Steve Schmidt: Trump's Gestapo Is Cracking
The Warning with Steve Schmidt
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🗓️ 13 February 2026
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Yesterday, ICE Director Todd Lyons finally faced tough questioning in the Senate over abuses of constitutional rights. Steve Schmidt explains why this moment could mark a turning point for American democracy.
Today's Merch: F*CK ICE
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.5 | ICE, the masked American Gestapo, has been given a budget larger than the United States Marine Corps. |
| 0:11.5 | And every American has seen the images, has seen the abuses, has seen the murder committed |
| 0:18.6 | by the Gestapo. |
| 0:19.9 | And yesterday, the ICE director came to the United States Senate. |
| 0:24.2 | And there's a question at hand. |
| 0:26.2 | Who do you believe? |
| 0:28.2 | The man who speaks calmly and says everything is normal or your eyes. |
| 0:34.5 | I suggest you trust your eyes and your ears. It is February 13th. I'm Steve Schmidt. |
| 0:41.0 | This is the warning. Finally, in the United States Senate, there was a hearing that confronted |
| 0:48.4 | the awful and ugly reality of the misconduct of ice. A couple of things became clear, despite ICE agents knocking |
| 0:56.7 | out car windows, dragging people from their vehicle saying that they're impeded when they're |
| 1:02.7 | followed, when they're observed, when they're witnessed, that lo and behold, it's not a crime after all. |
| 1:09.6 | Americans have a right if they choose to yell out an ice agent. |
| 1:13.6 | It's the ice agent who's the criminal who threatens to shoot that American. |
| 1:17.9 | Americans have a right to record ice agents. |
| 1:21.0 | With Alexander Preddy, he's filming in the middle of the street. |
| 1:25.4 | We see two women that are, as you watch the video, job boning, |
| 1:31.0 | complaining, protesting, yelling, maybe not being nice, but they're protesting. |
| 1:35.5 | Let's keep the videos stopped. |
| 1:38.4 | And so my question to Mr. Scott first is, is yelling at ICE officers or Border Patrol. |
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