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Speaker 1: It is April fourteenth, twenty twenty five, and this is

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Speaker 1: a momentous day in history. There are few that rival

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Speaker 1: it in terms of anniversaries of arrogance, stupidity, and greed

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Speaker 1: coming to meet in the icy waters of the North

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Speaker 1: Atlantic over which I will be flying later this evening,

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Speaker 1: approximate to the time of the sinking of the ship

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Speaker 1: that they said God himself could not sink. Of course,

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Speaker 1: I am thinking about Titanic, and as Donald Trump puts

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Speaker 1: the American Ship of State full steam ahead into the ice,

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Speaker 1: it seems we should remember what happened on that icy

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Speaker 1: night one hundred and thirteen years ago this evening. There

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Speaker 1: is always a high cost for highest levels of study

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Speaker 1: mixed with misjudgment, mixed with greed, that are all then

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Speaker 1: celebrated as virtues, when in fact they're the recipe for catastrophe.

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Speaker 1: This is the warning people all over the world, including

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Speaker 1: in the United States, including people I met in Oklahoma

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Speaker 1: this weekend. They're all asking the same question, what's happening

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Speaker 1: and why is it happening? Well, let me start by

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Speaker 1: showing you a landslide an avalanche. When an avalanche starts,

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Speaker 1: gravity does most of the work However, it begins, and

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Speaker 1: it doesn't take a lot. Once that sheet of ice

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Speaker 1: and snow and rocks starts to come down, there's nothing

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Speaker 1: to stop it except at the bottom. And what starts

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Speaker 1: at the top, like a trickle, can become incredibly destructive.

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Speaker 1: So Donald Trump has set things in motion that will

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Speaker 1: be incredibly destructive for American power, American prestige, and for

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Speaker 1: our allies trust. The United States has broke trust with

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Speaker 1: our friends. We have broken trust with our ideals, with

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Speaker 1: our ideas, with our values, because for a time now,

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Speaker 1: the government of the people, by the people, for the

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Speaker 1: people has been hijacked by Donald Trump and his gangsters,

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Speaker 1: who serve their self interest, who serve their greed, who

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Speaker 1: serve the cause of their own power. But never you, ever,

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Speaker 1: they are common, and they are stealing from you. They

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Speaker 1: are stealing things from you that are beyond my ability

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Speaker 1: to describe with regard to how priceless they are, how ephemeral.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk about it in the months ahead, but for now,

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Speaker 1: let's look at where Donald Trump is. Let's understand and

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Speaker 1: the Trump cycle. Because first there is the threat and

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Speaker 1: the bluster. There is the corresponding chaos. There is fear,

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Speaker 1: there is reaction, and all of Trump's children, all of

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Speaker 1: his little girls and all of his little boys, in

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Speaker 1: their dressed up costumes and in their suits, go on

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Speaker 1: television and look in the camera, and they lie and

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Speaker 1: they say that Donald Trump knows what he's doing, he

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Speaker 1: has a plan, and he'll never back down.

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Speaker 2: I think that what you have assembled in your vision

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Speaker 2: And so just being a part of that is the

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Speaker 2: greatest honor. So thank you for that. And again, just

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Speaker 2: the relationships here and their honor and respect we have

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Speaker 2: for each other is a reflection of you and your leadership.

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Speaker 1: But then the reactions come, reality comes. A Canadian Prime

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Speaker 3: Canada must be looking elsewhere to expand our trade, to

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Speaker 3: build our economy and to protect our sovereignty. Canada is

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Speaker 1: And then there is the Trump panic. There is Trump incoherence,

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Speaker 1: and all the King's men and all the kings ladies

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Speaker 1: couldn't put Humpty Dumpty's tariffs back together again. He has

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Speaker 1: Understanding this tale takes an appreciation of an old Turkish proverb.

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Speaker 1: It's about a clown who goes to a castle. Now,

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Speaker 1: for the purposes of this story, the clown is Donald Trump,

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Speaker 1: and he is a clown. He's always been a clown.

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Speaker 1: And the American people, with forty nine point nine percent

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Speaker 1: we know today that someday a woman will live there

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Speaker 1: as chief executive. But the key point is the honesty.

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Speaker 1: A low and dishonest man lives there a clown, a

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Speaker 1: for it says when a clown goes to a castle,

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Speaker 1: becomes a circus. And so it has. And now, of course,

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Speaker 1: government on ideas and thinking, and in fact, the Trump

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Speaker 1: regime was forced to retract their focus on stopping at

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Speaker 1: fascist White House thanks that my understanding that they are

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Speaker 1: fascists is a poisonous idea. I wonder if they could,

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Speaker 1: if they would like to keep me out of the country.

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Speaker 1: But instead I will go to France, And in France,

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Speaker 1: to recall some of the things that were our shared

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Speaker 1: the pursuit of happiness, with regard to raising our families,

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Speaker 1: tones and their aggressive postures. What are we to do? First,

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Speaker 1: all of this two years from now will be repudiated

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Speaker 1: the costs for the business leaders of the most powerful

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Speaker 1: The righteous might of the American people will defenestrate and

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Speaker 1: They have gotten too big, too powerful, and too arrogant.

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Speaker 1: But arrogance finds its way always to the bottom of

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Speaker 1: the sea, and so be again for Maga and all

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Speaker 1: of man, the notion that we are all created equal.

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Speaker 1: What Donald Trump has proposed is a reordering of the world.

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Speaker 1: All we have to do is submit to the king,

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Speaker 1: American creed suggests the answer to this proposition must endure

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Speaker 1: forever and be frozen in amber with just one word never.

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump is a national disgrace. He is in ensurper

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Speaker 1: redeemed by Martin Luther King and by the civil rights movement.

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Speaker 1: And so as we begin another week of chaos in America,

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump has demonstrated he's not strong, He's weak. He

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Speaker 1: But that presence can be turned off. It's a mirage.

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Speaker 1: It is a mirage as sure as is the Wizard

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Speaker 1: smallest of men. And I know that because sometime this weekend,

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Speaker 1: Carolyn Levitt huddled with Donald Trump and they worked on

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Speaker 1: a most ludicrous of statements, which I will read for

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Speaker 1: you now in conclusion as the warning, because any president,

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Speaker 1: abjectly unable to connect with another human being, but at

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Speaker 1: And we're not laughing with any of you people in

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Speaker 1: Tonight is a great anniversary to contemplate that on this

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Speaker 1: himself could not sink. I read from the Trump medical report.

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Speaker 1: In conclusion, President Trump remains in excellent health, exhibiting robust cardiac, pulmonary, neurological,

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Speaker 1: and general physical function. His active lifestyle continues to contribute

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Speaker 1: significantly to his well being. President Trump's days include participation

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Speaker 1: in multiple meetings, public appearances, press availability, and frequent victories

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Speaker 1: in golf events. President Trump exhibits excellent cognit and physical

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Speaker 1: course you know, because we see it every day, is untrue.

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Speaker 1: What we see is a weak man, an incoherent man,

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Speaker 1: Trump pens upon their lapels. This is the morning and

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Speaker 1: I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning. I invite you

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Speaker 1: blunt and direct about what is happening in this country.

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