WEBVTT - Trump Lays Out "Chilling" Blueprint for 2nd Term 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:03.360 What Donald Trump says in this story is he will 0:00:03.400 --> 0:00:08.480 deploy the military tens of thousands of armed soldiers and 0:00:08.600 --> 0:00:13.000 tanks and humvey's all over the country. He will build 0:00:13.480 --> 0:00:19.120 massive detention in deportation camps. He will lock up political opponents. 0:00:19.200 --> 0:00:23.919 Donald Trump sees a world where women's pregnancies will be 0:00:24.160 --> 0:00:28.200 monitored by the state. All of it will be scrutinized 0:00:28.680 --> 0:00:34.200 by the state, by America's first dictator. Because Time magazine 0:00:34.320 --> 0:00:38.400 went tomorrow lago and they asked the most important question 0:00:38.800 --> 0:00:42.040 that anybody has asked in twenty twenty four and the 0:00:42.240 --> 0:00:46.479 answer they god is a repudiation of the United States. 0:00:46.640 --> 0:00:50.080 Donald Trump has laid out a blueprint. He has told 0:00:50.200 --> 0:00:54.640 us what is coming. We must stop this. It is 0:00:54.680 --> 0:00:57.720 April thirtieth, twenty twenty four, and there are one hundred 0:00:57.720 --> 0:01:01.800 and eighty nine days left until the presidential election of 0:01:01.840 --> 0:01:07.839 November twenty twenty four. April thirtieth is an important day 0:01:07.880 --> 0:01:11.280 in American history. It is the day the Vietnam War 0:01:11.440 --> 0:01:16.440 ended April thirtieth, nineteen seventy five, forty nine years ago. Today, 0:01:16.680 --> 0:01:20.600 these scenes of chaos will long linger in the imagination 0:01:20.959 --> 0:01:24.440 of the generation of Americans who fought in the war, 0:01:25.040 --> 0:01:30.000 who protested in the war, whose generation was defined by it. 0:01:30.480 --> 0:01:33.120 In Washington, d c. The names of the fifty eight 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:37.320 thousand dead are etched into a black marble wall. In Vietnam, 0:01:38.000 --> 0:01:41.759 more than a million were killed. Today, Vietnam is one 0:01:41.760 --> 0:01:45.120 of the youngest nations on Earth, and for young Vietnamese 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:48.440 born in nineteen eighty or after, they are the first 0:01:48.480 --> 0:01:52.960 generation in one thousand years who was born into peace. 0:01:53.320 --> 0:01:58.280 Vietnam is a strategically vital, an important American partner in 0:01:58.360 --> 0:02:03.080 the South China Sea. Relationship between our countries is important 0:02:03.120 --> 0:02:07.040 to understand. This is a tragic history that is important 0:02:07.080 --> 0:02:10.880 to know when you look out at American life today 0:02:11.960 --> 0:02:18.880 and ponder the collapse of trust and institutions, cynicism. All 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:23.920 of it is born from a lie told to the 0:02:23.919 --> 0:02:28.960 American people by the best and the brightest, who sent 0:02:29.000 --> 0:02:34.160 them to war, poor black, poor brown, poor white, to 0:02:34.280 --> 0:02:37.400 a war on the other side of the world that 0:02:37.480 --> 0:02:41.200 they knew could not be one. It is one of 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:45.160 the most shameful chapters in American history. And if you 0:02:45.240 --> 0:02:48.760 see a Vietnam veteran, and these guys are increasingly old now, 0:02:48.960 --> 0:02:51.880 a lot of them in wheelchairs going to Washington, DC, 0:02:52.120 --> 0:02:54.760 to look at the wall. If you're my age in 0:02:54.840 --> 0:02:58.200 American life fifty three, you don't tend to think of 0:02:58.280 --> 0:03:02.000 Vietnam veterans as the old guys because they were our parents. 0:03:02.320 --> 0:03:05.880 But the truth is, most Vietnam veterans now are pushing 0:03:05.919 --> 0:03:08.800 eighty years old, and some are even older. This was 0:03:08.840 --> 0:03:12.200 a space filled not so long ago by World War 0:03:12.240 --> 0:03:16.960 II veterans, but they're mostly all gone now. Just a 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:22.359 few will be alive to be present at the ceremonies 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:26.240 in D Day commemorating the eightieth anniversary of the liberation, 0:03:27.760 --> 0:03:31.760 But the overwhelming majority of old veterans combat veterans in 0:03:31.800 --> 0:03:36.680 the country wearing the hats that you'll see are Vietnam veterans, 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:40.320 and they were not welcomed home in nineteen seventy five. 0:03:40.680 --> 0:03:44.080 We're nineteen seventy we're nineteen sixty eight. So when you 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:47.560 see a Vietnam veteran, it's appropriate to go up and 0:03:47.600 --> 0:03:50.040 to say thank you, and to say to them, no 0:03:50.120 --> 0:03:54.520 matter how old you are, welcome home. They'll appreciate it. 0:03:54.800 --> 0:03:58.600 There is a fundamental question at hand in America, and 0:03:58.680 --> 0:04:02.480 it is one that has not talked often enough about. 0:04:04.120 --> 0:04:09.240 Part of it is the structure of politics in Washington, 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:12.960 d c. Which, for most of the life of the 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:15.840 country and certainly for the last fifty years in the 0:04:15.920 --> 0:04:20.559 federal capital, was built on a presumption of good faith. 0:04:20.760 --> 0:04:26.200 It's why people with disagreement could be good friends. There's 0:04:26.200 --> 0:04:30.440 a very famous illustration of this. Daniel in Away was 0:04:30.520 --> 0:04:35.240 the longtime Democratic senator from the state of Hawaii, one 0:04:35.320 --> 0:04:38.600 of the longest serving in American history, and a recipient 0:04:38.640 --> 0:04:40.839 of the Medal of Honor when in a way was 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:44.520 recovering after World War Two. He did so for years, 0:04:45.200 --> 0:04:48.520 and he shared a room with two men, both of whom, 0:04:49.160 --> 0:04:53.680 like him, would also become United States senators. With Daniel 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:56.880 in Away passed away, His flag drab casket lay under 0:04:56.880 --> 0:04:59.840 the capital rotunda. It was flanked by a cordon of 0:04:59.839 --> 0:05:03.480 me military guard is befitting a recipient of the Medal 0:05:03.480 --> 0:05:07.320 of Honor. And then something remarkable happened. The crowd began 0:05:07.400 --> 0:05:09.840 to part a little bit. An old man in a 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:14.200 wheelchair was being pushed towards Daniel Ineway's casket. It was 0:05:14.240 --> 0:05:17.960 Bob Dole. When he got to those court on ropes, 0:05:18.320 --> 0:05:21.400 Bob Dole said, Danny wouldn't want to see me sitting 0:05:21.440 --> 0:05:24.320 in this wheelchair, and he struggled to get to his feet, 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:28.960 and Bob Dole, the Republican nominee for President and Vice President, 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:33.240 the Republican Senate majority leader, with his only good arm 0:05:33.360 --> 0:05:38.520 his left, saluted the casket of his brother, who he loved, 0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:46.640 his fierce political opponent, his comrade in arms, his fellow American. 0:05:47.960 --> 0:05:52.040 We had a generation that were not able to look 0:05:52.080 --> 0:05:56.640 at each other as enemies in America because they had 0:05:56.680 --> 0:06:01.960 looked into the eyes of real enemies and knew what 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:05.640 the stakes were. This past weekend was White House Correspondence 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:09.159 Day weekend, and there is an annual garden brunch that 0:06:09.320 --> 0:06:19.800 attracts senior military leaders, members of Congress, diplomats, reporters, political consultants, 0:06:19.800 --> 0:06:23.120 and all of the nation's most powerful people politically in 0:06:23.160 --> 0:06:28.520 There in the crowd, of course, in Washington was Kelly 0:06:28.560 --> 0:06:32.440 and Conway. But Kellyanne Conway isn't at that brunch as 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:39.080 part of some respectable, disagreeing opposition. Kelly and Conway is 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:43.800 at that lunch as a member of a fascist vanguard, 0:06:44.440 --> 0:06:49.160 and she is there in good standing. Nobody seems to mind, 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:53.320 nobody seems to care. Eric Cordlessa is a reporter for 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:58.640 Time magazine, and he did something unusual and long overdue. 0:06:58.720 --> 0:07:01.440 The fact of the matter is that regarding the space 0:07:01.560 --> 0:07:07.600 time continuum, the overwhelming majority of American media focuses in 0:07:07.640 --> 0:07:14.040 the immediate present and the immediate passed. And by immediate past, 0:07:14.120 --> 0:07:19.440 I mean the last five minutes. We rarely talk about 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:25.800 what's next, and that used to be the entirety of 0:07:25.800 --> 0:07:29.720 what a presidential election was, about what's going to happen next. 0:07:31.920 --> 0:07:34.480 There are a few questions that are ever asked of 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:39.360 Donald Trump and Donald Trump's supporters hypothetically of course, because 0:07:39.560 --> 0:07:43.040 he's not in power yet, about what it is that 0:07:43.160 --> 0:07:48.720 he will do. Nine years ago, when it began, it 0:07:48.800 --> 0:07:55.280 was preposterous declarations. But benign, I'm going to build a 0:07:55.320 --> 0:08:01.320 wall in Mexico will pay for it. Well, I'm going 0:08:01.360 --> 0:08:05.040 to crack an egg and a blue hippopotamus will jump 0:08:05.120 --> 0:08:10.240 out of it. Saying things does not make it so. 0:08:12.400 --> 0:08:16.320 But eight years have passed since Donald Trump came down 0:08:16.400 --> 0:08:21.960 the escalator, eight long years, and here in the ninth year, 0:08:22.280 --> 0:08:27.920 Donald Trump has a plan. This is so important to understand. 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:34.160 There was no Republican platform at the last Republican convention. 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:41.360 Besides the mandate and requirement the party imposed around being 0:08:41.480 --> 0:08:46.720 loyal to Donald Trump. The party's platform had degenerated from 0:08:46.960 --> 0:08:52.840 political positions and philosophies to an oath of loyalty around 0:08:52.880 --> 0:08:59.200 a man. But it's not true that Donald Trump doesn't 0:08:59.280 --> 0:09:05.720 have anymore. It's not true that he doesn't have an agenda. 0:09:05.880 --> 0:09:11.640 It's not true that he doesn't have a vision. He does. 0:09:12.120 --> 0:09:18.160 And Time Magazine went tomorrow a lago, Time Magazine sat 0:09:18.280 --> 0:09:22.439 down with Donald Trump and asked him the questions that 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:27.560 no one else asks, what will you do if you 0:09:27.679 --> 0:09:31.880 get elected again? And there is an important corollary, my friends, 0:09:31.960 --> 0:09:35.400 to this vital question, because really that question is what 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:40.920 are your plans for us to do to us, the 0:09:40.960 --> 0:09:45.320 American people, to the United States. I'm going to read 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:50.160 a couple of paragraphs. Now, think about this, contemplate this deeply. 0:09:50.440 --> 0:09:53.880 This is what the election is about. It's not about 0:09:54.000 --> 0:09:57.679 Joe Biden's age, It's not about anything other than this 0:09:57.840 --> 0:10:03.120 plan that I'm going to read to you. Because this 0:10:03.480 --> 0:10:09.680 is a plan that will subvert liberty and freedom in 0:10:09.720 --> 0:10:13.680 the United States. I want you to think about living 0:10:13.760 --> 0:10:19.920 in a country where there are hundreds of thousands of 0:10:20.240 --> 0:10:25.720 armed soldiers on the streets, in tanks, in humbies, in 0:10:25.960 --> 0:10:30.400 armored personnel carriers. Let's be clear about something when we 0:10:30.520 --> 0:10:34.160 talk about Trump's use of the National Guard in the 0:10:34.320 --> 0:10:39.000 context of what I'm about to read you, the National 0:10:39.000 --> 0:10:42.920 Guard is frequently deployed in disasters. That's often how we 0:10:42.960 --> 0:10:47.319 think about the National Guard. But the National Guard is 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:51.480 a vital component of the US Army. Its members are 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:57.640 trained American soldiers, and they are lethal. National Guard units 0:10:57.679 --> 0:11:05.000 served with distinction in Iraq and Afghanistan. They are military units. 0:11:05.400 --> 0:11:10.200 They are not police units, and they are trained to kill. 0:11:10.240 --> 0:11:13.080 And they have no place, no business in the United 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:18.000 States of America enforcing law, whether it be immigration law, 0:11:19.600 --> 0:11:23.920 whether it be city code, whether it be criminal code 0:11:23.960 --> 0:11:26.760 in Chicago or Detroit, or New York or wherever else 0:11:27.120 --> 0:11:32.160 Donald Trump plans to deploy them. This is a free nation, 0:11:33.400 --> 0:11:38.160 and free nations do not have an armed legion on 0:11:38.200 --> 0:11:43.280 the street kitted up for urban combat. No, not in 0:11:43.360 --> 0:11:47.080 the United States of America. And when I read these 0:11:47.200 --> 0:11:51.400 next words to you, pay attention from Time magazine written 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:55.440 by Eric cordlessa dateline Palm Beach, Florida. I bring up 0:11:55.480 --> 0:11:58.640 the many former cabinet officials who refuse to endorse Trump 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:01.480 this time. Some of public warrant that he poses a 0:12:01.600 --> 0:12:05.040 danger to the republic. Why should voters trust you, I asked, 0:12:05.440 --> 0:12:08.080 when some of the people who observed you most closely 0:12:08.880 --> 0:12:12.640 do not. As always, Trump punches back, denigrating his former 0:12:12.679 --> 0:12:16.679 top advisors. But beneath the typical torrent of invective, there 0:12:16.720 --> 0:12:20.280 is a larger lesson he has taken away. Quote I 0:12:20.440 --> 0:12:23.680 let them quit because I have a heart. I don't 0:12:23.720 --> 0:12:28.760 want to embarrass anybody. End quote, Trump says, quote I 0:12:28.800 --> 0:12:32.800 don't think I'll do that again from now on. A fire. 0:12:33.200 --> 0:12:35.440 I wanted to know what Trump would do if he 0:12:35.520 --> 0:12:38.520 wins a second term, to hear his vision for the 0:12:38.640 --> 0:12:42.079 nation in his own words. What emerged in two interviews 0:12:42.120 --> 0:12:44.800 with Trump and conversations with more than a dozen of 0:12:44.840 --> 0:12:49.000 his closest advisors and confidants were the outlines of an 0:12:49.040 --> 0:12:53.480 imperial presidency that would reshape America and its role in 0:12:53.520 --> 0:12:57.080 the world. To carry out a deportation operation designed to 0:12:57.120 --> 0:13:00.920 remove more than eleven million people from the country, Trump 0:13:01.000 --> 0:13:04.120 told me he would be willing to build migrant detention 0:13:04.280 --> 0:13:07.959 camps and deploy the US military both at the border 0:13:08.080 --> 0:13:13.120 and inland. He would let red states monitor women's pregnancies 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:17.880 and prosecute those who violate abortion bands. He would, at 0:13:17.880 --> 0:13:23.000 his personal discretion withhold funds appropriated by Congress. According to 0:13:23.080 --> 0:13:26.120 top advisors, he would be willing to fire a US 0:13:26.200 --> 0:13:29.400 attorney who doesn't carry out his orders to prosecute someone 0:13:29.840 --> 0:13:33.240 breaking with a tradition of independent law enforcement that dates 0:13:33.240 --> 0:13:36.360 from America's founding. He is weighing pardons for every one 0:13:36.360 --> 0:13:39.800 of his supporters accused of attacking the US capital on 0:13:39.920 --> 0:13:43.520 January sixth, twenty twenty one, more than eight hundred of 0:13:43.520 --> 0:13:46.480 whom have pleaded guilty or been convicted by a jury. 0:13:46.640 --> 0:13:48.959 He might not come to the aid of an attacked 0:13:49.000 --> 0:13:52.240 ally in Europe or Asia if he felt that country 0:13:52.400 --> 0:13:55.080 wasn't paying enough for its own defense. He would gut 0:13:55.160 --> 0:14:00.000 the US Civil Service, deploy the National Guard to American cities. 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:03.720 He's fit clothes the White House Pandemic Preparedness Office, and 0:14:03.840 --> 0:14:07.760 staff his administration with acolytes who believe his false assertion 0:14:08.240 --> 0:14:12.720 that the twenty twenty election was stolen. Helly and Conway says, 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:16.120 I don't think it's a big mystery what his agenda 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:19.520 would be, but I think people will be surprised at 0:14:19.560 --> 0:14:23.200 the alacrity with which he will take action. I think 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:26.160 it's very important for the American people to understand something. 0:14:26.800 --> 0:14:30.560 What I just read is a recipe of blueprint for 0:14:30.640 --> 0:14:34.000 dictatorship in the United States of America. That is what 0:14:34.080 --> 0:14:36.800 Donald Trump will attempt to be. And he is surrounded 0:14:37.200 --> 0:14:44.280 by a gaggle, a coterie of sickophants, disordered personalities, psychopaths, 0:14:44.960 --> 0:14:51.440 conspiracy theorists, petty criminals, sexual abusers, and the list goes on. 0:14:51.560 --> 0:14:55.400 What Donald Trump says in this story is he will 0:14:55.440 --> 0:15:02.400 deploy the military tens of thousands of armed soldiers and 0:15:02.560 --> 0:15:08.640 tanks and humvy's all over the country. He will build 0:15:09.160 --> 0:15:15.280 massive detention in deportation camps. He will lock up political opponents. 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:20.840 Donald Trump sees a world where women's pregnancies will be 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:25.280 monitored by the state. And I have news for women 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:30.680 who watch this. If your pregnancies are going to be 0:15:30.880 --> 0:15:37.080 monitored by the government, then so too will your birth control, 0:15:38.280 --> 0:15:46.080 your iud's, your birth control pills, all of it will 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:52.040 be scrutinized by the state, by America's first dictator. Because 0:15:52.160 --> 0:15:56.080 Time magazine went tomorrow a lago and they ask the 0:15:56.120 --> 0:16:00.240 most important question that anybody has asked in twenty twenty, 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:06.000 and the answer they got is a repudiation of the 0:16:06.120 --> 0:16:10.960 United States, of the founding fathers, of Abraham Lincoln, of 0:16:11.000 --> 0:16:15.320 the Gettysburg Address, of Franklin Roosevelt, of John Kennedy, of 0:16:15.520 --> 0:16:19.240 Ronald Reagan. What they got is a promise to tear 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:24.680 down America, tear down the Constitution, burn the Declaration of Independence, 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:29.560 and make Donald Trump America's first caesar. This is one 0:16:29.600 --> 0:16:35.400 of the most important editions of Time magazine that has 0:16:35.440 --> 0:16:40.560 ever been published, and that's saying a great deal. Donald 0:16:40.560 --> 0:16:44.280 Trump has laid out a blueprint. He has told us 0:16:44.320 --> 0:16:49.440 what is coming. We must stop this. These are the 0:16:49.440 --> 0:16:53.280 critical mass of people necessary to create not just a 0:16:53.680 --> 0:17:00.560 national disaster, but a global one. Vladimir Putin will continue 0:17:00.600 --> 0:17:04.480 his war that has already breached half a million casualties, 0:17:04.480 --> 0:17:07.719 and it will spread into Europe, and with each step 0:17:07.800 --> 0:17:12.360 that it takes moving west, it will come closer to 0:17:12.400 --> 0:17:16.080 the United States. And then one day the first young 0:17:16.119 --> 0:17:20.320 American will be planted into the grounds, one more addition 0:17:20.480 --> 0:17:24.800 to the gardens of stone in American cemeteries all over 0:17:24.840 --> 0:17:28.119 the world. His casket will be lowered, draped under an 0:17:28.119 --> 0:17:33.600 American flag dead, killed in action, a war that we 0:17:33.640 --> 0:17:37.080 should never have been involved in, but will come because 0:17:37.080 --> 0:17:40.040 of Trump. Do you like the idea of somebody who 0:17:40.119 --> 0:17:42.840 dares to speak in the United States of America, who 0:17:42.920 --> 0:17:47.160 asserts a position of conscious or opinion about anything, should 0:17:47.200 --> 0:17:50.080 be locked up by Trump if he doesn't like how 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:53.120 you look, how you think that you dare to pose him? 0:17:53.480 --> 0:17:57.000 What about the millions of Americans out there who spoke 0:17:57.080 --> 0:18:01.560 against Trump, who sent out a tweet about Trump? Will 0:18:01.560 --> 0:18:05.080 they be harassed, will they be targeted, will they be audited? 0:18:05.800 --> 0:18:09.880 Will the reporters be arrested? I documented carefully and thoroughly 0:18:09.960 --> 0:18:12.920 yesterday the attack on a Politico reporter by a US 0:18:13.000 --> 0:18:16.760 Catholic bishop. Most of the media is fixated on the 0:18:16.800 --> 0:18:21.600 fight between the New York Times and Politico. What the 0:18:21.680 --> 0:18:25.240 media in America should be focused on is the power 0:18:25.240 --> 0:18:29.240 of Leonard Leo to orchestrate state attorney generals and a 0:18:29.280 --> 0:18:34.280 Catholic bishop to attack a reporter reporting on the public interest, 0:18:34.640 --> 0:18:38.240 scrutinizing some of the most powerful people in the country. Because, 0:18:38.400 --> 0:18:42.000 understand this, in the next Trump era, according to his promises, 0:18:42.320 --> 0:18:47.399 those reporters, those activists, everybody who opposes Trump is at 0:18:47.520 --> 0:18:51.440 risk to be prosecuted, have their lives destroyed to get 0:18:51.480 --> 0:18:55.600 in line behind Trump. Who will stand up to the intimidation, 0:18:56.119 --> 0:18:59.399 Who will defy it, Who will lay in front of 0:18:59.400 --> 0:19:02.320 the tanks at the gates, Who will oppose a plan 0:19:02.920 --> 0:19:05.720 which is laid out, which is ready to take power 0:19:05.720 --> 0:19:09.199 in America and destroy the checks and balances. All of 0:19:09.240 --> 0:19:13.240 this is on paper, it is real, it is happening, 0:19:13.640 --> 0:19:16.120 and the simple fact of the matter is this. If 0:19:16.160 --> 0:19:20.200 the election were tomorrow, Donald Trump would win. That's today's warning. 0:19:20.600 --> 0:19:23.040 The country's at stake, and we all better wake up 0:19:23.080 --> 0:19:27.000 to that fact before it's too late. I'm Steve Schmidt. 0:19:27.200 --> 0:19:29.400 This is the warning, and I invite you to join. 0:19:29.520 --> 0:19:34.080 Subscribe on our sub stack on our YouTube channel, follow us. 0:19:34.280 --> 0:19:40.560 Welcome to the community.