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The Warning with Steve Schmidt

Former Trump Chief of Staff Calls Trump The "Definition Of A Fascist"

The Warning with Steve Schmidt

iHeartPodcasts

News, Government, Politics

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Many Americans have viewed Donald Trump as a fascist but it means a lot more when that label is given from his former Chief of Staff. Steve Schmidt reacts to John Kelly's comments on Trump and looks back at the history of fascism. Subscribe for more and follow me here: Substack: https://steveschmidt.substack.com/subscribe Twitter: https://twitter.com/SteveSchmidtSES Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SteveSchmidtSES/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thewarningses Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thewarningses/

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0:00.0

13 days remain until the American people go to the polls. Already, more than 17 million

0:06.4

Americans have voted. The polls say that the race is razor close. This is the warning. John

0:14.9

Kelly is a retired United States Marine Corps general. He spent his entire life in service to the United States.

0:23.6

And John Kelly paid a very high price for America's wars over the last 20 years. He wasn't just a

0:31.0

commander. He was a father who lost the son in those wars. And John Kelly went on to serve as Donald Trump's first chief of staff

0:40.8

in the White House. I've been very critical of General Kelly. I don't agree with his politics,

0:46.0

and I don't agree with his conduct once he went into politics, leaving his military career behind.

0:53.6

Every one of the people around Donald Trump,

0:57.1

Mattis, Esper, Kelly, all of these people know exactly who Donald Trump is, and each of them

1:05.7

has the credibility to warn a small slice of the population who will listen to them about what it is that Donald

1:14.9

Trump is. Now, John Kelly has called Trump what Trump is and what I have called him for many,

1:22.1

many years. When I use the word fascist, it is not for the purposes of further inflaming the debate. When I use

1:29.8

this word, the purpose of its use is precision to describe what it is that Trump is, because he's not

1:38.1

a Republican, though he carries magic letter R next to his name. What Trump is is a fascist. He's become one over 10 years.

1:47.6

Here is how John Kelly describes fascism. Here's Benito Mussolini, the first fascist, the man

1:56.5

who invented it. Trump believes in a dogma of government control for the collective and its interests

2:04.8

as seen by him, which, coincidentally, are really his interests. This is the most corrupt

2:11.4

political philosophy ever, and it's dangerous, and it's lethal. By the time fascism had run its course, more than

2:20.2

100 million human beings were dead around the world. It was the greatest disaster in human history,

2:29.1

and incredibly less than one full lifetime after it ended, much of the lessons from it have been forgotten.

2:37.9

The American population doesn't remember the Second World War, doesn't remember Mussolini,

2:44.7

it doesn't remember Hitler, it doesn't remember the militarists and the nationalists.

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