Speaker 1: The magic number is forty forty days left until the
Speaker 1: American people decide whether to restore Donald Trump to the
Speaker 1: Oval Office or whether the country goes in a new direction,
Speaker 1: whether it goes forward and ends this terrible era. This
Speaker 1: is the warning. Over these last few weeks, I have
Speaker 1: talked about the growing danger facing the country and have
Speaker 1: connected it to the rising menace of Donald Trump's losing campaign,
Speaker 1: which is decomposing, disorganized, and spiraling. Donald Trump is an
Speaker 1: American fascist, and Donald Trump has tried to stifle speech
Speaker 1: about that core fact in this issue by frightening people,
Speaker 1: by threatening people, by promising retribution, by committing to locking
Speaker 1: people up. Donald Trump has one sick person who supports him.
Speaker 1: Maybe you've heard about him. He's the leader of Project
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, and he shocked his colleagues when he
Speaker 1: was a university professor by talking about how he killed
Speaker 1: the neighbor's dog by beating it to death. That's who
Speaker 1: these people are. Stephen Miller, who in the Oval Office
Speaker 1: in front of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
Speaker 1: wondered if the US Navy could kill a boat full
Speaker 1: of Mexican migrants off the coast of San Diego. There's
Speaker 1: so much insanity, so much hypocrisy, so much stupidity, that
Speaker 1: sometimes when you hear a clarifying question, it's thrilling. In
Speaker 1: this moment of the lowest trust levels ever recorded for
Speaker 1: the American media, which on a day to day basis
Speaker 1: is as abominable as Maga itself. But here's a great
Speaker 1: question to the Ohio fascist and political arsonist and heroin
Speaker 1: dealer JD. Vance.
Speaker 2: Trump says, it's too late to debate because voting as areastard.
Speaker 1: It's bat from America.
Speaker 3: You're set to debate walls on Tuesday.
Speaker 1: Does that mean your debate is bad for America?
Speaker 4: Well, look, look, first of all, the president already did
Speaker 4: a debate, and I thought he did a hell of
Speaker 4: a job. How did you guys think it?
Speaker 1: In No, Trump degraded the debate. We all remember right.
Speaker 2: In Springfield, they're eating the dogs, the people that came in.
Speaker 2: They're eating the cats, they're they're eating the pets of
Speaker 2: the people that live there.
Speaker 1: Over and over again. I've talked about why this issue
Speaker 1: with the Haitians is such a big deal. It's not
Speaker 1: about immigration policy. It's about right and wrong. It's about
Speaker 1: indecency versus decency. It's about patriotism versus fascism. It's about
Speaker 1: kindness versus cruelty, It's about honesty versus demagoguery. Because in Springfield, Ohio,
Speaker 1: there's a battle waging in the ether between the lie
Speaker 1: and the truth. Because the truth is, those Haitians in
Speaker 1: Springfield are there l g a llly legally. They are
Speaker 1: legally in Springfield. And the Republican governor, a vacillating man
Speaker 1: and a peaser who continues to support Trump, has begged
Speaker 1: Trump to stop his attacks that have sieged a city
Speaker 1: just like the community where you live. Except for the
Speaker 1: state police, probably don't have to guard your schools and
Speaker 1: your hospitals which are locked down and shut down because
Speaker 1: of the bomb threats instigated by the malice of America's
Speaker 1: MAGA fashion Politicians like Congressman Clay Higgins. This is what
Speaker 1: this sick congressman from Louisiana said. Here is what a
Speaker 1: man who calls himself a good Christian said about these people,
Speaker 1: the Haitian immigrants legally in Springfield, Ohio, a state and
Speaker 1: a community that he doesn't represent. But what he did
Speaker 1: was to make clear that from him, those people aren't
Speaker 1: safe because he has power and he's coming for them.
Speaker 1: His colleagues, well, they were a guest, so they went
Speaker 1: to him on the house floor and got on them.
Speaker 1: Because most normal Americans are repelled by this, because they
Speaker 1: appreciate how repugnant it is. But when we talk about repugnancy,
Speaker 1: the issue isn't the act, it's always the response to it.
Speaker 1: So here we have the magas speaker. Mike Johnson, the
Speaker 1: man who believes that people in dinosaurs lived together five
Speaker 1: thousand years ago, tried to expulcate his friend, his colleague,
Speaker 1: his fellow Louisiana and from the whole racially menacing thing.
Speaker 3: I heard about that on the floor just now as well.
Speaker 3: Clay Higgins is a dear friend of mine and a
Speaker 3: colleague from Louisiana and a very frank and outspoken person.
Speaker 3: He's also a very principal man. And I think he tweeted.
Speaker 3: I don't I didn't even see it, but he tweeted
Speaker 3: something today about Haitians, and he was he was he
Speaker 3: was approached, well, look, he was approached on the floor
Speaker 3: by colleagues who said that was offensive. He went to
Speaker 3: the back. I just talked him about it, he said.
Speaker 3: He went to the back and he prayed about it,
Speaker 3: and he regretted it, and he pulled the post down.
Speaker 3: That's what you want a gentleman to do. I'm sure
Speaker 3: he probably regrets some of the language he used, but
Speaker 3: you know, we move forward. We believe in redemption around here.
Speaker 1: He prayed about it, he prayed about it. What did
Speaker 1: he pray about? Oh, I forgot. It's a maga prayer.
Speaker 1: That's different than normal prayer. Normal prayer usually takes place
Speaker 1: in a communion between a person and a god, has
Speaker 1: no politics involved. That's not a maga prayer. So when
Speaker 1: he prayed about it, he was probably praying to Pastor Paula,
Speaker 1: Trump's spiritual advisor.
Speaker 5: The Lord says, it is done for I hear victory, victory, victory,
Speaker 5: victory in the corners of heaven, in the corners of heaven, victory, victory, victory, victory, victory, victory,
Speaker 5: victory for angels of being released. Right now, angels are
Speaker 5: being dispatched right.
Speaker 2: Now, Amanda.
Speaker 5: Santa anc Satata Rita Eamanda Alda Rica dd yah Shadda.
Speaker 5: For angels have even dispatch from Africa right now, Africa,
Speaker 5: right now, Africa right now from Africa right now.
Speaker 1: Wow, and speaking of heaven in Africa, I guess I
Speaker 1: know that it was the angels that brought Mark Robinson,
Speaker 1: the Black Nazi, from North Carolina to that New to
Speaker 1: Africa site. This election is not about issues. It's not
Speaker 1: about whether you think that Kamala Harris is write about
Speaker 1: what she thinks the tax rate should be. It's about
Speaker 1: the preservation of the Union and our way of life
Speaker 1: and protecting all of our futures which are bound together
Speaker 1: from a menacing force that has promised to do most
Speaker 1: terrible things. Stanley McCrystal was the American commander of coalition
Speaker 1: forces in Afghanistan. Stanley mccrystal's a retired American general who
Speaker 1: was relieved of command because of comments he made that
Speaker 1: disparaged Barack Obama that were reported in Rolling Stone by
Speaker 1: a reporter who was assigned to cover him. Again. General
Speaker 1: McCrystal was relieved of command for insubordination towards the commander
Speaker 1: in chief, Barack Obama. General McCrystal did something that Mitt
Speaker 1: Romney hasn't done, that George W. Bush hasn't done. Stanley
Speaker 1: McCrystal has recognized that this is not a time where
Speaker 1: indifference is tolerable, that leaders must take a stand, and
Speaker 1: that leaders have to communicate the essential quality. The only
Speaker 1: one that matters in the office of president is character.
Speaker 1: Trump has none whatsoever. He is a brutal nihilist, a
Speaker 1: merciless narcissist. He is an insurrectionist, a convicted criminal and
Speaker 1: adjudicated rapist, a con man who does not care about
Speaker 1: you and is not on your side. Trump is a
Speaker 1: moral infant. Trump is a disaster, and we will have
Speaker 1: catastrophe as a people in a country forty days from now.
Speaker 1: He must be reputing. The voting is started. The time
Speaker 1: to do something is running short. Get involved, volunteer, make
Speaker 1: phone calls, donate, knock on doors. This election is existential,
Speaker 1: have no doubt about that. It's become cliche because the
Speaker 1: stakes have been so high with Trump for the last decade,
Speaker 1: and we won't see a return to some specter of
Speaker 1: normalcy when elections aren't existential, but a continuation of policy
Speaker 1: debates between two opposing parties committed to democracy. But we
Speaker 1: don't live in that country anymore. Maybe that's why Mitt
Speaker 1: Romney has chosen to stay on the sidelines in this
Speaker 1: election to choose indifference, to try to hide because he's
Speaker 1: afraid to speak out. When our United States senators are
Speaker 1: afraid to speak out, when our media is afraid to
Speaker 1: speak out, when our writers are afraid, when our artists
Speaker 1: are afraid, when people talk about what the punishment for
Speaker 1: dissent will be. The question is fair to ask, do
Speaker 1: we live in a free country anymore? And remember, their
Speaker 1: fear is just on the premise that he could come
Speaker 1: back to power. This Hatian's eating pets is a big
Speaker 1: story because it's the contours of a great battlefield where
Speaker 1: the lie and the truth have been long engaged, and
Speaker 1: democracy can't survive in the darkness, where there's no room
Speaker 1: for truth and only the lie can spread. That's the
Speaker 1: morning forty days left, forty days that define the balance
Speaker 1: of the twenty first century for the American people. We
Speaker 1: are at the fork in the road. I'm Steve Schmidt.
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