The StoneZONE - Roger Stone - The Stone Zone | 12-30-25
Aired: 2026-01-01
Duration: 37:10


=== Beef Crisis Imports Strain (14:09) ===

[00:00:00]  Rural Americans deserve access to the best our nation has to offer, especially when it comes to health care.
[00:00:06]  Across every state and every community, America's rural hospitals are the first line of defense, protecting our families, neighbors, and loved ones.
[00:00:14]  No matter where you live, hospital care doesn't clock out.
[00:00:16]  They're there 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year.
[00:00:21]  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.
[00:00:33]  Behind every one of those patients are doctors, nurses, and caregivers working tirelessly to keep people healthy and safe.
[00:00:40]  Hospitals are our community's lifelines.
[00:00:43]  They employ our neighbors and keep our families health.
[00:00:46]  But now, some in Congress are threatening access to care.
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[00:01:06]  Well, I don't know about you, but I like a good steak or a high-quality hamburger.
[00:01:11]  But very soon, they could both be very hard to find and extremely expensive, even if you can find one.
[00:01:18]  That's right, right here in America, land of plenty, beef may be nearly inaccessible.
[00:01:23]  You see, in fall of 2025, Americans face a beef shortage not seen since before 1951, when cattle numbers reached 82 million head compared to just 28.2 million head in 2025.
[00:01:40]  This decline has driven prices skyward, turning a dietary staple into a veritable luxury.
[00:01:48]  Ground beef, once $303.50 per pound, now exceeds $6 in many areas of the country with steaks and roasts posting double-digit prices, an increase that is charted by the USDA, the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
[00:02:06]  A combination of restrictive environmental regulations, escalating production costs, elevated livestock feed prices, and a new world screw worm outbreak in southern and eastern Mexico, where flesh-eating larvae threatened livestock has disrupted supply chains.
[00:02:25]  Beef from northern Mexico appears to be untainted as ranchers there seek testing to prove this to officials at the USDA.
[00:02:33]  Consumers are turning to cheaper cuts, raising concerns about how America's beef industry reached this crisis and what steps can be taken to restore affordability as well as abundance.
[00:02:44]  One way, of course, President Donald Trump has decided since there is a acute shortage in the United States, he agreed to a 14% increase in beef imports from Argentina, source of some of the greatest beef in the country, or I should say in the world.
[00:03:02]  But whether the U.S. trade representative fast tracks that decision in order to get hamburger at a reasonable price into the stores, well, that remains to be seen.
[00:03:15]  The 2015 clean water rule passed under the Obama administration, later widely expanded under the Biden-Harris administration in 2023, tightened regulations on waters of the United States, restricting access to grazing lands for ranchers.
[00:03:32]  Climate smart initiatives from the Inflation Reduction Act, which of course did not reduce inflection, imposed costly compliance measures such as methane reduction programs on an already strained industry.
[00:03:46]  These regulations of prioritizing environmental goals over food security have handcuffed ranchers, forcing some to sell off of cattle rather than navigate the financial burden.
[00:03:58]  Domestic and global economic factors have added to this beef crisis.
[00:04:04]  Feed prices for soybeans and corn have risen 20 to 25 percent since 2021, due again to global supply chain disruptions, exacerbating costs for U.S. ranchers and causing disruptions.
[00:04:18]  And of course, the war in Ukraine started in 2022 also spiked costs an additional 30%.
[00:04:25]  Fuel and labor costs, amplified by inflation, reached a high of 8% in 2022.
[00:04:32]  They have also strained agricultural operations.
[00:04:35]  High interest rates on loans have limited reinvestment in herds, all the while labor shortages and pandemic era spending have reduced farm productivity, increased operational costs, threatening the sustainability of small and mid-sized farms.
[00:04:51]  This resulted in plummeting U.S. capital inventory, cattle inventory, down 28.2 million head in 2025, with a 10% drop from 2019.
[00:05:02]  Beef production is projected to fall to 26.4 billion pounds in 2025.
[00:05:09]  That's a 2.1% decline from 2024, while overall food prices have risen 3.4% this year, cooling from an 11% peak.
[00:05:20]  That was back in 2022.
[00:05:23]  Trade policies played a minor role as the U.S. resumed beef imports from Argentina in 2015 after a 14-year ban because they had foot and mouth disease, but they were able to prove to USDA officials that was no longer an issue.
[00:05:38]  But as I said, they have strict quotas and veterinary inspections ensuing compliance with safety standards, and therefore their imports are scaling up gradually.
[00:05:48]  President Trump is trying to expedite that.
[00:05:51]  President recently announced, as I say, that he would increase beef quotas from Argentina after meeting with Argentine President Javier Melier.
[00:06:00]  Since the 1994 NAFTA agreement, Mexico has been a vital supplier of live cattle to the United States, typically providing about 1.1 million head annually.
[00:06:11]  However, an ongoing New World screw worm outbreak that took place in South Mexico, with cases detected as far north as Veracruz, prompted a U.S. suspension of cattle imports that started on May 11, 2025, and remains active with no full resumption in sight.
[00:06:30]  In 2024, U.S. imported 1.52 million metric tons of beef.
[00:06:40]  From Australia, we took a 24% of our beef, from Canada, 22%, Brazil, 12.7%, Mexico down to 14%, and Argentina was only at 2%.
[00:06:54]  Projections for 2025 show imports rising to 1.71 million metric tons of beef, with Australia's share increasing to 26.8% and Canada's dropping to 18.6%.
[00:07:08]  But despite those imports, they haven't been enough to offset the domestic shortages I speak of and the impact of the beef shortages hitting U.S. consumers hard.
[00:07:18]  Families are facing sticker shock at grocery stores, with many opting for cheaper proteins like chicken or pork.
[00:07:26]  Restaurants, particularly small businesses, are cutting beef-heavy dishes or they have to raise prices.
[00:07:31]  The crisis is driving a cultural change in a country where steak now symbolizes wealth.
[00:07:38]  For ranchers, the prospects vary.
[00:07:40]  While higher beef prices offer short-term gains, the cost of feed, fuel, and compliance remains sky-high, determining new ranchers, slowing the rebuilding of new herds.
[00:07:52]  Cattle production is a long-term commitment, and growth cycles take many years.
[00:07:57]  The USDA estimates that beef prices will rise another 3.2% in 2025, with per capita consumption dropping to 55 pounds by 2026.
[00:08:09]  Relief may come by 2026 if herds rebound and global markets stabilize, but unfortunately there is no quick fix.
[00:08:18]  President Donald Trump issued two memorandas back in January delivering emergency price relief for American families and defeating the cost of living crisis, which directly deregulated measures to combat inflationary pressures, including rising food prices, and the America First Trade Policy, which focused on boosting U.S. industry competitiveness.
[00:08:39]  President Trump took immediate action, also directing the EPA, that's the Environmental Protection Agency, to withdraw its proposed Clean Water Act effluent guidelines for the meat and poultry sector, while targeting the cancellation of USDA regulations regarding payments to poultry growers and DEI-related provisions in agricultural regulations to slash compliance costs and boost operational efficiency for beef producers.
[00:09:10]  President Trump also enacted energy policy adjustments via Executive Order 14156, declaring a national energy emergency to expand domestic drilling and thus lower fuel prices alongside aggressive trade enforcement via phased-in tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and of course Chinese imports to shield the United States beef from foreign competition.
[00:09:35]  Furthermore, Trump has initiated herb rebuilding incentives with low-interest USDA loans and farm service agency tax credits, simplifying labor reforms to ease the H-2A visa processes amid these shortages, and he has pursued export market expansion through new regulations and negotiations with Japan and the EU.
[00:09:59]  All of this paired with broader tariff strategies aimed at curbing inflation and stabilizing the price of beef for American families is good news.
[00:10:09]  The beef shortage serves as an alert for America's food supply chains.
[00:10:13]  It highlights the need for collective solutions, deregulation, cost-efficient practices, and sharper trade policies to ensure a stable and resilient beef industry.
[00:10:25]  As Americans navigate the supermarket for beef, they're presented with a broader challenge.
[00:10:31]  The real issue isn't just rationing.
[00:10:33]  It's building resilience to ensure great stakes remain a staple, not a luxury, in the land of plenty.
[00:10:41]  If you just tuned in, I'm Roger Stone.
[00:10:43]  You're listening to us here on the Stone Zone on the Red Apple Audio Networks.
[00:10:47]  Well, Ukrainian President Vlody Volodymyr Zelensky has once again shown he's not a serious legitimate leader after reportedly pressing the United States for an unprecedented 50-year security guarantee as part of the ongoing peace negotiations with Russia.
[00:11:06]  This is a demand that shows how detached Zelensky's expectations have come from geopolitical reality, in my opinion.
[00:11:14]  While the Biden-era national security establishments promised as long as it takes support, the type of support that has led to the needless death of countless Russians and Ukrainian soldiers, the proposal now floated by Zelensky would effectively bind multiple future American administrations to defend Ukraine for the next half a century.
[00:11:36]  President Donald Trump has offered a fair and responsible 15-year security framework, which would be a major and expensive commitment.
[00:11:43]  Zelensky, however, has demissed that as insufficient because he's become addicted to the federal dole.
[00:11:51]  He wants more aid to pour in so he can go quite literally up his nose or to his friends to go out and buy gold and toilets, as we reported right here in the Stone Zone only weeks ago.
[00:12:04]  Zelensky's absurd proposal comes as Trump pushes both sides hard for a negotiated settlement, warning that endless war benefits no one and risks further destabilizing Europe.
[00:12:16]  However, it's become clear that there's one obstacle standing in the way of peace, and it appears to be Zelensky.
[00:12:22]  Zelensky treats the U.S. military backing as an open-ended obligation rather than a strategic partnership.
[00:12:29]  America has already wasted hundreds of billions of dollars supporting Ukraine's war effort, while U.S. taxpayers deal with inflation, border chaos, and a mounting national debt at home.
[00:12:41]  The notion that Washington should guarantee Ukraine's security for 50 years, longer than most international alliances have ever even existed, is raising alarms that such commitments risk locking America into a perpetual foreign war.
[00:12:56]  It may be time for President Trump to just cut Zelensky off completely.
[00:13:00]  As President Trump noted, Zelensky does not have the cards.
[00:13:03]  He must sign President Trump's agreement or face the consequences.
[00:13:08]  The sad truth is the only reason that we're having this war is because the Biden administration pushed Zelensky and Ukraine towards membership in NATO.
[00:13:18]  We very specifically, under George H.W. Bush, signed both the Budapest Memorandum and the Minsk Accords, two treaties in which the United States specifically agreed that in return for the reunification of East and West Germany, we would not push NATO, we would not push NATO membership for Ukraine.
[00:13:42]  Let me put it another way.
[00:13:43]  The Russians object to NATO missiles on the ground in bordering and neighboring Ukraine pointed at Russia.
[00:13:52]  Why is this different than the missiles that were mounted in Cuba in 1962?
[00:13:58]  Russian missiles on that gulag state.
[00:14:01]  And of course, JFK and his brother Robert F. Kennedy objected.
[00:14:05]  And of course, ultimately, the Russians stood down.

=== Rudy Giuliani Vindicated (04:18) ===

[00:14:09]  I'm Roger Stone.
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[00:14:14]  Don't go away.
[00:14:14]  When we come back, we'll talk about Rudy Giuliani, who now has been completely and totally vindicated when it comes to the question of the 2020 elections.
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[00:15:03]  The Stone Zone.
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[00:15:09]  History is not merely tardy in dispensing justice.
[00:15:13]  It is often completely derelict.
[00:15:15]  Vindication arrives only after reputations have been immolated, livelihoods obliterated, and the human spirit subjected to sustained institutional cruelty and destruction.
[00:15:25]  Such was the deliberate fate imposed upon my friend, former Mayor Rudy Giuliani, in the aftermath of the 2020 election.
[00:15:33]  But now, recent reports concerning Fulton County, Georgia have intensified scrutiny of the administration of the 2020 presidential election there, exposing procedural lapses that fanned long-standing allegations of impropriety.
[00:15:48]  In a December 9th, 2025 hearing before the Georgia State Election Board, county officials finally admitted that they certified approximately 315,000 early ballots without the legally required poll worker signatures on tabulator tapes.
[00:16:04]  This is a clear violation of Georgia law and an egregious breach in the chain of custody that observers use to verify ballot counts and authenticity.
[00:16:13]  Additionally, the U.S. Department of Justice has now filed a federal lawsuit seeking to compel Fulton County to turn over used and void ballots, ballot stubs, signature envelopes, and corresponding digital files from the 2020 race, alleging that officials have failed to comply with subpoenas and federal demands for these reports today.
[00:16:32]  These revelations have triggered renewed debate over election integrity, transparency, and the adequacy of procedural safeguards, even as local authorities and some courts have maintained that errors do not in themselves prove intentional misconduct.
[00:16:47]  This was no peripheral procure or dilettantis agitator grasping for revelance.
[00:16:52]  Rudy Giuliani stood for decades as one of the most formidable public servants of the modern era.
[00:16:57]  As chief of narcotics in the U.S. Attorney's Office of the District, he destroyed the mob.
[00:17:05]  He has an enviable career as the greatest mayor in New York City, bringing that city back from the collapse, from the cusp of collapse when many said it was ungovernable.
[00:17:17]  So now we know the stunning truth, and there is more to come.
[00:17:21]  Rudy Giuliani's campaign was literally financially and personally destroyed in the aftermath of the 2020 election.
[00:17:31]  It is absolutely clear now that he was excommunicated.
[00:17:36]  They didn't just seek to silence him.
[00:17:39]  They sought to destroy him.
[00:17:41]  What Giuliani raised regarding Fulton County was neither speculative nor fanciful.
[00:17:45]  He ported his sworn testimony from election workers, describing ballots processed without proper oversight, to surveillance footage showing ballots being removed from concealed containers after observers had been dismissed and documented deviations from established chains of protocol.
[00:18:01]  If you're not paying attention to the national news, this is very important because Rudy Giuliani, not only a great man and a great mayor and a great friend, has now been completely and totally vindicated.
[00:18:14]  I'm Roger Stone.
[00:18:16]  You're in the Stone Zone.
[00:18:17]  Donald Trump did win the 2020 election.
[00:18:19]  Don't go away because we'll be the Stone Zone.

=== Federal Fraud in Minnesota (15:40) ===

[00:18:27]  Entertaining and informative on the Red Apple Podcast Network.
[00:18:32]  Coming up on New Year's Day, I issue my 17th annual international best and worst dressed list.
[00:18:42]  This is a custom that I adopted from the late Mr. Blackwell, who was a legendary Hollywood syndicated columnist and an arbiter of fashion and style for the American people.
[00:18:57]  Mr. Blackwell could make or break careers as titans of business, actresses, actors, politicians, and other prominent citizens would be featured on his list.
[00:19:09]  His criticism could also be withering.
[00:19:12]  I think you'll find my 17th annual list to be most entertaining.
[00:19:17]  Two of my colleagues here on the Red Apple Network, both Larry Kudlow and Greg Kelly in the past have been featured.
[00:19:29]  We'll see whether they're on the list this year.
[00:19:32]  I have as much fun writing this as you're going to have reading it, although I must say, it's getting harder and harder to find men and women who are prominent in American life who actually care about how they are turned out.
[00:19:49]  In the meantime, House Republican Majority Whip Tom Emmer is now calling for the deportation of Somalis connected to the widespread fraud schemes in Minnesota, a more than $100 million fraud on the American taxpayers.
[00:20:06]  This is a dramatic reversal from Emmer's previous pro-Somali position.
[00:20:11]  In a recent statement, Congressman Emmer declared that anyone who defrauds American taxpayers should be removed from the country regardless of their immigration status.
[00:20:22]  Emmer stated in a social media post that if they're here illegally, deport them.
[00:20:27]  If they're naturalized, revoke their citizenship.
[00:20:31]  But this sudden toughness rings rather hollow.
[00:20:34]  You see, Emmer was a cheerleader for Somalis as they laid waste to the state of Minnesota and were able to build their enclaves that they'd been able to sustain this massive, massive fraud.
[00:20:47]  A fraud uncovered not by mainstream media, not by the New York Times or the Washington Post or the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, but a massive, massive scandal uncovered by a 28-year-old independent journalist named Nick Shirley.
[00:21:08]  In fact, the New York Times and the Washington Post, as well as the Associated Press, are yet to report on this burgeoning scandal.
[00:21:16]  Just a decade ago, Congressman Emmer dismissed the very concerns Minnesotans are now watching unfold.
[00:21:22]  2015, constituents warned him about the rapid influx of Somali immigrants into certain communities was happening too fast and without adequate assimilation or oversight.
[00:21:35]  But rather than listening, Congressman Emmer scolded voters and implied that their concerns were rooted in prejudice and bigotry.
[00:21:43]  Now, after years of documented concerns and documented fraud, including massive taxpayer losses tied to organized schemes, Emmers wants to sound the alarm long after the damage has already been done.
[00:21:58]  This is the predictable result of weak Republican leadership that refused to act when it mattered.
[00:22:04]  Emmer's sudden conversion isn't leadership.
[00:22:07]  It's grabbing for political cover.
[00:22:09]  This is why every rhino, that means Republicans in name only, must be removed from Congress and replaced with someone who will stand up for America first.
[00:22:18]  Rhinos like Emmer will always be folding when it matters the most, offering hollow lip service when the damage is already done.
[00:22:28]  Now we learn that newly released documents are showing that the federal government essentially subsidized the mass shooting committed by a deranged transgender terrorist who carried out the deadly 2023 shooting at Nashville's Covenant School, deliberately targeting Christians in a vicious hate crime.
[00:22:49]  The shooter is believed to have used taxpayer-funded education grants to purchase his firearms.
[00:22:55]  According to a report by the Tennessee Star, journal entries released by the FBI show that the shooter meticulously documented his gun purchases alongside references to his federal student aid payments.
[00:23:09]  The mentally ill transgender shooter allegedly used funds from the federal Pell Grants and payments from Nausi College of Arts and Design, money intended to support higher education, to finance the acquisition of the weapons later used in the massacre that claimed six lives.
[00:23:29]  The handwritten entries reportedly list specific dollar amounts received from the FAFSA program as well as school disbursements appearing directly next to notes evaluating firearms including their accuracy and their configurations.
[00:23:44]  One entry remissed a $2,000 payment in federal aid followed by additional payments totaling thousands more.
[00:23:52]  Perhaps more disturbing than any of this, the shooter's own parents reportedly told Nashville police that the weapons were purchased using the federal grant money.
[00:24:02]  This raises seriously alarming questions about oversight failures with these federal aid programs and whether taxpayer dollars were used to facilitate one of the deadliest school school shootings in recent memory.
[00:24:17]  This is why anyone who is transgender should not be receiving a dime in federal aid, student-related or otherwise.
[00:24:23]  These people are ticking time bombs.
[00:24:25]  The only subsidy they should receive is to get into therapy.
[00:24:29]  Their delusions cannot be coddled any longer.
[00:24:31]  This is a mental illness.
[00:24:33]  People are dying and lives are being destroyed because of this illness called transgenderism.
[00:24:39]  The time for tolerance is over.
[00:24:40]  We must end this transgender ideology across America.
[00:24:45]  There are only two genders, male and female.
[00:24:48]  You heard it here in the Stone Zone.
[00:24:51]  Federal authorities have arrested a North Texas man accused of attempting to provide material support for ISIS, underscoring the continued threat posed by radical Islamic extremism right here in the United States.
[00:25:03]  John Michael Garza, 21 of Mid-Lothian, Texas, was charged in federal court after allegedly attempting to supply bomb-making materials and funding to individuals he believed were operatives for the Islamic State.
[00:25:18]  According to prosecutors, Garza met with what he thought were ISIS associates on December 26th, carrying explosive components and offering detailed instructions on how to assemble a device capable of causing mass casualties.
[00:25:33]  Authorities say Garza even suggested adding nails to maximize shrapnel damage and offered to send instructional videos on how to construct the bomb.
[00:25:43]  Unbeknownst to Garza, the individuals he was communing with were actually undercover law enforcement officers.
[00:25:50]  Thank God.
[00:25:52]  The investigation began months earlier after federal agents identified Garza's online activity, which include engagement with pro-ISIS content and the sharing of extremist propaganda.
[00:26:04]  According to court filings, he also sent cryptocurrency payments he believed would fund terrorist operations, including the purchase of weapons, to others.
[00:26:14]  Federal officials praised the coordinated response that stopped this plot before it could become another mass casualty attack.
[00:26:23]  Attorney General Pambondi credited investigators with preventing the attack and reaffirmed the administration's zero-tolerant stance towards domestic terror sympathizers.
[00:26:32]  FBI Director Kash Patel echoed that warning, making clear that anyone attempting to aid foreign terrorist organizations will ultimately be found and prosecuted.
[00:26:43]  This case serves as a stark reminder that the problem of radical Islam has not gone away.
[00:26:49]  As seen by the terrorist shooting of National Guardsmen last month, resulting in one death, these Islamists are everywhere.
[00:26:56]  We let them in due to our open borders policy because of supposed humanitarianism.
[00:27:02]  But now we are paying the price.
[00:27:04]  That is not to say that every immigrant who is Islamic and comes to the country is a terrorist, but many are.
[00:27:11]  The problem is, under Joe Biden, we may have let as many as 30 million people into the country without knowing who and what they are.
[00:27:21]  I think we must remain armed.
[00:27:24]  We must remain vigilant.
[00:27:25]  We must make sure that we rise to stop any of these maniacs before they can strike and cause maximum damage.
[00:27:31]  Trump administration seems to be doing that.
[00:27:34]  We must also stop the Islamification of our cities.
[00:27:37]  We must give no quarter to this threat that is out to devastate our nation and our culture, as well as destroying our civilization.
[00:27:45]  A growing wave of criminal cases tied to Minnesota's daycare and autism service system is exposing what critics say is years of willful neglect, weak oversight, and political cowardice, all paid for by the American taxpayers.
[00:28:00]  Federal investigators have now revealed that kickbacks to parents were a routine part of massive fraud schemes targeting Medicaid-funded child care and autism programs, the vast majority of which centered around Minnesota's Somali community.
[00:28:15]  Newly surfaced evidence shows that parents were allegedly paid cash to enroll their children in programs that often provided no actual services or care.
[00:28:25]  In one 2018 case I read about, video evidence shows that parents arriving at daycare centers briefly collecting envelopes of cash and then leaving, sometimes without their children ever even actually entering the facility.
[00:28:40]  This fraud dated back years and involved falsified attendance records and inflated billing to the state of Minnesota.
[00:28:48]  More recently, the Department of Justice charged Asha Farhan Hassan in a sprawling autism fund scheme in which parents were allegedly paid $300 to $1,500 per child per month in kickbacks.
[00:29:05]  According to prosecutors, the payments were tied directly to how much Medicaid funding the center could extract.
[00:29:13]  Parents were allegedly encouraged to shop their children to the highest bidder, while operators billed the state for services never actually rendered.
[00:29:22]  Another defendant, Abinab Hassan Yosef, was charged in a related scheme involving fake autism services and the recruitment of families for fraudulent billing purposes.
[00:29:34]  Authorities say multiple defendants exploited loopholes in Minnesota's Medicaid system from 2020 to 2024.
[00:29:43]  These revelations, again, follow a viral investigation video by independent journalist Nick Shirley.
[00:29:51]  Last time I checked, his initial video had more than 180 million views.
[00:29:57]  It was Shirley who exposed empty daycare facilities, receiving millions of dollars in taxpayer dollars every year.
[00:30:04]  The footage has now ignited a national outrage and renewed scrutiny of state regulations and state regulators who failed to act.
[00:30:12]  The question I asked when I spoke at the Turning Point USA Conference in Phoenix two weekends ago is, what did Governor Tim Waltz know and when did he know it?
[00:30:24]  We know that Waltz was strongly in favor of increasing all of these federal programs and payments that were going to the Somali community.
[00:30:33]  This shows why all third world foreigners who are here illegally need to go.
[00:30:38]  Other nationalities are just as prone to fraud as Somalis.
[00:30:42]  This has to do completely with the illegality and the need to close our borders.
[00:30:49]  President Trump has closed our borders, but now he struggles as the optics are not good for the arrest and deportation of many of these illegals.
[00:31:01]  On the other hand, the abuses that we see in Minnesota, this is just the tip of the iceberg, folks.
[00:31:08]  You're going to see the same thing happening in Ohio.
[00:31:11]  You're going to see the same thing happening in Michigan.
[00:31:13]  You're going to see the same thing happening in Washington State and in Oregon.
[00:31:18]  Before this is over, it will be the biggest financial scandal in U.S. history.
[00:31:24]  And who is paying the tab?
[00:31:25]  Well, that's easy to answer.
[00:31:27]  It's you, the taxpayers.
[00:31:29]  It's almost hard to believe that Tim Waltz was the candidate for vice president of the United States.
[00:31:34]  It's very clear that it is impossible that he did not know about this massive fraud going on right under his very nose.
[00:31:41]  And therefore, my question today in the Stone Zone is: when is Governor Tim Waltz being arrested?
[00:31:48]  I'm Roger Stone.
[00:31:49]  You're listening to the Stone Zone, and we'll be right back.
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[00:32:03]  In fact, a firm majority of them are committing other crimes in addition to flouting U.S. immigration law.
[00:32:10]  According to the Department of Homeland Security, nearly 70% of the 595,000 illegal immigrants arrested by ICE in 2025 had either criminal convictions or pending criminal charges.
[00:32:24]  Between January 20th and December 11th, ICE arrested roughly 416,000 individuals with known political, pardon me, known criminal histories, including violent offenders, gang members, and repeat lawbreakers.
[00:32:39]  Officials stress that the numbers do not even account for foreign nationals wanted in their home countries or those flagged by international law enforcement agencies such as Interpol.
[00:32:50]  A Department of Homeland Security spokesman said, This statistic doesn't include individuals wanted for murder, terrorism, or organized crime abroad.
[00:32:58]  Many of these individuals pose clear public safety threats.
[00:33:03]  One such case involved Antonio Israel Lazo-Quintanella, who had no prior U.S. convictions but was wanted in El Salvador for aggravated homicide, drug trafficking, and extortion, underscoring how misleading it can be to label illegal immigrants as non-criminal based solely on their records here in the United States.
[00:33:27]  Trump administration has made it very clear that its enforcement priorities focus on what it calls the worst of the worst: violent offenders, gang members, and repeat lawbreakers who entered the country illegally.
[00:33:39]  To bolster enforcement, the administration has deployed National Guard units to assist ICE in high crime jurisdictions such as Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle, and Washington, D.C.
[00:33:51]  It's clear that the judges and bureaucrats and Democrats who oppose these national GLARD deployments are on the side of rampant criminality.
[00:34:00]  It's time to remove these people from our streets and deport the most dangerous of the illegals.

=== New York's Property Grab (02:06) ===

[00:34:08]  Meanwhile, the new mayor of New York City, Mim Dami, is hitting the big apple with Mindami Nomix, New York City's far-left leadership, taking another dramatic step towards government control of private property with the passage of the so-called Community Opportunity to Purchase Act, a sweeping measure that I think will devastate small property owners and choke off housing investment across New York City.
[00:34:34]  Under the new law, private building owners will be forced to offer their properties to government-approved nonprofits and city entities before they're allowed to sell them on the open market.
[00:34:46]  This measure effectively gives these groups the right of first refusal and in practice the power to delay, obstruct, or derail legitimate private housing sales.
[00:34:57]  Councilmember Sandy Nurse, who sponsored the legislation, hailed the move as a victory against what she calls corporate interests, claiming it will usher in a new era of social housing.
[00:35:09]  But property owners and housing experts warned that the policy amounts to government-backed land confiscation, dressed up as affordability reform.
[00:35:18]  The law requires property owners to notify the city and approve nonprofits before selling.
[00:35:24]  Then you have to wait at least 25 days while those entities decide whether they want to buy or not.
[00:35:30]  If they do, they're granted an additional 80 days to submit an offer.
[00:35:35]  Even if a private buyer steps in afterwards, the nonprofit is granted yet another opportunity to match the offer, effectively freezing transactions for months.
[00:35:45]  The measure will drive small landlords out of business and discourage investments at a time when New York's housing stock is already deteriorating.
[00:35:55]  This is the tip of the iceberg as the softer on crime, high tax, and collectivist policies of New York City's new mayor take root.
[00:36:05]  This is why so many of my friends are leaving the Big Apple to move to, well, sunny Florida.
[00:36:11]  Thanks for joining us today on The Stone Zone.
[00:36:13]  I'm Roger Stone.

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