Speaker 1: Today is seven hundred days on the nose until the
Speaker 1: midterm elections. Progress tomorrow will be in the six hundreds.
Speaker 1: It's a reminder that in campaigns, which are unique enterprises,
Speaker 1: that there are two finite commodities that matter above all
Speaker 1: other things, time and money, and neither can be squandered.
Speaker 1: This is the warning we are approaching an urgent moment
Speaker 1: in the United States of America. This country will be
Speaker 1: in crisis at exactly twelve noon on January twentieth, when
Speaker 1: power transfers subliminally, silently and peacefully to Donald Trump, who
Speaker 1: is the first president in American history to say the
Speaker 1: quiet part out loud. He is coming for his opponents.
Speaker 1: He wants retribution and revenge. And there is no story
Speaker 1: that points this out more ludicrously and more absurdly than
Speaker 1: The New York Times and its masterpiece of campaign finance
Speaker 1: reporting focusing on the fecklessness of billionaire Reid Hoffman and
Speaker 1: his retainer the Lincoln Projects. Dmitri Melhorne. Now Dmitri Melhorn
Speaker 1: and Ried Hoffman are terrified. They're terrified of Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: Reid Hoffman, the Silicon Valley billionaire, is telling anyone who
Speaker 1: will listen apparently that he's going to flee the country.
Speaker 1: He's going to go into hiding somewhere, apparently who knows where.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing with reed Hoffman. He funded the lawsuits
Speaker 1: against Donald Trump where he was adjudicated as a rapist.
Speaker 1: He funded Egen Carroll's lawsuits because he said it was
Speaker 1: the right thing to do. He said he did it
Speaker 1: because he wanted to give a woman agency who was abused.
Speaker 1: Think about Redffman is with all the money which were
Speaker 1: normal people, is like picking up a penny on the ground,
Speaker 1: giving it to a child and calling yourself a philanthropist.
Speaker 1: What he liked was the adulation that came from easy
Speaker 1: wins and easy victories and all the signal virtuing that's
Speaker 1: so common, an endemic in Silicon Valley. The person who
Speaker 1: worked for him for a very long time is famous
Speaker 1: in Washington, DC. He's famous amongst the Silicon Valley billionaires,
Speaker 1: all of the tech titans, all of the Hollywood moguls.
Speaker 1: As a real brain in the Democratic Party, Dmitri Melhorn,
Speaker 1: when Donald Trump nearly was assassinated, said it was a
Speaker 1: false flag operation. He picked up the phone started calling
Speaker 1: every reporter who would listen, trying to get them to
Speaker 1: print the craziest conspiracy theory, and now these two antagonists
Speaker 1: of Donald Trump are terrified and running. Two weeks ago
Speaker 1: they bragged about their patriotism, they talked about it all
Speaker 1: the time. But the truth of the matter is is
Speaker 1: what these people are is what Thomas Payne called sunshine patriots.
Speaker 1: Reed Hoffmann, you best cowboy up because things are going
Speaker 1: to get tough in this country and rolling over and
Speaker 1: playing dead isn't going to save you from the abuses
Speaker 1: of cash Bittel. This is the fundamental lesson of appeasement.
Speaker 1: It is the idea advanced by Joe Scarborough and Mika
Speaker 1: Brazinski that they will be the first to feed the
Speaker 1: crocodile that they named Adolf Hitler, so that they may
Speaker 1: be the last eaton. Now. Joe Scarborough is an artful
Speaker 1: and articulate advocate for his position, no matter how contradictory
Speaker 1: it is. What Joe Scarborough did is appease the man
Speaker 1: he called Hitler by going tom a Lago for a sitdown,
Speaker 1: not an interview, a summit that he literally described as
Speaker 1: an opportunity to open new avenues of understanding. Whatever that means.
Speaker 1: Let's listen to Joe Scarborough's plea in defense of the
Speaker 1: corporate media model that did so much to elect Donald Trump.
Speaker 2: Let me just say why this is so important right
Speaker 2: now more than ever, is because critics of the press
Speaker 2: are feeling more empowered than ever to lie more than ever.
Speaker 3: I've had friends for years.
Speaker 4: Oh you know, I'm so overwhelmed, Joe by the news.
Speaker 4: I don't read the news. Where do you get your news?
Speaker 2: Then Epic Times, I.
Speaker 3: Go, oh God, oh oh, you get your news from
Speaker 3: a website run by Chinese conspiracy theorist in a Chinese
Speaker 3: religious call bets that is where you get them to know?
Speaker 3: Or or if social media.
Speaker 4: People lying every day, every hour, every minute about the news,
Speaker 4: what you do matters. What the New York Times does matters,
Speaker 4: What the Wall Street Journal does matters, What Jonathan Lemeir
Speaker 4: does matters, What the Financial Times does matters, What NBC
Speaker 4: News and MSNBC reporters do matters. It matters.
Speaker 1: The truth of the matter is covering a political campaign
Speaker 1: is exciting work in America, not hard work. Hard work
Speaker 1: is working on a ranch, getting up in the morning
Speaker 1: with the animals, being out on an electric line in
Speaker 1: gale force winds in sub zero weather, working in a
Speaker 1: coal mine, working on an oil rig, working as a nurse,
Speaker 1: working as a cop, working as a fireman. And yes,
Speaker 1: if you're a journalist making forty five fifty sixty seventy
Speaker 1: thousand dollars a year out there in your community, fighting
Speaker 1: to get the news into the hands of people locally
Speaker 1: who need it, it's a hard job. J Justscarborough's job
Speaker 1: is not a hard job. Together, he and his wife
Speaker 1: make thirty million dollars a year at least, and they're
Speaker 1: supposed to tell you the truth. But that was too
Speaker 1: much for them, as it was too much for Joe
Speaker 1: Biden to tell the country the truth about what he
Speaker 1: would do with his son, the convicted criminal. I'm pleased
Speaker 1: that Joe Biden could do for his son, with so
Speaker 1: many American parents cannot do for theirs, he was able
Speaker 1: to save him from the consequences of his actions. He
Speaker 1: was convicted of tax felonies, he pled guilty to tax fraud,
Speaker 1: and he was found guilty of a gun crime. Hunter
Speaker 1: Biden's life has worth and purpose, and Joe Biden's political opponents,
Speaker 1: cruelly with malice, try to destroy his son to break
Speaker 1: his sobriety and to take his life so that they
Speaker 1: could destroy his father. It was among the sickest things
Speaker 1: I've seen in my thirty year political career, which includes
Speaker 1: a long spell at the highest level of national politics.
Speaker 1: This was the politics of personal destruction on super steroids.
Speaker 1: There has never been anything like it directed at the
Speaker 1: child of a president or a vice president, whether they
Speaker 1: be an adult or whether they be a minor. Joe
Speaker 1: Biden could have said I will pardon my son, I
Speaker 1: must parton my son. I cannot lose another child, and
Speaker 1: the country would have understood. The price would have been simple.
Speaker 1: The President of the United States abused his power to
Speaker 1: make that happen. And that's what the problem is, because
Speaker 1: the president sends other people's kids into harm's way, and
Speaker 1: sometimes they don't come back. There's a lot of people
Speaker 1: who look at Joe Biden and they say, well, I
Speaker 1: would have done the same thing. Maybe, but then you
Speaker 1: shouldn't be the president of the United States because the
Speaker 1: burden of putting the country first is a high one.
Speaker 1: Joe Biden did not run against Donald Trump on policy.
Speaker 1: He ran against him on character. He ran against him
Speaker 1: as the better man, and in the end, he didn't
Speaker 1: measure up. He couldn't do the job, but he asked
Speaker 1: for more time, and he sentenced the country to an
Speaker 1: astounding level of chaos to come. At the noon hour
Speaker 1: on January twentieth, twenty twenty five, the greatest civil rights
Speaker 1: abuse in American history will commence, and we will have
Speaker 1: no more time to look backwards. We will have no
Speaker 1: more time to indulge the access media foolishness, no more
Speaker 1: time time to discuss the evasions and the sins of
Speaker 1: omission and comission that flowed out of cable news station's
Speaker 1: non stop for four long years as Trump gathered strength
Speaker 1: and came back into power. Now we're supposed to be
Speaker 1: upset when Donald depoints Avanka's father in law, the convicted felon,
Speaker 1: to be the ambassador to France. The people that Donald
Speaker 1: Trump has selected the whole power are a rogues gallery
Speaker 1: of misfits, dangerous misfits. Cash Patel is out to destroy
Speaker 1: the FBI. And when it happens, and it will if
Speaker 1: he makes it, and the next building is burning with
Speaker 1: thousands of Americans in it, everybody should know whose fault
Speaker 1: it is. It's Trump's, it's Patels, and it's every single
Speaker 1: senator who would commit this act of vandalism and make
Speaker 1: it is unfit not the director of the Federal Bureau
Speaker 1: of Investigation, and turn it into Trump's secret police. There
Speaker 1: are no words. Pete Hegsas's mother has weighed in on
Speaker 1: his abuse of women. Something's broken inside of Pete Hegsath,
Speaker 1: the accused rapist. He has a problem with women, is
Speaker 1: an abuse problem. He has a respect problem, and because
Speaker 1: of that he is morally unfit to lead the armed
Speaker 1: forces of the United States. It was nice to see
Speaker 1: Robert Kennedy showering naked behind his wife Maga Cheryl hawking
Speaker 1: some supplements or products or who knows what abusing the office.
Speaker 1: Great people all in this next moment, Americans best get
Speaker 1: ready because there will be an avalanche of crazy dumped
Speaker 1: into our culture. The military will deploy into the country,
Speaker 1: a mass deportation with police state tactics will begin. A
Speaker 1: tariff regime will commence that will set off an inflationary cycle.
Speaker 1: Political opponents will be persecuted and will be prosecuted. Media
Speaker 1: organizations will be threatened with the stripping of their licenses.
Speaker 1: Everywhere there will be threats, and everywhere there will be capitulators.
Speaker 1: And capitulant acts. The scramble to get on side with
Speaker 1: Trump will be unlike anything that anyone has ever seen.
Speaker 1: Fear of Trump will drive behavior, just like we saw
Speaker 1: with the Canadian Prime minister who hustled down Tomorrow Lago
Speaker 1: like a child called to the principal's office. Unbecoming doesn't
Speaker 1: begin to describe it. And yet it's just but a
Speaker 1: brief glimpse into our Trumpian future of intimigation, mob boss governance,
Speaker 1: where everybody is expected to kiss the ring and pay
Speaker 1: the vague. I have a better idea you. Here's the deal.
Speaker 1: The United States of America is a country where dissent
Speaker 1: is fundamental and the right to oppose and speak out
Speaker 1: on matters of conscience is God given. There should be
Speaker 1: no cowtow to Donald Trump. But what there should be
Speaker 1: is a cutting of the cord to the hypocrisy into
Speaker 1: the Biden era that brought him back to power. And
Speaker 1: so it's great that Joe Scarborough has a long list
Speaker 1: of newspapers that he thinks are the answer. But the
Speaker 1: truth of the matter is the most celebrated reporters at
Speaker 1: those newspapers, they're part of the reason Trump is back
Speaker 1: in power. Journalism is the pursuit of truth with no
Speaker 1: fear or favor, and no fear of power. The confrontation
Speaker 1: between the little guy and the powerful is the story
Speaker 1: that journalists should care about. But the journalism of this
Speaker 1: era is not about that. For people like Joe Scarborough
Speaker 1: and Mika, it's about a license to be close to
Speaker 1: power as an entitlement. Because that's great. Don't you dare
Speaker 1: say that the people who call you out on it
Speaker 1: are liars or conspiracy theorists or some lonely denizens of
Speaker 1: the Internet, isolated from the greater, broader reality where Joe
Speaker 1: and Mika are fighting to reveal the truth for all
Speaker 1: of us as fearless, risk taking journalists fighting for democracy.
Speaker 1: There's going to be some hard days in America, and
Speaker 1: the people who will feel it first are not billionaires,
Speaker 1: are not mourning cable news hosts making tens of million
Speaker 1: a year. It's the immigrant, it's the child, it's the
Speaker 1: poor mother. It's people who aren't even seen at all,
Speaker 1: the forgotten people, the ones that Trump has never seen
Speaker 1: but voted for him anyway. This will all go off
Speaker 1: the rails, and when it does, there must be an
Speaker 1: opposition prepared with an offer of something better, and when
Speaker 1: that moment comes, the last thing that anybody can talk
Speaker 1: about is Joe Biden. The good news is, when Donald
Speaker 1: Trump's avalanche begins, you'll still have your power. There will
Speaker 1: be another presidential election, and JD. Vance will be the
Speaker 1: Republican nominee. I don't want to see the United States
Speaker 1: go further down the drain four years from now because
Speaker 1: the Democratic Party isn't ready. This is the warning. I'm
Speaker 1: Steve Schmidt. This is the warning, and I invite you
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