WEBVTT - How Donald Trump Won The Presidency 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:04.400 It's the Friday after the election in America. This is 0:00:04.440 --> 0:00:08.240 the warning. The sun came up today, just like it 0:00:08.320 --> 0:00:12.080 did yesterday, and just like it will seven hundred and 0:00:12.160 --> 0:00:16.040 twenty four days from now, when the American people get 0:00:16.079 --> 0:00:19.640 to go to the polls and deliver a referendum on 0:00:19.720 --> 0:00:24.400 Donald Trump's MAGA government. Winston Churchill said, countries get the 0:00:24.440 --> 0:00:27.960 governments they deserve, and the American people have voted, and 0:00:28.000 --> 0:00:32.000 they voted in the majority to give Donald Trump the presidency. 0:00:32.320 --> 0:00:36.360 The election was fair. There were no conspiracies. And any 0:00:36.479 --> 0:00:41.760 Democratic voter who after four years of madness and treachery 0:00:42.120 --> 0:00:46.920 and sedition makes up and embraces whole cloth the same 0:00:47.080 --> 0:00:53.040 conspiracies that the MAGA people embraced, that makes you the 0:00:53.080 --> 0:00:58.840 same as them, equal threats to America. Elections have consequences, 0:00:59.240 --> 0:01:04.280 and this one will have seismic consequences domestically on the 0:01:04.319 --> 0:01:08.520 North American continent and all around the world. Donald Trump 0:01:08.840 --> 0:01:12.440 isn't just the most prolific liar in American history to 0:01:12.520 --> 0:01:17.000 hold the public office, because Donald Trump is an exquisite scumbag, 0:01:17.280 --> 0:01:21.200 a liar, a seditionist, but he's not a hypocrite. He 0:01:21.560 --> 0:01:25.319 is exactly as he appears to be, and in a 0:01:25.400 --> 0:01:30.200 world of astounding hypocrisy, a great many people find it refreshing. 0:01:30.560 --> 0:01:34.000 So how did this happen when it came to the 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:37.399 chaos at the border and there was not chaos the 0:01:37.480 --> 0:01:40.560 day that Trump left? Who was telling the truth about that? 0:01:41.120 --> 0:01:44.000 Was it Biden or was it Trump? And what about 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:47.800 the more important issue Biden's condition? And the great gas 0:01:47.920 --> 0:01:52.240 lighting by the Biden White House, the lies eagerly embraced 0:01:52.240 --> 0:01:56.040 and supported by the media, but clearly seen by the 0:01:56.040 --> 0:02:00.400 American people. Who was telling the truth about Biden, House 0:02:00.800 --> 0:02:04.080 or Trump? And so one hundred days before the election, 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:08.800 the incapacitated eighty two year old president fell flat on 0:02:08.960 --> 0:02:11.520 his face and had to drop out of the race. 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:15.560 And there was no competition. The person Kamala Harris who 0:02:15.639 --> 0:02:21.000 became the nominee has only ever run one competitive race 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:24.160 in her life. You don't get elected to the United 0:02:24.200 --> 0:02:28.160 States Senate in California and competitive races. The process to 0:02:28.200 --> 0:02:31.919 become the nominee is competitive, but not the election process. 0:02:32.240 --> 0:02:35.320 The first time that Kamala Harris ran in a national election, 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:39.600 it was an unmitigated disaster. In fact, it was such 0:02:39.720 --> 0:02:44.920 a disaster that what she said in that campaign about 0:02:44.960 --> 0:02:50.480 paying for transgender reassignment surgery for prisoners helped doom her 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:54.960 in this campaign. In the first campaign, Kamala Harris did 0:02:54.960 --> 0:02:59.200 not perform well. In this campaign, she performed to the 0:02:59.280 --> 0:03:04.160 utmost of her abilities. She performed very, very well. But 0:03:04.280 --> 0:03:09.080 it wasn't enough. And it wasn't enough because the fundamental 0:03:09.160 --> 0:03:13.600 question in a change election was what would you do differently? 0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:17.639 And Kamala Harris went on the view and this happened. 0:03:18.160 --> 0:03:21.760 Would you have done something differently than President Biden during 0:03:21.760 --> 0:03:25.400 the past four years, there is not a thing that 0:03:25.440 --> 0:03:28.000 comes to mind in terms of and I've been a 0:03:28.040 --> 0:03:31.960 part of most of the decisions that have had impact. 0:03:33.040 --> 0:03:36.600 Joe Biden promised to be a one term president. He 0:03:36.680 --> 0:03:41.680 broke that promise with the greatest act of selfishness in 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:48.640 American political history, titanic act of egotism, supported and led 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:52.280 by his wife Jill, and his advisors who wanted to 0:03:52.360 --> 0:03:56.720 cling to the power their proximity brought them as much 0:03:56.760 --> 0:04:01.760 as Jill Biden, as much as Joe Biden, Steve Anita Dunn, 0:04:02.160 --> 0:04:07.000 Mike Donlin in a small group of other powerful aids, 0:04:07.400 --> 0:04:12.240 bullied the media, intimidated the media, cut off access and 0:04:12.480 --> 0:04:18.320 succeeded in shutting down all in any conversation about whether 0:04:18.400 --> 0:04:22.320 Biden was in a position to run again. Now, the 0:04:22.400 --> 0:04:25.920 American people, forty percent of whom don't have four hundred 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:30.919 dollars available, reacted to the inflation. Biden and his team 0:04:31.120 --> 0:04:35.880 named it Bidenomics, said it was great and called Biden 0:04:36.040 --> 0:04:40.640 fder and the American people didn't agree. Now, Chuck Schumer 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:45.440 should have already resigned as the Senate Democratic leader because 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:50.440 of the incompetency of the political operation that has achieved 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:55.239 the result that Chuck Schumer and his team incredibly put 0:04:55.320 --> 0:05:00.240 out a news release about claiming victory. Trust me, it's 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:03.480 not going to look like victory when the whack jobs 0:05:03.680 --> 0:05:09.360 start getting confirmed into Donald Trump administration. Schumer has to go. 0:05:09.960 --> 0:05:14.880 In fact, all of the geriatrics need to go. What 0:05:15.160 --> 0:05:19.760 needs to happen is a reckoning with reality. Donald Trump 0:05:20.160 --> 0:05:24.000 beat Joe Biden, not so much Kamala Harris, though she 0:05:24.200 --> 0:05:26.400 was on the ballot and she could have done some 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:29.880 things differently, which we'll talk about in a different post. 0:05:30.040 --> 0:05:33.880 But what elected Donald Trump was ego, And as I've 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:37.799 said many times, there's no flower in all the world 0:05:38.160 --> 0:05:41.240 more delicate than the male ego. Can you hear it? 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:45.640 I can In all of the stories suggesting that only 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:49.560 if Joe Biden had stayed in the race, that Donald 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:55.360 Trump wouldn't be president, nonsense. Joe Biden is the architect 0:05:55.640 --> 0:06:00.359 of this disaster. He is its major shareholder. He did this, 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:03.720 He did this to the country, and he did it 0:06:04.080 --> 0:06:07.160 because he wanted more. It's as simple as that, and 0:06:07.279 --> 0:06:10.799 the damage that will come next lies at his feet. 0:06:11.000 --> 0:06:15.080 The conduct was shameful, the ring of people trying to 0:06:15.120 --> 0:06:19.120 surround him and shout down even at this hour, criticism 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:22.960 of the obvious is despicable and I won't have it 0:06:23.400 --> 0:06:27.560 seeing a lot of Democratic leaders at this hour pretend 0:06:28.080 --> 0:06:30.960 that they did not do everything in their power to 0:06:31.160 --> 0:06:34.760 deny and evade the obvious, that they didn't shut down 0:06:34.800 --> 0:06:39.600 a primary that was the salvation of the Democratic Party. No, 0:06:40.200 --> 0:06:43.800 not here. There are plenty of other platforms where the 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:48.760 bullshittary will flow freely. Here at the warning, reality will 0:06:48.800 --> 0:06:53.640 be embraced, Reality will be discussed, so that one thousand, 0:06:53.800 --> 0:06:57.680 four hundred and sixty days from now we will be 0:06:57.800 --> 0:07:02.800 celebrating the defeat of Report Publican nominee jdie Vance, and 0:07:02.880 --> 0:07:05.760 it will be hard to do, because the tide of 0:07:05.800 --> 0:07:10.040 the electorate is to give these two not four more years, 0:07:10.400 --> 0:07:13.600 but eight years. And at the current rate of introspection 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:17.280 inside the Democratic Party, it may take eight hundred and 0:07:17.320 --> 0:07:20.800 fifty years to be ready to put forward a candidate 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:25.880 that can rebuke the mistakes by running a campaign that's hopeful, 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:31.239 that's optimistic, that's forward and connected to the American people. 0:07:31.640 --> 0:07:34.960 Kamala Harris stood up and very much was the woman 0:07:35.040 --> 0:07:38.960 in the arena that Teddy Roosevelt wrote about long ago. 0:07:39.400 --> 0:07:42.840 She has my deep respect, she has my gratitude, and 0:07:42.880 --> 0:07:46.120 I hope she has yours. But the defeat and its 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:49.800 author do not have my respect, and I hope they 0:07:49.840 --> 0:07:53.040 don't have yours, because they did a terrible thing, and 0:07:53.120 --> 0:07:56.040 now we pay the bill. In the end, there are 0:07:56.200 --> 0:08:01.080 hundreds of reasons why Donald Trump won this election. Face them, 0:08:01.240 --> 0:08:05.560 do not turn away from them. He's a world class demagogue, 0:08:05.600 --> 0:08:08.320 and now he has power pile in our office. Is 0:08:08.360 --> 0:08:14.000 the most powerful president in American history, fundamentally unchecked, restrained 0:08:14.080 --> 0:08:17.640 only by his goodwill. We're going to be in trouble 0:08:17.760 --> 0:08:20.160 for some time, but there will be a moment ahead 0:08:20.440 --> 0:08:24.920 when Donald Trump will overreach disaster will follow, and an 0:08:25.000 --> 0:08:29.120 opportunity to offer something new and something different will be 0:08:29.200 --> 0:08:32.120 on the table. What should be on the table is 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:35.959 not some radical vision, but a vision of Americanism, an 0:08:35.960 --> 0:08:40.080 embrace of pluralism and of our core identity e plural 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:44.440 bazoon am out of many one. The Democratic Party will evolve, 0:08:44.520 --> 0:08:48.240 it will change, it will adjust after this. I hope 0:08:48.520 --> 0:08:51.360 it needs to be an opportunity party. It needs to 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:55.839 say big things, important things, and its candidates need to 0:08:55.960 --> 0:08:59.839 lay out a vision that inspires. But the Biden camp 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:04.600 and the Biden White House demanded in story after story 0:09:04.600 --> 0:09:08.160 that there'd be expressions of gratitude for the president, that 0:09:08.559 --> 0:09:12.760 Joe Biden be celebrated as a world's historical figure. And 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:16.560 so this is the bubble, an expression of it, and 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:19.880 it was pierced on contact with the American people, who 0:09:19.920 --> 0:09:22.800 in fact think Biden was an awful president. But if 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:26.079 the Democratic Party wants to maintain that he was FDR 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:30.360 and Harry Truman and John Kennedy and Barack Obama all 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:34.040 bundled together, then one four hundred and sixty days from 0:09:34.080 --> 0:09:37.240 now we'll be getting ready for forty three year old 0:09:37.440 --> 0:09:40.280 President JD. Vance and I don't want to see that. 0:09:40.760 --> 0:09:45.040 It was clear two plus years ago what would happen 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:48.840 if Joe Biden ran for another term, and it happened. 0:09:48.960 --> 0:09:52.559 How Kamala Harris got into this race was through a 0:09:53.080 --> 0:09:56.640 ejection button. She had to come in the race on 0:09:56.720 --> 0:10:00.520 a parachute, and she did amazing things in it, raised 0:10:00.559 --> 0:10:03.920 more money than any candidate ever a billion dollars. She 0:10:04.040 --> 0:10:07.559 made few mistakes, but one of them was playing it 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:11.240 so cautious that she forgot to say big things and 0:10:11.320 --> 0:10:14.839 offer great ideas to do what John Kennedy did in 0:10:15.000 --> 0:10:19.160 point forward to a new horizon, a new frontier. American 0:10:19.280 --> 0:10:25.160 politics is about poetry, and when the politics requires poetry 0:10:25.200 --> 0:10:30.160 of better of imagination, against the poetry of darkness, the 0:10:30.240 --> 0:10:33.640 crudities that came out of Donald Trump's mouth, it was 0:10:33.720 --> 0:10:36.880 just missing. This is a terrible moment for America. It's 0:10:36.880 --> 0:10:39.400 going to be a tragic moment for the country. No 0:10:39.520 --> 0:10:42.280 good will come from this. Donald Trump is going to 0:10:42.320 --> 0:10:46.880 try to do terrible things. Quitting isn't an option. One 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:51.240 of the things about authoritarian is systems is the ubiquity 0:10:51.280 --> 0:10:55.400 of the leader in the ceaselessness of politics. It just 0:10:55.480 --> 0:10:58.440 never stops. It's always in your face, and that's what 0:10:58.480 --> 0:11:02.600 it's going to be like. Of life is civics, civic duty. 0:11:02.920 --> 0:11:05.479 We need to be engaged, we need to be involved, 0:11:05.720 --> 0:11:09.560 and real people need to be able to look at 0:11:09.640 --> 0:11:14.400 someone like Chuck Schumer clinging to power and understand he's 0:11:14.440 --> 0:11:18.000 not on your side and MAGA has no better friend. 0:11:18.400 --> 0:11:22.280 Right now, it's not time to start planning the next election. 0:11:23.160 --> 0:11:26.520 Now it's the time to stare in the mirror for 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:30.920 a good long while and to look with laser focus 0:11:31.160 --> 0:11:36.120 at the leadership of the Democratic Party, the Washington insiders, 0:11:36.280 --> 0:11:43.199 the lobbyists, the corporations. All of it together has created 0:11:43.640 --> 0:11:48.800 a ten eared orchestra of loserdom and it can't be 0:11:49.040 --> 0:11:54.040 playing the same tune for years from now. This is 0:11:54.080 --> 0:11:58.400 the warning. I'm Steve Schmidt. 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