The StoneZONE - Roger Stone - The Stone Zone | 04-06-26
Aired: 2026-04-07
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=== Rule of Law and Nuclear Points (13:05) ===

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[00:00:41]  This is The Stone Zone with Roger Stone.
[00:00:44]  People love him and respect him, Roger Stone.
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[00:00:51]  Here's Roger Stone.
[00:00:56]  Welcome to The Stone Zone.
[00:00:58]  You know, back in the 1960s, there's a very famous Esquire magazine article entitled, Frank Sinatra Had a Little Cold, because the chairman of the board gave an interview to Esquire and he was nursing a cold.
[00:01:14]  It is Palm Springs estate.
[00:01:17]  Well tonight Roger Stone has a little cold but as they say the show must go on so if you hear me stifle a cough bear with me there's just too much news to review and you're in the right place the Stone Zone.
[00:01:32]  Now, with the clock ticking, the United States is engaged in a high-stakes negotiation with Iran over possible 45-day ceasefire plan, but prospects for a deal, while they seem very uncertain, sources close to the talk say that this could be the last opportunity to avoid a major military escalation as President Donald Trump's patience very clearly begins to run out.
[00:01:56]  After extending his original deadline, the president warned that failure to reach an agreement would trigger devastating consequences.
[00:02:03]  For Iran's regime.
[00:02:05]  Behind the scenes, of course, U.S. and Israeli forces are reportedly prepared to strike key Iranian energy infrastructure if the diplomacy collapses.
[00:02:15]  Strength at the negotiating table, backed by a credible military force, is the only way that the Iranian extremist regime, which is now literally hanging by a thread, will listen.
[00:02:26]  For years, of course, Iran has exploited weakness from the United States, funding terror, threatening global shipping lands, and advancing its nuclear ambitions while signing sham deals with Barack Obama, who shipped them off the books over $100 million on pallets of cash used to pay off Iranian politicians to do a deal, in which, of course,
[00:02:50]  the truth is Iran moved forward with their nuclear weapons development program while happily taking our cash and contending otherwise.
[00:02:59]  Now the Trump administration is demanding real concessions.
[00:03:01]  Mediators from Pakistan, Egypt, and Turkey are scrambling to broker some kind of phased-in deal.
[00:03:08]  Making the point to the Iranians that President Trump means business.
[00:03:12]  The first step would emanate from these talks, which would include a temporary ceasefire, while longer term issues like reopening the Strait of Hormuz and dismantling Iran's enriched uranium stockpile are addressed.
[00:03:25]  But as of right now, Iranian officials are refusing meaningful concessions, saying once again that the regime prioritizes its leverage over peace.
[00:03:34]  The next 48 hours, of course, will be critical.
[00:03:36]  Either Iran comes to the table in good faith, or we will see the true wrath of Donald Trump, and it won't be pretty.
[00:03:43]  Meanwhile, however, my old friend Laura Loomer, she seems to be egging this on.
[00:03:49]  She can't wait to see what parts of Iran Trump destroys tomorrow.
[00:03:54]  She's somehow become a rabid neocon.
[00:03:57]  I think she's just upset because last week she predicted in a social media post that Tosi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, that's the woman who declassified the documents that prove definitively That there was a seditious conspiracy known as the Russian collusion hoax that morphed into the two fake impeachments against Donald Trump,
[00:04:25]  the theft of the 2020 election, the January 6th Fed Surrection, followed by the raid on Mar Lago, and that it's odd that the current CIA director, John Radcliffe, had this classified information in Trump's first term.
[00:04:46]  could have declassified it, which I think would have changed the result of the 2020 election, but for some odd reason did not do so.
[00:04:54]  Tosi Gabbard has done that.
[00:04:56]  Tosi Gabbard, also a decorated war veteran serving the country in the war in Iraq.
[00:05:05]  But Laura Loomer predicted that Tulsi Gabbard would either resign or be fired.
[00:05:12]  I spoke to both the president and Gabbard that very day, finding out that neither one was true.
[00:05:18]  Tulsi Gabbard did not do what Joe Kent did.
[00:05:20]  Joe Kent said in his confirmation hearings, he was like the number two, the head of the number two person at the Department of Intelligence.
[00:05:30]  He said at the time of his confirmation that he believed that the Iranians were very close to the development of a nuclear.
[00:05:39]  Only to resign after the president made a difficult decision to mount the attack on the Iranians after we determined they had at least enough enriched uranium to build seven bombs.
[00:05:51]  But Tulsi Gabbard did not do that.
[00:05:54]  Tulsi Gabbard said in her Senate testimony that she gave the best intelligence she had to the president.
[00:06:02]  Her advice to the president, of course, would be covered under executive privilege, but she said quite correctly. that once the President of the United States makes a decision, it is the job of everyone in his administration to support that decision.
[00:06:15]  So we don't know what Tulsi Gabbard's advice to the President was.
[00:06:19]  We also don't know what Vice President JD Vance's advice was.
[00:06:22]  There's been speculation that he was not as hard-line, but we don't know all of that.
[00:06:29]  At this point, Laura Loomer kind of reminds me of Slim Pickens, you know, riding the nose of a nuclear warhead at the end of Dr. Strangelove.
[00:06:40]  And it is sad, but she's tried all kinds of deflection when I called her out and said that the reports that Gabbard was going to resign or be fired were categorically false.
[00:06:52]  She wants to make this somehow about Charlie Kirk, who I loved, Candace Owens, who I don't know, or Joe Kent, who I've publicly denounced for his behavior, which I find unacceptable.
[00:07:07]  It is important to have diversity of opinion in a presidential administration.
[00:07:11]  Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the respected Democrat senator from New York State, actually worked in the Nixon White House as a domestic policy advisor, particularly on urban policy and also on welfare reform.
[00:07:26]  And he clashed with both George Shultz, who was then the Secretary of Commerce, would later be Secretary of State under Ronald Reagan, Nixon's Attorney General John Mitchell over civil rights issues, but once Nixon made a decision to move ahead and desegregate the public schools, because when Nixon became president, almost 87% of the schools in the country were still segregated.
[00:07:51]  So it wasn't John F. Kennedy or Lyndon Johnson who desegregated the public schools in America, it was Richard Nixon.
[00:07:59]  Richard Nixon also gave us affirmative action, which many of my conservative friends opposed.
[00:08:06]  Richard Nixon, who tripled The funding for civil rights enforcement, Richard Nixon, who had worked with Dr. Martin Luther King to pass the first piece of civil rights legislation, the 1958 Civil Rights Bill, over the ejection of Lyndon Johnson.
[00:08:26]  How about that?
[00:08:27]  So I think that diversity within your administration is a very important point, and it is of great value.
[00:08:37]  Obviously, Pam Bondi, on the other hand, did get fired.
[00:08:41]  And I'm kind of quizzical as to how the president became hypnotized into believing that it was Pam Bondi's fault that nobody had been prosecuted for the Russian collusion conspiracy, when in fact, it is very clearly Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, a man who's now acting Attorney General, who shut down the Justice Department's Office of Weaponization under Eagle Ed Martin.
[00:09:06]  It is Todd Blanche who undermined the Prosecution of New York Attorney General Letitia James for mortgage fraud, who undermined the prosecution of Adam Schiff for mortgage fraud,
[00:09:21]  who undermined the prosecution of James Comey for lying under oath to Congress, a crime I'm familiar with because I was falsely charged with it, when he said that he had never shared classified information with a third party and urged them to give it to the media.
[00:09:40]  An associate of his, Dan Richman, and doing exactly that.
[00:09:46]  Todd Blanche also is the individual who ordered the Missouri U.S. Attorney, who was given authority over the fruits of the Fulton County Board of Elections raid and also the documents taken from Maricopa, Arizona.
[00:10:07]  It is Todd Blanche who has derailed all of those investigations.
[00:10:11]  If it is anyone, Responsible for ordering the U.S. attorney in the Southern District of Florida, who got the authority to prosecute the Russian collusion hoax because the seditious conspiracy ends at Mar-a-Lago, you see, and that's within the Southern District, it would be Blanche.
[00:10:29]  So now Trump has fired Pam Bondi, and the search for a new attorney general goes on.
[00:10:36]  Let's talk about who's not in the running Judge Jeanine Pirro, who I think would be great, but she's too valuable where she is as the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, Alina Habba, former U.S. temporary U.S. Attorney in New Jersey, also a good woman, but not in the running.
[00:10:52]  Ed Martin himself, I'm afraid that won't happen.
[00:10:55]  Of course, the really good news is that Trey Gowdy, who was Lindsey Graham's candidate for attorney, he will also not be Attorney General.
[00:11:03]  There's some speculation about former New York Congressman and EPA Director Lee Zeldin, who I think is a fine man and a great administrator.
[00:11:11]  I hope that there's some truth to that, but Somehow I doubt it.
[00:11:16]  Here's the key thing to remember.
[00:11:18]  It doesn't take 51 votes in the U.S. Senate to be confirmed as attorney general.
[00:11:22]  It takes 60 because the Democrats will filibuster that nomination so that Donald Trump does not get a new attorney general.
[00:11:30]  Now, if they don't filibuster the nomination of Todd Blanche himself, well, then you'll know the fix is in.
[00:11:37]  You see, if the Democrats don't oppose his nomination, it means they understand that Tide Blanche will never prosecute them.
[00:11:44]  And that in itself tells you a great deal.
[00:11:48]  In any event, it is important, I think, that we recognize that this is not about revenge and retaliation.
[00:11:57]  This is about the rule of law.
[00:12:01]  It is about accountability and justice.
[00:12:04]  As one who had their life turned upside down and was later exonerated when Robert Mueller's entire report Was forced into public view by a federal judge, and we learned that the judge withheld exculpatory evidence on page 168.
[00:12:17]  See, the judge wouldn't give it to my lawyers at trial.
[00:12:20]  She said that she would read it in her chambers and give us the sections relevant to me.
[00:12:25]  Somehow she missed page 168, which said there was no evidence of my involvement with Russian collusion, WikiLeaks collaboration, or any other crime.
[00:12:34]  See, they charged me to pressure me into testifying falsely against Donald Trump, something else I refused to do.
[00:12:43]  It is, as I say, therefore about accountability and justice.
[00:12:47]  Now, Laura Loomer knows that I oppose radical Islam as much as she does, but when she attacks Tulsi Gabbard, she attacks a true American patriot who has served her country with distinction, and I think she exposes herself as having gone over to the neo con side of the house.

=== Toys for Tots Donation Appeal (02:10) ===

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[00:13:08]  I'm Roger Stone.
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[00:13:11]  Roger Stone does have a cold today in the zone, but I couldn't bear to be away from you another day.
[00:13:17]  We'll be right back.
[00:13:18]  And when we do, talk about what Tosi Gabbard found out.
[00:13:22]  It's shocking about how U.S. taxpayer dollars were routed to Ukraine and then back into the reelection campaign of Joe Biden.
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[00:14:56]  Yesterday here on the Red Apple Networks, I gave out my Aunt Marie's recipe for traditional Eastern a pie called pizza gain.
[00:15:09]  Pizza gain is made with eggs, cheese, salami, cabagoule.
[00:15:15]  You can throw a little ham in there.

=== Ukrainian Corruption and Missile Secrets (09:52) ===

[00:15:16]  It's kind of like quiche, but it's not like quiche.
[00:15:20]  I saw some people on and say, hey, this is quiche.
[00:15:22]  I said, first, I said, first, we ain't French, and I've never seen salami in quiche, but I promised to put the recipe online after the show, and I just realized I didn't do it.
[00:15:32]  So you can go find me on x at Roger J. Stone Jr.
[00:15:37]  And you can get the full recipe for this Easter treat.
[00:15:42]  It is something that's a great tradition in our family household.
[00:15:46]  A dramatic rescue mission over hostile territories drawing attention not only for its military precision, but also for a powerful expression of faith under fire.
[00:15:56]  According to reports, a U.S. Air Force weapons system officer shot down over Iran after his F-15 was struck on Good Friday radioed a simple message after ejecting, God is good.
[00:16:08]  President Donald Trump highlighted the moment, noting the officer's faith and calling the message a testament to his character.
[00:16:14]  The aircraft was reportedly hit by a shoulder-fired missile, forcing both crew members to eject.
[00:16:22]  While the pilot was recovered quickly, the second officer, wounded and alone, survived for more than 24 hours in mountainous terrain as hostile forces and even civilians searched for him, with report of incentives being offered for his capture.
[00:16:36]  Roughly 200 U.S. Special Operations troops launched a very high-risk Easter morning mission to bring him home safely.
[00:16:43]  Defense officials later confirmed the officer's survival and noted that those who knew him were not surprised by his public expression of faith in God.
[00:16:51]  Secretary of War Pete Hegseth echoed the sentiment after the rescue, simply saying, God is good.
[00:16:58]  The story highlights both the bravery of our U.S. service members and the enduring role of faith in moments of crisis.
[00:17:05]  I've experienced this myself.
[00:17:07]  I'm only with you today because when they tried to lynch and frame me in the Russian collusion hoax and send me to a dank Georgia prison for three to five years.
[00:17:17]  Prosecutors asked for seven to nine.
[00:17:20]  I turned my fate over to God.
[00:17:23]  I reverted to the church.
[00:17:26]  I was redeemed in the blood of the cross and God answered my prayers.
[00:17:31]  Then when my wife, who went through this horrific two-year trial with me, was diagnosed with aggressive stage four cancer, once again we put our faith in the Lord and I'm happy to say she is now five years cancer-free.
[00:17:48]  All praise be to God.
[00:17:50]  So this kind of faith does not surprise me.
[00:17:53]  This story highlights the bravery of our military, but also highlights the dangers that our troops face abroad and the strength, conviction, and resilience that define those who serve.
[00:18:05]  In an increasingly, I guess you'd call it, uncertain world, this rescue stands as a reminder of American resolve and the values that continue to guide us as we fight against Islamic extremism.
[00:18:18]  When we come back, Tulsi Gabbard has done it again.
[00:18:22]  U.S. intelligence accepted communications in which Ukrainian officials discussed a 2022 plot to divert approximately $200 million in American taxpayers' dollars through these phony clean energy projects to Joe Biden's reelection campaign.
[00:18:39]  This is the Tulsi Gabbard that Laura Loomer thinks should be fired.
[00:18:43]  We'll tell you all about it when we come back in the Stone Zone, so don't go away.
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[00:19:35]  So, as I said, U.S. intelligence has intercepted communications in which Ukrainian officials actually discussed a 2022 plot.
[00:19:45]  To divert approximately $200 million in American taxpayers' dollars from phony clean energy projects to Joe Biden's 2024 reelection campaign and to the Democrat National Committee.
[00:19:58]  The Director of National Intelligence, Tosi Gabbard, has directed USAID to review contracts, payments, and internal records to determine whether this alleged scheme involved unspecified U.S. government personnel through USAID in Kyiv, find out whether it was actually ever carried out.
[00:20:17]  Gabbard has ordered a review to determine whether this corrupt plan was carried out and if a referral to the DOJ is warranted.
[00:20:23]  See, in 2022, during the Biden administration, U.S. intelligence officials captured communications in which Ukrainian officials and unspecified U.S. personnel via USIDA in Kyiv discussed this scheme to divert hundreds of millions of dollars in America's taxpayer dollars, originally allocated for Ukraine's clean energy and infrastructure projects, through a phony infrastructure project.
[00:20:46]  The plan called for routing.
[00:20:48]  Approximately 90% of the funds via two American subcontractors in a manner designed to obscure the money trail and direct it to Sleepy Joe's 2024 reelection campaign and the DNC.
[00:21:00]  This, of course, was prior to Barack Obama deciding that Joe was not running for reelection and forcing him out of the race against his will.
[00:21:09]  And then the party of no kings designated a queen for whom nobody voted Kamala Harris, no Democrat primary voter, no Democrat caucus voter, no Democrat delegate.
[00:21:20]  She was just foisted on them.
[00:21:22]  Perhaps the worst candidate for president since, oh, I don't know, George McGovern.
[00:21:28]  In any event, despite the seriousness of these intercepts, the Biden administration took no action.
[00:21:33]  They revealed messages that exposed yet another familiar pattern of corruption.
[00:21:37]  Ukrainian officials, working again with unspecified U.S. personnel, planned to fund a fake infrastructure project that would later be canceled as unnecessary, turning into a massive money-larning operation against the American taxpayers.
[00:21:51]  The report noted that participants believed the funds would be difficult or virtually impossible.
[00:21:56]  To recover once they were allocated.
[00:21:59]  Now, on the Ukrainian side, President Volodymyr Zelensky's administration has been repeatedly plagued by scandals involving senior officials and energy sector corruption.
[00:22:08]  Just months ago, Andrei Yermak, Zelensky's closest political ally and former head of the presidential office, resigned after an anti corruption agency raided his home as part of a major $100 million energy sector corruption scandal.
[00:22:25]  The investigation also implicated Timur Mindich, a longtime Zelensky business partner.
[00:22:31]  from his Kvarchal 95 days fled to Israel to evade accountability.
[00:22:37]  Corruption at the highest levels of Zelensky's government remained an ongoing problem.
[00:22:41]  Ukraine's longstanding reputation of one of Europe's most corrupt nations has only worsened with billions of dollars of aid providing ample further opportunity for self-dealing.
[00:22:53]  USAID to Ukraine has totaled well over $175 billion since the war began, much of it in the form of direct budget support and infrastructure funding.
[00:23:04]  Now, the Biden administration would have you believe that the Russians attacked Ukraine when, in fact, when East and West Germany were united and the Russians agreed to that, we signed an agreement in which we agreed not to push Ukraine into NATO.
[00:23:22]  That is to say, not to mount NATO missiles paid for with our tax dollars.
[00:23:28]  On the ground in Ukraine, pointed at Russia.
[00:23:32]  We signed the Budapest Memorandum, signed by Secretary of State James A. Baker on behalf of President George H.W. Bush.
[00:23:40]  We later reaffirmed that in the so-called Minsk Accords.
[00:23:44]  So from the beginning, Vladimir Putin, who I am no fan of, made it very clear that was a line in the sand.
[00:23:52]  This is very much like the Russians mounting missiles in Cuba 90 miles from our shore in 1963, something that.
[00:24:02]  President John F. Kennedy opposed.
[00:24:04]  Now, we're told in one of the great falsehoods of history that brave Jack and Bobby Kennedy faced down the Russians and Nikita Khrushchev blinked and removed the missiles, when in fact, that's not true.
[00:24:18]  Declassified documents decades later prove that the Kennedys made a secret deal with the Russians to remove our NATO missiles from Italy and Turkey, changing the balance of power in Europe in return for a pledge.
[00:24:35]  From Khrushchev to remove the Cuban missiles.
[00:24:38]  Our ambassador, our last ambassador to Cuba, Earl E.T. Smith, a great friend of Vice President and President Richard Nixon's, believed that the missiles were never actually removed.
[00:24:50]  And indeed, the Cuban Missile Crisis Agreement contained no online inspection to determine whether those missiles were indeed there.
[00:25:03]  So it is Joe Biden who started this war in violation of our treaties.

=== FBI Approval and Congressional Building (14:27) ===

[00:25:09]  Proving once again that we don't live up to our obligations.
[00:25:13]  In this case, these exposed messages uncovered by Gabbard show that the scandal threatens American taxpayers and their trust in U.S. Ukrainian relations.
[00:25:24]  With peace negotiations underway under President Trump, Zelensky's team faces uncomfortable questions about ongoing, seemingly never ending corruption.
[00:25:33]  American voters are already weary of this.
[00:25:36]  Endless blank checks at Kyiv deserve, I think, full transparency.
[00:25:40]  Ultimately, Joe Biden's longstanding Ukrainian entanglements and Zelensky's persistent failure to combat corruption have shattered American trust in all foreign aid.
[00:25:49]  Exposure by Gabbard of this scandal is yet another example.
[00:25:56]  The American people have a right to know the truth, and we need to know who to hold responsible.
[00:26:01]  My good friend, Congressman Tim Burchett, has said that he has seen documentation that much of the money that was sent to Ukraine was funneled back into offshore bank accounts of certain American politicians of both parties, a fact of which I have no doubt.
[00:26:19]  Meanwhile, last week, a federal judge issued a ruling actually blocking further construction work on President Trump's privately funded $400 million ballroom at the White House, claiming that congressional authorization would be needed to complete the project.
[00:26:34]  Judge Richard Leon, an appointee to the bench by George W. Bush, who has establishment bona fides going back to the 1970s, ruled Baselessly, that the executive branch does not have the authority to proceed with a structural upgrade on federal property without approval from Congress.
[00:26:51]  There's a separation of powers issue here.
[00:26:54]  Jeff Clark, a former high-level Department of Justice official, joined us yesterday here on the Red Apple Network to talk about it.
[00:27:01]  President Trump took to truth.
[00:27:03]  Social expresses dismay with Judge Leon's decisions.
[00:27:08]  In the ballroom case, the judge said he would have to get congressional approval.
[00:27:11]  He is wrong.
[00:27:12]  Congressional approval is never given on anything in these circumstances, big or small.
[00:27:17]  Dwight Eisenhower.
[00:27:18]  Barack Obama, Richard Nixon all changed the complex around the old executive office building and the White House.
[00:27:29]  But what has really come to the fore is the fact that not only were we building a ballroom, a necessary facility, but there were all kinds of security apparatuses within this same structure, none of which, of course, all of which, of course, is classified.
[00:27:48]  Under Theodore Roosevelt, the West Wing was constructed as separate office workspaces from the family residence.
[00:27:55]  That was a major structural addition, which Roosevelt framed as a functional improvement to an already overcrowded building.
[00:28:01]  Ultimately, TR's addition was proven to be non-controversial over time, as the West Wing is now perhaps the most noteworthy and famous part of the White House.
[00:28:10]  Then Franklin D. Roosevelt later expanded the West Wing further, added the modern Oval Office, which became an integral part of America.
[00:28:18]  Again, no congressional approval for that during World War III.
[00:28:22]  World War II, pardon me, the FDR also saw construction of the East Wing, partly justified for security and operational needs, as Trump's expansion is.
[00:28:30]  These projects were generally accepted as necessary alterations tied to presidential duties, very similar to what President Trump's proposal is at the current time.
[00:28:38]  Then, of course, Harry Truman had the most dramatic transformation of the White House from 1948 to 1952.
[00:28:46]  The interior of the Executive Mansion was completely gutted and rebuilt, leaving only exterior walls intact.
[00:28:52]  The project was justified under maintenance and safety concerns as the building had become.
[00:28:56]  structurally unsound.
[00:28:58]  Perhaps the critics would have been more happy if the building collapsed while Truman waited for piddling members of Congress to get around to approving the renovations.
[00:29:06]  Subsequent presidents in the modern era have continued to make changes over the same legal authority.
[00:29:11]  Ronald Reagan oversaw updates to wiring, security systems, and structural elements.
[00:29:15]  No approval by Congress.
[00:29:17]  Bill Clinton and George W. Bush implemented technological upgrades and security expansions after evolving threats.
[00:29:23]  Barack Obama improved modernization, including energy efficiency upgrades and interior renovations.
[00:29:29]  Court Richard Nixon very famously installed a bowling alley in the White House complex.
[00:29:34]  And Barack Obama refurbished that bowling alley.
[00:29:38]  So you see, you only have to get approval if you're Donald Trump.
[00:29:43]  The judge is wrong, and he will be overruled.
[00:29:45]  President Trump took aim in particular at the National Trust for Historic Preservation, a group of infiltrated leftists that have developed Trump derangement syndrome and devised these petty rationales to undermine President Trump's achievements largely out of spite.
[00:30:00]  The president said that the National Trust for Historic Preservation sues me for a ballroom that is under budget, ahead of schedule, being built at no cost to U.S. taxpayers, and will be the finest building of its kind anywhere in the world.
[00:30:12]  Then I get sued by them over the renovation of the dilapidated and structurally unsound former Kennedy Center.
[00:30:20]  Yet the National Trust for Historic Preservation, a radical left group of lunatics whose funding was stopped by Congress in 2005, is not suing the Federal Reserve for their building, which has been decimated and destroyed inside now. by the incompetent and possibly correct Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell.
[00:30:41]  Powell has a $2.6 billion budget to rebuild the palatial headquarters for the Federal Reserve.
[00:30:51]  Powell, the chairman of the Fed, testified before the U.S. Senate, and he specifically said that the renovation included no private elevators for the board governors.
[00:31:01]  That turns out to be a lie.
[00:31:03]  No private dining room for the board governors.
[00:31:05]  That turned out to be a lie.
[00:31:07]  No palatial roof garden for the board governors only.
[00:31:12]  Yet another lie.
[00:31:14]  Strangely, Jerome Toolate Powell, a man who refuses to cut interest rates on the working families of America, even though the two indicators he's supposed to use to make that judgment. the inflation rate and the unemployment rate would signify that the times are right for a deep cut in the rules.
[00:31:32]  Strangely enough, Powell lied to Congress under oath, but he's not been prosecuted.
[00:31:38]  Funny how that works.
[00:31:40]  Following this recent ruling by the out of control Judge Leon, the Trump administration indicated it would, of course, appeal the decision.
[00:31:47]  They certainly should, as lawfare meant to limit the majesty of President Trump's proposed ballroom are really an attempt to destroy his legacy.
[00:31:54]  President Trump's past as a developer deserves to be woven into the very fabric of our nation.
[00:32:00]  He's a builder.
[00:32:01]  An improvement to the White House that will allow thousands of people to further enjoy the White House as the People's House provides value throughout the time immemorial.
[00:32:09]  Bureaucrats and left-wing activist judges must not be allowed to stand in the way of true progress.
[00:32:16]  When we come back, I want to talk about the raid on Mar-Lago.
[00:32:20]  This is the raid that the FBI doesn't want you to know about.
[00:32:24]  Turns out that documents recently turned up demonstrate that the FBI repeatedly warned the Biden Department of Justice that there was no probable cause for the FBI agents to raid the home of a former president and root through First Lady Melania Trump's underwear draw the same way they rooted through my wife's underwear draw when they raided my home at 6 o'clock in the morning.
[00:32:52]  This is a disgrace, but it puts the jeopardy of those behind this crime squarely on the line because.
[00:33:01]  The judges in South Florida are not like the judges in the District of Columbia.
[00:33:05]  See, they actually follow the Constitution and the law.
[00:33:08]  We come back.
[00:33:09]  We're going to talk about that raid on Mar-Lago and what they did and did not know.
[00:33:13]  But here's the most disappointing thing about the raid: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis was told in advance that Mar-Lago would be raided by the FBI.
[00:33:23]  Did he give President Donald Trump a heads up?
[00:33:26]  No, he did not.
[00:33:28]  Now he wants to be in the Trump cabinet.
[00:33:30]  Good luck with that.
[00:33:32]  Ron DeSantis, a A backstabber, a betrayer, a man who owes his governorship and his rise to the Florida governorship to Donald Trump, plunged a knife directly into his back, hoping that Trump would go to prison and he would somehow emerge as the Republican nominee.
[00:33:51]  So, for those who think that Ron DeSantis may be your next attorney general or your next secretary of war, I say guess again.
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[00:35:02]  You know, there are moments in the life of a republic when the veil slips, when the carefully curated facade of institutional integrity gives way to something.
[00:35:10]  Far more unsettling.
[00:35:12]  The Biden administration's FBI raid on Donald Trump's home at Mar Lago was not merely a law enforcement action.
[00:35:19]  It was a rupture.
[00:35:21]  Now Judicial Watch has uncovered newly discovered internal documents that reveal that even within the FBI itself, there were grave doubts about the legal foundation for this extraordinary intrusion, doubts that were brushed aside by Biden's Department OF Justice, determined to proceed with that raid.
[00:35:39]  At the heart of the matter lies their operation Plasmic ECHO.
[00:35:43]  I don't know who makes up these names, but that one's not very good.
[00:35:45]  The codename for the FBI's secret investigation into Trump's handling of presidential records.
[00:35:51]  Now, according to the Presidential Records Act, a current or former president has full authority to maintain and declassify any document that he pleases.
[00:36:03]  But according to the internal communications, the FBI's Washington field office explicitly stated it did not believe that probable cause existed to justify a search warrant for Mar-Lago.
[00:36:15]  So let that sink in for a moment.
[00:36:17]  The agents on the ground, the professionals entrusted with the solemn responsibility for safeguarding constitutional rights, concluded that the legal threshold had not yet been met.
[00:36:27]  Yet the Department of Justice under Merrick Garland pressed forward regardless, culminating in an unprecedented raid on the home of a former president.
[00:36:36]  We now know that they staged photographs to make it appear that Trump had maintained classified documents.
[00:36:43]  Why were they so desperate to get these documents?
[00:36:45]  I'll tell you what I think.
[00:36:47]  I think it's because these are the documents that were declassified by Tulsi Gabbard.
[00:36:52]  These are the documents that show that Obama, Biden, Comey, Clapper, Rice, Hillary Clinton, John Podesta, Rod Rosenstein, these people engaged in a seditious conspiracy.
[00:37:07]  So one is compelled to ask, since when does the absence of probable cause become a mere inconvenience?
[00:37:15]  An August 4th, 2022 email provides a chilling clue to that question.
[00:37:20]  A senior FBI official expressed concerns over DOJ's handling of pre-search communications, quoting a DOJ official who said, frankly, they didn't give a damn about optics.
[00:37:31]  Such a cavalier disregard for the perception of justice is not merely unseemly.
[00:37:36]  I think it is corrosive.
[00:37:38]  Justice must not only be done, it must be seen to be done.
[00:37:42]  When those we entrust with its execution dismiss optics entirely, they invite the very suspicion that now engulfs this case.
[00:37:50]  The origins of the investigation are equally revealing.
[00:37:53]  Plasmic Echo was opened as a sensitive investigation matter following coordination between FBI headquarters, the deputy director, the Office of General Counsel, and the Department of Justice.
[00:38:06]  Sensitive investigation matter or SIM.
[00:38:09]  That's what allowed them to hide these documents.
[00:38:12]  Yet, what catalyzed this extraordinary mobilization of federal power?
[00:38:16]  Not solely internal deliberations, but external agitation.
[00:38:20]  In the files, a letter from an activist organization called Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.
[00:38:26]  By the way, they always give these organizations names that indicate the exact opposite of what they are doing.
[00:38:33]  In this particular case, this operation ran by Norm Eisen, the epic criminal who staged the entire Russian collusion hoax, as well as the Arctis Frost extra constitutional effort to destroy Donald Trump, filed a complaint with the FBI, which was immediately acted on upon days.
[00:38:51]  The implications are pretty unmistakable.
[00:38:54]  So these left leaning advocacy groups were not merely spectators, but they were actually participants in the genesis of a federal investigation targeting a former investigation.
[00:39:04]  The question here remains the same.
[00:39:07]  Will anybody be held accountable for these egregious violations of both the law and the Constitution?
[00:39:13]  For those who think that Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is the answer, in fact, he has been the man preventing anybody from being brought to justice under the law, and I think his appointment to the Attorney General's office would be tragic.
[00:39:29]  If the Democrats indicate they're willing to pass it, that tells you that the fix is in.
[00:39:33]  Thanks for listening to Stone Zone.
[00:39:35]  Talk to you tomorrow.