1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:04,480 Speaker 1: It is April thirtieth, twenty twenty five. Trump has passed 2 00:00:04,480 --> 00:00:09,160 Speaker 1: one hundred days in office. This is the warning. April 3 00:00:09,160 --> 00:00:12,600 Speaker 1: thirtieth is a momentous day in world history and in 4 00:00:12,640 --> 00:00:17,200 Speaker 1: American history. Eighty years ago, Adolph Hitler and his thousand 5 00:00:17,280 --> 00:00:20,560 Speaker 1: year Reich came to its end in a dank Berlin 6 00:00:20,720 --> 00:00:24,880 Speaker 1: bunker when a bullet blew out the grubby fewer's brains 7 00:00:25,280 --> 00:00:27,920 Speaker 1: and the back of his skull. His body, along with 8 00:00:28,040 --> 00:00:31,840 Speaker 1: Ava Brown's, was wrapped in a blanket. It was taken upstairs, 9 00:00:32,080 --> 00:00:35,640 Speaker 1: dumped into a crater and lit on fire. That body 10 00:00:35,720 --> 00:00:39,080 Speaker 1: was recovered by Soviet forces, and in April of nineteen 11 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:43,600 Speaker 1: seventy the remains of Adolf Hitler, Ava Braun, Joseph and 12 00:00:43,720 --> 00:00:47,680 Speaker 1: Magda Goebels and their children were ground to dust and 13 00:00:47,760 --> 00:00:51,320 Speaker 1: dumped in a German river, and thus ended the thousand 14 00:00:51,360 --> 00:00:54,600 Speaker 1: year Reich. The blessed is not that Adolf Hitler did 15 00:00:54,640 --> 00:00:58,920 Speaker 1: these things, these crimes which are unprecedented in the history 16 00:00:58,960 --> 00:01:03,120 Speaker 1: of humanity, and therefore it is not possible for there 17 00:01:03,160 --> 00:01:08,000 Speaker 1: to be greater criminals or greater crimes. No, the fundamental 18 00:01:08,080 --> 00:01:12,600 Speaker 1: lesson of Nazism is the story of a lack of imagination, 19 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:18,680 Speaker 1: and where it leads willful blindness, and where it leads denihilism, 20 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:23,200 Speaker 1: and where it leads what happens when the truth and 21 00:01:23,240 --> 00:01:26,880 Speaker 1: the lie meet in the ether, and the truth is 22 00:01:26,959 --> 00:01:31,040 Speaker 1: strangled by the lie, and the people can no longer 23 00:01:31,120 --> 00:01:34,440 Speaker 1: tell the difference between the two. One of the most 24 00:01:34,480 --> 00:01:38,440 Speaker 1: important American journalists that has ever been was Dorothy Thompson, 25 00:01:38,760 --> 00:01:41,640 Speaker 1: the first Lady of American journalism, and in the nineteen 26 00:01:41,760 --> 00:01:46,040 Speaker 1: thirties she had the distinction of being the first American 27 00:01:46,400 --> 00:01:50,680 Speaker 1: who was kicked out of Nazi Germany for being inhospitable. 28 00:01:51,120 --> 00:01:55,240 Speaker 1: In her writings to her Nazi hosts, the furor most 29 00:01:55,280 --> 00:02:00,800 Speaker 1: of all, you see, Dorothy Thompson wasn't nice to the Nazis. 30 00:02:01,360 --> 00:02:05,800 Speaker 1: She didn't accommodate them, and she became a foremost student 31 00:02:06,160 --> 00:02:10,400 Speaker 1: in the Chronicler and the rise of fascism, and she 32 00:02:10,639 --> 00:02:15,120 Speaker 1: spread that gospel of warning all across America. Here's something 33 00:02:15,160 --> 00:02:18,960 Speaker 1: that she wrote, and it is important to comprehend. No 34 00:02:19,160 --> 00:02:23,680 Speaker 1: people ever recognize their dictator in advance. He never stands 35 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:27,560 Speaker 1: for election on the platform of dictatorship. He always represents 36 00:02:27,639 --> 00:02:32,160 Speaker 1: himself as the instrument of the incorporated national will. When 37 00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:35,840 Speaker 1: Americans think of dictators, they always think of some foreign model. 38 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:40,000 Speaker 1: If anyone turned up here in a fur hat, boots 39 00:02:40,440 --> 00:02:46,160 Speaker 1: and a grim look, he would be recognized and shunned. Likewise, 40 00:02:46,880 --> 00:02:50,639 Speaker 1: anyone resembling six Roman emperors or someone you must greet 41 00:02:50,720 --> 00:02:54,880 Speaker 1: with stiff arm and hail. But when our dictator turns up, 42 00:02:55,320 --> 00:02:57,959 Speaker 1: you can depend on it that he will be one 43 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:00,800 Speaker 1: of the boys, and he will stay up for everything 44 00:03:00,880 --> 00:03:05,840 Speaker 1: traditionally American. Since the great American tradition is freedom and democracy, 45 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:08,799 Speaker 1: you can bet that our dictator, God help us, will 46 00:03:08,800 --> 00:03:13,399 Speaker 1: be a great democrat through whose leadership alone democracy can 47 00:03:13,440 --> 00:03:17,239 Speaker 1: be realized. And nobody will ever say hell to him 48 00:03:17,360 --> 00:03:21,280 Speaker 1: or ave Caesar, nor will they call him furer or ducea. 49 00:03:21,880 --> 00:03:25,440 Speaker 1: But they will greet him with one great, big universal 50 00:03:25,560 --> 00:03:30,680 Speaker 1: democratic sheep like bleat of okay, chief, fix it like 51 00:03:30,760 --> 00:03:36,640 Speaker 1: you wanna chief. Oh okay. So let's apply Miss Dorothy 52 00:03:36,720 --> 00:03:42,360 Speaker 1: Thompson's powers of observation to JD. Vance and see if 53 00:03:42,360 --> 00:03:46,920 Speaker 1: the proverbial shoe fits on his Cinderella fund. The Saturne 54 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:50,200 Speaker 1: man over there talking with a lovely French emigrat is 55 00:03:50,240 --> 00:03:54,400 Speaker 1: already a Nazi. Mister c is a brilliant and embittered intellectual. 56 00:03:54,640 --> 00:03:58,440 Speaker 1: He was a poor, white, trash Southern boy, a scholarship 57 00:03:58,480 --> 00:04:02,600 Speaker 1: student at two universities, where he took all the scholastic honors, 58 00:04:02,600 --> 00:04:05,760 Speaker 1: but was never invited to join a fraternity. His brilliant 59 00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:10,000 Speaker 1: gifts won for him successively government positions, partnership and a 60 00:04:10,040 --> 00:04:13,360 Speaker 1: prominent law firm, and eventually a highly paid job as 61 00:04:13,400 --> 00:04:16,760 Speaker 1: a Wall Street advisor. He has always moved among important 62 00:04:16,760 --> 00:04:20,599 Speaker 1: people and always been socially on the periphery. His colleagues 63 00:04:20,640 --> 00:04:23,400 Speaker 1: have admired his brains and exploited them, but they have 64 00:04:23,480 --> 00:04:26,960 Speaker 1: seldom invited him or his wife to dinner. He is 65 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:31,600 Speaker 1: a snob, loathing his own snobbery. He despises the men 66 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:35,440 Speaker 1: about him. He despises, for instance, mister B, who has 67 00:04:35,520 --> 00:04:39,360 Speaker 1: risen beyond his abilities by virtue of health, good looks, 68 00:04:39,720 --> 00:04:43,000 Speaker 1: and being a good mixer, because he knows that what 69 00:04:43,160 --> 00:04:47,000 Speaker 1: he has had to achieve by relentless work, men like 70 00:04:47,120 --> 00:04:50,520 Speaker 1: Bee have won by knowing the right people. But his 71 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:56,440 Speaker 1: contempt is inextricably mingled with envy. Even more than he 72 00:04:56,560 --> 00:05:01,440 Speaker 1: hates the class into which he was insecure risen, does 73 00:05:01,560 --> 00:05:05,560 Speaker 1: he hate the people from whom he came. He hates 74 00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:09,760 Speaker 1: his mother and his father for being parents. He loathes 75 00:05:09,920 --> 00:05:14,839 Speaker 1: everything that reminds him of his origins and his humiliations. 76 00:05:15,160 --> 00:05:20,560 Speaker 1: He is bitterly anti because the social insecurity reminds him 77 00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:26,120 Speaker 1: of his own psychological insecurity, pity he has utterly erased 78 00:05:26,160 --> 00:05:29,760 Speaker 1: from his nature in joy he has never known. He 79 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:33,800 Speaker 1: has an ambition bitter and burning. It is to rise 80 00:05:33,920 --> 00:05:37,640 Speaker 1: to such an eminence that no one can ever again 81 00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:43,080 Speaker 1: humiliate him. Not to rule, but to be the secret ruler, 82 00:05:43,480 --> 00:05:47,800 Speaker 1: pulling the strings of puppets created by his brains. Already, 83 00:05:47,880 --> 00:05:51,039 Speaker 1: some of them are talking his language, though they have 84 00:05:51,240 --> 00:05:55,719 Speaker 1: never met him. There he sits. He talks awkwardly rather 85 00:05:55,760 --> 00:05:59,640 Speaker 1: than glibly. He is courteous, He commands a distant and 86 00:05:59,680 --> 00:06:04,520 Speaker 1: cold respect. But he is a very dangerous man. Were 87 00:06:04,560 --> 00:06:07,599 Speaker 1: he primitive and brutal, he would be a criminal and 88 00:06:07,640 --> 00:06:11,320 Speaker 1: a murderer. But he is subtle and cruel. He would 89 00:06:11,400 --> 00:06:14,640 Speaker 1: rise high in a Nazi regime. It would need men 90 00:06:14,880 --> 00:06:21,320 Speaker 1: just like him, intellectual and ruthless. Do you sense some 91 00:06:21,400 --> 00:06:25,680 Speaker 1: of those men and some of those ladies around Donald Trump? 92 00:06:25,880 --> 00:06:29,240 Speaker 1: I do. I see them very clearly, And I see 93 00:06:29,520 --> 00:06:32,520 Speaker 1: a gathering evil. And you should see it clearly too. 94 00:06:32,960 --> 00:06:36,000 Speaker 1: They are who they are, and their assault on the 95 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:41,599 Speaker 1: American constitution and the American Republic is one hundred days underway, 96 00:06:41,920 --> 00:06:46,520 Speaker 1: and it has not been opposed very well by America's spoiled, 97 00:06:46,839 --> 00:06:50,400 Speaker 1: hampered and out of touch elites. But it has been 98 00:06:50,520 --> 00:06:54,840 Speaker 1: met with fierce defiance by the American people. And it 99 00:06:54,920 --> 00:06:58,760 Speaker 1: is up to the American people to stop this cold 100 00:06:58,960 --> 00:07:03,560 Speaker 1: in its tracks. Canada has sent the world an important message. 101 00:07:03,680 --> 00:07:07,880 Speaker 1: They have said to Donald Trump. Know and Donald Trump's 102 00:07:07,960 --> 00:07:12,920 Speaker 1: lies have frozen cold at America's northern border. And that's 103 00:07:12,960 --> 00:07:17,600 Speaker 1: the way it must be everywhere, all at once. Because JB. Pritzker, 104 00:07:17,640 --> 00:07:20,800 Speaker 1: the Governor of Illinois, couldn't be more correct when he says, 105 00:07:20,880 --> 00:07:24,080 Speaker 1: we must fight, We must fight now, and we must 106 00:07:24,160 --> 00:07:28,480 Speaker 1: fight everywhere. We must oppose this everywhere, all at once. 107 00:07:28,560 --> 00:07:31,960 Speaker 1: We must stand against the billionaires who seek the hollow 108 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:37,280 Speaker 1: out the American journalists. We must stand against the tyranny 109 00:07:37,760 --> 00:07:42,760 Speaker 1: that is coming for our liberty. Now. This is the warning. 110 00:07:43,760 --> 00:07:47,000 Speaker 1: I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning. 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