1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:05,400 Speaker 1: When we watch this trial, it is the accumulation of 2 00:00:05,519 --> 00:00:10,680 Speaker 1: events of a massive fraud perpetrated on the American people 3 00:00:11,320 --> 00:00:15,600 Speaker 1: by Donald Trump, by the Trump family, by the Trump organization. 4 00:00:16,160 --> 00:00:21,720 Speaker 1: The lion is so pervasive, so constant, that it's escapable, 5 00:00:22,160 --> 00:00:26,640 Speaker 1: and it has caused havoc in our country and our 6 00:00:26,680 --> 00:00:31,240 Speaker 1: society and in our democracy. It is the twenty fourth 7 00:00:31,280 --> 00:00:33,760 Speaker 1: of April, and there are one hundred and ninety five 8 00:00:33,840 --> 00:00:37,440 Speaker 1: days left until the American presidential election, which will decide 9 00:00:37,800 --> 00:00:40,800 Speaker 1: the destiny of the two hundred and forty eight year 10 00:00:40,840 --> 00:00:45,840 Speaker 1: old Republic born on July fourth of seventeen seventy six. 11 00:00:48,920 --> 00:00:51,680 Speaker 1: One of the founders of the American Republic was President 12 00:00:51,760 --> 00:00:55,000 Speaker 1: John Adams, and there is a quote of his that 13 00:00:55,120 --> 00:00:59,240 Speaker 1: is inscribed on the mantle of the fireplace in the 14 00:00:59,320 --> 00:01:06,800 Speaker 1: State Dining Now. Donald Trump once referenced that quote. Let 15 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:09,800 Speaker 1: me put it on the screen for you. I pray 16 00:01:09,880 --> 00:01:13,679 Speaker 1: Heaven to bestow the best of blessings on this house 17 00:01:13,959 --> 00:01:17,080 Speaker 1: and all that shall hereafter inhabit. It may none but 18 00:01:17,240 --> 00:01:22,240 Speaker 1: honest and wise men ever rule under this roof. Now. 19 00:01:22,720 --> 00:01:25,880 Speaker 1: Donald Trump talked about that quote while at a White 20 00:01:25,880 --> 00:01:30,360 Speaker 1: House prayer breakfast in the State Dining room. Incredibly, he 21 00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:34,080 Speaker 1: dropped the second half of the quote. He just talked 22 00:01:34,120 --> 00:01:37,880 Speaker 1: about how great the house was. He dropped completely the 23 00:01:37,920 --> 00:01:43,039 Speaker 1: notion about honest and wise men. When Donald Trump addressed 24 00:01:43,040 --> 00:01:46,160 Speaker 1: that audience that day from that room, he was three 25 00:01:46,240 --> 00:01:52,040 Speaker 1: years into the worst presidency in American history. His cereal lying, 26 00:01:52,200 --> 00:01:57,720 Speaker 1: his incompetence, his bluster, his insanity at that hour had 27 00:01:57,840 --> 00:02:03,000 Speaker 1: cost hundreds of found of Americans their lives because of 28 00:02:03,040 --> 00:02:08,560 Speaker 1: the incompetency of his COVID response. There is no question 29 00:02:08,840 --> 00:02:12,880 Speaker 1: that the Republican nominee who will be his party standard 30 00:02:12,880 --> 00:02:18,440 Speaker 1: bearer for the third consecutive election, is the most dishonest 31 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:23,000 Speaker 1: president in American history. He is the most prolific liar 32 00:02:23,440 --> 00:02:28,520 Speaker 1: ever to take the oath prescribed in the Constitution to preserve, protect, 33 00:02:28,560 --> 00:02:32,640 Speaker 1: and defend the Constitution of the United States. During his 34 00:02:32,880 --> 00:02:38,240 Speaker 1: four years, there were more than thirty five thousand documented 35 00:02:38,720 --> 00:02:43,920 Speaker 1: lives that passed from the presidential lips. Let's look at 36 00:02:43,960 --> 00:02:49,359 Speaker 1: this man sitting in the courtroom, his shoulders slumped. Look 37 00:02:49,400 --> 00:02:54,600 Speaker 1: at the decrepitude etched into his face, the brittle pasta 38 00:02:54,840 --> 00:02:59,640 Speaker 1: like hair, everything about the man from his orange dye. 39 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:05,040 Speaker 1: All of it is inauthentic. Fake. Look at this old, 40 00:03:05,400 --> 00:03:10,640 Speaker 1: deranged man full of venom and hate that wants power. 41 00:03:11,040 --> 00:03:14,680 Speaker 1: A man so brittle that he could not acknowledge that 42 00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:18,440 Speaker 1: he was defeated in an election. A man who rejects 43 00:03:18,639 --> 00:03:25,160 Speaker 1: the sovereignty of the American people. Now, let's talk about 44 00:03:25,400 --> 00:03:32,240 Speaker 1: the lion. The Trump administration opened with a lie, and 45 00:03:32,320 --> 00:03:35,720 Speaker 1: not just any type of lie, a lie of authority. 46 00:03:35,920 --> 00:03:40,640 Speaker 1: Sean Spicer walked out and his very first act on 47 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:44,520 Speaker 1: the very first day was to tell the American people 48 00:03:44,640 --> 00:03:48,960 Speaker 1: Trump supporters that they were required to be in good standing, 49 00:03:49,440 --> 00:03:55,720 Speaker 1: to subordinate their sovereignty, their agency, to look at a 50 00:03:55,760 --> 00:04:03,520 Speaker 1: picture and to believe what was not so clearly before 51 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:09,880 Speaker 1: their eyes. A Trump devoted, a member of the cult, 52 00:04:10,120 --> 00:04:12,640 Speaker 1: must be able to look at the picture of the 53 00:04:12,720 --> 00:04:19,080 Speaker 1: smaller crowd size and declare that it's bigger because the 54 00:04:19,160 --> 00:04:24,360 Speaker 1: leader said it was so. This is a hallmark of authoritarianism, intotalitarianism. 55 00:04:24,640 --> 00:04:30,240 Speaker 1: When truth is defined what the leader says is true, 56 00:04:30,520 --> 00:04:36,919 Speaker 1: the lie and reality stand equal out in a twilight 57 00:04:37,040 --> 00:04:45,839 Speaker 1: space where liberty and freedom start to collapse. Trump's entire presidency, 58 00:04:46,200 --> 00:04:52,640 Speaker 1: his campaign, his career, his fake charities, his fake universities, 59 00:04:52,880 --> 00:04:57,640 Speaker 1: all of it has been built on a mountain of lies, 60 00:04:58,360 --> 00:05:04,280 Speaker 1: and those lies have decimated the credibility of so much 61 00:05:04,360 --> 00:05:08,760 Speaker 1: of the American media. Let's look at a common abuse 62 00:05:09,440 --> 00:05:14,440 Speaker 1: of journalistic standards that is frequently practiced at the paper 63 00:05:14,920 --> 00:05:19,799 Speaker 1: that ludicrously describes itself as the paper of record. Let's 64 00:05:19,839 --> 00:05:24,200 Speaker 1: look at the work of the greatest access reporter of 65 00:05:24,320 --> 00:05:29,640 Speaker 1: this age, the person that Donald Trump refers to as 66 00:05:29,680 --> 00:05:33,760 Speaker 1: his psychiatrist, Maggie Haberman, who is with him as she 67 00:05:33,880 --> 00:05:38,719 Speaker 1: has always been every step of the way. Now, here's 68 00:05:38,720 --> 00:05:42,839 Speaker 1: a question for Maggie Haberman and her editors at the 69 00:05:42,920 --> 00:05:48,360 Speaker 1: New York Times and their generous use of anonymous sourcing 70 00:05:50,120 --> 00:05:56,479 Speaker 1: bestowed on Trump campaign officials so that they may smear, shape, 71 00:05:57,040 --> 00:06:01,840 Speaker 1: distort the narrative of the day. Here's a question for 72 00:06:01,960 --> 00:06:05,520 Speaker 1: Maggie Haberman and all the New York Times reporters who 73 00:06:05,640 --> 00:06:12,680 Speaker 1: give generous allotments of anonymity to Trump campaign officials to 74 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:18,159 Speaker 1: lie on a daily basis. Which of those Trump officials 75 00:06:19,440 --> 00:06:23,840 Speaker 1: is not a serial liar? Certainly they all work in 76 00:06:23,960 --> 00:06:27,560 Speaker 1: the cause of a serial liar? Is Jason Miller not 77 00:06:27,640 --> 00:06:30,680 Speaker 1: a serial liar? The man that poisoned a woman with 78 00:06:30,760 --> 00:06:35,520 Speaker 1: an aborshe fashioned pill against her knowledge. Jason Miller, like 79 00:06:35,800 --> 00:06:41,440 Speaker 1: all of the Trump detritus, is a serial liar. Yet 80 00:06:42,400 --> 00:06:48,560 Speaker 1: the lies are pushed constantly into the mainstream media with 81 00:06:49,640 --> 00:06:54,719 Speaker 1: the approval of the editors of the nation's leading newspapers. 82 00:06:56,440 --> 00:07:00,640 Speaker 1: Let's take it to the next step. David Pecker and 83 00:07:00,680 --> 00:07:04,520 Speaker 1: the National Inquirer, Well, they just made it up out 84 00:07:04,560 --> 00:07:09,960 Speaker 1: of whole cloth. David Pecker concocted a story, edited photographs 85 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:15,520 Speaker 1: together alleging that Raphael Cruz, the father of Senator Ted Cruz, 86 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:20,000 Speaker 1: was somehow implicated with Lee Harvey Oswald in the Kennedy assassination. 87 00:07:20,280 --> 00:07:24,480 Speaker 1: Of course, this was nonsensical. It was a smear and 88 00:07:24,560 --> 00:07:28,120 Speaker 1: a slur of the highest order. And if you want 89 00:07:28,200 --> 00:07:32,600 Speaker 1: to understand the depths of craveness and cowardice, one need 90 00:07:32,720 --> 00:07:36,119 Speaker 1: look no further than Ted Cruz, the man who won't 91 00:07:36,120 --> 00:07:39,480 Speaker 1: defend his wife, the man who won't defend his father, 92 00:07:39,880 --> 00:07:43,640 Speaker 1: the man, when asked about David Pecker and Donald Trump's 93 00:07:43,680 --> 00:07:47,600 Speaker 1: lies about his family set he wishes not to revisit 94 00:07:47,960 --> 00:07:52,680 Speaker 1: ancient history. Well, I guess Ted Cruz and I are 95 00:07:52,720 --> 00:07:55,720 Speaker 1: a little bit different in that regard. Let me show 96 00:07:55,760 --> 00:08:01,720 Speaker 1: you a picture of ebony Lefkowicz, a former skank who 97 00:08:01,760 --> 00:08:06,280 Speaker 1: worked for The New York Post covering politics, somebody who 98 00:08:06,360 --> 00:08:12,480 Speaker 1: was a handmaiden for Trump's lives now, as anybody knows, 99 00:08:13,280 --> 00:08:17,880 Speaker 1: I have been one of the most vociferous critics of 100 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:22,400 Speaker 1: Donald Trump all the way from the beginning. There was 101 00:08:22,440 --> 00:08:26,640 Speaker 1: an occasion when he called in to Mourning Joe, and 102 00:08:26,760 --> 00:08:30,480 Speaker 1: Donald Trump thanked me for his support. What he meant 103 00:08:30,760 --> 00:08:34,120 Speaker 1: was that I was the first person who accurately predicted, 104 00:08:34,200 --> 00:08:38,520 Speaker 1: as it turns out, that he could win, and that 105 00:08:38,800 --> 00:08:42,720 Speaker 1: he was winning. As it turns out, I was also 106 00:08:42,800 --> 00:08:46,520 Speaker 1: the first person on American television to accurately predict the 107 00:08:46,640 --> 00:08:51,079 Speaker 1: violence that would come after he refused to concede an election. 108 00:08:51,480 --> 00:08:56,120 Speaker 1: But that's a story from a different day. My opposition 109 00:08:56,320 --> 00:09:00,600 Speaker 1: to Donald Trump was a matter of principle. I was 110 00:09:00,640 --> 00:09:05,439 Speaker 1: one of the top strategists for President George W. Bush's campaign. 111 00:09:05,880 --> 00:09:10,040 Speaker 1: I ran John McCain's campaign. I ran two Supreme Court confirmations, 112 00:09:10,520 --> 00:09:16,040 Speaker 1: dozens of congressional campaigns. I was a Republican in good standing, 113 00:09:17,120 --> 00:09:21,480 Speaker 1: and I opposed Trump with everything that I had. I 114 00:09:21,559 --> 00:09:25,439 Speaker 1: quit my job, I shut down my business, I resigned 115 00:09:25,480 --> 00:09:30,920 Speaker 1: a media contract, I stepped off of corporate boards. Conviction 116 00:09:32,679 --> 00:09:36,080 Speaker 1: is the thing that Donald Trump fears the most, and 117 00:09:36,160 --> 00:09:39,679 Speaker 1: so when he encounters it, it must be destroyed, it 118 00:09:39,760 --> 00:09:43,960 Speaker 1: must be disparaged, it must be smeared. And so what 119 00:09:44,160 --> 00:09:49,080 Speaker 1: Ebony Baden left Goowitz did to me was to write 120 00:09:49,120 --> 00:09:53,080 Speaker 1: a story saying that I had interviewed to Beat Trump's 121 00:09:53,080 --> 00:09:59,439 Speaker 1: campaign manager for the purposes of destroying my principled opposition, 122 00:10:00,200 --> 00:10:05,760 Speaker 1: the destruction of my credibility. It was all bullshit. It 123 00:10:05,840 --> 00:10:11,200 Speaker 1: was completely made up. When Ebony Baden Lefkowitz smeared me, 124 00:10:11,760 --> 00:10:16,640 Speaker 1: she was rewarded with a cookie, an oval office interview 125 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:21,199 Speaker 1: with the Donald himself. Do you see how it works. 126 00:10:21,480 --> 00:10:27,760 Speaker 1: Here's the smear, here's the cookie. This is endemic across 127 00:10:27,920 --> 00:10:33,520 Speaker 1: political journalism in Washington, DC, and it's why the White 128 00:10:33,600 --> 00:10:38,280 Speaker 1: House Correspondence Dinner stands today not as a celebration of 129 00:10:38,360 --> 00:10:42,400 Speaker 1: the First Amendment and the vital role of journalism, but 130 00:10:42,640 --> 00:10:48,600 Speaker 1: as a moment to celebrate the corruption of the American media, 131 00:10:49,320 --> 00:10:54,240 Speaker 1: the ascendancy of this type of access journalism, and the 132 00:10:54,400 --> 00:10:59,920 Speaker 1: eradication of truth. We live in an era where the 133 00:11:00,440 --> 00:11:03,920 Speaker 1: supposedly straight news anchor or Fox News is afraid to 134 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:08,400 Speaker 1: tell the audience about the results of the election because 135 00:11:08,440 --> 00:11:14,760 Speaker 1: they might be mad. David Pecker, Ebony Bouten, and an 136 00:11:15,040 --> 00:11:22,320 Speaker 1: entire generation of access journalists have made it impossible for 137 00:11:22,480 --> 00:11:25,880 Speaker 1: tens of millions of Americans to understand what's real, what's true, 138 00:11:25,960 --> 00:11:32,080 Speaker 1: what's not, what's a lie, what's fact. By the way, 139 00:11:32,920 --> 00:11:36,600 Speaker 1: here's an update on old Ebony. She works at Getter today, 140 00:11:36,840 --> 00:11:43,240 Speaker 1: Big surprise, apparently, serving once again under Jason Miller in 141 00:11:43,280 --> 00:11:47,480 Speaker 1: a new position. But I digress. When we watch this trial, 142 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:54,120 Speaker 1: it is the accumulation of events of a massive fraud 143 00:11:54,800 --> 00:11:59,680 Speaker 1: perpetrated on the American people by Donald Trump, by the 144 00:11:59,679 --> 00:12:05,160 Speaker 1: Trump family, by the Trump organization. The lion is so pervasive, 145 00:12:05,280 --> 00:12:11,360 Speaker 1: so constant, that it's escapable, and it has caused havoc 146 00:12:12,400 --> 00:12:16,319 Speaker 1: in our country and our society and in our democracy. 147 00:12:17,600 --> 00:12:22,160 Speaker 1: The idea that a presidential campaign in America in the 148 00:12:22,240 --> 00:12:26,000 Speaker 1: early decades of the twenty first century was based on 149 00:12:26,520 --> 00:12:31,680 Speaker 1: fabulism in the National Enquirer that then was dutifully covered 150 00:12:32,120 --> 00:12:37,160 Speaker 1: in the pages of nearly every serious news organization in 151 00:12:37,200 --> 00:12:42,480 Speaker 1: the country is despicable and it's dangerous, And here we are. 152 00:12:43,160 --> 00:12:48,240 Speaker 1: David Pecker is not an isolated example. Is the point. 153 00:12:48,559 --> 00:12:53,080 Speaker 1: David Pecker is the norm of the Trump era, and 154 00:12:53,160 --> 00:12:58,960 Speaker 1: the greatest failure of American media in this era has 155 00:12:59,080 --> 00:13:05,400 Speaker 1: been the stead fast refusal to call out the fabulousm 156 00:13:05,480 --> 00:13:12,240 Speaker 1: the insanity, and the lies for what they are. This 157 00:13:12,520 --> 00:13:17,600 Speaker 1: is so important to understand and we should appreciate what 158 00:13:17,679 --> 00:13:21,760 Speaker 1: Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House did many times asked, 159 00:13:21,960 --> 00:13:24,680 Speaker 1: how do you break the spell? How do you break 160 00:13:24,720 --> 00:13:30,840 Speaker 1: Trump's hold on people? Well, Mike Johnson and his conversion 161 00:13:30,920 --> 00:13:36,559 Speaker 1: towards reality and the safety of the world offers a clue. 162 00:13:36,760 --> 00:13:39,800 Speaker 1: Mike Johnson was able to put aside the fantasy, be 163 00:13:39,880 --> 00:13:42,840 Speaker 1: able to put aside the bs when he sat down 164 00:13:42,880 --> 00:13:46,840 Speaker 1: with the generals and the intelligence officials and he understood 165 00:13:46,840 --> 00:13:50,440 Speaker 1: the real danger of the country faces, and he came around. 166 00:13:50,880 --> 00:13:55,120 Speaker 1: He embraced reality, he stepped out of the delusion, and 167 00:13:55,200 --> 00:14:01,120 Speaker 1: he did it between September and April. So there's hope. 168 00:14:01,920 --> 00:14:06,720 Speaker 1: We live in the Great Age of lying, and there 169 00:14:06,800 --> 00:14:12,920 Speaker 1: is one person who is singularly responsible for it, Donald Trump, 170 00:14:13,160 --> 00:14:16,800 Speaker 1: and he has been abetted by a legion of liars, 171 00:14:17,280 --> 00:14:21,600 Speaker 1: of which people like David Pecker is one and Ebony 172 00:14:21,920 --> 00:14:26,400 Speaker 1: bat In Lefkowitz is one. They are everywhere in our 173 00:14:26,520 --> 00:14:30,520 Speaker 1: society because we have tolerated it and because the media 174 00:14:30,800 --> 00:14:35,320 Speaker 1: as an institution has abtted it. And that's why I 175 00:14:35,440 --> 00:14:39,760 Speaker 1: hope you will continue to support the warning. Because on 176 00:14:39,800 --> 00:14:43,840 Speaker 1: this platform you will never be bsked, you will never 177 00:14:43,920 --> 00:14:47,160 Speaker 1: be gaslet, and you will never be lied to. This 178 00:14:47,200 --> 00:14:50,480 Speaker 1: is the warning. There are one hundred and ninety five 179 00:14:50,560 --> 00:14:54,640 Speaker 1: days to go, and the truth and the lie are 180 00:14:54,680 --> 00:14:58,280 Speaker 1: in combat. Make no mistake about it. There is a 181 00:14:58,320 --> 00:15:02,960 Speaker 1: great choice at hand. I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the Warning, 182 00:15:03,120 --> 00:15:06,479 Speaker 1: and I invite you to join. Subscribe on our substack, 183 00:15:06,880 --> 00:15:10,400 Speaker 1: on our YouTube channel, follow us. Welcome to the community.