1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:04,200 Speaker 1: Welcome to another edition of the Schmid Storm. You have questions, 2 00:00:04,440 --> 00:00:07,600 Speaker 1: I have answers. Let's get to it. The first question 3 00:00:07,800 --> 00:00:10,640 Speaker 1: is a great one, and it's one that the national 4 00:00:10,680 --> 00:00:13,880 Speaker 1: media frankly doesn't understand, and it is what is the 5 00:00:14,080 --> 00:00:18,360 Speaker 1: impact of Robert Kennedy's endorsement for Donald Trump? 6 00:00:18,480 --> 00:00:20,640 Speaker 2: Will it help him win? Now? 7 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:23,840 Speaker 1: A lot of the media looks at a Kennedy endorsement 8 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:29,840 Speaker 1: and they add his percentage to Trump's percentage, and they think, well, 9 00:00:30,200 --> 00:00:35,000 Speaker 1: since a endorse b their supporters all go, and therefore 10 00:00:35,400 --> 00:00:39,360 Speaker 1: it's now a two person ticket of sorts where their 11 00:00:39,440 --> 00:00:43,120 Speaker 1: numbers have added up, and those numbers add up to 12 00:00:43,360 --> 00:00:46,720 Speaker 1: more than the Harris Waltz total. That's not how it 13 00:00:46,800 --> 00:00:53,640 Speaker 1: works at all. Robert Kennedy is profoundly mentally ill, completely irrational, 14 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:58,960 Speaker 1: utterly demented, and the freak show of Maga is where 15 00:00:59,000 --> 00:00:59,760 Speaker 1: he belongs. 16 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:02,200 Speaker 2: It's where he always belonged. 17 00:01:02,360 --> 00:01:06,520 Speaker 1: The truth is that the American people, when they observe 18 00:01:06,640 --> 00:01:11,560 Speaker 1: this race, we any clear eyed patriotic American sees is 19 00:01:11,560 --> 00:01:20,360 Speaker 1: this seditious creature canteena of imbeciles, convicted felons, weirdos, sexual predators, 20 00:01:20,760 --> 00:01:24,160 Speaker 1: wife theaters, and now a guy who changed the head 21 00:01:24,200 --> 00:01:27,440 Speaker 1: off of a whale, who brought a dead bear cub 22 00:01:27,680 --> 00:01:31,480 Speaker 1: to Central Park for some reason, who is a conspiracy 23 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:37,960 Speaker 1: theorist and a vaccine denier. So he isn't an attractant. 24 00:01:38,400 --> 00:01:43,319 Speaker 1: He's a repellent, and so normal people are repelled by 25 00:01:43,440 --> 00:01:47,200 Speaker 1: him and his joining forces with Trump. So in the 26 00:01:47,360 --> 00:01:50,960 Speaker 1: end this is going to hurt Robert Kennedy. He couldn't 27 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:55,800 Speaker 1: even bring along his vice presidential candidate or his wife 28 00:01:56,080 --> 00:01:59,320 Speaker 1: to support Trump. That's how weak his coattails are. This 29 00:01:59,480 --> 00:02:02,800 Speaker 1: question is asked me to react to the inaugural joint 30 00:02:03,040 --> 00:02:07,400 Speaker 1: media interview by Kamala Harris and Tim Walls. I thought 31 00:02:07,680 --> 00:02:12,440 Speaker 1: it was fantastic she answered the questions. They showed steadiness 32 00:02:12,440 --> 00:02:17,720 Speaker 1: and normalcy. Now, none of this takes place in a vacuum. 33 00:02:17,960 --> 00:02:21,720 Speaker 1: So the place we have to start is Donald Trump, 34 00:02:22,080 --> 00:02:26,800 Speaker 1: because while that is going on concurrent, the other campaign 35 00:02:27,200 --> 00:02:32,519 Speaker 1: is busy also desecrating Arlington National Cemetery, Donald Trump's completely 36 00:02:32,919 --> 00:02:39,320 Speaker 1: insane tweets, sexual tweets, tweets threatening to kill Americans, tweets 37 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:44,240 Speaker 1: threatening to imprison Americans, declarations of the Q and non 38 00:02:44,760 --> 00:02:52,520 Speaker 1: conspiracy theory in sanity. While Kamala Harris, the Vice president, 39 00:02:52,560 --> 00:02:58,760 Speaker 1: and Governor Wallas are sitting down answering questions, demonstrating calmness 40 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:04,280 Speaker 1: of temperament. These are normal people, These are good people. Now, 41 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:08,880 Speaker 1: the Republican smears against Tim Wall's military record are absurd 42 00:03:09,240 --> 00:03:14,720 Speaker 1: and they're unfair. A question does not gain legitimacy because 43 00:03:15,040 --> 00:03:18,920 Speaker 1: the other side has made a polemic attack within the 44 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:23,280 Speaker 1: subject area. So there are questions that get asked, For example, 45 00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:25,919 Speaker 1: what will you do is your first day as president? 46 00:03:26,080 --> 00:03:28,239 Speaker 1: That don't tell the American people anything. 47 00:03:28,440 --> 00:03:29,040 Speaker 2: I'll tell you. 48 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:31,640 Speaker 1: Exactly what Kamala Harris will do on her first day 49 00:03:31,680 --> 00:03:34,920 Speaker 1: as president. She'll wake up at the Blairhouse. She'll go 50 00:03:35,040 --> 00:03:38,560 Speaker 1: to church at Saint John's. That's the place that Donald 51 00:03:38,560 --> 00:03:41,600 Speaker 1: Trump ordered a tear gas attack on because he wanted 52 00:03:41,640 --> 00:03:45,080 Speaker 1: to desecrate the Bible, like he desecrated Arlington for a 53 00:03:45,080 --> 00:03:48,640 Speaker 1: photo op when he ordered government thudgs to attack Black 54 00:03:48,680 --> 00:03:52,600 Speaker 1: Lives Matter protesters. She'll be inaugurated at the Capital of 55 00:03:52,600 --> 00:03:57,480 Speaker 1: at noon. There'll be a luncheon following by the Joint Committee. 56 00:03:57,520 --> 00:04:00,440 Speaker 1: Following that, they'll be a parade. She'll enter the White 57 00:04:00,440 --> 00:04:03,800 Speaker 1: House and the Oval Office for the first time as president. 58 00:04:04,120 --> 00:04:07,320 Speaker 1: She'll go upstairs, have a few minutes, and then she'll 59 00:04:07,360 --> 00:04:10,720 Speaker 1: have to change into ball gowns, which is probably for 60 00:04:10,760 --> 00:04:14,280 Speaker 1: the first time in American history, a much longer process 61 00:04:14,400 --> 00:04:18,000 Speaker 1: than the male presidents we've had growing on their tuxedo. 62 00:04:18,279 --> 00:04:21,440 Speaker 1: The President will go to many balls that night, and 63 00:04:21,480 --> 00:04:24,840 Speaker 1: in the morning the business of governance will start. What's 64 00:04:24,880 --> 00:04:29,960 Speaker 1: important to know about the Vice President and Governor Wallas 65 00:04:30,160 --> 00:04:34,640 Speaker 1: is their philosophy about freedom, about the country, about us, 66 00:04:34,880 --> 00:04:38,680 Speaker 1: And the most important thing the Vice President Harris has 67 00:04:38,760 --> 00:04:42,359 Speaker 1: communicated is she has no malice in her heart for 68 00:04:42,480 --> 00:04:46,520 Speaker 1: any of us, especially those of us who disagree with 69 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:47,799 Speaker 1: her on some issues. 70 00:04:48,279 --> 00:04:50,440 Speaker 2: People who support. 71 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:55,000 Speaker 1: Kamala Harris despite disagreements, tease someone who looks at them 72 00:04:55,240 --> 00:04:58,440 Speaker 1: as loyal and good Americans and wants to do right 73 00:04:58,480 --> 00:05:01,839 Speaker 1: by them, do goodbye them them, not to do them harm, 74 00:05:01,960 --> 00:05:05,239 Speaker 1: not to do to them what Trump wants. Trump wants 75 00:05:05,320 --> 00:05:08,559 Speaker 1: power to take revenge against the people that it didn't 76 00:05:08,560 --> 00:05:12,760 Speaker 1: support him. He talks about it all the time, believe him. 77 00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:16,719 Speaker 1: Let me just say in conclusion to this, there has 78 00:05:17,240 --> 00:05:19,560 Speaker 1: in all of history, and I mean all of it, 79 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:23,760 Speaker 1: never been a person seeking power promising to kill people 80 00:05:23,760 --> 00:05:27,040 Speaker 1: when he got it. That didn't fulfill the promise. Ever, 81 00:05:27,400 --> 00:05:31,200 Speaker 1: so when Donald Trump starts talking about killing people, wake up, 82 00:05:31,520 --> 00:05:35,240 Speaker 1: pay attention and take the man seriously, even though, as 83 00:05:35,240 --> 00:05:39,400 Speaker 1: the Vice President pointed out, he is a most unserious man. 84 00:05:39,560 --> 00:05:43,240 Speaker 1: The question is Donald Trump keeps telling the American people 85 00:05:43,279 --> 00:05:46,360 Speaker 1: we are on the brink of World War three? Is 86 00:05:46,400 --> 00:05:50,080 Speaker 1: there any truth to it? Donald Trump is somebody who 87 00:05:50,080 --> 00:05:54,440 Speaker 1: makes our allies tremble because of his incompetence and because 88 00:05:54,440 --> 00:05:59,320 Speaker 1: of his affinity for our collective enemies. Donald Trump has 89 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:02,680 Speaker 1: a fetish for Kim Jong un. He has a fetish 90 00:06:02,960 --> 00:06:06,680 Speaker 1: for Vladimir Putin. He has a fetish for the Chinese 91 00:06:06,800 --> 00:06:12,039 Speaker 1: president because he wants their authority and power. 92 00:06:12,279 --> 00:06:13,240 Speaker 2: He admires it. 93 00:06:13,640 --> 00:06:16,840 Speaker 1: Donald Trump thinks he should be able to kill a 94 00:06:16,880 --> 00:06:19,960 Speaker 1: political opponent. Donald Trump thinks he should be able to 95 00:06:20,080 --> 00:06:27,040 Speaker 1: order summary executions. Donald Trump lust and admires some of 96 00:06:27,080 --> 00:06:31,320 Speaker 1: the worst pirates on earth. And it is a true 97 00:06:31,360 --> 00:06:35,760 Speaker 1: fact according to his ex wife, now buried resting peacefully 98 00:06:35,839 --> 00:06:39,480 Speaker 1: forever on the first hole at the Bedminster golf Course, 99 00:06:39,560 --> 00:06:43,320 Speaker 1: that he kept speeches by Adolph Hitler on his nightstand 100 00:06:43,560 --> 00:06:46,400 Speaker 1: and it was the only book he was ever interested 101 00:06:46,440 --> 00:06:51,400 Speaker 1: in reading. Apparently he was consumed by the idea Hitler's 102 00:06:51,400 --> 00:06:55,360 Speaker 1: great insight that the bigger the lie, the more believable 103 00:06:55,600 --> 00:06:58,000 Speaker 1: it would be. It's who the man is. 104 00:06:58,400 --> 00:06:58,719 Speaker 2: Now. 105 00:06:59,120 --> 00:07:02,120 Speaker 1: All of the chaos in the world, all of the 106 00:07:02,320 --> 00:07:05,599 Speaker 1: chaos in the Middle East, is joined. There is a 107 00:07:05,760 --> 00:07:09,200 Speaker 1: coalition of nations that are the chaos nations. It is 108 00:07:09,240 --> 00:07:12,480 Speaker 1: an access truly of evil. North Korea is in it, 109 00:07:12,600 --> 00:07:16,240 Speaker 1: Iran is in it. Russia is in it. Russia is 110 00:07:16,640 --> 00:07:19,480 Speaker 1: in the middle of prosecuting a war in Europe that 111 00:07:19,840 --> 00:07:23,600 Speaker 1: if Ukraine is defeated, will spread, and if that war 112 00:07:23,680 --> 00:07:27,240 Speaker 1: spreads into Europe on to NATO territory, Yes, World War 113 00:07:27,280 --> 00:07:31,320 Speaker 1: three could begin. But that war will begin because of 114 00:07:31,480 --> 00:07:39,400 Speaker 1: Trump's weakness, Kamala Harris's strength deters aggression and keeps peace. 115 00:07:39,920 --> 00:07:45,480 Speaker 1: Because he was inept, bordering on imbecilic. Because Donald Trump 116 00:07:45,720 --> 00:07:51,800 Speaker 1: can't distinguish between reality and fiction, fantasy and what's happening 117 00:07:52,160 --> 00:07:56,280 Speaker 1: right now in real life. Because he's unprepared, because he's ignorant, 118 00:07:56,520 --> 00:08:00,720 Speaker 1: because he doesn't read, because he knows nothing about the 119 00:08:00,800 --> 00:08:04,840 Speaker 1: history of the country, and obviously, through his desecrations at 120 00:08:04,920 --> 00:08:10,840 Speaker 1: Arlington National Cemetery, does not understand the price paid by 121 00:08:10,920 --> 00:08:14,800 Speaker 1: Americans to keep peace in Europe so that the whole 122 00:08:14,800 --> 00:08:18,560 Speaker 1: world could prosper into the twenty first century. There will 123 00:08:18,600 --> 00:08:21,600 Speaker 1: be a reckoning with Iran, who was waging war on 124 00:08:21,760 --> 00:08:25,600 Speaker 1: Israel and the United States. These are important questions for 125 00:08:25,720 --> 00:08:28,520 Speaker 1: Kamala Harris. And we should understand that we live in 126 00:08:28,560 --> 00:08:32,400 Speaker 1: a dangerous world. But the chances of things going truly 127 00:08:32,440 --> 00:08:37,120 Speaker 1: off the rails increased exponentially with the most unfit man 128 00:08:37,520 --> 00:08:40,880 Speaker 1: in the country serving in the Oval office, with the 129 00:08:40,920 --> 00:08:45,520 Speaker 1: powers of the presidency being trailed by nuclear football carried 130 00:08:45,520 --> 00:08:46,720 Speaker 1: by a military aid. 131 00:08:47,080 --> 00:08:48,760 Speaker 2: Great question, and it's this. 132 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:53,560 Speaker 1: It references all of the insanity tweeted out by Donald Trump, 133 00:08:53,640 --> 00:08:59,280 Speaker 1: his declarations of support for the QAnon, the qbanon conspiracy theories, 134 00:08:59,640 --> 00:09:04,320 Speaker 1: his references to blow jobs, his references to killing people. 135 00:09:04,040 --> 00:09:05,000 Speaker 2: On and on and on. 136 00:09:05,360 --> 00:09:09,680 Speaker 1: And the question is what can be done? Is there 137 00:09:09,840 --> 00:09:15,120 Speaker 1: anything within the political system that can stop the spread 138 00:09:15,160 --> 00:09:20,640 Speaker 1: of this? So, yes, there is the American people and 139 00:09:20,679 --> 00:09:24,800 Speaker 1: that's it. That is the political system. Government of the people, 140 00:09:25,120 --> 00:09:29,480 Speaker 1: by the people, for the people. We have no shortage 141 00:09:29,679 --> 00:09:33,120 Speaker 1: of whack jobs in America because we have a population 142 00:09:33,600 --> 00:09:37,040 Speaker 1: of three hundred and fifty million people. There is an 143 00:09:37,080 --> 00:09:42,000 Speaker 1: astonishing story about an airline pilot sitting in the jump 144 00:09:42,040 --> 00:09:46,360 Speaker 1: seat of a commercial airline flight off duty, who reached 145 00:09:46,400 --> 00:09:50,319 Speaker 1: it up and tried to sever the fuel to the engines. 146 00:09:50,520 --> 00:09:54,520 Speaker 1: He was hallucinating, apparently on shrooms, which he had taken 147 00:09:54,640 --> 00:09:58,480 Speaker 1: forty eight hours before. It's been charged with eighty two 148 00:09:58,640 --> 00:10:03,560 Speaker 1: counts of murder, but unlike Trump, he's taken responsibility for 149 00:10:03,679 --> 00:10:08,480 Speaker 1: his inexplicable actions before that day. This was a completely 150 00:10:08,840 --> 00:10:12,800 Speaker 1: normal person. It's one of the most fascinating stories I've 151 00:10:12,840 --> 00:10:15,800 Speaker 1: ever read about a real life event. One thing is 152 00:10:15,920 --> 00:10:20,559 Speaker 1: clear about that man. He should absolutely never ever operate 153 00:10:20,840 --> 00:10:27,320 Speaker 1: and aircraft again. Donald Trump is our national shroom pilot. 154 00:10:27,720 --> 00:10:31,160 Speaker 1: We have to stop him. Appreciating that there's a large 155 00:10:31,240 --> 00:10:35,720 Speaker 1: number of whack jobs in the country is different than 156 00:10:35,920 --> 00:10:40,240 Speaker 1: ceding to the whack jobs out of apathy the power 157 00:10:40,679 --> 00:10:44,000 Speaker 1: for them to assert control over all of our lives, 158 00:10:44,600 --> 00:10:47,720 Speaker 1: especially when Trump is so clear over and over again 159 00:10:47,960 --> 00:10:49,760 Speaker 1: he wants to take some of our lives. 160 00:10:50,080 --> 00:10:54,120 Speaker 2: He's a man of violence and chaos, and increasingly. 161 00:10:53,840 --> 00:10:58,240 Speaker 1: He's a man who is decomposed. He is a fascist, certainly, 162 00:10:58,800 --> 00:11:03,440 Speaker 1: but so how much was talked about with regard to 163 00:11:03,480 --> 00:11:07,079 Speaker 1: the president's mental acuity. Did President Biden ever threaten to 164 00:11:07,160 --> 00:11:11,440 Speaker 1: kill an America. Did President Biden, in the worst moment 165 00:11:11,640 --> 00:11:15,920 Speaker 1: of his presidency to televised debate, did he do anything 166 00:11:16,160 --> 00:11:20,960 Speaker 1: as unhinged, as reckless, as completely batshit crazy as what 167 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:25,160 Speaker 1: Trump has said? Look at these tweets? Is he in 168 00:11:25,160 --> 00:11:30,200 Speaker 1: a manic episode? What is Donald Trump's mental health condition? 169 00:11:30,760 --> 00:11:35,280 Speaker 1: Is this the function of some type of sinility? Has 170 00:11:35,320 --> 00:11:38,440 Speaker 1: he had a stroke? What's wrong with him? But that's 171 00:11:38,480 --> 00:11:41,679 Speaker 1: not the key question. We know something's wrong with him 172 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:44,840 Speaker 1: For the country. The question is what is wrong with 173 00:11:44,960 --> 00:11:49,280 Speaker 1: us if we give this man power? Because only a 174 00:11:49,360 --> 00:11:54,680 Speaker 1: stick society would collectively do something like that, and the 175 00:11:54,720 --> 00:11:58,280 Speaker 1: people that would be doing it are the grandchildren and 176 00:11:58,440 --> 00:12:02,200 Speaker 1: great grandchildren of the people who saved the world, many 177 00:12:02,240 --> 00:12:06,400 Speaker 1: of them buried in Arlington National Cemetery, which Trump just desecrated. 178 00:12:06,800 --> 00:12:11,320 Speaker 1: I have the deepest faith in the American people that 179 00:12:11,640 --> 00:12:15,560 Speaker 1: this era of whack jobbery is coming to an end 180 00:12:16,080 --> 00:12:20,520 Speaker 1: because the American people won't tolerate it. Winston Churchill had 181 00:12:20,520 --> 00:12:24,360 Speaker 1: an observation a long time ago. He said, the Americans 182 00:12:24,360 --> 00:12:28,359 Speaker 1: always do the right thing after exhausting all the other alternatives. 183 00:12:28,760 --> 00:12:31,360 Speaker 1: I think that's what's going to happen. I think we're 184 00:12:31,400 --> 00:12:34,480 Speaker 1: at the beginning of the end of the Trump era, 185 00:12:34,800 --> 00:12:38,720 Speaker 1: that we're going to have the sixty six craziest days 186 00:12:38,760 --> 00:12:40,960 Speaker 1: in American political history. 187 00:12:41,240 --> 00:12:42,120 Speaker 2: I'm Steve Schmidt. 188 00:12:42,400 --> 00:12:44,640 Speaker 1: This is the warning and I invite you to join. 189 00:12:44,760 --> 00:12:47,400 Speaker 1: Subscribe on our sub stack, on our. 190 00:12:47,360 --> 00:12:50,439 Speaker 2: YouTube channel, follow us. Welcome to the community.