How Trump & Elon Are Attacking Government—and Why Dems Must Lead
The Warning with Steve Schmidt
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🗓️ 10 February 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It is the third week of the Trump presidency and everywhere there is chaos and mayhem and make no mistake. |
| 0:08.0 | It is by design. |
| 0:10.0 | The more chaos there is, the more mayhem there is, the more Donald Trump will say, give me power to deal with the chaos and the mayhem, regardless of the fact that he is the cause. |
| 0:24.1 | This is the warning. |
| 0:26.8 | Three weeks ago today, Donald Trump raised his hand and was inaugurated 47th president of the United States. |
| 0:34.0 | Since that instant, America has been in chaos, and government institutions are under siege. |
| 0:42.2 | Now, let's be clear about democracy and how it works. Donald Trump, as has been pointed out by |
| 0:50.6 | Senator John Federman, won the election. But more than that, the slot machine lined up. |
| 0:56.8 | Triple sevens. |
| 0:58.0 | Republican House, though by a one-seat margin, |
| 1:01.6 | Republican Senate, Republican White House, |
| 1:04.9 | conservative-dominated court. |
| 1:07.2 | Republicans and Washington are writing the rules. But that does not mean Democrats have no power. |
| 1:15.0 | The minority has substantial power in the United States system, in the government, which is to say |
| 1:21.7 | nothing of the Democratic governors and the more than 76 million Americans who did not vote for Donald Trump. |
| 1:30.7 | And surely, out of the more than 77 million that did vote for Donald Trump, none voted |
| 1:37.8 | to make Elon Musk emperor or voted to give Donald Trump the right to bestow the presidency to Elon Musk on a |
| 1:49.0 | backroom deal as a reward for the $300 million that Elon Musk put into Donald Trump's campaign. |
| 1:58.6 | Elon Musk's payoff is that his net worth has increased by $200 billion. |
| 2:05.6 | If he wants to run the government, then he should run for office. A federal judge stopped the |
| 2:13.0 | Musk rampage, and what did Musk do do demanded the impeachment of the judge. |
| 2:19.6 | Elon Musk does not like to be told no and he will not hear the word no from Donald Trump. |
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