Steve Schmidt: Trump’s Year of Lies and Corruption
The Warning with Steve Schmidt
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🗓️ 31 December 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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In 2025, Donald Trump and his regime executed an authoritarian playbook that degraded American democracy. Steve Schmidt looks back at the first year of Trump’s return to office and warns of what may come in 2026.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | Imagine you slipped into a coma on January 19th of 2025. |
| 0:09.7 | And you have just awoken. |
| 0:12.0 | And this is the first thing you're going to see. |
| 0:15.3 | And it's my job to tell you what happened in 2025. |
| 0:19.7 | I'm Steve Schmidt and it's December 31st, |
| 0:23.0 | the last day of the year. |
| 0:24.6 | This is the warning. |
| 0:27.3 | Tomorrow is a new year, a year where the checks |
| 0:31.1 | and balances can be restored. |
| 0:34.0 | On January 20th, 2020, |
| 0:36.0 | Donald Trump took the 35 word oath that he had previously desecrated again |
| 0:40.9 | and set about desecrating it immediately again. |
| 0:44.6 | He repudiated the Atlantic Charter, the great vision of Franklin Roosevelt. |
| 0:50.7 | He renounced America's alliances. |
| 0:53.8 | He disrespected America's allies and declared a trade war on Canada. |
| 0:59.9 | A few hours later, Elon Musk, ravaged by the ecstasies of victory, delivered not one, not two, but three Nazi salutes. |
| 1:11.3 | He picked up a chainsaw literally and set about vandalizing the federal government of the United |
| 1:18.6 | States. |
| 1:20.0 | Federal employees were treated with the greatest disrespect imaginable. |
| 1:25.1 | They were tortured by Elon Musk's young Doge thugs, and the some result of all of it |
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