Welcome to another edition of the Schmidt Storm. You have questions. I got answers. Let's get going.

The question is, why won't J.D. Vance and Donald Trump stop with the lies about Springfield

because it's been proven false. That's the point. Donald Trump has been reported to have kept

books of Adolf Hitler speeches on the side of his

desk and had a long fascination with the German Nazi furor. And this all came from his ex-wife.

One of the things that Trump has learned from fascist history is the power of the lie. And a lot of

MAGA officials have talked about the fact that the bigger

the lie, the more believable it is. Hitler was the first person to talk about that. Goebbels has

talked about that. So the lie, no matter how untrue, the crazier it is by some physics involved in lying makes it more believable.

Now, I want to explain the political strategy. I'm sure you're familiar with the game of tug-of-war.

Two sides, one rope, you have to pull the other side over. Now, imagine doing that game, but playing

it on floating swim platforms. What Donald Trump is trying to do

is pull the Harris team into the water. It doesn't matter that the Harris team is winning. It doesn't

matter that they're pulling the rope towards them if they lose their balance and go into the

shark-infested water, which is immigration.

The southern border and the chaos there has dropped immensely, which in part explains why

Donald Trump is talking about Haitians, not Mexicans. But every time the issue is raised

underneath it, there's a debate about immigration. And that immigration

debate, no matter how rancidly entered into, is something that Trump and Vance think favors them,

which explains why J.D. Vance says, well, it's okay for me to make this up. So we can bring

attention to it. So the voter who cares

about immigration may be immunized to the lie and the sensationalism, dismiss it and say,

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