Roger Stone reports on a Trump commemorative gold coin and CPAC absences due to Steve Bannon's fraud conviction. He praises the restoration of a Columbus statue, celebrates ten months of zero illegal border releases, and condemns OnlyFans as subversive. Stone critiques Chuck Schumer's fundraising failures, supports photo ID voting laws against Democrats, defends Tulsi Gabbard's document declassification, and highlights the rise of Germany's AfD party alongside investigations into forced abortion coverage, signaling a global shift toward nationalism and strict border enforcement. [Automatically generated summary]
The U.S. Treasurer Brandon Beach says that the U.S. Mint is moving forward with a gold $1 commemorative coin featuring the visage of President Donald Trump.
This is after a Federal Arts Commission approved a design this past Thursday with Treasury officials citing their legal authority that allows the inclusion of a sitting president despite other long-standing restrictions involving paper money.
I have confirmed with sources familiar with the Commission on Fine Arts that approved the design that the mocked-up approval by the panel cleared a key step forward towards the production of the coin.
So in other words, April 15th, you'll be able to have a $1 U.S. minted gold coin with Donald Trump on one side and the American Eagle on the other side.
This is being done in commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the nation.
Tomorrow in the Stone Zone, U.S. Treasurer Brandon Beach will join us to talk about the coin and also the process for its approval.
This is exciting news to me.
Meanwhile, announcement late today that Donald Trump will not be attending the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C. for 2026.
This will be the first year since 2011 that Trump has not attended this important conference.
Now, back in 2011, I was actually the person who first explained to Donald Trump what CPAC was and why it was important, its historical role in terms of elevating presidential candidates, including the early candidacy of Ronald Reagan in both 1976 and then when Reagan was elected president in 1980.
The president said that he was not attending this year because of some of the speakers he had said had been compromised by China.
I believe that he's speaking of Steve Bannon, who was recently revealed in the emails released by the U.S. Justice Department to be an accomplice and advisor to the convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
There's also, of course, the fact that Bannon pled guilty in New York State to defrauding donors to the Build the Wall Foundation out of $15 million.
Strangely, he pled guilty but served no jail time in that guilty plea.
He was also an unindicted co-conspirator in the $1 billion fraud case against Chinese national Miles Guo.
I believe that there's substantial evidence that that was funded with CCP money.
It will be a problem for CPAC.
They were already bleeding over the selection of Bannon as a speaker, but now with Trump taking a pass, I think their ticket sales are really going to suffer.
Meanwhile, as an Italian-American, I'm very pleased to see that a powerful symbol of America's heritage has returned to prominence just steps from the White House.
That's right, a restored statue of Christopher Columbus now stands outside the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, visible to all who walk along Pennsylvania Avenue.
The Eisenhower Executive Office Building is in the same restricted area as the White House.
The statue was originally unveiled in Baltimore in 1984 by President Ronald Reagan, only to be torn down and dumped into the harbor during the chaos of the 2020 Black Lives Matter riots.
Now, thanks to determined efforts by the Italian American Civil Rights League, of which I am a proud member, as well as local officials and private donors, that very same statue has been recovered, rebuilt, and completely restored.
Its inscription tells the story plainly.
Destroyed on July 4th, 2020, resurrected on 2022.
This is a reminder of not only what was lost, but what can be reclaimed.
MAGA is undoing the destruction was caused by the BLM thugs and restoring pride, decency, and honor in America once again.
The Trump administration has made it very clear that Indigenous Peoples Day is over.
Donald Trump issued an executive order re-establishing Columbus Day.
As a White House spokesman put it, Christopher Columbus is a hero, and under this administration, he will continue to be recognized as one.
The installation of the state of the new statue, I should say, the reconstituted statue, is part of a broader effort to bring back respect for the nation's founding figures.
New monuments are already appearing across Washington with plans underway for a garden of heroes that will celebrate hundreds of great Americans.
They try to demoralize us by making murdering low-IQ thugs into false idols and denigrating our history.
But all that did was make us more determined to preserve our heritage.
If you're interested in the Italian American Civil Rights League, you can go to IACRL.org.
It is a nonprofit organization in which no one makes money, but which we fight to protect our Italian American customs and our heritage.
Bravo to President Donald Trump for standing up to the woke culture and restoring the statue of Christopher Columbus, right outside the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.
And another major milestone for the Trump administration, U.S. Customs and Border Protection reports that February marked the 10th consecutive month with zero illegal immigrants released in the country after crossing the southern border.
That's right.
10 straight months of full enforcement.
Remember when President Joe Biden insisted he needed new laws and new legislation in order to seal the border?
And then Senator James Lankford, the rhino from Oklahoma, put forward legislation that when you looked at it carefully, it wouldn't tighten border security, actually would have grandfathered 2 million illegals a year.
Fortunately, the Senate refused to move that legislation.
Donald Trump has demonstrated that all you had to do was enforce the law as it was already written.
President's right when he calls this the most secure border in America's history, declaring that America's borders are closed to lawbreakers.
The numbers back up that rhetoric.
Illegal crossings have plummeted by 97% compared to the previous administration, with daily apprehensions down 95%.
So over a year now, monthly apprehensions have stayed below 9,000.
This is a stark contrast to the crisis-level surges America's witnessed just a short time ago under President Joe Biden.
In fact, Border Patrol agents now encounter fewer illegal crossings in an entire day than they once saw in a single hour during the peak periods.
Officials say this success is the result of an enforcement-first approach, one that prioritizes law, order, and national sovereignty.
Border Patrol Commissioner Rodney Scott emphasized that not a single illegal immigrant has been released into the interior during this entire 10-month stretch.
Meanwhile, agents are also cracking down on drug trafficking.
February saw a surge in seizures, including sharp increases in the seizures of fentanyl, methamphetamine, cocaine, and marijuana.
These are the sorts of successes we need to be singing about from the rooftops if we want to keep the current status quo in government.
The Trump administration's protecting the country has stopped the invasion.
Now we need to continue to mass deport dangerous criminals who are here illegally.
Again, is it possible to deport 36 or maybe even 38 million illegals?
No, I think it is unlikely.
I believe we should prioritize those who have a criminal record either in their country of origin or here in the United States.
I do think that there is technology that would be allowed to track an illegal, say you were in the country, I don't know, say 20 years.
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You have been gainfully employed for those 20 years.
You've never violated any laws.
You have paid taxes.
The government knows where you are.
I think there is a lower priority on deporting those people.
In fact, I think there should be some program to track them through some type of isotope or some type of technology.
We have to put the priority on getting the most dangerous criminals out of the country first.
And on that, President Trump will not relent.
Meanwhile, Leonid Radvinsky, the billionaire owner of OnlyFans and a central figure in the expansion of online adult content, including Pornhub, has died at the age of 43 following a battle with cancer.
Ravinsky, who is a Ukrainian-American, kept a low public profile despite overseeing one of the most controversial and sadly most profitable platforms in the digital economy.
He acquired OnlyFans parrot company in 2018 and quickly transformed it from a niche subscription service into a global hub for explicit and lewd content.
Under his leadership, OnlyFans actually exploded in popularity, particularly during the COVID lockdowns, eventually attracting more than 300 million users and generating over a billion dollars in annual revenue.
The platform takes 20% cut from creators, many of whom produce this adult content.
OnlyFan has faced, I think rightly so, widespread backlash for normalizing online pornography, encouraging young women to monetize explicit behavior online.
OnlyFans essentially serves up a digital pimp as a digital pimp to a legion of young women who are tricked into believing that it is somehow empowering to sell their bodies online for cash.
Radvinsky amassed an estimated $4.7 billion personal fortune for purveying this filth, largely tied to the platform's immense growth as civilization falls into oblivion.
His death now at the young age of 43 shows that there is a God and that his judgment can be harsh when required.
We at the Stone Zone hope that Vedvinsky made peace with the Lord, sincerely repented before his death because what he helped unleash is among the most subversive creations in the history of the country.
It is nothing less than the degradation of mankind.
In any just society, OnlyFans would be shut down, in my opinion, and its founders would be charged.
But there are important First Amendment issues here that have to be weighed.
Meanwhile, I hope Radvinsky made his peace with God as he rides on ahead, as they say.
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Meanwhile, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is facing growing turmoil within his own party as cracks in the Democrat leadership continue to widen.
New report reveals increasing frustration among Democrats, senators, aides, and activists who see Schumer as out of step with the party's direction and increasingly ineffective in countering President Donald Trump.
Once a dominant figure, Schumer is now being described by members of his own party as a political liability.
Behind closed doors, I hear some Democrats are reportedly even exploring whether he could be pushed out of leadership after the midterm elections.
Informal vote counts are already being discussed, signaling just how serious this uprising against New York Senator Chuck Schumer could be.
At the center of the divide, of course, is an ongoing battle between the party's progressive wing and its corporate progressive wing.
All the senators are left-leaning, but many senators, including, for example, Elizabeth Warren, have reportedly begun organizing opposition to Schumer's preferred candidates, accusing him of propping up moderates while ignoring the party's activist base in the upcoming primaries.
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I saw President Donald Trump at Mar-Lago on Friday night.
It was the Palm Beach County Republican annual Lincoln dinner.
The president very warmly regarded me in his public remarks.
He correctly said that in 2016, he asked me point blank whether I thought that despite his lack of political experience, he could defeat 16 more experienced and entrenched politicians.
And I told him I thought the country was right for that.
He pointed out that I turned out to be right.
He's very warm and generous in his remarks.
It was an amazing crowd, too, about 800 people in the grand ballroom at Mar-a-Lago.
And Byron Donalds, the candidate for governor endorsed by Donald Trump, spoke after me.
It was a long, long program.
I was pleased to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Palm Beach County Republicans.
I suggested, by the way, that they change the name of that to the Earl E.T. Smith Award.
Earl E.T. Smith was our last American ambassador to Cuba.
And he tried to warn us about Fidel Castro and the fact that he was a brutal Marxist and what would come if Batista fell.
So hopefully the Lifetime Achievement Award that I was given will go forward as the Ambassador Earl E.T. Smith Award, appropriate for Palm Beach, because you see, Earl Smith, after he served as America's last ambassador to Cuba, was elected mayor of Palm Beach.
So it would be a fitting tribute to one of our great American ambassadors.
If you want to know about the fall of Cuba and how it really went down, his book can still be found.
It's called The Fourth Floor.
That's the fourth floor of the State Department where basically Fidel Castro was installed as the leader of Cuba.
I urge you to check it out.
Meanwhile, also over the weekend, Elon Musk, who at this point I believe is the richest man in the world, offered to personally pay for the TSA agents who are guarding the commerce of those who come and go through our airports.
An extraordinarily generous act by a man who I think is probably more influential in terms of free speech than anyone in our history other than the founding fathers themselves.
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Now, if you think that cancellation and censorship, shadow binning, and manipulation of the logger algorithms is over, that's not so.
Much of our online dissertation and online communications are still heavily monitored and censored, but the beginning begins when Elon Musk buys X.
And then he very courageously takes all the records from Twitter, now called X, and he releases them publicly, which prove that the U.S. government's intelligence services were actively involved with executives at Twitter to ban and silence certain Americans for political purposes.
That enormous act of courage, I think, is what opened the crack in the dam.
Now, at least today, we have some free, unfettered political communications.
But over the weekend, I had Dr. Robert Epstein, a trained psychologist and scientist, who has monitored the content that is being put out there by Google.
And he concluded that there is a huge ramp up in liberal bias coming from Google.
So, for example, if you're a Democrat and you have on Gmail, you get three reminders to vote.
If you are a registered Republican and you have Gmail, you get none.
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We spoke earlier about the challenges to Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer.
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One of the greatest challenges he faces is problems with fundraising.
The Democrats' fundraising is lagging very far behind Republicans heading into 2026.
Now, that makes a difference because being able to buy paid electronic advertising like terrestrial radio and broadcast television cable is necessary in order to outweigh the bias of ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, and most of the others.
Democrats are complaining that fundraising has lagged.
In fact, some of Schumer's aligned fundraising operations are even carrying debt.
So the Republicans will go into the election flush with cash.
Even routine meetings among Democrat staff have reportedly turned into strategy sessions focused on potentially replacing Schumer, with some pushing for Schumer to actually step aside after the 2026 election.
The momentum and a whole lot of big money is behind the radical wing of the Democrat Party.
Schumer is incredibly seen as weak, infectual, and of a bygone era that is reviled among voters.
Like Mitch McConnell, Schumer will be ushered into the graveyard of politics before long.
Nobody except maybe some lobbyists and pizza partiers will sadly miss him.
But I see that shift happening.
Meanwhile, top Democrats are predictably whining about President Trump's plan to use immigration and customs enforcement agents to boost security at America's airports amidst the Democrat-cause government shutdown crisis.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is claiming that deploying ICE agents to assist at airports could somehow endanger travelers.
Makes no sense at all.
Jeffries said the last thing the American people need are for untrained ICE agents to be deployed at airports all across the country, potentially to brutalize or in some instances kill them.
Boy, there's excessive rhetoric.
These are trained law enforcement professionals.
In fact, the average ICE agent today has substantially more experience and more training than the average TSA agent.
This is more of the politics of smear.
The comments come despite clear explanations from officials about the limited and supportive role that ICE agents would actually play at the airports.
The move announced by President Trump is designed to help overwhelm Transportation Security Administration agents as staffing shortages continue during a Department of Homeland Security funding standoff.
Many TSA employees have remained on the job without pay, even though Democrats in Congress are holding up funding tied to immigration enforcement priorities.
So under the new Trump plan, the ICE agents will not replace TSA screeners.
Instead, they'll take on secondary security responsibilities, freeing up trained TSA personnel to focus on specialized screening tasks and help move travelers through lines more efficiently.
Border enforcement officials say the goal is to keep America safe while easing congestion at busy airports.
Border czar Tom Holman made it clear that ICE agents will operate within their area of expertise and support, not replacing existing security operations.
The Trump administration is offering solutions while the Democrats simply whine and obstruct.
Their only chance in the midterms is to sabotage the president's ability to govern and then attempt to blame Republicans for the damage that they themselves caused.
We definitely get it.
Don't expect the public to fall for the cynical gambit, but when the House minority leader says that ICE agents are being sent to airports where they could potentially kill Americans, well, your rhetoric is way too hot.
Meanwhile, the Department of Justice has filed a major lawsuit against Harvard University accusing that elite institution of failing to protect Jewish and Israeli students from harassment and discrimination.
According to the Department of Dutch Justice, conditions on Harvard's campus deteriorated sharply following the October 7th Hamas terrorist attack on Israel.
Jewish students reportedly faced harassment, physical assaults, and intimidation, with some even hiding visible signs of their faith out of fear.
Protesters allegedly blocked buildings, disrupted classes, and targeted Jewish and Israeli students with threatening behavior.
Even Harvard's own internal review found that Israeli and Zionist students were being excluded from campus life.
At the heart of this lawsuit is the troubling claim that Harvard selectively enforced its own rules.
While some violations were punished, others, including disruptive protests and building takeovers, were allegedly ignored.
The Department of Justice calls this deliberate indifference, a direct violation of federal civil rights law.
Harvard receives more than $2.6 billion in taxpayer-funded grants.
The government is now seeking both compliance and repayment of certain funds that they received under false pretenses.
Anti-Semitism is on the rise in America, and while the fake news likes to blame so-called neo-Nazis and white supremacists on the right for this phenomenon, it's really coming, in fact, from the left.
The so-called Palestinian rights movement, foreign demagogues like Ilhan Omar and yes, Mayor Zoran Miamdami and the Islamification of America, those are the major problems, not our Jewish citizens.
The Trump DOJ must use every tool, in their opinion, at their discretion, in order to make these bigots pay before the hatred results in some of history's worst atrocities.
By the way, Harvard gets $2.6 billion in federal funds, despite the fact that they are already fully funded.
The Democrats continue to astound me because I don't know who they think their constituency is.
Senate Democrats, for example, voted down a Republican-backed amendment to ensure that biological males identifying as transgender could not compete in girls and women's athletic programs that are receiving federal funding.
In a 49 to 41 vote, Democrats blocked this measure, falling short of the 60 votes needed to advance.
Now, it's notable that not a single Democrat spoke on the Senate floor to defend their position before voting against this particular amendment.
Senator Tubberville of Alabama, who's a good friend of mine, has repeatedly brought the measure forward, vowing to keep fighting, putting on what he points to as an obvious competitive imbalance and deprivation of biological women from the opportunities and glory they've earned as athletes.
Because of these sentences, woke transgender policies, women lose their opportunities at titles, scholarships, and so on that they've worked years to earn.
This is unfair.
It's un-American.
Let's face it, it's just plain bizarre.
The amendment, interestingly enough, was part of the broader Save America Act, legislation focused on strengthening election integrity through voter ID and proof of citizen requirements.
Priorities that are essential to protecting American democracy.
I think we get too hung up in the weeds about paper ballots, early voting, the potential manipulability and lack of security of these electronic voting machines.
All those things are, those are all legitimate concerns.
But much of the voter fraud in the country, much of the problems with our elections would be cleaned up by passing the SAVE Act, which has been redubbed the Save America Act.
The strange part is, of course, that there are 50 votes in the U.S. Senate for it today, yet the Senate majority leader, John Thune of Nebraska, refuses to take it to the floor.
That's because he is under a Senate tradition called the filibuster.
The filibuster allows a piece of legislation to be blocked unless 60 senators are in favor of moving it to the floor.
The filibuster is a tradition.
It is a rule.
It is not a law.
I have called for doing away with the filibuster rules in order to move this important legislation forward.
It is a sure bet that if Democrats were to take control of the U.S. Senate in the 2026 elections, that they would certainly do exactly that.
The ongoing drama with Democrats so doggedly opposed the measure just shows how much that party hates America.
Who is in favor of voter fraud?
Who would want illegals to vote in American elections?
Who would think that it is racist to require a photo ID in order to vote?
You're required to use a photo ID to get on an airplane.
You're required to use a photo ID to buy a pack of cigarettes or a six pack of beer.
You're required to show a photo ID when you apply for welfare.
You're required to do it for virtually all of these activities, but Democrats object to a photo ID saying that it's racist, which I guess somehow implies that people of color are incapable of getting a photo ID.
That is outrageous.
The Democrats clearly want to continue this epic voter fraud that we've experienced, certainly now in the 2020 elections.
As you know, the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, has been charged with the president to getting to the bottom of both the question of paper ballots and the manipulability of electronic voting machines.
And she's, of course, getting enormous pushback.
That's why last week you saw a false story move very quickly on the internet that Tulsi Gabbard, a former Democrat congresswoman, now a Republican serving with great distinction in the Trump administration, was on the cusp of resigning over her opposition to the president's decisions regarding Iran.
It's amazing how quickly that fake story spread like wildfire.
I spoke to Tulsi Gabbard, who told me it was categorically false.
The very next day, of course, she testified before the House and made it very, very clear that the President of the United States is the one who makes the decisions about when to use American force and that the purpose of the department, her department, the Office of Defense Intelligence, is to give the president the very best information on which to make decisions.
It's very clear to me that the deep state and those embedded in our government, some in the media, are really concerned about Tulsi Gabbard and the fact that it was Tulsi Gabbard who declassified all of the documents that showed that Robert Mueller,
who passed away only days ago, the former FBI director and former special counsel, was not a good guy, was not a hero, and that the Russian collusion claim was the greatest single abuse of government power and dirty trick in American political history.
I know because I was, of course, targeted in that investigation, yet most people can't tell you what it was I was convicted of.
I was convicted of lying under oath about Russian collusion that never, ever, even really existed.
So in other words, I had no motive to lie.
In fact, I didn't lie, but it virtually destroyed me and my family.
It's only through the grace of God and the good sense of Donald Trump that he recognized that the Mueller witch hunt had targeted me, not because I had broken the law, but because they hoped to flip me and get me to testify falsely against the president, something I refused to do.
I've written extensively about Robert Mueller's passing.
There's a lot here to unpack.
When he was FBI director, he had reports of Middle Eastern men training in a North Florida, living in a North Florida rented home and training at a flight school, but never investigated.
They later turned out to be connected to the attack on America on 9-11.
When he headed the FBI office in Boston, he covered up the organized crime activities of the Massachusetts gangster Whitey Bolger.
It was also Robert Mueller who investigated the Clinton Foundation's pay-for-play schemes and said there was nothing to see and we should all just move along.
And then when Hillary Clinton made a secret deal to shift control of about 60%, almost 70% of America's uranium to the Russians, it was FBI Director Robert Mueller who carried the uranium sample to Russia for inspection.
His entire witch hunt is based on two fraudulent claims, the so-called Steele dossier, which he knew was a fraud from the very beginning, and the false claim that the Democrat National Committee had been the target of an online hack by Democrat intelligence, pardon me, Russian intelligence.
Now, it is true that John Brennan, the CIA director, has claimed that, but we've seen no forensic evidence to back it up.
Mueller will not be missed.
His judgment now moves to a much higher order.
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You know, as a political animal, I'm watching politics not just in the United States, but around the globe.
There's a political shift to the right, which is continuing to gain momentum in Europe as nationalist movements continue to surge during recent years, despite media attacks and establishment resistance.
And Germany's recent Rhineland state elections, the center-right Christian Democrats, or CDU, led with just over a little more than 30% of the vote.
But the real headlines is the dramatic rise of the alternative for Germany, the AFD, a new conservative party.
The party captured roughly 20% of the vote, a gain of more than 11 points from the previous election, nearly doubling its representation and solidifying its position in Germany as a major political force.
This comes after a coordinated effort by mainstream media and government officials to marginalize and even ban the AFD.
AFD members have been surveilled, they've been raided, hit with charges for political advocacy, while the German deep state classifies them as an extremist group.
But evidently, the voters are not buying it.
Meanwhile, Germany's ruling left-wing coalition, the Social Democrats, the Greens, and the Free Democrats, suffered significant losses in those elections.
The Social Democrats alone dropped nearly nine points, reflecting growing public frustration with their globalist agenda.
At the center of the debate, of course, is immigration.
See, the AFD is built on support for calls for strict border enforcement and national sovereignty, while critics argue that establishment parties like the CDU talk tough, but they actually refuse to act.
Notably, the CDU leaders continue to enforce a so-called firewall, refusing to work with the AFD, blocking all meaningful immigration reform.
Despite resistance from the political establishment, the FD is now Germany's second strongest party nationally and positioning itself as a potentially powerful opposition voice.
Pretty much every country across Europe, a party similar is rising.
These are nationalist parties wanting to protect your borders and your sovereignty.
That's not racist.
It's not bigoted.
It's just common sense.
If you don't have borders, you don't have a country.
Public is tired of this flood of illegals, censorship, high energy costs, and a general lack of freedom.
I think the populists are getting ready to make Europe great again.
Meanwhile, the Trump administration is taking decisive action to defend religious liberty and protect conscience rights in the area of health care.
The Department of Health and Human Services has launched an investigation into 13 states, accusing them of forcing employers and insurers to cover abortion in direct violation of federal law.
See, at the center of the issue is the Weldon Amendment, a long-standing protection that bars government discrimination against those who refuse to provide or pay for abortions on moral or religious grounds.
Federal officials say these states, including California, New York, and Massachusetts, are ignoring those protections by mandating abortion coverage and health plans with no exceptions allowed.
HSH officials have made it clear that conscience rights are not optional.
These are fundamental rights guaranteed under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
The Office for Civil Rights says these investigations are about restoring compliance with the law and protecting health care providers from being coerced into violating their beliefs.
And there could indeed be serious consequences for those who are violating the law.
States found out of compliance risk losing billions of dollars in federal Medicaid funding.
This move also marks a major reversal of the Biden-era policy, which narrowed the definition of who qualified for protection under the Weldon Amendment, weakening religious liberty safeguards at the behest of the abortion industry.
Trump once again fulfilling the mandate of the 2024 election.
Trump administrations rejected that false interpretation, and I think they're all heading to court.
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Once again, this is part of the president's agenda to put the baby murdering industry out of business.
We pay for the success of the administration in this endeavor.
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