to exploit the DEI affirmative action regime while applying to college.
According to recent data that was obtained by a hacker from Columbia University, it was revealed that Miamdani claimed to be a black man when he applied to Columbia in 2009, even though he lied about his race and listed his father, who was a professor at the very same university on his application.
He still couldn't get in because his grades were so poor.
What do you make of the rise of this Muslim radical socialist, if not communist, as the Democrat nominee for Mayor New York City?
Well, Roger, lying about key information sounds like his political advisor is Letitia James.
But I think Mamdani is great for Republicans, great for the MAGA movement, and he represents the worst nightmare for mainstream Democrats because of how extreme he is.
Not only is he all for DEI, but he's anti-American.
He's, again, he's the worst nightmare for Democrats.
He's threatened to arrest Prime Minister, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when he arrives in New York City for the UN meeting.
But the more attention that Mamdani gets, I think the better off it is in terms of poll numbers and support, support for Republicans and for MAGA and for President Trump, because he is so extreme, and it's just yet another example of how far to the left the Democratic Party has gone.
Yeah, I agree with that analysis.
It is a sad commentary because I still have many friends and relatives in New York, but I do not see this having a happy end.
Those, I saw a long piece by the millionaire Bill Ackman yesterday extolling the virtues of Eric Adams.
He obviously is completely unfamiliar with Adams' record, a record of corruption, a record of rising crime, a record that is mostly artifice.
Those who think Curtis Sliwa, who worked very hard to win the Republican nomination, is going to get out of the race, are dreaming.
I'm not sure what former Governor Andrew Cuomo will do.
The governor is looking a little long in the tooth to me, and he was dispatched relatively easily in the Democrat primary.
But whether it is a four-person race or whether it is a two-person race, being the Democrat nominee for mayor of New York City puts you in the poll position.
While it could be very, very hard on the people of New York when he defunds the police, when he opens the prisons, when he taxes the middle class and anybody who has any money to pay for all of his government giveaway projects,
I predict to you that New York will be on fire by 2028 and will sadly be a showcase for the rest of the nation as to what happens when you select Democrats who share a Marxist, hateful, pro-Islamic, pro-Muslim, pro-Hamas leader.
Anyway, let's talk about Illinois.
J.B. Pritzker, who I referred to earlier as the rotund Illinois governor with a waistline that makes Chris Christie look smelt, has tossed out feelers about running for president.
I find this almost shocking in view of his record in Illinois.
Can you speak to us about that record and also give us some insights into how he appears to be faring in the early polling?
Well, Pritzker's entire tenure, first of all, Roger, the only reason why he's governor is because he bought the seat not once but twice.
He's heir to the Hyatt Hotel fortune.
So he was born with a net worth of $4.5 billion.
So he spent nearly $400 million of his own money to be elected governor.
So the guy has no friends.
He only pays for them.
But his entire tenure as governor of Illinois has been about tax and spend.
He's raised taxes on everyday hardworking Illinoisans.
And it's projected that over the next five years, Illinois is going to have a $22 billion budget deficit.
And his far left progressive views, he'd certainly be aligned with the Mamdani in New York City, given his progressive views for transgenderism, his hatred for Republicans and the MAGA movement, very dangerous.
He recently made comments, which I've listened to this three times.
It sounds to me like he is advocating violence.
If any Republican said what this guy said, he would have been arrested by now.
Let's listen to Governor Pritzker.
Never before in my life have I called for mass protests, for mobilization, for disruption, but I am now.
They have to understand that we will fight their cruelty with every megaphone and microphone that we have.
We must castigate them on the soapbox and then punish them at the ballot box.
Well, that's demagoguery at its worst.
How is he looking in these early polls, Mark?
Well, Emerson put out a poll of potential 12 Democrat candidates for a Democratic primary.
And of the 12, Pritzker is dead last.
He's polling at just 2%.
But surprisingly, Roger, among the black community nationally, he's only at 1%.
And of the Hispanic community, he's only at 0%.
And so it shows how wildly unpopular J.B. Pritzker is at the national level.
But I can tell you, he's also wildly unpopular at the local level here in Illinois.
Yeah, it really is extraordinary.
Illinois has had an incredible spike in crime.
Now we're to the point where the rise in crime is not just in the city of Chicago proper, but unfortunately spreading to the wealthier suburbs.
But the mayor of Chicago, Bear Johnson, he actually says that the rise in crime is all Richard Nixon's fault.
Listen to this.
So we cut off the pipeline.
Boys between the ages of 10 and 19 being either victims or the perpetrators.
So, yeah, it is personal.
Black death has been unfortunately accepted in this country for a very long time.
We had a chance 60 years ago to get at the root causes, and people mocked President Johnson.
And we ended up with Richard Nixon.
I'm going to work hard every day to transform this city.
That's what it takes to build a better, stronger, safer Chicago and a nearby step up.
Let's be very clear about this.
It was President Richard Nixon who desegregated the American schools.
It was President Richard Nixon who appointed more African Americans to federal office than Lyndon Baines Johnson and John F. Kennedy combined.
It was Richard Nixon who gave us the policy of affirmative action.
It was Richard Nixon who desegregated the trade unions.
It was Richard Nixon who insisted you could not bid on a federal contract if your country, if your company was segregated.
It was Richard Nixon who increased ninefold the funding for black colleges.
It is Richard Nixon who in 1958 rounded up the votes to pass the Civil Rights Bill, the first civil rights bill passed since the Civil War, when Lyndon Johnson, who the mayor just relied upon, was rounding up the votes to defeat it.
I actually think that the mayor, I'm not sure if he's mentally ill.
I know he's physically ill.
Talk about a guy who is not up to the job.
Mark, you told me a harrowing story the other night.
You were in bed when you heard gunshots.
What happened?
I was woken about 11 p.m. to the sound of, I thought were fireworks, but it turned out they were over 15 gunshots that led to a mass shooting.
18 people were shot.
Four were killed just a couple of blocks from where I was staying.
It was unbelievable.
And again, this has been encouraged by the leadership of Governor Pritzker and Brandon Johnson.
You cannot ask the mayor, who, by the way, Roger, his approval rating is at 4%, the lowest approval rating I think of any mayor in history.
Because let's be clear, he was only elected because of the very corrupt and racist Chicago's teachers union, who literally stole the election for him.
But he's been hospitalized over 10 times for panic attacks.
But they call rioting and looting and burning police cars and flipping them upside down as nearly just peaceful protesting and that the youth, they need more activities to do after school and during the summertime.
If they had more activities to do, then they would be peacefully protesting and tormenting residents and visitors to Chicago.
But he is ill-prepared.
Anytime you ask him a difficult question about crime, he responds with, you're only asking me this question because I am a man of color.
No, they're asking you these tough questions about crime and how to reduce crime because you're the mayor of this city.
Folks, if you're just tuning in, we're talking to Mark Vargas, who is the editor of the Illinois Review and is a keen analyst of both state and national politics.
Mark, Pope Leo, the new Pope, is a Chicago native.
Thus far, he has released some statements that seem like a breath of fresh air.
Well, a couple other things he says show that he's not incredibly different than his predecessor, the late Argentine Marxist sympathizer, Pope Francis.
What's your take on Pope Leo and the direction he's going to take the church?
Well, it's certainly interesting to have a Pope who grew up in a county just next to yours where you grew up.
He's still an active, he's still a registered voter in Will County in the western suburbs of Chicago.
Just last summer, he was at one of the famous Chicago Pizza Joints with his family.
He's an unabashed Chicago White Sox fan, and I am as well.
His brother, Louis, who's here in Florida, is a huge Trump supporter.
But certainly a breath of fresh air.
He's got a lot of challenges ahead.
Number one is, you know, the child sex abuse among the church.
And he's claimed to have a zero tolerance of that.
So he needs to be held accountable.
And let's make sure that there is a zero tolerance for that.
But no doubt we had a progressive liberal Pope Francis.
But I think that Pope Leo has shown, you know, he's pushing back against the Trump administration in terms of migration of illegals.
But they seem to forget that the Vatican is surrounded by walls.
Walls are used for protection.
And that's why President Trump has been so keen on building a wall on our southern border for protection.
We're a nation of laws, and we need to apply those laws.
But, you know, he's going to have, he has some progressive views, but he's, you know, everything that I've seen is he's going to probably try and go right down the middle.
But there's no doubt that he's got challenges, whether it's child sex abuse challenges, whether it's financial challenges.
But we do know that he's been very critical of President Trump on migration.
He's big on climate change.
And so we'll see what happens.
It's still very early in his term.
Yeah, I'm slightly encouraged.
He has remained hardlined in the church's support for life.
He is opposed to women in the priesthood.
He is absolutely against this transgendered nonsense.
On immigration, he's wrong.
He doesn't seem to mind the walls that protect him from the rabble around the Vatican, but he thinks perhaps that we shouldn't have walls.
As far as I'm concerned, the jury is still out, but I'm praying for him.
If you're just tuning in, we're talking to Mark Vargas, the editor-in-chief of the Illinois Review.
And we'll be right back with a bit more.
Pardon Fridays Initiative00:06:34
So please stay here in the Stone Zone with us on this July 4th.
We've got a little more musical interlude coming up for you as well.
We'll be right back.
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Welcome.
We're back in the Stone Zone.
And as promised on this 4th of July special edition of the Stone Zone, we have a musical interlude for you.
It would not be the 4th of July if we could not hear the iconic Kate Smith and her rendition of God Bless America.
You From the mountain.
I'm in borrow.
Lord bless America.
My heart reformed.
Again, if that doesn't stir your soul, you're just not an American.
We're still talking to Mark Vargas, the editor-in-chief of the Illinois Review, a man who has served his country in a number of foreign assignments as a civilian.
Also, someone who was very instrumental in working for my pardon, the pardon of Governor Rod Blagojevich, the pardon more recently of Ross Albrecht, who the noted libertarian who President Donald Trump pledged to pardon prior to the election, then kept his pardon.
Mark, I want to ask you about this.
Ross Albrecht and his mother, who was a great champion for his freedom, have called on President Donald Trump to begin a tradition of, I guess we would call this Pardon Fridays, urging the president to make pardons, commutations, or to reverse decades of Department of Justice abuses by showcasing a different case every Friday.
In the spirit of mercy and justice, these grassroots leaders are calling on President Trump to take a bold action against decades of DOJ abuse by issuing these regular pardons and commutations for political prisoners, whistleblowers, and other victims of the deep state.
What do you think of this idea, Mark?
Well, first of all, Roger, the role that you played with Ross Lubbert was instrumental in that of Susie Wiles and the president, once again, showing he's got backbone and trying to right wrongs.
And so incredibly grateful for the president for his actions and certainly incredibly grateful for yours as well as Susie Wiles' actions, Robert or Roger.
But, you know, this is incredible.
Forgiveness Fridays.
I love this because what we've learned, certainly with your case and with the president's cases, is how broken and racist this criminal justice system is.
And we've seen over the last several decades how Democrats and Republicans on both sides, particularly the Democrats under the Obama and Biden administrations, of how they weaponized the Department of Justice and the FBI to go after their own political enemies, whether it was you, whether it was Rob Legojevich, President Trump, so many others, and President Trump's orbit.
And we've learned through your case and other cases that the prosecutors actually hide evidence that show innocence.
It's remarkable.
You would think this is what happens in a third world country, but this is what happens in the United States of America.
And thanks to President Trump and his leadership, I think we're finally on the path to right wrongs and recalibrate our justice system because it has been so broken for so long.
I think this idea of forgiveness Fridays would be a fantastic opportunity for President Trump to demonstrate his compassion and his love of second chances while bringing relief to many who can be safely returned to their families and their communities.
Trump has already appointed leader and conservative champion attorney Ed Martin as the pardon attorney.
He's appointed Alice Marie Johnson, a great woman, as the so-called pardon czar.
They're working very hard to evaluate the cases of the many who have been wronged in a corrupted and politicized criminal justice system.
I think Trump's mercy in this respect, which activists really respect, is due in no small part to the enormous lawfare that they deployed against him.
They tried to keep him off the ballot.
They tried to bankrupt him.
They tried to throw him in jail.
And despite all of that, despite all of that, he persevered.
Now the tables are turned.
It's New York attorney Letitia James who's under investigation for a 20-year record of mortgage fraud and now under investigation because she was well aware of a major New York bank that was violating the Iranian sanctions to the tune of $90 million.
Letitia, if you're listening, the FBI is coming to your home one morning soon.
Mark my words.
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Hospitals As Community Lifelines00:00:56
Rural Americans deserve access to the best of what our country has to offer, especially health care.
Across every state, every community, America's rural hospitals are the first line of defense, protecting our families, neighbors, and loved ones.
No matter where you live, hospital care doesn't clock out.
They're there 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year.
Each year, America's over 5,000 hospitals care for millions of patients, providing 24-7 emergency care, delivering babies, cancer treatments, and other life-saving care that patients rely on.
Behind every one of those patients are doctors, nurses, and caregivers working tirelessly to keep people healthy and safe.
Hospitals are our community's lifelines.
They employ our neighbors and keep our families healthy.
But now some in Congress are threatening access to care.
Tell Congress, protect patient care to keep America strong.