Steve Schmidt: Trump Is Gambling With American Lives
The Warning with Steve Schmidt
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🗓️ 5 January 2026
⏱️ 9 minutes
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The Trump regime’s capture of Nicolás Maduro marks a dangerous escalation with dire global and domestic consequences. Steve Schmidt exposes Trump’s selfish motivations and explains why this path leads toward an unwinnable war.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.5 | Who exactly is running Venezuela this morning? |
| 0:07.8 | According to Donald Trump, it's the United States. |
| 0:10.8 | According to Little Marco, it's the Venezuelans. |
| 0:14.0 | According to Nicholas Maduro's vice president, |
| 0:17.0 | a dyed in the wool socialist who blamed his abduction on the Jews, it's her. According to the men |
| 0:23.3 | with guns, it's them. But maybe it's me from my secret jungle location. It's January the 5th, |
| 0:30.3 | Monday. Happy New Year. This is the warning. America is at war in South America. 150 planes from 22 bases took off. Donald Trump |
| 0:43.6 | risked the lives of America's most elite commandos to arrest the president of Venezuela and bring him to the |
| 0:52.9 | United States. Let's examine the life cycle. We obliterate the |
| 0:57.5 | speedboats in the Southern Caribbean. We don't arrest the low-grade drug traffickers, alleged. |
| 1:03.7 | We just kill them. And if there's a shipwrecked survivor, we don't arrest them. We don't bring them to the |
| 1:09.7 | United States. We murder them. Or we let them go. |
| 1:13.6 | Now, it goes without saying some presidents are luckier than others. |
| 1:17.6 | How do you explain the president of Honduras released from federal custody with a Trump pardon, a narcho trafficker, |
| 1:24.6 | while the most elite commandos in the American arsenal, their |
| 1:29.7 | lives are risked to go arrest another alleged drug trafficker. It doesn't make a lot of sense. |
| 1:35.9 | One thing is certainly true. Donald Trump did not care about the lives of the men he ordered |
| 1:41.5 | into harm's way for his reality show episode not at all he risked |
| 1:46.8 | their lives for soundbites for cable TV hits what has been accomplished there is nothing |
| 1:54.4 | but incoherence here's donald there's about 17 billion worth of oil reserves in |
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