1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:04,320 Speaker 1: Welcome to another edition of the schmid Storm. You have questions, 2 00:00:04,720 --> 00:00:08,640 Speaker 1: I have answers. Let's get started. The question is, why 3 00:00:08,720 --> 00:00:12,800 Speaker 1: is George W. Bush abjectly silent about the threat to 4 00:00:12,920 --> 00:00:17,759 Speaker 1: American democracy posed by the Republican nominee Donald Trump. This 5 00:00:17,840 --> 00:00:20,400 Speaker 1: is a great question, and as an alumni of the 6 00:00:20,440 --> 00:00:24,520 Speaker 1: George W. Bush administration, it's a question that I have 7 00:00:24,560 --> 00:00:28,560 Speaker 1: a very very hard time with this idea that George W. 8 00:00:28,680 --> 00:00:33,120 Speaker 1: Bush is now a painter and retired from presidential politics. 9 00:00:33,360 --> 00:00:36,000 Speaker 1: I don't accept he is a former president of the 10 00:00:36,120 --> 00:00:39,720 Speaker 1: United States. He is when he took the oath, one 11 00:00:39,760 --> 00:00:42,880 Speaker 1: of forty two people in American history who had ever 12 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:46,159 Speaker 1: taken it to preserve, protect, and defend the constitution of 13 00:00:46,159 --> 00:00:50,760 Speaker 1: the United States. We're not having a debate about tax policy. 14 00:00:51,120 --> 00:00:56,320 Speaker 1: So George W. Bush's restraint to give his predecessor room 15 00:00:56,480 --> 00:01:01,000 Speaker 1: to operate without the encumbrances of a resident in the 16 00:01:01,040 --> 00:01:05,360 Speaker 1: news making their difficult job more difficult is basically the 17 00:01:05,440 --> 00:01:09,440 Speaker 1: right thing to do. President Obama has followed this path 18 00:01:09,680 --> 00:01:14,160 Speaker 1: largely as well. But when there are exigent circumstances, and 19 00:01:14,240 --> 00:01:17,880 Speaker 1: there is now because Donald Trump, the demagogue, is talking 20 00:01:17,920 --> 00:01:21,800 Speaker 1: about people of color eating pets and George W. Bush 21 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:25,480 Speaker 1: had a philosophy that he talked about when he shared 22 00:01:25,640 --> 00:01:29,200 Speaker 1: his view that when you see the migrant coming across 23 00:01:29,240 --> 00:01:34,120 Speaker 1: the desert, coming across the border, walking facing death to 24 00:01:34,280 --> 00:01:37,680 Speaker 1: survive for their family, for a better life, that we 25 00:01:37,720 --> 00:01:41,880 Speaker 1: should have compassion for that person as one of God's children. 26 00:01:42,280 --> 00:01:47,480 Speaker 1: Donald Trump is dehumanizing people. George W. Bush his greatest 27 00:01:47,480 --> 00:01:51,360 Speaker 1: achievement as president was the President's emergency Plan for age 28 00:01:51,400 --> 00:01:55,200 Speaker 1: relief in Africa. It saved one hundred million lives. It's 29 00:01:55,240 --> 00:01:59,400 Speaker 1: an extraordinary human achievement, and all of it is risked 30 00:01:59,480 --> 00:02:03,240 Speaker 1: by Donald Trump. Yet the former president, like Mitt Romney, 31 00:02:03,440 --> 00:02:09,440 Speaker 1: has chosen indifference. MAGA plus Indifference is Donald Trump's hand. 32 00:02:09,800 --> 00:02:13,200 Speaker 1: He thinks it could be a winning hand. Let's pray not. 33 00:02:13,639 --> 00:02:19,880 Speaker 1: The choice requires the picking of sides. Neutrality helps MAGA. 34 00:02:20,320 --> 00:02:24,760 Speaker 1: So George W. Bush's silence is not neutrality. It's an 35 00:02:24,760 --> 00:02:30,000 Speaker 1: indifference that amounts, like Romney's, to a soft endorsement of Trump, 36 00:02:30,360 --> 00:02:34,520 Speaker 1: regardless of what the perception may be of their personal 37 00:02:34,600 --> 00:02:40,639 Speaker 1: disdain for his disgustingness. Not speaking out right now when 38 00:02:40,680 --> 00:02:43,960 Speaker 1: the danger is clear and the danger is present, is 39 00:02:44,160 --> 00:02:49,400 Speaker 1: absolutely picking sides. Silence puts the former president on the 40 00:02:49,600 --> 00:02:54,519 Speaker 1: side of forces that he disdains. I don't know what 41 00:02:54,560 --> 00:02:58,079 Speaker 1: you call that, other than I'm not sure that moral 42 00:02:58,440 --> 00:03:02,480 Speaker 1: cowardice isn't. The right question is do the Haitian immigrants 43 00:03:02,560 --> 00:03:06,160 Speaker 1: filing a lawsuit against Trump and Vance and Springfield, Ohio 44 00:03:06,160 --> 00:03:09,720 Speaker 1: have a case? I have no idea. I do know this, 45 00:03:10,240 --> 00:03:14,799 Speaker 1: whether or not legally they have standing to sue in 46 00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:18,919 Speaker 1: response to Trump's slander is besides the point. What Trump 47 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:23,079 Speaker 1: is doing dehumanizing these people, putting a target on their 48 00:03:23,120 --> 00:03:27,359 Speaker 1: heads and their backs, creating a situation where an Ohio 49 00:03:27,480 --> 00:03:30,560 Speaker 1: town is under siege. State police have to be in 50 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:33,720 Speaker 1: the schools for them to remain open. The hospitals are 51 00:03:33,720 --> 00:03:37,560 Speaker 1: closed because of bomb threats. This is not a question 52 00:03:37,680 --> 00:03:41,720 Speaker 1: of can they sue. It's a question of basic human 53 00:03:41,880 --> 00:03:48,800 Speaker 1: decency morality. This is about a weapons grade demagogue reviewing 54 00:03:49,160 --> 00:03:53,480 Speaker 1: the type of animosities and the danger that lies ahead 55 00:03:53,680 --> 00:03:57,119 Speaker 1: for all of us. If Donald Trump will do that 56 00:03:57,200 --> 00:04:02,480 Speaker 1: to Springfield for power's sake, we'll do it anywhere to anyone, 57 00:04:02,840 --> 00:04:07,120 Speaker 1: including to you and your community, if it benefits him. 58 00:04:07,400 --> 00:04:10,920 Speaker 1: That's the point. The lessons of history are perfectly clear. 59 00:04:11,320 --> 00:04:15,400 Speaker 1: When somebody does and says what Donald Trump is saying 60 00:04:15,480 --> 00:04:20,520 Speaker 1: and doing about these people. Always disaster ensues, and it 61 00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:25,679 Speaker 1: will in Springfield. This story will end tragically one hundred 62 00:04:25,680 --> 00:04:30,200 Speaker 1: percent because Donald Trump's rhetoric is going to trigger a 63 00:04:30,279 --> 00:04:33,880 Speaker 1: moral outrage. The question is what do I expect to 64 00:04:33,920 --> 00:04:38,440 Speaker 1: be released from Jacksmith's court filings and the case. I 65 00:04:38,520 --> 00:04:42,839 Speaker 1: have no expectations. My view is that these prosecutions have 66 00:04:42,960 --> 00:04:46,080 Speaker 1: been a disaster, that they have helped Donald Trump, they 67 00:04:46,120 --> 00:04:51,000 Speaker 1: continue to help Donald Trump. The cases have been incompetently prosecuted, 68 00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:55,280 Speaker 1: they have been prosecuted before a corrupt judge, and they 69 00:04:55,279 --> 00:04:59,640 Speaker 1: have undermined faith in the American legal system amongst all 70 00:04:59,720 --> 00:05:05,080 Speaker 1: of them Americans, and that faithlessness only helps Donald Trump. Frankly, 71 00:05:05,480 --> 00:05:08,080 Speaker 1: watching this played out over the last four years has 72 00:05:08,120 --> 00:05:12,120 Speaker 1: only made me personally more cynical about the American justice 73 00:05:12,120 --> 00:05:17,440 Speaker 1: system and help me recognize how completely, utterly, absolutely broken 74 00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:22,960 Speaker 1: it is. The second Kamala Harris is president elect, somebody 75 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:26,360 Speaker 1: should call Merrick Garland into the Oval Office and tell 76 00:05:26,440 --> 00:05:29,480 Speaker 1: them he's fired. It's one of the worst attorney generals 77 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:33,800 Speaker 1: in American history who didn't work for Donald Trump. What 78 00:05:33,839 --> 00:05:37,159 Speaker 1: we have seen, what we have watched play out for 79 00:05:37,279 --> 00:05:41,240 Speaker 1: four years of this madness is a great political gift 80 00:05:41,520 --> 00:05:45,000 Speaker 1: to the fascist and chief in America. So I have 81 00:05:45,040 --> 00:05:48,920 Speaker 1: no expectations, but I pray that we don't have another 82 00:05:49,080 --> 00:05:52,200 Speaker 1: lawyer in this country, whether it be a Komy or 83 00:05:52,240 --> 00:05:55,320 Speaker 1: a Smith, who does something as stupid as they did 84 00:05:55,360 --> 00:05:59,720 Speaker 1: in twenty and sixteen through an act of narcissism and 85 00:05:59,760 --> 00:06:03,320 Speaker 1: look at meism that was as grand as anything Trump 86 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:06,760 Speaker 1: ever did that had the result of handing the election 87 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:11,240 Speaker 1: to him, interfering in the destiny of the country and 88 00:06:11,279 --> 00:06:14,680 Speaker 1: in the choice of the American people in the most 89 00:06:14,720 --> 00:06:18,920 Speaker 1: profound way imaginable. So in a perfect world, the two 90 00:06:18,960 --> 00:06:21,560 Speaker 1: words I'd like not to hear for the next thirty 91 00:06:21,640 --> 00:06:25,839 Speaker 1: nine days or Jack Smith at all, because it's always 92 00:06:25,920 --> 00:06:29,640 Speaker 1: been a delusion that the justice system would settle the 93 00:06:29,680 --> 00:06:33,880 Speaker 1: Trump matter for the American people. Only the American people 94 00:06:34,120 --> 00:06:38,680 Speaker 1: can end this madness, and the Justice Department and the 95 00:06:38,760 --> 00:06:44,080 Speaker 1: incompetence of this prosecution and the misconduct of the prosecutors 96 00:06:44,480 --> 00:06:48,280 Speaker 1: like Fannie Willis have done nothing but make it more 97 00:06:48,480 --> 00:06:51,960 Speaker 1: likely Trump gets back into power. So my contempt for 98 00:06:52,080 --> 00:06:57,280 Speaker 1: them is pretty deep. I'm Steve Schmidt. 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