Speaker 1: It is the eighteenth of September and forty eight days
Speaker 1: remained until the American people elect one third of the
Speaker 1: United States Senate, the entire House of Representatives, and choose
Speaker 1: the forty seventh President of the United States. This is
Speaker 1: the warning. There is a community in trouble in America, Springfield, Ohio.
Speaker 1: It is under siege by a blizzard of lies, by
Speaker 1: demagoguery that has endangered its citizens, placed its people in jeopardy.
Speaker 1: The schools, the hospitals have been closed because of bomb threats.
Speaker 1: Here is what the mayor of Springfield, Ohio said when
Speaker 1: he was directly asked to respond to the proposition advanced
Speaker 1: by J. D. Vance that Donald Trump's lives and J.
Speaker 1: D Vance's lives were a good thing for the people
Speaker 1: of Springfield because they needed the attention from the national media.
Speaker 2: But none of this attention that has been brought upon Springfoot,
Speaker 2: Ohio is helping helping us. We only have troops State
Speaker 2: troopers here now, and the level we have because of
Speaker 2: the threats we've received in the last five I think
Speaker 2: we're going in five or six days of continuous threats.
Speaker 2: We were not receiving threats before at this level when
Speaker 2: we were highlighted on the national stage. Now we have threats.
Speaker 1: What is the nature of this debate that is happening
Speaker 1: about whether Haitians are eating dogs and cats and geese
Speaker 1: in Springfield, Ohio. It's certainly stupid on first contact with
Speaker 1: the assertion. When Trump said it out loud, here was
Speaker 1: the Vice president's completely natural reaction in Springfield. They're eating
Speaker 1: the dogs the people that came in, They're eating the cats,
Speaker 1: they're eating the pets of the people that live there. Now,
Speaker 1: let's be honest about something. This is part of Trump's appeal.
Speaker 1: The shock makes you laugh at some level. It's entertaining.
Speaker 1: It's like a bad comedy show that is just good
Speaker 1: enough to keep drawing you back. Now, the smoke filled
Speaker 1: room may not be good for you, but people have
Speaker 1: bad judgment, so they keep going back for a little
Speaker 1: bit more and a little bit more. But what Donald
Speaker 1: Trump and JD. Vance are doing here is not funny
Speaker 1: in any way, in any shape or any form, because
Speaker 1: they're lying, and they are defiant in standing by that lie.
Speaker 1: And that's dangerous, especially in politicians who flirt and embrace authoritarians. JD.
Speaker 1: Vance and Donald Trump are communicating something with perfectly, and
Speaker 1: it's very simple. They are trying to incite a cohort
Speaker 1: of white America by saying that they are under siege
Speaker 1: in a small Ohio town. And if it can happen there,
Speaker 1: it can happen anywhere. By the way, who eats dogs
Speaker 1: and cats in America? If you own dogs and cats,
Speaker 1: what are the threats to them being eaten? Well, it's
Speaker 1: by predators, animals, coyotes. And that's exactly, imprecisely what JD.
Speaker 1: Vans and Donald Trump are saying, that Springfield, Ohio is
Speaker 1: under siege by animals subhumans running them up. Now, the
Speaker 1: conservative media in America used to be serious, used to
Speaker 1: be principles, and filled with people like say George will
Speaker 1: It's not that anymore in the slightest it has become
Speaker 1: the home base for a collection of rottenness and nut
Speaker 1: jobs that literally beggars description. The epicenter of so much
Speaker 1: of the rottenness in the conservative media, the writers, the
Speaker 1: thinkers who celebrated themselves and each other as some type
Speaker 1: of intellectual luminaries over the last thirty years, has long
Speaker 1: been the National Review. Now William Buckley, the original founder
Speaker 1: and editor of National Review, sought to purge the Conservative
Speaker 1: movement of its cranks and weirdos, though Buckley himself could
Speaker 1: never shed the racism which has always anchored the Conservative
Speaker 1: movement and has always been embedded in the DNA of
Speaker 1: the National Review, whether it was the opposition to desegregation
Speaker 1: in the name of states rights, William F. Buckley's National
Speaker 1: Review embraced the concept of a quality for all Americans.
Speaker 1: Let's just say. Late in the day, Buckley eventually turned
Speaker 1: over the National Review to a man named Rich Lowry. Now,
Speaker 1: Rich Lowry sat down with Megan Kelly.
Speaker 3: The police have gone through eleven months of recordings of
Speaker 3: calls and they've only found two Springfield residents calling to
Speaker 3: complain about Haitien Nigger migrants, to complain about Haitien Nigger migrants,
Speaker 3: patient Nigger migrants, patient Nigger migrants.
Speaker 1: Now, in the aftermath, of course, Megan Kelly and all
Speaker 1: of the defenders have rushed forward and said, how dare
Speaker 1: you think that he may have said what you just heard.
Speaker 1: Nobody should be surprised that we now see the first
Speaker 1: polling indicating the American people in a majority are in
Speaker 1: favor of a mass deportation regimen to evict tens of
Speaker 1: millions of people. Now, Frankly, I don't care what the
Speaker 1: polling says. The American people in their aggregate may not
Speaker 1: appreciate the danger that that position puts all of us in.
Speaker 1: Is Trump and Vance alleging Hatians eating pets and forty
Speaker 1: six percent of the country believing it. Is it a
Speaker 1: small thing, a funny thing, a big thing, a serious thing,
Speaker 1: a dangerous thing. What happens next is the danger And
Speaker 1: what we see is in escalating incoherence, an escalating violence
Speaker 1: of rhetoric and escalating imagination, used for division, used for incitement,
Speaker 1: used for hatred. By JD. Vance, this line about what
Speaker 1: the media owes the people of Springfield is weapons grade Demagogurey.
Speaker 2: You say that you have a responsibility to share what
Speaker 2: your constituents tell you, but don't you also have a
Speaker 2: responsibility to fact check them first? Well, I think the
Speaker 2: media has a responsibility to fact check the residents of
Speaker 2: Springfield not live about.
Speaker 1: The Haitians eating pets? Is it a distraction, a small story,
Speaker 1: medium big It's as big as it gets. Because if
Speaker 1: a political leader can convince you that Haitians are eating
Speaker 1: pets in Springfield, Ohio, when they're not. They can make
Speaker 1: you believe anything. And if they can make you believe anything,
Speaker 1: history teaches, they can make you kill anyone. Right now,
Speaker 1: as we speak, there is a concerted effort out of
Speaker 1: this rotten conservative media to silence the Democratic campaign to
Speaker 1: back Vice President Harris off of the most important point
Speaker 1: in the race, which is how Unamerican Trump in dvance are.
Speaker 1: It's about how fascist their rhetoric is, how danger it is.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump incited an insurrection. He is a man of violence,
Speaker 1: a purveyor of violence, a purveyor of lies, a purveyor
Speaker 1: of conspiracies. Their ally, Robert Kennedy, is a purveyor of insanity.
Speaker 1: Their cause is insanity for the sake of their power.
Speaker 1: What you are witnessing is an organized conspiracy to take
Speaker 1: power from you, to put it into the hands of
Speaker 1: a small cabal who will take whatever they can, like locusts,
Speaker 1: for as long as they can. The terrible news is,
Speaker 1: once they get in there, getting them out requires a
Speaker 1: cost and a sacrifice that is far beyond the effort
Speaker 1: required to prevent them from taking power in the first place.
Speaker 1: And that's the question at hand. Forty nine days from now,
Speaker 1: it's a big deal. What's happening in Springfield, Ohio, small town,
Speaker 1: a university town, is in big trouble because it's under
Speaker 1: a to and it's under siege from the Republican candidate
Speaker 1: for president and is running me who, sickeningly is the
Speaker 1: US senator from the state in the city that he's attacking.
Speaker 1: And these people want the nuclear football. They want to
Speaker 1: have command and control of the US military. They want
Speaker 1: to author the next decade of the twenty first century
Speaker 1: for this nation in the world. No thanks, any right
Speaker 1: minded person who can't see the craziness of this has
Speaker 1: allowed themselves to be deceived and manipulated, to be blinded
Speaker 1: and controlled. And they have forty nine days to snap
Speaker 1: the fuck out of it before this country heads down
Speaker 1: a road to catastrophe from which there will be no rescue.
Speaker 1: This is the warning. I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning,
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