Speaker 1: It is Tuesday, July the sixteenth. There are one hundred
Speaker 1: and eleven days until the last polls close on the
Speaker 1: presidential election day, and thirty four until the opening gavel
Speaker 1: of the Democratic National Convention. And this is the warning.
Speaker 1: Yesterday was a historic day in the United States. Donald
Speaker 1: Trump has done something that only two other Americans have
Speaker 1: ever done. Their names were Henry Clay and William Jennings Bryan.
Speaker 1: Both of those men were the nominees of their parties
Speaker 1: three times. Now Trump is back, fresh off surviving an
Speaker 1: assassination attempt, and he walked out during prime time into
Speaker 1: the Republican National Convention, and he took his seat next
Speaker 1: to his running mate, thirty nine year old Ohio Senator j. D. Vance,
Speaker 1: a protege of Silicon Valley weirdo Peter Keel. There they
Speaker 1: sat Tucker Carlson, the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson,
Speaker 1: a religious extremist by every conceivable definition of the word. Now,
Speaker 1: this is a man who believes that people and dinosaurs
Speaker 1: were walking around together five thousand years ago. He explicitly
Speaker 1: has said he doesn't believe in the separation of church
Speaker 1: and state. My favorite moment of the entire day and
Speaker 1: there were many was watching Mike Johnson nod his head
Speaker 1: up and down like a bobblehead as Amber, the tattooed
Speaker 1: stripper tattoo on her forehead, of course, talked to the
Speaker 1: country during that vital primetime hour about the fact that
Speaker 1: Donald Trump was a racist. Now, scores of millions of
Speaker 1: Americans wondered, why is this happening? What am I watching?
Speaker 1: Can you imagine if Eisenhower and Reagan and Nixon, we're
Speaker 1: all sitting around up there beyond the pearly gates looking down.
Speaker 1: So there she is, Kanye West's former girlfriend giving character
Speaker 1: testimony about Donald Trump on the basis of her research.
Speaker 1: The only fans model, the innovator and host of the
Speaker 1: slut Walk captivated Mike Johnson. How can it be that
Speaker 1: on CNN I am watching pundits and anchors and others
Speaker 1: talk about Donald Trump a man find libel of rape
Speaker 1: and then defaming the woman in the aftermath, raping her
Speaker 1: and psychologically torturing her. How can it be that this
Speaker 1: man is spoken about suddenly in the aftermath of surviving
Speaker 1: an assassination attempt, like he is a reborn apostle of peace.
Speaker 1: What conceivable ludicrousness could so infect anybody's brain that such astonishing,
Speaker 1: utter nonsensical words could parse their lips. It's a question
Speaker 1: for the aegis, but also an urgent one because much
Speaker 1: of the media has decided that there's a new chapter
Speaker 1: in our evolving an unfolding national reality show. The man
Speaker 1: of violence, the man who raped a woman is suddenly
Speaker 1: redeemed because he was victimized by the types of acts
Speaker 1: that he has propelled, that he has stoked, that he
Speaker 1: has celebrated. This is a man who, in the Oval
Speaker 1: office pondered about shooting peacefully protesting black people, our fellow citizens.
Speaker 1: This is a man who celebrated Paul Pelosi's violent Donald
Speaker 1: Trump has courted violence, He's used violence. Now, Donald Trump
Speaker 1: has a long and sordid history of racial animus. He
Speaker 1: has a long history of stoking violence. But let's get
Speaker 1: back specifically to violence against women, because there is an
Speaker 1: issue that most normal people could find consensus on. Now,
Speaker 1: if you were a child watching your mother being beat
Speaker 1: if you were a brother who knew his sister was
Speaker 1: being beat a father who knew his daughter was being
Speaker 1: beat a friend who knew the person you loved was
Speaker 1: being beaten, and abused torture. What type of sick soul
Speaker 1: would say that that beaten woman should stay in the
Speaker 1: marriage today, should take the beating for the good of
Speaker 1: the kids. You know who jd Vance is? Who jd
Speaker 1: Vance said the beaten woman should stay married, stay with
Speaker 1: the abuse. Jd Vance has said other things. Now, this
Speaker 1: California Yale billy who pretends he's part of the working classes,
Speaker 1: in fact, a Yale educated venture capitalist who said he
Speaker 1: was uncomfortable in the state of Ohio where many people
Speaker 1: have suffered and died from opio eight addiction. Jd Vance
Speaker 1: was involved in a fraudulent OPIOAH charity. And now J.
Speaker 1: D Vance has been picked as the Trumpian dou fan,
Speaker 1: the MAGA successor at thirty nine in Donald Trump's twisted vision,
Speaker 1: no doubt president by forty three, and a retired kingpin
Speaker 1: by fifty one. Certainly that's how Elon Musk sees it.
Speaker 1: He's donating forty five million dollars a month to the
Speaker 1: cause of American FACS, to the cause of Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: to the cause of political violence. There has been no
Speaker 1: person in fifty years that has talked more directly, more
Speaker 1: openly and had a greater impact restoring a culture of
Speaker 1: violence and menace and threat to our politics than Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: His record is clear, his menace is clear, his extremism
Speaker 1: is clear. Donald Trump is the leading cause of incivility
Speaker 1: in the United States. He is the leading cause of
Speaker 1: racial antagonism in the United States. He is the leading
Speaker 1: cause of the cancer in our society. He leads an
Speaker 1: autocratic movement that threatens American democracy because it does not
Speaker 1: believe in the cornerstone principles of the country. The truth
Speaker 1: of the matter is Donald Trump is ahead in the
Speaker 1: campaign and he has to be his vice president. A
Speaker 1: thirty nine year old fraud of Titanic dimensions. Donald Trump
Speaker 1: and JD. Vance are the most extreme political ticket in
Speaker 1: American history. Barnutt jd Vance is a fascist who fetishizes
Speaker 1: Victor Orba, who has celebrated the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Speaker 1: He is an American because he has made clear that
Speaker 1: he does not believe in democracy. Jd Vance has talked
Speaker 1: about the necessity of an American caesar to set things right.
Speaker 1: We don't need a caesar in America. We need a
Speaker 1: president vigorous and able to respond to this manifest threat
Speaker 1: to America's civilization and defeat it with a message of
Speaker 1: goodness against this sinister, vile, malignant, violent cause. Fascism is
Speaker 1: a philosophy of violence, and maga and fascism are the
Speaker 1: same thing. And that's been clear for a long time.
Speaker 1: But too many in the media are uncomfortable with using
Speaker 1: the word fascist because they believe it implies a judgment
Speaker 1: as opposed to a precise description. And the thing is,
Speaker 1: when you abandon precision, when you make words meaningless, when
Speaker 1: you obliterate the ability to put meaning into a sentence
Speaker 1: or a paragraph, what happens is reality becomes blurred, and
Speaker 1: it becomes impossible for people to tell the difference between
Speaker 1: up and down, right and left, red and blue, and
Speaker 1: a fascist and someone who's an American patriot. Now fascists
Speaker 1: have gathered before, they gathered to Madison Square Garden. They
Speaker 1: even hung swastika emblazoned George Washington banners next to the stage,
Speaker 1: and they called it a patriotic event. It wasn't. We
Speaker 1: have reached a moment of absurdity, a dangerous moment of absurdity. No,
Speaker 1: Scott Jennings of CNN, Miss Amber doesn't have a future
Speaker 1: in American politics. What she is is part of the
Speaker 1: carnival act, a bearded lady, part of the freak show
Speaker 1: that you have embedded as a mouthpiece in a suit
Speaker 1: and tie on CNN, excusing the inexcusable. But at any rate,
Speaker 1: it's more than about one CNN commentator. It's about the
Speaker 1: thousands of cynics and the opportunists. The thing about an
Speaker 1: authoritarian is they never act alone the cytop and ecosystem.
Speaker 1: There are always the financiers. And Trump and his fascist
Speaker 1: cause have his finance steers, the Vinkel Vosses, Elon Musk,
Speaker 1: Bill Ackman, Schwartzman, principal funders or some of them of
Speaker 1: American fascism in twenty twenty four. He has his propagandists.
Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson, a disgraced Fox News personality, a Russian useful idiot,
Speaker 1: sitting there in the front row with the disgraced former president,
Speaker 1: the rapist, and the extremist speaker. A man who's been
Speaker 1: celebrated on Russian TV, A man who assails our allies,
Speaker 1: that celebrates our enemies. There was Tucker Carlson sitting in
Speaker 1: the front row. The days ahead will reveal the Maga movement.
Speaker 1: The most important thing to understand about this election is
Speaker 1: whoever it is about loses. And Donald Trump has made
Speaker 1: the election about Joe Biden, and he's done it successfully
Speaker 1: for a long time because he has the financiers, and
Speaker 1: he has the propagandists, he has the think tankers, he
Speaker 1: has the fanaticism of a cult of personality, and that
Speaker 1: cult of personality as a charismatic leader. And thus we
Speaker 1: have a real life authoritarian movement and it will bear
Speaker 1: its fangs this week while declaring the necessity for unity.
Speaker 1: It will preach menace but also peace. And the American
Speaker 1: people in the end have to sit in judgment of
Speaker 1: this cause, have to evaluate what's at stake and have
Speaker 1: to look deeply at the threats being made against them
Speaker 1: by who by Trump, because what he has said cannot
Speaker 1: be washed away with a bandage on his ear. I'm
Speaker 1: Steve Schmidt. This is the warning and I invite you
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