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Speaker 1: Imagine you slipped into a coma on January nineteenth of

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, and you have just awoken, and this

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Speaker 1: is the first thing you're going to see. And it's

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Speaker 1: my job to tell you what happened in twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 1: I'm Steve Schmidt, and his December thirty first, the last.

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Speaker 2: Day of the year. This is the warning.

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Speaker 1: Tomorrow is a new year, a year where the checks

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Speaker 1: and balances can be restored. On January twentieth, twenty twenty five,

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump took the thirty five word oath that he

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Speaker 1: had previously desecrated again and set about desecrating it immediately again.

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Speaker 1: He repudiated the Atlantic Charter, the great vision of Franklin Roosevelt.

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Speaker 1: He renounced America's alliances. He disrespected America's allies, and declared

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Speaker 1: a trade war on Canada. A few hours later, Elon

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Speaker 1: Musk ravaged the ecstasies of victory, delivered not one, not two,

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Speaker 1: but three Nazi salutes. He picked up a chainsaw literally

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Speaker 1: and set about vandalizing the federal government of the United States.

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Speaker 1: Federal employees were treated with the greatest disrespect imaginable. They

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Speaker 1: were tortured by Elon Musk's young doze thugs, and the

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Speaker 1: some result of all of it is a federal government

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Speaker 1: that's more broken, more chaotic, less competent, more dysfunctional, and

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Speaker 1: absolutely no money was saved anywhere.

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Speaker 2: In fact, Doge.

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Speaker 1: Under Musk has cost the United States government money. The

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Speaker 1: other thing that happened in twenty twenty five was the

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Speaker 1: functional collapse of the American Republic. The Republic, conceived by

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Speaker 1: the founding fathers, is built on a system of checks

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Speaker 1: and balances. The three branches of government, the Article one branch,

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Speaker 1: the Congress, the Article two branch, the executive, the President,

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Speaker 1: the Article three branch, the judiciary, are all co equal.

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Speaker 1: Well twenty twenty five, the Supreme Court is corrupt. The

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Speaker 1: Congress has, according to Nancy Pelosi, abolished itself under the

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Speaker 1: reign of Trump, Sikaphant Mike Johnson, and the Executive has

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Speaker 1: declared himself to be king above the law, who can

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Speaker 1: do what he wants, including against the law, renaming, for instance,

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Speaker 1: the War Department the Kennedy Center, and tearing down the

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Speaker 1: White House. Donald Trump said he's a man of peace.

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Speaker 1: He solved eight wars, and he sat down the other

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Speaker 1: day complaining he hasn't gotten the Nobel Peace Prize yet.

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Speaker 3: Thirty five years of fighting and they they stepped. Do

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Speaker 3: I get credit for it?

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Speaker 2: No, they gave them.

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Speaker 3: I did eight of them India, how about India and Pakistan?

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Speaker 3: And then so I did eight of them. And then

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Speaker 3: I'll tell you the rest of it.

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump in twenty twenty five has deployed carrier battlegroups

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Speaker 1: to the Southern Caribbean and blown away shipwrecked survivors through

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Speaker 1: the orders of his drunken Secretary of Defense, Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: has brought America to the edge of its first war

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Speaker 1: in South America.

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Speaker 2: All of it in less than a year.

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Speaker 1: We've learned a lot about Donald Trump and his relationship

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Speaker 1: with his best friend, Jeffrey Epstein over twenty twenty five,

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Speaker 1: and we've seen the extraordinary lengths that Republicans will go

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Speaker 1: to to protect the most notorious child sex traffickers best

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Speaker 1: friend Trump. They even moved his felony accomplished Kislaine Maxwell

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Speaker 1: to a minimum security club fed facility with a puppy

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Speaker 1: raising program.

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Speaker 2: All of that happened.

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump introduced Americans to a new word, tariff. Now,

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Speaker 1: Trump isn't known for his literacy, so he usually goes

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Speaker 1: for the smaller. In the case of tariff, that would

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Speaker 1: be tax which he raised mightily. And he wrecked the

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Speaker 1: American economy, wrecked it for working people. And that said,

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Speaker 1: when those working people had to pay the bill at

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Speaker 1: a grocery store, a place he has never ever entered into,

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Speaker 1: that it wasn't real. That the Trump economy was great,

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Speaker 1: that the bad economy, the higher prices, all of it

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Speaker 1: was fake news.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, fake news, you know the term. I think it's

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Speaker 3: one of my better terms. Said right, I don't think

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Speaker 3: anybody takes it away. We have some good ones Pocahontas,

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Speaker 3: but I think fake news is probably pretty good. The

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Speaker 3: only problem is it's actually not strong enough. You know,

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Speaker 3: fake it's crooked, corrupt, disgusting news. But we'll have to

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Speaker 3: do with fake. But fake said, fake isn't strong enough.

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Speaker 3: That's the only problem. It's actually I wish they could

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Speaker 3: come up with a word that's really more powerful than fake.

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Speaker 3: But fake is good enough.

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Speaker 1: The economy collapsing is fake news, Epstein unraveling fake news.

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Speaker 1: Everything is fake news, and every piece of news has

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Speaker 1: the same plot. Trump is always the victim, Maga is

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Speaker 1: always victimized. The people making America great again, constantly tripped,

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Speaker 1: a constantly sabotaged by the great Conspiracy. In twenty twenty four,

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Speaker 1: you could drive across America without a masked federal thug

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Speaker 1: ever asking to paypus please. We did not have Gestapo

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Speaker 2: We have it now. What does gestapo mean in German?

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Speaker 1: By the way, what's the abbreviation state secret police? Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump has a secret police force in America and it's lawless.

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Speaker 2: We have masked.

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Speaker 1: Agents and on more car snatching American citizens off the street.

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Speaker 1: And then the Secretary of Homeland Security feels that she

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Speaker 1: has the ability to go to Congress and just lie

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Speaker 1: about it. Everybody should appreciate the religious Nuttery of twenty

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Speaker 4: We are living in a time where the enemy is

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Speaker 4: targeting families and the foundation of relationships. There are two

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Speaker 4: divine sacred institutes, the church and the family, and that's important.

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Speaker 4: We have holmes divided. They fight over crazy stuff, marriages

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Speaker 4: under attack, friendships that are fractured. Because the enemy knows

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Speaker 4: one thing. If he can break covenant, he can walk

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Speaker 4: your destiny. An he derails you. But the devil is

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Speaker 4: a liar. Somebody helped me.

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Speaker 1: We saw the terrible assassination of Charlie Kirk, and we

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Speaker 1: saw the rise of the most spectacular grift since Jim

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Speaker 1: and Tammy fay Baker, with the emergence of his widow, Erica,

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Speaker 1: grifter in chief of the Christo Fascist industrial complex, throwing

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Speaker 1: out merchandise, dressed like she's about to perform at the

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Speaker 1: Sphere in Vegas, posing for pictures in a replica of

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Speaker 1: the tent where her husband was killed three months ago. Please,

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Speaker 1: this was the year where Trump demanded the power to

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Speaker 1: tell you that red is blue, and up is down,

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Speaker 1: and down is left, and left is up, and so

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Speaker 1: on and so forth. It was a year of lying.

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Speaker 1: It was a year of the abuse of power. It

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Speaker 1: was a year of corruption, and it was a year

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Speaker 1: of capitulation where America's biggest law firms on their knees,

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Speaker 1: America's most powerful media.

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Speaker 2: Executives on their knees.

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Speaker 1: Everybody who was anybody rolled over for Trump in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty five to get their taste of bitcoin at the low,

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Speaker 1: low price of burning the constitution.

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Speaker 2: It was a despicable year.

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Speaker 1: It was a year of bad judgment, on the part

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Speaker 1: of Chuck Schumer and the Democrats over and over and

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Speaker 1: over again, who did not have the instinct to fight

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Speaker 1: when it was required. It was a year of wishing

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Speaker 1: away the obvious. It was a year of make believe.

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Speaker 1: It was the rottenness year. In fifty it was the

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Speaker 1: year of Donald Trump. Twenty twenty six will be worse

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Speaker 1: than twenty twenty five. But then in little over eleven

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Speaker 1: months from now, we will be getting ready to see

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Speaker 1: if the Congress can come back to life, if a

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Speaker 1: Democratic majority with power will exercise it to protect us

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Speaker 1: against them, against whom, against the Maga thugs, some of

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Speaker 1: the most vicious Americans that have ever been, lawless, predatory, dishonest,

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Speaker 1: mentally adult, twisted people, the worst of the worst. Stephen Miller,

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Speaker 1: Christy nom Tom Home and Dan Bovino, Pam Bondy, Pete Hegsath,

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Speaker 2: Kennedy. They are at American catastrophe.

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Speaker 1: In twenty twenty five was the year those characters took

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Speaker 1: the stage. Twenty twenty six will be the year they

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Speaker 1: light that stage on fire.

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Speaker 2: This is the warning.

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

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Speaker 1: to join in this community where I promise to be honest, blunt,

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

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Speaker 2: Thank you,