Trump and Hegseth Threaten America's Military
The Warning with Steve Schmidt
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🗓️ 1 October 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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After Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth spoke to America's military leaders, this regime's plans to take control of our military became crystal clear. Steve Schmidt reacts to the speeches at Quantico and explains why it's a dangerous sign of things to come.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:03.9 | It is Wednesday, October 1st. |
| 0:06.7 | This is the warning. |
| 0:09.5 | Yesterday, Pete Hegseth fulfilled, obviously, a long-held masturbatory fantasy. |
| 0:16.7 | He is the first defense secretary to outfit the warfighting center of America's military |
| 0:23.9 | lethality with a makeup room. |
| 0:26.8 | And for yesterday's gathering, no doubt, Pete Hegseth's Sephora bag was very heavy indeed. |
| 0:33.8 | There has been no mention in the leading news reports about whether third wife Jenny was present at the confab. |
| 0:41.4 | At the Pentagon, she's nicknamed Yoko Ono, where she routinely is known to attend even the highest level meetings. |
| 0:51.1 | How did it come to be that a loser like Pete Hagseth, a drunken Fox News morning |
| 0:57.7 | host who couldn't run a veteran's advocacy group without bringing it into disgrace, became |
| 1:04.9 | the minister of war in Trump's cabinet? The answer to that question is a deeply corrupt political system has produced |
| 1:14.1 | President Trump twice over the course of 10 years. The most wretched man to ever hold power in the |
| 1:23.0 | Republic after a coup that was incited by his words, the violence done in his name, he, by the choice of 49.5% of the people was elected. |
| 1:35.9 | And since then, he has been appeased morally and philosophically, not just by the sycophants that surround him, by the losers who worship |
| 1:47.7 | him because he has elevated them into positions of power in preeminence, but by all of those |
| 1:55.6 | who think he has the power to take things from them that he, in fact, does not have the power to take |
| 2:02.8 | because they are free Americans with freedom of speech and conscience and the right to worship |
| 2:10.2 | and choose and believe whatever it is they wish and to create, whatever it is they wish to create. And so in this moment, the heads of the |
| 2:22.3 | big law firms have capitulated to Donald Trump's threats. The heads of the major networks have |
| 2:30.0 | capitulated to Donald Trump's threats. Everywhere from the agricultural sector to the tech sector to the media sector, we see consolidations |
| 2:41.0 | of power, of wealth, political influence, and all of it merging together in a toxic stew where a few order and direct the lives of multitudes. |
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