Steve Schmidt & Jim Acosta: Snorkeling Over The Dead
The Warning with Steve Schmidt
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🗓️ 22 May 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Steve Schmidt joins "The Jim Acosta Show" with a story that has to be heard to be believed: Kash Patel snorkeling at the USS Arizona, a submerged tomb containing the remains of 1,800 American sailors. The pattern of desecration — Arlington, Dover, Normandy, and now this — never stops, and as we head into the Memorial Day long weekend, he connects it to a broader collapse of the institutions and alliances built on American sacrifice. With Trump at 30% approval and the country starting to push back, Steve and Jim both wonder how much more can be tolerated.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:10.0 | All right, welcome to the Jim Acosta show. |
| 0:12.3 | It's another day that ends in Y and Donald Trump's continued corruption in Washington. |
| 0:17.8 | It is my pleasure to have my friend Steve Schmidt back with us for another |
| 0:22.0 | edition of O Schmidt. It's Friday. Steve, good to see you, man. Good to see you, Jim. |
| 0:27.0 | And Steve, you know, I think that this is, this has been a hell of a week in our nation's history. |
| 0:35.5 | I feel like the hood is off. |
| 0:38.4 | Maybe it's already been off Donald Trump for, for some time now in terms of just revealing how thoroughly corrupt he is. |
| 0:45.7 | But this deal that he's cut for himself with Todd Blanche, it's not even with Todd Blanche. |
| 0:52.8 | It's with himself. |
| 0:57.6 | And, you know, to, it is so bad, |
| 1:05.2 | this IRS, uh, DOJ deal, the slush fund that he's created along with this immunity, he's given himself. I mean, it is, it's just so out of bounds and so far from what, you know, the founders intended, |
| 1:13.3 | from what anybody has, you know, any sense of in terms of what our democracy should be, |
| 1:19.0 | that even Republicans in the Senate are blocking. |
| 1:21.8 | And I think some Republicans in the House are blocking. |
| 1:24.6 | And so this is kind of accidentally become a defining moment, it seems, |
| 1:28.6 | almost for Trump. What do you think? What have you made of this week in this sleazy slush |
| 1:34.1 | fund deal that you set up? I have, I have three reactions to it, which is the first one is |
| 1:41.8 | entirely cultural. |
| 1:44.3 | And it's just a function of where I'm from in my age. |
| 1:48.9 | But having grown up in New Jersey and being 55 years old, |
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