WEBVTT - Fear & Appeasement Will Not Stop Trump 0:00:00.400 --> 0:00:04.240 Today is seven hundred days on the nose until the 0:00:04.280 --> 0:00:09.280 midterm elections. Progress tomorrow will be in the six hundreds. 0:00:09.720 --> 0:00:14.200 It's a reminder that in campaigns, which are unique enterprises, 0:00:14.520 --> 0:00:19.079 that there are two finite commodities that matter above all 0:00:19.079 --> 0:00:24.200 other things, time and money, and neither can be squandered. 0:00:24.600 --> 0:00:29.680 This is the warning we are approaching an urgent moment 0:00:29.720 --> 0:00:33.000 in the United States of America. This country will be 0:00:33.080 --> 0:00:38.440 in crisis at exactly twelve noon on January twentieth, when 0:00:38.560 --> 0:00:45.040 power transfers subliminally, silently and peacefully to Donald Trump, who 0:00:45.120 --> 0:00:49.199 is the first president in American history to say the 0:00:49.320 --> 0:00:53.000 quiet part out loud. He is coming for his opponents. 0:00:53.280 --> 0:00:58.160 He wants retribution and revenge. And there is no story 0:00:58.440 --> 0:01:03.560 that points this out more ludicrously and more absurdly than 0:01:03.680 --> 0:01:08.440 The New York Times and its masterpiece of campaign finance 0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:13.880 reporting focusing on the fecklessness of billionaire Reid Hoffman and 0:01:13.959 --> 0:01:19.880 his retainer the Lincoln Projects. Dmitri Melhorne. Now Dmitri Melhorn 0:01:20.160 --> 0:01:25.080 and Ried Hoffman are terrified. They're terrified of Donald Trump. 0:01:25.319 --> 0:01:29.720 Reid Hoffman, the Silicon Valley billionaire, is telling anyone who 0:01:29.800 --> 0:01:33.480 will listen apparently that he's going to flee the country. 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:37.800 He's going to go into hiding somewhere, apparently who knows where. 0:01:38.200 --> 0:01:41.760 Here's the thing with reed Hoffman. He funded the lawsuits 0:01:42.200 --> 0:01:46.440 against Donald Trump where he was adjudicated as a rapist. 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:51.360 He funded Egen Carroll's lawsuits because he said it was 0:01:51.440 --> 0:01:54.200 the right thing to do. He said he did it 0:01:54.560 --> 0:01:58.720 because he wanted to give a woman agency who was abused. 0:01:58.920 --> 0:02:02.680 Think about Redffman is with all the money which were 0:02:02.720 --> 0:02:06.280 normal people, is like picking up a penny on the ground, 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:10.360 giving it to a child and calling yourself a philanthropist. 0:02:11.000 --> 0:02:15.160 What he liked was the adulation that came from easy 0:02:15.200 --> 0:02:20.760 wins and easy victories and all the signal virtuing that's 0:02:20.760 --> 0:02:25.519 so common, an endemic in Silicon Valley. The person who 0:02:25.560 --> 0:02:28.640 worked for him for a very long time is famous 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:33.359 in Washington, DC. He's famous amongst the Silicon Valley billionaires, 0:02:33.520 --> 0:02:37.079 all of the tech titans, all of the Hollywood moguls. 0:02:37.280 --> 0:02:42.200 As a real brain in the Democratic Party, Dmitri Melhorn, 0:02:42.480 --> 0:02:46.680 when Donald Trump nearly was assassinated, said it was a 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:50.960 false flag operation. He picked up the phone started calling 0:02:51.120 --> 0:02:54.800 every reporter who would listen, trying to get them to 0:02:54.919 --> 0:03:01.359 print the craziest conspiracy theory, and now these two antagonists 0:03:01.360 --> 0:03:05.960 of Donald Trump are terrified and running. Two weeks ago 0:03:06.280 --> 0:03:10.600 they bragged about their patriotism, they talked about it all 0:03:10.840 --> 0:03:13.200 the time. But the truth of the matter is is 0:03:13.240 --> 0:03:18.040 what these people are is what Thomas Payne called sunshine patriots. 0:03:18.560 --> 0:03:22.400 Reed Hoffmann, you best cowboy up because things are going 0:03:22.480 --> 0:03:26.079 to get tough in this country and rolling over and 0:03:26.120 --> 0:03:30.160 playing dead isn't going to save you from the abuses 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:35.800 of cash Bittel. This is the fundamental lesson of appeasement. 0:03:36.160 --> 0:03:40.960 It is the idea advanced by Joe Scarborough and Mika 0:03:41.040 --> 0:03:45.240 Brazinski that they will be the first to feed the 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:50.240 crocodile that they named Adolf Hitler, so that they may 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:54.880 be the last eaton. Now. Joe Scarborough is an artful 0:03:55.240 --> 0:04:01.120 and articulate advocate for his position, no matter how contradictory 0:04:01.280 --> 0:04:05.600 it is. What Joe Scarborough did is appease the man 0:04:05.680 --> 0:04:09.880 he called Hitler by going tom a Lago for a sitdown, 0:04:10.280 --> 0:04:15.040 not an interview, a summit that he literally described as 0:04:15.080 --> 0:04:20.040 an opportunity to open new avenues of understanding. Whatever that means. 0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:25.440 Let's listen to Joe Scarborough's plea in defense of the 0:04:25.520 --> 0:04:30.560 corporate media model that did so much to elect Donald Trump. 0:04:31.120 --> 0:04:33.480 Let me just say why this is so important right 0:04:33.520 --> 0:04:38.520 now more than ever, is because critics of the press 0:04:39.320 --> 0:04:42.719 are feeling more empowered than ever to lie more than ever. 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:43.960 I've had friends for years. 0:04:44.240 --> 0:04:46.480 Oh you know, I'm so overwhelmed, Joe by the news. 0:04:46.560 --> 0:04:48.679 I don't read the news. Where do you get your news? 0:04:48.720 --> 0:04:50.360 Then Epic Times, I. 0:04:50.320 --> 0:04:54.480 Go, oh God, oh oh, you get your news from 0:04:54.520 --> 0:05:01.200 a website run by Chinese conspiracy theorist in a Chinese 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:04.120 religious call bets that is where you get them to know? 0:05:05.040 --> 0:05:06.719 Or or if social media. 0:05:06.440 --> 0:05:13.680 People lying every day, every hour, every minute about the news, 0:05:14.040 --> 0:05:19.600 what you do matters. What the New York Times does matters, 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:24.600 What the Wall Street Journal does matters, What Jonathan Lemeir 0:05:24.880 --> 0:05:30.160 does matters, What the Financial Times does matters, What NBC 0:05:30.360 --> 0:05:35.839 News and MSNBC reporters do matters. It matters. 0:05:36.760 --> 0:05:40.279 The truth of the matter is covering a political campaign 0:05:40.880 --> 0:05:44.960 is exciting work in America, not hard work. Hard work 0:05:45.160 --> 0:05:47.799 is working on a ranch, getting up in the morning 0:05:48.120 --> 0:05:51.839 with the animals, being out on an electric line in 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:55.680 gale force winds in sub zero weather, working in a 0:05:55.760 --> 0:05:59.599 coal mine, working on an oil rig, working as a nurse, 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:03.040 working as a cop, working as a fireman. And yes, 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:06.920 if you're a journalist making forty five fifty sixty seventy 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:10.560 thousand dollars a year out there in your community, fighting 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:13.839 to get the news into the hands of people locally 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:17.120 who need it, it's a hard job. J Justscarborough's job 0:06:17.200 --> 0:06:20.040 is not a hard job. Together, he and his wife 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:23.800 make thirty million dollars a year at least, and they're 0:06:23.839 --> 0:06:26.360 supposed to tell you the truth. But that was too 0:06:26.400 --> 0:06:28.840 much for them, as it was too much for Joe 0:06:28.839 --> 0:06:32.000 Biden to tell the country the truth about what he 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:36.400 would do with his son, the convicted criminal. I'm pleased 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:40.440 that Joe Biden could do for his son, with so 0:06:40.600 --> 0:06:44.760 many American parents cannot do for theirs, he was able 0:06:44.800 --> 0:06:48.760 to save him from the consequences of his actions. He 0:06:48.839 --> 0:06:53.360 was convicted of tax felonies, he pled guilty to tax fraud, 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:56.559 and he was found guilty of a gun crime. Hunter 0:06:56.640 --> 0:07:02.120 Biden's life has worth and purpose, and Joe Biden's political opponents, 0:07:02.320 --> 0:07:07.440 cruelly with malice, try to destroy his son to break 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:10.480 his sobriety and to take his life so that they 0:07:10.520 --> 0:07:14.640 could destroy his father. It was among the sickest things 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:18.400 I've seen in my thirty year political career, which includes 0:07:18.720 --> 0:07:22.920 a long spell at the highest level of national politics. 0:07:23.240 --> 0:07:27.960 This was the politics of personal destruction on super steroids. 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:32.680 There has never been anything like it directed at the 0:07:32.800 --> 0:07:36.280 child of a president or a vice president, whether they 0:07:36.320 --> 0:07:39.520 be an adult or whether they be a minor. Joe 0:07:39.560 --> 0:07:43.640 Biden could have said I will pardon my son, I 0:07:43.760 --> 0:07:48.880 must parton my son. I cannot lose another child, and 0:07:48.960 --> 0:07:52.840 the country would have understood. The price would have been simple. 0:07:53.120 --> 0:07:57.600 The President of the United States abused his power to 0:07:57.760 --> 0:08:01.480 make that happen. And that's what the problem is, because 0:08:01.520 --> 0:08:05.800 the president sends other people's kids into harm's way, and 0:08:05.920 --> 0:08:09.200 sometimes they don't come back. There's a lot of people 0:08:09.280 --> 0:08:11.360 who look at Joe Biden and they say, well, I 0:08:11.400 --> 0:08:14.560 would have done the same thing. Maybe, but then you 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:17.800 shouldn't be the president of the United States because the 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:21.200 burden of putting the country first is a high one. 0:08:21.520 --> 0:08:25.120 Joe Biden did not run against Donald Trump on policy. 0:08:25.560 --> 0:08:29.640 He ran against him on character. He ran against him 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:32.960 as the better man, and in the end, he didn't 0:08:33.000 --> 0:08:35.480 measure up. He couldn't do the job, but he asked 0:08:35.520 --> 0:08:38.679 for more time, and he sentenced the country to an 0:08:38.720 --> 0:08:42.880 astounding level of chaos to come. At the noon hour 0:08:43.280 --> 0:08:48.000 on January twentieth, twenty twenty five, the greatest civil rights 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:51.559 abuse in American history will commence, and we will have 0:08:51.679 --> 0:08:54.960 no more time to look backwards. We will have no 0:08:55.080 --> 0:08:59.679 more time to indulge the access media foolishness, no more 0:08:59.800 --> 0:09:03.679 time time to discuss the evasions and the sins of 0:09:03.760 --> 0:09:08.880 omission and comission that flowed out of cable news station's 0:09:08.920 --> 0:09:14.400 non stop for four long years as Trump gathered strength 0:09:14.679 --> 0:09:18.560 and came back into power. Now we're supposed to be 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:23.400 upset when Donald depoints Avanka's father in law, the convicted felon, 0:09:23.440 --> 0:09:26.520 to be the ambassador to France. The people that Donald 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:31.360 Trump has selected the whole power are a rogues gallery 0:09:31.760 --> 0:09:37.439 of misfits, dangerous misfits. Cash Patel is out to destroy 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:41.240 the FBI. And when it happens, and it will if 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:44.400 he makes it, and the next building is burning with 0:09:44.559 --> 0:09:48.520 thousands of Americans in it, everybody should know whose fault 0:09:48.559 --> 0:09:53.640 it is. It's Trump's, it's Patels, and it's every single 0:09:54.160 --> 0:09:59.760 senator who would commit this act of vandalism and make 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:05.920 it is unfit not the director of the Federal Bureau 0:10:06.360 --> 0:10:13.120 of Investigation, and turn it into Trump's secret police. There 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:17.640 are no words. Pete Hegsas's mother has weighed in on 0:10:17.800 --> 0:10:22.040 his abuse of women. Something's broken inside of Pete Hegsath, 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:25.439 the accused rapist. He has a problem with women, is 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:29.160 an abuse problem. He has a respect problem, and because 0:10:29.200 --> 0:10:33.240 of that he is morally unfit to lead the armed 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:36.520 forces of the United States. It was nice to see 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:41.600 Robert Kennedy showering naked behind his wife Maga Cheryl hawking 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:47.080 some supplements or products or who knows what abusing the office. 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:53.040 Great people all in this next moment, Americans best get 0:10:53.080 --> 0:10:58.440 ready because there will be an avalanche of crazy dumped 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:02.720 into our culture. The military will deploy into the country, 0:11:03.000 --> 0:11:07.719 a mass deportation with police state tactics will begin. A 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:12.559 tariff regime will commence that will set off an inflationary cycle. 0:11:13.000 --> 0:11:17.960 Political opponents will be persecuted and will be prosecuted. Media 0:11:18.120 --> 0:11:22.400 organizations will be threatened with the stripping of their licenses. 0:11:22.800 --> 0:11:29.000 Everywhere there will be threats, and everywhere there will be capitulators. 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:34.400 And capitulant acts. The scramble to get on side with 0:11:34.559 --> 0:11:39.400 Trump will be unlike anything that anyone has ever seen. 0:11:39.800 --> 0:11:44.400 Fear of Trump will drive behavior, just like we saw 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:49.000 with the Canadian Prime minister who hustled down Tomorrow Lago 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:54.439 like a child called to the principal's office. Unbecoming doesn't 0:11:54.640 --> 0:11:58.120 begin to describe it. And yet it's just but a 0:11:58.160 --> 0:12:05.679 brief glimpse into our Trumpian future of intimigation, mob boss governance, 0:12:05.800 --> 0:12:09.640 where everybody is expected to kiss the ring and pay 0:12:09.720 --> 0:12:13.800 the vague. I have a better idea you. Here's the deal. 0:12:14.080 --> 0:12:18.520 The United States of America is a country where dissent 0:12:19.240 --> 0:12:23.640 is fundamental and the right to oppose and speak out 0:12:23.880 --> 0:12:27.719 on matters of conscience is God given. There should be 0:12:27.760 --> 0:12:31.680 no cowtow to Donald Trump. But what there should be 0:12:32.080 --> 0:12:36.120 is a cutting of the cord to the hypocrisy into 0:12:36.160 --> 0:12:40.160 the Biden era that brought him back to power. And 0:12:40.240 --> 0:12:44.320 so it's great that Joe Scarborough has a long list 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:48.080 of newspapers that he thinks are the answer. But the 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:51.360 truth of the matter is the most celebrated reporters at 0:12:51.400 --> 0:12:54.360 those newspapers, they're part of the reason Trump is back 0:12:54.360 --> 0:12:59.120 in power. Journalism is the pursuit of truth with no 0:12:59.640 --> 0:13:04.840 fear or favor, and no fear of power. The confrontation 0:13:05.320 --> 0:13:09.640 between the little guy and the powerful is the story 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:13.240 that journalists should care about. But the journalism of this 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:17.280 era is not about that. For people like Joe Scarborough 0:13:17.320 --> 0:13:21.520 and Mika, it's about a license to be close to 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:26.840 power as an entitlement. Because that's great. Don't you dare 0:13:26.920 --> 0:13:29.520 say that the people who call you out on it 0:13:29.960 --> 0:13:35.880 are liars or conspiracy theorists or some lonely denizens of 0:13:35.920 --> 0:13:41.160 the Internet, isolated from the greater, broader reality where Joe 0:13:41.200 --> 0:13:44.920 and Mika are fighting to reveal the truth for all 0:13:44.960 --> 0:13:50.760 of us as fearless, risk taking journalists fighting for democracy. 0:13:51.120 --> 0:13:53.600 There's going to be some hard days in America, and 0:13:53.640 --> 0:13:56.640 the people who will feel it first are not billionaires, 0:13:56.880 --> 0:13:59.960 are not mourning cable news hosts making tens of million 0:14:00.240 --> 0:14:03.840 a year. It's the immigrant, it's the child, it's the 0:14:03.920 --> 0:14:07.200 poor mother. It's people who aren't even seen at all, 0:14:07.559 --> 0:14:10.640 the forgotten people, the ones that Trump has never seen 0:14:10.720 --> 0:14:13.880 but voted for him anyway. This will all go off 0:14:13.920 --> 0:14:17.040 the rails, and when it does, there must be an 0:14:17.080 --> 0:14:22.720 opposition prepared with an offer of something better, and when 0:14:22.760 --> 0:14:27.360 that moment comes, the last thing that anybody can talk 0:14:27.400 --> 0:14:31.000 about is Joe Biden. The good news is, when Donald 0:14:31.000 --> 0:14:35.120 Trump's avalanche begins, you'll still have your power. There will 0:14:35.120 --> 0:14:38.440 be another presidential election, and JD. Vance will be the 0:14:38.440 --> 0:14:42.920 Republican nominee. I don't want to see the United States 0:14:43.200 --> 0:14:46.960 go further down the drain four years from now because 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:53.720 the Democratic Party isn't ready. This is the warning. I'm 0:14:53.760 --> 0:14:56.400 Steve Schmidt. This is the warning, and I invite you 0:14:56.480 --> 0:15:00.520 to join. Subscribe on our sub stack, on our Uti channel, 0:15:00.720 --> 0:15:02.720 follow us. 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