1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:03,400 Speaker 1: Welcome to another edition of the schmid Storm. You've got questions, 2 00:00:03,440 --> 00:00:06,840 Speaker 1: I've got answers. First question is how can Donald Trump 3 00:00:06,880 --> 00:00:10,240 Speaker 1: get away with saying that the Epstein case and his 4 00:00:10,400 --> 00:00:15,160 Speaker 1: involvement in it is a democratic hoax after Donald Trump 5 00:00:15,360 --> 00:00:19,040 Speaker 1: called it a democratic conspiracy. The short answer to that 6 00:00:19,120 --> 00:00:21,439 Speaker 1: question is He's not getting away with it. He won't 7 00:00:21,440 --> 00:00:23,720 Speaker 1: get away with it, and he can't get away with it. 8 00:00:23,720 --> 00:00:29,080 Speaker 1: It's important for people to stop evaluating the efficacy of 9 00:00:29,120 --> 00:00:34,320 Speaker 1: Trump's lies on whether the twenty five percent of Americans 10 00:00:34,320 --> 00:00:37,760 Speaker 1: who believe them speak for the rest of us. They don't. 11 00:00:38,200 --> 00:00:40,760 Speaker 1: All of the people who drank the kool aid at 12 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:44,280 Speaker 1: the People's Temple in Guyana believe Jim Jones. If he 13 00:00:44,320 --> 00:00:47,360 Speaker 1: had given the same speech urging suicide with the kool 14 00:00:47,360 --> 00:00:51,560 Speaker 1: aid to people outside of the temple, most people, all 15 00:00:51,640 --> 00:00:54,880 Speaker 1: of them, wouldn't have drank the kool aid, simple as I. 16 00:00:55,360 --> 00:00:58,720 Speaker 1: Spending all of our time on the kool aid drinkers 17 00:00:59,040 --> 00:01:03,400 Speaker 1: at the expense of normal Americans is an enormous mistake. 18 00:01:03,760 --> 00:01:10,520 Speaker 1: Americans see this very very clearly, and they see the incoherence, 19 00:01:10,840 --> 00:01:15,280 Speaker 1: the ugliness of the Trump administration, the Trump regime. They 20 00:01:15,319 --> 00:01:18,319 Speaker 1: see it a oppose it, and they reject it. And 21 00:01:18,880 --> 00:01:23,120 Speaker 1: Trump has blown apart his coalition in six months, and 22 00:01:23,720 --> 00:01:28,960 Speaker 1: that coalition will reform and repudiate him, put a check 23 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:32,559 Speaker 1: on him, and deal in that manner with the lies 24 00:01:32,640 --> 00:01:36,440 Speaker 1: they've been told, by turning power back over to the 25 00:01:36,520 --> 00:01:41,640 Speaker 1: people that Trump hates the most, now Democrats, if they 26 00:01:41,680 --> 00:01:44,280 Speaker 1: win in twenty twenty six, and they're on track to 27 00:01:44,600 --> 00:01:49,320 Speaker 1: best understand that is not not an indicator that everything 28 00:01:49,400 --> 00:01:52,279 Speaker 1: is hockey dory in twenty twenty eight. Question in twenty 29 00:01:52,360 --> 00:01:55,200 Speaker 1: six is put a check on Trump. Question in twenty 30 00:01:55,240 --> 00:01:59,040 Speaker 1: eight is obliterate MAGA. And that is what the American 31 00:01:59,080 --> 00:02:01,520 Speaker 1: people are going to have to do if they wish 32 00:02:01,640 --> 00:02:05,400 Speaker 1: to continue to live in the freest country in the world. 33 00:02:05,720 --> 00:02:10,399 Speaker 1: The second question is it seems, according to intelligence assessments 34 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:13,440 Speaker 1: and leaks that Donald Trump was lying when he said 35 00:02:13,480 --> 00:02:17,679 Speaker 1: the Iranian nuclear program was obliterated. In fact, only one 36 00:02:17,760 --> 00:02:21,399 Speaker 1: mountain was set back by two years, and the other 37 00:02:21,440 --> 00:02:24,200 Speaker 1: facilities that were bombed by the US and the Israelis 38 00:02:24,200 --> 00:02:29,080 Speaker 1: will be operational again within months. This is true. The 39 00:02:29,160 --> 00:02:34,160 Speaker 1: attacks did not obliterate the Iranian nuclear weapons program, nor 40 00:02:34,680 --> 00:02:37,240 Speaker 1: did they take away the Iranian desire to have a 41 00:02:37,320 --> 00:02:40,960 Speaker 1: nuclear weapon. In fact, what it likely did is make 42 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:44,040 Speaker 1: it clear to the Iranians the urgent necessity of having 43 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:48,120 Speaker 1: a nuclear weapon lest they be bombed again by the 44 00:02:48,240 --> 00:02:54,600 Speaker 1: United States in Israel, that the negotiation failed, and that 45 00:02:54,919 --> 00:02:59,960 Speaker 1: the military attack also failing prevents a window of opportunity. 46 00:03:00,040 --> 00:03:02,200 Speaker 1: You need to get the window to stop the next 47 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:06,000 Speaker 1: attack ahead of the next negotiation. And so we're in 48 00:03:06,040 --> 00:03:09,200 Speaker 1: a race against time. And Donald Trump has told the 49 00:03:09,240 --> 00:03:13,800 Speaker 1: country that there is no more threat because he planned 50 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:16,880 Speaker 1: the greatest military campaign in world history. Honest to god, 51 00:03:16,880 --> 00:03:20,119 Speaker 1: he said that, yes, D Day doesn't count anymore at 52 00:03:20,120 --> 00:03:22,720 Speaker 1: any rate. It's all absurd. None of it is true. 53 00:03:23,040 --> 00:03:27,360 Speaker 1: The Uranian regime still has a nuclear weapons program, and 54 00:03:27,400 --> 00:03:31,360 Speaker 1: that nuclear weapons program has not been obliterated like Donald 55 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:36,160 Speaker 1: Trump said. So more lies, lies, lies and lies, and 56 00:03:36,400 --> 00:03:41,040 Speaker 1: this world of surreality that Donald Trump is constructed isn't real, 57 00:03:41,720 --> 00:03:46,080 Speaker 1: and real things have a way of manifesting themselves over 58 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:51,080 Speaker 1: delusional ones, and never more so than in the space 59 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:56,000 Speaker 1: where nations deal with each other. The Iranian regime does 60 00:03:56,040 --> 00:04:00,160 Speaker 1: not live in the pretend worlds of Fox News, either 61 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:03,800 Speaker 1: does anybody else, And that's why this country's in so 62 00:04:03,920 --> 00:04:07,560 Speaker 1: much trouble because so many people in our country believe 63 00:04:07,640 --> 00:04:10,400 Speaker 1: the lies of a liar, and when it comes to 64 00:04:10,440 --> 00:04:14,240 Speaker 1: the efficacy of the military strikes, those lies make it 65 00:04:14,320 --> 00:04:18,080 Speaker 1: harder for the next president, or a future leader, or 66 00:04:18,120 --> 00:04:21,240 Speaker 1: even this president to speak clearly and directly to the 67 00:04:21,279 --> 00:04:23,880 Speaker 1: American people about a threat that may have to be 68 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:27,040 Speaker 1: dealt with. But what is it that Trump would possibly 69 00:04:27,080 --> 00:04:30,720 Speaker 1: say about the need to bomb again? What he already 70 00:04:30,760 --> 00:04:34,760 Speaker 1: claims was obliterated, So you can see the madness is 71 00:04:34,960 --> 00:04:38,719 Speaker 1: very difficult to get around. The next question is what 72 00:04:38,839 --> 00:04:41,320 Speaker 1: do you think the impact will be of the Big 73 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:45,680 Speaker 1: Beautiful Bill. Well, the Big Beautiful Bill is a monstrosity, 74 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:51,000 Speaker 1: and the Big Beautiful Bill is going to cause economic 75 00:04:51,160 --> 00:04:54,640 Speaker 1: calamity in the country and is going to reduce healthcare 76 00:04:54,760 --> 00:04:58,320 Speaker 1: coverage or eliminate it for up to twenty million people, 77 00:04:58,400 --> 00:05:02,640 Speaker 1: to add for million dollars to the national debt. All 78 00:05:02,680 --> 00:05:05,880 Speaker 1: of the things though that the Big Beautiful Bill, this terrible, 79 00:05:05,920 --> 00:05:09,159 Speaker 1: ugly bill does. The thing that will be remembered is 80 00:05:09,200 --> 00:05:11,640 Speaker 1: the change that it brings to the complexion of the 81 00:05:11,680 --> 00:05:15,400 Speaker 1: society with the formation of a secret police force. And 82 00:05:15,440 --> 00:05:18,719 Speaker 1: I don't think most Americans have any comprehension really of 83 00:05:18,760 --> 00:05:22,039 Speaker 1: how much money has been written to ICE, which is 84 00:05:22,160 --> 00:05:26,839 Speaker 1: now standalone the fifteenth largest military in the world, and 85 00:05:26,880 --> 00:05:31,720 Speaker 1: they are deployed against the American people routinely. Now American 86 00:05:31,800 --> 00:05:37,279 Speaker 1: citizens are being harassed, being arrested by masked thugs, many 87 00:05:37,320 --> 00:05:40,839 Speaker 1: of which don't have badges on them. It is outrageous, 88 00:05:41,160 --> 00:05:44,400 Speaker 1: is unacceptable, and it is un American and it must 89 00:05:44,440 --> 00:05:48,400 Speaker 1: be a post. I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning. 90 00:05:48,520 --> 00:05:51,400 Speaker 1: I invite you to join this community, where I promise 91 00:05:51,640 --> 00:05:55,520 Speaker 1: to be honest, blunt and direct about what is happening 92 00:05:55,560 --> 00:06:00,000 Speaker 1: in this country. America is in crisis. Follow and subscribe 93 00:06:00,080 --> 00:06:02,640 Speaker 1: up to this channel and on substack. Thank you.