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The Warning with Steve Schmidt

The Cost of Incompetence: How Trump's National Security Failed America

The Warning with Steve Schmidt

Steve Schmidt

News, Politics, Government

4.8784 Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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As The Atlantic uncovers, the Trump administration’s national security failures had severe consequences. Steve Schmidt breaks down the reckless decisions, from unsecured emails to political interference, and explains the lasting impact on security and society. Subscribe for more and follow me here: Substack: https://steveschmidt.substack.com/sub... Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/thewarningse... Facebook: / steveschmidtses TikTok: / thewarningses Instagram: / thewarningses X: https://x.com/SteveSchmidtSES

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0:00.0

It is Tuesday, March 25th.

0:03.0

Yesterday, the executive editor of the Atlantic Magazine, Jeffrey Goldberg, published

0:10.0

what I think is the most astonishing news story I've ever read in my life.

0:15.0

This is the warning.

0:17.0

Now, there's a lot of hyperbole in the Trump era, and the truth is, occasionally, maybe I've been

0:25.3

even guilty of it myself. I've used superfluous words to try to denote urgency, to try to highlight

0:34.2

something that was unusual, something that was spectacular with regard to its malice

0:42.7

or incompetence. I've warned the name of the platform is the warning after all, time and time and

0:51.7

time again, about the dangers that would manifest if Donald Trump's team of

0:59.0

incompetence filled with incompetence that is beyond measurement was ever given power over life

1:09.4

and death matters.

1:19.1

It's one thing to appreciate that Donald Trump has the same exact approach in the management of the government of the world's most powerful nation as he did to managing the apprentice

1:26.0

contestants.

1:32.6

It's astonishing to realize intellectually. There's no difference between Little Marco and Amarosa. There's no difference between Pete Hegseth and Little

1:41.3

John or Meatloaf. All of these people, whether it's Tulsi Gabbard or Gary Busey, are the same,

1:50.7

unfit, non-functioning. When it comes to Trump's cabinet, his national security cabinet,

1:57.9

M-A-R in the email, Marco Rubio. It is interesting when the email trails go up. The person that

2:06.2

has the final word is Oberstubenfuer Miller himself. He, S.M., Stephen Miller, he puts down the

2:14.9

final word, we will bomb the Houthis, the Secretary of Defense, Secretary of State,

2:23.0

director of national intelligence, each one a feathered lightweight gets in line on the orders of a political staffer

2:32.9

who shuts down the debate and de facto orders the bombing.

2:38.9

Now, let's step back for a second because the first thing to note is the juvenile nature of the

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