The StoneZONE - Roger Stone - The Stone Zone | 03-10-26
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=== Iran's Lethal Contingency Plans (09:15) ===

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[00:00:53]  Do you remember Cassidy Hutchinson?
[00:00:56]  She was an attractive former aide to former President Donald Trump's chief of staff, Mark Meadows, in his first administration.
[00:01:05]  She will become a star witness for the January 6th committee hearings.
[00:01:11]  Now, those hearings were a travesty.
[00:01:13]  First of all, the speaker refused to appoint any of the Republicans suggested by the minority leader, instead, just putting Trump haters Liz Cheney and the other one from Illinois on the committee.
[00:01:31]  Both of them deep, deep Trump haters.
[00:01:34]  And it was a charade.
[00:01:35]  Jamie Raskin, a Democrat committee member, said on the record that his hearing would prove Roger Stone's involvement in January 6th.
[00:01:42]  In the end, they played these AI-generated videos that didn't even match the AI-generated videos that they had leaked previously to CNN, which proved yet once again that I had no advance notice, no involvement in, nor did I condone any illegal action on January 6th.
[00:02:03]  But in this particular case, Cassie Hutchinson said under oath that it was her understanding that President Trump instructed the White House Chief of Staff, Mark Meadows, to call Roger Stone and General Michael Flynn on the evening of January 5th.
[00:02:20]  And Hutchinson went on to say it was her understanding that these calls were completed on the evening of January 5th.
[00:02:26]  Cheney would then speculate as to what the purpose of these calls was to find out what was going on on January 6th, said the witness Hutchison.
[00:02:40]  This is without any question a complete and total fallacy.
[00:02:45]  Neither General Flynn nor I ever received any such phone call from Mark Meadows.
[00:02:50]  In fact, I've never communicated with Meadows in any format.
[00:02:55]  I think I did meet him in 2019 in a Fox Green Room when he was still a congressman.
[00:03:01]  General Flynn said he also didn't speak to Meadows on January 5th.
[00:03:05]  Neither has he ever had any phone conversation with Meadows.
[00:03:10]  So her claim is, of course, bogus.
[00:03:13]  She went on to say that Meadows wanted to attend a briefing in a war room set up at the Willard Hotel.
[00:03:20]  Hutchinson claimed, said that Meadows was persuaded by her not to attend this briefing in person, but that he participate in the briefing.
[00:03:30]  He got debriefed afterwards from Roger Stone and General Flynn by phone.
[00:03:36]  Again, no phone call ever took place because I was never in any war room inside the Willard Hotel.
[00:03:43]  That has been confirmed by the Washington Post, and neither was General Michael Flynn.
[00:03:51]  There may have been others in a war room, but I have no awareness of that.
[00:03:55]  So again, what she has done here is to lie under oath to Congress.
[00:04:01]  Now, Cassidy Hutchinson took the unusual step of going back to try to alter her sworn testimony in order to avoid prosecution in this matter.
[00:04:14]  But I think that she should be prosecuted just as they prosecuted me for allegedly lying under oath to Congress.
[00:04:24]  I'm sure you remember Cassie Hutchins.
[00:04:26]  She's the one who said that Trump, sitting in the back seat of the beast, somehow grabbed for the steering wheel to try to wrestle it away from a Secret Service agent demanding to be driven to the Capitol.
[00:04:39]  All of that, of course, has also been debunked.
[00:04:44]  So I don't know why she, in this case, Hutchinson, should avoid prosecution.
[00:04:51]  But we have a two-tier justice system, and that is for certain.
[00:04:57]  President Donald Trump, very optimistic about the success of the U.S. military campaign against Iran, says that it is nearing its end, declaring the American forces have largely dismantled the regime's military capabilities.
[00:05:11]  In a phone conversation he had with a CBS news correspondent.
[00:05:15]  President Trump said the operation, known as Epic Fury, is moving much faster than originally expected.
[00:05:22]  According to the president, Iran's Navy, communication systems, and air force have been effectively neutralized by the U.S. and Allied strikes.
[00:05:31]  You have heard a lot about the regime claiming they would close the Strait of Hormuz, from which 40% of the world's oil must flow.
[00:05:40]  Their military capability to do that is limited, and the U.S. Navy, I'm told, will mop that up pretty quickly.
[00:05:46]  On the other hand, the regime is still firing rockets and drones at its Arab neighbors.
[00:05:54]  So that shows that they are wounded, perhaps fatally wounded, and certainly crippled, but they had contingency plans, and they're still running some elements of the country.
[00:06:07]  The president says that the military planners issued a stark warning to Iran's leadership, including the Motadaba Khomeini.
[00:06:18]  They're all named Khomeini over there, by the way.
[00:06:21]  There's the Ayachova Khomeini.
[00:06:22]  He's the one who grabbed the 624 hostages.
[00:06:26]  Then there's a more recent Supreme Leader, Khomeini, who was reduced to dust along with 40 of his key henchmen.
[00:06:37]  Again, what is interesting about Trump is that unlike his neocon predecessors, he uses American power in a very focused, very limited, but very lethal way.
[00:06:48]  No boots on the ground, no hundreds of thousands of American casualties and sometimes many more of the locals.
[00:06:57]  No more giant defense contracts like Halliburton and others got during the Iraq war.
[00:07:06]  The President, I think, understands the American people don't have the patience for endless foreign war.
[00:07:11]  However, he was elected as a non-interventionist, not an isolationist.
[00:07:19]  And the regime had a long history of killing Americans.
[00:07:22]  It goes all the way back to the murder, I think it was 281 Marines in the Marine barracks in Beirut, their attack on the USS Coal, their attack on the World Trade Center, and of course the aforementioned taking of hostages.
[00:07:39]  The president has warned Tehran not to escalate.
[00:07:42]  A key strategic focus now, as I say, is the Strait of Hormuz.
[00:07:48]  The President is going to take direct control of the Strait, and General Flynn assured me that the U.S. Navy has that capability if Iran continues to try to disrupt international shipping.
[00:07:59]  The president has vowed to keep a shipping lane open.
[00:08:02]  He thinks the Iranian regime is deeply weakened by their taxes rising.
[00:08:08]  Oil prices have followed the conflict, but the administration says I think that they are temporary.
[00:08:15]  Once they destroy Iran's missile capabilities, block its nuclear ambitions, and end the regime's ability to sponsor terrorism and to close that strategic strait, the oil prices will return back to normal once the terrorists have been properly dispatched.
[00:08:32]  They are the disruption.
[00:08:34]  Actually, he was speaking at a Republican policy conference.
[00:08:37]  President Trump predicted the conflict will remain a short-term excursion, praised the strength of the U.S. military, and says his plan remains on schedule.
[00:08:48]  I pray that he is correct.
[00:08:52]  This is the same thing we saw in Iran the first time, saw then in Venezuela, saw it again now in Iran, and that is strategic use of American power on a very limited, but as I say, incredibly lethal way.
[00:09:07]  And that is a break with the neocon tradition of endless war left to us by both parties.

=== Clinton Visits to Epstein Ranch (03:19) ===

[00:09:15]  Meanwhile, federal agents and local law enforcement have now launched a new search of the notorious New Mexico property Zorro Ranch, once owned by deceased child sex trafficker and pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, as investigators attempt to undercover what many believe are still hidden crimes tied to this ranch.
[00:09:36]  The 7,500-acre ranch known as Zorro Ranch, located near the small town of Stanley, just kind of south of very fashionable Santa Fe, has long been surrounded by disturbing allegations.
[00:09:48]  Authorities spent several days combing the property amid claims that trafficked girls may have been murdered and buried somewhere near this remote desert land.
[00:09:57]  The investigation follows the creation of a new state truth commission in New Mexico to get to the bottom of Epstein's activities on the location and crimes that may have been committed at the compound.
[00:10:12]  It is interesting because the UK Daily Mail today broke a story about the many visits by Bill and Hillary Clinton to Epstein's Zorro Ranch.
[00:10:23]  This is Hillary Clinton who says under oath that she has no links to Epstein, forgetting to mention that Epstein financed, put up the seat financing for the Clinton Foundation and later the Clinton Global Initiative.
[00:10:37]  She said that Bill was on Epstein's plane a few times for his charity, a few like 27.
[00:10:45]  I haven't seen charity, so I don't know if that's why he was there or not.
[00:10:50]  Denies the fact that Epstein gave to her Senate campaign and the fact that Epstein's, essentially his pimp, his lane Maxwell, was an honored guest at Chelsea Clinton's wedding.
[00:11:03]  Also doesn't mention the fact that the Clinton Foundation completely and totally funds the Tara Marr Foundation, a nonprofit founded by Jeffrey Epstein, but run by Maxwell, which takes in young interns to fight on environmentalists, which really turned out to be a grooming pool for Epstein.
[00:11:27]  So it is undeniable.
[00:11:29]  Of course, until recently, Bill Clinton was just saying he'd never been on the island.
[00:11:32]  When, as I reported in my 2020 15 book, The Clintons War on Women, the Virginia Roberts Guffray, recently deceased, they tell us she killed herself, says in her sworn testimony that she saw Bill Clinton, two 17-year-olds, at a party on Epstein's Island.
[00:11:51]  And when he asked Epstein why Clinton was there, Epstein laughed and said, let's just say he owes me a favor.
[00:11:58]  That is both in her sworn testimony and in our book.
[00:12:03]  The Clintons are notorious for many years of lies.
[00:12:07]  Hillary Clinton saying it didn't matter why the men died in Benghazi, when in fact it was because of her saying that she hadn't destroyed 33 classified emails on her illegal computer server at home.
[00:12:23]  So it is nice to see them now being subjected to some level of justice and some level of truth.

=== Crime Pales in Comparison (02:12) ===

[00:12:35]  On the other hand, I think neither one of them will ultimately be prosecuted for any crime.
[00:12:39]  And all this pales in comparison to what they tried to do to Donald Trump.
[00:12:43]  In his case, they tried to keep him off the ballot.
[00:12:47]  They tried to impoverish him, to break him financially, debank him.
[00:12:53]  They tried to put him into jail.
[00:12:58]  They still continue in all of those pursuits.
[00:13:02]  All those matters, of course, now on appeal in New York State.
[00:13:06]  So in the end, I don't think the Clintons will ever get the full justice.
[00:13:11]  They are the penicillin resistant syphilis of the American body politic.
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=== Fannie Willis's Collapsed Case (03:23) ===

[00:14:47]  So a Georgia judge has handed President Donald Trump a major legal victory in the aftermath of the collapsed election interference case bought by Fulton County District Attorney and disgraced adulteress Fannie Willis.
[00:15:02]  Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee ruled today that Willis cannot take part in the ongoing dispute over millions of dollars in legal fees sought by President Trump and several of his former co-defendants.
[00:15:14]  The ruling stems from the fact that she had an undisclosed romantic relationship with her lead prosecutor, a former personal injury attorney, Nathan Wade, a conflict of interest that ultimately helped sink the prosecution.
[00:15:28]  Because Willis was not wholly disqualified, Judge McAfee said she and her office have no legal standing to intervene in this fight over attorneys' fees.
[00:15:38]  President Trump and his co-defendants, several of whom are friends of mine, seek roughly $16.8 million in reimbursement, including $6.2 million requested by President Trump himself.
[00:15:51]  First, the underlying premise of these indictments was always a fraud, meaning that it was illegal to form an alternative elector slate.
[00:16:02]  If you read the minutes of the meeting of the Georgia alternative electors, it makes it clear that they are only forming because they anticipate litigation and they preserve their right to be admitted to the Electoral College in the event that they are successful.
[00:16:18]  Without alternative elector slates, John F. Kennedy would not be President of the United States.
[00:16:24]  So Thomas Jefferson would never have become president.
[00:16:27]  So the formation of an alternative electoral college slate, which MSNBC and Ari Melberg turned into some kind of crime, is fairly laughable.
[00:16:41]  And this is why the president should get his money back.
[00:16:45]  Willis, of course, was the one who originally filed the sweeping racketeering case against Trump and others for conspiring to overturn the 2020 election.
[00:16:54]  That case is a stretch, to say the least.
[00:16:57]  The case quickly collapsed after the conflict of interest scandal surfaced.
[00:17:02]  The prosecution was ultimately dismissed, leaving Fulton County potentially now responsible for millions of dollars in legal bills tied to the failed case.
[00:17:11]  Willis's overreach hurt the Democrat scheme to jail our president and prevent him from running for the presidency again.
[00:17:18]  We now know that Fannie Willis was in tight coordination with the Biden White House, where this lawfare effort was being unconstitutionally and illegally coordinated.
[00:17:29]  This was just part of the conspiracy to try to take Trump down by extra constitutional means.
[00:17:37]  Although I must say, Watergate pales in comparison.
[00:17:40]  Even Russia Gate pales in comparison to the acts of rogue prosecutor Jack Smith, who shreds any semblance of the Constitution and begins the surveillance of Republican U.S. senators as well as Republican activists, Trump intimates, Trump key supporters, myself included, as well as basically fabricating these false documents charges when he knows that under the Presidential Documents Act,

=== Two-Tiered Justice System (02:46) ===

[00:18:10]  Donald Trump is entitled to hold on to and have any documents he wishes and he can declassify anything simply by touching it.
[00:18:20]  Jack Smith knows that Joe Biden has taken classified documents as vice president and that is a felony.
[00:18:26]  Of course, no charges are brought against Joe Biden.
[00:18:30]  Anyway, it's just another example of the two-tiered justice system that we all want to go away so very badly.
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[00:20:23]  Joining me now is a good friend of mine, Captain Seth Ketchell, who is a battlefield-level analytical, brings a battlefield-level analytical discipline to one of the most contentious issues in the country, election integrity.
[00:20:39]  He is a former U.S. military intelligence captain, a veteran of Afghanistan, but he's also, in my opinion, one of the most recognized and credible independent analysts investigating voter registration anomalies, election procedures, systematic vulnerabilities in your selection.

=== Election Integrity and Voter Lists (15:06) ===

[00:20:57]  But the other thing he is excellent on is trends and being able to project where our politics is going.
[00:21:04]  He has a new book, which I highly recommended to you, The American War on Election Corruption, which you should go out and get immediately.
[00:21:13]  It has a forward by former Speaker Newt Gingrich.
[00:21:17]  It has a great cover.
[00:21:19]  Seth, welcome to The Stone Zone.
[00:21:21]  Roger, it's great to be back on with you.
[00:21:23]  And I will tell your audience that I am disappointed I did not make your best dress list for 2025.
[00:21:29]  Well, you've heard of Payola, haven't you?
[00:21:31]  No, not really.
[00:21:32]  I haven't looked at you in those terms, but I will re-evaluate you for next year's awards.
[00:21:39]  You are someone who I have deep respect for in your analysts of the trends in voting and the anomalies in voting.
[00:21:49]  So a couple things I wanted to ask you about that I'm very curious, and that is, how is it possible that Donald Trump wins Wisconsin while the Republican Senate candidate in 2024 is going down narrowly?
[00:22:04]  How is it that Trump carries Arizona by the margin he does, but the Senate candidate, our mutual friend, Kerry Lake, goes down to a dirtbag?
[00:22:16]  How are those anomalies possible?
[00:22:18]  Because that seems unlikely to me.
[00:22:20]  I think the 2024 election was similar to the 2020 election, but when Trump made the catchphrase, too big to rig, he meant that.
[00:22:28]  And I think that in Pennsylvania, you probably would have had a different result had Trump not converted 100,000 or so voters that Harris probably expected to have camp.
[00:22:37]  But down ballot, once Trump had been declared the victor and all eyes were off the election, that particular race you mentioned in Wisconsin flipped in the middle of the night.
[00:22:46]  At the end of counting time on election night, I remember specifically seeing Trump ahead in Wisconsin by about four points, which is where my numbers had him.
[00:22:54]  And of course, over time, over a few hours, Trump's lead went down below one point, and with it, so did Eric Hofdy's lead, and he lost and they didn't count a single vote again.
[00:23:03]  Yeah, I find both of those races to be enormously suspicious.
[00:23:07]  I mean, generally speaking, the idea that Joe Biden got 81 million votes when he was essentially a diaper-wearing vegetable for a good part of that campaign, they kept him in the basement at his home in Delaware.
[00:23:20]  They would sometimes drive him 20 miles over the Pennsylvania border for a small meet and greet so they could say he was doing a campaign event in the Keystone state.
[00:23:32]  Everybody, I think, on our side of the aisle gets wrapped up in algorithms and the nuances of mail-in ballots, the integrity or lack thereof of the electronic voting machines.
[00:23:49]  But in a larger sense, wouldn't the SAVE Act in one swoop clean up a large segment of that election fraud and irregularities that do take place?
[00:24:02]  Yes, I come to odds with people who are obsessed with machine voting or they're obsessed with mail-in ballots.
[00:24:11]  But the foundation of all the corruption in our elections is the voter registration system.
[00:24:16]  And the most nefarious act in voter registration is to implement automatic voter registration.
[00:24:22]  That wasn't a thing in the United States until 2015 when California and Oregon started pushing that through.
[00:24:28]  In the 2020 election, Joe Biden won 18 out of 20 states that had automatic voter registration, and the edge was 243 electoral votes to 9.
[00:24:38]  He had 90% of the electoral votes he needed just because of automatic registration.
[00:24:42]  So that populates way more registrations than are possible, which are then outfitted with mail-in ballot requests, or in the case of universal mail-in voting, all these registrations receive a ballot, which are then harvested up over a very lengthy early voting period.
[00:24:56]  Well, let's also make it clear.
[00:24:57]  At the same time, the voting lists are not being cleaned.
[00:25:00]  So last time I was in Las Vegas, I gave a speech for the president at the end of the last presidential campaign.
[00:25:06]  Speaking of an event in Las Vegas, a guy came up to me and he showed me five ballots.
[00:25:12]  And they were all addressed to different people, but all at the same address.
[00:25:15]  One of them was addressed to him.
[00:25:16]  And I said, what's this?
[00:25:17]  He said, well, these are all the mail-in ballots I've received at my home.
[00:25:21]  I said, well, if you were a dishonest person, you could cast every one of those for Donald Trump.
[00:25:25]  She said, yeah, but I'm not even going to cast this one.
[00:25:27]  I'm going to go in and vote in person because I don't trust them.
[00:25:30]  And I said, well, that's the attitude.
[00:25:31]  I said, these other people.
[00:25:32]  He said, well, two of them, these are all people who lived in my apartment before me.
[00:25:37]  Two of them are dead.
[00:25:39]  One of them has moved out of state, and the other one is still in the state, but has moved to another location.
[00:25:45]  So it just says, and that, of course, is a remnant of the Harry Reed machine, which, you know, mandated that a ballot be mailed to every registered voter, whether you asked for one or not.
[00:25:58]  Well, Roger, the event that you came to in Washington, D.C. on the 19th of February, our Election Integrity Summit, the gentleman that spoke a couple hours before you, Dr. John Lott, I asked him specifically to come in to talk about his extensive research on mail-in ballot fraud.
[00:26:14]  And it's a really sad thing.
[00:26:15]  don't use a lot of the information we can find openly available to our benefit.
[00:26:20]  34 out of 47 European countries ban mail-in voting outright.
[00:26:25]  And some of the ones that do allow it only allow it for overseas citizens.
[00:26:28]  So we're talking about a couple thousand ballots.
[00:26:31]  Mexico, Japan, Russia, Israel, they all ban mail-in voting.
[00:26:35]  So why is it that our blue states are going the other direction?
[00:26:38]  No, I think you raise an excellent point.
[00:26:40]  So for example, the fact that 300,000 ballots essentially popped up at the Detroit Counting Center in Michigan at 3 o'clock in the morning, the fact that they hadn't been folded and therefore had never been mailed, that doesn't really matter, does it?
[00:26:53]  No, of course, as long as it advances the Democrat agenda of win.
[00:26:56]  I mean, they've been doing this in American elections for a long time.
[00:26:59]  In my book, I point out Democrat operatives in 1864 trying to steal New York State for George McClellan against Abraham Lincoln by using fake signatures on absentee ballots.
[00:27:10]  Yeah, I mean, when I went to vote myself in the last election, I was waiting in line because I always try to vote in person.
[00:27:17]  And the man in front of me stepped up and produced his ID and his address.
[00:27:22]  And the lady working at the temporary election worker behind the desk said, oh, I'm sorry, sir, you already voted this morning.
[00:27:28]  He said, no, I didn't.
[00:27:30]  She says, oh, no, you voted and she gave him a time.
[00:27:34]  And he said, I'll say his name is John Smith.
[00:27:36]  And he says, I'm going to ask you a question.
[00:27:38]  Is there also a Rhonda Smith registered the same address?
[00:27:42]  And the woman says, oh, yes, and she voted also.
[00:27:45]  He said, well, that's my mother.
[00:27:46]  She's been dead for 15 years.
[00:27:48]  Welcome to Broward County, Florida, ladies and gentlemen, where dirty voter lists are the norm.
[00:27:56]  This claim by Governor Ron DeSantis that we run the gold standard of elections is just not true based on the myriad of problems.
[00:28:06]  Even when the boards of elections mail out a mail ballot, it has to be requested, an event that is undeliverable.
[00:28:14]  And in the primaries two years ago, 4,000 were returned to the Lake County board of elections, and somebody, somebody cast those votes.
[00:28:22]  So it's a very corrupt system here.
[00:28:25]  And you're right.
[00:28:25]  I think it all goes back to the voter lists.
[00:28:27]  And that's precisely why you don't see a lot of these states, almost all the states, including the red ones, cooperating with the DOJ and the orders to turn over voter rolls.
[00:28:37]  So I love the PPP.
[00:28:40]  He puts Boss Tweed on the cover of his great new book, The American War on Election Corruption, The Crusade to Restore Trust in Voting.
[00:28:49]  Newt Gingrich wrote the forward.
[00:28:52]  It's a terrific work.
[00:28:53]  I'm only about a third into it, but it is also a great cover.
[00:28:58]  You say you have some concerns about the over the Texas Senate primary.
[00:29:03]  I am concerned about it, and I think it presents a combination of issues.
[00:29:07]  It presents a very serious political problem, number one, because it was a nasty primary.
[00:29:12]  I'm not one of these people that panics over Texas every two years, but I think you've got one race that sticks out to people that is causing some concern, and that would be Ted Cruz in 2018 and his re-election bid against Robert Francis Beto O'Rourke, who came within three points of flipping that seat.
[00:29:29]  Now, Ted was a very lazy campaigner, in my opinion.
[00:29:32]  I think that he listened to some pretty bad advice, and he was going for a blowout when he was barely winning.
[00:29:37]  But Ten Paxton got outspent big time.
[00:29:40]  Cornyn put $60 million in the race to harm him, and I'm not so sure where Wesley Trump's candidacy came from.
[00:29:46]  I think I have an idea.
[00:29:47]  But Paxton really damaged, or Cornyn really damaged Paxton, who underperformed by at least six and a half points, if not 10, putting the president in a very difficult position.
[00:29:56]  Now, I think that there's leverage over the U.S. Senate and Cornyn and Senate President Soon, Senate Leader Thun, to get the SAVE Act across.
[00:30:06]  But it doesn't sound like based on the news today that that's going to happen.
[00:30:10]  So I almost wonder if we should just say the hell with it and endorse Paxton because he's a far better Senate candidate and senator waiting to happen.
[00:30:18]  It is, I must say that in the 50 years I've been in American politics, I have never seen a more selfless act of Ten Paxton, who could very well still win this Senate seat.
[00:30:28]  In fact, I would argue might be well positioned to do so, to say, look, I'll give up my personal ambitions and my candidacy will simply end the filibuster and allow JD Vance to break the tie to pass the SAVE Act, which the president correctly calls the Save America Act.
[00:30:44]  It's really not that controversial.
[00:30:46]  It simply says that one has to be a qualified U.S. citizen to vote in a federal election, and one needs to have a certain form of ID.
[00:30:53]  These are perfectly reasonable concepts.
[00:30:55]  We have 50 votes, but because of an antiquated rule among gentlemen, we don't have the filibuster.
[00:31:03]  Now, the instant Republicans lose control of the Senate, if they do, they will end the filibuster and they will ram through some of those left-wing extremist legislation you've ever seen.
[00:31:13]  We have a unique opportunity right now to save the country by passing this vote.
[00:31:18]  And Don Thune, I bet Donald Trump wishes if he had to guess again, he had supported Rick Scott to be the majority leader than John Thune.
[00:31:28]  Thune, who will not even leave the Senate in session so that Trump may have recess appointments.
[00:31:34]  I mean, there are many jobs in the Trump administration that are yet vacant or even worse, still filled by Biden Quizlings that have not been filled because there's no process for confirmation.
[00:31:48]  If the Senate was kept technically in session, Trump would have the ability to make at least temporary appointments so we could actually run the machinery of government.
[00:31:59]  But of course, they won't allow that.
[00:32:02]  On top of this idea that Both senators must agree on the choice of a U.S. attorney, a U.S. attorney who might be in a position to investigate the corruption of, well, those two U.S. senators.
[00:32:16]  The so-called blue slip system, where a U.S. attorney has to have at least the acquiescence of a Democrat senator in his state.
[00:32:27]  All of Biden's appointments were duly approved by Republican senators.
[00:32:31]  He had the right to appoint his U.S. attorneys, as horrible as some of them were.
[00:32:35]  But they have not given Donald Trump the same courtesy.
[00:32:38]  In fact, they continue to refuse to confirm his appointments.
[00:32:42]  And I think that is hurting his administration.
[00:32:45]  And you can't sue because it's not a law.
[00:32:49]  It's an antiquated custom.
[00:32:50]  We've got to break the filibuster first.
[00:32:52]  I think that's next.
[00:32:54]  You know, I think all roads lead back to the corruption of our elections because you have the problem with not enough senators willing to get this across.
[00:33:02]  But you have the last three federal election cycles where if you restore these Republican losses that we've already mentioned, my count is that since 2020, if you take those three elections, we should have 62 Republican senators in office, not 53.
[00:33:17]  Well, once Saskatchewan and Alberta secede from Canada, which constitutionally they have the right to do and may be in the process of doing, and then become independent, then applying for statehood, I'd get you at least four more conservative members of the Senate and a bunch of conservative members of the House.
[00:33:37]  I'm thinking maybe Cuba and Venezuela, too, give us four more.
[00:33:42]  That's an interesting idea.
[00:33:43]  I wonder if the president would also then appoint Marco Rubio, in addition to being the archivist of the United States, the National Security Advisor, the Secretary of State, but would also appoint him governor of Cuba.
[00:33:59]  That would be one more thing for him to put it in his resume.
[00:34:02]  He's handled everything really well so far.
[00:34:04]  No, I'm very, very pleased and happy with my home state senator.
[00:34:08]  His politics were not always mine.
[00:34:10]  I did support him over Charlie Crist in the Tea Party circle, and I'm glad I did.
[00:34:14]  He has been a valiant warrior against Marxism and Marxist narco-trafficking in this hemisphere, where he and Trump are obviously based on what they did in Dorao this weekend with all those Central and South American leaders in this new coalition to fight the narco drug trafficking that is mostly done by these leftist Marxist states in this hemisphere.
[00:34:39]  I think that is laudable.
[00:34:41]  If I were the Cubans, I'd be very, very, very nervous right now.
[00:34:45]  After big wins in Venezuela and Honduras and cutting off Cuba's oil, is Cuba next to fall?
[00:34:51]  We'll be right back with Captain Seth Ketchell.
[00:34:54]  I'm going to ask you a bit more about the 2020 elections and how you see 2026 shaping up.
[00:35:02]  This is the Stone Zone with Roger Stone.
[00:35:06]  He likes politics and he's a professional at the highest level.
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[00:35:12]  This is the Stone Zone with Roger Stone.
[00:35:32]  Roger Stone, who's the very, very, one of the smartest political minds.
[00:35:36]  Roger Stone was persecuted.
[00:35:37]  People forget he's actually a brilliant, brilliant political analyst.
[00:35:40]  Now, get him a zone.
[00:35:42]  It's the stone zone.
[00:35:44]  Here's Roger Stone.
[00:35:46]  And we're back with Captain Seth Ketchell.
[00:35:48]  He has a very lively feed over there at Substack.
[00:35:52]  He is author, election integrity analyst, former U.S. Army intelligence captain, and he is also, I think, a very shrewd reader of political trends.

=== Florida's Election Integrity Shift (04:55) ===

[00:36:04]  I do have to ask you, in your new book, which is The American War on Election Corruption, The Crusade to Restore Trust in Voting, which I highly recommend to you, you say that elections are not stolen but rigged.
[00:36:17]  What do you mean by that?
[00:36:18]  You know, it was actually Newt Gingrich's comment about the elections not being stolen but rigged.
[00:36:23]  And I wanted to pick the speaker right before because, you know, we all, you and I, Roger, we've toured a lot of events and we tend to talk in circles.
[00:36:30]  And one of the more difficult audiences, and we deal them all the time in Arizona, regular rank-and-file Republicans that may not like the president's style, who don't want to talk about election corruption.
[00:36:39]  And I always knew that Speaker Gingrich felt the same way about elections that I did.
[00:36:43]  And by not stolen but rigged, I mean that the 2024 election made it very obvious to me what the capabilities and capacities of the various states to produce which ballot counts are.
[00:36:53]  And it's all based on what types of laws they have on the books.
[00:36:56]  So, well, Governor DeSantis may say that he's got the gold standard of elections.
[00:37:00]  I wouldn't call it that.
[00:37:01]  I would say maybe states like Iowa have the gold standard of elections.
[00:37:04]  But for a large state, clamping down on how much cheating is possible with the more than 3 million mail-in ballots that Florida has every cycle has really turned that state into a blowout.
[00:37:14]  I mean, nobody's going to win Florida for the Democrats for our lifetime, my lifetime, and I'm 41 years old.
[00:37:19]  So forcing voters to request a mail-in ballot, verify addresses, that really camps down on how much cheating is possible.
[00:37:26]  So rigging is done by what types of laws?
[00:37:28]  The big three laws are automatic voter registration, universal mail-in voting, and ballot harvesting.
[00:37:33]  You have those.
[00:37:34]  You have a Democrat superpower.
[00:37:36]  Yeah, it's very interesting, the trend in Florida.
[00:37:38]  Now, for the first time, Republicans have an over 1 million voter registration edge over Florida Democrats.
[00:37:46]  This was a state that until not that long ago was a purple state rather than a red state.
[00:37:51]  It's become a solidly red state.
[00:37:53]  A lot of this has to do with Hispanic Americans beyond Cubans, Venezuelans, even Puerto Ricans who were traditionally Democratic gravitating to the new Republican Party of Donald Trump.
[00:38:05]  And therefore, I think it is easy to say at this point is whoever wins the Republican nomination to be governor of Florida, most likely Congressman Byron Donalds, who's been endorsed by the president based on that endorsement alone.
[00:38:20]  But whoever wins the Republican nomination, there's several other candidates.
[00:38:24]  The Democrats have no bench here, and their party has atrophied very badly.
[00:38:30]  Well, Roger, there's a few things in Florida I like to watch.
[00:38:33]  There are three things in Florida I really like to watch.
[00:38:36]  Number one, Miami-Dade County is a pretty interesting opportunity for the Republicans everywhere.
[00:38:41]  I get frustrated watching the party in Pennsylvania because they don't seem to realize that if they could just go into Philadelphia County and be anti-crime, anti-corruption, and do 10% better, they could never lose the state again based on the trend in the rest of the state.
[00:38:53]  So Miami-Dade County offers an urban roadmap for Republicans if they can figure out how to replicate that.
[00:38:58]  Number two, the overall trend of Florida.
[00:39:01]  So Florida was R plus 7.8% by registration, 1.1 million more Republicans than Democrats when Trump won by 13 points.
[00:39:08]  Now it's R plus 11.2, almost 1.5 million advantage.
[00:39:12]  What that means is Florida is on pace to be redder than Texas in the next presidential election, whether that's JD Vance or Marco Rubio as the party nominee.
[00:39:19]  And Florida has a 1952 to present spread present in which Pennsylvania and Michigan move in the same direction as Florida.
[00:39:27]  So Florida's current lean suggests very strongly that the next Republican nominee will carry both Pennsylvania and Michigan.
[00:39:32]  And then the third thing I like to watch is Duval County.
[00:39:34]  Jacksonville, it has shifted in the same direction as Georgia in every presidential election since 2004.
[00:39:39]  So I can't get party registration figures in Georgia because they don't register by party, but I can read them in Duval County and Duval County is almost flipped to a Republican registration advantage.
[00:39:49]  I know some of these demographic trends are very, very interesting.
[00:39:53]  Of course, they also, the negative side, look at New York City and the white flight, the flight of Catholics, the flight of working class white voters changing that Democrat primary to produce a MIM DAMI.
[00:40:07]  You know, there's never enough time.
[00:40:08]  I'm going to have Captain Seth Ketchell back because I want to get his thoughts on 2026 and 2028.
[00:40:14]  I think we beat up the last election pretty good tonight.
[00:40:18]  Seth, good luck with your book again, The American War on Election Corruption: The Crusade to Restore Trust in Voting by Captain Seth Ketchell.
[00:40:27]  You can go to Amazon, grab your copy right now.
[00:40:29]  Yeah, thank you very much, Roger, for having me on.
[00:40:32]  All right.
[00:40:33]  I think that wraps it up.
[00:40:35]  Thank you for joining us today in the Stone Zone.
[00:40:37]  Until tomorrow, God bless you and Godspeed.
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