1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:05,320 Speaker 1: Samuel Lito says to the Confederate flag carrying insurrectionists, I'm 2 00:00:05,360 --> 00:00:08,879 Speaker 1: with you. To the people that urinated on the floor 3 00:00:08,960 --> 00:00:12,440 Speaker 1: of the United States Senate, Samuel Alito says, I am 4 00:00:12,480 --> 00:00:15,520 Speaker 1: with you. To the people that defecated on the floor 5 00:00:15,560 --> 00:00:18,840 Speaker 1: of the House of Representatives, Samuel Leto says, I am 6 00:00:18,920 --> 00:00:21,919 Speaker 1: with you. It is May seventeenth, twenty twenty four, and 7 00:00:21,960 --> 00:00:25,080 Speaker 1: there are one hundred and seventy two days left until 8 00:00:25,079 --> 00:00:32,040 Speaker 1: the presidential election. This is the warning today. I'm in 9 00:00:32,120 --> 00:00:35,200 Speaker 1: a Marriotte Hotel room in Salt Lake City on the road, 10 00:00:36,320 --> 00:00:40,840 Speaker 1: but I wanted to talk to you about something directly personally. 11 00:00:42,360 --> 00:00:48,400 Speaker 1: I'm feeling ashamed this morning, deeply saddened, and very angry 12 00:00:49,280 --> 00:00:51,840 Speaker 1: over a story I read in the New York Times. 13 00:00:52,760 --> 00:00:58,200 Speaker 1: That story details the desecration of an American flag at 14 00:00:58,240 --> 00:01:03,520 Speaker 1: the home of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito. The desecration 15 00:01:03,720 --> 00:01:08,280 Speaker 1: of the flag is bad enough, but it was used 16 00:01:09,360 --> 00:01:19,679 Speaker 1: to express solidarity and fidelity with the January sixth coup plotters, insurrectionists, 17 00:01:20,680 --> 00:01:25,760 Speaker 1: and all the criminals who attacked the government of the 18 00:01:25,880 --> 00:01:33,319 Speaker 1: United States trying to install into power the loser of 19 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:37,959 Speaker 1: a presidential election. Flying the flag upside down is not 20 00:01:38,040 --> 00:01:43,000 Speaker 1: a desecrative act. What it is is a symbol of distress. 21 00:01:43,360 --> 00:01:48,760 Speaker 1: The use of the inverted flag claiming distress and solidarity 22 00:01:48,840 --> 00:01:52,320 Speaker 1: with the coup plotters and seditionists who attacked the United 23 00:01:52,360 --> 00:01:55,800 Speaker 1: States Capital is an outrage. And that it was done 24 00:01:55,800 --> 00:02:00,160 Speaker 1: by a Supreme Court justice over which an ethical cloud 25 00:02:00,160 --> 00:02:05,880 Speaker 1: he hangs, is more than outrageous. It is sick in it. 26 00:02:05,880 --> 00:02:08,800 Speaker 1: It is disgraceful. I'm going to tell you a story 27 00:02:08,840 --> 00:02:12,120 Speaker 1: today about Samuel Alito, who I know well because I 28 00:02:12,280 --> 00:02:15,240 Speaker 1: led his confirmation process when I served in the Bush 29 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:19,360 Speaker 1: White House as a deputy assistant to the President, counselor 30 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:22,480 Speaker 1: to the Vice President of the United States. Here's the 31 00:02:22,520 --> 00:02:27,400 Speaker 1: simple truth about Samuel Alito. He's aggrieved, he's pissed off. 32 00:02:28,760 --> 00:02:33,560 Speaker 1: He's still angry about his confirmation hearings. He and his 33 00:02:33,600 --> 00:02:38,960 Speaker 1: way for bitter. They've never gotten over it. I was there, 34 00:02:40,040 --> 00:02:43,400 Speaker 1: and here's the deal, Sam When you want a lifetime 35 00:02:43,440 --> 00:02:46,959 Speaker 1: appointment to the Supreme Court, you get roughed up into 36 00:02:47,040 --> 00:02:51,440 Speaker 1: confirmation hearings. You are nothing special. What happened to you 37 00:02:51,600 --> 00:02:56,480 Speaker 1: wasn't a shark attack. Part of the process. And yeah, 38 00:02:57,280 --> 00:03:01,400 Speaker 1: politics can be a little bit mean. But here's the thing. 39 00:03:03,080 --> 00:03:07,440 Speaker 1: Eighteen years later, sam Alito has never gotten over it. 40 00:03:07,840 --> 00:03:11,400 Speaker 1: The simple truth is that most people who are involved 41 00:03:11,440 --> 00:03:16,799 Speaker 1: in that confirmation process are deeply ashamed of their association 42 00:03:17,280 --> 00:03:21,680 Speaker 1: with Samuel Alito. The overwhelming majority of people on that 43 00:03:21,840 --> 00:03:28,000 Speaker 1: team view him as corrupt, view him as unworthy, and 44 00:03:28,080 --> 00:03:31,920 Speaker 1: are embarrassed that they were part of a team that 45 00:03:32,040 --> 00:03:36,080 Speaker 1: put him forward to a lifetime tenure on the United 46 00:03:36,120 --> 00:03:41,160 Speaker 1: States Supreme Court. Think about how small, how petty Samuel 47 00:03:41,280 --> 00:03:48,040 Speaker 1: Alito is. We have a radicalized Supreme Court justice, two 48 00:03:48,120 --> 00:03:54,400 Speaker 1: of them in fact, and apparently two radicalized Supreme Court spouses, 49 00:03:55,040 --> 00:03:59,920 Speaker 1: one Jinny Thomas, who was deeply involved in the coup, 50 00:04:00,920 --> 00:04:06,000 Speaker 1: and the other Martha Alito, sharing the coup with her 51 00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:14,240 Speaker 1: upside down inverted American flag, declaring fidelity, declaring allegiance with 52 00:04:14,880 --> 00:04:22,039 Speaker 1: the extremist movement. With this, there are no words to 53 00:04:22,200 --> 00:04:29,040 Speaker 1: describe how disgraceful and appalling this is. Donald Trump lost 54 00:04:29,040 --> 00:04:35,320 Speaker 1: the election and so they attack America. Now, if anybody 55 00:04:35,960 --> 00:04:40,240 Speaker 1: should have flown the flag upside down on January sixth, 56 00:04:40,839 --> 00:04:44,960 Speaker 1: it was mister and missus average American watching in shock 57 00:04:45,240 --> 00:04:49,600 Speaker 1: and horror. As a president of the United States incited 58 00:04:49,920 --> 00:04:55,400 Speaker 1: a coup that bloodied the peaceful transition of power. But 59 00:04:56,520 --> 00:05:02,360 Speaker 1: the MAGA extremist movement, like all extremist move is superb 60 00:05:02,839 --> 00:05:09,400 Speaker 1: at hijacking the symbols that are unifying symbols and turning 61 00:05:09,440 --> 00:05:16,040 Speaker 1: them into divisive symbols. So the symbol of distress was perverted. 62 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:23,239 Speaker 1: The distress became the election of Biden, and that became 63 00:05:23,480 --> 00:05:28,640 Speaker 1: cause to attack the country, which is an act of sedition, 64 00:05:29,720 --> 00:05:37,440 Speaker 1: not patriotism. So the perversion of this symbol and its 65 00:05:37,520 --> 00:05:42,640 Speaker 1: desecration for the purposes of embracing the ending of the 66 00:05:42,680 --> 00:05:47,200 Speaker 1: peaceful transition of power, an act of violence aimed at 67 00:05:47,240 --> 00:05:52,960 Speaker 1: preventing the presidential election process from moving forward, is something 68 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:59,799 Speaker 1: that's being celebrated, embraced from the flagpole of a Supreme 69 00:05:59,839 --> 00:06:05,880 Speaker 1: Court justice who is declaring, I am with you, I 70 00:06:05,920 --> 00:06:09,600 Speaker 1: am with the people who broke through the windows. Samuel 71 00:06:09,680 --> 00:06:14,800 Speaker 1: Lito says to the Confederate flag carrying insurrectionists, I'm with you. 72 00:06:15,440 --> 00:06:18,279 Speaker 1: To the people that urinated on the floor of the 73 00:06:18,360 --> 00:06:22,280 Speaker 1: United States Senate, Samuel Alito says, I am with you, 74 00:06:23,240 --> 00:06:25,800 Speaker 1: to the people that defecated on the floor of the 75 00:06:25,839 --> 00:06:29,240 Speaker 1: House of Representatives. Samuel Lito says, I am with you. 76 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:32,160 Speaker 1: To the person who carried the Confederate battleflag through the 77 00:06:32,240 --> 00:06:35,880 Speaker 1: rotundo of the Capitol, Samuelito says, I am with you. 78 00:06:36,320 --> 00:06:41,320 Speaker 1: To the people that bludgeoned Capitol police officers with American flags, 79 00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:44,279 Speaker 1: Alito says, I am with you. And the truth of 80 00:06:44,320 --> 00:06:48,200 Speaker 1: the matter is, when a lot of those Democratic members 81 00:06:48,279 --> 00:06:52,159 Speaker 1: were saying about Samuel Alito that I thought in that 82 00:06:52,320 --> 00:06:59,320 Speaker 1: moment was unfair and wrong, was dead on, dead on. 83 00:07:00,160 --> 00:07:05,719 Speaker 1: These people hate their country and they must be held 84 00:07:05,800 --> 00:07:11,960 Speaker 1: responsible for their entity towards it by all of us. 85 00:07:12,720 --> 00:07:16,480 Speaker 1: There is nothing that any of us can do about 86 00:07:16,480 --> 00:07:22,280 Speaker 1: the power of Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito. They're there 87 00:07:23,640 --> 00:07:27,840 Speaker 1: till they breathe their last breath. Samuel Alito could be 88 00:07:27,920 --> 00:07:33,600 Speaker 1: on the Court for another thirty years, and if Donald 89 00:07:33,640 --> 00:07:37,000 Speaker 1: Trump gets elected, he may be in a position to 90 00:07:37,160 --> 00:07:42,840 Speaker 1: have seven out of nine appointees. Think about that. The 91 00:07:42,960 --> 00:07:47,480 Speaker 1: January sixth cases devolve really to the most fundamental question 92 00:07:47,600 --> 00:07:50,520 Speaker 1: maybe that will ever be decided by the Supreme Court. 93 00:07:51,520 --> 00:07:54,760 Speaker 1: And the question at hand is does a president of 94 00:07:54,800 --> 00:07:58,320 Speaker 1: the United States have absolute power to the degree that 95 00:07:58,400 --> 00:08:01,520 Speaker 1: he can order the killing of his political opponents. This 96 00:08:01,680 --> 00:08:04,760 Speaker 1: is a radical court. It is an extreme court, and 97 00:08:04,840 --> 00:08:07,760 Speaker 1: it pains me to say this, but I have no 98 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:13,360 Speaker 1: confidence in this court's ability to administer justice. It is 99 00:08:13,440 --> 00:08:17,800 Speaker 1: a grave threat to the republic justice Trump is. It's 100 00:08:17,840 --> 00:08:21,480 Speaker 1: extremely important for the American people to understand presidential elections 101 00:08:21,520 --> 00:08:24,920 Speaker 1: have consequences. There is a radical Supreme Court that is 102 00:08:25,040 --> 00:08:29,080 Speaker 1: very quickly eroding liberty in the United States. It is 103 00:08:29,160 --> 00:08:32,480 Speaker 1: one of the most corrupt institutions in the country, with 104 00:08:32,640 --> 00:08:35,360 Speaker 1: the presence of two of the most corrupt justices in 105 00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:41,840 Speaker 1: American history currently serving together Alito and Thomas. So there 106 00:08:41,880 --> 00:08:46,480 Speaker 1: is nothing to be done about the Supreme Court until 107 00:08:47,160 --> 00:08:51,439 Speaker 1: there is another vacancy, And at that moment, it would 108 00:08:51,440 --> 00:08:54,800 Speaker 1: be best if the American people have put into the 109 00:08:54,800 --> 00:08:59,520 Speaker 1: White House somebody who appreciates the rule of law, is 110 00:08:59,559 --> 00:09:03,599 Speaker 1: committed to the defense and preservation of the American Constitution, 111 00:09:04,760 --> 00:09:08,160 Speaker 1: and doesn't want to appoint a judicial radical who seeks, 112 00:09:08,160 --> 00:09:10,920 Speaker 1: in the end to obliterate the separation of church and 113 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:14,600 Speaker 1: state and be part of a political project that raises 114 00:09:14,679 --> 00:09:18,199 Speaker 1: up America's first Caesar. When will George W. Bush speak 115 00:09:18,320 --> 00:09:21,240 Speaker 1: up and out about any of this. There are one 116 00:09:21,320 --> 00:09:23,839 Speaker 1: hundred and seventy two days remaining to an election. And 117 00:09:23,880 --> 00:09:26,880 Speaker 1: when George W. Bush was inaugurated for the second time, 118 00:09:27,200 --> 00:09:30,320 Speaker 1: he gave a speech about democracy and the role of 119 00:09:30,360 --> 00:09:33,680 Speaker 1: America spreading it all over the world. And so the 120 00:09:33,760 --> 00:09:37,280 Speaker 1: question I have a hard time reconciling is how can 121 00:09:37,320 --> 00:09:40,400 Speaker 1: it be that it was America's obligation to spread democracy 122 00:09:40,480 --> 00:09:43,000 Speaker 1: all over the world, even at the point of a 123 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:45,600 Speaker 1: gun and a bayonet, but not be able to find 124 00:09:45,640 --> 00:09:48,720 Speaker 1: any words to defend it at home, including from people 125 00:09:48,760 --> 00:09:55,800 Speaker 1: appointed by you, mister President. I feel the deepest disgust 126 00:09:56,720 --> 00:10:02,560 Speaker 1: in contempt towards Samuel Alito and his wife. These people 127 00:10:03,480 --> 00:10:09,280 Speaker 1: should practice gratitude for their country, for their immense privilege, 128 00:10:09,800 --> 00:10:15,160 Speaker 1: and for the opportunities they have been given. Instead, they 129 00:10:15,600 --> 00:10:20,680 Speaker 1: dare to fly the flag of the United States of 130 00:10:20,760 --> 00:10:27,680 Speaker 1: America upside down, inverted in fidelity with the people who 131 00:10:27,760 --> 00:10:33,080 Speaker 1: attacked the country in a coupe tota trying to topple 132 00:10:33,400 --> 00:10:38,360 Speaker 1: the republic. It's not just nauseating, it's wretchedly so. The 133 00:10:38,440 --> 00:10:44,480 Speaker 1: neighbors who took the pictures were more than right to 134 00:10:44,640 --> 00:10:50,760 Speaker 1: be worried about what they were seeing. It is an 135 00:10:50,800 --> 00:10:58,840 Speaker 1: astonishing act, not just a desecration of our national colors, 136 00:11:00,480 --> 00:11:10,800 Speaker 1: but a desecration of the concept of judicial ethics, of probity, 137 00:11:11,600 --> 00:11:23,720 Speaker 1: common sense, concept of rectitude. It's appalling, it's low, it's 138 00:11:23,840 --> 00:11:35,960 Speaker 1: unfathomably small and cheap and tawdry, and there are literally 139 00:11:37,720 --> 00:11:47,959 Speaker 1: literally no words I have to express my anger, my disgust, 140 00:11:48,320 --> 00:11:55,640 Speaker 1: my absolute contempt for the act. Shame on him, Shame 141 00:11:55,720 --> 00:12:00,040 Speaker 1: on her. I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning, and 142 00:12:00,120 --> 00:12:03,839 Speaker 1: I invite you to join. Subscribe on our substack, on 143 00:12:03,880 --> 00:12:10,679 Speaker 1: our YouTube channel, follow us. Welcome to the community.