Steve Schmidt: Kash Patel Will Never Recover
The Warning with Steve Schmidt
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🗓️ 13 May 2026
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Kash Patel is angry, affronted, and unstable. Steve Schmidt destroys Trump's FBI Director over his disastrous Senate hearing and promises Kash Patel will never recover from his humiliation.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.5 | Cash Patel left his gold medal at home, and he didn't bring a bottle of champagne to swill. |
| 0:10.2 | He was at the U.S. Senate. |
| 0:12.3 | He was volatile, erratic, and highly emotional. |
| 0:16.0 | It is May 13, 26, the day after Cash Patel agreed to take a test for his drinking under oath |
| 0:26.2 | before a U.S. Senate committee. |
| 0:28.8 | This is the warning. |
| 0:31.6 | You can't make it up. |
| 0:34.2 | Are you willing to take the test, it's called the audit test that members of our active duty, |
| 0:41.6 | military and others take to determine whether they have a drinking problem? I'll take any test you're |
| 0:47.1 | willing to take. I will take it, Dr. Patelli. I'll take it. You're ready to take it. Let's go. |
| 0:51.9 | Yes or no? Let's go. Side by side. |
| 0:54.6 | I'll take it. |
| 0:55.8 | Donald Trump watched his brother die from alcoholism. |
| 1:00.6 | He knows the lies, the evasions, the self-deceit. |
| 1:05.3 | He watched his brother year by year waste away. |
| 1:10.0 | He's talked about it. I learned myself. I had a brother Fred, |
| 1:15.0 | great guy, best looking guy, best personality, much better than mine. But he had a problem. He had a |
| 1:24.6 | problem with alcohol. And he would tell me, don't drink, don't drink. |
| 1:30.3 | He was substantially older and I listened to him and I respected, but he would constantly tell me, don't drink. |
| 1:38.3 | He recognizes it. And no doubt he sees clearly in Cash Patel somebody who has a problem. |
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