Steve Schmidt: Trump Has No Way Out
The Warning with Steve Schmidt
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🗓️ 16 March 2026
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Trump started a war with Iran with no plan and is now begging the allies he spent a year alienating to help secure the Strait of Hormuz. Steve Schmidt breaks down the complete incompetence and lose-lose scenario the Trump regime has created.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.2 | What this war provides for all time is the teaching curriculum for all of America's military academies |
| 0:12.7 | about what incompetence looks like. |
| 0:16.0 | It looks like this. |
| 0:17.8 | Their energy, and they should come and they should help us protect it. |
| 0:22.6 | You could make the case that maybe we shouldn't even be there at all because we don't |
| 0:27.6 | need it. |
| 0:28.6 | We have a lot of oil. |
| 0:29.6 | We were the number one producer anywhere in the world times two. |
| 0:32.6 | By double, at least double, now I think it's much higher than that. |
| 0:36.6 | But we do it. |
| 0:38.3 | It's almost like we do it for habit, |
| 0:40.3 | but we also do it for some very good allies that we have in the Middle East. |
| 0:45.3 | Here is Donald Trump at the beginning of the war explaining what would happen. |
| 0:50.3 | And as we take decisive action to stop the threat posed by the terrorist regime in Iran with Operation Epic Fury. |
| 1:08.4 | Is that a great name? |
| 1:13.6 | Well, it's only good if you win, you know, you can only do. And we've won. Let me say, we've won. |
| 1:16.6 | You know, you never like to say too early you won. We won. We won the bet. |
| 1:20.6 | In the first hour it was over. |
| 1:22.6 | Here's Pete Hagsaw. |
| 1:24.6 | I heard the question about four weeks. |
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