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The Warning with Steve Schmidt

Steve Schmidt: MAGA Is Not the Victim

The Warning with Steve Schmidt

iHeartPodcasts

Politics, Government, News

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2026

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

MAGA is demanding ABC fire Jimmy Kimmel for telling a joke while the same people who cheered on January 6th lecture America about political violence. Steve Schmidt responds to the Daily Wire’s attempted “gotcha,” and MAGA's hypocrisy because yes, they are fascists.

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.3

Guaranteed Human.

0:03.8

The reaction is always predictable.

0:07.3

Every time that MAGA can paint itself with a brush of grievance, make itself the victim.

0:15.8

Wow.

0:16.4

Do they lean in?

0:17.7

The greatest example, of course, was this obscenity in Arizona, the Charlie Kirk

0:23.1

Memorial, where an entire nation was assigned responsibility by Donald Trump and his fascists.

0:31.7

Remember this gem from Stephen Miller?

0:34.8

To our enemies, you have nothing to give, you have nothing to offer, you have nothing to share.

0:39.8

But bitterness, we have beauty, we have light, we have goodness, we have determination, we have vision,

0:46.7

we have strength.

0:48.4

We built the world that we inhabit now, generation by generation.

0:53.8

And we will defend this world. We will defend goodness.

0:57.2

We will defend light. We will defend virtue. You cannot terrify us. You cannot frighten us.

1:03.6

You cannot threaten us. Because we are on the side of goodness. We are on the side of God.

1:10.7

Now we have Melania Trump and Donald Trump

1:14.4

demanding what in the aftermath of an assassination attempt or a shooting at the White House

1:21.7

Correspondents dinner. How do they protect the office of president? Well, apparently by assaulting the First Amendment, by trying to get rid of Jimmy Kimmel.

1:32.3

Because after all, if you told a joke, then you too are complicit in the attempted assassination of the president if you didn't hear.

1:42.3

This is the warning warning all over television and including by the

1:49.8

presenters journalists who ask questions like this but there does seem to be a normalization

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