1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,520 Speaker 1: I'm out there, and I don't mind being out there 2 00:00:02,520 --> 00:00:04,920 Speaker 1: because I'm doing something for this country and I'm doing 3 00:00:04,960 --> 00:00:08,840 Speaker 1: something for our constitution. It's very important, far beyond me, 4 00:00:10,200 --> 00:00:12,600 Speaker 1: and this can't be allowed to happen to other presidents. 5 00:00:12,640 --> 00:00:16,280 Speaker 1: It should never be allowed to happen in the future. 6 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:19,080 Speaker 1: But this is far beyond me. This is bigger than Trump. 7 00:00:19,120 --> 00:00:21,600 Speaker 1: This is bigger than me, This is bigger than my presidency. 8 00:00:21,960 --> 00:00:27,040 Speaker 2: Donald Trump attacked our elections. Donald Trump is now attacking 9 00:00:27,280 --> 00:00:31,680 Speaker 2: the judicial system. What is coming is portended in Donald 10 00:00:31,720 --> 00:00:34,640 Speaker 2: Trump's speech. We should be taking at face value for 11 00:00:34,720 --> 00:00:37,159 Speaker 2: what it is, and what it is is a threat 12 00:00:37,400 --> 00:00:42,199 Speaker 2: of chaos, of revenge, of retribution, of the beginning of 13 00:00:42,240 --> 00:00:46,240 Speaker 2: a cycle that it will take a leader of truly 14 00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:49,680 Speaker 2: gifted abilities to be able to stop it. This is 15 00:00:49,720 --> 00:00:55,600 Speaker 2: the warning, and I'm Steve Schmidt. Donald Trump's news conference 16 00:00:56,400 --> 00:01:01,960 Speaker 2: was effective. He was able to explain imperfectly clear, idiomatic, 17 00:01:02,160 --> 00:01:08,959 Speaker 2: every day working persons English, the unfairness that occurred to him. 18 00:01:09,240 --> 00:01:14,200 Speaker 2: According to him, now it was revisionist history, it was dishonest, 19 00:01:14,680 --> 00:01:22,840 Speaker 2: and he employed fascist rhetoric, stigmatizing and dehumanizing the other. 20 00:01:24,080 --> 00:01:33,160 Speaker 2: The insidious and invidious. They always they and them coming 21 00:01:33,720 --> 00:01:35,160 Speaker 2: to destroy. 22 00:01:35,600 --> 00:01:38,920 Speaker 1: When you look at our country, what's happening where millions 23 00:01:38,959 --> 00:01:41,360 Speaker 1: and millions of people are flowing in from all parts 24 00:01:41,400 --> 00:01:45,240 Speaker 1: of the world, not just South America, from Africa, from Asia, 25 00:01:45,319 --> 00:01:48,640 Speaker 1: from the Middle East, and they're coming in from jails 26 00:01:48,680 --> 00:01:55,240 Speaker 1: and prisons, and they're coming in from mental institutions, insane asylums. 27 00:01:56,160 --> 00:01:59,240 Speaker 1: They're coming in from all over the world into our country. 28 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:03,600 Speaker 1: And we have a president and a group of fascists 29 00:02:03,640 --> 00:02:05,200 Speaker 1: that don't want to do anything about it. 30 00:02:05,680 --> 00:02:09,240 Speaker 2: Donald Trump slandered his country, putting it down. There is 31 00:02:09,280 --> 00:02:14,000 Speaker 2: an incongruity to the remark, this idea of our nation 32 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:17,960 Speaker 2: being the place that is aspired to all over the 33 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:21,880 Speaker 2: world by people who want to come here for opportunity, 34 00:02:22,040 --> 00:02:26,360 Speaker 2: for education, for hope. Like most all of our ancestors, 35 00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:30,680 Speaker 2: seventy million Americans in total out of the seven hundred 36 00:02:30,680 --> 00:02:34,520 Speaker 2: million that have ever been were born on foreign shores. 37 00:02:34,760 --> 00:02:40,120 Speaker 2: Donald Trump is trying to stigmatize and poison dividing by race, 38 00:02:40,360 --> 00:02:43,720 Speaker 2: by creed, by ethnicity. That's what those remarks are. 39 00:02:44,160 --> 00:02:47,400 Speaker 1: And I really think that this is an event what 40 00:02:47,480 --> 00:02:52,080 Speaker 1: took place yesterday with this judge. Look, we have conflicted, 41 00:02:52,120 --> 00:02:55,320 Speaker 1: but he's a crooked judge, and you'll understand that. And 42 00:02:55,360 --> 00:02:59,600 Speaker 1: I say that knowing that it's very dangerous for me 43 00:02:59,680 --> 00:03:02,760 Speaker 1: to say that. And I don't mind, because I'm willing 44 00:03:02,840 --> 00:03:05,440 Speaker 1: to do whatever I have to do to save our 45 00:03:05,480 --> 00:03:08,720 Speaker 1: country and to save our constitution. I don't mind. 46 00:03:12,639 --> 00:03:20,239 Speaker 2: Donald Trump plays the victim like a virtuoso plays a stratavarius. 47 00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:27,880 Speaker 2: Victimization and grievance are the lifeblood of trump Ism. They 48 00:03:27,880 --> 00:03:31,560 Speaker 2: are the oxygen of the mag of movement. 49 00:03:32,160 --> 00:03:34,600 Speaker 1: I'm out there, and I don't mind being out there 50 00:03:34,639 --> 00:03:37,040 Speaker 1: because I'm doing something for this country and I'm doing 51 00:03:37,040 --> 00:03:40,920 Speaker 1: something for our constitution. It's very important, far beyond me, 52 00:03:42,280 --> 00:03:44,680 Speaker 1: and this can't be allowed to happen to other presidents. 53 00:03:44,720 --> 00:03:48,360 Speaker 1: It should never be allowed to happen in the future. 54 00:03:48,840 --> 00:03:51,160 Speaker 1: But this is far beyond me. This is bigger than Trump. 55 00:03:51,200 --> 00:03:53,680 Speaker 1: This is bigger than me. This is bigger than my presidency. 56 00:03:54,520 --> 00:03:57,720 Speaker 2: The ball has moved far down the field even since 57 00:03:57,800 --> 00:04:03,240 Speaker 2: yesterday's verdict. What it has triggered is a massive call 58 00:04:03,840 --> 00:04:08,200 Speaker 2: for violence online, for civil war by some, for chaos 59 00:04:08,240 --> 00:04:10,960 Speaker 2: in the streets. There have been calls to lock up 60 00:04:11,160 --> 00:04:16,200 Speaker 2: political opponents for revenge and retribution. Donald Trump today was 61 00:04:16,279 --> 00:04:21,520 Speaker 2: the calm front man justifying the threats. What occurred today 62 00:04:21,520 --> 00:04:25,520 Speaker 2: at the news conference was a great omission. Where was 63 00:04:25,560 --> 00:04:31,000 Speaker 2: his reaction to those calls for violence from his supporters, 64 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:36,359 Speaker 2: from his allies, from the members of Congress and the 65 00:04:36,480 --> 00:04:40,599 Speaker 2: US senators and the governors who tried to tear down 66 00:04:41,640 --> 00:04:47,320 Speaker 2: the judicial system with as much fierceness as they sought 67 00:04:47,360 --> 00:04:51,760 Speaker 2: to tear down the election system. There's no reaction whatsoever, 68 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:55,760 Speaker 2: because there is a plan, and the plan is to attack, 69 00:04:56,160 --> 00:05:00,880 Speaker 2: to use cynicism as a weapon to lie. This is 70 00:05:00,920 --> 00:05:05,440 Speaker 2: an unfolding event, and the big thing that has happened 71 00:05:05,960 --> 00:05:09,120 Speaker 2: in the hours after this verdict is the thing that 72 00:05:09,240 --> 00:05:12,880 Speaker 2: is not being talked about as the lead, the most 73 00:05:12,920 --> 00:05:16,560 Speaker 2: important element of all of this, and that is the 74 00:05:16,560 --> 00:05:22,080 Speaker 2: call to arms and violence and death that is flowing 75 00:05:22,800 --> 00:05:28,000 Speaker 2: like open sewage into the ocean. These threats are real. 76 00:05:28,760 --> 00:05:32,919 Speaker 2: They are all the matter now. The very foundations of 77 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:36,920 Speaker 2: America's civilization, our society, our democracy he under a direct 78 00:05:36,960 --> 00:05:40,080 Speaker 2: attack and assault. There were many Americans found guilty of 79 00:05:40,120 --> 00:05:43,320 Speaker 2: crimes yesterday, that's just the truth, and courthouses all across 80 00:05:43,360 --> 00:05:47,400 Speaker 2: America they pled guilty to felonies, but only one finding 81 00:05:47,440 --> 00:05:51,840 Speaker 2: of guilt by one jury in one place has loose 82 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:55,719 Speaker 2: calls for violence in civil war. Those calls to violence 83 00:05:56,000 --> 00:05:59,120 Speaker 2: are part of a slow moving coup that has been 84 00:05:59,200 --> 00:06:03,880 Speaker 2: underway for a year. Beginning on January sixth, Donald Trump 85 00:06:04,200 --> 00:06:09,839 Speaker 2: attacked our elections. Donald Trump is now attacking the judicial system, 86 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:15,720 Speaker 2: the judicial system which has already lost credibility because of 87 00:06:15,800 --> 00:06:19,719 Speaker 2: the corruption of men like Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas. 88 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:23,840 Speaker 2: What is coming is portended in Donald Trump's speech. We 89 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:26,400 Speaker 2: should be taking at face value for what it is, 90 00:06:26,760 --> 00:06:30,440 Speaker 2: and what it is is a threat of chaos, of revenge, 91 00:06:30,760 --> 00:06:34,400 Speaker 2: of retribution, of the beginning of a cycle that it 92 00:06:34,440 --> 00:06:39,320 Speaker 2: will take a leader of truly gifted abilities, who is 93 00:06:39,400 --> 00:06:42,080 Speaker 2: not yet visible to any of us, to have the 94 00:06:42,120 --> 00:06:44,719 Speaker 2: wisdom to be able to stop it. But that will 95 00:06:44,760 --> 00:06:47,760 Speaker 2: be after things get much worse. And that's the clear 96 00:06:47,880 --> 00:06:53,040 Speaker 2: part about Donald Trump's remarks from today. I'm Steve Schmidt. 97 00:06:53,240 --> 00:06:55,440 Speaker 2: This is the warning, and I invite you to join. 98 00:06:55,560 --> 00:06:59,960 Speaker 2: Subscribe on our sub stack, on our YouTube channel, follow us. 99 00:07:00,320 --> 00:07:01,440 Speaker 2: Welcome to the community.