How I Will Shame King For Meeting Fascist Trump

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🗓️ 27 April 2026

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Head to https://Biologica.com/BEAST to take the Quick Hormonal Life Stage Quiz and get up to 32% off your first subscription order. #ad Get an exclusive 60% off an annual Incogni plan at https://incogni.com/beast #ad Steve Schmidt returns to the podcast to unload a blistering critique of Donald Trump, King Charles III, and the global political order they’re reshaping, arguing the King’s upcoming U.S. visit is not just ill-timed but a historic moral failure tied to Trump’s assaults on democracy and alliances. Speaking to Daily Beast executive editor Hugh Dougherty, Schmidt connects the dots from royal controversies and Jeffrey Epstein to Trump’s late-night social media tirades and questions about his mental fitness, warning of a dangerous erosion of institutional checks at the highest level of power. He predicts a political collapse for MAGA, a brutal electoral reckoning, and an internal unraveling fueled by conspiracy and infighting, while also torching both Republican complicity and Democratic weakness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You will have a felon, a sexual predator,
0:05.0	being toasted by the head of the Church of England.
0:08.0	He won't meet the Epstein survivors.
0:10.0	It's an embarrassment all the way around.
0:13.0	Charles is putting the crown into a position of,
0:18.0	hey, when I'm on English soil, I condemn my brother. But when I am on American
0:25.8	soil, I made clear that really what Andrew did in the issue at hand is that he got caught.
0:35.3	Welcome to the Daily Beast podcast. I'm Hugh Docty, executive editor of the Daily Beast,
0:40.2	filling the seat for just once for Joanna Coles. And I am privileged also to be talking today
0:44.9	to an amazing guest, Steve Schmidt. He is, of course, possibly best remembered as the man
0:51.3	who advised John McCain's presidential election campaign in 2008, but he now
0:55.9	stands utterly opposed to Donald Trump. He has an implacable moral view. And he has someone new
1:02.7	in his sights today. It is King Charles, who is going to be arriving in the United States for state
1:08.3	visit on Monday. But before we explain why Steve is targeting him
1:13.4	and how, please take a moment, share this podcast with your friends, invite them to subscribe to
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1:49.2	Steve Schmidt, welcome to the Daily Beast podcast. Thank you for joining us. You join us in a week of,
1:56.8	I mean, there's so many things that we could talk about, but the big thing that is going
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