Speaker 1: It's the Friday after the election in America. This is
Speaker 1: the warning. The sun came up today, just like it
Speaker 1: did yesterday, and just like it will seven hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty four days from now, when the American people get
Speaker 1: to go to the polls and deliver a referendum on
Speaker 1: Donald Trump's MAGA government. Winston Churchill said, countries get the
Speaker 1: governments they deserve, and the American people have voted, and
Speaker 1: they voted in the majority to give Donald Trump the presidency.
Speaker 1: The election was fair. There were no conspiracies. And any
Speaker 1: Democratic voter who after four years of madness and treachery
Speaker 1: and sedition makes up and embraces whole cloth the same
Speaker 1: conspiracies that the MAGA people embraced, that makes you the
Speaker 1: same as them, equal threats to America. Elections have consequences,
Speaker 1: and this one will have seismic consequences domestically on the
Speaker 1: North American continent and all around the world. Donald Trump
Speaker 1: isn't just the most prolific liar in American history to
Speaker 1: hold the public office, because Donald Trump is an exquisite scumbag,
Speaker 1: a liar, a seditionist, but he's not a hypocrite. He
Speaker 1: is exactly as he appears to be, and in a
Speaker 1: world of astounding hypocrisy, a great many people find it refreshing.
Speaker 1: So how did this happen when it came to the
Speaker 1: chaos at the border and there was not chaos the
Speaker 1: day that Trump left? Who was telling the truth about that?
Speaker 1: Was it Biden or was it Trump? And what about
Speaker 1: the more important issue Biden's condition? And the great gas
Speaker 1: lighting by the Biden White House, the lies eagerly embraced
Speaker 1: and supported by the media, but clearly seen by the
Speaker 1: American people. Who was telling the truth about Biden, House
Speaker 1: or Trump? And so one hundred days before the election,
Speaker 1: the incapacitated eighty two year old president fell flat on
Speaker 1: his face and had to drop out of the race.
Speaker 1: And there was no competition. The person Kamala Harris who
Speaker 1: became the nominee has only ever run one competitive race
Speaker 1: in her life. You don't get elected to the United
Speaker 1: States Senate in California and competitive races. The process to
Speaker 1: become the nominee is competitive, but not the election process.
Speaker 1: The first time that Kamala Harris ran in a national election,
Speaker 1: it was an unmitigated disaster. In fact, it was such
Speaker 1: a disaster that what she said in that campaign about
Speaker 1: paying for transgender reassignment surgery for prisoners helped doom her
Speaker 1: in this campaign. In the first campaign, Kamala Harris did
Speaker 1: not perform well. In this campaign, she performed to the
Speaker 1: utmost of her abilities. She performed very, very well. But
Speaker 1: it wasn't enough. And it wasn't enough because the fundamental
Speaker 1: question in a change election was what would you do differently?
Speaker 1: And Kamala Harris went on the view and this happened.
Speaker 1: Would you have done something differently than President Biden during
Speaker 1: the past four years, there is not a thing that
Speaker 1: comes to mind in terms of and I've been a
Speaker 1: part of most of the decisions that have had impact.
Speaker 1: Joe Biden promised to be a one term president. He
Speaker 1: broke that promise with the greatest act of selfishness in
Speaker 1: American political history, titanic act of egotism, supported and led
Speaker 1: by his wife Jill, and his advisors who wanted to
Speaker 1: cling to the power their proximity brought them as much
Speaker 1: as Jill Biden, as much as Joe Biden, Steve Anita Dunn,
Speaker 1: Mike Donlin in a small group of other powerful aids,
Speaker 1: bullied the media, intimidated the media, cut off access and
Speaker 1: succeeded in shutting down all in any conversation about whether
Speaker 1: Biden was in a position to run again. Now, the
Speaker 1: American people, forty percent of whom don't have four hundred
Speaker 1: dollars available, reacted to the inflation. Biden and his team
Speaker 1: named it Bidenomics, said it was great and called Biden
Speaker 1: fder and the American people didn't agree. Now, Chuck Schumer
Speaker 1: should have already resigned as the Senate Democratic leader because
Speaker 1: of the incompetency of the political operation that has achieved
Speaker 1: the result that Chuck Schumer and his team incredibly put
Speaker 1: out a news release about claiming victory. Trust me, it's
Speaker 1: not going to look like victory when the whack jobs
Speaker 1: start getting confirmed into Donald Trump administration. Schumer has to go.
Speaker 1: In fact, all of the geriatrics need to go. What
Speaker 1: needs to happen is a reckoning with reality. Donald Trump
Speaker 1: beat Joe Biden, not so much Kamala Harris, though she
Speaker 1: was on the ballot and she could have done some
Speaker 1: things differently, which we'll talk about in a different post.
Speaker 1: But what elected Donald Trump was ego, And as I've
Speaker 1: said many times, there's no flower in all the world
Speaker 1: more delicate than the male ego. Can you hear it?
Speaker 1: I can In all of the stories suggesting that only
Speaker 1: if Joe Biden had stayed in the race, that Donald
Speaker 1: Trump wouldn't be president, nonsense. Joe Biden is the architect
Speaker 1: of this disaster. He is its major shareholder. He did this,
Speaker 1: He did this to the country, and he did it
Speaker 1: because he wanted more. It's as simple as that, and
Speaker 1: the damage that will come next lies at his feet.
Speaker 1: The conduct was shameful, the ring of people trying to
Speaker 1: surround him and shout down even at this hour, criticism
Speaker 1: of the obvious is despicable and I won't have it
Speaker 1: seeing a lot of Democratic leaders at this hour pretend
Speaker 1: that they did not do everything in their power to
Speaker 1: deny and evade the obvious, that they didn't shut down
Speaker 1: a primary that was the salvation of the Democratic Party. No,
Speaker 1: not here. There are plenty of other platforms where the
Speaker 1: bullshittary will flow freely. Here at the warning, reality will
Speaker 1: be embraced, Reality will be discussed, so that one thousand,
Speaker 1: four hundred and sixty days from now we will be
Speaker 1: celebrating the defeat of Report Publican nominee jdie Vance, and
Speaker 1: it will be hard to do, because the tide of
Speaker 1: the electorate is to give these two not four more years,
Speaker 1: but eight years. And at the current rate of introspection
Speaker 1: inside the Democratic Party, it may take eight hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty years to be ready to put forward a candidate
Speaker 1: that can rebuke the mistakes by running a campaign that's hopeful,
Speaker 1: that's optimistic, that's forward and connected to the American people.
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris stood up and very much was the woman
Speaker 1: in the arena that Teddy Roosevelt wrote about long ago.
Speaker 1: She has my deep respect, she has my gratitude, and
Speaker 1: I hope she has yours. But the defeat and its
Speaker 1: author do not have my respect, and I hope they
Speaker 1: don't have yours, because they did a terrible thing, and
Speaker 1: now we pay the bill. In the end, there are
Speaker 1: hundreds of reasons why Donald Trump won this election. Face them,
Speaker 1: do not turn away from them. He's a world class demagogue,
Speaker 1: and now he has power pile in our office. Is
Speaker 1: the most powerful president in American history, fundamentally unchecked, restrained
Speaker 1: only by his goodwill. We're going to be in trouble
Speaker 1: for some time, but there will be a moment ahead
Speaker 1: when Donald Trump will overreach disaster will follow, and an
Speaker 1: opportunity to offer something new and something different will be
Speaker 1: on the table. What should be on the table is
Speaker 1: not some radical vision, but a vision of Americanism, an
Speaker 1: embrace of pluralism and of our core identity e plural
Speaker 1: bazoon am out of many one. The Democratic Party will evolve,
Speaker 1: it will change, it will adjust after this. I hope
Speaker 1: it needs to be an opportunity party. It needs to
Speaker 1: say big things, important things, and its candidates need to
Speaker 1: lay out a vision that inspires. But the Biden camp
Speaker 1: and the Biden White House demanded in story after story
Speaker 1: that there'd be expressions of gratitude for the president, that
Speaker 1: Joe Biden be celebrated as a world's historical figure. And
Speaker 1: so this is the bubble, an expression of it, and
Speaker 1: it was pierced on contact with the American people, who
Speaker 1: in fact think Biden was an awful president. But if
Speaker 1: the Democratic Party wants to maintain that he was FDR
Speaker 1: and Harry Truman and John Kennedy and Barack Obama all
Speaker 1: bundled together, then one four hundred and sixty days from
Speaker 1: now we'll be getting ready for forty three year old
Speaker 1: President JD. Vance and I don't want to see that.
Speaker 1: It was clear two plus years ago what would happen
Speaker 1: if Joe Biden ran for another term, and it happened.
Speaker 1: How Kamala Harris got into this race was through a
Speaker 1: ejection button. She had to come in the race on
Speaker 1: a parachute, and she did amazing things in it, raised
Speaker 1: more money than any candidate ever a billion dollars. She
Speaker 1: made few mistakes, but one of them was playing it
Speaker 1: so cautious that she forgot to say big things and
Speaker 1: offer great ideas to do what John Kennedy did in
Speaker 1: point forward to a new horizon, a new frontier. American
Speaker 1: politics is about poetry, and when the politics requires poetry
Speaker 1: of better of imagination, against the poetry of darkness, the
Speaker 1: crudities that came out of Donald Trump's mouth, it was
Speaker 1: just missing. This is a terrible moment for America. It's
Speaker 1: going to be a tragic moment for the country. No
Speaker 1: good will come from this. Donald Trump is going to
Speaker 1: try to do terrible things. Quitting isn't an option. One
Speaker 1: of the things about authoritarian is systems is the ubiquity
Speaker 1: of the leader in the ceaselessness of politics. It just
Speaker 1: never stops. It's always in your face, and that's what
Speaker 1: it's going to be like. Of life is civics, civic duty.
Speaker 1: We need to be engaged, we need to be involved,
Speaker 1: and real people need to be able to look at
Speaker 1: someone like Chuck Schumer clinging to power and understand he's
Speaker 1: not on your side and MAGA has no better friend.
Speaker 1: Right now, it's not time to start planning the next election.
Speaker 1: Now it's the time to stare in the mirror for
Speaker 1: a good long while and to look with laser focus
Speaker 1: at the leadership of the Democratic Party, the Washington insiders,
Speaker 1: the lobbyists, the corporations. All of it together has created
Speaker 1: a ten eared orchestra of loserdom and it can't be
Speaker 1: playing the same tune for years from now. This is
Speaker 1: the warning. I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning, and
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