The StoneZONE - Roger Stone - The Stone Zone | 09-10-25
Aired: 2025-09-11
Duration: 39:40


=== Cook's Surprising Federal Reserve Battle (15:37) ===

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[00:00:40]  Shocking news that Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, a good friend of mine, I have appeared at virtually every one of his national conferences as a speaker, was shot in the neck while appearing at the campus of the University of Utah.
[00:00:55]  And it was, as of this time, in critical condition as a leftist assassination named Zinn targeted the influential student leader.
[00:01:04]  We're told that the attempted assassin is in custody.
[00:01:08]  The display was caught on video, which is very rapidly going viral on social media.
[00:01:15]  It is horrific to watch.
[00:01:17]  It is as awful as this video a day before yesterday of an assailant killing a Ukrainian woman on a subway car in North Carolina.
[00:01:31]  This is very, very typical.
[00:01:34]  Currently, as of this time, Kirk is hospitalized and his current condition is unknown.
[00:01:41]  As I have said here on the Stone Zone, the leftist terrorist threat within our country dwarfs any threat that comes from Middle Eastern Islamists, drug cartels, or others anywhere throughout the world.
[00:01:56]  I have been plagued, my family and I, with death threats, with violence, with attacks in public places now for over four years.
[00:02:07]  I can't travel, even today, without professional security.
[00:02:12]  I'm tired of the death threats, but the left gets increasingly violent.
[00:02:18]  We saw this in the two attempted assassinations of Donald Trump, about which we just do not know enough.
[00:02:26]  The left is at war with the rule of law and the Constitution, and this heinous attack on Charlie Kirk proves they will stop at nothing to prevent America's return to greatness, and that there are sleeper cells that are being activated nationwide with conservatives on their hit list.
[00:02:45]  Meanwhile, over at MSNBC, they essentially seem to be saying that, well, Charlie Kirk had it coming.
[00:02:52]  Listen to this.
[00:02:53]  Then lead to hateful actions.
[00:02:55]  And I think that's the environment we're in, that people just, you can't stop with these sort of awful thoughts you have and then saying these awful words and not expect awful actions to take place.
[00:03:07]  And that's the unfortunate environment we're in.
[00:03:09]  turning point usa has confirmed that he was shot um and there are a number of i mean this is really extraordinary where expression of your political views support for the u.s constitution support for free enterprise support for free speech they consider this as endangering yourself if you speak up for these things.
[00:03:35]  MSNBC is the bottom of the barrel.
[00:03:38]  I don't get my news from MSNBC for the same reason I don't drink out of the toilet.
[00:03:44]  Mrs. Stone and I and everyone in our family are praying for Charlie Kirk and his family as millions across this nation are praying for him.
[00:03:53]  If you haven't seen this video, I almost urge you not to see it because it is so deeply, deeply disturbing.
[00:03:59]  If you're just tuning in, I'm Roger Stone, and this is the Stone Zone on the Red Apple Audio Networks.
[00:04:06]  So I have long believed that Speaker Mike Johnson needed to appoint a committee to investigate the investigators of the January 6th hoax.
[00:04:17]  I can tell you firsthand that audios and videos played during their hearings of me were AI-created fabrications.
[00:04:28]  In fact, we now hear that after House Republicans voted last week to create a new January 6th committee that will actually get to the bottom of what occurred on January 6th and to look at the January 6th congressional hearings,
[00:04:43]  we learn that one of the most infamous Fed surrection proponents, Jamie Raskin, was as a ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, will be an ex-official member of this new committee.
[00:04:58]  This is wrong.
[00:05:00]  Jamie Raskin said the day before the January 6th hearings that he would produce proof that I was involved in some illegal activity on January 6th.
[00:05:11]  Let me make this abundantly clear.
[00:05:13]  There is no evidence whatsoever.
[00:05:16]  No witness, no email, no encrypted message, no video, no audio, no chat room, no phone call that would prove that any claim that I knew in advance about, participated in, or condoned any illegal activity on January 6th is categorically false.
[00:05:40]  And Raskin produced nothing other than a fraudulent video.
[00:05:46]  Now, they also destroyed an extraordinary amount of information.
[00:05:50]  So Raskin specifically fabricated and destroyed January 6th evidence when he was leading the witch hunt during the Biden days.
[00:06:00]  He claimed that the January 6th committee hearings would prove my involvement, as I say, to helping foment the supposed insurrection.
[00:06:07]  But then, once again, he produced nothing of the kind.
[00:06:10]  The video produced by Raskin and his Democrat co-conspirators was an AI-generated fraud meant to dupe the public and to spur prosecution against President Trump based on this falsehood.
[00:06:22]  And the new January 6th committee does not investigate Representative Raskin himself.
[00:06:26]  They'll be doing a major disservice to the American people.
[00:06:29]  But the other Democrats appointed to this committee are equally shocking.
[00:06:34]  Eric Swawell, just to remind you, Eric Swalwell started penetrating a red Chinese spy who then penetrated his office.
[00:06:45]  That is not conjecture.
[00:06:47]  That is a fact.
[00:06:48]  Yet the speaker, Nancy Pelosi, allowed Eric Swalow to continue as a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the House Intelligence Committee, where he continued to have access to classified information.
[00:07:01]  And he's paid no price for the fact that while he was accusing people like me and say General Michael Flynn, Paul Manafort, President Trump, of colluding with the Russians, that he was colluding with a communist Chinese spy.
[00:07:17]  And as far as him having an objective view, because he's now been appointed to this January 6th committee, let's listen to Congressman Swalwell.
[00:07:27]  Since the Civil War, what are the three most important dates in American history?
[00:07:35]  1941, September 11, and January 6th.
[00:07:41]  The last two, I didn't even have to give you the years because they are seared into our memories.
[00:07:49]  If January 6th was an insurrection, why was not a single person who was outside the Capitol or the inside the Capitol armed?
[00:07:59]  Doesn't make much sense to me.
[00:08:00]  How many FBI informants and undercover agents were interspersed without the crowd?
[00:08:07]  Who opened those massive doors from the inside?
[00:08:10]  Why have we seen videos of police officers, Capitol police officers, motioning people to come into the Capitol?
[00:08:17]  No, January 6th, like the 2020 election, like the Russian collusion hoax, was yet another hoax.
[00:08:24]  But having a traitor like Eric Swalwell, who got caught in this relationship with a communist Chinese spy named Fang Fang, who mysteriously died in a plane crash shortly thereafter on this committee, is a disgrace.
[00:08:40]  Also, joining him on the committee is my congressman, Jared Moskowitz, and that intellectual giant, Jasmine Crockett.
[00:08:51]  In all honesty, I think that Speaker Johnson should do what Speaker Pelosi did: deny the Democrats' nominees and appoint anyone you want to the committee.
[00:09:00]  No Trump supporter was allowed to be on the January 6th committee.
[00:09:03]  Actually, no loyal Republican.
[00:09:05]  You had Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger as the two Republicans on this committee, which was a complete violation of the House rules, but that's because they intended to create this entirely false narrative regarding January 6th.
[00:09:21]  I think this is an outrage.
[00:09:23]  Jamie Raskin is the one who actually should be investigated, not only for his role in the two Trump faux impeachments and the Russian collusion hoax, but also in fabricating the entire narrative of January 6th.
[00:09:38]  Meanwhile, Ryan Routh, the man who was accused of trying to assassinate President Donald Trump, was denied bail after a deranged letter to the judge surfaced arguing that he should be released.
[00:09:53]  While that's good news, what is troubling to me is that Ryan Routh, who is the man who tried to kill then-presidential candidate Donald Trump on a Mar-a-Lago golf course, only faces 20 years in prison after that infraction.
[00:10:10]  Ralph only faces this maximum of 20 years in prison because he's only charged with two federal firearms offenses.
[00:10:18]  Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark Despoto said that additional evidence collected after Ralph's arrest, which included a handwritten letter about his intention to kill Trump, should lead to far greater charges.
[00:10:31]  I have a number of questions.
[00:10:32]  The first one is: if Ryan Ralph is, as they told us, indigen, behind in his alimony payments, behind in his rent payments in Hawaii, where he allegedly lives, how did he afford to fly to the United States?
[00:10:47]  How did he afford to fly to North Carolina?
[00:10:50]  And what vehicle did he travel from North Carolina to West Palm Beach, Florida in?
[00:10:55]  How did he get his hands on a firearm?
[00:11:00]  Specifically, in this case, a firearm where the serial number had been filed off the barrel of the gun.
[00:11:07]  How is it that Ryan Ralph pops up and can be seen in videos in all these European capitals, including being seen in Miden Square in Ukraine?
[00:11:18]  These are questions that I find extraordinarily troubling, but we seem to have no answers.
[00:11:24]  This attack on Charlie Kirk today is part of the same ongoing spasm of violence on the American left.
[00:11:32]  Ralph wrote specifically, this was an assassination attempt on Donald Trump, but I failed you.
[00:11:37]  I tried my best and I gave it all the gumption I could muster.
[00:11:42]  It is now up to you to finish the job.
[00:11:45]  And I will offer $150,000 to whoever can complete the job.
[00:11:50]  Now, a grand jury should be in the works to add a charge of attempted murder, specifically attempted murder of a presidential candidate.
[00:11:59]  There is a law against that passed in 1968 after the murder of Senator Robert F. Kennedy of New York.
[00:12:10]  This should put Ralph in prison for the rest of his life.
[00:12:12]  Anything other than life imprisonment or capital punishment will be unfit for Ralph as these leftist terrorists need to be put to justice in order to restore the rule of law in the United States of America.
[00:12:28]  Meanwhile, as I predicted right here in the Stone Zone, a federal judge has blocked the firing of Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Crook, pardon me, Lisa Cook, by President Donald Trump.
[00:12:40]  And it turns out the federal judge just happens to be a sorority sister of Cobb, pardon me, of Cook.
[00:12:48]  So Judge Gia Cobb and Federal Reserve Board Governor Lisa Cook are members of the same secret Black Women's College sorority.
[00:13:01]  To me, that is a stunning conflict of interest.
[00:13:05]  But for reasons I do not understand, when Cook sued Trump over her termination to the Federal Reserve Board in the District of Columbia and the case was assigned to her sorority sister, the Department of Justice did not object.
[00:13:24]  They should have moved to recuse the judge based on their personal connection, but they strangely did not do so.
[00:13:33]  Also in this black women's sorority is the intellectual giant Joy Reed, formerly of MSNBC.
[00:13:44]  So this is really extraordinary because that means that Lisa Cook will be allowed to vote in the Federal Reserve Board of Governors meeting that is scheduled to take place the 16th and 17th of this month.
[00:14:00]  It is absolutely clear that the president does have the authority to fire Cook based on her unethical behavior.
[00:14:08]  Specifically, she engaged in mortgage fraud.
[00:14:11]  Now, three previous Federal Reserve Board governors resigned under fire when they were just under investigation.
[00:14:22]  Lisa Cook needed to go.
[00:14:23]  Trump was right to fire her.
[00:14:25]  But once again, the Washington swamp, in this case, has interfered.
[00:14:30]  I'm Roger Stowe and this is the Stone Zone.
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[00:14:42]  Across every state and every community, America's rural hospitals are the first line of defense, protecting our families, neighbors, and loved ones.
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[00:15:12]  Behind every one of those patients are doctors, nurses, and caregivers working tirelessly to keep people healthy and safe.
[00:15:20]  Hospitals are our community's lifelines.
[00:15:23]  They employ our neighbors and keep our families healthy.
[00:15:25]  But now, some in Congress are threatening access to care.
[00:15:29]  Tell Congress, protect patient care to keep America strong.
[00:15:33]  Don't cut rural health care.

=== A Sad Day for America (03:23) ===

[00:15:38]  The Stone Zone on the Red Apple Podcast Network.
[00:15:42]  Welcome back to the Stone Zone.
[00:15:44]  Unfortunately, we have a sad update.
[00:15:47]  We have just been informed that Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA, the student conservative organization, was shot and killed today on the campus of the University of Utah.
[00:16:01]  This is a very sad day indeed for the entire country, a very sad day for the MAGA movement, a very sad day for everybody who knew and loved Charlie Kirk, as I did.
[00:16:13]  Mrs. Stone and I are very distraught about this.
[00:16:15]  I consider Charlie Kirk a friend.
[00:16:17]  He was a staunch advocate for my pardon when the deep state sought to destroy me.
[00:16:27]  He is a person who has changed the course of history, raising millions of dollars to educate young people about the virtues of capitalism and free enterprise and free speech.
[00:16:37]  This is part of a spasm of violence.
[00:16:43]  We saw it previously in Butler, Pennsylvania.
[00:16:48]  We saw it in the I'm sorry, this is emotionally very difficult for me.
[00:16:56]  We saw it in the golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida.
[00:17:03]  The left is now resorting to violence because they could not get their way at the ballot box and because they could not steal the last election as they stole the 2020 election.
[00:17:15]  As a prominent supporter of President Trump, as a prominent conservative, I can already tell you I'm sick of the death threats.
[00:17:24]  I'm sick of the violence.
[00:17:29]  I'm sick of this entire attitude of the left.
[00:17:32]  And then watching people on MSNBC essentially saying that, well, it's Charlie Kirk's own fault because he spoke up on behalf of the things that he believed in.
[00:17:43]  This is a very, very sad day for America indeed.
[00:17:49]  We're waiting for a statement from President Trump.
[00:17:52]  Charlie Kirk will go down in history as someone who changed the direction of the country.
[00:17:58]  Turning Point USA played a key role in President Trump's historic comeback, the greatest comeback in American political history.
[00:18:09]  It is a very sad day, and I think all Americans, certainly all supporters of President Trump and our country, join me in praying for Charlie Kirk and his family.
[00:18:20]  You're listening to the Stone Zone here on the Red Apple Audio Networks and we'll be right back.
[00:18:27]  The Stone Zone on the Red Apple Podcast Network.
[00:18:33]  Welcome back to the Stone Zone.
[00:18:35]  Once again, the sad news that the founder of Turning Point USA, the country's leading student conservative organization, Charlie Kirk, was tragically shot and killed today while speaking in an open forum in the University of Utah.
[00:18:52]  I got a text message literally seconds after it happened because one of my friends was in the crowd.
[00:18:58]  They were actually in the front row.

=== Vaccinations, Greed, and Autism (05:58) ===

[00:19:01]  They accurately told me that they did not see how Charlie could survive.
[00:19:06]  He was immediately rushed to the hospital and as we learned minutes ago, he has passed.
[00:19:14]  This is part of the continuing spasm of violence that we've seen across the country.
[00:19:20]  It first manifested itself on January 6th when they used flashbangs, when peaceful protesters were assaulted, when we saw the overreach of the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI.
[00:19:45]  This is a continuation of that same use of violence by those on the left.
[00:19:52]  This is a very difficult time because Charlie was a very good friend of mine.
[00:19:58]  In the meantime, let's move into the news.
[00:20:00]  FDA Commissioner Marty Markay has made a statement this week that is sure to enrage big pharma-owned vaccination maximalists, saying that there is no logical reason for children to receive the hepatitis B vaccination.
[00:20:16]  Dr. Marquery said, I personally don't believe that the evidence is solid to say that the hepatitis B shot needs to be given at birth.
[00:20:24]  It's totally different than polio and measles and some of these other shots that are tried and true and have been around for a long time and which we do indeed recommend.
[00:20:35]  A CDC vaccination advisory panel is scheduled to convene soon where they will decide where and when vaccinations should be administered and specifically where vaccinations should be administered to children and those who require it at birth.
[00:20:57]  We await that decision.
[00:20:59]  We all know the real reason to bolster, to insist upon these is because these big pharma vaccination companies are epically greedy.
[00:21:10]  The only reason that you would administer a hepatitis B vaccination for a disease that can only be gotten through either sex or intravenous drug use to an infant is because you're interested in making money.
[00:21:25]  This is about bolstering the profits of greedy, unethical, and evil pharmaceutical corporations.
[00:21:31]  This is allegedly already caused spikes in the autism rates and other diseases for children to scandal, which has been covered up for decades.
[00:21:40]  RFK has told us, and we now definitively know, that all of the federal housing officials have known for some time that autism was not, that the autism was caused by vaccinations, yet they hid this information from the American people.
[00:22:05]  Robert F. Kennedy finds himself under assault from those Democrats in the Senate who have literally taken millions of dollars from big pharma.
[00:22:17]  So the next time you see Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts questioning Robert Kennedy's bona fides when it comes to health matters, remember she took $1,224,145 for her campaign.
[00:22:37]  Or when you see that windbag socialist, Bernie Sanders, remember he took $1,953,613 from Big Pharma for his campaign coffers.
[00:22:52]  Or Senator Chuck Schumer, who took $1,557,928,000 from Big Pharma.
[00:23:04]  This guy, Ron Wyden from Oregon, I mean, look, I'm no matinee idol, but this guy looks like he's from outer space.
[00:23:12]  But when you see him clashing with Kennedy, $1,207,873 from Big Pharma.
[00:23:24]  This is going to play out in the next several weeks.
[00:23:28]  Right here in the Stone Zone, some weeks ago, we covered a leaked memo which outlined how they intended to smear and destroy Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
[00:23:39]  And it is playing out exactly the way we told you it would right here in the Stone Zone.
[00:23:44]  The fact is that whether it is banning dyes and certain other toxic contents from our food or whether it is questioning the safety of, say, mercury in our vaccinations, Kennedy is cutting into their profit margins.
[00:24:01]  And you have to wonder how the wealthiest country in the world has these spikes in child diseases, chronic child diseases, the spike in autism, the spike in cancers now among those in their 20s and 30s.
[00:24:18]  How can the wealthiest country in the world be the unhealthiest country in the world?
[00:24:26]  That is the question.
[00:24:27]  Watch this very carefully, folks, because there's going to be an epic effort to smear Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
[00:24:34]  I like watching him in these Senate and House hearings because he's extraordinarily combative.
[00:24:40]  He can always defend his position on the basis of studies and actual science.
[00:24:44]  Those who claim, like Dr. Anthony Fauci, saw a great video yesterday of Fauci on the subject of whether masks were appropriate during the COVID-19 vaccination pandemic.

=== Dei Policies and Their Consequences (07:57) ===

[00:24:59]  Those who keep wrapping themselves in science, in fact, are not backed up by the science at all.
[00:25:05]  That's the sad truth.
[00:25:08]  The shocking situation in North Carolina, where Irina Zerzutka, the Iranian refugee butchered to death in a Charlotte subway by a severely mentally ill and dangerous career felon, was killed due to DEI policies.
[00:25:23]  Zerutzka's killer, DeCarlos Brown, was released on the streets by a magistrate judge named Teresa Stokes, a Kamala Harris donor, who was nominated to the bench despite the fact that she had no law degree.
[00:25:37]  She wasn't even a lawyer.
[00:25:38]  Stokes was not elected, but rather appointed to the position of county clerk by Elisa, to the position by the county clerk, Elisa Chin Garry.
[00:25:50]  Stokes' profession was a DEI consultant and racial equity organizer, according to her professional LinkedIn profile.
[00:26:00]  It's very clear that her primary issue was extracting reparation payments from white people.
[00:26:07]  In other words, racial disharmony and hatred.
[00:26:12]  How did Ching Gary become a clerk with the power to nominate this judge, Carla Archie, a close ally to former Attorney General Eric Holder, who once was named DEI Champion of the Year?
[00:26:25]  It was the DEI industrial complex, as I call them, that produced the conditions that resulted in the brutal murder of this poor woman.
[00:26:33]  This system that promotes based on racial quotas and not merit puts all of us in danger.
[00:26:39]  This is why we're increasingly seeing the rule of law being replaced, as we saw today, the University of Utah, the rule of the jungle.
[00:26:47]  DEI hires in the justice system are not concerned with phantoms based on their own inferiority complex, not interested in enforcing the Constitution and the rule of law.
[00:26:57]  We need to rid the entire system of this DEI cancer, or many other innocent young women will be killed by violent thugs.
[00:27:08]  Meanwhile, the Republican leadership has blocked an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act that would stop the spigot of federal funding that goes into foreign countries to keep the endless war efforts going perpetually.
[00:27:23]  Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene exposed the games that the House leadership was played during the NDAA, that's the National Defense Authorization Act negotiations, refusing to let her offer crucial amendments, even letting those amendments go up for a vote.
[00:27:41]  Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, a good friend of mine, said they blocked my amendments to stop spending money to Ukraine, Israel, Syria, Iraq, and border security for other countries.
[00:27:54]  Americans is $37 trillion in debt, and we should not be sending any more of our money overseas to defend foreign countries or fund ever-ending, never-ending foreign wars.
[00:28:06]  Unfortunately, all of this is unsurprising.
[00:28:09]  The House Republican leadership is, sadly, appears to be the back pocket of the military-industrial complex.
[00:28:15]  Why Speaker Johnson would allow Eric Swawell, who was involved with the Chinese communist spy, or Jasmine Crockett, who I think is virtually brain dead, or Jared Moskowitz, my congressman, all of whom have claimed that January 6th was an insurrection to investigate their own colleagues who were involved in the cover-up and destruction of evidence regarding January 6th is beyond me.
[00:28:44]  Speaker Johnson should do exactly what Speaker Pelosi do.
[00:28:48]  Refuse the nominees of the Republican leadership and appoint your own committee.
[00:28:53]  Try to find Democrats who are centrists and not running dog lackeys for the Hakeem Jeffries wing of the party.
[00:29:03]  The problem is the words moderate Democrat are virtually an oxymoron.
[00:29:08]  There are no moderate Democrats.
[00:29:10]  The great divide in their party is between progressives and progressives on the take from corporate America.
[00:29:17]  There is no such thing as a conservative Democrat.
[00:29:20]  There are among the voters, but certainly not among the Congress.
[00:29:25]  The House Republican leadership needs to stand up and grow a set.
[00:29:28]  They continue to do the bidding of the entrenched Pentagon bureaucracy and the powerful defense contractors spending billions to lobby and campaign.
[00:29:38]  They line their pockets with special interest contributions in this endless game of just getting re-elected.
[00:29:45]  More Americans will be put in harm's way and America's long-term economic stability will be sacrificed as a result if the Republican Party once again fails to conserve anything except big profits for moneyed special interests.
[00:29:59]  Meanwhile, the Trump administration has announced a crackdown on drug ads.
[00:30:04]  President Trump issued a presidential memorandum this week cracking down on pharmaceutical companies, forcing them to disclose more side effects for their drugs in their advertisements and calling for stricter enforcement against misleading ads, particularly undisclosed paid influencer promotion on social media platforms.
[00:30:25]  I have never been paid a dime by anyone to say anything on social media.
[00:30:29]  I know people who actually make their entire and sole living by being paid to post something on X or on TrueSocial or on Facebook and so on, something I do not do.
[00:30:45]  People make this their entire living.
[00:30:47]  Well, if you are putting out the propaganda of big pharma, then under this law, you would be required to disclose that in your tweet or your post.
[00:30:58]  I think this is sound public policy, although, like Robert F. Kennedy Jr., I would like to see us ban big drug advertising as we do alcohol, as we do cigarettes on television, on radio, on cable, and so on.
[00:31:14]  The FDA is sending approximately 100 enforcement action letters today and thousands of letters of warnings to those in the pharmaceutical industry, including online pharmacies, who have increasingly been promoting drugs with no mention of the side effects at all.
[00:31:30]  The United States, aside from New Zealand, is the only country on earth that actually allows pharmaceutical companies to advertise directly to consumers.
[00:31:39]  Drug companies spent an astronomical $10.8 billion on these advertisements through 2024.
[00:31:47]  As these products are increasingly prescribed with doctors who are also receiving payouts and gifts from big pharma, it does not seem to me like the American public is getting any healthier.
[00:31:58]  In fact, the exact inverse seems to be occurring.
[00:32:01]  HHH Secretary Robert Kennedy said that this would be a priority to ban these ads entirely before he was appointed.
[00:32:08]  But this Trump administration crackdown, well, in my opinion, it is a very good start.
[00:32:15]  Meanwhile, President Donald Trump is considering massive 100% tariffs on China and in India in order to put maximum pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin in an attempt to end the Russian war against Ukraine.
[00:32:29]  With the only caveat being that the European Union must join the U.S.
[00:32:33]  So, with this move, President Trump is effectively telling the EU to put up or shut up, as they've talked tough, but ultimately rely on the United States to write the big checks to continue to conduct the war in Ukraine and resolve on the United States to resolve the conflict as many EU member states rely on Russia for their energy needs.

=== President's Pressure Play (05:46) ===

[00:32:57]  So our European allies seek to have it both ways.
[00:33:01]  Today's Russia-Poland drone incident, which you may have seen or heard about, only further complicates matters.
[00:33:08]  Last week, China and Russia did a revolting display on the world stage where they displayed unity and they announced an agreement on power of Siberia to a large energy pipeline that's been previously delayed by Beijing for years.
[00:33:22]  China and Russia will be posing an increasingly greater threat to U.S. global dominance in the upcoming years, and President Trump has to clean up the mess before that was caused by the failed Biden administration.
[00:33:35]  He will have to drag the pathetic and hypocritical bureaucrats running the EU, kicking and screaming towards compliance to present a united front against the China-Russia alliance.
[00:33:45]  I'm Roger Stone, you're listening to the Stone Zone, and don't go away because we'll be right back.
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[00:33:57]  Welcome back in the Stone Zone.
[00:33:59]  Once again, the sad news that Charlie Kirk, the founder of the influential student conservative organization Turning Point USA, was shot and killed today On the University of Utah campus, while giving a speech in an outdoor event attended by thousands of people.
[00:34:18]  In honor of my friend Charlie Kirk, I'm reminded of these words by President Theodore Roosevelt.
[00:34:26]  It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
[00:34:33]  The credit belongs to the man who's actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valently, who errs, comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming, but who actually does strive to do the deeds, who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause,
[00:34:58]  who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
[00:35:16]  My friend Charlie Kirk was such a man.
[00:35:20]  He entered the arena and he changed the course of history.
[00:35:23]  He raised millions of dollars to try to educate America's young people about the virtues of capitalism, free speech, free enterprise.
[00:35:32]  He played a major, major role in President Trump's phenomenal political comeback.
[00:35:40]  And therefore, I call on all Americans, all of those who cherish freedom, all of those who cherish our Constitution, to join me and Mrs. Stone in praying for Charlie Kirk and for his family.
[00:35:54]  This is a horrific event in American politics.
[00:35:59]  This is part of the same spasm of violence President Trump has announced in a statement, the great and even legendary Charlie Kirk is dead.
[00:36:12]  No one understood or had the heart of the young people in America better than Charlie.
[00:36:16]  He was loved and admired by all, especially by me.
[00:36:20]  Now he's no longer with us.
[00:36:21]  Melania and I send our sympathies.
[00:36:24]  They go out to his beautiful wife Erica and his family.
[00:36:27]  Charlie, we love you.
[00:36:29]  Rest in peace.
[00:36:31]  The president could not have put it better.
[00:36:33]  Charlie Kirk is a man who changed the course of history.
[00:36:37]  And he will go down in history for that.
[00:36:40]  But also the crucial role that he played in the last election, which turns around the entire ship of state of this nation, the most consequential election in our lifetime.
[00:36:54]  I dare say Charlie Kirk's PAC, his political action committee affiliated with Turning Point USA, played a crucial role in every one of these swing states.
[00:37:06]  Every swing state won in the final analysis by President Donald Trump, also played a key role in the fact that Donald Trump is the first Republican candidate for president in modern times to carry the popular vote.
[00:37:22]  So Charlie Kirk is a man who got in the arena, a man who made the difference, and the world is a darker place now without him and his leadership for America's young people.
[00:37:36]  I cannot even imagine the horrific pain of his wife and family at this moment.
[00:37:43]  But he will be remembered as a man who made an enormous difference.
[00:37:48]  Thank you for joining us today on the Stone Zone, and thank you for listening to my remembrances of this great patriot who has left us much too soon.
[00:37:58]  Charlie Kirk, may you rest in peace.
[00:38:02]  Thank you very much for joining us today on the Stone Zone.
[00:38:04]  I'm Roger Stone.
[00:38:06]  God bless you, my friends, and Godspeed.
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