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The Warning with Steve Schmidt

Team Trump Is Destroying American Democracy

The Warning with Steve Schmidt

Steve Schmidt

News, Politics, Government

4.8784 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

As Donald Trump and his cabinet begin to enact their authoritarian agenda, our country is being dismantled and replaced with a sinister ethos. Steve Schmidt looks at the recent actions of Trump, Rubio and Musk and calls for an opposition to rise and prevent permanent damage from being done. Subscribe for more and follow me here: Substack: https://steveschmidt.substack.com/subscribe Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/thewarningses.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SteveSchmidtSES/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thewarningses Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thewarningses/ X: https://x.com/SteveSchmidtSES

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0:00.0

This is the warning.

0:02.0

Let me warn you, my friends.

0:05.0

You were being lied to.

0:06.0

You were being deceived by the President of the United States, Donald Trump, by the richest man in the world,

0:13.0

Elon Musk, by the Vice President of the United States, J.D. Vance, by the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, and by a few hundred others.

0:24.0

They are part of a movement, the leadership of it. It is made up of the richest and most powerful

0:31.4

people in the world. And at the instant Donald Trump took power, all of those people who have looked over the last 10 years and have objected to these obscenities at a moral level, abandon their principles, and became the equivalent of a latter-day Lindsay Graham, and flocked to Mar-a-Lago to bend the knee and to become an American November

0:59.0

Lane. There, they made their bargain. Complete and total obedience to Donald Trump, whatever it is

1:07.7

that he may do that comes with the golden ticket to take as much as they can't get.

1:16.2

MAGA.

1:17.0

Donald Trump is the president of the United States of America.

1:21.6

There are 350 million of us in a world of 8 billion people, half of us that have ever lived our lives right now.

1:31.3

When the country 250 years ago was born, there were 3 million Americans and hundreds of thousands of African slaves.

1:41.3

Today, this nation is the most powerful in the world, and it shared a faith,

1:47.5

a creed, a belief that we have lit the world with. This idea is our greatest export. It saved

1:55.5

the world. It rebuilt it from the ashes. And now Donald Trump is taking a sledgehammer to it. He is replacing it

2:03.3

with a sinister and evil ethos that says it is the right of the powerful to tick from the small,

2:12.9

from the little, that we are to be insects, baitfish, that serve no utility beyond being cogs in the

2:23.0

interests of a state that serves the interests, not of a people, not of a cause, not of an idea,

2:31.2

but of one man and his faction, his family, his corrupt cronies, and his cowed oligarchs.

2:40.0

He is a thief stealing the most ephemeral idea in all of human history right out from under all of us at a devastatingly fast and rapid

2:55.7

pace. And he is doing it without political opposition from the Democratic Party in Washington,

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