PAY UP: How Trump's Campaign Kickbacks Could Turn U.S. into a Russian-Style Oligarchy

The Warning with Steve Schmidt

Steve Schmidt

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🗓️ 18 April 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

The Trump campaign sent a letter to other GOP candidates across America: If you want to use President Donald Trump's name, you should pay up. This strategy is not unlike how John Gotti and mob bosses receive kick backs from people beneath them. But in American politics, this could lead to Russian-style oligarchy and straight-up corruption. Steve Schmidt explains the latest grift of campaign gangsterism. *** To become a The Warning Premium Member and listen to the show 48 hours early with access to premium content visit: https://thewarning.supercast.com/ 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	Trump is a lot like John Gotti. He has a cult of personality. He has fans that are cheering for him.
0:10.1	In the end, Gotti and Trump are both mob bosses. And the way their business functions is they get a cut of the action up top.
0:20.8	And so it should be no surprise whatsoever that the astounding grift that is the Trump
0:27.3	political operation would attach a new VIG for every MAGA Republican candidate out across
0:34.4	the country who dares to use the Donald's name. Hey Trump. Hey Trump. Hey Trump.
0:40.6	It's gangsterism. It is the 18th of April. There are 201 days remaining until the American people
0:48.4	will decide who between Joe Biden and Donald Trump will be the most powerful person in the world, the American
0:56.5	commander-in-chief. This is the morning. Donald Trump has been America's dominant cultural figure
1:05.9	for almost 10 years. It's been nine years since he descended the escalator into the bowels of
1:13.1	Trump Tower, proclaiming that Mexicans are all rapists and murderers. Is the country better off
1:20.4	today than it was before Trump's escalator descent? The answer is obviously no. But Donald Trump has managed over the last
1:31.1	decade to build an enduring cult of personality that will persist so long as there is any question
1:42.0	about his defeat, repudiation, and rejection at the hands of the
1:49.6	American people. The power of his lie is grounded in his refusal to ever make a concession to fact, to reality, or to what is plainly in front of him.
2:07.1	For most Americans, Donald Trump got super famous during The Apprentice.
2:13.7	That's how the American people got to know the Donald.
2:18.6	I'm not one of those people because I grew up in the state of New Jersey.
2:24.6	And if you grew up in a small geography that includes parts of southern Connecticut,
2:31.7	Queens, Long Island, Staten Island, the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan,
2:37.1	northern New Jersey.
2:40.0	Donald Trump has been famous, super famous, since at least the mid-1970s.
2:47.2	I wouldn't bet a lot of money, but I'm pretty sure I got the Art of the Deal board game
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