Speaker 1: This is the warning.
Speaker 2: Free speech is foundational. It is elemental to the American
Speaker 2: way of life. Without free speech, no other freedom is possible.
Speaker 2: It is the foundation of conscience, the right to believe
Speaker 2: what you believe is right, and the right to apply it,
Speaker 2: to speak it, to shout it from the rooftop. Every
Speaker 2: society that has ever tried to control the people, that
Speaker 2: has sought to stifle freedom, has done so by making
Speaker 2: information illegal, by criminalizing laughter. In occupied France, having a
Speaker 2: radio that could be tuned to the BBC was a
Speaker 2: death penalty offense. Imagine living in a pit of blackness,
Speaker 2: darkness where it is impossible to know that there is
Speaker 2: light at all, let alone what direction is up or down,
Speaker 2: or left or right?
Speaker 1: What is real? What is not only darkness?
Speaker 2: Books, knowledge, scientific inquiry, rock and roll. All of it
Speaker 2: is utterly dependent on the freedom of speech. And the
Speaker 2: freedom of speech at the core is the foundation of
Speaker 2: the great American faith, and our faith is liberty.
Speaker 1: There is something that must be said.
Speaker 2: I will defend the right to the death if necessary,
Speaker 2: of my fiercest opponent to speak out with regard to
Speaker 2: what it is that they believe.
Speaker 1: But it must also be said that a great Many
Speaker 1: of the.
Speaker 2: Those opponents would happily see me and people like me
Speaker 2: silenced or put up against the wall, maybe to keep
Speaker 2: us from saying out loud that we must be free
Speaker 2: and no compromise is possible with regards to these issues.
Speaker 2: And the pronouncements of political ackeys like Brandon Carr, a preaming, officious,
Speaker 2: out of control bureaucrat, how dare he tried to prescribe
Speaker 2: what it is headed in America?
Speaker 1: We're allowed to laugh.
Speaker 2: At to gain favor with his boss at Mara a Lago.
Speaker 2: Understand that Brandon Carr, a weakling, is a little likeman.
Speaker 2: And in Trump's autocratic Mara a Lago system of government,
Speaker 2: there is a line of sycophants in single file, and
Speaker 2: each of them has in their hand a knife for
Speaker 2: the back in front of them, and all of them
Speaker 2: have eyes in the back of their heads for the
Speaker 2: knife in the hand behind them by their treacherous rivals,
Speaker 2: all of them competing to move forward a step, a
Speaker 2: chair in the Mara Lagos squid games to move ever
Speaker 2: closer to Trump. So maybe someday you can be like
Speaker 2: Lindsey Halligan and appointed to a prosecutor's office for a
Speaker 2: few years before your inevitable disbarment over the abuse of
Speaker 2: your power. And that's what we are seeing, and that's
Speaker 2: what we are watching, abuses of power and abuses of
Speaker 2: the American people. And when it came to the United
Speaker 2: Nations yesterday, the abuse of an escalator by one of
Speaker 2: Trump's many cameramen riseing the dictators has sent up the
Speaker 2: escalator that he would go on to denounce as one
Speaker 2: of his most fearsome foes.
Speaker 3: Well, there was some concerning reporting over the weekend from
Speaker 3: the London Times, as you pointed out, that un globalist
Speaker 3: staffers were basically plotting to set up the President of
Speaker 3: the United States. And first it was the escalator, then
Speaker 3: it was the teleprompter, and then Katie Pavlich from town Hall,
Speaker 3: who we offered a seat in the press pool to
Speaker 3: cover the president's historic speech today, noticed that the audio
Speaker 3: inside of the room was much lower and different for
Speaker 3: the President of the United States than the previous speakers.
Speaker 3: So when you put all of this together, it doesn't
Speaker 3: look like a coincidence to me. And I know that
Speaker 3: we have people, including the United States Secret Service, who
Speaker 3: are looking into this to try to get to the
Speaker 3: bottom of it. And if we find that these were
Speaker 3: you and staffers who were purposefully trying to trip up,
Speaker 3: literally trip up the President and the first Lady of
Speaker 3: the United States, well they're better be accountability for those people,
Speaker 3: and I will personally see to it.
Speaker 2: Just good. And so it was that Donald appeared before
Speaker 2: the United Nations and Donald Trump delivered his message and
Speaker 2: disgraced his country. When you think about what's happening, one
Speaker 2: need look no further than the last hundred hours. Donald
Speaker 2: Trump's announcement of his hatreds.
Speaker 4: He did not hate his opponents. He wanted the best
Speaker 4: for them. That's where I disagreed with Charlie. I hate
Speaker 4: my opponent and I don't want the best for them.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry. I am sorry Erica.
Speaker 2: But now Erica can talk to me and the whole
Speaker 2: good and maybe they can convince me that that's not right.
Speaker 4: But I can't stand my opponent.
Speaker 2: And what a job they did on Jimmy Kimmel summarizing
Speaker 2: his position on Tylanol with the goofball Robert Kennedy standing
Speaker 2: behind him. Donald Trump before the United Nations was a
Speaker 2: crude exposition in the worst of the American character. There
Speaker 2: he stood alongside his rotten wife, the ugly Americans. She
Speaker 2: the ice cold, plasticized Slovenian, and he the orange tinted Nero,
Speaker 2: the rottenness couple in the history of America, to hold
Speaker 2: a position of responsibility and power in front of the world,
Speaker 2: disgracing the oldest Republic, the creation of Washington and Adams
Speaker 2: and Jefferson and Hamilton and Lafayette and so many more,
Speaker 2: defiling it with each breath.
Speaker 1: And there they were.
Speaker 2: The lowest of the low, the most rotten fruit ever
Speaker 2: born by the American tree of liberty. Their lies spewed forth,
Speaker 2: and the world's leaders sat silent. Needed to be said,
Speaker 2: what could be said? In the end, Donald Trump demands
Speaker 2: that we bow to him, and for many of us,
Speaker 2: our conscience says never, and it instructs us to speak
Speaker 2: out and to denounce him and his sick and twisted
Speaker 2: ideas that are an American. And no matter what he says,
Speaker 2: no matter if Christy Nolan labels that position terrorism, no
Speaker 2: matter what any Trump thug declares, no matter what jackboot
Speaker 2: or how many he seeks to bring down, there is
Speaker 2: nothing that can take away my right as an American
Speaker 2: to speak out against him and them. And this not now,
Speaker 2: not tomorrow, not yesterday, not ever. And that is something
Speaker 2: that we should be deeply grateful for because even though
Speaker 2: we have that right, it doesn't mean they won't try
Speaker 2: to take it away. But they can't and they won't,
Speaker 2: and the attempt will be there, undoing. And today that
Speaker 2: is the warning for MAGA. Free speech in America is
Speaker 2: not at your whim and it is not up for debate.
Speaker 2: I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning. I invite you
Speaker 2: to join this community where I promise to be honest,
Speaker 2: blunt and direct about what is happening in this country.
Speaker 2: America is in crisis. Follow and subscribe to this channel
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Speaker 1: Thank you