Donald Trump Wants To Be America's Dictator
The Warning with Steve Schmidt
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🗓️ 17 February 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It is the 17th of February 2025 and Donald Trump has repudiated his oath. |
| 0:08.0 | This is the warning. |
| 0:10.0 | He said that he would preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States of America. |
| 0:19.0 | Today, he declares something very different. He says today, |
| 0:24.9 | he who saves his country, does not violate any law. My friends, these are the words of a Hitler, |
| 0:33.7 | of a Mussolini, of a Pinochet, of a Franco. They are the words of a dictator, of a Caesar, |
| 0:41.5 | of a man who has no respect for the law, no concept of restraint, who is feeling flush with power |
| 0:49.6 | and is exercising it. And in his exercise of his power, he is testing an opposition. He is testing |
| 0:58.4 | old principles, and he is testing courage. He is testing courage in the media. He is testing |
| 1:04.8 | courage in the Democratic Party. He is testing courage amongst our allies. And he is testing courage amongst ordinary Americans everywhere, |
| 1:15.1 | whether they be a woman patriot, whether they be a young scientist at the National Institute of Health, |
| 1:22.5 | or a veteran foreign service officer who has put their lives into harm's way many, many times in the service |
| 1:30.2 | of their country that is being treated with cruelty, with capricious indifference by the richest |
| 1:37.2 | man in the world and his lawless Silicon Valley mob. Donald Trump is president. He has been elected for a finite number of years |
| 1:48.2 | with limited powers, restrained by the Constitution of the United States, which he has sworn to |
| 1:55.7 | protect, but we all know has already desecrated that oath as he desecrated it the first time he took it. |
| 2:03.3 | He has held out the possibility that he will not follow court orders. |
| 2:07.7 | His lieutenants have done the same. |
| 2:09.5 | His reckless demolition of the federal government will endanger American lives. |
| 2:16.8 | He arbitrarily and insanely and idiotically fired the |
| 2:22.9 | hundreds of federal workers who are specialists in handling nuclear weapons and nuclear materials |
| 2:30.3 | at the Department of Energy. Gone. He has started to fire hundreds of air traffic controllers, |
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