1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:05,560 Speaker 1: Merry Christmas. I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning. Thanks 2 00:00:05,559 --> 00:00:08,920 Speaker 1: for listening, thanks for checking in every day. The year 3 00:00:09,520 --> 00:00:12,639 Speaker 1: is coming to an end, and it was a historic one. 4 00:00:12,880 --> 00:00:17,079 Speaker 1: Twenty twenty five. It was the year where Donald Trump 5 00:00:17,239 --> 00:00:22,240 Speaker 1: took the oath of office, gave a speech renouncing eighty 6 00:00:22,360 --> 00:00:27,880 Speaker 1: years of American strength, eighty years of American leadership, and 7 00:00:27,920 --> 00:00:32,959 Speaker 1: then set about refuting all of the values, all of 8 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:37,479 Speaker 1: the ideas, all of the ideals that we are supposed 9 00:00:37,520 --> 00:00:42,080 Speaker 1: to stand for as a nation. Twenty twenty five was 10 00:00:42,159 --> 00:00:45,200 Speaker 1: a dark year in our story. It was a year 11 00:00:45,240 --> 00:00:48,800 Speaker 1: of violence. It was a year of the masked agent. 12 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:53,360 Speaker 1: None of this existed in America in twenty twenty four. 13 00:00:53,760 --> 00:00:57,760 Speaker 1: Priests were not shot in the head on orders from 14 00:00:57,800 --> 00:01:03,040 Speaker 1: government officials by mass men. There were no concentration camps. 15 00:01:03,320 --> 00:01:08,240 Speaker 1: The American economy was not tanking. The liars had not 16 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:12,000 Speaker 1: yet spilled out over the Sunday airwaves to tell us 17 00:01:12,280 --> 00:01:16,160 Speaker 1: everything is okay when we know it's not. Prices are higher, 18 00:01:16,440 --> 00:01:20,480 Speaker 1: the world is more dangerous. Trump says he's a peacemaker, 19 00:01:20,760 --> 00:01:24,360 Speaker 1: but there's an army ready for war just off the 20 00:01:24,440 --> 00:01:28,440 Speaker 1: coast of South America. The president of the United States 21 00:01:28,760 --> 00:01:32,840 Speaker 1: is best friends with the child sex trafficker. We didn't 22 00:01:32,920 --> 00:01:36,200 Speaker 1: know that as clearly a year ago as we do 23 00:01:36,400 --> 00:01:40,800 Speaker 1: today with the Epstein files coming out. How many times 24 00:01:40,840 --> 00:01:45,720 Speaker 1: exactly did Donald Trump fly on Jeffrey Epstein's plane? How 25 00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:49,920 Speaker 1: much time did he spend in the company of this man? Well, 26 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:52,800 Speaker 1: it turns out a great deal. But we know that 27 00:01:53,080 --> 00:01:55,920 Speaker 1: there's nothing new to learn about Trump. The man who 28 00:01:56,400 --> 00:01:58,920 Speaker 1: buried his first wife on the first tee at his 29 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:03,480 Speaker 1: golf course and adjudicated rapist. That's what Trump is. He has 30 00:02:03,520 --> 00:02:08,519 Speaker 1: been accused of sexual assault by dozens of different women. 31 00:02:08,840 --> 00:02:13,040 Speaker 1: We've seen him fetishize his daughter in the strangest ways, 32 00:02:13,520 --> 00:02:18,079 Speaker 1: and yet in this time of American insanity and decline 33 00:02:18,160 --> 00:02:21,560 Speaker 1: and depravity, none of it seems to matter. 34 00:02:21,880 --> 00:02:22,160 Speaker 2: Why. 35 00:02:22,520 --> 00:02:25,960 Speaker 1: Well, part of the reason is the deep corruption of 36 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:29,960 Speaker 1: the not Democratic Party and not Democrats, but by the 37 00:02:30,080 --> 00:02:34,119 Speaker 1: leaders of the Democratic Party. Here's Bill Clinton with Jeffrey Epstein. 38 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:37,480 Speaker 1: Is he somehow better than Trump? Because of Bill Clinton? 39 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:41,880 Speaker 1: We have Trump. Trump is the price of failure. Trump 40 00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:46,480 Speaker 1: is the cost of all of the decay, the withering 41 00:02:46,760 --> 00:02:51,040 Speaker 1: of ethics, the collapse of right and wrong. And so 42 00:02:51,120 --> 00:02:54,640 Speaker 1: we have this man who ran for an election and 43 00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:58,600 Speaker 1: was judged incredibly by forty nine and a half percent 44 00:02:58,639 --> 00:03:00,840 Speaker 1: of the voters to be the more on its candidate 45 00:03:00,880 --> 00:03:03,440 Speaker 1: in the race. When it came to the economy, when 46 00:03:03,440 --> 00:03:06,040 Speaker 1: it came to the border, when it came to the 47 00:03:06,040 --> 00:03:11,560 Speaker 1: fitness of Joe Biden, every Democrat got in line behind 48 00:03:11,639 --> 00:03:14,960 Speaker 1: the lie that Biden was okay. But here's the deal. 49 00:03:15,240 --> 00:03:20,000 Speaker 1: Biden on his worst day was more coherent than Trump 50 00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:25,840 Speaker 1: is on any day in recent memory. For example, here. 51 00:03:25,880 --> 00:03:29,520 Speaker 3: The presidency is the most powerful office of the world. 52 00:03:30,080 --> 00:03:33,800 Speaker 3: So an officer not only tests your judgment, perhaps even 53 00:03:33,800 --> 00:03:36,920 Speaker 3: more importantly, it's an office that can test your character, 54 00:03:37,880 --> 00:03:40,000 Speaker 3: because you're not only face moments when you need to 55 00:03:40,080 --> 00:03:44,320 Speaker 3: courage exercise the full power of the presidency. You also 56 00:03:44,320 --> 00:03:47,120 Speaker 3: face moments where you need the wisdom to respect the 57 00:03:47,200 --> 00:03:49,840 Speaker 3: limits of the power of the office of the presidency. 58 00:03:51,080 --> 00:03:53,880 Speaker 3: This nation was founded on the principle that there are 59 00:03:53,920 --> 00:03:57,640 Speaker 3: no kings in America. Each each of us is equal 60 00:03:57,680 --> 00:04:02,000 Speaker 3: before the law. No one, no one is above the law, 61 00:04:02,840 --> 00:04:06,400 Speaker 3: not even the President of the United States. And here 62 00:04:06,920 --> 00:04:11,400 Speaker 3: our politics have become so divided and so bitter. All 63 00:04:11,440 --> 00:04:13,160 Speaker 3: the years I've been doing this, I never thought we'd 64 00:04:13,160 --> 00:04:16,760 Speaker 3: get to this point. But we are our troops don't 65 00:04:16,760 --> 00:04:19,160 Speaker 3: wear a uniform and says I'm a Democrat or I'm 66 00:04:19,160 --> 00:04:23,279 Speaker 3: a Republican, says I'm an American. I'm an American. That's 67 00:04:23,320 --> 00:04:28,000 Speaker 3: who I am. I'm serious about this. I'm not joking. 68 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:34,160 Speaker 3: And folks, our politics has become, as I said, so divided. 69 00:04:35,720 --> 00:04:38,640 Speaker 3: They wear the uniform of the United States of America. 70 00:04:39,920 --> 00:04:43,640 Speaker 3: The only nation in the world literally not free. The 71 00:04:43,640 --> 00:04:48,119 Speaker 3: only nation in the world founded on an idea, an idea. 72 00:04:48,520 --> 00:04:53,560 Speaker 3: Every nation was founded on geography, ethnicity, some unifying principle, 73 00:04:54,279 --> 00:04:58,599 Speaker 3: but not an idea. The idea of America has found out. 74 00:04:58,680 --> 00:05:01,720 Speaker 3: We hold these truths to be self ad Hello, man 75 00:05:01,760 --> 00:05:04,960 Speaker 3: and women are created equal or here After fifty years 76 00:05:04,960 --> 00:05:09,400 Speaker 3: of public service, I give you my word, I still 77 00:05:09,440 --> 00:05:14,120 Speaker 3: believe in the idea for which this nicest stands. Nation 78 00:05:14,240 --> 00:05:17,560 Speaker 3: where the strengths of our institutions and the character of 79 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:22,800 Speaker 3: our people matter and must endure. Now it's your turn 80 00:05:22,839 --> 00:05:25,960 Speaker 3: to stand guard. May you all be the keeper of 81 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:30,440 Speaker 3: the flame. May you keep the faith. I love America. 82 00:05:31,440 --> 00:05:35,200 Speaker 3: You love it too. God bless you all you make 83 00:05:35,240 --> 00:05:38,120 Speaker 3: God protect your truths. Thank you for this great honor. 84 00:05:38,960 --> 00:05:44,599 Speaker 1: It is all craziness and it's dangerous. Twenty twenty six 85 00:05:45,040 --> 00:05:49,040 Speaker 1: will mark the two hundred and fiftieth birthday of the 86 00:05:49,160 --> 00:05:52,880 Speaker 1: United States of America as an independent nation. It is 87 00:05:52,960 --> 00:05:57,520 Speaker 1: the most important before and after moment in human civilization 88 00:05:58,120 --> 00:06:01,800 Speaker 1: since the birth of Jesus Christ. The United States is 89 00:06:01,839 --> 00:06:06,159 Speaker 1: a country made up from a concept, from an idea, 90 00:06:06,520 --> 00:06:11,239 Speaker 1: from ideals that came into being over hundreds of years 91 00:06:11,279 --> 00:06:14,960 Speaker 1: about freedom. And our country made up of all of 92 00:06:14,960 --> 00:06:17,800 Speaker 1: the peoples of the world, made up of all the 93 00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:21,480 Speaker 1: fates of the world. A country where every known language 94 00:06:21,520 --> 00:06:25,760 Speaker 1: of the world is spoken commonly somewhere every day. That country, 95 00:06:26,040 --> 00:06:30,280 Speaker 1: our country, America, has fed more people, cured more people, 96 00:06:30,680 --> 00:06:35,640 Speaker 1: clothed more people, and liberated more people than all of 97 00:06:35,680 --> 00:06:39,560 Speaker 1: the other people in all of the other nations since 98 00:06:39,600 --> 00:06:42,720 Speaker 1: the beginning of recorded history. That is what is being 99 00:06:42,760 --> 00:06:46,560 Speaker 1: torn down on this Christmas Day by the most vile 100 00:06:46,920 --> 00:06:51,240 Speaker 1: and immoral man to ever lead the American nation. We 101 00:06:51,320 --> 00:06:54,520 Speaker 1: have much to be grateful for, and one of the 102 00:06:54,560 --> 00:06:58,800 Speaker 1: things on this Christmas Day that every American should be 103 00:06:58,839 --> 00:07:01,760 Speaker 1: grateful for is this gift, which is this. 104 00:07:02,360 --> 00:07:05,240 Speaker 2: We can wipe away this filth, and we can start 105 00:07:05,480 --> 00:07:08,560 Speaker 2: in less than a year at the next election, vote 106 00:07:08,680 --> 00:07:12,040 Speaker 2: these people out. It is a gift that we can 107 00:07:12,120 --> 00:07:15,320 Speaker 2: give to our children and to their children, and to 108 00:07:15,440 --> 00:07:18,600 Speaker 2: send a message and a lesson that will ring through 109 00:07:18,640 --> 00:07:22,000 Speaker 2: the ages that if you dare to take the oath 110 00:07:22,280 --> 00:07:25,680 Speaker 2: to the Constitution of the United States and to break it, 111 00:07:25,880 --> 00:07:26,720 Speaker 2: will break your. 112 00:07:26,600 --> 00:07:31,200 Speaker 1: Career in half. This is the warning. I'm Steve Schmidt. 113 00:07:31,320 --> 00:07:33,920 Speaker 1: This is the warning. I invite you to join this 114 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:38,320 Speaker 1: community where I promise to be honest, blunt and direct 115 00:07:38,640 --> 00:07:42,640 Speaker 1: about what is happening in this country. America is in crisis. 116 00:07:42,840 --> 00:07:48,000 Speaker 1: Follow and subscribe to this channel and on substack. Thank you.