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The Warning with Steve Schmidt

The "Be Nice To Trump" Era Is Destroying Our Media

The Warning with Steve Schmidt

iHeartPodcasts

News, Politics, Government

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

With capitulations at The Washington Post, Facebook and ABC, our media institutions are failing at holding powerful people in check. Steve Schmidt looks at the latest appeasements across the media landscape and explain why it will cause the end of democracy. 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

There is less than one week until Donald Trump raises his hand and becomes president of the United States, again, and there is malice in the air.

0:08.7

This is the warning.

0:11.3

Let's look over at CNN, where Scott Jennings, a man who I promise knows nothing about forest management and water policy or any Western issues who is from a state,

0:24.7

Kentucky, for the age of consent is 14, and if it wasn't for a state like California, Kentucky,

0:31.7

well, it would be bankrupt. Kentucky is a donor state. Let me put it in a way that Scott Jennings would understand. He's from a state

0:40.1

that's a welfare queen. It can't take care of itself. It lacks industry. It lacks grit,

0:46.2

determination, all of the things that he decries about California. And listen, I'm just using

0:52.2

Scott Jennings' words here. I'm just using the Jennings

0:55.8

standard. I'm not the side that started in Stoke the Cold Civil War. But if we are to have one,

1:02.8

let us at least tell the truth about it. Because buffer California, many of the states that have

1:09.3

given to the United States, well, not much in recent times,

1:13.6

except putridity in the form of Maga Senators, they'll stack up to California.

1:19.6

California sends a lot of money to Washington, D.C.

1:24.6

It's a donor state.

1:26.6

For every dollar that California sends, unlike Kentucky,

1:31.3

which gets about $1.40 back, California gets $65 back. It is the economic engine of the country.

1:39.1

It is the cultural engine of the country. It is the scientific and technological engine of the country. It is our

1:45.8

innovation center. It is the golden state, and it is on fire. And people like Scott Jennings talk of

1:53.4

partnership. They talk about Washington, D.C. will dictate to a state in the union of 40 million people what it can and cannot do,

2:03.9

though it is sovereign.

2:05.5

This lust for power, this thirst for control is going to go to a very bad place.

2:12.4

Let's listen to Scott Jennings.

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