Charlie Kirk's Assassination Shows Future of Political Violence
The Warning with Steve Schmidt
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🗓️ 11 September 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the warning. |
| 0:02.6 | This is Steve Schmidt with the warning on September 11th, 2025. |
| 0:07.1 | It is 24 years to the day since the terror attacks that killed 3,000 Americans and began two decades of wars that divided the country and have led us to this moment. |
| 0:25.7 | Yesterday was a dark day in the United States. It was a day of mass violence. It was a day of |
| 0:34.3 | killing, a day of gun violence. |
| 0:45.4 | So, in other words, in America, it was a day like any other day. |
| 0:49.9 | There was a school shooting yesterday that has been ignored. |
| 0:58.7 | There have been hundreds of school shootings over these last recent years. |
| 1:10.2 | And the reality is, is that one of the leading polemicists of this era was shot on a college campus, |
| 1:16.2 | murdered in broad daylight, and he was a person who on the record many times said that violence such as what killed him was unstoppable, and it was the |
| 1:24.2 | price of the Second Amendment, tragic. And he was deeply wrong about that. |
| 1:29.0 | Now, the political violence, the act of assassination is a criminal act. |
| 1:37.7 | It's an un-American act. |
| 1:40.6 | It is an attack on our republic. |
| 1:44.6 | It is an attack on our republic. It is an attack on our democracy. |
| 1:49.5 | And it is an attack on the opposition to Donald Trump. |
| 1:57.9 | Because the things that Charlie Kirk believed in were viled. |
| 2:05.1 | He talked about the fact that the black pilot isn't safe because he's black. |
| 2:14.3 | He was a racist, and he was condemned by ben dominick |
| 2:19.9 | Megan McCain's husband the plagiarist as an anti-Semite just a year ago |
| 2:25.9 | he was a fascist who did not believe in American pluralism |
| 2:32.2 | and his death should not be celebrated by anybody who disagrees. |
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