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The Warning with Steve Schmidt

Handcuffing A U.S. Senator Undermines Our Entire Democracy

The Warning with Steve Schmidt

Steve Schmidt

News, Politics, Government

4.8784 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

After being forcibly removed and handcuffed from a Kristi Noem press conference, Senator Alex Padilla has shown what will happen to those willing to speak out against this administration. Steve Schmidt reacts to Padilla's forced removal and explains why it signals the end of American ideals. Subscribe for more and follow me here: Substack: https://steveschmidt.substack.com/subscribe Store: https://thewarningwithsteveschmidt.com/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/thewarningses.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SteveSchmidtSES/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thewarningses Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thewarningses/ X: https://x.com/SteveSchmidtSES

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0:00.0

This is the warning.

0:02.0

24 hours to go until thousands of protests start taking place all over the United States

0:10.0

in Washington, D.C., a grotesque display and abuse of the military.

0:17.0

Here is how Congressman Jake Ockincloss's a Marine veteran, a combat leader in Afghanistan,

0:23.6

put it on the warning yesterday.

0:25.6

I think it's twofold. The first is the sergeants and corporals.

0:31.6

The sergeants and corporals are probably in their late 20s, early 30s.

0:35.6

These are Marines who have been training for five to 10

0:38.4

years as infantry Marines to do close quarters urban combat. And that means that you train fires

0:45.6

on a given building, you clear out that building with three to five Marines, and then you train

0:51.5

your fires on the next building until you sequentially basically cordon off an entire section of the city.

0:56.8

It's the kind of combat that you do against the People's Liberation Army or the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps.

1:01.7

It is wholly unfit for service if you're trying to do crowd control in Los Angeles.

1:06.6

Seventh Marines will be in Los Angeles.

1:09.4

They will have live ammunition on them, but it will not be loaded into their weapons.

1:14.6

There are thousands of federal troops on the streets, the great overreaction that we have seen,

1:21.6

the abysmal response to the acts of violence by too many democratic leaders who were paralyzed by all things,

1:30.6

including by Trump, including by the rioters. Alex Padilla, a United States Senator, was not

1:37.6

one of them. He was in the federal building, and United States Senator walked into a public

1:43.8

room in a public building, and at a public event, the United States Senator walked into a public room and a public building, and at a public

1:47.0

event, the United States Senator asked a question or tried to of the Homeland Security Secretary.

1:55.0

Now, what happened shocked the conscience of anybody and everybody who has any appreciation for the

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