1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:04,519 Speaker 1: Donald Trump has made promises, and those promises are threats. 2 00:00:04,880 --> 00:00:08,480 Speaker 1: Listen to them, heed them, understand them, and don't let 3 00:00:08,520 --> 00:00:13,360 Speaker 1: anybody tell you that American weakness is being driven by. 4 00:00:13,240 --> 00:00:14,480 Speaker 2: The Biden administration. 5 00:00:14,720 --> 00:00:18,480 Speaker 1: When our weakness is lit up like the taj Mahal 6 00:00:18,800 --> 00:00:22,639 Speaker 1: in Atlantic City before the bankruptcy that was. It is 7 00:00:22,720 --> 00:00:25,640 Speaker 1: June the eighteenth, one hundred and forty days to go. 8 00:00:26,600 --> 00:00:32,559 Speaker 1: This is the morning, nine days to go until the 9 00:00:32,640 --> 00:00:36,760 Speaker 1: CNN debate between the convicted felon Donald Trump and the 10 00:00:36,760 --> 00:00:40,600 Speaker 1: President of the United States, Joe Biden. There are indicators 11 00:00:40,760 --> 00:00:43,559 Speaker 1: in some polls that there has been an impact in 12 00:00:43,600 --> 00:00:47,320 Speaker 1: states like Michigan, where Donald Trump has slipped behind Joe 13 00:00:47,320 --> 00:00:50,479 Speaker 1: Biden for the first time in a long while, with 14 00:00:50,600 --> 00:00:55,360 Speaker 1: the president now slightly up a half point lead. Objectively, 15 00:00:55,840 --> 00:00:59,720 Speaker 1: everybody should understand that the President and Trump remain locked 16 00:00:59,800 --> 00:01:03,080 Speaker 1: in and even race in a game of small numbers 17 00:01:03,160 --> 00:01:06,000 Speaker 1: that will play out over a small number of states 18 00:01:06,240 --> 00:01:10,480 Speaker 1: and a handful of counties over a few dozen precincts. 19 00:01:10,800 --> 00:01:14,160 Speaker 1: This election for president is going to come down to 20 00:01:14,280 --> 00:01:18,600 Speaker 1: the wire once again, but there is a chasm between 21 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:24,240 Speaker 1: the candidates, and that chasm must be addressed openly and honestly, 22 00:01:24,480 --> 00:01:29,520 Speaker 1: because there are many bad faith arguments being made. There's 23 00:01:29,560 --> 00:01:34,240 Speaker 1: an old saying, sometimes you get the bear, sometimes the 24 00:01:34,280 --> 00:01:38,080 Speaker 1: bear gets you. It's poor to understand the concept because 25 00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:42,319 Speaker 1: the waves are crashing in on the Biden campaign again the. 26 00:01:42,160 --> 00:01:43,759 Speaker 2: President is senile. 27 00:01:43,880 --> 00:01:47,280 Speaker 1: Heads were put to bed for a while after the 28 00:01:47,319 --> 00:01:50,720 Speaker 1: State of the Union address, where the President was forceful, 29 00:01:50,920 --> 00:01:55,560 Speaker 1: quick on his feet, interacting with the maga audience, defenestrating 30 00:01:55,840 --> 00:01:57,600 Speaker 1: the nonsense hurled at him, but. 31 00:01:57,640 --> 00:01:58,800 Speaker 2: That has all abated. 32 00:01:58,880 --> 00:02:03,520 Speaker 1: Now Each day there is a proliferation of new videos, 33 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:08,840 Speaker 1: news reports, smears dressed up as news reports, like the 34 00:02:08,880 --> 00:02:13,840 Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal smear that portrayed President Biden as senile, 35 00:02:14,080 --> 00:02:17,680 Speaker 1: the New York Post smear that portrays the President as 36 00:02:17,720 --> 00:02:22,360 Speaker 1: out of touch, frozen, unable to function during a European summit. 37 00:02:22,480 --> 00:02:25,920 Speaker 1: The distorted images that are being used to drive this 38 00:02:26,120 --> 00:02:29,960 Speaker 1: narrative occurred when the President turned around away from the 39 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:33,800 Speaker 1: other leaders to look at a parachutist who had just landed. 40 00:02:33,919 --> 00:02:37,960 Speaker 1: The President was interacting with that man when Prime Minister 41 00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:42,120 Speaker 1: Maloney turned the President around and directed his attention back 42 00:02:42,160 --> 00:02:45,160 Speaker 1: towards the main group of parachuters who had landed in 43 00:02:45,280 --> 00:02:49,760 Speaker 1: front of the g seven leaders. Nevertheless, a picture is 44 00:02:49,840 --> 00:02:53,320 Speaker 1: worth a thousand words. In an era where that picture 45 00:02:53,440 --> 00:02:56,880 Speaker 1: can be sent around the world and be distorted in 46 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:01,520 Speaker 1: a nanosecond by tens of millionllions of touches, it's a 47 00:03:01,639 --> 00:03:05,440 Speaker 1: huge problem, a political problem for the president. There was 48 00:03:05,480 --> 00:03:10,840 Speaker 1: an enormously successful fundraiser in Los Angeles for President Biden, 49 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:14,480 Speaker 1: was hosted by the comedian Jimmy Kimmel. President Obama was 50 00:03:14,520 --> 00:03:18,840 Speaker 1: in attendance. At the end, video of the President gazing 51 00:03:18,880 --> 00:03:23,400 Speaker 1: out into the audience interacting with it was manipulated shown 52 00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:28,800 Speaker 1: on social media to depict a president who was wandering, faltering, senile, 53 00:03:28,919 --> 00:03:32,280 Speaker 1: frozen like Mitch McConnell was a few months back. Do 54 00:03:32,320 --> 00:03:37,000 Speaker 1: you remember this? But that's not what's happened here. But 55 00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:41,880 Speaker 1: he didn't stop the British scumbag Piers Morgan Megan Markle's 56 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:47,920 Speaker 1: professional stalker, from deceptively weighing in making an accusation against 57 00:03:47,920 --> 00:03:51,400 Speaker 1: the president on behalf of his friend to whom he 58 00:03:51,440 --> 00:03:54,880 Speaker 1: was a boot licker as an apprentice contestant not so 59 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:59,600 Speaker 1: many years ago. By the way, Piers Morgan is precisely 60 00:03:59,680 --> 00:04:04,720 Speaker 1: the re these media stories about the editors and publishers 61 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:08,440 Speaker 1: at the Washington Post are such a big deal. The 62 00:04:08,640 --> 00:04:13,960 Speaker 1: Washington Post is an American institution of profound importance to 63 00:04:14,080 --> 00:04:18,679 Speaker 1: the United States, and it is being desecrated with people 64 00:04:19,120 --> 00:04:24,400 Speaker 1: of the most loathsome character Rupert Murdoch's lying British henchmen 65 00:04:24,640 --> 00:04:29,280 Speaker 1: who desecrated the truth for profit in their British newsrooms, 66 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:32,599 Speaker 1: and that is not a model we should ever want 67 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:36,320 Speaker 1: to see in the United States. Here's Morgan is a 68 00:04:36,480 --> 00:04:42,520 Speaker 1: dishonest hack, a bottom feeder of the most exquisite variety. 69 00:04:42,760 --> 00:04:44,480 Speaker 2: He is a template for. 70 00:04:44,520 --> 00:04:50,680 Speaker 1: The dishonesty of an era in tabloid journalism that sensationalizes 71 00:04:50,920 --> 00:04:57,080 Speaker 1: as opposed to seeking understanding and explication, stupidity all the time, 72 00:04:57,400 --> 00:05:02,440 Speaker 1: always aimed at the lowest common denominator. Piers Morgan is 73 00:05:02,520 --> 00:05:07,839 Speaker 1: a blustering fool, but his observations are seen and spread 74 00:05:08,200 --> 00:05:12,320 Speaker 1: spread by somebody like Bill Ackman, who makes this argument 75 00:05:12,640 --> 00:05:17,240 Speaker 1: following on Piers Morgan's smear of the President calling on 76 00:05:17,400 --> 00:05:22,040 Speaker 1: Democrats to remove him again. There is no freezing, It 77 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:27,320 Speaker 1: didn't happen. Different camera angles show different things, but the 78 00:05:27,880 --> 00:05:33,200 Speaker 1: Bill Ackman argument deserves a response. Let me put on 79 00:05:33,320 --> 00:05:38,000 Speaker 1: screen what the opinionated billionaire has said, the Biden campaign 80 00:05:38,040 --> 00:05:41,200 Speaker 1: should understand this and should face the argument because it 81 00:05:41,320 --> 00:05:44,159 Speaker 1: is growing and it is rooting, and it has to 82 00:05:44,200 --> 00:05:48,040 Speaker 1: be countered by direct action. This isn't something that can 83 00:05:48,120 --> 00:05:49,960 Speaker 1: be fixed from the podium. 84 00:05:49,520 --> 00:05:50,760 Speaker 2: Of the Press secretary. 85 00:05:50,880 --> 00:05:54,440 Speaker 1: It's not something that can be fixed by complaint. Oh, 86 00:05:54,880 --> 00:05:58,560 Speaker 1: national media, stop being so cruel to us. It can't 87 00:05:58,600 --> 00:06:03,160 Speaker 1: be litigated in phone calls to newsrooms. Only the President 88 00:06:03,200 --> 00:06:06,039 Speaker 1: of the United States can deal with this. This is 89 00:06:06,080 --> 00:06:10,479 Speaker 1: a performance issue, can you do it or not type 90 00:06:10,480 --> 00:06:14,280 Speaker 1: of issue. And what President Biden needs to do is 91 00:06:14,320 --> 00:06:18,040 Speaker 1: to put this to rest by walking out on to 92 00:06:18,080 --> 00:06:22,600 Speaker 1: the debate stage and talking about what is the real 93 00:06:23,120 --> 00:06:27,520 Speaker 1: signal of American weakness. And this is what Bill Ackman 94 00:06:27,880 --> 00:06:32,719 Speaker 1: does not seem to understand. What is driving the stigma 95 00:06:33,040 --> 00:06:38,440 Speaker 1: and stench of American decay in weakness is the deterioration 96 00:06:38,880 --> 00:06:43,480 Speaker 1: of the faith in the American idea and ideal about 97 00:06:43,720 --> 00:06:49,440 Speaker 1: liberty and freedom and pluralism. The foundation of the country. 98 00:06:49,600 --> 00:06:54,920 Speaker 1: It's keystone, it's cornerstone, is the idea that the American 99 00:06:55,040 --> 00:06:56,840 Speaker 1: people are sovereign, no. 100 00:06:56,800 --> 00:07:00,240 Speaker 2: One is above the law, and the people. 101 00:07:00,120 --> 00:07:05,480 Speaker 1: Decide, citizens decide through a vote, who will be granted temporary, 102 00:07:05,880 --> 00:07:11,280 Speaker 1: limited lawful power to create and execute the laws under 103 00:07:11,440 --> 00:07:14,840 Speaker 1: the Constitution of the United States of America, to which 104 00:07:14,920 --> 00:07:18,840 Speaker 1: they swear an oath of allegiance, and in particular, the 105 00:07:18,880 --> 00:07:22,240 Speaker 1: President of the United States swears a thirty five word 106 00:07:22,320 --> 00:07:27,880 Speaker 1: oath prescribed in the Constitution that promises to preserve, protect, 107 00:07:28,080 --> 00:07:32,840 Speaker 1: and defend the Constitution. But when Donald Trump lost an election. 108 00:07:32,840 --> 00:07:33,360 Speaker 2: He did this. 109 00:07:33,760 --> 00:07:38,600 Speaker 1: Republicans became magus fascists. And what they did is breach 110 00:07:38,880 --> 00:07:42,640 Speaker 1: a tradition that stretched all the way back to George 111 00:07:42,720 --> 00:07:47,520 Speaker 1: Washington's greatest act of humility, the walking away from political 112 00:07:47,600 --> 00:07:50,320 Speaker 1: power so a free nation could rise. 113 00:07:50,720 --> 00:07:52,320 Speaker 2: It is appalling, but make. 114 00:07:52,240 --> 00:07:57,560 Speaker 1: No mistake, what drives a perception of American weakness is 115 00:07:57,600 --> 00:08:02,720 Speaker 1: the craziness of Donald Trump and the Maga movement. Our enemies, 116 00:08:02,760 --> 00:08:07,400 Speaker 1: when they look at Trump's see weakness, not strength. Our opponents, 117 00:08:07,640 --> 00:08:10,800 Speaker 1: when they look at Trump, cheer for him. They do 118 00:08:10,880 --> 00:08:13,960 Speaker 1: not fear him. We are at a time of growing 119 00:08:14,080 --> 00:08:18,840 Speaker 1: chaos and menace in the world. Listen to Donald Trump's threats. 120 00:08:19,040 --> 00:08:23,320 Speaker 1: When Vladimir Putin sees this, he sees the decay, the 121 00:08:23,400 --> 00:08:26,760 Speaker 1: decay that makes him certain that he will get a 122 00:08:26,800 --> 00:08:31,480 Speaker 1: better deal, better territories a better outcome when Trump is 123 00:08:31,560 --> 00:08:35,120 Speaker 1: president again. We live in a world where the blinds 124 00:08:35,360 --> 00:08:39,520 Speaker 1: are leading the blind. That's very dangerous. Great questions are 125 00:08:39,520 --> 00:08:43,960 Speaker 1: on the ballot. The deficiencies of the candidates are what 126 00:08:44,080 --> 00:08:48,280 Speaker 1: they are, but there is a difference of the most 127 00:08:48,320 --> 00:08:53,360 Speaker 1: profound dimensions. Joe Biden wasn't out to lunch in Normandy, France. 128 00:08:53,760 --> 00:08:58,640 Speaker 1: Joe Biden said historic things there. Let's listen to him 129 00:08:58,679 --> 00:09:02,640 Speaker 1: talk about democracy and fill the shoes of Ronald Dragon. 130 00:09:03,400 --> 00:09:07,120 Speaker 3: Everyone in the knew the probability of dying was real, 131 00:09:08,320 --> 00:09:13,360 Speaker 3: but they did it anyway. They knew and beyond any doubts, 132 00:09:14,440 --> 00:09:18,080 Speaker 3: there are things that are worth fighting and dying for. 133 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:25,920 Speaker 3: Freedom is worth it, Democracy is worth it, America is 134 00:09:25,960 --> 00:09:31,880 Speaker 3: worth it. The world is worth it, then, now and always. 135 00:09:33,040 --> 00:09:36,720 Speaker 1: Donald Trump wouldn't go and honor the graves of America's 136 00:09:36,720 --> 00:09:41,400 Speaker 1: war dead in Europe. He desecrated their sacrifice like he 137 00:09:41,760 --> 00:09:47,800 Speaker 1: desecrated his oath. He talked about shooting peaceful protesters in 138 00:09:47,880 --> 00:09:50,760 Speaker 1: the Oval Office. And what Bill Ackman doesn't seem to 139 00:09:50,920 --> 00:09:55,640 Speaker 1: understand is there is no active weakness from an American 140 00:09:55,760 --> 00:10:00,800 Speaker 1: president that is conceivably greater than that, because it's signals 141 00:10:01,120 --> 00:10:05,479 Speaker 1: that we're breaking from within. It a slow motion suicide 142 00:10:05,840 --> 00:10:09,560 Speaker 1: that our enemies could never have brought to us, but 143 00:10:09,679 --> 00:10:13,920 Speaker 1: that we are doing to ourselves, walking away from our history, 144 00:10:14,400 --> 00:10:18,400 Speaker 1: walking away from the sacrifices that expanded freedom. Day after 145 00:10:18,520 --> 00:10:23,439 Speaker 1: day there are more degradations against decency, against good from 146 00:10:23,480 --> 00:10:28,200 Speaker 1: the MAGA fascists. Fascism has come to America, and life 147 00:10:28,240 --> 00:10:31,920 Speaker 1: was once predicted is carrying across wrapped in the flag 148 00:10:32,160 --> 00:10:35,200 Speaker 1: like it was in nineteen thirty eight. What Donald Trump 149 00:10:35,320 --> 00:10:39,400 Speaker 1: is is Charles Limberg. What Donald Trump is is victor Orbon. 150 00:10:39,640 --> 00:10:41,439 Speaker 1: What Donald Trump is it's the. 151 00:10:41,480 --> 00:10:42,319 Speaker 2: End of America. 152 00:10:42,559 --> 00:10:44,679 Speaker 1: We all get to vote on that in one hundred 153 00:10:44,679 --> 00:10:48,640 Speaker 1: and forty days. Donald Trump has made promises, and those 154 00:10:48,679 --> 00:10:53,040 Speaker 1: promises are threats. Listen to them, heed them, understand them, 155 00:10:53,120 --> 00:10:58,040 Speaker 1: and don't let anybody tell you that American weakness is 156 00:10:58,080 --> 00:11:03,000 Speaker 1: being driven by the bidendministration with our weakness is lit 157 00:11:03,120 --> 00:11:06,400 Speaker 1: up like the taj Mahal in Atlantic City. 158 00:11:06,240 --> 00:11:07,480 Speaker 2: Before the bankruptcy. 159 00:11:07,520 --> 00:11:11,680 Speaker 1: That was our national cancer is Trump, Our decay is Trump, 160 00:11:11,880 --> 00:11:13,200 Speaker 1: Our threat is Trump. 161 00:11:13,440 --> 00:11:16,360 Speaker 2: Our weakness is Trump, not Biden. 162 00:11:16,800 --> 00:11:19,880 Speaker 1: That is something that even the dumbest amongst us should 163 00:11:19,880 --> 00:11:23,000 Speaker 1: be able to see quite clearly this is the warning. 164 00:11:23,880 --> 00:11:24,840 Speaker 2: I'm Steve Schmidt. 165 00:11:25,040 --> 00:11:27,240 Speaker 1: This is the warning, and I invite you to join. 166 00:11:27,400 --> 00:11:30,360 Speaker 1: Subscribe on our substack, on our. 167 00:11:30,240 --> 00:11:33,319 Speaker 2: YouTube channel, follow us. 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