Steve Schmidt: Trump Will Be Judged
The Warning with Steve Schmidt
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🗓️ 5 February 2026
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Donald Trump and his cronies are downplaying mass detentions while terrorizing American cities. Steve Schmidt breaks down the danger of normalizing Trump’s behavior and what happens when the media refuses to confront it.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | I appreciate that television is a live medium and that people are being asked to respond |
| 0:09.6 | to events that are occurring in real time. |
| 0:12.7 | Sometimes people may not have time to think through what it is they're saying. |
| 0:18.0 | Sometimes they may not appreciate in the moment what fools they look like. |
| 0:23.6 | Let's watch a pristine example. |
| 0:26.6 | Here's David Chowen on CNN, talking about Donald Trump's softer tone at the exact same moment |
| 0:36.6 | that across the country, |
| 0:38.3 | his Homeland Security Department is attempting |
| 0:42.3 | to turn e-commerce warehouses into concentration camps. |
| 0:47.3 | Speaking of Minneapolis, what did you learn? |
| 0:50.3 | I learned that maybe we can use a little bit of a softer touch, but you still have to be tough. |
| 0:59.7 | These are criminals. We're dealing with really hard criminals. |
| 1:03.7 | Let's go to David Chalien. The warnings, fool of the day. |
| 1:08.0 | A change of tone for the president, softer touch, but he's also saying everyone's criminals |
| 1:12.9 | when we know they're not. |
| 1:13.9 | Yeah, he's clearly not looking to change the overall approach and strategy of what he ran |
| 1:19.6 | on and what he was elected to do in mass deportation. |
| 1:22.6 | But it is interesting to hear him take the rhetoric and try to place it back on the worst |
| 1:27.0 | of the worst criminals. |
| 1:28.7 | He understands that what occurred in Minneapolis got far afield from what he had actually |
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