WEBVTT - Springfield, Shutdowns and Mark Robinson | The Schmidt Storm

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to another edition of the Schmidt Storm. You have questions,

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<v Speaker 1>I got answers. Let's get going. The question is why

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<v Speaker 1>won't jd Vance and Donald Trump stop with the lies

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<v Speaker 1>about Springfield because it's been proven false. That's the point.

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<v Speaker 1>Donald Trump has been reported to have kept books of

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<v Speaker 1>Adolf Hitler's speeches on the side of his desk and

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<v Speaker 1>had a long fascination with the German Nazi furor. And

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<v Speaker 1>this all came from his ex wife. One of the

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<v Speaker 1>things that Trump has learned from fascist history is the

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<v Speaker 1>power of the lie, and a lot of MAGA officials

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<v Speaker 1>have talked about the fact that the bigger the lie,

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<v Speaker 1>the more believable it is. Hitler was the first person

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<v Speaker 1>to talk about that. Goebbels has talked about that. So

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<v Speaker 1>the lie, no matter how untrue, the crazier it is

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<v Speaker 1>by some physics involved in lying makes it more believable. Now,

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<v Speaker 1>I want to explain the political strategy. I'm sure you're

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<v Speaker 1>familiar with the game of tug of war, two sides,

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<v Speaker 1>one rope, you have to pull the other side over. Now,

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<v Speaker 1>imagine doing that game but playing it on floating swim platforms.

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<v Speaker 1>What Donald Trump is trying to do is pull the

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<v Speaker 1>Harris team into the water. It doesn't matter that the

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<v Speaker 1>Harris team is winning. It doesn't matter that they're pulling

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<v Speaker 1>the rope towards them if they lose their balance and

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<v Speaker 1>go into the shark confested water, which is immigration the

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<v Speaker 1>southern border and the chaos there has dropped immensely, which

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<v Speaker 1>in part explains why Donald Trump is talking about Haitians

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<v Speaker 1>not Mexicans. But every time the issue is raised, underneath it,

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<v Speaker 1>there's a debate about immigration, and that immigration debate, no

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<v Speaker 1>matter how ransomly entered into, is something that Trump Advanced

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<v Speaker 1>think favors them, which explains why jd. Vance says, well,

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<v Speaker 1>it's okay for me to make this up so we

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<v Speaker 1>can bring it to it so the voter who cares

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<v Speaker 1>about immigration may be immunized to the lie and the sensationalism,

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<v Speaker 1>dismiss it and say, oh, that's just Trump being Trump.

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<v Speaker 1>But I don't know. I mean, it could be happening

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<v Speaker 1>somewhere right and we should understand. And I've written about

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<v Speaker 1>this and I've talked about this all week. The Vice

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<v Speaker 1>president's reaction during the debate to this was overwhelmingly the

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<v Speaker 1>reaction that most normal people had to the absurdity of

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<v Speaker 1>it all, but stepping back from the bluster, the shock,

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<v Speaker 1>the buffoonery of Trump, this is a vicious, racist lie

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<v Speaker 1>that's as vicious as anything that ever came out of

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<v Speaker 1>the mouth of a Goebbels or a Striker. It is

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<v Speaker 1>appalling to the exponent infinity, and it's created real danger,

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<v Speaker 1>and it is one of the lowest and most appalling

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<v Speaker 1>moments of the entire maggat Trump era, which always finds

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<v Speaker 1>a way to borrow down a little deeper. The question

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<v Speaker 1>is what's the stake for the country with another government

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<v Speaker 1>shut down looming. Well, let's talk about the politics of it.

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<v Speaker 1>Because we're forty six days from the election. It will

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<v Speaker 1>hurt the Republicans. So, by all means, if they want

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<v Speaker 1>to continue the pattern which has gone on for most

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<v Speaker 1>of my adult life of every quarter six months threatening

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<v Speaker 1>to shut down the government, by all means do it.

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<v Speaker 1>Everything they do that demonstrates their unfitness for responsibility is

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<v Speaker 1>a good thing in this moment. Politically, we don't want

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<v Speaker 1>to see Kamala Harris have a lonely victory. It would

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<v Speaker 1>be good to have a speaker, Jeffreys. It would be

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<v Speaker 1>good to have a Senate majority leader, though it shouldn't

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<v Speaker 1>be Chuck Schumer. The Vice President doesn't need to be

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<v Speaker 1>in a war of attrition with Maga Nuts from minute

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<v Speaker 1>one of her term. She needs a Democratic Senate, she

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<v Speaker 1>needs a Democratic Congress, and that will give the Republican

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<v Speaker 1>Party time to work through its many issues, which will

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<v Speaker 1>require at some level the political equivalent or the political

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<v Speaker 1>version of a medically induced coma. And hopefully, and even

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<v Speaker 1>the most liberal Democrat in the country should want this.

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<v Speaker 1>Hopefully eight years from now, ten years from now, which

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<v Speaker 1>will come quick, there will be a healthy, normal Republican

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<v Speaker 1>candidate again, and this Trump error will be something that

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<v Speaker 1>everybody denies, that everybody says, who no, I wasn't for him.

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<v Speaker 1>That's the direction. The best result we're going to get

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<v Speaker 1>is a country that ten years from now everybody's like Trump,

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<v Speaker 1>who yeh, no I wasn't for him? And when the

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<v Speaker 1>people who are most forum deny him will know then

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<v Speaker 1>fully that it's all over. The question is ken the

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<v Speaker 1>Trump campaign distanced itself from pariahs like Laura Lumer and

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<v Speaker 1>Mark Robinson, And the answer is no, because they're all

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<v Speaker 1>part of the same cabal, the same cause, the same

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<v Speaker 1>team their family, and as Trump said, this is who

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<v Speaker 1>he thinks Mark Robinson is Martin Luther King on steroids.

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<v Speaker 1>The question is, while I do maga Republicans continue to

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<v Speaker 1>call for a cessation a violent re rhetoric while speaking

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<v Speaker 1>increasingly with more violent rhetoric. What MAGA is asserting is

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<v Speaker 1>a dogma of control. And so let's look at specifically.

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<v Speaker 1>They're eating the pets, the Haitians are eating the dogs,

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<v Speaker 1>eating the cats. If I can make you believe that,

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<v Speaker 1>despite the mayor, the police chief, all of the evidence,

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<v Speaker 1>if I can make you believe that, am I going

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<v Speaker 1>to be able to make you believe that the election

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<v Speaker 1>was stolen when I lose it? And the answer to

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<v Speaker 1>that question, of course, is yes. The very first thing

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<v Speaker 1>that happened in the Trump administration, the first thing was

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<v Speaker 1>Sean Spicer walked out, stood behind the blue podium in

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<v Speaker 1>the briefing room and said that Barack Obama's crowd size,

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<v Speaker 1>which was the largest and inaugural history, was smaller than Trump's,

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<v Speaker 1>despite their being pictures that showed Trump's was smaller than Obama's.

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<v Speaker 1>This wasn't a lie puffering. This wasn't somebody exaggerating a

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<v Speaker 1>bit about something they did or didn't do. It was

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<v Speaker 1>a lie of obedience and control. There's a scene in

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<v Speaker 1>nineteen eighty four at the end when Winston is being

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<v Speaker 1>tortured and the party official holds up four fingers and

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<v Speaker 1>says Winston, how many fingers am I holding? And Winston

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<v Speaker 1>says four, I only see four. The party official makes

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<v Speaker 1>the point to Winston that the answer is, however many

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<v Speaker 1>the party tells him is the answer. So if the

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<v Speaker 1>party holds up four fingers and says it's three, then

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<v Speaker 1>it's three. Not in America. And so this obedience, the

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<v Speaker 1>ability to make somebody surrender to you their problem solving skills,

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<v Speaker 1>their intellectual agency, their sovereignty as a human, as American said,

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<v Speaker 1>Trump will tell you, this is something that is endemic

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<v Speaker 1>to every authoritarian cause and regime. And the big lie

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<v Speaker 1>and the little lie come together, and we have an

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<v Speaker 1>issue now in the country that the lie in the

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<v Speaker 1>true truth exists in a battle space together out there

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<v Speaker 1>on the horizon where no one can tell the difference

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<v Speaker 1>between the two. And that is lethal in democratic governance.

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<v Speaker 1>It's lethal because if you can't tell the truth what's real,

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<v Speaker 1>it's not possible to have accountability. And without accountability, None

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<v Speaker 1>of this works. I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning

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