Senator Angus King Sold Out Americans for Trump
The Warning with Steve Schmidt
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🗓️ 12 November 2025
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After 8 Senators broke with Democrats to end the shutdown, Trump and his MAGA regime have now become an unstoppable force in Washington. Steve Schmidt looks at the failures of the Democratic party and why voters should reject candidates who support Chuck Schumer.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | It is Wednesday, November the 12th, and the American crisis just got much worse. |
| 0:10.0 | This is the warning. |
| 0:12.0 | It got worse because the Senate Democrats are a ship of fools. |
| 0:18.0 | This is Maine's independent Democratic Senator Angus King, his takeaway, after 40 days when |
| 0:26.8 | Trump was on the edge of blinking was to say that fighting back against Trump doesn't |
| 0:34.3 | work. |
| 0:35.3 | Listen to him, say it in his own words. Well, Joe, you have to go back to what the strategy was at the beginning of the shutdown. |
| 0:41.3 | There were two goals, both of which I support. One was standing up to Donald Trump. |
| 0:45.3 | The other was getting some resolution on the ACA premium tax credit issue. |
| 0:50.3 | The problem was the shutdown wasn't accomplishing either goals and there was practically, |
| 0:55.5 | well, it was zero likelihood that it was going to. In terms of standing up to Donald Trump, |
| 1:00.4 | the shutdown actually gave him more power, Exhibit A being what he's done with SNAP and SNAP |
| 1:07.4 | benefits across the country. Oh, by the way, Joe, you're going to love this. Guess who's |
| 1:11.5 | getting paid during the shutdown? Not the park rangers or air traffic controllers. This, the ice agents |
| 1:22.0 | under special law under that big awful bill that they passed last summer. The ICE agents are being |
| 1:28.3 | paid. Nobody else is. So standing up to Donald Trump didn't work. It actually gave him more power. |
| 1:36.0 | He said the outrage directed against him and his fellow appeasers has been ginned up by progressives. |
| 1:44.5 | And then he asked the question, |
| 1:47.1 | but what if it came time to be Christmas |
| 1:51.3 | and air travel was shut down? |
| 1:54.0 | And or there were snap benefits. |
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