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The Warning with Steve Schmidt

Steve Schmidt: Pete Hegseth Will Rot in His Shame

The Warning with Steve Schmidt

iHeartPodcasts

News, Politics, Government

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2026

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Fifty-one years ago the last helicopter fled the US Embassy in Vietnam, and Donald Trump has brought America into another losing war. Steve Schmidt exposes Pete Hegseth's incompetence, villainy, and criminal failures in this catastrophe.

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:02.3

Guaranteed Human.

0:04.4

51 years ago today, these helicopters flew off the roof of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon.

0:11.6

It marked the end of the Vietnam War and American defeat.

0:15.8

More than 58,000 Americans were killed in action.

0:20.5

Each of their names are inscribed on this wall.

0:23.6

It is Thursday, April 30th, 2026.

0:28.6

This is the warning.

0:30.6

It's good to think about the Vietnam War because America is fighting another war, a war of choice, a war of aggression, and a war we are losing.

0:42.3

Donald Trump is the worst president in American history.

0:47.3

He is a malignant, malicious, vile, and incompetent man.

0:52.3

His administration from the first seconds has been filled with chaos.

0:59.1

His cabinet secretaries are the worst and the most incompetent in the nation's history.

1:05.6

Christy Nome, Pam Bondi, Cash Patel on his way out the door.

1:12.4

These are infamous names, villainous names, and they will linger with a stench about them

1:19.4

for all of American history.

1:22.3

But among them, there is one who stands apart.

1:26.6

The thrice married Fox News host, an alcoholic, festooned with Christian nationalist tattoos

1:34.0

all over his body, who jumped up on a table and shouted drunk in a bar, kill all Muslims.

1:43.4

I'm talking about, of course, the war criminal Pete Hegseth, the most ignominious leader

1:51.0

in the history of the American Armed Forces, a man whose presence atop the chain of command

1:58.0

dishonors it.

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