Speaker 1: Rudolph Giuliani turned out to be a Titanic fraud. That's
Speaker 1: on him. Mark Meadows turned out to be a fraud,
Speaker 1: and that's on him. Boris Epstein turned out to be
Speaker 1: a fraud, and that's on him. All of the Trump detritus,
Speaker 1: all of them have done damage to this country. And
Speaker 1: now it's up to us to say enough to end
Speaker 1: this madness, to repudiate it. It's not enough for President
Speaker 1: Biden to win in November. He must win decisively. He
Speaker 1: must win decisively so this madness can end permanently. It
Speaker 1: is time to bury this toxic poison back under the
Speaker 1: deep ground and cork it with concrete. It is the
Speaker 1: twenty fifth of April, and there are one hundred and
Speaker 1: ninety four days left until the American people will decide
Speaker 1: between President Biden and the accused felon Donald Trump. Who
Speaker 1: will sit behind the resolute desk and command the most
Speaker 1: powerful nuclear arsenal in world history. Joe Biden or this
Speaker 1: man the sleepy don, an indicted criminal who cannot stay
Speaker 1: awake for his trial, who rages and seedes, who intimidates,
Speaker 1: who tweets through the night. Who is losing control? A
Speaker 1: great question is at hand. Will the American people measure
Speaker 1: up soon? We'll know this is the warning. Another day,
Speaker 1: more indictments, this time from the state of Arizona, leading
Speaker 1: the docket in the doc once again to disgraced and
Speaker 1: bankrupt former America's mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani. There is no
Speaker 1: person across American history, with the possible exception of Benedict Arnold,
Speaker 1: who has had a greater fall. A name that was
Speaker 1: once widely admired across all of America is now a laughingstock.
Speaker 1: Rudolph Giuliani is a degenerate, a liar, a hypocrite, and
Speaker 1: a stooge. His entire life's work was undone by his
Speaker 1: fantastical ego, which is also a brittle one. This man,
Speaker 1: a former mayor of New York City, became Donald Trump's valet,
Speaker 1: his handmaid. He served him in every way imaginable until
Speaker 1: it led to his ruin, along with the former White
Speaker 1: House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, another lying conniver who
Speaker 1: was a vandal for every single day that he served
Speaker 1: in the United States Congress. He got to Washington and
Speaker 1: did everything he could to hurt America for the purposes
Speaker 1: of making himself famous. He knew that if he could
Speaker 1: be a big enough demagogue, he could get all the
Speaker 1: way to the Mark Meadows made it to the White House,
Speaker 1: into the Oval Office. This man, with no principle, no judgment,
Speaker 1: low intellect, had access to the nation's most closely guarded secrets.
Speaker 1: When you think about our national decay, and you think
Speaker 1: about the collapse of probity and rectitude, im morality and decency,
Speaker 1: it is astonishing. Mark Meadows is the exact polar opposite
Speaker 1: of a man named Andy Card, who served with honor
Speaker 1: as George W. Bush's White House Chief of Staff. Mark
Speaker 1: Meadows managed even to exceed discumbaggery and criminality of Hr Halderman,
Speaker 1: who was probably the worst White House Chief of staff
Speaker 1: in history until Meadows. And now mister Meadows will have
Speaker 1: his day in court along with another Trump. Said a
Speaker 1: fan Boris Epstein, all of this has been a fantastical fraud.
Speaker 1: When our progeny looked back on this era, what will
Speaker 1: they say about us that we permitted a man to
Speaker 1: take political power, who ran a fake university and a
Speaker 1: tangle of fraudulent charities, who lied over and over again,
Speaker 1: who is recorded on tape pretending to be a pr
Speaker 1: spokesperson named John Barren talking about the virtues of Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: This creature from Queens, that he has become the dominant
Speaker 1: figure in American society is an indictment of the nation
Speaker 1: and its character in this moment. It can be no
Speaker 1: other way, and the country has to understand that all
Speaker 1: of us have an obligation to be involved in the
Speaker 1: renewal of the country and a recovery from this moment,
Speaker 1: that we go on a voyage together in search of
Speaker 1: something better than this low man in this low crowd
Speaker 1: of people. Look at Ted Cruz. Look at the change
Speaker 1: in appearance of Ted Cruz. Let's look at some pictures,
Speaker 1: pictures of decrepitude and decay of sloth. Let's look at
Speaker 1: Joe Biden in two thoy and sixteen. Look at him today. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's older, but he looks the same. Let's look at Trump.
Speaker 1: He's more decayed, more bloated, more crazy looking today, but
Speaker 1: he too looks largely the same, doesn't he? Look at
Speaker 1: Ted Cruz. If you're a Texas voter, you appreciate why
Speaker 1: Ted Cruz looks like this. You understand why Ted Cruz
Speaker 1: doesn't have morning events. You understand why this hollow man
Speaker 1: with no character has changed so profoundly in Washington, right,
Speaker 1: this little man ran away from his responsibilities to can't kuon.
Speaker 1: He won't defend his wife from the viciousness of a
Speaker 1: bully's attacks. He won't defend his father. It turns out
Speaker 1: the entire Trump enterprise is just an incandescent fraud from
Speaker 1: top to bottom. The absurd allegation that Raphael Cruz was
Speaker 1: involved in the Kennedy assassination completely made up. Part of
Speaker 1: the conspiracy of lies that has gone on for nine
Speaker 1: years is intimidated struck fear into the hearts of cowards
Speaker 1: like Cruise, like Josh Holly, another hollow man who incited
Speaker 1: an insurrection and then hit in a closet Meadows, Epstein, Trump,
Speaker 1: Steve Bannon, Stephen Miller, Sidney Powell, Mike Lindell, Matt Schlapp,
Speaker 1: the Nazi, Nick Flentis. These are some of the lowest
Speaker 1: and most despicable people in the country. Yet they somehow
Speaker 1: have managed to amass tremendous power, tremendous resources, and they
Speaker 1: have an agenda. And their agenda is fundamentally to transform
Speaker 1: the character of the American government from one where people
Speaker 1: serve imperfectly an idea. The country under an oath to
Speaker 1: the Constitution. What they want to do is replace that
Speaker 1: with an oath to Trump. This is the core meaning
Speaker 1: of Project twenty twenty five. This is the aspiration of
Speaker 1: people who wish to take power by any needs necessary,
Speaker 1: and who have already indicated that unless they win, they
Speaker 1: will challenge the result of the election. They will claim
Speaker 1: that it was stolen, and they will use violence if
Speaker 1: they must to take power. The argument is clear. They
Speaker 1: disdain democracy, and they're becoming less and less shy about
Speaker 1: saying it out loud, unlike the MAGA movement. When I
Speaker 1: talk about that and I talk about them, I'm specific
Speaker 1: I'm talking about Trump, and I'm talking about Tucker Carlson,
Speaker 1: and I'm talking about the legion of useful idiots who
Speaker 1: serviced Vladimir Putin by spreading his propaganda all over the
Speaker 1: United States, poisoning the minds of the American people. I'm
Speaker 1: talking about the Republican members of Congress who were involved
Speaker 1: in a conspiracy of lives, who use their power as
Speaker 1: committee chairman to defame the President of the United States,
Speaker 1: who use their power of using the process of government
Speaker 1: over and over again this moment in time in America
Speaker 1: one hundred and ninety four days is perfectly clear. There
Speaker 1: is a manifest threat at hand, and that threat is
Speaker 1: sitting in a Manhattan courtroom, surrounded by a failings of
Speaker 1: unprincipled men like Josh Holly and Ted Cruz and manymore.
Speaker 1: And there's another type of jury. There's a political jury,
Speaker 1: if you will, And our trial is an election, and
Speaker 1: it is time to make a judgment in the country
Speaker 1: about a whole board of people, a cohort that lacks
Speaker 1: principle and conviction and any integrity whatsoever, that does not
Speaker 1: care about ordinary people. Remove them from power. We can
Speaker 1: do this, it is our birthright. The failure to do
Speaker 1: so will have profound consequences. Our politics will grow more violent,
Speaker 1: it will grow more extreme, and the global security situation
Speaker 1: will continue to deteriorate. I spent a passover Saya with
Speaker 1: a young couple who had just emigrated to Canada. She
Speaker 1: was from Belarus, he was from Ukraine. They came from Israel.
Speaker 1: It's their second war. They're no different than Americans, except
Speaker 1: for the fact that they have not had the opportunities
Speaker 1: to live in peace and freedom that we take for granted.
Speaker 1: There is a simple truth. There are two major wars
Speaker 1: underway in the world, one in the Middle East and
Speaker 1: one in Europe, and they will draw inexorably closer to
Speaker 1: American shores. If this MAGA movement regains political power and begins,
Speaker 1: what will become the age and era of the Dictator.
Speaker 1: Only this time the person in the White House won't
Speaker 1: be Franklin Roosevelt. It will be a person on the
Speaker 1: side of the dictator, and in four years time his
Speaker 1: capacity to do real chaos should be indisputable. Donald Trump
Speaker 1: is promising us a police state where millions will be
Speaker 1: locked up, put into camps awaiting deportation. Think this through.
Speaker 1: What does that look like? Does it mean checkpoints on
Speaker 1: your block, on your street, at your corner, papers please
Speaker 1: on the train, at the gracery store. Is this what
Speaker 1: we want? Do we want big government like that? Do
Speaker 1: we want government peering in the window, sitting in the
Speaker 1: confessional with us, in the delivery room, with us from
Speaker 1: cradle to grave. This is not what free people want.
Speaker 1: This is not what Americans have ever wanted, and yet
Speaker 1: it is the proposition at hand offered by the MAGA
Speaker 1: extremists under the banner of the oldest lie there is,
Speaker 1: which is trust us, give us power, and we'll fix
Speaker 1: all the problems. We'll take away all the complexity and
Speaker 1: make things simple again. We'll make everything great and good
Speaker 1: and pure again. You see, all of the problems can
Speaker 1: be fixed if we just point out who's to blame.
Speaker 1: And the thing that the people to blame always have
Speaker 1: in common is how few in number they actually are.
Speaker 1: And yet history teaches us over and over again, the
Speaker 1: demagogue will use they in them to rally a community
Speaker 1: of us as against the days and thems against the threat.
Speaker 1: And history teaches us when somebody promising punishment and persecution
Speaker 1: takes office in political power, there has never been an
Speaker 1: instance where they have not followed through on it. Ever.
Speaker 1: And so how is it that we have arrived at
Speaker 1: the edge of an abyss where the lie and the
Speaker 1: truth stand equal in the public square, where a presidential
Speaker 1: candidate is promising a police state, promising to harass and
Speaker 1: punish dissent, promising to arrest political opponents, promising mass deportation camps.
Speaker 1: How have we gotten here? We have become tolerant of
Speaker 1: what is intolerable, and it is time to face up
Speaker 1: to the danger before it is too late. Rudolph Giuliani
Speaker 1: turned out to be a Titanic fraud. That's on him.
Speaker 1: Mark Meadows turned out to be a fraud, and that's
Speaker 1: on him. Boris Epstein turned out to be a fraud,
Speaker 1: and that's on him. All of the Trump detritus, all
Speaker 1: of them have done damage to this country. And now
Speaker 1: it's up to us to say enough to end this madness,
Speaker 1: to repudiate it. It's not enough for President Biden to
Speaker 1: win in November. He must win decisively. He must win
Speaker 1: decisively so this madness can end permanently. It is time
Speaker 1: to bury this toxic poison back under the deep ground
Speaker 1: and work it with concrete. The hate, the division, the demagogurey,
Speaker 1: the nationalism, the jingoism, the venom. Nine years of time
Speaker 1: has been wasted when America could have been building, unifying,
Speaker 1: making progress in so many areas. Instead, we have become
Speaker 1: the captives and hostages of the lowest man to ever
Speaker 1: walk amongst us, who was given the highest honor that
Speaker 1: could be given, and desecrated it as if he pissed
Speaker 1: on it, like the protesters did the floor of the
Speaker 1: House of Representative and US Senate, except they weren't protesters
Speaker 1: were they They were insurrectionists and criminals and traders who
Speaker 1: carried the Confederate flag through the rotunda of the Capitol
Speaker 1: one hundred and sixty years after the Battle of Gettysburg,
Speaker 1: finally penetrating the citadel of democracy, wrecking the peaceful transfer
Speaker 1: of power, desecrating the high ideas and ideals of the
Speaker 1: country through criminal acts of violence, in mayhem and murder,
Speaker 1: all of it incited by a selfish old man who
Speaker 1: can't stay awake in a court. It is an incredible
Speaker 1: hour in this country. But it's time to end it.
Speaker 1: This is the warning. I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning,
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