Speaker 1: This is the warning the American people and the whole
Speaker 1: world witnessed a Titanic lie.
Speaker 2: I don't like being up here talking about how unsafe
Speaker 2: and how dirty and disgusting this once beautiful capital was
Speaker 2: with graffiti all over the walls. It's another part of it,
Speaker 2: by the way, because we're talking about safety, we're also
Speaker 2: talking about beautification. We're the most beautiful, potentially capital in
Speaker 2: the world. We always had. But people come from Iowa,
Speaker 2: they come from Indiana, They come and then they get mugged.
Speaker 2: Not going to happen. Keep coming because within by the
Speaker 2: time you get your trip set, it's going to be
Speaker 2: safe again, and it's going to be cleaned very quickly.
Speaker 1: President of the United States stood flanked by the Attorney
Speaker 1: General and the Defense Secretary and said that the capital
Speaker 1: city of the United States was a dystopian healthcape. It
Speaker 1: was besieged by roving youth gangs, and what was required
Speaker 1: was the calling out of the army. And so Donald
Speaker 1: Trump made the announce flanked on the one side by
Speaker 1: his Attorney General and on the other side by his
Speaker 1: Defense Secretary. And that was deliberate because what he was
Speaker 1: saying was that in America, the military doesn't serve the nation,
Speaker 1: or the Constitution or the people, but the whims of
Speaker 1: a man, and it is an instrument of his personal power.
Speaker 3: And on the other.
Speaker 1: Side was the woman deeply implicated in the cover up
Speaker 1: of Jeffrey Epstein coast playing in a new role as
Speaker 1: head of the DC Homicide Task Force.
Speaker 4: Let me be crystal clear, crime in d C is
Speaker 4: ending and ending today. We are going to use every
Speaker 4: power we have to fight criminals. Here. President, thank you
Speaker 4: for caring about our capital. Families come here every summer.
Speaker 4: Our museums are free. We have the National Zoo, we
Speaker 4: have the National Gallery. DC should be a place where
Speaker 4: everyone can come and feel safe. Behind me and to
Speaker 4: my side. We have some of the best career law
Speaker 4: enforcement and prosecutors in the country who are ready to
Speaker 4: take this on.
Speaker 1: Pambondi, a liar, stood there as a symbol that the
Speaker 1: rule of law in the United States is dead, that
Speaker 1: it's expired. She is the President's personal lawyer, and the
Speaker 1: Justice Department is his personal.
Speaker 3: Instrument of revenge and retribution. The whole point of.
Speaker 1: What the American people witnessed yesterday was to chill dissent.
Speaker 1: Now Trump likes to talk about the fact that he
Speaker 1: received a historic landslide.
Speaker 3: It's nonsense.
Speaker 1: There have been sixty presidential elections in the history of
Speaker 1: the country. Here is the rank order of them. Here's
Speaker 1: where Donald Trump fits in. As you can see, it
Speaker 1: was a small victory, it was a plurality victory, and
Speaker 1: it was a victory that ranks near.
Speaker 3: The bottom on the totality of the list.
Speaker 1: There is no majority in America that supports what Donald
Speaker 1: Trump is doing. This man elected with forty nine and
Speaker 1: a half percent of the votes, has decided to use
Speaker 1: the full power, the full weight, the full authority of
Speaker 1: the federal government to occupy democratic cities. Some of the
Speaker 1: most dangerous cities in America are the big cities in
Speaker 1: Red States, cities like Saint Louis. But where is the
Speaker 1: army in the Red States? The reality is the performance
Speaker 1: theater wouldn't be popular there. So what we are witnesses
Speaker 1: to is one political faction, a minority of the country,
Speaker 1: using the full power of the American military against a
Speaker 1: different faction in the country, a white minority using the
Speaker 1: power of the state to suppress, to oppress, and to
Speaker 1: take away the democracy from the Washington DC black voter
Speaker 1: from the Washington, d C.
Speaker 3: Black Citizen.
Speaker 1: Washington was a city where slavery was legal, where slaves
Speaker 1: built the capital, in built the White House, a city
Speaker 1: that Doctor King march to in August of nineteen sixty
Speaker 1: three at the head of what was called All Day
Speaker 1: Freedom Parade. And in that Freedom Parade, Doctor King shared
Speaker 1: a dream, and that dream was shared from a spot
Speaker 1: that remembers the legacy and the memory of the man
Speaker 1: who preserved the Union, Abraham Lincoln.
Speaker 3: And on that site, on the walls of that memorial
Speaker 3: are the.
Speaker 1: Great speeches that Lincoln left for the country, the Gettysburg
Speaker 1: Address that makes clear the purpose of the country is liberty,
Speaker 1: and the Second Inaugural, which makes clear that the purpose
Speaker 1: of the nation must be the defense of that liberty.
Speaker 1: And then, after the ending of a terrible war, that
Speaker 1: it killed eight hundred thousand people in a nation of
Speaker 1: thirty four million, that there be mercy, that there be
Speaker 1: malice towards none, that the nation seek to bind up
Speaker 1: its wounds. Donald Trump represents the opposite spirit, an aggressive spirit,
Speaker 1: a spirit that wants to dominate, to use power to subjugate.
Speaker 2: Our capital city has been overtaken by violent gangs and
Speaker 2: bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youth, drugged out many
Speaker 2: and homeless people, and we're not gonna let it happen anymore.
Speaker 2: We're not gonna take it.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: Imagine if it came to be that there is a
Speaker 1: legitimate need to use the type of force that Donald
Speaker 1: Trump is talking about, that there was disorder, that there
Speaker 1: was chaos, that there was anarchy.
Speaker 3: Would that not be lamentable.
Speaker 1: Would it not be a tragedy, a sober moment, a
Speaker 1: serious one that would require careful explanation about the necessitous
Speaker 1: nature of the use of violence to bring about peace.
Speaker 1: There's none of that from Trump because there's no circumspection,
Speaker 1: there's no thought, because this isn't real, it's steered.
Speaker 2: When I look at Chicago and I look at La,
Speaker 2: if we didn't go to La three months ago, La
Speaker 2: would be burning like the part that didn't burn. If
Speaker 2: he would have allowed the water to come down, which
Speaker 2: I told him about in my first term, I said,
Speaker 2: you're gonna have problems, let it come down. We actually
Speaker 2: sent in our military to have the water come down
Speaker 2: into La. They still didn't want it to come down
Speaker 2: after the fires, but that was it. We have a
Speaker 2: coming down, but hopefully la is watching that may are
Speaker 2: also the city's burning.
Speaker 1: What's real are the thugs with federal badges who are
Speaker 1: being asked to betray the constitution for the whim of
Speaker 1: a man. And so it came to be that these
Speaker 1: people spread out over Fox News to tell America that
Speaker 1: up is down, and down is up, and right is
Speaker 1: left and left is right, and that crime is soaring
Speaker 1: when it's down, and that what's needed is a dose
Speaker 1: of fascism and a display of presidential power unprecedented in
Speaker 1: the history of the country to deal with it.
Speaker 3: Does that make sense? Does that seem right?
Speaker 1: Donald Trump said, this is coming to a city near you,
Speaker 1: But not if you live in a red state, not
Speaker 1: in Salt Lake City that has plenty of problems, not
Speaker 1: in Dallas, not.
Speaker 3: In Houston, in the Blue states. So they face.
Speaker 1: Military occupation by the mega faction in control of the
Speaker 1: armed forces, led by a vile man named Pete Hagseth,
Speaker 1: who is politicized.
Speaker 3: The desecrated them.
Speaker 5: At your direction as well, sir, there are other units
Speaker 5: we are prepared to bring in, other National Guard units,
Speaker 5: other specialized units. They will be strong, they will be tough,
Speaker 5: and they will stand with their law enforcement partners. This
Speaker 5: is nothing new for God. As the President noted, at
Speaker 5: the border, we've got ten thousand troops down there who've
Speaker 5: been operating in defense cooperation areas, defense zones.
Speaker 3: Where there's zero, zero illegal.
Speaker 5: Crossings because of troops on strikers scanning the border. We've
Speaker 5: been protecting other people's borders for twenty years. It's about
Speaker 5: time we protect our own.
Speaker 1: These people, these villainous cretons standing behind Trump, each a charlatan,
Speaker 1: each a desecrator of the republic, each an arsonist of
Speaker 1: some of the most sublime ideas ever put to paper
Speaker 1: by the mind of man. And what they are doing
Speaker 1: is assaulting each and every one of us in our liberty,
Speaker 1: our rights. They're making a declaration of repudiation against the
Speaker 1: independence of the country and the idea that are created
Speaker 1: equal and our rights come not from government but from
Speaker 1: a creator, a higher power.
Speaker 3: And there is no compromise to be had on these questions.
Speaker 1: And no good American will back down in the face
Speaker 1: of this maga obscenity. Behind me, it's the fourth largest
Speaker 1: city in North America, great city, Toronto, and it's a
Speaker 1: free city, one without an army on the streets, one
Speaker 1: without mass men snatching people off the streets. Later today,
Speaker 1: the will be a baseball game played in the stadium
Speaker 1: behind me, the Rogers Center, and the national anthem of
Speaker 1: the United States will be played, and it will celebrate
Speaker 1: a country the professes to be the home of the free,
Speaker 1: in the land of the brave. Now you tell me,
Speaker 1: do these look like images from the home of the free?
Speaker 1: And what brave people would ever allow that to happen.
Speaker 1: Fascism has come to America. It is wrapped in the flag,
Speaker 1: it is carrying the cross, and it is as dangerous
Speaker 1: and it is as malignant as the variant of the
Speaker 1: disease that came before. This is the I'm Steve Schmidt.
Speaker 1: This is the warning. I invite you to join this community,
Speaker 1: where I promise to be honest, blunt and direct about
Speaker 1: what is happening in this country. America is in crisis.
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