Steve Schmidt: Trump’s Appeasement of Putin Threatens the World
The Warning with Steve Schmidt
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🗓️ 29 December 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Trump spoke with Vladimir Putin before meeting with Volodymyr Zelenskyy to discuss an elusive peace deal at Mar-a-Lago. Steve Schmidt breaks down Representative Mike Turner’s comments and explains why appeasing Putin threatens the entire world.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.3 | Donald Trump is the most prolific liar to ever hold a political office in the United |
| 0:09.2 | States of America, bar none. |
| 0:12.0 | He is delusional. |
| 0:13.5 | He is dishonest. |
| 0:14.7 | But occasionally, he tells the truth about things. |
| 0:17.8 | He lets truth slip through the cracks. |
| 0:20.6 | Why is it that Donald Trump said that |
| 0:23.6 | Russia, which invaded Ukraine, wants the best for the people in the country that it's savaged? |
| 0:31.4 | Why does he believe that? I'm Steve Schmidt, and it is Monday, December 29th. This is the warning. This is Mike Turner. He's a former |
| 0:41.0 | mayor of Dayton, Ohio, and he's a member of Congress. He's sitting across the table from |
| 0:46.2 | Jonathan Carle, a good journalist with ABC News, and Jonathan Carle is about to ask a question |
| 0:53.4 | that's going to trip up Mike Turner. |
| 0:56.8 | Sovereignty. |
| 0:57.9 | They're on the side of democracy, liberty, and, you know, Russia's on the side of authoritarianism and aggression. |
| 1:03.2 | Which side is Trump on? |
| 1:05.1 | This is an essential question. |
| 1:08.5 | And it's a good one. |
| 1:09.6 | It's an inside fastball. Now, sadly, Jonathan Carl didn't |
| 1:14.2 | finish him off. And I'm going to talk in a second about the question he should have followed up with. |
| 1:18.9 | But let's get back to Turner's answer. Clearly, Trump is on the side of peace and he's trying to balance |
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