Steve Schmidt SLAMS MAGA’S Trump Worship During Tragedies
The Warning with Steve Schmidt
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🗓️ 16 December 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Lindsey Graham praises Trump’s political performance, contradicting his own past warnings about the danger Trump posed. Steve Schmidt reacts to MAGA's response to this weekend’s tragedies and the threat of a president who hates his country.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | Have you ever noticed that over 10 long years' time in all of the media stories that |
| 0:10.1 | predict the catastrophe that we never quite get there, meaning the bad thing that's |
| 0:16.6 | going to happen if Trump does X or Y or Z is always just a day away or a week away or a month |
| 0:25.7 | away. It never arrives. It's never reported as if it's happening in the present tense, as if |
| 0:33.1 | the masked men are proof that catastrophe has arrived. |
| 0:38.3 | Have you ever noticed that? |
| 0:39.3 | It's Tuesday, December 16th. |
| 0:41.3 | I'm Steve Schmidt. |
| 0:43.3 | This is the warning. |
| 0:45.3 | Let's turn on the way back machine and unwind the spool, as the kids used to say. |
| 0:52.3 | All the way back to 10 years ago when Lindsey Graham still felt |
| 0:57.9 | attachment to John McCain, to ideals, when he was loyal to the Constitution of the United States, |
| 1:05.8 | to his uniform as a United States Air Force Colonel, Lindsey Graham before he sold out, or before he saw |
| 1:16.0 | gold in them there, Trump Hills. |
| 1:19.7 | We can lose an election, but I don't want us to lose our heart and soul. |
| 1:22.6 | If we nominate Donald Trump and he carries the banner of the Republican Party, given |
| 1:27.1 | who he is and what he said about immigrants, about Muslims and young women, we will not just lose the election. We've lost the heart and soul of the conservative movement. That's what's at stake. |
| 1:37.3 | What Lindsey Graham predicted has certainly come to pass, and it happened a long time ago. The conservative movement is rotten to the core. |
| 1:49.0 | Out of the conservative media came the propaganda media of this second Trump term. |
| 1:56.0 | Out of the conservative movement that died many years ago has come the fascist movement and |
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