Steve Schmidt: The Real Reason Trump Backed Down
The Warning with Steve Schmidt
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🗓️ 8 April 2026
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump backed down after threatening nuclear war and Iran is claiming victory. The ceasefire won't last, and Steve Schmidt explains why this war will shape the world for years to come.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | On Sunday, Donald Trump threatened Iran and 93 million people with vaporization, |
| 0:11.0 | with Armageddon, with nuclear holocaust. |
| 0:14.4 | Here is the infamous tweet. |
| 0:16.0 | He promised over and over again in recent weeks that he would bomb Iran back to the Stone Age. |
| 0:22.9 | It made clear from the beginning of Operation Epic Fury that we will continue until our objectives |
| 0:28.4 | are fully achieved. Thanks to the progress we've made, I can say tonight that we are on track |
| 0:34.8 | to complete all of America's military objectives shortly, very shortly. |
| 0:40.3 | We are going to hit them extremely hard over the next two to three weeks. |
| 0:44.3 | We're going to bring them back to the Stone Ages where they belong. |
| 0:49.3 | In the meantime discussions are ongoing. |
| 0:52.3 | Regime change was not our goal. |
| 0:55.1 | We never said regime change, but regime change has occurred because of all of their original |
| 1:02.3 | leaders' death. |
| 1:04.3 | They're all dead. |
| 1:05.8 | Donald Trump said a lot, and last night, Donald Trump backed down. |
| 1:10.7 | And the Iranian Revolutionary Guards released a lot. And last night, Donald Trump backed down. And the Iranian Revolutionary Guards released |
| 1:14.0 | a statement. Do you know what it said? It hailed the Great Iranian victory against the United |
| 1:19.4 | States in Trump's war of folly. A war that he said, we must fight to change the Iranian regime that has not been changed. |
| 1:30.5 | Instead, what we've seen is a lost war where the Iranians now claim control, |
| 1:37.9 | apparently acknowledged by Trump, that they control the Strait of Hormuz. |
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