The StoneZONE - Roger Stone - The Stone Zone | 04-23-26
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=== Fragile Ceasefire and Gold (11:41) ===

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[00:00:41]  This is The Stone Zone with Roger Stone.
[00:00:44]  People love him and respect him.
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[00:00:49]  It's The Stone Zone.
[00:00:51]  Here's Roger Stone.
[00:00:55]  It is so good to be back in The Stone Zone after spending almost a week in Washington, D.C.
[00:01:02]  I want to thank Jake Novak for very capably stepping in here and hosting the show, but I've been able to call in and give minute-to-minute reports on my visits to the Oval Office.
[00:01:14]  general tenor of things in Washington, D.C. When I went in to see the president, I guess it was Wednesday, although I was there a couple days, he was in the middle of a meeting with Doug Burgum, the Secretary of the Interior, and about four or five suits from the Interior Department.
[00:01:34]  And they were on easels, there were all of these renderings of the Washington, D.C. waterfront.
[00:01:41]  And spread across the president's desk were blueprints and other documents.
[00:01:47]  and renderings pertaining to his redoing the waterfront.
[00:01:54]  I saw Donald Trump, the real estate mogul, as opposed to Donald Trump, the president.
[00:01:59]  But he's still a visionary.
[00:02:01]  He's saying things like, well, look, I want infinity stairs going into the water right here.
[00:02:06]  I don't want pole lighting.
[00:02:07]  I want stadium lighting.
[00:02:09]  But, Doug, I don't want anybody falling in the water, so maybe we should have a railing along here.
[00:02:13]  Now, here, over here where the restaurant is, that's in the wrong place.
[00:02:17]  The restaurant should be over here.
[00:02:19]  The amphitheater, on the other hand, should be over here.
[00:02:21]  And then I want trees.
[00:02:22]  lots of trees.
[00:02:23]  Doug, what kind of trees do we have?
[00:02:25]  You know, and Secretary Burgum said, well, sir, we could certainly put in cherry blossoms.
[00:02:30]  And Trump said, no, cherry blossoms look like, you know, all but two weeks a year.
[00:02:36]  I don't want cherry blossoms.
[00:02:37]  What other kind of trees can we have?
[00:02:39]  And Burgum says, well, Mr. President, you can have whatever kind of trees you want.
[00:02:43]  So I said, I want a lot of trees.
[00:02:45]  And I think we should need, we need to take a lot of those statues we have of great American heroes that are in storage, controlled by the National Archives.
[00:02:54]  We want the more Americans can see them.
[00:02:58]  And he pulled out a list of all those statues of greats, the founding fathers and so on.
[00:03:05]  I did notice that Robert E. Lee was on the list, but he was not among those that the president chose.
[00:03:10]  I think it's a great idea.
[00:03:11]  This statuary is beautiful.
[00:03:14]  It was created by artisans through the decades, and the American people should have a chance to enjoy them.
[00:03:20]  He's redoing the entire waterfront of Washington, D.C.
[00:03:24]  And the last thing he said to Burgum before he ended that meeting and my meeting began was, you know, Doug, I always say you can't go, you'll never go broke investing in on water real estate.
[00:03:36]  So it was really great to see.
[00:03:39]  The president is overwhelmingly, of course, concerned with the war, which he's working very hard to bring to a conclusion.
[00:03:47]  He extended the ceasefire, but it's very fragile.
[00:03:50]  This is a temporary ceasefire.
[00:03:53]  Both sides are still taking military actions, which is undermining trust in the whole process.
[00:03:59]  In simple terms, while fighting has slowed, the war is not over, and the ceasefire could collapse at any moment.
[00:04:06]  It is true that Trump has done very extraordinary damage to their infrastructure and to their military, and he essentially has pulverized their navy.
[00:04:17]  Now, Iran says they're open to talks, but that's only in theory.
[00:04:21]  But they claim U.S. actions like sanctions, threats, and naval blockade make real negotiations impossible.
[00:04:29]  The U.S. is waiting for Iran to present a unified proposal, which they still, of course, haven't done.
[00:04:34]  Bottom line, both sides say they want talks, but neither one seems to be willing to compromise first.
[00:04:40]  The major sticking points, according to those in the White House, are the key issues in Donald Trump's list.
[00:04:47]  He demands an end to Iran's nuclear and missile programs.
[00:04:51]  I hate to upset some in the Trump entourage who may think otherwise.
[00:04:56]  I'm not going to name any names, Steve Bannon.
[00:05:00]  But Donald Trump has held that position since 1988.
[00:05:03]  He said that very thing when he and I went to New Hampshire for him to address the Portsmouth, New Hampshire Chamber of Commerce when he was kind of first testing the waters for a presidential bid back in those days.
[00:05:19]  He seriously contemplated a run in 2000 as well, then as the candidate of the Reform Party.
[00:05:28]  And of course, for years, the media thought he was never really ever going to run for president, that this was just some kind of a publicity stunt.
[00:05:35]  or some way to burnish the Trump brand.
[00:05:38]  But in truth, I think that his timing was excellent.
[00:05:42]  In other words, I think all those times I wanted him to run, because I wanted him to run in 1988, I wanted him to run in 2000, I wanted him to run in 2012, and those times were not right.
[00:05:54]  2016 was the time that for the first time in American history, we elected someone president who had not been a governor, a senator, a congressman, or a general.
[00:06:04]  In other words, a non-politician.
[00:06:07]  And Trump like Reagan, although he's the president of the United States, still kind of maintains his outsider status.
[00:06:14]  And I must tell you, the president looked extraordinarily healthy, extraordinarily vibrant.
[00:06:19]  He was in a great mood.
[00:06:20]  He's very funny.
[00:06:21]  He can be very, very entertaining.
[00:06:24]  But he is dead serious about the fact that he believes at this point having the Straits of Hormuz closed is actually a good thing for us because others, including the Iranians themselves, need to get their oil through there.
[00:06:40]  The U.S. has really increased exceptionally the military pressure under the orders of the Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, including orders to attack Iranian vessels.
[00:06:52]  The Iranians have seized some ships and threatened to keep the Straits closed.
[00:06:56]  It is, as you know, a huge global oil source.
[00:07:00]  Earlier peace talks that were brokered by the Pakistanis and others essentially have collapsed.
[00:07:06]  This escalation makes the deal less likely, I guess, in the short term.
[00:07:10]  The internal politics in Iran, however, complicating things.
[00:07:13]  Hardline figures, like some of the military leadership tied to the Republican Guard, are reportedly blocking any kind of compromise and pushing a hardline stance.
[00:07:25]  So the bottom line is we still don't have a finalized peace deal right now.
[00:07:29]  We do have a a fragile, a very fragile ceasefire, but negotiations are still stalled.
[00:07:37]  I do think there's a point by which Donald Trump will not be pushed, and I think we may well get there, but we shall see.
[00:07:42]  Of course, all eyes were on Virginia.
[00:07:45]  If you're a political junkie like me, there was a hyper-partisan redistricting measure which was put on the ballot as a constitutional amendment in Virginia, which very narrowly passed in a move that was likely, if it had succeeded, to give Democrats more congressional representation in this year's midterms.
[00:08:03]  They basically wanted to take what was a six to five balance of Democrats to Republicans and turn it into a lopsided 10 to one Democrat advantage.
[00:08:14]  That plan very, very narrowly passed.
[00:08:18]  Now, the reason that that's interesting is that the Republicans waged virtually no effort whatsoever while Democrats worked hard, and it was extraordinarily close.
[00:08:26]  That's a good sign in what is now a reliably blue state.
[00:08:32]  What makes the whole thing particularly controversial is their governor, Abigail Spanberger now.
[00:08:39]  She campaigned as a moderate.
[00:08:41]  She's, of course, a former CIA officer and she said during the cam repeatedly during the campaign for governor last year she had no plans to redistrict, and then she turned around and led this movement that undermines voter confidence and really disproportionately sidelines the more rural communities of Virginia.
[00:09:01]  Even more concerning was the ballot language itself, which may have violated state law by framing the proposal as quote, restoring fairness.
[00:09:10]  Who would vote against that?
[00:09:11]  A phrase that is biased and meant to influence voters in itself.
[00:09:15]  This is why in states like Florida, the ballot language has to be approved by the Supreme Court before any such question can on the ballot to do away with that ballot wording bias.
[00:09:26]  Of course, Democrats look the other way as they work diligently to secure their power grab.
[00:09:30]  Currents maps already closely reflect the voter preferences.
[00:09:34]  It's a fairly evenly divided state.
[00:09:37]  But now, in a new development, a Virginia court stepped in to halt this deceptively worded referendum that passed last Tuesday.
[00:09:46]  That gives immense political power to the Democrats if it passes.
[00:09:50]  In a decisive ruling, Taswell Circuit Court Judge Jack Hurtley blocked the state from certifying the results of the redistricting referendum that very narrowly passed on April 21st.
[00:10:01]  The court found that the process behind the referendum violated multiple state laws.
[00:10:06]  According to the ruling, for example, allowing certification would cause harm, particularly Republican lawmakers, by legitimizing what was an unlawful process.
[00:10:15]  The judge went further, actually.
[00:10:17]  I was shocked when he declared that all votes tied the referendum were ineffective and issued an injunction to stop certification of the results entirely.
[00:10:27]  So had the measure gone forward, Virginia's congressional delegation once again would have shifted dramatically from the closely divided six to five balance to this lopsided 10 to one.
[00:10:36]  The Democrat Attorney General Jay Jones expressed his outrage, of course he did, at the ruling announcing plans to appeal and accusing the court of overriding the will of the people.
[00:10:47]  But this ruling is about upholding the rule of law and preventing the most egregious gerrymandering effort perhaps in political history.
[00:10:55]  By the way, it's called gerrymandering, named after a legislator in Massachusetts whose last name was Jerry.
[00:11:01]  And the election processes must always, in my view, be lawful and transparent.
[00:11:06]  If we don't have free, fair, and honest elections, what do we have?
[00:11:10]  This idea of manipulating to achieve a predetermined political outcome is strictly unconstitutional.
[00:11:17]  The court deserves, I think, real kudos for putting the kibosh on this whole ridiculous thing.
[00:11:23]  The legal battle that will continue shows Republicans are Far from being screwed in West Virginia, the battle to continue onward, and if the referendum is ultimately overturned, it will show that Democrats and their devious schemes to consolidate power will simply no longer be tolerated.

=== Gerrymandering and Election Integrity (02:16) ===

[00:11:41]  When we come back, we're going to talk a lot about the Southern Rogers Law Center.
[00:11:45]  We'll be right back.
[00:11:47]  The Southern.
[00:11:49]  Well, let's see.
[00:11:50]  You guys are getting ahead of me here.
[00:11:52]  The Department of Justice has filed these sweeping criminal charges against the Southern.
[00:11:56]  Poverty Law Center.
[00:11:58]  This is a group that you may sometime have gotten a fundraiser for.
[00:12:01]  It's basically a fundraising scam.
[00:12:03]  They scare all these little old ladies on the upper east side of New York into giving, west side of New York, I should say, more personally, giving contributions to fight extremism.
[00:12:15]  But it turns out that they themselves were funding the extremism that they were soliciting people to fight.
[00:12:20]  So when we come back, we're going to talk a little bit about the Southern Poverty Law Center.
[00:12:26]  It was started originally by a guy named Roger Craver, who was a direct mail fundraising genius.
[00:12:31]  The Southern Poverty Law Center thinks anybody to the right of Billy Graham is an extremist.
[00:12:37]  They publish a book in which they call me and others like me names.
[00:12:42]  But they've now been indicted in a giant criminal indictment.
[00:12:45]  I'm giving big credit to Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche for trying to bring this leftist group to justice.
[00:12:52]  You're in the right place to get the inside story on the Southern Poverty Law Center.
[00:12:56]  You're listening to The Stone Zone, and we will be right back.
[00:13:01]  This is the Stone Zone with Roger Stone.
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[00:13:37]  People forget he's actually a brilliant, brilliant political analyst.
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=== The Stone Zone Returns (16:00) ===

[00:13:58]  President Donald Trump actually heroically secured a last-minute reversal from Iran that spared the lives of eight women facing execution.
[00:14:05]  In a statement, President Trump confirmed that Iran had halted the planned executions.
[00:14:10]  Four of the women will be released immediately, while the remaining four will remain to serve short one-month. prison sentences, a massive shift from what had been expected.
[00:14:21]  The women identified by human rights advocates were reportedly targeted for protesting against the regime.
[00:14:27]  See, that's what people want to say how brutal this regime is.
[00:14:31]  They killed in the streets as many as 46,000 of their own citizens who were merely protesting.
[00:14:38]  But when you don't have food, that's a big motivator.
[00:14:41]  The case quickly gained international attention, where once again, President Donald Trump called on Iran to stand down, this time through his truth social account.
[00:14:52]  This instance just shows how President Trump's approach to Iran is working towards bringing that country back to sanity.
[00:14:59]  Other world leaders would attempt appeasement, but Donald Trump's approach is making clear demands backed by pressure has delivered immediate results.
[00:15:07]  It's just kind of interesting to me.
[00:15:08]  It was the day before yesterday, 1994, that President Nixon, my mentor, passed away.
[00:15:16]  And not since the days of Nixon and Kissinger have we had a president who used not only focused American military power, but also economic leverage as well as diplomacy to try to move a foreign policy forward.
[00:15:32]  Trump is indeed playing 5D chess while the Chinese and the Ukrainians are playing checkers.
[00:15:38]  This administration has made it clear that it will not rush into weak agreements and refuses to lose focus on the entire goal of stopping Iran's ability to enrich enough uranium to make nuclear bombs.
[00:15:51]  They actually bragged about this at the negotiation tables. during the first Pakistan hearings.
[00:15:59]  Vice President JD Vance himself told me that they said that they may have enough enriched uranium to build as many as 11 nuclear bombs.
[00:16:10]  And of course, their friends in China would give them the necessary missiles to deliver them.
[00:16:16]  Simultaneously, the White House pushed back on media reports suggesting that Iran remains stronger militarily than previously disclosed as entirely fake news, which really just tries to downplay Iran's vulnerabilities.
[00:16:29]  in a ploy to hamper the president's foreign policy.
[00:16:32]  The situation with Iran remains tenuous, as I said earlier in the show, but President Trump has now at least saved eight lives.
[00:16:39]  This serves as a reminder that decisive American leadership still makes a difference as we remain a force for good in the world.
[00:16:47]  When we come back, we're going to talk once again about the Southern Poverty Law Center and the heroic action of acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, who has finally busted this scam.
[00:17:00]  This is a scam, where it turns out that they were actually paying for the Klansmen and the neo-Nazi organizations that they were soliciting money to fight.
[00:17:13]  Something an FBI agent who's retired now once told me, if you went to a Klan meeting, there was only one problem.
[00:17:18]  If there were 10 people there, nine of them would be government informants and only one would be a real Klansman.
[00:17:25]  You're listening to the Stone Zone right here on the Red Apple Audio Networks, and we'll have more hot politics for you on the other side.
[00:17:31]  Don't go away.
[00:17:32]  We'll be right back.
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[00:19:05]  Welcome back into the Stone Zone.
[00:19:09]  As I said earlier, the Department of Justice has filed sweeping criminal charges against the far left agitators of the Southern Poverty Law Center, a group that had portrayed itself as a watchdog against extremism, but in actuality was anything but.
[00:19:25]  See, the federal indictment issued by Attorney General Todd Blanche, the acting Attorney General, actually, shows the SPLC included six counts of wire fraud, four counts of bank fraud, and one count of money laundering.
[00:19:38]  The charges stem from allegations that the Southern Poverty Law Center secretly paid individuals tied to extremist groups, including white supremacists.
[00:19:48]  to promote and amplify racial tensions.
[00:19:51]  Federal prosecutors say the organization spent millions of dollars on so-called field sources, some of whom were deeply embedded into groups like the Ku Klux Klan and other neo-Nazi organizations.
[00:20:02]  In one glaring example, an individual connected to the planning of the 2017 Charlottesville rally, where violence left one person dead, was allegedly paid hundreds of thousands of dollars over several years.
[00:20:16]  So this indictment claims that those paid sources actively promoted extremist activity.
[00:20:22]  while the SPLC publicly condemned it, raising serious questions about whether the group was manufacturing threats for their own financial gain.
[00:20:31]  Perhaps most troubling, officials said, that the SPLC never disclosed these payments to law enforcement, despite representing themselves as trusted sources of intelligence that work to train federal officials.
[00:20:45]  This case, filed by the Trump Justice Department, will now move forward in federal court, where the organization will have to answer for what critics have long suspected, that is, a widely circulated hate map that they put out.
[00:20:57]  Public accusations may have been built on deeply flawed and most likely completely false information.
[00:21:05]  The threat of white supremacy in America has always been a red herring.
[00:21:08]  The real racism coming from against white people, I think, as we saw during the Black Lives Matter pogroms of the 2020.
[00:21:15]  It's time to lock up the leadership of the Southern Poverty Law Center once and all and throw away the keys.
[00:21:23]  As I told President Donald Trump when I met with him, Republicans have a real problem in U.S. Congressman Cory Mills.
[00:21:30]  Cory Mills lied to the president, went around the White House political operation, very ably led by James Blair, the deputy assistant to the president.
[00:21:41]  I think he recently resigned to go on the outside and run the $5 billion effort to win the 2026 elections.
[00:21:48]  the very able James Blair, good friend, to the White House Chief of Staff, Susie Wiles.
[00:21:56]  But Mills went around that process, calling the president directly in order to secure an endorsement for his reelection.
[00:22:05]  He specifically lied to President Trump, who asked him whether there was a restraining order in place filed by an ex-girlfriend.
[00:22:13]  Information has now come out that shows that Congressman Mills, as a matter of fact, lied to President Trump in a desperate attempt to save his own hide.
[00:22:22]  In fact, in a decision made in the 3rd District Court of Florida, an injunction for protection against violence was filed on behalf of a former Miss USA, Lindsay Langston, which she filed against Mills.
[00:22:36]  The injunction was approved by Judge Fred Coberline Jr. and remained in effect until January 1st of this year, preventing Mills from committing any acts of domestic violence and stopping him from being within 500 feet of his victim.
[00:22:51]  Why would he lie to the President of the United States about this?
[00:22:54]  The case centers on Mills and Langston, whose relationship, I think, lasted about a year before it started to deteriorate.
[00:23:01]  That would have been 2025.
[00:23:02]  In court filings, Langston accused Mills of threatening to release explicit revenge-borne material of her in an attempt to coerce her silence over alleged abuse, providing screenshots of text messages that indicated that all that was true.
[00:23:19]  Langston also accused Mills of controlling and intimidating behavior as well as repeated the unwanted contact after the relationship had ended.
[00:23:28]  The court found sufficient evidence that there was a credible threat or fear on Langston's part for her safety and granted her the temporary restraining order that Mills very specifically lied to the president about when he said it didn't exist.
[00:23:43]  This is far from an isolated example for Mills, who is a diminutive little character who poses as a tough guy.
[00:23:51]  He's falsified his military record as well.
[00:23:55]  He's been dogged by a variety of depraved and reprehensible scandals almost too bizarre to be believed.
[00:24:02]  The sheer incredulousness of his offenses seems to be how Mills hopes to survive despite a resume of skullduggery that puts him among the most loathsome reprobates ever to serve in Congress.
[00:24:14]  In the most recent publicized event caught on video from February 2025, Iranian-American activist Sarah Raviani, another girlfriend of Mills, Called law enforcement at 4.30 in the morning, Washington, D.C., to report that she had been assaulted.
[00:24:32]  Raviani told Officer Richard Malzum that Mills had become very abusive during an altercation, grabbed her, shoved her, and then forced her out of his apartment.
[00:24:43]  Officers saw Raviani with bruises on her arms and marks near her face that were consistent with a physical altercation.
[00:24:51]  Raviani, crying while recounting her story, said she wanted the instances documented so it doesn't happen to anyone else.
[00:24:59]  At that point, the officer, the police officer, believed there was probable cause for arrest.
[00:25:04]  While still with the police, Ms. Raviani received a phone call.
[00:25:07]  After getting on the phone, Raviani quickly began to change her story with the officers, believing that she did so after being coerced by Mills himself.
[00:25:16]  She told officers that he wants me to say that the injuries came from a vacation because she bruises easily.
[00:25:24]  Then Raviani claimed that both she and Corey Mills were physical during the altercation, yet stating contradictorily that she did not quite remember what happened because she was too drunk and that the testimony she gave previously was issued under duress.
[00:25:41]  Officer Malzoum was not convinced by Raviani's story and wished to arrest Corey Mills, the congressman from Florida's 7th District, as the injuries and the initial statement met the legal criteria for arrest.
[00:25:55]  Mills was warned that he could be placed in handcuffs and that they were legally obliged to arrest him as they prepared to transport the congressman to be formally charged.
[00:26:04]  Mills expressed concern that the situation could be weaponized against him politically, fearing that he could be held accountable for his violent, degenerate behavior.
[00:26:14]  This is when a supervising lieutenant intervened, classifying the incident as a family disturbance, although Mills and Raviani were not even related.
[00:26:24]  The Metropolitan Police Department formally requested an arrest warrant for Mills the next day.
[00:26:29]  But the prosecutor refused to sign it, and no warrant was ever issued.
[00:26:33]  Now, Corey Mills is fighting a move by Nancy Mace and Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna, one of my favorites, to expel him from the House.
[00:26:43]  If we are going to hold Eric Swalwell, the degenerate congressman, a former congressman now from California, for his behavior, then as Republicans, I think we have to be consistent.
[00:26:55]  In addition to the serial abuse behavior against women, Mills was already under subject to an inquiry in the U.S. House Ethics Committee.
[00:27:05]  This is not your typical deep state witch hunt, but rather a legitimate investigation on whether Mills' unethical business endeavors are serious.
[00:27:15]  Mills is accused of improperly benefiting financially from serving in Congress, failing to disclose key financial information, and maintaining conflicts of interest tied to government contracts.
[00:27:26]  Before entering Congress, Mills had founded and led Pachem Defense, a supplier of defense and security equipment, including such as selling rubber bullets to the Chinese Communist police that are oppressing the people in Hong Kong.
[00:27:42]  His firm has frequently done business with U.S. government agencies and foreign governments, a clear conflict of interest.
[00:27:49]  But after Mills entered Congress, reports have indicated the companies connected to him continued to receive federal contracts estimated to be worth millions of dollars.
[00:27:59]  This is rank corruption.
[00:28:01]  Members of Congress are not only outright banned from owning businesses, but it is illegal to derive direct financial benefit from federal contracts.
[00:28:10]  Pretty clear that's what Corey Mills did here.
[00:28:14]  These situations create a conflict between public duty and private gain.
[00:28:19]  Mills' activity potentially puts him in violation of 18 U.S.C.-431-432, as well as House rules.
[00:28:27]  Investigators are examining whether Mills divested properly or whether he's obtained secret, indirect financial benefits from these contracts.
[00:28:36]  Now, the reason this is so important, of course, is that the Republicans currently have but a three-seat margin.
[00:28:44]  The 7th District of Florida is a leans Republican, but it is not a deep red district.
[00:28:52]  Corey Mills is the Republican candidate.
[00:28:55]  The Democrats know everything I said, just said, not to mention questions about the shady financing of his campaigns and whether he, in fact, lied about receiving a Brown's Star Medal.
[00:29:09]  Mills was swept into Congress initially based on this alleged history as some kind of war hero.
[00:29:14]  He did, in fact, serve in the U.S. Army from 1999 to 2003.
[00:29:19]  He claims that he received a bronze medal, but his fellow veterans attest that Mills' stories of his bravery and about his service have been largely exaggerated or outlawed forklifts.
[00:29:30]  Mills claims that he helped evacuate hundreds of wounded soldiers while under enemy file.
[00:29:36]  The problem is that none of those soldiers seem to remember that story.
[00:29:42]  So this is a real problem for Mike Johnson and President Donald Trump because Many in the House will not vote to expel Mills, despite the fact that Congresswoman Nancy Mace of South Carolina filed a motion to expel Mills.

=== Mills Ethics and Stolen Valor (04:11) ===

[00:29:58]  Mills then filed a motion, which I thought was quite childish, to expel Mace for bringing a motion to expel Mills.
[00:30:07]  The whole thing is a black eye to the Republican Party.
[00:30:14]  Going back to his military service, one soldier, Joe Height, who was Mills' is supposedly credited with saving, frankly said, he didn't save my life.
[00:30:23]  He received the Bronze Star in 2021, many years after his service based on the unverified narrative that he put forward.
[00:30:30]  It appears to me that while Mills did serve honorably for four years, much of his heroism was part of a stolen valor ploy concocted for the purpose of running for political office.
[00:30:40]  Look, I may be a freak.
[00:30:42]  I've done some strange things in my life, but I've never beat up any women.
[00:30:46]  He most definitely has beat up at least two.
[00:30:48]  And there's ongoing questions about drug use and other issues.
[00:30:53]  This is not a seat the Republicans can afford to lose.
[00:30:57]  It kind of goes from Orlando all the way over to the sea, to over to New Smyrna Beach.
[00:31:04]  But I understand that Curtis Leopoldi, a local businessman who's self-sufficient, has announced that he is, or about to announce, that he's going to run against Corey Mills and that he's going to fund his own campaign, meaning he won't take any special interest money.
[00:31:21]  That means Republicans won't be left in the lurch as a June filing date approaches.
[00:31:27]  approaches.
[00:31:29]  I'm very concerned here that a number of the Republicans in the House will not vote to expel Mills, even if Nancy Mace's motion comes to the floor, because there's an ongoing ethics investigation, and Mills, even a reprobate like him, a very, very, very small reprobate like him, is entitled to due process.
[00:31:51]  So many will want to wait for the outcome of that ethics investigation before they make a decision.
[00:31:58]  To me, there's enough already on the public record to merit.
[00:32:01]  Expelling him.
[00:32:01]  Now, they could expel him as Adam Clayton Powell Jr., the legendary Harlem congressman, was expelled from the Congress.
[00:32:10]  And then Powell ran in the special election that was created and was returned to his seat.
[00:32:16]  But there's no chance of that happening here.
[00:32:19]  If Corey Mills is expelled, that will be the end of him.
[00:32:22]  If Republican leaders do not move quickly to embrace the candidacy of someone else in that district, we will lose this seat in a year in which every single House seat will count.
[00:32:34]  So I have publicly called on Cory Mills to uh, to step down.
[00:32:39]  Actually, what I said was, stand up, Cory Mills.
[00:32:42]  Oh, you are standing up.
[00:32:44]  The diminutive congressman from Virginia Pardon Me, from Florida needs to throw in the towel, and if not, well then I call on speaker Mike Johnson to call the question and expel him.
[00:32:56]  This is becoming a flashpoint for the Republican party.
[00:32:59]  I've sent a research package on Cory Mills to every single Republican member of congress by email.
[00:33:05]  It was a massive project.
[00:33:07]  I got a lot of help from my staff on that.
[00:33:09]  And I'm going to keep talking about this until they throw him out the way we threw Eric Swallow out.
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=== Rescheduling Marijuana for Medicine (05:00) ===

[00:34:09]  Well, the Trump administration is taking a major step forward, expanding medical freedom by officially changing the federal classification of cannabis.
[00:34:19]  That's all.
[00:34:20]  also known as marijuana.
[00:34:21]  Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche announced that the Justice Department will reclassify state-licensed marijuana from a Schedule I drug, where it currently is, along substances like heroin that have no medicinal benefit, to the far less restrictive Schedule III category.
[00:34:39]  Now, back in 2017, right after Trump was elected, I formed, with a number of others, the United States Cannabis Coalition to advocate for exactly this.
[00:34:51]  And the president is now doing it.
[00:34:53]  See, the war on drugs, as it was first launched by President Richard Nixon, was focused at drug dealers and drug traffickers and drug kingpins.
[00:35:02]  Whereas the 1994 crime bill, written by crazy Joe Biden, then chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and signed into law by Bill Clinton, essentially targeted the end user.
[00:35:17]  So, in other words, you would get a harsh mandatory sentence for the first time.
[00:35:22]  nonviolent crime of possessions of small amounts of drugs for personal use.
[00:35:28]  This law has fallen disproportionately on people of color.
[00:35:35]  I think it is indeed racist.
[00:35:37]  And it is about time that we had reform.
[00:35:40]  Now, Donald Trump, as president, formed the First Step Act and the Second Chance Act, the two most significant pieces of criminal justice reform since the Civil War.
[00:35:52]  But members of the Congressional Black Caucus all of whom had actually supported this, voted against it simply because it was proposed and passed by Donald Trump.
[00:36:04]  This new decision should also help lawful marijuana businesses in states that has been legalized to have more access to banking services, which is crucial as these businesses have now become trusted sources of revenue to fund services such as roads, fire, and police.
[00:36:22]  The change in marijuana law will allow doctors and researchers to better study marijuana's safety and effectiveness, opening the doors to more informed medical choices for patients.
[00:36:33]  I myself became a believer when my dad was dying of cancer.
[00:36:37]  And he was a pretty chubby fellow, but once his appetite was gone, he withered down to about 145 pounds, and he was in horrific pain.
[00:36:48]  I knew that the opioids the doctors were giving him were doing more damage than good, and I talked to my sisters.
[00:36:56]  It was then quite illegal in New York State, but I thought he might benefit from a little weed, and indeed, his appetite came back, and it also helped relieve his pain, so his dying days were somewhat more comfortable.
[00:37:08]  For years, of course, Big Pharma has suppressed any use of medicinal cannabis because it's a competitor to their drugs.
[00:37:16]  And it could hinder the massive profit margins that Big Pharma is racking up.
[00:37:21]  At the same time, President Trump is pushing forward on another interesting front, accelerating research into promising psychedelic therapies for conditions like PTSD and severe depression.
[00:37:32]  Ibogaine is one of the principal natural substances which has helped many Find relief from depression, deep depression, and PTSD.
[00:37:43]  But actually, to legally use ibogaine in the United States would be impossible.
[00:37:48]  People go to clinics in Europe or clinics in Mexico where the famous fighter Conor McGregor says he beat a cocaine addiction through the use of ibogaine.
[00:38:01]  So, Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on the cutting edge here, legalizing medicinal marijuana.
[00:38:08]  That is, by the way, not recreational marijuana, but medicinal marijuana for those that it most definitely can help.
[00:38:16]  See, one of the games they played here for a year is they would conduct tests, but the tests would not be long enough nor have sufficient placebos in them or participants, and then claim, well, we can't approve it because we don't have enough research.
[00:38:32]  We don't have enough research, which is why we can't approve it.
[00:38:34]  Donald Trump made this promise, and I think it will bring him votes at the end of the day from younger voters, libertarians, and others.
[00:38:42]  I am one. who believes in the use of cannabis for medicinal purposes.
[00:38:47]  It has helped me for medicinal purposes, just like it helped my dad.
[00:38:52]  Donald Trump moving now to reclassify marijuana again from Schedule 1 to Schedule 3.
[00:38:58]  God bless the president.
[00:39:01]  Thanks for joining us today on the Stone Zone, where we always have the inside skinny on American politics, and we'll see you tomorrow.
[00:39:08]  Until then, God bless you and Godspeed.